#and the amount of angles you can dissect their dynamic from

[samijey]

I have mentioned the Bloodline Storyline to someone I know who was once in a biker gang and as he put it "If someone were welcomed into the gang openly when everyone else there had to be beaten into it, I could totally see why the people who got beaten in would despise the new guy." And I think about that a lot for how much Jey resented Sami's place early on. Sami not only wasn't tied down, but his willingness to submit of his own free will, and how that got him a spot -- that frustrated Jey so much... but then Sami, be it because he wasn't 'beaten into the gang' or not, still maintained that sense of innocence and sunshine, and Jey couldn't help but fall in love. He loved it in Sami just as much as he missed it in himself and God I just have so many feelings about them, aaaaaaaaaaaaa.

YEA YEA YEAAA EXACTLY YOU'VE PUT IT PERFECTLY AND NOW I NEED SEVERAL MOMENTS

[thecomedybureau]

The 100 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness to In No Particular Order of 2019

OK, 2019′s officially over and we’ve wrangled our 100 truly favorite things in and around comedy (and it really spans all of comedy) that are not ranked whatsoever. It’s just like the title says and, it’s, as it is every year, quite long, so we won’t waste any more time with this intro. 

Oh, in case you forgot and/or curious and/or need a quick refresher, here’s our 2018 list. 

1. Rory Scovel Live Without Fear-This documentary follows Rory Scovel and his journey through six nights of completely improvised hour sets. In a single word, it’s inspiring. You see the way Scovel truly connects the audience and keeps it that way through his indelible charm and endless curiosity. The near unbelievable story of the Relapse Theater in Atlanta is also beautifully threaded in the doc as well. The clips of the improvised performances capture the magic that stand-up comedy can be that’s absent from the majority of comedy specials. You should be required to see this whenever and wherever it comes if you have any level of interest in comedy at all. 

2. Naomi Ekperigin-From her own stand-up, to her podcast with husband Andy Beckerman, Couples Therapy, and her writing across TV, and everything else she does, Naomi is such an thoroughly commanding, yet delightful presence that we love seeing every time anywhere (and she should already be way bigger of a star already).

3. Cait Raft’s Presentation on “Bradley Cooper’s a Star Is Born Takes Place in an Alternate Reality Where 9/11 Never Happened”-Witnessing the imagination of Cait Raft up close was a privilege for us. This amazing dissection of the zeitgeist left us in stitches and with our mouth agape for how thoroughly it proved its point.

4. Corporate Season 2-The second season of the ultra dark workplace comedy delivered once again on its hysterical nihilistic satire that’s so prescient, yet still so unbelievably funny.

5. Mom-Prov Presents Family Therapy-Improviser Izzy Roland was daring enough to have her mom and her grandmother, both of whom are also in showbiz, to join her on stage for one of the most madcap, fourth wall-breaking, entertaining improv shows we’ve seen all throughout 2019.

6. Jena Friedman-So, this year, Jena delivered yet again with her subtle delivery and calm demeanor that hides her absolutely killer jokes. The follow-up to her Adult Swim special, Soft Focus, upped the ante with an interview of a gun-toting John McAffee and her brilliant Conan set about everyone’s true crime obsession.

7. Brendon Walsh’s Afternoon Delight-This last year, Brendon Walsh let everyone know that he was and still is one of the best at pulling prank calls, which is so much harder now than it was even ten years ago. This live show actually has Brendon place live prank calls in between stand-ups and the ride you go on is absolutely thrilling.

8. Jacqueline Novak’s Get on Your Knees-Novak’s solo show has more than earned its spot as an Off-Broadway show with bringing such an exquisite, almost never before seen comedic sensibility to the topic of blow jobs.

9. #F*ckF*ckJerry-Props to Vulture Senior Editor Megh Wright for sparking the fire to take out the egregious social media accounts of F*ck Jerry that just lifted jokes from comedians all across the Internet without pay or attribution.

10. Lorelei Ramirez-We’ve known distantly about Lorelei Ramirez for so many years, but seeing them up close was a breathtaking experience that had us laughing so hard. Their artistry in comedy that gracefully borders on performance art and even horror is absolutely inspiring.

11. Aaron Urist-Denver’s Aaron Urist is such a killer joke writer and joke teller and has been for years. We just were reminded about that with his burning bush joke during his latest LA trip.

12. Booksmart-Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut was not only a reinvigorated take on movies that specifically hone in on the end of high school, but also had a sincerely hopeful vision of the future generation. We hope that Booksmart finds its way to the top of the coming-of-age comedy films pantheon.

13. Rachel Mac on Lights Out-One of the highlights of Lights Out with David Spade is how unfiltered and raunchy they let comics get during their sets on the show. Rachel Mac took that amount of comedic license and thrived in getting into the nitty gritty about her last teaching job.

14. What We Do In The Shadows-The FX TV adaptation of the seminal Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement film in 2014 exceedingly succeeds in nailing the comedy of minutia in the world of the undead that also happens to be in a (somewhat) grounded reality.

15. PEN15-Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle’s vision of 2000 and their performances as teens were so spot on that PEN15 would deserve acclaim just for that. However, the heart of this show made its humor stand out in an ever crowded field of coming-of-age comedy.

16. Tiffany Haddish’s Black Mitzvah-A lot has happened for Tiffany Haddish since her last special (she’s a legit A-list celebrity now), but it’s clear that she is still her unapologetically positively, life loving self. This special is evidence of that, especially with her bit about her New Year’s show that she got undeserved flack for.

17. Straw Men-Lindsay Adams, Danny Palumbo, and Sam Wiles (and producer Kimmie Lucas) put on what is our favorite imagining of a comedic debate that we’ve seen thus far. The encouragement to make the most ridiculous, baseless arguments and being transparent about the whole thing is a golden goose of comedy.

18. The ending of Gloria Bell-Well, we can’t very well give away the ending to this English language dramedy remake from Sebastián Lelio that has Julianne Moore shine as bright as she has ever shone before, but just know that we stood out of our seats, applauding what she did to John Turturro right at the end.

19. I Think You Should Leave-Tim Robinson’s unflinchingly absurd sketch series unequivocally has many of the best sketches of 2019. The hot dog costume and Mexican restaurant sketches will have us busting up through, very likely, the next decade.

20. Les Miz and Friends-Bonkers (and we mean that in the best way possible) doesn’t begin to describe how wild this meta and great this puppet and human hybrid take on the theater institution of Les Miserables. The sheer cleverness on every level is awe-inspiring. 

21. Dave Ross’ The Only Man Who Has Ever Had Sex-Ross has been a longtime favorite of ours for the contrasting bounciness and darkness of his comedy. His debut album captures this dichotomy perfectly.

22. Nikki Glaser: Bangin’-Nikki Glaser’s first Netflix hour special started off with a bang, pun intended. Her frank, but heartfelt exploration of all facets of sex is so damn funny that Glaser gets away with being as blue as she wants.  

23. Super Dating Simulator-This live, interactive version of various Japanese video game dating simulators is one of the more innovative and surprisingly charming things we saw this year. Creator Sam Weller did a bang-up job not only making a video game work as a stage show, but doing so with a very off-beat sub-genre of video games

24. Emmy Blotnick’s Party Nights-Blotnick’s latest album shows Emmy at the peak of her delightful observational powers. The concept of a “Self-Potato” is just priceless.

25. Tammercise!-Folks in comedy are getting all sorts of clever these days to redefine traditional formats and disciplines and push the art form forward. Madeline Wager does this exquisitely with a solo show of a woman unraveling that doubles as legit aerobics class.

26. The Cherry Orchard w/Chad Damiani and Jet Eveleth-Damiani and Eveleth explore a new angle on postmodern clowning by supposedly doing a Chekov play going through dress rehearsal without any of the players knowing what they’re supposed to do. The back and forth between the live direction and the tomfoolery on stage is truly hysterical.

27. Bake Stuff with Lindsay LIVE-It’s about time for a comedic cooking show that actually does teach you a wonderful recipe and also explores and resolves(?) childhood trauma. Lindsay Adams’ Bake Stuff with Lindsay, which we indeed saw live, accomplishes all of that and inspires all those watching to cook through their feelings.

28. Shalewa Sharpe’s So, You Just Out Here?-Shalewa imbues homespun wisdom with marvelously colorful descriptions all throughout this very satisfying album.

29. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary from Ben Berman-The Amazing Johnathan’s life story is pretty captivating as is. The story about Ben Berman trying to tell his story amidst several other people trying to tell his story is absolutely engrossing and is somehow all true.

30. Julio Torres’ HBO special “My Favorite Shapes”-Torres’ special is simultaneously one of the most daring and silly hour specials in recent memory and his elevation of prop comedy to a whole new level is to be commended.

31. The Underculture with James Adomian-James Adomian has been one of comedy podcasts’ most in-demand and bright shining stars. It comes as no surprise that his own podcast that revs up all his characters has some of the best, most dynamic, absurdist interviews in political and pop culture satire. 

32. Daniel Van Kirk’s Thanks Diane/Together Tour-Van Kirk’s first, complete hour that he both toured with and released as an album is so impressive with how deftly Dan manages a balance of sincerity and mischief from wire-to-wire.

33. Conan in Greenland-Conan marvelously turns his travel specials series Conan Without Borders on its head by attempting to buy Greenland based off of Trump’s stupid tweets.

34. Mary Beth Barone’s Drag His Ass: A F*ckboy Treatment Program-Mary Beth Barone’s live show exploration into her dating life is illuminating and hilarious throughout, but the actual interview that she does live with a “f*ckboy” is transcendent.

35. Obvious Plant’s Carnival of Toys-Jeff Wysaski AKA Obvious Plant really outdid himself this year in his quest to permeate everyday reality with a satirical twist. He not only made a whole line of custom toy figures that satirize pop culture on so many levels, but opened up a whole pop-up museum for several days to exhibit them in all of their bizarre glory.

36. Sports Without Equipment with Coach Keith Alejo-This Dress Up Gang sketch is one of those ideas that are simple, yet so out-of-left-field. Literally, they take sports without equipment to its funniest conclusion.

37. #Squatmelt-Howard Kremer’s desire to keep the spirit of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail alive has evolved into its own very special thing in the form of a DIY stand-up comedy show/walking tour that periodically migrates around LA.

38. Catch-22-Trying to adapt such a monumental literary work like Catch-22 is almost a fool’s errand, but writers Luke Davies and David Michôd do a smash-up job for not only bringing Heller’s immortal words to life, but also sticking the landing for all the darkly absurdly comical moments that run rampant throughout the story.

39. Get Rich Nick-Even if they didn’t have the fantastic banter, riffs, and asides from the very funny duo of Nick Turner and Nick Vatterott, this podcast that explores how to make money real quick is one of the best new podcasts of the whole year. Fortunately, Nick and Nick’s humor runs rampant through every episode and makes Get Rich Nick engrossing and makes you actually laugh out loud.

40. MK Paulsen-The comedy of MK Paulsen can be faster than a bullet, but as satisfyingly silly as a gun that shoots a flag with the word ‘bang’ on it. Every time we see him do stand-up, it’s a fun, rollicking ride that’s equal parts offbeat whimsy, clever wordplay, and an agile sense of timing and play.

41. Father Figurine by Matt Kazman-The dour faces of the family in this dark comedy short play to the highest comedic effect perfectly. A dead patriarch and an apathetic family make for some of the best dry humor in 2019.

42. Funk Shuffle-Danny Cymbal, Dennis Curlett, and Michael Gardner comprise Funk Shuffle, an improv group that manages fly freer and more untethered than almost any other improv group that we’ve ever seen. They make their defiance and experimentation with improv forms really work due to the trio’s unflinchingly playful spirit.

43. Gary Gulman’s The Great Depresh-Gulman, as one of comedy’s premier craftsman, of course, delivers an hour of stellar comedy with this special. He also manages, this time around, to destigmatize depression and, in general, be hopeful. That particular comedy trifecta is such an impressive feat that very few can accomplish.

44. Greener Grass-The scope and ambition of Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe’s directorial debut hints at some really special things to come from them in the future. Their absolutely demented, pastel drenched absurdist vision was a shocking delight through and through.

45. Jenny Slate’s Stage Fright-Slate’s best comedic strength is her unshakeable vulnerability. This hour special lets Jenny present that trait as intimately as she has ever presented it and gives an in-depth look as to where that hilarious vulnerability comes from. 

46. Heather Anne Campbell swatting a baby out of someone’s hands in an improv scene-At this point, it should come as no surprise that Heather Anne Campbell is one of our absolute all-time favorite people in comedy and thus, she kind of just ends up making it on this list annually on her own someway, somehow. This year, during a performance of her improv group, Heather and Company, we laughed as hard as we’ve ever laughed at Drew DiFonzo Marks initiating a scene by rocking a baby back and forth and then, Heather insanely swatted it out of his hands and stomped on it. It sounds ludicrous, but trust that Heather made that so unbelievably funny. 

47. Adam Cayton-Holland’s Happy Place-Cayton-Holland’s live solo show based on his critically acclaimed book of the same name pulls off oscillating between cleverly wrought and self-aware comedy and some of the most heartbreaking stories you’ll ever hear about his late sister. Holland’s focus and calm make it all miraculously blend together.

48. The Authorized Unauthorized My Favorite Murder Musical-In the world of unauthorized musicals about things that you wouldn’t really think about being adapted into unauthorized musicals (it’s a bigger ever-burgeoning world every month it seems), the staged reading of this My Favorite Murder-inspired musical that we saw was phenomenal. The full stage production to come in 2020 will undoubtedly be something really great. 

49. Pedro Gonzalez-Pedro’s jokes are so expertly written and crafted that you forget that he immigrated to America as a teenager from Colombia and learned English as a second language.

50. Garry Starr Performs Everything-UK comedian Garry Starr’s solo show is a genius send-up and celebration of theater as a whole. The physicality and the sheer madness of the whole show are so thoroughly hysterical.

51. Kira Soltanovich-We just want to take a moment to appreciate the agility of the comedy of Kira Soltanovich. Not only does Kira play any room or any show as far as we’ve seen, but her drive is just unstoppable (see ep. of The Honey Dew).

52. Mike Birbiglia’s The New One-Though it seems almost too routine that Birbiglia comes out with a new hour special that garners tons of acclaim for its ornate and complex and, ultimately, very satisfying tapestry of stories, Birbiglia delivers exactly once again with one such solo show/special on fatherhood.

53. Michelle Buteau-We saw Michelle headline just a few months ago at Dynasty Typewriter and were reminded of just how good Buteau is. She combines being heartfelt, having a fun bit of attitude, and an absolute command of the stage in such a beautiful way.

54. Gareth Reynolds’ Riddled with Disease-Many folks know how great Gareth is from his madcap riffing on The Dollop, but Reynolds shows he is fantastic with a sharp, hilarious, yet still fast-and-loose-feeling hour.

55. Sara Schaefer’s LIVE LAUGH LOVE-Sara, above most folks working in comedy today, goes to great lengths to be considerate, inclusive, and vulnerable in her comedy and it’s so, so wonderful because of that. This album is yet another great example of that mix.

56. Sean Patton’s Scuttlebutt-Sean Patton’s latest album is a fantastic note to any and all that Sean is, hands down, one of the best comedians ever to spin a yarn (and also share some damn fine true stories) and deserves way more accolade and attention for that now and going forward. 

57. Matt Rogers’ Have You Heard of Christmas?-Rogers had quite a 2019 in putting culture on notice, but his queer and subversive holiday musical extravaganza might be one of the best pieces of holiday themed comedy of all time.

