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11 Tech Factors That Changed Education in 2011
In 2011, entrepreneurs and startup activity sprouted up everywhere. Not coincidentally, the Bay Area, New York, Boston, Austin, Portland and every college town from Abilene to Gainesville is fostering young, eager minds. The millennial generation is proving it can create companies -- and thus, jobs -- that solve real problems. Trends like these are quickly impacting how young people relate to and absorb education.

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Visual.ly Is the New Powerpoint
There is a new promising service looking to alter the media landscape. Visual.ly tries to bring visualization to the masses. Content creation that was once the realm of specialists is now accessible to everyone, or so the service claims.
This prosumer trend of empowering consumers to become creators themselves is older than hardware stores and not restricted to design circles, but certain professions seemed to hold much less public appeal to DIY than others, crunching data being one of them. And yet time and time again new tools have changed the way we interact with information. Looking at visually I was immediately reminded of one particular tool that forever changed the lives of office workers across all professions.
That tool is Powerpoint.
A comparison with the infamous software is not necessarily a coveted one because Powerpoint does have a bad reputation for obscuring rather than helping communication in many cases. For all the good things Powerpoint has done (more on that later) it did open Pandora's box of bullet point hell and was just too much for most users to handle responsibly.
The problem with Powerpoint is not that it is a bad tool. The problem is that albeit created for the purpose of empowering users to create visually enriched presentations the tool did nothing to promote thusly augmented communication. Quite on the contrary.
Chances are you suffered through more than one bullet point riddled snooze fest. Be it in college or the workspace, slides are everywhere and they are still proliferating at an accelerating pace. In a sense the tool has become the product. Send me the powerpoint by tomorrow, will you?
Today everyone can build slides. And everyone uses bullet points. The templates that were built in to Powerpoint set the example after which the unsuspecting office worker builds her slides. These unfortunate examples of slide design have in turn entered the mental model of presentations for the average customer. Thus popular practice of presentation design today is riddled with unhelpful and even detrimental standards.
Before Powerpoint and its templates there was no popular presentation design standard. There were people doodling away on chalk boards, overhead projectors and flip charts. And then there were a few specialist designers crafting slides by hand for expensive presentation equipment.
The world of information design and visualization currently resembles this divide between experts and consumers before powerpoint. Granted, visualization is more salient as a popular concept than slide design was, but prosumers are still few and far between. And lest you wonder what all this entails for visual.ly bear in mind the picture I painted of how Powerpoint proliferated its standards among newly empowered users.
Now, please look at the promotional infographic that visual.ly lets you create with just a handful of mouse clicks and keyboard entries. How much information is encoded in these 500x2103 pixels?
The assertion that my tweets bear zero interestingness stings, but I suspect that there was a technical problem with the twitter API to resolve my data. I do use twitter several times a day and tweet about communication resources, cognitive science and the occasional pop culture reference. However, visual.ly's failure to recognize me as the bestest twitterer of them all is not my concern.
I do take issue with the fact that this infographic is the standard they are setting. With all respect to the talented designers at visual.ly, the terrible, terrible signal to noise ratio of the piece goes against everything I am trying to accomplish as a communication architect. How much information about me did you gather from this infographic? Did any of the embellishments and design choices help you grasp the information or make it more accessible to digest at least?
This is a far cry from a helpful visualization. Heck, it's almost a poster child for everything that is wrong with lazy, uninformed information design and it is promoted as the example for do-it-yourself visualization? Are you kidding me?
Contrary to what my vitriol might have you think I don't actually mean to bash the folks at visual.ly but rather hope to partake in a debate of how to improve communication standards. The toxic influence of bad standards released into the public, as demonstrated by the Powerpoint example, is something I would like help prevent to happen again. And I do think that visual.ly can play a decisive role in this.
We can see how public perception of visualizations is shifting now that web poster art has turned into the latest hype to generate clicks. While users get to see much more visual display of information (much of it of a fast food standard, mind you) they don't get to learn what constitutes good practice or what tools are needed to create good infographics.
The outline of a hurtful mental model is already showing: Venture Beat quotes the co-founder of visual.ly:
Photoshop not required.
Please take a gander at this wonderful series on essential visualization resources and try to find Photoshop. Infographics are not about pixel manipulation and Photoshop is not even a great tool for creating art work from scratch. And yet, in the public eye infographics are something a designer creates with photoshop. Data is conspicuously absent.
Visual.ly could change all that. There are some great things about visual.ly that are likely to provide beneficial impact to the world of infographic design. One is that it transforms the medium of infographics by giving it a platform where peers, amateurs and professionals alike, share their work and thus their ideas. Think of what slideshare did to the public perception of presentations.
This is perhaps the best thing powerpoint has done: It has propelled the medium of presentations into popularity and paved the way for other services to build upon it. Powerpoint has become a great tool for the skilled user to create amazing content both to accompany speeches or to be used in exaptations of powerpoint, like poster design in academia or the presentation spin off of online slide shows.
The one thing we must make sure is to empower users to create meaningful content. To do so we must protect them from mental models that would limit their design choices to bad eye candy. If the folks at visual.ly are with me on this, their platform would be a boon to educate and inspire, while providing a unique tool that helps users create their own visualizations.
Is Robert Kosara of EagerEyes right that
the current website shows the least interesting part of visual.ly?
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So - this is exciting. Today I read an article by @usertesting - Steven MacDonald on UserTesting.com
And in it he mentions www.ScreenPopper.com so I've built a pop up to direct our traffic to the Indiegogo Campaign that we are running. We get a lot of traffic on our site and I being able to send any of it to the Indiegogo site would be a good win for us and might boost our GOGO Rating which would mean Indiegogo would feature our campaign - which would be a huge bonus and help drive our eventual success.
I'm really excited about seeing how the ScreenPopper might affect our campaign. The site has a free trial so I have tried that out. If it works well - it might make perfect sense for us to use it in other ways on our site as well. They have a very cool option that lets you put a tab on the side of the screen and I think we might use that to push out coupon codes for affiliates on our site. We're an affiliate for Diapers.com which is a great site for our users, and being able to send them there with a coupon code could be a really good thing. My mind is already swimming with things that we might do with it.
What else have I done in the past few days? We got an answer from our local Westfield Patch.com editor and she asked us some questions about our fundraising campaign. Hopefully they will carry and article on our campaign and that might help too.
So - we've still got high hopes for this - as we close in on 35 days.
So late last night we launched an INDIEGOGO campaign.
I've decided that it is the perfect thing to write about - because as there are many articles and how tos on what to do when running a crowdfunding campaign - I really did not see too many that followed someone running a campaign as they did it (and as they learned on the fly). I figure that if I am going to be religious about doing one thing every day in order to promote or market our INDIEGOGO campaign - then I should hold myself to also writing about what each of those efforts are in the spirit of keeping my focus, and helping anyone else who happens to stumble upon this series of posts.
How I Created My IndieGOGO Campaign
Our IndieGOGO campaign can be found HERE
Truth be told, I originally started out creating this on Kickstarter. I am loathe to admit that I somehow overlooked the fact that any sort of Social Network is not allowed to raise funding on Kickstarter. That was really dumb on my part - because I jumped through a million hoops to get our Amazon Payments Account up and running. That "We have declined your Kickstarter Campaign" email was a real kick in the teeth. BUT after so much work - there was no way I was going to slow down.
Plus - John Biggs, a Tech a Tech Crunch reporter had just posted his own crowdfunding campaign on IndieGOGO and had success with that - so I was feeling like maybe these were all signs that IND#mce_temp_url#IEGOGO was a better platform for us anyway (or trying to convince myself of that fact).
These are the things that I did to prepare (my campaign took a good 3-4 weeks to really perfect).
1. Multiple drafts of our sales pitch. I had a few people read through it to make sure that it made sense. I tried to make it fun and simple to understand and I included a mock up drawing of how we envision our Local Events and Activities Calendar to work.
