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Blue Mountain is located 75 miles northwest of Philadelphia and is a little over an hour drive. This ski and snowboard area makes the most of the 164 acres, with a 1,082 foot vertical drop! This year they have added 2 new trails to make their total trails a whopping 39, THE MOST IN THE STATE! Along with the 39 trails there are 13 lifts offered, 100% of which is lighted for night skiing. You can make frequent top-to-bottom laps thanks to the hi-speed 6-pack chairlift and hi-speed detachable quad. Once again Blue Mountain has increased its automated snowmaking system with the purchase of 5 fan guns, 32 double B6 guns and increased water pumping capacity. Blue is always striving to have the best snowmaking capability in the region.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyonce lip-synced the national anthem during her rousing performance at President Barack Obama's inauguration, according to the U.S. Marine Band.
A band spokeswoman told news outlets Tuesday that the band was notified at the last minute before the performance that Beyonce would use a pre-recorded voice track. Band members played their instruments live with no intonation problems in the chilly conditions ahead of the national anthem, the spokeswoman said.
"The entire performance was live except for the national anthem," Master Sgt. Kristin duBois told The New York Times and other outlets. "We don't know why. But that is what we were instructed to do so that is what we did. It's not because Beyonce can't sing. We all know Beyonce can sing. We all know the Marine Band can play."
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John Hutchinson is a Canadian inventor that is liken by his fans to Nikola Tesla when it comes to producing free energy. Hutchinson claimed to have discovered an electromagnetic energy that has antigravity and melting effects on certain materials. It is known as the Hutchison Effect, or the H-Effect for short.
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Links to some other useful threads that will help in everyones learning
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A great thread created by Idiot Apathy focusing on colour theory, lighting, form and more.
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Bumskee's thread about some great basics and not so basics on painting digitally.
Don't worry it's pertinent to photoshop and painter, and the rest really.
Ok, I have created this thread because some new members have expressed an interest in having a thread where they could help each other and be helped in their art. The whole of CA is great for this but I thought a specific thread that they could come to for more direct help might be useful.
I will try my best to organize the thread and I will post a new topic each week to try and help people to improve.
I know I also have a long way to go in my learning so I will try as far as possible to join in with the topics so that I can learn as well.
Any pros or more advanced artists would be very welcome here as your experience would be very helpful to us.
So welcome all new artists or anyone else who wants to join.
Let the learning commence!
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Just dropping in to say I think this is a great idea! I'll try to participate whenever I get a chance.
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Great idea.
I am in, just tell me what the topic for this week, day, month (or whatever) is and I will get started. I will try to keep up as much as possible, but I am studying a lot so that takes much time.
Any ways, I'm in...
By the way, will this be a "class" where we learn to draw with pencil or using computer programs?
Great Infinitum, I'm subscribed to this thread!
Originally Posted by KarderBy the way, will this be a "class" where we learn to draw with pencil or using computer programs?
Haha I don't know.. I hope with pencil because that's a part really need to practice!
Welcome everyone.
I will try and set times for the topics that gives people room to fit it around anything else they are doing. There is no point trying to create short strict deadlines that knowone can keep to.
I was intending to start with pencil and the basics. This is an area often rushed through to get to the creating characters etc. I have done that myself before.
So I think to start at the beginning would be a good idea.
I thought we could move onto computer work over time.
I'm open to any suggestions though.
So, enough talk lets start on the first topic.
Topic 1
I think it best to start simple. I have been given the impression that you are all new to drawing so if i'm telling you things you already know just say and i'll change it.
So for this weeks topic I want:
- A page with a cube, cylinder, sphere and cone on it. Picture them as if they are all one the same surface. Then set a light source, say coming from the top right corner. Then focus on the shade and value of thes objects. Including shadows both on themselves and the other objects.
We will begin with that and if everyone finishes early I can add the next thing.
Have fun with it everyone.
