Normille
Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
>You described Germany! Britain and France are quite independent...
Germany I'll give you. They've definitely been putting in a herculean effort on the American Poodle front of late. But they'll have to go some to beat the UK's decades' long subservience. When it comes to foreign policy, the UK is basically a US satellite state.France, on the other hand, were historically probably the Western European nation most likely to tell the US 'Non!' --although, that seems to be increasingly a thing of the past now too.
The number one skill in learning to draw is learning to see properly. The vast majority of non-artistic people look at things without ever really seeing them. A classic example can be found on Gianluca Gimini's Velocipedia project:
https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/
Here's a another example:
https://www.boredpanda.com/famous-brand-logos-drawn-from-mem...
Mechanically filling a page with shapes or following some idiotic 'how to draw a...' tutorial on YouTube will only teach you how to fill a page with shapes or make a bad copy of someone else's bad drawing. Learning to really look at things and attempting to put down what you see [as opposed to what you thought the item looked like before you actually studied it] is a far far more useful exercise.
I take your point that this article might provide some useful exercises for loosening up your doodling technique, to people who find it awkward to manipulate a pen or pencil freely. But calling it 'learning to draw' is as hyperbolic as calling some warm-up stretches 'learning to run a marathon'.
I humbly withdraw my snidey comment [although not the bit in regards to the Fediverse!]
Also, its autofill functionality is completely broken on Android, and has been since forever. So, while it's preferable to LastPass, it's still pretty mediocre.
>I read a hard copy that was passed around my high school in the early 90s...
Slightly veering away from the subject. But your comment reminded me of 'The Little Red Schoolbook' --which was the [supposedly banned] book that we all passed around in school. Although being sadly older than you, this would have been the early 80s. I wonder if anyone else remembers it?As I recall it was pretty subversive in content, with sections on sex, drugs and anrachist politics.
EDIT: Seems it was quite well-known after all. Wikipaiedia has an article on it:
DEFINITION: Hatchling -- a young animal that has recently emerged from its egg.
So, if it's still inside the egg, it ain't a hatchling. >Name an era when "stuff from 20 years ago" was not a nostalgia trend.
I don't think this modern nostalgia is anywhere near as good as the nostalgia we had when I was a kid.
I think it's going to be harder for people to take on board the idea that any amount of alcohol is bad for you as, intuitively, I still believe that, in moderation, it can have some positive affects such as de-stressing and aiding sleep. Mind you, I suppose you could say some of the same about smoking and I can intuitively accept that any amount of that is bad for you.
Well, I've never smoked [tobacco] and [apart from a bit of a 'sociable relapse' over Christmas] haven't drunk for over a year now. So I should live forever!