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Soul-sucking 'dementor' wasps and 8 other crazy new species
Soul-Sucking Dementor Wasp
Latin name: Ampulex dementor
Topics: Advertising, Paul Shirley, Super Bowl, Peyton Manning, Entertainment News
Last fall, when Just for Feet CEO Harold Ruttenberg learned his company had nailed down a coveted time slot for a third-quarter Super Bowl ad, the sneaker mogul could hardly contain his jubilation. Though a public corporation with over $775 million in annual sales, ranked No. 6 in Fortune magazine's recent list of "America's Fastest Growing Companies," Just for Feet had never before tried its hand at national brand advertising. "We specialize in selling shoes, not commercials," Ruttenberg says. "We had never before created hoopla." Now, here was a chance to burnish Just for Feet's corporate reputation and brand image on a national scale. He says he couldn't wait to tell viewers about the footwear chain's friendly atmosphere, its neighborliness, its reputation for social responsibility. "We're a family type of retailer that caters to a family atmosphere," he says. "We've got shoes we sell. We've got a public that we love. It's a very dynamic atmosphere we have in our stores. Here was an opportunity to tell our story to the largest audience in the world."
The hoopla, as Ruttenberg would soon learn, didn't come cheap. Four months later, by the time the spot was beamed out to an estimated 127 million households, Just for Feet had wagered almost $7 million on the game — $1.7 for the media buy, $3 million to hire an ad agency, Saatchi & Saatchi Business Communications of Rochester, N.Y., and an additional $2 million to take out newspaper ads in every market in which it did business, alerting shoppers and franchise owners to Just for Feet's third-quarter Super Bowl triumph, and reminding them to keep their eyes peeled. Ruttenberg thought the expense was worth it. As he saw it, the ad would bring about a groundswell of public goodwill. "What we were looking to do was to start to build our brand," he told me. "What we wanted was for people to see this and say, 'Boy, that was terrific. Now we're customers of yours. We want to shop with you.'"
Chuck McBride, creative director at Wieden, Kennedy and lead creative on the Nike account, remembers his reaction on the evening of Jan. 31, when he first saw the Just for Feet ad. "The minute I saw it, I immediately went 'Oh, shit,' and I went, 'This can't go on.' I just couldn't believe that they had done this."
The ad opens with a shot of white men in a military Humvee tracking the footprints of a barefoot black Kenyan runner. The men drive ahead to offer the runner a cup of water laced with a knockout drug. The runner drinks the water, and immediately collapses to the ground, unconscious. While he is passed out, the white men force a pair of Nikes on his feet. When the runner awakens, he sees the sneakers and begins shouting and flailing. "No! No!" he cries. He then scrambles to his feet and runs away, still trying to shake the shoes from his feet.
Chuck McBride wasn't the only person who hated the ad. "Appallingly insensitive," declared Stuart Elliott in the New York Times. Writing in Advertising Age, Bob Garfield called the ad "neo-colonialist … culturally imperialist, and probably racist. Have these people lost their minds?" The Des Moines Register, expressing incredulity at the fact that "Just for Feet would spend millions of dollars to come up with something that makes Denny's and Texaco look like abolitionists," suggested a name change for the athletic footwear chain: "Just for Racists." As punishment, the paper suggested in an editorial, "the ad agency who signed off on the commercial should be required to come up with a campaign that shows the worst about their own cultures. Then they should be drenched in a bucket of water, made to fall on their backs, and shackled."
Harold Ruttenberg had a better idea. On March 15, 1999, Just for Feet sued Saatchi and Saatchi for $10 million, arguing the Super Bowl commercial was so bad it amounted to advertising malpractice. "Saatchi & Saatchi assured Just for Feet that the commercial Saatchi conceived and produced would be well received by the public," reads the complaint, filed in federal district court in Birmingham, Ala. "Instead, as a direct consequence of Saatchi's appallingly unacceptable and shockingly unprofessional performance, Just for Feet's favorable reputation has come under attack, its reputation has suffered, and it has been subjected to the entirely unfounded and unintended public perception that it is a racist or racially insensitive company." Far from glorifying the company's role in advancing civilization and promoting social betterment, Just for Feet argues, the ad creates the impression that the footwear retailer is "racist, culturally insensitive and condescending, [and] promotes drugs." This impression, the company states in its complaint, "is contrary to the deepest held principles of Just for Feet, which has always sought to promote racial harmony, finds racism abhorrent, and condemns drug use."
Ruttenberg's consternation is understandable. What's less understandable is why he let the spot out the door in the first place, given his claim that he knew all along it was odious. "When [Saatchi] first came to Birmingham and showed it to us, we were flabbergasted," he told me. "We were frankly kind of horrified. But Saatchi & Saatchi assured us this was the best thing they had ever done." Ruttenberg says he tried hard to swallow his misgivings. "We didn't want anything controversial," he says. "We're a family-oriented company. We make our stores a fun place to shop. What we wanted was a fun sort of ad. Something like that little Mexican dog [referring to a Taco Bell ad featuring a chihuahua]. That would have been fine."
Ruttenberg is suing Saatchi & Saatchi because he says it badgered him into buying an ad he hated, an ad that ran against his will and over his objections, before a global audience of 127 million viewers. "We spent a fortune of money that's not even in this lawsuit in preparation for this commercial," he fumes. "We took out advertisements. We gave away more than $1 million of product. Then the ad runs. And you would would not believe the deluge of comments made about this company. I couldn't sleep for a solid month. And it's all because of these guys who said they knew everything."