58. The Chris Gethard Show with Robby Hoffman-Not only does Robby Hoffman keep the punk rock, conventions-be-damned spirit of TCGS alive, but she makes it so much her own and lets her hilarious, domineering persona transform the show into another very special, unique round of controlled chaos.

59. The taping of Eddie Pepitone’s latest special-Eddie’s sound and fury and his irreverent stream-of-consciousness-seeming comedy were flawless in this latest hour. Everyone in attendance, including ourselves, were in stitches for the whole taping. Props to director Steven Feinartz for one of our favorite looks of a special that we saw last year (which you’ll all get to see soon in 2020).

60. Eric Dadourian’s closer on Nebraska 2-Dadourian is always all in for the sake of a real bold, imaginative bit and, as such, pulled off one of our favorite closers of the year on his very first full length album.

61. Jessica Kirson: Talking to Myself-Kirson’s hour special on Comedy Central really let Jessica cut loose and let her showcase her stand-up expertise. From the way that Kirson contorts her face to her deep well of voices/characters to razor-sharp quick wit to, of course, her signature asides to herself, Jessica really kills it in this hour. 

62. Brody Stevens-Long live the “jock doing performance art” comedy (one of our favorite descriptions of Brody’s comedy by his dear friend Zach Galifianakis) and may he rest in peace. Yeeeees! Enjoy It!

63. Byron Bowers on Colbert-Byron Bowers and his clever, yet sincere, dark, vulnerable comedy put up one of our favorite late night sets this year. From the opening to his frank jokes about his dad make us think that it’s just a little crazy that this is his network TV debut.

64. Desus and Mero on Showtime-With the upgrade of being on Showtime, Desus Nice and The Kid Mero are having the most fun in late night with the freshest voices and format (and they’re able to pull that off with only being twice a week).

65. Fleabag Season 2-creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge assuredly has more masterpieces ahead of her, but managing to top herself from one masterpiece season of dark romantic dramedy with another one is something that deserves all the accolades and awards that it has gotten.

66. Kenny DeForest on Corden-Kenny dismantles toxic masculinity so incisively through the whole set that he most certainly earns all the applause breaks he gets the whole way through.

67. Josh Gondelman’s Dancing on a Weeknight-Gondelman is often thought of as one of the best, sweetest people in comedy. This latest album, for all of its being clever and genuine, is proof that he indeed really is that sweet and funny.

68. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3-The perennial prestige comedy from Amy Sherman-Palladino earns its keep by having some of the best writing (it’s almost impossible to write jokes that are contextualized for the 50s/60s and make them actually funny for 2019 audiences) and also being one of the most gorgeous looking shows in all of television.

69. Nick Ciarelli and Brad Evans-Whether it be pulling pranks on Twitter, their plethora of hysterical sketches doing an impression of Jack FM on shows around town, or their monthly live sketch character showcase Atlantic City, Nick and Brad are a damn fine comedy duo and have been for quite some time. 

70. Caitlin Gill’s Major-It’s quite the magic trick to make an hour of comedy that’s entirely clean and have it being clean not be a thought that you’re thinking about at all when listening or watching it. Caitlin Gill spectacularly does just that with this album as Gill can make all of her earnest rants, imagery, and observations work in any way that she needs to.  

71. 97.9 The Rat Race-Ben Roy’s satirical reimagining of a morning radio “zoo crew” is so spot on, then gets real twisted to make this one of the most surprising and rewarding podcasts of 2019.

72. Mike Lane’s Picture Frames-This short film from Lane heightens the idea of remembering those you love after they’ve left this mortal coil to such a ridiculous level every step of the way (and is more and more enjoyably unpredictable the further it goes).

73. Paige Weldon on Corden-Paige’s upbeat self-deprecation is just hard to resist and it makes the best impression in this late night set on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

74. The Righteous Gemstones-Danny McBride’s latest HBO series that darkly and comically dissects the South might be his most ambitious yet, but, of course, he nails it. The constant suspense perpetuated by hysterically tragic characters in the world of televangelists is profound.

75. My Friend Chuck-Comedic erotica author Chuck Tingle (one of the absolutely most unique voices and cadences we’ve heard in awhile) and friend McKenzie Goodwin celebrate their friendship every week for a podcast that’s preposterously funny and, also, more heartwarming than almost anything we’ve heard or seen. 

76. Joey Clift’s Telling People You’re Native American When You’re Not Native Is a Lot Like Telling a Bear You’re a Bear When You’re Not a Bear-Clift makes such biting, pun intended, commentary with this short film/PSA that is also so playful that the message about Native identity will undoubtedly stick with you.

77. Megan Gailey’s My Dad Paid For This-Gailey strikes a wonderful balance of charm and attitude and fervent desire to burn down the patriarchy. Such a mix accents her very delightful observations about herself and the world around her in this marvelous debut album. 

78. Robin Higgins as Baby Yoda at Tournament of Nerds-Higgins might have made one of the best, first attempts at Baby Yoda cosplay. She also, for what’s supposed to be a roast-style competition between fictional/pop culture characters, perfectly imagined how Baby Yoda would roast someone while maintaining Baby Yoda’s sweetness that has captured the hearts and minds of the Internet.

79. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote-Terry Gilliam went through hell, did a few laps, and came back over several years to get this meta-quixotic tale about reimagining the legendary novel Don Quixote made. The finished film, for us, was worth the wait. 

80. Jo Firestone on The Tonight Show-Jo’s sense of play is so pure and present that it’s kind of irresistible. Combined with a perfect amount of self-deprecation, Jo really delivered a terrific set we’ll probably never get tired of.

81. Paul Rudd continues his time honored tradition of playing that one clip of Mac & Me on Conan-Rudd evolves the arc of this long running bit on Conan where, instead of playing a clip of what he’s on Conan to promote, he plays the same exact clip of the universally panned alien comedy Mac & Me. We all know what’s coming and yet, without the benefit of surprise, Rudd’s annoyance of Conan still keeps on being so damn funny.

82. Billy on the Street featuring Reese and Mariah-This year, we were lucky enough to get two instantly classic episodes of Billy on the Street with Reese Witherspoon and Mariah Carey that gave us our fix for our obsession with Billy Eichner yelling at strangers on the streets of NYC.

83. The Dollop England & UK-As Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds embarked on an entire England & UK tour of The Dollop, they thought it prudent to do a mini-series specific to Great Britain and did a smashing job making fun of British history. The Cyril the Swan episode is particularly brilliant.

84. Lost Moon Radio-The live musical sketch comedy theater troupe (Lost Moon Radio truly lives up to such a description) marked their 10th anniversary and put on an absolutely fantastic “Summer Block Party” this year that both showed that they still got their ingenious musical sketch comedy chops. 

85. Nate Bargatze’s The Tennessee Kid-The calm with which Bargatze pervades all of his comedy is part of what makes it beloved by nearly any and all that see or hear Bargatze’s stand-up. That’s such the case now that Nate gives updates to stories from previous specials on this latest hour. 

86. Beth Stelling on Kimmel-Every detail of this set on Jimmy Kimmel Live is pretty stellar. That includes Beth, in general, for her warm demeanor, smile, and cleverness, the Chippendale’s story, Beth’s mom being there in the crowd, and, of course, the surprise guest at the end. 

87. Liz Climo’s Please Don’t Eat Me-This illustrated book is just the latest in a long line of uber-adorable and genuinely-funny-for-all-ages books from Climo. Liz seems to have quite the knack for making unlikely animal friendship jokes. 

88. John Hodgman’s Medallion Status-Hodgman’s journey through the various statuses of airline privilege/celebrity is a superb serving of existential humor, done up with Hodgman’s painstaking attention to the exactly right details. 

89. Jane Curtin’s 2019 New Year’s Resolution “My New Year’s Resolution Is To Make Sure The Republican Party Dies”-Said during a CNN interview with the SNL alum, this was the first thing to make us heartily laugh in 2019.

