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IJN Battleship Yamato a 1/200 scale IJN Yamato by Nichimo (much as I hope mine will appear when I am finished!)
By now you've likely noticed the IJN Yamato pics everywhere on this site ;) The ship has interested me for a great long time due primarily to it's unique place in history. The Yamato class battleships were a class of ship singular in scale and power, the epitome of the battleship design. Yet these awesome ships came into being just before the self same nation which made them made all battleships obsolete by introducing the age of naval airpower through the devastating carrier attacks on Pearl Harbor. My studies have shown that the crew of the Yamato and sistership Musashi were fully aware that they were manning warships whose power had been eclipsed by that of naval airpower - but with the world at war all around them they were powerless to do anything about it.
I have long wanted to craft a large scale model of the IJN Yamato to display in my home because the ship brings to mind so many stories and issues ranging from the technical challenges of their construction across a variety of topics including theories of strategic defense planning, naval warfare evolution in the second World War and finally the personal stories of the people directly involved with the ships and with fighting them.
I'm presently completing a trio of models of the Yamato to hone my modeling skills and familiarity with the ship so that my final large scale model will be accurate and (hopefully) detailed with some degree of finesse :) Aside from offering opportunities for modeling practice, these models will indeed be my primary references for my large scratch built model :) The first in my trio of reference models is the 1/350 scale IJN Yamato by Tamiya. It is nearly complete now, I'm presently outfitting it with a photo etched detail kit from Gold Medal Models (I'll post photos when the ship is complete). Thereafter I have a 1/250 Arii model of the Yamato which is large enough to have a new level of detail over the 1/350 kit, and it too will have an extra level of detail added by another GMM photo etched set. The third and final reference model is the famous Nichimo 1/200 Yamato (although I'm purchasing the more recently produced "Upgrade" version which comes with some RC fittings and some trick items including rotating turret assemblies and working searchlights. To see an online guide to the construction of a kit like this go visit this excellent site and look over Bill Waldorf's 1/200 Yamato Construction Diary
Another inspirational model is Chris' 1/144 scale RC Combat Musashi (sister ship of the Yamato), visit his website to see many detailed photos of his great RC model! And also Brian Finster's IJN Yamato despite his many warnings about how challenging the model is to make it too is inspiring!
The epitome of the truly scale IJN Yamato model though belongs Takaatsu Fukuoka. His 1/200 scale display only model is breathtaking in accuracy and realism.
Clearly I've got a bit of work ahead of me, but this hobby is more comparable to a journey ever towards the horizon rather than a journey to a specific destination - the fun is in the process. As things stand now (September 2003) I'm adding brass photo etched detail set to my 1/350 Yamato and then I'll begin my 1/250 Arii model (of the Yamato). I'll post photos now and then as my projects progress :) With a luttle luck I should be receiving the Nichimo 1/200 scale "upgrade" kit sometime in October, considering that I've wanted to build this model for over a decade now it's fair to say that I'm really looking forward to October :)
Until next time then ~ Edward September 6, '03
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As the planet closest to us, Venus has been a magnet for space exploration. And though Venus mirrors the size and mass of the Earth, it has evolved in a radically different way. It has a scorching hot surface, for example, and an atmosphere of noxious gases. Also, apparently women are from there. Though many unanswered questions remain about this planet, this sultry orb has fallen out of popularity with space programs in the past few years, losing funding to the more fashionable Mars (maybe because President Bush's favorite color is red). No longer. On October 26, 2005, NASA plans to launch the Venus Express, a spacecraft like the Mars Express that will study the planet as well as make global maps of surface temperatures. Fiske Planetarium educational manager Suzanne Traub-Metlay will discuss the pending flight in far greater detail tonight at 8 p.m. in a lecture entitled Colorado Skies: Venus Express at Fiske, located on Regent Drive on the CU-Boulder campus. Ticket prices range from $3.50-$6, and the talk is free for CU students with a valid ID. For more information, call 303-492-5002, or log on to http://www.colorado.edu/fiske/home.html.
Friday, July 1
Denver's Fairmount Cemetery and Mortuary, 430 South Quebec Street, has been turning heads lately with a series of billboards featuring black-and-white photographs of the deceased, a note on their accomplishments -- "Walked on all seven continents," for one man -- and the tag line "Celebrating lives well lived." Today Fairmount aims to continue the buzz and bring more people through the gates -- alive -- with the initial First Friday for Families Walking Tours. The cemetery's historic Ivy Chapel will open at 5:30 p.m.; for $15, families can embark on a two-hour walking tour that begins at 6:30 p.m. and highlights military veterans -- such as Lieutenant Francis B. Lowry, for whom Lowry Air Force Base was named -- who are buried there. (This particular tour is in recognition of the Fourth of July weekend.) Families are invited to picnic on the grounds after the walk. For details, call 303-399-0692.
Saturday, July 2
This is the first Saturday of the month, so pry the kids from their morning cartoons and take them to the Bluff Lake Nature Center, 7350 East 29th Avenue. Though the youngsters may object to your curious behavior, once they catch a glimpse of their first bald eagle, all thoughts of SpongeBob will vanish. At 7 a.m., Bluff Lake naturalist Carl Wells will lead the Bluff Lake Birders on a two-hour ramble through the trails at Bluff Lake in search of all things avian. More than 130 species of birds have been spied there over the years, so bring binoculars and bird books if you've got them, but don't worry if you don't. For more information, call 303-468-3240.
Sunday, July 3
For more than two decades, The Great Race -- a time/speed/ endurance road rally for vintage automobiles manufactured at least 45 years ago -- has stopped in more than 800 cities, spawning free family celebrations along the way. Racers have logged almost 6,000,000 vehicle miles, making stops near some of the continent's most famous landmarks, including the White House, the Statue of Liberty, the Grand Canyon and even Mexico City's La Plaza de la Reforma. While racers must have enjoyed these locations, nothing could have prepared them for their latest destination -- the Westminster Westin Hotel, 10600 Westminster Boulevard. View hundreds of classic rides -- V-8 Fords, vintage Corvettes and Chevrolets, cars you typically only see in museums -- pull onto hotel grounds around 6 p.m. The caravan heads out early Monday morning, so make sure you get a glance before they're just taillights. Log on to www.greatrace.com for more details.
Monday, July 4
Of all the proud, historic moments that took place during the American Revolution -- the Boston Tea Party, the meetings of the Founding Fathers at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Johnny Tremain struggling with his lobster-like claw -- there was no more triumphant occasion than the time-honored moment when the British decided to flee. Who can forget all those great artistic renditions from the history books of the exact second those terrified wankers rushed toward the sea like lemmings, hurling themselves into the water and actually trying to swim back to "mighty Britain"? Sweet, except that it didn't happen that way. But that doesn't mean we can't pretend it did, and what better way to do so than by sprinting in today's Freedom Run? The race begins at 8 p.m. at the Washington Park Boat House, 700 South Downing Street. Registration is $28 and benefits the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado. Though mocking the British is certainly not the ACLU's intent, there's no reason it can't be yours. For more information, visit www.aclu-co.org/events.
