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A vacuum sealer has been one of my favorite kitchen tools, and not necessarily because I stored food with it! My Mom bought me a Rival Seal-a-Meal about twelve years ago that has given me great service all these years, but I've recently upgraded to a Food Saver for the bigger wattage, and because I think I've worn that Seal-a-Meal out! I love my new Food Saver and wanted to share some unique ways Continue Reading
Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook – A Must Have for Every PREPared Kitchen
I always spent a lot of time scouring the internet for how to dehydrate certain foods when I was first learning how to dehydrate. And even now, I find myself going to do research on those foods that aren't so easy to dehydrate. Then...this book, The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook by Tammy Gangloff, came along. And it is FULL of dehydrating recipes, techniques, tips and helps for using Continue Reading
Preparendess Quick Tip #37: Off-Grid Mixer
We were watching an old episode of Good Eats this week, and this connected with me in a big way! During his "Going Dutch" episode (which is available on Netflix now), Alton was showing some ideas for power outages, and this is what he used to come up with a way to beat egg whites. This won't make beating 3X a cookie dough recipe at once or kneading bread, but it can help with smaller jobs just Continue Reading
Build a Brick Rocket Stove
Do you need an alternative cooking source that is inexpensive, quick to put up, relatively mobile, and easy to use that is more than a small rocket stove? Today, one of my friend, Bunny Wickham, is guest posting on the blog, sharing her story of how she and her husband built a concrete brick rocket stove in one afternoon. They now have an alternative, non-permanent means of cooking at their Continue Reading
Make Emergency Preparedness Fun for Kids with Phineas and Ferb
I'm an advocate of introducing your children to emergency preparedness early. Not only by teaching them how to become self-sufficient with cleaning, cooking, etc., but in specific emergency preparedness matters. This weekend, my family and I finally got to sit down and watch one of our favorite shows for kids (shhh...we watch it when the kids aren't around, but don't tell!), Phineas & Ferb. Continue Reading
The Survival Doctor's Emergencies Training Course – Learn to Save a Life
As a mom, one of my fears is what would happen if one of my kids were hurt and needed medical attention, and there was no one around to help. WAIT! There is someone. ME! I am my own first responder. And now, after taking Dr. Hubbard's class, I have the confidence of knowing that, in the case of an emergency, I can confidently assess and perform many basic first aid techniques to help keep my Continue Reading
Cox's Honey Giveaway
Coxs Honey Group Giveaway Honey. Nature's food. One of the only foods that animals actually make for us. And it is wonderful for SO many things. Cox's Honey has generously donated 30# of this wonderous food for us in this giveaway. Need some ideas on how to use honey? Check out these links! How to Use Honey by AreWeCrazyorWhat.net Honey as Medicine by Common Sense Homesteading How Continue Reading
A Water Purification System for your Family that Doesn't Break the Budget – Armor Pure Review
One of the biggest concerns we have for our family is dealing with drinking water in the event of an emergency. We're good on water filters for the house and the fridge that do some, but what happens when water isn't available through the tap in your kitchen? What if you just want to have a healthier lifestyle and remove as much 'gunk' from your city water or well water as you possibly can? That's Continue Reading
PREParedness Quick Tip #36: Check Your Attitude
As another installment of the Preparedness Quit Tip series, I wanted to talk about checking your attitude. As a member of a number of preparedness groups online, I can seew how current events can get some of those new to the preparedness movement spooked and scared. Sometimes that initial warning is a great motivator to get your home ready, but too often I see panic and nervousness and poor Continue Reading
MEGA Preparedness Month Giveaway: Sun Oven, Kelly Kettle, Royal Berkey & More!
In honor of this month being Preparedness Month, The Prepared Bloggers are proud to present a Mega giveaway. We are proud to partner with 6 great companies for seven great prizes. These prizes are the perfect way to either begin your preparedness journey or add to your preps. We will have seven?winners in this giveaway. Each winner will win one of the following prizes listed below. The giveaway Continue Reading
Preparedness Quick Tip #35 – Bubble Wrap
There are all sorts of ways to insulate poorly performing windows in the winter, from insulating curtains, to plastic shrink-wrapped covers to blankets. But if you have access to large sheets of bubble wrap, use this hack to create quick and easy insulating sheets for your windows. For most windows, you'll only get an R1-R2 boost in insulating value, but that boost, added with blankets or Continue Reading
Constitution Day. Be Informed.
One of the most important things we can do as citizens of the United States of America is be informed of the laws of our land, not because the media or the government told us what our rights are, but because we have these rights given to us by the Founding Fathers and we should know what they actually are. If you've never taken the time to actually read the Constitution, today is a good day to do Continue Reading
Preparedness Quotes Vol. 8
We're venturing off strict Preparedness Quotes for the time being and branching out into survival, motivational and inspirational quotes that you can use to help you develop a better mindset for your preparedness lifestyle. "You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there." ― Edwin Louis Cole "Your fear is 100% dependent on your for its Continue Reading
Challenge Yourself! Use Preparedness Challenges to Become More Self-Reliant
Are you ready to begin your preparedness journey but don't know where to start? Do you find that you get sidetracked on your preparedness journey when you don't really know where to go next? How You Can Use Challenges to Help You Challenges and checklists are great ways to get yourself from step one to the 2nd floor in a hurry. They give you a measured sense of accomplishment, lay your tasks out Continue Reading
Mommy, I Have to Go Potty! Make Your Own Emergency Toilet
Welcome to Day 24 of the 30 Days to Preparedness Challenge from the Prepared Bloggers. We have talked about what we'll do when the paper eventually runs out, but what about when the toilet doesn't work anymore? Consider this: You've had a major local disaster where the water has gone out. There is no water available to your house because water mains have been broken, the city water supply has Continue Reading
PREParedness Quick Tip #34: Know Your Utilities
One of the things that is handy to know is how to turn off your utilities. Though most utility companies would prefer for you to go through them to do so, in the event of an emergency, you might be instructed or need to do it yourself. So be sure you know where the water, gas and electric shut-off valves are, that you know how to do it, and that you have a handy tool that is easy to grab to do it Continue Reading
I Saw It for You: How I Live Now Movie Review
Typically, movies about post-societal breakdowns are geared towards grown ups, but there have been quite a few movies coming out, lately, geared to the dystopian-loving young adult crowds. This one never made it to my radar in book form or at the theater until I saw it on Netflix not long ago. Daisy is an American teenager being sent to live with relatives in England. She's obviously NOT happy Continue Reading
PREParedness Quick Tip #33: Travel Sized Items for Emergency Kits
When was the last time you traveled down the travel / sample size aisle of your local mega mart and wondered how you could use those things? They are always so expensive for the size they are, and seem like a waste, don't they? But wait. They are prefect for your emergency bags! When you are putting together a 72-hour kit, you're looking for three days worth of things to get you through until Continue Reading
Get Your Kids Involved: How to Create Pill Bottle Firestarters
One of the best things that you can do for your kids is to teach them to be more self-reliant and knowledgeable about their own survival at an early age. Make it a part of everything that you do and it won't seem like such a weird concept. Each week, we tackle one skill, one activity, one refresher to do during our home school time (hey, might as well take advantage of the credits, huh?) that Continue Reading
Book Review: Alpha Farm – a Prepper Chicks Novel – Where the Chicks Rule the Roost
Fiction for the life after a disaster (whether you call it Post-apocalypic, Dystopian, WROL or Prepper Fiction) is dominated by men writing books that you sometimes need a technical manual to read if you aren't already trained in the military. There's not a lot given over to everyday life and times. There's also not a lot given to female characters (as you'll read me talk about here). So Continue Reading


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Foldable aluminum frame bike with 6 speed gears, less than 12kg,easy to fit in car boot,hardly used
Foldable bike for sale(silver colour not pictured as I had 2 of the same model). It has a 6 speed gear, weighs less than 12kg (aluminium frame), 16 inch tyre, mud guard, rear rack and in silver colour. Easy to fit in car boot, park up somewhere and

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I am creating a report with Japanese characters and the characters show in iReport correctly but when using the PDF exporter the Japanese characters are invisible.
