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theromanbarbarian · 1 year ago

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Stable Marriage Problem

Today we are going mathematically prove feminism. Or at least an aspect of it.

Lets talk about the stable marriage problem. It goes as follows: there are two groups of equally many people: one group of handsome young ladies and one group of pretty young lads, all very straight and you are tasked with the unenviable task of matching them up into romantic couples. To make this task a bit easier each of them have ordered the people of opposite gender in order of preference. Now, obviously you cannot just match-up everybody any way you want, that would end terribly, so the rule is the couples you form must be stable. This means that we do not have a pair of opposite gender, that have not been matched up, such that both of them prefer each other to their prescribed partners.

This might not be the best way of matching them up, but at least it avoids disaster. So how we do it? Luckily, there is an algorithm for that. We have each guy propose to his most preferred lady, the ladies then review their proposals and give a soft yes to their most preferred proposals. In the second round the men that didn't have their proposals accepted propose to their next most preferred partner. Now again the women soft accept their most preferred proposals (including the previously accepted proposals). This continues until every single guy has had their proposal accepted.

This is a very simplified approximation of patriarchal (or "traditional") dating. The man proposes and the woman accepts or rejects. And it produces a stable pairing! Hooray for tradition! Additionally it's often portrayed as beneficial for women, they just have to accept or reject men's proposals, no need to put themselves out there. There is just one little snag in this, while this process produces an optimal outcome for men, it does not produce one for women.

You can see that by looking at a simple and very tragic example: lets say we have: Alex, Bob, Alice and Brunhilde. Alex loves Brunhilde, who loves Bob, who loves Alice, who in turn loves Alex. This is a very tough situation, since in any pairing will end up matching someone with someone they don't love. Lets see what happens if we apply our algorithm? In the first round Alex proposes to Brunhilde and Bob to Alice and since Alice and Brunhilde don't have any second choices they both accept. As both of the guys had their proposal accepted the algorithm terminates. So we get the pairings: Alex+Brunhilde and Bob+ Alice (which are stable), the men are happy: they both end up with their preferred partner, the women not so much. However we can see that the pairings Alice+Alex and Brunhilde+Bob is also stable and way better for Alice and Brunhilde.

This is of course not how real life dating works, but I think it still reveals an important truth about it. It shows that while the "traditional" role that women are to play in dating (i.e. of the gatekeeper of the relationship) is often portrayed as comfortable and beneficial, with the alternative (actively pursuing one) being seen as desperate and undignified (or "feeding men's egos", if you want to be insidious), it allows men to define the space of possibilities for women.

This is maybe an overly long way to reach this pretty basic conclusion, but I like that it can be shown with mathematical rigor.

#stable marriage problem #math #feminism #dating

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 4 years ago

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What if the Avengers were the Animorphs? I'd think it wouldn't go that well, but I'd like ta hear your opinion.

Nonny, I 100% agree. Assuming this is a universe in which the six original MCU Avengers bump into Elfangor in a construction site just before what would otherwise be the events of the Avengers movie, a few thoughts on just how badly that would go:

None of them would morph. It’s a new technology, it’s a technology they don’t trust, and it’s a technology that threatens their sense of autonomy, which for Clint and Natasha especially would be a giant flashing “NOPE!” sign. They’re intelligent adults, and they’d almost certainly talk themselves (and each other) out of using it.

Probably Tony would express an interest in at least giving it a try, in the name of Science! Probably Bruce would, very gently, tell Tony that attempting to transform one’s own body using untested technology does not tend to end well. Probably Tony would take Bruce’s point, and just not morph.

This is also a team of people who have pre-existing weapons with more firepower and fewer drawbacks than morphing affords. If mind-controlling aliens are invading, they’d probably fall back on tried-and-true methods like hammers and arrows.

Steve would immediately tell The Proper Authorities about the invasion. He would not listen to Elfangor’s (or Tony’s, or Bruce’s) warnings about The Proper Authorities. Not because he doesn’t believe them about yeerks, just that he honest-to-bob believes in The System. He’d believe that 15% of cops being controllers isn’t enough to make all cops bad, and would totally believe that if they can just make sure everyone knows about the invasion then they can surely muster a resistance movement from among his fellow Americans.

Steve would not properly estimate just how many casualties this move would result in. The authorities being 15% yeerks is still plenty of yeerks to get 50% of people killed in the crossfire. And The System is not exactly capable of standing up to a strong battering from within the way that Steve might hope.

Not only that, but an open invasion (which Steve would accidentally kick off) gives Visser Three license to do everything in his power to annihilate the 90% of humans they don’t need for host bodies. And given that the yeerks can cook an entire planet from the outer atmosphere (#52), that would not end well.

If Steve would handle the news of the yeerks the worst, Natasha would handle it the best. Can’t trust anyone or anything? Can’t reveal your secrets to the world? Need to protect your identity at all costs? Cool, she was already on that train well before Elfangor arrived.

Honestly, Natasha might pull an Alice* gambit: grab Clint, burn their identities, and run for the hills. They’d still be working on trying to solve the alien thing from within their safe house in the Chilean wilderness, but if their plan didn’t succeed then they’d be well positioned to just... stay put and let their friends do the vainglorious dying for the cause.

Thor would probably take a far more measured approach to the problem. He’d definitely fight anyone who attacked him first, and he’d be more than happy to destroy yeerk pools and ground-based kandrona generators and the like, but he also wouldn’t concern himself too much with the bigger picture the way that especially Steve and Natasha do.

Honestly can’t decide what the most irresponsible thing Tony could possibly do with yeerk and/or andalite technology, but by gum he’d find it and do it. Possibilities include:

Sneaking off in the middle of the night to test the limits of the morphing tech, Bruce’s warnings be damned. Note that he still wouldn’t be weaponizing the morphing; he’d just be doing things like trying to morph plants or trying to acquire DNA samples without living animals attached or trying to demorph after 1 hour 59 minutes.

Using andalite communications technology to hack all yeerk and human lines to everything. Whether or not he’d actually get anything useful from this big BIG data would depend on how distracted he got by trying to find proof that Nick Fury listens to boy bands or Captain America secretly watches porn.

Trying to make his own chee, at home, in his garage, using only what he’s seen of the chee themselves. Obviously this would end in Ultron, who honestly couldn’t really make the situation all that much worse.

Buying the entire Quaker Oats company, and copyrighting their maple-and-ginger instant blend. Again, this one could go really well or really badly, depending on what he does with that copyright once he’s got it.

Also: Loki would get his ass handed to him by Visser One before he was on Earth more than 10 minutes. And none of the Avengimorphs would ever know that they’d dodged that bullet.

* [Twilight saga spoilers]: In Breaking Dawn, Alice foresees that her family’s well-meaning but stupid plan to challenge vampire authorities is likely to get them all killed. Knowing she can’t dissuade any of them from the plan, she settles for packing up her hubby and running for it. They do end up finding a way to save the day while they’re off in Chile, but it’s strongly implied that if they hadn’t then they would’ve just stayed put, poured one out for their dead fam, and carried on with their lives.

#animorphs #avengers #au #animorphs meta #sorry this is not a proper au #i'm retreading ground here #and i'm doing my best to write fewer unhappy endings #anonymous #asks

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larprambles · 4 years ago

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Small Character Details.

Phew, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve been here right? Well, here’s a post to help your character kit look unique. It focuses on cheap, small items that can be bought on like, eBay or Wish. These items can be added or subtracted to the same base kit and end up with a completely different characterisation but like, inexpensively.

Costume Jewellery I know this is VERY obvious, but seriously, the effect some necklaces, rings and bracelets can have is outstanding. I’d like to particularly mention some items that are less considered. Lockets can contain pictures of important IC relationships, light up rave wear can make kit instantly cyberpunk. You can get pretty much ANY word on a necklace, so like, labelling your character from the off is totally an option. Of course, if you have piercings, there’s a whole world to explore there too, which brings us to...

Fake Piercings Clip on earrings, non-piercing ear cuffs and non-piercing nose piercings. I promise you they have come on along way since the nineties. Most of them are much more comfortable than they used to be and nearly all of them are cheaper than the real thing. Temporary Tattoos I’m not gonna lie, this is my absolute favourite. There’s metallic ones, glow in the dark ones, white ones, customisation ones, words, images, PHOTOGRAPHS. If you have the cash, there’s even ones that develop over twenty four hours and last a few weeks. For a little extra tip, you can buy gels on etsy that take the shine from temporary tattoos while simultaneously making them longer lasting. Get on it.

Coloured Hair Wax and Spray While I am a person that has and would do again dyed my hair for a character, not everyone has that level of commitment/silliness. In the past five years, there’s been a LOT of developments for super temporary colour. I find hair wax works the best if you don’t mind the slightly odd texture, followed by hair chalk, followed by hair spray. They often are cheapest around Halloween so I stock up. And yes, there is usually a glitter option.

Hair Accessories Look, I’m just gonna list a bunch in case you hadn’t thought of one. Cool? Cool. Ribbons, headbands, alice bands, bandannas, clips, sliders, clamps, animal ears, hair jewellery, beads, hair jewels, hair stickers, bobbles, scrunchies, box chains, bows, crowns, tiaras and you get the image.

Badges and Brooches I have a box of badges with various slogans on them to stick on character bags and coats. Political slogans, pride badges and fandom symbols are particularly good for showing a character trait or interest. If playing a historical larp or a classy character, brooches are the way to go. I recommend an association with an animal or precious stone. Hats and Gloves I am not going to list every sort of hat. There’s a lot. Google the era and the word hat and do your best. Remember you can personalise hats too with badges, ribbons or things to stick in the band if it has one (feathers and flowers encouraged). Gloves! Mittens, knitted, (faux) leather, driving, fingerless, arm warmers, lace, silk, evening, hand wraps... There’s a lot here. They can represent either end of the class spectrum and can either make a character look instantly tough, instantly soft or instantly classy as fuck.

