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Poplar Point and the Case of the Too-Large Park
The District has been fortunate to receive a "once in a lifetime" gift from the federal government to build a whole new neighborhood on empty, unused land. Poplar Point lies just across the Anacostia River from the Nationals ballpark and a ten minute walk from the Anacostia Metro. A successful Poplar Point development, possibly with a soccer stadium for DC United, would create a mixed-use neighborhood and regional attraction in Ward 8, ending its long stint as the forgotten part of the region. If developed according to DC's current criteria, it will also contain too much contiguous parkland. That's right, too much.
The original RFP from the Mayor's Office required all proposals to contain extremely generous amounts of "open space." The winning proposal, submitted by Clark Realty of Bethesda, contained a 70 acre park out of 110 total acres on the whole site. That's large by any measure. In contrast, Dupont Circle's park is under one acre. It is also one of our region's most beloved urban parks. When it comes to urban parks, bigger is clearly not necessarily better.
Now that Clark Realty pulled out of the project, citing economic concerns, the Mayor's Office must go back to the drawing board and re-solicit bids. They should focus on proposals that better integrate small parks into the neighborhood urban fabric. Well-designed parkland would create a sense of place and interact with its surroundings.
The current "open space" at Poplar Point is in a state of disrepair and is underused as a park. There's as much seedy activity there as there is walking, socializing, or recreational sports. Part of the reason is the Anacostia Freeway, which separates Poplar Point from its surroundings. Another reason is that it is too big to have enough "eyes on the street" to discourage undesirable activities. Any 70 acre super-park is very unlikely to have enough "eyes on the street" to dissuade seedy activity.
In her classic book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs wrote,
In orthodox [modernist] city planning, neighborhood open spaces are venerated in an amazingly uncritical fashion, much as savages venerate magical fetishes [sic]. Ask a houser how his planned neighborhood improves on the old city and he will cite, as a self-evident virtue, More Open Space. Ask a zoner about the improvements in progressive codes and he will cite, again as a self-evident virtue, their incentives toward leaving More Open Space. Walk with a planner through a dispirited neighborhood and though it be already scabby with deserted parks and tired landscaping festooned with an old Kleenex, he will envision a future of More Open Space.An urban park is not the same as a suburban park, or a wilderness nature preserve park. No one drives for miles to visit Dupont Circle or McPherson Square. No one would drive for miles to visit a park in any new Poplar Point development. The park is there for the people in the immediate walking area. That is the beauty of DC's existing small neighborhood parks. They contain nice benches with a nice centerpiece. Their design facilitates human social activities. They interact with their surroundings, rather than overshadow them. They are centers of place. In the L'Enfant City, they anchor beautiful sightlines along the diagonal state avenues. People use them to eat lunch on a nice day, read a book, use their laptop or iPhone, meet with a friend, or relax on an enjoyable date.More Open Space for what? For muggings? For bleak vacuums between buildings? Or for ordinary people to use and enjoy? But people do not use city open space just because it is there and because city planners wish they would.
Parks like Dupont Circle and McPherson Square are the right size to enhance their surroundings. On the other hand, Franklin Square is much less popular because of its scale. Even though it is clearly more visually appealing, its size makes it harder to walk in, find a place to sit, and relax. It is too big to truly interact with its surroundings, yet too small to be an attraction itself. Consequently, it is neither fish nor fowl. Rather than enhancing the surrounding urban fabric like neighboring McPherson Square, it acts as a hole.
How can we avoid the failures of Franklin Square in a future Poplar Point? First, Franklin Square is 4.8 acres. Imagine if it were 70 acres. Few would venture in it. The only parks that even partially work on that scale are suburban parks. Like most of suburbia, those parks devote a large fraction of their land area to roads and parking lots. Even still, those parks often grapple with seedy activities under the cover of darkness.
Poplar Point won't have surface parking lots. A 70-acre park won't interact with an urban environment. Rather than "open space", Poplar's park will be "dead space." In fact, the term "open space" is a complete misnomer. It implies a feeling of freedom and escape. It markets suburbia and its central axiom that more is always better. In parks as with romantic relationships, quality is far more important that quantity. Quality depends on the activity surrounding the park and how the park interacts with its surroundings. I would like to see a moratorium on the term "open space" and its uglier, more misleading cousin, "green space". I once heard a very educated, well-meaning transit advocate refer to the trees on the sidewalk in Bethesda as "green space". Let's return to the time-honored term "park".
The next proposals for developing Poplar Point should split up the parkland into more, smaller parks rather than a 70 acre megapark that will be doomed to misuse and neglect. Residents will need public athletic fields. Those needn't be part of a megapark. Athletic fields can bring use and a sense of place to even a one-acre park. When mixed in within a walkable urban context, they draw users to the park at more times of the day, between office workers, residents, and local leagues. They add "eyes on the street." (Unfortunately, they also need to use field turf so they don't become dust bowls.)
Elsewhere in the Poplar Point neighborhood, mimic Dupont Circle or McPherson Square by creating small parks that act as central gathering places in busy restaurant and cultural districts. The developer will be happy to build fewer parks and more floor space they can collect rent on. The city will get more revenue from the additional taxable real estate. They will also save maintenance costs because the smaller parks will attract less vandalism. And all residents and visitors to Poplar Point can have the numerous small parks that Capitol Hill and Northwest already enjoy.
On a technical aspect, I believe one condition of the transfer of this land to the District is that a large percentage remain as parkland.
Furthermore, none of your comparison parks were adjacent to the waterfront. There's a tremendous opportunity to use this park as a natural filter of stormwater before it enters the Anacostia, while also making it a usable space. Just from looking at the rendering, where the park is laced with streams, marshes, paths, and trees - rather than the formal walks and statues that you see in Dupont or McPherson tells me this was meant to be something else - something more akin to NYC's Central Park.
Big parks are not always dead, and can be a real boon to the surrounding neighborhoods.
I don't agree that Franklin Square's failure is its size. At 4.8 acres, it is much smaller than NYC's Bryant Park. Jacobs talks about the need for a variety of uses and a variety of users at different times of the day (and evening) as necessary for a successful park. Franklin Square offers no amenities or activities, and because it is surrounded by an office ghetto, is abandoned after working hours. A large park doesn't necessarily have to fail. The parks of London are proof of that.
I do agree with the need of any park in Poplar Point to be integrated with the neighborhood. The buildings along the edge need to interact with the park. Once inside the park, there need to be concessions and activities along a broad, well lit path with good sight lines.
There will be nothing natural about this park. A park is as developed as a skyscraper. From an ecological perspective, there is no difference between an urban park and a building. Neither provide a habitat for anything other than birds.
It takes many square miles of trees to absorb the carbon dioxide emissions from one mile of a road. No 70 acre park can make much difference.
Rock Creek Park is more similar to a wilderness park. It is mostly unused and by design does not engage its surroundings. It's meant to be a wilderness enclave in the city. No Poplar Point park would be designed that way.
As for Central Park in New York, keep in mind that it has enough "eyes on the street" because there are 1.6 million residents of Manhattan island. There will not be that many people in an easily accessible distance from the park. It will be used by those in walking distance. If you want enough people to keep a 70 acre park busy enough to prevent seedy activities, you need a surrounding population density similar to what's in Manhattan. As you know, DC has that height limit...
As for the waterfront, how far is the waterfront in the Baltimore Inner Harbor from the closest building? If you want to engage the waterfront, you should have the waterfront park as narrow as possible so that people don't have to walk far from the their residences to go there. A 70 acre park would act as a barrier, not a gateway.
None of the three parks is anything but an outdoor living room for homeless people on the weekends.
Blame the NPS for disallowing any creative uses of the parks in the mold of Bryant Park (although, even with creative uses, there just aren't as many people around any of those three parks, even during a workday, as there are around Bryant Park).
I mentioned Franklin Square as too big because it's too big for its context. It's too big for the surrounding environment. I argue that McPherson Square and DuPont Circle are the right size because they better match the demand for park land in their environment.
Regardless, to say it's just like Franklin Square but larger is incredibly simplistic and not all that useful. These parks would have very different designs. Design and program are very important. Simply saying the park will fail because of size is wrong.
Finally, I don't think you're doing Clark's proposal justice. The proposal did include other open space, including a Dupont Circle sized park at the footing of the new Anacostia bridge.
Slightly cheap shot on my part aside, language counts here. A park is never natural. It is a part of a human settlement just like a road, a rail, or a building. We don't automatically assume that more buildings are automatically better because they are buldings. On the same level, we shouldn't assume that parks are better because they're bigger.
I didn't say a 70 acre park would fail purely because of its size. It would fail because it is out of the context of its surroundings. You would need many more people in the immediate area to fill that park up and prevent it from going to seed. Otherwise, it's a suburban park minus the parking lot. Suburban parks often have seedy activities after dark because they can't, by definition of suburbia, have "eyes on the street." A 70 acre park would fail because by its very nature, it can't engage the other 40 or so acres of buildings. As I said in the post, if Franklin Square is too big for its surroundings at 4.8 acres, what would it be like at 70 acres? Is there going to be more density and activities that the park can interact with in a new Poplar Point development?
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I still stand by the central park, though. Ward 8 is lacking in nice, accessible, large parks with an urban framework.
Franklin Square, with a different park program and different management, wouldn't be 'too big' for its surroundings at all. Size isn't the key factor.
Bryant Park is an example. Did it get any bigger or smaller? No. Did the surroundings change in density? No, not really. So what changed? The programming of the space.
Thus, I find your assertion that 'if 4.8 acres is bad 70 acres will be worse' to be totally unconvincing.
What is the consensus here with the law suit by the various established "e" groups against any development there, in the name of preserving the existing far larger park space?
by Douglas Willinger on Feb 4, 2009 4:57 pm • link • report
Plus if you want to sit down, you have to kindly ask the homeless if you may use the bench as well.
There has been a noticeable decline in the amount of homeless people in Franklin Square from this time last year. The NPS commitment to take care of the park gives me hope for the warmer months as well.
I was in San Fransisco recently and stayed on Union Square, similar in size to Franklin square, but it was a much better used space. It had about the same density around it (almost none, save office workers and hotel guests) yet it was a regional destination with art shows, coffee shops, and monuments in the park itself. It was far nicer than Franklin Square, to say the least.
I can't accept the view that large parks are doomed to failure. It's not a position that many planning/cities writers other than Jane Jacobs takes, and it's not one borne out by observation. Look at the success of the New York City Parks - not just Central Park, but also Prospect Park, and the vast areas of wildlands around Jamaica Bay and Long Island Sound. You can also see the thriving Chicago Park System and the constant demands on its beaches and fields, or the activity in London's vast heaths, or the areas of dunes that provide psychological and physical shelter for Dutch cities.
I suspect that this is because Jane Jacobs just isn't a spatial thinker. She's a sociologist at heart. She observes street life directly in front of her, and she pontificates (unwisely) about things on the scale of economies. She has trouble understanding spatial behavior and development patterns above the level of the block, and she understates the importance of less-dense areas in supporting the heavily urbanized ones. Compare her analysis with two equally unconventional contemporaries, Grady Clay and J. B. Jackson. She's also writing in the 1960s. Governments in this country are tearing up or decking over freeways, not building new ones. Cities, as a way of life, are safe; the problem now is how to make them better. (Talking of tearing up freeways, Boston added a substantial amount of unbuilt space after it removed the Central Artery.)
I'm tired of hearing about "eyes on the street" as a metric for success in every possible urban space. These parks aren't kept safe through eyes on the street. The whole point is that they're too big to be supervised by crowds of passerby and busybodies hanging out of windows. That's why you have a Parks Department. That's why you provide allotment gardens and give local residents their own stake in the ground.
No, a large park is not natural. Neither are Yosemite or the Adirondack Park, both of which were created by law. Humans designate parks, but the systems in them can be entirely natural.
These parks are a hole in a city's balance sheet. If organized for active recreation, they represent a loss of money for operating expenses; if simply left unbuilt, they mean lost tax revenue. But there's more to a thriving city - and a region - than maximizing population, or maximizing property tax returns.
I'd suggest a modification to Clark's plan: keep or expand the existing volume of open space, but make more of it natural, and make it count. Build a small portion of it out for active recreation. Include community gardens. Cluster the rest toward the river, and restore it to salt marsh. You preserve views of the water and the increased real estate values that come with them - just views of the water over wildlands. By pushing away from the river's edge, you lessen the costs in sewer lines and streets. You provide much-needed space for active recreation. Growing communities need their athletic fields; just look at the struggles to make more fields in Fairfax and Montgomery.
And you create a buffer of wild marshland between your new hard surfaced developments and the wretchedly-polluted Anacostia. Some of these control measures are required by law, anyway, and would take the form of swales and retention ponds. With some cleverness, you might even pass off some of the load that would otherwise flow to the increasingly-overwhelemed Blue Plains treatment plant, saving money in the long run. And you lower the urban heat island effect, reducing those difficult summertime air conditioning costs.
by David Ramos on Feb 4, 2009 6:01 pm • link • report
Develop Anacostia.
A big problem these days is that too often it's assumed that more open space is always good and more development is always bad. That is simply not true.
It's 350 acres large and is quite busy in certain parts (others are Wilderness by design). The trick is that it caters to a wide range of recreational uses. It has a frisbee golf course, the town lake hike/bike trail, a botanical garden, Barton Springs Pool (a must see if you ever go to Austin), etc...Big is not necessarily bad. And they charge for parking FYI.