The bottom line, he says, is that "We said 'no.' They said 'yes.' They said they knew better. And we are prepared to swear that under oath."
Recently, a judge struck down Saatchi's motion for dismissal, and ordered the suit to go forward. (Just for Feet is also suing Fox, the network that carried the Super Bowl, for running the ad during the often less-viewed fourth quarter instead of the third. On the face of it, this action would seem to be a rerun of the old joke in which one old lady complains about how bad the food is, and her friend chimes in "Yes! And such small portions!" — except for the fact that Just for Feet had invested substantially in promotions geared to viewers watching the third quarter.) As the discovery process gets under way, with lawyers for the footwear chain drawing up witness lists and subpoenas, the lawsuit — which is apparently unprecedented — is being closely watched by advertising executives who say it has the potential to bring about a sea change in the industry. After all, according to its legal complaint, Just for Feet is suing Saatchi not only for exposing the company to charges of racism, but for creating an ad that was "muddled," "confusing" and "criticized … by the media and the advertising industry."
Words like these send chills up the spine of agency creatives, who have long been accustomed to cutting themselves a wide berth. "Here at Wieden, we have a saying called 'The Freedom to Fail,'" says Chuck McBride of Wieden Kennedy. "You want to give everyone the freedom to fail. And I think that's a good way to think about advertising. It's hard to come up with something truly great unless it walks that precarious line of, 'Oh no, is it really horrible?' I would feel gun-shy if I knew that every time I did something really horrible, I'd end up in court."
The Just for Feet lawyers respond that the Super Bowl ad was no run-of-the-mill clunker but a shocking political and cultural gaffe that triggered a corporate crisis. "We're not just talking about a commercial that fell a little flat," says Robert Trezinsky of the New York law firm Thatcher, Proffit & Wood, who along with the Birmingham firm of Sirote and Permutt is litigating the case for Just for Feet. "We're talking about exposing a client to some very serious allegations. An agency has a duty to the client to consider these issues."
Although no court has yet spelled out what constitutes malpractice in advertising, Trezinski says that the intensity of the wrath aroused by the "Kenya" ad makes it the perfect test case. "When you hire an advertising professional, you assume they will have the expertise to actually promote what you are advertising," he says. "And when they come up with an ad that does not promote, but instead, shocks the conscience, then the standards of that profession have clearly been breached. And we'll proceed to show that in court."
Though no one from Saatchi would talk on the record, the essence of its defense can be gleaned from Saatchi's response to Just for Feet's complaint. The thrust of Saatchi's defense appears to be that it can't be sued for violating professional standards in a field that has none. "The imposition of a punitive damage award in the absence of explicit, particularized guidelines and standards is highly unfair," Saatchi's lawyers write. "An award made in the absence of such guidelines and standards may be grossly excessive, disproportionate, arbitrary, and irrational."
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a Saatchi & Saatchi employee denied any racist predilections, and insisted the ad had served its purpose. "What we were trying to say subliminally is: here is this athletic shoe retailer, who is either in your community now, or is coming to your community," the employee says. "And at the core of these people is a passion for feet, a passion for getting the right shoes on the right feet. Even to the point where perhaps they might go too far." Asked if it was wise to identify that passion with a pack of white commandos who hunt down and drug a barefoot black runner, the employee groaned. "All the way along the line, multi-racial casting was used," he said. "One of the men in the Humvee is actually an African-American. And we also had a Hispanic woman … The problem is that when [the ad] goes by in 30 seconds, you don't necessarily notice that there is an African-American." What of the Hispanic woman? "The Hispanic woman, unfortunately, is exceedingly light-skinned. And it's exceedingly difficult to tell she's a woman."
Of course, one might argue that, considering the hair-trigger racial semiotics involved, even having a multicultural posse hunting down a black man isn't going to cut it. But the strange case of Just for Feet vs. Saatchi & Saatchi is more than a cautionary parable about identity politics. It also raises the question of what it means to commit advertising malpractice in a medium (and a culture) that increasingly prides itself on pushing the envelope, defying norms and, yes, shocking the conscience — and that often reserves its most glittering laurels for ads that deliver a gratuitous jolt to the viewer.
"We love cheeky humor that walks the fine line of good taste," says Brian O'Neill, chairman and chief creative officer of Goldberg, Moser, O'Neill in San Francisco. "If it's strong enough and smart enough and funny enough, there's no question but that you go with it." O'Neill was the creator of the recent ads for Kia Motors, in which beloved Uncle Carl, on his deathbed, shares with his teenage nephews a final wish: he wants his ashes to be strewn on top of a mountain, "so that I may join with eternity in a moment of quiet reflection." Cut to the teens barrelling up the mountain in a Kia. The urn is strapped to the back seat, bouncing violently. Ashes are coming out. When they arrive at the mountaintop, the teens look at the urn, and see that it is empty. "Uncle Carl," they giggle.
After the ad ran, O'Neill says, the agency braced for a backlash. "We thought we'd get some letters," he says. "We thought some people might find it to be a little bit upsetting." O'Neill was nonplussed when the only complaints came from an unexpected quarter. "We really got it from the environmentalists," he says. "Apparently the kids knocked over too many bushes on the way up the hill."
"Any time you hunt a human," says Jim DiPiazza, "there's going to be a problem." I had called DiPiazza about the Just for Feet ad because it was DiPiazza, chief copywriter at Foote, Cone & Belding and lead creative on the MTV account, who came up with the new Blaxploitation-themed MTV ads, ads which are politically incorrect in the extreme. Yet DiPiazza says MTV has received no complaints. The network gets away with it, DiPiazza says, because "it's obvious we're having fun. And we treated the genre with a lot of respect. You can push the limits a little bit, as long as it's done with good humor, and it's coming from a smart place."
