Tag: to remember

DO NOT USE .CO .VU

haiiqu:

amielleon:

ask-mirajane-strauss:

Please for the love of all that is holy DO NOT USE THIS TO PERSONALIZE YOUR TUMBLR. It’s covered in adware and every single time I click onto someone’s tumblr who has it I have to run my spybot and then it catches a bunch of stuff and in one case one of these addresses downloaded an adware program onto my computer that prevented me from hitting back on my browser and had loud popup ads now and then and annoying blue hyperlinks everywhere. It took several hours of my time to remove the darn thing from my computer completely.

“But I can have a cool personalized name with .co .vu!” Yeah, you know why? Because most people don’t use it so names aren’t taken. Why?

Because it’s covered in adware and spyware.

If you respect your followers AT ALL do not use this. Please.

This is actually a really fascinating scam.

So, you know how how “co.[country abbreviation]” is commonly used to signify that a site is from some country? For example, “amazon.co.jp” is the Japanese version of Amazon dot com.

The people selling “co.vu” sites want you to think that that’s what’s going on–that you’re getting nice good web addresses from Vanuatu.

But what’s actually happening is that they publish your sites as a subdomain of a site called “co” that is in Vanuatu.

In other words:

In the url “http://amielleon.tumblr.com”, “amielleon” is the subdomain, “tumblr” is the actual site, and “com” tells me that it’s a commercial site and probably from America.

In the url “http://mytrashyotp.co.vu”, “mytrashyotp” is the subdomain, “co” is the actual site, and “vu” indicates it’s from Vanuatu. But they WANT you to think that “mytrashyotp” is the site, and “co.vu” indicates that it’s a commercial site from Vanuatu.

What are they getting out of this? The ability to throw shit on top of your blog (like adware) and also leech off your content for search engine rankings.

(Source: I based this post off of this blog post which is somewhat more technical in nature.)

Guys this is actually true ;;; it’s been happening to me quite a lot and I’ve had so many pop ups and ads everywhere. I get programs that I’ve never installed plus it can cause real harm to your PC. I seriously suggest to not use a co.vu domain for the sake of your mutuals & followers !!!

everbright-mourning:

dragon-in-a-fez:

a friend of mine is a science educator. not a classroom teacher – he does the kind of programs you see in museums, fun experiments with lasers and dry ice and shit.

yesterday, a young girl asked him why he was allowed to pour liquid nitrogen all over his own arm but he didn’t want her doing it. I braced myself for some dumb “well I’m an adult so I’m allowed” non-answer, but instead he surprised me by giving some of the best science (and life) advice I think you can give a young person:

“well, it’s one of those rules designed to keep you safe. and following the rules really can help you stay safe, but they’re not perfect. sometimes, usually because they’re too simple, the rules let you do things that aren’t safe, or don’t let you do things that are safe if you know how to do them. one of the reasons I’m good at what I do as a scientist is I try to understand how things work so I can figure out my own rules for keeping myself safe. and sometimes my rules are little more complicated than what I might hear from other people, but they work better for me. like, I let myself play with liquid nitrogen, but only in really specific ways that I’ve spent time practicing. you should follow the rules you’re given at first, but if you take the time to understand how things work, maybe you can make your own, better rules.”

I loved this response. it’s a great encapsulation of two really important things I think people need to learn and re-learn all the time: on the one hand, listen to genuine authority figures; when someone knows more than you about a subject, don’t treat their expertise as “just another opinion” and act like your ignorance is just as good as their knowledge. but on the other hand, don’t obey anything or anyone blindly. recognize that rules and systems and established ideas are never perfect. question things, educate yourself, question things more.

and then, of course, a parent had to butt in and spoil this wonderful lesson by saying:

“but not the rules mom comes up with!”

everyone in the room laughed. except me. I gave her a death glare I’m pretty sure she didn’t notice.

because no. no. your rules are not above reproach if you’re a parent. the thing about the dictates of genuine authority figures – people who deserve to have power, and to have their positions respected – is that they are open to question. genuine authority figures are accountable. governments can be petitioned and protested and recalled. doctors must respect patients’ right to a second opinion. journalists have jobs terminated and credentials revoked if they fail to meet standards of integrity and diligence. scientists, to bring us back full circle, spend their entire careers trying to disprove their own hypotheses! you know who insists on being treated as infallible? megalomaniacal dictators, that’s who. oh, and parents.

I’m beyond sick and tired of this “my house my rules, this family is not a democracy, I want my child to think critically and stand up for themselves except to me ha ha” bullshit. my friend gave this kid the kind of advice that doesn’t just help people become good scientists – if enough people adopt the mentality he put forth to that girl, that’s the kind of advice that helps societies value knowledge and resist totalitarianism. and her mother shut it down because, what, she didn’t want to deal with the inconvenience of having someone question her edicts about whose job it is to wash the dishes on Mondays?

we already know you’re more likely to be a Trump supporter if you’re an authoritarian parent – and that this is a stronger predictor of your views on the current president than age, religiosity, gender, or race. I’ll say this another way in case you didn’t catch the full meaning: people who believe in the absolute, unquestionable authority of parents are more than two and a half times as likely to support Trump as people who don’t, and that’s just among Republicans. we can’t afford to treat the oppressive treatment of children or the injustice of ageist power structures in our society as a sideshow issue any longer. the mentality that parents should be treated by their children as beyond reproach and above dispute is a social cancer that has metastasized into the man currently trying to destroy the foundations of democracy in this country.

in short: parents, get the hell over yourselves before you get us all killed. and kids, learn as much as you can, and then make your own rules.