2. A good video. I used a few tools to make our video. I'm a huge fan of Camtasia - so that is what I used to put the whole thing together. Its well worth the (pretty cheap) expense of buying the software to use it - and you can always try it out for FREE - I've DEFINITELY gotten my money's worth out of it between short videos we've done for conferences, and instructional videos we have made for the site.
I also used VideoScribe in order to change things up - and spent a few dollars on a Getty Video snippet to try and give the video a more professional look. I had to re-do my voiceover (which was very easy thanks to Camtasia) to try and sound less soothing and more ENERGETIC (lol) and to shorten it because I was running long. Everyone says keep your video to a minute and a half or less.
3. REWARDS!! I admit this was the most difficult part for me. We don't have an ITEM to sell - which makes it a lot tougher. I did decide to offer a few tangible items - and then it occurred to me that we DO have a great deal of power in our existing site. I figured I would make advertising offers, offers for free link exchanging, anything I could give away in terms of reaching the thousands of people that already use our site in return for a donation for our big dream/Phase Two. I don't know if I would have thought of all those freebies if I hadn't taken so long to develop the campaign and then had to switch everything over to Indiegogo from Kickstarter - so that was another blessing in disguise.
I would urge anyone trying to come up with rewards to try and think about offering something special. What also seems to go over well is early access to things.
What I see as our biggest challenges are:
Our target audience is women/moms - and I don't know how active that audience is or how experienced they are at Crowdfunding. They are also notoriously difficult to reach online - they will do anything for their kids, but rarely just spend money on something like investing in crowdfunding.
Getting press for our campaign. I think that most tech journalists are flooded with people pitching startups and crowdfunding campaigns. I think at this point it takes something really original combined with being in the right place at the right time to get written about.
Indiegogo's blog has a lot of good resources on it for getting the word out and I intend to mine that for ideas. I have a list of about 20 things that I intend to do over the next few weeks - and I will keep you updated with how those things do or do not affect our campaign.
Fingers crossed - because I really do believe in the project that we are trying to fund. We have also completely bootstrapped our entire site so far - as well as the iphone and android apps that we developed. So this next step is something that we hopes results in our efforts meeting with our users enthusiasm.
Okay - I admit it - I was totally slacking.
Our FAQ page looked like CRAP. (I really should have taken a before picture). But TRUST me.
It was all WORDS!
I love words, but had I been a new user, I too would have thought - crap - if they have this much to tell me about how to use the site - I'm scared already.
In fact, according to our Google Analytics report an astounding 89% of new visitors DROPPED OFF the site after visiting the FAQ page.
Say WHAAAAA?????
So I spent the day doing a big revamp.
Now we SHOW - we Don't tell.
I tried to keep it light. Fun. Pretty. Like our site.
I'm sure I can keep tweaking and improving it with time.
I'm also going to do a series of 30 second videos (30 seconds! that's gonna be TOUGH!) and include those in different areas of the site when people might need to see all of the ways that they can leverage HATCHEDit.
Who says there is EVER a SLOW Time?
To See our FAQ page - go HERE
We were so blown away by the results that we got advertising on StumbleUpon - that we couldn't keep it to ourselves. We wrote about them in Forbes (HERE) and then were thrilled to contribute data so the company itself could do a case study.
CASE STUDY: Hatchedit Books New Users With StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon, Google and Facebook composed the marketing budget for the HatchedIt team. During the window from March 8-25, they allocated equally between StumbleUpon and Google, and half of the budget of each to Facebook. With each service, the team looked to target women who were 30+, seeking to hit the sweet spot with moms.
"As both an advertiser and a user of StumbleUpon, I believe that the mindset is what makes the difference in leveraging the StumbleUpon advertising platform," says HatchedIt founding partner Kirsten Bischoff….Read Full Post HERE
Web 2.0 is a phrase that you may have heard before. It illustrates how rapidly the Internet is evolving, already moving on to its next iteration – even as some of us feel like we are just getting the feel for Web 1.0.
Truthfully, the leap to 2.0 is not so much about the bells and whistles of "cool things" that programmers can do, but rather the way in which the Internet is becoming a part of our every day lives.
Web 1.0 was really the first stage of the Internet, when sites began to interact with each other and people became familiar with sharing links, and the Internet began to really appeal to people who were well versed in jumping from channel to channel on tv, and were soon moving fluidly from site to site on our computers as well.
Web 2.0 is where we are now, where the Internet has become such an integral part of our lives that it makes sense to build mobile tools for improving the way we live. Online tools also have the added benefit of both mobility and the capabilities to make us more socially connected to the people in our lives.
Research by social networking tool LinkedIn has revealed that globally, men are more savvy networkers than women. In fact, Pew Internet Research found that nearly twice as many men use LinkedIn as women (63% vs. 37%).
Perhaps the best explanation for this lies in the definition of networking. It is the cultivation of productive relationships for employment or business (Merriam Webster).
For men, leveraging relationships to achieve individual goals is second nature.
But what is second nature for women?
Collaboration. Working jointly with others to reach a common goal. This is the way that many women approach all of the aspects of their lives – personal and professional.
Women's inherent desire to collaborate may explain why "mommy blogs" have become a force to be reckoned with on the Internet. Blogs are a place where moms can go for advice, to commiserate, and to help each other with the challenges they face in raising families and running households.
Every mom is the Chief Executive Officer of her family. In addition to the tasks we all think of immediately (cooking and cleaning), the responsibilities of "the mom job" include budgeting, scheduling, researching, staffing, and more. It has been estimated that were women paid for their role as "mom" they would earn $138,000 per year.
In addition to the control these women have over their own households, en mass they are the force driving the global economy. Women drive $20tln of consumer spending annually (Harvard Business Review, 2009). In the US they drive $4tln, which is two-thirds of the Gross National Product (WomenCertified).
The lack of online social collaboration tools being designed for women is surprising. Allowing women to leverage their ability to collaborate will give them the tools they need to perform at the executive level. For Web 2.0 – a stronger focus on collaboration-driven tools will go a long way in creating places for companies to reach the "mommy audience" that they so desire.


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Break-up Remorse: Reconciliation?
June 8, 2011
For 5 years, I was in a great relationship with a fantastic woman. Never crazy with infatuation, but never, ever bad. Shared values, great time together, all-in-all great. Story ends when LDR, move to a new city, and new person contribute to my decision to end things. Now I'm not sure what to do and looking for resources, related journal articles, advice from strangers. A lot of details inside.
Relationship background: We had mutual friends in college and began dating right afterwards. For me, there was never the spark/crazy infatuation/crush that often starts things out. Things were just good and easy and happy and continued to be for five years. Love grew. Shared values, shared life plans, shared sense of humor, shared interests. She was my best friend. No compromises. We planned to spend our life together, but weren't in a hurry to formalize the commitment. Sex was never great. Just okay.
What happened: She left our city to begin a two-year grad program in a city 4 hours away. I had one year left of my own program and could not move with her. She had options in our city and in cities that were more convenient, but chose based on program fit. Some resentment occurred immediately. The first year, things were hard for me, and less hard for her. Then, I was offered a job in NYC after I graduated. This fit in with our grand life plan together. I moved with plans for her to follow when class finished.
The transition was hard for me. I was unhappy and isolated. Distance continued to be really difficult. I became close friends with a new woman. Strong, crush feelings developed. While Id noticed other women before, Id never had a crush on anyone else for the entire 5 years. Crush was all the things a crush is: sparky, exciting, intense attraction, close connection, etc. Alarm bells went off. Something was wrong. I asked for a break in the relationship. I started therapy. I started sleeping with the other woman. I broke up with my girlfriend (approx Feb). My new narrative was that we were good companions and friends but weren't meant to be together forever.
