Adobe has an amazing line of products that are famous among artists around the world. But with lots of apps to choose from, even artists have a difficult time deciding on what app to use. Some apps also have features that are somewhat similar to another Adobe product, and thus the confusion.
Humtog gives us a quick overview of each Adobe product so that we can be familiar with each one.
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A classical musician created a harmony specifically to match this cat's wailings from r/funny
You might recall the yelling cat video that went viral nine years ago. We posted the version that was dubbed in French by Faireset. Now we have the musical. Irish classical pianist Conor Broderick analyzed the cat's tune and made a harmonic arrangement around it.
“Today I harmonised a deranged yelling cat,” the musician writes, describing the edit as his “magnum opus”.
“I have too much free time,” Broderick writes at the end of the video. “What is wrong with me?” Absolutely nothing, Conor, you are doing the Lord’s work.
You may have to click the image twice to start the video. -via reddit
Decameron Row is a quarantine art project that invited 100 artists from all over the world to contribute a one-minute video of what they've been doing during lockdown. At the site, you'll see a building. Click on one of the lighted windows to launch a video. Then another, and another. From the about page:
In Boccaccio’s 14th-century Decameron, a group of friends avert the loneliness of quarantine during the Black Death by squatting together in an abandoned villa outside of Florence and telling each other stories — 10 people, 10 days, 100 tales. Their stories gave them solace. Since in this moment, global community cannot meet under one roof for comfort and insight, we wondered, how could we gather people from all over the world into one neighborhood, onto one street, where they could share their disparate responses? In this idiosyncratic, virtual place, the curious could click on a window and peek into each others’ lives, much like we had already been doing with one another.
Decameron Row is an experiment in community. We’ve been deliberate about diversity and geographic variety, but we’ve chosen to be guided more by intuition, the generosity of others, and happy accidents than by curatorial intention. The result is a quirky and incomplete record of this strange time. We hope you find it diverting. New videos will be added weekly through the summer until all the windows are occupied.
So far, 27 windows are illuminated, so that's 27 bite-sized videos for all of us to enjoy. Check it out here. -via Boing Boing
The Norwegian Parliament voted to ban the purchase of biofuels made with palm products that do not demonstrate that they were produced sustainably. This makes Norway the first country to ban the use of palm oil in biofuels to stop deforestation, as Vocal detailed:
In June 2016, Norway became the first country in the world to ban deforestation. To this end, the Norwegians promised that all products in their markets would come from products with “clean” production chains. A first measure was to stop donations, contracts and national investments with companies that had ties to deforestation.
Now, the country takes a new step forward in the fight against deforestation, by approving the ban on the Norwegian biofuel industry from buying palm oil and other products associated with deforestation.
"The Norwegian Parliament decision sets an important precedent for other countries and underscores the need for serious reform to the global oil palm industry, " said Nils Hermann Ranum of the conservation group Rainforest Foundation Norway after the decision.
image via Vocal
Oh, to happily dance along the music and look this cute! Watch Robbie, a 15-month-old kangaroo as he dances with the owner of Our Haven Wildlife Shelter, Tony. It will give you serotonin.
I wouldn’t be able to handle this much food, or spend a huge amount of money for a lot of sushi. But the Internet always gives us an opportunity to experience eating a lot of good food without paying, so watch as this woman eats one hundred servings of sushi. Get some snacks too, so you won’t be that hungry watching her!
Paris-based artist Jean Jullien created a cast of playful and colorful sculptures that are scattered around Nantes’s Jardin des Plantes. Part of a new exhibition called ‘Filili Viridi’, each sculpture spans more than eight meters and they can be found around the park floating in a fountain, raking the grass, or joining hands to hug a tree.
image via Colossal
Ellie Lewis, a makeup artist in the United Kingdom, has been experimenting with large-scale bodypainting lately. She's been composing herself as figures from pop culture, such as Rick Sanchez's brief time as a living pickle in Ricky and Morty.
The 2005 movie Wedding Crashers was a comedy, but there really are people who make a game out of going to weddings where they don't know anyone, eating the food, sipping cocktails, and bringing no gift. It's not common, but it happens. Orly Minazad went to many strangers' weddings in Iran, where the crowds are big and no one minded. Fred Karger is the “World’s Greatest Party Crasher,” although he doesn't do weddings. And then there's Sean, who exemplifies the dudes from the movie.
