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by Giuseppe Nelva on December 10, 2013 8:11 PM 33 @abriael
Law Firm Holzer Holzer & Fistel sent a press release announcing an investigation on statements issued by Electronic Arts and some of its executives between July 24th, 2013 and December 4th, 2013 about the development and sales Battlefield 4 and the game's impact on the company's revenue and future projects.
Apparently the investigation aims to uncover possible lack of compliance of said statements with Federal Securities laws.
While no specific information was provided on what the statements under investigation actually said, or on what laws may have been broken, the firm encouraged investors that purchased EA stock during the period mentioned and suffered losses on that investment to contact them.
The most probable reason behind the investigation is that EA's enthusiastic statements on Battlefield 4 may have made its stock look more tempting for investors compared to its realistic value, which can be ground for a lawsuit or worse. Of course this is just my personal speculation, so take it with a grain of salt, as we can't draw any conclusion until any official results are announced.
Uhh…so based on how well BF3 did they expected it to be bigger than that game yet it wasn't. How in anyway is this worthy of a lawsuit? This happens all the time.
Investors need to learn to take their wins and their losses. There are no guarantees and it's not against the law to release a game with bugs.
There should be a law against releasing software that is so buggy as to be unplayable, and not allow it to be returned as defective.
Agreed. I couldn't even play the game after downloading it. Crashed 1 min into the campaign. If they put out these inflated statements knowing the game was a bug ridden mess, they should be sued.
Plays fine on my pc.
While no specific information was provided on what the statements under investigation actually said, or on what laws may have been broken, the firm encouraged investors that purchased EA stock during the period mentioned and suffered losses on that investment to contact them.
You do realize this is a lawyer just fishing for business right? The fact that they haven't even announced EA's wrongdoing showcases they don't have a case they just fishing.
Many games get released with bugs it's not against the law. It is up to each company to fix them, EA and DICE so far have a good reputation for fixing problems with their games (they have had some doo-sies too). One can argue they are not fast enough, but suggesting EA is doing little to deal with this is laughable.
Dude you are spot on except seem to have more patience to explain it in detail. People need to make more wise informed decisions before purchasing, or if you do like me don't complain about it. Yes at some point a companie can be and probably should be held liable, but I don't think we are there. So next time EA releases a game either boycott it altogether or wait to buy it after all the gullible people find out its crap. This all stems from a larger problem of people not accepting responsibility for there own actions. Its always someone else's fault. thats just not how life does or should work. Learn to be a better human being by facing the consequences. Funny this is all centered around a Video Game.
You know if EA / DICE release a game that is truly unplayable, and they showed no signs of trying to fix it, there MAY be a case to be made than.
No one in this industry operates that way, they couldn't operate that way and survive, which negates the need for laws.
The free market works as long as you put your money where your mouth is. Either stop bitching or stop buying, you can't have it both ways and not be a total douche.
If they do that than they should probably pass a new more enforceable law to crack down on the amount of pirating people do and how much people burn and steal games. its not a victimless crime. Game has issues but if you invest in something be prepared to lose some money.
I am not the biggest fan of piracy at all, I go by the old age adage of "if it doesn't belong to you and you take it, it is stealing".
I love the argument that piracy advocates use that states "people mostly download stuff they wouldn't buy anyways". Well of course they won't buy it, once you have what you want for free there is little motivation and incentive to buy it.
Look anyone who has played Battlefield in the past knows the game goes through several weeks of updates. Many of the issues with BF4 are similar to BF3 / BFBC2. There is just no way to beta test a deployment to millions of fans.
There should be a law against releasing software that is so buggy as to be unplayable, and not allow it to be returned as defective.
Why so law crazy?
There is ample information about these games prior to release and just because you pre-ordered doesn't mean you have to pick up the game on day 1. People can wait to pick up their pre-order until they are satisfied the network aspects of the game are functioning properly. The free market works fine but doesn't not always reward the impatient.
No one held a gun to anyone's head and told them buy BF4 day 1 with BF4 Premium.
The truth is EA/DICE will iron out these issues and it will likely be forgotten until the next DICE destruction based shooter is released and people will be all angry all over again acting like it has never happened before.
Look we as gamers need to decide do we want our game experiences to be big, bombastic? If so we need to give the developers some slack to get things humming smoothly. If we are going to partake in lawsuits for every game that comes out buggy, you will see a deluge of people leave the industry, and for good reason.
Suing EA / DICE over lost stock value over BF4 because it was buggy is like Suing George Lucas for Jar Jar Binks and Midiclorians. It's really stupid. You paid for a $60 game on day one that has a huge following, you should not have a reasonable expectation that everything will run flawless, just by history being the indicator alone.
Gamers need to adjust their expectations with reality and stop being so starry eyed and so disappointed when things don't go 100% their way. This industry is filled with thousands of people who work long hours to deliver us great entertainment. If we the customer continue to show such little appreciation for the craft of creating games we may find ourselves with less options in software.
Why anyone would want to get into the gaming biz these days is beyond me, they must not be looking for the reward of a happy customer. All you ever hear these days is people bitching NON STOP. The gaming media just feeds on this and it seems nearly cyclical.
That being said — YES I am too becoming impatient with DICE, but that doesn't mean I am thinking about hiring lawyers or I am on some campaign to bombard their social media with negative remarks. I can sit, wait and bitch or I can sit, wait and play some other games while DICE works it out (like they always have done in the past).
I mean, it's one thing if they blatantly false advertised. But that's not really what happened.
Exactly, the fact is since BF3 came out (and had similar issues for several weeks after launch) the series has expanded it's audience. I am afraid that we are starting to see more of the over-entitled gamer attitude present here rather than your traditional BF fan. Anyone who has played this series has known that launch issues are not really out of the ordinary.
launch issues aren't out of the ordinary for ANY game that is online, and launches and has millions of players. COD black ops had lots of problems, BFBC1 & 2 had lots of problems, BF3, I can't really think of any online game that didn't have problems on launch. Pretty much every game has lots of problems on launch when it's a multiplayer game. Destiny will have lots of problems. The Division will have lots of problems. I don't think people understand at all how complicated it is to launch something that massive without problems. I know I don't fully. But I DO know that it's not simple.
I mean, like DICE has said before….they can play test TONS themselves….but they just won't ever find everything. 100 people play testing for months compared to MILLIONS of people playing online in a day….bugs are GOING to show up. And there's NO way for them to find them all pre-release. I mean, they could have made no time frame for release and worked on the game for another year or two…..which might have been good….but it is what it is.
If they released and said, "welp, that is all. Goodbye" Then ya…..everyone should rightfully be pissed. But they're working on it and fixing them. Yes, it's annoying. But seriously…..relax…and be patient people. Did they sell you an incomplete product? Yes. Are you stuck with it? No. Because they're completing it. And you're not having to pay extra for them to complete the product. So the idea that "you're getting screwed" isn't really true.
Granted my patience is wearing thin.
if you invest in a company that that has a policy for releasing titles that are clearly not finished your getting everything you deserve… this is what gaming is now like you release stuff that aint working properly you'll loose money… Simple!
Please read my above comment to
"These problems are nothing new, they are just deployment issues. When you deploy your client / server software solution to millions of users you are bound to uncover unforeseen problems."
– and dont you think its about time they learnt from previous products released… its not like this is a new unknown software development company
How much game development experience do you have? How much software developer experience do you have?
You do realize that DICE had to develop this game for 2 additional systems that were not around when they created BF3. If you make ambitious changes to your engine you are going to run into problems.
If you have all the answers why don't you work for EA / DICE?
I just love all these arm-chair game producers that seem to have all the answers.
"How much software developer experience do you have?" – a lot more than you think…
i hope investors get a juicy lawsuit against EA, even if its indirectly i hope it serves as a wake up call for them…
i just cant believe how they tarnished DICE and the BF franchise just to release for the sake of selling and didnt matter the quality of the product. i guess to the suits in EA making a buck in short terms is better than a long stable run.
also not saying DICE is victim here because they could make a stand or something instead of just giving the other cheek
Jesus another faux pallbearer for EA. What exactly makes you think that these issues won't be worked out over the next few weeks?
