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Why I like ugly colors – the ArtSquish Palette
It's true. I like horrible colors. Sometimes beginning artists at our school, Firstlight, wonder why we use colors that are so intense that you can't really paint with them. Our purple is so dark it looks black. The yellow is too acidic. The green is hideous. I have an explanation, though, and it begins with breakfast.
I like to make breakfast from scratch. My kids grew up eating biscuits, pancakes, or French toast on the weekends. We could, however, just pop a frozen waffle in the toaster though. It's a choice. You can use ingredients, like flour, eggs, oil, cinnamon & baking powder, or you can go to the freezer and find a box that holds some pretty acceptable prepared food. We prefer to make from scratch because it tastes better.
You have the same choices with colors. There are two kinds of colors in artist paints. Ones that are prepared for you and already look pretty good, and then there are colors that look absolutely horrid when squeezed out of the tube because they're so intense. I wish that we had a different word for these two kinds of colors you can buy. Prepared-colors and Mixing-colors works for me.
Mixing colors
Mixing colors, like the intense palette we use at ArtSquish, are like ingredients. You don't want to use them straight out of the tube because they're intended to be mixed. That's why they're so strong.
My daughter once tried eating some baking powder by itself when she was a little girl. We still laugh at how that didn't work out so well. But we enjoy a hot biscuit after the baking powder has been mixed with other ingredients.
Prepared colors
Prepared colors are shortcuts. There is nothing wrong with shortcuts. I like prepared-colors, but they have a few distinct problems, which is why I recommend not using them.
- Prepared-colors are very limited in the range of colors they can mix towards. You must also have mixing colors available. You can't make a biscuit if you have a box of frozen muffins. But you can make a muffin and a biscuit with ingredients.
- Too many pigments can easily become unharmonious and clash on a painting. Prepared-colors can introduce pigments that are incompatible with each other.
- Prepared-colors create confusion. You quickly end up with too many tubes of paint, along with at least some mixing colors. I know painters who have no idea how to make the colors they want, because they can never remember what all those tubes actually create in the myriad of combinations available.
- Prepared-colors are inconsistent – sometimes opaque and sometimes translucent. Even when using the same name. The manufacturer decides how they make it, so it's hard to tell which is which.
Years ago I had this little revelation . One of my favorite tubes of paint was permanent green. Squeezing out that pure, brilliant color was a joy. Then one day I read the label, and it was made out of the yellow and the green that I also had right there in my case. I could make that color. I realized that by having the ingredient colors, I could have more colors available with fewer tubes to keep up with.
So, the palette we use at Firstlight, is a mixing palette of 9 translucent acrylic colors (student grade) and opaque titanium white (professional grade). We've chosen these 10 colors for several awesome reasons:
- Color Consistency. All the colors are single pigments. This ensures that brand to brand, and even medium to medium, they are the same. You can move up in paint quality and take all your experience with you from your student paints.
- Cheap Watercolors. Being translucent means that you can water down the acrylics and make a suitable set of student grade watercolor. Discover what you like without having to purchase another set of paints!
- Giant range. When mixed, these 9 tubes create the widest range of colors, using the smallest number of tubes.
- Easier. Carry less weight, use smaller storage bins, and still get the biggest set of colors you can find.
- Economical. Student grade versions of these are nearly as brilliant as the professional grade. The student grade paints have less of the pigment as a percentage of the whole, and therefore don't go as far when mixed. When learning, students throw away more paint that didn't turn out the way they wanted, so this is helpful. NOTE: we only recommend professional grade white, though, because student grade white is frustrating to use.
- Not frustrating. While it is a little harder to learn how to mix, once you do, you can get to the colors you want so much easier. Also, we use the professional grade white, because student grade white is anathema. It's thin, runny, doesn't cover well (because it's not fully opaque), and it won't make all the colors you need.
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I'm so excited about the new Betty and Veronica comic that Archie comics is launching this July! Archie comics has been really appealing to me lately. They've gotten a number of wonderful creators working on their books which has made everything feel new again. I think it's enticing for people from younger generations to start getting involved in these stories, especially when there are such great artists drawing characters is the most realistic and fashionable clothing. Plus, there's that Riverdale show that will be debuting on the CW this fall so it'll be a great opportunity for newbies to have a starting point to jump in from.
I recently read the first volume of the newly rebooted Archie comic (written by Mark Waid with artwork by Fiona Staples, Annie Wu and Veronica Fish) and I was honestly laughing out loud and making Andrew look at certain panels because I loved them so much<3 I also really loved The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina but since there was such a long hiatus between issue #1 and issue #2 (seriously, it might've been over year) I'm waiting to catch up on that one until it's available in trade. Same goes for the second volume of Afterlife with Archie, the Riverdale zombie comic. I have yet to read Jughead but the trade is coming out soon and as a huge Chip Zdarsky fan, I have no doubt I'll love that series as well.
But anyway, I'm here to talk Betty & Veronica. I love thie frenemy duo and as I previously mentioned, their fashion choices! I'm so happy that Archie Comics is celebrating their launch with 25 variant covers and I wanted to share my favorites here.