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Zilker Botanical Garden | Austin Nature and Science Center | Canoe Rental | Hike and Bike Trails | Barton Springs Pool | "Splash" Environmental Exhibit | Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum | The Austin Sunshine Camp Zilker Park Playscape photo Located at 2100 Barton Springs Road, Zilker Metropolitan Park is considered "Austin's most loved park." This 351 acre park is home to a variety of recreation opportunities and special events for the individual or the whole family.
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The 42 acres of the north portion of the park (Lou Neff road) has not received major park improvements since its construction in the 1930's. The Parks and Recreation Department has implement a multiple year improvement project to improve and maintain the turf , conserve potable water, and enhance the overall appearance of the park. These improvements will provide a durable, resilient turf that will serve to create a space that inspires visitors to play, imagine, rest and interact with nature and each other.
The 81st Annual Zilker Park Kite Festival will be held March 1st, 2009.
Enjoy a ride on the Zilker Zephyr miniature train or paddling a canoe on Town Lake. Play on the large multi-age playscape, hike and bike trails and large full-service picnic areas, 6 of which are reservable. For the swimmer, Zilker Park offers Barton Springs Pool, a natural spring-fed pool with a year-round average temperature of 68 degrees.
The sports enthusiast will enjoy the sand volleyball courts, a nine-hole Disc Golf Course, 9 Soccer Fields, 1 Rugby Field, 2 Multi-use Fields.
The park is home to the Zilker Botanical Gardens, which includes the Taniguchi Oriental Garden and the Austin Area Garden Center. The Austin Nature and Science Center which offers a wide variety of programs for children and adults, as well as, the opportunity to explore the environment with hands-on exhibits, interactive nature and science trails and live Texas wildlife. In addition, the Center hosts the "Splash" Environmental Exhibit which is an educational display about the Edwards Aquafier.
The Zilker Hillside Theatre hosts concerts ranging from Jazz to Country. Additionally, the theatre is the site of the Zilker Summer Musical and Shakespeare in the Park. Bring a blanket to site on the hillside and enjoy these events.
The Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum is on the south end of the park. Home of the collection of work by sculptor Charles Umlauf.
--Apples and oranges.
"No one drives for miles to visit Dupont Circle or McPherson Square."
But they do. To go to RCP.
The categorical assessments - "How can we avoid the failures of Franklin Square in a future Poplar Point?" - are, to this reader, getting out of hand!
I used to sit in Franklin Park all the time and eat lunch!
Political theater. Cleaning up slums is costly and may or may not fetch the appropriate results.
But with new developments, Fentey can smile with a hard-hat at ground breaking, and then let the next administration get the problem if things don't work out.
It's Cavan's, not David's.
It's still simplistic and that seesm to be a theme with this blog
I think it's fair to say that all the contributors and the editor/blogmaster tend to write nuanced thoughts that are forward looking. While you may disagree with the thesis of the post, please say why you disagree. You're not adding anything to the discussion by just calling the whole blog "simplistic".
Something that is "simplistic" tends not to attract the mostly well-thought out comments and discussion that has been a staple of Greater Greater Washington for the past year.
If my memory is correct, MacFarlane's development plan sought to weave more park space within the development itself. It wasn't perfect, but I believe that was a step in the right direction for Poplar Point.
Alas it is fenced off by the surface I-295.
I wonder, is that why efforts to cover I-295 have lagged all of these years since the "progressive" community decided to ensure that a disproportionate amount of the D.C. freeway traffic was there?
Is it that they like a park that is large and isolated?
by Douglas Willinger on Feb 4, 2009 11:42 pm • link • report
I liked the Clark's concept for the park allocation the best. What land it does develop it maximizes and creates active streets. On the other hand the concept from Forest City intermingled arkland more with the development. I thought the Forest City rendering resembled "towers in the park" construction. Putting green acreage around the various buildings only isolates them. That would be a suburbanesque abomination.
The Preserve park planned by Clark Realty could have had some programmed spaces that could have been engaging in ways similar to McPherson Square. But it also could have been large enough and continuous enough for joggers or roller bladers and other uses that parks like McPherson Square and Franklin Park don't offer.
I could see a large Central Park-like park that is surrounded by all the development with the waterfront commercial destinations like fishmarkets, marina and restaurants but I actually like the Forest City idea of intermingling the park land with the development. I think if it's done carefully(w/ commercial and residential nearby along with ponds, benches, paths) it would work great b/c I think the parkland needs to be broken up b/c there's a point at which a large central park could be too big like Cavan said w/ respect to the surrounding density. Maybe the parks could all string together somewhat. Either way, I don't think a large wilderness park can work in this area if it's developed. It'll become neglected and seedy. If you can develop a good transit plan (bikes, buses/trolley) for the space, intermingling the parks is the best way to do it IMO w/ the 70 acre park stipulation.
If you want to do something good for the Anacostia River, you return both banks to wetland status all the way up to Bladensburg, just like it was in George Washington's time. It was 20 feet deep at that time. Bladensburg was the major port in the region at that time. Restoring the wetlands means undoing RFK stadium and its parking lots, the Benning Road east of 15th St. NE (the boundary of the L'Enfant City because east of that was marsh), undo the golf course, undo the Acquatic Gardens, undo Bolling AFB and NRL, and undo Poplar Point. Those were all originally wetlands. That's also a whole heck of a lot more than 70 acres. 70 acres will not make any difference whatsoever. It's very simple: park or building. Either way, you're building and maintaining a human settlement. Except for wilderness parks, parks are no more environmentally friendly than a building.
Will it restore it to a natural state? No, of course not. But then again, such a goal is impossible to meet. Can it substantially improve the current situation? Without question.
I wish I had the time now to respond to this, but alas I don't. I will just say that this to my way of thinking is not correct, in many ways. Right off the top of my head - green space absorbs heat and water. There are many birds, like hawks, that go into parks (and yes, into apartment buildings in NYC too). There can be community gardens in parks. Go into any garden during the height of summer, it is or feels 3-5 degrees less hot.
But more to the point, which is that it dosen't always have to be a zero sum argument. A few wetland-like edges along the Potomac or Anacostia would make some difference like some people living in Downtown make some difference in that human ecosystem. I wouldn't get my dander up over a proposal for some natural edging along a waterway when so much else is underused, crapped on, or just plain ugly.
By the way, Rock Creek Park is not maintained by humans and is therefore natural. Should we rename it because it's trees arn't planted in rows? And it is more environmentaly friendly than a building. If you can draw a distinct line between a wilderness park and Franklin Park, go ahead, all I'm saying is that's wasted energy with so much else to do.
