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(10/31/13 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Besides all the candy, haunted houses and sexy nurse outfits, isn’t the true meaning of Halloween about showing off to your friends how clever and knowledgeable you are about current events?We’ve rounded up 10 memorable characters from 2013 and broken them down to help you find a clever costume before you head out for the big night.Heisenberg from “Breaking Bad”You’ll need: Yellow hazmat suit Wire-frame glassesGoateeBald capAct the part: Study Walter White’s menacing stare before you debut your costume. With that intimidating expression, you might end up being scarier than all the zombies and ghosts.Miley Cyrus and her wrecking ballYou’ll need: Cut-off white tank topWhite briefsHot pink lipstickWrecking ballGray shirt, pants and shoesTin foilAct the part: Play the infamous top 10 single all night and force your “wrecking ball” to give you piggy-back rides. Ryan Gosling memeYou’ll need: Scruffy beardPoster board with white text printed on it. Examples include: “Hey girl, I’ll be your treat tonight,” “Hey girl, Halloween isn’t scary when you’re with me” or go with a less creepy option: “Hey girl, Happy Halloween.” Act the part: Pull out your corniest pick-up lines because, hey girl, it takes a lot to be a viral Internet meme and chick flick heartthrob. Prince GeorgeYou’ll need:A long, white satin embroidered dressAct the part: Have two friends carry you all night, or if you really want to go all the way, shell out for a royal pram like the $2,350 Silver Cross, known as the “Rolls Royce of prams,” that Will and Kate got for their little prince. Furloughed park rangerYou’ll need: Large quantities of khaki clothing — shorts or pants, a shirt and a hatPark ranger badgeWalkie-talkie (optional)Act the part: Though the government shutdown is over, show off how you actually watched the news in the past two months and lament the fact that Smokey the Bear isn’t receiving any funding either. Lil’ BubYou’ll need:Cat earsBrown fur vest — or full-on cat suit if you’re dedicatedWhite gloves and shoes — for paws Cup of half-licked yogurtAct the part: Everyone wants to be a cat. Re-enact the Bloomington YouTube video sensation that started it all: “Bub! You’ve Got Yogurt on Your Head” by throwing some Blueberry Brown Cow yogurt on your noggin and attaching the empty cup to your head.Rolling around on the floor is not required, but bonus points are rewarded to those who do. Amanda BynesYou’ll need: Tangled white-blonde wigAct the part: Mumble things like “My life has changed for the better ever since I changed to lower case font,” or “I love plastic surgery” to yourself repeatedly.If someone asks what’s wrong, blame it on Drake.Note: Tweeting topless bathroom mirror pics is not recommended. Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-unYou’ll need:RodmanPiercings (nose, lip, ears) Fake tattoosNeon-colored hair dyeA Pistons, Bulls or Spurs jerseyJong-unLong, dark pea coat (North Korean winters are cold)Dark scarf Carry binoculars and a North Korean flagAct the part: Grab a booth and bottle service at a bar. According to a recent interview with Rodman after his visit to North Korea last month, Jung-un leads a “seven-star” lifestyle of booze, yachts and extravagant food.So celebrate in style as the two best friends that no one ever expected — and don’t forget to keep the breadsticks coming. BanksyYou’ll need: Can of spray paintAct the part: Though Banksy made headlines last week after insulting both the One World Trade Center and Canada in an op-ed piece he submitted to the New York Times, no one actually knows what he looks like.If you’re feeling lazy, skip the costume and dress as you please. Victor Oladipo or Cody ZellerYou’ll need:An Orlando Magic jersey for Oladipo or a Charlotte Bobcats jersey for Zeller A basketballAct the part: Run around dunking over people’s heads and showing off your best basketball skills.
(10/24/13 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In summer 2008 I became a loyal Cherry ChapStick customer.And though the balm has done a stellar job of keeping my lips hydrated for the past five years, my first purchase was not based on the brand’s reputation for keeping lips moist, but because of a certain Katy Perry hit I was listening to on repeat.First (and best) known for tongue-in-cheek singles like “I Kissed a Girl,” “Hot N Cold” and “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” Katy Perry literally asks fans on her latest album “Prism” to see her music through a whole new lens.Certainly, Perry’s been through a lot.Anyone who’s seen “Katy Perry: Part of Me” can attest to that.And in her first album since the 2012 divorce with comedian Russell Brand, songs like “Roar” and “By The Grace of God,” among others, show the emotions she has had to work through, relaying a distinctly Kelly Clarkson-esque female power vibe.This transformation often takes the place of the saccharine layers of pop that made up 2010’s “Teenage Dream,” as Perry seems to have begun a transformation from one pop niche to another. One song that does break the “self-help” mold is “Walking on Air.”An updated ode to C+C Music Factory 1990s dance music that has so much energy — Perry belts, “You’re reading me like erotica, you make me feel exotica” — it seems almost inappropriate to listen to unless you’re jumping around a dance floor with strobe lights. The album is strong.But faced with the task of creating a follow-up after nearly every song on “Teenage Dream” became a top-selling single, perfection can be tough to replicate.And while listeners can still expect plenty of catchy songs with strong vocals — “Dark Horse,” “Birthday,” “International Smile” — those flippant favorites that made Katy Perry a pop icon have begun to fade on her junior album.Fortunately, “This Is How We Do” still holds onto the satirical vibe first set with “Ur So Gay”.In a break during the middle of the track Perry yells to a cheering audience, “This is a shout out to all you kids buying bottle service with your rent money!” Katy Perry recently said in an interview with Billboard Magazine that as she gets older (she turns 29 this week) she would like to turn into more of a Joni Mitchell singer-songwriter.She has plans to put out an acoustic guitar album following “Prism.”Though this might have seemed impossible that summer Perry was shooting whipped cream from her boobs and I stood in the checkout line at Kroger with cherry ChapStick in hand, a transformation probably isn’t as unbelievable as it once was.