I simply want to use the MS Mincho font in the PDF report or the standard PDF Japanese font but have no idea how to configure. I know there is a similar question on Stack overflow but the answers to that question are inconclusive and do not work.
I am using iText 3.7.3 and Jasper Reports 3.7.3 with iText 2.1.7 as the PDF exporting library. Earlier versions of Jasper used to use the iTextAsian.jar for exporting Japanese fonts but that no longer seems the case. Is there anyone with any know-how how to get Japanese PDFs working with the new version?


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Step by Step : My Pixel BasicsStep by Step : My Pixel Basics2 years ago in Art Features More Like This
I've had people from time to time ask me how I pixel, and I've never really been sure how to explain. It hasn't been until the past few years that i've really thought too much about what I was doing beyond experimenting and learning new things. I think I've rounded out some basic guidelines I usually follow and a friend wanted some advice so I decided to attempt some sort of explanation
Below are some step by step images and commentary. Please note that there is no one right way to create a piece of art. This Step by Step is meant only to impart some understanding of how I do things . In Pixel art alone there are many many 'styles'. I encourage anyone reading to look up more than one tutorial and seek critique if trying to learn their own pixel style.
Please excuse any spelling mistakes, and take note that I use Photoshop 7.0, but the same principals sh
Syn's Dithering TutorialWhat is dithering?Syn's Dithering Tutorial2 years ago in Art Features More Like This
Dithering is a pixel art process used to blend blocks of colour together or help apply a texture to a pixelled surface. Within emoticons it is most commonly used when making pixelled backgrounds, however it can be used in a number of other areas, e.g. massive emote bases, pixel objects etc. In this tutorial, we will focus on how 2 colours can be blended with dithering.
To break dithering down into simple terms, it is achieved by simply taking the colours from the two blocks of colour and placing individual pixels of each on the opposite side. This creates a region where the two colours merge together to create a more blended colour transition instead of a clear line between the two.
Dithering can seem like a complex process, but it's really not. Once you get the basic idea and technique, it's just all about practice and over time you'll learn how to apply it to a number of different situations. There are many dithering styles which can be
PE: How to Animate in GimpHow to Animate in GimpPE: How to Animate in Gimp2 years ago in Art Features More Like This
Gimp is a free photo editing software that you can download at gimp.org. You can use it for a lot of different things like photo manipulations, drawing, pixel art, etc. Today though, we will be covering the topic of animation!
Note that this tutorial will only show the basics of Gimp animation. How to make the frames, how to save it and the such. So let's get started!
Start by making the subject. I just used a random black ball, but the subject can be as simple or as complex as you want, depending on what you're making. Make sure you switch over to the layers tab.
Tip: If you do not already have the layers tab there by default, go to any of the tabs and press that little arrow that the green arrow is pointing at. After you click tab press: Add tab> Layers. After that, the layer tab like in the picture should show up.
After making t
Watercolor Tutorial FeatureWatercolors are such magical media; you can try to master them but usually they have their own mind and they add little twists to your works without asking. But that's just a big part of their charm!Watercolor Tutorial Feature1 year ago in Art Features More Like This
However, you can always try to befriend with watercolors and learn how to lure them to show their best sides in your artworks. Here I have collected my favorite tutorials which I have found helpful when learning how to work with watercolors. I wrote few sentences of each tutorial to point out which tips I have found especially useful from that particular tutorial.
Awesome Tutorials
a) b) c)
e) f) g)
h) i) j) - Tutorial - watercolor+Gel Pen - by Losenko
a) Great walkthrough showing the painting progress from sketch to finished painting.
A whole packet full of watercolor secrets!
b) Another walkthrough showing tips for blending and a creative way o
Adoptables, Customs What is a Custom Adoptable?Adoptables, Customs3 years ago in Personal More Like This
It's an adoptable commission that is created using a pre-set lineart or base and the colours/patterns of the adopter's choice.
How do I start making Customs?
Starting is easy enough, you just have to decide that you have the time to do them and be willing to work with another person to produce something together. A custom is not unlike a collaboration after all, you'll just be doing all the "arm-work".
How do I make it easy for myself?
First: Be prepared!
(Only works with programs that support layers)
The fastest way to "make it easy" is to prepare beforehand. This means having some kind of layered base ready to be coloured. It doesn't matter if it's your own lineart or someone elses, but having to do all the colour outlines *every single time* is just boring and time consuming. And if you want to offer lower prices, you can't spend hours on the outlines.
deviantART Customisation FAQYour deviantART IdentitydeviantART Customisation FAQ4 months ago in Art Features More Like This
FAQ01 - How do I change my username?
FAQ02 - How do I change my username symbol?
FAQ03 - How do I change my avatar?
FAQ04 - How do I change my profile information?
FAQ05 - How do I change my signature?
Profile Customisation
FAQ06 - How do I add widgets?
FAQ07 - How do I remove widgets?
FAQ08 - How do I change the order of my widgets?
FAQ09 - How do I edit widgets?
FAQ10 - How do I add a custom background?
FAQ11 - How do I repeat my custom background?
Project Educate: User Friendly Journal SkinningThis article is written for fellow CSS coders who already have basic+ knowledge of deviantART journal codes. This is not a beginner's tutorial.Project Educate: User Friendly Journal Skinning2 years ago in Art Features More Like This
User Friendly Journal Skin Coding
I've been making journal skins on DeviantART since 2010, I'd dabbled in CSS before, but never for other people. I know what my codes are and how to use them to their full potential and often, just code on the fly when I want something to do something. But making free and commission skins here showed me that I needed to make them as easy to use as they are pretty. And really, who wants to type in a lot of extra HTML when they go to write a journal? It is easy enough to access the artist's comments.
But even then, copy & paste, memorize that.... It can be a lot to deal with if you do not know CSS and HTML. Which is the reason most people get someone else's skin design in the firs
GIANT REFERENCE LISTeverything i find, compiled into one list for easy searchingGIANT REFERENCE LIST10 months ago in Personal More Like This
tutorials / references
Check these links out! They're great resources from websites other than deviantart!
a LOT of helpful things ranging from anatomy to props!
more helpful things!
painting styles with brush settings included
how to remove backgrounds on photoshop when scanning
TUTORIAL FEATURES II - Paint Tool SAI SAI or Easy Paint Tool SAI (ペイントツールSAI) is a lightweight raster graphics editor and painting software for Microsoft Windows developed and published by SYSTEMAX Software.TUTORIAL FEATURES II - Paint Tool SAI2 years ago in Art Features More Like This
The painting application is available in both Japanese, and an official English translation. An unofficial fanmade translation for the software also exists. It can be purchased directly through the developers' website,and purchases through PayPal are now also accepted in addition to the BitCash and TelecomCredit payment systems that have been available for Japanese users.
