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Terrence Malick's project The Tree of Life movie has eluded many. There are plenty of epic tree life quotes strewn across the movie that are deeply satisfying to read and feel.
To say that The Tree of Life was one hell of a baffling movie would be an understatement. Since it doesn't skim mainstream, it might be hard for some to fathom. But in a whirlpool of avant-garde films, if you take a look at the ballsy attempt it makes at trying something out of the ordinary, the flick beats everything else to a pulp.
The Tree of Life movie is a beast that tops avant-garde elite cinemas. Why, you ask? Read on to find out:
The Tree of Life Movie Explained
There is a heart-melting metaphorical poem residing in Emmanuel Lubezki's spectacular frames, a bold defying question that Terrence Malick poses via human pang, and tries to answer through our creator's perspective. Also, The Tree of Life movie retains a touching screenplay that amazes you invariably with every stellar Lubezki image.
The Tree of Life movie must have perturbed many. But if you don't attempt to give it a fair shot at explaining itself, then you have no right calling yourself a true movie buff.
To those who didn't get what was going on in the movie, I have tried to explain it as unequivocally as possible, rhyming things through its thoughtfulness. I hope it helps in putting things in perspective.
Theme of The Tree of Life Movie (Spoilers Ahead)
Even before you try to understand the movie, get this beforehand – There is no proper timeline followed. So, if you are expecting a series of certain frames to go in order, it simply won't. You have to remember images on the go, and what they are trying to tell you with every change. Alright? Okay, let's go!
The titular name of the movie has been aptly named so since it is trying to present us a map to the universe. It goes spiritual, cosmic and skims human psyche at the same time. That being said, it tries to cover all the 10 prominent spheres that acquaint us with mystical extant powers. They are also known as Sephirot.
As the movie commences, we are shown a formless representation of the divine. It could reflect our creator's formless state, since the real form of what has created us is still unknown.
"Brother. Mother. It was they who led me to your door."
You can hear in the background a surging roar of the sea and squawking Seagulls as we look at that artless form flicker. That is enough to make you understand it is the protagonist (here Jack) who has come at His door, trying to justify his seeking Him with the aforementioned line of how and why.
Moving on let's focus on the theme of the movie. Just like every movie has a theme by which it is supposed to bide by, The Tree of Life movie too has one, and an exceptional one per se. It gets expounded via the following diegesis.
"The nuns taught us there are two ways through life – the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it, when love is smiling through all things. They taught us that no one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end."
As thoughtful words of Mrs. O'Brien go in the background, we see her younger self embellish the screen. She is an epitome of grace. A personification of joy and mirth, and all the good, pleasant and buoyant things in the world. She plays with other elements of grace, meek harmless animals – like a baby goat, or cows. Then we see Nature – her father (here the men) who appears just when she talks about the existence of nature in their lives.
"I will be true to you. Whatever comes."
Then the aforesaid is dropped all of a sudden. I believe it could be reflective of a time when Mrs. O'Brien had accepted Nature as a part of her life. Either through her marrying vows, or her offering herself to the universe in the form of prayers.
The Demise of the Son
Then we time travel to a time in the future in The Tree of Life movie, where Mrs. O'Brien receives a letter that reads to her the demise of her son. Both Mrs. O'Brien and Mr. O'Brien take it heavily.
"I just wanna die to be with him."
Death is nature. It is part of Universe's way of creating and destroying things that has forever eluded us. But to her, it appears like an unfair, unjust act that has ripped off her son and taken him away from her.
People try to justify the ways of nature with condolences:
"I know the pain will, it will pass in time, you know? It might seem hard, my saying that, but it's true."
To that she replies:
"I don't want it to."
The way of the creator, the unseen is justified with a beautiful line then:
"He sends flies to wounds that He should heal."
Grief is havocking. At the same time, it is pure. The purest of human notion that lets you brood profusely on things you could have done differently to change the outcome. So Mr. O'Brien laments for the first time succumbing to the ways of grace:
"I never got a chance to tell him how sorry I was. I made him feel shame, my shame. That poor boy. That poor boy."
Jack's Memories
That's where the second flicker of the same artless light consumes us. Jack's talking again. This time with himself, trying to remember his brother.
"How did you come to me? In what shape? In what disguise?"
That's also the place in The Tree of Life movie where we get to see an even further future memory glimpse of Jack standing right next to a doorway. It could be a place in his memory, where he is trying to reconcile with himself. We see seagulls for real this time too.
