One totally weird thing I never knew is that they originally did this in 1987!
I had only heard the version posted, which is a lot better.
Love the fact that this bobcat, who is twice or three times the size of my cat, really looks a lot like him!
Difference is this guy would eat my cat in about a second.
The only way I could tell that this is real is the tips of its wings - otherwise it looks like this was somehow photoshopped.
Nice shot.
I see this as predecessor to Stop Making Sense
Yep, it totally is. Once In A Lifetime is kind of the big budget version, but for some reason I always comeback to this - I think it's the beat, the lyrics, the completely paired down production, and the synths.
There's not a ton going on here, but when put together the three or four elements make something much greater than the parts.
Glad you liked it.
Zelensky killed it.
The green sweater.
The trading of flags.
The Putin joke.
And the calls to the Battle of the Bulge and X-Mas.
"I will hold".
No one on either team (Biden and Zelensky) could have imagined how well this was going to go.
Definitely Alive and Kicking
No idea who this is and it's obviously not going to be a huge hit but holy shit the production is off the charts.
The video is...not good, - just listen to the music.
Yeah he really has kind of taken a vacation from reality.
The latest is that "jewish Leaders" weren't sufficiently loyal to him.
He sounds like a mob boss, although that's not really anything new.
I can't wait until we don't have to read about him everyday, but unfortunately it will be Desantis or some other ogre from the republican party filling the void.
Here's NPR's official tweet about Trump's announcement.
It seems their taking off the gloves when dealing with Trump.
BREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024. https://t.co/iqIcaN3SZA— NPR (@NPR) November 16, 2022
The Republicans have lost what little sanity they had left.
They're suing because they want to cause chaos and bring as many lawsuits to our new "Handmaid's tale" supreme court...and they'll probably be successful.
O.k. no idea what you've got going on with JavaScript but stop that asap.
I can't select anything on the page. You're basically crippling your own app.
This is such a weird track.
It starts with a really lame sampled drum and then expands into this amazing mix of syths and live guitars and drums.
Also - eminence: fame or recognized superiority, especially within a particular sphere or profession
re : Would using one of these programs degrade the quality of the video?
Not really.
Check out Audacity. The noise removal plugin works well.
It's more in the "how you apply it" than the "how good is this plug in".
You have to learn what works and what doesn't. It's a process, and once you get good at it...well...that's it.
Until then everything will sound pretty bad.
Good luck.
I use AKG 240 Studios.
I have small ears, so take this with a grain of salt, but on ear headphones are great for djing, but really awful for video editing.
Go with the largest cup size you can find - basically you don't want any of the cup to touch your ear.
These aren't on ear headphones - they're over ear.
For me the K240s do exactly that...and - they're semi opened backed. Look up closed vs open vs semi open headphones. It boils down to hearing fatigue. I prefer, and strongly endorse semi open. Closed is for djs, but when editing video, semi open is the way to go.
Editing with earbuds is...not what I would suggest. Earbuds are a totally different animal.
You're probably going to have to spend more than you want, but there are AKG and Audio Technicas that have large, velvet lined cups, and...yeah...it's going to be expensive.
If you want the $65 version the k240 studios are the way to go.
Hope this helps.
Yeah, guess that didn't really go anywhere : (
Cool read. Since birds have been here for much longer than we have, and that they'll be here long after we're gone, it's not surprising that they've developed into a very social species.
I also like the fact that they basically just said "Hell No!" to the harnesses.
I haven't thought about (or even seen) Koss headphones in a long, long time.
I looked them up and they still sell the same dorky https://koss.com/collections/utility-series/products/porta-pro-utility they always did.
It is interesting that Koss happened in Milwaukee, of all places.
I've actually become a fan of light, old school headphones (or ear buds).
They work, they don't need a dongle, they're light, and honestly at this point $9 headphones sound about as good as $50 headphones.
If they break you can find another pair almost anywhere.
Obviously this is all for portable stuff - if I'm editing audio/video I'm going for something much better.
Great shot. Is that a zoom or did you get that close?
This flick is brutal. It also has a Psychoesquest twist The main character gets killed in the last 10 minutes
It's great 80s and one of the best flicks of the decade.