Paint Tool SAI is available on Microsoft Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8.
SAI Official Web site (Japanese)
SAI Official Web site (English)
I would like to take this opportunity to feature and promote a few tutorials that I've fo
PE: How to Make a Large EmoticonHow to Make a Large EmoticonPE: How to Make a Large Emoticon2 years ago in Art Features More Like This
I have been asked many times how I make my big emoticons. How I shade it, dither it, etc, so I am going to make a step by step tutorial on how I make large emoticons. Even if you already know how to, you might find something useful in this. Be aware that I am using photoshop elements 3.0, so this technique can be preformed in almost any program that has layers and custom pencil brush sizes and or a hollow and filled circle tool. If your program doesn't have layers or adjustable circles of any kind (whether it be the pencil tool or the circle tool), you should be able to get around it somehow, but if you can't figure it out, I would recommend gimp. It works on Macs, Windows, or Linux computers. You can get a free download at gimp.org.
Start by making a hollow circle. The color of it should be a really dark shade of the color you want the emote to be. I'm making a blue emote, so
HOW TO MAKE YOUR COLLECTIONS(FAVS) PRIVATEHIII!HOW TO MAKE YOUR COLLECTIONS(FAVS) PRIVATE1 month ago in Personal More Like This
As I have noticed through journals around on dA many are upset about the new update where people can see what you put into your collections.
They dont see your normal favs.
As well as this is great exposure for those artists that get their stuff faved, some people don´t want people to see their feitshes or the like!
Simply go you your Favs, then into your COLLECTION FOLDER
And your done! Privacy is back! ♥♥♥♥
Hope it helps! :iconkissinguplz:
Hints and Tips #3 : Paths in GIMPHints & Tips is a new series of articles here at #projecteducate designed to bring you short, concise articles that give you some great artistic advice. To check out previous articles in the series follow this link. If you want to write an article, note #projecteducateHints and Tips #3 : Paths in GIMP6 months ago in Art Features More Like This
First of all, I plan for this information to be for those fairly new to GIMP. Some folks who have been using it for years will find it inane and obvious, but really those who have GIMP as their first digital art/editing program will most likely not know these things. Feel free to read though if you wanna say "Pfft, I knew that" throughout.
First of all, most people either don't know or forget that almost everything you need can be found in the Windows drop down menu. You can find all your dockable dialog boxes there and all their features will open u
Watercolor Techniques IIWatercolor Techniques IIWatercolor Techniques II6 months ago in Art Features More Like This
Traditional Art Week at projecteducate continues! During Artist's Toolbox weeks, I've published articles dedicated to watercolor tools (Watercolor Equipment I - Basic Tools, Watercolor Equipment II - Additional Tools). Current series of articles is focusing on painting methods, previously published Watercolor Techniques I article can be found HERE. I sincerely hope these will motivate some of you to try something new and wish you all happy painting!
Wet-in-Wet Technique
Wet-into-wet is another versatile and popular technique where watercolor, or water, is dropped onto a wet surface. This i
PE: Decorating Your ProfileCommunity WeekPE: Decorating Your Profile2 years ago in Art Features More Like This
Your profile page is the first thing people will see when they click on your name, so it's very important to leave a good impression! This article will provide some useful tips and tricks for both premium and non-premium members who want to convert their profile into their own, unique page. First off, some Do's and Don'ts of profile decoration:
Use dA's profile widgets-- there are lots of great options to chose from
Show off some art (that's what people are here for!)
Express your personality through colors, stamps, gifs, etc.
Add so many images that your profile takes forever to load
Use garish or headache-inducing colors
Make text difficult to read with dark backgrounds
Non-Premium Widgets
While many widgets are restricted or locked for non-premium members, there are still a variety of great widgets that you can add to your profile, even without a membership.
Free Painting Programs :) (updated Mar. 12)Hi there, finally! I've done all folio for institution!Free Painting Programs :) (updated Mar. 12)2 years ago in Personal More Like This
My routine and work ethics is back again ! Yeah.
I really apologize for my absent.. T_T
I will catch up everything as soon as possible.
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This journal I decided to make it helpful. (hopefully) ^^
If you like to paint digitally, it doesn't matter what program you are using.
As long as it is functional enough for you, and you enjoy painting when you use it. ^^
I love to try all painting programs, it's like exploring!
Though we already know that Photoshop, Painter and Sai are great, but there are free ones
that good enough to create artwork as beautiful as those programs. ^^
Many times that I randomly posted about them but this time I want to collect them all here!
So it will be convenient for you all to check and compare them.
What I can say is that I'm grateful and appreciate those creators who spent their time and hard working and share them to us.
That's why I want to support and share them to you all!
I will
Tutorial Showcase #13DeviantART is a great place to find not only art but also some awesome tutorials. It doesn't matter if you are interested in photo manipulation or writing, usually there is a tutorial for that. But at the same time there are so many great tutorials outside of deviantART and most deviantART users might never find them unless someone shows these tutorials to them. So I'm happy to introduce you a new journal series called "Tutorial Showcase" which features some awesome tutorials outside of deviantART. System is pretty simple. Every showcase journal showcases five tutorials from a specific category and this category changes with every new journal. There's no special placement, all of them are equal. So here we go!Tutorial Showcase #131 year ago in Art Features More Like This
Theme for this time is:
Pixel Art
This first tutorial doesn't specifically teach you only one object but rather how to start with pixel art and some of the pixel art history with it as well. It is a really detailed tutorial and
Basic HTML Formatting GuideIntroductionBasic HTML Formatting Guide1 year ago in Art Features More Like This
HTML is a markup language used to create web pages. It primarily consists of content placed between named tags that define the layout or style of that content.
Is it just me or does trying to explain HTML and what it does always seem to make it sound more complicated than it actually is? Very simply, HTML is the building blocks of the web. With it you can create a web page right from the foundations of the layout to the finishing touches of style. Don't get me wrong, it is a fairly involved topic but it really is quite simple to pick up the basics.
What I'll be helping you with here is the formatting aspect of HTML. These are the things that add colour to your page and make your font fancy.
Below you will find a number of examples of HTML formatting that you can use to style your own web pages, dA profiles and journals. All you need to do is copy/paste the code and replace the sample text with your own content. Along with the quick reference I've also writ
PE: Pixel Art TutorialsSo you have discovered the wonderful world of pixel art and want to create your own But you don't know where to start or what techniques you might need to learn. This article will give you some tips and tutorials to help you on your way. Some links in this article do go off-site, as a warning.PE: Pixel Art Tutorials2 years ago in Deviant Events More Like This
Do I need a special program?
No! Something as simple as Microsoft Paint, Paint Shop Pro or the Gimp, all of which are free, are all you need to start with pixel art. Well, that and a mouse/touchpad (and a computer ). Photoshop can be used to pixel as well, but it is costly, so unless you plan to use Photoshop for a multitude of digital media, it isn't the best investment for pixel art.
Free downloads of MS Paint and Paint Shop Pro can be found here: http://www.bunnystick.com/tdlc.html
What are some useful Pixel techniques?
When it comes to shading, both dithering and anti-aliasing (often called AA-ing) are your best
CustomBox+Journal Tips n Tricks-Updated 25-Sep-14More updates comings soon!!CustomBox+Journal Tips n Tricks-Updated 25-Sep-143 years ago in Art Features More Like This
You may put all your queries here in this blog comments.
