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Last December, I "celebrated" my first anniversary of living on the street. Hence, it is perhaps a bit overdue for me to reflect on and share some thoughts about the experience. Since I first became homeless, I've lived out of my car, which is a blessing compared to the many people trying to get by in the growing number of tent communities in the U.S. or with no roof at all.
Following another car resident's advice, I found an appropriate area in which to park each night. I nestle my car amongst others on a street next to a major park bordered by a sidewalk, a wall, and tall trees. There, when reclining, I'm usually out of view of the windows of residences across the street. Nevertheless, I don't go completely unnoticed. However, most who see me are patrons of nearby restaurants and bars who are arriving or departing with more important things on their minds. I am also blessed that the park guard who walks by my car each night shining his flashlight through my car windows has never notified the police about me or other car residents who are sometimes not far behind or in front of me. The ease at which I am able to sleep in my car there is surprising, though keeping the radio on softly all night — thank you car battery — is no doubt a contributing factor.
Perhaps reducing the risk of my sleeping there has been my usual departure between 3 and 4am to go to San Francisco's only 24-hour Starbucks. At about that time, seats start to open up as students who usually fill the place finally decide to call it a night. Customers staying for hours is a norm there that would not fly in many other places, and I — and the many students — are indebted to Starbucks for the courtesy. This cafe and others have combined to become my low-cost office. As Starbucks puts it, "Starbucks is pleased to offer complimentary Wi-Fi including the premium content of the Starbucks Digital Network to customers who are enjoying our food and beverages."
The parking area next to Marina Green has remained what I call my primary living room. The great views there are supplemented by the antics of numerous dogs and their owners and of dozens of young soccer players. Most interesting, though, is the daily routine of a woman I call the Bird Lady of Alcatraz. Each day, she spends a few hours parked by San Francisco Bay — within view of Alcatraz — feeding, petting, and speaking to the pigeons (many often adorning her head, shoulders, and arms), while being the subject of many a(n unwanted) photo.
My "feeding" became partly subsidized by the state of California via $200 of "food stamps" per month. Thankfully, "food stamps" now come in the form of a machine-readable card, but food checkout can still be cumbersome and, hence, attention-getting if the checkout person doesn't detect quickly enough that a food stamp card is being used to pay. There are also odd restrictions on card use, including the prohibition of buying hot food at a grocery store. What makes this odd is that carriers of such a card are probably often without the ability to heat food, while the card can be used to purchase hot food at designated restaurants. (And don't get me started on the broken process for applying for food stamps…)
Much of my "petting and speaking to" has come from the person who kindly receives and holds my mail for me. The conversations that I have had when I collect my mail are always warm, meaningful, in depth, and invaluable. He has also treated me to viewings of museum exhibitions coupled with insightful commentary derived from his abundant artistic expertise. (Additional and daily invaluable "petting and speaking to" has come via phone and the internet from someone 7400 miles away.)
I've made very few connections with others who are homeless, but I've come to know how diverse the homeless community is. One of the leading findings from research done by students at the Austin Center for Design (ac4d) was the extent to which stereotypes of the homeless are wrong. This was highlighted in the news recently by two stories, one estimating that 2000 children attending San Francisco schools are homeless, and the other about a homeless teenager in Long Island who was a semi-finalist in a prestigious Intel science competition.
I greatly appreciate efforts such as ac4d's to tell the stories of the range of people who find themselves homeless. Other such efforts include Vaughn McIlrath's blog of stories about the homeless people he has interviewed, Pachi Tamer's attempt at "putting a face on the homeless" via use of Instagram, the Palo Alto Online News' descriptions of some of the "vehicle dwellers" in Palo Alto CA, the Unheard in New York project via which homeless people told their own stories via Twitter, and Wendy MacNaugton's touching visuals and stories about people living in the downtrodden San Francisco neighborhood centered at 6th and Mission. I am also impressed by Australia's declaration of a week in August as being National Homeless Persons Week.
Also based in Australia is a fundraising project called the "CEO Sleepout: Rise to the Challenge"via which Australian business leaders meet and hear the story of a homeless person then proceed to spend the night in the rough to get a sense of what many of Australia's homeless are forced to experience every night.
