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2 episodes with levithan
2 episodes with levithan
El Cuaderno de Desafíos de Dash & Lily, escrito por Rachel Cohn y David Levithan, es una novela de romance juvenil publicada por primera vez en 2010. Es el primer libro de la serie “Dash & Lily” y tiene un tono festivo, ingenioso y aventurero.La historia transcurre en la ciudad de Nueva York durante la temporada navideña, con muchas escenas ambientadas en lugares icónicos como la librería The Strand.Lily, una adolescente optimista y peculiar, deja un cuaderno rojo lleno de desafíos en un estante de The Strand con la esperanza de encontrar a alguien especial que acepte el reto. Dash, un amante de los libros con una perspectiva algo cínica, encuentra el cuaderno y decide participar. Lo que sigue es un intercambio de desafíos, pensamientos y sentimientos a través del cuaderno, que revela las personalidades y los miedos de ambos.La historia explora temas como el amor, el autodescubrimiento y la belleza de salir de la zona de confort.• Dash: Un adolescente sarcástico, intelectual y poco entusiasta de la Navidad, que prefiere la soledad y los libros al bullicio navideño.• Lily: Una chica alegre y excéntrica que adora la Navidad, pero se siente sola durante la temporada porque su familia está ausente.• Los personajes secundarios incluyen a la familia excéntrica de Lily y los amigos de Dash, quienes añaden humor y profundidad a la historia.El cuaderno rojo y los desafíos crean una forma original y poco convencional para que los personajes se conecten.Con capítulos alternados escritos por Cohn y Levithan, las voces de Dash y Lily son distintas, encantadoras y llenas de humor.El escenario festivo de Nueva York aporta una atmósfera mágica a la historia.Netflix adaptó el libro en una serie de televisión navideña, Dash & Lily, que se estrenó en 2020. Captura gran parte del encanto de la novela y su espíritu festivo, aunque con algunos cambios creativos.El cuaderno de desafíos de Dash y LillyClub de lectura para alérgicas al muérdagoRecuerda que si gustas apoyarnos en nuestras lecturas y reseñas, lo puedes realizar mediante ☕️ Paypal o a través de nuestras redes sociales o correo electrónico.También te agradeceríamos
Here in the closing days of Barack Obama's third term, the seeds he has planted in our nation since 2008 have grown up into a massive tree that dwarfs the landscape with a disproportionate focus on what is now called the…(taking a deep breath) the 2SLGBTQIAAP++ Movement. According to the site Queer Events, that stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Agender and Pansexual. But the one letter that does not show up on the list but is most definitely there is ‘C' for children, because that seems to the main target of all their activities, the grooming and recruiting of children. Just ask Elmo. On this episode of the NTEB Prophecy News Podcast, the Pride Movement started out in 1970 seeking tolerance for their lifestyle, and they soon got it. Next, they sought for acceptance and after a hard-fought battle they achieved that as well. For the third phase, dominance, they needed a president who could force their agenda through, and in 2008, Barack Obama was elected as Newsweek famously reported as the ‘first gay president'. It is from this point on that sexual orientation becomes the law of the land, with severe repercussions for anyone and everyone who stand against it. Remember the Christian baker? Careers and reputations were ruined as the behemoth, or more accurately, Levithan, that is the 2SLGBTQIAAP++ Movement roared into existence. On this episode, we show you just how dominant this movement has become, a movement that has its roots firmly planted in the Bible as the Days of Lot. Also, updates on the Trump situation, what Macron is doing in Ukraine, how the Jews are faring in Rafah, and all the end times updates you need!
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 5, 2024 is: gratuitous • gruh-TOO-uh-tuss • adjective Gratuitous describes things that are not necessary, appropriate, or justified, as in "a gratuitous insult" or "a gratuitous assumption." Gratuitous can also mean "free." // The film was criticized for its gratuitous violence. // A local veterinary technician provides gratuitous services to the animal shelter twice a month. See the entry > Examples: "The Hunger Games trilogy followed Katniss Everdeen as she won a fight to the death and eventually sparked a nationwide rebellion, a dystopian treatment that explores how gratuitous violence can lead to generational trauma. While the book's topics are serious, Levithan tells Rolling Stone that much of The Hunger Games' success came from Collins' ability to respect her younger readers' ability to handle deep material, making the books reach an audience of all ages." — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2023 Did you know? Like gratitude, grace, and congratulate, gratuitous is a descendant of the Latin word gratus, which means "pleasing" or "grateful." When gratuitous was first used in the 17th century, it meant "free" or "given without return benefit or compensation." The extended meaning "done without good reason" or "unwarranted" came about just a few decades later, perhaps from the belief held by some people that one should not give something without getting something in return. Today, that extended meaning is the more common sense, employed, for example, when graphic cruelty depicted in a work of fiction is described as "gratuitous violence," or when unkind words better left unsaid are described as "a gratuitous insult."
This month, we discuss books about music or musicians, one of the prompts on the Books and Bites Bingo Reading Challenge. From mixtapes to AI, music memoirs to YA novels, we share our thoughts on both music and books. Michael's PickMichael recommends The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl. This memoir describes the passion that Grohl has had for music since he was a kid and goes into his punk-rock roots. He tells stories that are hilarious and heartfelt, from his days in Scream to the rise and fall of Nirvana and the formation of the Foo Fighters and everything in between.Pairing: KFC and champagne, a staple the Foo Fighters enjoy after special occasions.Carrie's PickCarrie enjoyed Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams. Williams writes about her journey to becoming an artist, from her chaotic childhood to her struggle to get signed by a recording company to her eventual success. If you've ever aspired to make art, whether music, literature, or something else, you'll find her persistence inspiring.Pairing: Monday's Red Beans from Melissa M. Martin's cookbook, Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou.Jacqueline's PickJacquelline chose Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist a YA romance by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn. The authors write alternating chapters for each character's point of view, with Cohn voicing Norah's point of view and Levithan doing the same for Nick. The characters bond through their shared love of musicians and music. The novel takes readers through a catalog of music from rock and roll to mainstream punk, as the characters navigate New York's Indie rock scene.Pairing: Mai Tai Mocktail Party Punch.
