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Marcos Ambrose leads Michigan speed parade for today's Sprint Cup race
Drivers top 200 mph for 1st time since '87
BROOKLYN, Mich. -- The last time anyone was this fast in qualifying in NASCAR's top series, Richard Petty was still driving.
He's an owner now, but when Marcos Ambrose won the Sprint Cup pole at Michigan International Speedway on Saturday for Richard Petty Motorsports, the Hall of Famer was on hand to put the accomplishment in perspective. Ambrose posted a speed of 203.241 mph, the first time since 1987 the 200-mph mark was broken during Sprint Cup qualifying.
"I can't hardly remember that far back," Petty said. "To be able to do it on a flatter race track, not Daytona or Talladega, that is unheard of."
Ambrose made his first Sprint Cup pole a memorable one on a day 19 drivers surpassed 200 mph on the newly paved surface at MIS. Speeds have been soaring since drivers began testing sessions, and NASCAR decided to alter the left-side tires for the race Sunday. The cars slowed down significantly at a practice session after the switch, but the change didn't affect qualifying.
The last pole winner to break 200 mph in this series was Bill Elliott, a quarter-century ago at Talladega. Ambrose had the 11th-fastest pole-winning speed in series history.
"It's going to sound great at the bar when you have had about six too many," Ambrose cracked. "It is good bragging rights, I will give it that."
Ryan Newman's track qualifying record of 194.232 mph went by the wayside almost immediately. In fact, 40 drivers broke the mark, set in 2005.
Petty won a pole at MIS in 1972 -- at 157.607 mph.
"When they redid the track and came up here testing and said they were running over 200 mph it was blowing my mind," Petty said. "I think the last time we even flirted with that was when they redid Atlanta and we ran 198 or 199 mph. We knew it was going to be quick but I think it was a whole lot quicker than what we thought and definitely quicker than what Goodyear was thinking."
Goodyear changed its tire recommendation Friday night, saying the high speeds caused increased left-side tire temperatures. Drivers were routinely exceeding 200 mph in practice, with Greg Biffle topping out with a lap of over 204 on Friday.
On Saturday night, after the tire switch, the top speed at practice was 195.647, by Biffle.
"The tire is very different. It hasn't got much grip," Ambrose said after the extra practice session. "I think we did enough stuff during practice to get a feel for what we need."
Kevin Harvick was second in qualifying. Biffle was third.
"I am extremely happy with where I qualified. I just go into turn one and bump Marcos out of the way," Biffle said. "No, I am extremely happy, I just don't know about this tire that we are going to."
Carl Edwards had other problems besides the new tires. He'll start from the back after abandoning his qualifying run.
"I think it is a fuel issue," Edwards said. "It almost feels like there is an air leak or something in the pickup for the fuel."
Points leader Matt Kenseth qualified sixth. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was 17th, and Kurt Busch was 26th in his return from a one-week suspension for verbally abusing a media member.
Ambrose, the Australian who has one win in 133 Sprint Cup starts, entered the record books in his No. 9 Ford, but the biggest theme this week hasn't been the drivers, but rather the track itself. It was repaved in the offseason, and Ambrose joined Elliott, Benny Parsons and Cale Yarborough as the only drivers to win a pole at over 200 mph.
IndyCar at West Allis, Wis.: Ryan Hunter-Reay found his way back to victory lane at the Milwaukee Mile, holding off Tony Kanaan.
It was the sixth career victory and first this season for Hunter-Reay, who brought home a victory for the man who brought the historic but financially troubled Milwaukee track back to IndyCar -- car owner Michael Andretti, who served as the race promoter.
Kanaan was second, followed by James Hinchcliffe, Oriol Servia and E.J. Viso.
Scott Dixon, who came into the race second in the points, had to serve a drive-through penalty for jumping a restart and finished 11th. He questioned the penalty afterward.
Last year's Milwaukee winner, Dario Franchitti, started from pole position and dominated the early stages of the race. But he fell back in the field and then spun out and hit the wall on lap 195.
Points leader Will Power finished 12th.
Alliance Truck Parts 250 at Brooklyn, Mich.: Joey Logano followed up his Sprint Cup victory at Pocono last weekend with a win on the Nationwide Series at Michigan International Speedway.
Logano held off James Buescher for his fifth Nationwide win of the year and 14th of his career. He has won four of the last five races in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
Kurt Busch, back from a one-week suspension, finished third.
Buescher tried to pass Logano on the inside in the final seconds but wasn't able to.
Olive Branch's Ricky Stenhouse Jr. finished 25th after staring in 20th. Danica Patrick went into an early spin and finished 18th after a problem-filled race.
NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals at Bristol, Tenn.: Antron Brown retained the No. 1 position in Top Fuel qualifying Saturday, and Bob Tasca and Allen Johnson also kept the top spots in their divisions .
Brown set both ends of Bristol Dragway's Top Fuel track records during his second qualifying attempt Friday night with a 3.814-second pass at 323.12 mph.
Tasca topped the Funny Car field with his Friday night pass of 4.063 seconds at 310.48 mph. In Pro Stock, Tennessee driver Allen Johnson also remained on top with his Friday night run of 6.623 at 207.75.
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Former Director, Africa Program, Woodrow Wilson Center.
STEVE MCDONALD, now serving as a Public Policy Scholar (PPS) at the Center, began his association with the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2002 when he was hired as a consultant to help administer a post-conflict reconciliation project in Burundi. In remained in that capacity, expanding that work to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia, until 2008. At that time, McDonald was asked...
Program Officer, Ghana Center for Democratic Development
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Founding Director of the Intrastate Conflict Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Robert Rotberg is the Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Intrastate Conflict and President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation. He was President of Lafayette College and Academic Vice President of Tufts University, and Professor of Political Science at MIT. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was Fulbright Research Professor at the Paterson...


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Will the Davis Cup drought end for United States?
Federer won the Australian Open, again. So, too, did Serena. Joel Drucker looks at the first three months of 2007 in an attempt to project the rest of the season.
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Postal slowdown means Midway shutdown
The agency is closing 252 of 487 sorting centers nationwide to stay solvent
Jackson said potential buyers have stepped forward with an interest in the 436,000-square-foot facility. She said the agency plans to maintain a retail presence in the area, whether on the same property through a deal with a buyer or by opening up a new storefront nearby.
The postal service's budget-cutting plan must wait for an advisory opinion from the independent Postal Regulatory Commission. The opinion, which is slated for March, is nonbinding and only substantial pressure from Congress, business or the public might affect the cuts.
