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Seasoned filmmakers are revelling in this freedom too. Watch the trailer of Village Rockstars here Liberation from heavy technology has democratised filmmaking, Shedde adds, making it cheaper and allowing a lot more variety in the kinds of stories being told. As phones and cameras become smaller, shooting with phones and natural light will become less of a challenge and will allow, in fact, for a greater degree of realism, grittiness or intimacy in a scene.” “The audience is more willing to experiment, and is open to different kinds of stories. “In terms of both the making and the consumption of cinema, smaller, digital devices are the future,” says Meenakshi Shedde, film curator, critic and South Asia consultant to the Berlin film festival. Das has won four National Awards this year for her film, Village Rockstars, which was shot entirely on a Canon digital handheld camera and edited on a laptop. TINY TALES A still from Rima Das’s next film, Bulbul Can Sing. Zoo might never have found an audience without the OTT platforms like Netflix, Varghese is set to tour the film circuit, and is hoping to make it to such a platform too. There’s tech involved in every stage, including post-production fundraising - Varghese raised Rs 8 lakh through crowdfunding over 10 weeks - and distribution. I would never have been able to make this movie without a helicopter before,” he says. “The aerial shots are an integral part of the storytelling here. Two of her awards, incidentally, were for location sound recording and editingįirst-time filmmaker Seby Varghese combined iPhone and drone footage for Unfateful, his road movie about four strangers travelling together through Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Das worked with just one assistant, her cousin. It’s the tale of a 10-year-old girl who wants to set up a rock band in a remote village in Assam, and it was shot entirely on a Canon digital handheld camera and edited on a laptop. In Assam, Rima Das won four National Awards this year for Village Rockstars. Experienced filmmakers are able to bring the real world to life more convincingly, using elements like natural light to enhance their storytelling. First-time storytellers are making feature films with just one assistant telling tales set in remote areas, taking their stories on the road. ![]() While for Sharma a key factor was cost, elsewhere, innovations in technology are allowing filmmakers flexibility that extends beyond budget. ![]() A lot of the time, people around didn’t know we were filming.” Stills from Shlok Sharma’s Zoo, which was shot entirely on an iPhone, using minimal sound equipment and no lights. “But not using a movie camera also made the process far easier. “Rent for a movie camera ranges from Rs 15,000 to Rs 35,000 per day, not including tripods and Steadicam,” he says. His first film, Haraamkhor (2015), was stuck for so long - three years in post-production and one year at certification - that he had no funds to make his next. He picked the phone because he simply couldn’t afford a traditional movie camera, he says. It’s called Zoo and follows the lives of two young rappers, a drug-peddling waiter and a teenager fighting addiction.ĭirector Shlok Sharma used minimal sound equipment, no lights and shot it entirely on an iPhone. But the group of 10 at a Mumbai café were really the cast and crew of a feature film, completing part of a shoot. To onlookers, they seemed like a bunch of people hanging out, joking and scrolling on their cellphones. My preferred choice of control has always been a keyboard and mouse, but there are many people who like the compact nature of a controller. Let’s start with the big-hitting changes. I am sure many people, myself included, wondered whether inXile had addressed the community concerns, and overall they succeeded in attacking all the major concerns. There have also been a ton of tweaks, rebalancing, and bug squashing going on behind the scenes as well. At the very least you are getting a new end game dungeon, The Royal Necropolis of Haernhold, some new opponents to slay and subsequently new loot to plunder. ![]() inXile has been adding in a lot of the fixes over the last year and depending on when you played the original they may or may not have already been implemented. Then head back here and check out the changes if you’re still on the fence.