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madamsixx · 4 years

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Beyond The Leather: Chapter 12: You’re Invited, But Your Friends Can’t Come

August 1985

It was My Bazzar Magazine Fashion New York Shoot today and I was very excited. I never thought I would get to this point. My Sports Illustrated Magazine shoot gave me more opportunities. I was getting more calls to do more magazines and more calls for movie auditions next year. I was making more money then I could imagine, and Tamara was over the moon with how I was presenting my self.

Speaking of Tamara, she had no clue about what happened with me when I went out with the Motley boys. And I wasn't planning on telling her.

"Hey girl you ready for your shoot?" Lisa asks walking into my change room.

"Just about." I smile.

"Don't smile." The glam team states as there doing my make up.

"Sorry."

I was finally done and I was ready to go. I looked amazing. I walked over to Lisa who was holding a camera. She wanted to take a picture with me. And I was happy to. We walked out of the room and into the hall. She looked like she wanted to say something but was a bit hesitant to.

"What's wrong Lisa?" I stopped her and asked.

"Its nothing it's just.... I haven't heard from Vince since the after party and.. I mean.... well... he told me he would call me." She shrugs.

I should have told Lisa this is how they behave. They sleep with girls and take off. You can't expect a real relationship to come from any one of them. Not even Tommy who is gaga over Heather.

"Look I'm going to take my pictures and then when Im done we'll talk more about this." I continued walking.

"Ok. It could probably be because Nikki got you high and drunk. Maybe that's why he's avoiding me." She crossed her arms.

I stopped in my tracks and looked at Lisa with wide eyes. What did she mean by Nikki got me high and drunk.

"Wait Nikki said I drank too much punch that had whiskey in it." I stated.

"You did buuuut when you were alittle tipsy he gave you brownies that had weed in it. And then got you high and took you to the bar and ordered you cranberry juice and jack. And that got you drunk." She giggled. "I thought he told you."

My breathing started to get heavy. I should have known that he would do that. And what makes it worse is that he was busy calling the hotel begging to speak me. And I let his call come through and spoke to him. He was talking casually to me like he didn't do a single thing. Every time I think he's a good guy something always comes up to tell me other wise. I even went as far as to thank him for taking care of me while I was drunk. Not knowing that he was the one that actually got me to that point.

"Mani....Mani." Lisa hit my shoulder.

"Sorry I'm good let's just go." I continued walking out to the set. I was to be taking a picture beside a white stallion in a barn area of some sort out side. I felt agitated and annoyed. I was suppose to be focusing on this shoot but instead I was focused on how much I was starting to hate Nikki. And hate is a strong word that we should not be using. But I'm using it, and it's being used on Nikki Sixx.

"Alright Miss Darlington grab the horse." The photographer shouted. I grabbed the horse with thoughts of Nikki in my head. Is there a reason why he didn't tell me that he was the one that got me drunk. Questions were running through my mind and I needed answers.

"Alright that's a wrap". The photographer shouted.

I headed towards my dressing room and just sat there looking at my self in the mirror.

Nikki Sixx equals trouble. ________

September 25, 1985

I have been waiting for this week to come by and it is finally here. New York fashion week. It was being held in Manhattan at the skylight Clarkson Square. I already booked 15 shows and was paid a lot of money for it. I walked down the aisle with my head held high owning it. Tamara actually cried, I was shocked. But she was so happy to see me up there.

My whole family showed up for the show. And also some friends. I called Slash and his family to see if they could come but unfortunately he wasn't able too. However he did have some good news for me. He found a band in July. He was trying to get a hold of me but I was so busy it was hard for us to talk. I think the bands name is Guns N Roses. He told me that they were playing in LA at clubs like the Whisky a Go Go, Trabadour, and The Roxy. After im finished in New York I'll head down to LA to check out there gig. I'm very happy for him.

Also Motley Crues Theater of pain album has been climbing to the top of the charts. So much for Vince saying that the album sucked. Speaking of Vince, I invited him to come and watch me walk my first runway. But not just for that, today was the last day of fashion week. But it's also my Birthday, and I'm having a party well actually a dinner. Vince agreed not to tell the other guys seeing as my family was here and I didnt want anything bad to happen. My mom really liked Vince. It turns out that Vince was quite the charmer. My sisters even liked him. Me and Vince agreed not to say anything about Vince being in the band Motley Crue.... for now. We settled on him being Lisa's date. And yes I got Vince to call Lisa, I felt really bad. But is it weird that I was starting to like Vince..... a lot.

As for Nikki he called and tried to talk to me but I confronted him and ended up hanging the phone on his lying behind. He's been calling non stop after that leaving crazy messges. Personally, I think he's psychotic. He should have just told the truth. But knowing him, its always lies that come out of his mouth. And I wasn't going to beleive a single thing he had to say.

We ate dinner and everyone got along well. I finally had somthing go right... for now. _______

October 18, 1985, Toronto Canada

12:00 pm

A couple days after my first runway and birthday I headed home for a bit of a much needed break. Especially because I was doing interview after interview and commercials. Me and my sisters just got back from shopping we bought alot of things, well I bought alot of things. Just to have some sister time felt so good. Since I became famous we haven't spent alot of time with each other so it was nice going out.

We started taking our clothes out of our shopping bags and trying them on.

"This dress is really nice I should wear it when we go out some time." I looked over at Selena she's the oldest but shes really short. She put on a short blue dress and it really looked nice on her.

"I think so too. I like this skirt and top." I say putting the clothing on the bed matching them together. "You guys care too much about what you wear it's annoying." Felicia my younger sister is a tom boy she likes wearing mostly T-shirts and sweat pants. Where as Selena and I like dressing up. Maya the youngest was 2 so we usually dressed her up.

"Iman phone!" My mom yelled.

"Who is it?" I asked

"Vince!"

I ran to go get the phone. "Vince hey what's up!"

"Hey Mani, guess what?"

"What?" I said,

"Motley Crue is in Toronto baby!"

He shouted with excitment. I thought he was joking but when I looked and saw the number on the phone. I realized it was a number at one of the hotels downtown.

"No way, oh my God we have to chill."

"Hell yeah we do girl. So uuuuh can you call up some of your friends and come down to the Maple Leaf Gradens show today?"

"Is that where you guys are playing?"

"Yeah you should come watch us. This show is gonna be fucking crazy!"

"Considering what happened last time when I went to go see you guys in New York and ended up a drunk mess in Nikki's room. I think it would be a great idea to pass on that. I can meet you before the show and we can go out. I know some really fun places."

"Oh yeah sorry about that."

"We'll talk more when I see you, what hotel are you staying at?"

"The Hilton. Meet me there for about 4."

"Sounds great."

"Listen I didnt-"

(Loud yelling)

"Hello, hello, Vince?" All I could hear was loud yelling and the phone being hit around.

"Hello.... Vince?"

"Mani?"

I can't even tell you how fast I dropped the phone. It was Nikki. And I had no intention of speaking to him. ________

3:15 pm

I called up some of my friends and we drove down to the Hilton. My crew was Mia, Ashley, and Anna. We met in elementary school and stayed friends. They have always been there for me. We had other friends but us four were the tightest. We were ride or dies. They were so excited to meet Vince. My friends are like me but a bit worse. I won't lie they're very judgemental divas and would never settle for less. Oh like me, so never mind. I told them about the rest of the Motley boys. But they weren't interested in them especially because of the way they looked. We finally made it to the hotel and I called Vince from downstairs.

"Hey there sugar!" Vince shouted.

"Hey Vince!" I shouted back. I ran and gave him a big hug. We both walked backed to my friends. They started giggling and smiling as if me and Vince were a couple.

"My friend Mia drove so were going to go in her car and go to this wings place." I smiled.

Vince put his arm around me and smiled with all teeth. "That sounds great sweetheart."

"Yeah that does sound great." We heard a voice behind us and we all turned around. It was Nikki and Tommy.

"Oh h..hey guys. Uh we were just heading out." Vince said in a nervous voice. Nikki was glaring at me. It was a look that I couldn't even read. But I knew he was angry. And so was Tommy.

"Hope we can join you. I mean we weren't invited." Tommy snorted and glared at us.

"Theres no room in my car. It only seats five people sorry." Mia stated and smirked at Tommy.

"Sweety we don't need your cheap car we have limos. Were rockstars." Nikki and Tommy pushed passed us and walked out.

This was going to be a very chaotic afternoon. ______

We arrived at Wings Palace and everyone ordered what they wanted. The boys were so loud and ordered alot of alcohol. They started getting very rowdy and people were staring at us. Some were disapproving of them while others were taking pictures of us. Young fans came over to ask for autographs and some girls would even go as far as to ask them to sign there breasts. And I mean lift up there shirts right there with no bra. Yuk.

"So why the fuck weren't we invited out hmm?" Tommy asked looking at me.

"Uh well..... I didn't know if you wanted to come." I scratched my head. Wow Iman great lie Tommy's down for anything.

"I smell a bullshitter." Nikki snorted looking at me.

"What ever Nikki." I rolled my eyes. Nikki sat right beside me in the booth he was on the right I was in the middle and Mia on my other side. Vince sat across, he was in the middle Anna on his right and Ashley on his left he had both arms around them. They were in heaven. Tommy sat in chair pulled up to the table.

"So Vince what's it's like being a Rock Star. I see the whole bad boys behaviour on TV but you honestly don't look the type." Ashley smiled.

"Pfft." Nikki snorted "Vince is just as bad as us."

"Probably, but he looks better that's for sure." Anna cooed.

"Why cause he's a blonde hair bitch." Tommy and Nikki laughed.

"Y'know jealousy dosen't look good on you two." Ashley sneered.

"Neither does your hair cut." Nikki laughed.

I turned and glared at Nikki. "knock it off." I hissed.

"Fuck off." He said flipping me off.

"Here are your wings boys." The server said as she brought our wings. She looked over at Nikki and smiled.

"Thank you bye now." I shooed her away.

"Jealous are we." Nikki smirked.

"I would never be jealous of a girl that wanted to talk to you." I snorted.

"You know Iman at one point I actually thought you were a cool chick, but seeing as you didn't even want me and Sixx around to meet your stiff friends I think your a fucking bitch." Tommy says waving his hands at me.

"Wow real classy I can see why she didn't invite you two losers." Mia said as she bit a wing.

"Fuck you stupid cunt!" Nikki shouted throwing wings at Mia.

"Nikki stop!" I shouted.

"Get these losers out of here. You think because your rockstars you can talk to people any how you want!" Mia shouted.

"Ok woah guys now calm down." Vince raised his hands up.

"This is why I didnt invite you two. Everytime I go out with you two something always happens. Your either drunk or high or both!" I yelled and pushed Nikki out of the booth.

Nikki got up and thrashed the table throwing all the food to the floor and spilling the drinks every where on everyone.

"Fuck you bitches! I heard you were hear and I wanted to say sorry for what I did last time!" He gestured to me. "But I change my mind, you deserved to look like a drunken whore at that party!" Nikki yelled in my face.

My eyes went wide. I didn't know whether I wanted to slap him across the face or kill him. Instead, I got out of the booth and ran out of the building. I had enough of this guy and I wasn't going to put up with him any longer.

"Iman wait!" Nikki shouted and ran after me.

I picked up my pace and ran faster with tears filling my eyes and running down my cheeks. I didnt want to see any one, I just wanted to get as far away from them as possible. I ran straight inside the downtown Library were I knew I wouldn't be found.

"Iman!" Nikki shouted, or I thought I wouldn't be found. I ran up the stairs and stood in the corner of the library. Taking my hands and rubbing my wet face.

"God Nikki just leave me alone!" I shouted.

"No!" He shouted back.

"Shh" we were both startled by the librarian who came over to us "This is a quiet library not a place for you guys to be yelling. You can do that outside." The librarian hissed. We both looked at each other and rolled our eyes.

"Please just leave me alone Nikki." I whispered.

"No." He argues. "Not until you hear me out." I rolled my eyes.

"Look princess I fucked up at the party when I got you drunk ok and I'm sorry. I didn't tell you because... because I knew if I did you would never speak to me again. And I didn't want that for us."

I sighed."Nikki I would rather you tell me the truth than lie in my face. It makes me wonder what else you actually lie about."

"Ok you want to talk truth. Well why did you invite Vince to your first runway and Birthday? You didn't even tell me, Tommy, or fucking Mick about it? What kind of bullshit is that?" Nikki raised his voice turning me to face him.

I should kill Vince for saying anything to them. I told him not to and now I have to answer for it.

"Well me and Vince became close we talk now and then. I tell him about things I'm doing and he tells me about the things he's doing." I say looking at my feet. I looked back up and Nikki and he just had a sad expression on his face.

"And you can't do that with me? That's what your basically trying to say right?"

"No Nikki I cant! And I don't want to!" I said that with a harsh tone. I wanted to hurt him like he hurt my feelings back at Wings Palace and for every other place he had hurt me. But when I looked into his eyes he looks like he could cry right now. And I felt a bit guilty for what I said. Until his face changed into the angry Nikki I was used to seeing.

"Fine fuck you then!" He snapped and walked away.

I met back up with my friends and we hung around later then I expected. We stayed for the show which turned out to be great. I had to call my mom from the arena so she wouldn't freak out. But she wanted me home anyways. We said our goodbyes to Vince and Mick. Tommy and Nikki ignored me and my friends. So that was a great night. Not!

_____ 3.22 am

I was in my room sleeping when all of a sudden a car horn started going off outside and someone started screaming my name at the top of their lungs. It was probably a crazy fan. All the lights went on and everyone ran out of their rooms and headed to the front door. I looked out the door and..oh my God it was Nikki. He was smiling drunkenly at me with his Jack Daniel's bottle in his hand. He was still in his stage clothes and he looked like a mess. Tommy was with him grabbing him trying to get him back in the car. How the hell did they know where I lived.

"Oh there look T bone! Awww theres my princess! Look how fucking beautiful you are!" Nikki slurred.

I moved and hid behind the door so he wouldnt see me again. I can't believe this guy came here like this. I'm so embarrassed.

"No! Mani baby please I'm sorry. I just...I'm a mess!" He slurred and fell on the ground with his bottle spilling.

"Who is this man?" My mom yelled "call security right now and get these dirty drunks off my property now!" My demanded. "Get off my property or I'll call the cops!" She yelled in there direction.

"Look im really sorry I'll take him home please don't call the cops!" Tommy shouted back.

"Mani baby just wait for me please. I'll get my shit together I promise! Just dont break yours!" Nikki shouted as Tommy picked him up and through him in the back of the car.

"I'm really sorry!" Tommy shouted and waved. He got in his car and drove off.

My mom shut the door and looked at me with a straight face. "Start talking now!" She shouted at me.

"I don't... I don't know those guys." I said with a hesitant voice.

"Do not lie in my face. Cause if I find out that your involved with any guy. You are done with your career. Especially if he looks like that pile of junk outside! They look like a bunch of leather head rock stars! Well not for my daughter! You will get a good Catholic man!" My mom pointed in my face.

"I don't know him, it happens in LA a lot when I'm on the streets." I whispered. I was terrified of my mom. I felt like I was about to pee in my pants when she gave me that look. The sweat was drizzling down my face and in my Pitts. My breathing was heavy and I felt like I was going to pass out.

"Good for nothing rock star junkies is what they are." She walked away and my sisters looked at me then walked upstairs to there room. I hated lying to my mom, but this lie had to be told.

I walked up to my room and I couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. I thought about the promise that I made to Nikki. A promise that unfortunately I would have to break. My mom would never accept Nikki. Even if I ended up falling in love with someone like him. She could never accept him for all his chains and leather.

#nikki sixx #vince neil #tommy lee #mick mars #motley crue #the dirt #model #chanel iman

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themurphyzone · 4 years

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104 Words for 104 Days: Advice

This was supposed to be a ficlet, but Stacy’s dialogue just ran away with me. This fic takes place after Tales of the Resistance, so Doofenshmirtz is no longer in jail.

Candace Flynn dedicated her life to order and justice. She protected her brothers from the nefarious schemes of the Doofenshmirtz family. She led a group of rebels, knew seventy-five ways to disarm Normbots, and served as a beacon of hope in the chaos of dystopian Danville.

And now here she was, willingly breaking several laws of physics in order to satisfy her own selfish whims.

Since it took an enormous amount of power to travel counterclockwise between dimensions, Isabella and the Firestorm Girls could only perform three reconnaissance missions into the Prime Dimension, but the information they brought back was invaluable.

“We’ve scoped out prime counterpart Candace Gertrude Flynn. She’s in the sophomore class at Danville High School,” Isabella reported. “Associates include prime counterparts Stacy Hirano, Jenny Brown, and Jeremy Johnson.

“Don’t use my middle name under any capacity, Isabella,” Candace commanded as she tugged on a denim jacket.

It felt restricting, but it was necessary. Her normal outfit would be considered a violation of the dress code, and she needed to blend in while talking to the other Candace.