Plans announced Monday are among the few options the postal service has to reduce its costs without Congressional approval. Separate bills have passed House and Senate committees, including one bill spearheaded by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista.
Issa's bill would require the postal service to develop a plan to return to profitability, and would authorize the agency to reduce mail delivery to five days a week.
"Had USPS acted earlier, savings could have almost certainly been achieved without any impact on service," Issa said Monday. "USPS needs to embrace comprehensive reform legislation to return to solvency."
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has been pushing for some of the changes in the Issa bill, but the agency also opposes additional layers of budget-cutting reviews introduced by the legislation.
The delays in mail service announced under the plan could slow everything from last-minute birthday cards to Netflix's DVDs-by-mail to mail-order prescription drugs.
First-class mail, which is currently supposed to be delivered within the continental U.S. in one to three days, would now be expected in two to three days, meaning mailers could no longer expect overnight delivery to surrounding communities.
The postal service's San Diego District, which encompasses zip codes in San Diego, Imperial, Riverside and San Bernadino counties, shipped its overnight first class mail on time 97.7 percent of the time during the first quarter of 2011, the highest percentage of any district in the country.


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Using an icepick and a hammer, knock holes in eyes of coconut.
Drain coconut water into a small bowl and reserve.
In a small baking pan, bake coconut in preheated oven 12 to 15 minutes or until hot.
Do not overcook or flesh will be dry.
In sink or on newspapers, crack coconut open by tapping center with a hammer.
Remove white flesh.
Trim away dark outer skin, if desired.
Cut flesh in 1/2-inch pieces.
Pour reserved coconut water into a large measuring cup.
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On 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin. Within hours, three were dead and five more were wounded. The survivors returned from war, more-or-less intact, to live through the next sixty-odd years in the shadow of that traumatic event. Men of Mont St Quentin tells the story of the men of Nine Platoon and their families. This social history by Dr Peter Stanley was made possible because Garry Roberts, the father of one of the dead, was so grieved by his son Frank's death that he obsessively collected accounts of what happened that afternoon. The Roberts' family papers reveal the lives of Frank's comrades and their families as they came to terms with loss and life after war.
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20 Examples Of Food Imitating Art
It's okay to play with your food. It's art now, you see. Here are twenty famous works of art rendered in food.
Fruit and vegetables recreating Rene Magritte's Son of Man.
Vincent Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat recreated with leeks.
Pancakes inspired by Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory.
Peanut butter and jelly in the likeness of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa
A jellybean version of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Gummy versions of the Venus de Milo.
Cupcakes frosted in the style of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night.
Cake inspired by the Composition series by Piet Mondrian.
Andy Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe created with Nestlé Smarties.
The Creation of Adam, a portion of Michelangelo's work on the Sistene Chapel, rendered on a banana.
A portrait of Sarah Josepha Hale after a nineteenth-century engraving, rendered in Thanksgiving leftovers. Hale convinced Abraham Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence carved from cheese.
Marshmellows in the likeness of Pablo Picasso's The Dream.
Grant Wood's American Gothic rendered in vegetables.
Edgar Degas's Woman in Bath recreated in toast.
A coffee mosaic of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa
Auguste Rodin's The Thinker in chocolate. Check out the video footage.
Rembrandt Van Rijn's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp with vegetables.
Pablo Picasso's Girl on a Pillow recreated with multiple cupcakes.
Edvard Munch's The Scream in melted ice cream.
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Nero182 Sep 19, 2010 2:37 PM
Re: numbness in left hand after holding phone in response to 80skids@80skids Was the replacement they give you fine?
I am experiencing a numbness when holding the phone and I have never had this on phones I have used before! 3G, 3GS and also a HTC Desire phone.
I am hoping it's just a defected handset and I have booked a Genius appointment for this week!
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Injector Sep 19, 2010 3:48 PM
Re: numbness in left hand after holding phone in response to BertieSSome people experience tinnitus whilst watching low-volume television and others develop tumours allegedly from mobile phone use. I subscribe to the train of thought that mobile phones are going to be proven damaging in years to come, just like cigarettes were. I couldn't live without mine now but I do worry about the effects of using it, bigtime. Some people are more sensitive than others and just because the average user doesn't experience problems, that doesn't mean they don't exist for some folk. To say the OP is talking rubbish, being paranoid or slating Apple is daft. He quite possibly does experience a problem from using the IP4. Who knows. One thing's for certain, the external antenna was certainly a bad idea.
Cookiemarlene Jun 22, 2012 5:02 AM
Re: numbness in left hand after holding phone in response to BertieS
I got numbness and tingling from my ipad. You are not crazy. The EMFs are screwing with your body. I use a Q-neclace to prevent the RF. It helps for external electricity but with the ipad and iphone you have to touch it to get it to work and since your body is electric, this added electricity is causing problems for you and for me and for thousands. Apple is well aware of it and let me return the ipad. It was so bad that it was waking me up at night.
Sirfoxelot Jun 22, 2012 5:12 AM
Re: numbness in left hand after holding phone in response to BertieS
BertieS wrote:Has anyone experienced any numbness in their hand after holding the phone?
Don't waste it,
I'm sure there's a good use for a Numb Hand
KiltedTim Jun 22, 2012 6:24 AM
Re: numbness in left hand after holding phone in response to Cookiemarlene
I think your tin-foil hat is a little too tight...
19Memphis44 Aug 6, 2012 3:45 AM
Re: numbness in left hand after holding phone in response to BertieS
I have definitely been plagued by numbness, and pain in my left hand palm and middle finger, and my right hand palm and ring finger. The fingers lock into trigger finger position, and it is severely painful to have to straighten them out with the other hand. This has been going on for about 4 months, and I have visited both my regular internal medicine physician, and a bone specialist. They both referred me to a hand surgeon. This condition has been defined as trigger fingers and iPhone3g Tendonitis (a well known hand problem), the surgery is very painful, and the recovery time quite long (about 4 months). Right now I am sleeping in wrist braces, and I take Ibuprophen about 3 or 4 times per day, 800 mg. Don't really know if it is Apple's to fix, but they do encourage that we build our lives around our iPhones and iPads. I hate what this is doing to our society, especially our young people whose iPhone and computer time needs to be severely limited. I have noticed young people using their iPhones in restaurants while with their dates or families. Sometimes they are texting each other! My Granddaughters have been sending and receiving approximately 3,000 texts per month. No more though, their parents have put their footsdown! Face-to-face conversations are almost non-existent. Sign of the times, I hope not. There is nothing like a group of people talking about facinating subjects.