Now: Ex-girlfriend is terribly depressed. I am terribly depressed at having caused her this much pain. I have started a new relationship with the other woman. It's going well, but I miss my ex very, very much. I was in a good spot until my ex called 6 weeks ago and asked about getting back together and I realized how devastated she is. I feel devastated too. So guilty, and so sad for our ruined life plan, so sad for her, and I miss her. I know these things are normal. You spend 5 years sharing your every thought, feeling, emotion with someone, of course you're going to miss them. New girlfriend knows about this and has said she can take me "healing." What I dont know is whether I've made a huge mistake. Ex-girlfriend was good and steady and things were great and could have been good forever. I still love her, certainly, and things could still be good, maybe. Things are great with the new girl too, and we also share interests and values (though fewer shared interests) and great communication and she's been my best friend in the city since I've moved, and the attraction is much, much stronger, and I love her too. But did I frame this wrong and let restlessness ruin something great? Or are these feelings of missing and guilt and buyers-remorse just par for the course?
I know that there aren't right/wrong answers and the internet can't solve my problems (which I created), but there's a lot of smart folks out there who might have some insight.
Questions are:
1) Have you ever successfully reconciled with an ex after one of you screwed up and caused a lot, a lot of hurt? How did it work?
2) Any similar situations out there or general advice?
3) Any literature on emotional decision-making anyone can recommend? Sometimes I feel like the rational/logical thing is, and what my head wants, is to reconcile with the ex, while what my heart wants is to be with the new girlfriend.
Maybe I'm just a jerk who screwed up and wants to whine about it. And you can tell me that too.
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and the attraction is much, much stronger
If this is really true, then you are better off staying with the current girlfriend. You were with the other person for five years, if you are human and normal I wouldn't expect you to
move on in five weeks, or just five months.
Tell your head that it is o.k to want familiar things, but that your heart (and maybe the penis) will be doing the thinking now.......
P.S (The best literature I have read on following your feelings rather than your head came from the book called "Finding your Own North Star") I loved it. Give it a try.
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I was in a good spot until my ex called 6 weeks ago and asked about getting back together and I realized how devastated she is.
Keep reminding yourself you are in a good spot. This is guilt making you question your decisions.
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Maybe it's enough to say that you're at different phases in your life?
Can you go back to your ex and be happy? Probably.
Can you stay with your new girlfriend and be happy? Probably.
Can you ride out your current relationship until it ends and find happiness with someone else altogether? Probably.
Can you even possibly someday get back together with the ex and pick up where you left off once she's in the same spot in life as you? It's not out of the question.
Do what makes you happy. If you're thinking of getting back together with the ex because you "owe it to her", don't. You won't be doing her any favors to reconcile under duress. She'll get over you, and you'll get over hurting her. Be happy.
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It sounds like your contemplating getting back together with the ex is just the guilt talking. It's perfectly normal to miss her and feel guilty for hurting her, what matters is whether or not you act on it.
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I broke up with my husband a few weeks into our engagement. We stayed apart for almost a year (despite working together) (yes it was awful). I was a mess the whole time! I got into a new relationship, and while parts of it were great, overall it just didn't feel comfortable. Eventually, that relationship ended, and mr. editrixx and I got back together, and the rest is history. It took a LOT of careful work to get us to a place where he trusted me. So. It can be done. But that's us.
As for you: yeah. You might have made a mistake. Who knows? But it's done. No matter what you do, you'll wonder if you made the right choice--so make the choice that you think you'll feel the best about and then commit to it. She wasn't the only person in the world you could belong to, and neither is the new girlfriend, and you weren't and aren't the only one who could make either of them happy. If the mister and I hadn't reconciled, I think I'd still be happy today, and so would he. We just wouldn't be happy together, which is what made me realize I wanted to be happy with him.
On preview, basically, what scarykarrey is saying. With a side of "if you REALLY want to, you can get back together."
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I can speak to #1. My relationship was not five years but closer to three, and as soon as I put my foot toward us being back together, I knew that it was a bad idea. He knew it was a bad idea. It just opened up everyone's old wounds and resentments. And right now you are looking back on this relationship the way I looked back on that one, I think - with very very rose tinted glasses. Let it stay that way. Allow yourself to remember that time as lovely, and don't dredge stuff up again. That is my advice to you.
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Respectfully, yes, you're just a jerk who screwed up and wants to whine about it.
Listen, no one in this life can make up your mind for you. Only you can. Or you can postpone it, try to have your cake and eat it too, and cause people a lot of misery while you vacillate. Keep moving forward and know thyself.
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What I dont know is whether I've made a huge mistake.
And you'll never know this. You can what-if yourself to death, or at least to total paralysis. FWIW, I don't think you're a huge jerk - you didn't cheat on your ex, or (I assume) tell big lies about how you were "just friends" with the new interest. What happened to you is totally normal, and you seem to have handled it in the least shitty way possible, given the breaking up. Yes, it's normal to be sad, and to feel guilty, and to doubt your decisions and choices. None of that will go away or not happen if you break up with the new girlfriend and get back together with the ex.
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If you're thinking of getting back together with the ex because you "owe it to her", don't.
This is telling, and may be a good way to check.
It sounds like the biggest reason you are contemplating getting back with your ex is because she is in a bad place right now and you feel responsible for that. However -- what were your feelings about your ex
you heard from her?
-- Were you wishing that you could get back together even then? Then maybe there's something to trying to rekindle things after all.
-- Or were you happily enjoying your new life and current girlfriend? Then that's what it is you want for yourself right now.
So ask yourself -- before you heard from your ex, what were your feelings about the situation back then?
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Nah, you didn't really make a mistake - you followed your dream and you're living. Your only mistake was to naively think that you two would make it to your dream life together. Sometimes to follow your dream, you have to make sacrifices. And in a literary turn of events, it sounds like both of you deprioritized your relationship in order to achieve the dream you shared... as if you were adapting "Gift of the Magi" for a modern audience.
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On the continuum of preferring SECURITY to RISK, where do you fall? During the five years with your ex, you were peaceful and secure. Is that the model for a happy life?
Thrills come with risk.
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I feel devastated too. So guilty, and so sad for our ruined life plan, so sad for her, and I miss her.
Look at the order you list your own priorities in. If you don't have a way to spend some time with her and see if there are any stronger feelings under there, then there's really no point in lingering over this.
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It sounds like things were only ever ok at best between you and your ex. Both of you had the chance to prioritize your relationship and both chose not to (choosing career in cities that involved leaving your partner). There's nothing wrong with that (career is important too) but if you go back, you've already had a taste of what life will be like. And you left it last time. If this current woman is making you happier and you're in the same city with a better chance of making it work, why wouldn't you see where it goes?
From your ex's POV, there's nothing like seeing a lover move on to make you question what you gave up. Of course she wants you back. For some women, few things are more attractive than a man you can't have. But when she had the chance to be with you, she chose a LDR instead. Don't listen to your guilt. You will both be fine and happy eventually. Move on.
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on June 8, 2011
Dude, I don't know. I'm not you, but here is what I have to say: You will always have crushes. I've been married for 3 years and every now and then some girl comes along and kind of freaks out your brain and all of a sudden it's crush time.
What separates a good relationship from a bad one is your ability to say: My relationship is worth it. I love my partner. We will do great things together. Our strength, together, is better than a brief, thrilling fling. My father always used to say, "Just because you're on a diet doesn't mean you can't look at the menu". And while that's a bit crude, the metaphor holds- It is hard to be on a diet and you must, must, must believe that it's worth it.
In a long term marriage or relationship there will be a thousand What If's and you can spend decades torturing yourself with them- Lots of people do. You have to have the faith and conviction that your relationship is the one you want.
When people ask me why I got married so young (I was 24), I always say it's not because I
my wife, although I do, very much, I married her because beyond our love was a functionality. There will be days when you wake up and you just don't like that person very much. Or they've been on your back about something for a few weeks. And all the love in the world won't make that better- It's your ability to function even at low points.