Hey! It's the Fourth of July! How does a little baseball sound? Well, the Rockies are . . . hey, where are you going? Oh, come on, they're not that bad. At least they're playing the Dodgers, and they're fun. Stay for fireworks after the game (can you say, "Rockpile seats at $4?") So come on out to Coors Field, 20th and Blake streets, for the first pitch at 6:05 p.m. This is your chance to see something other than a Rox bullpen blow up. For tickets, visit www.coloradorockies.com.


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The OverAchiever: Reconsidering achievements and raids {WoW}
Sep 8th 2011 10:31PM Lissanna's comment on the original post was dead on. When I ran my original guild, we started mid-expansion and pushed all the way to Brutallus before the pre-Wrath nerf, killing on average 2-4 bosses per month. The fact that we had several dozen bosses that were all essentially current (just because you were progressing in Tier 5 or 6 didn't necessarily make previous tiers either easy or obsolete) gave us a lot to work with and a lot of motivation to keep pushing. When we downed Lady Vashj or Archimonde, we were thrilled by the achievement (little A) and didn't have a "Sigh - guess next week we start on heroic modes" mixed emotion.
All of this is academic for me, since I haven't logged in in almost three months and don't intend to return to the game. But there are enough people I know and talk to who DO play that what goes on in game still interests me, even though I don't see it directly.
The OverAchiever: Reconsidering achievements and raids {WoW}
Sep 8th 2011 8:30PM Thanks to Allison for noting my original comment!
A few points of reference: I ran a progression guild during Burning Crusade and the early part of Wrath, then raided in a World Top 100 guild for a year before retiring due to real life commitments. I saw raiding during Burning Crusade when it was a very different model from what it is today, and while I agree that creating content that is experienced by a very small portion of the game's players is an undesirable model, so is an endgame that has lost most meaning to a growing number of players. I don't think it's an either/or choice, though.
One of the big advantages the Burning Crusade model had was that almost all of the endgame content was available either from release or within a few short months (everything up through Black Temple). That gave a LOT of content for people to work on over the course of the expansion, including heroics that ranged in difficulty up to a challenge even for people in T6 gear), and it was only well in to the second year that issues cropped up with the top guilds running out of things to do (necessitating the Sunwell patch, which in itself, offered a great deal more content for players at level 70).
Since Wrath was released, Blizzard has offered raid content that is "current" for only a few months, and then it's shuffled off into the "old content" graveyard. This constant hamster-wheel of raid "seasons" (which I refer to that way because they are integrally linked to PvP seasons) means that end game players never have more than one tier of things to work on that are meaningful, and as with Firelands, that can be as few as 7 bosses.
Combined with my earlier comments about the need to factor in 10m and 25m versions of an encounter, plus normal and heroic modes, means that not only does an endgame player have fewer challenges awaiting him/her, but those challenges just aren't as interesting as they were in Burning Crusade. (And make no mistake, I am not defending everything about BC - it had its share of flaws and there are some parts of Wrath and Cataclysm that are far superior).
The point of all this is that Blizzard's goal is, or should be, supplying sufficient interesting and challenging endgame content each expansion so that its players don't become bored and leave, and that guilds don't face crippling difficulties that diminish the benefit of being in an endgame guild. Clearly they are failing at both goals right now, as is demonstrated by the exodus of players and the decline of 25m raiding and raiding guilds (case in point, my old Top 100 guild is reduced to 1, sometimes 2, 10m groups that are in the Top 500 range due to lack of people).
I am not suggesting that Blizzard should go back to the Burning Crusade model. I don't work for Blizzard and am not a game designer, so there are elements to which I am not privy and probably don't understand. But I think the fact that endgame content is so - shallow now (in other words there simply is not a lot for players to do at max level other than raid, or BG, or arena, or CURRENT heroics that feels like it matters) that most players are finding less and less reason to keep playing, especially if they are not interested/able to play at the very highest level, or even if they don't raid at all.
What I AM suggesting is that Blizzard needs to sit down and take a good hard look at how people play, and how people WANT to play, and offer deeper content at the release of a new expansion for players who enjoy all varieties of endgame: progression raiding, casual raiding, 5m instances, perhaps solo adventures that feel challenging (and are suitably rewarded), PvP, and other means. If they want people to continue playing as much as they did in past expansions, then Blizzard needs to give them reasons to do so, not just a "Here's this patch's raid tier and PvP sets, seeya in 5 months!"
Breakfast Topic: Is transmogrification bringing you back? {WoW}
Aug 27th 2011 5:01PM I quit the game a couple of months ago after a "long, slow goodbye" of half a year of progressively casual playing. Transmogrification is definitely a plus for the game, and I will admit that the idea of seeing my warlock sporting Tier 5 or Tier 8 again is alluring, it's not enough to make me return.
The OverAchiever: Why Icecrown was less fun than Sunwell {WoW}
Aug 25th 2011 4:20PM I think one aspect affecting things is the fact that since content is by nature designed for both 10 and 25 player modes, and normal and heroic modes, that constrains greatly what the designers can do with an encounter.
For example, in BC one of the hardest fights for a lot of guilds was Teron Gorefiend, who randomly killed a player every 30 seconds (leading to a sub-fight where the dead player controlled a ghost that killed constructs). Because that encounter was designed to last 5-6 minutes and the first death occurred about 90 seconds in to the fight, you would likely lose 7-8 players during the encounter (of course with battle rez, soulstone, etc., you could protect healers in case you got an insane streak of bad luck).
That style of mechanic simply can't be done in today's raid, because scaling it down for 10m would either cause the deaths to come too far apart to be considered, or RNG could kill all your healers in no time (without the benefit of more than one battle res).
This is the sort of scaling issue that inhibits encounter designers, who have to take in to account four potential modes for each encounter. It homogenizes encounters, and I think contributes to the fatigue that raiders feel.


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Maddie Chamber's mini Hobbit Home is an amazing work of art. This master miniature artist has created a realistic replica of the famed Hobbit House from the epic book series 'The Lord of the Rings.'
The entire replica of the mini Hobbit Home is spectacular, as Maddie Chambers paid attention to every detail. The exterior looks as if it was taken directly out of the movie and the interior is well-stocked with all the Hobbits essentials. I especially like that the kitchen is very well supplied with miniature pie and pastries for those second breakfasts.
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Book Day
I stopped by the library today to drop off a novel I had borrowed and while there decided that I was going to use today mostly to dive into the words and worlds of others. So I picked up a handful of books to pour over, and boy are the themes diverse:
Adam, by Ted Dekker, is the fictional story of an FBI agent tracking a serial killer.
