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That sharp pain you wonder about sometimes is felt by us all. "Truth or Dare – 21 performances".
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ES WAR GUT ABER DAS IST BESSER is a film turned magazine turned film. Cover story for ZEIT Magazin.
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This how we walk on the moon. Zeit Magazin Cover – Home.
It is that new thing. Uniqlo U global campaign. The new label by Christophe Lemaire. Everyday poetry.
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When you come to see our Lichtenstein exhibition (And hurry if you haven't! The show closes on September 3.) you're likely to be swept away by the bold colors, crisp lines, and strong visual power of the imagery of this exciting show. But what about the labels? Most people just take a quick glance, if at all.
But if you are one of those who did, I want you to know that at the Art Institute we take great care in everything we do, including museum labels and what in museum-speak is called the media description. And no, we are not talking about social media. A medium is an artist's alphabet: the stuff the art is made of. For many of the paintings in the show, the media description reads "oil and Magna." Now, we all know oil paint, but Magna? If you have some Italian in you like me, you will know magna means "eat up." But that's not the point here, and I suspect the name has more to do with the Latin word for greatness anyway. Magna was the first acrylic paint developed by pioneering colourman Leonard Bocour, who worked with artists to develop a new medium for them. Acrylic paints, so ubiquitous these days, were developed as artists' paints only in the late 1940s. Magna, a type of acrylic paint thinned with solvents (like good-old, smelly turpentine), was the first to appear, and since the heyday of its marketing it was touted as "the first new painting medium in 500 years."
Magna paints acquired rock star status with many artists, but Roy Lichtenstein was so loyal to it that he once said "I could paint with something else, but I'd have to learn to paint all over again." Magna produced the smooth, matte, commercial, pop-art look he liked. With it he could emulate mass-produced, popular art like advertisements or comic books, abandoning the thick, expressive brushstrokes and nuances of Abstract Expressionist painting that held premier position at that time. So, when Magna went out of production, Lichtenstein immediately seized up all the available stock and contacted another paint manufacturer (Golden artists colors) to talk them into making a paint of similar formula. So that's why if you look at those museum labels in the show, we don't say oil and acrylic, but, more specifically, "oil and Magna on canvas." But why both? Well, differently from the latex emulsions you can buy today at the store, acrylic paint remains soluble if you go back to it with a loaded brush and the appropriate solvent. Also, acrylic paint dries fast, much faster than oil, and Lichtenstein needed an alternative medium to paint his famous Ben-Day dots. Lichtenstein used a stencil and either rolled or dabbed the oil paint over it to create the dots. Had he done it with just Magna early on when he was using an aluminum stencil, the paint would have dried up immediately and would have pulled away when removing the stencil. Later on, though, Lichtenstein started using paper stencils for the dots, and masking tape for the lines, and so perhaps he could use both oils and Magna for the dots and lines, or just oil. Or maybe there are even some works where he experimented with different media.
So that's when the art detective got curious. Yeah, we say that the solid areas of colors are Magna, and the dots are oil, but is it really true? We write it on the labels and in the catalogues because this is the 20th century and we have photos and interviews and radio and television and Lichtenstein himself told us it is oil and Magna…but what's REALLY in the dots? And this is where science can come to the rescue. If we want to be 100% sure where the artist's brush laid down oil or Magna, we do not need a time machine, but only some tech toys. In the past, in order to answer the question we would have had to take a small surgical scalpel and, under a microscope and with a steady hand, maybe from an edge of the painting where nobody would ever be able to see, we'd have to chip away a small fragment of the paint and bring it to our CSI-style lab to be analyzed. But now, thanks to our technological world that never sleeps, we can take a miniaturized instrument with a small source of infrared light inside, shine a little beam of light on the surface of the paintings and…bam! We know the answer, incontrovertibly, for sure: oil is in the dots here, Magna on the solid areas of color. And thus we are able to note it correctly on the labels.
To add to the thrill, we have to do all of this early in the morning, when the museum is still closed. Like Pierce Brosnan in The Thomas Crown Affair, we wheel our instruments in, silently disable the elastic rope of the stanchions and…this is where the analogy ends, because we then very legitimately and carefully start to analyze the paints under the watchful eye of one of our security guards.
As the instrument buzzes, I cannot help but think that here's something magic and moving—being here in the galleries alone, in deep silence, in front of these monumental paintings. Red dot…done, yellow stripe…done, blue triangular wedge…done. It's 10:20 a.m. and time to pack up. The room echoes with the click clack of our black cases, and then we smoothly wheel them out. A staffer gets into position at the podium at the entrance of the exhibition; we nod politely, and off we go. As if we were never there. Another mystery solved.
—Francesca Casadio, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Conservation Scientist
Image Credit: Roy Lichtenstein. Mirror #3 (Six Panels) (detail), 1971. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Fund for Contemporary Art, facilitated by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

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By BLAKE NICHOLSON | Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The number of anglers fishing in North Dakota continues to hit record levels, thanks to a lot more water and fish and a good winter bite in recent years.
Fishing license sales for 2013-14 set a record for a second straight year at 219,400, an increase of 1,000 from 2012-13, the state Game and Fish Department announced Monday. North Dakota licenses are good from April 1 of one year to March 31 of the next.
Record totals of 160,100 resident licenses and 59,300 nonresident licenses were sold last year, according to the wildlife agency.
State Fisheries Chief Greg Power attributes the record sales to an aggressive fish stocking program and a record number of fishable lakes in North Dakota.