Ugh, I'm getting off track. My point is that capital L 'Love' is important, but you will be in 'L'ove with many, many people. There are far fewer who can offer you the absolutely necessary and far more subtle compatibility that,I think, leads to long term relationship success.
So, I don't know what you left and what you have, but don't buy into that weird nu-culture love narrative that's like IF IT AINT FIREWORKS IT AINT LOVE.
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It seems like a lot of your question is about guilt. If you reconciled, would you have guilt and sadness about hurting girl #2?
It seems obvious that LDRs and being alone are difficult for you. I wouldn't try for reconciliation until you were in the same city.
Generally, I think it's good advice to evaluate one relationship at a time, rather than via comparisons. It's too bad that you didn't have time to break up for a non-crush reason (assuming a break up was in the works).
Or are these feelings of missing and guilt and buyers-remorse just par for the course?
Regret, sadness, and guilt at losing/destroying the life plan you shared are part of many breakups I've had.
That doesn't deny the possibility that a life with the old person could have been great, maybe even better than a life with the new person. But is it also possible she wouldn't even be open to reconciliation?
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on June 8, 2011
If you have compassion for your ex, you will tell her you are not interested in getting back together and you will cease contact with her for a while. LET HER HEAL!!
You have a gf now and it's great. I agree this is guilt talking, and possibly your ex made some pretty persuasive arguments, yes? Don't fall for her guilt trip, you'll only be prolonging her sadness.
Rip the band-aid, tell her it is over for good, and give her closure
I understand why you are feeling like this, but it's bullshit - especially if you were happy with new gf before this unsolicited phone call put these thoughts in your head.
I'm sure this is a valid and important part of processing your previous relationship. Congratulations on making the right decision to end your previous relationship. Move forward confidently with new gf,
who is the only one you admit to loving in your post.
Dude! You're allowed to be happy and have a partner that excites you. Enjoy your life!
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Love grew.
Some resentment occurred immediately.
Distance continued to be really difficult.
Strong, crush feelings developed.
Completely apart from whether you should go back to your ex or not, I was really struck by the number of passive voice references you made to your own actions in this description. You say "resentment occurred" instead of "I was resentful." You say "Distance was difficult" instead of "I had difficulty with the distance."
It's possible to construe this as just a writing device, but I think it's worth looking at. Where is your agency here? Things don't just happen to you. YOur life doesn't just "become" things, and you aren't just a passive witness to events. What role did you play in these things? In the development of "Strong crush feelings" - who did they develop in? You? THe other person? Where is your agency?
Whatever happens, it does seem that one of the things you could work on in therapy is greater comfort making decisions, owning them, and accepting accountability for them, good or bad. It might be that you've made a mistake, but you're entitled to make mistakes - you're entitled to feel things, make decisions based on those feelings, and even experience regret when your decisions don't bring you the satisfaction you thought they would. You're even entitled to renege if you think that's truer to who you are - to say "This whole thing was a mistake, I want to stop and start over in a new direction."
It might be this is just a verbal tic that helped you in writing the description, but please do consider whether it reflects a broader thought pattern in which you are watching the world pass you by, and you don't feel responsible for or accountable for or participant in the things that happen to you. You are. You're steering the ship - you might fuck up, you might not, but you are making the decisions, and it's OK to do so, even if they only seem right just now and later on you realize they were wrong. Take some agency; recognize you're the decider, as it were.
I had a great therapist once, in a similar situation, and his advice was "put both feet in." He told me "You're trying to keep one foot in the safe world where you really don't take your decisions seriously, and one foot in the world where you really commit and go forward. It's not fair to your partner to have one foot in and one foot out. Whatever you decide, put both feet in." You can retract a foot later. But while you're in something - please be in it, for real.
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So let's say your ex moves on and goes on to have a great life, new partner or not. And your current isn't with you anymore for whatever reason and she goes on to have a great life, new partner or not, and you're single. Who would you want more to have back? .......... If your first thought is "I don't know!" or "both!" you have more thinking to do.
Miko's got a great point, as does GilloD: "don't buy into that weird nu-culture love narrative that's like IF IT AINT FIREWORKS IT AINT LOVE." Though I'm not sure what nu-culture means. :D As far as I'm concerned, this idea has been around forever.
It sounds like you had a great relationship with your ex. Did you try to work on the sex stuff? If not, why? I don't know if you're just not including details, but it doesn't seem like you worked together on the problems of the move, distance, isolation, resentment. Presumably you made those "grand" plans with her because you wanted to, not just because you were together for a long time and you were "supposed" to, blah blah.
So what happens when you're in the dumps and you're not communicating properly and things are unresolved? An enticing new creature comes along. This seems to happen a lot for some reason. Anyway, at least you broke up with your gf first before going out with her (I think?) instead of having an affair.
You have to decide what you want. Even though you broke up with the ex, it doesn't seem like you made a clean break. If you stay broken up, then at least talk to her about why you made the decision that you did, that you're very sorry, you care for her, but you guys just aren't the right fit (if that's true). You miss your ex probably because you didn't grieve for the relationship properly. You got caught up in the excitement of the new woman with the sparkiness and that was a good distraction. You and the ex have to have some closure: it is over. The ex has to move on.
I find it interesting that it was only when your ex called that you were sad about the ruined life plan. When you broke up with her, you weren't sad then about it? Again, was this a plan that you wanted, or did it just look good on paper?
If you want to get back together with her, you have to be clear about what your problems were and commit to working on them. Be honest about what you weren't satisfied with sexually. Let go of the idea that things have to be all fireworks. And if you get back together, then you have to break up with the new woman. You probably won't like that idea, but like Miko said, you have to have both feet in no matter what.
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on June 9, 2011
i tend to think getting into a relationship is like going to a new restaurant, and current relationships are like eating at the same restaurant the rest of your life. you know what you like about the restaurant you go to all the time and what you don't like. you know there are a lot of new restaurants out there that may be better, but you don't specifically know if that is true or not. your friends might even tell you the mexican ones are better, but you don't really know. hell you may even like the newest one the first time, second time, even 10th time you visit, but find out after a dozen times the food gives you gas. no matter, there are always going to be new restaurants you don't ever get to go to, so if you find one you like it says a lot.
i think if things are steady and comfortable, that's more than a lot of people ever get out of long-term relationships. the divorce rate is high, so if you're comfortable and steady with someone and love them, that says a whole lot these days.
it sounds to me as if curiosity got the better half of you, coupled by strong long-distance emotions that are never a good thing. i don't think you screwed up, but i don't think you made a better decision. you probably would have continued to have completely static emotions about the ex for the rest of your life (if things really were that steady); whereas this new girlfriend, and potentially more to come, may be a little less steady and comfortable at times in your relationship. the compromise could be better sex, more physical attraction, or maybe she's just a better cook.
posted by
on June 15, 2011
Odd advice, but flip a coin. Assign one heads and the other tails. You will know the moment before you lift up your hand with out a doubt what outcome you want. Don't look at your coin, but peruse what will make you happy.
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If I'm not mistaken this is the first time the BtSPotD has featured the remarkable Phil Tippet, the closest my generation got to Ray Harryhausen. Except for Ray Harryhausen himself, of course. Eighties kids can still claim him thanks to Clash of the Titans.
Typically Tippet worked in stop motion, but this shot doesn't look like it's a stop motion (or Go Motion) shot. This is why I love practical effects. Look at that. No snow, no background, just a gray sky, a Wampa head and a low angle. Perfect. Pretty sure that's Tippet's red beard and thinning hair next to the Wampa.
And any Star Wars fan will look at this picture and immediately place this exact shot… right before poor Luke gets a claw to the face (a story point included after his bad car accident, fyi).
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Sept. 13, 2010, 5:19 p.m. CST
by Edited_Out
Awesome pic!
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:21 p.m. CST
Great ESB pic...
by Fletch Gannon
Howsabout throwing up some Wrath of Khan now?