Veils Don’t be racist, but face/hair coverings can be incredibly versatile in a setting that encourages and incorporates them into the kit brief sensitively. Choice of fabric and pattern can make two otherwise identical looks worlds apart. Masks This is just about verging into actual kit, but I wanted to put it here in case you were in a setting where this would be a STATEMENT rather than a core piece of the kit brief. Lace and filigree masks can be worn easily and are inexpensive to acquire. Other types can be mouth coverings or entire face masks. These tend to be a little more aggressive and/or unusual. Be safe though - I promise you at some point you will deeply regret this costume choice.

Scarves (in the loosest possible sense.) I am EVANGELICAL about the power of scarves. Gain a collection. Add them to fucking everything. Not just as a scarf but. Belts, head coverings, sashes, skirts, shawls, shirts, hand wraps, belt drops. A strip of fabric can do SO MUCH for a costume. My personal favourite is a cheat for an instantly feminine priestess look - get a belt, tie a hundred scarfs and necklaces around it, boom, done.

Nails Paint your nails! If you’re particularly devoted and have the cash, a manicure to achieve a specific nail shape is also an option. You want claws you can actually use? This is the way to go.

Glasses and Contact Lenses I won’t talk about actual glasses worn for sight here because I’m lazy and that conversation would last all day. I am mostly referring to sunglasses here but I also enjoy differing frames for daily wear. There’s a practically endless amount of glasses designs with colour, frame and glass colour being combineable and changeable. In what situations your character wears glasses can be a character trait in of itself. If you prefer them, contact lenses can make you an instantly different person by changing your eye colour or pupil shape. They can indicate different species, different moods and so much more. Single day ones tend to be cheaper but year long can be quite the investment if you larp regularly.

Bits and Bobs Belts! Ties! Cravats! Bow ties! Braces! Shoelaces! Charms! Fetishes! Socks! Perfume! Bags! Tights! Aprons! Bandages! Plasters! Slings!

(And like, make up, obviously).

#larp #costume #advice #tips

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sciencespies · 4 years ago

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Physicists just found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality

https://sciencespies.com/physics/physicists-just-found-a-new-quantum-paradox-that-casts-doubt-on-a-pillar-of-reality/

Physicists just found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Perhaps not, some say.

And if someone is there to hear it? If you think that means it obviously did make a sound, you might need to revise that opinion.

We have found a new paradox in quantum mechanics – one of our two most fundamental scientific theories, together with Einstein’s theory of relativity – that throws doubt on some common-sense ideas about physical reality.

Quantum mechanics vs common sense

Take a look at these three statements:

When someone observes an event happening, it really happened.

It is possible to make free choices, or at least, statistically random choices.

A choice made in one place can’t instantly affect a distant event. (Physicists call this “locality”.)

These are all intuitive ideas, and widely believed even by physicists. But our research, published in Nature Physics, shows they cannot all be true – or quantum mechanics itself must break down at some level.

This is the strongest result yet in a long series of discoveries in quantum mechanics that have upended our ideas about reality. To understand why it’s so important, let’s look at this history.

The battle for reality

Quantum mechanics works extremely well to describe the behaviour of tiny objects, such as atoms or particles of light (photons). But that behaviour is … very odd.

In many cases, quantum theory doesn’t give definite answers to questions such as “where is this particle right now?” Instead, it only provides probabilities for where the particle might be found when it is observed.

For Niels Bohr, one of the founders of the theory a century ago, that’s not because we lack information, but because physical properties like “position” don’t actually exist until they are measured.

And what’s more, because some properties of a particle can’t be perfectly observed simultaneously – such as position and velocity – they can’t be real simultaneously.

No less a figure than Albert Einstein found this idea untenable. In a 1935 article with fellow theorists Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, he argued there must be more to reality than what quantum mechanics could describe.

The article considered a pair of distant particles in a special state now known as an “entangled” state. When the same property (say, position or velocity) is measured on both entangled particles, the result will be random – but there will be a correlation between the results from each particle.

For example, an observer measuring the position of the first particle could perfectly predict the result of measuring the position of the distant one, without even touching it. Or the observer could choose to predict the velocity instead. This had a natural explanation, they argued, if both properties existed before being measured, contrary to Bohr’s interpretation.

However, in 1964 Northern Irish physicist John Bell found Einstein’s argument broke down if you carried out a more complicated combination of different measurements on the two particles.

Bell showed that if the two observers randomly and independently choose between measuring one or another property of their particles, like position or velocity, the average results cannot be explained in any theory where both position and velocity were pre-existing local properties.

That sounds incredible, but experiments have now conclusively demonstrated Bell’s correlations do occur. For many physicists, this is evidence that Bohr was right: physical properties don’t exist until they are measured.

But that raises the crucial question: what is so special about a “measurement”?

The observer, observed

In 1961, the Hungarian-American theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner devised a thought experiment to show what’s so tricky about the idea of measurement.

He considered a situation in which his friend goes into a tightly sealed lab and performs a measurement on a quantum particle – its position, say.

However, Wigner noticed that if he applied the equations of quantum mechanics to describe this situation from the outside, the result was quite different. Instead of the friend’s measurement making the particle’s position real, from Wigner’s perspective the friend becomes entangled with the particle and infected with the uncertainty that surrounds it.

This is similar to Schrödinger’s famous cat, a thought experiment in which the fate of a cat in a box becomes entangled with a random quantum event.

For Wigner, this was an absurd conclusion. Instead, he believed that once the consciousness of an observer becomes involved, the entanglement would “collapse” to make the friend’s observation definite.

But what if Wigner was wrong?

Our experiment

In our research, we built on an extended version of the Wigner’s friend paradox, first proposed by Časlav Brukner of the University of Vienna. In this scenario, there are two physicists – call them Alice and Bob – each with their own friends (Charlie and Debbie) in two distant labs.

There’s another twist: Charlie and Debbie are now measuring a pair of entangled particles, like in the Bell experiments.

As in Wigner’s argument, the equations of quantum mechanics tell us Charlie and Debbie should become entangled with their observed particles. But because those particles were already entangled with each other, Charlie and Debbie themselves should become entangled – in theory.

But what does that imply experimentally?

Our experiment goes like this: the friends enter their labs and measure their particles. Some time later, Alice and Bob each flip a coin. If it’s heads, they open the door and ask their friend what they saw. If it’s tails, they perform a different measurement.

This different measurement always gives a positive outcome for Alice if Charlie is entangled with his observed particle in the way calculated by Wigner. Likewise for Bob and Debbie.

In any realisation of this measurement, however, any record of their friend’s observation inside the lab is blocked from reaching the external world. Charlie or Debbie will not remember having seen anything inside the lab, as if waking up from total anaesthesia.

But did it really happen, even if they don’t remember it?

If the three intuitive ideas at the beginning of this article are correct, each friend saw a real and unique outcome for their measurement inside the lab, independent of whether or not Alice or Bob later decided to open their door. Also, what Alice and Charlie see should not depend on how Bob’s distant coin lands, and vice versa.

We showed that if this were the case, there would be limits to the correlations Alice and Bob could expect to see between their results. We also showed that quantum mechanics predicts Alice and Bob will see correlations that go beyond those limits.

Next, we did an experiment to confirm the quantum mechanical predictions using pairs of entangled photons. The role of each friend’s measurement was played by one of two paths each photon may take in the setup, depending on a property of the photon called “polarisation”. That is, the path “measures” the polarisation.

Our experiment is only really a proof of principle, since the “friends” are very small and simple. But it opens the question whether the same results would hold with more complex observers.

We may never be able to do this experiment with real humans. But we argue that it may one day be possible to create a conclusive demonstration if the “friend” is a human-level artificial intelligence running in a massive quantum computer.

What does it all mean?

For one, the correlations we discovered cannot be explained just by saying that physical properties don’t exist until they are measured.

Now the absolute reality of measurement outcomes themselves is called into question.

Our results force physicists to deal with the measurement problem head on: either our experiment doesn’t scale up, and quantum mechanics gives way to a so-called “objective collapse theory“, or one of our three common-sense assumptions must be rejected.

There are theories, like de Broglie-Bohm, that postulate “action at a distance”, in which actions can have instantaneous effects elsewhere in the universe. However, this is in direct conflict with Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Some search for a theory that rejects freedom of choice, but they either require backwards causality, or a seemingly conspiratorial form of fatalism called “superdeterminism”.

Another way to resolve the conflict could be to make Einstein’s theory even more relative. For Einstein, different observers could disagree about when or where something happens – but what happens was an absolute fact.

However, in some interpretations, such as relational quantum mechanics, QBism, or the many-worlds interpretation, events themselves may occur only relative to one or more observers. A fallen tree observed by one may not be a fact for everyone else.

All of this does not imply that you can choose your own reality. Firstly, you can choose what questions you ask, but the answers are given by the world. And even in a relational world, when two observers communicate, their realities are entangled. In this way a shared reality can emerge.

Which means that if we both witness the same tree falling and you say you can’t hear it, you might just need a hearing aid.

Eric Cavalcanti, Associate Professor (ARC Future Fellow), Griffith University.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

#Physics

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shima-draws · 6 years ago

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So I've only watched SAO till GGO, and Kirito was Super Mega Ultra Badass MC in those, which was rather boring, and the rest was just his personal harem or foils for said harem. Is alicilization better than that? As in, does Kirito become an actual character rather than a self insert for the viewer?

That’s valid;; and yeah pretty much!!

