![]() The 1977 Thunderbird listed at $5,063 and demand exploded. How much less expensive? The base MSRP of the 1976 Thunderbird was $7,790. 1977 was the year that Ford did the same thing by exiting the “near luxury” market and repurposing the great Thunderbird name on a far less expensive personal coupe. In the 1930’s, Packard put its prestigious name on some less expensive cars – and sold a bunch of them. Fords of that era also tended to have fairly decent levels of fit and finish and involved far less drama in the service department than some competitive cars. There were better-than-average interior materials and a freeway ride that took a backseat to nobody in isolating the driver from the cruel world. ![]() There was also the good stuff, with bodies that no longer suffered from the really bad rust problems and had some of the most substantial-sounding door slams in the industry. Floaty suspensions, dead, unresponsive steering and pack-trailing engineering were part of the Ford Package of the mid 1970’s. Everyone knows the worse part – the emission-strangled engines that were better at drinking fuel than turning it into power and the horridly ungainly 5 mph bumpers that were all function and not at all about form. Under the skin it was a more-or-less average product of the Ford Motor Company of its time, for better or worse. Nor has anyone ever argued that this was a great car. The basket-handle roof was a hat-tip to the 1955 Fairlane Crown Victoria, and rooflines had been creeping in this direction for several years. Nobody has ever argued that the 1977-79 Thunderbird was a breakthrough design. The personal luxury derivative, however, became the recipient of the great Thunderbird name. The regular Gran Torino, in a kind of truth-in-advertising moment, became the LTD II. In 1977, Ford gave the Gran Torino/Elite a much-needed makeover. Whether the car or the name (and probably both) it just never caught on the way cars like the Cutlass Supreme, the Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix or even the upstart Chrysler Cordoba managed to do. One class down, the Ford Elite suffered the same kind of problem. The Thunderbird retained a certain cache’, but the cars themselves became less and less special, until it had more-or-less become a budget Continental Mark IV with dumbed-down styling and less standard equipment.įord’s personal coupe wilderness was not just about the Thunderbird of the mid-1970s. This became a tougher market once the Continental Mark III came along midway through the 1968 model year, and lots of those upper-income buyers chose the Lincoln-branded personal coupe over the one sold at Ford dealers. Part of the secret was that Thunderbirds had always been fairly expensive cars. The Thunderbird name always punched above its weight, and was responsible for more than a few Ford-branded automobiles sharing garage space with much more expensive and exclusive vehicles. The Thunderbird name was affixed to cars that were “Unique in all the world”, cars that were almost universally desired. But Ford had ownersip of one name that was head and shoulders above the rest – Thunderbird. And as popular as the Chevelle and Malibu might have been, it was the Monte Carlo that hit the big time when it came time to sell a “personal coupe” in the 1970’s.įord had done pretty well naming cars, with Mustangs, Mavericks, LTDs and even Torinos. The F-85 was never anywhere near as popular as the Cutlass. We DO know how it worked out after those guys changed their names to Cary Grant and John Wayne. People all over the world might have grown up loving movies made by guys named Archibald Leach or Marion Morrison, but we will never know. What’s in a name? A lot – which is something that everyone knows. So let’s do something about that, shall we? But enthusiasm to write about it? That was kind of an unusual thing too, and I just never got there. I stopped to shoot this one because even in 2011 it was becoming unusual to see these cars in this kind of condition. I am nearing the end of photos from 2011 that I have never written about. Other times there were constraints on my enthusiasm. Sometimes there were constraints on my time. My ability to find cars outstripped my ability to write about them. It seemed that every day I stopped to shoot photos of cars and trucks that were potential subjects to grace these pages, which were the the joy and delight of millions. I was in the thrall of my new avocation, which was that thing called (then, as now) Curbside Classic.