San Francisco efforts to bring people in meaningful contact with the homeless include the "Curry without Worry" project which offers free Nepalese food each Tuesday evening "to foster 'a merging of communities' between the haves and have-nots" and an annual block party outside of St. Anthony's where more than 3000 free lunches are served each day.
All of these efforts are laudable, but in our mainstream culture, attitudes and behaviors towards the homeless leave perhaps too much to be desired. I've attended both of the local events referenced above and could count the number of "haves" in attendance on a single hand. Some days it seems as if the "haves" are completely content to look down their noses on the homeless as reflected in a U.S. law firm's Halloween party at which everyone was costumed to mock the people that the firm — known as a "foreclosure mill" — made homeless. Nilofer Merchant highlighted the depth of this cultural divide this way:
As argued by Barbara Ehrenreich, "to be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive."
Sadly, I've witnessed numerous negative attitudes and behaviors towards homeless people, from unwarranted harassment by police officers at a farmers market to a tweet expressing disgust with a homeless person seen asking for money so he could purchase a Starbucks latte. Are homeless people to be always deprived of pleasures that others can take for granted? Sometime take a look at all the derogatory comments made about Palo Alto's homeless in response to the article referenced above describing some of them. As Becky Blanton stated in her TED talk entitled, "The year I was homeless": "society equates living in a permanent structure with having value as a person" and "how quickly the negative perceptions of others can impact our reality if we let it."
Fortunately, I've only been harassed on the street once, though many probably kept their distance at other times when the number of showers I was able to take each week was two. Presently, that number is back to "normal" and has been three other periods of time when I've been fortunate enough to secure house-sitting gigs. Though it has been great to experience some degree of normalcy again during such gigs, I've discovered that a special kind of freedom and vulnerability is actually lost when I once again have a home, even one that is temporary.
What can you do? Quite simply, open your heart and mind to those who are homeless. As one homeless person told the Chicago Daily Herald, "[those who judge the homeless] need to sit down and talk to someone who is homeless once in a while and find out more of the story."
We homeless are people, too.
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Britain's best-loved flower, roses are found in almost every garden in the country especially in Telford. And it's little wonder: they're elegant, stately plants that just take your breath away as soon as they flower, with those heartbreakingly beautiful petals and perfume to fill the garden and beyond.
They're also amazingly versatile. Among the roses you'll find in our garden centre are tiny patio roses for pots and ground-cover roses to scramble at the feet of your other shrubs. There are climbers and ramblers to smother fences, and species roses with sculptural autumn hips.
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- Over pergolas: Tie a rambling rose in to each upright of a pergola and it'll quickly scramble up and over the top, meeting the rose on the other side and forming a bower of flowers you'll love to wander through.
- Trained round an obelisk: Choose a moderate-vigour climber like the scarlet 'Dublin Bay' and tie it in at a 45° angle so it winds round the obelisk in a spiral to the top, clothing it in colour.
- In sinks and troughs: Patio roses like buttery 'Sweet Memories' are very happy in containers: plant two or three in a sink or trough, and they'll froth over the top in a riot of colour and perfume.
- On swags: Drill holes through tall, sturdy posts and thread with rope at least 24mm thick to make swags to hold climbing or rambling roses. Tie them in as they grow and they'll knit together into elegantly romantic garden dividers.
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This spring was supposed to be an exciting time for Xander Christou. He's a senior in high school in Austin, Texas, and was looking forward to all the fun: prom, senior skip day and of course, graduation.
But all that's now out the window. "There's a sense that it's incomplete," says Christou. The school district has closed until April 3rd and Christou says he has this feeling that a unique chapter in his life — senior year — is slipping away. "They're just parts that we may never get to experience." One big disruption: any attempt at making plans for next year. "We're in the midst of college decisions," he says, and the coronavirus has "really thrown a wrench into a number of things."
Christou spent most of last fall like many high school seniors: researching and applying to schools. He planned to spend the spring visiting some of the campuses he was accepted to. "Online, the colleges are just names and logos and programs," he says, "nothing will compare to actually being on campus and speaking face-to-face with current students."