Where was this outrage when MOH: WF was experiencing similar issues?
Where was this outrage when BF3 was experiencing similar issues?
Where was this outrage when MOH was experiencing similar issues?
Where was this outrage when BFBC2 was experiencing similar issues?
These problems are nothing new, they are just deployment issues. When you deploy your client / server software solution to millions of users you are bound to uncover unforeseen problems. Which is why we are getting a steady stream of client than server updates.
I am kind of sick of the anti-EA knee-jerk comments. Look if all the people who were Anti-EA didn't buy their games EA likely wouldn't be in business. If you buy EA games and you are Anti-EA you are doing the Anti-EA thing all wrong. I am not 100% happy with EA, but I am not stupid enough to think a few bugs in a popular game is going to sink them.
sorry to say this but BF3 and BC2 problems are a joke compared to BF4…
and i like EA games unfortunately so is much of a pissed customer rant rather than a lets-hold-hands-lets-fight-the-power kind of thing… (BTW i skipped MOH:WF and MOH games so idk what issues those had also DS3 one of my favorite franchises because of the way they handled it)
and what im trying to say here bro is that the only way for this huge corps. to give a flying crap about you or me is when they take a hit were they hurt the most. knowing full well all the issues BF games come with i bought the game 3 weeks after it was released on the PS4, it is fun as hell when it works but damn you paid $60 for a still in beta game son at some point you have to stop being too much of a sheep and complain about it
sorry to say this but BF3 and BC2 problems are a joke compared to BF4…
Oh really?
I assume you have an excel spreadsheet with a matrix comparing all the various launch issues of each game? If not what makes you think BF4 is worse?
I played all of these games the MOH series had fewer issues but that series had MUCH less destruction. You do realize there is a reason why DICE is one of the only developers that has a game engine that is robust enough to simulate real-time destruction? Not saying they the only engine with destruction, but certainly theirs has to be the most played.
These issues we are dealing with aren't traditional bugs, for the most part people are able to boot the game and play it. Many of the issues are connectivity issues. You can't simulate an environment of millions in a beta test. it's not feasible.
If you don't have the stomach to weather some updates on a multuiplayer game I would suggest you stick with Single Player or Browser games.
and i like EA games unfortunately so is much of a pissed customer rant
rather than a lets-hold-hands-lets-fight-the-power kind of thing… (BTW
i skipped MOH:WF and MOH games so idk what issues those had also DS3
one of my favorite franchises because of the way they handled it)
I don't even understand what you are saying here. You seem to be jamming various thoughts into a few sentences.
and what im trying to say here bro is that the only way for this huge
corps. to give a flying crap about you or me is when they take a hit
were they hurt the most
Oh I see EA represents "The Man" to you. What's wrong did the Occupy Wall Street party finally pack up and go home in your town and now you taking the fight to EA?
You realize how the free marketplace and corporations work right? What deliberate actions has EA taken that make you feel they need to "take a hit where they hurt most"? Seriously I am not being provocative, I am curious what your answer is.
Look the fact is these days dissing EA is chic. It's the thing the cool kids do at the cool kids lunch table and no one wants to not be cool — right?
The fact is if all you Anti-EA guys actually put your money where your mouth is, likely EA would feel a hit. You know what though talk is cheap and at the end of the day I think people are mostly satisfied with EA games.
EA could be worse they could be cashing in on an aging game engine while not providing dedicated servers. Activision been doing that for an entire generation and no one seems to bat an eye.
haha, man if im anti-ea and the cool kid what makes you then? you are like the same people that went ballistic when i complained of the DRM on the X1…
i never wrote i wanted to see EA taken down, like you said yourself this companies dont come down easily but i hope this scare makes them improve
im just upset about it because just like yourself i enjoy their games and i know a BF isnt Runescape mate and they cant cover all bases but the extra dev time and an a longer open beta wouldnt hurt a bit
haha, man if im anti-ea and the cool kid what makes you then? you are like the same people that went ballistic when i complained of the DRM on the X1…
Well your rant seems very anti-EA, and that is the en vogue thing since SimCity, bitch about EA. So my apologies.
i never wrote i wanted to see EA taken down, like you said yourself this companies dont come down easily but i hope this scare makes them improve
Well your comment could be taken that way…
and what im trying to say here bro is that the only way for this huge corps. to give a flying crap about you or me is when they take a hit were they hurt the most
Also what makes you think that EA doesn't care? Do they have to go out and hug each of their customers to prove this? You don't think they care about happy customers so the non-stop campaign will stop? You don't think Happy Customers = Increased Profits?
See this is where I have an issue with the average gamer and their understanding of free markets and basic economic principles. I can tell you as one who has worked for many small businesses that generally it is much harder to get new customers than to keep old ones. Suggesting that EA doesn't care what it customers think is just plain illogical. EA is a public company that needs to generate value for the stock holders they can't do that by screwing their customers over all the time. Releasing software with bugs in it is not that uncommon in any software development.
What exactly should they improve? I believe that you are commenting on things that you really have no expertise on. I would even suggest that DICE is in a very unique position in the manner that their game is likely one of the more advanced multiplayer game engines with this sort of scale all the while hosting everything on dedicated servers (took Activision like 10 games to figure out dedicated servers are better than hosted servers).
Every game DICE releases pushes envelopes. The change from BF2 -> Bad Company presented a huge shift with the destructibility. BF3 toned down a bit of the destruction to maintain some defensive positions, but they added mods to the weapons and customizable soldiers (camo). BF4 brings back the ComRose, adds commander. Every time you add a feature (or subtract one in some cases) you have an opportunity to break the game. I have heard of some developers that had thousands of lines of mostly unused code in their games that were not able to remove them because it would break the game, that is a sign of either extremely sloppy programming or a switch in programmers.
im just upset about it because just like yourself i enjoy their games and i know a BF isnt Runescape mate and they cant cover all bases but the extra dev time and an a longer open beta wouldnt hurt a bit
Don't mistake my understanding of the situation as complete compliance, I too am upset, but I know (via history) this stuff will be ironed out. EA is not some fly by night entity.
Every developer wants a long development time, but games have a schedule to be released on, and you don't want to miss your window of release. Beta tests are only going to do so much they are great for finding actual software bugs and major connectivity issues, it's not an issue of beta testing longer to help your deployment, you just can't replicate a deployment involving millions of users in a beta. Short of having a Crystal Ball this is the best way at the moment.
I just hope all this bitching doesn't make DICE reconsider their Battlefield ambitions, I want them to push the envelope and you can't do that if you are going to play it safe and guarantee to your audience everything will be 100% on day 1.
BTW I want EA to make profit, that way they can hire more talented developers. Otherwise Activision may put them on the next texture upgrade for the COD series and that would be a shame!!!
while we were arguing over here they released a patch that seems to fix the more pressing issues (PS4) lol
played yesterday not a single crash and no rubberbanding/lag either
I did have a bluescreen that corrupted my save, recovered my save from the cloud and popped AC4 in. I felt like the 1 hit kills were not fixed, it seemed different though, it was like all the bullets were coming at me at once. Like I would hardly see peeps shooting at me than in the "kill cam" they would be still shooting at me. It was like I was looking at history and not the present.
I'll just pretend I know how stock exchanges work and be outraged.
If the lawsuit is about what the author is talking about then proving such a reason could be pretty hard to prove. About the only way it would work is something like: EA saying they will sell millions by date X, when that many consoles haven't even been sold or are expected to be sold by that date. I have no idea what the sales specifically are for PS4. Nor do I care. This is an example only. Say you will sell 4 million copies of BF4 on PS4 and there aren't even 2 million PS4s by date X out there how can you justify the sales statement to buy EA stock? Yes, I know pre-orders can cover a lot of territory, but not 2 million if the requisite number of consoles don't exist.