In hindsight, DiPiazza says, it's easy to see how Saatchi put its foot in its mouth. "You can imagine what happened," he says. "Someone said, 'Hey, I've got it. We track a Kenyan runner through the desert — and Just for Feet puts shoes on him!' I mean, on that level, it sounds epic. Where it went from there," DiPiazza says, "is where the badness happened."
DiPiazza says he can think of only one successful example of an ad in which a human being is hunted. "It was an ad for Airwalk snow boots. It was these people, flying around in helicopters. And there was this Mutual-of-Omaha voiceover: 'Today, we're studying the migrating habits of the Alpine snowboarder.' You see an aerial shot of a bunch of snowboarders. One of them's fallen way behind. The men in the helicopter pull out a tranquilizer gun and shoot the stray. Then they land, and they say, 'Here's the problem. It's his snow boots.' So they put some Airwalk snow boots on him, give him a pat on the ass. And right away, he shoots off, and catches up with the rest of the pack. And they look at each other and say, 'That's a great day.'" DiPiazza is growing animated. "You know what?" he says. "You can hunt a person. It's been done before. It's funny. They treated it like a joke. The reaction to being shot by the tranquilizer gun was done really well. Saatchi & Saatchi just blew it. They made a mistake at every turn."
The main problem, says DiPiazza, is that the ad failed to exude the requisite sense of postmodern knowingness. "You're not sure if they're being serious, or if they're actually trying to be offensive, and having fun with it," he says. "If you're going to hunt a human, you've got to really chase the guy down. I mean, bring in helicopters and commandos, you know? When someone's pushing the envelope, you need to know they know they're pushing the envelope."
There is near-universal agreement that for all its flaws, the "Kenya" ad would have attracted little notice had Just for Feet not opted to broadcast it during the Super Bowl, the most-watched television event in the nation, and lately a showcase for show-stopping creative work. "When you put an ad in the Super Bowl, you really are putting it in an environment where ads are judged from start to finish," says Jimmy Siegel, executive creative director at BBDO Worldwide. "Everyone's waiting for your ad to tank. Everyone's waiting to rip it to shreds … I mean, this isn't the NFL game of the week. You really are putting yourself out there and saying, 'OK, look at us. What do you guys think?'"
Siegel, who produced the Visa Check Card spots that aired during the 1997 Super Bowl, says the cutthroat environment can put a premium on edginess. "There's no glory in it," says Siegel of doing Super Bowl ads. "You're so under the microscope, it's impossible to do things that seep into the culture. The feeling is that you're just there to do ads that hit people on the chin."
Holiday Inn certainly accomplished that in 1997, when it hired Fallon McElligot to produce a 30-second Super Bowl ad, the theme of which was supposed to be the hotel chain's $1 billion renovation. To dramatize this message of rebirth and renewal, the agency produced a spot about a voluptuous transsexual, "Bob Johnson," who surprises classmates at a 20-year college reunion. The ad was widely derided, and was eventually pulled after just one airing.
"It's funny," says Wieden Kennedy's McBride. "At a certain point, both clients and agencies go mad when they try to do the Super Bowl. They just go into this frenzy, and lose all sense of judgment. Everyone wants to do the thing that gets talked about the next day. Talk about pressure." McBride sighs. "In a way," he says, "it's good that this happened. It's good that someone finally went too far. Maybe we all needed to be reminded that there are limits; that there are lines you shouldn't cross. Especially these days."
But if some were happy to see Saatchi's overreaching creatives taken down a peg or two, others say the case will send exactly the wrong message. Provocateurs like Brian O'Neill fear clients will use Just for Feet's comeuppance as an excuse for favoring timid, orthodox work. "We're always saying to clients, 'Hey, take a risk, make a leap of faith,'" he says. "The last thing we need is for clients to be wary of the good stuff … This is a lapse of responsibility on the part of an agency that will hurt all agencies in terms of how we're perceived." Saatchi's miscue "gives breakthrough advertising a bad name," agrees Lee Kovel of Kovel Fuller in Los Angeles. "It says to clients that risky advertising is a major liability, when the fact is that the liability is not the work itself. The liability is not approaching the partnership in the right way."
In fact, in its legal complaint, Just for Feet makes clear that the company viewed itself not as a partner, but as a tremulous innocent, unsure about how to reach the public, and completely hypnotized by the expertise of Saatchi & Saatchi. In an unusual move, the company confesses to impotence in a central area of business performance: marketing. In this version, "Saatchi did not present the final version of the Kenya commercial to Just for Feet until shortly before the Super Bowl, at which time Just for Feet expressed [its] misgivings and dissatisfaction." Saatchi, sticking by its guns, then "assured Just for Feet that the commercial would be well-received, based on Saatchi's expertise and experience with national advertising and marketing." In retrospect, the company's confidence was misplaced. "Just for Feet never would have allowed Saatchi's commercial to be broadcast if it had anticipated such a negative and unintended reaction, instead of the favorable reaction that it was assured of by Saatchi, the advertising and marketing expert in which Just for Feet placed its faith."
