Hey everyone, Johnny here from Tabletop Troubadour, so the announcements out for
the Dark Crystal board game which of course is to follow up to the Labyrinth
board game. I've been brought on again by River Horse and the Jim Henson Company
to create the sculptural assets and the illustration assets for this game again
and we thought it was a great time to show you some of the things that have
been going on to bring their game to life.
So the first thing I had to figure out with the three-ups was scale. As much as
the Dark Crystal is the only single perfect film that's ever had no humans
in it and is all creating a completely different world, so scale is subjective
in the sense that who's to say how big a skekis is or how big Gelfling is
I also wanted to incorporate the fact that there is a human inside
the suit and there's also a Jim Henson sized human who has a Kermit the Frog
sized hand puppet doing a Jen and then you've got Karen Prell doing Kira. It's also
a nice scale for me to push the plasticine round and sculpt in, so the
Gelflings seem a little small because a lot of the time you've got these... they are in
the foreground they've got this these close-ups a lot of the time they're
actually sized up for suit performers so I wanted to find a middle ground there.
Of course that's completely irrelevant to what you're gonna give him the board
game as you can see here these are some 3d print outs that I did just for me
because I personally couldn't wait for the board game to come out so I
printed these so I could paint them and get an idea of scale and you can see
River Horse have decided to make the Gelflings a lot bigger than they
would have been in the film which is understandable considering it's a four
player game, everybody chooses their own character. All of this information has
come from scans of these sculptures here and as I said you know so like Jen is
around the same size as Hoggle so in a lot of ways these Gelflings you should
should actually be smaller the skeskis is here but they were already
feeling a little too small so you can see the reasoning behind making them
bigger by the time they get this big. They are sculpted it in a way that once shrunk
down you're going to be able to get already great looking miniature and to
do that, all of these... a lot of the details on is already wonderfully
detailed characters have been heightened and you know the wrinkles are deeper the
proportions are played with a little bit. Brian Froud and the team that created
the skeksis and the Gelflings, everything in that movie,
everything is just covered and saturated and drenched with these amazing details
especially in the skeksis carapises, carapie, carapises... I don't
know if that's a word but however that said, the ornate coverings that these
guys wear are so detailed and so covered a little objects and pieces that I've
had to simplify a lot of that because again I'm sculpting these basically
for mold-ability, for scan-ability and also ultimately for your paintbrush.
So I started with this guy who is the Chamberlain who after Hoggle is my
second favorite creature and cinema history. All of the shapes and designs
the performance, the voice, the sculpture of the face, everything about this guy
Frank Oz originally performed this in the movie and you watch him to this day
he's not a puppet he is a character. Sadly the actor that voiced has just
passed away about a week ago but everything, every shape, every silhouette,
everything about this pompous buildup of costume that is hiding this really sad
pathetic creature underneath which is like the powdered wigs of times not so
long ago. Every skeksis us is like their own crooked politician and there's
so much character and I've always loved them. I've also been fortunate enough to
have seen this sculpture and this costume straight from the film
physically in person when Peter Brook took me around the LA Jim Henson
creature shop. You can see how big this is going to be in person you know... I don't have
very big hands either if you want to measure that into your equations.
They're already so detailed and so elaborate I'm often having to
simplify a lot of shapes because I know that they're not going to read when
they're this small but I'm also trying to sculpt something that is going to be
a treat for you to paint and this is going to work with washes and dry
brushes so even people that aren't crazy about miniatures like I am and have a
lot of painting will be able to paint these for their board game and they're
going to come out fine. This is Jen obviously the hero of the films the
challenge I set myself with on this sculpture was to do something that all
of the previous toy companies and collectibles of Jen have avoided for
good reason which is all of the the loose strings and drapery that come off
his wrist that primarily were part of the costume to hide the rods of the
rod puppet operating Jen which was Jim Henson himself.