Are you citing a speculative example or is that what really happened?
"If the lawsuit is about what the author is talking about then proving such a reason could be pretty hard to prove." — The very first sentence indicates it's speculative.
The game is buggy garbage and they have failed to fix it in a timely manner
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Just listened to Phil Manzanera's song Walking Through Heaven's Door from his album K-Scope. It's clearly and obviously a song about heroin use, something I have no time for, as my personal health requires frequent blood tests; that's enough syringe use for me.
See what I mean? But Manzanera is one one the best guitarist of our recent pop culture. Having played Tim Buckley's & Chris Isaak's music (the latter is fortunately not suicidal or drug addled), one can't help but feel that the industry must pre-dispose its inhabitants to reality-altering behaviour. In the 1980's an astrologer casting my horoscope, declared that I should give up weaving tapestry & turn to the music industry. The best interpretation I can give of my career to date, is that my work at the loom has been a type of guitar work. It's a rectangular instrument, the loom, and your fingers twang the warps as you introduce the coloured wefts. Harmonious themes are the preoccupation of each piece. The completion of each work makes for an epiphany of sorts, as any artist will admit. walking through heaven's door.
Try to eat some fetid meat Yours tastes just fine, same as mine If you can pay, it happens here Do what you say, will be tonight's career While guarantee hot company The red light flickers in their faces Roll up your sleeve, pass it round It's what you seek, dope in town Feels just fine to be with you Your place or mine, I'll show you what to do And in the nights, you'll come on through Walking through heaven's door. Walking through heaven's door.
animal nature
February 15, 2015Posted by on
A beautiful friend of mine is currently travelling in India, visiting animal rescue shelters; he, unlike the rest of us, lives a consistent life. He lives with dogs he has rescued, he is vegetarian.
I want to explore some ideas that inform the work under my fingertips as we speak.I'm calling the concept I-Hebdo-Conic. It is about the three Abrahamic religions and how each has experienced an intense phase of iconoclasm, of smashing idolatrous images: firstly Moses and the Golden Calf; next, Christianity in Constantinople when all the icons were destroyed; later with Cromwell and Anglicanism & its intense mistrust of the sado-masochistic imagery of catholic churches; finally what happened in Paris with the publishing of offensive cartoons.
I was raised a catholic and quickly rejected the ritual games that the bad-gay, Vatican cardinals in frocks perform. The Vatican only recently amended its teaching on the treatment of animals; previously humans owned animals and could manage them any which way; after the amendment, humans were enjoined to behave compassionately. Although I still eat meat, I recognise that killing animals compassionately is a contradiction, necessary for civilized carnivores. I also acknowledge what happens in my name, as a result of my diet choice. The Tibetans had a belief that eating meat was okay because we humans were also subject to the vagaries of nature. We eat fish & chips, the fish or flake being shark; but then we go surfing & are potentially mauled by a shark.
I live in a beautiful country originally inhabited by a people whose song lines go back to ancient times. Idiotic scientists have for a long time nurtured a concept about so-called primitive people that their spiritual beliefs are "animistic", that in this tree lives a god or powerful spirit, likewise in that cloud, or storm, or earthquake. Lately, other academics have given such people the benefit of the doubt that their belief structure actually is unified; that, while a particular family might have a totemic link to this flower and animal, bird and plant, the entire community are unified by an underlying spiritual principle.
We westerners flatter ourselves that our civilisation has advanced; we are in imminent danger of destroying this beautiful planet our home, through a neurotic, schizophrenic greed for profits and possessions. This is not an advanced cultural position, by any means.
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My current use of assemblage consists of pieces of woven tapestry alongside fields of sewn buttons and/or objects. Their combination allows the viewer to re-define both types of media. In doing this however, it is nothing new. Outside of Australia, the most interesting example, apart from arte povera, where textiles were used alongside pieces of sculpture, would be the work of Rauschenberg. His piece, entitled Bed, 1955, now in MOMA, NY, began with a quilt on which he began to paint, for lack of regular canvas, he later explained. Having completed this stage of the project, he added a pillow and similarly daubed paint onto that.
In Australia the painter Brett Whiteley began to make holes in his paintings of birds and vegetation and in these secret recesses would place a bird's nest or other objects (pebbles). Several textile artists in Australia, Kay Lawrence and Diana Wood Conroy, had begun their artistic careers as painters and progressed to weaving tapestries. Conroy produced several works that reflected on her academic work as an archaeologist in Turkey and Cyprus, whereby a painted field would contain a fragment of woven tapestry.
The effect of woven alongside painted reinforces the historical value of tapestry as elite and privileged against the painted earth, scrabbled through. heaped and scraped away. The woven image insists on intense, close scrutiny. Its mode of production, the weaver's back and forth motion parallels the scanning process that doubtless the human eye undertakes at an imperceptible speed.
Likewise, my juxtaposition of tapestry and buttons requires the viewer to evaluate the qualities of a minutely woven image alongside a complex sculptural field of buttons, sometimes patterned, at other times hectically chaotic.
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Two bronze sculptures are on loan from a private collection to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The university's art historians have decided that they are in fact by the hand of Michelangelo.
They are desk sizes pieces, works an individual might relish at leisure, or in moments of contemplation. At first the beasts on which the heroic figures ride seem placid or indifferent. But like Josephine Baker in Paris, one might have wondered at which end of the equation strode the wild animal. Criticising the static quality of the beasts is rather gratuitous; the coupling of heroic figure & untameable beast is a metaphysical construct at best. In reality, such beasts would not have accepted their rider; the situation would have been a struggle to the death.
Johnathan Jones's excellent essay describes the wildness as a late Renaissance conjecture about the newly discovered colonies, the brave new worlds.
Michelangelo was also the inventor of the next art movement: Mannerism, that produced such visual greats as Pontormo and El Greco, both, like Michelangelo, gay. The twisting, writhing flesh of the bodies might well signify the unease of the new age, or a new sloughing off of old shackles. We can invoke Carl Gustav Jung's dream imagery of the animal as signifying primal energy, at which point again, it might be necessary to re-examine the placid beast providing the base for the writhing human energies, the protest, the assertion of heroic male energies. Male energies & excitement are clearly the mots du jour; they seem to be meant as desk pieces, to be fondled, ogled, wanking material. All in all, a disco couple on the dance floor, Josephine.
re-positioning a visual statement
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In a textile exhibition Diana Wood Conroy, tapestry weaver, academic at the University of Wollongong and archaeologist in Greece and Turkey, exhibited a work that combined a tapestry fragment against a field of painted canvas. Her intention was to evoke the quality of fragments found in a "dig". Her use of several media parallel other artists also combining woven tapestry with other materials. Most famous, and totally influential for me, was the US textile artist, Jon Eric Riis, whose piece Eye Con consisted of a trapeze bar upon which was folded a piece of leather in human shape, entirely covered in seed pearls which flowed concentrically around panels of woven tapestry of a human eye. Later works of his, such as Icarus, consisted of a large central image, to which was added smaller pieces such as feathers woven as tapestry and individually added.
Both artists were part of a recent debate about textile and ornament. For me however, they go beyond that to a transgressive state where the qualities of woven tapestry are interrogated by a process of confrontation. Tapestry weavers today, whether working in the collaborative workshop system, or alone in their own studios, are aware of the need for the quality and characteristics of woven tapestry to be satisfactorily defined. However, what is not clear is how this is to take place. The curator of the Chuck Close exhibition at the MCA, Sydney, confused jacquard weaving with woven tapestry. The UK transsexual artist Greyson Perry also designed jacquard works, which could more validly be called tapestries because of their design and reference to traditional tapestries. Also, textile artists embroidering onto canvas are calling their works tapestries; the ambiguity is historical but involves whether the completed object or the process is being referenced.