įor returning players, some of what we will cover here may seem very familiar to you. For anyone who hasn’t played the original release and is here trying to decide if it’s time to pick the game up, I would suggest checking out my original review to get you up to speed on what the game has to offer. We could spend a lot of time going through the core features and gameplay of The Bard’s Tale 4: Director’s Cut but, honestly, the basics haven’t really changed since my initial review. This is our Bard’s Tale 4: Director’s Cut review. Were they able to cut through the technical issues of the original game and at the same time somehow magically satiate two diametrically opposed player bases? Pull up a chair and listen to the tale of my second adventure in the Bard’s Tale 4 world. Over the last year, inXile has been addressing all of these concerns and last week released The Bard’s Tale 4: Director’s Cut. To top it all off players wanting an old school experience were put off by the modern design choices and at the same time, other players were claiming inXile didn’t go far enough in adding the current conveniences they have grown accustomed to. There were some technical issues plaguing the game, keeping it from being the best it could be. Gain ancient Elven weapons containing secrets which you’ll need to uncover by carefully examining them.Last year I reviewed The Bard’s Tale 4: Barrows Deep and found developer inXile had done a good job of blending in some gameplay mechanics found in recent dungeon crawlers while keeping the charm of the original grid-based games of the franchise. The Blade’s TaleThe sense of discovery and mystery doesn’t stop with the environment. If your enemies don’t get you, the devious riddles and dangerous traps just might. Use superior strategies, thoughtful positioning, and deadly combos to bring down your foes! Unlock the Secrets of the PastUnravel challenging mysteries. Outsmart EvilBattle your enemies in dynamic, intuitive turn-based tactical combat,that rewards clever thinking. Build a party that suits your play style! An Adventure Around Every CornerExplore towns full of quest givers, fight your way through dark and deadly dungeons, and navigate beautiful rolling hills, dense forests, and icy wastes. Craft your Party, Your WayStart your party with a single character, recruiting or creating new heroes to bolster your ranks. Build an array of characters to make every playthrough a unique experience. ![]() ![]() Create the Hero You Want To BePlay as Bard, Fighter, Practitioner, and Rogue, each featuring 60-70 skills and collectively unlocking 21 unique classes. Whether you seek a hardcore challenge, a lighter experience, or something in-between, the choice is yours. Who will face the darkness if not you? A heroic adventure featuring 40+ hours of gameplay, 350 speaking parts, a Legacy Mode for returning fans, and over 100 pieces of incredible music!Ĭustomize How You PlayDefine the way you play, using sliders on numerous options such as saving (including “save anywhere”), the mini-map, waypoint markers and many more. Hidden in the shadows, an evil has waited patiently. ![]() ![]() Rebel Wilson and Ramona Agruma look smitten as they hold hands on their way to Halloween party in LA while dressed up as the twins from The Shiningīlack Panther: Wakanda Forever stars Lupita Nyong'o, Letitia Wright and Danai Gurira lead glittering guest list at EBONY Power 100 gala Kanye West stops by Denny's for some breakfast after awkward run-in with Kim Kardashian at Saint's soccer gameīradley Cooper and daughter Lea have lunch with Brooke Shields and her daughters Rowan and Grier at Cafe Cluny in New York City ![]() Megan Fox wows in a pink latex dress while emulating Pamela Anderson as Machine Gun Kelly transforms into Tommy Lee at Halloween partyĮMILY PRESCOTT: Ex-PM Boris Johnson and Carrie land a luxury new cottage in the Cotswolds on estate owned by a super-rich Tory donor Prince Harry 'will return to Britain to promote his memoir Spare' as royal watcher claims King Charles could strip him and Meghan of their titlesĪnxious about money? You're not alone! New study finds nearly half of UK adults are experiencing financial worries (and why short-term measures might be damaging in the long term!) after visiting flood catastrophe in Pakistan Kim Kardashian does her best to avoid ex Kanye West at their six-year-old son Saint's soccer game amid anti-Semitism scandalĪngelina Jolie looks classy in black overcoat and gray ensemble during grocery run with daughter Vivienne in LA. Olivia Rodrigo channels Betty Boop in a tiny red dress, black wig and lipstick as she stepped out for Kendall Jenner's extravagant Halloween partyįrom the ex-gang leader helping kids learn to read to the grieving mum cleaning up her community.in a new TV series, Ben Fogle meets the unlikely heroes putting their troubled community back on the mapĪnya Taylor-Joy sports a pink frilly dress and a gold crown as she dresses as Princess Peach for Halloween before taking on the iconic role 'If he hadn't come along, God knows what would have happened': Simon Cowell says son Eric helped save his life after obsession with faltering talent showĮmily Ratajkowski flashes her toned abs and bottom in black crop top and chaps