Tips & tricks
1. How to align your elements in custombox or journal?
Use the following code:
Content here
You can change the alignment to left, right, center & justify by simply replacing the words as shown below
Content here
2. How do you change the font-size in a custombox?
Use the following code:
Your text here
Your text here
Your text here
Your text here
Your text here
Your text here
Your text here
The result:
Font size = 1
Font size = 2
Font size = 3
Font size = 4
Font size = 5
Font size = 6
Font size = 7
3. How to change your font in a Custombox/Journal?
Use the following tag to change your font in your custombox.
Your text here
Your text here
Your text here
Safe fonts to use
Serif Fonts
Georgia ----- The quick brown fox
Animation in Pixel ArtPortuguese Version HereAnimation in Pixel Art2 years ago in Personal More Like This
Oh, many people asked for it, so, I'll do ~ i hope that it'll be good, because I'm not good with explanations.
Well. First:
Which the program that I use?
Gimp 2.8 (you can download it in the site, it's free! http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ )
But you can use Photoshop too, because GIMP looks like with Photoshop, but it's free, more simple and more "light".
I'll explain of a mode that is possible make in Photoshop or GIMP, not much detailed, I wait that you know the basic of the program.
Ah! Have many many patience >//<
The images about what I saying are in the right of the text.
Start with a document of size 100x100 px.
And create a "border" (in other layer) with the size 50x50 so you know that your pixel art is in the size correct.
Now you can make
Custom Box - Troubleshooting + FAQCustom BoxesCustom Box - Troubleshooting + FAQ2 years ago in Personal More Like This
Quite a few people still seem to have issues with getting their custom box backgrounds to work correctly so I thought I'd put this little troubleshooting guide and FAQ together to help. If you follow the instructions closely, you shouldn't have any problems.
If you encounter any issues that aren't explained here, please let me know. I will update this guide with any extra info or solutions as they are requested.
You can read more about customising your profile page here.
The Basics

sample text

Copy the code above and paste into a Custom box on your profile page. Replace the green text with your background
Custom Boxes CollectionHey TaNa-Jo speakingCustom Boxes Collection1 year ago in Art Features More Like This
I decided to put all resources I know in one "Collection" together that everyone has an overview in form of a big list This is more helpful than searching through deviantART and clicking through a deviants gallery
by TeaPhotography by GrimFace242
Tutorial for boxes:
I made a tutorial for adding those boxes into your custom boxes
Normal colorful Boxes
Other boxes
Where it says ORANGE you can edit it to the following colors : purple, red, green, gray, black, orange, blue, white
Other colorful boxes:
PE:Color GuideBasic Color Theory GuidePE:Color Guide2 years ago in Art Features More Like This
Today we are going to talk about beginning Color Theory with this guide. It is important to learn about the colors and their categories and opposites and this guide will help you learn more about colors and how they work together.
WHAT IS COLOR? The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.
The Colors
This is a Color Wheel that shows all the colors and how they are aligned with one another.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown etc.
Now let's learn more about these colors
The Primary Colors
Q: What are Primary Colors?
They're the main colors in a color wheel that can be blended to create other colors
The Primary Colors are Red, Yellow, and Blue.
CSS Tutorials and ResourcesCSS and DeviantARTCSS Tutorials and Resources11 months ago in Art Features More Like This
So you want to start creating your own journal skins? Learning CSS can be somewhat time consuming, but there are plenty of awesome resources to help you.
Remember, learning CSS and webdesign can land you a job in the future! Not only that, but coding Cascading Style Sheets is actually a lot of fun. It's awesome to see others using your Journal/ Gallery skins.
Examples of Journal Skins!
Finding others to code with
One thing that makes deviantART awesome is that there are over 26 million active users! This means a bunch of others will always be willing to learn with you. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have, or help you find the information you need.
deviantART Related Groups
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Weird of the Day: Circuit Breaker, "Worm 7 (2nd Version)"
We're journeying to rainy old Manchester, England today, where a pair of brothers, Peter and Edward Simpson, are channeling early '80s post-punk/darkwave/synth-rock gloom under the name Circuit Breaker. For fans of Suicide or any Joy Division song that isn't "Love Will Tear Us Apart," their stuff isn't super-weird, but it does take some unexpected twists and turns, especially on "Worm 7," an almost black-metal-like dirge from their most recent release, a five-song EP called TV12.
For more Circuit Breaker, hit up their Tumblr or their SoundCloud page. And to hear the rest of TV12, fire up the ol' Bandcamp.
Weird Interview: Anklepants
Back in late June, we got to interview our current No. 1 Weirdest (One-Man) Band in the World, Dr. Reecard Farché, better known to his penis-loving minions as Anklepants. Reecard—or, more accurately, the man behind Reecard/Anklepants, Josh Head—chatted with us for over an hour from his home in Berlin about everything from how he got interested in animatronics to why the Berlin music scene kinda sucks right now.
The interview was originally conducted as part of an article I wrote about breakcore for Insomniac.com, an electronic music site run by the folks behind such massive EDM festivals as Electric Daisy Carnival. But only a few Anklepants quotes made it into that piece, so I decided to transcribe the whole thing (well, most of it, anyway—an hour-long interview adds up to a LOT of words) and post it here so you weirdos could learn more about the man behind the mask.
We began by talking about what was, back in June, still the hottest Anklepants-related topic of conversation: his mind-blowing live set for the Boiler Room DJ video series.
Weirdest Band: I don't know what to call you: Josh? Reecard?
Anklepants: Josh. I don't know who that other guy is, really. He's certainly not here now.
WB: So let's talk about that Boiler Room set. It got quite the response when it first came out.
A: Yeah, man, it's completely nuts. In that first period, it was just ridiculous. I was getting emails every five seconds…it was just streaming in. It's been less ridiculous since then, which is good. It's hilarious to see what people write now that it's getting more mainstream coverage.
My voice was completely fucked at that gig. That was my seventh show in a row, and I blew it out like three nights before that. I really fucked it up. And then I smoked a cigarette. I don't smoke often, but sometimes when I drink, I smoke. I smoked one cigarette and my voice was fucked. I couldn't even really talk before that gig—so that's how much I was straining my voice.
WB: When you booked the Boiler Room show, did you have any inkling that it was going to be such a big deal?
A: No, I knew that would happen. It's got the biggest captive audience for something of that nature, with people who are completely sedated by the DJ standing there playing tracks. That's the thing it's brought to my attention: I didn't really realize how many people have been born into the world where DJing is the normal for music. People still think I'm DJing. I'm not DJing. People still don't understand what I'm doing. You've never seen bands? People manipulating machines? Some of the haters' comments are just so stupid: "I've never seen someone doing that on the decks." There's no fucking decks. There's nothing like that. And they think that I'm just singing over the track for the hell of it or something. They don't realize that it's my music.
So I'm definitely not DJing. I don't know if there's a name for it, really. With the equipment that I use, there's definitely no name for it, because it doesn't exist [outside of my shows].
WB: Do you think that's why people at the Boiler Room set were kind of just standing around? Because they didn't really understand what they were seeing? Or they were afraid of the mask, maybe?
A: Usually when I play it's completely fucking rammed and people aren't afraid of it. Probably since the Arte thing, that interview…
WB: Oh yeah, the German TV show. [Note: We were thinking of this show. But he's actually talking about this one.]