Will you be picking up Betty & Veronica? Or have you been reading any of the other Archie Comics series I mentioned?
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I read fewer comics this year than I did in 2014, but there were so many amazing titles to choose from that it was very challenging to narrow it down to only 10. Here are my top 10 favorite comics of 2014 in a very particular order! Don't forget to check out the Top 10 Books of 2014, and Top 10 TV Shows, Top 7 Movies, & Top 5 Broadway/Off Broadway Shows of 2014! What were your favorites this year?
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The last few weeks have been on the action-packed side of the spectrum of my social life. Before I delve into what I've been up to I feel compelled to not-so-humbly brag about completing my latest Pokedex by catching all 151 Pokemon that were hidden around the world as part of the Google Maps April Fools Day career listing for a Pokemaster. The ending of the challenge was anticlimactic but I wouldn't have spent those hours any other way (Yes, hours. Many, many hours especially in my quest for Mew).
Anyway, once I rejoined the waking world with other physical beings, the excitement continued. Melissa, Andrew, and I went to this super fun bar in the East Village called Otto's Shrunken Head where we drank two of these specials* called a Volcano (*it is actually a bowl of alcohol that's on fire aka our drink was like Katniss **one of these is meant for four people ***this also resulted in Twitter truth or dare ****we all had a rough next day at our respective workplaces). Melissa filled us in on all of the escapades that occurred during Emerald City Comic Con (which Andrew and I skipped to spend on the East Coast visiting the first Cupcake ATM in NYC, seeing The Grand Budapest Hotel, eating dinner at Red Bamboo, marathoning The IT Crowd on Netflix, and devouring the LSP cupcakes I baked). If there's anything better than a night out with your best friend and your boyfriend, I haven't found it yet<3 This week also gets points for being warm enough to walk around Manhattan in a leather jacket and drink iced teas from Starbucks.
Friday night was the night that everyone important in my life had been waiting for. It was the theatrical release of Captain America: The Winter Solider. Taylor was kind enough to secure our tickets to a showing on opening night (along with tickets to see Amazing Spider-Man 2 a day early). Andrew and I met Taylor, Katherine, Tom, and Athena at the theater and nearly took up half a row of seats once they allowed us inside. I was really looking forward to seeing Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting's Winter Soldier story arc on the big screen and I was overjoyed that the resulting film adaptation did the comic complete justice (not that I had any doubts because Marvel really gets movies). I loved seeing such a major Black Widow presence onscreen and despite The Avengers still holding the number one place in my heart, I feel comfortable saying that Winter Soldier was probably the most well written Marvel movie to date. I went all out with a Captain America themed outfit, like I do, and Andrew and Taylor wore Captain America t-shirts so basically we all looked adorable or whatever.
The next day we all reconvened at the Lexington Armory for MoCCA Fest which is the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art Festival. I really enjoy MoCCA because it's a smaller show with more indie creators which means there's always something new to discover and read. The one big name that I was really eager to see/meet/buy art from was Fiona Staples and I accomplished that goal within five minutes of entering the building. I was able to buy a print of my favorite Saga cover (issue #15 which features Marko and Alana looking like the characters of the cover of a romance novel), and have Fiona personalize it for me. Some other treasures I acquired are a Sylveon eating a macaron pin, a zine called All my Anime Boyfriends (which I also picked up a copy for and purchased on the recommendation of Betty), and a signed copy of Drama by Raina Telgemeier from the CBLDF booth. After MoCCA and eating, Andrew, Tom, Athena and I met Giovanni at Barcelona Bar which is possibly the most fun bar in NYC for themed shots. My favorite shot I witnessed was the Harry Potter shot which the bartender served in a Gryffindor scarf, and glasses while waving a wand, setting the shots on fire, and screaming "Avada Kedarva" at us. Other notable shots were Doctor Who, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, Games of Thrones, and Legend of Zelda themed. Then on Sunday Andrew and I had a Terminator marathon (which obviously means that we watched only Terminator 1 & 2) while eating Cadbury mini eggs because 'tis the season. It's the 30 year anniversary of Terminator so here are 12 fun facts I found online.