“Of course, Commander,” Isabella replied coolly. “Recon suggests catching Prime Candace between 1:30 and 2:00 pm. She typically excuses herself from class in Room 217 and goes to the large window at the end of the second floor corridor to watch the nearby elementary school for her brothers’ activity. Her associates don’t accompany her on these outings.”

“Good,” Candace said. She glanced in a nearby mirror, making sure the black dye completely covered any sign of her natural hair color. Dyeing hair was something she couldn’t do under Doofenshmirtz’s reign. She’d been meaning to experiment with different colors in her minimal spare time.

“Be careful,” Isabella cautioned.

“I won’t compromise anything except the power grid,” Candace replied.

Five minutes later, Baljeet finished the usual safety checks and opened the portal, which opened in the middle of an empty girl’s bathroom.

Buford and Baljeet let out high-pitched shrieks and dove under the desk.

Candace rolled her eyes. Those two were the perfect brains and brawn team, and Candace had witnessed them tear apart a Normbots factory with nothing but a paperclip and a yardstick, but they couldn’t handle the sight of a girl’s bathroom.

“Isabella and Gretchen. Since those two are…temporarily indisposed…can I trust you to man the controls in the meantime?” Candace asked as she stepped through the portal.

Isabella and Gretchen nodded, the portal fizzling out just as the door opened. Candace immediately dropped into a crouch, regretting that she’d left her bo staff behind.

The newcomer wore a bright blue blouse with a matching skirt, so unlike the dull gray and black outfits of Candace’s home dimension. Candace’s finely-tuned senses screamed at the unnaturalness of this world.

Thanks to the recon team, Candace already knew the girl was another version of Stacy Hirano. Horror slowly dawned Stacy’s face, and she let out a shriek. “Do you have any idea how dirty those floors are? Have you never been inside a high school restroom before?”

Candace never felt the need to step foot inside the rebuilt high school, but she didn’t entertain that with a reply. She stood up, quickly rinsing her hands in a nearby sink.

“Trust me, you don’t want germs all over your denim jacket. It’s cute in a 90s-early 2000s teen way,” Stacy explained as she stopped in front of a restroom stall. Instead of going in, she took out a sharpened pencil and examined the stall door. “Ugh, Mandy’s dating Carlos again. This is the third time they’ve gotten back together this month! When’s that girl gonna learn?”

She scrawled a message under a large pink heart with C + J in the middle of it.

Candace felt her cheeks heat up. Her counterpart had no subtlety whatsoever.

“You know, I don’t think I’ve seen you around before,” Stacy commented, finishing her message. “What’s your name?”

“Don’t you have class or somewhere to be?” Candace deflected.

Stacy shrugged. “Free period.”

“Fine. It’s…Gertrude,” Candace cursed inwardly, wondering why that was the first thing that popped in her head. A whole sea of false names she could’ve given, and it had to be her embarrassing middle name!

“Gertrude?” Stacy gave her an appraising look. “Funny. The only person I’ve known with that name is Candace.”

Candace grimaced when Stacy circled her, inspecting her disguise more closely. Maybe she’d banked on Stacy’s ditziness a little too much.

“Wait a sec, I know that neck!” Stacy gasped. “Candace, seriously! You really think I wouldn’t recognize my BFF? Though I don’t know if that hair dye is working out for you. I always thought you’d be better off with brown highlights.”

“It’s a disguise,” Candace said, in the most no-nonsense tone she could muster. “I’m from a different dimension. I didn’t get to do whatever normal teenagers do because I was too busy with the Resistance.”

Stacy blinked. “Resistance? Like against a dictator?”

Candace kept her mouth shut, deciding she’d better not give more information that wasn’t pertinent to her mission.

“So you’re like the YA version of Candace?”

Candace gave her a blank look.

Stacy shrugged. “You know, YA? Young adult genre where a clumsy teenage girl leads a ragtag group of misfits against a dystopian government and angsts about a love triangle with her childhood bestie and a mysterious bad boy she doesn’t know very well?”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Candace said. “All books except badly written autobiographies about the dictator were banned.”

Stacy grimaced. “Sheesh. That stinks. Not even a fashion magazine?”

Candace shrugged. “No, but that’s life. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go ask my counterpart about her Jeremy Johnson.”

“Probably not the best idea,” Stacy said. “If my Candace figured out you were another version of her, she’d blame her brothers and drag you off to her mom. Then you’ll disappear or get transported elsewhere. You don’t want that.”

“Her mom makes people disappear?” Candace asked, wondering how her recon team could’ve possibly missed that detail.

Stacy shrugged. “Not her mom, really. More like random green laser beams from the sky. They always happen when Candace tries to bust her brothers. But hey, I’d be more than happy to share what I know. Candace and I were best friends since elementary school. I promise I won’t tell her about you.”

The Stacy Hirano of Candace’s dimension usually coordinated supplies between Resistance bases. She didn’t lead from the front like Candace. They cooperated when necessary, but they weren’t nearly as close as these versions of Candace and Stacy.

“You will answer all questions to the best of your ability,” Candace said.

“You don’t need to treat this like an interrogation. Relax a little,” Stacy sighed. “Oh, who am I kidding? You wouldn’t be Candace Flynn if you were relaxed.”

“Alright, Hirano. First question. Why is your Jeremy attracted to Candace?”

Stacy scuffed the tile with her shoe, as if she hadn’t been expecting the question. Well, she should’ve known what she was getting into. “Starting with the loaded topic, huh? Sorry, I was expecting you to ask me about how they met or what they like or something simple like that.”

“I’m not moving to the next question until you answer.”

“Fine. I guess Jeremy likes her determination. Candace hasn’t succeeded in busting her brothers yet, but she’s always willing to try another method. She doesn’t let anything stop her either.”

Determination. Like how she’d been determined to overthrow Doofenshmirtz to create a world where her brothers could grow up peacefully and not have to give up their childhood whims.

“And he doesn’t mind her busting her brothers?”

The Doofenshmirtz family was still out there somewhere. What if they attacked while she was with Jeremy and neglecting her duties? Would Jeremy mind if she rushed off to thwart them?

“She’s always leaving in the middle of dates for busting purposes,” Stacy shrugged. “Jeremy’s pretty chill about it, as far as I know. He knows how much Phineas and Ferb mean to her. They even helped him cheat at a dance competition so he could impress her. Personally I found it a little freaky, but I guess love is a little blind to that sort of thing.”

Candace wasn’t sure about introducing Jeremy to Phineas and Ferb though. It was a big risk if Jeremy ever got captured. But at the same time, she could potentially entrust her brothers to someone else in an emergency. Isabella was a good lieutenant, but Jeremy had years of experience on her.

“Candace crushed on Jeremy since seventh grade. It took a lot of time and courage for her to take the next step,” Stacy said. “With a lot of pushing from me.”

“So you think I just need to have some courage and talk to him?” Candace asked. “Then what was the point of diverting the city’s power to open a portal and spy on you people to catch my counterpart at a good time?”

Suddenly her plan seemed ridiculous in hindsight. And she thought she was pretty good at planning missions.

To her credit, Stacy didn’t seem fazed about Candace spying on her. “I’ve read enough YA novels to know overthrowing dictators is easy for teenage girls. Boys are a different story. And it figures you wouldn’t do the simple thing and make a ridiculously complicated plan instead.”

“You got me there,” Candace admitted.

“So how’s the fashion in your dimension?” Stacy asked, switching topics so abruptly that Candace was caught off guard.

But only for a moment. It probably wouldn’t hurt to have a little fun. Candace began describing Dooferalls, much to Stacy’s growing horror.

Stacy was so revolted she ducked into a bathroom stall and begged Candace not to say anymore. Candace couldn’t help but laugh, even as the portal to her dimension reopened.

Realizing Isabella and the Firestorm Girls were staring, Candace quickly schooled her expression into her usual look of indifference. “Thank you for your help,” Candace said over her shoulder. “I have to go now. Remember to keep this a secret.”

“YOU BURDENED ME WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF DOOFERALLS!” Stacy screeched back.

The portal closed.

“Baljeet, dismantle the portal tech,” Candace ordered. “Our recon missions into that dimension are finished.”

“Did you find the other Candace?” Isabella asked.

“Not exactly. I talked to Stacy Hirano though. She gave some good advice,” Candace admitted. “Isabella, can I leave you to run a patrol around downtown tomorrow? I want to meet with Jeremy at the park.”

“You can count on me!” Isabella exclaimed.

“Excellent,” Candace said. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a phone call to make.”

She dialed Jeremy’s number, feeling more confidence in leading a normal life than ever before.

#104 words for 104 days #more of a oneshot than a ficlet #phineas and ferb #post 2nd dimension and tales of the resistance #2nd dimension candace #stacy hirano #mentions of jeremy

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deadskepticfiles · 5 years

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THE DREAMING PROPHET: EP 4 TRANSCRIPT

EPISODE FOUR: TELEPHONE GAMES (LINK)

Two can keep a secret, if none are in the Song. Spread those secrets to a whole boxcar, though, and some may slip through your fingers. Talking points: Secrets of the Prologue, of Hoadly Street, and of the Maze. Featuring guest, Spoder.

Spoiler + Content warning begins at 1:03. Content warnings: General horror.

Credits:

- lavanya: host, transcript, video editor, asset artist, speak-as-one's #1 fan

- astriferal: host, audio editor, puncher of things

- be11amy: advertising, fact-checking

- spoderman: guest

- xaviul: moral support

- intro & outro music, "ringing bells": a weirdly handsome individual

- transition audio clips, music, voice lines: the blackout club/question games - the blackout club: question games (https://www.blackoutclubgame.com)

lavanya [00:00:20] Good evening, Red Acre and welcome to your favorite nighttime show, the Dreaming Prophet. Now tonight, our episode is going to be discussing secrets, so in the spirit of sharing, I'm going to share a secret with you. And that secret is, even though some people say that we're yellow journalism, I like to think that we're leaning into McCarthyism and going full red.

lavanya [00:00:41] I'm your host Lavanya -.

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lavanya [00:00:45] - and we'll be your hosts for tonight.

astro [00:00:47] This is a Blackout Club show for Blackout Club players with minimal speculation, all lore, and a focus on the known facts. Tonight, our topic is secrets. We're going to be talking about secret passages secret law and everything you can find in the game if you just look a little bit below the surface.

lavanya [00:01:03] As always, it's time for us to get into our general content warnings. For once, this episode essentially has no warnings beyond general horror warnings. There are no children being harmed. There are no children being injured. And there is absolutely no death, or emotional distress, of any variety.

lavanya [00:01:20] This episode is good, wholesome fun, and a deep underground cave that exists underneath your town that is slowly swallowing up everything around it. But we do have a general spoiler warning! This episode is going to be heavily discussing the map in general, so we're going to be discussing the secret ways through the maps, some of the neat things that you find in it, and we're also going to be dissecting the prologue to a certain extent.

lavanya [00:01:46] So if you're the sort of person who really enjoys finding out all of these little niggling wiggly secrets yourself, then this is probably not the episode for you, because we're just going to ruin it all.

lavanya [00:02:06] And tonight we are going to have yet another co-host: this time, the lovely Spoder-Man.

spoder [00:02:12] Hi, I'm Spoder. I'm here to represent the Geek Squad.

lavanya [00:02:14] The most important squad of all. Remember, when you're choosing your outfit for the night, don't go for style. Don't go for fashion. Go for the absolute maximum amount of pink that you can physically cram onto your body.

lavanya [00:02:27] Grab that baby mask.

lavanya [00:02:28] Put it on.

lavanya [00:02:30] So there's a lot of secrets in the game and there's a surprising amount located in the prologue. We've primarily discussed the prologue during episode 1, and in episode 2.

lavanya [00:02:40] So if you need an overview of what happened in that, go ahead and take a minute to scroll on back, and rewatch those episodes. We are going to be focusing on all the interesting little details that you can find in it that you would otherwise miss, more so than explaining the plot itself!

lavanya [00:02:56] One of the first secrets that you will encounter during the prologue, and that you may not notice initially, is that there is a minor time distortion in the basement hallway as you're walking down it towards the television, before you actually watch the television. You'll notice that it seems to be stretching in front of you. What that essentially is is a time slow. If you walk back down into the basement after you have already watched the television, it will not occur.

lavanya [00:03:24] It's only when you're initially entering that everything will slow down as you approach that television.

spoder [00:03:29] After you repair the television and look back down the hallway, you'll see a shadow of your character, Bells, kneeling at the other end. If you close your eyes and then walk down the hallway, you're allowed to skip the trigger of the shadow disappearing and you can get an up close look at it as you pass into the living room again.

astro [00:03:44] You can also see the shape. His shadow appears on the ground through the window, and when you close your eyes you can see him there. Bells comments on this, saying, "I can see you!".

astro [00:03:54] But when you close your eyes again, he's gone.

lavanya [00:03:57] An important thing to note here is, unlike in the rest of the game either in the prologue or in the main multiplayer section, the Shape is completely flat. He has never hit the gym at this point in his development. He has probably never left his house before; this is his first foray into the world. And then, after the prologue, he starts hitting the gym.

lavanya [00:04:18] He's fully 3D.

spoder [00:04:19] This pre-swoll Shape might be caused by the fact that there are two different stages of Bells house: one before she wakes up, where the closet garage door and front door is all mysteriously missing and just replaced by flat walls. The second stage of her house is after she's woken up. All the doors - closet, garage, front - have returned, along with sound barriers and trucks in front of her house.

astro [00:04:42] This dream state also affects other parts of the house, and other parts of the sequence that follows as Bells goes on her quest. She will see things begin to appear in her living room - the unity tree, for instance - and streamers hanging from the ceiling.

astro [00:04:56] Before the Unity tree appears, though, you can see its reflection in the glass cabinet in the living room. This may be a bug, but it's also a really fascinating little bit of foreshadowing.

lavanya [00:05:08] In the office, there is a book that describes the prisoner's cinema, which is a fun link in to all these various Easter eggs they have.

lavanya [00:05:16] Essentially, the prisoner cinema is when you close your eyes and you see unusual lights in the darkness - or, sometimes, unusual shapes. This book adds a fascinating element to the game, on that we're pretty sure from the point of view of the child, that you're playing most of the things that you see are real. But as with basically everything in the prologue, it introduced the question of:.

lavanya [00:05:40] Is it actually real, or are you just seeing shapes in the darkness?

lavanya [00:05:44] Or are you seeing cards on your bed? Because, if after you fixed the TV, you backtrack all the way to Bells room and you look at the bed, there will be something added to it: specifically a prom invitation between Bells and a mysterious, identifiable black shape. This only appears during the dreaming state, so it's fairly clear that it's not really there.

lavanya [00:06:09] But that won't stop Bells from reacting, and freaking out over it.

spoder [00:06:13] After the Shape comes out and you're encouraged to run into your house to escape him, you're actually allowed to linger. And if you do, you can see them walking around your house. But you don't have to be scared of him. He can't actually see or hear you.

spoder [00:06:24] You can dance all you want, a foot in front of him, but he won't care.

lavanya [00:06:28] Bells talks constantly all throughout the prologue, reacting to everything that she sees. If you wait down in the observation room and just hang around - chill out, check your phone - then, eventually, she will start giving off secret voice lines, basically discussing whether or not she's completely insane, whether she's made this up, if she's actually having creepy detailed outline of her house in her basement, if she has a basement.

lavanya [00:06:54] All of that. Bells character is very well-defined throughout the prologue. We know what she wants, we know her motives, we know what she's scared of, ultimately, but these little extra voice lines are a fascinating insight into her character that otherwise she may not necessarily get.

astro [00:07:09] If you managed to break into the last door in the door hallway, you'll find a secret room there where the voice that you're speaking to chides you, saying taking our time, eh?

astro [00:07:21] And then offers you a replacement lock pick.

spoder [00:07:24] The code to the key pads later on the prologue are always the same. So if you know it, you're able to rush through that part quickly.

astro [00:07:33] Inside the main game, there's even more secrets. If you look around you can notice a few patterns about the world that you're in. For instance, for a very low tech area, Red Acre has a lot of tech magazines. You can find them stacked up in various houses, indicating the owner's interest.

astro [00:07:49] In 919, in fact, there's one magazine on the coffee table that you can pick up. It's the only one in the game. There's no reason that you can pick it up and you probably aren't supposed to, given that it's the only item in the game that doesn't have a black and white icon in your inventory, but it is very fun to pick up.

lavanya [00:08:08] 918 Hadley is.. If you ask basically anyone who's played the game, it is widely agreed upon to be the best house out of all the houses available. And why is that, you might be asking? It's because it's the fucking SAO house.

lavanya [00:08:22] 918 Hadley has lovely Chiara's room. She has two of everything in her room: two beanbags, two bunnies on her dresser with a cup wedged beautifully between them. If you look at the floor, she's even got all of her blocks arranged in stacks of two. She's even had two backpacks, though god only fucking knows what a child needs two backpacks for. And on the wall she has "I'M 11", except the thing is it's not that she's 11 - it's a symbol with her face wedged right between the two arches.