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![]() You can even use this feature with a Wacom Cintiq! 360° rotatable canvas – Rotate the canvas on any pivot point as you draw to get the perfect angle and strokes.You can also make custom brushes and import brushes created with Adobe Capture CC. Vector art brushes – Modify the path of a stroke after it’s been drawn, and scale them to any resolution without losing quality.Here’s what you can expect in Animate CC: Here’s a sneak peek by Michael Chaize, Principal Creative Cloud Evangelist: Our team is hard at work on a major update with significant new features to create animations for any platform. There’s much more than just a name change however. In addition, it can output animations to virtually any format (including SVG), through its extensible architecture. It has also been recognized as an HTML5 ad solution that complies with the latest Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standards, and is widely used in the cartoon industry by powerhouse studios like Nickelodeon and Titmouse Inc.Īnimate CC will continue supporting Flash (SWF) and AIR formats as first-class citizens. ![]() Today, over a third of all content created in Flash Professional uses HTML5, reaching over one billion devices worldwide. To more accurately represent its position as the premier animation tool for the web and beyond, Flash Professional will be renamed Adobe Animate CC, starting with the next release in early 2016. ![]() Because of the emergence of HTML5 and demand for animations that leverage web standards, we completely rewrote the tool over the past few years to incorporate native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support. Welcome Adobe Animate CC, a new era for Flash Professionalįor nearly two decades, Flash Professional has been the standard for producing rich animations on the web. ![]() Some users prefer to use Atlas as a simple location changer to gain a fake IP address, but it offers much more than that. It makes public Wi-Fi safer, allows you to spoof location, gives hacker protection, and keeps your browsing private from third parties.Ītlas has servers in more than 49 locations, including the USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, the UK, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, Korea, Canada, UAE, and many others. 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Each technique responds to a different textural aspect of the landscape, relying on the velvety black character of the medium unify the disparate methods in the final image. I’ll be exploring several different techniques in a single drawing. I show how to use both willow and compressed charcoal, focusing on drawing as a means of exploration as much as a method of picture making. In this article, I’m going to take you through some approaches to representing the textures of a rural Welsh landscape. Therefore, to head off complacency I decided to experiment with some new ways to use charcoal. It is too easy to fall back on prior expectations and to forget the principles of stringent observation and response that should inform a good drawing. Making a drawing of a well-known view brings with it all of the pitfalls of familiarity. I’ll use my work to show you how to draw a landscape in charcoal. As winter strips the final leaves from the trees I took the opportunity to make some large-scale charcoal drawings of the pared back landscape around my home in North Wales. While witnessing the passing of the seasons from a place of relative consistency, I have gained a deeper appreciation of nature. ![]() Link copied to clipboard Jake Spicer shows how to draw a landscape in charcoal, with a focus on creating different textures and effects ![]() As a tip for new Robot users, make sure you eat everything that you carry on with you and take full advantage of his active item. ![]() Granted, it takes a bit of time to get used to playing as him, but once you do he is easily one of the best characters in Nuclear Throne. ![]() Robot Robot – Nuclear ThroneĪ lot of people don’t like using Robot, but for me it has led to some of the most enjoyable runs I’ve ever had in the game. So, whilst I’d certainly recommend Crystal if you’re starting out, don’t get too comfortable with her and get used to bad habits, it could harm you long-term. Getting used to defending with her shield made me lose the ability to dodge bullets with other characters. But I soon realised that using Crystal was actually hindering my progress with other characters. When I first started playing Nuclear Throne, I always got far with Crystal due to her defensive prowess and extra HP. When you factor in the Throne Butt, which augments the shield and allows for teleportation, she easily becomes one of the best Nuclear Throne characters. She has good HP and her shield is good at keeping you safe in lieu of having a melee weapon. Crystal Crystal – Nucelar ThroneĬrystal is a great character for beginners to the game. It is rare that you’ll get an OP Fish run, though, unfortunately. But even with that in mind, Fish is one of the best Nuclear Throne characters for beginners, largely due to the relative ease of use. Perhaps Fish is only in this list for nostalgic reasons, as I played Nuclear Throne for a long time with Fish before even trying any other characters. In all honesty, though, I usually just use the roll to get around faster. With enough practice you can also use the roll to evade enemy attacks, too. Fish is a great character with a strong passive ability that allows him to get more ammo. ![]() The information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Food and Drug Administration have not evaluated the statements on this website. 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It is built with FxFactory’s new node-based compositing engine FxCore and optimised for Apple silicon (M1 and M2) with better handling of HDR footage. ![]() Hawaiki Keyer 5 utilizes a new image processing pipeline that provides Metal GPU acceleration. Makes it easier to pull a softer Secondary key while clearing the edges of the screen. Crop doesn’t apply a matte at the end of the chain, it defines the pixels that are processed from the beginning of the chain, for both image and matte operations.Įxclude the Screen Clean process from the area inside the Shape matte. Quickly create a garbage matte and speed up rendering with complex keys. Secondary matte and tracking controls have been moved into the Shape section and the size and position of the shape matte is now easier to set with two onscreen controls which replace the sliders used in HK4. If the subject is moving away from or towards the camera you can use the Edges mode and the scale controls to create a head matte that automatically resizes. Centre works best for face tracking if the subject’s distance to the camera doesn’t change. It’s a good option when the screen doesn’t cover the entire shot, when a light or other fixture is in the shot or if the screen has a lot of tracking markers.ĪI Track works with both centre and edges tracking modes. Object tracking is an alternative to the standard Hawaiki Keyer tracking.