(10/17/13 1:04am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It’s almost fall break, so there’s no better time to soak in all the season has to offer — hayrides, sipping spiked cider and carving pumpkins.But if you’re going to go to all of the trouble of finding a great gourd, why limit yourself to a plain old jack-o’-lantern?Here are some different ways to use your pumpkin.Go punkin’ chunkin’Launching a pumpkin hundreds of feet across an open field isn’t just for the Pritchetts on “Modern Family.”Teams from across the country gather every year on the first weekend after Halloween in Sussex County, Del., to chuck pumpkins from catapults, slingshots and other contraptions.The world record holder for the farthest launch was more than 4,483 feet by a team called Young Glory III in the 2008 World Championships. But you don’t have to travel all the way to Delaware to try it yourself.There will be a pumpkin launch Nov. 2 at the Monroe County Fairgrounds. The cost is $15 per team.Want to get your gourd in the game? Contact Bill Ream at reamw@bloomington.in.gov.Fix up a face mask Pumpkins are rich in vitamin A, which works to heal skin, and vitamin C, which is an antioxidant.So after a long day spent wandering corn mazes and getting your teeth stuck in caramel apples, who doesn’t feel the burning need to cover their face in smushed pumpkin and say “ahh”?Mix together2 teaspoons of cooked, pureed pumpkin1/2 teaspoon of honey1/2 teaspoon of milk— For dry skin add in one-fourth teaspoon of heavy whipping cream or brown sugar— For oily skin add in one-fourth teaspoon of apple cider or one-fourth teaspoon of cranberry juice Pound a pumpkiñataCut a hole in the side of the pumpkin, leaving the stem in place, and remove the insides.Fill with Halloween candy and, using the stem, hang it from something sturdy like a thick branch. Grab a bat and whack away.Just don’t forget to call Billy Corgan because he hates being left out of smashing pumpkins. Pump up your porch Raise a pumpkin in your pumpkin.After you’ve cleared out all the guts, cut a wide hole in the top of the gourd and fill it with potting soil to make your very own pumpkin planter. Fill it with a classy fall favorite like mums, some Indian corn or another pumpkin plant.But don’t forget to show off your porch’s personality with an empty beer bottle accent because, let’s face it, one will probably end up there anyway.Party-ready pumpkinSimilar to making a planter, pull out the guts and cut a wide enough hole so that the pumpkin resembles a bowl more than a giant fruit.Insert a plastic or glass bowl inside and fill with ice to make a pumpkin cooler.Add in your favorite fall beers like Upland Brewery’s Oktoberfest or Blue Moon Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale, and you’ll have the perfect short-term party centerpiece. Pump kinGrab a Sharpie and pen your silliest face onto the giant gourd.Why hang out with real friends when you have your closest pump-kin to keep you company? Make your own pumpkin breadPossibly one of the healthiest fall foods, pumpkins are low in calories, fat and sodium and high in fiber.And because they’re good sources of vitamins and minerals, eating them can help prevent cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.Note: pumpkin spice lattes don’t count.1 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour1 teaspoon of baking soda1/2 teaspoon of baking powder1 1/2 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice1/2 teaspoon of salt1 1/2 cups of sugar1/2 cup of vegetable oil2 eggs7 1/2 ounces of pumpkin puree1/2 cup of water Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and pumpkin pie spice.In a separate bowl, beat egg, pumpkin, sugar and oil. Stir into dry mixture with water. Pour into a greased pan and bake for between 60 and 70 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Modified recipe courtesy of AllRecipes.comRoast pumpkin seedsFor a snack that will last all week: Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Remove all excess pulp from seeds while running under cold water for best effect.Evenly disperse seeds on a greased cooking sheet and sprinkle with salt and other spices of your choosing. Bake until toasted — about 25 minutes — though do remember to check on them about every ten minutes so they don’t burn on one side. Feeling creative? After cleaning the seeds you can also wait until they’re dry and poke holes in them with a needle and thread to make a necklace. Serves as both your flower child Halloween costume and a tasty snack to munch on during math.