90. Alex Kavutskiy’s Squirrel-Kavutskiy’s short film dives into the concept of forgiveness unlike we’ve really seen and, as is Kavutskiy’s style, is so darkly spellbinding and so pointedly funny at the same time.

91. Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show-The long running comedy troupe known as Astronomy Club really ran with their chance to do a full-fledged sketch series on Netflix. They’re so endlessly clever on in their sketches, especially when it comes to the subjects of identity and oppression, and pack in so many jokes and sight gags that you’ll definitely want to watch it more than once so you don’t miss anything.

92. Dolemite Is My Name-Eddie Murphy seems poised to make a real return to comedy (and stand-up comedy in particular) and this marvelous biopic of comedian and blaxploitation star Rudy Ray Moore AKA Dolemite is the perfect way to start.

93. Anna Drezen on Corden-Drezen has such a perfect sense of farce and misdirection and puts on a beautiful display of those two things from start to finish in this set on The Late Late Show with James Corden. 

94. BUTT’s Yoda themed dating app sketch-This sketch is so prescient of the resurgence of the world’s current (baby) Yoda obsession. Also, while this is so absurd with its deep dive into various Yoda fan art and cosplay, Joe McAdam and Chris Stephens’ take on dating apps is so sharply and deeply funny. 

95. Mel Brooks Unwrapped-The never ending bit of attempting a documentary between Mel Brooks and the BBC’s Alan Yentob is yet another display of the true, unquestionable genius of Mel Brooks.

96. 50 First Stephs-The amazing, hysterical Steph Tolev kicked off 2019 with a show where 50 or so of her compatriots and contemporaries did various impressions and characterizations of her. Part roast, part loving tribute, part amazing showcase of the depth of creativity in LA comedy, Tolev’s night for herself was something really special.

97. The Bongo Hour with Sandy Honig and Peter Smith-Honig and Smith brought their wild variety show that featured such wonderful bits, characters, drag, and burlesque to LA and showed, truly, how much better life is when you’re fluid about nearly everything.

98. How Did This Get Played?-Hosts Nick Wiger and Heather Anne Campbell and their take on the “worst and weirdest” video games do their namesake, the beloved How Did This Get Made?, proud. Even if you’re not a gamer, the way they dissect the most bizarre video games ever made along with Heather and Nick’s chemistry is very, very enjoyable.

99. Joe Pera Talks With You Season 2-This second season of Joe Pera’s unique talk-to-the-viewer series is so calming that the comedic twists sneak up in the most delightful way possible. There is a certain beauty to Pera’s show that makes us want to have Joe Pera Talks With You playing on a loop in a contemporary art museum.

100. John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch-John Mulaney does “it”, yet again. “It” being releasing another hour of comedic brilliance that’s so markedly different than whatever he did before, yet, somehow still stamped with an indelible mark of Mulaney’s comedy of obtuse hyper-specificity. 

[mouazkhaled]

I read once that to write a character in a screenplay you should prepare as much as possible about this character’s aspects starting from their childhood, their school and what it has been like, their parents and how they were raised, their neighborhood and how was life in it, their friends and old toys, their first kiss and love story, their ambitions and passions and how they came to be. These can easily fill 20 pages of details that are not represented directly into the screenplay but they shape the truthfulness of the character, the details that make them alive and dynamic.

In Marriage Story, i cant imagine nothing short of a book worth of details that humanized every little moment in this picture. Its truly dazzling the amount of work that went through this mesmerizing screenplay. Each word, statement, monologue, dialogue, decision, facial feature, had been studied extremely thoroughly resulting into a novel of dynamics. It feels very palpable and relatable up to a point of making it into a very personal level of even people who didn’t go through a separation with this level of complexity.

This articulate writing style had translated into elevating the performances into the level of true, its not acting, its simply true on every level. And to solidify this excellence, Noah Baumbach (director and writer) has passionately constructed each scene with the utmost of care; each frame is perfectly designed in angles, colors, dimensions, and production design to amplify the emotional rollercoasters of the story. And lastly, the editing style specifically the choice of when to break a scene and when to prolong it and make more focused, are just in the level of master class.

Marriage story is many things, its an important human story, a screenplay to remember and dissect and study to all those who are interested in any form of writing, and simply a movie that would easily grab your attention from its very first minute into the level of you welcoming its soul punching arc, because it is very real, something that is in somewhat of a shortage in our lives nowadays.

[radvisionblog]

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To sort out this, you should remember the Expert who has finished their instructive necessity and has a place with a managed movement specialist. So it is fundamental for head to their site and break down their accreditations.

      2. Continuously Incline toward References

It is smarter to go for the references while picking India's top movement specialist. Request the movement specialist for a couple of worries. Conversing with their clients will support your certainty and assist you with better comprehension.

      3. Actually take a look at Their Web-based Standing

Albeit a few movement Experts offer the best types of assistance, checking their web-based reputation is fundamental. Assuming you find that any movement experts intrigued have a typical rating, you can choose unreservedly. In addition, go through their site to more readily figure out the organization's objectives and values. There you can really look at the audits of their clients and tributes. Likewise, attempt to find out about the administrations they render and their items. Peruse in the event that they have gotten any honors, licenses, or acknowledgment.

      4. Check for Information and Skill

While looking for India's top movement experts, remember to never make installments in a hurry. It is fundamental to confirm the Specialist's skill prior to continuing further. In the wake of being familiar with the legalities, course of events, documentation, and expenses, the main thing to move.

      5. Contact a Consultancy and Not the Specialists for Consultants

You can believe the enlisted UK Student Visa Consultancy firms with their appropriate office arrangement, client overhauling group, and enrollment status. In any case, the specialists and consultants with no group or office arrangement are bound to swindle you.

      6. Avoid Specialists Who Proposition Employer stability

The specialists and organizations who guarantee to give you a task and settlement in different nations are most frequently phony. Subsequently, stay away from such specialists who allure you with enticing propositions for employment.

      7. Find out about Your Specialist

Find out about your movement specialist is fundamental for your vocation. In the event that your application gets dismissed, it will set you back huge amount of cash and time. Regardless of whether the migration specialist is confirmed, you need to check different angles out.

      8. A Composed Understanding

Continuously request a composed understanding from the migration expert. It would be useful as it is where they have made sense of the cost caused and the expenses to be charged before an agreement is agreed upon. An agreement is important to keep away from cheaters.

      9. Customized Consideration

Continue to check whether the migration expert is keen on your profile or simply keeping it likely and giving you just wide data. Note, a real expert will constantly look profound into your work job, monetary perspectives and different subtleties to furnish you with enough assessment on your possibilities getting endorsed without making any misleading commitments.

Conclusion 

So these are a couple of the fundamental tips you ought to remember prior to picking the best movement expert in India for yourself. Assuming you are prepared to move to another country, contact RADvision Consultants, the Best Migration expert in Mohali. The organization has served over five years in the movement business, and it is the best brand across India with a faultless example of overcoming adversity. On the off chance that you are wanting to move for work, study or settlement purposes, RADvision Consultants is there to assist you with accomplishing your migration dream in a problem free way. You may contact UK Student Visa Consultant in Mohali for more information about us.

[rorykillmore]

if you're up for a short writing prompt, may i ask for something with cloud and dolores on denny? or maybe one for glory and flame instead of? though if you're more up for an ask, maybe smth about what you're looking forward to/enjoying dynamics wise with em?

“He does really like you.”  Dolores teasingly makes sure she sounds at least a little surprised as she watches Cloud move Flash along at an easy stride.

“Yeah. Well.” Cloud keeps his eyes on the trail ahead of them, but his lips almost twitch in a barely-there smile that she’s come to find familiar.  “No one ever said he was smart.”