DonnaLawson Dec 8, 2012 6:48 PM
Re: numbness in left hand after holding phone in response to BertieS
I experience this problem, tingling/numbness from just holding the phone after a few minutes. Most of my usage is reading the phone while holding in my left hand and the tingling is in my hand just below my little finger. I had the problem with my iphone 4, but it is worse with my iphone 5. More powerul radiation perhaps? I'm trying to put the phone on a table to read it now but thats not always possible. I do notice my ipad 2 does this as well but not as bad. It often feels numb tingling for a day or so after if i have held the phone for a while, so as you can inagine, unless I rake an intentional break from the phone, i get it a lot. Why are there so many people who say we are imagining this? Just because it hasn't affected you doesn't mean it isn't happening. It's a known fact mobile phones emit microwave radiation. So why is it such a stretch to think it migjt be affecting our hand?
AndyAnderson11 Jan 22, 2013 7:19 AM
Re: numbness in left hand after holding phone in response to Cookiemarlene
I just got an iPad mini about a month ago, and I have noticed some uncomfortable sensations in my arms while using it. It's really humming away on the LTE netowrk, and you can feel it.
I am surprised how many people are using this forum to condescend to 'tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists' and spread misinformation. We are just people, asking a question. Is anyone else out there experiencing what I am experiencing? It appears that the answer is yes. Living in denial is unproductive.
I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how to reduce these numbness/tingling sensations when loading content? For example, any specific case designs you have used that helped? I really like my iPad, but I find it painful to enjoy the best content at high speeds!
Cookiemarlene Jan 23, 2013 4:48 AM
Re: numbness in left hand after holding phone in response to BertieS
I posted this info over a year ago. I had to return my ipad due to the numbness and tingling. I had to go for physical therapy and needed to wear wrist guards. It took a year to get it away. The only thing you can do Andy if you want to keep your mini is to get a q-tape to put on the device by Quantum Nutritions to prevent the bad electricity from screwing with your body. Also you need to wear something around your neck to protect your body like a q neclace. You also should turn the wifi off at night when you are sleeping. When I returned my ipad after a few months apple allowed me to return it and said they knew that this issue for many people. The numbness/tingling also happened to my husband so I know I am not crazy.


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Winter!: Prepare for holiday gaming!
Classic game that I played quite a bit as a kid. Not much else to say, but its always amusing to pick up again every now and then. (not completed or owned, but accurate rating is 6.50)
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NYC Bus Time For All MTA / NYC
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This NY app is designed for speed and simplicity. It combine function with taste. I hope it will bring you a little comfort in your journey during the cold weather. Please do not hesitate to contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com for any assistance and feedback.
-MTA bus tracker! We bring you bus tracker information, right to your mobile device!
-Closest MTA routes in NYC lookup based on your location
-Simple and useful home screen widgets that are resizable, scrollable and screen lock enable
-The route widget enable you to transfer bus at the right places.
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-Multiple single 1x1 widgets. One for going to work and one for going home.
-Route map with all buses for a particular route
All New York Bus are live now! Bus routes and stops are up to date.
The built in home screen widgets makes you feel more in control of your journey as just a glance on your phone's home screen tells you all you need to know.
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Data is licensed by New York MTA Bus Time. Bus NYC app is developed by an individual.
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My translation of the birth record for Bernardo Mizi:
At the town of Atri, on the 13th of April 1866, appeared: Giovanni Mizi, age:41, son of deceased Bernardo, profession: shoemaker, living in Atri, presented a male baby on the 13th of April 1866, born of his wife Elena Ferrante, age: 36, profession: spinner, named baby: Bernardo.
Witnesses: Raffaele Iezzi, age: 40, profession: ?, and Domenico Iezzi, age: 22, profession: ?, living in Atri.
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Prodigy Network Announces Winners of 17John Crowdsourcing Competition
Prodigy Network have selected the winners of the crowdsourcing design competitions for their 17John 'Cotel' in New York, including winners for the design of the public interior spaces and the private rooms. The Cotel concept is intended to meet the changing needs of the modern business traveler; providing living spaces somewhere between a long-term apartment and a short term hotel, but also flexible spaces that can be used for work and meetings.
The crowdsourced competitions were run via Prodigy Network's Design Lab website, and judging was conducted with a mixture of public voting and jury selection. "The winners of the 17John competition were intuitive to the needs of travelers, creative in the interactive spaces and understood the function of extended stay residences," said Prodigy Network Founder Rodrigo Nino. Read on after the break to see the winning proposals.
Frick Collection to Expand With New 6 Story Gallery
Yesterday the Frick Collection announced its plans for a 6-story extension to its gallery in New York, designed by Davis Brody Bond. This article by Robin Pogrebin in the New York Times outlines the details of the extension, as the Frick adds itself to the list of post-recession cultural building projects – a list which includes the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Miami's Pérez Art Museum. The article also outlines the challenges the Frick will have in expanding its landmarked 1914 building. Read the article in full here.
Conversation / Soft Footprints: Works by SO – IL
The Parrish Art Museum is pleased to present Soft Footprints: Works by SO – IL as the fourth installment of Architectural Sessions—an ongoing series co-presented with AIA Peconic that explores the connection between art and architecture, and how both disciplines elicit conversation about space, form, materials and aesthetics. On June 6, host architect Maziar Behrooz, AIA, will moderate a discussion with SO – IL co-founders Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu about their design philosophy, inspiration, and interdisciplinary approach to architecture and designing spaces for art.
Winner of the MoMA/MoMA PS1Young Architects Program in 2010, SO – IL is a Brooklyn-based, idea-driven design firm with a global reach that brings together extensive experience from the fields of architecture, academia, and the arts. By approaching its projects with an intellectual and artistic rigor, fueled by a strong commitment to realizing its ideas in the world, SO – IL functions as a creative catalyst involved in all scales and stages of the architectural process. Recent projects include the exhibition and events spaces for the first Frieze Art Fair, NYC, the Kukje Art Center in Seoul, South Korea (2012), and the UC Davis Museum of Art, completion expected in 2016.
Title: Conversation / Soft Footprints: Works by SO – IL
Website: http://parrishart.org/programs/676
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Until: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 20:00
Venue: Parrish Art Museum
Address: 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY 11976, USA
First Look Inside OFFICEUS, the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale
To kick off our coverage of the Venice Biennale, we're bringing you photos of OfficeUS — the United States' contribution to the national exhibitions organized under the theme of "Absorbing Modernity." The pavilion houses both a repository of information about the history of architectural firms in the US (with a focus on the US's role in exporting architecture) and serves as the base of operations for a new architectural firm that was created solely for this year's biennale. The research, collected into booklets, lines the walls of the space. While visitors mill around the pavilion, the members of OfficeUS work at specially designed tables. The output and deliverables of the office will be determined as the Biennale progresses. We also got the chance to speak to the organizers, so stayed tuned for video interviews with the curators and designers of the US Pavilion (coming soon!). For now, however, read on to the see the curator's statement on the exhibit.