For me, combining tapestry fragments within a field of buttons generates a dialogue about their respective materiality. The buttons form a mosaic, and when chosen for their translucence, create an extra dimension; meanwhile, the tapestry fragments are read not as painted surface nor as functional fabric. Especially, where they represent an entity or portrait, the process of construction comes into play: tapestry is woven backwards and forwards, a scanning not unlike that of computer imagery, and equally unreal. Perhaps also, that axiom of painting is activated: to accentuate a colour, place it next to a darker shade.
I feel that my contemporaries and colleagues are in the process of re-branding their product, an exciting historical moment.
guild craft or artisanal object
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Apollo in Gaza, buttons, woven tapestry inserts, 110 cms H X 100 cms W. Design figure drawing by Rod Byatt.
You are standing in the gallery that shows your work. Someone comes up & asks: "How long did this take?" In this case, it was more than a year, but really, without the absences about 9 months, a period of human gestation. On May 11, last year, I had an accident & was hospitalised. As the work in its final stages required a frame of 110 x 100 cms to be moved around I had to wait until I was able. These are my physical excuses; they say in an artist's work are embedded all the physical accidents of its making. For instance, I often bleed onto my works, why, why? The work itself began with 4 small pieces: three versions of the smurf, becoming cleverer each time, until the last version had learned to levitate. Also I had made a head only version of the Apollo on a small frame. It consciously followed the woven version of the Piraeus Apollo I'd woven a few years ago.
As for the background: a sculpture of Apollo had been dredged up in a Palestinian fisherman's net off the coast near Gaza. It was photographed on the floor of the man's cottage, on a smurf quilt. From the way the right hand is raised, the sculpture was intended for a temple, and showed the god in the act of endowing his followers with gifts. My only quarrel with Apollo is that all his boyfriends come to a bad end, after which, he must transform them into constellations. As for Gaza, there is a quote from John Milton's Samson Agonistes, "Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves" which rather sums up the fate of destitute Palestinian refugees.
As I launched myself into the task of completing a metre square image, I saw the need to use the 3 tapestry panels to evoke the qualities of textile, the quilt upon which the copper sculpture was lying; buttons meanwhile supplying the sculptural qualities. Currently, within the tapestry community a debate is raging about the validity of small pieces of woven tapestry. In a workshop where huge images are woven, the loom is colossal, the task of warping it immense; by contrast, a small piece can only suggest a fabric sample for a doubting client. In fact, one individual who directed a known atelier, quoted with relish the French habit of referring to such pieces as "dish cloths", disposable fabric to mop up a spill. To my mind, it is curious that the visual properties of large tapestries are interlocked with those of architecture. The vertical end panels resemble ornately carved columns. Tapestries have always been prized; after all, their completion would have required the skills of several highly trained individuals. Since the Italian Renaissance tapestry and painting were considered sister art forms. In Holland for instance, they are prized, since interiors are decked in woven pieces, a remnant of its colonial history.
However, I do not have the patience or the requisite artistic method to sit alongside other weavers collaborating in a large work. I have always been a solitary artist, not from pride or anti-social tendencies; my method has always been one of listening to the inner voice. I wrote a blog about the unexpectedness of this process; yes, many artist/ authors talk about it. I would sit at my workplace sorting my buttons, or something equally innocuous; suddenly, something would suggest itself. It would be, as David Bowie sings, something completely "out of the BLUE".
At some point in the above process, an idea came to me to quantify the stellar nature of the relationship between Apollo & smurfs. I thought of NASA's Apollo program; so the work needed a signpost. I had remarked (being a poet of several years practise) the rhyme between Gaza & Nasa. As the work progressed, it needed to be a sign with homemade qualities, with bullet holes, being in a war zone.
Almost at the point of completion, I realised the need to complete a vertical line near the top of the signage. It would then add to the growing sense of geometrical structures within the work. Already, together with the textile & pop resonances of the smurf quilt, I felt the work needed some geometric irregularities, which I decided to systematise as the Japanese textile form of "boro", or indigo patchwork repair. It is highly prized and yet paradoxical; mended textile that is valuable. The work oscillates between high art and industrial image, between an impersonal judge tiny guys, the common man.
While weaving textile images especially, but even more so with buttons, I became aware how difficult it was to outline the forms adequately. In tapestry it is not possible to retrospectively improve the outlining, thus, perhaps, the buttons for eyes of the lower 2 smurfs. However, complexity is not always weakness or clutter; I had to constantly reassure myself that the eyes were clearly defined; the other larger buttons around the brow acted mythically like the many breasts of Diana of Ephesus, as the multiple organs of omniscience. Outlining became a preoccupation with the hand, also its interplay with light, as the hand bestowing justice or blessing is raised in a gesture of power. Other areas, such as the wedge of dark between waist and arm needed to be mde distinct.
I feel that this work has climbed to a level of theatre: Gustav Moreau & the decadence of the symbolists came to mind. The smurfs form a curve of separate-ness around the central image. David Wojarowicz did this with small inserts clustered around his larger photographic images, filled with the menace of Aids. Finally the bottom inch of the work forms a human horizon filled with the green of vegetable growth, the blood of battlefields, and fallen toy soldiers. There are many associations for my border motif of the ancestor eye embedded within a metal buckle: framed? imprisoned?
Lastly, I would like to add, a great deal of sorrow & dislocation has happened in this part of the world because people have been unwilling to compromise & find a necessary solution. I do not ally myself with any group. The world, however, needs the issue to be resolved.
A first viewer reaction: I'm lost for words. Well, almost. It's profound. And actually quite confronting, I think, as my expectations have are surpassed and subverted. I'm struck by a new sense of risk-taking and invention in your work, things I've been thinking about a lot lately, and which you raised in your piece about Chuck Close at the MCA. I look forward to chatting with you on the phone soon. Ps. That hand is so tender and human! The recession of his right shoulder, and the foreshortened arm = brilliant.
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Have nearly completed my current project; my pattern these nights is to be planning the next work at 4 am as the birdcalls start up. Today, fetching the new year's groceries from Woolies across the Cook's river, I found myself meditating on the mangroves the council is replanting along its banks. The reflections in the water make for intricate blue/green/brown patterns; I notice that the bank of the river is the border of the Cadigal Wangal territory. When Cook's ships sailed into the river, Banks & Greville set off to explore the area. They were so impressed, children of the enlightenment that they were, they gave the valley a name from Greek mythology, the pleasant land below Mt Olympus.
But, this afternoon, having set to work, I find the buttons I use are the colours I observed on my morning's walk, and of the project I'm designing. What concerns me is whether the energy of the future project is feeding into the work in hand. Tho, energy is never wasted, it generates on an ongoing basis; all art is growth.
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'Tis the season to be silly. So, I'm re-reading Dorothy Sayers' Busman's Honeymoon. At first I wanted to remark on Lord Peter's older brother giving him a wedding present of all the tapestries from one single room in the entailed ducal household. How many tapestries would such a building contain. Do we have a catalogue of the national estate of tapestries? Then, Lord Peter's mother gives the couple a set of tapestried chairs as her present; would they have been embroidered canvas-work?
Instead, I reached page 258, where, during breakfast, Lord Peter says: "I have noticed that what's right in art is usually right in practice. In fact, nature is a confirmed plagiarist of art, as somebody has observed". That somebody would have to have been Oscar Wilde, in paradoxical mood.
That goes a long way to explain why following the waves of impressionism & expressionism, we now come to describe reality as existential, surreal, concrete, abstract, absurd, primitive & chaotic.
A younger generation can be overheard to describe everything as surreal. The next often-used descriptor is "awesome" which is probably an anglification of central European "magic realism". Chaos theory is probably the reason for climate change being so often discussed.
Meanwhile, performance art is popular; is it an explanation for Big Bro & all the other live TV cooking, decorating, living shows?
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Richard Wolheim in his book "Art & its Objects",Penguin 1968, quotes da Vinci who advises the visual artist to study the blemishes on walls, and to see therein great battles & dramas. Da Vinci's own art practice was to sit meditating on the work in progress, to sometimes make an adjustment here and there, but often just to study intently the progress of the work.
