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Thursday, September 01, 2011
The Tamer Tamed, by John Fletcher
The second book I've "pre-read" for my course on Shakespeare and Adaptation--meaning that while classes haven't started yet, I'm trying to get a jump on the reading because I have no idea how long it's going to take me to get through these book lists.
The Tamer Tamed is a play, written by John Fletcher probably in 1611, and at least some scholars think it was written as a way for Fletcher to introduce himself to Shakespeare. It is a sequel, of sorts, to WS's own The Taming of the Shrew, in which Petruchio gets a taste of the medicine he so liberally dispensed to Katherine.
As the play opens, we find that Petruchio has been widowed, which from his perspective is probably just as well. Apparently the "taming" he performed in Shakespeare's play didn't actually take, and his marriage was fraught with the level on conflict you would expect from someone as vivid and unhappy as the Katherine of Act I. Nevertheless, Petruchio has chosen hope over experience, and married again, this time to Katherine's cousin Maria. Supposedly all that Katherine was not, Petruchio is unprepared for what happens that night, when Maria locks him out of his own house, and announces to the public that she will not be sleeping with him for the foreseeable future.
Maria has laid in food for a month, and brought in her cousin Bianca (also from Taming of the Shrew, Katherine's sister and herself now widowed) and invites all women who have been "worn out by marriage" to join her in laying down the conditions for their domestic lives. Soon they are joined by Maria's (originally obedient and tractable) sister Livia, who loves the handsome young Roland, but who is going to be forced by her father into marriage with the old, ugly, smelly and disgusting (but rich!) Moroso. Other women from the city and the country join the women inside Petruchio's house, bringing supplies and taking a stand for women's rights. All this is by the second act, with three more to go.
According to the introductory materials, The Tamer Tamed was a very popular play, and was performed in repertory with Shrew. It was performed before Charles I and his queen, and revived during the Restoration as well. There are records of its performance into the 18th century, and the Royal Shakespeare Company revived it and brought it to America in 2003.
Certainly, when paired with Shrew, it makes the "taming" experience less deeply uncomfortable. On the basis of the text alone, The Taming of the Shrew feels like psychological warfare and spousal abuse. Katherine is deprived of food and sleep and purposely disoriented for days, until her spirit is broken, and apparently her mind as well, and it's all presented as good clean fun. I have seen a few performances that have subsumed the dialogue to broad slapstick, and in those cases, Katherine gives as good as she gets, but the text itself is still troublesome. After all, from the modern perspective, what has she done that is so wrong? She doesn't want to get married, and she has found a way to avoid it--run off all your suitors. She's managed to make a life for herself that suits her, and the only "problem" is that her father has this ridiculous rule that her sister can't marry until she does. Is this Kate's problem? Should she bind herself into marriage that she doesn't want just because her father has this stupid rule?
Into town drifts this lout--a man who will take any woman, provided she is rich. Who would want to marry him? And why should Kate agree to be handed over to a man who is idle, wealth-seeking, and arrogantly certain of his ability to break her? Why is this an outcome anybody should cheer for?
It's a rom-com formula in extreme--in which the people who are "fated" to be together initially cannot stand each other, but learn to see each other in new and better ways. Which is fine, except for the abuse. Perhaps enforcing patriarchal privilege was funnier in the 17th century than it is now, or audiences were more frightened of women than they are now, but what looks like despotic parenting and authoritarian enforcement of heterosexual male privilege just doesn't amuse me.
Fletcher's play tips the balance the other way, more or less, but does so in obviously ribald fashion, which makes the whole thing more farcical and thus less disturbing. It also benefits from the fact that when the obviously powerless women score some advantages for themselves, they do so without the men apparently losing anything in the bargain. From the start, Maria's demands are actually small--she wants to have authority to run the household without being questioned about it. She wants to guarantee she will have life's amenities--clothing, food, transportation--consistent with her station. She wants to control her own sexuality, and require her husband to gain her consent. What does Petruchio want? He wants to be able to sleep with his wife, get into his house, and experience domestic tranquility. All of which he gets. What does he lose? Only a smidgeon of "face"--other men see his wife make demands, and they see him acquiesce. He doesn't seem too bothered by it, as evidenced by the fact that as soon as she tells him she is going to make demands, he basically agrees to them, whatever they might be. It is her father and some of the other men who urge Petruchio to stand fast, to beat her into submission, to assert his manly rights to be in control. Since none of the men are ever shown to actually be in control, the stakes are pretty low.