On this episode of #VelshiBannedBookClub, MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi sits down with David Levithan, author of Two Boys Kissing. Levithan knew that everything about his book would land him on this list. He's okay with that.
Hey, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares meet Meggie & Laura's YA Podcast, we think you'll like it here.That's right listeners, ahead of what's sure to be a kickass 7th season, your hosts decided to attempt to warm their cold-grinch hearts with a SPECIAL episode by reading the Christmas-YA book turned Christmas-YA Netflix TV Show: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Resident teenage-scrooge Dash gets catapulted into a mini challenge after finding a red notebook at a bookstore, that leads to a quick back and forth between him and the resident christmas-ride-or-die Lily as they attempt to outdue each other with various tasks during the holiday season. Will they find what they're looking for in each other? Will Meggie and Laura feel the holiday cheer they so desperately seek? Tune in and find out, we dare you!
The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Experience is one of those terms that's being heavily used and sometimes abused these days, as companies in the digital signage ecosystem talk about what they can do for end-user customers. Everything, it seems, is somehow experiential or immersive. But what does that really mean and how does it manifest itself in projects that use display technology? I had a really good chat with Chad Hutson, who very much qualifies as an experience design expert and has the project portfolio behind him to back that up. He ran a well-respected agency in Chicago called Leviathan, stuck around for a few years after it was acquired, but this past year hooked up with a company that would have been a competitor in the past - Dimensional Innovations. He's now DI's Chief Strategy Officer, and spends his time working with the DI team and with customers - working a process to understand needs and then develop solutions that deliver on those needs, and realize an experience that can be everything from simple to elaborate. Subscribe to this podcast: iTunes * Google Play * RSS TRANSCRIPT Chad, thank you for joining me. Can you give me a rundown on what Dimensional Innovations is all about and what your role is there? Chad Hutson: Yeah, you bet. We'll call it DI for short, to make it easier for both of us. DI is an experience design and build firm, based in the US, down in Kansas city, and they are really robust at not only designing and building the physical experiences but all the fixtures that can be built out with the wood shop, metal shop, paint and a giant two-story, high 3d printer, which is pretty amazing, we also use, but also on the digital side, we have deep roots in technology, both in being able to figure out what's the right technology for the experience and then creating the content and the interaction that goes within those experiences as well. So I'm the new Chief Strategy Officer, it's a new role at DI, I started about eight months ago with the organization and that role just organically evolved. They were kind enough to say you're making a positive impact and we'd like for you to do a bit more. It's good stuff so far. So it sounds like the company bridges a few things like there's some traditional AV integrations side to the business. There are some elements of a creative technology agency, but there's also a fix-your-fabrication kind of company as well. So you're into a whole bunch of things. Chad Hutson: Yeah, that's a pretty good encapsulation and it's a team of about 300 people, so they're not messing around. And you're up in Chicago, right? Chad Hutson: That's correct. I'm in Chicago when I sleep at home. I travel around quite a bit, both down in Kansas City and wherever the clients are as well. And Kansas City is what, like an eight-hour drive or something like that? Chad Hutson: From Chicago, that's not too bad. I think like maybe six and a half, but I'm always flying though, always in the air. You don't wanna drive in the middle of the winter? Chad Hutson: No, flying in the middle of winter is already a challenge enough. So people are gonna wonder, people who know you that you came from a company that you founded called Leviathan in Chicago, much more of, I would say, a creative technology shop, at least that's the term I use. I'm curious, as somebody who founded that company, what compelled you to leave? Chad Hutson: Yeah, that was an existential issue, I guess you could say, just trying to debate with myself, what can I do in the future? Yeah, Leviathan is still a great shop, although it's going by a different name. My partners and I sold it to another digital agency called Envoy back in, I think, 2017 and I was happy to stick around for a while. I think it's been close to five years since I decided to stay put and continue to run the organization. But I'd say where Levithan was just all about that hybrid of digital and physical experience, Envoy as a larger group, they are versed in everything from e-commerce to branding, and I don't know, just felt like what I love was maybe not as front and centre as was what Leviathan did, so there is certainly no bad blood whatsoever, it was good to stick around and see it through a lot of great accomplishments there. But DI was always in my side view and they were always staying in touch and said, we'd love to talk about what the future could be. At some point, the stars aligned and that's why I went over to DI. That's a decent run anyways. When a founder sticks around, they might stick around for a year or something, so three to five years is pretty good. Chad Hutson: I agree, and the cool thing about the DI is, for me personally, it filled that missing gap BECAUSE whenever we were contacted about a digital experience, it could be like a lobby or experience for a theme park, it was always just limited to that digital scope, and it was later in the conversation. So with DI, because they are involved in the entire experience from even very early days what is the purpose of this space and what can it serve? Who's gonna be there? What kind of experience do we want them to have, digital and analogue? That's really the reason why I went over there, and I really love it over there. Yeah, I wanted to get into that. What is the whole process involved when you engage with a new customer? When I have done consulting in the past, the first thing I say to a new client, or even just in the early stages when we're having our first conversation is okay, why do you wanna even be talking and looking at digital? And I suspect these days when people start talking about wanting something experientially designed into our new space, experiential is such a huge catchall and somewhat abused term that you really have to enforce some kind of discipline to figure out what's gonna work here. Chad Hutson: Yeah, you're absolutely right. The process is really, I don't wanna say it's not much different than any other firms, but we're very curious people, and so we want to ask our clients, what do you envision for the space, who is going to be there? What kind of assets do you already have from a content perspective? What's your technology infrastructure for the rest of the space? We don't want to build something just in a bubble from tech and IT standpoint. So really getting the lay of the land