Agency creatives roll their eyes at this sort of calculated naiveti. "They're saying they're these little country bumpkins from Birmingham," says BBDO's Siegel. "I mean, this is the fastest-growing athletic footwear company in the country. Presumably they have marketing experts, brand managers whose business it is to know what the company should be saying, what the message should be. You can't just blame it all on Saatchi." Others also have a hard time swallowing the concept of a litigious footwear tycoon who's so conflict-averse he can't say no in a meeting. "Clients kill work every day," says Jill Schroeder, chairman of the Lodge. "They kill it when it's in its conceptual stages. They kill it when it's being produced. They kill it after it's been produced and is already in the can. They just say they don't want to run it. No other explanation given. For a client to say he's so mesmerized by Saatchi that he lost control of his own decision-making process and conceded all decisions to Saatchi is ridiculous."
Ruttenberg, for his part, admits he's no country bumpkin, but points out that this was his company's first foray into the amorphous terrain of "brand advertising." "We had done newspaper inserts, saying, 'Nikes on sale this week for $19.99,'" he says. "We had never done anything like this before in our life." To make matters worse, Ruttenberg says, he was manipulated by Saatchi's creative team, who demanded total freedom and autonomy, then turned into sniveling children when he had the temerity to criticize their work. "They came in and showed me the half-finished product. They said how much they liked it. I said it was unacceptable." At that point, Ruttenberg says, the lead creative remarked that he was batting "0 for 1000," and that he felt "crushed." Ruttenberg barks a sad little laugh. "He feels crushed? It's costing me millions of dollars and he feels crushed? I told him to get over it. 'You're crushed,' I told him, 'and we're out of pocket.'" In the end, though, Ruttenberg knuckled under.
In his book "Creating the Corporate Soul," posthumously published this year, Roland Marchand tells the story of the N.W. Ayer & Son Advertising Agency, image-maker for such august corporations as General Electric and AT&T. In the 1930s, Marchand writes, Ayer was frequently mocked for its pretentious and archaic language ("Down the sea of the centuries man sails the ship of his dreams …"), its dignified format and exalted headlines and its sage maxims (the agency's own motto was "Keep Everlastingly At It"). "You will not find any smelly underwear, bad breath, skin eruptions, discolored teeth, violent coughing, streaming eyes or odoriferous armpits in Ayer copy and art," wrote a former Ayer employee in 1933. Such ridicule, Marchand notes, did not unsettle Ayer. Did rivals mock N.W. Ayer & Son as too conservative? "Our answer to this," replied Ayer Sr, "is that we have much to conserve … Great interests are entrusted to us."
Just for Feet is no AT&T or GE; still, it's hard not to be moved when Harold Ruttenberg extols the glories of his footwear empire — its half-court basketball hoops and its huge video screens, its reputation for neighborliness — and fumes, "These people had no right to put us at risk." No one wants to crush the spirits of freewheeling copywriters, let alone rein in their freedom to fail. But among some creatives, the Just for Feet lawsuit has prompted a round of soul-searching about what it means to call oneself a professional, to insist that one's products and decisions be accorded the respect due to professionals, without any of the consequences that normally accrue to that. "Does Saatchi have a responsibility for talking [Just for Feet] into an ad they weren't comfortable with? My answer would be yeah," says Jim DiPiazza. "If you tell someone that everything's going to be OK, and then all hell breaks loose, then who knows, maybe you do have some liability." Agrees Brian O'Neill: "My heart goes out to Just for Feet. If an agency goes into its bunker, in isolation creates what it thinks is breakthrough advertising, and then, at the last minute, ramrods it through the client, I think what you end up with is a hit-or-miss proposition. And a client has every right to feel victimized."
The irony is that if the lawsuit goes forward, Just for Feet may suffer more than its footloose agency. "I have no fucking desire to pitch for Just for Feet," says one executive at a New York agency. "God knows if we run a print ad that's supposed to be a bleed, and it isn't, they'll turn around and sue us." On the other hand, says the executive, "No one holds Saatchi too responsible. So they made a bad ad … They'll still get asked to pitches. The attitude will be, 'Let's see what they have to say.' If they come back with a bunch of men in white hoods burning down houses in an ad for Safeway, well, then you don't give them the account." Even if one of the men turns out to be a Hispanic woman.
Soul-Sucking Dementor Wasp
Latin name: Ampulex dementor
10,000th reptile species
Latin name: Cyrtodactylus vilaphongi
Colour-changing thorny frogs
Latin name: Gracixalus lumarius
Long-fanged bat
Latin name: Hypsugo dolichodon
Stealthy wolf snake
Latin name: Lycodon zoosvictoriae
Feathered coral
Latin name: Ovabunda andamanensis
World's second-longest insect
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Just read he is getting the starting spot at 157 tonight vs MSU.
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Just read he is getting the starting spot at 157 tonight vs MSU.
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Meade wrestling 174
Gets beat soundly 9-5
Obviously not in wrestling shape at this point
If he wrestled 74 doesnt that make him ineligible for 57?
Gas was low. Not sure why Mory didn't start, heard there was no wrestle off.
Cant imagine Meade not doing great considering he's going to a worse program with worse coaches and worse partners with massive amounts of parties to be attended at any given time.
You do make good points, but Greg Jones, Rader, and Donnie Jones can help get the job done. You can party every night at every d1 school if you choose too and the fact WVU, as a program, isn't as strong as OSU wont be a factor on his accomplishments.
If Meade fails, it wont be on WVU it will be on his laziness.
Mountainwrestler-you are right -the only thing that has ever stopped Meade was Meade-Meade is a 165 so wrestling 174 should not have been a problem-losing to a #24 or so is. IF he makes 157-and that is a huge IF-I see no way he lasts 7 minutes. I feel bad for Mory-no wrestle off ? Jones has been there 6 years and shown no improvement over the last 4. The Bloomsburg kid-Veltre ? or Bekzod will win the EWL at 65.