as she transforms into cowgirl for Halloween weekend New mum? New baby? - here's help to understand what supplements might be helpful for you both Lili Reinhart puts on a busty display in a pink corset as she and co-stars Camila Mendes and Madelaine Petsch transform into Hocus Pocus witches following 'split' from fiancé Scott Sinclair Helen Flanagan flashes her toned abs in red bra and devil horns as she leads the stars hitting the town on Halloween weekend. Megan Fox shows off her sizzling figure in bondage-style ensemble as she sports a chain LEASH around her neck held by her fiancé MGK Kendall Jenner flashes her abs and sports a pair of racy chaps as she transforms into Jessie from ToyStory for Halloween 'Our life was marked by criticism and disappointment:' Princess Margaret's lady-in-waiting ANNE GLENCONNER reveals more marriage hell Judge Philip Matthews adjourned sentencing until later this month, but indicated Conejero did not face custody. ![]() He said: ‘They have been separated for some time and it has been an emotional and distressing period of time for this woman.’ She pleaded not guilty in a magistrates’ court, but changed her plea to guilty when the Crown Prosecution Service refused to drop the charges.ĭavid Jubb, in mitigation, described Conejero as a woman of ‘impeccable character’ who had suffered since the breakdown of her marriage. ‘As he approached the property he saw, daubed in blood and red nail varnish, she had written graffiti offensive towards Mr Pierre White.’Ĭonejero, who the court heard has a previous conviction for drink driving, was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and escorted from the premises towards an awaiting police van. Mr Alexander said: ‘As he approached the address he noticed the defendant had a bleeding little finger and he noticed she was wearing red nail varnish. The day job: Celebrity chef Marco, pictured at his restaurant The Swan Inn in Aughton, Lancashire ![]() Shareware game designed to be completed in under an hour. It uses the rules and mechanics of AD&D 2nd Edition. The final game in the series that began with Moraff's Revenge and continued with Moraff's World.įeatures a pseudo-3D game screen based on SSI's Eye of the Beholder series. The first game in Chunsoft's popular Mystery Dungeon series, inspired by Rogue 's gameplay. It is open-ended and emphasizes survival in the harsh ancient wilderness. Graphical roguelike set in the far north during the late Iron Age. Large graphical multi-zoned world featuring multiple classes, complex item interactions, crafting, quests, and numerous skills, abilities, powers, and effects. Not to be confused with the 1989 game of the same name, Gang Wars is a 2D RPG where the player contends with violent criminals. Simplistic dungeon crawler with random room placement, loot and monsters. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, especially The Silmarillion. One of the earliest 3D, first-person perspective role-playing video games.ĭerivative of Moria based heavily on J. Turn-based roguelike played in first-person 3D. In addition to the classic character/classes, you can "play as yourself": after answering a set of questions about yourself, matching stats are derived. ĭescendant of Hack which has spawned many large and complex variant trees.įeatures a rich, persistent and quirky world and multiple endings. Original version of Larn remains part of the NetBSD games collection. Released commercially in 1987 as The Dungeon Revealed.Įarly CompuServe commercial multiplayer game. Influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard's Diablo. A later port ( Umoria) was the basis for Angband. Wilsonīased heavily on The Lord of the Rings. Robert Alan Koeneke, Jimmey Wayne Todd, James E. Based on Gammaquest II by the same author.Īdvanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin Though levels are not randomly generated, the game does implement permadeath. Ĭlassic dungeon crawler with simple ASCII graphics, which inspired the genre as a whole and for which the genre is named.įeatured real-time gameplay and fog of war. It predates Rogue and was much simpler, but supported a low-resolution graphical display in addition to the text version. One of the earliest commercial Apple II games. Similar to pedit5 with more levels to explore. The most insanely varied game ever made.The following is a list of roguelike games that are generally considered to hold true to the Berlin Interpretation of a "roguelike".Įarly dungeon crawler with several key features of later roguelikes, including permadeath, turn-based simple combat, top-down view, and a typical dungeon layout based on networks of corridors and rooms. Lead a gang, free slaves, drink beer, gib ghosts, become a vampire, shrink people and stomp on them. ![]() 4-Player online and local cooperative modes lets you brutalize goons AND loneliness!.Stupidly huge variety of items! Shrink rays, hypnotizing devices, boomboxes, bear traps, food processors.Play as over 20 (and growing!) wildly different types of characters! Bartender, scientist, hacker, gorilla - hey, your job is probably in there too!.Super-advanced artificial intelligence that won’t put up with your crap! Outsmart these virtual humans and feel superior to your computer!. ![]()