(10/11/13 6:21pm)
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(10/03/13 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>While some things are better the second time around — cold pizza, chili or lasagna, to name a few — Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2” does not fall into that category.This album serves as the part two and literal leftovers from critically and commercially acclaimed “The 20/20 Experience.” The songs on “2 of 2” were recorded at the same time as the ones from the first album, but rather than making one large album, 11 songs were “reserved” (translation: left on the cutting room floor) for the September release date. To make one experimental album is a challenge for any popular artist, but to make two in a row in a six-month time span is nearly unthinkable. It would be easy to be less judgmental if this album wasn’t being compared side-by-side to the first part, but the songs just don’t hit the same level of quality as those on the first album did. Listeners should not expect anything as powerful as “Mirrors.”“Gimme What I Don’t Know,” “True Blood” and “Cabaret” have layers of sound that make listening overwhelming. However, it may be worthwhile to listen to “True Blood” just to hear Timbaland cackle like the voice in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Timbaland’s production on “TKO” makes the song catchy, but it’s not any more innovative than the 2007 collaboration, “Give it To Me.” “Drink You Away” adds variety with a blues take, and Timberlake shows off his range at the end of the track. Though the best part is really that it sounds slightly reminiscent of ‘N Sync’s 1998 song “Giddy Up.” Despite earlier struggles, Timberlake does save the best for last in his 11-minute saga, “Not A Bad Thing.” It’s so sweet it could have easily fit into the “Sixteen Candles” soundtrack. We can only hope there will be a music video as precious as “(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You” to go along with it. In the last month JT has been all about the sequels, from this album to his reunion with ‘N Sync at the VMAs.However, it would have made more sense to put the few good songs from this album onto the first “20/20” and left it at that.
(09/05/13 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Before electronic dance music was considered a real genre and before most people reading this review were born, Nine Inch Nails released their first album. It was 1989, and music journalists everywhere were searching for a term to describe Trent Reznor’s hand-crafted layers of synth, drums and guitar. They landed on “industrial rock,” and twenty-four years, two kids and one Oscar later, Reznor is back with his eighth Nine Inch Nails album, “Hesitation Marks.”Fans worried a new album would come back soft, like the efforts of some other 1990s alt-rock peers, for example, Pearl Jam’s “Backspacer” — still not sure what to expect of their upcoming “Lightning Bolt” in October. But with lyrics like “The fire illuminates the final scene/The past repeats itself/I cannot tell the difference anymore,” this album does not disappoint. It’s dark and well-planned, and Reznor continues to show he is one of music’s best artists out there in “All Time Low.”Though “Hesitation Marks” never seems to reach the wrist-slitting rage levels of “I want to f**** you like an animal,” Reznor still seems pretty pissed off. Even Reznor’s voice, which has been perfectly maintained over the past twenty years, almost tricks the ear into sounding like the 1994 hit “Closer” during the bridge of “Came Back Haunted.” The album’s sound follows the same vein of previous albums and is consistent throughout. And it stays relevant in songs like “I Would For You” that have hints of modern EDM influence. Nine Inch Nails is re-entering the music scene at a time very different than their first entrance. In 1991 they played alongside Jane’s Addiction and Butthole Surfers in the first ever Lollapalooza, but when they returned to the stage this year, it was alongside a new sound of Top 40 acts like Ellie Goulding, Imagine Dragons and Mumford and Sons. Whether or not this album attracts the 20-year-olds it did in the early 1990s or just maintains those fans who are now in their 40s is the real question.
(08/29/13 2:32am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Big Sean, I’ll admit, it was tough to take you seriously after that rendezvous with Justin Bieber last year. Your debut “Finally Famous” was honest and clever, and after listening to it on repeat during a long bus ride last summer, I thought I knew you. But I guess that’s why, as you say, “when it turns real, that’s when everyone turns fake.”With expectations set lower than Bieber’s IQ, “Hall of Fame” does deliver. But for a sophomore album by someone with as much talent as Big Sean has shown previously, it just isn’t all there.Some tracks flow in the same vein as the “Finally Famous” sound. The songs that shine include contributions from artists like Nas, Kid Cudi and Nicki Minaj, among others, while the ones he raps by himself fall short. Ellie Goulding brings a fresh sound to “You Don’t Know,” and Nicki Minaj is ridiculous, as expected, in “MILF.” Miguel beautifully carries “Ashley” (named for Sean’s high school sweetheart and former girlfriend) and complements Sean’s rhymes about moving on from a first love. A third dimension is added to the song when you learn that he has a new girlfriend, “Glee” actress and singer Naya Rivera.Other tracks like “Beware” and “First Chain” follow Sean’s recipe for success: catchy beats, smart rhymes and well-timed, confident humor.But from there, the album contains boring tracks like “Toyota Music” and “Nothing is Stopping You.” The latter serves as an underwhelming part two of “So Much More,” complete with YouTube comments saying it is “life-changing.” The downright painful “Fire” has a dizzying backbeat, made worse in the music video, which stars Miley Cyrus — surprise, scantily clad, writhing.While the album has some definite hits, Big Sean aimed for “Hall of Fame” to earn a “Best in Show,” when really all it deserves is a pat on the back. Better luck next time.