We then find Jack in gloom waking up to the news of his brother's death. His distant wife who doesn't have the right words for him is just staring at him. She is a victim to human nature, and Terence makes sure of it that they don't speak in those fleeting frames. At another point in his office, Jack even though miffed with dusky thoughts, can't help but stare at a woman who passes him by. That's again human nature coming at play.
"The world has gone to the dogs. People are greedy. Keep getting worse."
Within split seconds come images of trees, an entity that has stayed with us at all times, even as we have evolved, and Jack begins to wonder:
"How did I lose you? Wandered? Forgot you?"
Searching his Brother
That's when we see Jack in a desert. This could be analogous to barren corners of his brain, and he is seeking memories of his lost brother therefrom.
A glimpse shows us a lady who has found his little brother and is kissing him. She is yet another paragon of grace. She could be an angelic memory or a messenger that has him, that also symbolizes the dead boy is now in good hands, with grace. That's when Jack also finds an image of his little brother at a sea asking him to find him. It could very well hint that Jack wishes to come to terms by seeking faintest memories of him so as to succumb to reconciliation.
Right after that we see Jack imagining himself home, checking on her mother and wondering how she took it. Her screams echo, and he feels it in his bones that it didn't go well for her.
Mrs. O'Brien is still talking to the almighty meanwhile.
"Was I false to you? Lord? Why? Where were you?"
Incessant Frames of Cosmos
That's one of the high points of The Tree of Life movie when the real Lubezki magic begins to flow. And it flows straight for 16 wondrous minutes. That gets complemented gorgeously by Alexandre Desplat's awe-inspiring music. In the form of Nebulas, gases, flickers, shimmers, cosmic energy and big bang, we find our creator answering her.
"Did you know? Who are we to you? Answer me."
When a mother demands God to answer, asking if He even cares, Malick shows us our creator answering her through stunning frames of creation. A poetic gesture manifesting universe, big bang, volcanic eruptions, hot springs, and evolution ensue, as if He is trying to answer that he was busy creating, balancing, maintaining and nurturing the universe, all this time.
"We cry to you. My soul. My son. Hear us."
We find nature creating grace too. The advent of life with an uplifting music, cells splitting, forming new lives in the process and thus giving rise to multi-celled organisms.
The Dino Era
Life began with water. So we are introduced to a lot of water animals. We see an injured amphibian dinosaur near a water body trying to figure out the gravity of its wound. It has been caught in an ugly side of nature. Something it doesn't have control over. We see blood in water, and then a hoard of sharks. They are nothing but aquatic behemoths that are simply balancing life even in its blunt ugliness by killing ways of grace.
There is a beautiful frame wherein we find a predator sparing the life of an easy prey, an injured dinosaur, showing it mercy. It simply goes on to show how grace was present at all times, defying nature silently.
We see that destined meteor heading towards the earth that had disrupted the experimental life of dinosaurs back then, paving way for human life.
We once again reach Jack's perspective who is scampering along barren lands, still trying to find the spot of placation in his brain.
"You spoke to me through her. You spoke to me through the sky. The trees. Before I knew I loved you. Believed in you. When did you first touch my heart?"
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He is now trying to remember how grace had him from the very start. This is the part that takes us back in time wherein he was conceived by Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien played powerfully by Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain.
Pregnancy has never been such poetically depicted before. We find Mrs. O'Brien calling out children, whispering into their ears, showing them gates to life, steps to the world, summoning them at all times. You see different types of children there, which could be suggestive of the process of fertilization and then how despite all odds only one makes it in the end. Here Jack! A child swimming in water leaving his room (womb) behind could be intimating us of how a womb is a world per se for foetus.
We find Jack growing up as Mrs. O'Brien helps him at all times. Then comes another child, and we see Jack becoming wary of all the attention that is given to him instead. There is repressed jealousy that once again directs us towards nature, something we have no control over. Then we see bubbles. A sign of grace! Then a man dying, a violent act of nature yet again.
Amongst other things of nature that follow are: a dog barking at Jack, him being afraid, his father scolding him, yet another baby etc. Then at the same time grace stays close by in the form of her mother caring for them all, their celebrating Halloween, lighting up sparklers, mother reading a story book, playing with water, Jack holding his brother's hand, good night kisses and also them playing with each other.
Nature and Grace Speaking through Things
Whilst tucking children in bed Mrs O'Brien is asked to share a past good memory. She tells them about the time she went for a ride in a plane. Then we actually see her fly in the air which is in fact her telling them that it felt as if she was flying for real.
"Mother. Make me good. Brave."
There are glimpses of miscreants showed, the bad elements in life (nature), and then a frame that shows Mrs. O'Brien helping a miscreant drink water. (grace)
"Where do you live? Are you watching me? I want to know what you are. I want to see what you see."