The wildlife agency this summer wrapped up a walleye stocking effort in a record 133 lakes, introducing nearly 10 million fingerlings of what is arguably the state's most sought-after game fish.
"We have more walleye than ever in the state, for sure," Power said.
There are nearly 400 fishable lakes in North Dakota, more than triple the amount four decades ago. Lake Sakakawea, Devils Lake and the Lake Oahe/Missouri River system remain the top three fisheries in the state.
Not everyone who buys a fishing license actually uses it, but there were more than 203,000 "active" anglers last year, also a record. The number is determined through a questionnaire sent to anglers, according to Power.
Both Power and Kyle Blanchfield, owner of Woodland Resort on Devils Lake, said good ice fishing the past few years has bumped up the number of people heading outdoors with a rod.
"The last two winters our perch fishing has come back, and last winter we were swamped, crazy busy," Blanchfield said. "There's been really good ice fishing across the state. It kind of builds its own momentu, people got excited about ice fishing again."
Devils Lake has more than tripled in size over the past two decades because of a series of wet years. The prolonged flooding has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, but it also has given a big boost to the fishery.
"The walleye have been steady, and we have (northern) pike coming out of our ears," Blanchfield said.


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GUY CANDY: SHINee's Taemin goes 'lonely boy' in Vogue Girl
SHINee's Taemin is certainly used to being eye candy, but the 20-year-old singer and dancer did a little something different in the December Vogue Girl. The K-Pop star appeared in the magazine in several loner poses often looking down and off into the distance. Don't get us wrong, Taemin still looks great, but his appearance in the magazine does stray from the usual peppy celebrity photo shoots.
The timing of the shoot does seem right however, given how just how much Taemin has grown up in the last five years; so much so that he has earned the nickname, "Tae-Man." Check out the color and black and white pics of the music star who also appeared on the TV show "We Got Married."
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Kevin or Zinedine to his team mates, has the honour along with Biffa Beattie of making the Blue Mullet Hall of Fame, whilst still wearing the Royal Blue.
Killa's barnet is legendary, and there is a tale behind it. When he was a youngster, Killa was told the biblical epic of Samson, the Hebrew strongman whose strength lay in his mullet. Samson was seduced by the gorgeous Delilah, who while he slept, gave him a short back and sides. Samson powers were no more, after Delilah's treachery.
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Iraq shooter barred from taking gun to Olympic Games
Iraqi Olympic shooter Noor Aamer Jassim was barred on Tuesday from taking her equipment onto a plane from Baghdad to Dubai on her way to compete in the London Games, an Iraqi official told AFP.
"The Emirates crew refused to allow Noor Aamer take her pistol with her or for it to be sent separately from Baghdad to Dubai, because it was not on the permitted possessions list authorised by Emirati authorities," said Yusuf Khoshaba, public relations chief for the Iraqi Olympic Committee.
After the pistol was confiscated, the 18-year-old boarded the flight and travelled with the rest of the Iraqi Olympic delegation bound for Dubai.
Emirati authorities later gave the green light for the pistol to be transported to Dubai by plane on Wednesday, and pledged that it would arrive safely in London, Khoshaba said.
Iraq is sending an eight-member team to the Olympics, consisting of five men and three women, and comprised of two runners, a swimmer, an archer, a shooter, a boxer, a weightlifter and a wrestler.
The athletes have had to cope with poor infrastructure and sports facilities in Iraq, and pitted against better-equipped and better-trained athletes, their chances of winning medals appear slim.
Iraq has historically fared poorly at the Olympics. Its sole medal came during the 1960 Rome Games when Abdul Wahid Aziz won a bronze in men's lightweight weightlifting.


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Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.
When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?" It seemed too secret and personal to admit to virtual stranger, but I told her, "Yeah, totally." For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her.
Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.
You're joining us for dinner, I hope?" asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. "I guess?" I said. "I have to be home by ten. Also I don't, um, eat meat?" "No problem. We'll vegetarianize some," she said. "Animals are just too cute?" Gus asked. "I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for," I said. Gus opened his mouth to respond but then stopped himself.
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If your social networking accounts are loaded with folks you do not actually recognize, do not announce vacations on the sites. While these systems are there for sharing, this is announcing to the world that your residence is an open target.
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You need to not let anybody inside your house. Also people who declare to need aid could be out to damage you. Some people might merely be attempting to establish whether you have a house safety installed; if you do not, they might intend to return later if you are far from your house.
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Turbine makers have put years of research into radar signature reduction, most of which is still in the experimental stage.
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EDF EN had previously tested the new technology on two turbines in a wind park in Auvergne, in central France.
In France, close to 6,000 MW of wind farm projects have been blocked because of fear of interference with military or weather radar, French Windfarm Federation (FEE) said.
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The French army must be consulted about any wind farms planned within 30 km of its radar stations, and is putting up more resistance to new projects, given that the newest turbines can be as tall as 150 metres.
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As we have seen, public policy can drive the issues that create a cultural climate looking for change. Several issues that are finding platforms for discussion among politicians, teachers, and communities could provoke changes in the next few years. The trends we currently see in family support services are:
- States adopting a variety of tax credits for working families giving them help with childcare and in-home care expenses (Hirschhorn Donahue, 2006)
- Family-leave policies, allowing both parents opportunities to spend time with newborn babies in the early formative years of infancy
- Flexible work schedules and job-sharing opportunities for parents who want to continue on their career path
- Internet and media control legislation to assure parents that children will not view or find inappropriate materials while using these media for learning
- Improvement in the quality and availability of infant and toddler care
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- Research on the economic impact of the child-care industry and its effect on the local community; employment needs are identified to maintain a workforce (Rolnick & Grunewald, 2003).