![]() could have had a real discussion of how to make health care more competitive, more transparent, more cost effective and with better quality of care. i know that's what our side is going to try to do. we could have had a productive discussion today about real health care policy. this hearing is just another attack on president trump, and it's disappointing. this hearing is about trying to manufacture a controversy based on anonymous sources and news reports. make no mistake, this isn't about serious congressional oversight. worked for months to cut down red tape, make improvements to how affordable generic drugs come to market. next door in the judiciary committee, we reported out milli multiple bills that would have had meaningful impact on the cost of pripgescription drugs. rather than working toward bipartisan solutions, this committee is once again looking to score political points by attacking anything the trump administration does to improve the health care for american people. i was hoping we could focus on those issues, but unfortunately, like so many other hearings in this committee, we're not. ![]() there's no one on this committee who would support denying coverage to americans with pre-existing conditions. i was hoping today that we could have a discuss about real solutions that will make the lives of everyday americans better, talk about the costs of health care, access to health care, coverage, pre-existing conditions. i, too, want to thank our witnesses for making the trek here and being willing to share their story. ![]() Mondrian’s purity met its match in Saint Laurent. The design is the epitome of Saint Laurent’s aesthetic, requiring a meticulous hand piecing of each color block so that, despite the body’s curves, the visual plane is as flat as a canvas when the garment is worn. ![]() With its pure lines and hues, Mondrian’s ground-breaking 1935 color-block painting Composition C transmutes beautifully into a dress that is highly valued by collectors of contemporary fashion and widely copied commercially to this day. It is a prime example of how Saint Laurent, an avid art lover and collector, looked to painters, from Goya to Picasso, Ingres to Matisse, for inspiration. His revolutionary Mondrian mini dress from 1965 is a core element of his fashion biography. Saint Laurent had given birth to a global brand. Ready-to-wear materialized during a period of dynamic transformation and experimentation and came to dominate the Paris fashion scene. In 1966, they opened the first YSL Rive Gauche women’s boutique in Paris - Rive Gauche is French for “left bank” - followed soon thereafter by YSL Rive Gauche for men. With Pierre Bergé, his then-lover who became his lifelong business partner and friend, the designer founded Yves Saint Laurent YSL to encompass prêt-à-porter, or ready-to-wear. He shook the traditional couture clientele to its core with youthful silhouettes and styles like the A-line trapeze dress that hung with seeming effortlessness from the shoulders, the antithesis of the pinched waists and molded skirts that had been all the rage after the deprivations of World War II.Īfter a mandated spell in the torturous French military, Saint Laurent suffered a nervous breakdown and was dismissed by Dior in 1962. A mere slip of a youth, the 21-year-old Saint Laurent was nevertheless up to the challenge. ![]() Surprisingly soon thereafter, Dior publicly chose Saint Laurent as his successor, which sadly proved prescient when the fashion legend died unexpectedly, in 1957. Just two years later, in 1955, his remarkable sketches were shown to Christian Dior, then the world’s reigning couturier, who hired him immediately. Saint Laurent also consistently used Black models, like Mounia, Iman and Naomi Campbell, and he drew endless inspiration from different ethnicities and cultures, in no small part because of his Algerian roots.