We find contrasting images, in the Tree of Life movie, of their mother trying to wake them up with their father's. The latter always compelled them to comply with a glum face. Whilst the former would mischievously yet gracefully wake them up with ice, bringing smiles to their faces.
Lessons by Nature – Movie Life Tree
Then comes remarkable lessons from the father:
"Don't do like I did. Promise me that. If you are looking for something to happen, that was it. That was life. You lived it."
Then at one point we see Mr. O'Brien using this beauty of a line:
"Wrong people go hungry, die. Wrong people get loved. The world lives by trickery. If you want to succeed you can't be too good."
Without Nature
We find a boy ending up getting drowned and a boy razed by fire, which compels Jack to question God's existence.
"Where were you? You let a boy die. You'll let anything happen. Why should I be good, if you aren't?"
Jack succumbs to vandalism, animal abuse and trespassing when his father goes to a long business trip. The absence of Nature, goes on to create a subset of nature. His heart fills up with guilt when he finds himself getting weirdly attracted to a neighbor, and ends up stealing her nightgown. This again is an aftermath of a wild uncontrollable act of nature. All of it gets aptly justified by:
"Things you got to learn. How can we know stuff until we look?"
His mother on the other hand keeps teaching them good:
"Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive."
There's malice, hatred that flows as part of nature in Jack, and there's nothing he could do to feel otherwise. In a deep reminiscing voice Jack says:
"How do I get back…where they are?"
There is this moment where he accidentally takes a joke too far, and ends up shooting his brother's finger. He goes abounding with guilt as the backdrop says:
"What I want to do I can't do. I do what I hate."
He is truly sorry and is instantly forgiven by his brother too. It is like an unnamed feeling for him, but it shatters him beyond limit nevertheless. He learns compassion, sympathy – the ways of grace.
What was it you showed me? I didn't know how to name you then. But I would see it was you. Always you were calling me.
Hatred for his Father
There are conspicuous moments of abomination in The Tree of Life movie wherein we see Jack hating the guts out of his father. He hates to see his mother being fine with it all. That grace can't live without nature, and vice versa. Jack wishing his father dead is like a person hating nature. The inevitable segment that is blunt and yet quintessential in order to ensure that life goes on.
Finally we see Mr. O'Brien realizing his big mistake:
"I wanted to be loved because I was great. A big man. I'm nothing. Look at the glory around us. Trees and birds. I lived in shame. I dishonored it all and didn't notice the glory. I'm a foolish man."
Jack has never seen his father so fallen or lost.
"Father. Mother. Always you wrestle inside me. Always you will."
Mr. O'Brien realizes he hasn't done anything substantial when they are forced to move out of their house, and asks for forgiveness.
"You boys are about all I've done in life. Otherwise I've drawn zilch. You are all I have. You are all I want to have."
In the last moments of Jack's memories we see how they move on ending one of the crucial chapters in their lives. It aces with a beautiful quote too:
"The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by. Do good to them. Wonder. Hope."
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The End of Time in Life Tree Movie Explained
We slowly fade away from Jack's memory and head towards reality, where we find the mother, Mrs. O'Brien coming out of her grief. She has come to terms with all her questions with the Lord.
We also see the grown up Jack coming out of his trance, for a while too:
Keep us, guide us, till the end of time.
We finally see what looks like the end of time. A point where souls come to rekindle. Images of dead calling out people from the grave, to reconcile is evident there. Jack finally reaches the spot, a beach, where he finds every dead sauntering along trying to find each other. So, even though the place looks like a figment, it is a glimpse shown to him about how everything pans out in the end. Yes, there are seagulls squawking over them.
Finding Each Other
Jack finds his mother, and his dead brother. They are happy to see him. His whole family is there. His old man is proud of him. Love is everywhere. Mrs. O'Brien's joy as she finds her dead child would bring tears to your eyes.
She then kisses a shriveled hand which could be a random one or could be her mother's too, it's hard to say. She then leads her child through a door and is able to reconcile with the sad truth finally, and yet understands the way of the nature.
"I give him to you. I give you my son."
It looks like there are angels around him, or elements of grace that help her overcome grief. They are talking to her with hand gestures and nimble movements, and she comprehends the way of living with their elemental energy.
We see a smiling Jack in the end as if he has realized the ultimate truth, and has come to terms with it too. He feels lighter and better.
The Final Verdict Tree Movie Life
Of course, there are other explanations possible, but what would be spot on would be Terrence's own thinking. I would love to hear it though and see how close I was to getting him.