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:22 p.m. CST
One of the best yet
by Young Moses
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:22 p.m. CST
by Quint
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:22 p.m. CST
Ain't that the Abominable
by Chesterfield Slacks
Snowman from the 60's stop-motion Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:25 p.m. CST
filmed on location in..
by nolan bautista
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:29 p.m. CST
Love that crazy ass juxtaposition
by PRbuick
BTW, where in the hell was that shot? Looks like an unfinished plot in a new neighborhood, lol.
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:30 p.m. CST
Lucas has said the wampa attack was always part of the script
by RedBull_Werewolf
It was never added because of Hamills car accident, that was a rumour that popped up. Get your facts straight Quint
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:31 p.m. CST
Chesterfield .That is the talkbaker Abominble Snowcone
by mr dark
and Phil has his hand up in his nether regions...
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:34 p.m. CST
AWESOME! Sorry, I'm a Wampa obsessive.
by The Reluctant Austinite
I've always been obsessed with everything related to Hoth and Wampas hold a special place in my heart. That's such a cool effects photo, so perfectly composited, that I'd hang it on my wall and call it art.
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:40 p.m. CST
I should have seen it coming...
by BoStrike1
the first time I saw the special edition stuff with the Wampa, I was sooo excited. Looking back, I wish I hadn't been so hyped that I didn't allow myself to see how he destroyed most of the intensity in that scene by adding those full body shots. Oh well, I had loads of fun at the time, I guess that's what's important.
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:40 p.m. CST
It is Tippet
by unfunnydude
And this is the half scale Wampa puppet he designed. Great BTS shot !
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:41 p.m. CST
by darthwaz1
For the added SE scenes it was a dude in a suit. surprisingly not cgi.
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:47 p.m. CST
Lucas has said a lot of bullshit
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:48 p.m. CST
Unless I'm wrong...
by Lone Fox
The attack was already in the script, but Luke receiving facial injuries was added I think.
Sept. 13, 2010, 5:51 p.m. CST
by Chief Joseph
Lucas says a lot of things. A lot of them are wrong or flat-out lies. So really, I don't think anyone knows if it was intentional or not.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:03 p.m. CST
I'm guessing
by Mr Lucas
that's somewhere in Norway.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:06 p.m. CST
But why would Lucas lie about that scene
by RedBull_Werewolf
he only seems to have different stories when it's about a plot point that condradicts the prequels or the overall arc of the film. Why lie about the wampa attack scene?
also I believe others have said that it was in there even before Hamill was in his accident
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:06 p.m. CST
I always preferred...
by Baryonyx
...the Tauntauns to the Wampa.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:12 p.m. CST
Mark had his car crash long before ESB was
by RPLocke
even thought of.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:19 p.m. CST
Lucas isn't lying about anything; get over it...
by Turd_Has_Risen_From_The_Grave
The wampas were always in the scripts for Empire. Curiously enough, though, there were about four of five different designs for the wampa, and all of them were used in various scenes, including the deleted infiltration of echo base sequence.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:24 p.m. CST
Hoping we see that wampa scene on the blu ray
by darthwaz1
now that Lucas showed us the Luke/saber scence, I'm hoping we see lots of deleted parts on the blurays, sorta like he gave us w/the prequel dvd's. I've always wanted to see the wampa echo base attack.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:34 p.m. CST
wampas in echo base
by jameskpolk
at the exact time the Imperial walkers show up and attack would have made an amazing escape from Hoth scene.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:35 p.m. CST
that's a wampa?
by Bouncy X
i don't know why but i always thought wampas were those flying bat thingies when they're inside that giant worm. now i know. lol
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:42 p.m. CST
That's a Sesame Street Behind the Scenes
by RPLocke
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:45 p.m. CST
Bouncy X
by lochkray
Those were mynocks in the worm...gawd I'm a geek.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:47 p.m. CST
Hamil's facial injuries
by Hipshot
pretty much trashed his career. He's done terrific work as a voice actor, though.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:47 p.m. CST
It's too bad Hamill didn't get a $20,000 settlement.
by Tigger Tales
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:49 p.m. CST
I'm on Team HOTH
by Annie The Pod Racer
Because, I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything's soft... and smooth...
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:49 p.m. CST
Didn't mean to insult your hero Turd
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
I forgot I was dealing with grown fucking men who ejaculate in their pants at the sight of a deleted scene of a man turning on his lazer sword.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:50 p.m. CST
The Wampa was always my favorite "Star Wars" creature
by Toe Jam
Always the scariest, especially when I was young. I really hope those deleted Wampa scenes make it to the Blu-ray. And here is a disturbing, NSFW image of a Wampa: http://tinyurl.com/33av3sw.
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:54 p.m. CST
Can we get an Ewok behind the scenes pic??
by darthwaz1
Despite popular opinion, I actually kinda like those ewoks. Then again, I'm not really bothered by Jar Jar either...
Sept. 13, 2010, 6:54 p.m. CST
Toe Jam
by Carolinamaestro
Now that's just wrong
Sept. 13, 2010, 7:03 p.m. CST
Han even SAYS Mynock in the movie
by RPLocke
They don't say Wampa in the movie. They just say ice creature.
Sept. 13, 2010, 7:12 p.m. CST
Ok now THAT'S cool news!
by Zorak5
Never would've pictured that's how they filmed that shot!
Sept. 13, 2010, 7:18 p.m. CST
I'll never look at that scene the same way again...
by 3D-Man
...now that know there were houses about 300 yards behind the Wampa. That is crazy awesome.
Sept. 13, 2010, 7:21 p.m. CST
Oh, and not to be a prick but...
by 3D-Man
...that "I thought they smelled bad... on the outside!" quote was actually about Tauntauns, not Wampas. Okay, peace!
Sept. 13, 2010, 7:39 p.m. CST
"thinning" hair?
by BadMrWonka
right, and Harry is "husky". ;o)
Sept. 13, 2010, 7:45 p.m. CST
RE: Lone.....Quint meant......
by LLcruize2
Yes, the Wampa was in the script before Hamill's accident, but Luke suffering a paw to the face requiring stitches was worked into the scene so as to explain the obvious scars and new "look" of Hamill.
Sept. 13, 2010, 7:47 p.m. CST
I like Ewoks also
by paburrows
Sept. 13, 2010, 8 p.m. CST
Answer the car accident question...
by guitar_dudester91
Car accident On January 11, 1977, one day before he was set to shoot one of the final scenes needed for Star Wars, Hamill was in a car accident in which he fractured his nose and left cheekbone.[4] According to Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz, Hamill was in surgery from 9 AM until 4 PM. As a result of the accident, a double was used for the landspeeder pickup shots.[5] ^ Rinzler, J.W., The Making of Star Wars, pp 249-250
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:02 p.m. CST
Annie the Pod Racer
by dukeroberts
Thank you for reminding us of that awkward and horribly written "love scene". Oh, and I like Ewoks too.
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:04 p.m. CST
Harrison Ford
by dukeroberts
Didn't a car accident cause Harrison Ford's famous scar too?
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:07 p.m. CST
I just watched the International Space Station LIVE
by The Reluctant Austinite
streak across the sky. It was kind of amazing, and reminds of the days in the early 80s when my mind was jazzed about outer space from films like this and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Just looking up at the sky and seeing something like that brings me back.
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:11 p.m. CST
You seriously need to work on your lead in sentence, Quint
by AlienFanatic
A more appropriate intro would have been, "...saw a meteor crash near by and you'll want to check it out." (That's what Luke says just before the Wampa takes him out.) When I saw your sentence, I was thinking, "Cool! A candid shot of Harrison Ford near the Wampa carcass!" But no, it's an old shot I once saw in ILM's coffee table book. Bummer.
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:12 p.m. CST
There's a black wampa in my wife's ass!
by ACKBARisMYhomie
That would be a great porn flick.
