18mr:

This DIY project is everything. On her blog Mimi corrects yellow face by taking pictures of herself as Asian characters who were played by white women in film: “This photographic journey is a love letter to all my Asian brothers and sisters out there trying to break into a tough business. I feel your struggle. But please keep fighting the fight. You are talented. You are beautiful. And goddammit, we belong in the picture.” http://bit.ly/1XgiEDH

neitherclosenorfar:

Everything I’ve heard about Me Before You is so terrible. I mean, really. You take two such sensitive nuanced topics and make it into to, “Disabled people don’t think they deserve love and also want to die?” 

Who signed off on this. 

Because my sister decided to pick a fight, let me be clear. I have not watched the movie. I did read a bit of the book before I made a judgement and it’s eh?

Wouldn’t watch it in the first place, because small town girl meets sad rich guy isn’t my cup of tea. 

Sad rich guy is sad even though he has a castle because being in a wheel chair is that miserable is not exactly kosher either, and I think breaks several concepts of assisted suicide, like “Don’t let someone clearly dealing with situational depression make a life ending choice.”

And frankly having to go to all that trouble to “respectfully” represent a paraplegic character with a legged actor seems a bit silly when you could, you know, hire a paraplegic actor. I bet you money they exist. 

But what do I know, I’m too sick to go to the movies anyway. 

Everything I’ve heard about Me Before You is so terrible. I mean, really. You take two such sensitive nuanced topics and make it into to, “Disabled people don’t think they deserve love and also want to die?” 

Who signed off on this. 

Logic Gates!

fyprogramming:

Not – “0 in, 1 out; 1 in, 0 out.  Whatever you put in, you don’t get out.”

Buffer – “If you take the not of not, you get what you put in – 0 in, 0 out, 1 in, 1 out.”

NAND – “Both inputs must be brought up to 1 to lower the output to 0.”

AND – “If you negate the result of Nand, you get And.  Both inputs must be brought up to 1 to raise the output up to 1.”

OR – “If you not both inputs, and then Nand them together, you get Or.  If either input is raised to 1, the output raises to 1.”

NOR – “Negate both inputs, nand them together, and negate the output.”

XOR – “Xor is complicated – The large weight ands the inputs together.  The medium weights negate the inputs, but are pulled up by the large one when both are 1.  When you nor those together, you get Xor “

XNOR – “This is comparatively simple – just negate the output of Xor, and you’re there!”

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Images and Text Stolen from Imgur!

gingercatsneeze:

1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force – first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

durrandurrandon:

Reading through all
of the crackpot theories and open mysteries regarding the Starks, it
seems like each Lord Stark should at some point take his heir aside
and have “the talk”. You now, the one about the Children of the
Forest, and warging, and the Others. Better yet, maybe they could
just put it all in a Secret Stark Handbook.

The Secret Stark
Handbook

Table of Contents

  • Pact of
    the Children and the First Men: Full Text……………..Page 1
  • Why
    Must There Always be a Stark in Winterfell? …………..Page 37
  • How to
    Access the Secrets Caves Below the Crypts………….Page 78
  • When
    and How to Sacrifice to a Weirwood…………………….Page 85
  • Contacting
    the Green Seers on the Isle of Faces…………..Page 90
  • Contacting
    the Children of the Forest ………………………..Page 92
  • So, You
    Think Your Heir is a Warg……………………………. Page 124
  • Surprising
    Uses for Dragonglass……………………………….Page 169
  • The
    Location of the Horn of Joramun…………………………..Page 183
  • What to
    Do If the Others Return………………………………..Page 148
  • The
    Location of the Original Ice………………………………..Page 202
  • The
    Pact of Ice and Fire: Full Text……………………………..Page 227
  • The
    Location of Vermax’s Eggs…………………………………Page 246
  • The
    Boltons: Seriously, Fuck Those Guys……………………Page 262