But with so many colleges shutting down, all of those visits have been cancelled — including one "candidate weekend" on NYU's Abu Dhabi campus that was all-expense paid. "I was very excited for that," he says, "all I had to do was pack and go to the airport." He would have gotten back home last week. The return flight, without him on it, got cancelled too.
Of course it's more than just the visits — he's waiting on his financial aid offers, too. Money, and how his family is going to pay for college, has become even more important.
The admissions calendar, upended.
College admissions officials around the country are feeling much of the same sense of turmoil as students like Christou. "There's never a good time for a pandemic, but from an admission standpoint, there really couldn't be a worse time," explains Jon Boeckenstedt, who oversees admissions and financial aid at Oregon State University.
For many schools, March and April are when they send out the bulk of acceptances or denials. Financial aid packages are sent out, too — setting up the options for how to pay. Traditionally, May 1 is "decision day," the deadline for students to submit a deposit to hold their spot at a school for the following fall semester. But there's a growing movement this year to shift the deadline back a month, to June 1, to give students and families more time.
"Every parent and student is going through a difficult time just managing to deal with the uncertainty," says Boeckenstedt. "It's really unfair to say, well, we have our deadlines, and come hell or high water, you had better decide by May first."
Oregon State, where Boeckenstedt works, made this change and, as of Wednesday, about 200 other schools had committed to the new deadline, according to ACCEPT, a non-profit that is tracking the change.
"I can't fathom any family in six weeks from now saying, 'I know where my student is going to go to college and I know I can afford it,' " explains Marie Bigham, who runs ACCEPT and advocates for social and racial justice in the admissions process. "There are too many unknowns and storms up in the air. Asking someone to make a really expensive decision in the midst of this is really unfair. It just feels wrong."
Other disruptions complicate admissions
As high schools move to online classes — some for the remainder of the school year — and in some places, letter grades transition to a simple pass or fail, many students are worried about the impact that will have on their high school transcripts. In some places, even getting a final transcript and sending it off to colleges may be difficult, with buildings closed down and office staff working remotely. Guidance counselors are also worried that it may even be hard to confirm that students have actually graduated — since many states rely on end-of-year grades and testing to confirm that status.
Admissions tests have also been jumbled: Advanced Placement (AP) tests will be given online, without multiple choice questions. The ACT has rescheduled the April 4 test to be given in June because of COVID-19, and the College Board has cancelled the SAT test scheduled for May. For now, the SAT scheduled for June is still on the books.
Because of this, a number of schools, including Oregon State and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, have announced they will be test-optional for the class of 2021. Experts wonder whether this might be the beginning of many more schools going test-optional.
Case Western had been weighing test-optional policies, thinking that maybe in a year or so they'd make a decision. "Up until a week ago, I would not have predicted where we would ultimately come out on this," says Rick Bischoff, who oversees enrollment there. "But understanding how much turmoil this is injecting into the process, it's just so clearly, in our view, the right thing to do."
Colleges are also bracing for an influx of adjustments to financial aid packages. For many families, their financial situations are changing. Estimates predict that millions of Americans are filing for unemployment this week. And the amount families thought they'd be able to pay come fall might be different now. "This is not unusual for financial aid offices," explains Bischoff, but, "the volume will be unusual."
Virtual tours and video chats
In addition to going test-optional, colleges are bulking up their virtual offerings in lieu of cancelled in-person events. Bischoff acknowledges that, for many students, a personal visit to campus can help in the decision process. Applicants can sit in on a lecture, or meet with current students to get a good feel for how a particular school might "fit." But with these spring events cancelled, schools are moving online — with virtual tours, video chats with professors and online classes.
"Admissions offices are working hard to make sure [that] even if students can't visit, they can still get a sense of a place," explains Bigham, who's been on the phone with admissions officers across the country.
She notes that campus visits have long been a source of highlighting inequity, as wealthy students are often able to take more advantage of these offerings than students who are unable to travel due to finances. Amid COVID-19 social distancing, virtual visits may be "flattening that privilege a little bit."
But, she adds, "that does ignore the real inequity of broadband technology; that it is difficult to find in some communities, and that families can't afford it." Innovations in digital ways to see the campus are exciting — unless you rely on your school or public library to give you access. Those students may still be shut out.