Sean, a miner stationed in Juneau, Alaska, is one such man. Though he’s pushing 50 now, he was a prolific crasher back in the day, cutting his teeth at the fancy weddings that took place in the airy ballrooms of Anchorage’s finest hotels. He fell into crashing somewhat naturally after he and his buddies — who worked as bellmen — started noticing that the extravagant weddings that took place inside their hotel were often full of “free booze” and “babes,” both of which were often bragged about by the drunk men who stumbled down the carpeted hallways in undone ties.
Sean and his friends knew they couldn’t get away with crashing weddings at their hotel, so they developed a habit of inserting themselves into weddings at some of the fancier ones around town. Their bellmen background came in handy; as hospitality professionals, they had the “gift of gab,” and were accustomed to dressing up, striking up chipper conversations and moving around hotels like they knew where they were going.
Read about real-life wedding crashers and how they do it at Mel magazine.
If you know a little about genetics, you might be baffled by DNA tests that purport to tell us where our ancestors come from. For one thing, you don't get an equal number of genes from each ancestor, outside of our two parents. For another thing, what makes genes from, say, France, different from genes from Spain? This TED-Ed lesson from Prosanta Chakrabarty explains the limitations of genetic tests. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Oxford University is getting close to being a thousand years old. Here's a post that drives home how old the school is. So it stands to reason that some wild drinking was going on from time to time during that long history, as college students are prone to do. One such memorable occasion was a pub brawl that got completely out of hand.
On 10 February 1355, the entire town was celebrating the feast day of Saint Scholastica. Some students were drinking at Swindlestock Tavern, when two of them complained about the quality of the wine served. The landlord and the tavern’s owner, who also happened to be Mayor of Oxford at the time, allegedly responded to their complaint with “stubborn and saucy language”; whereupon a student threw his drink on the owner’s face, followed by the empty wine jug that landed straight on the tavern owner’s head.
A fight erupted and other customers present in the tavern, both locals and students, joined in and soon the fight spilled out of the tavern and onto the streets. Somebody rang the bell at the town's church to summon assistance, and the students rang the bells of the University Church in response. When the Chancellor of the University tried to intervene, arrows were fired at him and he had to retreat.
The trouble continued the next day, as townspeople sought revenge on the students. Before the fight was over several days later, 90 people were dead. Read about the St. Scholastica Day Riot and a few other deadly university incidents at Amusing Planet.
The 1950 Disney film Cinderella was produced at a time when Disney was struggling financially after World War II, so they cut corners every way they could. They had used reference films for earlier movies, but every scene in Cinderella was filmed with actors in costume for reference, which the animators copied and were told not to stray from. You can see some footage in this video, starting at 1:45. Still images from the original production are more numerous.
Learn some of the behind-the-scenes trivia about the production of Cinderella in a pictofacts list at Cracked.
Sam Griner's mother took a picture of him at the beach when he was a baby. She posted it, and found out what can happen when you post family photos on the internet. Luckily, the viral photo did not ruin Sam's life, as so many other viral memes do. Now a teenager, Sam is a budding artist. -via the A.V. Club
Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna has offered his help to poor Indians facing hunger for more than three months. Khanna has served 20 million meals through his campaign called ‘Feed India.’ The campaign provides ready-made meals and dry rations to people in at least 125 Indian cities, as Al Jazeera detailed:
For more than three months, Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna has helped serve 20 million meals to poor Indians facing hunger, from thousands of miles away in the United States.
The Indian-born Khanna, who moved to the US in 2000, started the 'Feed India' campaign in April, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a strict coronavirus lockdown, which forced millions out of work, many of them facing hunger.
"It all began after a spam email with the picture of an old-age home," Khanna says, "where people were left to fend for themselves with little food". The moment "crushed him" and made him realise that India was about to embark on a major hunger crisis.
The campaign has distributed food at leprosy centres, on railway tracks, elderly care homes, highways and orphanages, to name a few.
image via Al Jazeera
“Master Jenga stacker” Tai Star Valianti was able to pile 485 blocks on top of each other! The Arizona master stacker created an inverted-pyramid shaped structure from the huge number of Jenga blocks. His tower was built in two hours and stood for almost nine minutes.
image screenshot via Guinness World Records