On Tuesday, Andrew and I met his friends Carolyn, Tony, and Nick at Fontana's on the Lower East Side to attend a recording of the Comic Book Live podcast. Their guest of the week was Alex Segura who was there to speak about the big news of Archie's upcoming death that was announced earlier that day. Alex and I have been following each other on Twitter for ages but I hadn't ever met him in person so it was nice to be able to put an IRL face to the Twitter handle. I also hadn't ever listened to Comic Book Live, but I had so much fun that I am definitely planning on going back for more shows. The hardest part of sitting in the audience and listening to other people talk about comics is getting Muppet-flail-level excited and attempting to restrain myself from shouting and contributing to their conversation. Andrew was lucky enough to sit next to me and hear my whispered commentary throughout the show. I decided to wear a Gwen Stacy style headband for the event because we all know how much I love her. Then yesterday was the long awaited released of Batman Eternal #1! I am so excited for a weekly Batman comic written and illustrated by some of my favorite creators that I could explode. Plus, Stephanie Brown is coming back so I obviously had to wear the Spoiler waffle pin Jessica of Bat-Earrang sent to me last month. You can see more of her adorable upcycled accessories in her Etsy shop. Then I got some awesome mail (like The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones on blu-ray for $30!) and birthday cake M&M's which are sinfully delicious. Lastly, Melissa and I saw Divergent which we both loved. The movie was a little bit long but it was completely loyal to Veronica Roth's YA novel of the same name. I read the book in one sitting on my plane ride to SDCC last year so I had forgotten some of the things that happened in the story. And now you're all caught up minus my trip to Disney/Harry Potter World which I will probably write about soon!
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I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it plenty more times, I love lists. Which is why I also love when the year is ending because it's the perfect time to reflect on the things you enjoyed in the past 365 days, and compile them into one comprehensive guide (or in this case, one comprehensive guide in two parts). There were so many amazing comics published this year that it was too much of a challenge for me to narrow the list down to ten. I decided to divide my favorites into two parts with 12 on each list. Even with a total of 24, I feel as though I'm still neglecting several series that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this year. The list is overwhelmingly Image and Marvel titles and as much as I adore each of the series I've chosen to highlight, I am hoping for more diversity next year.
Batman by Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo
Itty Bitty Hellboy by Art Baltazar & Franco
Rat Queens by Kurtis J. Wiebe & Roc Upchurch
Killjoys by Gerard Way, Shaun Simon & Becky Cloonan
The Wake by Scott Snyder & Sean Murphy
Hawkeye by Matt Fraction & David Aja
Revival by Tim Seeley & Mike Norton
Locke & Key by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
Mind MGMT by Matt Kindt
Young Avengers by Kieron Gillan & Jamie McKelvie
Trillium by Jeff Lemire
Saga by Brian K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples
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Veronica Mars, the Doctor Who Bar & More
It's been a few weeks since I've written a personal post about what I've been up to, so I figured that now is as good a time as any to get back into the groove of weekly updates. It's kind of a vicious cycle because lack of posts means I've been extra busy, which in turn means I have that much more to write about! We've had an influx of West Coast visitors in New York in the past week which is part of the reason I haven't had time to write/sleep/etc. Our first visitor, my Super Villains Comic Book Club cohost, Jen, flew into NYC on Wednesday, aka new comic book day, and since she hadn't ever been to Midtown Comics, Melissa, Brad, and I made sure to bring here there as our first order of business. Jen was in awe of the amazing toy and statue selection at Midtown, and after swooning over several of the Scarlet Witch Bowen statues, we completed our purchases and headed back to her hotel to film an extra special live episode of our aforementioned club. Melissa has been a guest in the past and I was so happy she could join us again to discuss Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples' Saga. The three of us purchased our trades together, and had them signed by the creators at the Midtown Comics booth at New York Comic Con last year, so the story holds even more meaning for us. Since we were filming at a hotel and didn't have our usual home amenities, we forgot all about needing glasses, and a bottle opener. After extensive googling and many failed attempts at using shoes, hangers, hair pins, pens, and the wall, it occurred to us to call the front desk and thankfully they were able to accommodate us. We filmed in what we called, a "slumber party style," since the giant hotel bed was the only place we could get all three of us to fit in one screen.
That same weekend, Molly McIsaac, who I hadn't previously had the pleasure of meeting came to New York for a weekend visit. Molly is absolutely lovely in person and I was surprised at how much the two of us had in common from our vegetarianism, to our love of fashion, to our preference for Matt Smith over David Tennant. I met Melissa, Jill, Molly, and Leo, at The Museum of Sex near the Flatiron building and we perused the gift shop before jumping back in Jill's car, sharing in a traumatic experience, and then promptly heading to The Modern for drinks. After almost an hour of driving around and searching for a parking spot, we finally found one. Little did we know, another woman was going to get out of her car, bang on all of the windows of our vehicle, scream obscenities at us, and claim that it was her spot. After being told we would be in for "a rude awakening today," the psycho woman realized that Jill had been filming our entire interaction and she quickly drove away. Nonetheless, her behavior was completely uncalled for and all of us were rather shaken. After all of that we realized the spot was too close to a fire hydrant anyway, and we ended up parking in a garage near the museum. It is amazing to me that a person could become so enraged and uncivilized over a parking space that wasn't even hers to begin with. Once we were inside MoMA we were all really excited to see Edvard Munch's infamous painting "The Scream," but sadly, the museum closed before we were able to make our way to the top floor. Next, we headed to Canal Street for some shopping, and to Mayfield for dinner where we met up with Ali, Brad, and Nate. I had the most delicious chopped kale salad, but was ridiculed by fellow dinner goers for supplementing my healthy salad with a side of fries. They were worth it though, so delicious! You would think we'd be exhausted at this point, but the fun continued at The Way Station, aka the Doctor Who bar, where we met Rachael, and Jen (who was still in town until the next day). It was karaoke night, and after several River Songs (the bar serves Doctor Who themed drinks… I know, right?!) we went onstage and joined in the fun.