Shut out in another way, too: With high schools closed, it may be harder to stop by a counselor's office or get advice from a teacher regarding college. Even though many colleges are shutting their campuses, admissions and financial aid staff are still working and urge students to ask questions by phone, email or on recently-deployed chat tools on the college's website.
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Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1794-1796
by Justin E. H. Smith
I may have mentioned already that I am in the beginning stages of a massively ambitious, multi-year project: I have been asked to write a very long, but not nearly long enough, book called A Global History of Philosophy, to 1750. The manuscript is due in 2017.
For the past several months I have been considering the different possible ways to approach this project. One thing that is certain, and that I've made clear from the beginning, is that I don't want to write a sort of multicultural redux of Russell's History of Western Philosophy: a basically teleological how-things-led-up-to-me scenario, with some stuff about China and India tacked on to appeal to current sensibilities. As I see it, though, one is trapped between a Scylla and Charybdis however one approaches this project: either it amounts offering one's own idiosyncratic twist on what this whole history has been about, or it amounts to a compendium of facts that aspire, within the bounds of the word-limit set by the publisher, to be genuinely comprehensive.
In the era of Wikipedia (and we will be much deeper into that era by 2017) we seriously need to rethink the purpose of presenting facts to readers at all. How can I write a book that relates the global history of philosophy, and at the same time provides readers something that online, collaborative information sources cannot? Again, one option is to offer the sort of idiosyncratic interpretation that one is allowed to have as the author of a book, rather than of an encyclopedia entry, but as I've already said, the Russellian danger there is one that I also wish to avoid. One possible way I've been considering to navigate a path that steers clear of both Russell and Wikipedia is what I've started thinking of as 'philosophometry' (check Google; you heard it here first!), but which might also perhaps be called 'quantitative metaphilosophy'.
I've been thinking a lot about the revolutionary work, for example, that Franco Moretti has done on the modern novel in books like Graphs, Maps, Trees. More generally, researchers in fields outside philosophy are learning the value of quantitative, digitally based study of the materials they are devoted to illuminating. The other humanities, if not yet philosophy, have come to understand the value of 'distant readings' as a complement to the sacred practice of close reading. The idea, then, is to compile a massive database of texts, titles, key words key arguments from the first few millennia of philosophical activity across Eurasia, and to process these data in order to generate graphs, maps, and trees that could reveal new things about how we came to think about truth, reality, the self, etc., in the way we do.
Imagine, for example, an interactive website (and by 2017 it is quite likely that 'books' themselves will be interactive) that plots philosophical texts on a map of Eurasia, with different coloured blips indicating different doctrines defended in the texts (materialism vs. idealism, for example, or corruptibility vs. immortality of the soul). My model here is the surprisingly beautiful graphic showing the history of nuclear explosions since World War II (replace the explosions by texts, and the nuclear states by schools of thought). Or imagine, further, the plotting of arguments or doctrines against extratextual factors like the political regimes, modes of production, population densities, and so on, that correlate with the texts. Of course, the huge problem here is compiling the database from which one could, once it's there, fairly easily generate the beautiful graphcs. This is what I have a few years to figure out how to do. Obviously I can only read a small portion of the texts myself. Equally obviously, I need some grant money.
I can already hear a certain kind of philosopher insisting that this project is futile at worst or, at best, that it contributes nothing to philosophy itself. But I am more convinced than ever that what is said by some guy who happens to be alive right now, and employed by a university to tell us what he happens to think about, e.g., whether there is a hard problem of consciousness or not, can be of next to no interest for our understanding of the philosophical question in question. The truth is I just don't think it's very grown up, intellectually, to set about actually trying to answer questions like these, at least in the way we are used to seeing philosophers try to answer them. In this respect, I am sympathetic to the approach of experimental philosophy, even if I have not yet been able to convince any experimental philosophers that I'm on their side. Like them, I think the more sophisticated and fruitful approach to questions like, e.g., whether the mind is distinct from the body, is not try to answer them directly, but to somehow take a survey of the range of possible positions human beings take up on the question. Now, the experimental philosophers today think it is enough to survey their contemporaries, by methods borrowed mostly from psychology. I'm starting to think that what we need to do is, so to speak, to survey the past, using methods adapted from archeology, historical linguistics, and evolutionary biology, and recently applied with impressive results in unlikely fields such as comparative literature.