lavanya [00:08:55] And if you can get over seeing double in Chiara's room, and you head down into the basement you'll end up in Devin's room. And Devin is one of the few named characters in the game, at this point, who we've had the chance to explore their character in depth to the same extent that we've seen Bells.

lavanya [00:09:12] Devin is featured or mention in 6 of the journal entries, which is the most information that we've had to one character so far. And if you head down into the basement, you'll be in their room! Their room is not quite as amazing as Chiara's room, because there is no religious symbology whether it's from false, fake-ass voices, or the one true voice. They do have posters. They have a picture of what may very well be themself with a slightly questionable mohawk.

lavanya [00:09:41] And they have a button up on the wall.. but not much else. If you want to hear more about Chiara and Devin, then you're in luck because 918 is one of the few houses that has numerous, as I mentioned before, journal entries dedicated to its inhabitants. You can go ahead and read anything in the 918 category, which includes Harper and the letter to Alberta, Devon's diary excerpts 1 to 3, or the mom call transcript 1 through 2.

lavanya [00:10:09] If you don't have these journal entries unlocked yet, then this is a great time to either hop to the official community discord and go ahead and ask someone - because people are always willing to give you information - or else you can always just ask your friends. Because one of the best things about the Blackout Club, as always, is sharing information with other people that you're playing with, and being able to share your theories as you're going through it.

spoder [00:10:36] 920 doesn't have all that much to go on, but we do know a few things, like how the family has twins - as we can tell by the two beds in the kids room. It also has a very creepy inventory manifest as its only journal entry, where we learn the names of the twins: Marshall and Margo Wellesley.

lavanya [00:10:53] 921 Hoadley's an interesting case in that we know absolutely jack and shit about the residents. What's their names? Who knows. What do they do with their lives? Who knows. There are no journal entries for this house. There is no maze access inside the house, and there are no mentions of the residence or anything else from the other journal entries. We do have some minor information, which leads to a fun secret that you can find in the game!

lavanya [00:11:20] One - or both of the parents who live in 921 Hoadley - are members of the military. They have a prisoner of war flag outside of their house. They have two medals up on their wall, and they have pictures, and they have military souvenirs all over the place.

lavanya [00:11:35] Which, at first - this may not seem noteworthy in itself, but if you go across the street from 921 Hadley, and you look at the deer statue, you'll find something interesting. It has a plaque on it that says:.

lavanya [00:11:46] Deer Fall Park: dedicated to the men and woman of the township who have faithfully served to preserve our freedom presented by its grateful residents in 1983.

lavanya [00:12:00] So, that's a fun secret to find inside of the game! You won't necessarily notice that normally, but it does give us a rough time for when Red Acre has at least been around since, and it gives a hint at least some aspect of 921 Hadley and that, maybe, whatever they did in the military was so noteworthy, or so well respected inside of Red Acre, that they got a fucking statue for it?

astro [00:12:21] 922 Hadley is Siobhan and Niolle's house.

astro [00:12:25] This house has four relevant journal entries. The Niolle Baby Book entries 1 through 3, and the Red Acre police report. In this report, Colm Ryan is mentioned - presumably Siobhan's brother. His room is the storage room and the upstairs across the hall from the master bedroom. It has a weird altar in the corner. There's a symbol on it that we can't quite recognize. And that appears nowhere else in the game. It appears to be a triskelion: three legs, walking in a circle, and it also appears to be broken.

lavanya [00:12:57] If you head over 1001 Hoadley, then that is the Quiroga's house. Maligras Quiroga is noteworthy in that she has one journal entry that she directly writes, that is Maligra's Letter to the school board.

lavanya [00:13:13] Essentially, she's one of the few people in Red Acre that is not interested in maintaining complete isolation for the children. And what makes this unique in the game is that she is also the only political figure that we know of.

lavanya [00:13:27] If you enter her house and you look around, she has a new voice for Red Acre and her mail campaign, which I'm sure is not an SAO slam, but we're going to pretend briefly that it is. The older Quiroga is interested in increasing the children of Red Acre exposure to outside technology, outside people, and the outside world in general. The younger Quiroga is interested in multiculturalism as well, as seen by the fact she's not only making a dress, she's making a flag dress.

lavanya [00:13:54] We have no direct confirmation of anything about the younger Quiroga or what exactly a new voice for Red Acre might mean in terms of what the older Quiroga knows.

lavanya [00:14:08] But it's interesting to look at.

astro [00:14:09] 1003 is one of the most ominous houses -.

lavanya [00:14:15] or one of the most beautiful depending on who you ask.

spoder [00:14:16] The House is most well known for its upstairs bedroom, which is covered in clown wallpaper. Walking around the house, you may notice that all the hung pictures are photos of plants. You may think it's just temporary assets, but it is confirmed by a dev that all current pictures were chosen for a reason.

spoder [00:14:32] So, who knows what these might be for?

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lavanya [00:15:40] So, our next section is going to be discussing the secrets of the maze~. Now you may be thinking the entire maze is fucking secret, but the joke's on you, because it is cram packed full of shit that you will never see unless you in-depth explore or unless you're paying entirely too much attention to it.

lavanya [00:16:02] There are a ton of secret passageway all throughout the maze, which, if you're careful - you have a grappling hook - or you just have very good timing - you can navigate almost the entire maze without ever touching the ground. This is insanely useful when it comes to dodging the Shape, and it's also incredibly useful when it comes to dodging the Lucids.

lavanya [00:16:23] Because they may be able to see you, and they will climb up to get you - but it's going to take them fucking forever. And by the time they actually get up there, you will already be gone!

lavanya [00:16:32] One of the most interesting things about the maze to me is the fact that all of the rooms that play music are a part of the song are actually named after body parts. Unfortunately, I know jack shit about anatomy, I can't lead the way on that.

lavanya [00:16:48] Personally, when it came time to choose our electives, I did the right moral thing, and I looked the health class in the eyes, and I said no.

lavanya [00:16:56] So I took CHORUS.

lavanya [00:16:59] Fortunately, Astro was homeschooled, so Astro is here to lead us through this amazing analyses of the human body. Your turn, Astro~!

astro [00:17:10] I can't believe you'd expose me like this.

lavanya [00:17:12] [laughter]

astro [00:17:12] The Throat is one of the first parts of the instrument you'll come in contact with, and it may not be quite obvious, because it doesn't have any visible strings, but the throat is important because it's a resonator.

astro [00:17:26] At the bottom of the Throat, there's water which you can only see when you fall into it, which is not advised. For the record, you can also hear it though in the ambient water dripping sound effects. If you stand close to it for long enough, it seems to have an opening to the surface of some sort far above it, if you look straight up - and hopefully when you're not falling into it.

astro [00:17:47] Ingestion is another part of the Instrument that plays music. This has strings across it that you can climb on and hide from anyone who may be trying to get you. If you're lucky enough to carry a grappling hook, it also has a secret access to String Relay.

astro [00:18:01] The Nerve Center can be found at the end of Ingestion. At the lowest level, it has secret accesses to the Sleepers Lockers to String Relay, into the airway bathroom.

astro [00:18:12] Standing on top of - or passing just under the big gong or cymbal - will let you hear weird voices! This is the same part of the Instrument that you see in the prologue, when you're trying to jump across the large chasm.

astro [00:18:21] The Airway is possibly the simplest part of the Instrument, because it's one long hallway that extends from the Nerve Center to Dream Therapy. It is a straight shot across and it connects to String Relay and the Airway Bathroom. But if you need a place to hide, you can duck up into the catwalk above it.

astro [00:18:38] And finally, the Plexus. The Plexus has strong fluorescent lamps that you can hide on top of with a very well timed, and well executed, jump. You can also use your hook to shortcut through parts of it, as it's very large and has multiple levels.

lavanya [00:18:53] When you head down into the maze, 920 Observation is one of the first rooms and it's kind of interesting in that - go ahead and look up when you're either on that platform, or when you're down on the ground, and you can see that the entire house outline on the ceiling!

lavanya [00:19:07] If you go ahead and you have one of your teammates go into the house, you'll see that it actually lines up perfectly: where it says kitchen is exactly where the kitchen is, where it says garage is exactly where the garage is. And it's interesting in that.. we don't know why it's there.

lavanya [00:19:24] Instrument Supplies is one of the most fascinating rooms in the game, because you can look all around you and it is chock full of secrets! Secret number one: there are no fucking instruments, there are no fucking supplies. The entire name of this room is a lie. It should probably be called Big Ass Ladder Room, because it does have multiple big ass ladders. However, there are still some secrets that are slightly more obvious than this scintillating fact! But the most exciting thing about Instruments Supply - the most scintillating fact - the thing that sparks the most joy in players heart - is the fact it not only has one, but it has TWO shortcuts!

lavanya [00:20:10] If you have your grappling hook, like a good decent moral heart player, you can go ahead and throw that across the Throat and make the jump, either into String Relay or Host Conditioning.

lavanya [00:20:22] Your friends may say: this is crazy! Your family may say: this is crazy! Lucids may weep as they see you hurtle all over the edge of the cliff, towards your inevitable demise into the Throat. But the stronghearted and the best of us all are willing to die for their ideals, for their passion, and in the pursuit of getting that 30 second - or possibly 10 second - shortcut out of the way.

astro [00:20:49] That's an interesting thing to say coming from you.

lavanya [00:20:53] Sometimes, we all have to lean in a little bit to our internal Die-for-You, and realize, if saving precisely five seconds at the risk of adding five minutes as your friends chase your shaped body across the maze isn't worth it, then what in life truly is?

spoder [00:21:10] I stand by these claims.

spoder [00:21:12] Cryptogram Library is notorious for being one of the largest rooms in the maze, only being rivaled by Dream Therapy. It has secret tunnels on the red side connecting to New Growth, and Sleepwalkers Lockers. The room contains two projectors being fed slides through a conveyor belt, which then are projected onto these little red rooms either side of the cryptographic library.

spoder [00:21:31] The red room on the south side of Cryptogram Library is the only current known spot where you observe Rare Behaviour.

spoder [00:21:38] Subliminal Media contains two parts: a room completely covered in soundproof foam, and an all white room projecting a yak video to an empty audience. In front of the beautiful yak video, there is a hole in ceiling, which, if you have a grappling hook, you can use to climb underneath one of the Somniloqs. Beneath Subliminal Media, there's a small tunnel in the back northwest corner, which leads into the well.

spoder [00:22:00] Back in the soundproof room, there are four tiny cubicles containing three monitors each, projecting a certain portion of the maze. Now these aren't live feeds, you can't go there and dance in front of it, but you can still see certain sections of the maze.

lavanya [00:22:15] Film Archives is a fascinating room, because at first glance, it just looks like a huge ass cave. Film Archives, as you wander around in it, you'll see that there's shelves up on the walls, and what you should do is go over to them and go ahead and take a look. It is filled with the same sort of projector tapes that are used in the projectors that we see throughout the maze.

lavanya [00:22:34] And these projector tapes have names! As of July 28, 2019, these names are currently works in progress, and if I remember correctly, the dates on them are not accurate. But what they show, as of right now, is that they are the names of children. They are further examples of the recording that you can see all throughout the maze, in the form of houses being shown, or streets being shown on the television screens, or in the constant fucking cameras that you will always be tripping over.

lavanya [00:23:08] Sleeper Lockers, despite the names, is not a place where you go to sleep. They do not have any beds in them. They are, in fact, just a locker room for the sleepers. But despite that, they don't have any showers either. It's literally just a shit ton of lockers that are not even linked to the bathroom - the Sleepers Bathroom being the one place in the maze that is not named, and that you never want to go, fragment aside. In fact, their placement in the maze really just doesn't make any fucking sense. But that's CHORUS funding for you.

lavanya [00:23:41] So the Sleeper Lockers are not connected to the bathrooms. They're not connected to the Barracks, and they're not connected to any place that would make actual sense. But what they are connected to is the Cryptogram Library! So if you ever need to go to the Cryptogram LIbrary and check out some fascinating slides of people doing yoga, then just remember you can just pop up through the ceiling, climb down the rafters, and go watch them in the nice sweet privacy of the Sleeper Lockers.

lavanya [00:24:09] From there, the other place that you can reach is - you can head underground into the Nerve Cluster from the Sleepers Lockers, which there's no explanation again on why there's vents in the floor filled with ladders in here, but it's best not to ask questions. There are some things that young minds just aren't meant to know.

lavanya [00:24:26] Or else you can head off into Ingestion, through climbing on the sin wires. From there, you can also once again reach the Neve Cluster, so, no matter where you go, if you need to go to the Nerve Cluster, you probably can just cut through the fucking Sleeper Lockers. That's what they're there for.

lavanya [00:24:43] Dream Therapy, once again, despite the name, is somewhat disappointing in that there are no beds here. There is nowhere to sleep, unless you want to go cocoon yourself into one of the creepy recording stalls or huts across the place. Interesting thing about Dream Therapy, though, despite the misleading name, is the fact that its forest themed, much like one of the houses above ground. Dream Therapy is green. In fact, it's so green that you could say that it's Green Therapy. The wood is green, the lighting is green - even the pipes, depending on how you look at them, are pretty much fluorescent green everywhere.

lavanya [00:25:15] In Dream Therapy, you will see the plants in the form of the strange exotic pillar things above you, or else in the literal form of the ivy that is growing fucking everywhere. If you look at the shadows of some of these strange tree pillar things that they have all throughout, you can kind of see the words "S H" written out in them. Is that intentional? Is that just the human mind desperately grasping at shapes that it recognizes, in what is frankly a pretty fucking confusing shadow? Who knows! But it's there.

lavanya [00:25:50] At the highest level of Dream Therapy, there's a weird set that is essentially of a school. You have lockers, you have desks, you have tables, and you have the constant droning buzz of a thousand voices, bells ringing, weirdness going on up there. We're not exactly sure what that means, because it's never explicitly mentioned in any of the journal entries, but you can kind of hazard a guess - especially given that Dream Therapy is only connected to three places: the Somniloq, the Airway, and Hosts Conditioning.

astro [00:26:23] The Arches have an access to the twist just above it. If you climb into the crawl space, above the walking area, you can reach that or you can hide from enemies, or stalkers. The crawl space is reachable by grapple or by a lucky jump.

astro [00:26:37] Signal relay can be found at the end of the Plexus. It has two mirrored chambers on either side, and there are ladders that lead to an attic above it for hiding or for playing the strings. There is a shaped door between the two halves and, other than the placement of a chair and a contraband locker, they are almost exactly the same. There are two Somniloquoys, which also branch off of the Plexus. According to the update notes, with update 7, Somniloquoys, there is a reason for this. We just don't know yet what it is.

astro [00:27:06] One of these Somniloquoys seems to be in progress. It has scaffolding, work lights, and more sound proofing, while the other one looks much more polished. In the center of each, large tanks hold glowing gas that gets vented out the top. There is usually at least one passage from the control room to the topmost level in both, where catwalks surround the room.

lavanya [00:27:24] String Relay is a pretty straight forward room. It is a giant fucking cave, much like most of the maze, and surprisingly, it is filled with strings. [laughter] These strings are constantly moving. Some of the interesting things here are that, if you touch the moving wires, at least in the past, then they would make sin / noise. There is a single suspended wire between two of the catwalks that you can walk across. This is the only way. Do not touch that single wires, because you will fall through.

lavanya [00:27:54] There is a secret hidey hole to the side that faces the throat, where you can kind of tuck yourself away and it is pitch black. The lucid will not see, stalkers may not see you, and for stalkers, players will probably not see you because they're gonna assume you ran out the other way. This hidey hole does have a dangerous secret, though, and that it is filled with the ~danger sticks.~ These dangerous sticks are technically waterphone spines,but we're just going to stick with dangerous sticks for the aeshetic.

lavanya [00:28:24] If you touch the danger stick, it will make noise. Not only will it make noise, it will make a shit ton of noise. You can not climb on the dangerous sticks. You cannot place your hook on the dangerous stick. These danger sticks will bring you nothing but pain in your life. So, frankly you should avoid them and probably find a better hiding spot.

lavanya [00:28:44] The Barracks only have one secret tunnel. So, when you're heading down the stairs look to the left. You're going to see that pantry full of supplies with a water tank and a picnic table, perfectly positioned so that you can watch your co-workers sleep. But if you can hold off from that level of casual voyeurism, if you just look up, you'll see a secret tunnel that will let you slip all the way to the wall and out almost towards the back.

lavanya [00:29:12] That is the only place that Barracks has in terms of secret tunnels! Other than that, it connects to the plexus.

lavanya [00:29:18] So, Host Conditioning is an interesting place, because as you're walking inside, if you close your eyes you'll see something on the floor. It's an eye symbol! That eye symbol is something made to ward off the Adversary, and all of those poor unfortunate souls that are foolish enough to fall in step with him. This is a fond reminded everyone, but especially Spoder, that just because the eye symbol is on the floor in Host Conditioning, that doesn't mean you're not welcome here.

lavanya [00:29:46] It means that you should go on in! Step onto the disco floor down below, and accept the song into your heart.

spoder [00:29:55] New Growth is one of those rooms which are obviously still under construction. It features scaffolding, tarps, and various supplies scattered around the room. On the northeast side of the room, it features two exits: one into the twists and one into the Somniliquoy. It also connects to the well on the northwest side. The well acts almost like an elevator, connecting to multiple parts of the maze. It features a staircase to the barracks on the bottom, along with a tunnel connecting to Subliminal Media, and two doorways connecting to Film Archives above it.

spoder [00:30:27] It has an entrance to New Growth, and to the Somniliquoy, which is only accessible by using a grappling hook at the top of the well, which is gated off, but will one day connect to oOld Growth.

astro [00:30:44] There are more secrets here that we haven't covered, and we can't get everything in this one episode. There's quite a lot to cover! Even though the map may not be as expansive as other games, it's deep and that depth extends into the detail as well as the physical depth. Additionally, there will definitely be more secrets in the game after this comes out.

astro [00:31:04] We're recording this before the full release of the game on July 30th, so we can't tell you about what's going on there. You'll just have to find it for yourself.

astro [00:31:12] Our new show music is called Ringing Bells. It has been provided to us by a generous, anonymous person, who has asked us to credit them as a weirdly handsome individual. This was their explicit request, so we're going to honor it.

astro [00:31:25] And finally our new logo is by Lavanya. It is gorgeous. I am so happy with how it turned out and I am so proud to put it on our podcast.

lavanya [00:31:33] Very grateful, but not grateful enough to credit me as a strangely specifically handsome mysterious stranger. So I see how it is.

astro [00:31:51] The Blackout Club is made by Question Games. Our advertising director is Bellamy. Our transcript and video is by Lavanya. Audio editing is by me, Astro. Our guest today was Spoderman. Xaviul is the way shipping arrives by car, but cargo goes by boat.