I think starting around season 2 Kirito starts feeling more…realistic of a character? Like he’s shown to have flaws and fears, season 2 really shows he has PTSD after SAO, and there’s one point where Sinon has to calm him down from a panic attack right in the middle of their BoB tournament. Like I’m obviously not saying that’s necessarily a GOOD thing for him but like. It definitely feels like he’s more human, that he’s not this invincible perfect hero character. And honestly his whole entire arc with Sinon feels SO REAL compared to whatever he has with Asuna–he’s able to actually be himself around her and it doesn’t feel forced, their friendship feels super genuine and real and he jokes around with her a lot and I just. I really love GGO because while Kirito still has his OP Protagonist Syndrome it’s toned down a bit and the focus is shifted onto Sinon too

The second half of season 2 is also fantastic because we are shown for the first time that Kirito can actually be defeated and that there are indeed players stronger than him–shown through his battle with Zekken and how she totally hands his ass to him like multiple times lmao. So that’s really nice, knowing he’s not the Most Powerful Player out there and that even he can lose sometimes lol

Alicization is honestly super good. There Kirito finds out that he can’t rely on a virtual world as his crutch since the world he’s in actually allows him to take real damage (as he is injured in a fight and there’s real blood and everything–so he’s like “OH SHIT I actually have to be more cautious and not as reckless when I swordfight here” and also hunched over in pain because it actually hurts)

He also says multiple times that Eugeo is a stronger and better swordfighter than he is, and Eugeo does defeat him in battle once or twice, and also ranks higher than him when they get accepted into their disciple chairs at the academy. Everything beyond season 1 is honestly super good because the focus is not just on him–in season 2 we get arcs focused on Sinon and Asuna, and then in Alicization the story is split between Kirito and Eugeo! I just think the stakes feel a lot higher (I mean in SAO they were high too but. Yeah) and Kirito reacts more realistically to situations, so he feels more like an actual character with flaws rather than a Mary Sue self-insert, like you said ^^

Unfortunately the harem aspect doesn’t really go away since that’s one of SAO’s defining tropes (sadly), but I feel that it’s toned down a lot more in these seasons (and Eugeo kinda gets one of his own which is. Weird to say. But yeah). In GGO in particular, since Kirito’s relationship with Sinon feels way more real than his with Asuna’s, I actually started to ship them more lol because it’s so genuine–they both suffer from PTSD, and lean on each other for help, and form an actual worthwhile relationship based on trust and companionship rather than just a needs to survive.

I’M SORRY THIS GOT SO LONG but hopefully that clears things up a bit :’0 Idk I’ve never really tried to let Kirito’s total protag syndrome bother me much, it’s definitely better in these seasons, and Alicization made me cry like 20 different times so I highly recommend it lol

#I apologize for how long this got I just. Got really passionate lmao--#Shima answers questions #SAO #Long post #BUT YEAH LONG STORY SHORT. Kirito feels more human and realistic in seasons 2 and 3 so I'd definitely recommend watching them!!

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kathleenseiber · 4 years ago

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Raising questions about physical reality

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Perhaps not, some say.

And if someone is there to hear it? If you think that means it obviously did make a sound, you might need to revise that opinion.

Quantum mechanics vs common sense

Take a look at these three statements:

When someone observes an event happening, it really happened.

It is possible to make free choices, or at least, statistically random choices.

A choice made in one place can’t instantly affect a distant event. (Physicists call this “locality”.)

This is the strongest result yet in a long series of discoveries in quantum mechanics that have upended our ideas about reality. To understand why it’s so important, let’s look at this history.

The battle for reality

Quantum mechanics works extremely well to describe the behaviour of tiny objects, such as atoms or particles of light (photons). But that behaviour is … very odd.

And what’s more, because some properties of a particle can’t be perfectly observed simultaneously – such as position and velocity – they can’t be real simultaneously.

However, in 1964 Northern Irish physicist John Bell found Einstein’s argument broke down if you carried out a more complicated combination of different measurements on the two particles.

But that raises the crucial question: what is so special about a “measurement”?

The observer, observed

In 1961, the Hungarian-American theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner devised a thought experiment to show what’s so tricky about the idea of measurement.

He considered a situation in which his friend goes into a tightly sealed lab and performs a measurement on a quantum particle – its position, say.

This is similar to Schrödinger’s famous cat, a thought experiment in which the fate of a cat in a box becomes entangled with a random quantum event.

But what if Wigner was wrong?

Our experiment

There’s another twist: Charlie and Debbie are now measuring a pair of entangled particles, like in the Bell experiments.

But what does that imply experimentally?

This different measurement always gives a positive outcome for Alice if Charlie is entangled with his observed particle in the way calculated by Wigner. Likewise for Bob and Debbie.

But did it really happen, even if they don’t remember it?

Experimental apparatus for our test of the paradox with particles of light. Photograph by Kok-Wei Bong

Our experiment is only really a proof of principle, since the “friends” are very small and simple. But it opens the question whether the same results would hold with more complex observers.

What does it all mean?

Although a conclusive test may be decades away, if the quantum mechanical predictions continue to hold, this has strong implications for our understanding of reality – even more so than the Bell correlations. For one, the correlations we discovered cannot be explained just by saying that physical properties don’t exist until they are measured.

Now the absolute reality of measurement outcomes themselves is called into question.

Our results force physicists to deal with the measurement problem head on: either our experiment doesn’t scale up, and quantum mechanics gives way to a so-called “objective collapse theory”, or one of our three common-sense assumptions must be rejected.

Some search for a theory that rejects freedom of choice, but they either require backwards causality, or a seemingly conspiratorial form of fatalism called “superdeterminism”.

Which means that if we both witness the same tree falling and you say you can’t hear it, you might just need a hearing aid.

Eric Cavalcanti, Associate Professor (ARC Future Fellow), Griffith University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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theboywhocriedbooks · 7 years ago

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If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes

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This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in 1947. The novel takes place in the space of four days in the life of Bob Jones, a black man who is constantly plagued by the effects of racism. Living in a society that is drenched in race consciousness has no doubt taken a toll on the way Jones behaves, thinks, and feels, especially when, at the end of his story, he is accused of a brutal crime he did not commit. "One of the most important American writers of the twentieth century ... [a] quirky American genius..."—Walter Mosley, author of Bad Boy Brawly Brown, Devil in a Blue Dress "If He Hollers is an austere and concentrated study of black experience, set in southern California in the early forties."—Independent Publisher

Thoughts:

This was a book I had to read for school, so you know how that can go sometimes. I actually really enjoyed discussing the book in class, or hearing the discussion, though I wasn’t totally a big fan of the book itself. I think it touches on so many powerful topics, and nuances that really captured the extent the writer was going for but it was overall pretty… a lot. I’m not sure if it was just my personal biases that made me feel that way though, but it probably is. I was pretty irked by a lot of the actions that the main character did but I also really understood where he was coming from for the most part. It was from a place of oppression and frustration at the the racial inequality that were obviously so rampant in the 40’s, and still are today. I think that was a piece of what I appreciated about it, that the things it talked about were still so relevant and well said that they would fit todays racial claimant. That’s also pretty unfortunate but I digress. I think its a good book, so if sounds like something you’re interested or if you’re interested in a Black mans complex perspective from the 40’s then definitely check it out, especially because I am now going to go on about it in spoiler-y detail below:

This was quite the story. It was very much a book that focuses on the experiences of a Black man living in LA during the 40’s, so you can only guess what it would entail. There was lots of racism, basically. Many times it was the really gross “we are right in our horrible opinions of a group of people based solely on their skin color and stereotypes prescribed to them by a white supremacist society.” There is a lot to unpack and I don’t really think I can do all that but I will share some of my thoughts on the book and it’s characters.

On a very surface level, I liked the fact that it took place in LA, and was during the 40’s and didn’t focus on a white person. I don’t think I’ve ever a read a book that fit all of those boxes at once, and it’s even more interesting since I’m a nonwhite person who has lived in LA his whole life and very much would like to see more of that. The class I read this book for was called Literary Cities, and our focal city is Los Angeles, which means we are going to be reading about many different types of people in novels that take place in LA. I am excited for that!

I really didn’t like any of the characters too much, but they are very well done I think. Bob was such a complex characters and I really sympathized with him a lot. He did some dumb shit, or thought some wild thoughts and while I knew they were not good I also could very much see what influenced that. It was mainly frustration, desperation, all of these words that are involved that entail what someone might feel like being Black in a very white America.

There were small feelings or experiences that were described in the book that felt so authentic, and real so that was very appreciated. Just because Bob was a complex character doesn’t mean I liked him, but it also doesn’t mean he’s evil. It’s more complicated than that, as it should be. One of the other important characters was Alice, who was very… interesting. She was a bit complex too, but I wanted her to just stop what she was doing. She was naive and privilege and wanted to ignore the realness of the problems faced by Bob and other black folk and it was just too much. Even then, I understand theres more to her character than that, and there could probably be a small book on her pop and that would have been a fully realized book about a nearly-white passing girl living in the very racist 40’s. But, again, I digress.

The crazy white lady Madge was entirely too much. The entire book was Bob reacting or acting on things that she did, said or caused. I was over it, with her mess racist ass. Something we discussed in in class was the power dynamic between she and Bob where one is white but a woman, and the other is a man but Black. They both are lesser in the eye’s of the White Man, though still race tends to trump that situation for many white people, but it was still interesting, yet unsurprising, to see that interaction.

Overall, I liked the book but didn’t personally love it. I do think that someone else could very much love the parts I didn’t though, and I support y’all reading more diverse book, not just race wise but also race/gender/sexuality mixed with different times in life wise. That’s the focus of my class so hopefully it goes well on the next book we’re assigned!

#if he hollers let him go #chester himes #read for school #2017 #review

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trouvxilles-blog · 8 years ago

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Character Development : Description

BASICS

Full Name: terrence oberon yoon Nicknames: terry, “t” (lance usually calls him this), dumbass, asshole (both on more than a few occasions) Sex/Gender: male Right or Left: right Age: 21 (international) Height: 5′9 Eye Colour: dark brown Hair Colour: black Distinguishing Marks: a mole on his right cheek; scars across his left wrist; a small diagonal scar on his right temple from getting into a fight; a small, light birthmark on the left side of his chest, and a small, light, heart-shaped birth mark on his right hip bone. Paragraph Of Physical Traits: his skin is fair with golden undertones. his overall body type is slender, but toned from rotc training. he has soft features that people think make him look pretty, and broad shoulders that tells people he’s actually a man which especially helped when he grew his hair out. his arms are toned but still pretty skinny despite doing push-ups and playing basketball; his hair is an uneven dark bob with just as uneven bangs.