The Real Change-Makers, by David Warfield Brown, is a nonfiction book with the subtitle "Why Government is Not the Problem or the Solution."
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, by James Kakalios, is a non-strictly-mathematical guide to Quantum Mechanics.
I also borrowed an audio book on microtrends which I started listening to in the car on the way back, and so far in just the introduction I very much disagree with the perspective it begins with. But I'm trying to do my best to keep an open mind, because too long have I been close-minded and certain of my being "right" about certain things. I'm ready to stop declaring right and wrong and just try to look at the world openly. (Of course, I have certain convictions that are not up for grabs thanks to certain experiences that have laid things out in complete black-and-white, no shades of gray to be seen, and those make sure whatever I encounter will not throw me into lunacy. You need a sort of "moral armor" when you swim into topics as deeply as possible, because some topics can really mess you up if you don't have backup. One can study existentialism for example and lose their mind.)
And lastly I've been helping an old FAA (FredtheMonkey Animation Assistant) with his portfolio to apply for CalArts which led me to pull Drawn to Life by Walt Stanchfield off my shelf, and I never completely finished that book so I'm going to read it as well.
Lots of learning to do today; I'm really looking forward to it! We all need to schedule time every now and then to expand our minds in different directions. Of course, the WANT to do so determines if we will or not. For a great number of years, I did not want to learn or grow, I was content with where I was and what I knew. And that's okay, everyone is on a different path/schedule and sometimes you run ahead and sometimes you stop along the side of the road for a while.
Winning Books
I don't believe I mentioned but there's a contest running right now over at Animator Island:
It's in honor of the one year anniversary of the site. It's been a fun year writing about animation stuff, and I've met some cool folks in the process. Of course, celebrating the anniversary reminds me that Fred's anniversary came and went without any fanfare. The new website is still not finished and I haven't learned enough Toon Boom yet to do new cartoons in the program. (Plus I haven't used Flash in so long I'm not sure I'd even be able to motion tween something in there at this point!) Alas, while Fred will definitely go on in the future it will simply have to wait for now. I'm completely absorbed in the first Studio Riki short leaving little time for much of anything else, let alone all the work FtM takes. I'll certainly keep you posted here on the blog, though.
Teaching Animation
I had an interesting experience yesterday when an animator I know named Andrew asked me if Animator's Crash Course was a good book to learn from with lessons in it. I explained that it was a great book, but it was more tips than lessons, and more for once you already knew the foundations of animation.
I asked what books he had and he told me Preston Blair's Cartoon Animation. I told him to start with the Bouncing Ball on page 100 (since I could see in my own copy which page that was on). As he asked me several more questions, though, I realized that the explanation in the Preston Blair book is absolutely TERRIBLE for beginners. The drawing aspects are great (first 100 pages) and if you know what he's talking about then the examples after those are great too. But only if you know what he's talking about. Trying to use it as a diagram for explaining the bouncing ball made me see how little sense the picture actually made. For starters he has some wacky spacing that you would NEVER start a new animator on. It might work great in the real world, but it's not where you should start someone.
So I drew up a quick version myself.
At least here things are broken up evenly, even though yes it's a little boring and not what you'd want your final to look like. It's a better starting point though! And still not a very good one, to be honest. The arc complicates things. Really it should start with a ball bouncing IN PLACE.
It dawned on me that for as many animation books as are out there, most don't walk you step by step through the very earliest process in a very good way. Some are fine, but they rush things because it seems so simple to the person who is writing it. If I say "the bouncing ball" every animator who already knows how to animate doesn't need further explanation, but if you don't already know it's actually really complicated! It was an interesting discovery.
There is Richard Williams "The Animator's Survival Kit" of course, and that does a nice job fully explaining. I wonder, though, looking at it now, does it do almost TOO good of a job? It's very wordy, especially at the start. I wonder if it might be better to have a "Start Here" book that merely walked you very, very simply through the first steps of learning animation, without making any assumptions or going too fast at that crucial early stage. Once you know what timing and spacing and easing are, it's easy to go quicker in explanations, but early on those words make no sense.
If anyone knows a good starter book for animators, let me know! I thought I knew a bunch, but looking at them now they aren't as great for that purpose as I thought. You almost need a teacher to go along WITH the books, otherwise it doesn't make enough sense.
Quitting Forever Again
Man, it's so frustrating when I feel like I'm improving but produce a drawing like this:
Blech. What a monstrosity. Makes me sick to even look at it.
I've been trying to practice faces again, since obviously it's an area that I need a lot of work in. It's tough, though, because drawing something you suck at drawing just makes you want to quit. The good news is I only wanted to quit for about 20 minutes or so before getting mad and jumping back in because I didn't want to be defeated. Still, it would be nice to just be better at this already...
It wasn't a total loss, I also did this drawing. While it's no masterpiece, at least it wouldn't scare sewer rats to death like the image above.
The first drawing (which actually came after this one) has no redeeming qualities at all. This second one, though, has glimmers of "not too bad" which I can build on. So I'm trying to focus on the glimmers instead of the total disaster.
In other news, I just finished "reading" The Enemy by Charlie Higson.
I put "reading" in quotes because to be honest I probably read half the book by the end. I skipped paragraph after paragraph at times because I just wanted to know what happened. It was a good enough book to make me care enough to finish, but not good enough to hold me with every word. There were a lot of gory descriptions and drawn out internal monologues that just didn't interest me, so I skipped them. The first few chapters I didn't, but as the book went on (too long, in my opinion) and more characters died, I cared less. I will say this about Mr. Higson, though. He does an incredible job at making you care about the characters as people. I'm not sure how, but even a few pages in I was caring about a character who dies early on, and it was a blow when he was killed. As such when a MAIN character died (stupidly) part way through, I was hurt and so began the downward spiral of numbness to characters being killed. By the end I was just flipping through pages to get to the minimum information needed to tell me the story.
I think if it had been TWO books, I'd have enjoyed it a ton more. It was split into pretty clear halves, really. When the characters (who you care about because of Higson's particular writing skill) achieved their first big victory (where the book should have ended) you didn't have time to revel in it at all. It was just "Okay, now here is the next problem." I would have liked a little more time to revel in the victory. It would be akin to combining the first two Harry Potter books. Harry saves the day at the end of Sorcerer's Stone and then BOOM, gets thrown right into Chamber of Secrets. There would be no time to enjoy the win, and that's what happened in The Enemy. You already had such devastation and heartbreak with the characters who died, and then when the kids left "made it" it was like it was all for nothing. The book was just too long.
Still, I'm going to track down Book 2 in the series later at the library. I care enough about the characters to want to see what happened. I expect, though, that I'll get through the 400 page novel in about an hour, as I'll be skipping most just to get to the good parts. Makes me wish the whole book was edited down to just that (and who knows, maybe the second will be different and achieve that).