Oriental aesthetic theory often makes use of the phrase "beginner's mind". My version of the phrase describes a phenomenon that happens often: you walk into the work area; set out the materials and the work in progress, suddenly an idea suggests itself, as David Bowie used to sing, OUT OF THE BLUE. How could such an idea have been generated, totally unexpectedly? But, clearly, it summarizes all that has gone before, building on that and taking things forward.
In other words, you empty your mind, taking away from it any constricting purpose & allow it to produce some insight that is at first unexpected, but probably the result of many things that have gone before.
Again today, elements of the work in progress have suggested further treatment, until the steps taken have been totally into the dark.
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Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant were painters, part of the Bloomsbury set. He was bisexual & fathered Angelica. Vanessa had a son Quentin by another man.
Last night's Antiques Roadshow aired the collection by a family, who acquired an abstract by Angelica, then some years later a painted ceramic plate by Quentin. The valuer thought the plate more valuable than the painting. I thought the opposite; I also thought the stereotypical roles had been reversed. Wiki unfortunately was of no assistance with more of her oeuvre. It seemed more preoccupied with a voyeuristic flood of society photos of the group.
As a visual artist, others who have gone before add to one's vocabulary. For me the most interesting artists are two post Impressionist Slovenian artists who have the most intense conflagration of colour I have seen, Jakopic & Grohar, the Bay Area Figuratives, namely David Park & Paul Wonner, the COBRA movement & in the UK, Keith Vaughan. Angelica Bell's painting fit in nicely with them. Although the art scene favours ceramic work currently, her brother's work doesn't move me as much.


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but in all fairness, we don't know why so we can only speculate. But it is almost a sure bet that it isn't some terrorist threat from the mountainous regions of Afghanistan!
2 lines of thinking on this; one is that it is the installation of some hi-tech communication or weapons system for the illegal invasion of Syria and Iran, or two, that "elevator maintenance" is being carried out, much like the Twin Towers.
Wouldn't surprise me if one of these embassies blows itself up in yet another false flag event. Can almost smell the cordite from here.
What ever it is, I can see the CIA's filthy fingerprints all over it, and hundred of millions of dollars flowing into one of Dick Cheney's companies.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
15 Minutes to Freedom! In the ER
15 Minute increments seem to be the way I have to live my day lately! And today I have just that window before heading into the home office to do some much needed business work. SO for free write I decided to set that timer and share a medical note with you all! MY DAUGHTER is 16! You know, that age where everything is so much bigger, badder and better all at once. (Do not repeat that I used 'badder' as a word, please?!) She had a few day sore a couple inches above her belly button and it got so painful that Saturday night after the day's busy events I ended up in the Emergency Room for what I hoped was simple infection but knew had to be looked at. AARGH! at ABOUT MIDNIGHT there I was with an abscess needing cut open, drained and dressed. Bless them , they were quick and the ER Dr. was great which made my evening. Part of this is a teenager's timing. 'I can ignore the pain and horror of this 3 day owie until I leave my friends' group and decide to pay attention to the pain exploding in my midsection...' Part of this is knowing that we can probably treat and heal this at home if someone would treat it properly.... oh the joys of parenting!!! Our incredibly high quality Melaleuca Oil has eradicated Staph in this girl before, so I have no doubt that in the beginning this was preventable. AGAIN, the joy of not making our children's choices as they get older. It was a lesson for me that she is still my baby no matter how independent she wants to be, and I think it was a lesson for her, I can only hope, as far as abscess treatments and medicine in the ER is concerned. Now she is treating an open wound with a big lump behind it and they will check for MRSA, staph and the healing tomorrow. Some bacterias you do not mess with when they get that angry... it scares me that she messes with and may not keep it super clean through this adventure, but, again, those are supposed to be real life lessons to give her real experiences for when I am not here to hold her hand!! May you always find a silver lining and a reason to smile and laugh through the midnight ER tromps with your littles!
Monday, February 23, 2015
Life Paralyzing You?
I'm in a challenge to free write for 15 minutes everyday. EVERYDAY!!! It is a Big challenge. I am busy. Just as you all are. When I get the chance to eat out, the choices paralyze me. When I have a quiet moment to fit something in...often it is do dishes or feel paralyzed. TOO many choices of things to do, to fix , to eat , to wear, to attend have surrounded our busy lives until some of us (the majority in studies) are actually stymied by the hundreds of options. I found it incredible to find out that given many options for Insurance plans many would choose none, even the benefits offered were hard to visualize through the pain of CHOICE. What if I choose wrong? WHAT IF I don't like their Reuben Sandwich? What if the French Dip looks better once it arrives? How silly! But true for some of us. And depressing if we can't decide quickly. Hampering really. Should I go to #2's or #3's basketball or #1's wrestling? Feel guilty the whole time because you were stretched 3 ways and missed the great play or the injury? Learn to not give in to guilt over a choice. Pray and go with it. I set a timer lately to make choices to begin and end a chore. Just as a helpful way to not get STUCK or centered on one thing for too long. If I hesitate and worry about making the perfect decision I WASTE A LOT OF TIME. I want to make a quick decision from a smart list of choices and be done with it! So I have to discipline myself to decide. AND NOT WORRY! You might be amazed to learn that the inability to make choices when faced with so many choices everyday is a serious cause of clinical depression! DOES NOT surprise me!! As one who has struggled in the past with Seasonal Depression and has to keep my chin up deliberately and BE GRATEFUL this was a very nice discovery. I am not alone. You are not alone if the busy lifestyle we all share these days because so many choices are available overwhelms you!! Embrace gratitude once a day! Make a decision to make a 15 minute spot to simply breathe. CHOOSE a simple salad or soup meal. DONE! Choose to set that phone with work down when your work hours are over. Be OK with not having to make the perfect choice, list just a few options that have what you need and DECIDE quickly. LESS IS MORE! Having less, doing with less, being ok with less CAN GIVE YOU SO MUCH MORE quality of life! Be happy, be well, be blessed- from our family to yours.
Monday, February 9, 2015
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OH MY GOODNESS! I made successful cauliflower pizza crusts the other day and FINALLY (after 2 years) enjoyed this awesome treat! I liked it better than traditional crust and was so impressed (after reviewing many versions) with www.sandyskitchenadventures.com blog recipes on Cauliflower crust, Cauliflower breadsticks and all things healthier. Just thought I'd add a shout out for that great blog and hopefully she doesn't mind my unsolicited shout out! ;) (I did use regular eggs not egg beaters.) DO NOT be overwhelmed, this was easier than making bread or pizza dough. Simple, simple, simple! You just need a little time to bake them (35 TO 45 MINUTES) as it is a little longer baking, but they do freeze well, so you can make ahead of time. I added jalapenos to my topping and the leftover pizza the next day was amazing!! Cheesy fried cauliflower was what I tasted in the next day leftover pizza, although I must say the pizza crust wasn't even noticeably cauliflower at first serving. My family of ten had no idea what they were eating and polished off 5 dinner plate size pizzas! I added turkey pepperoni on their toppings. They did like it!! YAY! My only issue with this dish would be the ability to stick to a healthy portion! Share your favorite healthy dish? Maybe a dish you'd like to try but haven't yet? It took me so long to just DO this and I am so thankful to have a new favorite. Go for a newbie! Just Do It!