A: Yeah, it's Germany and France. I don't know if you know of this thing, but it's the biggest arts show in Europe, really. It's on mainstream, pay TV. So after that, my next few shows sold out straight up—in Germany, in Switzerland. They were fucking packed.
I can cum with the mask now. And at lots of gigs I've got guys and girls just lining up for me to cum on them. I'm not exaggerating. This happens all the fucking time. This Boiler Room gig is the first gig where you would see people standing like this in over a year. It's usually people jumping up trying to grab me.
WB: So wait, the mask shoots liquid now?
A: Yeah, yeah, it has for quite a long time. It's hard to see. There's some photos where you can see when it's fluoro coming out, because I put like glowstick fluid in there. It's a button on the microphone I can just press at any time. There's a small pump and a small tank. But anyway, this is the thing: People go crazy normally. This is why it kind of annoyed me. I was like, "Fuck, come on." It was just a shame that when it finally gets a lot of coverage, it looks like people are scared. I think a lot of people thought that was the first gig, or normally I do something else. But it's been happening for five years.
WB: Was the jester outfit new?
A: I've worn it on and off for awhile. But I wore it that whole tour. The black one is really, really hot. It kills me. It's so nasty. I see stars easily five times a show when I wear that. I mean, I do anyway most of the time, because it's so hot.
WB: In the mask?
A: Yeah. When I have the black [costume] on, the only thing exposed to the air is my eyes and my hands and my mouth. It does up really tight around my neck. Which I could loosen up, but I like that suit because you can't see any skin. So the illusion of the head being my head looks a bit better from a distance. But it gets so hot. The pants come up to my armpits and it's all wool. So when the jacket's on, there's two layers of wool around my chest. So yeah, I'm completely drenched and the suit is completely wet by the end. It takes days for it to dry out.
WB: Did the music for Anklepants come first, and then you designed the mask? Or did it start with the mask?
A: Well, the mask was originally an idea for this stupid porn film me and my friend came up with. It was these two characters driving around space in a beat-up old spaceship, beaming girls up from different places and seducing them on the spaceship and having weird orgy parties. I mean, we still might make this film. But this is where the character came from. And at the time, I was making a lot of music with a friend. I was in bands with him and also making lots of electronic music with him. And I was like, "Hang on, maybe we should use this as a character for a music project." 'Cause I was already using the bear. I don't know if you've ever seen this teddy bear that I used to use? There's videos of it around.
WB: No, I don't think so.
A: The first animatronic thing I ever used at a gig was an animatronic teddy bear, which straps around my upper torso—and that goes with a whole different music. There are some Anklepants releases that are called Le Bear, but eventually it will be a separate thing. It was a pretty shit animatronic, but the new one is gonna be crazy. So yeah, that was the first one, and then I was like, "Well, there's this penis character, maybe we should use this." And at the time, we were making a lot of really slow, strange techno. There's a handful of tracks that are from that but I don't ever really play them. But it was like 110 BPM and really slow, and I dunno, I don't even know how to explain it.
WB: Just slowed down techno?
A: Yeah, but this really kinda wonky thing with these really sleazy-sounding vocals, all pitched down. Just stupid, weird, joke kind of tracks. And I was like, "Well, that character would fit perfectly. The dicks would be moving in time." Because at first, there was two of them.
WB: That's right, I've seen some of those where you have a dancer in a mask, as well.
A: No, that's a different one. The very first gig was two of us singing and two of us operating machines. So there were two animatronic cocks like in time, doing all different moves like synchronized. It just looks hilarious when they're moving together. That was the first gig, but after that, he never wanted to play again. I don't know what it was—he never said. He was kind of my best friend but he's pretty weird with communication. I haven't spoken to him in like a year now. Though I haven't been back to Australia in five years, mind you. I'm going back soon and I'll see him. But anyway, it was definitely a different idea at first and then—I mean, the music existed way before the cock face.
When I first worked on films and saw animatronics being built and started to learn a bit about the control systems and realized I already knew a bit about the electronics already, because I was really into radio-controlled cars and shit like that. I used to race them. So I was like, "Hang on, I can kind of understand this." And I always wanted to do animatronics. I used to ask the electronic engineers questions. And then I found out a lot of the old animatronics were MIDI sequenced and I was like, OK.
The systems I use are far superior to [film work animatronics] now, as well. It's kind of overtaken what I was first trying to emulate. Because you can't manipulate audio when you're programming for films. You can't slow it down very easily with the systems they use. And they're so expensive. What they pay a hundred grand for I can build for like 200 Euros.
WB: Would you ever want to get back into doing animatronics for film?
A: Oh, I still do. I'm doing two film jobs at the moment. But it's not the same as if I was in Australia working for the same people—or being in the U.K. When I was in the U.K., it was just non-stop. But in Germany, it's not as often and it's not as much money.
WB: But it sounds like you're too busy now with Anklepants anyway.
A: But it's been like this. I've been gigging most weekends since I've been in Europe, since 2010. There haven't been many months I haven't played at least one gig in another country. This is the thing that's hard to notice from the outside. I mean, yeah, it's getting more popular in Europe, but at the same time, I think most of the coverage at the moment is from America and Australia. In Europe, I've played in most places multiple, multiple times.
A lot of the traffic I'm getting at the moment is from America. I think it's the biggest surprise for America. I dunno—it's not that strange. Fucking weird shit goes on in Europe all the time. I mean, yeah, it's a robot dick face. But the music is not that weird. I could go out right now and 100 meters from my house, I bet you there's something more obscure going on.
WB: How would you describe your music these days?
A: The newest stuff, the next Anklepants music is going into different microtonal ideas and more ethnic scales, different tunings, and more acoustic instruments, custom-built things. Really different. But I dunno, it's parodying different things, critiquing things. A lot of different people might like different bits of it, and then maybe realize that they shouldn't be so concerned about what's good or bad about it.
I don't think anything I do is that strange at all. And nothing is new. Animatronics is from the fucking '60s. Everything I use is old. Even the technology—it might be new combinations of things, but the sensors and stuff have been around for fucking ages. So it's just mixing all different things together.
WB: As a writer, I find "breakcore" useful to describe your music. But it's also a bit arbitrary. I've heard Otto Von Schirach's music described as breakcore, Venetian Snares, your stuff. But really, if you put all three of you side by side, your music is pretty different.
A: Yeah, if it's got breakbeats in it that are sped up and chopped up—I mean, I do have some songs that have this.
WB: Yeah, like "Ilikeyourfaceheadshoesanddick"…
A: Yeah, of course, but this is about the generic breakcore scene in Sydney. I was involved in this scene a bit when I first started Anklepants. I did listen to [breakcore] but I was really just fascinated with the technicality of it. I was never into chopping up pop tracks and speeding them up. That infuriates me, to be honest. Not many things infuriate me, but when people just get a Britney Spears song and speed it up and put a distorted gabber kick under it…this just infuriates me. It's literally just turning a knob.
This is where society's getting so fucking lazy. I've met people who do this stuff and some of the attitudes are just unbelievable. They think they're crazy and wild. But I've had quite a few of them tell me what I should change. It's pretty weird. They're supposed to be rebels that don't care about what anyone else does. But then—this is when I [came up with] this stupid thing, the übergrunde, a direct inversion of the mainstream. All they're doing is the exact same thing. They have their own clique. They're the same. So this kind of breakcore—I just think it's stupid.