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:13 p.m. CST
The Wampa Scenes in The "Special Edition"
by MST3KPIMP
sucked shit.. just pointless padding that diluted and drained all of the mystique from the creature. They did'nt even match the shots from the original.
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:17 p.m. CST
I own a piece of Wampa fur
by RPLocke
It came with a letter from Stuart Freeborn. It's from his personal collection.
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:25 p.m. CST
by indycine
That is a 4-perf camera for this pickup shot. Probably a Mitchell Mark II, hard to tell from above. Probably shooting with a scope lens, to intercut with the anamorphic main footage. I think the guy setting the stop is Bill Neil. I worked with him on "Ghostbusters" and "2010." The back of the camera operator's head isn't easily identified, but it might be Richard Edlund. Sam Longoria http://samlongoria.blogspot.com
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:26 p.m. CST
Misleading headline
by Adelai Niska
I thought it was a picture of Harry.
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:28 p.m. CST
It's Tauntauns that smell bad on the outside, not Wampas
by slone13
I'm sure Wampas smell bad, too, but Han was talking about Tauntauns.
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:32 p.m. CST
FInal word on the wampa attack scene
by catlettuce4
Mark Hamill's car accident was in December of 1976 (before the original Star Wars was even released.) The first draft of Empire Strikes Back by Leigh Brackett is dated February of 1978. The Wampa attack is in her draft, but then, the entire script was written a long time after Mark's accident. They didn't know if Mark would have scars or not from the accident, so it was written into the script that he would be attacked. Lucas can deny it if he wishes. These are the simple facts, and we fanboys all must deal with it in our own way...
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:37 p.m. CST
by RPLocke
That is WRONG. Hamill had the crash AFTER he filmed the majority of SW. If you want to slander Lucas with some more false facts, go ahead. You won't be the first.
Sept. 13, 2010, 8:40 p.m. CST
Even Tauntans smell better than the Clone Wars
by FeralAngel
God that show reeks. I especially hate that chick with the Walk-Like-An-Egyptian headdress. Why doesn't Lucas bring back characters with personality, like Leia and Han and Luke and Chewbacca? The old fart has been using the Star Wars franchise as his own personal Depends for far too long. Time for new blood. I vote Peter Jackson.
Sept. 13, 2010, 9:03 p.m. CST
For some reason I thought
by Yelsaeb
the BTS was going to be from Tremors, but then I remembered that the quote I was thinking of was, "I thought the dead ones smelled bad", but it doesn't matter. A Wampa is just as good as a Graboid.
Sept. 13, 2010, 9:26 p.m. CST
Noone has to slander George Lucas' name
by bishopfan85
he's done enough damage to his own name over the years. I think anyone can agree that he'll always be credited for the great moments he's created but just like any artist who can't live up to their prior work it's only fair that there's a sting that follows the disappointment of being let down. In turn, the slander commences! But to his credit, he's done such great things in his career that there will always be hope that his next big project will make up for the failures (yes failures!).
Sept. 13, 2010, 9:33 p.m. CST
Is this in San Rafael?
by NativeGaijin
Looks like the area outside San Francisco where Lucas built Skywalker Ranch. I'm hazy on the timeline, so I don't know if ILM was operating there at the time ESB was filmed. I think they already were.
Sept. 13, 2010, 10:01 p.m. CST
by RPLocke
No, Skywalker Ranch was built long after ESB.
Sept. 13, 2010, 10:11 p.m. CST
The lost Leia & Wampa deleted scene
by Ray_Tango
How about that deleted scene where Leia senses Luke needs help and goes and saves him herself (while Han Solo smirks for the 104th time). She finds Luke and distracts the Wampa with an intense BJ which ends in a huge Wampa facial while Luke escapes ... That was pure cinema.
Sept. 13, 2010, 10:18 p.m. CST
Question to all
by Se7en
Did Hamill had the car accident before or during 'Empire' ? And if it's during, does that mean some scenes are shot with Luke with scar ? Because to my recollection, the only time I see Luke with scar is at the medical fascilities at the base after being put on the bacta tank.
Sept. 13, 2010, 10:33 p.m. CST
I don't get the lead in....
by matthooper8
It was the Tauntauns that Han said smelled bad, not a Wampa.
Sept. 13, 2010, 10:33 p.m. CST
by RPLocke
The car accident happened during Star Wars. Why would anyone care about a scar making movie. They have this thing called makeup, you know.
Sept. 13, 2010, 10:37 p.m. CST
That accident
by BizarroJerry
There's a new book out, kind of a visual guide to the real-world history of Star Wars. It says that Hamill's accident was in January of '77 after most of Hamill's scenes were shot. Some additional shots of Luke in the landspeeder were then done using a stand in. Then a very early story story treatment written by Lucas in late '77 has Luke getting attacked and whacked in the face. The book suggests it was written to address Hamill's facial injuries.
But since we really can't know what Georgie was thinking, who knows? And I agree. I don't know what it is, but Lucas seems to like changing his story, even when there seems like no good reason to do so.
Sept. 13, 2010, 10:38 p.m. CST
damn no edit feature
by BizarroJerry
If it wasn't obvious that late '77 story treatment was for "Empire".
Sept. 13, 2010, 10:51 p.m. CST
by PRESIDENT BALTAR
Sept. 14, 2010, 12:30 a.m. CST
by benlinus
Love the column...keep it coming man, but CMON! we need some McQueen! Ive sent you at least 4 great pics...
Sept. 14, 2010, 12:39 a.m. CST
You only need to see the wampa and sky in that shot.
by Orionsangels
Sept. 14, 2010, 1:05 a.m. CST
Hamill's facial scars helped
by gantoo
Luke is a soldier, and in Empire he looked like a soldier. By this time Luke would of been fighting in the war for a few years. Soldier's are not pretty boys like Hollywood often depicts them, they have scars, and I think that Hamill's scars helped to sell his character a little better.
Sept. 14, 2010, 2:16 a.m. CST
by aceldama
As others have said, no the Wampa scene wasn't introduced as an excuse for Lukes mangled face. From the very earliest scripts, the wampas were in the story. In fact, in the first draft, the base on Hoth (not called Hoth at the time, but just called Ice Planet. At the time, Bespin was named Hoth) is what is attacked by the Wampa, not the Empire. damn_dirty_ape, yes you are right in that they did have a scene of C3PO pulling a sign off of a door as a trap for the snowtroopers. And yes, they did film the scene with the snowtroopers going into the room. But they don't show anything, just the sound of the Wampa killing the troopers.
Sept. 14, 2010, 3:38 a.m. CST
I remember the Wampa toy in the 80's
by Dingbatty
had a spring-loaded arm you could use to fuck up action figure Luke's face, or you could use in a masochistic fashion to smack yourself in the cheek. That fucker hurt!
Sept. 14, 2010, 5:02 a.m. CST
Coool pic
by Darrenjiju
Would be cool if these were included in the special DVD versions... http://movienews.pipeno.com/
Sept. 14, 2010, 5:02 a.m. CST
I love Empire as much as anyone
by THAT__SAID
But why has there now been six BTS pics devoted just to this film alone?
Sept. 14, 2010, 5:12 a.m. CST
by Darth Scourge
Probably because this is the 30th anniversary year of Empire.
Sept. 14, 2010, 5:23 a.m. CST
by Darth Scourge
Yeah, that room was where the rebels kept a bunch of captured Wampas in a deleted sub-plot from the movie. There are also stills existing showing Snowtroopers unwittingly entering that room after Threepio rips the sign off the door.
Sept. 14, 2010, 5:39 a.m. CST
It's also the 25th anniversary of Back to the Future
by THAT__SAID
How about some more photos from that film aswell if that's the case?
Sept. 14, 2010, 5:58 a.m. CST
Empire Strikes Back 30th Aniversary book...
by Stale Elvis
...finally arrived today. It's got some great stuff in including loads of deleted Wampa scene photos...