Again, I recognize that the philosophometric results will only be as valuable as the initial phase of data collection permits them to be, and that this collection will require the old, traditional methods of reading texts and determining what the arguments are. But still, I think this can be done as a collaborative project, and that it is the most urgent project we should be undertaking if we wish to better understand what this whole endeavor of philosophy has been all about. That I think this might, paradoxically, be an expression of my own idiosyncratic understanding of what human intellectual activity, such as philosophy, is; and that I think such an ambitious philosophometric project could actually be carried out might be a result of the fact that I'm living in an era in which the labors of scholars in the digital-huamanities are starting to bear fruit. In this respect then, I've avoided neither the Scylla of Russell nor the Charybdis of Wikipedia, but in fact have collided with and embraced both of them.
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With the increased interest in introducing digital literacy skills in the classroom as a means of preparing students for the 21st century marketplace, our teaching and learning center has had more questions from faculty about using blogs as a teaching tool. The Innovative Instructor doesn't advocate using technology for technology's sake, but student blogging can be a way to achieve several learning outcomes for your course.
For example, blogs can be used to improve student writing, especially for developing skill in analysis and critique. The blog format is particularly useful for shorter, less formal, assignments. Blog platforms allow for inclusion and display of multimedia, which may offer an advantage over paper submissions. Blogs provide a means for student response to or discussion of outside-of-class readings that are not adequately covered during class. They can be useful as a forum for group projects, or act as a collaborative authoring tool for students to develop and present a group assignment or project. Blogs can be a place where students reflect on readings, much as analog journaling was used as a pedagogical tool in the past.
In order to achieve your curricular goals you could use individual student blogs (each student has his or her own blog), group blogs for team projects, or a class blog to which everyone contributes.
The Innovative Instructor gathered some tips for ensuring that implementing blogs in your class will be a success.
The most comprehensive advice comes from the Chronicle of Higher Education's Professor Hacker blog columnist Mark Sample (assistant professor of literature and new media at George Mason University) in a somewhat tongue in cheek commentary entitled A Better Blogging Assignment. Sample claims to be sick of student blogging, but then goes on to provide very useful guidelines for different ways of using blogs as a pedagogical tool. In fact, Sample is looking "for ways to re-invigorate [his] blogging assignments." He outlines methods for structuring blog assignments using all of the course blog types (individual, group, class), and recommends having a schedule or assignments for posting and commenting. He advises being detailed in your expectations and provides this example of student guidelines:
Each student will contribute to the weekly class blog, posting an approximately 200-300 word response to the week's readings. There are a number of ways to approach these open-ended posts: consider the reading in relation to its historical or theoretical context; write about an aspect of the day's reading that you don't understand, or something that jars you; formulate an insightful question or two about the reading and then attempt to answer your own questions; or respond to another student's post, building upon it, disagreeing with it, or re-thinking it.
Read the post and the comments and don't be disheartened by Sample's momentary discouragement with ways in which he is using blogging assignments.
From the Georgetown University blog Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning – Engaging Students through Blogs in Large Classes comes this idea.
For his introductory course on the U.S. political system, which enrolls nearly 150 students, Mark Rom turned to a course blog to help stimulate class discussion and personal interaction among students. Because class discussion can be intimidating in such a large course, Rom decided to integrate a course blog into his curriculum in order to ensure that all students had the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussion about American politics.
As a side note, instructors should consider making blog participation a percentage of the grade to encourage student use.
Course blogs are often thought of as a way to provide an authentic learning experience. And yet the product often falls short of the promise. Read Using Blogs in a College Classroom: What's Authenticity Got To Do With It? by Sarah Lohnes, a doctoral candidate at the Teachers College of Columbia University. She cites the following "necessary ingredients" for creating effective class blogs:
- Blog posts should be original, "well-crafted," "well- informed".
- [There should be] an authentic purpose for maintaining the blog.