WB: So when you do a track like "Ilikeyourfaceheadshoesanddick," it's a parody of that scene?
A: Yeah, the lyrics are, "When I come to the bowels of the party, I really like to look at your dick at the party." It's just saying, when I go to the shittiest party—and it's all guys, mind you—we just look at each other's dicks. That's what the lyrics are. They're so stupid, but I just made them one day when I was so pissed off after I played one those gigs, with these assholes who pride themselves on being so completely open, and then you play their gig and they just give you a bunch of attitude and tell you what you should change in your music.
WB: What have they said you should change?
A: "It's good but after you see it's a dick, it's like, whatever." People just always try and put shit on it, because usually, what the problem is, if I play a gig with them, no one fucking watches them, they watch me. This is obviously the problem. It's a weird thing with Anklepants, because obviously some people might not want to look at it, or they want to see the funny side. But a lot of the time, all people want to talk about is the dick face. They forget there's even music there. And if they talk about the music, they just say it's horrible.
But then there's the other kind of breakcore I got interested in because of different kinds of software. For me, when it comes to anything you might call breakcore—this fast, heavily programmed music—it's just the technical side I'm interested in, really. There's just so many techniques trying to create contrast between different hits, different notes. The more contrast there is, the more your brain is being triggered that it's a new thing that it's hearing. This part of it I'm really interested in: tricking the brain, so when you're listening to it, your brain feels like it's constantly being shown something new. I like hearing all the techniques and people using all different hardware and software all mixed together. It's still kind of exciting. And it's like a challenge as well, because you have to use a lot of tricks with production to make all the sounds come through in the mix. It's kind of like a weird jigsaw puzzle, and it's kind of like a game, and it's kind of problem solving.
WB: I think that's what interests me about it, as well. Just the production skills involved with something like what Igorrr does, for example, taking classical and metal and breakbeats and stitching it all together….
A: I mean, Otto and Venetian Snares, those guys, they've been doing it way longer than me. I was playing in bands and stuff for a long time. I've played guitar since I was nine. Jazz theory and all kinds of stuff. I was doing that and I suppose they were making electronic music. I've been making electronic music for probably 15 years, but Anklepants is only since 2008. I was into all kinds of music, but a lot of metal when I was younger. I really only ever got into electronic music to add it to a band. Anklepants will be a band eventually. Not this new thing—Clock_yange is like a one-off thing. Anklepants will be a full band that's got all these crazy instruments and all kinds of things going on.
WB: Is that the goal with something like the face-tar?
A: Yeah, and as soon as I start getting big enough bookings, where I can afford to have other people…the first person I want to bring in is a drummer. I've always wanted to use this guy in Australia who I've played in two bands with. And he'll be using a mixture of conventional rock drums, but also triggered and strange electronic percussion, weird instruments that are electronic and acoustic and moving, as well. And he'll have some character. But yeah, the main focus is to get the guitar built. Although that instrument is based on a guitar, it's gonna have a lot of sensors and things.
I used to manipulate the music a lot more, especially arrangement-wise, before I had the wireless microphone. When I built that microphone, it started to be more about the microphone vocal manipulation. When the guitar comes, the music will be as manipulated as the voice. When it joins together, everything's just gonna be way more free.
Weird of the Day: Die Roten Punkte, "Ich Bin Nicht Ein Roboter (I Am A Lion)"
As we take the plunge back into the Monday-Friday workweek grind, let's all take a moment to remember that, no matter how boring and demeaning our day jobs may be, we are not robots. We are lions!
This heartwarming tale of feline/machine bonding comes to us courtesy of reader Marco, who shared it on our Facebook page. The duo behind it is a German (by way of Australia) brother-sister act called Die Roten Punkte, which apparently means The Red Dots in German. You can learn more about them on their website.
September Weird Band Poll: Vote for The Artsy Chicks, Can Can Heads, L.A.Drones!, Shibboleth, The Velveteen, or WE
This is our biggest Weird Band Poll™ yet, people! No, it literally is. We usually only have four or five bands and this month we've got six. We like to keep you on your toes.
Here's the dealio (don't you hate when people say "dealio"?): Voting ends midnight Pacific time on Sunday, Sept. 14. The winner of the poll will be named our Weird Band of the Week starting on Wednesday, Sept. 17. Don't cheat and vote multiple times, for fuck's sake. It's not like there's some cash prize at stake. Save your cheating for more important shit, like marriage and taxes.
[Sorry, this poll has closed. Check back here Wednesday, when the winner will be revealed. And bookmark this page to partake of future polls. We do a new one every month(ish).]
For more on this month's bands, read on:
The Artsy Chicks
There are zero chicks in the Artsy Chicks, so the name is kinda false advertising. But their music is pretty freaky, so we'll let it slide. They're a five-piece from Montreal and they do everything from free-form jazz-rock experimentation to finger-poppin' surf rock. Here's a link to the weirder of their two albums, Kwoto Zeetrus, and here's their less weird album, which is more surf-inspired but still has some nice, skronky sax.
Can Can Heads
Another crazy quintet with some wailing sax, this time from Finland. Can Can Heads describe themselves as "violent music with a gentle heart." If that's a little too vague for you, they also say they're "heavily influenced by No Wave, Skronk, Free Jazz, Hardcore Punk, all things noisy." Most of their songs seem to be under two minutes long, except one seven-minute joint called "The Great Depression," which makes sense, because that actual Great Depression lasted for-fucking-ever, as my granddaddy was fond of pointing out. Here's a link to their latest album, Butter Life, and here's something that looks like an agriculture instructional video but is actually a clip for their song "Breakdiscodance."
L.A.Drones are a duo from right here in Los Angeles, which probably explains the exclamation point in their name. Us L.A. folks tend to get very excited about ourselves. Their name is a play on the Spanish word "Ladrones," which means "thieves," because much of their music is made up of samples stolen from other songs. Not that my Spanish is that good…pretty much all I know how to say is "Mas cerveza, por favor," but that's what L.A.Drones! tell us their name means. Being thieves, they wear masks. They list their influences as "Electro, KrautRock, Dub, Acid, Space, Noise." Here's their Facebook page and here's a live video of them performing the song "Horrible Dreams."
Shibboleth are a trio from Ireland that call their music "experimental dark-ambient," which sounds about right. Sometimes it almost sounds like doom metal, other times it's like weird, lo-fi Goth rock with banjos. We don't know much else about them…they just emailed us with a few links and said, "We think we're pretty weird." Agreed, fellas. Here's their EP Farewell on Bandcamp and here's a zero-budget but pretty creepy video for their song "The Cannibal's Standpoint."
The Velveteen
The Velveteen are also from right here in Southern California, but up the road a ways in Ventura, which is like a sleepier version of L.A. with less movie stars and more surfers. They're a four-piece, assuming you count their puppet Fum, which you totally should because he's the lead singer. They're named after their guitarist/trumpet-playing rabbit, Baron Von Velveteen, who also plays bass in another weird band called Cirque Noir, and also have a keyboard/melodica player named Professor Z and a drummer named Christopher Coyle, who really needs to step up his game and come up with a wacky alter ego if he's gonna be part of this band. Oh, and I guess they just added another puppet named Foe, so maybe they're a five-piece now. They're pretty new on the scene, having just played their first gig this past May. Here's a live clip, and here's their website.