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How to Lose Face Fat: 5 Effective Ways to Slim Your Face

How to Lose Face Fat: 5 Effective Tips That Slim Your Face

Can face fat be lost?

Absolutely, but not by doing facial exercises you find online and in magazines. The way to lose cheek fat and avoid a double chin involves strategic diet and exercise.

My background is training fashion models.

I’ve never had a single one do specific facial exercises to get a slimmer face.

I have a special nutrition exercise suggestions that work rapidly and blows away “puffing your cheeks” or doing “fish face” exercises.

There is only one study that sort of showed a positive effect of facial exercises, but even they think that the results of their study were inconclusive:

The evidence to date is insufficient to determine whether facial exercises are effective for facial rejuvenation.

Your time is much better spent doing things that work.

I’ll discuss approaches that I’ve used over the years with clients.

Here are some helpful tips to reduce face fat.

Tip 1: Increase Potassium to Reduce Face Bloat

This isn’t a way to lose fat in the face, it is a quick hack to reduce water retention in your body and face.

Most people probably know that sodium can increase water retention, so they REDUCE their intake of salty foods so they don’t look smooth and puffy.

This helps, but INCREASING potassium takes this a step further.

You see, potassium opposes sodium.

Typically, when you increase potassium you decrease the effects of sodium.

Here is a partial list of face slimming potassium-rich foods.

White beans

Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes

Beets

Spinach

Swiss Chard

Oranges & Bananas

These are the my main go-to sources of potassium, but here is a site with a more extensive list.

Potatoes top my list when it comes to flushing out water.

The protocol I would now recommend before a photo shoot?

Reduce sodium for about 48 hours while increasing water intake.

This may sound odd, but I also recommend eating an all-potato diet for these 48 hours (or potatoes with cooked spinach or other greens).

This will push out any water retention you may be experiencing and will have you looking your best.

Obviously, most of us aren’t models…

This is a great strategy for any special event.

Make sure you don’t cut sodium too early. Your body adapts to sodium intake and normalizes after a few days.

The magic in cutting sodium a day or two ahead of time is that your body will hold less water for a few days before it adapts to lower sodium intake.

A side benefit of eating potatoes is that it makes your muscles appear full. The combo of full muscles and less water retention will make your body appear leaner than normal.

Tip 2: Increase Fiber Intake to Slim Your Face

This is another tip that isn’t really about losing face fat, it is just another tip for a quick fix for a special event.

Fiber is a crucial part of our diets.

It’s actually one of my criticisms about the keto diet. People following a ketogenic diet are typically eating a low-fiber diet.

Fiber reduces water retention because it absorbs water to allow for the fiber to pass through your intestines.

Fiber also plays a role in reducing the risk of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

According to the Mayo Clinic here are daily fiber recommendations.

Women should try to eat at least 21 to 25 grams of fiber a day, while men should aim for 30 to 38 grams a day.

The Mayo Clinic has an extensive list of high fiber foods, but here are some common high fiber food items.

Whole wheat spaghetti

Whole wheat bread

Oatmeal

Green peas

Corn

Potatoes

Lentils

Beans

The nice thing about potatoes is you get a double whammy, high potassium and decent fiber.

Eat the potato skins to get even more fiber from your potatoes.

Tip 3: Strategic Cardio to Reduce Face Fat

I always find the cardio bashing amusing, because it is such an effective fat loss tool.

Yes, your diet needs to be dialed in.

Yes, lifting weights is important to look your best.

But…

If you master cardio, you gain the ability to dial in your physique (and face) in a way that is close to impossible with weight training and diet alone.

Cardio is a killer tool to combat chubby face syndrome.

The best way to approach cardio, in my opinion, is to use a combination of HIIT with slow steady state cardio.

Intense exercise like HIIT and/or CrossFit circuits are incredible for burning a ton of calories.

Something else also happens when you train with intensity.

Your fat cells release stored body fat into your bloodstream.

Here’s a chart from my cardio course:

You still lose fat with HIIT and other intense exercise, but you will lose quite a bit more if you follow all intense exercise with low-intensity cardio.

Much of the released fatty acids will get re-deposited as body fat if not used for fuel.

Walking at a brisk pace for 20-45 minutes will use a large portion of these free fatty acids.

Instead of re-depositing that fat, much of it will be used to fuel the low intensity walking.

This does take more time.

(If people are honest with themselves it is probably just cutting into TV time.)

What I like to do is listen to books on tape on audible during this time.

This is a way to have a great mind to go along with your attractive face.

Tip 4: Resistance Training for Definition NOT Bulk

This isn’t as much of a face thing, but in my experience people who are looking to slim the face down are typically after the same thing for their body.

The common advice for getting slim is to do high rep training to failure.

Here is the problem with high rep training:

Training to failure, regardless of rep range, has been shown to increase the size of a muscle.

So even with light weights, it is possible to greatly increase the size of that muscle if failure is reached.

Higher reps pump blood into the muscles and cause a pump, which builds size and vascularity.

This is one of the reasons why bodybuilders switch to high reps before bodybuilding competitions… they are after large vascular muscles.

This is fine if that is what you are after.

It is not ideal for fashion models or anyone who wants to be slim VS large.

What should you do instead?

Pretty much the opposite.

For people looking to create a slim and sleek physique, I recommend sticking to medium-to-low reps and stopping short of failure.

About 5 reps seems to be the sweet stop.

The idea is to pick a weight you are able to do for 7-8 reps and stop at 5. Perform 3-4 sets just like this for each exercise.

As far as HIIT goes, I prefer to do this on a treadmill vs doing intervals with weights or body weight.

The reason for this is that you can lift weights in the way I describe above for firm, tight and compact muscles… and use cardio machines for fat loss.

When you try to lift weights to simultaneously burn fat AND increase strength and definition, you aren’t able to do either 100%.

It reminds me of Pert Plus 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner.

I’m bald now, but at one point I did have hair.

Anyway…

The problem with this stuff is that it never cleaned your hair as well as shampoo or conditioned your hair as well as regular conditioner.

youtube

When you try and use weights as your cardio, you are unable to focus on hard quality contractions.

Quality contractions are what creates firm muscles.

When you don’t rest enough in between sets you will be unable to create maximum contractions since your lifting is being compromised by fatigue.

I recommend lifting for maximum contractions and strength… and using a separate cardio portion of your workout for calorie burning and fat loss.

Separating weight training from cardio gives you the ability to fine-tune your physique better than resistance training alone.

Tip 5: Maintain an Ongoing Calorie Deficit to Lose Face Fat

To lose face fat, you need to lose body fat.

The way to lose body fat is to create a calorie deficit by eating fewer calories than you burn.

I already covered the way to effectively burn calories.

Here are some dieting strategies.

There are countless dieting strategies that work, I’ll cover some of the more popular approaches.

Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is a dieting approach that involves fasting for a period of time followed by a feeding window.

People can continue to eat a variety of foods and lose weight by cutting the time they eat down to 4-6 hours.

A common approach is to fast and allow food from Noon to 8:00 PM (called 16:8 Intermittent Fasting).

There are other ways to do this.

I have had my best success by eating normally all week and picking 2 days per week, where I only eat one meal.

I’ve been doing this on and off for 18 years and have an article about my experience here:

Intermittent Fasting Tips: My 18 Years of Experience Using Intermittent Fasting for Fat Loss

Note: You can use the intermittent fasting strategy with other dieting approaches. Right now, keto intermittent fasting is especially popular.

If It Fits Your Macros

If it Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) is an approach of eating whatever you want as long as you hit your protein, fat, and carb goals for the day.

This is an approach I’ve also used for years (we just never had a name for it in the 80’s and 90’s)

The nice thing about this approach is you just need to figure out your macronutrient goals and how you hit them is up to you.

Here’s a calculator that will give you protein, carb, fat, and calorie suggestions based on your height, age, current weight, goal weight, activity level and gender:

IIFYM Calculator

The Ketogenic Diet

This is a high fat, moderate protein, and ultra-low carb diet. If carbs are restricted for a long enough time the body reaches a state of ketosis and begins using fat for fuel instead of glucose from carbs.

There is absolutely nothing that matches the ketogenic diet for rapidly losing scale weight.

Since carbs bind to water, you lose a ton of water weight in the first week when you drastically cut back on carbs. Over a 2-3 month period, the keto diet is pretty awesome for losing weight.

I’ve been friends with a lot of the “online keto gurus” for 10+ years.

I wrote about success stories with this diet along with some of the challenges:

Keto Diet Benefits and Challenges

High Carb Low Fat

This is almost the opposite of the ketogenic diet. Since carbs and protein rarely get converted to body fat and stored as body fat, fats are drastically cut to 10% or less of daily calories.

This is my preferred approach to getting lean because it allows for starches like pasta, bread, rice, and potatoes.

*This dieting approach is also beer-friendly.

Increasing carbs means the body holds more water, so you won’t lose as much scale weight at first compared to the keto diet.

After about 2-3 months the fat loss on this diet catches up and surpasses the keto diet.

I wrote a post about it here:

Are Carbs Making Us Fat?

Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD)

This is a 5-day diet plan using specific foods in a way that puts the body in a similar state as fasting.

This is a more aggressive approach than intermittent fasting. It’s a low-calorie approach meant to only be used once every 6 months.

The biggest benefit is that it directly targets visceral fat (belly fat).

It also has anti-aging and anti-cancer fighting properties.

For full details, here’s my article about it:

The 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet Plan

Pick whatever dieting approach makes it easy for you to eat fewer calories than you burn.

You need a caloric deficit to lose body fat and face fat.

Get Rid of Face Fat (Summary)

I was compelled to write this post after seeing so many articles focusing on facial exercises.

Studies don’t show much promise when it comes to slimming the face by doing various face exercises.

At best, they can possibly slightly improve your appearance.

For drastic face slimming improvements, simply reduce your body fat with diet and exercise.

This isn’t what a lot of people want to hear.

But…

The benefit of using diet and exercise to lose face fat is that it will improve the appearance of your entire body.

It will also make you a healthier person overall.

So choose a diet and exercise strategy that you can stick to…

…and make the world a more beautiful place.

Cheers,

-Rusty Moore

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How to Lose Face Fat: 5 Effective Ways to Slim Your Face

How to Lose Face Fat: 5 Effective Tips That Slim Your Face

Can face fat be lost?

Absolutely, but not by doing facial exercises you find online and in magazines. The way to lose cheek fat and avoid a double chin involves strategic diet and exercise.

My background is training fashion models.

I’ve never had a single one do specific facial exercises to get a slimmer face.

I have a special nutrition exercise suggestions that work rapidly and blows away “puffing your cheeks” or doing “fish face” exercises.

There is only one study that sort of showed a positive effect of facial exercises, but even they think that the results of their study were inconclusive:

The evidence to date is insufficient to determine whether facial exercises are effective for facial rejuvenation.

Your time is much better spent doing things that work.

I’ll discuss approaches that I’ve used over the years with clients.

Here are some helpful tips to reduce face fat.

Tip 1: Increase Potassium to Reduce Face Bloat

This isn’t a way to lose fat in the face, it is a quick hack to reduce water retention in your body and face.

Most people probably know that sodium can increase water retention, so they REDUCE their intake of salty foods so they don’t look smooth and puffy.

This helps, but INCREASING potassium takes this a step further.

You see, potassium opposes sodium.

Typically, when you increase potassium you decrease the effects of sodium.

Here is a partial list of face slimming potassium-rich foods.

White beans

Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes

Beets

Spinach

Swiss Chard

Oranges & Bananas

These are the my main go-to sources of potassium, but here is a site with a more extensive list.

Potatoes top my list when it comes to flushing out water.

The protocol I would now recommend before a photo shoot?

Reduce sodium for about 48 hours while increasing water intake.

This may sound odd, but I also recommend eating an all-potato diet for these 48 hours (or potatoes with cooked spinach or other greens).

This will push out any water retention you may be experiencing and will have you looking your best.

Obviously, most of us aren’t models…

This is a great strategy for any special event.

Make sure you don’t cut sodium too early. Your body adapts to sodium intake and normalizes after a few days.

The magic in cutting sodium a day or two ahead of time is that your body will hold less water for a few days before it adapts to lower sodium intake.

A side benefit of eating potatoes is that it makes your muscles appear full. The combo of full muscles and less water retention will make your body appear leaner than normal.

Tip 2: Increase Fiber Intake to Slim Your Face

This is another tip that isn’t really about losing face fat, it is just another tip for a quick fix for a special event.

Fiber is a crucial part of our diets.

It’s actually one of my criticisms about the keto diet. People following a ketogenic diet are typically eating a low-fiber diet.

Fiber reduces water retention because it absorbs water to allow for the fiber to pass through your intestines.

Fiber also plays a role in reducing the risk of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

According to the Mayo Clinic here are daily fiber recommendations.

Women should try to eat at least 21 to 25 grams of fiber a day, while men should aim for 30 to 38 grams a day.

The Mayo Clinic has an extensive list of high fiber foods, but here are some common high fiber food items.

Whole wheat spaghetti

Whole wheat bread

Oatmeal

Green peas

Corn

Potatoes

Lentils

Beans

The nice thing about potatoes is you get a double whammy, high potassium and decent fiber.

Eat the potato skins to get even more fiber from your potatoes.

Tip 3: Strategic Cardio to Reduce Face Fat

I always find the cardio bashing amusing, because it is such an effective fat loss tool.

Yes, your diet needs to be dialed in.

Yes, lifting weights is important to look your best.

But…

If you master cardio, you gain the ability to dial in your physique (and face) in a way that is close to impossible with weight training and diet alone.

Cardio is a killer tool to combat chubby face syndrome.

The best way to approach cardio, in my opinion, is to use a combination of HIIT with slow steady state cardio.

Intense exercise like HIIT and/or CrossFit circuits are incredible for burning a ton of calories.

Something else also happens when you train with intensity.

Your fat cells release stored body fat into your bloodstream.

Here’s a chart from my cardio course:

You still lose fat with HIIT and other intense exercise, but you will lose quite a bit more if you follow all intense exercise with low-intensity cardio.

Much of the released fatty acids will get re-deposited as body fat if not used for fuel.

Walking at a brisk pace for 20-45 minutes will use a large portion of these free fatty acids.

Instead of re-depositing that fat, much of it will be used to fuel the low intensity walking.

This does take more time.

(If people are honest with themselves it is probably just cutting into TV time.)

What I like to do is listen to books on tape on audible during this time.

This is a way to have a great mind to go along with your attractive face.

Tip 4: Resistance Training for Definition NOT Bulk

This isn’t as much of a face thing, but in my experience people who are looking to slim the face down are typically after the same thing for their body.

The common advice for getting slim is to do high rep training to failure.

Here is the problem with high rep training:

Training to failure, regardless of rep range, has been shown to increase the size of a muscle.

So even with light weights, it is possible to greatly increase the size of that muscle if failure is reached.

Higher reps pump blood into the muscles and cause a pump, which builds size and vascularity.

This is one of the reasons why bodybuilders switch to high reps before bodybuilding competitions… they are after large vascular muscles.

This is fine if that is what you are after.