FAMILY/RELIGION

Parents: yoon sangchul (father, unemployed asshole alcoholic), alice han (estranged, former file clerk; he doesn’t know what she’s doing now) Siblings: five (5) - titania (tanya), 26, works a desk job her friend got here in the morning and as a bar waitress at night - lance, 23, web developer because he’s basically a genius, got a scholarship in one of the top universities - juliet (julie), 16, 10th grade, takes a lot of babysitting opportunities - tybalt (ty), 14, 8th grade psycho, usually helps julie babysit when their rundown house turns into a daycare every saturday - robin (puck), 7, 1st grade, they love him Marital Status: single Significant Other/s: changes frequently (but who has time for commitment when you barely have time for yourself?) Children: none (unable to think about children when he’s already basically taking of three.) Other Relatives: an aunt who lives in chicago, a grandmother somewhere in northern california, an uncle in incheon (married with kids), grandparents in chuncheon Pets: none (can’t feed a family. obviously can’t feed a pet.) Friends: generally has a lot of friends because he’s way too outgoing and obnoxious for his and everyone’s own good; however, he’s picky when it comes to people he wants to keep a constant figure in his life. - bob kim (a barista from the usual cafe he goes to for coffee runs; he still wonders if that’s his real name; regardless, he still has a crush on bob) - sylvan carter (a barista from the same cafe; bob’s best friend and wingman; in love with terry, but terry doesn’t know nor does he care; terry likes him enough but can never get his name right.) - charlotte ‘charlie’ lee (his baby who he adores so much and will do anything for, including buying charlie cake with what’s left of his money) - aiden kwon (he’s only friends with aiden because aiden is friends with charlie; and also terry knows aiden likes charlie so there’s that.) - kiel sang (a non-blood related twin; both their existence essentially defies any known laws of metaphysics - but their whole relationship is something We Don’t Talk About) Enemies: gets into a lot of petty fist fights, but doesn’t really make lifelong enemies; he probably even fucked one of the people who beat him up at one point. Ethnicity: korean Religion: agnostic (or whatever) Beliefs: he believes in a higher being, but not necessarily a god. he thinks there are probably multiple gods out there making bets and just watching people get fucked over. he still prays sometimes, but he doesn’t tell anyone that. Superstitions: he sticks bills onto every mirror in the house during new year on the off chance that they can earn more money that year. julie and ty have been helping him for the last six years. it doesn’t hurt to try. that’s basically it. Diction/Accent: his southern californian accent is indistinguishable unless he says certain words. he’s also a better english speaker, so he often mispronounces korean words.

SCHOOL/WORK/HOME

Education: public school (primary and secondary); college: verse-dependent, on a cadet scholarship // kookmin university (achieved admission scholarship as a freshman) / santa barbara city college (under financial aid - federal work study) Degree(s): working on his bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism Occupation: broadcasting student-intern for a tv & radio studio in the morning, mini-mart employee by afternoon night Own or Rent: own; his family owns their own borderline dilapidated house, originally owned by an aunt who moved to chicago. Living Space: cramped; it’s not small in its entirety, but with seven people living together in a two-story, two-bathroom (upstairs has a toilet and a shower, downstairs only has a toilet), four-bedroom house, it’s going to get pretty cramped. terry shares a bedroom with two brothers, lance and tybalt; julie shares a bedroom with their youngest, puck; tanya gets her own room because she damn well deserves it; their dad has his own room, but he’s never around so it’s basically an empty space with a bed. Work Space: the mini-mart isn’t a large place, but it does hold necessary items like basic consumable items and toiletries, which is why they have a lot regulars customers, mostly people who live nearby. the studio is a relatively large media conglomerate. his internship is in the main headquarters which houses multiple enterprises. Main Mode of Transport: walking because it’s free; sometimes the bus or subway if they can’t travel on foot; they steal unattended bikes or skateboards when they have to.

PSYCHOLOGY

Fears: failure, losing control, losing any one of his siblings Secrets: no one from his internship and workplace knows he has bipolar disorder or the fact that he’s gay; they keep illegal drugs at home; his family steals shit to survive. IQ: around 130 - typical for a post-graduate student. (fun fact: his older brother’s is around 160, go figure.) Eating Habits: quick eater because he’s always in a hurry, but not a messy one; sometimes eats on the go - he’ll stuff a piece of bread into his mouth anime style and run out the door to make it in time for class Food Preferences: he’ll basically eat anything aside from pickles (when you have no money, you can’t exactly choose what’s in front of you especially when you know your sister worked her ass off to put food on the table); he loves sweets, especially the hard butterscotch candy the mini-mart owners let him get for free. Sleeping Habits: usually sleeps on his stomach. at the end of most days, he just plops on the bed, exhausted. sometimes he forgets to change out of his jeans. when tanya checks up on them, she has to pull the covers over him. Book Preferences: contemporary classics (the little prince, a clockwork orange, the catcher in the rye, lolita, etc.), can quote shakespeare’s plays but prefers his poems, short stories because they’re quick to read since he doesn’t get much time to himself anymore. Music Preferences: alternative rock, indie rock, indie pop - basically music that pumps him up and keeps him awake. Groups or Alone: groups, mostly because he’s used to it, living with seven people and all. he’s also an extrovert, so he really doesn’t mind being around people. he doesn’t mind being alone every now and then, though. Leader or Follower: both. a follower - when tanya’s in, she’s in charge. he was in rotc, so he’s good with following directions. a leader - when tanya and lance are out, he’s in charge. when he was promoted in rotc, he was praised for being a good leader. Planner or Spontaneous: spontaneous. even his college major was a spontaneous, last-minute decision. he’s especially (dangerously) spontaneous when manic. Journal: used to have one - started multiple ones throughout the years - but never had the time and focus to actually fill one out completely; during junior year, his journal served as a mood diary (as suggested by a therapist). he managed to write on it for three months, and then just forgot about it. Hobbies: reading fiction novels, basketball, soccer, hanging out with his siblings, hanging out with kiel his friends, flirting with bob at the cafe, getting drunk, being an asshole. How Do They Relax: what is relaxation he’ll stay at home and read; he also reads a lot during idle hours at the mini-mart, especially if he takes a night shift. if he’s not too tired, he plays basketball. What Excites Them: seeing kiel almost everything excites him when he’s manic. coffee runs get exciting just because he gets to see bob. What Stresses Them: financial issues (but that’s an issue for their whole family),the possibility of not arriving on time and missing deadlines, not being able to earn enough money. Pet Peeves: slow walkers or people who tend to block the fucking way, especially when you’re in a hurry; people who can’t follow simple directions; people who are habitually late and end up making him late; people who take food from his plate without asking; loud whispering because i can fucking hear you; sudden shift in deadlines; simple grammatical errors. Prejudices: people with mental illness are dangerous and a hindrance (as a collective, despite his only experience being with his bipolar mom and alcoholic dad, hence why he refuses to believe he has the same problem). Attitudes: depends on his mood - manic, stable, depressive. when manic, he has no value for his life (and the law). lance had to force him off the roof once. when depressive, he can barely (or doesn’t) get out of bed. he overdosed once. when stable, his general outlook in life is optimistic - because what else can you do in this situation but hope? Obsessions: keeping things in order, getting enough money to feed the kids for a week, kiel Addictions: caffeine (mostly strong cheap-ass coffee, but they’re also stocked up on soda); alcohol and nicotine (not as bad. he smokes a lot, but he’s trying to keep both under control); does weed sometimes; isn’t really into hard drugs. that’s about it. Ambitions: join the marines (formerly), get into west point (on hold because tanya can’t stand the idea; lance is still trying to talk him out of it); else, he’ll apply for a job at the studio after graduation and work his ass off all the way to the top (from a lowly production assistant to scriptwriter/director/producer; hell, he’ll act if he has to; he’ll take what he can get).

OBJECTS KEPT IN

Purse/Bag: he has a messenger sling bag where he keeps his phone (a black nokia lumia his older brother passed on to him), a worn-out wallet with barely any money in it, a secondhand paperback novel, a pack of cigarettes. Wallet: money (or how much of it he has), an old photo of him and all his siblings (from when the youngest was only two years old), an old family photo tucked behind it, school ID, fake IDs Fridge: two milk jugs, a loaf of bread, cans of sodas, beer (lots of it) - that’s its usual content. Medicine Cabinet: mood stabilizers (lamictal), antipsychotics (abilify, zyprexa which he doesn’t use anymore because he overdosed once), aspirin, some pcp/angel dust that tanya doesn’t know about, and some weed lance hides that everyone knows about anyway Glove Compartment: he doesn’t have his own car but his dad’s glove compartment is filled with receipts, unopened letters (mostly bills), drugs, and money he spends in one go. Junk Drawer: literally junk, except he probably has a gun in there somewhere, and a pack of weed he shares with lance. Backpack: handwritten notes on yellow paper, photocopied pages from required textbooks, photocopied notes, scripts that need proofreading and editing, a secondhand novel that changes on a weekly basis, pens that are pretty much out of ink, a pack of cigarettes. Desk: journal (mood diary; just in case he feels like writing in it again), colored pens, pages from scripts he had to edit and proofread, a pack of cigarettes, the laptop he shares with everyone in the house. Clothes Pockets: loose change, mostly. a pack of cigarettes, a lighter, and a few small bills stuffed into the pockets of his jeans.