For me overall his character is "I'm not really for this quest but I'm gonna take it on" and I
wanted to capture that in a sculpture while positioning his arms in a pose
where I could push and play around with negative space for all of these loose
strings and capture exactly what's in the film while still being able to pull
this guy out of a mold considering that he's gonna be this big in the end.
As you can see also I've heightened a lot of the design patterns on his
tunic so when thats scanned and when that's shrunk down to this level a bit of dry
brushing and a wash are going to completely sort out your painting job so
anybody can paint that and everything registers and you don't have to go on
and after the fact and highlight some of these details. Kira and Fizzgig, once
again River horse and the Jim Henson Company were really great by letting
me come up with the poses and how I wanted to express these characters
physically. The thing with Kira is she's an amazing
character she's beautiful, she's such a huge part of the film and she's a
fan favorite but from the back if she's wearing a hood, which I chose to
sculpt her in because I wanted another layer of darker color and drapery what I
wanted to do since a lot of people playing the game are going to see here
from the back just depending on me she's on the board I decided to put her wings
sticking out a little bit because there's the scene where she finally
jumped off the cliff and a winged spring up which means there's got to be some
kind of slit in her cloak anyway for them to be able to be active so they hinted at
there at the back and I love the same way with Jen meets her and she
walks in and she pulls down her hood so I wanted to capture that a film moment
and we also had to include Fizzgig, so rather than having Fizzgig as a
little fluffy tumbleweed lump at her feet I thought she could be carrying him
as she does often in the film and that also helped me take care of a lot of
negative spaces that were created in the drapery of her long cloak and more
importantly I had to come come up with a pose where I could include the long
tassels of her cuffs then again like Jen were there to hide the rod puppets
movements when Karen Prell was operating here and so both sides of how she's
using your arms we're thought about in advance of how I could keep everything
that's happening in the costume and how you could get that out of one mold.
That's it from us at Tabletop Troubadour. We hope you've enjoyed the video the
game itself is up for pre-order currently on the River Horse website so
get on that. For me personally it's been a real
thrill working on what I consider the second greatest fantasy film of all time
it's been a lot of fun. it's been very rewarding. Any questions or comments,
we love hearing from you on the Tabletop Troubadour Facebook page or under these
videos so let us know and until then we'll catch you at the great conjunction.
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Searching for Dark Matter with IceCube - Duration: 4:10.
So dark matter is a new form of matter that we need to describe the
observations in our universe and an example where we see the need for dark
matter for example is with the rotation of velocities in galaxies or also from
imprints to the cosmic microwave radiation we see that we need dark matter.
So we know that dark matter exists, but we have very little knowledge of what it actually is
and what kind of particles it consists of.
So we know that dark matter is not very
strongly interacting because otherwise we would have observed it already. We know
also that dark matter is stable because dark matter was created at the beginning
of the universe and we know it is still around today so it has to be stable and
we also know that the velocity of dark matter cannot be very high so there has
to be much smaller than the speed of light.
IceCube can search for dark matter indirectly and means dark matter interacts
with each other and produces standard model particles and these standard model
particles then decay and also as a result of these decays we also expect to
get neutrinos. With IceCube we have searched at different places where we
expect dense dark matter accumulations. This could be at the center of the earth
or center of the sun or just in the galactic dark matter halo and we have looked for all
of these and so far we haven't found any signal of dark matter.
Dark matter signal coming from the sun consists of usually low energy neutrinos
but we know that they're always coming from the sun so we can just focus on
that region and look for neutrinos coming from there. Another example is dark
matter annihilation in the galactic center. So this type of signal consists
of higher energy neutrinos and most of the signal comes from the center of
our galaxy. So by analyzing the energy and the direction of these neutrinos we
can constraint these signals.
IceCube searches are at the forefront of dark matter
searches. We have some of the most stringent constraints on the properties
of dark matter with the IceCube detector and over the next years we
will continue to search for dark matter with IceCube.