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can you add danny glover in subway map? :D
this is the final release of the AVP Mini Marine Campaign, changes are as follows: Hadley's Hope: changed textures in some points to make it look like more like a alien infestation, also, a marine generator has been added so your marines will now respawn after they die, some lights have also been changed. Subway: increased alien rate slightly :)
can you add danny glover in subway map? :D
i have played this hadley's hope and i am now motivated to put some ai into good skirmish maps or maybe make my own map :) peace
me and ILOVEZOMBIESIDO are going got make a campaign afte rhis alien swarm campaign
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Does it do a good job translating? The vlogging is time consuming, but if you have a decent amount of time it can be nice that it makes you take a down day to upload and sort your stuff while it's still fresh as opposed to returning home with 8000 photos and 70 hours of video to slog through. I hope I can keep up on it heading South. I'm going to wire my top box to charge my laptop as I ride so power won't be as big an issue, though I've heard good internet can be hard to find. I will probably have to do fewer episodes further apart, or make them as I go but then upload a bunch when I get a good internet connection. We'll see!
Oh and I have a My Passport external hard drive to store photos and video on so they don't bog my computer too badly.
Hi Becky,
It does pretty good translating your voices. About 95% of it which is enough for me to understand. For example, when you are saying riding, it would say writing but the sentence was enough for me to guess you meant to say riding. You should try seeing it for yourself sometime. And try seeing other video where it can be real bad at guessing what a person is saying. Maybe because you speak better or it liked your accent better? haha
And is it 1TB MyPassport storage device?
Sorry to hear about your engine failure but don't let it get in the way of your trip! I am certainly there will be someone who will help you. When I had coolant problem twice in Oregon last year, dealer in Lakeview let me use their tools and shop to fix my problem then later someone fixed it for me and gave me coolant and water to take with me. I am sure you will have similar luck I had in Oregon.
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Thread: Portrait sketches from life 8/25
June 9th, 2006 #1
Portrait sketches from life 8/25
I get together on occasion with some other artists, and we take turns sitting for each other. Critique more then welcome.
2 weeks ago. 20 minutes each.
Last week. First one 40 mins, last 2 15 mins each.
Tonight. All 20 mins.
There is plenty of obvious mistakes, but with 15-20 minutes there isn't much time to make changes. I screwed up the far eye on the 40. And the values get out of whack more often then not...but it's something I am working on. Thanks for looking.
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June 9th, 2006 #3
nice ones!
#7 has a very big nose
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June 9th, 2006 #4
i love the quick linear style, you get so much detail in it, awesome work!
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Sketchbook, click it or you'll hear from me 'till who laid the rails!
June 10th, 2006 #5
hey lentz
excellent detail on the glasses... handled so loosely, but yet so accurately.
give us more
June 11th, 2006 #6
Sweet, love the sketchy look!
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June 16th, 2006 #8
voraz- thanks
infinit- thanks, you should see it in person!
geo- thanks
joel- thanks man, I was pretty happy with the indication on the glasses on that one too. Been sketching a fair amount of glasses, and really it boils down to the shapes. We don't actually see the glasses, we just see distorted shapes and a couple of lines. Appreciate it bro.
rhino- thanks
rea- thanks
Tonight, my focus was on drawing out of proportion. Actually, I just made a TON of mistakes, and saw them clearly afterwards. The first and the last came out the best, don't know wtf is up with the middle three. All are 20 minutes except the first, 45.
That is supposed to be a sliver of light on the right of his nose, not a misaligned nostril....doesn't read right though.
June 16th, 2006 #9
woah nice stuff man!
i'm learning a lot by looking at these, props to you bro!
obviously some are better than other but they all have a high qaulity to them.
June 16th, 2006 #10
Thanks man, I'm glad if you can take something away from them. With such a short time limit, it really forces me to get as much as I can out of as little as I can. Sometimes it works, and other times it doesn't. But it works more then before with continued practice. Also, correct and simplified values are HUGE.
June 16th, 2006 #11
this last update is looking really nice, though i'd say that in some of them it seems like the highlight area is slightly too dominant... Then again, this really keys up the dramatic lighting, so maybe that's not such a bad thing. In thisp you rendered the ear very clearly... I'd like to see rendered ears like this on the other heads, maybe even taking the tonal range to the point where it really describes highlights and deep shadows within the ear tissue.
great work again, thanks for the update!
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Nice man. . . I really like the second to last in the first post (The guy with the hat on backwards). You seemed to nail his facial structure. Kudos!
June 17th, 2006 #13
rockin sketches you stud, keep up the good work.
June 18th, 2006 #14
6 hours. So many value and edge problems have revealed themselves to me after the fact.
It's 5am, I will comment later.
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Really nice sketchs and form. For a while all your lips looked the same but then you pull out from that. You lighting skills are going to teach me a thing or two. Thanks!
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June 18th, 2006 #17
Some really nice studies here man..Really nice pencil technique and angular approach. The expression in #11 is great.
June 23rd, 2006 #18
joel- Thanks for the critique and encouragement. You are right about the ears, on that last one it was a great layin, but the values flattened it out. I gotta keep an eye on that. PM me a link to your sketchbook so I can check it out and return the favor. I owe you a good ear drawing...
durty- thanks man. yeah, my drawings of him are always magically sweet.
matt- thanks bro.
LScott- Thanks man. Just keep challenging your eye. I capture about 1/10th of what I can see, so don't look to me for reference.
Sino- Thanks dude.
Both of these are 30 minutes each. Can't believe I got so little on the 2nd one...