Sept. 14, 2010, 7:12 a.m. CST
Re: LLcruize2
by Lone Fox
I know, that's what I was pointing out. Someone else earlier in the TB was assuming Quint meant the entire Wampa scene was created purely to explain Hamill's scars.
Sept. 14, 2010, 7:28 a.m. CST
Just talk about the pic.
by Nice Marmot
Don't talk about how you'd change the column, or don't like it, or what pictures you want to see. What a bunch of snotty little kids.
Sept. 14, 2010, 7:37 a.m. CST
They show Luke's face before the attack
by Thunderbolt Ross
Explain that, you turd burglars
Sept. 14, 2010, 7:42 a.m. CST
In the middle of last winter
by Abominable Snowcone
I was ambushed by Wampas en route to work. Only my Professionalism enabled me to defeat the brutes and live to tell about it.
 It's already been pointed out, but yeah--it's Tauntauns that smell bad on the outside. Not that Wampas might not stink as well.
 Has anyone at AICN reviewed The American yet? Why not, pray tell?
Sept. 14, 2010, 7:43 a.m. CST
Dream monster fight...
by HarryKnowlesNonExistentInceptionReview
...Wampa Vs. Mugatu!
Sept. 14, 2010, 8:06 a.m. CST
Thankfully, Adywan is reverting back...
by Cervantes
...to something resembling the original scenes for the wampa cave in his awesome 'Empire:Revisited' fanedit coming out next year.
He's even constructing a new one so that all the shots of it match throughout!
Sept. 14, 2010, 8:23 a.m. CST
The wamap inserts in the special editions were so bad
by Jehovahs_Witness
It was almost as bad as a youtube parody of someone trying to insert themselves into a popular film.
Sept. 14, 2010, 8:24 a.m. CST
Dumbasses, working Hammils injury in doesn't mean
by Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
they had to invent Wampas just for that fact. Is it not fucking clear that they utilized what was already in the story to explain his scars. Are you all that fucking stupid that you can't put two and two together, you'd rather sit there and argue with nobody in particular?
Sept. 14, 2010, 8:43 a.m. CST
Hamill accident happened before filming!
by ACKBARisMYhomie
It has been talked about by everyone from Lucas to Hamill himself. In Star Wars the Legacy Revealed they talk about it and how it affected the film. Just listen to the people that were there for once.
Sept. 14, 2010, 8:50 a.m. CST
Look closely
by ACKBARisMYhomie
You don't get a clear and clean view of Luke's face before the attack, AND even if they decided to, it's called MAKEUP! People cover up scars all the time with MAKEUP!
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Sept. 14, 2010, 9:12 a.m. CST
ESB is kind of sucky
by Rupee88
I said it in 1980 at age 13 and nothing has changed that. I hope you were all 8 y/os when you saw it or you have no excuse.
Sept. 14, 2010, 10:09 a.m. CST
Explain that, you turd burglars
by Thunderbolt Ross
They show Luke's face before the attack
Sept. 14, 2010, 10:21 a.m. CST
You said THAT in 1980, Rupee88?
by Laserbrain
I bet you got your picture in the paper.
JUVENILE WHISTLEBLOWER SLAMS 'STAR WARS 2': "okay for eight year olds, I guess" says brave teen.
Sept. 14, 2010, 10:33 a.m. CST
Hamill's face...
by pumaman
It wasn't so much scarred, more like unrecognizable. I still remember seeing the trailer for Empire all those years ago, and thinking "noooo who the fuck have they got playing Luke , they got a different actor!!
Sept. 14, 2010, 10:38 a.m. CST
by Klytus_I.m_Bored
Do you have any friends? At all?
Sept. 14, 2010, 11:26 a.m. CST
Give Rupee88 a break
by Nic_Cages_Real_Hair
Poor guy is soo desperate to get some attention by throwing in something that opposes the general consensus
Sept. 14, 2010, 1:45 p.m. CST
I said it in 1980, and I'll say it again.
by Royston Lodge
I fucked your mom in the ass, Trebeck!
Sept. 14, 2010, 2:15 p.m. CST
well in defense of Rupee88...
by ufoclub1977
There are parts of Empire Strikes Back that seem a bit melodramatic, non plot oriented, like the entire scene of them closing the doors on Hoth when Luke is missing. And it does kind of jet back and forth between sets... seeming a bit more like a theatrical play. But this is just incomparison to Star Wars which in my opinion had a perfect plot structure/individual scenes/action pieces/exotic "real" complicated environments without featuring any silly stuff like a fake looking wampa with staccato slow motion or giant space slug, or karate flips. But Empire is still a great fantasy movie! I just think Star Wars is perfect. Why couldn't the special edition have just been cleaning up effects instead of adding to them???
Sept. 14, 2010, 3:34 p.m. CST
DAMN! now THAT'S a REAL behind-the-scenes pic!!!!
by JonChambers
Sept. 14, 2010, 6:20 p.m. CST
ESB was my least favourite as a kid
by THAT__SAID
I always thought of it as 'the boring one' because Luke spends most of the movie just hanging about on Dagobah. Of course when I got older and more mature I was able to appreciate the storytelling and the character development as opposed to when I was a kid and just cared about cool explosions and funny ewoks.
Sept. 14, 2010, 8:01 p.m. CST
Stop discussing the accident
by BizarroJerry
I explained it all, dammit! And AGAIN, the accident happened before the first movie was even released!
Sept. 15, 2010, 9:20 a.m. CST
Accident? It was no accident.
by Royston Lodge
There was a second driver on the grassy gnoll.
 We're through the looking-glass here people...
Sept. 16, 2010, 6:46 p.m. CST
They show Luke's face before
by Nem_Wan
But his nose and cheeks are in the shadow of the visor of his hat, and people might think it's the subfreezing weather making him look a bit puffy.
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The front page of Liberation in Paris today.
Obama and Romney in Paris: Cardboard candidates in the foyer of the US ambassador's residence this morning. The atmosphere at breakfast was one of palpable relief.
Rugby fever at this kiosque near the courthouse in Paris as the Rugby World Cup starts all the way in New Zealand. You don't want to mess with a Maori warrior with his tongue stuck out, doing the famously intimidating haka, a pre-game tradition. Rugby is a big deal in France, especially in the southwest. The final is on October 23.
Le Figaro's front page features Barack Obama, whose 9/11 anniversary opinion piece – featured in newspapers outside the US — gets a full page in the center-right daily, under the quote "Those Who Attacked Us Failed."
Libération features a new embarrassment for the Socialist Party, with a top party official in Marseille, Jean-Noël Guerini, under investigation for alleged shady dealings with shady people (incidentally fulfilling a stereotype about Marseille), a month before primary voting begins to choose the Socialists' presidential election nominee.
Le Parisien's lead story is on lottery superjackpots, with one parliamentarian proposing top prizes be limited to spread the wealth around to more winners. Tonight's EuroMillions top prize is 146 million euros. Le Parisien also declares, "Rugby World Cup: Welcome to Auckland!"
And Les Echos looks at real estate with "Prices at the Breaking Point." Paris prices set a record in the second quarter, averaging a whopping 8,150 euros per square meter. More incidental advertising for the lotto.
— Tracy McNicoll
Is it possible he missed Securing the City?
An infographic of every book President Obama has read since the last campaign. (Click here to see it in full size.)
Is it possible he missed Securing the City?
An infographic of every book President Obama has read since the last campaign. (Click here to see it in full size.)
An infographic of every book President Obama has read since the last campaign. (Click here to see it in full size.)
Sure, there's a newspaper kiosque back there somewhere, but we got held up at the nougat kiosque this morning, near the Opéra Bastille.