It is not ideal for fashion models or anyone who wants to be slim VS large.

What should you do instead?

Pretty much the opposite.

For people looking to create a slim and sleek physique, I recommend sticking to medium-to-low reps and stopping short of failure.

About 5 reps seems to be the sweet stop.

The idea is to pick a weight you are able to do for 7-8 reps and stop at 5. Perform 3-4 sets just like this for each exercise.

As far as HIIT goes, I prefer to do this on a treadmill vs doing intervals with weights or body weight.

The reason for this is that you can lift weights in the way I describe above for firm, tight and compact muscles… and use cardio machines for fat loss.

When you try to lift weights to simultaneously burn fat AND increase strength and definition, you aren’t able to do either 100%.

It reminds me of Pert Plus 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner.

I’m bald now, but at one point I did have hair.

Anyway…

The problem with this stuff is that it never cleaned your hair as well as shampoo or conditioned your hair as well as regular conditioner.

youtube

When you try and use weights as your cardio, you are unable to focus on hard quality contractions.

Quality contractions are what creates firm muscles.

When you don’t rest enough in between sets you will be unable to create maximum contractions since your lifting is being compromised by fatigue.

I recommend lifting for maximum contractions and strength… and using a separate cardio portion of your workout for calorie burning and fat loss.

Separating weight training from cardio gives you the ability to fine-tune your physique better than resistance training alone.

Tip 5: Maintain an Ongoing Calorie Deficit to Lose Face Fat

To lose face fat, you need to lose body fat.

The way to lose body fat is to create a calorie deficit by eating fewer calories than you burn.

I already covered the way to effectively burn calories.

Here are some dieting strategies.

There are countless dieting strategies that work, I’ll cover some of the more popular approaches.

Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is a dieting approach that involves fasting for a period of time followed by a feeding window.

People can continue to eat a variety of foods and lose weight by cutting the time they eat down to 4-6 hours.

A common approach is to fast and allow food from Noon to 8:00 PM (called 16:8 Intermittent Fasting).

There are other ways to do this.

I have had my best success by eating normally all week and picking 2 days per week, where I only eat one meal.

I’ve been doing this on and off for 18 years and have an article about my experience here:

Intermittent Fasting Tips: My 18 Years of Experience Using Intermittent Fasting for Fat Loss

Note: You can use the intermittent fasting strategy with other dieting approaches. Right now, keto intermittent fasting is especially popular.

If It Fits Your Macros

If it Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) is an approach of eating whatever you want as long as you hit your protein, fat, and carb goals for the day.

This is an approach I’ve also used for years (we just never had a name for it in the 80’s and 90’s)

The nice thing about this approach is you just need to figure out your macronutrient goals and how you hit them is up to you.

Here’s a calculator that will give you protein, carb, fat, and calorie suggestions based on your height, age, current weight, goal weight, activity level and gender:

IIFYM Calculator

The Ketogenic Diet

There is absolutely nothing that matches the ketogenic diet for rapidly losing scale weight.

Since carbs bind to water, you lose a ton of water weight in the first week when you drastically cut back on carbs. Over a 2-3 month period, the keto diet is pretty awesome for losing weight.

I’ve been friends with a lot of the “online keto gurus” for 10+ years.

I wrote about success stories with this diet along with some of the challenges:

Keto Diet Benefits and Challenges

High Carb Low Fat

This is almost the opposite of the ketogenic diet. Since carbs and protein rarely get converted to body fat and stored as body fat, fats are drastically cut to 10% or less of daily calories.

This is my preferred approach to getting lean because it allows for starches like pasta, bread, rice, and potatoes.

*This dieting approach is also beer-friendly.

Increasing carbs means the body holds more water, so you won’t lose as much scale weight at first compared to the keto diet.

After about 2-3 months the fat loss on this diet catches up and surpasses the keto diet.

I wrote a post about it here:

Are Carbs Making Us Fat?

Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD)

This is a 5-day diet plan using specific foods in a way that puts the body in a similar state as fasting.

This is a more aggressive approach than intermittent fasting. It’s a low-calorie approach meant to only be used once every 6 months.

The biggest benefit is that it directly targets visceral fat (belly fat).

It also has anti-aging and anti-cancer fighting properties.

For full details, here’s my article about it:

The 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet Plan

Pick whatever dieting approach makes it easy for you to eat fewer calories than you burn.

You need a caloric deficit to lose body fat and face fat.

Get Rid of Face Fat (Summary)

I was compelled to write this post after seeing so many articles focusing on facial exercises.

Studies don’t show much promise when it comes to slimming the face by doing various face exercises.

At best, they can possibly slightly improve your appearance.

For drastic face slimming improvements, simply reduce your body fat with diet and exercise.

This isn’t what a lot of people want to hear.

But…

The benefit of using diet and exercise to lose face fat is that it will improve the appearance of your entire body.

It will also make you a healthier person overall.

So choose a diet and exercise strategy that you can stick to…

…and make the world a more beautiful place.

Cheers,

-Rusty Moore

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How to Lose Face Fat: 5 Effective Ways to Slim Your Face

How to Lose Face Fat: 5 Effective Tips That Slim Your Face

Can face fat be lost?

Absolutely, but not by doing facial exercises you find online and in magazines. The way to lose cheek fat and avoid a double chin involves strategic diet and exercise.

My background is training fashion models.

I’ve never had a single one do specific facial exercises to get a slimmer face.

I have a special nutrition exercise suggestions that work rapidly and blows away “puffing your cheeks” or doing “fish face” exercises.

There is only one study that sort of showed a positive effect of facial exercises, but even they think that the results of their study were inconclusive:

The evidence to date is insufficient to determine whether facial exercises are effective for facial rejuvenation.

Your time is much better spent doing things that work.

I’ll discuss approaches that I’ve used over the years with clients.

Here are some helpful tips to reduce face fat.

Tip 1: Increase Potassium to Reduce Face Bloat

This isn’t a way to lose fat in the face, it is a quick hack to reduce water retention in your body and face.

Most people probably know that sodium can increase water retention, so they REDUCE their intake of salty foods so they don’t look smooth and puffy.

This helps, but INCREASING potassium takes this a step further.

You see, potassium opposes sodium.

Typically, when you increase potassium you decrease the effects of sodium.

Here is a partial list of face slimming potassium-rich foods.

White beans

Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes

Beets

Spinach

Swiss Chard

Oranges & Bananas

These are the my main go-to sources of potassium, but here is a site with a more extensive list.

Potatoes top my list when it comes to flushing out water.

The protocol I would now recommend before a photo shoot?

Reduce sodium for about 48 hours while increasing water intake.

This may sound odd, but I also recommend eating an all-potato diet for these 48 hours (or potatoes with cooked spinach or other greens).

This will push out any water retention you may be experiencing and will have you looking your best.

Obviously, most of us aren’t models…

This is a great strategy for any special event.

Make sure you don’t cut sodium too early. Your body adapts to sodium intake and normalizes after a few days.

The magic in cutting sodium a day or two ahead of time is that your body will hold less water for a few days before it adapts to lower sodium intake.

A side benefit of eating potatoes is that it makes your muscles appear full. The combo of full muscles and less water retention will make your body appear leaner than normal.

Tip 2: Increase Fiber Intake to Slim Your Face

This is another tip that isn’t really about losing face fat, it is just another tip for a quick fix for a special event.

Fiber is a crucial part of our diets.

It’s actually one of my criticisms about the keto diet. People following a ketogenic diet are typically eating a low-fiber diet.

Fiber reduces water retention because it absorbs water to allow for the fiber to pass through your intestines.

Fiber also plays a role in reducing the risk of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

According to the Mayo Clinic here are daily fiber recommendations.

Women should try to eat at least 21 to 25 grams of fiber a day, while men should aim for 30 to 38 grams a day.

The Mayo Clinic has an extensive list of high fiber foods, but here are some common high fiber food items.

Whole wheat spaghetti

Whole wheat bread

Oatmeal

Green peas

Corn

Potatoes

Lentils

Beans

The nice thing about potatoes is you get a double whammy, high potassium and decent fiber.

Eat the potato skins to get even more fiber from your potatoes.

Tip 3: Strategic Cardio to Reduce Face Fat

I always find the cardio bashing amusing, because it is such an effective fat loss tool.

Yes, your diet needs to be dialed in.

Yes, lifting weights is important to look your best.

But…

If you master cardio, you gain the ability to dial in your physique (and face) in a way that is close to impossible with weight training and diet alone.

Cardio is a killer tool to combat chubby face syndrome.

The best way to approach cardio, in my opinion, is to use a combination of HIIT with slow steady state cardio.

Intense exercise like HIIT and/or CrossFit circuits are incredible for burning a ton of calories.

Something else also happens when you train with intensity.

Your fat cells release stored body fat into your bloodstream.

Here’s a chart from my cardio course:

You still lose fat with HIIT and other intense exercise, but you will lose quite a bit more if you follow all intense exercise with low-intensity cardio.

Much of the released fatty acids will get re-deposited as body fat if not used for fuel.

Walking at a brisk pace for 20-45 minutes will use a large portion of these free fatty acids.

Instead of re-depositing that fat, much of it will be used to fuel the low intensity walking.

This does take more time.

(If people are honest with themselves it is probably just cutting into TV time.)

What I like to do is listen to books on tape on audible during this time.

This is a way to have a great mind to go along with your attractive face.

Tip 4: Resistance Training for Definition NOT Bulk

This isn’t as much of a face thing, but in my experience people who are looking to slim the face down are typically after the same thing for their body.

The common advice for getting slim is to do high rep training to failure.

Here is the problem with high rep training:

Training to failure, regardless of rep range, has been shown to increase the size of a muscle.

So even with light weights, it is possible to greatly increase the size of that muscle if failure is reached.

Higher reps pump blood into the muscles and cause a pump, which builds size and vascularity.

This is one of the reasons why bodybuilders switch to high reps before bodybuilding competitions… they are after large vascular muscles.

This is fine if that is what you are after.

It is not ideal for fashion models or anyone who wants to be slim VS large.

What should you do instead?

Pretty much the opposite.

For people looking to create a slim and sleek physique, I recommend sticking to medium-to-low reps and stopping short of failure.

About 5 reps seems to be the sweet stop.

The idea is to pick a weight you are able to do for 7-8 reps and stop at 5. Perform 3-4 sets just like this for each exercise.

As far as HIIT goes, I prefer to do this on a treadmill vs doing intervals with weights or body weight.

The reason for this is that you can lift weights in the way I describe above for firm, tight and compact muscles… and use cardio machines for fat loss.

When you try to lift weights to simultaneously burn fat AND increase strength and definition, you aren’t able to do either 100%.

It reminds me of Pert Plus 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner.

I’m bald now, but at one point I did have hair.

Anyway…

The problem with this stuff is that it never cleaned your hair as well as shampoo or conditioned your hair as well as regular conditioner.

youtube

When you try and use weights as your cardio, you are unable to focus on hard quality contractions.

Quality contractions are what creates firm muscles.

When you don’t rest enough in between sets you will be unable to create maximum contractions since your lifting is being compromised by fatigue.

I recommend lifting for maximum contractions and strength… and using a separate cardio portion of your workout for calorie burning and fat loss.

Separating weight training from cardio gives you the ability to fine-tune your physique better than resistance training alone.

Tip 5: Maintain an Ongoing Calorie Deficit to Lose Face Fat

To lose face fat, you need to lose body fat.

The way to lose body fat is to create a calorie deficit by eating fewer calories than you burn.

I already covered the way to effectively burn calories.

Here are some dieting strategies.

There are countless dieting strategies that work, I’ll cover some of the more popular approaches.

Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is a dieting approach that involves fasting for a period of time followed by a feeding window.

People can continue to eat a variety of foods and lose weight by cutting the time they eat down to 4-6 hours.

A common approach is to fast and allow food from Noon to 8:00 PM (called 16:8 Intermittent Fasting).

There are other ways to do this.

I have had my best success by eating normally all week and picking 2 days per week, where I only eat one meal.

I’ve been doing this on and off for 18 years and have an article about my experience here:

Intermittent Fasting Tips: My 18 Years of Experience Using Intermittent Fasting for Fat Loss

Note: You can use the intermittent fasting strategy with other dieting approaches. Right now, keto intermittent fasting is especially popular.

If It Fits Your Macros

If it Fits Your Macros (IIFYM) is an approach of eating whatever you want as long as you hit your protein, fat, and carb goals for the day.

This is an approach I’ve also used for years (we just never had a name for it in the 80’s and 90’s)

The nice thing about this approach is you just need to figure out your macronutrient goals and how you hit them is up to you.

Here’s a calculator that will give you protein, carb, fat, and calorie suggestions based on your height, age, current weight, goal weight, activity level and gender:

IIFYM Calculator

The Ketogenic Diet

There is absolutely nothing that matches the ketogenic diet for rapidly losing scale weight.

Since carbs bind to water, you lose a ton of water weight in the first week when you drastically cut back on carbs. Over a 2-3 month period, the keto diet is pretty awesome for losing weight.

I’ve been friends with a lot of the “online keto gurus” for 10+ years.

I wrote about success stories with this diet along with some of the challenges:

Keto Diet Benefits and Challenges

High Carb Low Fat

This is almost the opposite of the ketogenic diet. Since carbs and protein rarely get converted to body fat and stored as body fat, fats are drastically cut to 10% or less of daily calories.

This is my preferred approach to getting lean because it allows for starches like pasta, bread, rice, and potatoes.

*This dieting approach is also beer-friendly.

Increasing carbs means the body holds more water, so you won’t lose as much scale weight at first compared to the keto diet.

After about 2-3 months the fat loss on this diet catches up and surpasses the keto diet.

I wrote a post about it here:

Are Carbs Making Us Fat?

Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD)

This is a 5-day diet plan using specific foods in a way that puts the body in a similar state as fasting.

This is a more aggressive approach than intermittent fasting. It’s a low-calorie approach meant to only be used once every 6 months.

The biggest benefit is that it directly targets visceral fat (belly fat).

It also has anti-aging and anti-cancer fighting properties.

For full details, here’s my article about it:

The 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet Plan

Pick whatever dieting approach makes it easy for you to eat fewer calories than you burn.

You need a caloric deficit to lose body fat and face fat.

Get Rid of Face Fat (Summary)

I was compelled to write this post after seeing so many articles focusing on facial exercises.

Studies don’t show much promise when it comes to slimming the face by doing various face exercises.

At best, they can possibly slightly improve your appearance.

For drastic face slimming improvements, simply reduce your body fat with diet and exercise.

This isn’t what a lot of people want to hear.

But…

The benefit of using diet and exercise to lose face fat is that it will improve the appearance of your entire body.

It will also make you a healthier person overall.

So choose a diet and exercise strategy that you can stick to…

…and make the world a more beautiful place.

Cheers,

-Rusty Moore

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Weekend-self

I don’t consider myself someone who lives for the weekend. The phrases ‘Happy Friday!’ or even asking someone ‘What are you doing this weekend?!’ irk me a bit when I hear them. The usual weekend plans of going out, drinking, brunching, etc. don’t usually get me amped for those 2 days. It usually sounds exhausting, to be perfectly honest, and I have truly never had FOMO regarding anyone else’s weekend schedules.

I generally enjoy my workdays that begin at 8:00AM and end at 5:00PM. There’s a calmness that comes with routine and the sense of purpose I obtain from work excites rather than exhausts me. By the time the weekend comes, I don’t feel the need to jam that time with ‘plans’ (sorry to everyone I’ve cancelled on or not called back, it’s not you I promise)

With that being said my weekends, and my Monday through Friday, are of equal importance to me. However I've been told that my weekend-Gia look and vibe is a bit old lady, anti-social, yet relaxing. I’ll explain.

(I’m not sure if i’m allowed to instill wisdom at the age of 31 (almost 32), but I’m around a lot of people in their early 20′s that could probably gain something from this.)

My weekend-self is in a 48 hour spa-retreat mindset, wrapped up in a blanket, surrounded by books, coffee, skin care products, etc. The less people near me, the better for both you and for me. I thought this came with age, but i’ve known who I am for a long time (see the descriptive title of this blog). I’m an old soul trapped in a young body. If you follow the incredible essence of hygge, this will be right up your alley.

My home is on the smaller side, but it is a beautiful space that we put our hearts (and life savings) into. We bought our first condo in Goleta, right outside of Santa Barbara, about 1 year ago and if you’ve known me for while, you know my habitats are pretty but more importantly: comfortable. The weekend-self is not complete without the proper space to experience it in and this condo of ours is my sanctuary.

I’ve always been a home body because the homes I’ve lived in have been so soothing and lovely: why leave? Our bedroom is colored in soft blues and whites, while our living room has a pop of color with deep earth tones sprinkled in. Of course we have a fireplace, blankets everywhere, comfy pillows, candles, plush leather couches, etc. Our view from our living room is onto a tiny patio overlooking mature pine and eucalyptus trees; they are so close to you when you walk out it almost looks like they are reaching over to join you. We chose this place and the decor for a lot of reasons but we truly felt a calmness here tucked away in our quiet community.