(08/29/13 12:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Zionsville, Ind., native and Depauw University graduate, Topher Jones, returns to Bloomington tonight to perform at Kilroy’s Dunnkirk with Tritonal. The 28-year-old was recently signed to Ultra Music, the label of Deadmau5, Tiesto and other EDM superstars. IDS Recently you’ve performed at some big name events, like Spring Awakening in Chicago. How do you prepare yourself before going on stage? TOPHER JONES It’s just more like, alright, I got my music, I have an idea of what I want to play, and let’s go from there. Once you get on stage and you play that first track, it’s just really fun. You get a big crowd and people are having fun and that just takes over. I don’t think I ever get nervous before a show. IDS Do you have any kind of routine before the show?JONES Not really. People ask me that a lot. I think I should start one because I get asked so much. IDS What’s the craziest thing that’s ever happened to you on stage?JONES This club I was performing in had this really elaborate LED wall set up behind me. At one point, the screen went from being kind of flat where you could see it to being parallel with the floor. Someone hit the wrong button and the DJ booth went backward while the big platform screen was moving forward, and it almost drilled the back of my head. Luckily I ducked in time. It took out all the speakers that were in the DJ booth and stopped the music. Everyone just looked and was like ‘Oh my gosh, did he just get decapitated?’ IDS What’s your musical background? Are there any big musical influences from your days in Zionsville?JONES My mom is an amazing piano player and a very talented musician, and so is my younger brother, so I’ve grown up around music my whole life. I never took classes or trained or anything like that, so I think I was just very fortunate to have an ear for what I love to do and what I want to write. And then when I was a freshman in high school I got my first turntable and started messing around with DJing. IDS Who would be your dream DJ/artist to pair up with? JONES Oh man ... probably Chris Martin from Coldplay. I think he’s incredibly talented. IDS So after writing “Hello Chicago,” can we expect any Indiana shout outs? You did grow up here. JONES I’ve been living in Chicago almost three years now and it’s been a great experience, and so I wrote a song about that. But I don’t know about an Indianapolis shoutout. I’d love to do a shoutout to Indiana because I grew up there and spent most of my life there. It just has to be the right time and the right song. IDS One of your other most popular songs is called “Brohammer.” Do you consider yourself a “bro”?JONES No, I’m definitely not a bro. IDS So where did the inspiration from that song come from? JONES My younger brother, Nooka, and I were joking at dinner one night about the types of people that come to my shows, and somehow, he claims that he came up with the term brohammer and used it. It’s kind of like a dance move that people use, and we thought it was so funny that we just kept using the phrase over and over again. And as a joke I went back to my studio and wrote a song based off the words. Follow reporter Michela Tindera on Twitter @mtindera07.
(04/08/13 11:24pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Tuesday and Union Board president Jared Thomas has been in a suit for hours — and we’re not talking about the kind you wore during spring break. Jared stops for a few minutes in the busy Union Board office after attending a reception for the unveiling of a Little 500 trophy in the Indiana Memorial Union. Between the 25 hours per week he spends in the Union Board office and his 14 credit hour course load, he says it’s finding the time to eat that can be a problem. As a junior, Jared was born in 1991 — right smack in the middle of the recently-named millennial generation. Classified by the Pew Research Center as the segment of the population born between 1980 and 2000, they — well, we — are described as the first to “come of age” in the new millennium.We were the first ones to spend their mornings playing Gameboys on the bus ride to elementary school, the first ones to stay up late chatting on AOL Instant Messenger, the first ones to squish into tiny bathrooms for MySpace photo shoots. And now, the first ones to spend days lying in bed and watching all nine seasons of “How I Met Your Mother” on Netflix.So, with all of this snap-of-the-fingers-access, it begins to beg the question: Are we lazy?The millennials are also the first generation to spend more time on the Internet than watching television, and the first generation to see rising rates of early on-set obesity-related diseases. In a Gallup Poll released in April 2012, 59 percent of young adults between 18 and 29 reported they felt they spent too much time on the Internet, 58 percent said they felt they spent too much time on their cell phones, and 48 percent said they spent too much time using social media sites. But how does this compare to a student on IU’s campus?“Well, my Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Thursdays are pretty busy,” senior exercise science major Carly Scheid says.A typical day for her begins at 6:30 a.m. She wakes up to get ready for her four classes that day, which begin at 8 a.m. After her 1 p.m. class she’ll typically stop at home, before going to the gym.From there she’ll go on to her biology professor’s office hours, then back home for dinner before spending the rest of her night at the library studying. So, couch potatoes? Carly disagrees. “I feel like that’s what a lot of people in different generations think about the younger one,” Carly says. “I feel like I personally work really hard.”Seating is limited inside the waiting room on a Wednesday afternoon at the Career Development Center. And while more than half of students the building on North Jordan Avenue serves have majors within the College of Arts Sciences, students also come from the Kelley School of Business, the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and other schools across campus to receive career guidance.Patrick Donahue, Career Development Center Director, notes the increase of student appointments within the Career Development Center since the 2003-2004 school year when the center began keeping records. They’ve gone from around 9,700 student contacts to more than 16,000 in 2011-2012.Donahue meets with students daily to help them find internships, prepare for interviews, and perfect their resumes. He’s worked in career advising for almost 20 years, and he says students are working as hard as, if not more, than they did two decades ago.