June 23rd, 2006 #19
nice work!
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June 23rd, 2006 #20
Wow, really vivid sketches. I kind of like the last unfinished one.
June 24th, 2006 #21
Great work I love how you give everything such volume and dimension.
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WOW. At the beginning of the thread you had some feature placement issues, but those have cleared up already. You follow the forms so well! there is alot to be learned from your work man!
June 24th, 2006 #23
thies are great. love the style
June 24th, 2006 #24
You've obvously studied the structure of the head. These quick studies are impressive, as you capture alot of information for the time frame. I can see your skills will grow by leaps and bounds. I like ALL your drawings. They are presented with sophisticated skill, even if proportions may be off in a few cases (very little really), but that will be corrected with practice. I have to say the ones you liked the least are among the ones I like the best. I especially like the 10th drawing because your rendering shows the masses and planes of the eyes and nose quite clearly and with interesting and unwasted strokes and the 12th drawing because the planes are revealed simply and elegantly.
I take inspiration from seeing your work to work harder on my own studies. Please continue to show us the advances in your studies. Great work.
June 24th, 2006 #25
hey cool! thats are awesome! I love the quick sketchy style you have
Note to self: START DRAWING FROM LIFE!!
June 24th, 2006 #26
Digging the technique, im sorta trying to aim for that style too, though im failing miserably lol. Lovley work!
Form, Form, Form, Form, Form, Form, Form, Form, Form, Form.
June 24th, 2006 #27
wow these are really nice, I love them, very delicious way of doing the shadows and lights and such really nice !!!!! No women artists around at all ?!?!?!?!?
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June 25th, 2006 #28
I spent a few hours on this one. A few things have started to bug me, and I should really go to bed, so that's all on this one. I prefer to start over and take what I learned with me then struggle with something for a long ass time, though I learn alot from wrestling with mistakes...I do that plenty. Man, Joel, I'm so sorry man....I didn't realize until I was about to scan it that I didn't get around to the ear....I won't let you down next time.
nixon- Thanks man.
stupid- Thanks
manji- thank you. try to keep in mind the complete volume of an object
pixel- thanks. you would be better off learning from the drawigns of Yim Mau Kun or Zhouming Wu. Those guys are incredible.
adam- thanks.
fireflower- thanks, you make some good points. I am very critical of my own drawings, and really, I'm not sure of exactly what kind of result I am trying to achieve, I just know I want it to be the highest quality I possibly can. And I think egets was asking why there were no drawings of girls....and the answer is because...
egets- there is no girls who come to draw with us :/ Thanks.
John- Thanks man
Mr Man- thank you.
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July 1st, 2006 #29
These are from yesterday, updated late. Not sure how long I spent on the first two. 20 on the 3rd. 40 on the 4th. Third one sucks pretty hard, but thought I would post it anyhow.
July 1st, 2006 #30
they look some kind like cell shaded
I prefere to work with lines more but that's just a question of individual style
they look like good practice
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Italy's Prodi suffers setback in Senate drama
By Crispian Balmer
ROME (Reuters) – Prime-minister-in-waiting Romano Prodi
suffered an embarrassing setback on Friday when a centre-left
ally failed to secure victory in two highly charged votes to
elect a speaker for Italy's upper house.
The ballots, which took place on the opening day of the new
parliament and verged on the farcical at times, underscored the
serious problems Prodi will face trying to govern with the tiny
majority he carved out in a general election this month.
The Senate showdown pitted former union leader Franco
Marini against 87-year-old elder statesman Giulio Andreotti,
who once stood trial for Mafia collusion and is being used by
outgoing prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to expose Prodi's
Marini failed to win the necessary absolute majority in the
first secret vote by five ballots.
In the subsequent vote, a preliminary count showed he had
won by one ballot, but this result was contested by
centre-right politicians who complained that Marini's first
name was given as Francesco on two of the hand-written ballots,
making them void.
After lengthy deliberations, provisional Senate speaker
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro told the house that the whole second round
would be annulled and repeated later on Friday evening, with a
result expected around midnight (2200 GMT).
The first vote was also marked by misspelt ballot papers,
but in the country which gave the world Machiavelli, few people
thought the errors were genuine. Rather they were seen as
furtive signals from centre-left senators warning Prodi their
support could not be taken for granted.
"Things are going badly in the Senate … It's a shame this
legislature will last such a short time," said Fabio Mussi, a
senior member of the Democrats of the Left (DS) party, the
largest force in Prodi's broad coalition.
Prodi won this month's election by the smallest margin in
modern Italian history, giving him just a two-seat advantage in
the 322-seat Senate.
Berlusconi has refused to concede defeat, citing widespread
irregularities, and his supporters reveled in Prodi's woes.
"The countdown for early elections has started because as
you can see, there is no majority here," said Paolo Guzzanti, a
senator in Berlusconi's Forza Italia (Go Italy) party, after
the first ballot.
If Friday's repeated vote fails to give either candidate an
absolute majority, a third ballot will be held on Saturday
where a simple majority will suffice.
Even some centre-left politicians have warned that a defeat
for Marini would indicate that Prodi could not govern.
"If Andreotti should win in the Senate then we will all
have to go home," said Giulio Santagata, political co-ordinator
of the centre-left Olive Tree alliance, which combines Prodi's
two largest political allies.
Prodi scrunched up his face in disappointment when he heard
news of the Senate setback, but he later told reporters he
remained confident of victory.
The centre-left enjoys almost a 70-seat majority in the
lower house, thanks to a new electoral system which provided
the general election victor with an automatic winners' bonus.