Then on Wednesday I met up with Rachael, who took me to what is quite possibly the coolest bar I have ever been to. It's a speakeasy in Chelsea and I have never been so impressed with a bars delicious drinks, service, overall atmosphere, and of course, fantastic company. The bar is located inside an unmarked door, and if you aren't already privy to location, you would never find it on your own. Even once you manage to seek out the door and open it up, two black velvet curtains hang in your immediate view causing you to wonder if you might be in the wrong place. But once you bravely push back the curtains and overcome the fear of possibly breaking and entering into an abandoned building, you'll be welcomed by dim candlelight and a very friendly bartender. In typical speakeasy fashion, there are no menus to peruse so you must tell the bartender what you enjoy and he'll make you something he thinks would please you. He completely hit the nail on the head with my drink order. I usually stick to wine, but the next time I go back to the speakeasy I will be asking for another gingery, citrusy, glass of heaven. After catching up and realizing that neither of us had eaten enough for the day, we headed to the original Shake Shack where I indulged in more french fries, and a mushroom burger. Also! I was so proud of myself because after leaving Rachael at 9:41pm on 23rd street and Madison Avenue, I was somehow able to speed walk back to Penn Station (34th and 7th avenue), where I made a 10:08 train with nearly 10 minutes to spare. (Excuse the grainy quality of the below photo. We may be grainy, but we're still adorable!)
And finally, all of these events lead me to one of the best stay in girls nights that I've ever had! In the wake of the Veronica Mars Kickstarter miracle that launched on Thursday morning and was fully funded by 9pm on Thursday night (you can still donate and reap some of the awesome rewards here if you haven't had a chance yet) Jill had the brilliant idea of having us over for a Veronica Mars marathon. Melissa, Rachael and I came fully equipped with snacks and various selections of wines, cider, bourbon, while Jill supplied us with tacos and champagne. We watched about six episodes of the show in total, with many, giggling breaks in between (which you may have noticed if you happened to read any of our Twitter accounts on Saturday night). I had seen the least amount of episodes of the show so we stayed within the first season, and Rachael was kind enough to lend me her DVDs at the end of the night… which I've now been watching for six straight hours. I deeply admire Veronica for the decisions she makes, the character she possesses at such a young age, and her willingness to help anyone in need. She is quite the detective. I'm probably going to finish the first season by tomorrow night which is why I had to order the second season with Amazon Prime (thank gods for 2-day shipping!). We successfully managed to avoid the overcrowded New York City bar scene on St. Patrick's Day. The extent of my St. Patrick's Day attire has always consisted of Green Lantern t-shirts and accessories for as long as I can remember so I've continued the tradition this year. A bunch a of other things have happened in the midst of what I've already recapped, but due to a combination of 1) keeping this post to a readable length, 2) lack of memory, and 3) being summoned downstairs for St. Patty's Day dinner with my family (in which the vegetarians will eat salad, and everyone else will eat corned beef), that will be all for now! OH! And my genius brother Bob was accepted to Columbia's graduate program to get his masters in journalism and I could not be more proud!
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Sigma UK to start shipping USB dock and 120-300mm F2.8 from May 2013
Sigma UK has announced its new USB dock for lenses will be available from May 2013 at a retail price of £39.99. The company has also announced the 120-300mm F2.8 DG OS HSM lens will start shipping in Canon and Sigma mounts around the same time but has not confirmed the price. Launched at Photokina 2012, the USB dock enables users to easily update lens firmware and fine-tune focus parameters, while the 120-300mm F2.8 lens comes with a button to adjust the focus speed and the focus limiter. Sigma US has not given details about when it will start shipping the products.
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" will be available from May 2013 at a retail price of £39.99"
If someone can tell me where I can get them at £39.99 I'll put in a bulk order?
Does anybody know if the USB dock will work with all existing AF Sigma lenses or just the newer ones?
Actually, according to Sigma the dock suits all three of the new product lines (ie. including "Contemporary" models such as the new 17-70/4).
But it won't work with previous models.
Sigma confuses me...Is this the same lens Bob Atkins reviewed 1 year ago?...Is it another incarnation?...If not, why the delay between those initial hands-on reviews and the actual launch?
Ah!...Thanks...So one is "EX DG" and the newer one is only "EX"?...Is that it?...Why would any brand use such a confusing naming scheme, one that actually precludes the public to quickly understand a new offer is actually...errr...new?
The SD1, this confusing naming...Does "Sigma" stands for "shooting our own feet" in Japanese?
It probably does! I don't know why companies put huge long names on products.
Years ago Minolta had an ordinary camera with a name like
Minolta Maxxum Paxxum Fillya fulla lead son Zoom, or something.