“My gosh, they’re not lazy,” he says. “You all are working part-time jobs, you’re doing classes, you’re studying, you’re busier than anyone else is because you’ve been told these are the things you have to do.”Rather, he says it’s more that the modes of communication have changed within the job search process.“When you have a generation who is hiring, who is accustomed to one form of communication, and then you have a generation that’s coming up that’s used to another form of communication, how does that work?” he asks. His job is to help students bridge that gap with potential employers. But he says for the most part, the students he sees are still willing and eager to make these concessions. “The truth is that my generation needs to adapt and say, ‘Here are the great things about social media. We need to adapt these forms and use social media within our organization.’”Professor Rae Sovereign is currently teaching several online topics courses within the department of labor studies, and because students don’t have to come into the classroom, she teaches “traditional” college students as well as non-traditional students in their 30s and 40s. “I don’t consider any worker that sits behind a desk and does a full eight hours of work, and works for a wage and has to deal with muscular-skeletal problems because of sitting,” she says. “I don’t consider that to be lazy. Just because somebody’s not out in the field plowing and doing manual labor doesn’t mean they’re lazy.“It just means that they’re doing a different kind of work and that all work has dignity and should be respected.”Amidst the Ping Pong tables and autographed concert posters, the Union Board office is bustling with activity on this Tuesday evening. Before hurrying off to the Sandra Fluke panel in the Whittenberger Auditorium — Jared says he likes to attend as many Union Board programs as possible to support his fellow directors — he comments that labeling a generation lazy isn’t completely accurate.“I think it depends on the person honestly,” Jared says. “I think it comes down to more personal drive and motivation.”
(04/08/13 7:40pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>By the end of the first semester of her freshman year, Zumba leader Cassie Dugan says she was taking about eight Zumba classes per week. Now, a little more than a year later, she’s the one at the head of the class.Zumba is a type of interval training that’s based around music, Latin, and hip-hop dance moves. Dugan, certified by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and the Zumba Academy organization, shares some tips for first-timers. Not a dancer? Not a problem“Don’t be intimidated with the name of Zumba. There are a lot of moves that look hard that are really not. And I try to break those down in my classes.” Get into it“I want them to see that I’m passionate about it, so they’ll thrive off the energy and get a better workout and have more fun from it.” Bring friends“You typically have a lot of fun when you’re there with your friends because you’re all there shakin’ and then there comes that part where it’s the popping and the booty work, and everyone’s like, ‘Oh yeah, the booty work!’” How it works Warm-up: about 2 songsCore workout: 7 or 8 songsCool down: 2 songs Try it at the SRSC Monday 6:15 p.m.Tuesday 12:15 and 9:30 p.m.Wednesday 5:45 p.m.Thursday 9 p.m.Sunday 6:15 p.m.For information on other group exercise classes on campus, visit the IU Recreational Sports website.
(04/02/13 8:07pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Before you unfold your director’s chair to make the next big music video, make sure to consider these tips from telecommunications professors Jim Krause and Jo Throckmorton. Krause is currently teaching T351: Video Field and Post Production, and Throckmorton is a producer and director for Blue Ace Media Group and is currently teaching T436: Advanced Production Workshop.Ask some questionsThink about who your target audience is and what message you are trying to get across. Then, ask yourself what they would like to see, Krause says.Create a storyboardDecide your sequence of shots before arriving at your location. Scout your locationWhile you’re there check lighting and run some test shots. Planning is key, and if you don’t plan it in advance you’re going to find yourself wasting a lot of time and energy, Throckmorton says. Shoot the videoIf the performer will be filmed singing along to the lyrics, make sure to get a click-track of your song. This let’s the performer know the timing of the song and keeps everything in sync. “Everything that’s electronic does not run at the same speed,” Throckmorton says. Edit your videoThrockmorton recommends using Adobe Premiere because any IU student can download it for free from iuware.iu.edu.Promote, promote, promoteUpload your video to YouTube and share the link with as many people as possible. So what’s the secret to making your video stand out? "Nothing. Lightning in a bottle happens because it's lightning in a bottle. Nobody knows where it's going to hit." Throckmorton says it's almost impossible to predetermine what will resonate with audiences enough to go viral. He says it's important to love whatever you're making, so no matter what, you're happy with the outcome.