and asking a ton of questions, not just logistic or technology-wise, but more just thematic and just really trying to figure out what they know, and more importantly, what they don't know, so we can help discover what that is. So thinking about that space, we want to have the right purpose and the right functionality. So then we get into high-level ideas of what it could be more like rough sketches along with even rough buckets of what budget could look like for those experiences, and they may say that's perfect or, that's a bit rich for us. And then from there, we start to refine those ideas and also refine the pricing and what the technology solutions might be and what the narratives might be from a visual and oral content standpoint, and then we start building it and we never leave our clients high and dry. After we build, we always like to be involved when we can in content refreshes, in support of that experience and yeah, hopefully, continue those relationships for years to come. There's a business reason why you wanna stick with the customer and do the content refreshes and so on, but I suspect some of that is just simply that you wanna stick with it because it's your team's baby, so to speak, and you're enrolled in it. Chad Hutson: That's right, and since 16:9 has a touch of snark to it, I'll say that we would definitely want to keep the good children but for those who are grown up and ready to leave the nest, we welcome them leaving the nest. So we do try to nurture the right relationships in the right ways. When you're engaging with new customers, I'm curious, about how often they really know what they want to do. Chad Hutson: That is a great question because when we speak with clients, we know that they know their brand better than anyone else. We can't come into that conversation with the assumption that we know them inside and out, that's absolutely not true, but from a guest or user experience standpoint, I feel like we can balance out what they know about themselves. For example, sometimes the conversation leads with technology. “Oh, we absolutely want to use VR here”, or “we want an immersive experience” and as much as we get excited about all those conversations, we also have to say, why do you think you need that? And we want to make sure that is the right solution from a narrative or technology standpoint. So yeah, that's what I have to say about that. I was curious how often you have customers who are saying, “Yeah, we want a big LED video wall in the lobby”, or we want this particular type of technology and they're just thinking in terms of the wow factor as opposed to what this will actually do. Chad Hutson: Oh, every time, and I'll also pick on architects a little bit. I think some of the larger architecture firms are definitely getting better, they have their own experience design teams. The Gensler and so on, they've got people who know that stuff now. Chad Hutson: Exactly, but otherwise, depending on who's making the decisions, it is truly based on grandeur, so having the largest screen, “I went to our competitor's lobby and they had a giant screen, and I want ours to be bigger.” So sometimes it can be down to that, but I think what is thought of just so little is content strategy, meaning, some folks think about content, what can we put on the screen, but okay, that's great, now what's going to be there tomorrow and the next day, and that can become prohibitively expensive if it's not thought of the right way and how to get the right content there. Some of it can be big and beautiful. I know that what used to be Obscure Digital and now they're I think they've been folded into another organization, but people talk about the Salesforce lobby and still talk about it even now, and it is a beautiful experience, but it is that exact same experience over and over again. So how can that be more dynamic? We'll have those ooh-ah moments, but we need something else to fill the space and not just be a pretty screensaver. Yeah, I've seen some projects and the narrative is describing the projects after they've been lit up where they're talking about how this changes the whole experience of travel or whatever it may be in a rail station or an airport, and a vast screen or a set of screens with all this very expensive content and so on and I'm thinking if I'm a traveller, what would be a great experience for me is something that says, “Track 14 is this way” because that is what really matters to me, not being uplifted by this amazing content and all that, just show me where the hell the train is. Chad Hutson: Yeah, it has to be practical as well as transformative. I feel like if people are travelling, yes, let's get them excited about their destinations, let's give them a moment of surprise and delight but let's be practical about it too, and use elements of wayfinding. Not everything has to be wow, and flutter and fluff on these large screens. And I suspect it's difficult at times to convey to the client that there's a technology investment here and so on, but you have to keep this refreshed and, you can't just have your quarter-million dollar data visualization piece from some artist and just run that thing forever? Chad Hutson: You're exactly right. I think I might know the data visualization artist you might be speaking of, whose work I do love, don't get me wrong, but you're absolutely right. If a client's investing upwards of half a million or more on a display and they automatically assume, I need $25k to $50k for a video or I'll just use stock footage, that is just a bad investment. There's so much more you can do. The reason why you have a screen in the first place is to show content, it's not just to have a static piece of wall art hung up. Is it now a case when you and your team, as you're Chief Strategy Officer, I'm sure if there's a whale client, they pull you into it? You mentioned you're travelling a lot, so that's probably why. You immediately start thinking about how digital fits in here or do you try to kind of park that and listen to the client and then think digital would be good here, but maybe not? Chad Hutson: Oh, great question. Certainly from my previous roots, thinking through a digital lens has been instinctual somewhat, but since going to DI, it is definitely starting with more of the basics and leaving digital and analogue out of it. It's more about fact-finding and learning more about who they are and what they want to accomplish, and then the solutions fall from that. So that's been actually a welcome shift that not everything has to be tech-savvy, but I'm a techie at heart, I can still remember coding on a radio shack color computer using BASIC way back in the 80s. So yeah, I'm a geek and I like technology. It's front and centre of my mind a lot of times. When you think in terms of experience design, how do you define experience? And I realize that's a big question. Chad Hutson: Yeah, that is. So not intended to be a shameless plug, but the thing about DI is that they work across not only pro and collegiate sports organizations, but also larger brands, museums, retail, and entertainment, so theme parks and such, so the experience is different across all those, but I think consistently people want the experience to be intuitive. I guess some brands don't have a clean brand, but in our opinion, we want the environment to be clean and welcoming and not intimidating. Perhaps if you're going through a