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...but Aiko3 came out around 15 years ago, L'homme is supposedly the "newest" base figure for Poser.
...and AIko3 is still cuter.
Dana
Maternity pants are stretchy and supposed to support the belly, so with a bit of luck they'll fit perfectly. Who gave you a 100 bucks gift card for pregnancy clothes, though? It strikes me as possibly being a re-purposed gift.
Visit my thread too, because I'm attention-hungry.
Attention garnered!
Dana
Non-complaint: Music to DAZ by in 2020: Wonderful piece to start the year with. I know that I gushed about this only just recently, but I love this piece. Such wonderful melodies, and moods. In fact, I gushed about this almost exactly a year ago. Do yourself a favor, tune out the daily din. Find a private moment to do your DAZzing and listen to at least the first 5 minutes of this piece.
Here's an approximation of what I said a year ago:
Sitting home on New Year's Eve. I've had my one drink for the night. Doing a little DAZzing. Listening to music. Tonight I picked Rachmaninoff's 2nd Symphony. The story with Rachmaninoff's symphonies is that after the debacle of his 1st symphony's premiere that had been under-rehearsed and conducted by a drunken conductor and the music itself so "different" and dark, than what was "normal" for the time, it was panned viciously in music circles and the press with comments like "all the hounds of hell let loose". Because of the stress and the criticism, Rachmaninoff had a sort of mental breakdown and didn't attempt another symphony for a long time. And the score was lost for about 25 years because he left it in Russia when he fled the revolution in 1917 until it was found in an archive in 1944. Now, of course, his 1st symphony is considered one of his masterpieces. But when he finally did tackle his 2nd symphony it is just as bold a statement as the 1st symphony and the 1st movement of it invokes similar images of unease, foreboding & attractive mystery but the later movements ease up and inject a bit more hope.
Below is a link to his 2nd symphony, and from the first seconds of the droaning opening notes it envelops you in darkness. Yet you want to keep listening to hear what's around the next corner. Images of unsurmountable cliff walls, a dark rocky shore of a dead sea, and a bloody moon glaring through approaching storm clouds come to mind. Then the mood changes and becomes almost relaxing until the gloom resurfaces near the end of the 1st movement. The 2nd and 3rd movements are lighter and establish their own moods but the darkness creeps back in now and then for short periods. Like much of Rachmaninoff's pieces, the music is alive, it never stagnates, it's always "going somewhere", "moving on", "taking a journey" and dragging you with it. It's a piece to sit back, close your eyes, surf the leading edge of the music and be lost within it for an hour. A drink or toke helps.
The great symphonies are palaces of music. Something interesting around every corner.
Rachmaninoff: Symphony #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBy_ACHvEJs&t=52s
2nd movement 19:18 Light & lively with a touch of remorse at the end
3rd movement 29:30 Sleepy in a becalmed sea
4th movement 44:34 A joyous, resurgence then this last movement turns the fading memories of the darkness of the 1st movement (50:47) into a grand heart pounding awakening at (56:55), and a fulfilling joyful finish.
...well with both my grocery and bank accounts replenished, had a great shopping day today
Stopped at my usual second hand sore and found a perfectly fine French coffee press for 8$, less than half the price of buying a replacement carafe for the old one that broke (and it's bigger too). This will save lots of zlotys considering a cup of decent coffee here averages about 3$ (and I can get a pound of high quality beans for only around 3 - 4 times that which will last me the full month). Also picked up a pair of Cargo pants that fit (been having a hard time finding these as I like them because of all the pockets) along with a lovely thick warm classy looking flannel shirt.
Replenished the larder and fridge as they were looking bare. Picked up a fresh bottle of real maple syrup for my rolled oats and flapjacks (was almost out), a canister of baker's cocoa to make "real" hot cocoa with, a pound and a half of of sliced cheese for grilled cheesy sandwiches, a couple bags of frozen potatoes to go with, and a pound of fresh thinly shredded beef to make a big pot of Phở with.
Think I'm set for a while.
(Hello from Sydney, Australia)Complaint: It's eight o'clock at night and still 105F, after a day maximum temperature of 115F, my A/C broke down four days ago and the repair guy is on vacation
It could be worse, because a nearby city got to over 120F today, and three fires less than two miles away from me are now under control. Fires EVERYWHERE, hundreds of people killed and over 1700 homes destroyed. So far fourteen and a half million acres have been burned, which is three times as large as the California 2018 fires, and six times the size of the 2019 Amazon fires.
What's really scary is that the worst weather is yet to come.
I wouldn't plan on visiting Australia any time soon if you don't live here.
Attention-hunger slightly fed.