Movies like The Tree of Life are rare gems that need to be celebrated. If you have a knack for watching the unusual I would highly recommend you to watch The Tree of Life movie at once. It is an esoteric flick that will definitely blow your mind away. However, you need to stay on the same page in order to truly understand the movie for what it is. If it isn't your forte, I would say don't bother. Because it could be really vexing for some.
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Some of you might not know this, but my first sabermetric studies were written on an Italian blog more than 10 years ago. To this day I don't know how Harry Pavlidis managed to find that blog and read its contents.
It wasn't until after my first trip to San Francisco for the 1st Annual PITCHf/x Summit that I started writing in English. Alan M. Nathan was the one who encouraged me to make the switch—and he was still congratulating himself for that a few months ago when we were strolling together around Florence. So, this is for you guys who've edited my articles at The Hardball Times and Baseball Prospectus: Now you know who's to blame for your extra work on the Italian guy's writing!
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Stephanie Regan went 4 for 4 with three stolen bases in Game 2 Saturday against Brown (Harvard Athletic Communications).
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Pitchers Rachel Brown and Laura Ricciardone combined to allow just five hits over two games as the Harvard softball team blanked Ivy League North Division rival Brown, 8-0 (6 inn.) and 9-0 (6 inn.), in a conference doubleheader Saturday. It marks the first time Harvard has shut out an opponent in consecutive games since a doubleheader blanking of Yale during the 2009 season.
Both teams had a bit of trouble getting going as neither was able to record a hit in the first two frames. Harvard changed all of that in the top of the third, blowing the game open with a six-hit, seven-run frame. Kasey Lange laced a two-run single to center field to start the scoring in the game and Whitney Shaw followed with a two-run single of her own, this one to left field. Allison Scott kept the hit parade going with an RBI double to center and after an Ashley Heritage single put runners on second a third, Mari Zumbro roped Harvard's fifth straight hit, doubling to center and driving in two more runs.
The offensive outburst would be more than enough for Rachel Brown as she went on to strikeout 11 opposing batters while allowing just one hit to notch her 15th win and fifth shutout of the season. Stephanie Regan tacked on the final run of Game 1 with an RBI groundout in the sixth. Every Harvard starter recorded a hit in the contest, led by Ellen Macadam's pair, and Lange, Shaw and Zumbro all finished with two RBI.
Regan started Game 2 with a one-out single and moved to third on back-to-back steals. Lange kept up her torrid RBI pace with a base knock to center, plating Regan for a 1-0 lead. Macadam led off the third with a triple to center field and came home on a passed ball for a 2-0 edge. Lange once again delivered with a runner in scoring position, slapping a ball to right to plate Regan. Whitney Shaw reached base on a fielder's choice, moved to third on a Scott double and came home on an illegal pitch for a 4-0 Crimson lead after three full innings.
Regan scored Harvard's fifth run of the game on a Scott single in the fifth inning and Jane Alexander pushed the lead to 6-0 with a solo home run to lead off the top of the sixth. Back-to-back doubles from Regan and Lange saw two more runs come across and Scott plated Kassy Shiotani on a single to left for Harvard's ninth run of the contest. Ricciardone saw just four batters in the Brown sixth, getting the final batter to fly out to right to seal the 9-0 Game 2 victory.
Ricciardone pitched a gem for the Crimson, going all six innings and allowing just four hits while striking out three for the shutout, her third of the season. Regan was the offensive star of the game, going 4 for 4 from the plate with four runs scored, three steals and an RBI. Lange and Scott each had three hits in the game with Lange driving in a team-high three runs. Lange extended her RBI streak to five games and has 15 RBI in her last five contests.
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No Mutants Allowed has managed to get their hands on another Fallout: New Vegas preview, this time in the PlayStation 3 Magazine UK. Here's the new info:
- It shows the command wheel for companions, with 8 commands: toggle melee/ranged, open inventory, toggle stay close/keep distance, back up, toggle aggressive/passive AI, use stimpack, toggle wait here/follow me, return to normal dialogue.
- Scripting is wittier, characters more distinct. Example from vigour test word association: mother-human shield.
- Opening inventory consists of a kit from the doc, adapted to your starting stats (like Fallout 1).
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- There's a tutorial (led by a character named Sunny Smiles who looks a lot like Moira Brown), but unlike Fallout 3, it's optional, so you can hit the open game in 5 minutes from starting.
- NCR and Caesar's Legion are the confirmed faction, article assumes Brotherhood of Steel will be in but they weren't mentioned in the presentation.