OTHER

Halloween Costumes: would be easier if they can actually afford already-made costumes. the siblings used to come together to make costumes for julie, tybalt, and puck with whatever items they can salvage. their close neighbors help them out, too. now that they’re older, they just make one for puck. it’s fun for all of them. it’s something they look forward to yearly. Talents: creative writing, especially comedy writing (he doesn’t think so, but lance does); shooting hoops; shooting a pistol or rifle, and getting perfect aim almost every time; showing up at the last minute; balancing at least ten piping hot coffee cups at the same time; forgetting sylvan’s name; being an overall asshole (he’s the best at this) Politics: a liberal, but mostly neutral. he has other shit to worry about. Flaws: mental instability, addiction, pride, self-destructive tendencies, tactlessness, recklessness, impulsivity, always ready to throw punches, noncommittal (relationships) Strengths: fitness, aim (they were taught to shoot a gun in rotc), intellect (fast learner), wit, determination, creativity, resourcefulness, humor, humility, loyalty, never backs down from a fight. Drugs/Alcohol: a lot of alcohol, frequent drug use (mostly just marijuana; the last time he took pcp, he was manic and almost died from both mania and drug hallucinations), prescription drugs (mood stabilizers and antipsychotics he refuses to take). Passwords: phone: 0603 (it’s not a secret), e-mail: b!tch_y0u_th0ught1004 (tybalt has been trying to get into his e-mail even though he just uses it for work purposes); others: 060395 Prized Possessions: doesn’t really have one except for the photo of his siblings tucked in his wallet. Time and Place: february 22, 2016; 10:00pm; seoul, south korea // february 22, 2016; 5:00am; santa barbara, california. Special Places: the beach. the sound of the waves and the feeling of his toes buried beneath the sand relaxes him. back in santa barbara, his mom used to walk them to the beach every weekend because it was close by. Special Memories: when he got promoted from cadet to officer cadet in rotc. when he had chickenpox, tanya stayed up all night to take care of him. when lance first found out he was gay and confronted him. when he finally told tanya he was gay, and she said i know. during his first mood crash, julie would constantly check on him and bring food up to his room. when tybalt won first place during his first science fair. when puck took his first steps, and all five older siblings were there to witness it.

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elliepassmore · 4 years ago

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Resistant review

3.5/5 stars Recommended for people who like: dystopia, multiple POVs, mystery, viral apocalypse I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review TW rape, kidnapping This book was a bit of a mixed bag. I really liked the beginning, but then it got dark in a way I don't think was necessary and also added in some new POVs halfway through. It was also extremely predictable and written in an early-YA style, which I'm not sure I like. To begin, I think the concept was an interesting one, even if the 'inside community' vs. 'outside ravaged wasteland' is fairly commonplace. I liked Cat more than Wren in the beginning, but both of them offered up interesting POVs and had their own, albeit similar, mysteries. I liked that the mystery of the virus--sorry, Virus...why doesn't this thing have a name?--was carried through the entire book rather than dropped in favor of the personal mysteries the characters dealt with. However, as mentioned, the book reads like an early-YA novel (and not The Hunger Games type of early either). For one, both Cat and Wren have a boy from their community, Abel and Ryder, respectively, who is madly in love with them and who they're madly in love with as well. Abel makes sense, but I never really got on to liking Ryder, who kind of falls into the stereotypical hotshot asshole (though at least he's never an ass to Wren). Both Cat and Wren have fairly immature voices, though Cat's is a little better than Wren's. Their voices are also pretty similar as well and there were times, even at the very end of the book, where I wasn't sure whose perspective I was reading in. Also, about 1/3 of the way through the book, Modrak introduces Ryder's and Abel's POVs, first by going back in the narrative timeline a bit, then going forward. I did like the addition of their perspectives to the story, but I think it should've been done from the very beginning and that the narrative timeline should not have backtracked in order for their POVs to be included. As for the characters...why are both the main girls named after animals? Wren and Cat, really?! I digress, Cat, properly Catherine, was the first POV in the book and she introduces us to a world inside the Community/Dome, which is focused on looking forward and finding a cure to the Virus that wiped most of the world out. Cat reads younger than she actually is. She's definitely written as an older teen, but her voice just does not convey that, particularly at the beginning, though she does get better as the book goes on. She's also just straight up willfully naive, choosing the Community and her self-admitted terrifying father over the potential uncertainty of being free...as if her father wouldn't do terrible things just because she's his daughter. That being said, I liked how Cat evolved during the book and became someone who subtly fought back and investigated what was going on behind the scenes of the Community. She clearly has a big heart and is actually pretty good with other people, be it calming them down and being kind or manipulating them to helping her out. Wren comes next and also comes across as super immature at first, though like Cat her voice gets stronger and older as the book goes on. More so than Cat, Wren seems like someone who was naive about the world and preferred to look at the sunny side of things...though that switches around fairly quickly. Props to her, Wren takes action almost immediately and isn't afraid of sticking up for herself or others. Wren definitely gets the short end of the stick in this book and a lot of it just feels icky. *SPOILER, SKIP TO NEXT PARAGRAPH* Wren gets kidnapped and is raped multiple times, though these scenes are not described it is very obvious what has happened. Also, while Wren exhibits trauma from this while in the situation, it's kind of brushed over afterward *SPOILER END*. Abel comes across as pretty pushy at first, pressuring Cat to leave the Community even though her mother is dying, but he relaxes about it a lot and it's clear he just wants what's best for Cat and for her to be safe from her psycho father. He's a fairly pacifist character and, like Cat, cares for and wants to help other people. He's definitely more open to the sinister nature of the Community, though he also doesn't quite grasp the depth of what's going on until much later in the book. Interestingly, despite Abel's fire in the beginning of the book, I feel he then later on comes off as almost too passive later on, though admittedly he can hold his own against Ryder. As for Ryder, he also comes off as pushy in the beginning of the book but clearly cares for Wren. He's about the polar opposite of Abel in that he's far more of a hotshot and tends to be more aggressive. I'm not sure how much I like Ryder's character. When I'm reading his POV I think he's fine, just like how I like him if I'm reading him from Wren's POV, but if I see him from anyone else's viewpoint I don't like him as much. He's impulsive, led by his emotions, doesn't seem to care much for others aside from Wren and maybe Claire, and is very conflict-oriented. It's just not a good look on a character. However, I do appreciate how the difference between his and Wren's POVs vs Abel and Cat's POVs allow you to see narrative bias. In terms of other characters, Dr. Grayson, Cat's father and the leader of the Community/Dome, is an absolute psychopath. He's kind of predictable in some ways, but not nearly as much as the plot is. I do genuinely wonder how anyone could ever like him enough to create kids (or simply to work with him) is beyond me. Claire, who is Wren's mother, obviously loves her daughter very much...but I also don't think she's winning any parent of the year awards. She's not a psychopath, at least, but she does hide a lot from the people around her even when they have a right to know the things she's hiding. Sienne, Cat's mother, actually might win that parent the year award, particularly if she's only competing against the other two parents. That being said, she's only in the book for a small period of time but seems like a decent enough person. Alice, a friend of Wren's, is... also a psychopath and I feel is going to continue to be a major problem. Bob, Claire's boyfriend, is 'eh.' I can't really get a good feel for him since his character seems to vacillate wildly between different things. Don is also 'eh.' He does the right thing when it comes down to it and he's consistently good to Cat and her mom throughout the book. However, I wouldn't say he was a good guy either. Overall, I liked a lot of aspects of the book but there were some things that annoyed me, such as the immature voices from Cat and Wren, and there were a couple of major things that I straight up did not like, so 3.5 stars seems appropriate. I have some very strong opinions that I also want to mention, but they’re very spoilery and some have to do with the TW, so they’re below the cut if anyone wants to read.

MAJOR CHARACTER SPOILERS AHEAD!

Non-TW Spoiler:

The plot and revelations were pretty obvious in this book. I was writing notes while I wrote and I have a note from ~25% in where I ask 'are Wren and Cat sisters?' Then further in I settled on them being twins or clones, which turned out to be true (twins). TW Spoilers: I had some major issues with Wren's plot. I don't think the rape was necessary to the book at all, nor is her being pregnant from said rape. Based on the technology available outside the Community/Dome and on Dr. Grayson's desire to have her keep the kid even if she were to be inside, I feel like she's going to be forced to continue the pregnancy, which just doesn't sit right with me. I get what Modrak is doing here with the 'next generation is immune' type of shit, but couldn't she have had sex with Ryder? Beta by Rachel Cohn was published in 2012 and pulls some very similar shit w/ the MC being raped, then becoming pregnant as a result, and then not being allowed to abort despite explicitly wanting to b/c the baby is 'too special' or some shit, and I just...I don't know if that's the same route Modrak is going with this, but I worry it is. I also worry it's going to be put in a way where carrying the baby to term is 'for the good of humanity' and Wren agrees to do it b/c she'd feel guilty otherwise, which, spoiler is still fucking coercive and is an unwanted pregnancy. I'm particularly inclined to feel this is the route Modrak is going because the epilogue involves a character going absolutely apeshit because she feels guilty for using embryonic stem cells (and also incorrect science, but whatever). This character goes on and on abt the loss of life and how she murdered two 'perfect' embryos...which at that stage of development aren't even embryos but zygotes, (for reference, monozygotic twins split sometime 2-6 days after the ovum is fertilized, and the researcher was using embryos/zygotes that had, in her words just split). At this stage in development, zygotes and embryos can and do still self-abort. Also, if you're using embryonic stem cells in research, the embryos/zygotes are already not going to turn into babies. Like, their fate has already been decided. Chill.

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metalshockfinland · 5 years ago

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Jimmy Kay from Canada’s The Metal Voice recently interviewed Grammy award wining producer, guitarist Bob Kulick who played classic albums such as Kiss Alive 2, Kiss Killers, Paul Stanley’s Solo album, W.A.S.P. The Crimson Idol, Meatloaf Bad Attitude and so many more.

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Bob elaborated on his recent Facebook Post attacking his Brother Bruce Kulick & Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanle.