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- National School Readiness Indicators Initiative, creating a set of measurable indicators defining school readiness (Getting Ready, February 2005)
- Quality Rating Systems, a system of rating the quality of child-care programs that is tied to incentives and reimbursement rates (NCCIC, June 2002)
- TEACH, professional development for early-care and early-education teachers tied to education and training incentives (TEACH, 2004)
- Early childhood assessment, looking at appropriate assessments spurred on by the debate surrounding the Head Start National Reporting System assessment (Horton & Bowman, 2001).
- Gubernatorial Leadership for Early Care and Education (Lovejoy, 2006)
- Environmental Rating scales used in measuring the quality of early childhood programs (Harms, Clifford, & Cryer, 1998)
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|05 May 2005
Jedi Masterportfolio
Leonard Teo
Montreal, Canada
Meet the Artist: Mayan Escalante (Electronic Arts)
Mayan Escalante
Character Artist, Electronic Arts
Mayan Escalante is a Character Artist at Electronic Arts, Los Angeles. His project credits include Medal of Honor: Spearhead, Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, Medal of Honor: European Assault, as well as contributing art to titles such as Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault and Goldeneye 2.
Mayan has always been interested in art and the possibility of working in the entertainment industry. He studied architecture at Long Beach City College before attending and graduating from the Art Center College of Design with a BA in Illustration. While at Art Center he studied illustration and found that world wasnt for him. At the end of his schooling he returned to his love for entertainment design and concentrated all his efforts into becoming a concept artist.
After graduation he went directly to work for Electronic Arts Los Angeles where he is currently a character artist. He has contributed concept art and 3D assets for numerous projects including several games in the popular Medal of Honor series. His work has also appeared in galleries and print. Mayan has taught at USC and is currently an instructor at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects where he teaches character modeling for games.
Three Gnomon Workshop game modeling DVDs by Mayan will be released May 11th.
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|05 May 2005
Pan Handler
What is the difference between Illustration and Industrial Design?
I'm of the mind to take industrial design at Cal State University Long Beach.
I believe it'll teach me presentation and working with others just as Art Center would, but won't cost $100,000.
I think industrial design would be more advantagous for game design.
Eeesh. Just got an email reply from Michael Kammermeyer, an Industrial Design Instructor from Cal State University Long Beach.....my little theory seems to be flushed down the tubes.
Quote: The industrial design program at CSULB is probably not the best for you. We do not have an entertainment industry component nor a strong illustration focus. Our program is more attuned to engineering product development rather than art.
The best programs that coincide with your interests will be at professional art schools such as Art Center and Art Academy.
This currently what I've done.
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|05 May 2005
Nazirull Safry Paijo
Hijjas Kasturi Associates Sdn
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hie Mayan....
I just wanna tell ya MOH gives me a nice memories everytime i think of it....visually, sound and gameplay.....
I just wanna say....great job.
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|05 May 2005
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Jason Hall
3D Previz Artist
Persistence of Vision
Los Angeles, USA
Hi there, thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. I am considering attending the Gnomon School. Have you worked with or hired many graduates from this school? Pretty solid skills from these people?
Also, how do you feel about doing work for the next-gen consoles? In the past it seems you need to choose what type of 3D artist you wanna be, Games or Film. Do you see this gap being narrowed alot due to the level of detail expected from NextGen gfx?
One last quick one, more an EA question than for you personally, do you work with alot of concept designers in-house there at EA? Or do you bring in contractors for a few weeks to do designs from you?
Thanks again!
-Jason Hall
My Art Blog
My ALMOST Daily Sketchbook
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|05 May 2005
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Chris Beaver
Denver, USA
Thanks a lot for taking the time to talk with us! I'm afraid I've never played any of the Medal of Honor series, but I've heard only good things so it's great to have one of the designers here.
Firstly, what's it like working at EA these days? I've heard it's a pretty tight ship, and I'm just curious to hear how your experience there has been.
Secondly, the opening post here says you not only did concept art but also contributes some of the 3d elements. What kinds of elements were they? All characters, like the ones on the sample images, or other stuff also?
Finally, what's your typical approach to modeling? Do you use the box-modeling method, or patching polys together, or what? And what passes for a good poly-count in a character these days?
|05 May 2005
Alex Galuzin
Hi Mayan,
1. Could you describe your modeling workflow game specific. From start to end?
2. For someone who wants to jump into 3d modeling and excell. What would you suggest and advise where to start and what to model? Start modeling humans from the start? or start simple? if so what?Any tips and advice. Game specific as well.
3. What would you recommend focusing on in terms of future modeling; where do you see the advances taking place?
4. How much of reference do you use?
Thank you and take care.
Alex Galuzin.com Level Designer | Traveler | Blogger | Fighter | Artist
|05 May 2005
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Mayan Escalante
Sr. Character Artist
Double Helix Games
Hi all,
I just want to thank everybody for taking the time to view this thread and I will try to get to everyones posts. I'm enjoying some time off right now so I will be posting replies every evening. This is an amazing industry to be involved in and I look forward to answering your questions.
Thanks again,
|05 May 2005
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reynold tagore
Texture Artist
Weta Digital
Wellington, New Zealand
Hi Mayan, just want to say that ur work in medal of honor is incredible. I've played all series of that game! its the best war game ever!
i have a few question though:
1.r u specialized in character creation or u also create the environment. modeling , teksturing,etc
2. my hobby is to draw and painting an illustration about war and military, do you think theres good job field for people like me? should i change to modeling /animation or i just focused on increasing my illustration quality.