Its a different lens, re-released with compatibility with the new USB dock and as a part of the launch of the new "sports" range.
Sigma have removed the EX designation from all their future lenses, stating that all lenses will be to the same quality and finish.
The letters after the name all have a specific meaning and Sigma offers several helpful tables that explain them.
DG - digital optimised, full frame compatible
OS - optical stabilisation
HSM - HSM focus motor (equivalent to Canon USM)
Too bad it is not a constant F4, that way the price would have been more in the affordable amateur territory, and smaller size.
Here you go....
That 100-300 f4 is a Great lens!
Small point: the title is wrong.
"Sigma to start shipping USB dock IN May"
"Sigma to ship USB dock FROM May"
The title is absolutely correct in British English, and this news story is specifically of interest to UK readers.
The Brits may consider to stop coding in BE where the rest of the world expects AE, esp. on a .com site. It's confusing the rest of us (i.e., non native English speakers) struggling to speak correct English of any kind. Face it, w/o the US, the world wouldn't soeak English at all ...
Yes! Comment of the day. If you can forget an empire that once covered a quarter of the world's surface, you can certainly forget more than that :-)
"The Brits may consider to stop coding in BE where the rest of the world expects AE, esp. on a .com site. It's confusing the rest of us (i.e., non native English speakers) struggling to speak correct English of any kind."
If you are counting on Americans posting to forums to learn English, good luck! Even worse if you listen to most people speak. At least most Brits seem to care about their sentence structure, even if the wording is slightly different than how Americans might be taught.
Good lord Falk -- "Why can't you people talk American?" Is that really what you are saying? If this is how your logic works, I will have to reconsider your postings on matters pertaining to photography. This site is run by Brits and Yanks -- deal with it, in the course of which your English, which is just fine, will improve. Furthermore, in case you haven't noticed, English has been left to develop on its own wherever the British colonialists left their mark. There isn't an equivalent body like l'Académie française for French. You're saying we should let the U.S. be in charge of the English language? It would be both impossible and unpopular. Further to your last point, why should the entire world speak English at all? Why is ignorance of other languages than English/being uniligual seen as normal thing in much of North America?
Plus, apparently American English is closer to how British English was back then that how it is today anyway...
Jaded: nope. American English was defined by Webster. That is pretty damn recent. Things have gone American from then more than ever before.
Anyways, looking forward to the lens though no intentions to purchase. I'm in the market for a slightly longer mid-telephoto lens. Shipping from may will be great.
Yes, English was brought to Ireland, Malta, Canada, South Africa, India, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and other members and former members of the Commonwealth, by the Americans.
And we who live in other "foreign" countries are only taught American English in school. British English is extremely confusing to us, and we don't expect it to be used by anyone, not even Brits.
You wouldn't say that if Margaret Thatcher was still alive.......thought I'd be the first to get Maggie in the conversation :)
Seeing how Eng-lish is from Eng-land, and Americans continue to bastardize it, why on Earth should we take American dialect as standard? The Brits have a very eloquent and efficient way of speaking. English spoken by Brits is the proper way. Everything else is dialect. I find that people from other countries who learn English as a scond language are more articulate than many from North America.
Heh heh. That small little island sure has a very big atitude. We have "The Open", as if there is no other "Open". Then there is "The Championships". Same thing. I've also heard Brits call their English as "International English" vs. "Amaerican English". BTW, that former Empire was pretty big ... and pretty long ago. Now, weren't we talking about some kind of lens?
Let's face it the English language was (and is) our greatest export and being such a generous nation we made it like 'open source software' so you can develop it and change it for your own needs and requirements as much as you want......for free!
Us Brits don't get offended when these young upstart nations try and get their version promoted to the top spot........in fact, we find it rather amusing as we do their spelling......
Come now, surely Americans have made at least a few improvements to the language. For example, the spelling of words such as "center" (American) versus "centre" (British). After all, it's not as though anybody pronounces the word "sin-tray".
As far as the Sigma 120-300mm, I don't like it since they don't make it in Pentax mount. But if they ever do make it in Pentax mount, then my wife won't like it because I will have to have it. That's the day I would put my beloved Sigma 100-300mm f4 up for sale.
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macOS High Sierra came out today, but if you use a Wacom tablet you need to wait a few weeks before you upgrade. According to Wacom, they won't have a compatible driver ready for you until "late October."
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Vitec, the company that owns popular accessory maker Manfrotto, has just acquired JOBY and Lowepro for a cool $10.3 million in cash. The acquisition adds JOBY and Lowepro to Vitec's already sizable collection of camera gear brands.
A master drone pilot has captured one of the most incredible (and highly illegal) drone videos we've ever seen by flying around, inside, onto, and under a moving train.
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A Craigslist poster has discovered the worst possible way to photograph a car: taking pictures of pictures displayed on a cracked and scratched up smartphone screen.
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More details have emerged about the potential sale of Blackstone's 45% stake in iconic camera brand Leica.
Popular mobile editing app Snapseed just got a major update that includes a new interface and 11 new presets for both Android and iOS, as well as adding the Perspective tool to the iOS version.