In the 2000s The Daily Show was truly remarkable and must watch tv.
It basically kept a lot of people sane and always pointed out the hypocrisy of the political class, while also poking fun at some really bizarre aspects of pop culture.
Jon deserves this and I'm glad he got it.
I haven't see the new show but I've heard it's good, but not as consistent as The Daily Show.
My mind immediately turns to the Bond villain's introduction - he's swimming in the read lake, emerges from it (coming out of water/ocean is big in Bond) and then the character saying something about loving swimming in red (blood).
Instead of Bond being the totally muscular in shape character, let the villain do it for once - a villain that makes Bond seemingly out matched.
I checked the IMDB and Aegean SOS got totally panned. I thought it was shot in the 50s or 60s but it's 2018, so I'll bet the letters were going to the base for a marketing plan that never came to be.
If you haven't heard it...well - it's one of the best speeches ever, delving into class and poverty instead of race.
Wow, this is totally cool, thanks for the link.
The red lake is awesome and the initials are pretty weird. I'll bet that they did come from the movie shoot, but who knows.
I think they should use it as a Bond villain's lair.
Happy holidays everyone!
AOC's House Floor response: https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1461059692411691023
Yeah she's not doing well, and I think if she runs in 2024 it will be a blood bath.
Good article, the problem is...without getting money out of politics I really don't see anything changing.
Basically if big pharma and fossil fuel companies can buy off senators with political "donations" (basically bribes) nothing is going to change.
Paywall - I can't read this, unfortunately...
These are absolutely great!
My favorites are:
1) The woman writing in her diary
2) The woman playing with baby dragon as Mom (or Pop) dragon looks around the corner
3) Kissing masks
Yeah, well, it's working.
Red States are going to follow the playbook, and half the country will follow.
We're in for a weird time in American history - one that is far from good.
It seems like history repeats itself and no one seems to learn anything.
While it won't be as bad as wave one or two the Delta variant is going to hit low vaccinated areas pretty hard.
Meton was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer and engineer, who lived in Athens in the 5th century BC. According to the testimonies of ancient historians, Meton installed in Pnyx (Πνύκα) the first Heliotropio / Helioscope (solar clock) of Athens, the foundations of which are still visible just behind the podium of Pnyx. Meton determined the dates of the equinoxes and the solstices based on the specific location of the Heliotropio. From this position, the sunrise during the summer solstice is seen from the top of Lycabettus, while six months later, during the winter solstice, the sun rises from the top of Mount Hymettus. The annual apparent movement of the sun on the horizon creates an arc of 60°, the bisector of which is aligned with the rock of Acropolis. In this way, at the equinoxes, the sunrise aligns with Acropolis’ rock. With his calculations, Meton introduced the Attic Calendar in which the summer solstice played an important role to ancient Athenians, because it marked the beginning of the new year. Also, the oldest known astronomical computer in the world the Antikythera Mechanism (ο Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων), constructed in the 2nd century BC, performs calculations based on the Metonic circle. Thousands of visitors come to Pnyx every year but almost none of them knows the importance of this small construction just above the main podium. (Pnyx, Thissio)
This seems made up...but it's not.
The clock stuff is awesome on a lot of levels.
There seem to be some people from our past that were way ahead of the curve.
I just wish everyone else could catch up.
The omission of context is a great weapon that Fox has always used.
Trump's speech was so incoherent that anyone could play a clip and use it to further their agenda.
Tucker Carlson...what to do with Tucker...well, I have no idea what Chris Cuomo or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have to do with any of this's except they are the new targets of Fox and Friends, so sure they have to be brought into the discussion on Fox.
Trump's double standard on this is amazing but totally par for the course.
Two months ago he called for 10 year jail sentences for anyone arrested while rioting outside of a federal building.
Not so much now.
It may be nasty, but the amount of time and energy put into this is amazing.
At first I thought it would just be a one off single page site based on a funny idea, but whomever made this really went all the way.
Doing this as a parody is perfect since DJT has absolutely no sense of humor.
I hope they expand this and keep it running. I'm sure they'll have plenty of new material once new information comes to light and future court cases are filed.
It's kind of like "This one goes to eleven!"