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Halfway through 2014! Have you accomplished a lot in 2014 yet? Would you like to accomplish more financially, spiritually, physically and improve your outlook before 2015? I'm positive that most of us answer YES to that question. There don't seem to be enough hours in the day or days in the week to get it all done. Our busy lifestyles take over and we forget what it is like to feel organized, peaceful and secure. My 2014 has turned into one of those 'A-HA' years. I am growing up. I have maybe arrived at a secure personal achievement of mature growth. I feel settled. Maybe because I now know how to be comfortable in my own skin no matter what others may think. Maybe it is that I am successful. Ending the month of June for me means I am ready for the second half of 2014! YAY! It wasn't always so. I would love to hear what you have accomplished or what you are struggling to accomplish. I have dealt with grief, being broke, being depressed, failing- again and again... Do you need an ear or a shoulder? Sometimes it helps to have a sounding board. CARPE DIEM!!! Sieze the day. It is yours, nobody else can do so for you. ;)
Monday, June 16, 2014
Celebrate YOUR Monday with me!!?
I am having a great Monday and I thought,"Hmmmm....who have I lifted up lately?" What a blessing to have a smiling Monday! I can't say that this was always so....I used to open my eyes and groan the, "I hate Monday!" mantra....or, even worse, I would start dreading Monday morning on Sunday afternoon. Thus ruining my Sunday evening in the process! What a sad mess to be in! Can I listen, celebrate an achievement or empathize with your Monday??? I would love to lend my ear or shoulder to you. It is a PASS IT ON day for me. So please share what you would like with my family and maybe there is a need for me to be celebrating this Monday with you. This is going to go down as my personal favorite Monday the 16th, 2014 and I would like to include you in my memory of this day! How can I be of service to you today? Please share... :) Thank You!
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
My thoughts on April 1st, 2014- stability- what does that mean to you?
April is here. Hello 2nd Quarter of 2014! I have had a lot of comments from my kids lately about the amount I work and how I work... and I thought, "yes" the majority of your working adult life should be when you are healthiest and busiest in your 30's. I spent my 20's working outside the home,harder than I do now, to not get very far ahead... 'I be smarter now' so my 30's have been more productive. I appreciate more fully the things that really matter. I know how to help others. 2 of my kids in the past week have friends who wish their mom's could work from home like I do (so they could homeschool)... I told them it was not one and the same and then realized- well, it is. Who gets to work and be with their kids everyday. At every activity I choose & have incredibly 'spoiled' children who know what it is to have mom available. I am building a retirment income in an unstable economy with my 8 children and I take care of other children who I am enjoying also. Hopefully we are a blessing to them all as I have so many blessings in my life. I hope I am teaching them what a WORK ETHIC is! And how you balance family and work wisely!
Friday, July 19, 2013
Patience ? Fortitude while waiting at almost 42 weeks pregnant!
Do you ever wonder why it is so easy to worry, wonder and create more stress? While it can be SO difficult to relax, let life go and trust all will be ok... I DO! I love to listen to others and be calm and thoughtful as to why we don't need to have all the answers yet. But when it comes to our own family life it is more difficult to step back and breathe right away. Be at peace. My continual coaching of self through this 41st week of pregnancy has been...breathe... Enjoy this time. Because last week I was an internal waiting wreck! I was sure that this baby was a July 2nd baby.... and here we are 17 days later. Healthy, active, outwardly calm....wondering what lesson in life we are to be learning. While variance in Estimated Due Date is normal, perfectly normal... for me it has always been very accurate. Hence, I have not felt out of control at that time. Waiting with others waiting on me is probably one of my weakest moments. I stress about everyone else's emotions, needs, lives. They shouldn't be waiting for me! I think of how annoying or troublesome waiting for me is. I think they must need to be able to move on completely and get on with their own life. My last child was born via a C-Section after 2 and 1/2 days at home with people around (yes, waiting for me)and another day waiting for my labor to progress in hospital without endangering baby.... and I felt worse for all wondering than myself. I felt like I was letting others down and disrupting lives. It is rarely about me. Do you think I need more ability to let go? I must not realize what 'Letting GO and Letting God' really entails. My prayers have definitely become more calm and more trusting in this last week. My understanding that baby is just not that ready and I needed that visit time with this little one inside has been a journey. I have friends who are calling, texting, or assuming they have just not been notified. I have friends who are afraid to ask if something went dreadfully wrong. The first week of July to now has been an eye opener for me of research. Much, much more pregnancy and baby knowledge that I never had at my fingertips. I had an internal fight to make sure I am making best medical decisions by not inducing yet. Then I had to be ready to back up my decision with sincere knowledge and not emotion. My instinctive mother heart is STRONG. I do know best for child and myself. BUT, I also know nothing!! HAHA! Absolutely nothing is in my control, or has to be in this beautiful natural process of motherhood. My experiences have made me who I am. Have surrounded me with incredible friends, family, support teams who are intelligent and self aware individuals! WHAT A BLESSING! To see in this experience the quality of people I have surrounded myself with by love and choice. To be able to be thankful that my impatient children speak more and more often to their unborn sibling...and offer words of love, encouragement, excitement. That my 5 year old Knute comes up and kisses his sibling through my belly many more times a day than he was. The human experience of deep love with no return. They cherish this baby they cannot wait to meet... I hadn't noticed how much more precious each day waiting has made this child seem to us! What a gift in my personal growth I can see and feel today! Who knows what wonderful lessons await us all when we can just breathe and let life unfold beautifully, magically around us...complete with all its wrinkles, pains and joys! Be Well and Be Blessed today!
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Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I've been using Anastasia brow powder for the past year, but I recently decided to pick this up, because the tinted gel appealed to me and it's cheaper than MAC or Anastasia. I find that if I use the pencil and then go over it with the gel, the gel smears off most of the pencil I just applied. In my opinion, the pencil looks better on its own (but this is coming from someone whose brows are at least 50% filled in; the combo of pencil+gel might work better for someone whose brows need less help). I do use the gel sometimes, but I put it on first, let it set and then go back in with Anastasia powder and fill in the sparse areas. The effect is softer, but I prefer the clean lines of the pencil alone.
The reason for my relatively low rating is that I think I paid $8 or $9 for this and you really get very little product for the money. My Anastasia powder is $22, but I haven't even hit pan after over a year. I've only sharpened the Brow Fantasy pencil twice and it's now a tiny nub. You don't get much product on the gel side, either. I've used it less than a month, and I don't think I'll even get another month out of it. Unfortunately, I LOVE the Light Brown shade, so I will repurchase until I find a regular eyebrow pencil in an equally good shade for me.
on 8/12/2012 2:28:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I purchased this as I thought it was a great combo... A nice light brown pencil with tinted gel to set it. I have been using brow pencil /powder and setting with clear mascara for years....
Although I love the texture and color of the pencil, I was really disappointed in the gel. To me, it's not a gel at all, but more of tinted grease. It didn't keep my brows in place, but did create weird little tinted greasy marks above my brows... Very messy and actually kind of icky. I went back to my clear mascara and continued to use the pencil. Once the pencil (already on the short side) got 2/3 used, it no longer fit in my sharpener as there is a plastic ring near the base that keeps you from getting to the last bit...
This seems to be a great product for many people, but for me- not so much. If they replaced the gel with clear mascara, then we'd be talking!
on 8/7/2012 11:35:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I absolutely love this brow pencil/gel! I used to use clear mascara, and then after TiffanyD's review, I immediately went out & tried this! The color, quality and gel are awesome. I won't be looking for another, this one does the trick perfectly and my brows look fabulous and not shiny, goopy or crunchy. The only thing I would say would make it better is the pencil lid to screw on rather than pop on and off since it gets loose over time.
on 7/20/2012 9:44:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
Great product, low price, and awesome staying power -
I've always had thin brows - they have decent shape, but they don't do much for my face. I also have naturally dark hair, which I color pretty dark with reddish highlights - and my thin brows were sort of getting lost.
I'd had this product around (dark shade) and was just using the brow gel, but about a month ago I decided to give the pencil a try.
It's a perfect match for my haircolor/browcolor, goes on with a natural look, and STAYS PUT. Mine stays on through an 8-5 job, a Zumba workout and bathtime for the kiddos - and doesn't budge until I remove it!
I will say that the best results come from a sharp pencil. It's easy to smudge so the line looks more diffuse and natural, but the sharper the pencil, the better the application. Dull pencil = Caterpillar brows.