When asked about the specifics in regards to his brother Bruce’s Copyright infringement on selling Kulick Brother merch on Kiss Website without his permission “The only way that I will contest this is through the court of public opinion, based upon my lawyers assessment it makes no sense to spend money chasing dishonorable people. This is how it went, Bruce came to me and said I’ve found somebody who could do a design for us but you would have to pay half (which was $750.00) to get it going, so I did that.”

(The photos that were taken on my Facebook post of the Kulick merchandise were taken from from KISS Army warehouse website which Keith Leroux controls)

Keith Leloux who is one of Kiss’ confidants is also in charge of some of the concert packages where he takes photos of the people who were paying an exorbitant amount of money to be able to stand on the stage where the band Kiss is gonna stand. Keith Leroux is an arrogant person who has decided that he can do what he wants when he wants to do it and his company KISS Army Warehouse has obtained from my brother merchandise that I didn’t even have. Like for instances I don’t even have a ball cap as part of our merch standards. I don’t know when they did that? Some photos I obviously I signed but I didn’t give anybody permission to put them on KISS Army Warehouse website and have them sold without permission, with an agreement how much they are selling these for and what is my share. And since I’m out of pocket $750 who is going to reimburse that amount. I mean it’s just as simple as that you know, it’s a business selling a shirt, like selling a car. I’m not talking about suing anybody I’m not talking about legal action. I am about to play the game with these people who after 46 years have showed me very little respect for what I’ve done. I’m not paying one penny to do anything legal to these people because it’s not worth it to get into a circumstance where they will immediately do what they’ve always done which is to see whose pockets are deeper. I’m not saying there’s any money owed to me other than what’s owed to me from this merchandise, that’s all and how much could it be? I’m just being honest it’s a copyright infringement this is mainly being done not to collect the money that they owe me, this is not about that what it’s about is respect. Sometimes you have to show people that they need to respect. I’m a Grammy award-winning producer with 17 platinum or gold records I played lead guitar on a number-one hit single Diana Ross’ ‘Why Do Fools Fall In Love’.

When asked about the specifics of his brothers Bruce’s restraining order “In an effort to mend the fences bury the hatchet whatever you want to call it from a bad and ugly situation that Bruce precipitated last year by disrespecting me and taking my name off of a contract that was offered to us for the Kiss cruise of last year. After a successful Kiss cruise the year before my brother was totally intimidated by the fact that as I said to him finally Bruce it’s taken all this time we finally found our band here’s the band to conquer the world with. The band that I put together Brent Fitz and Todd Kerns. My brother was shaking in his shoes when I said to him we’re gonna have to ask Paul and Gene to pay for other people to come and play with us ? Yeah I said because we deserve to have our own band, we’re stars, you’re a star Bruce act like it but he has no balls at all so I had to go and set that up, so that Paul and Gene would have to pay two other performers to come and be our band. Then we were listed as Kiss Konfidential down there with the people who were on the panel nothing, wrong with that, we did do a panel but we also played. nobody knew what we were gonna play. They didn’t even have us listed as performers. They mentioned the other performers but not us how insulting. The Kulick brothers, no rehearsal, no sound check, the guinea pigs, the first band to play on the cruise with electric instruments. Kiss only played acoustically, big difference. So there’s everybody crowded in the whole ship, like the Titanic, it was kind of tipping over from everybody standing there. What did we do? We mopped the floor with Kiss. Mopped the floor with them playing their own songs, totally kicked ass. I looked to my brother and said this is magic. I then got tours booked for this band, offers, I had record deals ready to go even if it was only to play the songs we played on the cruise. Bruce turned all of it all down. Costing me work and wasting my time.”

When asked if he should have confirmed with Bruce all these plans to record and tour first “I mean he basically did what I would have done, show me first. If this is real, show me, so I was just like okay. A representative from Europe called and wanted to have a meeting with Bruce and his wife and Bruce was just like good luck helping Bob I really can’t be involved because I have my Grand Funk gig. Which they only do select dates and it would have been possible just like he was able to arrange the time to be able to do the cruise without it being any conflict of interest with his main gig Grand Funk Railroad. I would have thought he could have squeezed the Kulick Brothers Band an exceptional band featuring two brothers who even though they may not even like each other play unbelievable together. Why? I taught him how to play he’s got the same influences that I do, his brain works like mine does, we’re from the same parents, so we both share the same gift as guitar players, so who could play better with me than him? Nobody. ”

“As I told Meatloaf back in the day when we auditioned my brother and I. They wanted me, they knew I had played with Alice Cooper and that I’d had experience, they didn’t think my brother was that great and they told me they had somebody else they wanted to take and have me work with them. I made it clear it’s the Kulick brothers or not at all and I’ve done that for him throughout his career in mine same with Kiss. Uh-oh looks like Vinnie Vincent is leaving you should call my brother. Gene said he’s got a mustache, I said he could shave. A year later Paul Stanley calling me while I’m in London with Meatloaf, uh do you have your brother’s number yeah uh we’re thinking about having him come and fill in for Mark St John. Oh really fill in for Mark huh, why don’t you just hire him like I told you, he should be in the band what are you doing? Who got Bruce that gig with Kiss, me and the fact that his talent was like mine, somebody who could really play. So I’m insulted and hurt that after all that I’ve done for my brother that he’s selling merchandise with my name on it without paying me and not talking to me and then getting a restraining order cuz he doesn’t want to hear the truth of me calling or texting or emailing him. Hey no matter what we’re brothers the only brother I have there’s nobody left in my family our parents are gone and I dare say if my mom was alive he wouldn’t have dared done anything like this because she would have kicked his ass. My mom took no shit from anybody like me not gonna take shit from anybody. People showed their true colors, he’s an ingrate I did everything for him and he never returned the favor all those records that I produced I always made sure that I hired Bruce to play so we could have a good time and we lived those moments when we were kids. And we’d just play out of sheer love just being able to jam and listen to Leslie West play and be shown some of the licks or hidden figuring out something and showing me it was a great time before he was Kissed, before he was blessed with being in this band, blessed I’m not sure I would say blessed any longer. Bruce is still in communication with Kiss and still checks with them that is it okay, if I do this that or the other thing and they may call upon him to come in and play a bass on something or whatever it is, it’s i kind of a loose relationship where he feels that there’s still money to be milked from these people and that he’s not gonna miss any of it.”

Bob Kulick Elaborates On His Social Media Attack On Brother Bruce, Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley Jimmy Kay from Canada's The Metal Voice recently interviewed Grammy award wining producer, guitarist Bob Kulick…

#‘The Metal Voice’#BOB KULICK #Kiss Alive 2 #Kiss Killers #Meatloaf Bad Attitude #Paul Stanley&039;s Solo album #W.A.S.P. The Crimson Idol

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A simple explanation of the

movement of money in the banking

system

From the translator: In recent months, the news of the financial sphere has firmly entered the lives of many people. One of the recent themes is the possible disconnection of Russia from the SWIFT system . The threat looks very serious, but what really threatens the country if events develop according to this scenario? Our today's material is designed to help deal with how things work in the global world of finance.

Last week Twitter went insane due to the fact that someone had transferred almost $ 150 million per transaction in cryptocurrency. The appearance of such a tweet was in the order of things: A transaction of 194,993 bitcoins worth $ 147 million gives rise to many secrets and speculations

There were a lot of comments about how expensive and difficult it would be to implement in the ordinary banking system, and it is quite possible that this is the case. But at the same time I paid attention to the following: I know from my own experience that almost no one understands how payment systems actually work. That is: when you “transfer” money to a supplier or “make a payment” to someone's account, how does money transfer from your account to the accounts of others ?

With the help of this article, I will try to change the situation and carry out a simple, but, I hope, not too simplistic, analysis in this area.

First we find the points of contact

I think, first of all, you need to understand that bank deposits are liabilities of [the bank before you] . When you put money in the bank, in factyou do not have a deposit. This is not a money bag on which your name is written. Instead, you loan this money to a bank. He owes them to you. This money becomes one of the obligations of the bank. That is why we say that our money is in a credit account: we have provided a loan to the bank. Similarly, if you exceed the loan and you owe it to the bank, it becomes your obligation and theiran asset. To understand how money moves, it is important to understand that each record in an accounting report can be viewed from these two points of view.

Transfer of funds to the client’s account of the same bank

Let's start with a simple example. Imagine that your name is Alice , and you are a customer of, say, Barclays Bank. You owe 10 pounds to your friend named Bobwho also uses the services of Barclays. Bob is easy to pay: you tell the bank about your intentions, he withdraws money from your account and pays 10 pounds to your friend's account. The procedure is carried out electronically through Barclays automated banking system, everything is extremely simple: the money neither goes to the bank, nor is it withdrawn from it; there is only an update of the system of accounts. The bank owes you 10 pounds less and Bob 10 pounds more. Everything is balanced, and everything happens inside the bank: they say that the transaction is “fixed” in the bank’s books of account. This is presented in the diagram below: only three parties take part - you, Bob and Barclays. (Naturally, the same analysis can be carried out if you carry out a transaction in euros through Deutsche Bank or in dollars through Citi, etc.)

But what happens when you need to transfer money to the account of a client of another bank?

Here the situation is more interesting. Imagine that you need to pay a certain Charlie , an HSBC client. There is a problem: it is easy for Barclays to take 10 pounds from your account, but how can they convince HSBC to increase Charlie 's account by 10 pounds? Why should the HSBC bank agree to owe Charlie more than before? They are not a charitable organization! Clearly, the answer is that if we want HSBC to owe Charlie a little more, they need to be owed to someone else a little less .

What should this “other” be? This is definitely not Alice: if you remember, she has nothing to do with HSBC. By the method of exclusion, it turns out that the only possible option is Barclays. And the first thing that comes to mind is: what ifWill HSBC open an account with Barclays, and Barclays open an account with HSBC ? Each of the banks could open an account with another bank and regulate these accounts to solve such problems ...