Of course I understand a lot of folks enjoyed every word, so I'm not saying it should have all been cut. Merely that the best books I've read have held me through every last word, and the ones that don't reach that level I find myself skimming just to see what happens in the end.
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This is, in my opinion, one of the greatest animation books ever written. If you want to do animation in any way shape or form (yeah, even flipbooks in the corner of your Geometry textbook) then you should really check it out. And this month Animator Island is giving away a copy for free. So if you're inclined (I know we have a few animators around here) stop by the island and check it out. A winner could be you.
In other news, there is no other news. So, until next time!
WAHOO! It's a new year!
I'm extremely excited, because with a new year comes a fresh start and infinite possibilities. Truthfully every DAY holds such things, but there's a magical quality about January 1st that really drives a sense of potential for me. I spent the day watching football and writing my To Do in 2012 list!
I started this now tradition last year after reading the book Good to Great. It's a great study, though it can be a little dry in places. Nevertheless it says to make goals for the year and then even if you change your plans to hold yourself to that list when the end of the year comes along. As I mentioned last week, I didn't achieve a lot of my previous goals. But that's alright, they gave me a great marker to set THIS year's plan. What all does it entail? I'm glad you asked!
A few of the goals for 2012:
-Fill 1 Sketchbook per month with Life Drawing Practice. I actually had this goal on my list last year, but fell short by about seven sketchbooks. That's because I wasn't well prepared and I kind of hated drawing most of last year. Now, though, I love sketching because I've gotten a little bit better at it. Still a long, long way to go, but I'm happy to see improvements. So here's hoping the second time is the charm and I fulfill this goal this go around.
-Introduce Claire and Melvin to FtM. Maybe sooner than you'd think. *whistles innocently*
-Kickstarter a certain unnamed project. I'll be able to discuss this more once I work out a few more details and get things rolling. Maybe in April or May. I hope you'll look forward to that announcement then!
-1 Hour of New Animation at FtM.com. Last year my goal was TWO hours of new stuff, but I fell short of that by an hour and a half. I don't think it's unreasonable to shoot for 60 minutes of new Fred stuff this year. Of course, I said back in October that my goal was "One New Cartoon in Season 8" and I already achieved that, so just ignore this goal! Pretend I didn't say anything... An hour of what? Who? *cough*
-Release 1st Studio short (and website for Studio). This is probably one of the toughest goals I've set for myself, but I'm determined to make it happen. Even if that short is terrible, I want to say I accomplished it, and then I can move on to a better 2nd short using all I learned from the first!
I have others, but those are the really big ones I think. I'm anticipating getting started on the whole list in the coming week, knowing I have a whole year to tackle them. It feels very freeing!
Anyone else have any cool goals for the new year? I'd love to hear about them. Maybe we can all remind each other to keep on track and by the end of 2012 we'll have a ton of work accomplished!
Space Chicken's Character Bio
The Character Page over at FredtheMonkey.com has received an update and it's of good ol' SC!
Work continues on the next big Fred cartoon (though slowly) as well as another new addition to the website coming in late December/early January. I hope everyone will look forward to it.
In personal news, I am reading through One Piece for the second time via the local library's collection of manga. It's fun to go back to the start with this series, because honestly I enjoyed it a whole lot more pre-Grand-Line than post. I feel like the little story arcs moved quicker and better before then, though it's still entertaining.
I've especially been admiring the drawings. The author does a great job at some crazy perspective work, and it's amazing that 99% of it is done in flat color, just black and white! Many manga/comics use screen tone for shading, but One Piece is done with cross hatching and line work. Beautiful stuff.
Also here's a little link for my animator comrades out there. Kenny Roy has released some of his articles for free (normally member-only) and the ones on Motivation are especially nifty. Check it out!
Have a terrific weekend.
Is the Answer a Lobotomy?
Yesterday I scheduled in Life Drawing on my to-do list. 10 minutes using images from online (since I sadly lack the funds to hire live models for drawing from). I think I ended up drawing closer to 20 minutes, to be honest. That tends to happen when I'm doing 30 second gesture poses. There's not a lot of time to think, so you forget about how much time you're spending.
There is, however, apparently still enough time to think for me to get in my own way. I was growing more and more frustrated with how poorly the drawings were coming out, and just how little TIME I had. Thirty seconds seems like a lot when you are staring at a watch hand, slowly ticking away, but if you're trying to draw a human being in some odd pose, it's over in the blink of an eye. Try it, even if you're not an artist. You wouldn't believe how quickly 30 seconds is up.
Here are my first few of these 30 second drawings:
The point of doing such gesture drawings is to get down the essence of the pose. You aren't shooting for perfect accuracy, you're shooting for feeling. Well, the only feeling I was getting from most of my drawings was frustration on how much I suck at gesture drawing. Here's the interesting thing, though. Every so often I had to flip the page of my sketchpad. That action, and getting reset to draw, probably took 5-8 seconds. When I'd look up at the screen after flipping pages, my first thought was always (EVERY SINGLE TIME) "Oh, I don't have enough time, I'll just wait for the next pose."
Except, also every single time, my second thought was "No. You're here to practice, so shut up and draw."
This little internal argument probably ate up another second or two. Suddenly my 30 second gesture drawing was a 20 second gesture drawing. Frantic, my pen flew across the page. I didn't think. I didn't think I had TIME to think. I just rushed as fast as I could to get down as much as I could. And guess what happened? I had too much time. I was "finished" before the next image popped up. I had captured the essence of the pose, and the lines were the most elegant of any others.
Of course then, having more time, I tried to add more, and ruined the moment of brilliance that was already there.
So it seems what I learned is that I'm totally capable of doing great gesture drawings, but my brain gets in the way. As soon as it was all reaction and zero thought-process, my work was outstanding. When conscious thought came back in everything fell apart. This, of course, jives perfectly with Betty Edward's Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. The book talks about how the left side of your brain is logic and the right side is all imagery and shapes. Give it a read if you're even the slightest bit interested. It's quite amazing.
At any rate, I tried to channel this lesson and work as if I didn't have the full 30 seconds, but to little avail. It seems I have to practice shutting up the left side of my brain. Right now it's just too loud.
More gestures of thirty seconds:
Another new thing for me is drawing in pen. My entire life (that I can remember) I've hated pens. Can't erase them and the lines are either there or not, it's very hard to get lighter shades as with a pencil. Well another book I'm reading, Drawn to Life (subtitle "Quite Possibly The Greatest Book I've Ever Read") discusses using a pen for gesture drawing. Far be it from me to argue with the genius in that book, so I gave it a shot using the only pens I've ever loved. (If you're wondering, they are Mitsubishi Uniball Signo DX pens, from Japan. The majority of the text on the pen is in Japanese, even.) It turns out the book is right again. Drawing gestures with a pen is BRILLIANT. It just feels right. You don't have time to think about it, the line is just THERE. It's great.