frightening exhibit at a Disney park, maybe we do want that to be more thematic and scary, but a good experience just makes you feel something, and I know that some people might roll their eyes and go, oh my gosh, if we're walking through a company's headquarters, do they really want their guests to feel something? And I would argue, yes, whether it wants someone to buy something, or want them to have moments of surprise and delight, even in a museum, you want them to learn and take that piece of information with you. So the experience, I think initially, no matter what you do or how pretty it is, if you don't feel something that you're not gonna remember that experience and I think that's ultimately what these destinations are about. Do you want folks to remember it, remember you as an organization or tell your friends about the amazing experience you had? So I would say that it is really front and centre, the emotional component. But the emotion isn't necessarily “wow” or being bowled over by the scale of a screen or the 3d anamorphic illusion on a screen or whatever, it can be as simple as, “I'm feeling calmer about being in here” because now I know where I'm going” or “I feel better about the meeting I'm about to have with this company” because I'm seeing the company's history on this video wall, it's explaining everything that they do and I'm thinking, holy shit, these guys are amazing. Chad Hutson: Oh, a hundred percent, Dave. I'd say there's a sliding scale of what you want people to feel and we don't always crank that to 11. I think y might need certain degrees of it, like a moment of surprise and delight, in a customer's customer sales centre or in a museum like, oh, wow, I wasn't expecting that, and that's nice, but not everything has to be “whoa” and gigantic and expensive. It's adjustable depending on what we need people to take away from that experience. Yeah. I just wrote about a project the other day that was in a residential lobby of a building in Boston and it was a pretty small kind of corner wrapped LED that was only 10 feet square or something and I was thinking, okay, that makes sense in that kind of setting, that it's not enough where the residents are thinking well, now I understand why my condo fees are so high, but it's just something that helps give the lobby a bit of a lift, but also has information on there that's useful. Chad Hutson: Yeah, isn't that the beauty of display technology? It is dynamic. So it can be so many different things. Sometimes it could be too many things, and so we want to pick the right bitsto have in that space, but it's dynamic and it can be evergreen . What about budgets? I imagine, as you were saying in your kind of project scoping and everything, that you're trying to get a sense of what their budget restrictions are, whether they're bottomless or tight, and is it possible to deliver an experience on a pretty modest budget? Chad Hutson: Yes, I would say so. There are some simple tips and tricks that can be used. I would say that much like with an artist of any sort or any kind of designer, sometimes working with constraints yields some of the best results, whether you're out of time, you're out of money and you just really have to become inventive on how to make that work out. If any clients are listening, I would never want to encourage purposely limiting the budget just to see what kind of brilliance can come from that. But yeah, I've certainly seen some very impactful experiences. It Doesn't necessarily cost a ton, but you can be inventive in how you use those lower cost solutions and make it effective. I think about the analogy of the giant lobby screen, instead of having one giant screen, can we break that up into different sections and pieces so it has an interesting footprint and ne minute, we have content on individual screens and the next we have this larger canvas that is, even though it's broken in pieces, everything works in concert with each other. So value engineering is the mother of invention sometimes. I'm thinking of the project in Denver at a Wells Fargo office tower where there was obviously some nod to budget limitations where they did these five or six vertical slats that made it kinda look like you're seeing out through fence slots, and that was a way to have big LED strips that wouldn't cost the same kind of money, and they didn't have to be particularly high rez because you were seeing them at a distance, but that was a way to create visual impact, but not have something like the scoreboard at the Dallas Cowboys stadium. Chad Hutson: Yes, and I think I know exactly the one you're talking about. They're really tall and narrow as well. But yeah, they are certainly impactful, I would agree. Do you also have products now at DI? I was looking on the website and it said like you had some package products as opposed to everything just being custom to the client. Chad Hutson: Yeah. Good eye there, Dave. So there are some products that we have developed and clients say, oh, we really like what you did for this client, could you do something similar? So after doing that a number of times, we just realized we can take some of the best parts of some of these projects and not necessarily repurpose them. But clients oftentimes are saying our budget is limited. What can we do? Can you repurpose this? So that is in essence what we have done with a few different things. There's something we call it, coloring wall, which essentially we use gesture sensing technology to let people, oftentimes kids, let's have a low touch, very simple and intuitive experience where they can stand in front of what looks like a giant coloring book page, it's just a white page with black outlines and waving our arms or running past it, and it fills in the color in a very painterly fashion. Once we figured out that we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time, let's take some of these ideas and repurpose them. We can do them, we can replicate them and we always improve upon them, I think every time we do that. And you can also reduce some of the cost too because you've already written and everything, right? Chad Hutson: I guess we could say we're trying to be benevolent and generous to clients, but we're also trying to make money off of what we have, IP we have created in the past. The gestures that you're describing, kids are naturals to interact with those sorts of things and have fun and all that, but I've seen a number of cases where that same sort of gesture technology is designed for brand advertising or experiential. activation, so to speak, and I've wondered, do these really work with adults? Chad Hutson: I remember when the Kinect first came out, I think that was around 2011 or so. My team at the previous firm were actually hacking it before there was even an SDK or software developer kit available and I think we were all just amazed by it and assumed this was going to transform how everyone interacts. But what we figured out along the way, I know the DI team has this figured out also is that there's no international language, if you will, for gestures. You can wave and say, hello, you can flip a bird, if you're really upset, you can use a right turn or left turn, but I think that with these sorts of gestures, particularly with adults, they're not gonna wave their arms around like a crazy person. I can't imagine many CEOs doing that willingly. So we've figured out that we have to keep those