You might call England's WE a high-concept band. They take famous pop songs and do robotic electro-pop covers on them in which they replace the word "I" with the word "We." That's it. That's literally the only thing they do. According to their website, "WE translate the monstrous, violent, and traumatic, revolutionary process of the abolition of identity into pluralized pop." If you say so, dudes! Get in on all the pluralized pop action on their SoundCloud page, where you can hear such "We"-ified classics as "WE Want to Hold Your Hand," "WE Kissed a Girl" and "(WE Will Be Your) Father Figure."
So there you have it. Remember to cast your vote before midnight Sunday, Sept. 14, and may the weirdest band win.
Aphex Twin releases first track from "Syro"
In less than three weeks, we'll finally get to hear Syro, the first new album of Aphex Twin material from electronica demigod Richard D. James in 13 years. But for us impatient types (read: every single Aphex Twin fan on the planet), the enigmatic producer gave us an early treat today: a YouTube stream of Syro's first track. "minipops 67 [120.2][sourcefield mix]" is a deliciously sexy slab of old-school breaks and ambient techno, with vocoder vocals and what sounds like a combination of vintage synths and 808s. It's maybe not the most ground-breaking thing James has ever released, but it's atmospheric and, to no one's surprise, impeccably produced.
We meant to tell you all about a series of Syro listening parties happening all over Europe and North America starting tomorrow, but apparently you had to RSVP to them by last Tuesday. Oops. Instead, you'll just have to settle for the Syro track list. We're not sure what the numbers mean; presumably they're part of some system James has for cataloging unreleased material, but it's hard to say. Could he really have 163 unreleased songs? He did claim a few years ago that he was sitting on at least six albums' worth of new material, so it's possible. [Update: Astute reader friendsound points out that "minipops 67" is at a tempo of 120.2 BPM, so that's actually what the numbers refer to. Mystery solved!]
Syro tracklist:
01. minipops 67 [120.2][sourcefield mix]
02. XMAS_EVET10 [120][thanaton3 mix]
03. produk 29 [101]
04. 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26]
05. 180db_ [130]
06. CIRCLONT6A [141.98][syrobonkus mix]
07. fz pseudotimestretch+e+3 [138.85]
08. CIRCLONT14 [152.97][shrymoming mix]
09. syro u473t8+e [141.98][piezoluminescence mix]
10. PAPAT4 [155][pineal mix]
11. s950tx16wasr10 [163.97][earth portal mix]
12. aisatsana [102]
Syro arrives Sept. 23rd in the U.S. (Sept. 22nd everywhere else) on Warp Records. You can pre-order it here.
Tera Melos
This week's band is usually described as "math rock," a style Jake and I have bagged on in the past, partially out of sheer ignorance (back in 2010, we tagged Little Women as a math rock band…um, no), partially because, let's face it, there are a lot of crappy math rock bands out there. Start-stop tempos and unconventional time signatures, in and of themselves, don't make guitar-based music interesting, or even all that weird—but our inbox overflows with such dreck on an almost daily basis. So to all you struggling young math rock bands out there, we say: Study the catalog of Tera Melos, and then get back to us. If you can make music half as challenging and (here's the important part) fucking fun as these guys, we and all the other jaded hipster music blogs might actually start paying attention to you.
Guitarist Nick Reinhart and bassist Nathan Latona started Tera Melos in Sacramento, California in 2004. Initially they were an instrumental quartet, with guitarist Jeff Worms and drummer Vince Rogers, although Worms quit pretty soon after the band started. Their debut album was an untitled collection of eight untitled songs, just labeled "Melody 1," "Melody 2″ and so on—which was a bit ironic, given that most of the tracks were not so much melodies as kaleidoscopic explosions of processed guitar churning over insanely intricate drum patterns and basslines.
The band's second full-length album, 2010′s Patagonian Rats, marked a major leap forward. Reinhart had occasionally contributed vocals in the past, but now he was a full-fledged lead singer, and new drummer John Clardy was every bit as technically precise as Vince Rogers but could lay down the occasional in-the-pocket groove. Now Tera Melos sounded like something new: a flashy, complex math-rock band with a fondness for melody and atmosphere, sort of halfway between two of their tourmates, Dillinger Escape Plan and Minus the Bear.
It was also around this time that Reinhart emerged as a bona fide math rock guitar god, with a unique way of using pedal boards to extract maximum sonic impact from his instrument. If you can stomach the host of this video and his relentless ass-kissing, some of the tricks Reinhart demonstrates are pretty impressive. This live in-studio performance gives an even better idea of his guitar/pedal wizardry:
But at the end of the day, it's not Tera Melos' math rock chops (or even their refreshing sense of humor about the genre, as seen in the banner art at the top of our site this week) that earn them Weird Band of the Week honors. What really puts them over the top are their music videos, which are nearly always amazing. Here's "The Skin Surf" from Patagonian Rats, in which they engage in a bit of crustacean osculation while dressed up like the world's lamest Weezer cover band:
And here's "Weird Circles" from their latest album, last year's X'ed Out. Who's hungry for some Yum cereal?
But their crowning video achievement to date has to be "Bite," also from X'ed Out, in which music and visuals merge into some kind of overlapping Battles/Primus/Kyary Pamyu Pamyu hallucination. By the way: It's worth noting that all of these videos were directed by the same guy, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker named Behn Fannin who is clearly some kind of dark, twisted genius.
I'd be remiss if I didn't once again thank the reader who turned us on to Tera Melos, matp662. I bet matp1 thru matp661 put together are still less cool than you, sir!
Update: Right when we make Tera Melos our Weird Band of the Week, they drop yet another crazy video! Please to enjoy their fresh-pressed latest, "Sunburn":
Weird of the Day: Soul Coughing, "Bus to Beelzebub"
I know we're not exactly digging deep with our latest Weird of the Day, but fuck it. Sometimes, when you're having a tough week, you just need to crank a little Soul Coughing.
For all two of you readers who aren't already familiar: Soul Coughing was a '90s band from New York made up of singer/songwriter/latter-day beat poet Mike Doughty, vintage-jazz-and-cartoon-obsessed sampler player Mark de Gli Antoni, and the jazz-trained, hip-hop-inspired rhythm section of Sebastian Steinberg on upright bass and Yuval Gabay on drums. They met in New York's downtown underground jazz scene in the early '90s and managed to put out three brilliant albums of self-described "deep slacker jazz" before their conflicting musical tastes and personalities (and addictions) drove them apart in 2000.
There aren't many bands I say this about, but if you don't like Soul Coughing, we probably can't be friends. Their music just ticks all the boxes for me: It's silly but whip-smart, geeky but undeniably funky, weird but never far from a shamelessly pop sensibility (after turning solo, Doughty would cover Mary J. Blige's "Real Love" with absolutely zero irony), full of lyrical non sequiturs and slyly manipulated samples of familiar songs by the Andrews Sisters, Howlin' Wolf and Carl Stalling.
"Bus to Beelzebub," off their mind-bending 1994 debut Ruby Vroom, is too dumb (lyrically speaking) to be the band's best song, but it's certainly among their weirdest, what with its Raymond Scott "cartoon assembly line" sample and Doughty chanting "Quadrilateral I was, now I warp like a smile" and "Yellow No. 5″ over de Gli Antoni's razor-blade organ samples and Steinberg's relentlessly marching bass. It's really too bad these guys all hate each other now, because in their heyday, they were a force.