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The database was created to "break with the narrow lens through which history… has been recorded" by equipping those who commission photography with "the resources to discover photographers of color available for assignments.
Lensbaby has released two new optics for their special "optic swap system." The Lensbaby Sweet 80 Optic gives you that trademark sweet spot of focus, while the Creative Bokeh optic gives you 9 different drop in aperture plate options to play with.
TechCrunch has already posted their review of the upcoming iPhone 8 (not yet the iPhone X), and they're calling it "a look into the augmented future of photography."
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The Acton public schools are seeing a decline in new students this year, which has prompted administrators to opt for reducing the number of sections to accommodate the new pupils – a trend that shows a departure from recent years.
The Acton public schools are seeing a decline in new students this year, which has prompted administrators to opt for reducing the number of sections to accommodate the new pupils – a trend that shows a departure from recent years.
The Acton Public School Committee voted recently to endorse the administration's recommendation to endorse the reduction reduce the number of sections from this year's 16 to 15 for the 2011-2012 school year.
Superintendent of Schools Stephen Mills recommended 15 sections for the incoming kindergarten class, which is currently numbered at 267 students.
Last year, 328 children were enrolled in kindergarten, and it was clear to the administration that 16 sections would be needed to accommodate the class.
"I'm very confident we won't approach 300," said Mills.
While the class size is currently 267, the administration included 15 additional students in its calculations to account for students that may be enrolled between now and the start of school.
Director of Personnel and Administrative Services Marie Altieri said kindergarten calls have been much slower this year than in the last several years.
Altieri said if 15 additional students are enrolled in the class, the class sizes would still consist of only 18 to 19 students if there are 15 sections.
With 16 sections, the class sizes drop by about one student.
Drop in births
Altieri said Acton births have declined since 2002, with a slight uptick in 2010, and said the administration had been anticipating a decline in enrollment.
She said keeping the 16th section would commit a classroom for the next seven years, and the school system could make better use of the space, considering the low enrollment.
Funding moved
The recommendation called for a re-allocation of the $70,000 earmarked for the nixed kindergarten section to hire a certified math curriculum specialist/coach.
The Director of Curriculum and Assessment for Acton Public Schools Deborah Bookis said this would fulfill a need in the schools more valuable than an additional kindergarten section.
"To have some curricular leadership in mathematics to make a connection to the junior high, we haven't had that before and I think that's really vital," said Bookis. "We need to make sure there aren't gaps in the students' understanding. I also think a math curriculum specialist would be a nice liaison to have for the special educators."
Class size concerns
Mills said he received some criticisms, mainly from some parents, saying the school administration could have done more to explain the need to reduce the kindergarten sections.
Mills apologized by saying that he had considered 300 students the line between 15 sections and 16 sections, and although the numbers seem to speak for themselves, he said the decision still merits discussion.
School choice
The School Committee also approved Mills' recommendation not to accept any school choice students in the Acton Public School System — which consists of the five elementary schools — for the academic year 2011-2012 due to large class sizes.
School choice is a practice by which families from other towns could choose to send their children to schools within the school district.
Mill said he anticipated that the committee would accept his motion, as school choice is not currently allowed in the Acton Public Schools system.
The Acton-Boxborough Regional School District used to have open school choice on a space available basis, but stopped allowing it about five years ago with some exceptions due to the high school reaching peak capacity.
Exceptions were made for the siblings of currently existing school choice students, an exception that was allowed to help families of those students.


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Ahmedia Heritage Guesthouse
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- Saeed Al Maktoum House 0.5 miles
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Black Ops 3: Zombies Review
Black Ops 3 is the next first person shooter in the Call of Duty series with a new iteration of the Zombies game mode. This time the zombies game mode is quite different while still giving the old feel of what we enjoy so much about the game mode. It is not a knock off like extinction was in Call of Duty Ghosts. The game looks amazing and each of the characters is unique and different than past characters in the zombies difficulty. There are some distinct changes from this iteration of zombies compared to the past games. Zombies attack much faster than in previous games and move noticeably faster, as well as start running earlier. There are various new monsters added to zombies as well such as flying bugs, witches that don't look anything like witches, rolling balls of fire that explode, and a huge giant with three heads called a Margwa. Of all the monsters I would say the last one is the most annoying as the number of these mini boss' increases as you get to higher rounds.
There are a few new additions to the Black Ops 3 zombies iteration that most people are probably interested in. The Gumball Machine gives GobbleGums and cost 500 points in game for a random gumball from a limited selection that you can set before the game starts. The common ones are pretty useful although most of them have a very limited duration making many of them not even worth wasting the time to get. My favorite from the common Gumballs is called Stock Option for example. This Gumball allows me to use all of my ammo without even needing to reload for about two or three minutes. I find this extremely useful at all points in the game especially when pack a punching a weapon that chews through ammunition like crazy.