Exhibition: Five Proposals for the Future of the Atlantic Yards
Warehouse 623 Gallery is pleased to announce "Five Proposals for the Future of the Atlantic Yards", an exhibition of alternative architectural schemes for the Atlantic Yards site. "Abstracts of New York", a selection of photographs by Jean-Marc Bellaiche, will be shown concurrently.
In response to growing concerns about the direction that development of the Atlantic Yards might take and the potential impact on the surrounding communities, a group of architects exploring alternatives from a design perspective will present their work. The exhibition has been organized by architect Thomas Barry, principal of the Brooklyn-based design firm OPerA Studio, with contributed exhibits from five firms, including Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design (JZA+D); Amoia Cody Architecture; David Cunningham Architecture Planning; Matthias Altwicker and Farzana Gandhi; and OPerA Studio.
For more information please visit the exhibition's official website.
Title: Exhibition: Five Proposals for the Future of the Atlantic Yards
Website: http://warehouse623.com/ATLANTIC-YARDS
From: Thu, 05 Jun 2014
Until: Sun, 22 Jun 2014
Venue: Warehouse 623 Gallery
Address: 623 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA
Exhibition / Knud Lonberg-Holm: The Invisible Architect
Ubu Gallery is pleased to present Knud Lonberg-Holm: The Invisible Architect, a debut exhibition devoted to this overlooked, yet highly influential, 20th Century modernist. Never-before-seen photographs, architectural drawings, letters, graphic design, and ephemera from Lonberg-Holm's remarkably diverse career will be on view through August 1, 2014. The exhibition, which consists of selections from the extensive archive assembled by architectural historian Marc Dessauce, will solidify the importance of this emblematic figure in early 20th Century cultural and architectural history. Metropolis Magazine, the national publication of architecture and design, will publish an article on Knud Lonberg-Holm to coincide with this groundbreaking exhibition.
Born in Denmark, Knud Lonberg-Holm (January 15, 1895–January 2, 1972), was an architect, photographer, author, designer, researcher, and teacher. Lonberg-Holm's early work in Denmark and Germany initially associated him with the Berlin Constructivist and Dutch De Stijl groups. An émigré to America in 1923, Lonberg-Holm was a fundamental correspondent with prominent European architects and their modernist counterparts in the U.S. The exhibition will feature a selection of letters to Lonberg-Holm from a pantheon of the European avant-garde including László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Gropius, Theo Van Doesburg, Buckminster Fuller, Hannes Meyer, J.J.P. Oud, El Lissitzky, and Richard Neutra.
Title: Exhibition / Knud Lonberg-Holm: The Invisible Architect
Website: http://www.ubugallery.com/lonberg-holm-invisible-architect/#.U3-vKC9RG5t
From: Tue, 06 May 2014
Until: Fri, 01 Aug 2014
Venue: Ubu Gallery
Address: 416 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022, USA
Exhibition / Open to the Public: Civic Space Now
This summer, the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and the Center for Architecture Foundation will present Open to the Public: Civic Space Now, an exhibition exploring why people gravitate to (or avoid) civic spaces – the places between buildings where people can assemble. Curated by Thomas Mellins and designed by Athletics, the exhibition opens Thursday, June 12, 6:00 PM and runs through Saturday, September 6 in the main galleries at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.
Open to the Public: Civic Space Now will be complemented by an international, day-long symposium on Saturday, May 14 that will also develop the ideas of other concurrent exhibitions at the Center for Architecture. For more information, please click here.
Title: Exhibition / Open to the Public: Civic Space Now
Website: http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=upcoming&expid=277
Organizers: AIANY
From: Thu, 12 Jun 2014
Until: Sat, 06 Sep 2014
Venue: Center For Architecture
Address: 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012, USA
Conference: Social Housing in Spain
Social Housing in Spain is intended to be the first of a series of international programs by the AIANY Housing Committee, highlighting exemplary housing design around the world. For the first program of the series, AIANY have invited three leading architects from Spain who are currently teaching in the tri-state area: Carmen Espegel, Iñaqui Carnicero, and María Hurtado de Mendoza. The panelists will present and comment upon innovative projects that follow the country's strong social commitment to housing.
The first decade of the XXI century was a landmark of quality and diversity in social housing in Spain.During those years, Spain built more collective housing than the production of England, France, and Germany combined. Approximately 4 million of units were built between 2000 and 2008. The municipal housing companies promoted, by means of open design competitions, a large number of significant works that championed research to new ways of living, hybrid typologies, construction systems linked to prefabrication and industrialization methods, and towards finding new explorations of shared space for new communities. The right to housing is guaranteed by the Spanish Constitution. Publicly protected housing in Spain represents a peculiarity compared to social housing models in other EU countries, in that it is housing provided almost entirely for owner-occupation.
Title: Conference: Social Housing in Spain
Website: http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=7055
Organizers: AIANY Housing Committee
From: Thu, 29 May 2014 18:00
Until: Thu, 29 May 2014 20:00
Venue: Center For Architecture
Address: 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012, USA
Exhibition: World's Fairs / Lost Utopias
In celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the 1964 New York World's Fair, Onishi Project and Kipton Cronkite are pleased to present World's Fairs: Lost Utopias, the debut exhibition of Jade Doskow's groundbreaking 7-year photography project. The exhibition will also include a 1968 triptych by Robert Rauschenberg and a dynamic group show—featuring Alexandra Posen, Greg Haberny, Naomi Reis, and Mark Freedman— inspired by the cultural zeitgeist that surrounded this event.
Jade Doskow's large-scale color photographs illustrate utopian iconic architecture and art remaining after the close of 1960's world's fairs, and the arbitrary nature of what has been preserved, discarded, or repurposed on these sites. In the cities represented here, New York dominates, in celebration of the 50-year anniversary. The crowning glory that still remains is the New York State Pavilion, an unusual, dynamic carousel-like structure designed by Philip Johnson.
Title: Exhibition: World's Fairs / Lost Utopias
From: Wed, 28 May 2014
Until: Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Venue: Onishi Project
Address: 521 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001, USA
Request for Proposals: The Energetic City / Connectivity in the Public Realm
The Design Trust for Public Space announces The Energetic City: Connectivity in the Public Realm, a new request for project proposals to redefine public space.