This means the centre-left candidate for speaker in that
chamber, veteran communist Fausto Bertinotti, should be elected
with ease in a vote due on Saturday.
Once the two speakers have been picked, attention will
switch to Prodi's plans to form a government, which have been
held up by a constitutional logjam.
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prime minister, but the situation is complicated this year
because President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi's mandate expires in May
and he wants his successor to do the honors.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Incarnate Word Academy President Sister Anna Marie Espinosa will leave the school June 30 after nine years as its leader.
"It came to me in prayer," she said. "I felt it was the right time."
Incarnate Word's curriculum Director Charles Imbergamo will succeed Espinosa. He will be the first lay person in the school's history to assume the presidency, officials said.
"It's a very exciting opportunity for me," Imbergamo said after the announcement on Tuesday. "It's very reflective of the cooperation that's needed in the church today."
Espinosa, 62, said she will miss the students the most, especially greeting them before school.
"It was just a refreshing time of the day," she said.
Espinosa said she is considering a three-month program in Santa Fe, N.M., that works with priests and nuns as they transition during their ministries.
Imbergamo, 36, was nominated by the Incarnate Word Academy board on April 12. The Sisters of the Incarnate Word and the Blessed Sacrament approved the nomination Friday, Imbergamo said. He starts July 1.
Diocese of Corpus Christi officials admire Imbergamo's background in leading Brownsville's St. Joseph Academy before coming to Incarnate Word and his training in theology, said Rene Gonzalez, superintendent of the diocese's schools.
Gonzalez said Imbergamo's appointment is historic and speaks highly of the religious community to entrust a lay person to lead the school.
"For this school, it's a new chapter in their history," he said.
Mike Lippincott, who becomes Incarnate Word board president in July, said the school will miss Espinosa. He said she helped the school in fundraising and facility improvement.
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Right - I tried to make a "cool box" around the compressor-evaporator.
The boat was made in 1977 with two thinly insulated ice boxes. Someone had once put a cold plate and the associated mechanics into the aft icebox. When I bought the boat that unit was just a solid block of rust - would not turn on.
I pulled it all out and replaced it with a new system from the West Marine catalog ($$$$). The ONLY place I could possibly locate it was on a nice flat area on the port side of the engine room. Of course, the engine room is the worst place to locate a compressor-evaporator.
The manufacturer sold a "ventilation kit" consisting of a fan and tubular air ducts, designed to blow cool bilge air on the compressor. But my unit was actually in the ER and inches from the engine itself, so I went one further and build a little "dog house" around the unit, with cool air sucking in from the bilge and blowing out to a mushroom vent located directly overhead. The vent had to be on the afterdeck.
As usual, all this was great in theory, and worked great at the dock, but at sea was another story. The mushroom vent was in a bad spot where people tended to hit it and step on it. Of course, it HAD to be open whenever the reefer was cycling!
In heavy weather seawater would rush past the vent! Unless it was closed tight, water would enter the duct! I had anticipated this and put a U-bend in the duct tube with a small drain hole at the bottom of the U.
The other issue with the reefer was poor insulation. This is the bane with some production boats. I left this part out from the book because the "boatwork" sections were getting too long, but Doug had some experience in doing kitchen counters and he wanted to replace our whole galley countertop, and get rid of the TACKY 1970's fake wood grain plastic crap (imagine how that looked after 30 years).
I went to this on-line company (I forget the name) and purchased all the raw materials to make the reefer box from scratch: fiberglass sheet, VACUUM plate insulation, and a VACUUM insulated door. For your money (and they want a lot of it) you supply them with the exact shape and dimensions of your insulation plates. The plates are something like 1/2 inch thick but because of the vacuum chambers they are equal to 6-8 inches of the best foam insulation.
This was a lot of work but when it was done the whole kit-and-kaboodle (reefer and countertop, glistening white formica) looked and worked great.
Except for the damn vent, the whole system worked great. If anything, it worked too well, freezing stuff we did not want frozen until we learned to dial it way down. Used very little electricity, gave us plenty of real ice, cooled a lot of stuff extremely well. Thanks to the vacuum plates, we could close the vent and open the reefer breaker for 12-24 hours and it would still be cold! Like a thermos bottle, basically. It probably set me back around $4000 total, plus maybe 60 hours of labor, but it worked exceptionally well.
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The district administration ordered the inquiry on the instruction of Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy
Bhandari Swagat Ranveerchand , Sub-Collector, Fort Kochi, has been entrusted with the task of conducting an inquiry into the incident in which five NCC cadets drowned in the Periyar.
The district administration ordered an emergency inquiry at the instruction of the Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. The Sub-Collector has been asked to submit the report within 15 days. District collector P.I. Sheikh Pareed said that visitors will not be allowed into Mahoganythottam at Malayattoor till the inquiry is completed.
Reasons behind the accident, negligence on the part of authorities, facilities at Malayattoor for organising a national-level camp, precautions taken by the NCC authorities, absence of primary health assistance, delay in rescue operations are some of the aspects that will be looked into.
The inquiry report will also feature the recommendations to avert similar tragedies in the future.
A meeting of the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) held at the Collector's chamber on Thursday also discussed the accident. Forest officials said that visitors' entry into the river in violation of guidelines often led to accidents.
The suggestion to segregate the danger zone with fencing or net is not practical as it would induce visitors to go up to the point where they are erected, officials said.
They claimed that forest watchers had undertaken rescue operations and that there was no negligence on the part of the department.
The Collector directed that warning messages in Hindi, English, and Tamil languages be placed at the accident-prone site. Monitoring should be intensified to prevent visitors from entering the river.