gestures very simple. It's more about standing in a place and it triggering content, or as I mentioned with kids that can run and be silly and that can fill that coloring book page very easily, but for the rest, it has to be super intuitive. If you are having someone raise their right hand or raise their left hand to advance an icon or a cursor, then those instructions have to be given in, I don't know, 15 seconds or less and have it figured out instantly. It's been my experience that with experience design, that the ones that really work are those where the architect or person who designs the space, the physical look of a space is involved early, so that the screen technology doesn't look like it was added on, it's built in, like it's part of the original design. Is that a fair assessment? Chad Hutson: Oh, so fair. Otherwise it's just just another giant rectangle, sitting in a lobby. It stands out, but more like a sore thumb than it does something that's integrated into the architecture. So I'm a big fan of all the involved parties talking as early as possible. An architect's thinking we can integrate a screen here, but speak to the technology partner and think about what's the right pixel pitch, viewing angles could be an issue or ambient light. So I feel like the more that all the right people can talk early on, it can be beautifully integrated and it can be the right technology and the right content. That's one of the ways you can reduce the cost, right? Because if you really think about it, then you can use like LED ribbon strips instead of a giant rectangle that you were describing to have the same kind of impact Chad Hutson: Yeah, absolutely, and getting creative with almost a sculptural version of a display. I think I know a lot of people in our industry who talked about the beautiful work for the AT&T Discovery District, and there were many groups that touched that, but there is a sculpture that was fashioned after AT&T logo that's in that space, and it's it's also has embedded LED ribbons similar to what you described and yeah, it makes for an interesting experience and that brand touch is subtle. So kudos to that team on creating a pretty cool experience. Yeah, it's like a halo sort of tunnel thing. Chad Hutson: That's the one! Yeah, that is nice. With LED rapidly emerging and evolving, is that kind of the main go to thing now for DI when you're thinking about digital or are you still looking at OLED and LCD and other technologies? Chad Hutson: Yeah. Direct view LED is in almost every conversation I feel like just because it is a great technology. This is not a slam on the AV industry, because I know technology can only advance as fast as it's able to. The supply chain is an issue, the pandemic was an issue. So I feel like not that tech has stalled. It's not the case at all, but I feel like advancement has slowed a little bit. Definitely LED ribbons, direct view LED, some things that we've been playing with more recently, there's it's more of a smaller format now, but I'm sure that the size is growing. Actually I'm certain, I've seen some larger versions of it, but displays like the looking glass factories, the display looks semi holographic. You can use other gesture sensors for that. So that is a more of a one-to-one experience versus a giant shared experience. But I'm excited about that. Even outside of display technology, seeing what is being done with AI and creating visuals, platforms like Dall-E and Mid Journey, where you can simply type in a prompt and boom multiple versions of what the computer thinks is the right image for you, and I think that's also starting to step into video creation as well. It's mostly static, but I've seen some early images of video. I think that talk about being able to have dynamic content. Data visualization is one thing, but constantly having even photo realistic or having what looks to be an artist creation being done on the fly is pretty amazing. Yeah, my son is heavily into all that stuff and DALL-E and he was just asking me to give him a prompt and I gave him some crazy prompt, like squirrels playing croquet or something, and 30 seconds later, there it was! Chad Hutson: It's nuts. I'm gonna try that, squirrels playing croquet, wearing pink tutus in a desert and yeah, I bet it'll give me exactly what we want. Yeah, and god knows why, but there you go. Is the kind of flexibility that we're seeing now with LED important in that you actually have physically flexible modules, but you also have ribbons and you have LED on film, LED embedded in building glass and so on. Do those open up new opportunities? Chad Hutson: Absolutely, they do, Dave. If anything, the first question is: can we do it? And we get excited and then it's a matter of pricing and availability and that's sometimes because it is so new or brightness could be a factor, or the glass has already been specked out and it's a matter of could we retrofit it, and it's just not as feasible, but now that we know those technologies are available at least for future endeavors, we are absolutely thinking about that as often as we can. Maybe it's a little bit of a gear list, but also it could be the right solution for a space. Clients sometimes say at least, from a large scale perspective, we don't want anything that's going to obstruct views or have something where you can see wires or pieces or parts of the technology, and sometimes that's unavoidable, but I think if we can have the slimmer format of some of these ribbons or the embedded LED into glass, that solves some of that. So we're really excited about the future of those. Is there a particular lesson that you've learned through the years that you apply to a lot of work now? Chad Hutson: Honestly, if we're talking about an experience that does have a digital component, it is really pretty much what you and I have been harping on a lot in this conversation, which is just bringing the topic of content upfront, before decisions are being made about technology. I'm a huge supporter of the AV industry and that beautiful content can't be as inspiring sometimes if it's not on the right kind of display or the right scale either. But I'm thankful for the integrators and other technology folks that I know that always ask the first question of: Yes, you wanna display but why, and what would go on a display and why do you want that, and yes, we're an AV integrator, but you need to have conversations with the architect or your creative agency, whoever it may be, so that's not falling flat because honestly, for, if there's a lesson learned, it's folks in the AV industry. They can be blamed if I spend a million dollars on this giant lobby screen and it doesn't do shit, and that's absolutely not true. If the right content solution is there and the experience that is intended is considered more heavily up front, then everyone looks good in the end. Absolutely. All right, Chad, thank you very much for spending some time with me. That was super interesting. Chad Hutson: Oh, thanks. It's good to be back on 16:9 and hope to talk again soon.
We as older -elders-, parents and leaders, have to realize we have the use that Spirit of Elijah that turns our hearts back to our children. The only way this generation overcomes the Levithan is through the blood of the lamb. The younger generation have to look back for the old paths, learn about the God of their father, for He's the same yesterday, today and forever.