Contrast that to Katherine's plight in Taming of the Shrew. She doesn't choose marriage, she doesn't chose her husband, and when she is sold into marital bondage, she has no control over what she wears, what she eats, where she goes, or the nature of her relationship to her husband. She is forced to give up all her preferences, all her autonomy, and simply agree to anything and everything he says, regardless of how crazy that may be. Sure, as far as the text goes, we don't actually see him beating her, but there is no real guarantee that she would be allowed to object to that either. It is the doctrine of couveture in the extreme, where two people become one, and that one is Petrucchio.
Fletcher's play has an entirely different tone--the stakes are lower, and the strategems are much less squicky. Rather than sleep deprivation and withholding of food, as in Shakespeare, Fletcher's Petruchio makes plays for sympathy and pity. He pretends he is ill--and Maria beats him at that game by telling everyone that he has the plague and needs to be sealed inside his house so he doesn't infect anyone else. Petruchio is reduced to shooting his way out of his own house. Maria compliments his intelligence, and maneuvers him into having to travel abroad. Rather than going, he fakes his own death, and presents his "corpse" to his supposed widow, hoping she will admit she treated him badly. Instead, she cries for his wasted live and claims that his death is a blessing, because it means that now he is spared the worse things he was bound to do if he had lived.
This is the final straw, and in a scene that suffers from being seriously underwritten, he asks "Why, why Maria?" And for no good reason that I can see, she confesses that this was all a trick to tame him, and she has now achieved her aim. Now she can go back to her true personality and promises to dote on him and make his life pleasant. In the B plot, Livia has also faked an illness, and supposedly signed documents releasing Roland from their engagment, witnessed by her father and Moroso. In fact, she has switched the documents for a marriage contract, and thus managed to marry the man she wanted to marry. They consummate the marriage while her father and Moroso believe she is still ailing. Again, the stakes for the men are low, and the women's victory doesn't require the utter defeat of the men they are set against. Moroso is free to find another woman to marry--he doesn't seem to have any particular attachment to Livia other than her youth, and her father doesn't seem to have any reason to have preferred Moroso than the man's money. Meanwhile, Livia manages to arrange a happier life for herself than would have been possible if she had simply obeyed her father's orders.
The silliness of the play is so pervasive that almost any page would provide some bawdy exchanges and double entendres--for the moment, take my word for it that it is not in any way a serious meditation of gender roles. It also is worth noting that after writing the play, Fletcher collaborated with Shakespeare on at least three plays we know of: Henry VIII; Two Noble Kinsmen; and the lost play Cardenio. By all accounts, Fletcher had a brilliant and productive career, producing some 50 plays before his death in 1625.
When you hear of Puritans disapproving of theater, THIS is the kind of play they must have had in mind--it's knee deep in sexual innuendo and outright sexual talk. Characters are forever overturning chamberpots on each other, and pissing against door frames. It's a silly play, and one that makes Shakespeare's language that much more impressive.
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I think Fletcher's play is far superior to Shakespeare's and qualifies as proto-feminist, in favour of equality, and farce is effectively used to make the points. Shakespeare's language has a surface brilliance, and Tranio has much fun in his disguise, but the play is thoroughly misogynistic, to the extent of being embarrassing and repugnant now. Attempts can be made to perform 'The Shrew' against the grain of the text - hard work indeed. Another thing - 'The Tamer Tamed' can be put on without 'The Shrew'.
Another free adaptation and development is the musical, 'Kiss Me Kate' - to be recommended.
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A family is battling back against people who stole their seriously ill baby's photos and story to do a fraudulent fundraiser of their own, netting $10,000 before getting shut down.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Obscurity of the Day: Dumbell Dan
Although Silly Milly itself qualifies as an obscurity, today we're going to focus on a far more obscure MacGovern offering, Dumbell Dan. MacGovern produced this strip for Herald-Sun Features, the syndication arm of the New York Herald and New York Morning Sun, which the hated consolidator Frank Munsey merged in 1920 (the Sun name was dropped in 1924 when the Herald and the Tribune merged, so that syndication name came and went quickly).
MacGovern sold Dumbell Dan to the Sun-Herald when he was just eighteen years old, but his anarchic style of humor is already in evidence at that tender age. The gags are mostly joke book material but the zany drawings, full of rubber limbs and ass-over-teakettle takes, raise the material into a preview of great things to come. Dumbell Dan ran from March 6 1922 until at least November 1923.
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The Morning Sun ceased to be. The Evening Sun continued on (renamed and switched to mornings I think). It's all very confoozing.
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Off the top, for those who've forgotten, James Lipton quickly reminds us why Diana is so great.
Her career as a solo artist prompted Billboard to name her "Female Artist of the Century".
"Guinness Book of World Records" named her most successful female musical artist of all time.
As an actor, she's been nominated for the Academy and British Academy Award for her turn as Billie Holliday in "Lady Sings The Blues".
She won the Golden Globe for "Lady Sings The Blues".