It’s just the right amount of playful self-deprecation to make her laugh a little -- it always surprises her that on occasion, Cloud actually manages to do that.  But he’s never been bad company, and maybe that’s why she indulges in spending time with him more than a roommate would strictly on obligation. 

She hasn’t been riding like this with someone - just for the fun of it, just for the sense of freedom - in so long. She can’t pretend there’s not something a little personal about it, and maybe that should worry her.

Maybe this world is making her sloppy. Or soft.

“I’ll give you one thing -- you do seem to have a natural talent for this,” Dolores concedes, not allowing that thought to make her stumble. “I guess there’s something to be said for growing up riding...”

She pretends not to remember the word, if only to make him say it.

“Chocobos,” Cloud mumbles, and Dolores bites the inside of her cheek to keep from smiling. “And I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. Walking around on a beginner’s trail is one thing...”

“Have you tried taking him any faster?” Dolores leans over a little from the back of her own horse, prompted by genuine curiosity as much as anything.

Cloud shoots her a sidelong, considering glance.  “Just once or twice.”

It’s difficult to read his expression, but something about the way he says it makes it seem weighted. Suddenly she’s dying to know exactly how much he’s been practicing (or trying to), and it’s such a simple, genuine moment that she forgets to dissect it with the proper distance.

“Show me,” she tells him -- and then adds innocently, “We can race.”

She counts the snort that gets out of him as a small victory.  “Somehow that doesn’t seem fair.”

“I’ll give you a head start,” Dolores offers, only slightly smug. Maybe there’s a small part of her that can’t help but indulge in one-upping the humans around her (even the ones she’s begrudgingly fond of) where she can, but she’s hardly even thinking about that, just now -- it’s more amusing (and slightly gratifying) to nudge Cloud out of his shell only because he’s stayed in it so long.

And, well. Maybe she’s missed this sort of thing.

Cloud doesn’t answer for a moment, long enough that Dolores is beginning to wonder if he’s trying to dodge the subject through stoicism alone.

And then, completely without warning, he spurs Flash and takes off.

“Cloud --” Dolores only just manages to protest, failing to keep amusement from seeping into her tone. She did offer him a head start, after all -- so she waits another beat before she takes off after him.

It’s easy enough to gain on him with the experience she has, but she pulls back a little once she’s leveled off with him, long enough that she can shoot him a quick shadow of a smirk.  “I said I’d give you a head start, not that I’d let you cheat.” 

“I have to make use of every advantage I have!” he calls back to her, and then urges his horse on even faster. Dolores slows just a little to let him pass for safety’s sake - they’re nearing a bend in the trail, and she doesn’t want to risk one of the horses spooking too close to the edge - but then, without warning, Cloud slows again.

She follows suit with a sudden twinge of unease, though she can’t yet see what’s captured his attention as he slows to a final stop. She realizes why a second later -- rifts in the air, she remembers, are almost invisible unless you’re looking at them head on.  But from this new angle, she can see clear through into a...

...It looks like a forest. More still and tangled and wild than the wider spaced pine forests around Beacon Heights.  Dolores quiets for a moment simply to watch it, because something about it draws her in and repels her all at once.

“Just another rift opening up,” Cloud comments, though she can tell by his tone that he’s similarly entranced.

She glances at him briefly, and then back to the rift to consider it more carefully. She’s already suggested to Maeve that they mark down wilder, more secluded areas to search for William in, and she can’t deny that this looks like the perfect fit.

Of course, she can’t exactly wander off to comb it with Cloud right there.

“Let’s go back the other way,” she suggests idly instead. “We wouldn’t want one of the horses to accidentally wander through.”

“Yeah,” Cloud agrees after a slight delay.  “Alright.”

But Dolores has already marked the place down in her memory as she turns around, and she wonders from the slightly distracted expression that’s settled itself on Cloud’s face if he has too.

[kitig88-blog]

Month 12 Journal Reflection

Each Course

Mastery: Personal Development- Month one was the first course that introduced me to APA format and professional writing. In the media design industry, writing is a part of the job even if some of us wished it wasn’t. Sometimes clients might not care what you do or why you do it. But, some want to know a reason for everything. Month one helped me begin to understand how to write professionally in my writing, academically, and on the job. I was by no means perfect, but I started the process, and that is what matters. This month also helped me to understand what it is to be a master in your profession. 

Defining Client Needs- The focus on Month two was on a city logo to attract tourism. During this course, I got to learn about promoting tourism through research and sketching logos for Kyoto Japan. Cities are broad topics because they are known for several things. So, I got to dive deep into research to uncover what makes a city like Kyoto so enticing to travelers and locals. As a media designer, these skills will be super helpful to me. I’ve helped clients before, but now I understand how to dissect a city from all angles in order to create a logo fitting for the clients’ needs.

Brand Development- Month three did not teach me anything new but instead helped me to further perfect my craft. Branding and logos are my favorite digital design work, so I knew how to do that. But, this month delved deeper into the concept of what a brand is, and that was so helpful. With that knowledge, it was so much easier to develop ideas for the Kyoto city brand which in turn will make my future designs easier to come by.

Effective Copywriting- This was my first time dealing with copywriting, but this course helped me to understand its importance and made it so much more bearable. I was able to take the copy and apply it to a campaign. Regarding my personal and professional development, I learned how to edit body copy to say what is essential to the advertisement, write headlines and taglines that would stand out and grab someone’s attention, create different types of testimonial ads, and how to write up a campaign idea. All these skills will help me when I need to maintain a client create content or edit their content to fit the parameters of a project and how to advertise for said client.

Design Research- This course taught me how to take the voice and tone of a brand and the vision board theme into the wordage and the look/feel of a design. It also helped me not just to make any decision lightly. Now when I design I know that everything needs to have a purpose so that the client’s brand is an experience for the consumer from beginning to end.

Organizational Structures- While we did work on motion graphics and that is a skill I want to perfect it was the storyboarding and story journal that felt more important to me personally. The more skills I can get down the better. So, storyboarding helped gain the necessary skills to frame scenes and still. The story journal helped me create different story ideas from the world around me.

Design Strategies & Motivation- Month seven was the beginning of the end for me. In this course, I learned how to build and plan for place branding. I took my work from previous assignments and built on it to produce a campaign that included a logo, vision board, dynamic board, media assets, interviews, and print advertisement. Through this course, I now can help future clients plan for big campaigns that include several components in a timely manner.

Design Integration- Month eight was a continuation of the previous months’ project. But, the purpose of the course was to develop our skills collaboration and critiques. Both skills are essential for my development as a media designer. In the media design field, collaborations happen on projects all the time. Learning how to work as a team player now and also learning what I can and can’t do will make it easier to adjust in the field. Also, learning to critique someone in a way that will help them further develop their work and learning to accept critiques was super important to take into all my future endeavors. I prefer using the rise model compared to the sandwich method.

Multi-Platform Delivery- Month nine was all about focusing on completing the campaign. I had to research what inspired me to make the design decisions and reach the final solutions. From this course, I developed a real sense of substantiating claims I made and persuading the reader to understand why I made certain decisions. This skill is beneficial because I will know how to back up all my claims when I describe my design solutions to a client.

Measuring Design Effectiveness- Surveys are a lot of fun to create and present but waiting on the results is nerve-racking. Month ten I learned about creating a survey and measuring the effectiveness of my design solutions for the campaign. I tested my work against everyday people and audience members. Measuring Design Effectiveness taught me the importance of seeing how a brand’s audience will respond to my designs and if those designs are doing what they are supposed to do. When I am in the field, I know the different ways I can test my designs and how to effectively present the results to a client, so we can decide how to move further.

Presentation of Design Solution- I was starting to feel exhaustion due to working on my thesis defense site. For month eleven, I had to persuade the reader that I had reached mastery by presenting my work on a WIX site and my Behance portfolio. Regarding my development, this course left quite an impression on me.