This is a single-loaded street up against a park. It's a way to raise property values in speculative development, and method for creating places that attract people. Single-loading is the condition that makes Park Ave. in New York and Michigan Ave. across from Lincoln Park, what they are.
Constructed wetlands help with the extra runoff that new development produces. They can even help with sewage treatment - remember that Blue Plains is nearing capacity. And every bit of marsh absorbs water, reducing flooding problems elsewhere during storm surges.
One (extremely large) example of a constructed wetland is in Arcata, Calif., where a marsh is supplementing the capacity of the municipal wastewater treatment plant. Not just filtering runoff, but sewage.
by David Ramos on Feb 5, 2009 1:58 pm • link • report
A proper trail system along the east side of the Anacostia might fill this need. But I still think there's something nice about retreating to the middle of a big park until you can barely hear the traffic and opening up a book.
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JONESBORO Clayton County voters overwhelmingly approved Sunday alcohol sales in unincorporated parts of the county Tuesday.
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05/11/2013 Mitchell Leads Huskies at MAC Track & Field ChampionshipsSenior Accounts for Eight Points in Three Events Saturday 05/10/2013 School Heptathlon Record Falls at MAC ChampionshipsMitchell, Burr Advance to Finals 04/20/2013 Northern Illinois Outduels Regional Rivals at Huskie OpenNIU takes nine event titles at home meet 04/18/2013 Huskies Run at Mt. SAC RelaysMeghan Heuer competes at prestigious meet 04/18/2013 Northern Illinois Prepares to Host Huskie OpenHome meet starts at 9:30 a.m. Saturday 2011-12: Indoor- Broke the school record in the 1000 meters at the Bill Easton Classic (1/7), doing so with a 2:59.50 clip en route to a first-place finish... Took first in the 800 meters at the IWU Invitational (1/28) with a time of 2:20.59... Finished second in the 800 meters at the Ball State Quadrangular (2/17) at 2:15.45. Outdoor- Competed in two meets during the year before missing the remainder of the season due to injury... Took third place in the 1500 meters at the UCF Black & Gold Challenge (3/17) with a time of 4:38.90... Placed eighth in the 800 meters at the Kansas Relays (4/19) behind a 2:15.20 clip. High School:Was a four-year letterwinner at Onalaska High School who also served as captain of the track & field and cross country teams her junior and senior years... Team tied for first at the Wisconsin state cross country meet her senior year, while finishing second as a sophomore and sixth her freshman season... Named the Mississippi Valley Conference's Athlete of the Conference as a junior... Won state titles in the 4x800 relay her her sophomore and junior seasons, in addition to taking second as a freshman and third as a senior... Three-time first team and two-time second team all-conference honoree in her career... Holds school record in the 4x800 relay and the conference record in the 4x400... Participated in the Midwest Distance Gala all four years in high school. Personal:Daughter of Wayne and Carlan Burr... Born on Dec. 12, 1992, in Lacrosse, Wis... Undecided on a major... Full name is Jamie Ann Burr... Has one sister, Nicole, who ran cross country and track at Marquette... Founded the Onalaska High School knitting club... Enjoys painting and drawing... Admires Steve Prefontaine
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A Conversation with RedCloud took place on March 27, 2010. We talked about life, Kenpo Karate, tattoo's, and the 'Battle of the Chiefs' that'll take place on April 24th in Albuqureque, NM. The battle consists of four belts – Red, White, Black, White. Chief Rocka is also looking for emcee's to fill the undercard. Interested parties should send their BIO, music and videos to email@example.com. Follow @ChiefRocka on Twitter for more updates.


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Progressive Resistance. Protein. Patience
Are you tired of not getting results? If yes then you're probably screwing up in one of these three fundamental principles.
Progressive Resistance
Firstly, even the most retarded gym rat should understand this fundamental principle. If you're not using more weight/doing more reps/using harder exercises/doing less rest between sets/doing more sets etc. then you will not see any difference in your strength and how you look. Tattoo these words on your forehead to remind you this anytime you want to change something and get weaker instead of getting stronger. Fuck, you can do 2-3 exercises all your life and keep getting stronger in them and you will be a powerhouse in 5-10 years. Keep getting progressively stronger in your training and you're on the right track. Rethink your training today, make progressiveness your number one priority (not some stupidity, brand new gadget or fancy exercise) and you'll get results finally.
Secondly, through experience I came to conclusion that resistance is resistance. It doesn't matter where it comes from. Barbell, dumbbell, kettlebell, bodyweight, sandbag - all the same. Either has it's own pluses and minuses (which I discussed here). But do you really think that it matters to your body what you use in your training? The right answer is no, it doesn't matter. You think you can't gain mass with bodyweight training? Make it progressive and work up to hardest exercises FOR REPS (of course, you need to get your diet and rest right which I will discuss later) and tell me how you look. You will look big, athletic and awesome (with a bonus of being able to insanely control your body). The same is true for kettlebell or sandbag master. Pick up the resistance you like, make it progressive and you'll be amazed with results. You know why barbells are considered the king in gaining strength and size? Because it's extremely easy to make their resistance progressive with all those plates in the widest weight range possible. If it becomes easy to press given weight just add a couple of kilograms (or just one, or a half) and be happy. No need to overthink. With bodyweight strength training everything is WAY more complicated. Everytime you move to harder exercise it could be a HUGE jump in resistance. For example, handstand push-ups became easy and you decide to move to diamond handstand pushups. Well, to your big surprise you might not be able to do even a single. Then you try 1/2 diamond handstand push-up (or even 1/4). The same with kettlebells. 16 kg then 24 kg. Wow, it's fucking 8 kgs! That's why so many people fail to get results with unconventional strength training tools.
Take-home point: pick resistance you like, make it progressive and train to success.
Protein is crucial for building muscle. Any average gym rat should know that. But I rarely find people who want to build muscle AND consume adequate amounts of protein daily. 1 g per 1 lb of bodyweight? 2 g per kg? Well, this will work for some people. I mean, genetic freaks and people who just started training. But for the majority it's really low number. If your training is ok (it means that you're getting stronger on a regular basis) and you consume enough calories (it means more than you burn throughout the day) but still your muscles don't grow then you might be not getting enough protein.
What is enough? 1.5 g per 1 lbs of bodyweight (3.5 g per 1 kilogram) is a good starting point. Some people will need more than that. For example, 2 g per 1 lbs of bodyweight (4.5 g per 1 kilogram). That's pretty big numbers but that might be the most important diet change you need to make to start growing.
