I think there is something to be said about thinking outside of the box and taking a totally different approach to a virtual instrument, instead of the usual nobs and button twitching. And, if you want to go to the "DNA" screen, you'll find it to be very programmable at the same time. While the branch part of the interface looks quirky, it works very well for coming up with sounds and variations of sounds quickly (there's also an undo function). It's obvious from both your statements that you've never tried it. The instrument concept seems like a great idea.Ī Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!" could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit. Yup and an interesting idea as well, trying to find a screen interface from a sound perspective & it sounds & looks good too. Though you have to say that this is definitely 'out of the box' thinking.at the very least. Tree-hugging electronic musicians, perhaps? The thing is, I'm not sure who they are trying to appeal to, if it is a marketing gimmick. Well, I wasn't really thinking it was a marketing gimmick, but, since you've mentioned it, it does seem that way. though you have to say that this is definitely 'out of the box' thinking.at the very least. So I guess you are on the 'marketing gimmick' camp of synplant. As for the sounds, they're fair to mediocre, at best. I've watched the video of how this thing works and, I must say, this is the silliest interface design I believe I've ever seen in a software synth. Hi guys! For those of you who are interested here is an article review that was published today about Synplant: Subject description: Marketing gimmick or real innovation? Mark the topic unread :: View previous topic :: View next topic Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Chat Roomįorum index » Instruments and Equipment » Soft synths FAQ Calendar Search Memberlist Usergroups Links
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There's a moment in which we think something might take a surprisingly darker turn, but it's over in a flash. We were given plenty of reason to doubt Mills' success in"Taken," but this time around we haven't a shred. His style is a bit more frenetic as he heavily edits the action sequences to the point where you don't get more than a second and a half at any one camera angle, but that's not a problem so much as the film's failure through and through to prevent the audience's indifference to what's going on. Director Olivier Megaton, a frequent Besson collaborator, takes over for Pierre Morel, and does nothing to help nor hurt the picture. It's just a tease that the film might reach its predecessor's level, however, as the ingenuity never gets any more exciting than that. There's one scene early on (as in once the film gets going early on) in which Mills uses Kim to help pinpoint his location in the city, instructing her to set off grenades so he can figure out how far away she is by how long it takes for him to hear the blast. What's required to compensate for not raising the stakes in terms of both motivation and danger is substantially more creativity, and that's where Besson and Kamen really come up dry. We already know what Mills is willing to do for his family, so his motivation is identical to the first film, plus we know he's too skilled to stay kidnapped for long. It feels as though every single plot point or detail exists solely to create circumstances in which our main characters can get kidnapped, with ample occurrences both inconvenient and convenient to allow for problems and general suspense while also providing enough room for a solution. The entire setup here is forced - really forced. During their first full day together in Istanbul, Kim gets the idea to let Bryan and Lenore have some alone time in hopes of rekindling their relationship, but when they go into town they are followed by the Albanians, and despite Mills' best efforts, he and Lenore are taken. As it happens, Kim and her mother, Lenore (Famke Janssen), decide to surprise him by flying to meet him there, though to be fair it's not that obnoxious of a coincidence, as Mills had invited them to come after hearing Lenore's current husband had canceled their family trip to China. Simply, the Albanians that Mills killed en route to finding his daughter want revenge, so they track him to one of his private security jobs in Istanbul. In "Taken 2," it's not as complicated and the stakes don't feel nearly as high. Kim (Maggie Grace) couldn't just get taken again, and part of the intrigue was Mills (Neeson) having to find her despite being hours behind her captors with no idea of where they might take her. This shouldn't surprise anyone considering, again, no justification existed in the original story for a sequel. Everything about the story of "Taken" was so concrete, that there didn't seem like any obvious direction for a sequel, but a gross of $226.8 million on a $25-million budget talks, and so we have "Taken 2," but what Besson and Kamen have come up with this time fails to measure up to the original in almost every way. It was a simple concept in that it utilized family bonds as motivation, but it was made exciting through a mixture of intriguing resourcefulness and crafty violence. Writers Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen managed to captivate audiences with a streamlined story of a retired CIA operative using his skills to locate and rescue his kidnapped daughter. Liam Neeson's action-man renaissance in 2008's "Taken" was a most unheralded critical and box-office hit for a seemingly generic revenge flick. 