The Energetic City is an initiative to seed and develop new forms of connectivity among the diverse people, systems, and built, natural and digital environment of New York City. This public call invites proposals for research, design and planning projects to improve the experience of urban life by connecting people through 'great' design informed by the needs and aspirations of community users.
This year the Design Trust places a special emphasis of opening the project call to individuals, in addition to community groups and public agencies. We will offer seed funding so the projects can begin immediately. Projects may include the production of a clearly defined deliverable—a design prototype, pilot intervention, beta app, publication, video, or public artwork, among other possible formats—or be structured as the research, planning, or public outreach stage of a potentially larger project, where the process will inform the ultimate deliverable.
The kick-off event will take place on Monday May 19, from 7-9 pm, at BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street in Brooklyn. For more information, please click here.
Exhibition: TALL DC / New Monumentalism
Since it was enacted by Congress, the Height of Buildings Act of 1910 has restricted how tall buildings can be designed in the District of Columbia.
TALL DC: New Monumentalism features student work from the Catholic University of America's School of Architecture and Planning (CUA) that provocatively explores what Washington could look like in the absence of this law.
Working within CUA's Emerging Technologies and Media graduate concentration, students analyzed two of Washington's most recognizable structures, the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument, and questioned the definition of "monument" in the contemporary context of global commercial markets, residential migration, and iconic skylines.
Three distinct proposals for a mixed-use 'skyscraper' were created for the Department of Commerce site located near the National Mall. Using radically different design strategies, each concept offers a creative and controversial idea for building a TALL DC.
More information can be found here.
Title: Exhibition: TALL DC / New Monumentalism
Website: http://aiadac.com/sigal-gallery/tall-dc
Organizers: Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning
From: Thu, 22 May 2014
Until: Tue, 10 Jun 2014
Venue: District Architecture Center
Address: 421 7th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20004, USA
Competing Utopias: An Experimental Installation of Cold War Modern Design from East and West in One Context
Competing Utopias is a design collision that should never happen. But somehow, in Los Angeles, in 2014, twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it will.
This installation is a 'mash-up' in the most provocative sense of that word. Its force comes from the collision of two design cultures that have been kept apart but have been visually connected in ways yet unexamined. What's proposed is an experimental installation that presents Cold War modern design from East and West in one context.
Competing Utopias is organized by two Los Angeles institutions: the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences and the Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, each a different type of museum. The Neutra House is an iconic Los Angeles mid-century modern house museum, designed by Austrian born American architect Richard Neutra. The Wende Museum is the largest archive of Cold War artifacts in the world. Both 'institutions' originated in German speaking Europe, both subsequently landed in Los Angeles. Their collections embody two forks of a Cold War history.
Title: Competing Utopias: An Experimental Installation of Cold War Modern Design from East and West in One Context
Website: http://neutra-vdl.org/site/competing_utopias.asp?514201404423
From: Fri, 11 Jul 2014
Until: Sun, 14 Sep 2014
Venue: Neutra VDL Research House
Address: 2300 Silver Lake Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA
Architecture in the USA Today – In Infographics
As part of their ongoing ACSA Atlas Project, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) has just released a new set of infographics, showcasing a range of statistics relevant to both architecture students and professionals alike. The 10 images cover a range of issues, including: demographic concerns such as race and gender, economic concerns such as salaries and employment futures, and the number of architects and students in each state. Read on after the break for the full set.
Wynwood Gateway Park Competition
Metro 1 has partnered with DawnTown Miami to present an international ideas, design and build competition for a true urban park in the heart of the burgeoning Wynwood Arts District in Miami, Florida. The winning design team will have their idea and proposal built as well as a cash prize of $10,000.
Public space is a big problem in many Miami neighborhoods, specifically Wynwood. Currently, Wynwood has very limited public space. No dynamic urban neighborhood is complete without a variety of public and green spaces to engage the community. This competition seeks to help remedy this problem by asking designers to present a creative and unique concept for this ideally located Wynwood site that will be appropriate for the space and location.
For more information, please go to the competition's official website.
Light Matters: Richard Kelly, The Unsung Master Behind Modern Architecture's Greatest Buildings
Richard Kelly illuminated some of the twentieth century's most iconic buildings: the Glass House, Seagram Building and Kimbell Art Museum, to name a few. His design strategy was surprisingly simple, but extremely successful.
Lighting for architecture has been and still often is dominated by an engineering viewpoint, resigned to determining sufficient illuminance levels for a safe and efficient working environment. With a background in stage lighting, Kelly introduced a scenographic perspective for architectural lighting. His point of view might look self-evident to today's architectural community, but it was revolutionary for his time and has strongly influenced modern architecture.
Read more about Richard Kelly's remarkable, and unsung, contribution to architecutre, after the break.
Reanimate the Ruins International Design Competition
Once the fourth largest city in America, Michigan's primary Metropolis, Detroit has recently filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the United States. Among the many reasons for Detroit's decline, two stand out: an undiversified economic model, reliant on the production and sale of automobiles, and an unprecedented degree of sprawl. Currently more than 77% of jobs in the metropolitan area reside more than ten miles from the city center, making Detroit the most job-sprawled city in the US and stretching city services beyond capacity. Detroit's deterioration is just as much about urban decline as it is about industrial decline. Detroit is located in the Midwest portion of the United States and is part of a larger band of cities known as the Rust Belt which have gone through a process of decline over the past decades.
Amidst the ruins of Detroit stands the Packard Motor Plant. This 40-acre site once represented the height of the American Industrial Era; boasting 15 factory buildings and 36,000 employees producing luxury vehicles. It now stands gutted and vandalized, as a symbol of Detroit's staggering collapse. However, due to its strategic location only four miles from the city center, the Packard holds immense potential to address and combat the sprawl which contributed to Detroit's downturn.
Parallel Projections invites you to participate in this open, international design competition; Reanimate The Ruins! Participants are charged to investigate and propose a new dynamic and adaptive urban node on the site of the Packard. For more information please go to the competition's official website.
Rodrigo Nino: In Defense of Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding
As both crowdsourcing and crowdfunding gather momentum in the architecture world, they also gather criticism. The crowdsourcing design website Arcbazar, for example, has recently attracted critics who label it as "the worst thing to happen to architecture since the internet started." A few months ago, I myself strongly criticized the 17John apartment-hotel in New York for stretching the definition of "crowdfunding" to the point where it lost validity, essentially becoming a meaningless buzzword.
In response to this criticism, I spoke to Rodrigo Nino, the founder of Prodigy Network, the company behind 17 John, who offered to counter my argument. Read on after the break for his take on the benefits of tapping into the 'wisdom of crowds.'
City-County Building Plaza Design Competition
The City-County Building Plaza Design Competition is seeking a final conceptual design that would be implemented on an existing 1.94 acre open space on the City-County Building Property also known as the City-County Building Plaza (CCB Plaza).
The design team whose winning design is selected will receive $15,000 (2nd Place – $7,500; 3rd Place – $2,500) and will then be the preferred professional services provider for a full engineering/design contract (upon obtaining available funding) with the Indianapolis-Marion County Building Authority (IMCBA). Complete information can be found on the competition's official website.


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A seroepidemiologic study of Reston ebolavirus in swine in the Philippines
1 Department of Virology 1, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashimurayama, Tokyo, 208-0011, Japan
2 Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8575, Japan
3 Tohoku-RITM Collaborating Research Center for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, FILINVEST Corporate City, Alabang, Muntinlupa City, 1781, Philippines
4 Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, FILINVEST Corporate City, Alabang, Muntinlupa City, 1781, Philippines
5 Bureau of Animal Industry, Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City, 1107, Philippines
BMC Veterinary Research 2012, 8:82 doi:10.1186/1746-6148-8-82Published: 18 June 2012
Ebola viruses cause viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and non-human primates and are endemic in Africa. Reston ebolavirus (REBOV) has caused several epizootics in cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) but is not associated with any human disease. In late 2008, REBOV infections were identified in swine for the first time in the Philippines.
A total of 215 swine sera collected at two REBOV-affected farms in 2008, in Pangasinan and Bulacan, were tested for the presence of REBOV-specific antibodies using multiple serodiagnosis systems. A total of 98 swine sera collected in a non-epizootic region, Tarlac, were also tested to clarify the prevalence of REBOV infection in the general swine population in the Philippines.
Some 70 % of swine sera at the affected farms were positive for REBOV antibodies in the multiple serodiagnosis systems. On the other hand, none of the swine sera collected in Tarlac showed positive reactions in any of the diagnosis systems.
The high prevalence of REBOV infection in swine in the affected farms in 2008 suggests that swine is susceptible for REBOV infection. The multiple serological assays used in the study are thought to be useful for future surveillance of REOBV infection in swine in the Philippines.


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13.11 miles
This run includes the final section of the New York City Marathon route. Bergland notes that it's a great way to experience "the finish" if you're thinking about trying the race.
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1. Pacing yourself at the beginning will pay off at the end. You should be able to talk without getting out of breath as you warm up.
2. You'll work all your leg muscles on this set of rolling hills. Lean in as you ascend, and shift your weight into your hips as you descend.
3. "During the marathon, this straightaway seems to last forever," says Bergland. "It's a great place to practice mental toughness."
4. "The West Side is ideal for interval training," says Bergland.
5. Runner's high is no excuse to zone out. "You'll be sharing this terrain with everyone from high-speed bikers to baby strollers, so stay alert."
6. The uphill half of the Brooklyn Bridge is your final push. Stay in the runner's lane.
7. Stretch out in Brooklyn Bridge Park, then hit Grimaldi's (19 Old Fulton St between Front and Water Sts, Dumbo, Brooklyn; 718-858-4300) to replace the calories you've burned.
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Aries Traits
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The spring equinox, March 21, is the beginning of the new zodiacal year and Aries, the first sign, is therefore that of new beginnings. The young ram is adventurous, ambitious, impulsive, enthusiastic and full of energy. The Arian is a pioneer both in thought and action, very open to new ideas and a lover of freedom. They welcome challenges and will not be diverted from their purpose except by their own impatience, which will surface if they don't get quick results.
Aries subjects are courageous leaders with a genuine concern for those they command, being responsible people, it is rare that they will use their subordinates to obtain their own objectives as leaders, but occasionally it does happen. They do not make very good followers because they are too "take charge". They may be unwilling to obey or submit to directions for which they can see no reason, or with which they disagree. They are much concerned with self, both positively and negatively - self-reliant but also self centered (sometimes) and concerned with their own personal advancement and physical satisfaction. Their immense energy makes them aggressive and restless, argumentative occasionally, headstrong, quick tempered, easily offended and capable of holding grudges if they feel themselves affronted.
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While few select lenders are planning for a winding-up petition against REI Agro, the country's largest basmati player, Jhunjhunwala family, the promoter group, is trying hard to salvage the situation by convincing the consortium of lenders to agree to a corrective action plan as per the RBI guidelines with regards to its debt burden.
Following the company's rout in last few years, lenders have been left shaken hard with Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) Bank burdened with a stressed loan of Rs 650 crore in the last quarter spooking the investors on Friday and United Bank of India (UBoI) filing a winding-up petition in the court.
REI Agro, which on Saturday reported a loss of Rs 49.70 crore in the March quarter against a profit of Rs 53.48 lakhs in the corresponding quarter of last year, said its board has agreed for initiating a corrective action plan - a nomenclature under Reserve Bank of India guidelines - for its total debt taken from a consortium of banks, which have now formed a Joint Lenders Forum to implement it.
The day also saw elder brother Sanjay Jhunjhunwala stepping down as chairman and managing director Sandip Jhunjhunwala taking over the reins.
"We are working out a scheme to revive the company. It is too premature now to disclose it and by month end we will finalise it and submit it to the joint lenders' forum," Sandip Jhunjhunwala, vice chairman and MD, told dna.
RBI in February defined a corrective action plan as one not worked out to encourage just restructuring or recovery, but to arrive at an "early and feasible solution to preserve the economic value of underlying assets as well as the lenders' loans".
Jhunjhunwala however said the process would involve restructuring of the loans also.
Apart from J&K Bank, the affected lenders are UBoI with an exposure of Rs 215 crore, Dena Bank having little over Rs 100 crore and also UCO Bank, with total aggregate exposure of Rs 5,680 crore.
To begin with, the consortium consisting of 20 lenders led by UBoI and UCO met in the first week of May and asked the management of REI Agro to come up with a revival plan with a detailed action plan with active guidance from the consortium.
Shortly thereafter, UBoI on May 14 said it has filed a winding up petition against the company openly questioning the viability of REI Agro and claimed that while all recourse for recovering the amount has been taken the basmati exporter is in no position to service it.
REI Agro reacted saying UBoI's move is surprising considering that the bank has already agreed to the corrective action plan and claimed other consortium partners have requested the bank to withdraw the winding up petition as this would frustrate the restructuring effort.