Other than the new monster types, the Gumballs, and changes to the zombies A.I, one other major change is the ability to level up weapons and unlock attachments for the weapons. As you level a gun up by using that gun in zombies you gain experience for it and unlock attachments for it. You can put several attachments at once on a single weapon and then buy that gun straight off the wall modified and all. The weapons wall price does not even change when doing so. I love this addition it shows progression for me and shows others I have used the weapon a lot.
With all these new additions and the vast change of map design style to that presented in The Shadows of Evil I very much enjoy this current version of zombies in Black Ops 3. If you enjoy zombies specifically in the Call of Duty franchise I would recommend buying Black Ops 3 specifically for zombies. Add on the fact that there is a new difficulty in the regular campaign called Nightmare which presents a story based around zombies and there is plenty of re-playability in this game.
Having almost reached the ability to Prestige to Prestige one in the Black Ops 3 zombie mode there are however a few things that I feel need some work. At first I thought the Shadows of Evil map was far to difficult. Training zombies is much harder due to the changes in zombie A.I as well as their mobility and increased attack rate. On top of this the Margwas appears far to frequently and at a large increasing number as you progress well into the twenty plus rounds. One or two of these guys is plenty enough as their ability to teleport around the map alone is enough to kill you in a dead end when you are corned from both directions by these 3 headed monsters. On top of this they do not count towards the amount of enemies that need to be defeated to complete the round. As such even if you complete the round these monsters will still be running around the map and causing problems. Worse case scenario you kill everything else before you kill these Margwas and the next round spawns the fireball guys or bugs to just cause even more issues. I also feel they do way to much damage with their ground slam. I have been one shot with Juggernog on and it is very frustrating to lose to them let alone having to deal with the faster and seemingly smarter zombie A.I. I feel the amount of these monsters should increase every 5 rounds and they should at most come every 5 rounds. Having one come on round 4 or 5 and then two of them on round 8 is already problematic in itself. Also the teleporting can cause an unfair loss in higher rounds. Sometimes when running away they will teleport behind you while another one will teleport ahead of you causing you to be pinned between them. Along with the zombies this can easily mean you will die as you do not always have the ability to shoot a head.
Apart from the game mode being overly difficult at both early and late rounds I also find the cost of doors excessive compared to previous games. These door costs make it more difficult to progress through the map to unlock Pack-a-punch, at least on Shadows of Evil map. While technically in a group of four with some point management it is possible to unlock the Pack-a-punch room on round one, this is far to difficult and to much to ask for in a public match up. In a typical group of 4 players it can take 30 minutes or even longer with a full group of inexperienced players to even unlock the room, let alone upgrade a single weapon. This all has to be done by wave 5 or else it gets increasingly more difficult. If less Margwas spawned, and the Margwas counted towards the amount of enemies needed to finish the round it might not be as bad at later rounds. Unfortunately though at later rounds bugs, the fire ball monsters, and zombies can also randomly spawn in at the same time as Margwas have also spawned which just makes the map far to luck based. I don't like that zombies preemptively spawn in zones you are moving towards in order to cut you off or box you in. I also dislike that there are pathways that can not be boarded up at all.
The new Widows Wine perk is a great addition to zombies and is also in my opinion the most important perk in the game. While Juggernog does reduce damage taken Widows Wine gives you several benefits which are all based around crowd control. If you get hit the zombie will be slowed and wrapped up in a spider web. If you throw a grenade it will stick to any surface and explode cause things near the explosion to be slowed and then webbed. If you knife anything it will also be slowed and webbed. This perk uses grenades as a cost to activate this perk. As such when you run out of grenades this perk does nothing, with the exception of being able to apply the effect by knifing zombies. The great thing though is that when you run out of grenades you are not technically screwed till the round is over. You can replenish your charges for this perk by simply killing zombies that occasionally drop a spider web power up that gives you a single charge. Max ammo pickups will refill charges completely. On top of this you get two grenades at the end of a round which can be saved to use this perk two times.
Overall the Shadows of Evil zombies map is quite difficult. With the collectors edition of Black Ops 3 they did how ever give the "Giant" zombies map which is a remake of "Der Riese". I was actually genuinely annoyed and aggravated when I saw how easy this map is compared to Shadows of Evil. While others might think differently, I view the Giant's map difficulty being extremely easy as a trick or ploy to get people to buy the season pass to make leveling up and progressing through the zombies game mode much easier. It is also a remake of an old map and to be honest I want to only see new maps. If we want nostalgia of old maps we can easily just load up Black Ops one or two.
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We all know we need to restart Windows XP more frequent than we would like to. Whether is after installing software, drivers or due to problems, restarting is often a requirement.
If you feel that the standard steps you need to go through to shut down Windows are too slow, you might want to consider creating a desktop shortcut to shut down Windows. Windows XP uses an application named shutdown.exe which can be invoked directly. Together with the many command line parameters of the shutdown application, we can control shutdown and restart behavior of Windows.
To create a shortcut for Windows shutdown, follow these steps:
- Right-click your desktop.
- In the popup menu, select New and then click Shortcut.