Here’s how to proceed:

Barclays can take £ 10 off Alice

Barclays can then add £ 10 to an HSBC account opened with Barclays.

After that, Barclays can send a message to HSBC that they have increased their bill by 10 pounds and would like those in turn to increase Charlie’s bill by 10 pounds.

HSBC would receive this message and, knowing that they have an extra 10 pounds on deposit at Barclays, could increase Charlie's bill.

Everything is balanced for Barclays and HSBC. Before that, Barclays owed 10 pounds to Alice, now they owe 10 pounds to HSBC. HSBC had been nil before, now they owe 10 pounds to Charlie, and Barclays owe 10 pounds to them.

Such a payment processing model (and its more complex varieties) is known as the activity of banks on the basis of correspondent relations. Graphically, it can be represented like the diagram below. The previous scheme is taken as the basis and the second commercial bank is added; It is important to note that the presence of correspondent relations allows banks to facilitate the payment of payments to relevant customers.

The scheme works quite well, but there are some difficulties:

Most obviously, this is possible only if the two banks are in direct communication with each other. Otherwise, either you will not be able to make a payment, or you will need to make a route through the third (or fourth!) Bank until you complete the journey from point A to point B. Of course, this increases the costs and degree of difficulty. (Some experts limit the use of the concept of "correspondent relations" to situations involving different currencies, but it seems to me that this term is useful to use even in simpler situations)

More disturbing is the fact that it is also risky. Take a look at the situation from the position of HSBC bank. The result of their payment is increased vulnerability.by Barclays. In our example, only 10 pounds. But imagine that the amount was 150 million pounds, and the correspondent bank was not Barclays, but a smaller and possibly less reliable organization: HSBC would have been in big trouble if the bank had been ruined. One solution is to make a small change in the model itself: instead of transferring funds to the HSBC account, Barclays could ask HSBC to write off money from the account Barclays uses. Then there would be no need for large interbank settlements. However, with this approach, other difficulties arise and, in one way or another, the interdependence inherent in this model is a rather large problem.

In the future we will talk about some of these difficulties.

[Note: this is not what is happening today * actually *, because the systems described below are used instead, but I thought it was logical to start the story in such a way that you could clearly imagine what is happening]

Wait ... why complicate things? Can't you just use the SWIFT system [Eng. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications - International Interbank Information Transmission and Payment System] and be done with it?

As a rule, during the discussion of payment systems there will definitely be a person who will wave his hands, shout “SWIFT” and assume that the issue has been resolved. In my opinion, this only confirms that such people probably don’t understand what they are talking about.

The SWIFT network allows banks to freely exchange e-mails with each other. One type of message that is supported by the SWIFT network is MT103. MT103 allows one bank to give instructions to another bank so that the latter transfers the amount to one of its customers' accounts, while the same amount is debited from the account of the organization sending the message at the bank receiving it so that everything is balanced. You can imagine how the message MT103 would apply in the case described in the previous part.

Thus, as a result of sending the message MT103 in the SWIFT network, the money is “sent” between two banks, but it is especially important to understand what is actually happening: the message over the SWIFT network is just an indication; cash flow is carried out when they are transferred to some accounts and depends on banks that have accounts with other banks (directly or through intermediary banks). Just waving your arms and shouting: “SWIFT!” Means hiding these difficulties, and therefore hinder understanding of the system.

Okay ... I see. And what about ACH, EURO1, Faster Payments, BACS, CHAPS, FedWire, Target2 and so on and so on ????

Stop ... Let's first briefly repeat.

We have shown that transferring money between two account holders in the same bank is not difficult.

We also showed how to transfer money between two account holders in differentbanks in a rather clever way: to make each bank open an account in another bank.

In addition, we discussed how electronic messaging systems like SWIFT can control the flow of information between two banks and ensure that transfers are fast, reliable and cheap.

But we have something else to discuss ... since such serious questions arise as counterparty risk, liquidity and expenses.

Consider firstliquidity and expenses .

We need to solve the problem of liquidity and expenses.

First, you need to consider that the SWIFT network costs money. If Barclays needed to send a message over the SWIFT network to the HSBC bank every time you want to transfer 10 pounds to Charlie’s account, you would soon find out significant costs in your statement. But worse, a more serious problem arises - liquidity .

Consider how much money Barclays would need to be in touch with all correspondent banks every day if the system described earlier was put into practice. They would need to have large amounts in their accounts at all other banks in case one of their clients wants to transfer money to an HSBC, Lloyds, Co-op customer account or anywhere else. This cash could be invested, lent or otherwise spent.

But a very interesting thought may arise: in the end, a Barclays client will most likely transfer money to an HSBC client account with the same degree of probability that an HSBC client will transfer money to a Barclays client account at a specific time.

So what if we continued to track all the numerous payments during the day and would only record the difference ? With this approach, each of the banks could have much less cash on each of the correspondent accounts, and each could invest their money more efficiently, while reducing costs and (hopefully) sending some of this money to your bank. Such reasoning led to the emergence of deferred net settlement systems.(SONR). In the UK, such a system is BACS, and in any country you can find its analogues. In such systems, they do not exchange messages through the SWIFT network. Instead, messages (or files) fall into a central “clearing” system (such as BACS), which tracks all payments and then, within a specified time, calculates the net amount each bank owes to any other bank. After that, they conduct certain transactions among themselves (possibly transferring money to / from accounts that each of the banks has at another bank) or use the RTGS system described below.

This method significantly reduces the cost and liquidity requirements and complements our scheme with one more unit:

It is worth paying attention to the fact that in the same way (as CONR) one can describe the mechanisms of using credit cards and even PayPal: they all are characterized by the process of calculating internal transaction costs, which results in only the net amount determined for large banks.

But even with this approach, a potentially more serious problem arises - the loss of completeness of the calculation . You can send your payment instructions in the morning, but the receiving bank will not be able to receive (net) funds until a certain point.

Therefore, the receiving bank has to wait for the receipt of a (net) settlement of the account in case of possible bankruptcy of the sender during the transfer: it would be rash to transfer funds to the receiving party in advance. As a result, a delay occurs.

On the other hand, it would be possible to take the risk and in case of a problem, cancel the transaction. But then the settlement would never be considered “completed”, and in this case the recipient could not have expected to receive this money before a certain date.

Is it possible to achieve both completeness of settlement and zero counterparty risk?

This is where, all the parts of the puzzle come to be united. None of the approaches discussed earlier can be applied in situations where you need to be absolutely sure that the payment will be made quickly and cannot be canceled even if the sending bank goes bust . You really need this kind of guarantee, for example, if you intend to create a settlement system for securities transactions: no one will give you $ 150 million in bonds or shares, if there is a risk that these $ 150 million will not be paid, or they will not be returned!

A system is needed, like the first one we’ve considered (Alice transfers money to Bob’s account at the same bank) - because everything is really fast in her — but that will work with more than one bank participating. The multilateral interbank system, considered earlier, seems to be working, but it becomes quite confusing when transferring sufficiently large amounts and if there is a likelihood that a particular bank may collapse.

Now, if banks could have accounts in such a bank that cannot go bankrupt ... a kind of bank that would be in the very center of the system. You can think of a name for him. Let's call it the central bank !

Following this logic, the idea of a gross settlement system in real time[eng Real-Time Gross Settlement system, RTGS].

If all the largest banks in a country have accounts in the central bank, they can transfer money from one bank to another, simply giving instructions to the central bank to withdraw funds from one account and transfer them to another. For this purpose, the systems CHAPS, FedWire and Target 2 are intended, which are engaged in the transfer of pounds, dollars and euros, respectively. These systems carry out cash flow in real time between accounts that banks have in the respective central bank. So, this is the system:

Gross - no accounting of debts (otherwise the system could not be instant)

Calculations - the presence of completion; no refund

In real time - calculations are carried out instantly.

This system completes our scheme:

I thought this article was somehow related to bitcoin

Well, that reminded. Now the question arises: is it possible to put Bitcoin in this model?

It seems to me that Bitcoin is very much like the RTGS system. It does not include debt accounting, (obviously) there are no correspondent relations between banks, and all calculations are gross, completed.

However, the “traditional” financial landscape is interesting because most retail transactions today are not carried out through the RTGS system. For example, direct electronic payments between residents of the UK are made through the system of accelerated payment FPS [English. Faster Payments system], which performs counter claims several times a day, not instantly. Why is that? I would say, because, first of all, FPS is (almost) free, while the cost of payments in the CHAPS system is 25 pounds. Many customers would probably use the RTGS system if it were just as convenient and cheap.

Therefore, my unanswered question is: will the Bitcoin payment system remain just like the traditional RTGS, which performs only the most significant transfers? Or will changes in the core network (block size restrictions, channels for micropayments, etc.) occur and will occur fairly quickly with an increase in the volume of transactions, allowing the system to remain available for both more significant and less significant payments?

I think the question still remains open: I am sure that Bitcoin will change the world, but at the same time I am not so sure that we will live in a world where every transaction carried out with the help of the Bitcoin network “passes” through the Blockchain database.

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storyunrelated · 6 years ago

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Flash #1273

The protest was going about as well as could be expected, which is to say it hadn’t become a riot yet and some of the placards were quite witty.

“Well this is nice,” said Bob, regarding the goings-on. “Nice to see people turning out to try and achieve something positive.”

“It is nice, yes. Not that it’ll do anything,” said Alice. Bob frowned.

“That’s a very cynical attitude you got there, Alice.”

Sighing, Alice turned and rested her elbows on the barrier and let her head flop back, face scrunched up in the sunshine.

“I know, and I’m sorry, but what do you think is going to happen? They’ll look the window at all these people and go ‘Gosh, they’re concerned, we’d better act on what it is they’re upset about right away’?”

‘They’ in this instance being The Powers That Be, obviously. The ones who got to sit in the big building and claim expenses and sometimes make decisions that worked out in a way people saw was good but generally seemed pretty short-sighted. Because running a country was a thankless nightmare.