Once I was done being frustrated with my lack of conscious good drawing skills, I started thumbnailing sketches for something else I'm working on which features a character slamming his fists down on a table in rage. I don't know if it was the warm up gesture drawings I had just done or the fact that I was FEELING as angry as the character, but it turned out terrifically.
Not thrilled with the last one there, but the others really capture that essence I was shooting for. Don't you think? At any rate, I'm very pleased. I also have a lot more work to do if I'm going to be able to maintain this level of emotion in drawing, and be able to do it while my brain is active.
New Fred the Monkey Update is here!
Today I'm working on a few different things, including a new update for FtM. At the moment I have no idea if it will be completed today or if the release will have to wait until next week, so I can't give much more detail as to when it will be up. Check back here on the blog, or on the main site, for news on when it will go live.
EDIT: The FtM Update is here! Presenting... Episode 6 of the FredtheMonkey.com Podcast! Check it out!
I began getting my office in order, and already it's looking much more organized and functional. Here's a little picture of my art-creating corner next to my desk:
1) Dry Erase and Bulletin Board which has my daily To-Do list now, instead of scraps of paper which is what I had been using.
2) Print outs of some terrific drawings from other artists of animation and life that I'm striving to work towards being as good as.
3) Super Secret Studio Folder that houses business plans and the company seal.
4) My currently-in-use sketchbooks. From left to right: Animation Ideas, Misc. Book from 2 Years Ago, Sketchbook Journal, and Daily Life Drawing book.
5) Matthew Taranto's creation Dededoll from Brawl in the Family, who guards the art books.
6) Drawing books. Not seen: More Drawing Books that I added after this photo was taken.
7) "The Art Of" books. Currently I have Ratatouille, Princess and the Frog, Up, Toy Story 3, Tangled, Bolt, and Pixar Shorts. A big thanks to my uncle who for my birthday bought me ALL of these. (I really need to read them all, I still haven't gotten through each one cover to cover.)
8 ) My new monster of a computer that is twice as big (size wise) as my old mini-tower. Not seen: My mini tower behind the monster.
9) A Thundercat tin full of jelly beans. Smells amazing upon opening.
That might have been a more in-depth look than anyone really cares to see, but there you are, in case someone out there wondered what sits next to me now while I work. Before I got the shelf the other day and organized it, there was a bar stool there with a giant pile of most of the things on this shelf. Not as nice as it is now.
On Monday I may be discussing further the Forum situation, so if you still haven't read about that so far, go check out this post and reply in the comments! Until then, have a great weekend everybody!


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In the series of Dark Horse cross-over comics, WildC.A.T.s/Aliens was followed by Witchblade/Aliens/Darkness/Predator: Overkill (November 1999).
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The WildC.A.T.s were the first superhero team of the newly formed offshoot comic book company Image Comics in the early 1990s. Image was formed by a number of high profile comics artists who split from the major two comics compaies, Marvel and DC, to start their own creator owned characters. WildC.A.T.s was the brainchild of former X-Men artist Jim Lee under his own Wildstorm imprint. Wildstorm eventually grew into its own independent comics line, and was then in turn bought as a subsidiary by DC Comics. This allowed for a transition of Jim Lee into the DC Comics sphere where he subsequently rose in the ranks. Most recently, as of February 2010, Jim Lee was named Co-Publisher of DC Comics.
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About the Syrian conflict: McCain has denounced Democratic President Barack Obama for shying away from deeper involvement in the conflict. They never learn, do they? -Ron- |
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No, let's not. We can't save the world. |
- Posted by duluthinbloomz4 zone 4a (My Page) on Thu, May 30, 13 at 17:24
The US has such a punk track record on picking just the "right" faction to back. We don't need this and I wouldn't trust John McCain's insistence that "we can identify who these people are. We can help the right people." It just escalates - we arm some band of fighters and Russia arms Assad. No brainer: stay away! |
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A little controversy going on regarding a "photo op" in Syria... ...." the senators office said "it would be "regrettable" if the identities of the men photographed with Sen. John McCain in Syria this week are confirmed to be individuals responsible for a year-old kidnapping" as is being reported by the Daily Star of Lebanon. |
The Russians just gave Assad a whole bunch of anti-aircraft missiles, just in case somebody wanted to try to create a 'no-fly zone'. Having followed their later careers, statements, and opinions on current affairs, I must say that I am thankful that Senator McCain and Ms Palin were not elected in 2008. |
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You may be thankful that McCain and Palin weren't elected david. But I don't see that you got any better deal. Obama has kept us involved in every other conflict in one way or another, even targeting American citizens and innocents with his drone program. We have become the bullies of the world. |
- Posted by nancy_in_venice_ca SS24 z10 CA (My Page) on Thu, May 30, 13 at 19:18
We have become the bullies of the world. Still no expression of regret for the Bush Administration having taken us to war based on lies? We have been bullies for decades and decades. Try looking back to the immediate post-WW2 era and take it from there. We have been the self-appointed cops / bullies of the world for some time, and that includes the Reagan Administration's shameful actions in Central America. Iran is the first country that comes to mind re McCain Administration. We could have been in the midst of a deteriorating shooting war there had the election gone the other way. And didn't Senator McCain want us to remain in Iraq, and is opposed to the proposed withdrawal from Afghanistan?