I had to do some googling because I immediately felt sure I'd heard something about a 3rd symphony that's been said to be impossible to play. Obviously I was thinking of his 3rd piano concert. (Obvious to you classical music buffs, anyway, not so much to me.) I watched Shine many years ago, and I still remember how spooked I was when the main character slammed to the floor with a completely dead look in his eyes. Sure enough, that was the piece he'd driven himself nearly mad over. So, memory mistake corrected. Profit. But now I'm feeling almost certain that I had that film mixed up with some kind of legend about a "cursed" symphony that had some really unsettling effects on both listners and performers, causing several suicides. It's 99% likely that it's a fictional tale, but does anyone have any clue what I may be thinking of. Now it bugs me! I don't have time right now to go down a research rabbit hole, which will probably lead me to obsessively researching something completely different for days. x) It's definitely a musical piece I'm thinking of, not a play or a movie.
It's a shame that there isn't currently any way of rounding up some of the bursting full clouds that have been washing away northern Europe. Use a bunch of drones to send up an enormous membrane (which would need to be both water-proof and minimally air-resistant) and literally tow the rain halfway around the world to where it's needed. It's probably good that I never had the academic drive to become a scientist, because I have a feeling mad science would have become my thing.
Yes, the Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto is notoriously difficult (Rachmaninoff himself said something to the effect that he wrote it for serious players) but recently there have been several young pianists attempting it as a sort of rite of passage. Even I attempted it. I got as far as the first page before it frightened me (i.e. I could do the first 62 seconds, the hauntingly deceptively simple melody of the principle theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC6cY4J5c1I) I still have the music, forty years old and still nearly virginly clean pages. I did much better with piano concertos by Saint-Saëns eventually learning most of the 4th, some of the 2nd, and a little of the 5th. All ancient history now, but there are a few recordings of my practices somewhere, in a box, on 1/4 inch reel-to-reel magnetic tape.
Regarding your fictional memory of a haunted piano piece, there was a movie about a pianist who (according to my fading memory) dug up the recently burried corpse of a famous pianist, chopped off his hands and grafted them to himself, to be able to use its exceptionally long fingers to play the one piece that only the original composer could play because of the hand-reach required. But the hands had a mind of their own and ended up strangling the metacarpal thief. Don't ask me the name of the movie, I just remember something like that from when I was a kid about 60 years ago.
And yes, the movie "Shine" was an interesting biography of the tragic life of David Helfgott well played by Geoffery Rush. There is even a CD of an actual recording available of the complete Rach-3 played by David Helfgott. Although, I have to admit, it really isn't up to par with other performances. But infinitely better than I, or even 99.9999999% of the world population could.
I've heard the Rach-3 played live in concert three times. Twice by Alexander Gavrylyuk (link above) and once by Yuja Wang and many many times from recordings by several different pianists. I really like the way Gavrylyuk plays it. Tremendously powerful performance despite (or perhaps because of) the histrionic flailing. You're on the edge of your seat with excitement and tension and want to cheer like your team winning the Superbowl when he finishes (as the audience does in that link).
That definitely sounds like a typical Hammer Horror.
I've watched a few of those with my B-movie loving BFF. The story I'm thinking of was not from a film, though. It was basically that a great composer spent a long time writing an unusually intricate and challenging symphony which the orchestra had a hard time learning. Some of them went mad and/or committed suicide, and some died in strange accidents. When the symphony was finally performed, everything went to hell in a basket and more people died. Since then the symphony has allegedly been lost, and it needs to stay that way. I don't even know how anyone would be able to adapt that as a movie script, without some phony "sold his soul" explaination that would have ruined everything. The point was that the music in itself had strange side-effects. It's no doubt fiction, but I'm wondering whether it's just something I've read on r/NoSleep, or if it's one of those travelling myths that get real people's names attached to them. (Like the one where either Elvis, John Wayne or both died with 40lbs of poop in their bowels.)
Yeah, that's how my friend Sam (who also loves terrible B-movies) describes it too. Her grandfather was a professional clarinetist who played with several orchestras, so she was raised on classical music and gets it in a way I can't really. She's been patiently trying to educate me and help me change my heathen ways, but usually I just drag her down to my level.
(Not really, though. We've both got very ecclectic taste in music, but we coincidentally like a lot of the same unrelated things.)
a telecope more powerful than hubble?
James Webb Space Telescope
...been keeping track of what has been happening. One story mentioned that something like a billion animals have perished so far. Sad, as I understand the population of Koalas, which are found in the region where the fired are occuring, has been steadily declining over the years much due to development.
Some of the scenes are almost unreal with dark red skies at midday and fires causing their own localised weather (a firefighter died when his truck was overturned by what was described as a "tornado made of flame"). Many along the costs in NSW and Queensland have been taking to boats to escape the inferno.
