Your video, Foreplay for beginners, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

well, now we learned that, until you watched this video, you didn't know how to get your woman turned on... Kudos!>> ^ZappaDanMan:

You see, videosift isn't just about the funnies, it's about education as well. I think we've all learned something today.

>> ^SDGundamX:

If you look at their footwork, it seems like they are doing the cha-cha (one-two, cha-cha-cha, three-four, cha-cha-cha; repeat.) except in the cha-cha the guy usually leads with the left foot... this dude is stepping back with the left and leading with the right foot. They've also clearly incorporated a lot of salsa dance moves into the routine to make it "sexier." And judging from the stiffness of the moves they are high-beginners/low-intermediates. I'm guessing this was a performance on some public access cable channel that wanted to showcase local kids and their talents?
While I applaud the kids for having the guts to get on TV and dance, they are completely off the tempo (they're going way to fast) and the choice of music is terrible.


Nice breakdown, but it's pretty obvious that the music in the video is not what they were originally dancing to.

If you look at their footwork, it seems like they are doing the cha-cha (one-two, cha-cha-cha, three-four, cha-cha-cha; repeat.) except in the cha-cha the guy usually leads with the left foot... this dude is stepping back with the left and leading with the right foot. They've also clearly incorporated a lot of salsa dance moves into the routine to make it "sexier." And judging from the stiffness of the moves they are high-beginners/low-intermediates. I'm guessing this was a performance on some public access cable channel that wanted to showcase local kids and their talents?

While I applaud the kids for having the guts to get on TV and dance, they are completely off the tempo (they're going way to fast) and the choice of music is *terrible.

>> ^blingaway:

No room for artist interpretation?
The thing with down-picking is it limits the speed at which one can play and it's very fatiguing in the long run. It's easier for a beginner to down-pick, and it looks cool, but it's a bad habit to cultivate if one wants to develop real technical proficiency.
Don't get me wrong, good alternate picking is important, but you seem to think that people down-pick because it's easier than alternate picking. It's actually not, especially if you want to play a fast song. Down-picking is a valid technique that produces a distinctly different sound than alternate picking. It's especially common in metal and punk. Master of Puppets by Metallica is a really good example of this. Almost the entire rhythm section of the song is down picked. Try playing along to it one day (or worse, a live version where it's even faster). I guarantee your picking forearm will ache by the time you get to the acoustic bit!

As for artist interpretation, if you don't like that kinda music, or even the down picking sound, that's fine, but the people doing it are not doing through lack of technical proficiency.
Full disclosure: I've been playing guitar for nearly 20 years. I don't claim to be a virtuoso, but I started out playing a lot of metal, so I know this stuff.

No room for artist interpretation?

The thing with down-picking is it limits the speed at which one can play and it's very fatiguing in the long run. It's easier for a beginner to down-pick, and it looks cool, but it's a bad habit to cultivate if one wants to develop real technical proficiency. >> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^blingaway:
I'd get spanked by my guitar teacher for not alternate picking if that was me (that unschooled punk down-down-down don't fly) but Upvote for the sheer awesomeness of getting invited onstage! That was a risky sitch. Kid's got a rock-n-roll soul.

Then you guitar teacher is wrong. Down-picking is the correct (i.e. how it was written) way to play it.

"A beginners pipe "

I burst out laughing when he said that.

as well when I was wondering why it was in fail and then I noticed why. too funny.

*promote

Thank you. I've been monitoring matters particularly since Thanksgiving week.

In reply to this comment by marinara:
if you have 30minutes, you can watch this
I like http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/01/max-keiser-uberdebten/

but make sure you read this first
A Beginner’s Guide to the European Debt Crisis http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011/11/beginners-guide-to
-european-debt-crisis.html via @expat229


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Thank you for the link. I enjoyed seeing the photos. :

In reply to this comment by marinara:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/national-g
eographic-photo-contest-2011/100187/

if you have 30minutes, you can watch this
I like http://maxkeiser.com/2011/12/01/max-keiser-uberdebten/

but make sure you read this first
A Beginner’s Guide to the European Debt Crisis http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011/11/beginners-guide-to-european-debt-crisis.html via @expat229


In reply to this comment by dotdude:
Thank you for the link. I enjoyed seeing the photos. :

In reply to this comment by marinara:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/national-g
eographic-photo-contest-2011/100187/

Power points are for sending your video to beggar's canyon with the *beg invocation. If you happen to get two of them, you can also *promote your own video.

There is a beginner's guide available, although having been here for a while you're not exactly a newbie... just a non-video-posting member.
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So wtf does siftbot tell me these power points are for? This site is such a mess.

>> ^campionidelmondo:

I dunno how you'd do it using CS5 software, but using a server-side scripting language like PHP it'd be a matter of a couple of lines of code to enumerate through one folder (of thumbnails) and display each one as a link that points to the bigger image ... given that they have some similarity in name (e.g. the thumbnail of 1.jpg is named 1_tn.jpg or named the same but in a 'thumb' subfolder...).


Beat me to the punch, campioni.

1. From the Bridge side you'll want to run a batch Image Processing to generate your thumbnails (might want to run one action for resizing landscape photos versus run another action for resizing portrait photos). I believe Batch options are in the Tools > Photoshop > Batch menu.

2. From the website end you'll absolutely want to use a more dynamic language (PHP, ASP) to traverse your images/thumbs directories and dynamically generate your gallery. Do not do this manually with static HTML!

3. Fancy up your presentation with pagination (via PHP/ASP) and a lightbox-esque modal window popup for the images when clicking on the thumbnails (I'm personally a fan of Shadowbox but these are a dime a dozen).

Good luck!

>> ^wraith:

That was my point. Fluids are incompressible.
Unfortunately, those bad analogies seem to stick in the minds of the physics lay-person. Just think of the mother of bad analogies: Schroedinger's Cat. The particle may be in a undecided state between "life" or "death", yet the cat certainly isn't. It's either alive and very pissed or dead as a doornail.
When explaining science, avoid analogies whenever possible or clearly mark them as such and point out their deficiencies.


I think explaining qubits does a better job for first time quantum beginners. It also makes them see the potential for awesome. BUT, it is hard to explain--plainly. I blame my college professors and books. Scientific American has an awesome article for the "lay"-man for qubits.

I get blank stares with entanglement.

All better. Thanks.

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*dead

Made top 15 with this first one. Beginner's luck.

http://videosift.com/video/Rugby-player-suspended-for-doing-the-unthinkable

I generally didn't care for his other movies but I liked this one. The camera was kept at just the right distance from the main actor as to seem like a second person following, it really seemed enjoyable to be following him. Also there was a nice LACK of cuts, and targets were framed up well while keeping the 3rd person view. There WASN'T a whole lot of dialauge which is a GOOD thing, it is to short for some silly plot. Instead it felt like one level in a game like portal, where you have a clear cut beginning and end, and it doesn't matter whats next until you are done with this map. Also blood was kept to a minimum, the head shot looked like something out of call of duty rather then mortal combat.

I think it is time to graduate though from basic gun fight choreography to a more advanced level though. So far what he has shown looks nothing more like your beginners level in a 3rd rate FPS.