Just a little refresher nancy.... It is too often forgotten, not least by historians, that George W. Bush did not invent the idea of deposing the Iraqi tyrant. For years before he came on the scene, removing Saddam Hussein had been a priority embraced by the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton and by ClintonтАЩs most vocal supporters in the Senate: Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas, or biological weapons. . . . Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: he has used them. Not once, but repeatedly. . . . I have no doubt today that, left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again. These were the words of President Clinton on the night of December 16, 1998 as he announced a four-day bombing campaign over Iraq. Only six weeks earlier, Clinton had signed the Iraq Liberation Act authorizing SaddamтАЩs overthrowя┐╜я┐╜"an initiative supported unanimously in the Senate and by a margin of 360 to 38 in the House. тАЬIraqis deserve and desire freedom,тАЭ Clinton had declared. On the evening the bombs began to drop, Vice President Al Gore told CNNтАЩs Larry King: You allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons. How many people is he going to kill with such weapons? . . . We are not going to allow him to succeed. [emphasis added] |
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- Posted by jerzeegirl 9 (My Page) on Thu, May 30, 13 at 20:26
Good grief, did I hallucinate the Gulf War? |
- Posted by nancy_in_venice_ca SS24 z10 CA (My Page) on Thu, May 30, 13 at 22:20
MsK, I have debunked that claim trying to tie the lies of Bush and Cheney to the situation in Iraq during Bill Clinton's time in office. You and the author of that hit piece are ignoring events took place in the years between 1998 and 2003. To link Clinton to Bush's lies is intellectually dishonest, as well as demonstrably false. Clinton's comments were made in the following context: Operation Desert Fox -- 1998 In the time between Clinton's comments -- when Iraq ended cooperation with inspectors -- and Bush's rush to war -- based on lies -- inspections were renewed. Those inspections yielded reports from experts and inspectors that stated Saddam had no WMDs. ElBaradei tried his best to counter the lies of the Bush Administration. Lots of refutations of U.S. and U.K. claims of Saddam's WMDs here. "I hope the U.S. does not know anything we do not know. If they do, they should tell us. If they are talking about indigenous capability, Iraq is far away from that. If Iraq has imported material hidden, then you're talking about six months or a year. But that's a big if [...]. I think it's difficult for Iraq to hide a complete nuclear-weapons program. They might be hiding some computer studies or [research and development] on one single centrifuge. These are not enough to make weapons." More here: When International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Mohammed ElBaradei reiterated that there was no evidence of Iraq attempting to restart its nuclear program, Cheney insisted that "Mr. ElBaradei is frankly wrong." The vice president then falsely claimed that the IAEA had "consistently underestimated or missed what it was that Saddam Hussein was doing" 16 and insisted that there was no validity to the IAEA's assessments, despite their more than 1,000 inspections -- mostly without warning -- in Iraq since the early 1990s. Later, the Bush administration had ElBaradei's phone wiretapped in an unsuccessful effort to find information to discredit him. 17 This must the at least the third time that I have rebutted your claim -- through a third party -- that Bush was justified in his Iraq war because of comments from Clinton 5+ years earlier. FALSE. |
- Posted by sleeplessinftwayne z4-5 IND (My Page) on Thu, May 30, 13 at 22:24
Maybe you should read it again. "These were the words of President Clinton on the night of December 16, 1998 as he announced a four-day bombing campaign over Iraq. Only six weeks earlier, Clinton had signed the Iraq Liberation Act authorizing SaddamтАЩs overthrowя┐╜я┐╜"an initiative supported unanimously in the Senate and by a margin of 360 to 38 in the House. тАЬIraqis deserve and desire freedom,тАЭ Clinton had declared. On the evening the bombs began to drop, Vice President Al Gore told CNNтАЩs Larry King:" Please note the date and the name of the president at that time. |
- Posted by nancy_in_venice_ca SS24 z10 CA (My Page) on Thu, May 30, 13 at 22:53
So where in the history books is the record of Clinton's invasion and occupation of Iraq, sleepless? The ILA was for aid to Iraqi opposition groups. The concern re WMDs that made the context for the ILA was no longer valid in 2002-2003. Historical fact is against your interpretation. |
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It only stood to reason that the news media, after spending years erroneously explaining how our major corporations were doing a fantastic job, would fail to predict their own collapse, along with the meltdown of the American economy. And on the way to misperceiving the rest of the world's subsequent economic decline, we ought not be surprised that the smug business publications and cable TV screamers have also fumbled the facts underpinning the American auto industry's ongoing brush with extinction.
Friends, we don't have all the answers here at Automobile Magazine, but I think I speak for my colleagues when I say we know one thing about the auto industry, a point the general media consistently gets backward: the problem today is not that General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler don't make good cars.
They make fine cars . . . and some not-so-fine ones. But a key misassumption is that cars have to be great to succeed. Exceptions are meant to prove rules, but in this case, the exceptions - the sheer number of bad cars that have sold well - disprove the rule. Three words: Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. In 1982 and 1983, it was the best-selling car in America. But not the best.
I digress. People don't have money now, and those who do mostly aren't buying cars. This is largely because banks suddenly stopped lending money to buy new cars, which in the world of automotive retail was the precise moment an errant connecting rod punched a hole in the side of the metaphorical engine block. The race was over.
Yes, Detroit builds some not-so-thrifty cars. That was a problem when gas was expensive, before credit dried up. Not that anyone would notice now, since gas is practically free again. But with few exceptions the media, who missed the story of American makers' questionable judgments for almost the entire second half of the twentieth century, only got around to telling the story of the industry's 1990s wrong-turn - SUVs - fifteen years late, or around the time the domestic industry actually started making good cars again.
I thought about this the other day while driving the Chevrolet Cobalt XFE. This high-mileage version of Chevy's home-built price leader is shockingly all right (unlike the cheaper, Korean-built Aveo, which is OK, but just). The Cobalt's structure is taut, its interior materials decent. Especially surprising, the newest Ecotec 2.2-liter engine is torquey, rorty, and more muscular than any GM four I can remember, ever, and smooth to boot. The manual transmission is excellent. If you'd blindfolded me and told me I was driving a Volkswagen, I'd have believed you and expounded on its sublime new gearbox. At least until we crashed because I was blindfolded.


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Steve formerly owned convenience stores, but a basement hobby restoring antique juke boxes and toys ("Sheila insisted I needed something to do when I retired") has led to a second career as an antiques dealer. The result: international clients and the personality-plus pieces accessorizing every room in the couple's new home.
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A children's book about MS has been written by a group of people who met through social networking sites. William Khazaal from Seattle has written "The Children's MS Book" with five other people with MS in order to educate children and raise awareness of the condition. Upon being diagnosed two years ago, William started researching MS and found that many people don't really know what it is, or how it affects people. Money raised from sales of the book will go to various societies, including the National MS Society in the USA, and the CCSVI Alliance. They are hoping to raise $100,000 by selling 10,000 copies of the book. Read William's inspirational story, or purchase the book "The MS Children's book" at http://www.mschildrensbook.com/ Tweet…
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2013 Q3 Special Report: Pathways to Personalized Learning
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Businesses are evolving globally. The way people communicate is transforming rapidly. Technology is advancing daily. And while the world around it changes, the K-12 education model remains stagnant.
Two school districts -- in Alaska and Colorado -- decided it was time to revolutionize the underlying learning philosophy for their students.
"We were standing on a platform that was burning out from under us," said Robert Crumley, superintendent of Chugach School District (CSD) in Anchorage, Alaska. "What we were doing was not working for us. We had dismal results in all areas of student performance."
In 1996, the district ditched traditional grade levels and letter grades to adopt a performance-based learning model. This strategy holds students and schools more accountable for success, ensuring that curriculum is understood before students learn additional material.
Chugach's 250 students are spread across 22,000 square miles, with many of them living in remote Alaskan villages. The district has three physical schools, a statewide correspondence and branches in different cities.
Before CSD moved away from the Carnegie Unit System -- the standard method for public schools -- it experienced high dropout rates, low test scores and minimal success from alumni. There were zero students taking college entrance exams after high school graduation.
This called for a change that would speak literally to No Child Left Behind. The school district had to come up with a system that would make students responsible for their education, and teachers had to provide students with more resources, time and individualized learning plans.
Enter Chugach's Reinventing Schools Model.