- "In New Vegas it's all about the player examining the ideologies of the various groups that are controlling the area and supporting one over the others," explains Sawyer. "Each of the ideologies will have something good that you can relate to, but will also have massive flaws."
- When asked about PS3's Fallout 3 being inferior to the others and if New Vegas will do better, Obsidian devs make no promises but indicate it was a learning process and they're working with all 3 platforms and all have problems.
- The New Vegas strip is still in construction but will have gambling, variety shows and concerts.
- Electrical power is key in the faction struggle.
- Radiation is still a problem, there's a nuclear test site to explore north of New Vegas.
- The soundtrack will blend "Rat Pack style tunes with more Western numbers".
- New Vegas is not just free-roaming gameplay attached to a linear main story, but it weaves decision into the gameworld and gives you greater power to influence things than Fallout 3 did.
- On top of adding back in geckos, New Vegas has a whole new type of animal: mutated mountain rams called Bighorners.
- Sawyer says that Fallout: New Vegas is to Fallout 3 what Vice City is to Grand Theft Auto III
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Breaden Pool was once used by David Carnegie, an explorer who in 1896 led an expedition from the Gold fields in the South West of Western Australia to Hall Creek in the North East. The country they travelled over is dry desert. Carnegie and his men had a constant battle to find water for themselves and their mob of camels. Here one of the men, Breaden, found a small pool of water which was later named after him. In this image the pool is almost dry and at the time the photo was taken, another pool nearby, Godfrey's Tank was completely dry. What would have been the outcome of the expedition if the pool had looked like this when Carnegie visited?
Here is a small passage from the book of when they found the pool.
"On meeting Breaden he told us he had found a small pool at the head of the first valley which was easy of access. This was good news, so we returned to camp, and, as it was now dark, did not move that night. And what a night it was! – So hot and oppressive that sleep was impossible. It was unpleasant enough to be roasted by day, but to be afterwards baked by night was still more so! A fierce fire, round which perhaps the warriors were dancing, lit up the rocks away beyond the headlands, the glow showing all the more brilliantly from the blackness of the sky.
The next morning we packed up and moved the camp to the pool, passing up the first valley – Breaden Valley – with the first promontory on our left. At the mouth of the valley, on the south side, are three very noticeable points, the centre one being conical with a chimney-like block on one side, and flanking it on either hand table-topped hills.
Down the valley runs a deep but narrow creek which eventually finds its way round the foot of the headlands into a ti-tree-encircled red lagoon enclosed by sand-ridges. Near the head of the valley the creek splits; near the head of the left-hand branch is Godfrey's Tank; in the other, just before it emerges from the cliffs, is the small pool found by Breaden." David W. Carnegie – Spinifex and Sand
There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.


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Completed Swords and Shovels. Had fun, mostly. Beautiful assets, a few nice topics, but otherwise, in its current state, very light on content/instruction, compared to Unity Learn/Tutorials, save a few exceptions.
Most of the courses are fundamentals. Even the ones in Advanced are all titled "[topic] Fundamentals". Where are the truly advanced/deep-dive courses?
I personally would like to see a few more courses in the vein of Unity Adventure Game Tutorial. That tutorial had some pretty amazing coverage, ranging from high-level concepts, game design, best practices, down to fine-tuning the NavMeshAgent movement/rotation and extending the editor, to create an in-editor interaction system that a non-programmer (artist/game designer) can use.
Ken William十一月 27, 2017 9:28 上午
Thanks for your post. Every day I play games on https://www.freegames66.com/ . I love games. I look forward to creating my own games. I will sign up now
Hamza十一月 21, 2017 9:11 上午
perfect …in progress
Mike十一月 18, 2017 2:11 上午
Is this course comes with print outs?
zeshan sikandar十一月 16, 2017 6:44 下午
can i take this course with pluralsight subscription or 12$ must rather i 've pluralsight subscription?
Muhammad Ali十一月 14, 2017 6:25 下午
Can someone send me the exercise files for these tutorials?
I WANT TO CREATE NEW GAME WHAT could i do new game
Hussein十一月 9, 2017 5:30 上午
what about the period of this course ?
and what about computer requirements ?
I have subscribed and the content there is very good, however , I got the impression from your promo trailer that there would be art creation content as well.
I had a quick look and all art content courses related to the game are locked out to me asking me to go full subscription ( rigging, env. texturing concept art etc) is this the case ?
There is no art content courses in the subscription, they are already on pluralsight just not included in the unity deal. Just looking for verification, I was under the impression it was comprehensive training.
Thanks for your time.