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kais - I suggest you use an imaginary sun as your lightsource instead of an imaginary spotlight. Rendering planes becomes alot easier that way. The difference would be that the rays of light coming from a sun type lightsource are parallel and does not diverge the way a spotlight does (the rays in your drawing are divergent like if it was a spotlight). This is better because you don't have to worry about shading gradients on plane surfaces (like you have on the top and side of your cube). In the case of parallel light rays the only time you have to render some type of gradient on a plane surface is when there is reflected light involved. I guess what I'm saying is that you shouldn't put gradients across plane surfaces, because plane surfaces in nature rarely looks like that. Also I think you should create more distinct value differences between the different planes. Value is what creates form and right now your cube seems really flat because all the planes are almost the same value (except for the gradients). When rendering a cube or other shape consisting of plane surfaces you should try to achieve what Scott Robertson calls a "1, 2, 3, READ". That is, a clear distinction between three planes that will give form. Scott has some pretty simple rules for how to achieve this. If you have a value scale from 0 to 10 (where 0 is white and 10 is black) you start with assigning a value to your light plane, in this case let's say 4. Then for your shadow plane you go "half way to black" meaning the value that lies between your lightest value and black, in this case it's 7 (10-4 = 6 | 6/2 = 3 | 4+3 = 7). Then for your mid value you chose something in between 4 and 7, in this case a 5 or 6. Your cast shadow could be the same value as your shadow side or slightly darker. If your object was pure white the different values would be 0, 2 & 5. If it was pure black it would be 10, 10 & 10 (the darker an object is, the less contrast between planes). I'm not gonna crit your curved surfaces cause I don't know how to render those myself yet .
Infinitum - I think this is a real good initiative. I'm gonna be stopping by as often as I get a chance, and if these excercises go a little more advanced I'll probably hop in and join the fun
For more info on how to render simple matte geoshapes like these and how to calculate the value relations between the planes and how cast shadows fall on the ground I recommend this DVD and it's follow-ups. It's from Gnomon and the instructor is named Scott Robertson. Real good stuff.
Welcome Kais. I'm pleased to see a response so soon.
Your basic forms and perpective are quite good. Though the cylinder is a bit out. The view of the end in yours is almost round but it should be more of an oval at that angle.
Your shading also isn't bad. But try to keep your lines smoother and a little less sketchy.
The main thing that could be improved on here I think is the cast shadows. They should be darker and the angle is slightly out. I can see why you have done them at the angle you have but if you imagine the objects in a 3d world your light source is more from the side as well. That would make the shadows project almost totally side on at this angle.
I hope I have explained this clearly enough. If I havent just ask and I will try again.
Also once a few more people have posted I will do a drawing to better illustrate the above points.
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Thanks for your advice thier Boogieman. Those are good comments.
I'm glad you like the idea of this. Your welcome to join in whenever you are ready. Though if you say you struggle with curved survaces maybe you should give this ago anyway.
Thanks for posting.
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After your post I decided to do this anyway. Learned a bit actually, think I converted some theoretical knowledge into practical know-how, which is good Not very happy with the curved objects tho (as expected), and I could've done the rendering alot cleaner, but whatever. It is what it is, any crits appreciated.
Hello. I havent posted here in a long time but ive stopped by from time to time. i spent the past couple of months working on improving my line drawings but now that im trying to get more into rendering i realize that i need more practice in it. so heres a quick one of mine before work. i think ill try another one when i have more time.
great thread by the way.
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Boogieman: I liked ur sketchtechnique, but u should remember to really look at it when u r done. Let it take a few minutes and do something else, and then look at it. The shadow of the circle does not make sense and also if u look at the side on the cube that is furthes away from the light has too large difference in darkness.
Master Krepta: You should try to fade out the transfer from light to dark a little better. Maybe put some motre time into it.
I found your thread today, and I´d like to join in. Bought new pencils and a new rubber today, ached to try them out, so why not on basic shapes?