Students are no longer assigned to traditional grades, but levels. Within the district, there are 10 content areas: math, technology, social science, reading, writing, cultural awareness, social/health development, career development, service learning and science. Every student enters school at level 1 for each of the content areas; however, if an individual proves proficient in math before science, then the student can move to level 2 math while remaining in level 1 science. Some content areas require students to progress to level 10 in order to graduate, while other subjects have lower graduation requirements.
Additionally, students are not given letter grades -- A, B, C, D and F. Instead, teachers use rubrics, projects and traditional tests to determine whether an individual is passing the standards within a particular level. Teachers decide if students are "emerging," "developing," "proficient" or "advanced" within each level for every content area.
"Proficiency, if you have to -- we try not to equate it to a traditional system -- is a B or a 3.0 GPA," Crumley said. "There's nobody that can get through with a C. We call that 'developing' -- they're still working on it. When they move to a proficient or advanced level, then they're allowed to progress to the next level. So that's why we feel our system is a little more accountable: You can't slide through with low scores."
In 1994 -- two years before the model was implemented -- approximately 90 percent of CSD students were not reading at their grade level. By 1999, reading scores on the California Achievement Test -- the state-standard test at the time for basic K-12 academic skills -- increased from the 28th percentile to the 71st.
These numbers are Crumley's proof that this system works. "I not only feel it," he said, "but I have the results to show it."
By 2001, 12 other districts had replicated CSD's example. School leaders began reaching out to Chugach's education decision-makers for guidance, hoping to change their school districts' learning model.
"When we heard about what Chugach had done, we said, 'We think this is the answer,'" said Dr. Copper Stoll, chief academic officer of Adams County School District 50 in Denver, Colo. "We think that makes a lot of sense for our population of kids. We're a low-income district. We felt like [Chugach] was comparable; that's why we started talking with them about this."
District 50 is in the planning process, expecting to launch this system in the fall of 2009. It is adopting the level structure, but is still undecided about how it will address letter grades. Through advisory committee meetings, District 50 -- in collaboration with parents and the community -- will decide on a scoring system before next fall.
Based on the traditional system, Stoll said it would take students 22 years -- not 12 years -- to truly master every state standard. District 50 is narrowing the focus by creating four core subjects, in which students will have to master 10 levels, and electives courses with a lower level requirement for graduation.
"[In the past], we didn't require kids to master skills before we started teaching them the next level of skills," Stoll said. "So in this kind of system, we can be sure that students know and are able to do this set of skills before they start accessing the next level."
Hypothetically, in this system, a student could be in level 3 math, level 5 science and level 4 social studies -- a normal learning report for students in this model. Unlike most public schools, the object at District 50 is for students to grasp the subject in its entirety before progressing.
Although students are learning at their own pace, what happens to those who repeatedly struggle with one subject? Could a 15-year-old get stuck in a low level of reading forever?
"It's a question the adults all have," Crumley said. "It doesn't matter to the kids. They all have areas of strength and areas they can improve on. All our classrooms are multileveled. It's a natural setting for students to assist each other -- peer tutoring, peer learning."
Stoll also said if it's taking a student longer than the traditional 12 years to pass level 10 in each subject, then that student will stay longer; however, the district will provide options for those students. They can seek help from an interventionist, take online classes or attend class at a community college to finish their diploma.
By the same token, students may also complete level 10 in each subject more quickly than in the traditional system. Nevertheless, this doesn't mean that a 16-year-old student can move on to college.
"We don't want them to graduate early," Stoll said. "We want them to finish their graduation requirements early. They would start their postsecondary work while they're still technically in high school. Our dream is that students might walk across the stage with a diploma and an AA degree."
In Alaska, the youngest CSD graduate was 15 years old. Crumley estimates that 80 percent of students graduate in their 12th-grade year. Of these, about 80 percent attend college. To ensure these students have usable scores to present to colleges for assessment, CSD can convert the standards-based results into traditional credit-based transcripts.
"We weren't going to allow the fact that our students were in a performance-based system hurt their chance of gaining employment or getting into college," Crumley said. "With many universities, the transcript that we have, which, I think, shows more clearly what a student has proven they can do, they have almost given our students preferential treatment."
Transcripts aside, the results are clear: This performance-based school is sending more students to college.
In 2001, CSD received the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award for performance excellence and quality achievement. The school district was one of the first education groups to receive the award. The Baldridge Award is given by the President of the United States to businesses, education, healthcare and nonprofit organizations that are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer and market focus; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; human resource focus; process management; and results.
"We were pretty blown away that we received that award," Crumley said. "We learned in that process that we were doing innovative educational things, but we didn't have a solid framework to manage those things so they were sustainable. This Baldridge process taught us that the continuous improvement process is one of the things that we need to focus on."
With that, CDS developed a method called PIER to evaluate its academic model:
CSD staff writes annual plans in the district's Web-based system, and then implements these plans. At the end of the year, they evaluate and make appropriate refinements -- then the cycle starts again the following year. Over the course of 12 to 14 years, the district has launched six versions of its performance-based learning system.
"It's this constant looking at what we're doing and evaluating what we're doing and making refinements to make some improvements," Crumley said. "Not only is it improvement, but you have to update it because you have new people in the system and technology has changed."
For 2006, the U.S. Department of Education reported that low-income high school students have a 16.5 percent dropout rate.1 Although the numbers have improved slightly over the past 10 years, there are still thousands of students left behind under the current system.
The performance-based system holds students accountable for their learning -- they learn at their own pace and set goals for themselves. Because they are required to create plans for each subject, students better understand their focus and goals.
"That makes them feel very excited and accountable," Stoll said. "Some kids move faster, so they don't have to be held back by their classmates, or some kids can get the needed extra support and time that they need to be successful and not feel like we're dragging them through the next level of curriculum without them being ready."
By the time students leave these high schools, teachers, parents and district leaders have equipped young learners with the time, resources and mentorship they each require.
"If we're going to be competitive globally," Crumley said, "we need to make some changes in our education system to ensure that our students are going to be competitive and be able to be successful."