3. Im going into game industry, could you give recomendation, the best way to apply or get attention from the big company, because i think big company usually already have telented people working for them,
thank you for your time, and please keep making medal of honor or at least a game with the same quality,thanks!
|05 May 2005
web designer, illustrator
Amereekah!, USA
Hey Mayan! Thank you for taking the time to respond to our questions!
What's the most rewarding part of your job?
Do you feel limited creatively by the gaming technology? Like having to make lo-res models, etc?
Would you say one needs to be good at every aspect of game design to crack into the industry, even if he/she only wants to do vehicle design or character design, for example?
|05 May 2005
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CGConnect Member
Feng Zhu Design
Concept Artist
Hey Mayan,
how's it like working for EA? haha, j/k. Hey, stop on by and say hi one of these days. I'm on the 2nd floor (the LOTR team), from wedsdays to fridays. Are you working with Patrick G?
I do have a question though. Since you also do 3D modeling, do you find sometimes you restrict your artwork / design because you already know ahead of time about your technology limitations (ie: the engine can only handle 1500poly characters, or it can't do 4 legged creatures, etc). I usually try to tell my clients to not give me any technical details, so i can draw and design whatever i want. Once i get the designs out of my head, then we can start to "step down" the design to match the technology. But in your case, you are so close to the 3D side of things; how do you work around that, and do you use this to your advantage (ie: saving time by not drawing things which the engine can not handle).
|05 May 2005
Gunaars Miezis
graphic designer
Riga, Latvia
Hey, hey!
those medal of honor are certainly sweet, but I'm not into that style of games!
what kind of games are you planning to do in the future, besides shooters? what sort of games do you palay at your free time? or maybe you don't play them at all !
...FengZ here as well, a bit wierd... ha-ha...
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|05 May 2005
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Mayan Escalante
Sr. Character Artist
Double Helix Games
All right, here we go.
It depends on who you talk to and what your goals are. The lines between all art forms are pretty fuzzy these days. Industrial design, Illustration, gallery art, digital art are all blended together in one way or another. The important thing is to know what your goals are and put yourself in an enviorment that promotes that. Industrial design at CSULB can mean something different than what it does at Art Center. As far as any career in entertainment design I really feel that equal importance should be givin to both industrial design and illustration. ID teaches you rapid visualization while illustration gives you a strong traditional foundation. I agree that a $100k is steep for anyone but there is definately validation for the quality of training you get. Despite the price tag, going to Art Center has beeen good to me. Also check out places like Gnomon, the Figure Art Academy, CSU Fullerton, etc. There are a lot of choices nowadays. Personal drive has a lot to do with it as well. No matter where you go you have to be willing to dedicate the time.
Gnomon is a great school with a lot of talent from both the students and instructors. It seems like most of the students go into film.
There is definately alot of crossover between games and film but they are still seperate beasts. Although next-gen consoles are coming it is still too early to see how much can be squeezed out of them. Both feilds present different challenges. What makes games fun for me is how we solve those challenges.
I don't mean this as a vague answer but it really depends on the project and the team. So the answer to both is yes.
There are alot of positives to working for EA despite anything you may have heard. No matter where you choose to work there are always going to be issues.
Right now I am primarily a 3d character artist. There is crossover whenever another team might need assistance so I have contributed to other disciplines but my main focus is characters. I have been in the unique position to contribute both concept art and game assets on the projects I have worked on.
I use both methods for modeling depending on what I'm sculpting. Usually more complex forms like the head I will model in seperate pieces. I cover both techniques in my Gnomon videos.
Poly counts are dependent on the needs of the game and the restrictions of the hardware. They can be drastically different if there are 2 charatcers on screen or 50. 3,000-5,000 tris is a safe target to shoot for.
Short answer, it depends on what I'm modeling. Long answer, I worked really hard on the videos for the Gnomon Workshop to give you an idea of my typical workflow is.
I definately suggest modeling the human form and familarizing yourself with the muscle forms and how they work. Regardless if your character has clothing, or armor, or isn't even human there is still a basic understanding how things work and deform that needs to be learned. Most importantly keep your topology clean and evenly spaced. Your eye should be able to flow around the model.
Mileage is key with anything. The more you do the more you learn and are able to built a mental library. With that you can adapt to whatever direction tech takes you.
I use tons of reference. Alot of my time is spent on research. Mostly from books and photos.
I am involved in the entire character pipeline including concept, modeling, texturing, etc.
I don't recommend focusing on one theme allthough many artists have been sucessfull doing so. Diversity will make you more valueble.
It really depends on what you want to do. Once you decide that than focus on becoming the best in that area. It becomes more difficult when you split your focus between so many disciplines.
My best advice on getting noticed it to make sure your work speaks for itself. Even if you have connections this is true.
Being apart of the art community. Modeling, painting, sketching, teaching, talking to people on forums. Like I said in my first post this is an amazing industry to be involverd in.
I don't feel limited creatively at all by technology. Problem solving is one of the funnest parts of the job. Some amazing things can be done with low res models, it just means that you have to step up your skills. You can have the highest poly counts you want but if they don't look good they don't look good. Game play has a lot to do with it as well. I heard a quote once about fog. You can have the most amazing fog in a game but if the gameplay sucks, what's the point? Art and design should compliment each other.