The light source is supposed to come from above, like sunlight or so.
I really like boogeyman´s drawing, it´s so fluid...
Master Krepta: Is your quadre supposed to be flying? 8)
Well Im glad to see that not everyone is a master of arts around here. Let´s keep this thread up and filled with cool exercises
edit: just found out that I accidentally rubbered out a piece of the cylindar. It was there, I swere it ^^
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Krepta - I suggest you establish a ground plane (by drawing or imagining a horizon line) and placing all your objects on top of that plan and make sure they line up decently in perspective. It doesn't have to be perfect but having some sort of grid to align the objects to will help lots. And it helps in making your objects to appear grounded instead of floating. Also, I think you should look up the concept of "core shadow". The darkest plane of a curved surface is the core shadow that appears in the transition between light to shadow side.
Karder - Thanks for the crits. Saying it was done in a rush is never an excuse, but it was You're right that the cast shadow of the circle is looking retarded. I didn't know how it was supposed to look like and the solution I came up with was really bad... And you're also right that I went to dark in value on the shadow side of the cube, disregarding my own advice about "half way to black". The way I did it looks like the upper half of that side of the cube is painted in a darker tone than the rest. Which is bad.
Tiava - Thanks! But it's Boogieman, not Boogeyman. Boogie as in dancing In your drawing I think you did well with the "cube". You established a good 1, 2, 3 and you shaded the planes uniformly and without gradients. Your value handling is alright (altho mostly midtone), but I think you should try and define some edges a bit better. Right now things that contrast alot to the background and should have hard edges (like the shadow side of the sphere) are very fuzzy, while things that contrast very little to the background and should have soft edges (like the light side of the cone) are defined with line making the edges very hard. Also, I think you should dig up some literature (or a DVD) on how to accurately cast shadows. All your objects seem nicely grounded on a common plane, so I think you should go ahead and actually draw out the horizon line for this plane and establish a light source that you can use to calculate your cast shadows (info on this in Loomis amongst others).
I feel kinda like a pompous ass for acting like I'm an authority at this. I'm not! Just spotting flaws and trying to help. You've already seen what I can do, so it's up to you if you wanna take my advice or leave it.
here's mine! I think I went a bit tomuch perspective compared to the rest.
my shades look awfull, I know
Keep giving those comments! It helps us!
Your drawings look nice! Good values!
hey, guys.. i just wanted to say that its great to see that you guys are all working together.. these simple projects are the fundamentals in which all drawings are created. Keep in mind always that the direction in which you will render should follow the direction in movement or curve in which your objects are placed... for excersizes like these it would be nice for you guys to try and create lighting by using the two extemes. Meaning there should be ultimate black (somewhere) and pure white. This will help you guys find range in your artwork and create mass and what I love the most contrast. Also, I know that alot of you guys are beginners but, I do want to say that even in these very tedious projects always put your best foot foward. dont think that just because your learning fundamentals its not important to have pride in your work. Work on everything as if it were going into your portfolio. This will just help build work ethis in the future and will help make a mere cone look like artwork as oppose to just an excersize. Keep up the good work... If you need help with some assignments let me know. Good luck guys..
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Well done everyone for doing this. I am pleased to see such a response.
I am going to try and give you all individual below.
Boogieman - To begin don't worry about posting advice or feeling pompous. I worry that I am sounding pompous too but people have shown a willingness to learn and I feel we can all work together to improve. A good quote to keep in mind is by Richard Bach from his book Illusions. "You teach best that which you most need to learn".
Now your work. Your values and shapes are good. But as you said the curved surfaces need work. I think the main thing that would improve those would be to include some reflected light. Also your cast shadows are out of line in some places. Particuarily on the sphere. Try to imagine lots of straight lines hitting the objects and being stopped by them. It helps to think of them like that.
Overall good job though.