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ryntaia:

Kiki’s Delivery Service is one of those movies that I feel any aspiring artist should see. The struggle of Kiki in this movie is one that ANYONE who wants to further themselves goes through, that transition from taking what you love to do to something that you make a living off of.

As artists we have all been in the place where Kiki is. That place where we can’t draw anything right, can’t paint anything right, can’t sculpt anything right, that place where everything comes out wrong over and over and we begin to question if we’re actually good enough for the talents and skills that used to come to us like second nature when we were just using them for fun. That place where we want to give up because we suddenly can’t ‘fly’ like we want to, because everything seems too difficult to do that. 

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there, just because it isn’t working right then and there when you want it to be. If you can always fly, then it wouldn’t make those times when you did as special. It isn’t necessarily easy to grow up, nor is it necessarily easy to live with the artistic struggle of losing inspiration. But you can’t just throw up your hands and say ‘No, I can’t do it anymore’ because you’ll NEVER fly if you do that. 

You gotta wobble before you stand. 

jumpingjacktrash:

pining-keith-noises:

I’ve been having a really hard time staying motivated to work on anything lately and I was looking up ways to help and this really hit home. So I thought maybe it could help someone else too

this is a thing i remind myself of constantly when i write. i have to keep telling myself, it’s a first draft, you don’t have to have the RIGHT idea, you have to have AN idea, and you get it down and you see what you like about it, and then you can change the rest. you can have as many drafts as you want.

45 things I learned pursuing a BFA Acting degree.

culturalrebel:

i-remember-there-was-mist:

  1. Comparison is the thief of joy.  By wishing you are more like your colleagues, by watching their successes and dwelling on your own failures, you are doing nothing to better yourself.
  2. Vulnerability is necessary.  It’s scary.  You’re going to have to take a leap.  But it’ll be worth it.
  3. Don’t make excuses.
  4. Failing an endeavor does not make you a failure.  “Ever tried?  Ever failed?  No matter.  Try again.  Fail again.  Fail better.” -Samuel Beckett
  5. You are only as good as you dare to be bad.
  6. Bloom where you are planted.
  7. Read more plays, listen to more musicals.  You can’t be a competent and intelligent performer without knowing your history.  People will want to talk to you about these composers and these playwrights, and if you are able to have intelligent conversations about them, you’re ahead of the game.
  8. Don’t dwell.  On the part you didn’t get, on the note you missed, on failure, on success.  Don’t dwell.
  9. Your body is your instrument.  Take care of it.
  10. Work while they sleep.   Or party.  Keep working while the rest think they are done.  The work is never done.  Never let it be done. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  11. Talent is not talent.  ”Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity, easy vulnerability, high sensory equipment, a vivid imagination , a grip on reality, the desire to communicate one’s own experience and sensations, and a desire to make oneself heard and seen.” -Uta Hagen
  12. Don’t be the second best Meryl Streep, be the best you.  
  13. Acting is not learned from books alone.  
  14. Know yourself, but don’t overdefine yourself.  People change, so can you.  So know who you are, but be ready for your world to completely change at any time.
  15. If you try to please everybody, you’ll lose yourself.  Making yourself proud is more important than making your professor proud, or making your colleagues proud.
  16. Raise.  The. Stakes.
  17. Everything is okay until you ask permission.  Follow those impulses. You’ll figure out if it works or not.
  18. Listen as you speak.
  19. Keep your energy always moving forward.
  20. Serve the text.  We all want to make wonderfully inventive decisions about characters, but be sure it’s always in service to the text, not service to yourself.
  21. Find your objective. 
  22. Build the role on truth, not stereotype.
  23. Comb away all the extra.  We’re not striving to complicate things, but rather to simplify things.
  24. Stay in a state of gentle curiosity.
  25. As long as it’s honest and true, it’s perfect.
  26. Play actions.  You cannot play attitudes or feelings, only actions.
  27. Before you learn, unlearn.  Bad habits die hard.  
  28. Particularize.  What kind of room are you in?  Where’s the window?  What does the door look like?  The audience won’t know all the details you create, but the details will flesh out each word.
  29. Let all of the play inform your monologue, not just the scene before it.
  30. Live truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
  31. The magic “if.”  “If” acts as a lever to lift us out of the world of actuality into the realm of imagination.
  32. Research.  Research to the point that you know the time period, the lifestyle, the history better than you know your own.  Let it inform your character.
  33. Live the part every moment you are playing it, every time.
  34. Nothing is allowed to be general.
  35. Fill the pause. And earn the pause.  What did you do to earn that pause in your lines, why are you pausing, and what are you filling it with?  What is the purpose?
  36. In order to hold something back, you must have something to hold.
  37. Context is critical.  What do you need in this particular moment?
  38. Use your memories.  ”Time is a splendid filter for our remembered feelings—besides, it is a great artist. It not only purifies, it also transmutes even painfully realistic memories into poetry.” -Stanislavski
  39. But torturing yourself for an emotional reaction in a scene is not worth it.  Be gentle with yourself, because you can drive yourself mad if you aren’t careful.
  40. Leave the work at home.  Work hard at home, experience honestly in the room.
  41. Do not run for the sake of running, or suffer for the sake of suffering.
  42. Keep your obstacles in mind.  What’s the best/worst that could happen?
  43. Playwrights write plays about the most important days of people’s lives.
  44. It’s not life, it’s theatre.
  45. You can do this.

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