Alan Mattano十一月 13, 2017 3:31 上午
Yes: promo trailer that there would be art creation content as well. Coming in early 2018, Unity Certified Expert exams will set the standard of excellence for professional Gameplay Programmers and Technical Artists:
You can start with the actual Unity Certification.
Paul十一月 6, 2017 10:50 下午
What kind of experience do you need to truly learn? Is this a zero to hero type course?
Joshua Kinney十一月 7, 2017 8:24 下午
That is correct. This first set of courses will teach you the core fundamentals of using Unity in game development.
Heath十一月 3, 2017 3:55 上午
This is brilliant! I'm extremely excited to start this skill path, thank you!
Joshua Kinney十一月 3, 2017 4:37 下午
I'm excited to hear that! Let me know if you have any questions, comments or feedback. You can leave it right on the Discussion board on the course pages. That's where I am most active.
Derrick Canfield十一月 2, 2017 6:00 下午
I am a Pluralsight subscriber. Will I get access to these with my current subscription or is this a separate subscription?
Joshua Kinney十一月 2, 2017 10:15 下午
Yes! You can find it under the Unity Game Dev: Swords and Shovels Skill Path.
Mark Sweeney十一月 2, 2017 1:49 下午
Are the videos closed captioned, and are audio files transcribed for deaf developers?
Matthew Daday十一月 2, 2017 4:35 下午
I have been a Pluralsight subscriber for many years. Their content is very good, however not all courses have closed captioning. I just took a quick look and it appears these courses do not have captions.
Joshua Kinney十一月 2, 2017 10:19 下午
There is Closed Captioning on every video. At this point in time, the Unity Animation Fundamentals course and Unity Gameplay Programming course do not, but we are working on getting it enabled very soon. You can also find transcriptions under the Transcriptions tab on each Course Page.
Joshua Kinney十一月 2, 2017 10:22 下午
We do provide Closed Captioning on these courses. At the moment, we are still waiting for Closed Captioning on Unity Animation Fundamentals and Unity Gameplay Programming Fundamentals to be enabled. That should be happening very soon. Also, it is worth mentioning that in the Closed Captioning it does not include transcription of sound effects or music playing. (I'm making an assumption from your comment of "are audio files transcribed".) Hopefully that answers your questions.


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What´s the difference in use between "in preparation of" or "In preparation for"? They seem both correct, but I can´t find out if there are differences in when uses which one...
I am writing my curriculum and started to doubt about putting: "I did this course in preparation of my development work in Chile" o "I did this course in preparation for my development work in Chile".
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In 1999 Powers stopped writing graffiti and tending bar to dedicate himself to being a full-time artist. His work has been shown at the Venice and Liverpool Biennials, as well as numerous shows at Deitch Projects. Powers was a Fulbright scholar in 2007. He used the grant to paint in the streets of Dublin and Belfast. His work in Belfast's Lower Shankill area was inspired by the area's political murals; Powers told the New York Times that he was "taking the form of the murals, which are powerful for all the wrong reasons, and trying to retain some of the power and use it in a really good way."
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Sleeves were in short supply and straps were so unrepresented on dresses at the Oscars on Sunday night that they might as well have been outlawed. But hold the envelope a moment: The verdict on this year's red carpet is not all that bad. At least it wasn't the usual monotonous parade of princess dresses.
It was shocking in a way to see fashion like the dress worn by Anne Hathaway. Her last-moment choice was a pale pink dress that appeared to have been styled after a household apron, as potent a symbol of feminine repression as ever there was. Only the dress, made by Miuccia Prada with a loosely tied back, featured a bodice that was intentionally subversive. The seams along the bust were so sexually suggestive that many viewers at home believed they were seeing part of Ms. Hathaway's anatomy.
"I didn't know what I was wearing until about three hours ago," Ms. Hathaway said on the red carpet, and that would have been around the time that Valentino sent out a news release announcing that she would be dressed in one of its couture gowns. Ms. Hathaway evidently changed her mind, and one would like to imagine it as a sign of independence from the pull of Big Fashion. She also wore a Tiffany & Company necklace worth a half-million dollars, but she wore it backward.
From left, Anne Hathaway in Prada and Tiffany and Co. jewelry, Jennifer Lawrence in Christian Dior and Chopard jewelry, Charlize Theron in Christian Dior and Harry Winston jewelry, and Queen Latifah in Badgley Mischka and Ritani jewelry.Credit...Josh Haner/The New York Times
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While strapless designs still ruled the night, it wasn't all the same old, same old. There was that weird moment, for example, when Helen Hunt said she was wearing a strapless dress by the Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M, not that the trend hasn't had a while to settle down into the mainstream. It seems unlikely, anyway, that Ms. Hunt just dashed in and picked a great-looking, on-trend dress off the rack. But let's not forget that Sharon Stone wore a Gap top out of her closet back in 1996.