Master Krepta - Welcome. The main thing I think you need to work on is getting the shapes looking solid before worrying to much about the rendering. The base of a good rendering is the drawing underneath so it is important to get it right. You also need to work on the values and shadows. However your overall understanding of the light source is quite good.
Well done for joining us.
Tiava - Welcome to you as well. Your shapes seem quite acurate and I like your layout. I think the main thing you need to work on is value. Try to make your darks darker and lights lighter. Also your cast shadows would be shorter if the light source is from above.
Thank you for joining us.
Kei-th - It's good to work out perspective like that. Those skills will be useful for more complex images. However sometimes the eye can be more accurate on it's own. I think maybe your curved objects would have been more accurate if you had done them by eye just following the rough perspective lines. You need to work on you values. At the moment the shading is all fairly similar. Also your cast shadows are a bit confused The cylinder and cube are fine but the cone is at a different angle and the sphere dosn't have one at all.
In generall though you have done well.
I hope this has helped everyone.
I will post my version of this tommorow with an attempt to explain some of the points I have mentioned.
Also since everyone has done this so quickly I will post a new topic in the morning as well. That will give anyone else who wants to join the chance to.
Well done everyone. I am very pleased with the response.
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Thanks for posting Vigostar. Your advice is very good as always I would welcome any topic suggestions. Also have you looked in our sketchgroup thread recently. I posted there the other day. I think we should work more activly there as well.
Thanks again for the advice.
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thank you Boogieman and Infinitum for your comments, I ll make another one after I get back from school, unless of course, you put another topic
Cool stuff here. Once again, just saying this is a great Idea, but can I make a suggestion? I think that this should be sort of like the peer project, in that the projects are open ended for whoever wants to do the if you come late. Just my two cents.
Did one with a pencil side and one hatching attempt just because I needed the practice. This came at a good time, I've been doing digital for a few days now and I needed to get back into pencil. Also I didn't actually plot out the perspective or shadows so It's probably wrong.
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Here are my sketches. The cube, cylinder, and cone were don during class (boring math class) and the sphere was added later. That is why the sphere looks a little bit different. Now please crit as much as humanly possible. I already know some things that i could have done better, but I want other peope to tell me too
Could some one please tell me how to post pictures in the thread, the CA help did not work. I did exactly as told.
Any ways, my sketch is in the link. Please crit.
PS. The quality of the picture sux because I took it with a digital camera. Dont have a scanner...yet.DS.
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Welcome Cup of Joe. I think that is a good idea to leave the projects open ended. I don't want to exclude anyone. I will post new topics but if anyone comes along and wants to do an older one, or one of us wants to revisit an old one then that is fine.
Now your work. When drawing something like this it is important to think about perspective. It will help your cast shadows alot if you know where the objects are in relation to each other. Your top one has a confused light source making the objeccts seem disconnected.
However your second one is much better. I think the main thing you should work on is getting your initial drawing mor accurate and solid. The rendering can then be built on top of that.
Karder - Don't worry about using a digital camera as long as your work is here then it is fine.
The first thing I would say is don't use lined paper. The lines will distract you and interfeer with perspective. Your cast shadows are good but you should work on value. Making the darks darker and lights lighter. Also the perspective is slightly out on the cube but not by much.
Well done both of you.
Ok here is mine. I hope it shows some of the points I have made above.
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Karder - To post images it would be easier to use photobucket. http://www.photobucket.com Once you have uploaded an image there you can just copy and past a line of code that will show the image.
I hope that helps.
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guys, I think I might join in the learning process.. I was just about to do bunch of these too.. looking good Ian!! I think the core shadow is a little too strong though!
Hi Min, Your welcome to join in. Your expertise would be a great help. Yeah the core shodow is a bit strong. That is partly my scanner it does an auto contrast thing when it scans, but, as they say a bad workman blames his tools, so i'll have make the core shadows lighter in future. Thanks for the advice.