For all of those who want to burn money and think having Apple or Beats headphones makes them cool - go nuts.
I think I'm going to stick with my $11 earbuds that plug into all the devices I already own and my AKG 240 studio headphones for desktop that cost $50 and sound 1000 times better than anything Apple makes.
Weird, but I just binged watched pretty much everything you just posted regarding Chapelle a few hours before you posted it.
The most egregious example of this is Reagan using "Born in the USA" in 1984.
None of the boomers who voted for Reagan (or went to a Bruce concert) actually listened to the lyrics.
Here they are:
[Verse 1]
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just coverin' up
[Chorus]
Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
[Verse 2]
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
[Chorus]
Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
[Verse 3]
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said, "Son, don't you understand"
[Verse 4]
I had a brother at Khe Sanh
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
[Verse 5]
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
[Chorus]
Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A. now
Born in the U.S.A
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. now
Born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
I'm a cool rockin' Daddy in the U.S.A. now
Yeah I've been reading about this for the past few days, and I'm just amazed that in the next few months the Senate is going to replace RBG, a truly historic woman who fought for women's rights, worker's rights, basically everyone's rights, with Amy Coney Barret.
Here are a few links so everyone can get to know her:
https://www.afj.org/nominee/amy-coney-barrett/
Maybe some of that money should be spent enabling some number of these people to vote
How about no money being spent and instead, once you've served you time you get you get your right to vote back...automatically and for free.
The prison "system" in the U.S. has been fucked up since...forever, but when it became a for profit business it became weaponized.
I thought the covid outbread would be the course correction America needed - turns out I was wrong.
He looks like he's in a bad mood and wants something to eat.
This is a great shot.
You might want to crop it a bit on the right, but other than that it's perfect.
Whoever says that blacks in mid-century America were just having sex, doing drugs and didn't care about family should listen tot this song!
Who, in their right mind, ever even hinted at saying this?
What are you even talking about?
Nice shot. I just wish trail cams were just a little bit better, but they have a lot more going on than a simple point and shoot.
She can actually run in 2024, she turns thirty five 3 weeks before election day.
But...
I think she should wait, get some experience, and learn the ropes a bit more.
But when she does run, I'll do anything I can to get here elected.
Even after Nov 3 it's not going to be done. It's going to be contested and make Bush v Gore look like a slight disagreement.
Also, if Biden wins Nov 3 - Jan 20 2021 is going to be the most dangerous time the US has seen in a long, long time.
Good one.
I think my favorite part is this:
And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Let's hope the Dutch are smarter in their easing than Americans are, because here it's been a disaster.
Yeah it was their shot at a Beatlesesque track...I also think it was their last hit (actually I know it was).
After seeing Curt's duet with his daughter doing Mad World (https://headcycle.com/h/music/comments/e225cc91597a/mad-world-performed-by-curt-smith-of-tears-for) I kind of went back and checked out Tears for Fears again.
Weird thing is I found that they were excellent song writers, and players/production, but they just didn't have a ton of stand out stuff besides:
Sowing the Seeds of Love
Shout
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Going back though I realize how good at lyrics they really were.
Glad you liked it.
Well, in answer to your question of:
Are French fries, the beloved food around the world, actually Belgian?
It's not even a question, of course they are really Belgian fries.
McDonalds may have figured out the honey coating that every kid in the U.S. craves...their also giving most American the die-a -beet-tus.
But people who know about real "fries" know the OG is Belgian.
I know your posting stuff in Belgum, but is you ever make it to NYC (and before these are closed forever) go here:
https://www.pommesfritesnyc.com/
and
Are they going to be as good as the real thing? No. Are they good enough? Yes.
I'm sure there's a pizza place somewhere in France or Belgium that has good thin pizza. Will it be as good as in NYC. No. Will it be good enough? Yes.
There are actually a lot more Belgium bars that just do the basic fries and beer in NYC, but these were the two that everyone either a) me at the start of the the night or b) drunkenly ended the night.
Ta
Yeah, Stan Freberg was way ahead of his time. I bought an album of his (can't remember which) but it just caught the time in history - old changing to new, the sort of comedy we've come to expect...truth tellers being honest and no so nice.
Nice shot!
This guy looks like he's either asleep or bored as hell.