In particular at IceCube we have the unexplained high-energy neutrino signal
and it's very well possible that also in these energetic neutrino events
there's also a Dark Matter signal hiding so we have to accumulate more data or
better build a larger detector to understand where the highest energy
neutrinos coming from and if for example they are coming from decaying dark matter
or other astrophysical sources.
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Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut「 AMV 」- The Dark - Duration: 2:41.
By a little twist of fate
You get soaked in to this lake
It welcomes you with warmness
Gentle feeling of softness
Hold it dear...
You open your eyes wide with fear
Like a sun going down, escaping from you
(You feel tired and worthless)
Where there was a light, now is darkness
(It`s consuming you to the bone)
The small crucial fragement of fate
Uniting two as one since the day
It comes so strong, so strong feel it is going to be everlasting...
(everlasting)
And you embrace it in your arms...
(Hold it dear...)
Never let it go, even the sun goes down
You open your eyes wide with fear...
By a little twist of fate you get soaked in this lake
(it welcomes you with warmness, gentle feeling of softness)
You`re going to be alone again, empty, disposed, holding on
Holding on
And you embrace it in your arms...
Never let it go, even the sun goes down
(You open your eyes wide with fear)
You fight for it, not wanting to lose
The harder you fight, the more you lose
(The more you lose)
The more you lose
(The more you lose)
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Frankenstein Easy Glow in the Dark Nails! Try it! - Duration: 2:58.
Hey Guys, today we are going to be doing Frankenstein Nails
that are Glow in the Dark!
So, this is what they look like
This is what we're using.
I already painted my nails this Black Matte
color by Blackheart Beauty, we're going to be using
Free Spirit by Pure Ice,
We've got our Glow in the Dark by Claire's,
and we've got Snow me White by Sinful Colors.
So we're going to start off with that
We've already painted them black.
So we're going to paint most of the nail green now.
This part is going to be his face and the black is just his hair.
Ok, now we are going to paint over them with the Glow in the Dark.
Just over the green part.
Ok, now that you've got your Glow in the dark on there,
You are going to do some eyes with white
Add two big eyes on each one.
Ok, now we're going to do the insides of the eyes,
two little bolts on the side of his neck and a little nose.
Ok, now we've got our eyes, nose and bolts done,
all we need is a little mouth.
We're going to do that with white.
Ok, now that we've got all our faces,
we're just ready for top coat
There you go! Nice and shiny!
I hope you guys like this easy tutorial
It took me about...
12 minutes from start to finish just
to do this hand so it doesn't take that very long
It's pretty easy to do so, I hope you like it!
Hey guys, thank you for watching the Frankenstein Nails
I hope you had fun and check them out in the dark
cause they will glow and we'll see you guys next time :)
Remember, you're BEAUTIFUL, you're LOVED and you're WONDERFUL!
Thank you for watching, give it a thumbs up if you can
and we'll see you next time. Thanks guys!
Bye!
Ok, so what we're doing is we're charging up our
fingernails so we can, um, see if they glow.
Just hold them up next to the light
Then we're going to shut off the lights and see if they glos. OK?
Should we try it?
Ha ha, ready and go!
Click (light goes out)
Oooooooo!
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Dark Souls 3 | Boss Rush Pt 2 - Duration: 3:11:13.
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DARK SOULS 3: Are You Afraid of the Dark? | LORE in a Minute! | Lords of Cinder | LORE - Duration: 1:43.
The First Flame was a mighty power that transformed a rare few into Lords.
These godlike beings, now harnessing the souls of lords, challenged the everlasting dragons
for dominion over the world.
Together, with the help of a betrayer, the Lords defeated the dragons and ushered in
the Age of Fire, an era ruled by these champions.
Though sadly, the fire cannot burn forever.
With the fire fading, and a dark age nigh, Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight, sacrificed himself
by linking his soul to the First Flame, and with that, he perpetuated the Age of Fire
and became the first Lord of Cinder.
Eons have passed, and the First Flame has been linked countless times by worthy souls,
but the Age of Fire is once again quickly fading.
A bell tolls awakening previous Lords of Cinder
so that they may re-enact the sacrifice of Lord Gwyn.
Alas, only one willingly returns to his throne, the meek Ludleth of Courland.
The Abyss Watchers, an undead legion tainted by the Abyss they swore to contain
are locked in an internal conflict.
Yhorm the Giant withdraws to the profaned capital
overcome with grief and regret for failing to save his people.
Aldrich, Saint of the Deep and devourer of men, anticipates the coming dark with delight.
And Lothric, the prince destined to link the flame would rather see it fade into darkness.
You are the Ashen One, an undead who has failed to link the flame in a previous age.
Your duty is to return the five Lords of Cinder to their thrones and link the fire once more…
but this time without poise.
Praise the soup.
Have fun!
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Why Are We Afraid of the Dark? - Duration: 5:12.
[♩ INTRO]
Were you scared of the dark growing up?
Or maybe you still are!
It's not too uncommon for adults either.
When you're young, being afraid of the dark
goes hand in hand with some other fears, like of ghosts, monsters, or other spooky things.
And as you get older, you might not use that sort of explanation anymore.
But these irrational fears still stick around, because there are a lot of ways we learn to
be afraid.
The good news is: research has found out that there are ways to fight those fears, too.
The way we usually develop fears is a well-understood part of psychology.
Most of the time, it's through classical conditioning.
This is when you pair a neutral stimulus — something that doesn't make you feel anything — with
something that you have an automatic reaction to.
Like, imagine a person who's generally cool with dogs.
But then, a dog bites her and she has to go to the hospital.
That'd make anybody freak out a bit.
Then, the neutral stimulus can become a conditioned stimulus, which gives you the same automatic
reaction.
In other words, after that experience, this person is more likely to be afraid when she
sees a dog.
Some phobias, which are extreme or irrational fears, can be caused by classical conditioning,
including a fear of the dark.
Research in animals and humans has found that conditioned responses are probably linked
with the amygdala.
That's a brain region that becomes active when people are afraid, or have a lot of high-arousal
emotions, like excitement and anger.
So conditioned fears kind of make sense: they're based on something that happened to you.
And some surveys have found that most children have had a bad experience with the thing they're
scared of, like spiders or the dark.
But other phobias are of things that you've never actually experienced.
Like, arachnophobia is one of the top fears in the world, but most people haven't actually
been attacked by spiders.
Some survey results, including one sample of over 1,000 children and teenagers, suggest
that we might learn these fears because of modeling.
Like, when your older brother sees a spider and freaks out, so you do too.
Or, where shark attacks are a huge threat, or a horror movie where the killer lurks in
the darkness.
Even more common in that survey was learning through instructional fear acquisition — when
someone tells you to be afraid of something.
This can happen if your mom warns you to watch out for snakes, or when news broadcasters
talk about terrorist attacks, even though the actual statistics say you're much more
likely to die of something like a heart attack.
This is because people tend to use an availability heuristic in their reasoning, meaning they
use what's readily available to their mind.
It's hard to remember the exact statistics about terrorism and heart disease, but boy,
that last story you saw on the news sticks with you.
And it probably wasn't about a heart attack.
In fact, when researchers run studies and try to condition people to fear something
neutral — like associating a certain tone with a mild shock — they're more successful
if they tell people what to be afraid of beforehand.
Now, across all these studies, some psychologists noticed a weird pattern: some phobias are
easier to create than others in certain species.
For example, scientists have observed that it's easier for primates to develop a fear
of snakes or spiders — but not of something like rabbits.
They call this phenomenon biological preparedness.
We can't say for sure why it happens, but one idea is that these fears are somehow ingrained
from our ancestors' behaviors.
Like, all mammals might be more wary around snakes and lizards, because the first mammals
could've been eaten by ancient reptiles.
Some ecologists looked into an evolutionary reason for fearing the dark, based on a risk
from predators, by studying some regions of Tanzania where lion attacks are a threat to
humans.