Her cheap jerseys critically acclaimed performance in "Out of Darkness" earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Mini series.
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mrtg-rrd.cgi's tight
coupling with
mrtg.) Please be aware that my script
does not work with default
mrtg.cfg files.
rrd.cgi supports on-the-fly HTML output and
graph images.
rrd.cgi which only creates the graphs if someone
requests them via their web browser and only if they are out of date
(stale). Yes, this is a front-end only.
.rrd files and
the file size. Archival mode helps in that respect.
/www/htdocs/rrd/scripts/changelog.sh \ old_release_tag new_release_tag \ > /www/htdocs/rrd/scripts/cl.xml xsltproc -o cl.html cl2html.xsl cl.xml
rrd.cgi (near the top)
# EDIT THIS to reflect all your RRD config files BEGIN { @config_files = qw( /etc/rrd/rrd.cfg /etc/rrd/rrd-mysql.cfg /etc/rrd/rrd-tomcat.cfg /etc/rrd/rrd-network.cfg /etc/rrd/rrd-weather.cfg /etc/rrd/rrd-sar.cfg /etc/rrd/rrd-home.cfg ); }
is the same as
|Filesystem path to the directory where images will be stored
|Needs to be writable by the process running the web server.
|Filesystem path to the directory where .rrd files (logs) will be stored
|Needs to be writable by the process updating the .rrd files (via crontab, for example).
|Web path to the URL for some resources
|My resources directory contains
rrdtool.gif and
some other relic
mrtg-*.png files. In addition, to
that I now also have a
CalendarPopup.js file for
easy display of calendar dates. I also have my
css file (style.css) in that directory.
|Filesystem path to the directory where archived images are stored
|Needs to be writable by the process running the crontab
entry for archiving of images. Also needs to be web viewable via
Archiveurl directive.
|Web path to the URL where archived images are stored
|Base url for CGI for retrieving images from the front-end
|You can specify a fully qualified domain name if
localhost doesn't work for you.
|Time interval in minutes (for refresh purposes)
pagetop[title] is the same as
|Title of the statistic
Privoxy filtering proxy
|HTML heading of the statistic

Privoxy filtering proxy

|Note, you can use line continuation by starting a new line with a whitespace.
|Subdirectory path where the stats and the images will be
stored respectively in
Imagedir and
|All of my localhost related stats use the Directory
directive of
RRDs::graph returns a pointer to an ARRAY
containing the
x-size and y-size of the created gif and results of the
PRINT arguments.
($av,$x,$y) = RRDs::graph ... print "Gifsize: ${x}x${y}\n", "Averages: ", (join ", ", @$av);This directive will be used as the preceding text to display for the relative percentages between two (2) CDEFs or (DEFs) which are the output of
PRINT statements found in the
Graph directive.
Blocked versus Total requests percentage
(Directive is optional). For my privoxy stats, I get the
following text output underneath the graph:
Blocked versus Total requests percentage Cur: 4.5% Avg: 15.1% Max: 27.0%Buggy feature removed in release 1.5.5.
|Perhaps the most important section of
this configuration file.
The syntax for this directive mostly comes straight from
man rrdgraph. However, some rules about how the CGI
parses the syntax should be explained.
I use
GPRINT:a:LAST:"\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Cur\:%3.0lf%"(note the use of backslashes for consecutive spaces). A full example of a
Graph directive is:
Graph[uptime]: -v Days --rigid -l 0 DEF:a=/path/to/uptime.rrd:uptime:AVERAGE AREA:a#7aafff:Uptime GPRINT:a:LAST:"Cur\:%6.1lf" GPRINT:a:AVERAGE:"Ave\:%6.1lf" GPRINT:a:MAX:"MAX\:%6.1lf" LINE1:a#000001:By the time this is submitted to
RRDs::graph, the arguments will have been converted
-v Days --rigid -l 0 DEF:a=/path/to/uptime.rrd:uptime:AVERAGE AREA:a#7aafff:Uptime GPRINT:a:LAST:Cur\:%6.1lf GPRINT:a:AVERAGE:Ave\:%6.1lf GPRINT:a:MAX:MAX\:%6.1lf LINE1:a#000001:
Note: Starting from release 1.4.4 onwards, you can now specify just the relative path in the DEF directives. E.g.,
Graph[uptime]: DEF:uptime.rrd:uptime:AVERAGEwill be submitted to
RRDs::graph as:
DEF:/www/logs/stats/uptime.rrd:uptime:AVERAGEassuming that you have the following local directives:
Directory[uptime]: statsand the following global directive:
Logdir: /www/logsIf the path specified in the DEF directive is an absolute path to begin with, then it will be passed as-is to
Please do not name CDEFs that start with numbers when using rrdtool 1.2.x. With a CDEF named like
25PL, rrdtool 1.2.9 will simply assign the value
25 to that CDEF.