- A blog should offer a window into the author's identity and community affiliations.
- A blog should take advantage of the medium to offer a sense of immediacy and intimacy.
Faculty have shared some lessons learned from experience with course blogs. Hillary Miller, Baruch College of CUNY, in her post Lessons from a First-Time Course Blogger talks about the "out of sight, out of mind syndrome" noting that "the blog can feel like that side dish you ordered but weren't quite hungry for. It's easy to lose track of the blog, and its implementation should be planned with an eye towards avoiding this. "… I had good intentions – I wanted to comment on posts frequently, but commenting is time-consuming…. From the student side, they were assigned a date for one post; once students posted, they didn't have a strong incentive to return, which would leave me begging them to "visit the blog!" when I myself was embarrassingly behind on reading their old posts." In other words, set specific expectations for students' blog assignments and for how often you will grade or comment on their posts.
Miller writes that students not always comfortable with new-to-them instructional technologies and methodologies. She suggests "[m]aking some class time available to teach students the rhyme and reason behind some aspects of the blog is arguably essential, and yet somehow easy to overlook." Letting students know why you are having them blog is a key to successful implementation.
Finally, what platform should you use? Here at Johns Hopkins, we have Blackboard, which has a built in blogging tool that can be customized for individual or group work and can be made private (between instructor and individual or group) or public – in the sense of being available for the entire class – not to the outside world. Course blogs, where all students contribute to a shared blog, are also an option. Other Learning Management Systems (LMS) offer similar tools. If you are looking for a more "authentic" experience or don't have an LMS or blogging application at your institution, there are free, public options available. WordPress and Google's Blogger are two popular ones. WordPress, in particular, offers the ability to easily create a full-fledged website. For facilitating multimedia assignments, tumblr might be a good choice. If you want more options, Six Revisions ( a website with useful information for web developers and designers) offers a list and descriptions of the Top Ten Free Online Blogging Platforms.
Macie Hall, Senior Instructional Designer
Center for Educational Resources
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It is always a difficult decision to make in the iPad… with or without color. On one hand I love the linework. On the other hand, the color has this great capacity to group elements giving the image a more understandable look and feel.
There is a third option. To ignore the line and show the color alone. Like that we go to a more (also interesting) abstract expression.
I have a love/hate relationship with this characteristic of the digital media. This big amount of options to choose from. It sounds good, and it is, but on the other hand, it is much more easy to fall in that deep hole where there is no end for the artwork because of this feeling that all the options are still open for debate and reflexion.
It is more easy to put an end to things when I'm on paper or with other physical media. Less options, less undo, less going back, and this feeling that "I'm missing something that could make this even better". Well, there is always something that could make something better… Something to think about.
Tools can greatly change the way we draw. Here, the slippery surface results in a very interesting wandering line. I love drawing on the iPad…
Advice on drawing ordinary and uninspiring environments
A very common problem people have, when they start to draw, is about not seeing something they consider interesting enough to draw or something that could potentially result in a good drawing. I want to talk a little bit about this and I will start by mentioning the work of an American photographer that I like very much: William Eggleston.
Eggleston photographed the mundane, ordinary, world. His everyday life. And he photographed not in B&W but color film. Those times, color photography was not being seen as an artistic media, comparing with black and white. In that sense, Eggleston was an important contributor to opening this door bringing color photography to the galleries and museums. But it is not just about using color. It is also about working with the everyday, ordinary and mundane life as a subject matter. If you don't know his work already, I recommend you to do a little pause right now and take a look at his photographs.
Nowadays, this approach to photography, is not something unfamiliar. Take, for example, Instagram.
Eggleston was living in a very, very ordinary, mundane, American city. According to this documentary, one of those that no one really cares because, in its appearance, there is really nothing to see or appreciate. Although, in that environment, he did amazing photographs…
So, why I'm bringing Eggleston and his work to this discussion? Because I want to give you an example on how to approach an environment that you find ordinary and uninspiring. I want to show you that your environment doesn't have to be boring and without interest. The point in here is that you are seeing it like that. The value of your surroundings is in the way you see it. Not in the things attached to themselves. Let me to suggest you an exercise. When you see yourself in a place without knowing what to draw because everything seems dull, boring and without interest, pick your phone and open the camera. Then, look your surroundings through the screen of your phone. Don't take any pictures. The idea is to just use the camera to find interesting frames of the things around you. Go more close or more far away from an object or scene. Look around through the screen and I'm sure you will find nice frames of the things around you. Then, draw that specific view that you are seeing on the screen of your phone.