I allow myself to sleep in on the weekends, sometimes until 11:00 or later. No alarms or earthquakes or my boyfriend can rattle me from my weekend slumber. My dad always told me if you are sleepy, just sleep, because this is your body telling you that you need to recharge.

Cooking my own food is something that became important to me when I lived alone for a while (7 years of solitude that began in 2008). I try to cook as often as possible using ‘fresh, locally sourced ingredients’...don’t you hate when people say that? But really, I buy fresh food and not frozen, processed things. I love making a nice breakfast, brewing some coffee, and picking a spot at the kitchen table or the couch to then be glued to for hours.

Reading is also something that became immensely important later in my life (after school was concluded). My mom is the fastest reader and loves to tell you and anyone around her as she strolls through Barnes and Noble that she’s read every single title on every single table. For the past few years I’ve been reading on my lunch breaks, enjoying the hour long opportunity to plow through whatever I’m reading. However the weekend is a whole DAY or DAYS to do this!

I’ve been picking up classic books that I blew off in preparatory school and even reading the coffee table books I’ve collected over the years. I’m a bit self-competitive and keep track of what I read, making sure each year I read more books than I did in the previous year; my goal this year is 30 books. I like to mix things up by reading a classic, like Wuthering Heights, and then picking up a fashion book, a magazine, or a biography.

I mentioned before that my weekend is my spa-retreat, which is why if you knock on my door at noon on a Saturday you’ll see some sort of colorful mask on my face and my hair wrapped in a terrycloth turban. There is a reason that I am still carded at 31 and will probably still (God willing) be carded at 41: I take care of and invest in my skin.

Every weekend, and multiple times per week, I apply masks (exfoliating, soothing, overnight treatments, etc.) and yeah, this tends to add up cost wise. It’s worth it. Investing in a cleanser, a mask, a serum, and a cream makes a world of difference and I truly believe doing these at home is the biggest cost saver. Can’t buy an $80 mask or spend $120 on a facial? Go grab an egg from the fridge, whisk the whites and plop them on your face: your very own kitchen scrap facial.

And sure, I’ll binge watch a show on Netflix (Alias Grace captivated me for a whole weekend), listen to French Cafe Radio on Pandora and dream of being in Europe, pay bills, check emails, catch up with family and friends on the East Coast, or take a break from my ‘plans’ and go out with Jamie. Santa Barbara is not necessarily a fashion capital so my weekend may also include online shopping (and the occasional unplanned splurge like I did this weekend on a Gucci bag). However the majority of my weekend is for me and at home: I need this time with myself and I truly love every minute of it.

For those who still feel the need to get drunk every weekend or spend $75 on your brunch plates I say have fun and bless you because hangovers after 25 are just not worth it. I’d rather save my money at this point and not torture Jamie because I’m ‘deceased’ after having 3 glasses of wine.

My weekend may not be your ideal weekend, but the self-care and calmness that come with a weekend tucked away can be really special. I’ve always felt that if you don’t love and take care of yourself, it’s impossible to love or take care of anyone else. The work week isn’t such a drag when you’ve taken ample time to make sure you’re bringing your best (and exfoliated) self to the table.

-G

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Why I Love Blogging

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Why I Love Blogging

People weblog for plenty reasons. Originally, I started my blog the quit of 2013 as an author platform.

But as time passed, I realized my blog furnished a good deal more than an author platform and it wasn’t all approximately the numbers. Blogging served an exceptional and more profound purpose. I would even say that it’s modified the manner I examine and live my life.

That’s why in case you’re considering beginning a blog, I’d distinctly propose it. That is if you’re blogging for the proper reasons.

If you’re beginning a blog to get wealthy or maybe to eke out a dwelling, well, don’t count on it. Monetizing a weblog is brilliant difficult nowadays. In reality, after 3 years, I’m nonetheless not earning money from my blog. By the way, don’t accept as true with all the hype from humans selling online publications that try to convince you running a blog is a first-rate manner to make passive income. Make no mistake, writing and promoting a weblog is a ton of labor. There is not anything passive about it.

In truth, it’s so clean to get pissed off when you first start a blog. As a technically-challenged character, I needed to analyze WordPress. Then, I spent a lot of time selling my weblog and attempting to find a target audience. Something else I knew little approximately. As with most bloggers, I speed have become obsessed – and depressed – with the numbers and what number of traffic, subscribers, and Facebook followers I had on any given day. Turns out constructing up readership for a weblog takes a LOT of time, effort, and staying power.

So Why Blog?

Some people might also disagree with me, however, I think running a blog should not simply be approximately making money, drumming up the commercial enterprise, amassing a huge following, chasing repute, or looking to sell books.

Blogging can function a creative channel to voice ideas, mind, evaluations, ideas, and feelings. On top of that, writing a weblog provides a fantastic possibility to inspire and touch the lives of other humans in a positive way.

How Blogging Changed My Life

My blog has clearly seen me through many America and downs these past few years. I’ve written about pleased moments like a ride to Chicago with my husband to have fun our anniversary, a day spent gambling within the snow with my grandchildren, watching Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones at Desert Trip, and a quick weekend trip with my youngsters to San Francisco.

I’ve also poured my heart out even as caregiving for my Mom who suffered from Lewy Body dementia and wrote about her eventual dying. I shared my angst when my mom-in-regulation died from ovarian most cancers and my son went thru a painful divorce and custody war that identical year. (Ironically, quickly when I commenced writing a weblog approximately happiness, I had the worst 12 months of my lifestyles.)

Yes, I love reading, which offers a welcome respite from my issues, however writing is my actual get away, outlet, and passion. When I write, I come to be so targeted, my issues fade away for awhile, giving me a miles needed wreck. In reality, if you’re truly a creator, trust me, it’s miles an existence-long dependancy!

The procedure of placing my thoughts and emotions into writing has delivered me comfort as well as assist me to relive happy moments.Author

As I’ve written about my lifestyles, my weblog helped me think about what’s crucial to me and decide if my lifestyles are headed on the right path.

Since I can not write about every event, idea, thought, and feeling, blogging presents a sort of filter, clarifying my existence. My blogs have helped me apprehend what’s most significant to me. I’ve discovered alongside the way that once in a while it is the best moments that make me the happiest.

Embracing Creativity

As a professional writer, my weblog gives me an extraordinary innovative freedom to specific myself. Not to pop everybody’s balloon, however, writing sounds more glamorous than it’s miles in reality. For most of the beyond 25 years, I’ve written articles on topics that magazines, newspapers, publishers and customers pick for me.

True, I’ve written young person books, travel articles, funny pieces, and characteristic memories on charming humans that have been fun. On the alternative hand, a good way to make a living, I’ve additionally written articles that bored me to tears. I’ve tackled technical articles – and one technical e-book – that gave me an Excedrin a headache and drove me nuts. I’ve written on demand, meeting other human beings’ cut-off dates, writing past due into the night as my brain is desperately trying to call it quits.

Don’t get me incorrect. I may sound whiny, but I absolutely recognize that I’m darn lucky to have made a dwelling at something I love. I wouldn’t have had it every other way.

The point is, my blog is my toddler. I write on topics I’m interested in and experience passionate about and hope my audience will revel in as well. My weblog allows me to stretch as an author, discover, test, and try new things whenever the muse hits. Writing professionally has given me the area to publish a blog each week, but I write my blogs once I pick out. And accept as true with me, it truly is no longer on the crack of dawn or 10:00 at night! That is high priced.

So, the ones are a number of the methods running a blog has changed my lifestyles. But, as I referred to earlier, the large bonus is that blogging can change different human beings lives as properly.

Some humans have left comments letting me recognize that I even have in some small way inspired them or provided useful records and that usually brings me such joy. Writing a weblog has provided an opportunity to connect with readers and different bloggers, which has been so rewarding.

What type of blogs has confirmed to be most famous? It’s always thrilling to peer what resonates and hits home. My pinnacle ten blogs so as of recognition:

1. Five Ways to Become a Happy-Go-Lucky Person

Every yr, that is my top-appearing blog with the aid of a long way. Merriam-Webster defines satisfied-go-lucky as blithely unconcerned and carefree. Synonyms encompass affable, laid-returned, low-stress, and mellow. I bet we all want a number of that!

2. Golden Boys in Concert: Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian

I changed into requested to do an e-book evaluate of Bobby Rydell’s autobiography. This led to an interview, loose tickets to his Golden Boys live performance with Frankie Avalon and Fabian, and a behind the scenes pass to fulfill Rydell in person. This was a nice perk that came from blogging! The day they published my concert assessment on Rydell’s Facebook web page, my site visitors increased via 3000% for the day. No joke!

Three. Keep Laughing with the Seven Dwarfs of Menopause

This weblog has held a top-3 spot since I began blogging. Hey, it is either chuckle or cry through menopause, and would not all of us prefer to giggle?

Four. Staying Positive Despite Problems

Everyone has issues that make us sense powerless and defeated, so I’m no longer amazed this blog made the pinnacle ten. I provide three easy hints on how we are able to manage our outlook and nevertheless choose to be happy regardless of our issues.

Five. What Are Your Life’s Happiest Moments?

If your appearance back on your life, which moments would you count number as your happiest? What could be your biggest regrets? That’s the question one study b

Aww, my first actual blog that got my weblog off the floor. The idea for this weblog turned into based totally on research that display, in general, older humans – or even the more youthful technology – are happier than us infant boomers. One examine showed there’s a U-fashioned happiness curve with the early 50’s as the lowest point of properly-being.

7. Happy as Easy as 1-2-three

“I need my day to sense like there may be boundless splendor and possibilities and pleasure to be felt, observed, explored, and expressed. And what? I can and so are you able to,” I wrote. This article was given determined on Stumble Upon, bringing me my 2d (after the Rydell live performance overview) all-time file excessive number of site visitors for someday.

8. Staying Happy Through Menopause

I wrote this newsletter after Hot Flash Daily hired me to put in writing funny articles about menopause to release their new website. I had by no means written humor earlier than, however, had a blast doing it for them! I luckily shared all of it – the sizzling hot flashes, insane insomnia, disturbing forgetfulness, and crazy panic assaults that ensued for years. Yes, YEARS!

Nine. Finding Happiness with Grandchildren

This blog turned into a clean one to write. To be wanted and desired by using those delightful little beings is an excellent deal with and privilege. Like many human beings, I discover that the rewards of own family life simplest grew richer and extra enjoyable as each new grandchild was born.

10. Five Happy Snoopy Quotes

Okay, this one amazed me a touch bit. But hiya, do not we all nonetheless why love Snoopy? Now that I write a happiness blog, I’m inspired with how a great deal knowledge Charles M. Schultz cartoons include at the problem.

I loved writing most of these articles that proved to be popular with readers. With that in my mind, what is my simple advice to all of you who are thinking about running a blog? Write approximately your passions. Let your blog train you life classes. And, in the end, revel in the method. Then you could love running a blog as plenty as I do!

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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Bollywood Musicals, Music for Dogs, Zines at the Pool

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This might feel like a slow week, but you’ll need to plan wisely. This weekend is packed with big events that span all day or more.

Friday, celebrate NYCxDesign (and Tom Dixon’s first New York showroom) with Dezeen at a block party in SoHo. Then rush to Williamsburg for the opening night of the Brooklyn Art Book Fair. They have programming scheduled all day Saturday too. But you’ll probably want to spend Saturday visiting all the idiosyncratic locales Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin’s …Circle Through New York intersects. Alternately, head to the other side of the city for open studios in Sunset Park, which run until 6 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.

There’s plenty more to do all over town this week, and even an excuse to catch the PATH to Journal Square if you’re local wanderlust can’t be sated by four boroughs of art events.

Tue

Marlborough New York

40 West 57th Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava’s smaller sculptures often lack the sheer drama his buildings convey based on scale. Nevertheless, fans of the Spanish architect should check this show out. It’s always interesting to see how architects and designers work out ideas in other media (remember Zaha Hadid’s sci-fi-looking paintings at the Guggenheim?). Here we can likely look forward to Calatrava’s signature balance of organic and geometric forms, deployed and experimented with at a smaller scale than a bridge or metro station.

Wed

EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

323 W 39th Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Website

Kenny Rivero: Hear My Dear

Kenny Rivero’s work has a sort-of dark comic/pop sensibility while remaining painterly. I’m curious to see how that translates to printmaking. Here, he’ll be showing recent monotypes and lithographs. If the image above (Black Panther logo?) is any indication, they’ll be as lovely as his paintings.

Thu

Asya Geisberg Gallery

537B West 23rd Street New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Website

Jasper de Beijer: The Brazilian Suitcase

Dutch artist Jasper de Beijer’s latest body of work is a fictionalized series of travelogues spanning nearly a century. The images are a mix of staged photography and computer simulations, imagining a series of anthropological expeditions to the Amazon and contact with isolated tribes. The series looks to be a biting commentary on colonialism, but it should be interesting to see how this is received. I wouldn’t be surprised if this became one of the most controversially-debated shows of the week.

yours mine & ours

54 Eldridge St. New York, NY 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Website

Esther Ruiz: Static Limit

The first time I saw Esther Ruiz’s work, I was blown away by her dreamy neon and mixed-media sculptures that feel world-building no matter their scale. In Static Limit, editions of her oddly-shaped neon-and-plexiglass black mirrors will orbit a freestanding sculpture in the center of the gallery, recalling the “static limit” at the edge of a black hole’s gravitational field. That sounds heady, but trust us, the result will be something beautiful and sleek that still feels playful and idiosyncratic.

Fri

Howard Street

New York, NY 5:00 p.m.Website

Dezeen & Tom Dixon's NYCxDesign Block Party

To celebrate the month-long NYCxDesign festival, Dezeen (one of our fav blogs) has partnered with British designer Tom Dixon and other retailers on SoHo’s Howard Street for a good ol’ fashioned block party.

This one will, naturally, have an emphasis on design, including an installation of Dixon’s light fixtures spilling out into the street. In a month jam-packed with design events, this might be the best to go rub shoulders.

Mccarren Pool

776 Lorimer St. Brooklyn, NY 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Website

Brooklyn Art Book Fair

The world has too many art fairs, but could never have enough art book fairs. That’s because the publications fair is the opposite of its stuffy distant cousin: accessibly priced, inherently democratic in nature, and generally just more fun.

This past month we’ve check out Open Space’s Publications and Multiples Fair and the Brown Paper Zine Fest (both in Baltimore) and are happy to report that many of the same names will be showing their wares in Brooklyn this week. The Brooklyn Art Book Fair, Hosted by BHQFU and Endless Editions, looks like it will be a blast (although, for logical reasons I have never heard of a book fair at a pool before) with performances and readings Friday night and Saturday afternoon. No running.

Vendors: 3 Dot Zine, Audrey Ryan, Belladonna*, Birds LLC, Black by Maria Silver, Mactaggart Jewelry, Brooklyn Arts Press, Brooklyn Poets, Carrier Pigeon Magazine, Christina Martinelli, Cory Siegler, Desert Island Comics, EOAGH, Elijah Wheat Showroom, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr, Endless Editions, Eyelevel BQE, Inpatient Press, Leslie Lasiter, Lorelei Ramirez, Lost & Found: the CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Memefrito, MFU: New York, Molly Soda, Monk Books, Nandi Loaf, Pegacorn Press, Potatoe Press, Press Press, Printed Matter, Quimby’s, Ruth Stone Foundation, Slow Youth, Small Editions, Soft City Printing, Sorry Archive, Third Man Books, Txt Books, Unity Press, UpSet Press, Wonder, Zebadiah Keneally

Sat

Various (Guggenheim Museum, et. al...)

1071 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Website

...Circle Through New York

What do music for dogs, a Felix Gonzalez Torres installation, a Punjabi television show, and an institution dedicated to ancient studies have in common? These are but some of the attractions in the sprawling circus known as …Circle Through New York from ringmaster artists Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin.

The project, as its title suggests, involved the artists drawing an arbitrary circle that connected Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx (sounds like a Robert Moses freeway!). They identified points of interest along its route, from the Guggenheim Museum, to the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, a pet store in the Bronx, and various other locations such as churches.

The project all these venues will be collaborating on? Reinterpretations of the so-called “oldest song in the world”, according to scholars at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. This old-ass song will be reborn as music for dogs in the Bronx, a Bollywood-style musical in Queens, and performances by church choirs in Harlem and Upper East Side museum staff. This should be extremely weird, and a great chance to take lesser-travelled corners of the city.

Here’s a list of all locations

Loew's Jersey Theatre

54 Journal Square Jersey City, NJ 8:40 p.m. - 10:15Website

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

The Jersey City Great Movie Sequels Weekend is such a good idea. The standout feature: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. This is definitely the type of movie my friends and I would dress up to go see. If my recent visit to art school was any indication, the post-apocalypse is trending hard with young artists right now, and it’s easy to see why.