- Next, type: shutdown.exe –f –s –t 0 in the textbox and then click Next.
- Type a name for the shortcut and click Finish.
If you click the new shortcut, your computer will shut down immediately. The –t 0 parameter tells the shutdown application to shut down after 0 seconds, so immediately. The –s parameter actually instructs the application to execute a shutdown of the computer. The –f parameter instructs the shutdown application to force the termination of any running applications. So make sure you close any applications and save work before you click the new shortcut.
In the same way you can make a shortcut that will restart your computer. Since this is required in many of the scenarios listed above, this shortcut will be very handy. Basically you repeat the steps above, but change the command to: shutdown.exe –f –r –t 0. The –r parameter instructs the shutdown application to restart the computer rather than shut it down.
For laptop and notebook users there is another handy variant, and that is to hibernate the computer. Again, follow the steps above, but now type: shutdown.exe –h –f –t 0.
These shortcuts also work in Windows Vista. The need to restart in Vista is less than in Windows XP, but it still happens. The shutdown and hibernate shortcut are useful in both XP and Vista of course.
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WHEN Thomas E. Gouttierre, a baker's son from Maumee, Ohio, applied for the Peace Corps in 1964, he had never even flown on an airplane, never mind traveled beyond the United States. He wanted to go somewhere that ''wasn't hot'' and ''wasn't in the Western Hemisphere,'' so he listed Iran, Turkey and ''anyplace but Latin America'' as his three choices.
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''I keep telling people,'' Mr. Gouttierre said between calls on the cellphone the terrorist attacks finally forced him to get, ''if I'd been sent to Swaziland, no one would ever have heard of me.''
Mr. Gouttierre has done CNN and NPR. The New York Times, the New Yorker and Time Out-New York.
He talked to Hiroshi Fuse of the Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese reporter in Washington; Sonja Merlijak of Delo, a daily newspaper in Slovenia; and Eric Ettrup, a correspondent for Politiken, a Danish national paper. Alecia Cohen of Rhythm magazine called, looking for an Afghan to write an article about music. Wendy Dorr from WBEZ in Chicago wanted someone who fought the Soviet Union and supported the Taliban but is now anti-Taliban.Continue reading the main story
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''I'm a show-off,'' admitted Mr. Gouttierre, 61, who won the chancellor's ''candor'' award in 1991.
''I like to teach, love to teach,'' he said, noting that the local television affiliates crowded into his classroom Sept. 11 to hear his eerily scheduled lecture on international terrorism. ''Being on TV to me is just another form of being able to be an educator.''
Mr. Gouttierre, who is of Belgian ancestry, describes Afghanistan, which he last visited in 1999, as having become a ''religious concentration camp.'' He speaks of the ''unholy alliance'' between Pakistan and Islamic radicals, and the ''Frankenstein monster'' it has created in the Taliban. He talks about a ''6 + 2 solution'' requiring the support of the six nations that border Afghanistan, as well as the United States and Russia. He tells of his meetings with Taliban officials -- ''they aren't qualified to run a village, much less a nation'' -- and of the endless hospitality of the Afghan people.
''We have to get Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda movement and we have to destroy their movement,'' he said in his office here. ''But if you take a look at our long-term vision, we've got to help the Afghans. If we do not, we're going to contribute to the further destabilization of the region.''
Here on campus, where the marching band rehearses outside his window and Krissy Vogel is running for homecoming queen with the slogan ''let them eat cake,'' Mr. Gouttierre keeps on his office wall the haunting portrait of an Afghan woman with green eyes and a red chador that became National Geographic's most popular cover. He helped set up that story. There are also snapshots of Mr. Gouttierre with Zahir Shah, the exiled Afghan king, and of the famed Buddha statue the Taliban destroyed.
Mr. Gouttierre is perhaps most proud of having coached the Afghan national basketball team. Casually, he mentions that Najibullah, the last Communist president of Afghanistan, who was hanged in 1996, was once his student.
''I didn't teach him political science, but I did teach him English,'' Mr. Gouttierre said. ''He was a good student, but he turned out to be a very bad man.''
THE Center for Afghanistan Studies was started in 1973 as the Omaha campus's attempt to break into international academics by focusing on an area few others considered. From 1986 to 1994, the university spent more than $50 million in grants training teachers and funneling textbooks to more than 130,000 students in Afghanistan and Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. The library has 8,000 manuscripts and documents on the region, from an 1860 handwritten volume of poetry known as the Haft Aurang to the Afghan Communist Party's first newspaper a century later.
Mr. Gouttierre, who graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, never finished his Ph.D., though he has three honorary doctorates. He is the head of the Omaha World Affairs Council -- dictator is the official title. His wife, Marylu, sells rugs at the Nebraska Furniture Mart.
Last May, Mr. Gouttierre, who earned his master baker's certificate at age 18, decorated the six-tier wedding cake for the oldest of his three sons. Though he now is one of those too-busy people striding across campus with a cellphone at his ear, he has not lost track of his beloved Tigers.
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