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UsedGymEquipment.com is excited to announce that it was able to recycle 3,526,437 pounds of metal in 2012. By remanufacturing worn out gym equipment, they are pursuing an environmentally sustainable business philosophy and have become the world's premier remanufacturer of used gym equipment.
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"We work hard to provide our customers with the very best in gym equipment. By taking used gym equipment and remanufacturing it to work like new, we are able to keep thousands upon thousands of metal out of the landfills. We are proud to be a green company and wouldn't have it any other way, " says UsedGymEquipment.com President, Austin Hai.
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As President of UGE, Austin Hai is able to acquire used gym equipment from premium health clubs and gyms around the country. This equipment is shipped to their massive 130,000 square foot facility, located in Carson, California. Once there, the equipment is reconditioned and worked on until it is in perfecting working order and like new again.
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Instead of exporting their jobs to other countries, UGE is exporting millions of dollars of used gym equipment to over 100 countries in the world. They can afford to compete with other gym equipment manufacturers, who do outsource their labor, because going green has cut their costs exponentially and allowed them to produce the very best in products, at the lowest prices possible.
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UsedGymEquipment.com was formed in 1989, once the need for keeping so many thousands of pounds of metal out of the landfills was realized. The company is located in Carson, California and is presided over by Austin Hai. UGE is proud to be a forward-thinking company and works to adhere to a green business philosophy that is helping to build a community of dedicated workers. Their gym experts continue to keep massive amounts of used gym equipment from filling up landfills. They offer premium brands such as Cybex, Precor and Life Fitness. Through their efforts, they have been able to make a huge difference in the environment.
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Installation of the sculpture was completed in 1988, and has since become a beloved icon in the Garden, whether glazed with snow in the Minnesota winters or gleaming in the warmer months, with water flowing over the surface of the cherry and a fine mist rising from its stem.
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Merna Joy Furniss Wooden was born February 7, 1935 the third child of Clara Violet Cross Furniss and Alfred Parson Furniss.
Merna Joy was named after her motherŌĆÖs favorite actress Myrna Loy, but everyone knew her as Joy; Joy was born and grew up in the basalt area.┬ĀShe married Billy Dean Byington, in Blackfoot, Idaho (later divorced), out of this loving union she was blessed with two wonderful daughters, Linda Lee Byington (Neil) Carter of California, and Merna Lynn Byington (Marvin) Willis of Texas.┬ĀJoy met and married Arland Wooden in California, they later divorced.
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Roy Spencer Smith, 65, a Blackfoot resident, passed away Saturday Jan. 15, 2011, at his home following a short illness.
He was born Sept. 7, 1945, in Gallup, New Mexico, the son of Lucius Spencer Smith and Frankie Marie Carpenter. He lived his youth in New Mexico where he was educated and graduated from the Quemado High School.
He married Elizabeth Ann Brownlee on Sept. 29, 1967, in Gallup, New Mexico. He lived in New Mexico most of his life until coming to Blackfoot seven years ago.
He was a rancher and carpenter all of his life, among numerous other talents.
Donald ŌĆ£DonŌĆØ Wayne Henman, 74, of Blackfoot passed away Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, at the Madison Memorial Hospital in Rexburg following a lingering illness.
He was born Feb. 6, 1936, in Mason City, Neb., the son of Elzie W. Henman and Anna Vera Mortensen.
Don graduated from Clark County High School in Dubois in 1955.
On Sept. 2, 1956, he married Doris Putnam and to this union three children ŌĆö Deborah, Dan, and Dale ŌĆö were born. They later divorced.
Don married Sherrie Baxter on April 13, 1985, in Blackfoot at the First Baptist Church.
Paul S. Hartman, 40, a lifetime resident of Blackfoot, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, at his home.
Paul was born Aug. 15, 1970, in Rexburg to Fritz Phillip Hartman and Joyce Nadeen Young. He attended school in Blackfoot, graduating from Blackfoot High School in 1989. He went on to attend Eastern Idaho Technical College, studying Nuclear Security Services.
On Aug. 2, 1992, Paul married Marguerite Hayne in Triumph. They were later divorced.
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Devon was born on May 31, 1932 in Blackfoot, Idaho to Reta Fackrell and Newell Howell. He graduated from Blackfoot High School and Brigham Young University. He enjoyed sports in his youth and as an adult. Devon was in the grocery business all of his life and owned a few businesses of his own.
Harlem Eugene ŌĆ£WillyŌĆØ Wilson, 76, died Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, at his home in Arco.
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Marlene was born on Dec. 20, 1934, in Provo, Utah, to Nathan Hale and Phyllis Watson Hale. She moved to Groveland as a young child with her family.
POCATELLO ŌĆō┬ĀEthel Chilton Henderson, 90, eternal companion of Boyd F. Henderson,┬Āpassed away Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, at her home.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, at 1 p.m. at the LDS Central Stake Center (40 Oakwood Drive) with Bishop Rod Johnson of the Cedar 2nd Ward officiating.
The family will receive friends Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Manning-Wheatley Funeral Chapel, 510 N. 12th Ave. and on Friday from 12 to 12:45 p.m. at the church prior to services.
Interment will be in Restlawn Memorial Gardens.
Norman Davis Harris, 86, of Idaho Falls, passed away Friday, January 7, 2011 at the Monticello in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
He was born September 21, 1924 in Pocatello, Idaho to Orville W. and HazelDavis Harris. He attended schools in Pocatello and graduated from Pocatello High School. After serving in the Army in France and Germany during World War II he settled in Moreland.


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