It's good to have a basic knowledge of other disciplines but I do recommend focusing on what you enjoy the most. Most companies look to fill specific roles.
I hope I was able to answer some of your questions.
I'm tired now.
|05 May 2005
Michael Filipowski
Character Artist
Mülheim/ Ruhr, Germany
hi mayan,
i have just one complex question:
what is your experience with working on characters from scratch to the final texture (excluded rigging and animation)?
-are the steps often divided trough different specialists - concept-, 3d- and texture artist
-how often rests the power of a character in only one hand (one artists for the whole character)?
-is it wise to let one guy design the characters and others to make his ideas in 3d?
-are there differences in the approach by creating main/ important characters and just normal figures?
what is the commonly used procedure and what do you think is the best way to create fresh and believable characters?
which of these procedures are better for quick results and which of them for higher quality work?
thank you for your answer
My latest work:
-Dominance War V-
Latest Characters 2010
|05 May 2005
Daniel Arnold-Mist
Executive Art Director @ Nordic Trolls
Nordic Trolls
Hi there mayan,
First of all great work, I used to work for EA in the QA dept, and you guys always corrected the graphical glitches we got, a quick question:
For the past 2 years I have been training in 3D, but I seem to remember you guys used only Max for your 3D artists, Is this still the same, as i've been mainly concentrating on Maya recently.
Also, how do you think it would hold up in an interview at EA, having worked for them previously in a different department, as I would love to come back, but obviously in the Art dept. Would it be in my advantage?
Again great work, and keep it up.
Dan Mist.
Titans Of Old (EP)
|05 May 2005
Carlos Félix
3d generalist
Open University
London, United Kingdom
Hi, Mayan! Thanks for taking the time to Q&A with us!
One trivial question: What is for you the best game character ever (model/animation/acting), and do you draw inspiration from it?
Another one: There seems to be a shift of industry jobs from 3ds max to Maya. "Adapt or die" or "Stick with what you're good at"?
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The Diocese of Toronto ACW Ecclesiastical Needlework Committee (ENC) is a group of Anglican Church Women who meet weekly to create liturgical textiles for local parishes. In 2013, ENC is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Weekly meetings of the Committee are on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., September through June at the Diocesan Centre, 135 Adelaide St. E., just east of Church Street, in Toronto. If you would like to make new friends, learn to sew and embroider, and help create beautiful textiles for Toronto parishes, you are invited to join the group.
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Food - Salt
( Originally Published 1917 )
A food that flavors. There is one food the taste of which in itself we do not like, but without which almost every other food that we eat would be flat, stale, and unpalatable. We use it at every meal and physicians say we could not live without it. Of course we refer to salt. Perhaps you never seriously thought of salt as a food, but it is, and it is necessary to the health and comfort of both human beings and dumb animals. If your father is a farmer you have no doubt noticed that he has a "salt rock" in his pasture or else occasionally gives the stock a little coarse salt. Possibly, too, you have read how deer and other wild animals go to the "salt lick," braving many dangers in order to secure a little of that food which we are inclined to regard so lightly.
The American Indians discovered the value of salt and found ways of securing it before the white man brought it to them. The salt springs of western New York, in the greatest salt-producing section of the country, were known to them before pioneer settlers began to gather salt there.
Salt present everywhere. As to where it comes from—get your map of the world and place your finger at random upon a spot, almost anywhere on it. Then say, "Salt can be obtained here," and you will very likely be correct. In other words, salt can be had from its original sources in practically every region in the world, as well as from every shore which the ocean washes.
Because the earth is rich in veins of rock containing salt it is possible to dig down and strike a salt vein or "lead" in almost any inland region. Then, besides this, there are inland bodies of salt water which furnish salt and great mines where rock salt has crystallized in immense quantities.
This does not mean that salt may be found in paying commercial quantities in almost every general locality far from it! But it does tell us that nature has been kind enough to give a very generous geographic distribution to a food element necessary to the health and comfort of all animal life.
Although there are many million pounds of this food used each year there is no fear that the supply will be exhausted as there is practically no region in the world where it cannot be secured.
Three ways of obtaining salt. There are really three ways in which salt may be secured; first, mining; second, by evaporating sea water; and third, by digging wells until a salt vein is struck and then pouring down water and pumping it up again as brine. When the veins or leads of salt lie at a great depth below the surface, it is usually much cheaper to resort to the brine-well method than to mine it out like coal. This brine is put through a plant which heats, filters, and evaporates it, leaving only the dry salt. When this product is refined:sifted, and graded it is ready for sale and use.
The salt which is mined is called rock salt and must be crushed or ground before it can be used for table purposes. There is also a solar salt which is evaporated by the sun, and which finds a ready and extensive sale.
In securing salt from the ocean the water may be boiled and the salt thus removed, or it may be evaporated in the sun. In some countries great shallow beds are scraped out in the sand of the sea shore and when the tide goes out the sun evaporates the water, leaving a deposit of dry salt in the beds. This method is employed extensively in France and other European countries.
In Utah we have Great Salt Lake, where many thousand carloads of salt are gathered each year and shipped to various points throughout the country. There are also salt marshes in many parts of the country, and flowing salt-water wells. The ground about these wells is carpeted with a thick crust of salt.
Very likely you will be inclined to ask why all animals both human and dumb require salt. The answer is that salt contains two elements which are very essential to the processes of digestion. These elements are sodium and chlorine.
