When Old School Was New: Nas It Aint Hard To Tell : The Record hide captionNas, in a photo from the mid-1990s. Courtesy of the artist Nas, in a photo from the mid-1990s. Since the heyday of hip-hop, one man has been broadcasting the music videos, the culture and the people in the community all throughout New York City. McDaniels knows everybody. The man widely known as Uncle Ralph has stories we want to share, so occasionally on The Record he'll pick a classic video and take us behind the scenes. Illmatic is now considered a classic — a masterwork of story-telling, lyricism and beat-making. In the early to mid-'90s hip-hop was at a creative peak, as regional styles were maturing and bleeding into each other. "I call it street corner rap," McDaniels says. The winter before Illmatic was due to be released, executives from Nas' record label asked McDaniels to make a video package they could send around the media to drum up coverage of the album. Ralph McDaniels: "Nas is from Queensbridge. "I had been familiar with Nas, and he had a big buzz.
What Youll Wish Youd Known January 2005 (I wrote this talk for a high school. I never actually gave it, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me.) When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious. What will you say to high school students? I'll start by telling you something you don't have to know in high school: what you want to do with your life. If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were. It might seem that nothing would be easier than deciding what you like, but it turns out to be hard, partly because it's hard to get an accurate picture of most jobs. But there are other jobs you can't learn about, because no one is doing them yet. And yet every May, speakers all over the country fire up the Standard Graduation Speech, the theme of which is: don't give up on your dreams. What they really mean is, don't get demoralized. Which is an uncomfortable thought. Upwind Ambition Corruption Curiosity
The Top 10 Animations of 2009 | Blender Articles With 2009 now behind us, it’s time to look at the great shorts and animations that have inspired us throughout the year. 10. Fallen Fallen features the most unlikely of main characters: a falling asteroid. The short follows his quick descent down to earth as he deals with the concept of life and death. 9. Winner of several major film festivals, French Roast focuses on a quiet restaurant patron who wants nothing more than to enjoy his coffee and read his paper. 8. Ataque de Pánico! 7. This beautifully crafted trailer paints the scene of a deserted Dubai after cataclysmic sandstorms have blown in, scaring away the once thriving population. 6. (Viewer Discretion is Advised – Extremely Violent) Blood Trails, is definately the most disturbing animation I’ve ever seen in my life, but it’s also one of the best. 5. This isn’t your typical short, and it’s not for everyone either. 4. Set in World War II, Yankee Gal shows a pilot’s dream-like moments between life and death. 3. 2. 1.
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25 Stunning HDR Wallpapers - StumbleUpon Credits (not in order): Trey Ratcliff, Others remain Unknown. If you are the owner or know the owner of any of theses HDR wallpapers, Please let us know. You are free to download these photos and enjoy them but you may not use them commercially. The copyright belongs to the respective photographers. 13 Business Books That Will Blow Your Mind Having never taken a business class in college I find that I read and listen to a lot of business books to round out my education. The books usually aren't "How to Manage Your Cash Flow" but rather get me to rethink the way I run my business, which--despite no business classes or diploma--continues to be in business 13 plus years after I started it. In that time, here are 13 of the books that had the biggest impact on how I run my business (in no particular order): Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink: If you supervise anyone in your business, this book is a must read. It shows that what science knows about motivation, business isn't putting into practice. In fact, many of the incentives we create can actually de-motivate our employees. The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham: I wanted to have at least one book that was dedicated to small business and the entrepreneurial spirit.
20 Astonishing Tilt-Shift Videos I’m sure you have seen some amazing tilt-shift photos – if not, tilt-shift creates an effect that turns normal sized objects or scenes into miniature-like. It is done by special tilt-shift lenses that have very limited depth of field. To start playing with this technique you need to buy a tilt-shift lens, attach to your dSLR camera and start shooting. In this post we wanted to feature some of the best videos applying this technique. To make such amazing pieces you can see below, just take your time lapse tilt-shift photos and create video using some video editing software (it is most popular technique) . Check out our Fake Tilt-shift Photoshop Tutorial! Astonishing Tilt-Shift Videos: The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare. gottardo nord from fb1 visuals. Small Life in Saxon Switzerland from Christoph Schaarschmidt. 5 Quick Tips to Create Tilt-Shift Time Lapse Videos: 1) Get some tilt-shift lens (we assume you have the camera). Toy Soldiers from Alta Media Productions. Seascapes 2009 from robi vincze.
Head of an Akkadian Ruler « Indie Artist Adventures Head of an Akkadian Ruler The goal of this essay is to give the reader information to further their knowledge of the “Head of an Akkadian ruler” and evaluate the resource gathering process of utilizing only internet resources and the textbook Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. The Head of an Akkadian ruler is interesting to me for several reasons. I admire its astounding craftsmanship, its historic meaning, and the relation to prevalent and ironic events of today. The Head of an Akkadian Ruler is masterfully sculpted with an amazing balance in naturalism and abstract formal patterns (Kleiner 27). This statue, as the name alludes, is the head of an Akkadian ruler and is dated around 2250-2200 BCE (Kleiner 26). Recently during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 this historical piece of Mesopotamian art was looted from the Baghdad National Museum (O’Rourke Bibliography Kleiner, Fred S., ed. Perspective. O’Rourke, Meghan. Like this: Like Loading...
How To Build A Fireball You Can Hold&Video - StumbleUpon Is the Universe a Holographic Reality? - Global One TV The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery.