>> ^MINK:
lithuania is trying to create a signocracy. she used to be so pure and chaotic.
when friends come to stay they are freaked out by the method of crossing the road, i.e. cars don't stop unless you actually start walking across the road, but if you look confident enough, they ALWAYS stop.
pedestrians have priority over cars turning right or left at crossroads, so that means drivers ALWAYS look for pedestrians.
It makes total sense to have less signs, but for some reason we prefer to have a system that LOOKS organised but kills people, instead of trusting ourselves.


I love doing that in Toronto. I can stop 4 lanes of traffic. Of course, sometimes I'm shepherd to 100 first-year university students who I'm instructing to crouch down and tie their shoes.

Well, haven't done it recently, but it was awesome when we did.

lithuania is trying to create a signocracy. she used to be so pure and chaotic.
when friends come to stay they are freaked out by the method of crossing the road, i.e. cars don't stop unless you actually start walking across the road, but if you look confident enough, they ALWAYS stop.
pedestrians have priority over cars turning right or left at crossroads, so that means drivers ALWAYS look for pedestrians.
It makes total sense to have less signs, but for some reason we prefer to have a system that LOOKS organised but kills people, instead of trusting ourselves.

*dead again... and possibly a dupe of this older one: http://www.videosift.com/video/Crossroads-charge-Band-of-Brothers-intense

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Iraq, Operation Homecoming' to 'Iraq, PBS, America at a Crossroads, Operation Homecoming' - edited by calvados

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio, steve vai, guitar, shred, crossroads, whammy bar' to '80s, Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio, steve vai, guitar, shred, crossroads, whammy bar' - edited by swampgirl

>> ^campcaptain:
yeah, I couldn't really believe it hadn't already been posted. Just didn't find this dead one when I searched.


In a couple of hours you can discard this one and use this embed to bring the original back to life...you should get a star if you haven't fixed a dead video lately.

Sorry this is a dupe of...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Guitar-Duel-from-Crossroads

It happens to be dead right now but sift etiquette is that the new link should be used to keep the original sift alive instead of creating a new sift. *disard

This is a great thread. People seem to still be arguing about what are riffs, licks, etc. Maybe some of you play rock guitar, I don't know. But, speaking as a rock guitarist, generally we consider a riff to be a repeating phrase that is played as single notes. Most rock riffs are built on the blue's scale, but they don't have to be. A "lick" is a non-repeated phrase, usually part of a guitar solo. Example, "Man, that was a mean lick you played in the middle of
that solo!"
Song's like "Wild Thing" are just chord progressions, in this case I-IV-V-IV repeated over and over. Rock guitarists don't really consider those riffs, although, if you look it up in a dictionary, a "riff" can be a repeating set of chords too, so, technically, about everybody is right here.
In summary, rock guitarists think of riffs in terms of the following examples;

Led Zeppelin --(definitely one of the lords of riff), "Heartbreaker, Black Dog, The Ocean song, Misty Mountain Hop, Dazed and Confused, etc. etc.
Hendrix-- Manic Depression, The opening of Purple Haze, etc. etc.
Cream-- Sunshine of your love, Crossroads, etc.

Keep 'em coming, it's fun to hear what people like in riffs.
What makes a great riff? It's your interpretation. Either it grabs you, or it doesn't. What amazes me is how many different ways a few notes can be arranged. The more unique, the better as far as I'm concerned.

and the Swiss?? Well, they met the devil at the motherfucking crossroads......err...the Swedes,.. but the Swiss are sorry bastards...

Tags changed from "guitar, steve vai, ry cooder, crossroads" to "guitar, steve vai,ry cooder,cuttin heads" by gold star member pho3n1x.

I just watched the Enron movie presented by Independent Lens earlier this evening.

Frontline has been incredible in the past 6 months. However, this 'America at a Crossroads' ten part special was not Frontline. It did have eye-openning, candid interviews with all levels of leadership in Iraq, with Iraqi citizens (hospital workers, taxi drivers, former librarians, police cheifs, teachers, engineers,...), and long segments compressing weeks embedded with ground units and Iraqi soldiers that just told novels about how big the mess is.



In reply to your comment:
“PBS Frontline is they who self-admittedly reported Iraq's supposed WMDs.

Personally, I like PBS "independent Lens" a ton better.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/

There are also some PBS independent lens files on bittorrent.


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"Internal conflict"? "A crossroads in her life"? Talk about anthropomorphism exemplified!

"I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.
I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees.
I asked the Lord above, have mercy, save poor Bob if you please.
Uum, standing at the crossroads I tried to flag a ride.
Standing at the crossroads I tried to flag a ride.
Ain't nobody seem to know me, everybody pass me by."

This is the Beatles of Central Asia, this is what I used to listen to when I was but a wee lad.

The song is called Uchkuduk, which in my country is a city, the name translates as "three draw-wells". The song is about a desert expedition seeking shelter at at the "three draw-wells"... he starts... "Hot sun, hot sand, hot lips, oh for a drop of water, hot deserts where footsteps are not seen, tell me caravan man when will there be water?... And the chorus goes "Uchkuduk! The 3 wells! Save us! Save us! Save us from the sun! You are the desert saviour Uchkuduk". Prolly sifting for myself but whatever.

"Yalla," the leading popular music group in the former Soviet central Asian republics, is from Tashkent -- the capital of Uzbekistan, one of the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. The group, whose name is an Uzbek word for a song accompanied by dancing, has become a popular icon in Uzbekistan, frequently serving as cultural ambassadors to international festivals or meetings abroad.

The members of Yalla are graduates of the Ostrovsky Theatrical Art Institute and the Ashrafi State Conservatory in Tashkent. They are not Russian but Uzbek, a Turkic nationality from the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road. Their music incorporates traditional ethnic folk tunes and poetry of Uzbekistan and other Central Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, along with contemporary pop and dance influences, into a unique international blend. They perform songs in more than 10 languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Nepalese and French as well as Uzbek and Russian.

Formed in the early 1970's, Yalla has appeared on Soviet national television as well as performing in Moscow and elsewhere in the Soviet Union, and on concert tours in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, including featured appearances at the "Voice of Asia" festival.

http://ip1.com/imagina/artists/Yalla.html

I'm about to graduate with a degree in electronic game design, and to be perfectly frank this situation does frighten me a little. But i do have to say the best games that sell is violence, sex, and violence. God of War for example, great game, superb story, sex, loads of gore and it sells great!

This all comes down to a matter of parenting, if the game says M for Mature then you don't by it for your 5 year old.

One other thing, don't take the latter the wrong way, there are plenty of games that sell on story and game play, Okami(clover studios), any number of Nintendo DS games, Nintendo makes plenty of games that aren't violence based.

A classmate just informed me that the trailer here is for a larger piece, and that the documentary does not fall under these tones, but it does get your attention. So mission success many people will watch it in awe and wonder.

BTW you don't have to go to MIT to be a game designer, or a modeler, texture artist, tester, programmer, level designer, etc. These people need to realize that most of the labor put into a 5 year production on a game is 24 hour work every day of the week. The developers want to make a great alternate reality, its just another medium in which we let our minds flee. When talk of banning games you talk of upsetting the world economy. World of war craft (although a dangerous game in its addictiveness)is very well done, and more than 7 million people play this game at a time and the number is growing. I spent 2 years playing the game, and at 15 dollars a month with game sales, and under the table services for player leveling that blizzard does they make a hefty profit.

This is just another strange crossroads we have come to about technology, first it was rock and roll. Now its about video games.