Some people can argue that you don't need so much protein but highly likely that they have pretty good genetics or are fat bastards that think that they're muscular. These numbers are not got from air. These are real-world numbers that work for majority of trainees. I learned them from Wesley Silveira a.k.a. Iron Addict and Charles Poliquin, as well as from some other authors who I trust. Then I checked them and was amazed with results. Don't be fooled. You need ultra-high protein doses to grow. Period. And muscle growth is not the only positive effect of high-protein consumption. Improved fat loss is what I've noticed while experimenting. It's really insane. Up your protein intake and see for yourself.
I don't recommend high-protein diet if you have any kidney disease. Consult your doctor on this topic first.
Side note: there are some cases when you can get away with less protein. And I mean intermittent fasting and Warrior Diet. But that's the theme for another post in future. If you follow basic eat-whole-day approach then the numbers are accurate.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" (attributed to Lao Tzu – founder of Taoism)
Patience is the third crucial factor of training (as well as any) success. How pity that nowadays less and less people understand this important principle. To achieve something worthwhile you need time. I mean TIME. And lots of it. No great strength and physique were built in 4 weeks. So why do you think that you can rebuild yours in that time frame There are tons of hype out there. You need to separate truth from myth. Yes, you can gain some decent amount of muscle in short period of time. I've seen it, I've done it. But it is possible in two situations:
1. You're just started training and eating right.
2. You wasn't training and eating properly for awhile and regained what you previously had due to muscle memory.
Don't search quick fixes. They won't last long. Make training, eating and rest your habit, your new lifestyle. And only then you'll be able to get the results you want. Give your goals time. Muscle gain of 10 lbs per year of consistent training is pretty good solid result for average natural trainee. Some will be able to gain more (especially in first year), some will gain less due to crappy genetics. But anyway, with such speed you'll end up 30 lbs (15 kg) bigger in 3 years. 80 kg trainee will be 95 kg and will look TOTALLY different. Well, he won't remind Dorian Yates but he'll definitely be a powerhouse.
Just think about it. You don't expect just planted seed to grow in 3 hours, right? So don't expect your strength and muscles to grow that fast. It's a daily routine. The only method to speed up results is to find what works for you and stick to it for as many days per year as possible.
Patience always pays off.
Closing Thoughts
Strength and physique building is not a rocket science. Yes, it involves thinking but everything's plain simple (not easy, though). I hope this article taught you something new. Follow these principles and get results you've deserved. Thanks for reading. Spead the knowledge.
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Warning on Google Mail new settings
On June the 1st 2011, Google made some deep changes in your default Gmail account settings. While using your Gmail account, if you're encountering this error message:
That's because the change have been applied to your account.
What you need to do to get Sparrow to work again with your Gmail account is the following:
- Go to your Gmail web application
- Go to Mail Settings by clicking the upper-right corner wheel:
- Go to the 'Labels' section of your Settings. Make sure to tick the 'Show in IMAP' corresponding to the 'Draft', 'Trash', 'Starred' and 'Important' Labels as described below:
- Wait 2 to 3 minutes and restart Sparrow. Your Gmail account should work fine again.


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So I've just passed my six-month anniversary on Twitter. Six months give or take, assuming you don't count the two months I spent as a creeper marveling over the fact that anyone cared what Ashton Kutcher has to say about anything…or the grave American injustice that is standing in line at Starbucks waiting for a double-shot skinny tall frappe-mocha-choca-lata real lady marmaaa….oh wait. I digress.
In honor of our six-month anniversary, I decided it was a good time to reflect on the days, months, hours and tweets that took my love affair with Twitter from a simple curiosity to something more. Let's take a journey back through time together…
Six Observations in Six Months on Twitter
1. You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat (or at least better technology): When it all began I was but a naive little neophyte, hopping on twitter.com to tweet now and again. With each passing tweetup (shameful, I know) I found myself gazing longingly at my companions smiling faces – lit by the dim blue glow of an iPhone – as they tweeted to others around the table instead of actually engaging in real life conversation. I wanted what they had.
Flash forward two months and I would find myself the proud owner of a new smartphone which might as well be docked in my right palm (Sorry mom / everyone), juggling Tweetdeck, HootSuite and Seesmic from the phone, from the laptop, from the desktop.
Then along came the day, not so long ago, a horrible, horrible thing happened… my laptop died. The horrible thing wasn't the fact that the laptop died, rather the fact that I replaced it with a little white wonder with a light-up piece of fruit on the backside of the screen. It was the tweet heard round my world, going down in history as the day I sold my soul to Apple. I brought the package home in the with a mix of emotions. The mix gave way to full-on panic as soon as I opened the box. Where was the backspace key? Why did the delete key act like a backspace key? What the hell is a "magsafe"?
Oh dear god what had I done?
My people were divided. Half of them resented my conversion, shunning me in no uncertain terms. The Mac fans, however, rallied with love and support, gently talking me down from the ledge (and sparing me a prompt trip back to the Apple store to throw the Macbook at the disturbingly helpful and friendly sales guy as I demanded a computer with backspace key.) With just a little patience, I soon discovered along with a bright new world, my Macbook offers me a special sense of power each time I press the "COMMAND" key. I have become the dominatrix of my technology and it turns out the role suits me just fine. The apple does my evil bidding, I get to boss it around. Every so often we take a break to play with Garage Band. iLove.
2. #TheresAHashtagForThat … Don't believe me? My recent favorite occurred at a wedding when one of the guests took a dance break to tweet during the Countour's "Do You Love Me?" … his choice of hashtag? #ICanHashPotato. ….. #ISuspectOpenBarWasToBlame
3. They're Watching You: My mom always used to say "Never put something in writing you wouldn't want your grandmother to read." And while I have written plenty I wouldn't want my grandmother to read, there is merit to my mother's conventional tidbit of wisdom. For better or worse, people are watching what you say. Sometimes even people you don't expect. I learned this lesson the night I made a snarky comment about Hanson and was so harshly reprimanded by a member of the Hanson twitter fanclub I would have sworn the year was 1996.
While you may not be too concerned with your stock when it comes to modern mmmboppers, there are plenty of eyes on Twitter connected to minds, networks and opportunities you might actually like to have on your side. Use the better judgment the good Lord and your mama gave you. And for the love of God, don't let your claim to fame become 345 tweets about Justin Bieber documented in the deep, dark bowels of the Library of Congress. I'm begging you.
4. It's All in the Name: Your twitter handle becomes a version of your virtual calling card. Like it or not, it will follow you wherever you go. Everything you do or say online creates a fuller picture of who you are. Each little tidbit is a piece of the greater whole of your continually evolving online presence. While an unusual handle is memorable and makes for a great conversation starter – what seems like a good plan (or in my case, an anonymous cover) on day one, may not be the best choice when it comes time to shoot it off on a resume or slap it across your chest on a name tag at a conference. Unfortunately, by the time you figure this out, it's too late. Catch-22. Kill the quirky and go with something more professional? Run the risk of having to start building your presence and persona from scratch. Keep the quirky? Be prepared to be known as "that NoMeatballs girl" when you take things offline and get IRL. (Then promptly demand that each person who refers to you as such is the lucky recipient of the "You're Buying the Next Round to Make it Up to Me" award.)