“No, but this at least makes them know that it’s an issue people care about,” Bob said, gesturing to the crowds. The crowds looked happy enough, not to mention determined.

Someone was trying to start up a chant but it kind of just trailed off.

“They already know it’s an issue people care about. One of many. Dozens. Scores - hundreds! And every issue is vying to shoulder its way forward as the most pressing and each issue has with it a bickering raft of vested interests and naysayers and lunatics and self-serving bastards,” Alice said.

“Yeah, but-” Bob tried to interject, but Alice rode roughshod over him:

“And it’s enough to keep this metaphorical raft from tipping over - actually getting it anywhere? Especially when those in charge are so enmeshed with the parties who have vested interests in either maintaining or exploiting bad situations? You seen Society? That film? You know at the end where-”

“Yeah, yeah, I know. The shunting,” Bob said, interrupting Alice this time and feeling justified in doing so. Alice just nodded and checked her watch.

“So I take it you think protests are a bit of a waste of time, then?” Bob asked, faux-sweetly, his patience taut and his worldview directly challenged. Alice shrugged.

“Not at all, I think they’re great. I think people should kick up as big a stink as possible. Just I think no-one should expect anything to actually happen,” she said, twisting against the barrier to look at the crowds again.

“Seems pointless.”

“We must imagine Sisyphus happy, hmm? Wonder if anyone’s going to throw a brick.”

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aliciap-designs · 7 years ago

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Project 01 Research

http://intuitivecreativity.typepad.com/expressiveartinspirations/100-art-therapy-exercises.htmlhttps://www.wikihow.com/Draw

This is probably one of the most basic drawing tutorials. It simply goes through drawing what you see, drawing often. It goes into slight detail about doing rough sketches first then more detail and realism. Overall its pretty dry but it gets the basics of what I could put in my how to.

The style used is very basic, the drawing examples are generic and it also shows a person drawing it. It differentiates the drawing example and showing a drawing being made by having the hand more digitally drawn and colored in. Also very generic.

http://www.easydrawingtutorials.com/index.php/disney/231-draw-alice?start=1

This website has a very step by step tutorial to draw cartoon characters. I picked Alice in Wonderland cause its a bit more complicated style. I find these tutorials boring since the main goal is just to copy something perfectly.

However, I like each step has the specific part added highlighted in red while the rest is drawn in grey. What I could take from this is how specific the steps are. That they used words like ‘ Start by drawing a big oval with a pointy bottom similar to an egg shape near the middle of the page.’ It's a bit too much but adding details in step by step tutorials help.

I think step by step tutorials for drawing a bit hard to take seriously. I had drawing books but they really didn’t help. To really draw well you have to find your own style and narrative so I think going with a more funny step by step guide is more entertaining.

Bob Ross is probably the most famous tutorial artists. He’s very endearing and I didn’t watch his videos to learn to draw but to experience somebody enjoy painting so much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbR5TAz2xQ This video has a couple of great quotes by him that I could use as inspiration. I really enjoy that he goes on a whole tangent over a small statement. For example, he says to just create and have nothing in mind while u start painting and he continues on and on about loving life and yourself.

If I take a more serious approach then a part of it could be mentioning the benefits of drawing that somebody looking a tutorial would want http://intuitivecreativity.typepad.com/expressiveartinspirations/100-art-therapy-exercises.html

http://www.manifestgallery.org/studio/why.html I really liked this article, it brings up how the reasons I don’t like specific drawing tutorials. “We draw in order to see. To the non-drawer, this is counterintuitive and seems to place an interfering activity between the eye and the object seen.” Really resonates with me. I think it is a statement other artists would agree on. A lot of my drawings are not just still lives but things I wish I could ‘see’ like characters I create or feelings I wish to express.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/drawing-dc-together/wp/2014/12/31/why-we-draw/?utm_term=.2b336f88bd30 An article about a father who drew his son while he was in the hospital, he was very sick and had a major heart surgery at only 3 months old. He mentions why he drew was to keep the memory of his son just in case he died. I think that is a great reason to learn to draw and to keep drawing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpDOVajzlV4 This is a parody of Bob Ross. It’s actually very telling about what makes Bob Ross so famous. It makes fun of the way he smacks his paint brushes and uses very specific colors. I like how the guy slowly comes out of character by the end of the video.

https://www.wikihow.com/Act-Like-a-Baby-Again Making it funny has to be more with the voice in the writing. This how-to is obviously a joke but the voice that comes off is like any wiki how tutorial which comes off more cringy than funny. If I take a more funny standpoint then I have to make the steps funnier and obviously joking. I could do that by giving it a lighter voice.

Another funny artist is Robin Clonts she does a bunch of skits. Her fanbase is the type of person this tutorial would be for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxcmP1bZQWE She makes fun of the ‘different type of artists’ in this video. I’d have to say she even gets me. (I’m the free-spirited type of artist)

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/top-art-museums-in-nyc top museums since part of learning how to make art are looking at art.

https://austinkleon.com/steal/ This is a book called How to Steal Like An Artist which is a journal that has different daily activities an artist can do to be inspired by other artists and the world around them. I had a similar book and it had interesting little activities to do. Sadly I lost it.

Different versions of the principles of design

https://www.thoughtco.com/principles-of-art-and-design-2578740

https://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/building_lessons/principles_design.pdf

http://www.artsalive.ca/collections/imaginedspaces/index.php/en/learn-about/elementsandprinciples/principles-of-design

https://visual.ly/community/infographic/education/6-principles-design

I learned about the principal designs with this textbook. But it’s about 30$ for the pdf. I don’t think anyone who is looking at this tutorial would pay that money. I was thinking more of teenagers and young adults reading this tutorial. Though artists could be that interested so I’ll put it as well.

https://mymodernmet.com/jaguar-f-type-cutting-edge-artists/ Different modern artists.

https://art21.org/artists/ This is a great resource I could put into the tutorial as an extra step. This website has 21st-century artists which I think are harder to find than more iconic artists and their works of the past. I didn’t learn about it until last year. I think it’s different and more interesting than advising readers to look at more classical pieces.

Ironically her art style is very realistic and has usually serious undertones. I think in a way that makes her videos funnier that she even teases the type of artist she is.

IThis is a good example of taking drawing tutorials as a joke. I think this little comic is so amusing. Obviously, the steps don’t make the last drawing. I found that is another reason why drawing tutorials are so hard to follow. How could a tutorial teach each every specific line to a drawing?

Also as imagery I could take the humor of making crude drawings to a very detailed drawing since I can draw both.

For imagery obviously, I’ll draw them since that's the point of using a drawing tutorial. I think this tutorial would be more for cynical artists already rather than people who don’t already draw. I don’t want it to be a childlike tutorial unless that’s the joke.

Another example of a satirical style is my friend’s drawings. It’s funny because there’s a ‘bad’ version that transforms into more a serious art style. I think a transitioning style is the most humorous than staying to one simple cute style or one hyper-realistic one.

One of my favorite comic artists is Shen. http://shencomix.com/ he makes really funny comics. There’s a definitely an anime influence but his style has a mix of traditional comic style like Garfield. He uses the same transforming style of more realistic figures and very simple figures. Which I think highlights his sense of humor greatly.

I think this system of icons works well together. The line thickness is the same throughout and the color palette is closer to yellow and orange tying them all together.

This collage just shows how many different styles there are in art. I would say the big difference in all of these is the type of colors and line weight used. They all are the same painting the Mona Lisa but they have different feelings to them. LIke the fruit one is more funny than the one with only black,red and blue.

“Rem and Stimpy” is known for a very crude humor which goes well with the grotesque style that the characters form into. The figures go off model quite a lot to make the humor hit even more. I used this example cause even though there isn’t much movement or background to the image. It’s still funny it gets the point across that Rem and Stimpy are stuck with this man and the sign in the background shows they're playing this role to be a family. I want the imagery I use to be able to tell a larger funny story.

I’ve always liked this sort of art style. Where the figures are detailed in the sense of clothing and patterning but there is very little shading or highlighting. I think it is a very clean way of showing figures.

I also find professor Josh Jordan’s artwork very fitting for this satirical tutorial. His artwork doesn’t have a humorous style but the situations he puts figures it is pretty funny. At first, my other classmates and I thought he was being serious and his art seemed narcissistic. When he explained his artwork being more about the people who give him these feelings that are expressed in his work. It made more sense and was quite a funny way of showing how people can make you feel so great.

A different sort of style of the tutorial are videos such as “speedpaints” I use to watch a lot when I was younger. This digital artist I like a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry0At7ib_s0. It shows the entire drawing being done but fast forward. There’s a lot of them on youtube.

Another type of drawing video is Madoka Kinoshita’s canvas videos. They are different in there is no music and it doesn’t show the entire production but smaller snippets of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc0eC2TW3o0 There is a sort relaxing tone to this style of video since there’s no talking or music, just watching an artist paint.

I also like her style of very large areas of solid color while there are smaller parts of a huge range of color. It’s also very impressive she can get such crisp lines on a canvas. Those examples I’ve given are all acrylic on canvas but look digitally done. Her videos are very insightful of the techniques she uses to get those results. They seem very time-consuming.

Van Honthorst paintings have a strong narrative to them. That is a major part of my tutorial to have art with meaning. This particular drawing represents sins as the man is gluttonous with food and drink. With the old lady next to the women feeding him, she is supposed to be the owner of a brothel. Since the potential prostitute is feeding the man it could symbolize her seduction over him; the sin lust.

This panel in a webcomic I read not only has the character saying he’s losing sight. But that the rest of the panel is white as if he can’t see it. I want my visuals that go with the tutorial do the same thing. Where what is written goes with the imagery.

John Alcorn has a very whimsical style that I think has a broad appeal to it. I found a poetry book that didn’t fit the classical style we needed for the booklet. But was experimental and fun. He drew the illustrations for that book.

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