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thanks a lot for your comments! I didn't knew how to construct the shadow of the sphere and the cone was hard ass well the shadow on the cone is different because the light source is almost directly above it.
Your image looks really good! Did you use anny perspective lines or was this eye work?
Kei-th - If I read your image right the light is not directly above the cone but actualy quite far in the distance. Try to think of the entire scene in 3d space including the light. Your light source is just another object in space.
I have done a very quick paintover to try and show you what I mean. It is not totally accurate but I think it will show my point.
See how the shadow follows the same perspective as your other shadows. I have also put in a shadow for the sphere to tray and show where that would go.
Thanks for the comment on my work. I did it by eye without any perspective lines. I did put in some guidelines for the shadows though. It can help to think about them before fully rendering them. I'm glad you liked it.
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i will join but i saw today tomorrow i will post my draw wait me please
thanks a lot these things infinitum you're perfect
Last edited by orkun; March 31st, 2006 at 09:07 AM.
Thanks Orkun. I'm pleased you've joined. I will wait before posting the next topic if everyone is ok with that. Maybe it will give everyone the chance to make some changes to theirs.
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hey guys.. looking good here...
Cup-of joe- I amire what you were trying to do in your last post but, like I mentioned earlier. Try and create your artwork as if it were for presentation purposes as opposed to just simple excersizes... When creating your ojects like a cube, cone, and cylinder make those egdes straight. Use a ruler and if you dont have one then use a book, use anything with a straight edge to make those shapes sharp. On the sphere find something circular make that cirle perfect or as perfect as possible... One thing that I would suggest everyone here to get are some circle and elipse templates to work from... They will help you structure your artwork better..I think theres sort of a different mindset when a person draws or colors in something from a drawing thats clean and instantly readable.. When cross hatching make sure that pencil is always razor sharp. So, that you get nice clean lines all the way through. Shade or color between the lines... create a base where your objects are sitting on... this will help you ground your objects better and you'll get a better feel of space and accuracy.
Ian- those look really good.. Nice clean shapes and good range of values.. I do however agree with the core shadow... Remember I didnt mean that every object should have ultimate black and pure white but, as a group it should be there... Also like I mentioned to Joe. Ground those objects by putting down a horizon line, table or something that will help ground your objects....
Keep up the good work guys...
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As the architect of a conflict-of-interest case against Winnipeg's mayor, Joe Chan appears to be the wrong guy making the right argument for motivations that remain unclear.
Chan is the owner of Transcona's Cathay House restaurant and a professional associate of Daniel McIntyre Coun. Harvey Smith. He's also the reason Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz faces the prospect of getting kicked out of office over a December 2010 decision to spend $3,000 worth of taxpayers' funds on a Christmas party at Hu's Asian Bistro, a now-defunct Ellice Avenue restaurant the mayor owned at the time.
On Tuesday, lawyers representing Chan and Katz appeared before Queen's Bench Justice Brenda Keyser to argue for and against the idea the now-infamous party violated the province's municipal conflict-of-interest act.
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Chan then proceeded to divulge details of a settlement offer to his neighbour, former mayoral candidate Natalie Pollock, who posted an interview with the restaurateur on YouTube. Finally, Chan tried to convince Pollock and her brother, Ron, to claim the siblings learned about a settlement from city hall, according to court documents.
While Katz is the person facing a conflict-of-interest allegation, it was Chan who was forced to defend himself against perjury allegations on Tuesday. "Chan's conduct in this case is nothing short of disgusting," Katz's lawyer Robert Tapper told the court, describing Chan as unscrupulous.
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With the TV cameras rolling, the restaurateur theorized Tapper could have leaked the settlement-offer details to Pollock, surmising the former cable-access TV personality shares a political affinity with the mayor. "She's a conservative. The mayor's a conservative. How do I know what's going on?" Chan said.