At any rate, this film offers the most glamorous take on what Australia will be like whenever the insane leaders of the USA and DPRK, respectively, turn the Pacific Rim into a nuclear wasteland. So see it while it still feels like a fantasy!

Sun

Industry City Studios and Trestle Art Space

254 36th Street and 850 3rd Ave, Suite 411 Brooklyn, NY 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Website

Sunset Park Open Studios

This event begins on Saturday from noon to six, but we recommend heading out Sunset Park on Sunday so as not to compete with all the other stuff happening this weekend.

For now, Sunset Park is a hotspot of artist studios. That might change, given the Mayor’s ill-conceived economic development plans for the area. But before the “Made in NY” scheme displaces everyone, come see what’s been being Made in NY without the help of a megaproject, thank you very much.

Over 100 artists will open their doors at Industry City Studios, and a few blocks down 3rd ave at Trestle Art Space’s open studios, the following artists will be showing their goods:

Sara Brooks, Cynthia Brown, Melissa Capasso, Ronit Levin Delgado, Joan Di Lieto, Abigail Groff Hernandez, Kristen Haskell, Meredith Hoffheins, Lehna Huie, Rhia Hurt, Jessica Rose Jardinel, Richard Kessler, Myra Kooy, Taeko Kuraya, Younghoo Lee, Jessica Lipsky, Mary Malcolm, Sarah Malcolm, Dexter Miranda, Michela Muserra, Tony Mosca, Steve Nedboy, Jen Nista, Mari Renwick, Scott Robinson, Aima Saint Hunon, Rachel Scharly, Myla Seabrook, Carlos Torres-Machado, Annie Trincot, Koren Volk, Chris Weller, Gerry Wolk, Harold Wortsman, Heidi Yockey, Cindy Zaglin

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10 Surprising Reasons Why Women Should Lift Weights!

Are you looking to lose weight and get a sexy, toned body?

You’ve probably heard that cardio is the way to go if you’ve got that goal. You spend hours in the gym running, cycling and doing the stairmaster to get that CoverGirl physique, but you’re not seeing a lot of results.

What if I told you that you’ve got it all wrong? What if I told you that lifting weights could help you achieve that goal?

Now, you probably what in the hell did I smoke to be saying that. You might also be wondering what lifting weights have to do with losing weight…

After all, you don’t want that muscular and manly body!

Let me answer those questions for you.

First of all, I did not smoke anything or have any of those funny brownies.

And, I’ll tell you all about lifting in this article, and how it can even help you in your menstrual cycle!

Yes, you read that right! Lifting can not only help you with your cycle, it can also help you get some killer curves, burn fat, tackle mental health issues, boost your metabolism and a lot more…

Keep reading on to learn more about lifting!

…But, I Don’t Want To Look Manly!

What if I told you that no matter how much weight you lift, you won’t look like a man?

You’d probably call me crazy, right?

Well, I think it’s time that give you a reality check. Lifting weights will not make you look like a man in any way.

Men and women are different and are affected in different ways when they lift weights.

In fact, you’ll probably get some killer curves and a booty to die for if you start lifting weights. Cardio will make you look like a stick, it’s lifting that’ll help you fill up in all the right places!

You must be thinking, “How in the world would I not look like a man if I lift!?”

Well, that’s because men have this hormone called testosterone which helps in muscle-building.

It’s because of testosterone that men are genetically capable of developing more muscles than women can. You really don’t need to worry about looking like a man!

But, women also have testosterone in their body!

Yes, it’s true that women have a little bit of testosterone in their bodies but this doesn’t mean that you’ll look manly! It’s simply because women just don’t produce enough testosterone to get beefed up like men can.

You won’t look like this unless you take steroids or you won the genetic lottery which all guys want! (which will is almost impossible for women!)

Some of you may be wondering why in hell does the female body need testosterone?

That’s simply because it helps with muscle development, growth, and libido.

So, don’t stress out about looking like a man and lift!

10 Reasons Why Women Should Lift Weights!

So, now that I’ve addressed the “manly-looking” issue, it’s time we talked about a few reasons why you should lift (and, lift heavy!)

Weight lifting isn’t just to get muscular or compete in bodybuilding competitions. It’s got a lot of advantages. So, believe me when I say that lifting weights isn’t just for the gym-rat bros who look like bad news…

Did you know that the majority of women who join a gym don’t lift? Well, you should know that! You’re probably one of them.

This is because there’s a lot of myths and negativity that surrounds the issue.

I don’t know that is!

And, mass media has bombarded us with images of skinny women whom they call ideal. Magazines talk about diets and the cardio exercises you should be doing.

But, no one talks about lifting.

So, today I’ve got my top ten reasons why women should lift weights.

Let’s begin with the countdown, shall we?

1) Goodbye PMS and Period Cramps, Hello Regular Ovulation!

Yes, you read that right!

So, you may have heard that losing a lot of weight doing cardio can actually make you lose your period.

Well, the opposite is true when you lift weights! Weight lifting has been linked to making ovulation more regular in women.

And, it also helps with PCOS! Studies have shown that weight training helps with the symptoms of PCOS. In fact, women with PCOS who lift weights have said that the symptoms tend to get less severe with time.

Other than that…

Lifting weights has also been linked to reducing symptoms of PMS! So, introducing your girlfriend to weight lifting is a smart idea! You get to do a fun workout together, and your girl will not want to kill you during PMS!

Now, that’s a win-win, right?

But, that’s not all!

Women who’ve been lifting weights consistently have reported that they don’t get painful cramps during their periods! Isn’t that just amazing!

And, since we’re talking about the female reproductive system already, did you know that women who’ve been lifting for awhile have easier births than women who don’t lift?

I’m not making this up!

Not only can you get knocked up if you’re trying, you also get an easier and slightly more painless birth than a woman who doesn’t lift.

So, ready to lift yet? Or do you need more convincing?

2) Getting It Up: The Female Way!

You must be wondering how high I was when writing that. Well, not at all!

I just crack lame jokes all day and then laugh at them myself. It’s really sad, I know…

Anyhow, back to the point!

Did you know that lifting weights can improve your libido?

Wait, what!?

If you’re a guy who’s reading this, I think I’ve caught your attention! No, call your girlfriend and tell her what I’m telling you.

So, let’s take a biology lesson, shall we?

You must be aware that women have two hormones that regulate their monthly cycle: Estrogen and Progesterone.

Well, what you may not know is that women have another hormone in their bodies as well—testosterone.

Now, now, hear me out before calling me a liar!

Women make only a teeny-tiny amount of testosterone than men do (and, it’s important for our bodies!) And, this level of testosterone is merely boosted by weight lifting.

No, girl, trust me you won’t grow a beard if you lift! Or develop an Adam’s Apple!

You’ll just get a better period, and, get a little adventurous in bed!

And, did you know that women with a higher libido tend to be more fashionable and dress sexier?

I’m sure your boyfriend would appreciate that, right!?

3) Bone Health: Strong Like the Wolverine

Jazmine Garcia

So, since we’ve just talked about getting it up, I think it’s only fair that we talk about bones.

Okay, I’m immature, I’ve got talks from a lot of people, cut me some slack!

But, this is true for both the genders.

Did you know that osteopenia (less severe version of osteoporosis) is really common in women? It’s true. In fact, it’s been linked to prolonged periods of inactivity.

Yes, you can blame it on your boss!

But, did you know that lifting can actually help you maintain and even grow your bone density?

Yes, you’ve got to lift for your bones.

Weight lifting is probably one of the best ways to reverse bone degeneration if you do it consistently.

Did you know that the world-record holder of the barbell squat has the strongest bones of all humans to date?

So, say goodbye to fractures in old age!

4) Quit Playing Games With Your Heart

When you think about your heart’s health you think cardio.

But, what of I tell you that strength training is also extremely important for your heart?

Yes, people don’t talk about the benefits of strength training for your heart. So, I’ll educate you on that!

The thing is that your heart is a muscle. And, just like your biceps, it can be trained.

So, weight training can actually reduce your LDL (Low-Density Lipoproteins) levels as well as increase the value of HDLs!

Confused?

Well, what I basically mean to say is that strength training helps reduce bad cholesterol and boosts the good cholesterol!

That’s not all, folks!

Weight training is also linked to increasing sensitivity to insulin! This means that your body efficiently burns carbohydrates for energy and muscle-building.

So, if you are a sucker for sugary treats, but don’t want to get fat, lift!

There’s more…

5) Mental Health

Mental health is something that we all don’t think twice about, but should.

You know what a good pick-me-up is when you’re feeling yucky and sad? I’ll tell you!

Lifting.

Did you know that weight training is known to reduce the symptoms of depression and anxiety?

That’s because, after exercise, our body releases endorphins or feel-good hormones which help lighten our mood!

Isn’t that amazing?

I feel that this is the best point to talk about self-esteem.

Have you suffered from a bad break up?

If yes, then your self-esteem probably took a hit. You probably feel fat, ugly and countless other things. And what’s a better way to take out all that rage AND get a rocking body!?

Strength training won’t only help you with your body image issues, but will also give you a healthy channel for your all of your rage.

Apart from that, strength training also gives you confidence.

You see yourself grow and see your body change. You can actually see your body change and go stronger as the weeks pass by. It’s now easier for you to shift the couch while vacuuming, you’re a champion at unscrewing jar lids.

And, you can carry all of your groceries from your car to your house in one trip! Now, that’s what I like to call progress. #LikeABoss

6) Become The Kind Of Girl Who Wakes Up At 5:00 AM And Juggles Everything Effortlessly

Raise your hand if you know someone who does that!

Annoying, isn’t it?

While you go from home to work and back again, this person has got their life sorted. From book clubs to hobby classes, this person does it all. While you munch on your chocolate bar and think how they can do it all!

Well, I’ll tell you how you can do it.

Any guesses?

You’re right. All you have to do is lift weights.

Lifting weights is known to give you more energy throughout the day by increasing the concentration of plasma beta-endorphins in our body.

This not only helps you with your mood but also get you refreshed and ready to take on the world! #MojoJojoStyle

There’s more.

A lot of female weightlifters have also talked about how lifting is therapeutic for them and how strong they feel when they’re lifting more than the guy next to them. Like a boss.

That’s a boost of self-esteem like there!

And, not to mention, you’ll start loving your workouts! Cardio is kind of boring. You go to the gym, run on a machine like a hamster, or keep cycling and rowing for hours. It’s all fun and games until it’s not.

With weightlifting, it’s fun.

You get to test your limits, try new workouts and see yourself getting stronger every week.

It’s another experience altogether.

And, you feel like Wonder Woman afterward.

7) Better Sleep, No Need for Coffee!

Do you spend a lot of time in the night trying to sleep but just can’t? And then you wake up groggy and just needing that cup of coffee, and then some?

Well, lifting will help you out with that as well!

Amazing, isn’t it?

Not with making coffee, dummy. That you’ll have to do yourself.

Lifting can help you get a good night’s rest. In fact, a lot of studies have shown that weight training can help in improving your quality of sleep as well as the duration of sleep.

Yes, this means that you won’t wake up at random times during the night to pee.

And, you know what a good night’s sleep also means, right?

Any guesses?

Well, no midnight binging!

We all know how that goes, right? You eat a super-healthy breakfast, eat an Instagram-friendly lunch, get an amazing dinner and then, at midnight you’re eating bars of chocolate with a side of butter and some of that week-old pie.

No, I wasn’t talking about myself! That’s what just people say.

Okay, okay that did happen to me once…

I’m not done selling you a good night’s sleep yet.

Not only can your stress levels dramatically reduce when you’re sleeping right, you also look more beautiful!

Yes, you’ll be able to say goodbye to those bags under your eyes!

And, apart from that, you won’t get those stress zits, which stress you even more. You know how that ends, right?

The stress you get from the stress zits stresses your skin even more and you get more pimples.

And then you sit home alone eating ice cream, feeling too ugly to go to your friend’s birthday party. And it was that party in which you were supposed to meet your soulmate, but didn’t and then you keep getting fatter and getting more pimples…

Don’t I have an overactive imagination?

8) Hello, Great Metabolism

Do you have that friend who eats all kinds of crap but is still skinny?

Isn’t that just frustrating!?

You spend your days deciding your meals, counting your calories and not thinking about sweets, while she eats anything and everything that she wants to. You love her, but you sometimes want to kill her.

Well, we all hate those people, don’t we?

The reason why your friend can eat whatever she wants to without it showing is because she’s got a high metabolism.

Metabolism is largely genetically determined. You have what you have and you’ve got to live with it.

But, that being said, you can increase your metabolic rate by simply lifting weights!

Now, this doesn’t mean that you lift weights once a month and get a high basal metabolic rate (BMR)! You’ve got to work for it. Your BMR is how many calories your body burns for you just being alive!

Studies have shown that your levels of metabolism are raised till about 39 hours after you’ve finished your workout.

Why?

Well, that’s because your body simply takes more time to recover from lifting. And, burns more calories while you’re at it.

And, it can also help you lose some fat. I’ll talk about that a little later…

So, if you want to eat that piece of cake (by the ocean!) you better have it right after you’ve done your workout!

9) Drop That Fat And Then Drop Some More

So, this is probably something you thought you’d never read before, right?

It’s true, though.

Lifting weights does in fact help with losing fat. Now you must be wondering what kind of sorcery this is.

So, let’s back to the previous point.

Like I said, lifting weights can temporarily boost your BMR (which is how many calories your body burns on its own) which is an amazing thing on its own. Now, if you add a little cardio in the mix, you lose some fat.

Isn’t that just amazing!

This means that not only are you metabolising your food faster, you’re also losing more calories (thanks to the afterburn!) during your cardio workout.

But, there’s one thing you should keep in your mind before jumping on that treadmill right after you’re working out.

Never do cardio and lift on the same day.

Well, this is because cardio and strength training use different energy systems altogether.

Cardio uses your body’s cardiovascular system while strength training uses your body’s anaerobic energy system.

So, using and both on the same day will not help you lose fat. In fact, chances are that you’ll probably end up gaining some.

I hope that that will keep you away from using both of your energy systems on the same day!

10) The Killer Curves

Bethany Tomlinson

Before discussing the 10 reasons why women should lose weight, I talked a bit about the biggest turn off about weight lifting for women: looking manly.

Well, this one’s going to probe into that.

You know how big booties are in, right? All thanks to Sir Mix A Lot’s Baby Got Back.

Now, baby, you ain’t gonna get that back until you work for it!

And, don’t even think about doing cardio in order to get those killer curves. Cardio will only slim you down and turn it into a plank.

It’s strength training that’ll give you shape.

Maryana Dvorska

Think about making a doll out of clay. You’ll need a wire/ wooden frame for the body, but you’ll need clay to fill it out nicely.

So, if you want those toned thighs, killer abs, that line down your abdomen and a well-defined back, you need to add some strength training to your routine, girl!

So, instead of getting some silicone into your booty, you’re better off doing some heavy squats and lunges to develop your butt and make it bigger.

Although I can’t promise you a Kardashian butt!

But, I do have a guide that can help you build your glutes…

And, you save a lot of surgery money!

Rush To The Weight Room, Girl!

Abby Pollock

If you’re still reading this then stop and run to your nearest gym and start working out!

When you talk about weight training for women, people usually visualise a masculine woman with a beefed up body. And, women all over the world run away screaming when you talk about lifting weights!

But, lifting weights has a lot of advantages for women.

And, it doesn’t make you manly!

So, those were my top ten reasons why women should lift weights. From getting relief from those awful PMS symptoms to feeling energetic, lifting definitely has a lot of advantages for women.

Cardio has its benefits, but for all-round fitness and improvement of your health, you’ve got to add some weight training to the mix!

Just remember, consistency is key.

A workout done consistently for one day a week for 6 months is better than a workout done thrice a week every 3 weeks.

Simple Leg Workout Routine For Women

Nikki Blackketter

Here’s a simple progression for leg workouts which will lead to great legs and glutes. You may implement chest, shoulders, biceps, and more but I will focus on a woman’s key assets.

For women, 90% of your workouts should focus on your legs as they grow better than male legs (That’s a fact!)

Beginner:

Barbell Squats – 50% of your bodyweight for 8 reps – 3 sets

Hip Thrusts – With no weights for 10 reps – 3 sets

Barbell Lunges – 30% of your bodyweight for 8 long strides – 3 sets

Rest time: 30 seconds – 2 minutes

Intermediate:

Barbell Squats – 80% of your bodyweight for 8 reps – 3 sets

Hip Thrusts – With 5kg plate for 10 reps – 3 sets

Barbell Lunges – 60% of your bodyweight for 8 long strides – 3 sets

Leg Press Machine – 80% of your bodyweight for 8 reps for 3 sets

Bulgarian Squats with Dumbells – 20% of your bodyweight for 10 reps for 3 sets

Rest time: 30 seconds – 3 minutes

By the time you reach advanced-level then you will have a well-defined glute goal!