Professional Practice- Month twelve taught me about ethics and how to always consider using moral reasoning with each project I take on. Every course was necessary for my media design career, but Professional Practice felt the most imperative because if I don’t use what I learned, I could face many legal issues throughout my career. Going forward, I will always have an ethics guideline on hand throughout my career.

Techniques in each course

Month 1

Learning APA early on and making all my mistakes here and in the early months. However, I feel like I learned APA best with the copyrighting course.  I was able to provide the necessary amount of references and synthesize my research to prove my mastery. Personal Triumph: I received my first hundred for the program. It made me realize I could do this.

Month 2

When I started the Logo for Kyoto Japan, I wasn’t sure how to approach the clients’ needs to make a successful logo. For example, I knew that Kyoto wanted to attract tourism with logo design so, as a design solution I research everything and anything dealing with Kyoto, Japan plus I also considered what tourists might want to see. Personal Triumph: Drawing more than a hundred different ideas for a city logo when I didn’t think I would come up with twenty or even ten.

Month 3

This course gave me the knowledge I needed to build a brand around a logo. I already had the logo but had to fulfill the project I had to build it out. Understanding what the word brand and logo meant I could then create a stronger composition that would bring in tourism and education to consumers.

Personal Triumph: Successfully creating three different concepts for a city that is hugely historic and unique.

Month 4

Effective copywriting was the foundation for my thesis project. The awareness ads, the body copy lessons, the headline, and tagline exercises made the production of the full campaign smooth.

Personal Triumph: I learned a campaign isn’t as strong without a call to action. Which I later learned during my place branding project.

Month 5

The techniques from month five were necessary when it came to any decisions regarding my project. I had to explain my reasoning behind why I used a san serif versus a serif or blue versus red. So, remembering how to connect my research and synthesize that information into an effective design solution was critical.

Personal Triumph: I learned how to differentiate between voice and tone.  

Month 6

Storyboarding was essential when I was creating the commercial/dynamic board for Riga. I would have dived headfirst into making the recording without squaring away the full story. The whole process would have been a lot longer, but thankfully I learned the importance and necessity of creating a storyboard.

Personal Triumph: For the story journals, I went personal with my last entry and spoke about my depression and it was very therapeutic.

Month 7

Month seven was the start of our main place branding project, so the skills of building the plan and laying out the foundation were super helpful in completing the campaign. If I did not plan my project step by step in this month, I wouldn’t have had a timeline to work with for the future progress of the project.

Personal Triumph: Coming up with a plan to create a likable yet relatable campaign that the community would get behind.

Month 8

By doing critiques, I was able to perfect my project. The technique of critiquing helped me to push my peers and to take a critical look at my work to envision it in the best possible way. Without the in-depth critiques, I don’t think my project would have reached its full potential.

Personal Triumph: I realized what type of critique method suited my style.

Month 9

By substantiating all my claims, it was so much easier to present my project on my portfolio because I knew my reason for every decision. The final look and feel was cohesive and had a purpose.

Personal Triumph: Completing the full campaign and presenting it on my portfolio. Honestly, I never imagined how the final solution would turn out and I was so proud of the work produced.

Month 10

The survey technique helped me to learn how successful my project was which was super important since in month eleven I knew I had to create a thesis site. If I didn’t create a survey, then I would not have had the evidence needed to prove that my work was at a mastery level.

Personal Triumph: Learning that my project was successful due to the survey responses.

Month 11

The sketching technique (sampling layout) made the development of the site so much smoother and writing the bulk of the defense beforehand as well. If I did not do both methods, then creating the site would have been exhausting and many trials and errors. But since I knew the body copy and the layout ahead of it, it was so much easier to complete my thesis project.

Personal Triumph: Finishing my thesis site and feeling accomplished.

Month 12

^^^ Final Project of month 12 that depicts my journey. The theme was Harry Potter because I thought it showed my journey through this program's ups and downs perfectly. This project was fun and a nice change from all the writing.

[theblackroseofsatan]

How to Identify a Successful Mobile App: 5 Key Features

Everybody wants to develop the best mobile app in Singapore. Trust me, I've seen at first sight extraordinary looking thoughts for apps that were bound to bomb, however it is difficult to decide at the time.

In this article, we'll talk about the five most imperative factors that add to the accomplishment of your mobile app. The first is understanding the gathering of people of your future app. We should go!

Understanding your audience

Recognizing your intended interest group is essential, and yet it requires a ton of work and time. In any case, you'll have to access a ton of statistic information and assembling a great deal of data about your clients to get a thought what kinds of clients will utilize your app. Before doing research, you have to ensure that there's no indistinguishable application available.

In this way, you ensured that there's a requirement for your app. Presently it's an ideal opportunity to comprehend to whom that require applies. There are a few different ways of recognizing your app's clients.

Most importantly, envision you made an app that gives you a chance to book vehicle wash administrations. Thusly, your objective clients will be vehicle proprietors who are keen on giving their vehicle a wash. In any case, on the off chance that you can't decide the classification of clients so basically, it may be an indication that you have to determine the fundamental focal point of your app better.

After this present, it's a great opportunity to burrow down further. You have to make a progressively nitty gritty and far reaching investigation of your venture. See how to examine contenders and genuine clients.

For example, it'd be incredible in the event that you could discover how frequently individuals utilize the administrations of vehicle washes, or the amount they more often than not spend on such administrations.

Another similarly vital inquiry you ought to consider, in light of the responses to the above inquiries, is the thing that includes your app ought to need to connect however many of these potential clients as could reasonably be expected.

After we've placed ourselves in our potential clients shoes, it's an ideal opportunity to get a thought of what insights need to state about your intended interest group. There are different administrations that will have the capacity to help you in gathering information about such markets: Google Trends/Adwords, Flurry, Quantcast, and App Annie. Every one of these organizations will enable you to pull information from different pertinent apps and projects. Keep in mind what sort of data about clients you have to get.

While recognizing your intended interest group, discover their socioeconomics, for example, their sexual orientation, age, area, occupation, instruction, and financial status. Everything without exception you can discover, will help.

To make it progressively compelling, envision you're a FBI specialist… ..or is that just me… ? Proceeding onward… .

The valuable point here is that these organizations will furnish you with way of life information (this information is altogether different from common statistic information) that comprises of client's interests, exercises, and different inclinations.

More than that, you can get way of life information about your potential client base. With this, you'll get important data for your application, for example, where they generally shop, how they engage themselves, etc.

Having gathered every one of the information you require, watch out for patterns that could possibly impact the conduct of your potential clients.

Market technique

So you've at last got a comprehension of your intended interest group and now it's an ideal opportunity to pick the market methodology for propelling your app.

In a perfect world, each dollar from your advertising spending plan ought to add to connecting more clients with your application.

Indeed, investigate all the data you gather about your clients and cautiously pick the correct promoting system. Investigate their life-time esteem and decide the most profitable gathering for your app.

Picking the opportune time for your app dispatch

Another essential factor of your app's prosperity is picking "the correct time" for your app's starting. At the point when's the perfect time? Is your app regular (It's particularly produced for Halloween or Black Friday, for instance). Consider the most appropriate time. Possibly you can dispatch it before some up and coming occasions?

Limited time endeavors are a necessary piece of your app's prosperity. Endeavor to focus every one of these endeavors on social channels and sites that intended interest group visits. In addition, you could search for some master's sentiment in your specialty or approach industry sites for an app survey. You may likewise put some data about your administration in some topical gatherings and networks.

Also, obviously, keep continually assembling and dissecting data about your clients. That is presumably the most essential piece of any app advertising that will put your app at the highest point of the diagrams.

Having distinguished your key target advertise, your app will be a lot further not far off to progress. A genuine comprehension of your key group of onlookers may thoroughly rotate your application.

To keep any mix-ups later on, it's smarter to do explore at the simple start of your advancement. It doesn't make a difference whether your primary objective is to build up a diversion, shopping help, or some endeavor program.