Another dark day for the markets. Les Echos headlines on "Bourse: The Infernal Spiral," above stark red graphs of key stock indexes over the past month. The CAC 40, it notes, is down 16 percent since the beginning of August. Ironically perhaps, Les Echos's front page also points to a B section piece on Champagne, with the earliest harvest ever starting today after a hot, hot spring and a cool, rainy July. There are giddy rumblings about 2011 yielding a high-quality vintage. Reason to look harder for something to celebrate, then.
The other dailies are keenly aware of the ugly markets, but seem desperate to put something else on their front pages. Barack Obama dominates Libération's "une" (page 1) in close-up, eating a soft-serve vanilla cone against the backdrop of a deep blue sky: "Un Parfum de Campagne," A Campaign Flavor. The left-leaning daily says Obama has disappointed – "It's the economy, species of idiot," in Libé's more evocative translation of the familiar phrase – but the paper seems fairly bullish on his chances for re-election, if only because of the "outrageousness" of his Republican opposition.
Le Figaro and Le Parisien page 1 photos are of Pope Benedict XVI visiting Madrid. Curiously, Le Parisien mentions the violent protests against the pontiff's appearance on its cover, the mix of "anger and passion," while Le Figaro's front page notes only "Madrid: young people enthusiastically welcome the pope" (an editorial inside does take on the protesters, calling them "ridiculous"). Otherwise, above the fold, Le Figaro features "Terrorist Attacks in Israel: Eight Dead," and notes IDF reprisals on Gaza last night.
Le Parisien, meanwhile, seems pleased with the debut of Paris Saint-Germain's new, young, insanely expensive Argentine, Javier Pastore, showing promise in a 4-0 win last night over Luxembourg's Differdange. That would be cause, perhaps, for a sip of that Champagne. Unless you're a Differdange fan (and who isn't?), and you're off to console yourselves with some nougat. Mmmm, nougat.
Sun-showers in Paris today, on the rue Saint-Antoine. Still more Paris kiosque keepers this Monday morning have left their posts in favor of the beach.
After trumpeting the excitement to come for the big-spending Paris-Saint-Germain soccer team all last week, Le Parisien has relegated the PSG to a bottom corner of page 1 today. It deems PSG's embarrassing home opener Saturday, a 1-0 shutout to lowly Lorient in front of 40,000 fans, a "flop."
The real attention today, of course, from Le Parisien and all the rest of the dailies, is on the markets. "The Threat of Recession," reads Le Parisien; "Crash?" ask Libération; "Sarkozy and Merkel Mobilizing Against the Crisis," decares Le Figaro; and the financial daily Les Echos, over the front-page photo of a pursed-lipped Barack Obama: "America Downgraded, The World Into the Unknown."
The populist tabloid France Soir, meanwhile, pays lip service to the global economic chaos ("Stock Crash: It All Comes Down to This Week"), but devotes most of its cover to "The DSK Affair: Who's Lying?" Scoops? Not exactly. Two full pages of a body language specialist's take on photos of every player in the case. Consider the judge who ordered DSK to Rikers: she looks "sadistic," apparently.
Kiosque extra:
Obama lovers take note: the July 28 - August 17 double issue of Courrier International, the widely read French compendium of stories from the foreign press, devotes its cover to "Obama the Resilient." Among the articles, Eleanor Clift writing for The Daily Beast about Obama's bet that the manufacturing sector will recover enough by next year to bolster his reelection chances.
Frustrated Obamistas will find the lead editorial by Philippe Thureau-Dangin especially encouraging. He compares Obama and Sarkozy, both of whom will be up for reelection next year and both of whom have disappointed many who voted for them their first time around. But this French analyst, at least, is confident that Obama will triumph because the opposition is so deeply divided. The editorial also likens the populism of Sarah Palin to that of Marine Le Pen.
When your local kiosque is closed for August holidays, tobacco shops like these sell the dailies.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, Prime Minister François Fillon and the rest of the French government are on vacation starting today. Their next cabinet meeting is August 24.
Le Parisien today exclaims, "Forget July!" with the insight that the cold, rainy month may have given some French holidaymakers the sense they have "lost a summer" or even "lost a year." (It's balmy in Paris today, sunny and 29C [84F], but the sun and high temps aren't set to last, apparently.)
Libération's front page features "Sarkozy Meneur de Jeu," roughly "Sarkozy Quarterback," a story on the outsized ambitions of the new Qatari owners of the chronically underachieving Paris soccer team, Paris Saint-Germain, including the 42-million euro purchase of Argentine midfielder Javier Pastore (Libé isn't sure he's worth half that). Sarkozy, who is a big PSG fan and is very friendly with the Qataris, is thought to have encouraged the tiny Gulf emirate's involvement.
Le Figaro and Les Echos, meanwhile, headline on pessimism over the US economy despite the last-minute debt deal in Washington, with "Growth, Debt: Obama's America Broken Down," and "Doubt Grows Over the American Economy," respectively.


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The fireworks may have started early, but plenty of people were ready to watch the patriotic pyrotechnics fill the sky over the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg the 4th of July.
Some showed up hours in advance to land a front row seat for all the action.
One large group of family and friends from Myerstown showed up four hours early to continue the holiday tradition.
"We like the ones with a lot of color and a lot of noise. It's sort of an evening off for us," Larry Diller said.
They city expected thousands to attend.
The Harrisburg Senators were set to fire off the first fireworks after a game, then the city took over for a display of its own.
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Easy and fun to make! I made the white chocolate and peppermint and also the Hello Dolly, but used peanuts and didn't have the coconut but still tasted great. I used a tsp of vanilla nut butter extract also in the Hello Dolly version. Will be making this every Christmas to give as gifts.
Peppermint-White Chocolate Candy Slabs
Oxmoor House
Make the easiest candy ever for this holiday season's gifts. You only need three ingredients and a loaf pan.
Yield: 3 slabs/about 1 3/4 lb.
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Recipe Time
Prep Time:
Other: 1 Hour
- 24 round red and green hard peppermint candies
- 2 (12-oz.) packages white chocolate morsels
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- Line 3 (9" x 5") loaf pans with multipurpose sealing wrap (we tested with Press 'N Seal); set aside. (Use disposable loaf pans from the grocery store, if desired.)
- Place candies in a zip-top plastic freezer bag. Coarsely crush candies using a meat mallet or rolling pin. Set aside crushed candies, reserving 3 Tbsp. separately for topping.
- Microwave white chocolate morsels in a large microwave-safe bowl at 70% power for 1 minute and 15 seconds. (Morsels will not look melted.) Stir morsels until melted. Microwave again at 15-second intervals, if necessary.
- Add peppermint extract and larger portion of crushed candies to melted chocolate, stirring until evenly distributed.
- Quickly spread melted white chocolate evenly in prepared pans; sprinkle with reserved 3 Tbsp. candies, pressing gently with fingertips. Let stand 1 hour or until firm.
- Peanut Brittle Candy Slabs: Melt white chocolate as directed in recipe above, gently folding in 1 1/2 cups crushed storebought peanut brittle and 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter; spread evenly in prepared loaf pans. Dollop 1 Tbsp. creamy peanut butter over candy mixture in each loaf pan; swirl with a knife. Sprinkle 1/2 cup crushed peanut brittle evenly over candy in pans, pressing gently with fingertips. Yield: 3 slabs/2 1/3 lb.
- Hello Dolly Candy Slabs: Measure and combine 2/3 cup each miniature semisweet chocolate morsels, toasted flaked coconut, chopped pecans, and chopped graham crackers; set aside 1/2 cup of this mix for topping. Melt white chocolate as directed in recipe above, gently folding in combined ingredients; spread evenly in prepared loaf pans. Sprinkle reserved 1/2 cup topping mixture over candy in pans, pressing gently with fingertips. Yield: 3 slabs/2 lb.
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Peppermint-White Chocolate Candy Slabs Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Desserts, Candy
- CONVENIENCE: Gifts, Make-Ahead
- CUISINE: American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Chocolate
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Gluten-Free
- OCCASION: Christmas
- PUBLICATION: Oxmoor House
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