Advanced:

Barbell Squats – 100% of your bodyweight for 8 reps – 3 sets

Hip Thrusts – With 10kg plate for 10 reps – 3 sets

Barbell Lunges – 70% of your bodyweight for 8 long strides – 3 sets

Leg Press Machine – 100% of your bodyweight for 8 reps for 3 sets

Bulgarian Squats with Dumbells – 40% of your bodyweight for 10 reps for 3 sets

Deadlifts – 100% of your bodyweight for 6 reps for 3 sets

Rest time: 30 seconds – 4 minutes or until you feel ready for your next set

These workout plans are based on weights relative to your bodyweight so reaching advanced level is guaranteed to have amazing results!

I hope I was able to encourage all those pretty ladies out there to try lifting! I’m sure you’ll love the rush! Leave comments if you’ve got any questions or suggestions and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible!

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Google announces new captcha system to identify robots

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Google announces new captcha system to identify robots

Political advertising on-line desires transparency and expertise

Political advertising online has unexpectedly turn out to be a complicated industry. The fact that most of the people get their facts from only some platforms and the increasing sophistication of algorithms drawing upon rich pools of personal statistics imply that political campaigns are now constructing individual adverts centred immediately at customers. One supply shows that inside the 2016 US election, as many as 50,000 variations of advertisements were being served each single day on Facebook, a close to not possible state of affairs to monitor. And there are recommendations that a few political adverts – within the US and around the arena – are being used in unethical methods – to point citizens to faux news websites, as an instance, or to maintain others far away from the polls. Centred marketing allows a campaign to mention distinctive, probably conflicting things to different agencies. Is that democratic?

Those are complicated troubles, and the solutions will no longer be simple. However, a few great paths to development are already clean. We must work together with net corporations to strike a balance that puts a fair degree of information manipulate back into the hands of people, along with the development of latest technology including private “statistics pods” if needed and exploring alternative sales fashions together with subscriptions and micropayments. We need to fight in opposition to government overreach in legal surveillance guidelines, inclusive of via the courts if important. We must ward off against incorrect information by encouraging gatekeepers which include Google and Facebook to retain their efforts to combat the hassle while averting the introduction of any valuable our bodies to decide what’s “true” or not. We need more algorithmic transparency to recognise how important decisions that have an effect on our lives are being made, and possibly a set of conventional ideas to be accompanied. We urgently want to shut the “internet blind spot” in the regulation of political campaigning.

Our group on the web Basis can be operating on many of These problems as part of our new five-year strategy – getting to know the issues in an extra element, developing with proactive coverage answers and bringing coalitions collectively to force progress toward the web that gives same energy and opportunity to all.

I may also have invented the net. However, all of you have got helped to create what it’s far today. All of the blogs, posts, tweets, images, films, programs, internet pages and more constitute the contributions of millions of you around the arena building our on-line network. All sorts of people have helped, from politicians preventing to keep the internet open, standards organisations like W3C improving the electricity, accessibility and security of the technology, and individuals who have protested in the streets. Within the beyond 12 months, we have seen Nigerians rise to a social media bill that could have hampered free expression on-line, widespread outcry and protests at regional internet shutdowns in Cameroon and excellent public guide for internet neutrality in each India and the European Union.

It has taken all and sundry to construct the web we have, and now it’s far as much as anybody to build the net we want – for anybody.

The revel in of squinting at distorted text, involved over small photographs, or maybe inevitably clicking on a checkbox to show you aren’t a robotic ought to quickly be over if a brand new Google service takes to the air.

The organisation has found out the modern day evolution of the Captcha

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(short, sort of, for completely Computerized Public Turing take a look at to inform Computers and Human beings Aside), which goals to do away with any interruption at all: the new, “invisible reCaptcha” goals to tell whether or not a given traveler is a robot or now not purely by using analysing their browsing behaviour. Barring a quick wait while the machine does its job, a typical human traveller shouldn’t do anything else to show they’re no longer a robot.

It’s a protracted manner from the first Captchas, brought to stop Automatic applications signing up for services like email addresses and social media accounts. The idea is straightforward: pick out an undertaking that a human can do easily, and a machine unearths very hard, and require that venture be finished before the manner can be persisted. Google ‘s captcha basically tells if you’re a robot or not.

The first captchas frequently trusted obfuscated textual content: some letters and numbers, blurred, distorted, or in any other case rendered desperate to parse with traditional character recognition software. Even then, they had been nevertheless bypassed fairly frequently. The confined number of characters available in the Latin alphabet supposed that the software could quick enhance to a passable level of accuracy, even as obfuscating the letters any further ought to lead to real Humans – especially people with bad eyesight – being locked out.

And that changed into handiest while the device wasn’t installation badly in other ways. For instance, one ticket tout within the mid-00s, faced with a Captcha at Ticketmaster, located that the whole device becomes pre-generated: the ticketing website had simplest loaded about 30,000 captchas into its database. The tout’s group, in reality, downloaded every Captcha picture they might, then stayed up all night time manually fixing them. From then on, the boat may want to buy tickets routinely without trouble.

However, the first large breakthrough in Captchas to hit the net had nothing to do with making it harder for robots to pass them. Rather, it was an insight that all the attempt human beings had been putting into gazing squiggly text will be ways higher carried out.

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Dubbed reCaptcha, the concept came from Luis von Ahn in 2008, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has because co-founded language studying startup Duolingo. Von Ahn realised that if People have been doing something that Computers found difficult – analysing distorted text – they have to as a minimum be examining text this is useful.

ReCaptcha replaced the autogenerated textual content in preceding Captchas with words drawn from scanned textual content which includes newspapers, books and magazines: textual content that needed to become a PC-readable type. It still distorted the images, to be able to preserve Computers out. However, the real words typed in have been fed back to the database to enhance the original information.

That added a second hassle, even though: if a computer can’t examine the phrase presented, how does the machine realise whether the person got it right or incorrect? Von Ahn’s answer turned into to offer pairs of words, one already solved and one unknown word. If the respond in the primary one fits that given previously, then the user might be a human – and so the second one answer also receives delivered to the database, and finally presented to a brand new person.

The idea turned into compelling, mainly to one net titan: in September 2009, Google offered reCaptcha. The acquisition made feel. The organisation now not handiest had a large wide variety of account creation requests, way to spammers seeking to create Gmail debts en masse, it also had a vast corpus of text to digitise, the result of its controversial plan to scan in hundreds of thousands of books and newspapers. The one’s incentives also intended Google should make reCaptcha unfastened for different groups to apply, with the server fees being recouped by using the treasured data.

But even though reCaptcha made proving you’re a human useful, it couldn’t beat the development of automatic textual content recognition. As early as 2008, the Captcha concept becomes already beginning to fall at the back of. Not simplest were robots getting higher at analysing even distorted text; However spammers had been starting to use reCaptcha’s concept against it: if Humans can do paintings greater than robots, why no longer get them to do the paintings? Via supplying up something without spending a dime (this being the net, it’s usually porn), a spammer may want to persuade humans often to remedy another website online’s Captchas for them, using just copying the picture over.

Captchas have advanced in response, with Google introducing an increasing number of diffused technological tricks to attempt to inform whether or not a consumer is or isn’t a human. That culminated in 2014 when it brought the “No Captcha reCaptcha”. The shape seems like a simple container: stick it to verify which you aren’t a robotic. Not like textual content-based totally Captchas, the mechanisms via which Google tells whether or not it’s handling a robotic were intentionally obscured. The organization stated it employed “superior risk analysis” software program, which video display units things like how the user types, where they flow their mouse, wherein they click on and how long it takes them to test a page, all with the aim of running out which behaviours are human-like and that are too robot.

That’s probably how the new Invisible reCaptcha works, despite the fact that the agency is even more silent almost about that. In response to a request for elaboration, Google handiest related to a promotional video.

However, the No Captcha reCaptcha didn’t imply the death of beneficial Captchas. Instead, they’ve developed too, moving beyond text to assist Google’s other massive records tasks.

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If Google decides you aren’t human with its strange voodoo, it’ll now show you a group of pix and ask you to unwittingly teach its system getting to know systems in numerous approaches. Some customers is probably proven a grid complete of animal pix and be requested to pick out each cat (beneficial education for Google snapshots’ capability to search thru you photos for keywords you provide); others might be shown a photograph taken from an Avenue View vehicle and asked for kind of the door numbers of houses (beneficial for improving the accuracy of the corporation’s maps) or choose every a part of the photograph that incorporates street signs (helpful for training the company’s self-driving automobiles). Nonetheless, others might be shown an image of an army helicopter and asked to pick All the squares that incorporate a helicopter (beneficial schooling for … well, probably for image recognition, However maybe for Google’s plan to take over the arena with AI).

In the long run, even though, Google’s plan to do away with the burden of a reCaptchas altogether method that it’s going to get less and much less of this information from end customers. But given the company’s scale, even the individuals who fail the invisible reCaptcha might nicely offer sufficient extra facts to offer Google’s AI plans but more of a boost against the opposition. Who knows, maybe the Invisible Captcha is also schooling an AI a way to act like a human online?

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Follow our COLOR.ME Design director, Kate Reid, as she takes us behind the scenes of this year’s PUNK.LINE photoshoot!

DAY 1: L.A. TO LONDON TO PRAGUE

3:00 pm: I arrive in Prague. Prague is one of my favourite cities in the world – it’s so beautiful! I hop in a taxi to the hotel and drop off my luggage before heading to the model call. The hotel is simple, but it is right next door to the salon we are prepping at. Lately, more zzz’s rank higher than 5 stars!

5:00 pm: We hold our model call at Stolen Salon, which is an urban warehouse with open ceilings, polished concrete and plenty of natural lighting from the big windows that fill an entire side of the salon. After seeing our short list of around 50 models, we have narrowed the pool down to 10 girls. Kevin and Luis take an image of each so we can later sit down and go one by one through all of the shots we need to capture and confirm our six girls for the year’s collection. The models in Prague have legs that extend to the skies and the most perfect skin, which makes me feel like I need to drink more water! When it comes down to choosing the final models, we have to make sure that the girls we choose are open to having their hair cut and coloured.

Since many of the models do not speak English, Lucie, our Production Manager, translates. It’s so helpful having Lucie in the salon because she is a former model who now works behind the scenes. Now it is time to have an open and real conversation about what we can realistically create with colour and what we cannot achieve. The man behind the brand, Kevin, and his husband/photographer, Luis are essential in making sure that everything falls into place perfectly. The combined knowledge of hair colour and photography coupled with the fashion culture of the team allows us to know exactly what will happen and takes any guess work out of the equation.image48:00 pm: We finish the model call and Lucie books the models, shares the details of the shoot, and sets times for their hair appointments. I tidy the salon and begin to organise my tools and my kit for the next day. Now that I have met the models, I know what I am going to create and I want to prepare my station accordingly. I always overpack; I bring every shade that is on my trend list in multiples. Some of the products I can’t live without are CLEAR, SOFT.VIOLET, 11.0, ICE, SILVER, and 5.86. Bottomless amounts of my favorite textured foil and loads of KEVIN.MURPHY sectioning clips complete my packed essentials.

9:00 pm: Next stop is dinner with the team to discuss our game plan for the shoot. At the table, we have myself, Kevin, Luis, Michael, Lucie and her boyfriend, our stylist, Craig, our STYLE.MASTER, Juha, and our two lighting guys, John and Reuben. Kevin, myself, John, and Reuben are all from Australia, Luis is Puerto Rican, Michael is Austrian, Lucie and her boyfriend are from Prague, and our “Kiwi-turned local,” Craig, now resides in Prague. We exchange stories about past shoots across the globe – Kevin and Luis recently wrapped up a shoot in south Australia in the very same city I grew up in. We talk about our favourite restaurants from the area and bond over our global adventures.

12:00 am: Lights out! Tomorrow is a big prep day and I need my brain functioning at full speed!Color.Me_2016_03_185DAY 2: PREP

6:00 am: I wake up and sip coffee over email. Our bubbly marketing manager, Kiki, has sent me several emails overnight and needs an urgent quote on a trend piece for a popular fashion and beauty magazine, so I send her some thoughts to pass along to PR.

7:00 am: No matter how hectic my travel schedule, I always make time for exercise. We run a heavy prep day, so getting in a workout is key to keeping my energy level high throughout the trip. I head for a 5km run along the river to jump start my day.

9:00 am: Time to colour! I will be colouring six models with our European Education Director, Michael Jung, so it will be a fun day. On set, I allow myself much more time than I would normally use in the salon, as I love to colour and recolour until it’s perfect. It drives Kevin a little crazy as it is a long day of waiting patiently. He spends the day looking at props and heading to stores to pick out the set for the photoshoot. When the models arrive, I know exactly what we’re doing on each girl so it’s really well-thought out and discussed amongst all of us. I like to post my inspiration pictures on the windows so I can see my colour story. Just in case I have an inspirational idea, this lets me see if it will work and fit in.

11:00 am: Prep day is fully underway. Everyone is in the zone, but we have music playing and the vibe remains casual and relaxed.

1:00 pm: We wrap up our “IN.BLOOM” model and I’m feeling very pleased with the result. The shade was something I had been playing around with all year and the details of the colour are absolute perfection. The model is so angelic – this look is my favourite, so far.Color.Me_2016_09_15732:00 pm: Our stylist, Emily, arrives and begins setting up. She takes turns fitting each model and selecting the wardrobe for tomorrow’s shoot. She has so many bags of clothes – about 40 outfits in total. She hangs everything and steams each outfit, treating them as delicately as you would precious metals. She has a mix of high end (expensive!) designer items and some incredibly affordable options you can find at any mall. She has the models try on several outfits, snapping pictures of each one to review with Kevin.

3:00 pm: I feel bad for the models that have been waiting around all day. We only colour one model at a time so it’s a lot of waiting time for them. I turn up the music in the hopes of making the experience more enjoyable.

5:00 pm: I take a second to admire an absolutely stunning pink rose we just created. The way the light catches the hair is so breathtaking as it has so many dense pastel variations.

7:00 pm: Phew, long day. The models trickle out and we all sit with Kevin recapping the looks. Craig brings out some local grappa that his friend made. That stuff is like drinking rocket fuel and I feel my cheeks flush in two seconds flat.

8:30 pm: We head to dinner straight from the salon with the team and we chat about tones of the hair, location, and everything else down to funny, past photoshoot horrors. We eat at the same market every night; it has a nice European vibe and the food is so fresh – it’s the perfect way to finish the day with the team.

11:00 pm: My head hits the pillow and I fall fast asleep.image3IMG_1794DAY 3: THE SHOOT

9:00 am: We walk to the shoot location and I have a quick check over the colours before diving in.

9:05 am: Once we arrive, the models head straight to makeup with Hristina. Kevin and I have worked with her for 3 years now and he sent her some makeup looks and images in the months leading up to the shoot so that the overall vision is in sync. Each model spends about 45 minutes to an hour in makeup and the results are flawless. Then, Emily arrives and has the clothes set up for the day. The models head to styling and get dressed, which is the final step before shooting. She stays on set all day to assist with any wardrobe malfunctions that might occur, but they don’t – Emily is a pro!

10:00 am: We start on our first shot. Luis is pretty chill and knows which shots Kevin is after.

11:00 am: We have our coffee machine set up and I make everyone coffee – one of my favourite things! Us colourists have done most of our work, so I spend my day assisting the others in any way I can: passing pins, SESSION.SPRAY and DOO.OVER, making sure the models are fed – you name it, and I’m on it! I’m just a runner and love it!

12:00 pm: While most of my work is done, the STYLE.MASTERS are now ON! They have a seamless rotation of models coming in and out of their prep station, so they are literally doing hair non-stop. SESSION.SPRAY seems to never leave Juha’s hand except for when he is reaching for ANTI.GRAVITY or DOO.OVER.Color.Me_2016_14_03532:00 pm: We take a pause from shooting and sit at a table to enjoy lunch together. Photoshoots are always such an incredible bonding experience!

2:30 pm: We go back to work and the hair is looking incredible. There is so much movement and texture in the hair – almost a 70’s vibe.

3:00 pm: Kevin is what we call a “world class wafter”. Between shots, he fluffs the hair, making sure each model has that signature “KEVIN.MURPHY” gently tousled finish.

5:00 pm: The models, all dressed with makeup, styling and colour, are so gorgeous! I can’t help but stare at times as they are so exquisite.

8:00 pm: We wrap for the day. The shoot has been a real success. Everyone involved is a master in their own craft and has incredible respect for one another. When you’re on set, it’s like you almost develop a sort of “hair romance” with each other. The trust and respect felt in that set is unparalleled and can be experienced throughout the entire room.

9:00 pm: We head to a team dinner at a beautiful outdoor restaurant on the Charles Bridge. The people-watching is fantastic; the women in Prague are ridiculously stylish. The view from our spot and the overwhelming feeling of history around us is so surreal. Europeans love to come alive at the table, so dinner ends around 11:30 pm. We head to a bar to grab a little Prague culture and celebrate a successful shoot. I fly out early the next day, feeling a deep sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.Color.Me_2016_02_546For more behind the scenes action, check out our video and article here!

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