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The City holds a Community Wide Garage Sale two times per year on the second Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of June and of September (revised ). With his short dark hair and friendly face, Batchelor may have simply offered a physical resemblance to Bean in the eyes of his Iranian guards. Which is what most visual comedians are about: Stan Laurel, Chaplin, Benny Hill." "The essence of Mr Bean is that he's entirely selfish and self-centred and doesn't actually acknowledge the outside world," he said. As Stephen Fry once memorably said of Atkinson: "It is as if God had an extra jar of comic talent, and for a joke gave it to a nerdy, anoraked northern chemist." Atkinson himself has said he based Bean on his nine-year-old self. Mainly, however, Bean was the result of decades of the comic studying himself. One of the many ironies in this story is that Atkinson says his quintessentially British creation was in part inspired by a French comic character, Monsieur Hulot, invented by French actor, director, writer and producer Jacques Tati, who released a series of films, including Monsieur Hulot's Holiday. If Mr Bean has become an inadvertent ambassador for the British personality, it is uncomfortable not just for Batchelor, but for millions of us. Resplendent in geeky tweed, the Mini-driving Mr Bean increasingly seems to be a symbol of Britishness around the globe. And if you ask a non-Brit to describe Mr Bean, these are the words they deliver back: hapless, awkward, self-conscious, childlike, disaster-prone. The lastest Bean film, Mr Bean's Holiday, is a global smash hit, No 1 in 21 countries and top of the international box office. 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Said to be a cup of "mysterious power," it was said to have held the blood and sweat of Jesus Christ (or to have been the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper), and some believed that drinking from it could heal the body, enlighten the mind, and make the drinker's entire being immortal. The mythical Holy Grail was also said to confer immortality. Of course, as we know, Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden for instead eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. The Tree of Life, most religious scholars agree, conferred immortality and incorruption upon the one who ate from it. According to Genesis, the garden contained two trees: the Tree of Knowledge, from which grew the forbidden fruit, and the Tree of Life: "And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise." (Gen. Immortality comes into play in the story of the Garden of Eden. But the body would have been transformed, the outer layers of gross matter having been shed." "Rather, it was about attaining a state of spiritual liberation or enlightenment (moksha) without having to die. "Indian traditions at least did not necessarily mean keeping one's body alive forever," professor Wujastyk said. The recipe has been lost to time, but historians believe it may have been made with the fermented milky sap of Asclepias acida, a kind of milkweed.Īncient Indian alchemy may have sought a more spiritual goal than our modern ideas of immortality. Other tales from ancient Indian folklore speak of soma, a fermented drink that was said to grant the drinker immortality. Mercury was not the only substance used to promote longevity of life amla (a fruit similar to a gooseberry) was also a common ingredient. The phrase loosely translates to mean "the science of mercury," according to Wujastyk. It is still referred to as the "mushroom of immortality" and has been used in Chinese medicinal practices as a potent hot water extract for nearly 2,000 years.Įarly cultures in India, starting around 400 BCE and continuing on to 800 AD, practiced ayurvedic rasayana, an early version of alchemy. "Although historical accounts referring to 'rivers of mercury' flowing through the tomb of the first Qin emperor may have been exaggerated, archaeological surveys have confirmed the presence of elevated levels of mercury in the soil around the tomb site," said Wujastyk.Ĭhinese mythology is also rife with images of Ling Zhi, a species of mushroom found throughout much of Asia. Ancient Chinese chemists believed that the demonstrated instability of mercury indicated "spiritual significance." In ancient China, Taoists believed that certain chemicals and minerals like mercury and cinnabar (an ore of mercury, bright red in color) had miraculous qualities. The earliest known attempts to create an elixir of life rather than just refer to it in mythology took place in ancient China during the Qin dynasty (during the first and second centuries BCE), according to Dagmar Wujastyk. Historians believe that the ancient idea of ambrosia would have been based on honey, although the Ancient Greek poet Ibycus called it "nine times sweeter than honey." It was believed that ambrosia could heal scars, cure diseases, raise people from the dead, and banish death completely. The ambrosia came from the horns of Amalthea, the goat (or goatherd) foster mother of Zeus. The ancient Greeks believed that what the gods ate and drank gave them immortality. He adds, stating the obvious, that "Claims of immortality have never been proven to be true."Īmong the many mythologies of the ancient Greeks, perhaps one of the most famous is that around ambrosia, the so-called ectar of the gods. 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