Later versions may correct this behavior.
rrdtool 1.2.10+ fixes this problem.
|You can use this directive to suppress certain detailed
|I use the line:
Suppress[uptime]: phdw for my Uptime
graph to suppress preview, hourly, daily and weekly graphs.
|You can use this directive to ignore the timestamp displayed on the detailed page.
Use this if you do not care about creating symbolic links which
facilitate the display of the "last updated time" of the target
by translating the target name to the real
name. See
Symbolic Links Gotcha #1.
Imagedir for that stat
would do the trick.
LANG environment variable to be passed along to the
script or pango would complain as follows in the
error_log whenever it was writing special characters
like ©:
(process:11070): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
LANG environment variable is set to
en_US. When running under
mod_cgi, I used
the following snippet in
<IfModule env_module> PassEnv LANG </IfModule>When running under
mod_perl, I used the following
snippet in
PerlPassEnv LANG
CalendarPopup.js inside the
prompt> uname -rsmpio Linux 2.6.38-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux prompt> ./httpd -v Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) prompt> perl -v This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 1 (v5.16.1) built for i686-linux prompt> gcc --version gcc (Gentoo 4.5.3-r2 p1.1, pie-0.4.7) 4.5.3 prompt> rrdtool --version RRDtool 1.4.7 Copyright 1997-2012 by Tobias Oetiker <email@example.com> prompt> perl -MRRDs -le 'print RRDs->VERSION' 1.4007 prompt> perl -Mmod_perl2 -le 'print mod_perl->VERSION' 2.000007 prompt> perl -MCGI -le 'print CGI->VERSION' 3.60 prompt> perl -MDate::Manip -le 'print Date::Manip->VERSION' 6.36 prompt> perl -MLWP::UserAgent -le 'print LWP::UserAgent->VERSION' 6.04 prompt> perl -MText::ParseWords -le 'print Text::ParseWords->VERSION' 3.27 prompt> perl -MImage::Size -le 'print Image::Size->VERSION' 3.232
Logdir and
global directives exist. In addition, make sure all the directories
specified in the per-stat Directory sections exist. Here are my
directories at the time of original writing (pay attention to the permissions):
/www/htdocs/rrd/images: total 16 drwxrwsr-x 6 apache apache 86 Sep 27 11:58 . drwxrwxr-x 8 apache apache 92 Nov 28 2003 .. drwxrwsr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Jul 14 13:35 localhost_stats drwxrwsr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Sep 27 14:19 network_stats drwxrwsr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Aug 19 10:57 tomcat_stats drwxrwsr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Aug 3 11:03 weather_stats /www/htdocs/rrd/logs: total 12 drwxrwsr-x 6 rrd rrd 110 Sep 27 11:57 . drwxrwxr-x 8 apache apache 92 Nov 28 2003 .. drwxrwsr-x 2 rrd rrd 4096 Jul 14 13:01 localhost_stats drwxrwsr-x 2 rrd rrd 54 Sep 27 11:57 network_stats drwxrwsr-x 2 rrd rrd 26 Jun 14 11:37 tomcat_stats drwxrwsr-x 2 rrd rrd 90 Aug 28 12:57 weather_stats /www/htdocs/rrd/archives: total 0 drwxrwsr-x 5 rrd rrd 67 Oct 26 10:22 . drwxrwxr-x 8 apache apache 84 Oct 25 15:56 .. drwxrwsr-x 3 rrd rrd 17 Oct 26 11:05 localhost_stats drwxrwsr-x 3 rrd rrd 17 Oct 26 11:05 network_stats drwxrwsr-x 3 rrd rrd 17 Oct 26 11:05 tomcat_stats drwxrwsr-x 3 rrd rrd 17 Jul 31 23:55 weather_statsNotice the file permissions and ownerships for the logs (user
rrd which runs the crontab data gathering processes),
images (user
apache which runs my webserver process) and
archives (user
rrd which runs the crontab for archival)
directories respectively
.rrd files at
the time of original writing:
/www/htdocs/rrd/logs/localhost_stats: total 3708 drwxrwsr-x 2 rrd rrd 4096 Jul 14 13:01 . drwxrwsr-x 6 rrd rrd 86 Sep 30 11:09 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 rrd rrd 84 Apr 1 2003 README.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 209300 Sep 30 11:10 cpu.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 313444 Sep 30 11:10 disk.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 rrd rrd 8 Jan 21 2004 disk_avail.rrd -> disk.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 105156 Sep 30 11:10 disk_backup.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 rrd rrd 8 Jan 21 2004 disk_usage.rrd -> disk.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 105156 Sep 30 11:10 eth0.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 53084 Sep 30 11:10 fanrpm.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 157228 Sep 30 11:10 load_avg.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 261372 Sep 30 11:10 memory.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 105156 Sep 30 11:10 privoxy.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 53084 Sep 30 11:10 procs.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 105156 Sep 30 11:10 temperature.