2020 has been something else entirely. It has been a year of quarantining, working from home, killing off social lives and more. How did this year affect your mental health? What movies helped you get through this year and impact your mental health. Braden Dummeler, writer/director behind What Lies Below, joins us to discuss what movies helped us get through this year of uncertainty. Captain Nostalgia recounts his own journey, along with Dan the Movie Man, into the Hellraiser franchise and how it helped his own mental health this year. The original 1987 movie from Clive Barker was picked by you guys to discuss. Learn what the cenobites look like through a first time experience, a nostalgic experience and true fandom. Hellraiser is a multi-layered complex, weird and bloody movie. What does that mean for a first time viewing? Guess you'll have to hit play to find out. Plus, we're discussing how to effectively learn the signs of depression and suicide. While also discussing the importance of taking someone at their word to effectively save their life and get the resources needed.This episode of Victims and Villains was written and produced by Josh “Captain Nostalgia” Burkey and Dan Rockwood. Music by Mallory Jameson (https://bit.ly/expandmal) & Purple Planet (https://bit.ly/ppcoms). Hellraiser is property of New World Pictures. We do not own nor claim any rights. Trailer is protected under fair use act.You can now support us on Patreon. Help us get mental health resources into schools and get exclusive content at the same time. Click here (http://bit.ly/vavpatreon) to join today.
It's Sea-ptember, and it's about time we revisit this old favorite of ours in which we explore the true source of the Air We Breathe. In this episode that originally aired May 30th, 2018, Devon and Richard talk to Dr Julie Koester of UNC-Wilmington and Dr Orly Levithan of Rutgers about the truth behind where our oxygen comes from, and the tiny organisms we have to thank for our very existence. Support The Wild Life at patreon.com/thewildlife Support this podcast
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Join us as we discuss the 1989 Underwater-Horror-Sci-Fi film "Levithan" starring Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays and Daniel Stern... and also Ernie Hudson!This movie also includes some classic Stan Winston creations.
I det här avsnittet så pratar pappa Micke och pappa Andy om senast spelade. Resan pappa Micke gjorde i sommras. Dom pratar även om hur dom började sin resa inom den här underbara hobbyn. Men tar även upp hur folk i vår omgivning uppfattar vår hobby. Sen pratar dom om Ip spel. Pappa Micke har ju pratat detta en gång tidigare med Heders Crew Member (HCM) Tomas Conradargo Engström i bubblare 24. Men den här gången så djup dyker pappa Micke lite mer i Rollspels delen samtidigt som ni får höra pappa Andys tankar runt det. Sen blir det senast spelade och avslutar med lite anekdoter. Spel som nämns: Kult, Bortom, Galaxy Trucker, Carcassonne, Twillight Imperium, Levithan, Camel Up, Detective Murder In Hong Kong, Mobster Metropolis, Hjärter, Plump, Nya Bondespelet, Monopol, Nya Finans, Uno, Warhammer, Magic The Gathering, Pirates, Heroclix, Settlers of Catan, Munchkin, Betrayl at the hous on the hill, Vampier The Masqurade, All flesh Must be eaten, Dc Adventures, Mutant and Mastermind, Call of Cthulhu, World of warcraft Tcg, Drakar & Demoner, Mutant 2089, Risk, the amazing labyrinth, Doom Trooper, Kult Ccg, Middle Earth The Wizards, Mordheim, Necromunda, Rougestar, Mutant, Qwirkle, Catana Jr, Pandemic, Lords Of Waterdeep, Delta Green, Chock Åter från graven, Dungeons And Dragons 5E, Civilization, Britania, Ghost Stories, Pathfinder, Ticket To Ride, Handbok För superhjältar, Cluedo, Battlestar Galactica, Schack, Resistens, Batman Gotham City Chronicles, Relic, Talisman, Batman Talisman, Starcraft The Boardgame, World Of Boardgame, Star Wars X-Wing, Star Wars Imperial Assault, Star Wars Armada, Star Wars Rebelion, Stjärnornas Krig, Sagospelet Äventyr, Star Wars Age of Rebelion, Game of Thrones Rpg, Arkham Horror, Eldritch Horror, Elder Sign, Arkham Horror Lcg, manssions of madness, Firefly the boardgame, Fluxx Firefly, Zombiedice, Spartacus Blood and Sand, Buffy rpg, Angel rpg, Battlestar Galactica rpg, Firefly rpg, Sailormoon rpg, My little pony rpg, Dr Who rpg, Discworld gurps, Assassins Creed Boardgame, Hollow Earth, Pulp Cthulhu, Savgeworlds, 00:16 - Senast spelade04:57 - Resan14:46 - Hur vi kom in i Hobbyn31:36 - Hur omgivningen ser vår Hobby58:38 - Ip spel01:40:03 - AnekdoterVåra länkarHemsidahttps://mindy.nu/Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/Mindypodd.nu/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/MindyPoddYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmOr6MyeugbWX_VnckgGkDQ?view_as=subscriberInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mindypodd/?hl=svVår Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/user?u=2776677
Episode 43 of the #MVPbuzzChat series. Conversation between Microsoft RD and MVP Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Founder & CEO of CollabTalk LLC, and Adam Levithan (@CollabAdam), a fellow Office Apps & Services MVP and product manager at Withum. Recorded in February 2019. In this interview, Adam and I discuss the core strength of Microsoft SharePoint: intranets, and how the various new technologies, like Microsoft Teams, fit within the intranet paradigm. You can watch this interview on the CollabTalk YouTube page at https://youtu.be/xsrwHGZQZUA
In this bonus episode, Matt & Alex discuss the number one issues for the month of June. Matt thinks the big twist in Levithan is that he's actually Levithan, Alex keeps his basketball card collection in plain sight hoping Black Cat will rob him, and they both can't wait for Frank Miller to write the Year One version of their lives.WARNING: SPOILERS and some NSFW languageFollow on:Twitter: https://twitter.com/henchmenofcomicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehenchmenofcomics/Facebook: http://https//www.facebook.com/The-Henchmen-of-Comics-287158801784926/E-mail: henchmenofcomics@gmail.com Find out more at https://henchmen-of-comics.pinecast.co
Did you know Julius Caesar won a battle thanks to his swimming prowess? Journalist Lynn Sherr dives into the fascinating history of swimming and reveals what draws so many of us to the water. Then, do you get a "helper's high" when volunteering? One of the world's top experts on volunteering explains why it does just as much good for you as it does for the people you're helping.