(04/02/13 7:55pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Steres picked LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” to remix, and within a week, Fox had written the new IUBB-themed lyrics. “I made him rap the whole thing to me over the phone,” Steres says, when he found out Fox had finished writing. Soon after, they recorded the song with a friend, junior Max Queen, in the Jacobs School of Music on Saturday night. “We got there at 8 p.m. and didn’t leave until like 2 in the morning,” Fox says.While Steres says this song was his rap debut, senior screenwriting major Fox has been rapping since he was a freshman in high school.“This is definitely my breakout success though,” he says. Where did the idea for the song come from?Steres: I really wanted to do it since my senior year in high school. I was thinking about going to the University of Oregon, and right when I went to visit there, their big song for the football team was blowing up at the time. And all these people were wearing “I love my ducks shirts.” So I was like, when I go to college I want to do something like that, and then freshman year “This is Indiana” came out, so I kind of missed that...What do you think of being compared to Brice Fox and Daniel Weber? You do have the same last name...Fox: I’m actually friends with Daniel Weber, and he’s been really supportive. He posted our video on his Facebook. I don’t view it as a competition between “This is Indiana” and “Don’t Call It a Comeback.” I think we’re doing it in the same spirit and in the same vein as a song to support the team.How are you handling the loss? How will this affect the song?Fox: After we lost I wasn’t thinking in terms of I made this song and now it’s not really going to get any more views. It was, “I love the Hoosiers, and they lost” and it was really devastating in that way. The whole reason we made the song was because we’re fans first.More than 40,000 views in two weeks: what’s your reaction to that number?Fox: It was really crazy that people were watching it even after the game ended, maybe just as a final way to say goodbye to the season. It’s no “This is Indiana,” that’s like 2 million views or something crazy like that, but no it is really a pretty cool achievement. We just really set out to have fun and get it out there.Are you planning to do any live performances?Fox: Maybe upon request...Steres: ...No one’s asked us to yet.Do you have plans to make any more IU-related music?Fox: I’d definitely be interested in making another IU-type song. There’s a much bigger market for the IU stuff, so it’s much easier to get out.
(02/25/13 5:47pm)
OK, we get it. No one knows what a Hoosier is.
(02/19/13 2:21am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Foodies, take a break from your Pinterest recipe boards because there’s a new source for inspiration. School of Informatics and Computing assistant professor, Yong Yeol Ahn, used chemistry data to produce a network of flavor compounds that show which foods taste good together. So untie your apron because this cooking lesson will take you out of the kitchen and into the lab.How they mapped itThe idea for this map comes from what’s known as “food pairing.” It’s a fairly recent theory that simply means foods taste good together because they share similar chemical compounds. The more compounds they share, the better they taste. For instance, white chocolate and caviar taste really good together. It’s because they share a compound called trimethylamine, which has a strong fishy smell in low concentrations and an ammonia-like smell at high concentrations. But remember, Ahn and his other team members didn’t actually taste-test the food combinations — they just compiled the data. Ahn makes it clear that while the data show certain ingredients share these flavor compounds, the results aren’t conclusive. Not to mention, this study ignores the color, texture, and quantity of the different ingredients, which are all factors in determining what foods actually taste good together. Because as Julia Child once said, “… cooking is a serious art form.”But here’s the thingThe more flavor compounds, the better it tastes, right? Not quite. That rule only works for Western European and American cuisines. Ahn created a separate taste map to explain this. These Western cuisines previously mentioned often share similar flavor compounds, while East Asian cuisines actually prefer foods that have opposite flavor compounds. 56,498Number of recipes used to create the map. They came from epicurious.com, allrecipes.com, and menupan.com, a Korean-language recipe site, so as to avoid a completely Western interpretation of cuisine. 20,951Number of times egg is found in the recipe database. That’s more than one third of the total number of recipes. 8The average number of ingredients found in any given recipe. 10 quadrillionThe potential number of recipes that could be created using the ingredients found from the three recipe websites. About the professorYong Yeol Ahn has been an assistant professor at the School of Informatics and Computing since 2011. He says working on this map piqued his own curiosity in the culinary arts, choosing to try out dishes like Spaghetti Bolognese in his own kitchen. Ahn published the mappings in October 2011 with Sebastien E. Ahnert, James P. Bagrow, and Albert-Laszio Barabasi and has received recognition throughout the foodie community. He says he’s been contacted by several chefs who want to hang the taste map up in their restaurant as a piece of art.