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 53084 Sep 30 11:10 uptime.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 53084 Sep 30 11:10 users.rrd /www/htdocs/rrd/logs/network_stats: total 208 drwxrwsr-x 2 rrd rrd 54 Sep 27 11:57 . drwxrwsr-x 6 rrd rrd 86 Sep 30 11:09 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 105156 Sep 30 11:10 ping_external.rrd -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 105156 Sep 30 11:10 ping_internal.rrd /www/htdocs/rrd/logs/tomcat_stats: total 208 drwxrwsr-x 2 rrd rrd 26 Jun 14 11:37 . drwxrwsr-x 6 rrd rrd 86 Sep 30 11:09 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 209300 Sep 30 11:10 localhost.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 rrd rrd 13 Sep 30 16:20 tomcat_memory.rrd -> localhost.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 rrd rrd 13 Sep 30 16:21 tomcat_sessionactive.rrd -> localhost.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 rrd rrd 13 Sep 30 16:20 tomcat_threadbusy.rrd -> localhost.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 rrd rrd 13 Sep 30 16:21 tomcat_threadcount.rrd -> localhost.rrd /www/htdocs/rrd/logs/weather_stats: total 408 drwxrwsr-x 2 rrd rrd 90 Aug 28 12:57 . drwxrwsr-x 8 rrd rrd 154 Jul 30 15:23 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 rrd rrd 417592 Oct 8 21:00 cyyz.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root rrd 8 Aug 28 12:57 humid.rrd -> cyyz.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root rrd 8 Aug 28 12:57 press.rrd -> cyyz.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root rrd 8 Jul 31 16:09 temperature.rrd -> cyyz.rrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root rrd 8 Aug 2 18:53 wind.rrd -> cyyz.rrd
Logdir is specified
at the beginning of the file, it is also repeated inside the
DEF lines in the
Graph section for each
stat. E.g., at the beginning of the file:
Logdir: /www/htdocs/rrd/logsand then later on,
DEF:a=/www/htdocs/rrd/logs/localhost_stats/privoxy.rrd:ds0:AVERAGEClearly, this violates DRY (do not repeat yourself). If you decide to change the path to
Logdir, make
sure you do it in all of the
DEF lines as well. In the
future, I might look into improving this behavior.
disk_usage.rrd, my main RRD file for those stats is
disk.rrd. From the reporting point of view
disk_avail and
disk_usage are separate
even though their data is stored in the same RRD file.
The config section for disk availability
disk_avail between the square brackets, e.g.,
Title[disk_avail]: Disk Free Space. When
rrd.cgi tries to find the "last updated" time, it looks
disk_avail.rrd. Without the symoblic link that file
would not exist and you will not see a correct "last updated time".
Instead you will see something similar to:
Wednesday, 31 December, 19:00:00 ESTIn addition, you will see something similar to the following in your web server's error_log:
Could not get status info for /www/htdocs/rrd/logs/localhost_stats/disk_avail.rrd. Missing symbolic link or incorrect permissions!If that is the case, you are indeed missing the symbolic link. See the per-stat directive IgnoreTimestamps if you want to "ignore the timestamps".
then naturally you might have specified your directives for
that stat as, for e.g.,
Title[Disk_Avail]: Disk Availability. Since stat
names and directives are converted internally into lower-case,
rrd.cgi will look for the file
disk_avail.rrd instead of
To work around this problem, create a symbolic link as follows:
mixedcase_name.rrd -> MiXeDcAsE_NaMe.rrd
Archivedir contains an archive of
daily/monthly/yearly images. At the time of original writing, my
directory structure (last 2 directory levels yyyy/mm, created
automatically by the script) was as follows:
/www/htdocs/rrd/archives /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/localhost_stats /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/localhost_stats/2004 /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/localhost_stats/2004/10 /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/network_stats /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/network_stats/2004 /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/network_stats/2004/10 /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/tomcat_stats /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/tomcat_stats/2004 /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/tomcat_stats/2004/10 /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/weather_stats /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/weather_stats/2004 /www/htdocs/rrd/archives/weather_stats/2004/10
to gather the data and put it into .rrd files using
rrdtool update.
used=total-(free+buff+cached). Swap usage is
calculated as:
portions of create_rrd.sh for
the revised creation commands and also
look at the modified config sections for
[dnsoverall] and
[dnsqueries] in rrd.cfg.