Using data from over two decades and over a thousand lion attacks, they found that most
attacks occurred right after sunset, when it's dark but people are still wandering
around.
But they also found that attacks were up to four times more common in the ten days after
a full moon than the period before, which is when the darkest part of the night is also
right after sunset.
So if that pattern of lions attacking humans in the dark was also true millennia ago, it's
possible that some early humans became conditioned to fear the dark or the full moon.
Scientists have guessed that people might be predisposed to be afraid of the dark because
we adapted to a risk of predator attacks.
But this is one of the first studies suggesting that darkness actually increased that risk.
But it's worth taking these evolutionary hypotheses with a grain of salt.
It's not like anyone's run a study where they assigned some people to a lion-risk condition
and others to a no-lion condition, and then waited for generations to see what fears develop.
So we've got a couple good ideas about where phobias come from.
And if you have a phobia, psychologists have found ways to treat them.
Many randomized trials show that one of the most effective treatments is called exposure
therapy, which is essentially just conditioning in reverse.
You slowly expose yourself to what you're afraid in small doses — like turning off
the light for five seconds, being in the same room as a spider, or meeting groups of strangers
— until you don't have a bad reaction anymore.
Then you move the spider a little closer, leave the lights out longer, or meet more
people — until the phobia has less power over you.
Now, fear is a really complicated thing.
So if you love being scared by things like horror movies, check out our video about why
psychologists think that happens.
And if you want to keep learning about other brain things, you can go to youtube.com/scishowpsych
and subscribe.
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How To Remove Dark Spots From Face | Get 100% Spotless Skin In 3 Days - Remedies One - Duration: 3:38.
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Kevin Spacey's dark childhood: Actor sought stardom to 'escape abusive father' his... - Duration: 3:30.
Kevin Spacey's dark childhood: Actor sought stardom to 'escape abusive father' his brother reveals
Kevin Spacey sought Hollywood stardom to escape his abusive father, his brother has revealed. Spaceys brother Randall Fowler opened up about the actors traumatic childhood at the hands of their father Thomas Geoffrey Fowler, who raped Fowler throughout his adolesence.
In a 2004 interview with MailOnline, Fowler described the darkness in their family home and how Spacey tried to avoid what was going on.
Fowler, a Rod Stewart impersonator and limo driver, recalled one incident when he was 12 when his dad called him to his bedroom and started to perform a sex act on me.
He said the abuse continued over the next four years and got longer and more frequent, prompting Spacey to turn into himself to avoid trouble.
He said: Kevin tried to avoid what was going on by wrapping himself in an emotional bubble. He became very sly and smart.
He was so determined to try and avoid the whippings that he just minded his Ps and Qs until there was nothing inside. He had no feelings..
Fowler says their father was so monstrous that they nicknamed him The Creature, and his harrowing actions made Randall want to avoid having children as he feared they would inherit the sexual predator gene.
Neither of us had a chance growing up with two such damaged parents. I went through three marriages and 40 affairs, he said.
When they were children Spacey would try to placate their father as Fowler beared most of the abuse, while their older sister Julie also endured beatings and ran away at the age of 18.
Fowler claims he sacrificed himself to protect Spacey as they were close.
In later years their mother Kathleen wrote them a letter in which she tried to justify their fathers abuse, saying hed had an abusive childhood himself. Thomas Geoffrey Fowler died at the age of 68 while their mother died in 2003.
The interview has resurfaced in the wake of Spacey addressing an allegation that he made a sexual advance at actor Anthony Rapp when Rapp was 14 years old.
In a tweeted statement, Spacey said he was horrified at Rapps story and that he owed him a sincere apology for what he said would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour.
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Quick Takes - Why IceCube would not exist without dark matter - Duration: 1:33.