The history of salt. Like some of our other foods, salt has an honorable history. It is given a worthy place in the Bible and in histories and was one of the chief articles of trade carried by early caravans that crossed the deserts and wild countries of the ancient world. And salt did its share in the making of history during the Roman rule: in Rome a certain street was named the Salerian Way because it was there that salt dealers lived. The Romans worked the salt mines of England at the time of the invasion. Venice, too, was noted for her salt works, which had much to do with the upbuilding of her powerful fleet of commercial and fighting boats.
In Russia there are great salt fields where both men and women spend most of their lives in hard and cheerless toil. Many children contribute their labor to this industry in practically all European countries.
Other uses of salt. You know, of course, that salt is necessary for many purposes besides that of flavoring our food. For example, it is used extensively for preserving hides; as a preservative of food it is invaluable; in refrigeration, in chemistry, and in medicine it has a wide use.
Our importation of salt. In spite of the fact that we have more salt in our own country than we can ever use we imported more than 275,000,000 pounds in one year from England, the British West Indies, Italy, Spain, and the Dutch West Indies. You have no doubt learned by this time that there are people in the United States who insist upon having imported foods, and even imported water. And there are people in other countries who ignore their own foods and import ours. Of course in many cases there are reasons for this expensive exchange of products that do not appear upon the surface of the transaction; on the other hand, it is often the result of an ill founded whim without any good reason.


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Morton Grove, IL (PRWEB) February 24, 2014
"8 Hours To Sell Your Home" is a new audio book providing methods for home owners to sell faster and for a higher price.
Published by First In Promotions, each of the 60 chapters, detailed on http://www.8HoursToSell.com, zooms in on a different part of the home selling process. These range from how to research techniques for the highest price you can get, finding the right realty agent, knowing what to 'fix up', and how and where to best advertise and market your home for sale.
"Home sellers should no longer be a victim of local short sales and foreclosures bringing down the value of their home," says Dave Kohl, author and narrator.
Kohl, who draws upon his 24 years of real estate advertising experience, has personally created more than 12,000 advertisements for specific homes around the country which sold. "We tell you how to fight a low appraisal, bash the homes in competition with yours, and to how to have a specific plan ready for the realty agent you hire or have hired."
"8 Hours To Sell Your Home" is now available on CD for immediate listening. Home owners can easily listen and learn while commuting, working out, or while walking around their home and applying these strategies.
The 8 hours of actual listening time (on 7 CD's) includes methods for finding and interviewing local realty agents, including specific questions to ask and expectations to place. "We cover everything from what the agents don't tell you to what to tell the agents," adds Kohl. "Let other sellers hire any agent they can find and start from scratch without a plan."
From a starter home to a multi-million dollar estate, this audio book, underpriced at $19.95, tells you how to plan for every step of the way from the decision to sell all the way until the actual sale. This "8 Hours To Sell Your Home" audio book is available via Amazon.
First In Promotions Inc., located in the Chicago area, has been providing real estate related advertising and marketing services since 1992. Plans are underway for workshops and seminars to help serious sellers and established realty agents to implement these strategies.
The http://www.8HoursToSell.com site includes excerpts, highlights, and ordering information.


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Yesterday, Family Circle announced that First Lady and Princeton-educated attorney Michelle Obama's white and dark chip cookie recipe roundly defeated challenger and stay-at-home mom Ann Romney's M&M's cookie recipe. And while it's tempting to joke about the metrics of stay-at-home mom success versus lawyer success, let's get down to the crux of the matter here: why the fuck are we still making the candidates' wives bake cookies?
Believe it or not, the First Lady bake-off started in 1992, not 1952, after a terribly uppity Hillary Clinton remarked that after her husband was elected Governor of Arkansas, she chose to pursue her career rather than "stay home and bake cookies." America did a collective spit take at her unbridled, raw, unfeminine ambition. Who did this be-pageboyed Delilah think she was, eschewing cookie baking? If every mom in America followed Hillary Clinton's dangerous example, cookies might nearly go extinct, like the California Condor. If future Americans wanted to show their children what a cookie looked like, they'd have to drive to a zoo. No more cookies in the wild!


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With cooler days and falling leaves, we know another year is soon behind us. But first, we gather to celebrate, count our blessings and reflect. Thanksgiving is unlike any other holiday we celebrate. It's a day to gather with those we love and the friends we hold dear; a day to share a meal and to share each other's company.
Whether your Thanksgiving celebration is near or far, large or small, we at Biltmore Bank wish you a wonderful day, filled with cheer and the warmth of the holiday season.
Happy Thanksgiving
It was 1621 when the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared a fall harvest meal, regarded by most as the first Thanksgiving. It wasn't until 1863, however, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day.
Those very early colonists were faced with a harsh New England winter in their first year, which brought malnutrition, illness and death. The kindness of an American Indian who spoke English, which he learned during his time as an English sea captain's captive, went a long way toward preventing more colonist deaths.
That man, Squanto, taught the colonists how to cultivate and collect food in their new homeland. He also helped them forge an alliance with the local tribe, the Wampanoag; an alliance that endured for more than 50 years.
Historians speculate that the 1621 Thanksgiving menu, shared between the settlers and their new friends, probably included fowl of some sort as well as deer and corn. With no oven and a dwindling sugar supply, cakes and pies were almost certainly not on the menu.
Despite the fact that approximately 90 percent of Thanksgiving meals now feature turkey, the wildfowl served at the first Thanksgiving meal was probably goose or duck.