dnsoverall.rrd and
portions of create_rrd.sh where I
have added sane upper limits (instead of using U for
unlimited), so that I don't get huge spikes upon restart of dns
(or upon reboot).
named to gather the DNS statistics (bind 9.5+) every
5 minutes


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January 13, 2009
Attack Animations: Part 1
Attack animations begin with ideas that should take the "character" into account first and foremost, in other words "Form" before "Function". By doing this we should not have Yoda doing drops kicks, which would be totally out of "character" thus making the player scratch their head instead of enjoying attacking with Yoda. Once enough "Form" ideas have been generated its time to bring "Function" to the table. "Function" dictates when the hit frame is, the total length of the animation, how far the move travels, etc... Now that all the brain dump has taken place its time to combine all the elements of "Form" and "Function" and paper design an actual attack. Ok have fun and brainstorm the crap out of attacks before settling on one for creation!
Time to explain your creation to the animator. Do you know how to speak their language, I hope so or this is all going to end badly :(
The first rule in expressing an idea to an animator is to start with anything NON-TECHNICAL… they are artists after all. Walk them through the idea in words to begin with, hopefully you've already created an animation list with a small written description is available for them to read. Best case scenario is they get what you want because you are an amazing speaker whom can articulate complex ideas through words, ok I am lying this never happens. So here are my Top 3 techniques of getting them to understand the idea.
• Get out of your seat and act out what in the hell it is you want! This technique not only gives them a visual study of motion but it shows the designer is committed to the idea enough to get up and make a fool out of themselves. The acting also allows the animator to point out issues with motion, footwork, etc… thus creating a healthy creative dialogue!
• Ok this one is really just another form of acting but it uses puppets instead of people. Get some toys, stuffed animals, or whatever floats your boat and have some fun with motion and posing to get your idea across to the animator.
Capture Reference
• Video capture reference from other media sources such as sports, movies and other games is a quick and easy way to express complex ideas. The ability to find just about anything on YouTube these days has become a vital tool in my game design bag of tricks! The other nice thing about this is the animator can keep the reference to look at time and time again during the creation of the animation asset.
NOTE: Video taping either the acting or puppets greatly increases their effectiveness by turing them into video reference.
Now that we know how to express our ideas, what ideas should we be expressing for attack animations? Well, for me there are only three things to worry about when creating that great attack animation: Anticipation, Connection, and Follow Through!
• The Anticipation of an attack animation is the calm before the storm; there is something about it that sticks in your brain giving you a sense of destruction before it even happens. Seeing this destruction well beforehand focuses the eye so that the Connection is always seen in the best possible way. The Anticipation pose needs to be achieved quickly and then held for a bit so it reads well on screen, remember that motion is not needed once the pose has been reached. The Anticipation pose should also be very over the top and feel like the weight of the world is about to strike behind it to sell the attack.
• The Connection of an attack animation is usually a single pose that shows the very best pose of the animation to ensure excellent presentation. If the Connection pose is ever confused as something other than the Connection then it is wrong and should be fixed immediately. Imagine this pose being a freeze frame where all the blood, impact, and sounds are sold to their maximum potential, think of a K.O. blow in a boxing match. The face of the attacker should read power, strength, and dominance where the face of the enemy should read pain, Pain, and PAIN!
Follow Through
• The Follow Through of an attack animation can make or break the attack because it conveys the power after it happens. The Follow Through should have one key pose that is held before the animation begins to recover back to the base pose. Think of a baseball player after he hits a homerun, one could look at that pose in a picture and know what happened. The best way to achieve this is to use strong over the top poses and spend more frames savoring them and less frames returning to the base pose.
This concludes Attack Animations: Part 1, hope to see you back for the next part very soon.
17 comments:
- s said...
Good start! Looking forward to the rest.
Do you ever start with function first? Perhaps you know you need an unblockable, low quick strike, or knockback attacks - or even a suite of these to create a character.
- Tristan Sacramento said...
Nice write up. Although, yoda doing a drop kick would be so awesome. :-). I agree that designers and animators in a room acting stuff out is a great start. Animation takes time and getting everyone on the same page is a must.
- TJ Phan said...
I agree with Tristan, I'd pay to see Yoda doing a drop kick!
And yes, I'm all for getting with designers in a room to brainstorm/act out attack anims.
Would you say the biggest difference between player controlled characters and enemies regarding anticipation is that the player has very little (for responsiveness) and the enemies have longer ones (to telegraph an attack)?
Great points btw, and great blog.
- Thomas Grové said...
Yay!, I love to see the best combat animator I know (TJ Phan) leaving a comment on the blog of one of the best combat designers that I know. Makes me smile from the cockles of my heart :)
- Thomas Grové said...
I would venture to say that responsiveness is the impression of how long it takes between pressing a button until a corresponding visual is perceived.