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Riddle: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?Īfter researching these gems, we’re fairly certain there are probably riddles from their time that were never solved. Have you heard of the Riddle of the Sphinx? In the days of Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece, riddles were used to demonstrate wisdom. In fact, the oldest known riddle was found on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia. We hope these prove useful in enhancing your sessions and bringing some new challenges to your sessions.Steve Martin once said that “all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.” That may be true, but we’re pretty confident that we’ve answered our fair share in this list of some of the greatest riddles of all time. Perhaps a token of love, perhaps to say goodbye. One by one we fall from heaven down into the depths of past,Īnd our world is ever upturned so that yet some time we’ll last.Ī thousand coloured folds stretch toward the sky, And yet within that very place, my face you often see. You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. Join all together, and then you will bring Man walks over, man walks under, in times of war he burns asunder.įive hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,įirst of all letter, the first of all numbers, Take up their stations between. What is it that you ought to keep after you have given it to someone else? What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves What the poor have, the rich lack, and what contented men desire, What goes through a door but never goes in or comes out? What falls but never breaks? What breaks but never falls? ![]() When one is broken pain and deceit are assured. Valueless if bought, but sometimes traded.Ī poor man may give one as easily as a king. I’m double, I’m single, I’m black, blue, and grey, Give me a smile, and I’ll always smile back. The walls rumble and the room becomes hazy with the dust of untouched decades, and within the blink of an eye the multitude of corridors move, begin to merge and fully join into a single passageway forward. With as little hesitation as humanly possible, the bard once again about burst " A choice!" ![]() The rolling echoes of the voice grows quieter, but its words linger in your mind. You all exchange puzzled looks, trying to figure out the answer. Not a moment later a cold pressure rolled into the room and a billowing voice echoes oppressively around the room: "Foolish children, you have come this far but you do not know 'What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none?' Answer me or have this room be your grave." How the hell are we supposed to know where to go now?" In typical fashion, the bard pipes up first: "Well, this is great. Squeezing through an especially narrow bottle neck, you and your party find yourself in a room which splits off into many tunnels and passages. You delve ever more deeply into the catacombs, following the winding and pressing corridors into the deepest bowls of the city. The group readies itself for an attack but before it comes a party member blurts out " A candle!" Instantly, a single candle lights revealing the face of your questioner. Suddenly, all of your light sources snuff out and a women's voice whispers a riddle. As you leave warmth of daylight for the cold embrace of the Underdark, a thick darkness surrounds you and your adventuring fellows. You can hear the water droplets rhythmically hitting the ground as you and your party continue into the cave. ![]() You could have it asked by an aquatic creature ask the question to allow the part to ford a river or even have it inscribed on a door and, when the party get the answer, the door opens only to release a torrent of water which has been held back. The answer is an element of nature so it would fit in great for a fantasy or historical setting. So when you get it the penny drops in a satisfying way. It's really challenging if you haven't heard it before but is totally logical. So, here are 25 great riddles to spice up your Dungeons and Dragons campaign. While your party might have the tendency murder-hobo their way through an encounter, a riddle can stop them in their tracks and make them think! Depending on how hard the riddle is, you might create 30 minutes of engaged head scratching by your players.ĭungeons and Dragons is replete with troublesome Trolls and worrying Wizards. Riddles are a great way to challenge your players without any extra preparation from you. Preparing for a session can take a load of time. Well, if you didn't guess it based on the subject of this post then I think maybe there is no hope for you. You might break a sweat when fighting with me,Ī with a direct approach you can never find victory, You see me now, but I am most often heard,Īnd have killed men when with bullets paired, I have defeated kings and left wise men humble, ![]() "My challenge has made men throughout time stumble, |
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