(02/19/13 2:12am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____> "Mason Meth Lab” a computerized voice reports from an iPhone. It’s a Saturday morning and for 29-year-old master’s student Misty Kienzynski, that voice means she’s on her way to Wright Food Court for a big breakfast. “It always says that around here,” she says, walking down Union Street toward Seventh. She’s using BlindSquare, a GPS app that uses FourSquare and OpenStreetMaps to find out a user’s surroundings and relay it back to them. Except, it doesn’t always work the way it should. Her white-tipped cane rattles along the concrete, retracing a semi-circle over and over again in front of her. Born with Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a genetic condition that inhibited her retinal cells from forming properly, Misty is blind — or visually impaired. Or, well, it’s not really about the label, she says. Her vision is 20/200 with glasses and 20/400 without, but it’s more than just a bad prescription, she says. She doesn’t have peripheral vision, and everything she sees is dimmer than what would be considered normal. “For me, I’ve been used to this all my life,” she says. At Wright she instinctively reaches for the door handle and makes her way inside and on to the stairs. It’s 9:30 a.m. on a weekend, so the food court is mostly empty. When it’s crowded she says she walks much slower. “With a cane you can only feel someone’s feet,” she says, which can get hectic when there are crowds of students holding trays sticking out from their upper bodies. She walks up to the cashier and requests a sighted-guide to help her pick out her food, and another employee arrives to help. Misty takes a step behind the woman and grabs hold of the back of her right elbow, keeping her cane in the other hand. First, they head to the cereal shelf where the guide reads each cereal’s name aloud. Misty could do it herself, but she can only see about two to three letters at a time while she reads, so she says it’s more efficient to do it this way. She picks the Trix. They move on and the guide helps her order bacon, eggs, and biscuits and gravy at Flamingo’s Grill, fill up a bowl with strawberries, check out with a cashier, and get situated at a table by the window. Misty navigates her way through her meal using a combination of touch and sight. “I can tell its bacon because it’s the darkest,” she says. At home she says she tries to put lighter foods on dark plates and darker foods on light plates so there’s a strong contrast. But here it’s tougher to discern where to place her knife and fork to cut her fried eggs on the white plastic plate. For every plastic utensil she feels the ends to determine which is the knife, the fork, and the spoon. With the Trix, she feels all four corners of the container’s paper lid and pulls back when she finds the correct pullback tab — it’s slightly longer than the rest. Next she opens the milk, but before pouring she sticks her pointer finger directly into the cereal, so she can feel the liquid to prevent any overflows. “Looking normal comes second to doing things efficiently,” she says. Over the years she’s taught herself little tricks to get around her lack of vision. And though she’s adjusted to her lifestyle, she says living with a visual impairment can create a lot of social barriers. Often people will unconsciously associate her physical disability with a mental disability, even though this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Misty graduated as valedictorian of her class from the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in 2001, and has since gone on to receive her bachelor’s degree in classical studies from the University of Evansville, and is working on her second master’s degree from IU. “People will talk down to me like I’m two,” she says. “It makes my blood boil. My initial knee-jerk reaction is to be like, ‘Really?’” When she’s ready to go, she leaves her tray on the table. Another food court employee will pick it up, she says. Her hands are full with her cane in her right hand and an umbrella in the other. Leaving Wright, she steps out into the clear January sun. “Wow, that’s bright,” she says, shielding her eyes with her hand. Down Campbell Street, left on Seventh, and a right on Union Street back up to Willkie Quad. It’s a planned route, and she never deviates from the sidewalk. When she first got to campus she used an Orientation and Mobility training guide to help her get used to her new surroundings on campus. But now, on this morning, like most other Saturdays on campus, it’s just a part of her routine.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>“Six, seven, eight!” senior Joe Musiel shouts over the music. It’s 10 p.m. on a Tuesday, and in a rehearsal five days before a performance, every second counts.The music is picking up now, and the dancers are entering the fastest part of a near nine-minute routine. Musiel stands on the scuffed marley floor of the School of Public Health’s dance studio with his hands on his hips, eyes wide and focused. A blue Cookie Monster hat sits backwards on his head. Musiel’s piece, “The Walls,” is one of nine pieces choreographed by seniors to be performed Sunday at the John Waldron Arts Center as part of a senior contemporary dance major show “Diverging Art, Converging Artists.” It is a culmination of a semester’s worth of rehearsals. The group just finished learning the dance last week. “Some majors have a senior thesis,” senior contemporary dance major Kaylan Knutsen said. “That’s kind of what this is for us.”While Musiel has choreographed many dances throughout his time at IU, exploring concepts and characters ranging from what it’s like to be left at the altar to what happens to a fallen angel, this is his first piece inspired by a personal struggle. “I had grown up having walls,” he said. “I was afraid of being hurt.” Growing up, Musiel moved around a lot. Born in Buffalo, New York, he eventually made his way to Fishers, Ind. Switching schools nearly every year made making new friends more and more difficult. He put up walls to cope, he said. “I had decided I just won’t make friends anymore,” Musiel said. “And then I got to college, and you’re with people for four years. It’s hard to keep people out.” The dance, comprised of three sections, shows a similar path. Knutsen, wearing a white lace dress representing her character’s innocence and naiveté, is pulled slowly on stage supported by several other dancers in navy, representing the walls that both support and hinder her growth.“Here in college, it’s a personal journey, not feeding into what other people expect of you,” Knutsen said. The second section is faster and more forceful, as Knutsen’s character realizes she doesn’t want the walls anymore and breaks them down.Meanwhile, senior Kelli Dowling plays a character that Musiel describes as “the one piece of bad fruit that ruined everything.” The more she tries to fix the walls, the more everything falls out of sync.“As the piece progresses, I get more of a voice, I guess,” Knutsen said. “Once I have broken Kelli down completely, it’s like a liberation — a freeing of sorts.” In the final scene, Knutsen’s character looks back at the walls, seeing how life was with them and how her future will be without them. “It’s kind of like when you dream,” Musiel said. “There are different segments, but you’re asleep the whole time.” While Musiel said he had this concept in mind from the start, he didn’t begin choreography until he was in the studio with his ensemble and pressed “play” for the first time on his laptop.“I work the opposite way of most other choreographers,” he said. Rather than preparing material before a rehearsal, Musiel chooses to pull inspiration from the dancers’ energy in the studio. Musiel said he never writes down his choreography either. “Once I teach it to you, it’s yours,” he said. “Because then I’ll forget it, and then I’ll have to come up with something not as good.” Though Musiel’s dance explains a specific struggle from his own personal experience, he said the audience can understand his choreography in any number of ways. “That’s the nice thing about dance,” Knutsen said. “It’s always up for interpretation.”