So a long anticipation pose on the player character is ok, as long as it didn't take long to get into that pose, and as long as the resulting attack has the impression of a big enough payoff. (Like Benkei from Genji 1, or Zangief)
Though these may still be shorter than those of an ai enemy, not only for responsiveness reasons, but also because of giving the player enough of a chance to react to the enemy attack.
- TJ Phan said...
Yes--another good point, Thomas. You could have slightly longer antics as long as it "pops" into that antic pose. Ninja Gaiden has good examples as well with their heavy weapons. And don't forget anim interrupt windows. Ahh, I love this stuff!
And Thomas, you're waaay too nice!:)
I still give it up, though, to the combat animators from Ninja Gaiden and DMC. The 2 new Naruto games have some awesome posing as well!
Great post Eric, thanks for sharing. I am happy to report that SF3 is off the table (mostly) and HD remix is in full swing down here. I look forward to the next post.
I like this explanation - an attack in terms of essentially 3 comic book panels. The concrete separation between windup, connection, and aftermath is what makes fighting game attacks memorable in a way that a soccer kick is not - except, of course, the bicycle kick, which does have these 3 elements.
- eric williams said...
Sometimes "Function" comes first but even when this happens I try to move back into the open idea phase. The main reason is that ideas are limitless and I see no reason to limit anything during brainstorming.
I will be covering some of the other comments in the next post so be sure to come back!
Also be thinking about the next topic, I like this topic request line format a lot.
p.s. Yoda doing a drop kick is only ok if your name is Uwe Boll... sorry :(
- Mehdi Yssef said...
written like a true animator !
A few typos though:
Reference Paragraph: "design bag (not bad) of tricks"
Anticipation paragraph "about to strike behind it to (not so) sell the attack"
How about an axe kick :-D ?
- XSPR said...
Great article- animators themselves have profited from taking actual improvizasional acting classes, and your clear layout of the 3 main points also translates very well to the technical pieces of attack animations: start-up frames, hitting frames (with the hitboxes) and recovery frames.
- Sean Gilley said...
Sorry, having Yoda do a drop kick would look lame.
- whiskeypail said...
Eric Williams taught me everything I know about game animation.
@robyrt...a soccer kick has all three of those elements too. A ball just doesnt have a face to crumple...
- Vincent said...
Cool post. It's crazy how often than not when something feels "off" in an animation for an action game, you can just point to one of these 3 things and find one or more straight up missing.
On a related note, check out this video of melee attacks on RE5. They're obviously a different style of attacks from most action games, but it's interesting to see some of the techniques they apply to exaggerate the three components listed here:
For example, Regardless of what you think of the crazy camera animations there, it's hard to not argue they dont serve a pretty distinct purpose in creating a better feeling of anticipation.
Anyway, where's part 2????
- Vince
- Bruno Velazquez said...
Thanks whiskeypail for clearing the whole soccer kick thing....when I read that I almost spit out my drink.
Anyways all you need is to watch these videos to see how to sell impacts: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/44292.html
I read somewhere, perhaps Iwata Asks, that for super mario 64, shigeru miyamoto got up on a table or chair and acted out in the air how he wanted mario to look when swimming.
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Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Voyurism, strong language, female/female sex, female solo sex
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decided to join both Zatanna Zatara and the one Amazons member whose real
name is Helena Bertinelli in playing a friendly little game of volleyball, a
concerned Wonder Woman has walked herself away from the others in order to
start looking for Supergirl.
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real name is Linda Danvers sitting on some rocks with a look of sadness on
her face, the Amazing Amazon has sat herself down next to her fellow Amazons
member, placed her gentle hand on the young blonde's shoulder and asked,
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in her eyes, the saddened Supergirl has lowered her head in shame, let out a
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shoulders and it has caused the young Supergirl to close her eyes and enjoy
the massage that the Amazing Amazon was giving her, Diana has suddenly placed
one of her hands on Linda's pussy, causing a startled Supergirl to turn her
eyes toward Wonder Woman and look at her like asking, "What are you doing,
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Linda's hot, wet pussy and the two Amazons members had kissed each other ever
so passionately on the lips, the blonde Supergirl has turned herself around
and started licking all over Wonder Woman's nude body -- all the way down to
her hot, moist snatch and carressing her firm breasts.
That was before a curious Power Girl has moved herself over to the hot spring
to see what her two Amazons members were up to, only to have the one blonde
babe whose Kryptonian name happens to be Kara Zor-L discover that both Linda
and Diana were having hot and steamy sex with each other, which -- in turn --
has caused her to take all of her clothes off and start pumping two of her
fingers in and out of her hot and steamy cunt and carressing her own tits
with the other hand.
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lovers and began sucking on Wonder Woman's stiff mounds, causing all three
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every minute of it.
