The lizard at 3:00 is Pierre‘s cousin.
This Wikipedia page provides a list of Crayola crayon colors along with their hexadecimal and RGB equivalents. It’s also broken things up into specialty categories like Silver Swirls, Gem Tones, and Metallic FX.
Burnt Sienna was a childhood fave. I also probably spent way too much time torn between Orange Red and Red Orange.
Somebody’s actually worked out the mathematical chances of each piece surviving a chess game. They used Quora.
Considering common endgame positions, it’s not surprising that rooks and the outside pawns have the best survival rate, along the queen herself.
It’s the minor pieces and center pawns that have the most complicated survival chances:
The situation with the c-d-e pawns is very interesting. The most survivable central pawn is the White c-pawn (42%), while White’s d-pawn is the most doomed of all the chessmen (24%) – more so even than the knights (~26%). There’s a pleasing symmetry in the survival rates of the White and Black c- and e-pawns that suggests they’re frequently exchanged on the d-file. Bishops survive around 35% of the time, with the kingside bishops slightly more likely to survive than queenside ones.
Chuck Palahniuk has thrown out a challenge to writers: do not use “thought” verbs for six months. Thinks, Knows, Understands, Realizes, Believes, Wants, Remembers, Imagines, Desires, and a hundred others you love to use.
Thinking is abstract. Knowing and believing are intangible. Your story will always be stronger if you just show the physical actions and details of your characters and allow your reader to do the thinking and knowing. And loving and hating.
Good advice. The only real drawback is that you’ll soon find yourself identifying lazy writers and hating them. ;D
The credits are often the first thing we see when we watch a great film or TV show, but the complexity and artistry of title design is rarely discussed. Creators of title sequences are tasked to invent concepts that evoke the core story and themes of the production, and to create a powerful visual experience that pulls the viewer into the film’s world. In this episode we hear the stories of some of the most inventive people working in the field, including the creators of the iconic Mad Men sequence, the hilarious Zombieland opening and “rules” sequences, and the stirring end credits from Blue Valentine.
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