5. I Am Not an Ornithologist: For the longest time I think my mom thought I had taken up bird watching. All the mention of tweets and hoots, she found it very baffling. Now she just finds it annoying, and I often hear her muttering under her breath about how she just "doesn't get it" and asking me to explain what the "tweety" is all about.
The best way I have come up with to explain it to her is as such…
The last time I was in Vegas I wandered into a convention center. Perusing the list of conferences being held at the facility that day I couldn't help but smile. In one room The Southwest Guild of Chocolate Artists would spend the afternoon creating chocolate masterpieces. In another room America's finest daschund breeders tackled the trials and tribulations of raising hot dogs with legs. In yet another room, the National Pizzamakers Association was to discuss trends in toppings.
Though I am not a chocolate artist nor a daschund breeder nor a pizza maker by any stretch of the imagination, I was intrigued and inclined to crash each conference to pick up a few new nuggets of knowledge before returning to my regularly scheduled vacation.
Twitter is that convention center. It is full of every kind of conference you can imagine. The conferences are going on all day, every day. Everyone is invited. The conferences you choose to attend, the people you choose to interact with and the things you take away from the experience are all up to you. Whether you go for a deep sea dive in a bottomless ocean or stick to splashing around in a specific paddling pool – the information being shared and discussed and built upon and picked apart is endless. Whether you become an all-day conference attendee or crash in for five minutes – there is always something new to learn.
6: Everything We Need to Know We Learned in Kindergarten (mostly): Twitter is full of generous, smart, insightful people (and a few pain in the hineys) waiting to share and converse and engage and exchange.
Treat each day like the first day of kindergarten. Grab your lunch box, strap on your backpack and bravely forge into a bold new world of learning and connecting and creating and growing. Align yourself with a few of the "big kids" who can teach you the ropes. You'll be amazed how generous and helpful they can be. Make friends with classmates who share your views. Trade sandwiches at lunch time and let the conversation roll. Challenge yourself by befriending people who share none of your views. Their thoughts and methodologies will either strengthen your conviction in your own or challenge you to break out of the familiar and evolve. Share in abundance – be it your crayons or thoughts, cookies or ideas. Welcome new kids who don't have any friends. Be kind. Think before you speak. Be yourself. Whatever you do, don't call yourself a "social media expert" or run the risk of getting beat up on the playground. Never forget, it's not about the number of your friends, it's about the quality of your friends. Be a yaysayer instead of a naysayer. Use your inside voice. Or better yet, your authentic one.
Thanks for a good six months, Twitter. Here's to another six. Or 140.


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Last Friday was the last school day before the two weeks school holiday starts. JY's school was celebrating Teacher's Appreciation Day on that day and they were organizing a small party in the school compound.
I made these happy froggy bentos for JQ's teachers the week before when they were celebrating Teacher's Day. But this round knowing that I'll be on mid night work Thursday night, making bento for JY's teachers is definitely out of my list.
Hoping that we could show our sincere appreciation, I decided to let JY make some handicraft gifts instead for his teachers.
I was trying to look for some handicraft gift ideas online and I came across this lovely chalkboard flower pot with paper flowers at Kelli's blog. I thought that was lovely and yet not too tough for JY to make.
So I went on and sourced for the all the materials we need to make the blooming flower pot as I named it.
Instead of using ceramic flower pots, I decided to use some plastic glasses instead. Reason being, this would be much safer and lighter for JY to carry to his school because he has to carry 8 of them!
To make the flower pot look more interesting, I discussed with JY and we decided to make a ladybug for each of the pots besides two different sizes flowers. Once decided, we immediately start working on it – JY do the tracing on the art papers, I cut them out and he put them together by sticking the flowers to the colourful pencils and ladybugs to the lollipop sticks.
Work in progress for the flowers.
And here we go, the big flowers, small flowers and the ladybugs all set to be put into the plastic glass.
We filled up the glasses with stripes of the green crepe paper and put in the flowers, the ladybug, and a small paper for writing messages attached to the pot using the paper clip and we are done!
Initially we just planned to make a total of eight blooming flower pots, but we ended up making twelve! Eight pots for his teachers in school and four for his extra curriculum activity's teachers. He insisted that he has to give the other four teachers too since they are also his beloved teachers.
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Published By Shadowon On Monday, April 9th 2012. Under Mac/Apple, Truthseeker Tags: Anhui, Apple, China, iPad, iPhone, Kidney, Organ, Teenager, Wang
Five people in southern China are accused of organ trafficking after a poor teenager has sold one of his kidneys to get hold of Apple's iPhone and iPad.
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State Comptroller Accuses County of Wasting Taxpayer Money
By: Vanessa Herring
Updated: October 12, 2012
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found the county unfairly favored Navitech, which is owned by Monroe County's former Chief Financial Officer.
As a result, the report says, taxpayers overpaid $39 million dollars. Included in that, nearly $13 million dollars overpaid for radios and equipment, and a $5.5 million dollar debt he says the county should not have taken on. The comptroller says $20 million dollars of the total cost of the contract can't be accounted for at all.
In a statement, DiNapoli said, "officials claim they were attempting to save money, instead, they saddled taxpayers with unnecessary costs for the next two decades."
The report comes as County Executive Maggie Brooks is in a heated battle with Representative Louise Slaugther for the 25th Congressional District.
County spokesman Justin Feasel defended Brooks record saying the county has produced balanced budgets and has saved taxpayers millions of dollars under her watch. In his statement Feasel says, "Mr. DiNapoli, who has failed to understand these savings, despite multiple explanations from field experts, feels otherwise." Feasel goes on to say, "the county will let the proven success of our public-private model speak for itself."
It's that record that one voter is counting on despite today's allegations, "to me, Maggie's done a lot of things where I plan on voting for her," says Jonathan Lougheed.
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter says the report shows her longstanding allegations about Brooks' record are true. In a statement Slaughter said, "When you rig a bid so a campaign contributor can score a contract worth hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, that's a scandal." Slaughter went on to say, "taxpayers can't afford Maggie Brooks' embarrassing record of corruption any longer." One voter agrees with her, "since Louise Slaughter has been binging these things more and more to light it kind of donned on me that this was all taking place under her watch and she bears some responsibility," said George Griffin.
However, one voter says the statements issued by both candidates on Friday are not going to effect his decision come November, "they need to say something that's going to make them look better than the other person," said Joe Sotelo, "I don't know that it's really any kind of truth to it and its hard to fact check those types of things sometimes."