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I grow them. They have more of a mild lima taste if allowed to dry on the vine. Mine will make in the spring and fall from the same vines. My friend says they will winter over which I haven't tried. |
I grow them I have a couple of bush varieties one white and one speckled called dixie white and dixie speckled and I have a vining vaiety. They are the same family as limas so will readily cross with other limas. The difference is the bean is smaller and fatter than the standard lima. I prefer the taste of the white butter pea over most white butter beans but I like the colored butterbeans better than the colored or speckeld butter pea. |
- Posted by hairymooseknuckles 8 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 31, 08 at 3:20
Thanks, I was just curious. I may try them. |
I grow the Dixie Speckled Butterpea. They have been very productive for me. If you don't keep them picked they will easily reseed themselves. I have volunteers every Spring. I personally prefer the taste of speckled or colored limas over that of the white ones. |
- Posted by farmerdilla (My Page) on Fri, Feb 1, 08 at 10:54
As Roger stated both are very good. The speckled like most colored limas handles adverse conditions better than the white. They are in a group usually called potato limas as they are thick seeded rather tha flat seeded. The Dixies either white or speckled have small vines. Biggest drawback is the pods are small and tedious to pick. The only other white potato lima that is commercially available is the Baby Fordhook.I prefer them green shelled, but they make a satisfactory dry lima. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Dixie Speckled Butterpea
Farmerdill, I have never heard them called potato limas. Is the baby fordhook bush or vining? The vining butterpea I have came from Dr. Bradshaw a Clemson University it is called the Whitfield Butterpea, It is very prolific as with most all limas and the vines will easily grow to 10-12ft. I grow them on 7ft poles and they will reach the top and drape over half way down. I sometimes cut out the top growth to limit the bulk of the vines after harvest in Aug and the new growth will produce a late fall crop. As you said a draw back would be the small pods which contain 2-3 seeds per pod. |
- Posted by hairymooseknuckles 8 (My Page) on Sun, Feb 3, 08 at 3:12
Thanks for the link Farmerdilla. I am fixing to check it out. |
- Posted by farmerdilla (My Page) on Sun, Feb 3, 08 at 8:39
Rodger,the Baby Fordhook is a small bush lima. about half to 2/3 the size of the the big Fordhooks. White. Again the major problem is the small pods which make for tedious picking. They are not quite as round as the butterpeas, but thicker than Hendersons. I have not encountered the vining type but am experimenting with a cross between the Dixie Speckled Butterpea and Willow Leaf. An almost black vining type, still get some buff and speckled ones so I am trying to rogue them out |
Here is a link that might be useful: Baby Fordhook
- Posted by suziehomemaker (My Page) on Wed, Apr 16, 08 at 17:28
Can anyone tell me where to get white running butter pea seeds? Your help will be much appreciated. I have been reading the forum and have been looking for them. They must not be listed as just "running butter pea seed" ? I have Googled them and did not get the results I was looking for. I have been led only to English & snow peas. Thanks to all. |
"Running" probably refers to climbing. "Dixie White Butterpea" is a popular pole variety; I have listed one of several sources below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Heirloom acres
- Posted by suziehomemaker (My Page) on Fri, Apr 18, 08 at 20:12
Kudos to zeedman ! Thank you very much. Will order soon, as it is time to plant. suzie |
- Posted by sherry 7(firstname.lastname@example.com) onMon, May 16, 11 at 21:02
I love butter peas. My Grandfather grow them in his garden when I was a child.I can find them frozen in the grocerystore however they are expencive.This year Iam going to try growing them myself. |
I would be careful with ordering from Heirloom Acres. It is a gamble if your order will come. They have many negative reviews on the Garden Watch Dog, lots of "never got my seeds" reviews. Gardenweb won't allow links to the reviews, so you'll have to Google it. Remy |
- Posted by Gadzooo(email@example.com) onSun, Aug 7, 11 at 17:17
They are great But very hard to find down here in the Dallas/ Fort Worth area, I grew up on Lima beans but never knew about Butter peas til about 2 years ago in Moultrie, GA.. |
- Posted by donnabaskets 7b-8 MS (My Page) on Sun, Aug 7, 11 at 17:45
I grew the speckled Dixie Butterpeas this year. Now that I have grown them, I think I know where the name came from. The plant looks like a lima bean, as does the pod. But, the seed itself looks for more like a cowpea. They are harder to pick than cowpeas because peas are borne high above the foliage whereas the butterpeas are produced all along the bloom stalk and hide down among the leaves of the plant. And, BPs are more difficult to shell than cowpeas. But, they have a much longer season of production. It seems to me that butterpeas are more forgiving if you are slow to pick, too. Cowpeas go from just right to overripe much faster in my experience. |
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The first real football weather of the season seemed to invigorate the Bobcats of Robert F. Munroe Day School as they clicked on all cylinders en route to a 53-14 victory over the Peniel Baptist Academy Warriors of Palatka. With the win, the Bobcats improved their season record to 4-5.
The East Gadsden Jaguars were in action last Friday night as they traveled to Starke to take on the Bradford Tornadoes.
Bradford took the early 3-0 lead after a big play set up a Tyler Cubbedge field goal but the Jags answered quickly when freshmen Jarrell Reynolds returned the ensuing kickoff a school record 89 yards for a touchdown. It was only the second kickoff return for a score in school history. The East Gadsden defense then held and went on a scoring drive capped by a Wiley Williams 5-yard touchdown run.
The Robert F. Munroe volleyball team rallied from an opening match loss to Altha in the Class A District 2 semifinals on Tuesday before a boisterous and supportive student body. The chanting, clapping and all-around revelery kept the Altha team on edge and prevented them from communicating – a fundamental very important in volleyball.
The Bobcats of Robert F. Munroe and the Warriors of Aucilla Christian met in their annual slugfest last Friday night, with the Bobcats prevailing 27-20 in a runaway that was almost too close for comfort.
Both teams arrived with sub-.500 records and rosters weakened by injuries. The Warriors had soundly defeated the Bobcats in the prior two meetings and looked to maintain their current dominance in the series that has spanned four decades.
Homecoming for the Robert F. Munroe Day School Bobcats saw a stadium full of fans and alumni, the crowning of Adrianne Woodward as the queen and a pep band that kept the spirits high from start to finish. It was a grand atmosphere and a great night for football and reunions, especially the RFM Class of 1989. There was only one problem: the victory went to the visitors from Bronson.
In the regular season finale that was also senior night for two starting players, Spenser Morris and Adrianne Woodward, the Lady Cats took Rickards in three straight games to win their 17th match of the season.
Munroe was led by Morris and Georgie Branaman who combined for 10 kills. Kristen Allen added 18 assists along with five aces and Courtney Mayo contributed 3 blocks and five aces.
The win ended the team's regular season at 17-6.
East Gadsden High's Jaguars fell to Fort White last weekend, 19-12. The loss takes the Jags' season record to 2-6.
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The regular volleyball season concludes this week for Gadsden County FHSAA member schools and next week district tournaments begin.
Both East Gadsdsen and Robert F. Munroe Day School will host tournaments while West Gadsden will travel to Port St. Joe to participate in tournament action.
As the fifth seed in the Class 3A District 2 tournament, East Gadsden will take on No. 4 seed Rickards on Monday night in Havana in a play-in game. Rickards has split with East Gadsden in the two previous contests between the two schools.
The Bobcats of Robert F. Munroe Day School overcame a host of difficulties en route to a 14-8 victory in Palatka on Friday night, their second of the season. A 4-hour bus trip, heavy rains and turnovers combined with a determined Peniel Baptist Academy to make for a hard-fought win.
East Gadsden High School's Jaguars couldn't have asked for a better homecoming night – brisk, chilly air, royalty crowned and a victory over FAMU High.
The final score was 21-6, with the Jags taking their first win of the regular season and amping their record to 2-5 overall.
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