The lid on the brow pencil end gets loose after awhile, but that's the only thing I can come up with that is somewhat negative. And I fix it with a small piece of tape.
Highly recommended. Great drugstore find.
on 7/17/2012 10:40:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Fair, Cool
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
Love it. I got it in the shade dark blonde and it matches perfectly! It stays all day and really defines my brows and frames my face!!:)
on 7/6/2012 11:39:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Black
I got this at the pharmacy (drug store for the Americans out there) yesterday for only $5, they were in the discount basket and boy should I have bought more!
Shade: Light brown
Texture - the texture of the pencil, for me, I find is quite stiff and not so creamy
Pigmentation - the pigmentation is average, it's not true to the outside of the pencil on first swipe but you can build it up. You have to press quite firmly if you want it the colour of the outside of the pencil because of the stiffness I was talking about earlier. I personally like this because you get more feathery strokes and a more natural colour.
Packaging - The packaging's convenient having the gel and pencil together. You may not think it's a big deal, in my bathroom products are not reached so easily and when you're in a hurry to get out the door (i.e. everyday for me ha ha) it's just nice having the gel right there after the pencil.
I don't think the packaging is especially lush looking, at first I even thought it was cheap looking, but it's grown on me and it's a very convenient and gadget looking.
Lasting power - I haven't worn this for a whole day out yet, but I don't need to. I did a few swatches of it on my hand when I opened it, and the swatches were difficult to rub off! ;) They really stayed in place and in fading, they didn't smudge, only faded in colour.
I think that's all I have to say about the product, I like the control you have over pencils and they can usually be too pigmented but this colour and the way the colour comes off is perfect. With the brow powder I have, I actually find that it's a little difficult to achieve a natural colour sometimes because of deciding how much powder on your brush is appropriate and you have to concentrate on creating natural strokes and directing the pencil in the right direction - at the same time. While with this, the colour is sorted for you and the directing is just as easy, if not easier because it's harder to make a pigmented mistake. Also with this product, I achieve a natural looking brow in the end, it can never go darker than a certain shade and it's very even looking because of the pigmentation of it. It's really easy to achieve a thin/polished brow if desired, unlike powders which I can find feather a bit and make my brows lose their shape.
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Wow, we got GIANT BADGES here!
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Install script through http://tampermonkey.net/ Chrome extension.
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Yes, sit back and relax your money will come eventually. Everything is fine here, both Paypal and Swift received as promised on 15.
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Woohooo! I'm the featured author this week. I was waiting over 3 years for this moment. Thank you envato, that you didn't forget me
It's about time… big congrats, A!
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Congrats for the milestone!
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revaxarts any chance you put this in Google Store?
Good luck for your new career and thanks for all your contribution that making this place an awesome one!
You're no alone facing this situation. It seems this place is not healthy anymore in regards to the competition. Not only this issue, poor quality works, mass uploads, etc as mentioned in other thread. It's a growing problem and I'm afraid if the problem persists and no action done from Envato side, this place won't be like what we have seen in the past.


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2001 BMW 740i Repair and Maintenance
A guide to problems, costs, maintenance and repair for your 2001 BMW 740i
- Does the gas filler cap lever have anything to do with electrical failure
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- 60k miles and 3 days ago develop high speed shake.Changed upper control arms,
- how much should I spend getting a battery module checked?
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A fluid leak may develop from one or more power steering hose. When a leak is being repaired, it is not uncommon for multiple hoses to be replaced.
Engine oil leaks commonly develop from both valve cover gaskets, intake manifold, and PCV plate after about 60,000 miles.
The front thrust rod bushings—also referred to as tension strut bushings—are known to fail occasionally. The oil-filled rubber mounts weaken and crack over time, causing a mushy road feel and shuddering in the steering wheel when going over bumps. These worn bushings should be replaced.
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Five threats to the economic recovery04/08/2011 by Jim Haughey
The economy could shake off a brief gust from any one of these headwinds with no measurable impact over a quarter. We probably will not be this lucky. We should expect some problem from each of these four areas with a significant risk that one or more of problems could be very serious or prolonged. And in the background, state and especially local governments continue to slash spending to match available funds. Economic growth in the middle of 2011 will be weak and could average only near 2.0%.
The European debt crisis poses the least risk to the US. Portugal is a small country. The larger European countries will lend them what they need to avoid bond defaults and give then more time to implement painful spending cuts. This will not end the public deficit problem in Europe. Spain and Italy are also at risk of defaulting if spending cuts do not continue on the announced schedule. A Portugal only problem will be barely noticeable in the US but the impact will be a few tenths of a percent of GDP growth if the problem spreads to Spain or Italy.
Higher commodity prices, mostly oil but also metals and food, are already cutting US GDP growth by at least 0.3%. This could double if the problem persists for several more months as buyers adjust to higher permanent prices and become more cautious about spending. The negative impact will jump over a full percentage point if oil production is disrupted or seriously threatened in the Arabian Peninsula. This still appears to be unlikely but will remain a low level threat for at least through the summer.
The scale of the Japanese disaster is now known and the timeline for recovery is becoming clearer although it will not be fully known for several more weeks. The radiation scare in the US appears to be over. This removes a huge negative impact on consumer confidence and spending. How quickly electricity generation can be restored in Japan is the key remaining unknown. Undamaged nuclear power stations remain shutdown as a precaution. Manufacturing, investment and consumption in Japan are beginning to recover. This will be a long process with "normal" many months ahead.
The hit to US exports and the disruption of US manufacturing has been very marginal so far as products in transit have been delivered to Japan and inventories of Japanese products and parts have been drawn on to sustain US factory operations. The negative impact on then US will progressively worsen in April and May and possibly a little longer. Shortages of Japanese products at retailers and wholesalers will become obvious but much of the cost to the US economy will not be in public view. Supply expediting and substitutions within US companies and out of public view will be expensive.
Profits and hence investment will suffer much more than product sales or production.
The impact of the Japanese disaster on the US economy will be at least several tenths of percentage point of GDP growth in the current quarter, will linger into the summer quarter and likely will still be significant at yearend.
With the battle of Madison over, state and local government cuts has disappeared from national headlines. But the debate over how much to cut remains in local headlines throughout the country. Advocates for preserving public spending levels have lost major battles in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Florida and Texas as well as other smaller states and at the municipal level. These legislative cuts come into effect slowly; many begin on July 1st. The impact on GDP growth was marginal in the fourth quarter, will expand to several tenths of percent in the winter quarter and become even larger in the middle of 2011.
The impact of federal spending cuts, either a legislative compromise or a partial shutdown while compromise is negotiated, is the most uncertain. Both the magnitude and timing are uncertain. There is little change that the final, decisive battle will take place today. A series of small spending cuts with the final battle postponed to the 2012 election will result in a marginal direct impact, perhaps 0.1% GDP decline but a large negative impact from the depressing effect of delaying a final solution. A prolonged shutdown would aggravate the loss of spending because it disrupts the flow of federal permissions to the private economy. This impact would be brief but very severe and could halt employment gains for a month.


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The Humane Society of the United States applauds the Wyoming Livestock Board and the Platte County Attorney's Office for charging nine former employees, including two managers, at Wheatland, Wyo.-based Wyoming Premium Farms with cruelty to animals following an HSUS undercover investigation. The investigation documented workers kicking, punching and swinging pigs and piglets. At the time of the investigation, which was released in May, Wyoming Premium Farms was supplying pigs to Tyson Foods—the world's second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork.
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Spring 2004 Team Most Improved Linebacker
Superb athlete who will be playing linebacker for the second straight year and should provide a nice impact in 2005 ... Is in a battle for the top spot at the middle linebacker position entering the spring season.