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Discussion in 'BUILD OFF 3 BIKES' started by Boardtrack fan, May 29, 2008.
Arent those electra tires?
did you not try electra for creamies?
They look like the "Kendas'" That I got out bid on,on ebay!...........Bike COLOR ...nice!
I'm not sure what brand they are. I think they were a buy it now item on ebay. If you do a search for "balloon tire" I think you can find them. They come in red or white.
looks good! cant wait to see her bolted up :mrgreen:
Nice choice in the orange. Looks great.
Some more progress pics.
Thats just a cardboard template for the tank.
looks good
I need to pop in to see some more of these bikes in person again
Come on out for a visit any time. Oh, and bring bicycle parts!
Will do!
This is coming along really nice. Where did you find the sprocket? i have a bike/build in mind that I would like to find the same sprocket. I like the seat too, Long spring with original leather , mmmmmm! 8)
I got the sprocket on ebay. I think its a Shelby but, I'm not sure.
I finally got the spokes for the front wheel and laced in a rechromed New Departure front hub. I've started building the truss fork and I bobbed the original rear fender. The Torrington stem will need some TLC but its a good solid starting point. I have the "tank" halves cut out and sanded but, I'm still not 100% sure which direction the final tank construction will go. Here are some detail shots of my progress so far.
Looks incredible so far....the color combo is very cool.
Wow those coonlors with the chrome looks great. That fork modelfication is great.
looks great! now are you gonna trim all the flash off those tires?(only reason i ask is because ive done it before :roll: )
Me too
I had not really given it any thought. I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to finish in time!
ahhhhhhhhhh youve still got a month left!
I like the color combo. Makes me want a creamsicle.
My elementary school colors! Go Dragons! I can't wait to see the finished pics of this bike.
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Norman Rockwell may be remembered today as "America's favourite illustrator", and there's no disputing that Al Parker was the great innovator, but in terms of visual dominance, Albert Dorne was the darling of the ad biz in the 30's and 40's and Jon Whitcomb holds that title from the late 40's and into the 50's.
Last week I explained how I would regularily come across two and three pieces by Dorne in a single issue of The Saturday Evening Post from the early 40's. As his presence drops off in late 40's issues of various magazines, only one illustrator can match his numbers: Jon Whitcomb. This is what these two artists have in common... they most effectively interpretted the America in which they lived to reflect the cultural style and values that advertisers felt would sell to the public.
Dorne's America was still a country of small towns and old-fashioned hominess. His work reflects a sensibility of tradition, a slower pace, his people are individuals with distinct visual characteristics and idiosyncracies. But as the Second World War ended, America began a massive paradigm shift. The atom bomb had brought another explosion with it - the baby boom. This brave new world was being populated by young , beautiful people of the future - an urban and suburban population that was building a thoroughly modern society based on an instruction manual their parents hadn't had access to: television. Suddenly the cult of celebrity was becoming that much more influential. Youth and beauty and modernity and sophistication were that much more desirable - and Jon Whitcomb had figured out the visual formula for success. For the next decade, as Dorne had done before him, he would set the bar for a slew of imitators.
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Height: 55 cm / 22 inchesDiameter: 31 cm / 12.4 inchesDesign:Jürg Naef
Dynamic – the pulse of timeHow fascinating rotating spinning tops are, especially when they are made of 5 different fine woods. Aesthetically aligned on a small black base, the participants await the starting signal. Which top rotates the longest, the one made of maple, pear- or cherry-wood, or maybe walnut? The game of stability and instability, and rotational powers can begin.Product information:Set of 5 wooden spinning tops24,5 x 4,5 cm / 9.8 x 1.8 inches. Diameter 4 cm / 1.6 inches5 wooden spinning tops on a black board In the following wood types: pear tree, maple, cherry tree, walnut tree, plum. Design: Jürg Näf / Christof Beck
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Timeless Form...Margaretha Reichard, one of the prominent individuals of the Bauhaus Era, developed the "Hampelmann" Jumping Jack and "Steckpuppen" Peg Dolls while studying at the Bauhaus between 1926 and 1930.
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If a group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have their way, the soldier of the future mumbling into his jacket won't be a crazy person. He'll be using microscopic fibers woven into his uniform to communicate with his battle buddies and clear up some of the fog of war.