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Pretty much each and every training camp session is set to take place at the team�s headquarters in Metairie, Louisiana. However, they will also take the training camp schedule on the road at the beginning of August, as they�re set to travel up to Massachusetts for a preseason game against the New England Patriots. They�ll practice with the Patriots for a couple of days on August 7 and 8, and then will play the Patriots in a preseason game at Gillette Stadium.
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Recently I had a job interview in the hospital where Rod Serling died (Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY). The day prior to the interview my friend Curtis, who manages an arcade, offered me fortune telling machine that his business was disposing of. I couldn't see storing the entire machine (which had been mostly gutted for parts already) in my home. I just took the fortune teller mannequin out of it as a future Halloween prop. Her name, according to the machine she was pulled from, is "Psychic Sarah". I put her in the back of my car to take home. I forgot to take her out of the car that night and she was waiting in the backseat the next morning when I got in the car to make my three hour trip to Rochester for the interview.
I had decided that on the way back from the interview I was finally going to stop at the grave of Rod Serling in the village of Interlaken. For the past three years I've been driving within half a mile of his grave and had never stopped to see it. I followed the information provided on FindAGrave.com to find Serling's grave. The site had me looking for Skillet Road. As it turns out Skillet Road is called "County Road 150" on the street sign. Once I deduced this, finding the cemetery was easy.
As I pulled into the cemetery, with Psychic Sarah riding in the back of the car, the radio began playing The Doors song "People are Strange". I found it fitting atmosphere for a visit to The Twilight Zone creator's grave. I wondered if Mr. Serling would have got a kick out of it.
FindAGrave lists his grave as being in plot Two O. The lots were listed with alphabet rather than numbers. I searched for O. After not having any luck I went to the cemetery chapel and located a listing of the interred. It listed Rod Serling as being buried in plot 1044. I then referenced a cemetery map on the wall and found that 1044 was in lot G.
After locating lot G I began looking for a grave with veteran markers and an American flag, like I knew Rod's would have. While there were plenty of other vets buried there, it still cut a large number of memorials out of consideration. Not far from the edge of the cemetery I finally located Rod Serling's grave.
His memorial stone is pretty reserved in appearance for a celebrity. It only lists his military service beyond the usual information of name, birth date and death date. I noticed that there were a number of items left on Serling's grave, presumably by visiting fans. I had noticed similar tribute offerings in the past while visiting the graves of H.P. Lovecraft and James Dean. Unlike the items left at the graves of Lovecraft and Dean, Serling's tributes were mysterious and not as obvious as dark cosmic poetry or toy race cars.
The items included a severely worn baseball, a decrepit stuffed bunny, angels, Canadian coins, a tiny basket of Rottweiler figurines with what looked like an amethyst, fake flowers and some plain looking rocks. As curious as I was to the meaning behind these tributes, I did not disturb them from where they were lain.
After I finished, I felt like I hadn't completed the experience yet. So I went with what seemed the most logical thing to do in the situation. I fetched Psychic Sarah from the car and brought her over to visit Rod Serling. I was tempted to leave her as another tribute item, but I figured it would just result in her getting thrown in the trash quickly by the caretaker and possibly cause the cemetery to enforce policies that would spoil visits for other fans. She's a little too big to be left behind though I'm sure it would have given the caretaker a story to tell.
Once Sarah finished paying her respects we got back in the car. The radio began playing The Who's "I Can See for Miles" from the beginning of the song the moment I started the car. Psychic Sarah and I drove off together as the sun slowly set. At the time of this writing I still don't know if I got the job I interviewed for. Psychic Sarah might know, but she's not telling.
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Dredd movie review
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Review I haven't seen The Raid, the skirmish-in-a-skyscraper flick so many Dredd reviewers have compared with this latest attempt to bring 2000AD's favourite anti-hero to the big screen. But I have been reading the comic on and off since 1977 - more on than off; it went a bit crap in the 1990s - and Judge Dredd remains a weekly joy, especially when penned by co-creator John Wagner.
And I have to admit, I have a soft spot for the 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle. Like it or loathe it, you can't argue that the move got the punked-up visual style of the comic, defined primarily by co-creator Carlos Ezquerra and fellow artist Mike McMahon, off pat.
I am the law
Dredd presents an altogether bleaker, more grimy view, a 2012 take on the future rather than one from 1980. With its widely spaced cityblocks, low-rise areas threaded with multi-lane motorways, dawn mist and harsh sunlight, Dredd's Mega City One look more like a developing world metropolis than the hi-tech New York version from 2000AD.
Out goes the spikey hair, safety pins and kneepads, and in come hoodies and puffer jackets, sweaty singlets, gold chains and tracksuits. It's kids who can't pull their pants up properly who scare adults today, not the punk rockers of the 1970s, and Dredd draws a bead accordingly.
It's the future and it's urban, innit?
Dredd's Mega-City One is more low-rise than high
To me it looks wrong, too far from the source material, too close to the now. The cits here could be inserted without change into any movie set in late 20th Century LA - Latin America or Los Angeles, take your pick. The decor is low-tech. The concrete bare or shit-stained. It doesn't feel futuristic at all. The action's setting, a megastructure called Peach Trees - it should have been Howard Marx Block - is more housing estate than the house of tomorrow.
But it's perhaps a fair call on the part of the film's makers. Dredd's dystopia is less culturally centred than the one depicted in 2000AD, the better to appeal to audiences across the globe, many of whom will live in places not so very different to this. And the truth is, we've seen the 2000AD Mega-City One too often in movies since, from Blade Runner onwards. Neon washed, rain splashed cityscapes have been done to death.
Likewise, as a fan, I don't like Dredd's pared back uniform, a dust-covered black glorified flack jacket that, yes, might be more practical than a full Eagle and pads, but simply isn't iconic in the way the comic's uniform is. And with all the judges as grubby as the cits, it's hard to accept this is an elite force.
Perpspotting: punks out, hoodies in. Innit
At least Karl Urban never takes his helmet off - there's an in-shadow, back of the head shot early on - the crew were wise enough to understand that, like Batman's cowl and Spider-man's mask, Dredd's helmet is his face.
A colleague enthusiastically told me Dredd will take me right back to the 1970s, with the kind of punchy, violent stories they told back then. And they were only five pages long, too. At just shy of two hours, Dredd isn't long either, its welcome is not overstayed and then some the way last two Dark Knight movies were. Director Pete Travis keeps it nicely tight.
The plot, such as it is - cops isolated and hunted down; High Noon in a high-rise - is straightforward, providing a justification for the action and little else. There are plenty of things fans will regonise - 'Muties out' and Chopper graffiti; Lawgivers with multiple ammo types, and which explode, devastatingly, when used by a civilian - but the backstory is kept to the back. Viewers new to Dredd's world will get the gist without any who, what or why interrupting the action.