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GREELEY – Looking for a repeat as Big Sky Conference champions, Tim Barrera, head soccer coach at Northern Colorado, knew he'd have to schedule several of the top teams in the region in the preseason to prepare his squad for the conference slate in 2012 and he did just that.
"We have a very challenging out of conference schedule," said Barrera. "We're excited to host the first round of the Colorado Cup and Colorado at Jackson Stadium."
On the schedule are teams from the Pac-12, Big 10, Big 12, the WAC champion and Denver, which finished last season ranked in the top 50.
"Facing teams from the Pac 12, Big 10 and Big 12 will go a long way towards helping prepare us for the Big Sky Conference regular season," Barrera stated.
In addition to the challenging schedule, Northern Colorado also announces that admission to all home matches will once again be free of charge, thanks to the generous sponsorship of Best Western Plus.
Barrera and the Bears host the first round of the Colorado Cup on Aug. 17 when Denver and Colorado College square off at 5 pm and then the Bears and Buffaloes of Colorado take to the pitch at 7:30 for the first regular season matches. However, Northern Colorado has a pair of exhibition matches against the Air Force Academy on Aug. 11 and 13, both at Jackson Stadium.
The team then faces regional foes Denver (Aug. 19), Colorado College (Aug. 24), Utah State (Aug. 31), Nebraska-Omaha (Sept. 2) and Wyoming (Sept. 6) over the next month, leaving the state just once to head to Logan, Utah for a match with the Aggies.
A trip to Nebraska for matches with Drake (Sept. 14) and Nebraska (Sept. 16) will test the Bears before they jump into Big Sky Conference action. Five of the league bouts will be at Jackson Field, including the two newest additions to the Big Sky in North Dakota (Sept. 28) and Southern Utah (Oct. 12)
The regular season concludes with a trek to the University of Kansas (Oct. 26) as a final tune-up before the Big Sky Conference Championship, which will be hosted by the regular season champion on Nov. 2 and 4.
The 2011 team ended the year with an overall record of 8-7-5 with a 4-1-2 Big Sky Conference record. Barrera returns 26 players from that team that hosted the Big Sky Conference Championship.


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It was just another day's work for Harrison, who only scored eight points in the game. He hit late-game shots to bury in-state rival Louisville and Michigan in the previous two games.
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The game was tied at 71 when Wisconsin's Traevon Jackson went to the line with 16 seconds left after getting fouled on a 3-point shot. He clanked the first shot, the only free throw Wisconsin (30-8) missed all night.
Jackson's attempt at the game-winner as the horn sounded also went awry of the rim. He finished the game with 12 points. Sam Dekker and Ben Brust both scored 15 to lead the Badgers.
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How come your headline is misleading, especially when you make a point of the fact that he was about to be fired? The facts are that M didn't "hire away" the OC, right?
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I don't quite understand on what grounds they plan to sue. It doesn't seem like they have much of a case.
That'll change now. A player would rather have a defense handy for getting suspended up to a year even if it means getting reamed by the coach for underage drinking.
You should see him as an angry drunk. Totally opposite -- not so fun-loving and carefree.
What else he supposed to say once he's caught, right? If he knew something was slipped to him he should've told somebody, maybe even get independently tested. I wonder if coach's have a protocol for something like this. Unfortunately, they probably should.
If you lose, the obvious conclusion is that you have to get better. Unless you're the NC, then you have to get better. Even then, unless you played the perfect game, you have to get better. No shame in that sentiment. No shame in the loss.
We can't win every game. And if we lose, sometimes it's just because the other team was better that day or better every day. It happens. We're lucky -- not really luck -- that it doesn't happen as much to us as it does to others. The sun will rise tomorrow. And so will Urban et al. I'm sure he's as dissatisfied with the results as we are -- and knows more than us what to do about it. (Then again, maybe not, maybe hiring him was a huge mistake -- him and his padded resume!)