Can you spot the gold threads in the Army Combat Uniform shown above? They're not included for style – but they do provide a kind of demonstration. MIT and the Army wanted to prove that they could fabricate a uniform that included a kind of fiber optic-like thread developed through a joint effort that should allow soldiers' threads to detect light, heat and sound.
Only the fibers don't have any transistors, processors, or circuitry. "These are new kinds of fibers that are themselves devices," says John Joannopoulos, the director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, a joint Army-MIT venture for far-out basic research.
The gold fibers in the uniform, the product of years of research, don't actually do that communications work yet. Currently, they're "too thick for a uniform," Joannopoulos tells Danger Room: They're about a millimeter in diameter, and Joannopoulos wants to scale down to 100 microns. Joannopoulos' team plans on spending the next 10 years testing and refining the concept and the design further. He and a team at the Army's Soldier Systems Center at Natick, Mass., created the garment using dummy fibers as a proof-of-concept that the fibers could be woven into a jacket without damaging them.
The fibers could make identifying friendly soldiers on a confusing, smoky, dusty, dark battlefield easier. Shine a laser designator on someone you don't recognize. If she's wearing the same uniform as you, the functional microfibers sewn into it would sense the laser and send a data signal back to your shirt. Same with someone's voice. Heat-sensitive fibers show potential for battlefield medicine: the shape and rate of change of a heat pattern pressed up against the shirt indicate where and how severely someone's been wounded.
"Your uniform would transit that information. You wouldn't be talking, it would transmit information: who you are, what time you went down, where the wounds are, what is the estimated severity of the wound, et cetera," Joannopoulos says. "The idea with these fibers is that eventually, we'd like to enable full-body sensing for the soldier."
The breakthrough came a few years ago when the team, led by MIT materials-science professor Yoel Fink, demonstrated that they could fabricate fibers made out of a "multiplicity of materials," Fink tells Danger Room, instead of the single-material glass fibers that make up fiberoptic cable. That led the team to think about turning the fibers themselves into functional devices. To build a fiber that could detect heat, for instance, you take some semiconductor material – whose conductivity changes when heat varies – spanning wires running down the length of the fiber.
Using a method similar to the manufacture of fiberoptics, the MIT team took all these materials – "typically a combination of insulators, semiconductors and conductors," Fink says – "fluidized" it through a process called thermal drawing, and cut it super-thin. The team then thought about what functionality they might want their fibers to possess, and changed the secret sauce accordingly.
"If you're trying to achieve an acoustic fiber, then one of your materials is going to be an acoustic transduction material," Fink explains. "If you're trying to create a microfluidic fiber, than one of your materials may be a fluid. Different functions necessitate different materials. But nominally, we incorporate conductors, insulators and then some other functional material." And they're really, really small.
They're also not without problems. The fibers are line-of-sight devices: when something gets in the way of a straight line between two soldiers wearing the uniform, the data transmission is compromised. Seventy-five meters is the longest distance tested so far. And the MIT crew hasn't figured out how exactly the data transmission will work. No one thinks they're going to replicate the features of a radio or a phone that you wear, but they do think their fibers can supplement those devices. All this is a challenge – an arduous one – for years' worth of future tests.
Still, the potential battlefield clarity it might provide gives the MIT team motivation. For Fink, it's also personal: a cousin of his serving in the Israel Defense Forces died in a fratricide incident borne out of battlefield confusion. And as a former sergeant in the IDF himself, Fink has insights borne from experience about the roles for his team's fibers.
"We used to call it bridging the gap between the range of vision and the reach of voice," he says. "The reach of voice is very short. But you're able to see from [far] away. And [bridging] that gap is something that's an acute battlefield need. It's not going to come as a surprise that to this day there are plenty of operational ramifications of the fact that gap exists and we don't know how to bridge it effectively." Commence muttering into your shirt, then.


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Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to leave official cash rate unchanged at 1.5%
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As the nation stops to enjoy today's Melbourne Cup, the only sure bet of the day was that the Reserve Bank of Australia would leave the official cash rate unchanged at 1.5% for the 27th consecutive time.
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Splash Damage on the brink of revealing a new game
Splash Damage has teased a new project on its official website, suggesting an announcement is coming six days from now.
The site currently reads '11.29 11:29', indicating we will get a new reveal just before lunchtime next Thursday. Splash Damage is best known for its work on Brink, which was published by Bethesda last year. The game received average reviews, with its highest Metacritic score coming in at 72% for the PC version.
Eagle-eyed viewers have revealed the banner's image is saved as 'car_teaser'. As PCGamesN have already pointed out, the logo is extremely similar to the design used in iOS title RAD Soldiers.
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