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the water and laid their nude bodies on the soft ground, Linda has started
licking on Diana's pussy and the Amazing Amazon has started licking on
Karen's snatch, causing the blonde Power Girl to start pumping her two
fingers in and out of her young counterpart's hot and steamy cunt and yell
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themselves harder and faster and their lovemaking has finally placed itself
inside the main JLA team's Watchtower headquarters, Karen, Linda and Diana
had came and collpased due to exhaustion and fell asleep with their naked
arms in a lover's embrace.
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returned to their headquarters in Washington, D.C. and took a roll-call, a
concerned Wonder Woman has looked at Supergirl and asked, "Well, Linda? Are
you going to stay with the team?"
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young and beautiful Supergirl has looked at all of the other members of the
Justice League of Amazons, Linda has allowed a small smile to appear on her
lips and asked, "What?And give up being with a true group of best friends
that I ever have on this very planet Earth?"
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Researchers ask various questions when it comes to public health trying to understand the relationship between emotions and health. Much scientific research has addressed the various damages that affect physical health because of negative emotions, such as chronic stress, fear... in addition to their impact on organic and functional heart, strokes, diabetes and general inflammation. One of the studies conducted at Harvard Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, has shown that early life experiences in childhood, such as exposure to violence and education by people with mental suffering, have direct negative impact on other organic systems.
The gray area between negative emotions and their relation to chronic diseases such as diabetes
Depression and diabetes never coexist. Depression develops in a progressive, hidden and convincing manner, so it generates anger, repression and frustration concurrently with indifference and recklessness, and even surrender in relation to health, relationships and life. In addition to diabetes, all this leads to the so-called "killer combination": both of them lead to death. They often appear together, which explains the difficulty in obtaining appropriate assistance. Hence, the patient fails, in many cases, to recognize the disorder, to know its nature and the kind of assistance it needs. Therefore, the need for media awareness campaigns about the relationship between these two poles arises. Actually, diabetes doubles the risk of depression disease. 30% of people with diabetes suffer from depression, knowing that prevention campaigns primarily focus on heart disease, vision loss and nervous system disorders.
Depression is not just due to external conditions of life, which ends with the demise of these conditions. Actually, it is more a chronic condition than just a chemical disorder in the brain neurotransmitters level. It may be caused by organic diseases, genetic susceptibility... there is no single reason that leads to depression.
Feelings Equation
The researcher "Bzinski" says the concept of health goes beyond negative emotions' effects to reach positive emotions' benefits. In a study she conducted in 2007, she showed that positive emotional balance contributes to the attenuation of risk in coronary heart disease, more than quitting smoking and working out regularly. She also says that optimism at an early age contributes to maintaining public health and avoiding diseases during the next thirty years. This fact highlights the urgent need for joint programs between experimental psychology and public health. In 1979, "Lisa Berkman" conducted a study on 7 thousand people for a period of 9 years. This study showed that participants that were socially isolated at the outset have been subjected to death by doubling rate compared to the others.
Is there any happiness policy?
The time has come to develop a practical plan that can be translated behaviorally by everyone in the community, in order to improve public health and reduce the disease cost, rather than announcing campaigns specific to certain diseases (breast cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, smoking, drugs...), which may affect the society as a whole.
"Eric Rim" says in the research program on the prevalence of cardiovascular disease that it is not hereditary, but largely due to the per- son's choice for a certain quality of life such as food, smoking and sports. So what is the role of feelings and emotions in these behavioral choices? Can you imagine the benefit of a suitable health policy based on positive emotions culture? In fact, if it reduced only 1% of acute and chronic heart disease, it can save many lives and reduce prohibitive health costs for the treatment of chronic diseases spreading very quickly such as diabetes, stroke and others. Hence, the role of preventive programs is essential and a policy priority targeting the young and older public alike, which must be considered sooner than later.
It has become known that various psychological conditions and feelings, whether positive or negative, vary genetically and acquisitively. The proportion of genetic susceptibility ranges between 40-50%, which means that the largest proportion (50-60%) is for the acquisition, which confirms the possibility of achieving better public health by applying the "Preventive dream" program. This can be done by stimulating the emotional and social skills, especially of the young category. This step helps maintaining mental and physical health, and thus extending human life while maintaining a good quality of life, on condition that policy makers implement an appropriate national plan, knowing that all therapeutic approaches work individually and not collectively, and their effectiveness vary between one person and another.
Happiness Map
We can limit it to the following elements:
- Meaning and purpose of existence
- Life satisfaction
- Positive mood
Live the Moment
By enjoying my daily life, I get rid of heavy loads, therefore they fade away and the equation changes from "do not worry be happy" to "be happy and make your destiny yourself".


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