REI Agro's predicament is surprising as the going has been good for players in the sector with basmati exports doubling in the last four years to about 4.02 million tonnes and with profits of competitors like KRBL jumping 240% in the March quarter and LT Foods' net rising 103%.
The answer lies in poor working capital management and funding of projects, which have absorbed significant loans.
It has been setting up three projects at an investment of Rs 1,135.50 crore at a debt:equity of 2.7:1 in a bid to enhance basmati processing capacity and setting up warehousing and packaging facility.
While majority of the project cost has been spent by January they are expected to contribute to profitability only by the end of FY15.
But even as REI Agro struggles with restructuring its debt with domestic lenders, it has to repay FCCBs of $104.65 million in November, and repaying it would pose a challenge.


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Thread: Sketchbook of a beginner
April 27th, 2011 #1
Sketchbook of a beginner
Hi guys, i uhh made a thread before but it didn't work? I dunno it said it will be approved first but i'm seeing threads created after mine so i guess it didn't work? *Sigh* Well let's start again!
I'm transitioning from DA to CA because i want to improve my skills and i don't really think DA is a place for that. I go there from time to time for some inspiration though
Anyway i'm currently in Uni studying a BA degree in Games art. I want to specialize in 3D Modelling but i really want to get my drawing skills better since that's where it all starts right?
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Last edited by Sibby; June 1st, 2011 at 11:07 AM.
Hide this ad by registering as a memberApril 27th, 2011 #2
Uhh okay seems to have posted. This whole attachment thing is pretty confusing or maybe i'm just stupid.
Uhh don't ask...
I did all of these yesterday. I really have lost it with gesture drawing. Need to start from scratch, the last time i did life drawing was months back in uni at the beginning of first semester. I'm using a site called pixelovely that i saw another member recommend and it's great for what it does!
April 27th, 2011 #3
I've just been accepted to do games art next year and it would be great to see some of your 3d stuff as well. Which uni are you at btw?
I like your figure and face study although I think you need to vary the strength in your lines and not draw the whole of the features. For example in the mouth when you look at the bottom lips they tend to blend into the skin below and you could show this by drawing the line with less weight.
I like your life drawings stuff and personally i find it easier working on a mid tone paper to let you draw highlights and areas of darkness.
Keep going!
April 27th, 2011 #4
For some reason these didn't appear on the last post. Is there some sort of limit for the amount of images you can attach per post?
Anyhoo these were also done at the uni life drawing classes months back.
April 27th, 2011 #5
April 27th, 2011 #6
Okay todays been one of those day were i cannot seem to do anything and it's really annoying. I grew more frustrated every time i did more gesture drawings! It might be because i've locked myself in a little room with a computer and the fact that it was quite hot today. I couldn't even finish a gesture in 2 minutes!!!! ARRGGHHH!
This looks like a man wearing a wig
April 28th, 2011 #7
Hey sibby, thanks for dropping by my SB.
I understand how you can feel scared with the industry being what it is right now.
But I also happen to live in a country with like two studios, woo :|
I think you're rushing ahead quite a bit with trying to draw the human figure.
You should focus more on understanding form, not drawing something fantastic.
The body (and everything everywhere) can be broken down to basic shapes like cubes,
spheres and cylinders. First you need to be able to draw these basic shapes with great accuracy before you can start to blend and merge them into something new.
Being able to draw and understand form -greatly- improves your 3D work as well.
Look to this thread for inspiration and studies.
Look at the first page, then look at the last.
Study his progress and learn from what he draws, in fact, draw what he draws but try to do it better every time. Pick up a book on the subject and read.
Good luck and be patient
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April 28th, 2011 #8
Reedux - Thanks for the advice!
So today as you can see I've gone through the Fun with a pencil book. I've realized that using a tablet and forgetting about traditional media was a very very bad move and i wish i never did do that [insert kick up the arse emote]. I can barely draw with a pencil anymore. So I've started from the beginning. I've got some uni work that I've yet to do so i might not post for a while. I'll try and get some sketches done daily but i'll bulk upload them at some point. Slowly making my way through the book and then i think i'll start with the figure drawings book. I really need to get a bigger sketchbook, i'm doing all my work in a small A5. But then there's the question of where to put a big sketchbook. My workspace is tooooo small.
April 30th, 2011 #9
Hi! So yesterday was my birthday, so didn't get anything done lol Uhh today i just looked at the internet for some refs and then i was like "WHYY THE HELL DIDN'T I LOOK AT CA??!!?" Found a really good site posted by someone called
I'll be using this site and normal google searches and just draw from them. I've decided that i want to first work on getting the body shape right, so i'm just going to draw and draw people from pictures. Here's some work i did 2 days ago and some i did today.
May 1st, 2011 #10
Today i didn't feel like doing much, Just one of those days eh? So i started this late in the evening and took around an 30-40 minutes to do. Life study colour. I don't do this at all but it was quite enjoyable. I was thinking of something to draw and then thought why not do things that are on my desk? Since i had fun doing this i'll probably do this more often. One that that i had a problem was this weird reflection on the monitor gloss. It's like distorted and hard to draw if you have two eyes open at the same time. So if i closed either eye the reflection changed depending on which eye i changed. It was complicated to draw so i just did what i saw with my left eye closed
May 2nd, 2011 #11
Today i didn't want to do much. Desk is a mess and i really cba cleaning it up. Tablet was here from yesterdays digital drawing. So both of these are from imagination. On the second one i applied the Loomis studies for proportions. It went okay i guess. Still need to improve though and i really want to get out of the habit of colouring in cartoonish. Want to make it a bit more realistic, not sure how to start off though!
Also i sort of cheated in photoshop with the orangy tone look. Just added a layer filled with orange and set it to color burn and messed around with the colour balance lol
June 1st, 2011 #12
It's Been quite a while. I've been very very busy with the final assignments for the end of this year. And i haven't had any time to upload some work. I mainly had some level creation work in a game engine, some reports to do and just this artwork, didn't like observation work because it got boring pretty quickly but here is the word i handed it.