Continuously remember that the inclinations of those clients who will download this app are the most essential data you can gather. At this point, you comprehend who your intended interest group are, so begin to consider what your app should resemble.

Making a sticky app

These days, the advanced market is stacked with a great many applications for all way of tastes. So what makes you believe it's your application that is worth clients consideration?

Stay aware of patterns. This tip is particularly essential as this will enable you to realize what clients more often than not expect about the highlights of an app today. Ordinary innovation progresses and the need to ponder every one of your alternatives to know about a portion of the extraordinary thoughts in current mobile app advancement.

Invest some energy thoroughly considering your app's structure. To make this plan as well as could be expected conceivably be, remember a critical tip. You might be glad for your app's plan on the off chance that it impacts clients the minute they see it available. I think it was Paul Rand that said ''The best plan is so perplexing, in light of the fact that it is so basic.'' True at that point, genuine at this point.

While building up your app, ensure you did your best to create it with 100% productivity and exactness. Something else, it's better not to do it by any stretch of the imagination. Place yourself in the place of your clients and envision an application that you'd like to download. Talking about effectiveness, additionally contemplate information productivity. Those apps that too much use 3G or 4G will be most likely overlooked sooner or later. On the off chance that you don't need your app to endure a similar destiny, find out it utilizes information effectively and doesn't expend a larger number of information than required.

Thoroughly consider of the container. Have you at any point wondered why there's generally such a great amount of object about something new (regardless of whether it's new film or an eatery). The appropriate response is self-evident. Individuals are continually searching for something crisp and new. We as a whole will in general get exhausted of one thing inside the most brief timeframe, plan for updates. This implies you'll need to not simply think of something new the first run through, yet additionally get ready to continually refresh and make new highlights.

Comprehend the market. You ought to get a full image of the market for which you will build up your application. Invest some energy in research and attempt to see how clients act. Clearly Android has a lot a greater number of clients than iOS. Then again, iOS clients will in general spend more cash on applications. Comprehension of every one of these angles is vital for building the correct methodology for your item.

Try not to make clients pause. On the off chance that your app's stacking takes some time, ensure you don't put some distance between your clients. Try not to give them a chance to believe that your app is breaking down. Else, they may get a negative impression and that is the specific start of a negative User Experience. One of the answers for help you dodge such false impressions would utilize stacking pointers that will give a confirmation that your mobile application is as yet working. A dynamic marker is the best choice.

Solid USP

Every one of these tips will add to building up an extremely cool app, however there's as yet one critical factor that is deserving of your consideration. It's called USP (Unique Selling Point). It's a solid USP that will make your app emerge from the group. Decide a USP that is particular to your application and afterward inform your clients concerning it. For this, you'll have to answer three essential inquiries that will permit you and your group of onlookers really need to utilize your app: Here they are:

Recognize your rivals. Find and utilize all the apps that are like your application. Contrast them with the highlights of your app and figure out what makes your app exceptional. To make things easier, here's an agenda:

Decide solid and feeble focuses

Contrast the cost of your rivals and yours

Decide the most essential qualities

Decide the most essential highlights

Gain from the experience of others. For this situation, it'll be valuable to peruse clients audits.

Comprehend who is your intended interest group

Focus on each play, (Is it even likely that I was discussing cream? Goodness… you made THAT joke up yourself… that wasn't even me.). Keep in mind that even the most subtle thing may thoroughly make a huge difference.

Comprehend the remarkable characteristics of your app. To distinguish these, answer locate the accompanying inquiries.

What is the best portrayal, equipped for convincing clients to pick your app over another?

Which highlights are equipped for stunning and energizing your clients?

What highlights will make your clients return over and over to your app?

Answer these inquiries and most vital, keep in mind to converse with your clients.

What are the fundamental favorable circumstances of your app? What's the objective of your app? In what capacity will it be helpful for clients? What does it offer? Does it offer amusement, a sound way of life, weight reduction tips, nourishment conveyance, taxi-app? 

Attributes of your app: for instance, installment can be made with charge card, money in select urban areas, Apple Pay, PayPal, and the sky is the limit from there

Handiness of your app: will it enable you to arrange a pizza faster than you anticipate?

What are the principle contrasts between your app and rivals' app?: your app is cross-stage, and so forth.

What are the fundamental accomplishments of your app: it's had great surveys from worldwide mobile app web journals

Fun part: Figure out a cool trademark. It ought to be something that individuals will connect with your app quickly.

Conclusion

To get a general perspective of your clients, you have to do examine previously, amid and even after the advancement procedure. Having figured out what sort of clients will be most inspired by your app, you can design the plan and usefulness as indicated by their inclinations.

On the off chance that you need individuals to download your app, you need to ensure that they need what you're putting forth.

In any case, every one of the focuses in the article are similarly vital and shouldn't be thought little of. When you make sense of the correct approach to every one of them, you'll likely have the capacity to make a genuine artful culmination.

[spottypotatostuff]

How to Build Beautiful 3-D Fractals Out of the Simplest Equations

Ordinary equations can be transformed into complex 3-D figures that offer new questions to explore.Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine; original figure by Laurent Bartholdi and Laura DeMarco

If you came across an animal in the wild and wanted to learn more about it, there are a few things you might do: You might watch what it eats, poke it to see how it reacts, and even dissect it if you got the chance.

Mathematicians are not so different from naturalists. Rather than studying organisms, they study equations and shapes using their own techniques. They twist and stretch mathematical objects, translate them into new mathematical languages, and apply them to new problems. As they find new ways to look at familiar things, the possibilities for insight multiply.

That’s the promise of a new idea from two mathematicians: Laura DeMarco, a professor at Northwestern University, and Kathryn Lindsey, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. They begin with a plain old polynomial equation, the kind grudgingly familiar to any high school math student: f(x) = x2 – 1. Instead of graphing it or finding its roots, they take the unprecedented step of transforming it into a 3-D object.

With polynomials, “everything is defined in the two-dimensional plane,” Lindsey said. “There isn’t a natural place a third dimension would come into it until you start thinking about these shapes Laura and I are building.”

The 3-D shapes that they build look strange, with broad plains, subtle bends and a zigzag seam that hints at how the objects were formed. DeMarco and Lindsey introduce the shapes in a forthcoming paper in the Arnold Mathematical Journal, a new publication from the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook University. The paper presents what little is known about the objects, such as how they’re constructed and the measurements of their curvature. DeMarco and Lindsey also explain what they believe is a promising new method of inquiry: Using the shapes built from polynomial equations, they hope to come to understand more about the underlying equations—which is what mathematicians really care about.

Breaking Out of Two Dimensions

In mathematics, several motivating factors can spur new research. One is the quest to solve an open problem, such as the Riemann hypothesis. Another is the desire to build mathematical tools that can be used to do something else. A third—the one behind DeMarco and Lindsey’s work—is the equivalent of finding an unidentified species in the wild: One just wants to understand what it is. “These are fascinating and beautiful things that arise very naturally in our subject and should be understood!” DeMarco said by email, referring to the shapes.

Laura DeMarco, a professor at Northwestern University.Courtesy of Laura DeMarco

“It’s sort of been in the air for a couple of decades, but they’re the first people to try to do something with it,” said Curtis McMullen, a mathematician at Harvard University who won the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor, in 1988. McMullen and DeMarco started talking about these shapes in the early 2000s, while she was doing graduate work with him at Harvard. DeMarco then went off to do pioneering work applying techniques from dynamical systems to questions in number theory, for which she will receive the Satter Prize—awarded to a leading female researcher—from the American Mathematical Society on January 5.

Meanwhile, in 2010 William Thurston, the late Cornell University mathematician and Fields Medal winner, heard about the shapes from McMullen. Thurston suspected that it might be possible to take flat shapes computed from polynomials and bend them to create 3-D objects. To explore this idea, he and Lindsey, who was then a graduate student at Cornell, constructed the 3-D objects from construction paper, tape and a precision cutting device that Thurston had on hand from an earlier project. The result wouldn’t have been out of place at an elementary school arts and crafts fair, and Lindsey admits she was kind of mystified by the whole thing.