As traditions have evolved, one or two lucky turkeys get pardoned by the U.S President each year, which started in the mid 20th century. Some state governors do the same for turkeys in their respective states. Over time, parades and volunteering have also became part of the U.S. Thanksgiving tradition.
However you celebrate Thanksgiving, whatever you include in your feast and whomever you invite to your table, from all of us at The Biltmore Bank of Arizona, we hope this Thanksgiving fills your heart, as well as your belly, and that we all reflect on the charity and friendship exemplified by that first Thanksgiving celebration.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving Day offers each of us the opportunity to reflect on our lives and upon all that for which we are grateful. It is a day unique in its simplicity of purpose and joyous spirit; no wonder it is one of our nation's most beloved holidays.
In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared the first national Thanksgiving Day, recognizing that even in the darkest times we are blessed. This Thanksgiving, it is especially appropriate to remember the words of President John F Kennedy: "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
From all of us at Biltmore Bank, thank you. We are grateful for your allowing us to be a part of your lives, and wish you, your families and friends a very happy Thanksgiving.


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Yeah, she can win, if Trump and Clinton dropped out of the race. However, Gary Johnson would probably crush her in a head-to-head race, as Stein is viewed very unfavorably, especially after her 9-11 comments.
Anyways, if Trump and Clinton remain in the race, the 3rd parties are still in trouble.
In this election, we have an interesting predicament: to any rational person, neither Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is remotely qualified to be President. Mr. Trump has no prior experience and advocates policies directly contrary to the U.S. Constitution while Mrs. Clinton is a pathological liar who is only being kept out of prison by her name. Either Jill Stein or Gary Johnson would be by far preferable to either of these two.
Unfortunately, it won't happen. The American electorate as a whole cares far more about name-branding than they do about real issues. Both Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton are political "rock stars" to their respective electorates, Democrats in particular. Trying to get a Democrat to vote for someone other than Mrs. Clinton is like trying to get a 16-year old fan girl to abandon Justin Bieber. It doesn't matter if there are countless other options with more talent, that's their "person" and they're going to stick with them.
Americans are treating this election like a reality TV show. I had held out hope that perhaps the sheer awfulness of the candidates might snap us out of it, but it's not going to happen. In all likelihood Mrs. Clinton will be elected and we'll continue to expand the tyrannical central government and enslave our children to an unsustainable national debt.
There are just two choices when it comes to voting in an American election, Republican or Democrat. The other parties have absolutely no chance of winning, and are wasting millions upon millions of dollars and everybody's time by pretending that they stand a chance. Two-party systems perpetuate themselves by having the party in power and the official opposition, and people often don't see a need for a third point of view.
The Green Party's candidate, Jill Stein, has a zero chance of defeating either primary candidate in the general election. Not only has the Green Party proven to be utterly ineffective in every single major political election, its very existence is a threat to those whom believe in democratic principles. By promising an "alternative candidate" to those which conform to the traditional right and left, the Green Party leads its constituents into a false sense of security. Any vote for Jill Stein effectively negates a vote for (most likely) the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton, and further advances the monster that is Donald Trump, therefore setting back even further the principles upon which they stand. Jill Stein could be anyone, yet in this simple game of numbers, the Green Party loses, every single time.
There are many people who have not heard of Jill Stein. Although there are many people who currently are undecided on who they will vote for and they are still hoping someone else will enter the election, they simply haven't heard of Jill Stein. Unless Stein has funding and can effectively reach out to all 50 states to make her presence be heard, she does not stand a chance in winning the presidential election.
Recent polls indicate that Jill Stein's support at 5%, too low to partiipate in presidential debates. Her plan to win is to get the millions of young voters to vote for her because her policies would appeal to Sanders voters. This logic would make more sense if Bernie Sanders had not endorsed Hillary Clinton. He did endorse Clinton and is actively campaigning for her election. Stein will probably get the votes of the diehard Sanders supporters, but they are too few to make a difference. Jill Stein has no chance to win.


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Mobile phone operator Orange has come up with a novel new way for the more active among us to charge our mobile phones. It's not something commonly associated with geeks – the ability and desire to dance, but if you can, and are willing, then you can now charge your mobile phone while moving to the beat of your favorite songs.{ad}
The charger, officially known as the Orange Dance Charge, is currently only in prototype form, but will be shown off at the popular Glastonbury music festival held this coming weekend in the U.K.
The unit attaches to your upper arm and fastens with a velcro strap weighing just 180 grams. It uses kinetic energy to turn the movement of your arm into energy, which is then stored in the battery it contains. After a night of dancing the battery should be topped up and you can plug your phone into it to receive a charge.
The charger was created through a collaboration with GotWind, who specialise in renewable energy solutions. Inside the strap is a series of weights and magnets alongside a battery. The movement of these weights and magnets as the dancer moves their arm creates a charge, which the battery then stores.
In order to help promote the device at Glastonbury; Orange has hired a "dancing man" who will offer to recharge your mobile phone via the pack if you have a dance with him.
Read more at Orange, found via Pocket-Lint.co.uk
Matthew's Opinion
I'd like to know specifically how much charge you can get out of this device, how much movement is needed and how long you need to dance to charge the internal battery? It looks like something you can strap on and just forget about, which is great and hopefully it could be used while jogging or even just walking.
With modern rechargeable batteries able to receive charges in small doses and not degrade, little devices like these could really help. We may end up having a range of gadgets we can wear on the arms and legs that charge while we move; and then the equivalent of a hub they all plug into as a gateway to the phone, which then receives the charge we generated.