There's some things i cant believe i got wrong. Mainly Colour and stupid anatomy errors i only realized once i was finished with the painting lol. Anyway got a long summer break from uni but might also be going on holiday so i might not update for a few months. That's a BIG maybe
June 1st, 2011 #13
Love the duke nukem
June 1st, 2011 #14
hey, you live right near me! boltoner here
great start to a sketchbook, to me it seems like you have that want and drive to improve that's all important, but you're just trying to find out how? so far, you're moving in the right general direction reedux gave awesome advice on improving and ways of looking at the human body and anatomy, and i'll just add that it's also important to think, like he said, in terms of general shapes for the body when you do any drawing of a figure - you seem to have implemented his advice in the figures you did from the pictures but not in the gestures, you still seem to be looking at the gestures in terms of contour - look for the central line of action first, then draw the body round that, thinking of it in terms of form rather than line.
the still life is really impressive, especially since it was your first you might want to watch the ellipses and perspective though, it looks slightly distorted? also, shadows have different shades and colours inside, it really helps the realism if you think about the colour of the shadows in terms of bounce/reflected light and the colour of the lightsource - this is a really helpful and in depth tutorial on that. and don't worry, it is hard to get the hang of at first - i'm nowhere near understanding it yet either x)
also, in terms of getting more realistic skintones and colouring, other than doing more still lives, its helpful also to do colour photo studies. just, do alot of everything, it helps
one last thing, this is a good overall tutorial on drawing and painting in general, it's all summed up pretty awesomely and easy to understand.
just keep doing what you're doing, listen to the advice of people on here, and you'll improve in no time im looking forward to seeing it happen! and thanks for the hel-looks link ;D
February 14th, 2012 #15
Hope This Posts
Dammit i wrote soo much and it all dissapeared! My post said it will be approved by a moderator and then simply vanished! Anyhoo i'm not going to type my wall of text again but i just wanted to say is that i pushed drawing to the side while i was at uni in my last semester as it mainly involved digital art. However now in this new semester we have life drawing classes that we must attend and i'm once again eager to get drawing and improving! Here is some work i did on Monday.
As you can see i'm still quite rough in anatomy and need to practise more and make up for that lost time! I'm going to start drawing more frequently (mainly gesture drawings) and will also post up monday life drawing sessions!
Also here's 2 pieces of digital work i did for an assignment last semester! They needed to be printed out on A2 so i had to scale them down greatly to fit in this message
Any crit is appreciated!
February 16th, 2012 #16
Just a few sketches for an assignment!
I'm going to be picking two and then working on them more. The final character of my choice will be taken into Zbrush and made into a 3d model
February 16th, 2012 #17
Hey Sibby! I'm in your class @ Uni, can you guess who
Free Bump for your sketchbook!
February 16th, 2012 #18
Oh hai thar Lance. You are stalking me too much! Didn't know you were registered on here You got a thread of your own?
February 16th, 2012 #19
Yes matey, here http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=234698
I don't visit these forums much, but I'm going to make a concious effort to do so from now on.
February 16th, 2012 #20
Some gesture drawings. Some took 30 seconds (mainly the top 3) and others ranged from 3-5 minutes.
February 20th, 2012 #21
So today's life drawing went okay (ish) i didn't feel the energy to do much and found it somewhat boring having the same model as last week since i'd like to explore different different body types and attempt them.
I REALLY liked the 60second poses as it really got my brain working and i was constantly in "Do this and this and put this here and move to the next gesture!"
I'll also upload some tomorrow as i've managed to shift my timetables around and attend the additional life drawing classes
Oh and SORRY if the image is TOO big!
February 20th, 2012 #22
Good start. Try loosening up your mark-making, find the overall shape of what you're drawing, don't worry about keeping clean outlines. Find the shape and then give it some mass by figuring out the lighting, then your pieces will get a mass and become more realistic. Don't worry about details yet, that can come later.
Keep it up!
February 21st, 2012 #23
@The_Flying_Dutchman Thanks for dropping by! I'll try loosening up my drawings in the future, the only reason i don't do it is because i'm afraid the end result will just end up being scribbles on the paper!
So as i've promised. Optional life class drawings i did today. We didn't have that many poses and they were quite longer. But i just found a great way to make my commutes more awesome! Smartphone + Pixelovely + Sketchbook = practise! I loved working with a pen and will do a lot more of these from now on! I messed up real bad on the 40 minutes, realized that the back was too 'big' than the models actual back. Messed up on the shoulder part.
February 23rd, 2012 #24
Some more train drawings! Quick 60 sec poses to get me started with the day. Hopefully,i will be posting some sketches of props for a new assignment at a train station. More life class drawings to come on Mon and Tues
February 25th, 2012 #25
Concept for a uni assignment. Still working on it and trying to get used to the idea of not making my images full of black cartoony lines
February 26th, 2012 #26
Finished the concept that i posted above and also have my second concept character for the uni assignment. I'll probably work on this a little bit more, but its not the main focus for the assignment
February 26th, 2012 #27
One thing that helped me was drawings parts of the anatomy, like the nose, eyes, and feet first, then taking what I learned about the smaller forms and putting them in bigger ones. May seem boring but starting small and then going big helps out a lot!
One of the best things to do is still lifes of geometric shapes. This helps you learn positive and negative space, color, shadow, bounced light, and form. It will drastically help you improve on more complex shapes like the human face as well as the more subtle aspects such as wrinkles.
March 5th, 2012 #28
@Mr.Ebony Thanks for dropping by! Yes i know what you mean! I'll definitely have to try it out sometime, do you know a good place that has tons and tons of references for Facial features? A lot of people say its better getting the human structure burned into ones brain and then the detail can come later, but i would love to know where people get references for doing these kinds of practices! Thanks again!
Sketchbook Update:
Sorry! i know i didn't upload last week but i was too busy juggling assignments about. Have a presentation in a few weeks so i've got to get dug into that too! Here is life drawing work from last week and this week (today actually, like 3 hours ago) we had a new model come in which was a refreshing change!) Our teacher taught us about working out the composition which is what i attempted to do in some of these studies. I've made some mistakes that i realized at the end of the drawing (DOH!)
April 1st, 2012 #29
These are the last life drawing practises. The module is over, so i wont be having life drawing anymore which is a shame really, since i enjoyed them. There are free sessions which i'll try to make an effort to attend depending on time schedule and how tied down i am with other assignments


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The Dark Knight
Heath Ledger's Joker was one of the most anticipated, built up and talked-about performances in recent movie history, helping Christopher Nolan's 2008 sequel to smash box office records around the world and earn the late Aussie a post-humous Oscar. Rightly so, as Ledger knocked out a now harrowing performance as a dark, crazed Joker with a messed-up and brilliant sense of humor. We all saw it and we were all amazed and The Dark Knight became the No.1 movie in many people's minds.
But hang on a second. How many times have you watched this back? After a while, the novelty of its good points wears off and you realize the action sequences are too long, Christian Bale is kind of a dick and Aaron Eckhart should have had more screen-time as Two Face.
Old School
You were five. You were right.