Rudely Interrupted's new EP "I Am Alive" now available for pre-order
Well, what have we here? Looks like Australia's differently abled power-popsters Rudely Interrupted have slimmed down to a quartet in preparation for the release of their latest EP, I Am Alive. It's out Sept. 19th, but available for pre-order now via iTunes. And it features a song called "Ran Over a Lizard," so you know it's gonna rule.
Rudely Interrupted have been racking up the frequent flyer miles of late, playing a "carnival of the mind" called Twenty Wonder here in Los Angeles (sorry we missed you, guys) and performing with an orchestra in Italy. They don't have any other shows booked at the moment but you can bet that Sam Beke's sparkly cape will be gracing some stages Down Under again soon enough.
Now here's a sneak peak at their latest animated music video, for I Am Alive's title track. If you pre-order the album via iTunes, you'll get the full video included with the EP.


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Joel Cooper's blog of origami
The last batch moved pretty fast. I can't complain, but it sure is making it hard to keep up.
I've got four new masks now:
and Spirit
Some old favorites and variations. I've mostly been experimenting with surfaces – transparency and textures, mixing pigments with different media to try and get interesting effects.
I've got more projects in the pipeline so it shouldn'r be too long before the next batch is ready to share.
After a busy period with various non-origami concerns and not much to blog about, I've finally got some new pieces available at my Etsy shop.
and Faunus:
Sylvanus and Caliban you might recognize. They are designs that I've been tweaking for a while and these are the latest iterations. There will probably be more since I can't seem to leave these designs alone. Faunus is an all new design. I've been working lately on some smaller models; trying to get more expression out of less paper. My models seem to have been getting bigger and bigger and more and more complicated so Faunus is an attempt to downscale a little bit.
Summer is the big season for exhibitions and there are a few coming up that I have the privilege of participating in.
The first is "Surface to Structure", an origami exhibition at the Cooper Union (no relation) in New York.
Cooper Union was the site of the first origami exhibition in the U.S. back in 1959, featuring some of the greatest origami artists of the time. The exhibition this year promises several big names in contemporary origami and some of the most beautiful origami artwork around. The show will run from June 19th to July 4th and is free and open to the public, so if you're in New York you should definitely check it out.
I'm currently preparing work for two shows coming up in August.
The Origami Museum of Zaragoza in Spain (the first and as far as I know only museum in Europe dedicated to origami) rotates exhibitions every two months or so (They've just wrapped up a retrospective of Akira Yoshizawa). I'm planning on contributing a few pieces for the August exhibition.
Also in August there will be a showing at the Michael Good Gallery in Rockport, Maine. I will be sharing space with jewelry artist Sarah Doremus and sculptor Greg Pinto. This should be an interesting venue for me since it will be the first time since the local art festival more than a decade ago that my work will be shown not as part of an origami exhibition. It should be interesting to see how it is accepted alongside artwork of other media.
So for the next couple of months you won't be seeing much in my online shop as all my efforts will be directed toward creating new work for these shows.
At least for now.
I've finally finished some new pieces that I can post for sale in my Zibbet shop.
and Goliath:
Naga and Goliath are two new variations based on a design that I've used for models like Asterius and others, a design I've been playing around with since 2009 (you can see the germ of it here). The design is based on a grid oriented horizontally rather than vertically, which is a surprisingly challenging.
I revisited an early design for Aelfred as well – Poseidon here from back in the day – another model I've always liked, but which still had some design issues I wanted to address. I like how they've been reconciled with Aelfred. For one thing, angry Poseidon can finally shut his mouth!
Ben Parker, an artist whom I've mentioned before, has started a kickstarter to help fund an exhibition of his new work. You can learn more about it and maybe kick in a few bucks here. At this moment he is about a third of the way to his goal.
Ben continues to push the boundaries of origami by a sort of cross-pollination with photography. A traditional "photogram" (as opposed to a photograph) is created by placing objects on a piece of photosensitive paper and exposing the whole to light, thereby preserving an image of the objects' shadows. Ben has eliminated the object and instead folds the photosensitive paper in a darkroom, then exposes the origami to light. The paper thereby takes a picture of itself. It's all very existential somehow. I've never heard of anyone doing anything quite like this, and I kinda wish I had thought of it myself.
So even if you won't be able to make it to Connecticut for the exhibition you can donate some money to defray the various expenses and receive a piece of original art for your very own.
You can also see more of what Ben has been up to at his Flickr site or his own website BRDParker.com.
Two new masks in my Zibbet shop:
and the Prophet
Well I had some unexpected traffic from ThisIsColossal and Laughing Squid and other websites at the same time that I decided to have a seasonal sale. Everything sold out. I did not expect that. Since there has been so much interest I wanted to have at least a couple more masks available before sale ended and although I've been folding like a madman lately, I have not been able to do as much as I would have liked. Nevertheless, I did manage to finish these two, and though the sale was supposed to end Monday I've decided to offer both at reduced prices for a little while longer.
Courtesy of Metafilter, I was introduced to the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Iowa's tumblr. Go there! Click on that link! You think an archival library must be a sombre and boring place – just see for yourself. See flying squirrels! Teeny tiny books with their own teeny tiny bookstands! How about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as illustrated by Salvador Dali! And so much more!
(They have lots of cool gifs and other surprises there too)
Two new masks for sale at my Zibbet shop -
and Sargon:
The sale is still in effect until January 6, 2014, so expect the prices to go up if these two are still around by then.
These masks are similar designs; brothers, so to speak, both evolving from explorations of the same design. Magnus would be the older brother – Sargon is a variation on the same theme but a bit more compact in design (specifically Magnus is based on a 96 crease grid and Sargon on an 80 crease grid, for whomever may be concerned).
Sargon is painted with raw umber and iridescent green underpainting and silver glaze on top. Magnus has a blue underpainting and is finished with metallic paints with granular mica that gives it a slightly roughened texture.


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I have a Whirpool Gas dryer, and gas valve not open.
Ignitor glows but turns off after gas vas valve not open, (it makes a click and ignitor turns off)
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Sounds like gas line has a shutoff behind dryer or in basement that is not turned on??? And do your hear a strange vibration when burner should be igniting and if so probally bad gasvalve! They say not serviceable but have tooken many apart and have fixed problem with no troubles! If it was in storage moisture probally bfound it's way in there and one of the plungers is stuck inside gasvalve!!!!
Sōhei: thanks you are right !! This dryer was in an storage for some time, and also the line on basement it had a lot of lead paste. So first I discover the lead paste was obstructing the line but still not working so then I realize that the valve had a failure it opened a little like a pilot in the base of the burner.(moisture)
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… The bumper sticker read, "Having an abortion does not make you un-pregnant, it makes you the mother of a dead baby". The word "mother" struck me because "mother" is such a powerful word. It conjures many meanings, and when a woman becomes one she is fundamentally changed. "Mother" as a verb means to nurture, care for and protect. "Mother" as a noun means a female person who is pregnant with or gives birth to a child; or a female person whose egg unites with sperm, resulting in the conception of a child.
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"A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more." Matthew 2:18
There is no consolation to be had for the mother that loses a child. She will grieve in her heart for the rest of her life. Abortion; however, not only robs a child of it's life and a mother of it's child, it also robs the mother of her grieving. She is not allowed to grieve because she cannot publicly claim the title Mother.
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