Not looking forward to this coming summer here in the US Northwest as it's been very mild and dry since the beginning of December which is usually the start of the heavy rain season. Meanwhile, my old Hometown of Milwaukee WI had highs in the mid 50s (F) over the holidays and even broke a couple daily records. Usually, it's in the 20s there this time of year and snowing.
I want to go to bed early as I am sleepy. However it is only 6pm. I do not know why.
stressing over my production schedule. shoulda made a screenplay.
2 computers up, including the 8 core, and nothing is rendering right now.
newer clothes dont come with adjustment morphs no mores, having to make em myself. bikini top strings going all over the place when figure is posed.
Complaint: (*Sigh*) Microsoft has been trying to rid itself of "WIndows Live Mail" (WLM) for years, but has kept a version around that sort of works. But it's come to the point where I was getting frustrated and I either needed to switch to full featured "Outlook" ($$$) or go with another email client. For the last couple of days I've been switching over to "Thunderbird". It seems to have all that I need and the price is right ($0). But it seems to be difficult to transfer over my archive of "WLM" messages (20+ years of email archives converted from earlier versions of whatever email app was available for free with various versions of Windows over the decades). It may be possible but it looks like a lot of work and I NEVER seem to need to go back and read email from 19 years ago. (go figure) so I think I'll bite the bullet and leave it all behind in the current version of WLM that still works in Win10 and cross the bridge of transfering that archive to yet another more modern email app if I ever actually need to. Sometimes, hoarding just isn't worth it.
i've kept the email receipts for every daz purchase i ever made. going back to aiko3 and the christmas havoc bundle.
no production footage today, but at least i managed a still render for the carrara challemge.
thinkin is a night to relax and watch day of the dr. 3 doctors.
matt smith's screw driver is the biggest.
tee hee
farts helium.
...loved that series.
Why am I thinking about Vikings and saints?
Non-complaint: Wheee..., made another batch of cookies.
Complaint: Used "Jumbo" eggs I had available but should have used "Large" instead. Cookies batter is too weak and oozed out too far. Makes them thin & crunchy, not thick & chewy.
I don't usually keep lettuce around long enough for it to go bad. But I need a little help from the store...it shouldn't go bad in the car while I'm driving home!
Spreadsheets are cool. But it makes my skin crawl when somebody calls their spreadsheet a "database".
Grrrr!
It's good to have grown an ass by the time you're 39. We'll take your word for it that you have.
As for the other stuff, I'm not going near any of that!
This sounds right, but I still ain't going near it!
I guess I should change my avatar pic, huh?
I agree! There is quite a difference. I also take claims of MS Access being a database with a shaker full of salt. Not good for the blood pressure.
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I'm jealous.
Dana
[sport]
...not wanting to think about the Vikings right now. That means the road to the big game still goes through San Francisco. This is the 100th anniversary of the NFL and the road should rightly go through the home field of one of the oldest teams in the league. I still feel that Seattle had the best chance to of defeating the 49ers, but now they meet Green Bay next week instead, while the Vikings get to (hopefully) be the "sacrificial lamb" to San Francisco.
Still pleased that the Patriots got bounced out.
[/sport]
Complaint: Arghhh... I hate Microsoft networking technology! My two main machines (old 8GB system and new 32GB system) are on the same wired LAN, they were communicating bi-directionally just fine for days. Now, this morning when I powered up both systems, the new one can't see the old one, but the old one can see the new one. WTF changed????? Arghhhhh
Would it be considered animal cruelty if I take my phone and video my friend Charley begging for fish food? I do know if I give her fish food every time she begs for it, I will have one plump goldfish. I probably should cut back on feedings somehow because she is becoming a plump goldfish.
amazon prime shipping let me down. new terrorbytes was supposed to be here by nine pm last night
none of the FM stuff on my wl not in the sale
lame complaints, basically
the twilight zone plane gremlin still dang scary
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https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ShatnerTZ_5046.jpg
Less of a complaint but still hating Microsoft Network Sharing: OK, except for taking a shower, since my last complaint at 10:42 I've literally been sitting here futzing with my local networking trying to undo what something did. It's like a vicious game of "Wack-A-Mole".
Of the 5 machines I'm testing, sometimes some of them can see all the others but others can see only differing subsets of the group, and seeing a host doesn't mean I can talk to the host.
Then after carefully choreographed network reset operations on all the machines, different machines have different visibility problems. Flushing the DNS cache used to help but has been useless today. Fixes here and there change visibility issues but others pop up in other places. Ghaaaaa. If I had hair I'd tear some more of it out. 
UNIX had local networking down to a science thirty years ago. Microsoft is still futzing it up.
holidays are over,
bring on the Spring
January and February are usually before spring.
lets just skip the blizards this year. unless is dairy queen blizzards