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." -- Benjamin Franklin
Yeah, it's easy to assume everything is under our team's control, when obviously it's not. We could do everything right and still lose to a better team, right? That's what happens when we win, right? We never say our wins were just the result of our opponents mistakes.
There's no shame in losing as long as the effort -- and the sportsmanship -- is there. You play the games to see who's really better. Win, or lose, with class.
Yeah, idiots ARE everywhere. I don't know where the notion started that if you're a fan, or buy a ticket, it gives the right to say anything you want or behave in any way you want. There's always a line that shouldn't be crossed that most of us can agree upon. More of us sane, civil guys have to join together and say "Enough!" Not so easy on twitter, but at ball games, or even on the street, it's time good people slapped down these yahoos.
"All it takes for evil to win, is for good men to do nothing."
This loss hurts. The last loss hurt. But we were in it both games and could've won. We're a good team that needs to get better -- especially on defense. The team plays hard and shows up for every game, but came up against two teams that played better. That's why you play the games. To see who's better. There's no shame in losing an Orange Bowl, especially in a game that could've been won. Yeah, it hurts to lose, but we made it this far and that's more than 99.9% of teams can claim.
I have faith in Meyer to get us the last step of the way...quickly. Go Bucks!
I see your point, but don't forget the nature of the crimes: the systemic grooming and raping of you boys using the back drop of the PSU football program. Sure there's room for improvement -- no rape, or knowing rules violations, should go unpunished, but what happened at PSU goes well beyond the pale and they deserved the punishment -- I for no other reason than to send the message that the reputation of the school, or school's football program, is NOT more important the scarred lives of innocent victims.
Even Bo wasn't a "Michigan Man." He was born and raised in Ohio. He coached Miami of Ohio before going to Michigan. Nobody even knows where that term came from. It just sprung up to undermine RR. Probably a Lloyd Carr invention.
According to Arizona's AD: "Byrne said Tuesday that Meyer told him hiring Rodriguez would be bringing in one of the "five best football minds" in college football."
Next question?
Take a look at Hoke's first bowl victory against Virginia Tech. It was a win, but you couldn't say the team looked like a well-coached team. It's been apparent since his first year that he's just not a very good coach. He's not involved with the offense or defense, so his main job is left to motivation. But his teams repeatedly come out playing flat and sloppy -- even after three years, and even though it's stocked with four- and five-star recruits. RR was fired after three years having the same record, but his record was trending up. Hoke's record is trending down and there is no indication with how this season progressed that the trend is some sort of anomaly.
Not true. Woody had teams that could pass. Bo lived in the past too -- like most ttun fans -- and never accepted the fact that the forward pass wasn't a passing fad. That's why his teams could rarely beat the good teams.
If you compare their records you'll see that the student never came close to matching his teacher.
A donut instead of the cd might work!
That's their problem: living in the past. Even the past they want to get back to -- the much vaunted Bo years -- never produced a NC. Not only that, but Bo was an unimaginative, predictable coach: decent but not top tier.
If he doesn't want to run so much, it's up to him to further develop his passing skills. Yeah, the team has running backs on scholarship, but they also have wide receivers on scholarship that they'd love to get the ball to more often. The ball's in his court.
Maybe somebody should get Kwon the dude's address. I sure would like to see that meeting!
The gifs in the comments here are the funniest, most creative things I've every encountered on my wide travels on the internets! Kudos Bucks!
You made the right choice, Kwon!
Great prank! So classy it's hard to top. (It's too easy to destroy things. Any idiot -- e.g. Harvey Updyke -- can do it.)
He had me at "cromulent."
Forgive me I digress, but FWIW: I just learned that ^^^ is called a lipogram: a written work composed to avoid the use of specific alphabetic characters. (Or lipogra_, on this site!) according to the Word of the Day I got emailed to me the other day.
Who knew there was a word for it?
Agree with this. The defense's shortcomings were nothing new and, in fact, early in the second half we took the lead and the offense seemed poised to take over. So the game was definitely winable despite the defense.