In Episode 92, Scott sits down with Adam Levithan from Withum Digital to talk all things modern SharePoint – Intranets, Hub Sites, Communication Sites, and how to inflict value on your users. Sponsors Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Office365Mon.com – How do you know what’s going on […] The post Episode 92 – “Modern” Intranets with Adam Levithan appeared first on Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast.
Jenn and Kendyl discuss the film adaptation Every Day (2018), and whether focusing on Rhiannon was the right choice, or took away from the interesting parts of the premise. Questions of the Week: Was the premise introduced well in the film? How do you think time zones work with A switching bodies at midnight? Follow us! Blog: http://adaptationpodcast.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdaptationCast Tumblr: http://adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/adaptationpodcast
San Diego Comic Con brings us some news that brings us to tears.....good and bad. Jon and Mike cover the new DC Streaming Service, our thoughts on the Teen Titans live action show, the announcement of the return of Star Wars: the Clone Wars and Mike's thoughts of what the initial season should have been subtitled. They also cover Grant Morrison writing for Green Lantern, Tom King requiring a body guard at SDCC because of the death threats he received over the Marriage of Bruce Wayne/Batman and their thoughts on comic book fans, or fans in general, who threaten creators. They cover some of Image's releases with Rob Guillory's Farmhand and John Layman's upcoming Levithan and Jon brings Geoff Johns' Three Jokers story. Mike discusses more of the blurred lines of Preacher (The comic and the TV Show). They round out the episode with some talk of video games, including Fortnite, PUBG, and the latest update (0.9) to Escape From Tarkov.
Jenn and Kendyl discuss David Levithan's Every Day, and boy to they have thoughts. Loved some bits, and not so much with others, but this one definitely spurred some complex conversation. Question of the Week: Which version of A did you find the most intriguing? Follow us! Blog: http://adaptationpodcast.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdaptationPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdaptationCast Tumblr: http://adaptationpodcast.tumblr.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/adaptationpodcast
Europe is looking to diversify its Russian dominated gas supply, Israel and Egypt joining forces to compete. Alliances are forming between Egypt and Israel to supply gas to Europe, while German and Russia are forming alliances to dominate gas in Europe. This will bring the two groups in to a collision course that has been predicted in the Bible.
Europe is looking to diversify its Russian dominated gas supply, Israel and Egypt joining forces to compete. Alliances are forming between Egypt and Israel to supply gas to Europe, while German and Russia are forming alliances to dominate gas in Europe. This will bring the two groups in to a collision course that has been predicted in the Bible.
Our guest in this episode is Adam Levithan from Exostar. Adam has been supporting customers across both private and government sectors, currently focusing on firms working with the US federal government. He is an industry recognized expert with Microsoft SharePoint, especially migrations, and currently focuses on helping customers understand and implement NIST 800-171 Compliance to protect their regulated content. Adam is the author of multiple articles I think you'd find useful, including recently:○ 7 Ways to Protect Regulated Content○ I Don't "Wanna Cry" when using the Cloud - which discusses the value of being fully in the cloud as a way to protect against malicious code.○ Best Places to go when comparing SharePoint Migration Tools - which serves as a great stepping off point for those of you with a migration project in your future.In this episode, Adam Levithan joins us to discuss the challenges of shared services and single tenant.MVPs Talk Microsoft 365 is a weekly interviews with Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP). In these episode, MVPs will share their thoughts on any recent changes to Microsoft 365, Office 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, etc. and the impact IT leadership should be aware of, as well as sharing some best practices around total cost of ownership and maturity within your organization.Tuesday at 7:00 AM EST - new episodes releasedHosted by Neil McDonnell of SV Mac Pack, Inc. - a Veteran-Owned, HUBZone Certified firm specializing in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint training and support.
Our guest in this episode is Adam Levithan from Exostar. Adam has been supporting customers across both private and government sectors, currently focusing on firms working with the US federal government. He is an industry recognized expert with Microsoft SharePoint, especially migrations, and currently focuses on helping customers understand and implement NIST 800-171 Compliance to protect their regulated content. Adam is the author of multiple articles I think you'd find useful, including recently:○ 7 Ways to Protect Regulated Content○ I Don't "Wanna Cry" when using the Cloud - which discusses the value of being fully in the cloud as a way to protect against malicious code.○ Best Places to go when comparing SharePoint Migration Tools - which serves as a great stepping off point for those of you with a migration project in your future.In this episode, Adam Levithan joins us to discuss the challenges of shared services and single tenant.MVPs Talk Microsoft 365 is a weekly interviews with Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP). In these episode, MVPs will share their thoughts on any recent changes to Microsoft 365, Office 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, etc. and the impact IT leadership should be aware of, as well as sharing some best practices around total cost of ownership and maturity within your organization.Tuesday at 7:00 AM EST - new episodes releasedHosted by Neil McDonnell of SV Mac Pack, Inc. - a Veteran-Owned, HUBZone Certified firm specializing in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint training and support.