Moved to defense, where he played 10 games, starting 5 of them, at strongside linebacker ... Started the first three games of the season, and had two more starts in the latter part of the season ... Had 15 tackles on the season playing in his new position, including a half-tackle behind the line of scrimmage ... Started his Mizzou career by making 4 tackles in the season-opening win against Arkansas State, then followed with a career-high 6 stops in week 2 at Troy ... Was named the team's most improved linebacker in the spring period.
Sat out the season due to NCAA transfer rules, as he joined the team prior to the season after transferring from Michigan State with fellow Hazelwood East teammate Brandon Massey ... Spent the season on the offensive scout team as a tailback, and earned scout team MVP honors in practice leading up to the Illinois game.
Attended Michigan State, where he led the Spartans in rushing as a true freshman with 654 yards and 5 TDs on 133 carries (4.9 ypc) in 12 games ... Also caught 14 passes for 88 yards for Michigan State ... Began his collegiate career with a solid 11-carry, 93-yard rushing outing in the 2002 season opener vs. Eastern Michigan, and added a 38-yard TD run in the game ... Ran for a career-high 136 yards and 1 TD on 20 carries at Indiana, helping the Spartans to a 56-21 road win ... Romped for a career-long 48-yard run against the Hoosiers ... Had a solid game vs. Notre Dame, as he carried 15 times for 70 yards ... Had back-to-back games at Iowa and against Minnesota where he caught 4 passes out of the backfield.
Was one of the top players in the storied history of powerhouse Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis, where he was a four-year starter and prep All-American as both a linebacker and tailback ... Was named to USA Today's All-USA Team as a linebacker, and was also a SuperPrep, PrepStar and Student Sports Magazine All-American at running back ... Won Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior and was ranked among the nation's top five linebackers and running backs ... Earned Class 5A all-state honors and was St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Louis American Metro Defensive Player of the year in 2001 ... Recorded 87 tackles, including 3 sacks as a senior ... Also had 3 fumble recoveries, 2 interceptions and 6 passes broken up ... Rushed for 1,009 yards on 117 carries and added 12 TDs as a senior while helping Hazelwood East to a 13-1 record an a state runner-up finish ... Accounted for 220 all-purpose yards against rival CBC (150 rushing, 70 receiving) and also scored twice and added 11 tackles ... Gaines 1,028 yards and scored 22 rushing TDs as a junior ... Had 56 tackles, with 2 sacks, and caused 3 fumbles in 2000 ... Produced 1,500 yards and 18 rushing TDs as a sophomore ... Scored at least 1 TD in a school-record 36 consecutive games ... Set Hazelwood East records for career rushing yards (4,000-plus) and TDs scored (60-plus) ... Became the first four-year starter in school history and the first underclassman voted team captain ... Helped his team to a combined record of 38-5 (.884) ... Started at defensive end as a freshman ... Was also a first-team all-conference basketball player who averaged 16.2 points and 10.4 rebounds as a small forward in 2000-01 ... Also lettered in track ... High school coach - Corey Johnson.
Son of David Richard and Andrea Jackson ... Full name - David Andrew Richard ... Birthdate - Aug. 5, 1983 ... Is interested in studying business management at MU.
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The Japanese electronics and gaming giant, Sony, unveiled a prototype virtual reality headset to be used in conjunction with its PlayStation 4 (PS4) video game console during a Tuesday talk at the Game Developers Conference.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, showed off the slick black-and-white headset at the annual gathering of game designers. He said Sony has been working on the technology for more than three years.
The adjustable device is codenamed Project Morpheus and features a head-mounted display with 1080p resolution and a 90-degree field of view. Sensors built into the headset can track a wearer's head movement in concert with a PS4 camera.
"This prototype is by no means final," said Mr. Yoshida. "We will continue to work on this to improve it, but we believe it's a good representation of how PlayStation will deliver VR."
Anton Mikhailov, a senior software engineer working on Project Morpheus, said the current version of the technology must be attached to a PS4 console with a cord that's about 15 feet (4.5 meters) long, and users' virtual perspectives can be simultaneously broadcast on a television screen. "The experience can be shared, and that's only going to allow it to spread," said Mr. Mikhailov. "I think that's going to be the key. Once people see someone else interacting in VR, they're going to want to put it on and try it next."
Mr. Mikhailov said users will be able to interact with the virtual world displayed on the headset with the gesture-detecting PlayStation Move controller, as well as the standard DualShock 4. He declined to specify when the headset would be released or how much it would cost.
Project Morpheus will be available for demonstration beginning Wednesday for conference attendees on the conference's expo floor with four games-diving cage simulators "The Deep," medieval combat game "The Castle," sci-fi dogfighter "EVE- Valkyrie" and a VR rendition of the stealthy action-adventure title "Thief."
While Sony Corp. has released other head-mounted display units, Project Morpheus marks the company's first foray into VR with PlayStation.
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A small harvest; a hot plate and a warm platter
Just for fun, here's a hot plate I assembled this past Monday:
Clockwise from top: Douglah (Chocolate 7 Pod); 7 Pot; 7 Pot Jonah; Morouga; Trinidad Scorpion; Bih Jolokia
Here's a warm platter:
Clockwise from top: Maxi Jala; Billy Goat; Purple Serrano; Unknown?; Christmas Bell; Ethiopian Brown Berbere; Nagabon Jolokia
Center: Pusa Jwala
Very nice assortment Bill. I'll have one of each thank you!
The second pic with the platter reminds me of Thanksgiving, which reminds me of.....
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.....that's right.....
Turkey's Revenge !!!!!! Come on cranberries!
Wish you continued success with your harvest.
P.S. For those who aren't familiar with Turkey's Revenge, see the link.
Here is a link that might be useful: Turkey's Revenge thread
Thanks for the compliments!
Rick, us Canucks celebrate Thanksgiving before you folks so I got a shorter wait until the Turkey's Revenge ;-))
I'm thinking this year I'll give the bird some real teeth... substitute 7 Pot Douglah for Habaneros. It may be my last Thanksgiving!!!


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Posted by John on Monday, November 10, 2008 at 5:53am.
1. Without rules, people cannot get along with others.
1-1. If there were no rules, people could not get along with others.
1-2. If they have no rules, people could not get along with others.
(Does # 1 mean #1-1 or #1-2? Does 'get' mean 'go'? What is the meaning of 'get along with'?)
All three essentially mean the same thing. To "get along with" is an idiomatic expression, not always explainable! Here are a good website to help you with idioms:
You can find others by just putting english idioms into www.google.com.
2. Drivers sometimes can't see you.
2-1. Drivers can't sometimes see you.
(Is 2-1 wrong?) 2 is better than 2-1; even better would be this: Sometimes drivers can't see you.
3. Only 3 is correct; 3-1 is not used.
4. All three are about the same, but 4 is the one most commonly used.
5. Keep down close to the floor.
(Keep is an intransitive verb. Down is an adverb. Close to is a prepositional phrase. The floor is a noun phrase.
Are the above right? What is the meaning of 'keep' in this sentence?)
Almost all are correct; "close" is also an adverb; "to" is the preposition; in addition to being a noun, "floor" is also the object of the preposition "to." In this sentence, "keep" means "stay."
6. NEVER re-enter a burning building.
6-1. NEVER reenter a burning building.
6-2. NEVER re-enter a building which is burning.
(Can we use both 're-enter' and ' reenter'? Does 6-2 is also grammatical?)
All three are fine; I've seen both "re-enter" and "reenter" but I think the one with the hyphen helps people read the word correctly the first time!
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black kitchen cabinets/two tone cabs
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hello all,
we are doing a kitchen remodel and thinking about using black cabinets on the botton with a cherry cabinet, honey glaze on top (medium brown). wante to see if anyone has done this combo or has seen something similar. i don't have an island, small kitchen, opening up ceiling in kitchen and dining room, adding skylight in kitchen, will be able to see into dining room so there will be alot of light coming in. adding lot of great lighting in kitchen. was planning on using stack stone wall on outside wall, granite counters and either limestone floor or something similar, or hardwood flooring. any thoughts you have would be appreciated.