Stop seeing your environment as "ordinary" and "uninspiring"… because that is something in our heads. And there is another thing in here. Eggleston made his surroundings beautiful and interesting for a lot of people not just because of the subjects he was choosing but because of the technique he was using too. The images work because he shoot color and he was very interested in the printing process. He was printing his images with processes that made the colours pop. He wanted them very saturated. According to his point of view this is how they were beautiful and interesting.
What I want to say with this is: It is not just about choosing the subject matter. Personally, I would say that it is more about the way you draw and compose and not so much about the choice of the subject in itself. This is a very personal view… Some people see my drawings and they ask "how can you draw something that doesn't have any interest so beautiful and nice?"… a lot it is about the way you draw it. The codes and rules of visual communication, the contrast, the composition, etc. More about this in the future…
So, one final advice. Keep experimenting with different materials. Eventually, of course, you will have a preference, but once in a while pick something new. It can be a new brush, a new pencil or pen, a new color, etc. but keep experimenting. You will be more excited and interested in the process of drawing and the final results.
Ofir and Youtube
I will use this drawing to talk about why my youtube channel is on pause. The reason is simple. To make videos like the ones I'm doing require a lot of work and I just don't have the time right now to make them. On the other hand, I have a ton of information about drawing, sketchbooks, urbansketching, etc. that I want to share with you.
So, my plan is to keep uploading to Youtube "flip through" videos of my diaries and here, in the form of articles, the educational content. In the future maybe I can adapt this content to the audiovisual format and upload it to youtube. Another option I'm considering, and because it is easy to do it, is the podcast format. Still digesting that idea…


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Website cloning: Don't fall for that trap!
Have you watched one of those horror movies where the something impersonates the protagonist only to wreak havoc later? Well, website cloning does the same thing–to your business–in real life. Website cloning is one of the most popular methods among scammers to fleece you of your money.
As the name suggests, the cybercriminal first creates a 'clone' site of the original one. There can be a clone of any website, though retail shopping sites, travel booking sites and banks are the favorites of cybercriminals. The clone site looks exactly like the original one, barring a very miniscule change in the url.
Next, they will create a trap intended to get unsuspecting victims to visit the clone site. This is usually done via links shared through emails, SMS messages or social media posts asking them to click on a link to the clone site. The message urges the recipient to take an action. For example, a message that presents itself as though it is from the IRS, asking the recipient to pay pending taxes by clicking on a specific link to avoid a fine or business shutdown, or an SMS about a time-bound discount on iPads. Sometimes, they go straight for the target and masquerade as a message from your bank asking you to authenticate your credentials by logging into your banking portal–the only glitch, the banking portal will be a clone.
Staying safe
So, how do you identify a clone website and a dubious message?
- Does the email sound too good to be true? Well, then it probably is. Nike giving away free shoes? Emirates Airlines giving you free tickets to Europe? Apple iPhone X for just $20? All of these scream SCAM!
- Even if the message sounds genuine, such as an email from your bank asking you to authenticate your login credentials, check the email header to see if the sender's email domain matches your bank's. For example, if your bank is Bank of America, the sender's email ID should have that in the domain. Something like firstname.lastname@example.com could be genuine, whereas, firstname.lastname@example.com is suspicious.
- Check the final URL before you enter any information to make sure it is the actual one. Most shopping/banking websites, where payments are made and other personal details are shared are secure (HTTPS)and will have a lock symbol at the beginning of the URL. Also, check the domain. For example, something like- www.customerauthentication.com/bankofamerica is not
Identifying a cloned website is tricky, but it is not something you can afford to ignore.Giving away your personal and financial information to a fraudster can cause a lot of harm to you and your business.