Horrible play-calling. When the tv announcers know that Braxton gets the call whenever there's an empty backfield formation -- and they're right -- AND the same play is called repeatedly....that's not on the defense.


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Charlie Hunnam, who you might know from "Sons of Anarchy" AKA the only show still keeping me a man, has signed on to Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific Rim". The movie will be set in a future where giant monsters threaten to destroy the earth. Hunnam will most likely play some dreamy hunk who saves the day and I will most likely have to turn to my wife every time he's on screen and ask her what the hell she's looking at.
Speaking of men my wife would leave me for, Colin Hanks had signed on to the cast of season 6 of "Dexter". No word on what sort of role Hanks will play in the upcoming season that airs in October but if I'm a betting man I'd say he'll be the ying to Dexter's yang. No I don't understand what that means either.
Absolutely no one is excited about "Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation" but yet it's still being made and now there's trailers to prove it. Wait did you say you wanted to see Sarah Palin impersonations 3 years after they were relevant? No?! Well you're getting them anyway. God bless America.
The latest director's name to be tossed into the "Leatherface 3D" hat is John Luessenhop and from his IMDB page I can confirm he owns at least one awesome suit. The film will pick up directly where the original remake of the original (confused?) left off and then will jump ahead 35 years. That may or may not put them in the future. I'm awful with numbers.
A Tennessee women is under arrest after leaving her 8 year old son home alone. In her defense she did leave a movie on for the little bugger. Her big mistake though was picking a movie that was too short because once the film ended her son picked up the phone and dialed 911. Always put on "The Godfather" trilogy when you abandon your kids. I can't stress that enough.
A 16 year old cheerleader in Texas has been charged a $45,000 fine after she refused to cheer for the two students that allegedly raped her. She was kicked off the squad after she refused and her parents immediately filed a lawsuit against the school. The fine comes from the court that called the lawsuit frivolous and fined in favor of the school. So that's a nice story.
Bryan Cranston who you probably know from "Breaking Bad" is in talks to play Richter (the bad guy) in the upcoming "Total Recall" remake. I give this casting a thumbs up based solely on the fact that I have a lot of trouble telling the difference between TV and reality so I think it's cool a meth dealer is making it big in Hollywood. Gives me hope.
Denis O'Hare has joined the cast of the upcoming FX series "American Horror Story" which already features Connie Britton. The show comes to the small screen this fall and is created by the same fellas that brought you "Glee". So that's something huh! Each season will apparently feature a new cast so I'd officially throw my hat in the ring for season 2. Unless there's singing and dancing then maybe I'm not your guy.
"Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation" has wrapped principal photography and in honor of this glorious event some new images have hit the tubes for your peepers to gaze upon. before you go getting all excited you should know that the film is a prequel for 2006's "Night of the Living Dead 3D" which was honestly like having yours eyes stabbed with needles while a local towny hits you in the grunties with a hammer. Not good is what I mean, it wasn't good.
Craig Robinson is using his free time to play the role of the devil in the upcoming Lionsgate dark comedy "Rapturepalooza". The movie, which Robinson is also producing focuses on a couple trying to get back on their feet after the religious apocalypse takes place. I can't think of anything sarcastic to say here, Robinson seems like a generally nice guy and I'd like to be his friend. Wouldn't it be cool if he saw this and we became BFF's?! I swear I'd leave this website behind in a heartbeat. Nothing personal.
Mother of god how can this be true? A Ohio morbidly obese man had to be cut out of a chair he had been sitting in for 2 years because his skin and the fabric had fused together. Disgusting yes but it would be kind of nice not having to pick out a new outfit every day.
Staten Island, home of the St. George Theatre, birthplace of Christina Aguilera and home of this guy who smeared doodie on hi ex-girlfreind's door and set it on fire. Take a day trip and visit, won't you?
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