Dark matter has a special place in our heart because IceCube would probably not
exist except for the fact that it can search for dark matter. Before you start
building a detector like that you have to demonstrate that the method works and
we had an R&D project called AMANDA. The original funding for AMANDA came as a
dark matter experiment. It was in the very early nineties when physicists had
discovered something called the WIMP miracle and if the WIMP miracle had been
true we would find dark matter with AMANDA in one year, but at a time there
was an institute run by Professor Sadolet in Berkeley and they gave us the
first funding to start testing not the IceCube idea but actually the AMANDA
idea and that's what launched the whole history of the project.
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Wigdor Cycling Studio "The Dark Room" - Duration: 2:35.
So The Dark Room is what it sounds like.
You walk in, it's dark, we have black lights, the walls and the floors kind of react with
that black light.
It's the trend now that cycle is kind of going into these dark studios where it's you, your
bike and the instructor provides really high-energy, club-type music.
So it's not just being out on the road and riding.
It's really getting into the music, getting into beat of the song and kind of feeling
your way through that ride in the dark.
A few of our seniors from now a couple of years ago, Sara Meinecke and Grant Phillips
worked on concepting some ideas for this space under the direction of a faculty member, Chrissi
Cowhey, who teaches in Communication Design.
And then at the end of the project, the final production work was done by Susan Lee, who
has also now graduated.
Those are important projects for students.
They do, of course, a lot of classroom projects and then they also, most of the students in
Communication Design do a lot of internships and do a lot of things that help them if they
want to work in the industry.
So projects that are on campus are a really nice in-between space where they can test
out some ideas, but still see those ideas realized on campus in a relatively public
way, sort of before they move into a more professional job outside the University.
The Dark Room studio when we first came online in St. Louis, we were the one and only studio
that had and kind of looked like what we did.
Having that dark atmosphere, having the reactive lights, having the technology that we have.
Somebody who's seeking that type of cycle can find it here.
So our students and our faculty and staff have that opportunity now to have what is
the trendiest type of cycle here in their own back yard.
Performance IQ is the technology we use in the studio.
It's a leadership board.
It tracks everything from your heart rate to your RPMs.
It tracks your watts.
We're able to do a lot of really fun activities with that particular board.
The board also allows us to kind of track our members' progressions.
We do use the leadership board for our PE cycle classes so we can see are you resting,
are you working harder than you should be, are you working in the cardio zone in your
endurance zones.
So it gives us all of that information right in a BearFit class or long-term with a PE class.
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Buttercup tells Dark Bubbles to shut up - Duration: 0:23.
(Laughs)
SHUT UP!
(Laughs)
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(Laughs)
How many times do I have to tell you SHUT UP?! --------
(Laughs)
Will you SHUT UP?!
Agh!
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My Review Monday: The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy - Duration: 1:58.
Hi, I'm Katie from the Seekonk Public Library.
It's almost Halloween, the perfect time to read a scary book.
I just finished this new book called "The Dark Net" by Benjamin Percy.
This story is about four characters; one of them is Hannah, she's 12 years old and her
blindness has recently been cured by wearing a prosthetic.
Unfortunately, she's also seeing things that no one else can see.
Her Aunt Lina, who is a journalist, is investigating the sale of a home that used to belong to
a serial killer.
When she gets there, she sees a group of people who are excavating the basement and they've
uncovered this mass grave, but the skeletons are not completely human-looking, there are some parts that the skeletons look like beasts.
Then there's Mike Juniper; he's the owner of a homeless shelter.
He used to be a evangelical because he had a near death experience where he saw God.
That was until he was visited by a demon that almost killed him.
He has kind of known the demons were coming back and he's been preparing for it by stocking
up with all sorts of weapons.Then there's Derek, who's a hacker, but he's a good hacker.
He goes after the bad guys on the Dark Net.
The Dark Net is a real thing, it's part of the Internet you get to on a tour browser, you
can search anonymously and a lot of criminal activity goes on there.
These characters converge when demons are going to try to use the Dark Net as a gateway
from Hell to enter this world.
It's a real fast-paced read and just the fact that it's written in present tense makes it
feel even more suspenseful and fast-paced.
It's a really good story to read this time of year, very spooky.
I highly recommend it.
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