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IndyCar, IndyCar News/Releases, IndyCar team PR — By More Front Wing Staff on February 12, 2014 12:29 pmINDIANAPOLIS, IN – February 12, 2014 – KV Racing Technology co-owners Kevin Kalkhoven and Jimmy Vasser, and AFS Racing owner Gary Peterson, announced today a strategic partnership to field an entry for the 2014 IndyCar Series season.
The team also announced that talented young driver Sebastian Saavedra will pilot the No. 17 KV AFS Racing Chevrolet/.Dallara/Bridgestone machine during the 2014 season.
"I am extremely pleased to announce that KV Racing Technology and AFS Racing have reached an agreement to field an entry for the 2014 IndyCar season," said Kalkhoven. "AFS Racing has strong leadership and a solid history in IndyCar and Indy Lights. I look forward to our partnership and having a successful season with Sebastian Saavedra behind the wheel of the No. 17 KV AFS entry."
"I'm excited about moving forward with the KV AFS entry #17," Peterson said. "It looks to be a great alignment between AFS Racing, KV Racing Technology and Sebastian Saavedra. My heart is always in racing and I'm looking forward to another great year!
"AFS Racing started its relationship with Seb back in 2009. I've been supporting young drivers since I stopped racing myself, so Seb and I have become close. It's been a pleasure to mentor him over the years. KV Racing is a great fit for AFS and Seb and we appreciate the opportunity to join them. I've known Jimmy for years and I'm looking forward to getting to know Kevin better. Everyone at KV has been great to work with. Steve Moore, their General Manager, has really been on top of things. KV has a strong two car team and will be a contender for the 2014 IndyCar Series Championship, as well as another Indy 500 win this year. Jimmy and I both thought it was important to keep the Sebastians together after Sebastian Bourdais and Sebastian Saavedra were teammates last season. I'm looking forward to a great season and hope for many more to come".
Commenting on the announcement Vasser said, "I am very pleased that this partnership has come together. Gary (Peterson) is a racer and has been involved in the sport for a long time. He brings a tremendous amount of knowledge about the sport and about business to the organization. I look forward to a very successful year for KV AFS Racing in 2014 and hopefully for many years to come. I am also excited to watch the growth and development of Sebastian Saavedra, an up and coming young talent who we all have high expectations for."
Saavedra, 23, has been one of the youngest drivers in nearly every series he has raced. The native of Bogotá, Colombia began his career driving go-karts at age 10 throughout South America and Europe. Saavedra moved into cars in 2006 competing in Formula BMW USA, Formula BMW ADAC and Formula BMW Asia in 2007. In 2008, he finished second in ATS Formula 3 Cup with three wins, four poles and eight podium finishes. Saavedra competed in the Firestone Indy Lights Series in 2009 and won "Rookie of the Year" honors on the strength of a third place showing in the championship winning two races. He placed eighth in the Indy Lights Series in 2010 and also made his first IndyCar start at the Indianapolis 500. Saavedra made 14 IndyCar starts in 2011 and three more in 2012.
"I am very thankful to be part of a great project that we have been working on for a good while now," said Saavedra. "Seeing the AFS car back in action and with a great partnership with KV Racing Technology is something that brings a lot of excitement. All of this gives me great confidence to push not only my limits but the teams too. It's also great to be back working with (Sebastien) Bourdais. I believe we have unfinished business out there. I am very grateful to all sponsors and supporters that are making this possible and looking forward to a great year ahead of us all."


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Malta: Dramatic Silhouettes
Actually, it is quite easy to take pictures of dramatic silhouettes: you shoot into the sun, metering on a lighter part of the sky. Consequently, the foreground will be dark or even black.
Getting the exposure right is pretty simple with spot metering (if your camera has this option).
Still bracketing (taking pictures with different exposures) is highly recommended, - at least when you are using slide film.
Sometimes, you want to have a nice silhouette in the centre or background, but would like to show the details in the foreground. In this case, it is advisable to use the above technique combined with a fill flash.
Here is an example, the Ggantija Temple on Gozo (Malta). The place is 6000 years old!
Other pictures I took showed much more detail but failed to capture the magic atmosphere.
Other examples: Sunset in Glasgow or sunrise in the Himalayas.
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Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obsc...
Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.
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