īorn to French parents in Oran, Algeria, in 1936, Saint Laurent went to Paris at age 17 to study fashion at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. ![]() Many of his designs are today considered timeless classics. By blurring gender-specific design, he empowered individual style while creating a scissor-sharp fashion aesthetic of sensual ease and beauty. Using traditional menswear fabrics and designs for women, he also literally cross-dressed, giving men and women alike chic pant suits, elegant tuxedo jackets and urban safari gear. He was the first couturier to open boutiques for both men and women. Saint Laurent pioneered “cross-design” in fashion, taking inspiration from street trends to modernize haute couture. The store featured Mies van der Rohe chairs and played host to actor Catherine Deneuve during its grand opening. The inaugural Rive Gauche boutique - a modern shop in Paris’s bustling, bohemian Left Bank district - offered stylish garments and accessories that were intended to be affordable for a younger generation of fashion enthusiasts. Visionary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent was the first to launch a ready-to-wear label, YSL Rive Gauche Prêt-à-Porter. It’s the most wonderful time of year for many. ![]()
![]() The main story in this sequel mainly revolves around the multiple kings of Westeros. A Clash of Kings is the second book in A Song of Ice and Fire saga by George R. Listen to 'A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)' by George R.R. For when kings clash, it is the commoners who bear the greatest cost. 4.5/5 stars A Clash of Kings was a brilliant sequel that brought the spotlight of the series to one of the most well-written characters in fantasy: Tyrion Lannister. ![]() The world saw his first A Game of Thrones book. New friends arrive in Winterfell for Bran, a forgotten son finds life in the Iron Islands quite different than he remembered, and the Mother of Dragons at last arrives in the fabled city of Qarth.īut even as these would-be kings draw their lines of battle, it is the people of Westeros who will most suffer for their ambitions. Considering that Sansa’s traitor papa is dead, Joffrey along with his mama refuse to allow her go home. The inspiration to write such an exciting series was Ivanhoe and Wars of the Roses as well as The Accursed Kings. In the heart of King’s Landing, Tyrion is busy ferreting out traitors as the Hand of the King, while Jon is beginning to comprehend the lawlessness of life beyond the Wall. Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. A CLASH OF KINGS is the second volume in the series. Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. And as factions scatter or come together, there are many witnesses to the unrest that is to come.Īrya Stark finds herself in the heart of enemy territory at Harrenhal, while her mother is trapped between two brothers battling each other for their dead brother’s throne. Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. loss because hes obviously more to people than just the narrator for ASOIAF novels. But one thing is certain: None of the six contenders who seek either the Iron Throne, or the lands their ancestors once held as kings, are willing to back down. Roy did the audiobooks for A GAME OF THRONES, A CLASH OF KINGS. Others see it as a mark of the blood and terror that will soon engulf this divided kingdom. But that’s HBO’s decision, and the decision of David and Dan when we get there. Some see this fiery herald as a sign of their impending victory. Maybe instead of 10 hours, we’d be budgeted for 12 hours. Martin’s landmark A Song of Ice and Fire series, the inspiration for HBO’s Game of Thrones.Īs chaos grips Westeros, a flaming red comet continues to burn a crimson path across the sky. The big theme in 'Clash of Kings' is the huge, ongoing civil war that has erupted across the entirety of Westeros, and no detail is spared. The second volume in a four-part graphic novel adaptation of the second book in George R. Fix memory leaks #13229 ( Update branch configuration #13220 ( improvements.Set isUntitled to false on document path changes #13268 ( Remove some unused CSS styles and fix icon alignment in plugin list #13255 ( Fix notebook trust in RTC #13274 ( Don't dispose the notebook metadata editor on active cell change #13259 ( and upkeep improvements. ![]() ipynb_checkpoints #13297 ( Optimize text mimerenderer: ansi vs autolink #13202 ( Remove Yjs locking mechanism #13222 ( fixed ![]() Use settings icons for 6 plugins #13298 ( Do not run galata in.The only thing that appears in the browser is a somewhat broken menu, but I can get to Launch Classic Notebook in it, and indeed the old Jupyter notebook seems to work. I'm pretty sure that this is actually some frontend thing that is broken rather than Jupyter itself. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, removing configuration files, but each time I try running it I get a lot of this in the logs:įailed validating 'anyOf' in metaschema: ![]() So far, I haven't been able to get Jupyter Lab working again (it wasn't in a virtualenv, but then virtualenvs weren't the only things that got broken). ![]() Since upgrading to macOS X Mojave, I've spent a certain amount of time repairing broken virtualenvs. |
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