“I never understood why we were doing this, what the point was and what was going on in his mind that made him think this was really important,” said Lindsey. “Then unfortunately when he died, I couldn’t ask him anymore. There was this brilliant guy who suggested something and said he thought it was an important, neat thing, so it’s natural to wonder ‘What is it? What’s going on here?’”

In 2014 DeMarco and Lindsey decided to see if they could unwind the mathematical significance of the shapes.

A Fractal Link to Entropy

To get a 3-D shape from an ordinary polynomial takes a little doing. The first step is to run the polynomial dynamically—that is, to iterate it by feeding each output back into the polynomial as the next input. One of two things will happen: either the values will grow infinitely in size, or they’ll settle into a stable, bounded pattern. To keep track of which starting values lead to which of those two outcomes, mathematicians construct the Julia set of a polynomial. The Julia set is the boundary between starting values that go off to infinity and values that remain bounded below a given value. This boundary line—which differs for every polynomial—can be plotted on the complex plane, where it assumes all manner of highly intricate, swirling, symmetric fractal designs.

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If you shade the region bounded by the Julia set, you get the filled Julia set. If you use scissors and cut out the filled Julia set, you get the first piece of the surface of the eventual 3-D shape. To get the second, DeMarco and Lindsey wrote an algorithm. That algorithm analyzes features of the original polynomial, like its degree (the highest number that appears as an exponent) and its coefficients, and outputs another fractal shape that DeMarco and Lindsey call the “planar cap.”

“The Julia set is the base, like the southern hemisphere, and the cap is like the top half,” DeMarco said. “If you glue them together you get a shape that’s polyhedral.”

The algorithm was Thurston’s idea. When he suggested it to Lindsey in 2010, she wrote a rough version of the program. She and DeMarco improved on the algorithm in their work together and “proved it does what we think it does,” Lindsey said. That is, for every filled Julia set, the algorithm generates the correct complementary piece.

The filled Julia set and the planar cap are the raw material for constructing a 3-D shape, but by themselves they don’t give a sense of what the completed shape will look like. This creates a challenge. When presented with the six faces of a cube laid flat, one could intuitively know how to fold them to make the correct 3-D shape. But, with a less familiar two-dimensional surface, you’d be hard-pressed to anticipate the shape of the resulting 3-D object.

“There’s no general mathematical theory that tells you what the shape will be if you start with different types of polygons,” Lindsey said.

Mathematicians have precise ways of defining what makes a shape a shape. One is to know its curvature. Any 3-D object without holes has a total curvature of exactly 4π; it’s a fixed value in the same way any circular object has exactly 360 degrees of angle. The shape—or geometry—of a 3-D object is completely determined by the way that fixed amount of curvature is distributed, combined with information about distances between points. In a sphere, the curvature is distributed evenly over the entire surface; in a cube, it’s concentrated in equal amounts at the eight evenly spaced vertices.

A unique attribute of Julia sets allows DeMarco and Lindsey to know the curvature of the shapes they’re building. All Julia sets have what’s known as a “measure of maximal entropy,” or MME. The MME is a complicated concept, but there is an intuitive (if slightly incomplete) way to think about it. First, picture a two-dimensional filled Julia set on the plane. Then picture a point on the same plane but very far outside the Julia set’s boundary (infinitely far, in fact). From that distant location the point is going to take a random walk across two-dimensional space, meandering until it strikes the Julia set. Wherever it first strikes the Julia set is where it comes to rest.

The MME is a way of quantifying the fact that the meandering point is more likely to strike certain parts of the Julia set than others. For example, the meandering point is more likely to strike a spike in the Julia set that juts out into the plane than it is to intersect with a crevice tucked into a region of the set. The more likely the meandering point is to hit a point on the Julia set, the higher the MME is at that point.

In their paper, DeMarco and Lindsey demonstrated that the 3-D objects they build from Julia sets have a curvature distribution that’s exactly proportional to the MME. That is, if there’s a 25 percent chance the meandering point will hit a particular place on the Julia set first, then 25 percent of the curvature should also be concentrated at that point when the Julia set is joined with the planar cap and folded into a 3-D shape.

“If it was really easy for the meandering point to hit some area on our Julia set we’d want to have a lot of curvature at the corresponding point on the 3-D object,” Lindsey said. “And if it was harder to hit some area on our Julia set, we’d want the corresponding area in the 3-D object to be kind of flat.”

This is useful information, but it doesn’t get you as far as you’d think. If given a two-dimensional polygon, and told exactly how its curvature should be distributed, there’s still no mathematical way to identify exactly where you need to fold the polygon to end up with the right 3-D shape. Because of this, there’s no way to completely anticipate what that 3-D shape will look like.

“We know how sharp and pointy the shape has to be, in an abstract, theoretical sense, and we know how far apart the crinkly regions are, again in an abstract, theoretical sense, but we have no idea how to visualize it in three dimensions,” DeMarco explained in an email.

She and Lindsey have evidence of the existence of a 3-D shape, and evidence of some of that shape’s properties, but no ability yet to see the shape. They are in a position similar to that of astronomers who detect an unexplained stellar wobble that hints at the existence of an exoplanet: The astronomers know there has to be something else out there and they can estimate its mass. Yet the object itself remains just out of view.

A Folding Strategy

Thus far, DeMarco and Lindsey have established basic details of the 3-D shape: They know that one 3-D object exists for every polynomial (by way of its Julia set), and they know the object has a curvature exactly given by the measure of maximal entropy. Everything else has yet to be figured out.

In particular, they’d like to develop a mathematical understanding of the “bending laminations,” or lines along which a flat surface can be folded to create a 3-D object. The question occurred early on to Thurston, too, who wrote to McMullen in 2010, “I wonder how hard it is to compute or characterize the pair of bending laminations, for the inside and the outside, and what they might tell us about the geometry of the Julia set.”

Kathryn Lindsey, a mathematician at the University of Chicago.Courtesy of Kathryn Lindsey

In this, DeMarco and Lindsey’s work is heavily influenced by the mid 20th-century mathematician Aleksandr Aleksandrov. Aleksandrov established that there is only one unique way of folding a given polygon to get a 3-D object. He lamented that it seemed impossible to mathematically calculate the correct folding lines. Today, the best strategy is often to make a best guess about where to fold the polygon—and then to get out scissors and tape to see if the estimate is right.

“Kathryn and I spent hours cutting out examples and gluing them ourselves,” DeMarco said.

DeMarco and Lindsey are currently trying to describe the folding lines on their particular class of 3-D objects, and they think they have a promising strategy. “Our working conjecture is that the folding lines, the bending laminations, can be completely described in terms of certain dynamical properties,” DeMarco said. Put another way, they hope that by iterating the underlying polynomial in the right way, they’ll be able to identify the set of points along which the folding line occurs.

From there, possibilities for exploration are numerous. If you know the folding lines associated to the polynomial f(x) = x2– 1, you might then ask what happens to the folding lines if you change the coefficients and consider f(x) = x2 – 1.1. Do the folding lines of the two polynomials differ a little, a lot or not at all?

“Certain polynomials might have similar bending laminations, and that would tell us all these polynomials have something in common, even if on the surface they don’t look like they have anything in common,” Lindsey said.

It’s a bit early to think about all of this, however. DeMarco and Lindsey have found a systematic way to think about polynomials in 3-D terms, but whether that perspective will answer important questions about those polynomials is unclear.

“I would even characterize it as being sort of playful at this stage,” McMullen said, adding, “In a way that’s how some of the best mathematical research proceeds—you don’t know what something is going to be good for, but it seems to be a feature of the mathematical landscape.”

Source: How to Build Beautiful 3-D Fractals Out of the Simplest Equations

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