(11/27/12 5:28am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>“Narrowing down any list is a challenge,” Jon Vickers says. But we made him do it anyway. “Blade Runner” 1982 Set in Los Angeles in the year 2019, this film questions what it is to be human in a world with an increasing population of androids. And of course, you can catch Harrison Ford in his prime, still riding the 1981 success of “Indiana Jones.” “It’s a great combination of genres. Sci-fi and noir detective,” he says. Though it was a flop at the box office, Vickers says this film was greatly underappreciated and has since gained a following. “2001: A Space Odyssey” 1968 Though Vickers says that some may complain about its lack of dialogue and speed, “it’s visually and orally stunning.” In the movie, the supercomputer, H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a mission to find a mysterious “something” buried beneath the moon’s surface — kind of sounds like IU’s new supercomputer, Big Red II. “Ghost in the Shell” 1995 This anime film actually helped inspire the Wachowski brothers’ vision of “The Matrix” four years later. “They tried to do what was done in anime in live action,” Vickers says. The film is about a futuristic cop on the hunt for a powerful hacker known only as “Puppet Master.”“Alien” and “Aliens” 1979 and 1986 “One of the most pure exciting films in science fiction,” Vickers says. Sigourney Weaver leads the crew of a deep space towing commercial ship onto an unknown planet and, you guessed it, meets aliens. Friend or foe? Watch to find out.“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” 1991 Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the role of the savior in this sequel despite his bad guy part in “Terminator.” “It’s as action-packed and exciting as it gets, and the sound is topnotch.” The film actually nabbed four Academy Awards in 1992 for makeup, sound, visual effects, and sound effects. “A Clockwork Orange” 1971 Set in Great Britain’s not-so-distant future, a teenager is charged with rape and murder and sentenced to receive a new kind of therapy treatment that will avert him to all violence. But once he gets out, what’s a boy to do in a bad, bad world? “It’s very violent, definitely not for everyone,” Vickers says. It looks at social institutions that think they’re doing something good, but really aren’t, he says.Guilty Pleasure: “American Astronaut” 2001 Described as a sci-fi/Western/ musical, it uses simple set design and incredible lighting guaranteed to blow your mind, Vickers says.“A testament to what an artist can do with no budget,” he says.
(11/27/12 5:28am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>“Narrowing down any list is a challenge,” Jon Vickers says. But we made him do it anyway. “Blade Runner” 1982 Set in Los Angeles in the year 2019, this film questions what it is to be human in a world with an increasing population of androids. And of course, you can catch Harrison Ford in his prime, still riding the 1981 success of “Indiana Jones.” “It’s a great combination of genres. Sci-fi and noir detective,” he says. Though it was a flop at the box office, Vickers says this film was greatly underappreciated and has since gained a following. “2001: A Space Odyssey” 1968 Though Vickers says that some may complain about its lack of dialogue and speed, “it’s visually and orally stunning.” In the movie, the supercomputer, H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a mission to find a mysterious “something” buried beneath the moon’s surface — kind of sounds like IU’s new supercomputer, Big Red II. “Ghost in the Shell” 1995 This anime film actually helped inspire the Wachowski brothers’ vision of “The Matrix” four years later. “They tried to do what was done in anime in live action,” Vickers says. The film is about a futuristic cop on the hunt for a powerful hacker known only as “Puppet Master.”“Alien” and “Aliens” 1979 and 1986 “One of the most pure exciting films in science fiction,” Vickers says. Sigourney Weaver leads the crew of a deep space towing commercial ship onto an unknown planet and, you guessed it, meets aliens. Friend or foe? Watch to find out.“Terminator 2: Judgment Day” 1991 Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the role of the savior in this sequel despite his bad guy part in “Terminator.” “It’s as action-packed and exciting as it gets, and the sound is topnotch.” The film actually nabbed four Academy Awards in 1992 for makeup, sound, visual effects, and sound effects. “A Clockwork Orange” 1971 Set in Great Britain’s not-so-distant future, a teenager is charged with rape and murder and sentenced to receive a new kind of therapy treatment that will avert him to all violence. But once he gets out, what’s a boy to do in a bad, bad world? “It’s very violent, definitely not for everyone,” Vickers says. It looks at social institutions that think they’re doing something good, but really aren’t, he says.Guilty Pleasure: “American Astronaut” 2001 Described as a sci-fi/Western/ musical, it uses simple set design and incredible lighting guaranteed to blow your mind, Vickers says.“A testament to what an artist can do with no budget,” he says.
(11/27/12 5:03am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Paper fortune tellers, better known as “cootie catchers” among the 10-year-old girl circuit, were originally used to pour salt in 17th century Japan. They were introduced to the English-speaking world as a “salt cellar” in a book called “Fun With Paper Folding” in 1928. Though the term “cootie catcher” comes from the ability to pick someone’s cooties off using the pincer-like paper structure. Note: not the best way to make a new friend in E201.