If anyone spots these devices at the festival send us some pictures in and try to get to use one, we want to know how good they are.


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Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, Office of Public Health and Science.
As stipulated in the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is hereby giving notice that the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) will hold a meeting. The meeting is open to the public.
The meeting will be held on Monday and Tuesday, November 20-21, 2006 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Department of Health and Human Services; Room 800 Hubert H. Humphrey Building; 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.Start Further Info
CDR John Eckert; Acting Executive Secretary, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee; Department of Health and Human Services; 200 Independence Start Printed Page 56987Avenue, SW., Room 716G; Washington, DC 20201; (202) 690-7694.End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
CFSAC was established on September 5, 2002 to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Secretary through the Assistant Secretary for Health, on a broad range of topics including (1) The current state of knowledge and research about the epidemiology and risk factors relating to chronic fatigue syndrome, and identifying potential opportunities in these areas; (2) current and proposed diagnosis and treatment methods for chronic fatigue syndrome; and (3) development and implementation of programs to inform the public, health care professionals, and the biomedical, academic, and research communities about chronic fatigue syndrome advances.
The agenda for this meeting is being developed and will be posed on the CFSAC Web site, http://www.hhs.gov/advcomcfs, when it is finalized.
Public attendance at the meeting is limited to space available. Individuals must provide a photo ID for entry into the meeting. Individuals who plan to attend and need special assistance, such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should notify the designated contact person. Members of the public will have the opportunity to provide comments at the meeting. Pre-registration is required for public comment by November 13, 2006. Any individual who wishes to participate in the public comment session should call the telephone number listed in the contact information to register. Public comment will be limited to five minutes per speaker. Any member of the public who wishes to have printed material distributed to CFSAC members should submit materials to the Acting Executive Secretary, CFSAC, whose contact information is listed above prior to the close of business November 13, 2006.Start Signature
Dated: September 25, 2006.
CDR John J. Eckert,
Acting Executive Secretary, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee.
[FR Doc. E6-15924 Filed 9-27-06; 8:45 am]


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SNOW Magazine: Digital Publishing Done Right
Barbara Sanders did something unique with SNOW; she put her focus on staying true to her roots and focusing on one main thing: the quality of the content.
Barbara Sanders did something unique with SNOW; she put her focus on staying true to her roots and focusing on one main thing: the quality of the content.
If you have a digital version of your magazines, chances are you've had to make some critical decisions about your strategy, like:
These are just a few of the questions.
For many publishers, agonizing over these questions can often drive tremendous stress and strain on companies. In many cases, these decisions mean the difference between success and failure, especially if you are a smaller publisher, or a newer publication.
With so many questions and options, what is a publisher to do?
In an effort to shine some light on this topic and provide direction, I reached out to a woman who is one of my idols in the publishing business, Barbara Sanders.
If you don't know Barbara Sanders, she is the founder, editor and publisher of a high end, luxury magazine called SNOW. After founding the magazine, Barbara built the business so well that Bonnier bought it from her. Recently, she bought the magazine back from Bonnier and decided to take the reins herself.
After being challenged with all of the questions above, Barbara did something that was very unique and different than many publishers have done in the past; she made some quick decisions (to all of the questions above) to keep the business moving. Yet she put her focus on staying true to her roots and focusing on one main thing: the quality of the content.
For Barbara (and SNOW), creating and curating quality content has been her guiding light. Instead of asking the questions above in a vacuum, she is asking these questions in a bit of a different manner. She is asking, will this decision improve the quality of, experience with or access to my content?
I loved this idea and decided to test it out with a few of my own efforts. I was amazed how my answers to some of these questions changed with the right quality content qualifying content.
With the latest issue of SNOW released this week, to subscribers as well as to anyone interested in visiting the website, Barbara is putting her decision to the ultimate test. And I'm curious to watch to.
Expectations are that the quality of the content will drive a higher level of engaged fans who can drive better word of mouth, validation of the product and true interest.
I'll be watching to see how well it works. I hope you will, too!


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If you have tried these workouts before skip this part and go straight to next section with today's training program. if it's your first time seeing this then, here's the stuff you should check out:
- It all started on Wolf Brigade Day 1/360, if you want our point of origin.
- You can find movement videos here, and here, they will be continuously updated as we go along.
- And make sure you read the Standards and Practices document first
Power clean:
Rest as needed between sets. If sets require interruption, make a minor weight adjustment and continue. Today, weight for final set of 9 is determined by the success of the 2 x 5 before it. When scheme is listed as "2 x 3″, it always refers to "Sets" x "Reps". Reminder: Position and execution always govern weight.
Then, 5 rounds of:
Start as heavy as possible and adjust weight by round as needed; Sets should be challenging, uninterrupted, and governed by strong, organized lock-outs. Today: :20 sec. rest between arms is recommended, but not mandatory.
And then, 5 aggressive minutes of:
Keep jump and push-up organized and quick, and hustle in transitions between movements: Dawdling by any member of the group equals extra minutes for all members of the group.
There is no designated rest here- if it is needed, keep it short and specific (3 breaths); Safety considered, there is value to making yourself move in simple conditioning drills.
And finally, "Time under tension":
Lift and hold in strong, organized kettlebell rack position. Work to "True" failure (loss of physical positioning) not "Relative" failure (loss of mental endurance). If time reaches two minutes, you may stop if desired. If time is under two minutes, do it again, and accumulate at least two total minutes. Stand strong and organized- tension helps build strength, provided we stay engaged in the process.