The boys and girls in blue, kind of
Which is handled by Travis with appropriate intensity, though none of the black humour that informs most comic book violence, Judge Dredd's in particular. This is one bloody movie, its 18 certificate justified. It's sure to be cut for domestic viewing.
It JUST CANT be Dredd without big Shoulder-pads and flying cars!
How right youare Sir!--Except for the 3D which was nice to look at, there is almost nothing to recommend it -apart from some excellent cinematography and the choice of actors- but that aside, what honestly is there about this story that's even half-way related to the Dredd we know and love, eh? except maybe his helmet, and perhaps the way he talks and also moves and quite a lot of the things he does?
But, apart from: the cinematography/casting/the-way-Dredd,-looks,-sounds,-moves-and-behaves,- there is nothing of merit for the fan or the casual viewer,
unless you count the powerful and relatable character-arc that Anderson goes through, the brilliantly-realised bent Judges and of course Lena Headey ( but that doesn't count because she's brilliant in everything, isn't she?).
But, if you leave out all that,- then what is left, except a more-or-less typical, gory, action flick with an engaging premise which is so utterly uncompromising in execution that it powerfully llustrates exactly how lame and safe the rest of the genre has become? That's what you're left with, isn't it?
"What's wrong with a Dredd film that's a 'gory, action flick with an engaging premise which is so utterly uncompromising in execution that it powerfully llustrates exactly how lame and safe the rest of the genre has become?'"..you say?
Well clearly this reviewer knows what's wrong…
No flying cars!
Where were they? I have never been so disappointed in my life! I go to a Dredd film to see one thing and one thing only and that's some cars with no wheels and AIR IN BETWEEN THE VEHICLE AND THE GROUND… All this 'story' and 'art-direction' and 'character-development' and 'genuine excitement' and 'pushing the envelope of Action Sci-Fi towards an art form in itself' may fool some of the others but thankfully not us.
We're REAL FANS: and the cars must fly or we won't buy.
I didnt even realise Peckham was a real place that existed outside of "Only Fools and Horses" . Now ill be travelling 1 1/2 hours across London to get to a 2d showing of dread. Drokk this 3D nightmare
i guessed as much from the trailer
as soon as i seen the trialer i was disapointed. it looks too real. dredd is ment to be OTT.
The stallone version may have been rubbish, but it got the look right. this clearly is an action movie, with dredd thrown in.
bit of a shame really. dredd could be a good film
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Ha ha! When I started reading this comment, I thought you were likening the new MC1 to Peckham!
I'm a 2000AD fan and totally despised Stallone's attempt. Mega City is a dystopia, and Judges are outnumbered, so how would you portray the world? The gritty, grotty dystopia portrayed in this film fits the bill perfectly as the gaudy shiny happy things that make other SF totally fail in my opinion, and makes them look, quite frankly, terrible. The film provides a perfect setting of Mega City One. Sure there could be a few more notions of 'future' put in, but that's just a matter of budget and in reality don't add anything meaningful to a film other than opportunities for product placement.
Yes, there are some things I would have made better. Dredd's bike could be a bit more of a monster - some hybrid of a Harley Davidson and the Batman Tumbler batbike minus the ridiculous gold trimmings in the comic would have been much more awesome than the Japanese tin that was used in the film. The lawgiver also didn't look mean enough to dish out Dredd law. That said, the crappy eagle and chain on the judge's uniform being removed and his general look to a more practical flak jacket, is actually worthwhile - even in the comic it looks unrealistic, unwieldy and crap. Similarly with the battle scarred helmet and dusty uniform just adds to how Judges are fighting a never ending battle - so I think 2012 Dredd makes him look better, more realistic and more potent as a result.
My view is that a lot of the aspects of the comic were well placed, and well thought out too, from the chopper posters, to the portrayal of fatties and so forth. The story didn't really lend itself to telling the story of Mega City, so only parting shots were shown to allow the viewers to concentrate on what's happening in the block. Tony Smith's view that Garland has pared down Dredd to any commando tough cop is ridiculous. What is Dredd other than the epitome of exactly that? The one liners were delivered, without being made into the climax of a ridiculous set piece as are cliches epitomised by Bond. Dredd delivers one liners in the dry, laconic and as a matter of fact manner we know and love, and that portrays his personality better as a result. The ending of the film is also typical Dredd: to paraphrase not to ruin it 'just another day in the office, ma'am' - short, sharp, succinct and 100% pure unadulterated Dredd.
Anderson's portrayal is admirable too. A slightly more fragile judge with a different take on the law than Dredd is apparent, and quite frankly great even though somewhat different (better IMO) than the comic. From the visit into the mind to the 'wait' sequence, she develops in the film from a fragile no-hoper to a deliciously mean mind fucker, and in the process begins to overrule Dredd 'He's a victim, not a perp'. Naturally Dredd mostly gets his way (third option: attack) that any other Judge wouldn't logically choose and only Dredd would, could and does.
As a big fan of Drive, the artistic breaks shown in the slo-mo sequences were brilliant to give the viewer a totally unexpected, beautiful and welcome break from the relentlessness of the film. The director kept it tight and sweet without any lingering, yet in the process the artistic violence makes John Woo's best look like Bambi. The story is deeper than a simple take the block, but the fact it is so tight and doesn't linger too long in back stories that will only confuse non-Dredd readers leaves it open to make Dredd the franchise that he deserves. That said, the story is complete, with plenty of points of views to keep it interesting. Garland has made a story that isn't Garland-esque and generally slow and boring, but genuine and relentless.
Again, I disagree with Tony Smith - this film has not been made for the mass market at all. You have to like violence and gore. You have to appreciate Dredd is a cornier toon than Dirty Harry. You have to appreciate beautiful cinematography and you have to be able to think outside of the comic and into an original perception of Dredd's world if your a fan. But I think it's all done so brilliantly, it's actually in my view, an even more gritty and realistic view of Dredd's world than the comic.
Lastly Karl Urban's intimate knowledge having grown up himself reading Dredd does give the character the treatment he deserves. In fact, as an actor he's got into Dredd's carcass so well this is an award-winning performance - you don't really need to say more than that. He never takes the helmet off apart from the aforementioned shadow shot where he's putting it on. The chin, the voice, the grimace and Dredd's single minded 'Justice' and dryness is all perfect.
So no, Tony, I totally disagree with your critique. Justice has finally been done on film to the ultimate law giver. It's gritty, relentless, beautiful and makes absolutely bugger all attempt to appease itself to the mass market by fully embracing the violence and gore deserving an 18. It is so unexpectedly good and so astonishingly exceeding my expectations it really is fantastic.
Lets hope something similar will be done to my personal favourite 2000AD character: Rogue Trooper.


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