In this episode of the Read Me Maybe podcast, Leah, Katlin, and Hannah discuss YA novel You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan. Subscribe to us on Itunes, TuneIn, Stitcher to listen free! Our “read-a-like” picks: Lola and The Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy … Continue reading You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan
Levithan is out for blood, although apparently not Captain Steve Rogers', after unleashing Howard Stark's Item 47. Peggy is out for vindication as Pete and Matt explore the season-ending episode 208, "Valediction."MP3iTunes
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SPECIALAVSNITT! Only for you! Den här gången har vi tema: favoritförfattare, och har snöat in enkom på amerikanen David Levithan.Boken vi läst heter "Jag, En", och ... *trumvrivel* vi har träffat och intervjuat författaren själv. Skynda, lyssna! Du får höra Levithan berätta om sina författarjeans, bokhandeln Strand och prata om Jens Lekman, till exempel. Bara en sån sak!Du kan lyssna direkt här, genom att trycka play: Eller hämta mp3-filen här. Och vi finns också på iTunes!I avnsittet pratar vi (och David Levithan) om de här böckerna: Ibland bara måste man, David Levithan, X Publishing.Nick & Norahs oändliga låtlista, David Levithan och Rachel Cohn, X Publishing.Naomi & Elys kyssförbudslista, David Levithan och Rachel Cohn, X Publishing.Dash & Lilys utmaningsbok, David Levithan och Rachel Cohn, X Publishing. Den andra Will Grayson, David Levithan och John Green, Rabén & Sjögren.En bit av mig fattas, David Levithan, Rabén & Sjögren.Jag, En, David Levithan, X PublishingA wrinkle in time, av Madeleine L'EngleSjunde himlen, Alice Hoffman The realm of possibility, David LevithanVar är Alaska, John GreenFörr eller senare exploderar jag, John GreenSen tar vi Berlin, Moa Lina CroallOch så nämner David Levithan också de här författarna:Elmore Leonard (som bland annat skrivit Get shorty och Out of sight)Robert B ParkerPlus att han pratar om de här (svenska) artiserna och banden också:Jens LekmanRobynFirst Aid KitLykke LiLoney Dear
The 33rd Book Slam podcast features 'multi award-winning author' Andrea Levy discussing her exceptional new novel, 'The Long Song', and David Levithan reading definitively from 'The Lover's Dictionary'. We listen to Roger Robinson describe the day the world didn't end, while the extraordinary Eska (pictured) reduces Patrick to tears. There is also a free audiobook for anyone who wants it, courtesy of Audible. Elliott loses his marbles, Patrick loses patience.
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Written under the joint pen name David Van Etten, Likely Story and its sequels All That Glitters and Red Carpet Riot (on sale July 9, 2009) tell the story of Mallory, just your typical teenage girl living in SoCal–except that her mother is an over-the-top soap opera diva and she's caught up in a hot love quadrangle with a teen soap hunk. After an explosive confrontation with the aforementioned diva (Mal's mom is so fab, her name is never mentioned!), Mallory blogs about how ridiculous and unbelievable the soap opera her mother stars on can be. Mal writes about how if she had the chance to write a soap, it would be realistic and find its drama in real life situations, in other words a likely story. Imagine Mal's surprise when the network gets wind of the blog post and decides to cancel their long-running daytime drama and greenlights a new teen soap based on Mallory's premise! Did we mention the soap the network cancels is the one Mal's Mommy Dreariest stars on?You'll want to tune in to hear Van Etten, Levithan and Ozanich talk about how the Likely Story book series came into being. Learn how OLTL ultimately facilitated Van Etten and Ozanich becoming writing partners when the soap hired Ozanich an intern. Find out how at a Gotham party one night, Levithan, author of such teen classics as Boy Meets Boy and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (with Rachel Cohn) and editor of the smash hit The Babysitters' Club novel series for Scholastic, became intrigued by the idea of helping the pair bring Mallory's story to life.You'll learn what it's like to write a book series with not one, or two authors, but three. Van Etten and Ozanich, while swearing none of the characters are based on anyone they've met in their soapy pursuits (Talk about a likely story!), reveal how their day jobs did in fact help color Mallory's world. Is Mallory speaking for every disgruntled soap opera fan with the impassioned rant she posts on her blog? What about when she actually lands her dream job? As Mallory quickly finds out writing a daily soap opera, while dealing with temperamental divas, a reluctant hottie leading man and network interference, isn't as easy as she once believed, are we getting a glimpse of what it's really like for the harried men and women who bring us our favorite soaps five-days-a-week? What about Van Etten, do he and other real life soap scribes ever log on to blogs like DC or message boards to read what we're saying about their work? If so how does it effect the writing process?Ozanich, also an acclaimed playwright (The Lightening Field) shares how he's dealt with some of the sticky situations Mallory finds herself facing in the Likely Story books, such as having to let down friends who thought they were a shoe-in for a role in one of his dramatic works. Onzanich also runs hilarious, SNL-worthy interference for his pal Van Etten, when Jamey and Luke try to pry a few juicy spoilers about ABC Daytime's hottest soap out of the Emmy-winning breakdown writer. Levithan, an admitted novice to the wonderful and wacky world of daytime soap operas, talks about how he brought to the table the basic tenets of characterization and story to help make even Mallory's more larger-than-life adventures ring true. The editor for Scholastic's PUSH imprint shares how the coming of age tale, despite its soapy flavor, is quite universal. Levithan also tells us how he feels about the success of the big screen adaptation of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and gives other writers a bit of advice on how to make their books readily adaptable for film. Speaking of adapting literary works for the screen, could a Likely Story television series or film project be in the works? Tune in to find out. Then go to Amazon.com to purchase the Must Read Likely Story and All That Glitters. You can also pre-order Red Carpet Riot.
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