![]() This summer is the first where Lifeguard say they feel properly busy. Lifeguard juggle so much as a band and as individuals that it’s hard to imagine how their schedules function-that is, until you remember how high school time is its own type of magic, where hours feel like days that stretch on endlessly. At the diner, they order like kids with fast metabolisms do: chocolate milkshakes, strawberry cheesecake, pastrami sandwiches and patty melts with the works. Too humble to mention their own solo projects, they each sneak in compliments about the other’s new work: Slater writes 1960s-style jangle pop songs that sound like lost classics as Sharp Pins, Lowenstein’s obsession with Autechre and synth experimentation takes shape as Donkey Basketball, and Case is working on an as-yet-unnamed project inspired by Patsy Cline and Townes Van Zandt. In the car, the trio start swapping opinions on recent releases in their pocket of Chicago’s music scene. With rain falling down in thick sheets outside the museum, Slater offers to drive everyone to Eleven City Diner for lunch. A mission statement is stamped on the back in all caps: “YOUTH REVOLUTION NOW.” “DEAR YOUTH SCENE! SMOKING TOBACCO IS NOT HOT,” reads a full-page spread. In one issue, Slater named every album Lifeguard listened to on a recent tour, from Lungfish to Boards of Canada to Star Wars soundtracks. Interviews with artists like Michael Rother of Neu! and Chicago experimentalist Circuit Des Yeux are sandwiched between mutual aid listings, collages, and oddball quotes billed as inspiration. Independently produced by hand, the zine has nine editions so far, each more charming and in-depth than the last. Hallogallo is Slater’s love letter to discovering DIY and experimental music of the past and present. ![]() “It feels like everyone involved is really desperate to make music-like it’s not a choice, but their natural role.”Ī key part of fostering this community was developing a way to communicate during the strictest part of the pandemic, so the collective turned to zines. “If it’s a young band and it sounds cool and it’s from Chicago, then that’s what this is for,” says Slater. It’s a wholesome utopia that shows what kids can create when given time, space, and support. They started forming a close-knit, ever-expanding collective alongside Horsegirl dubbed Hallogallo, complete with showcases featuring bands like Post Office Winter and Flower Grease that they booked themselves. In that sudden silence, he and his bandmates felt the need to step up and rekindle a sense of community. Lowenstein describes a thriving basement DIY scene among the city’s high schoolers that came to an abrupt halt due to COVID-19. All that ingenuity paid off in December 2022 when they combined forces with fellow local acts Friko and Cafe Racer to book the 1,100-capacity Metro, one of Chicago’s most storied rock venues. Over the past year, they’ve played gigs in a gift shop, an elementary school, a bike store, and a barn-turned-banquet hall. These teenagers already have plenty of experience reimagining what defines a live space-a necessity since the majority of the low-capacity locations perfect for a rising band like Lifeguard are 21-plus, if not bars outright. “We’re constantly searching for places to play.” They start mocking up a stage layout amid the grime and bugs. “Let’s play a show right here,” Lowenstein proposes. “This is a triumph of the DIY,” declares Slater. As Lifeguard stand before a dead root the size of a tree trunk covered in gnarly webs and rotund beetles, their creative wheels start spinning, as they always seem to be. At the museum, real termites light up in a nest, an enormous mole cricket crawls out of a wall, and fungi sprouts from a ledge.
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In mid-January 2022, EDF announced that similar faults on the safety injection system pipe welds to those discovered at Civaux 1 had been found at Civaux 2 and Chooz B2. EDF decided to replace the affected parts, requiring an extended shutdown of the plant, and also take its two other N4 units at Chooz B offline to carry out similar checks. Checks were then carried out on the same equipment at unit 2, revealing similar defects. In December 2021 maintenance checks on the primary circuit of Civaux 1 revealed corrosion near the welds on pipes of the safety injection system. 2020 production lower due to Covid lockdowns (source: Open Data Réseaux Énergies) Stress corrosion and outages EDF recorded a record net loss of €17.9bn in 2022.įrance daily nuclear electricity production, MWh (2016-2023 to date). 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I was being dumb and assuming all devices were direct playing because all the devices in my home do but after checking, there are a few external users with hardware that wasn't direct playing - probably why my CPU is having a hard time. Thank you so much for the detailed reply! Hopefully, all your Plex clients can play 4K directly or you have a 1080p library for remote streaming. If you are talking about transcoding (when needed) 4K/HEVC content, throw all this out the window because Plex says you need 17,000 passmarks for a single 4K/HEVC/10-bit transcoded stream. This whole discussion has centered on 1080p content. ![]() All direct play? A mix of direct play and transcoded? All transcoded? The bottom line is that you have to have a good idea how those eight streams of content are going to be delivered and plan accordingly with either CPU or GPU. That would mean at least a Ryzen 2700X or above. 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Though, the 3D virtual reality headset is only compatible with only newly announced Note 4, and not even any other Samsung or high-end smartphone, which is a big letdown. But don’t worry, the Gear VR is not an incomplete product, as it is designed and has appearance closer to the Oculus Rift. Originally named as Project Moonlight, the Gear VR brings what Google did with its Cardboard Do-it-yourself VR. That means the actual cost to experience the virtual reality effect on your eyes will be a lot.Įarlier, September 4, 2014, 10:10 : Samsung Gear VR has finally seen the day of light, the rumoured VR headset by the South Korean manufacturer is built in partnership with Oculus, the maker of Oculus Rift, arguably the best VR headset, which was recently acquired by Facebook. Though, you would have to shell out more than $199, as the latest wearable offering from the South Korean giant will be compatible with only newly announced Galaxy Note 4. The pricing was spilled by a Samsung rep to the VentureBeat at a Fashion week in New York City on Friday night. While company did not revealed the pricing of their Virtual Reality headsets during their official announcement in the Unpacked event, earlier this week. Update, September 6, 2014, 18:40:Samsung Gear VR headset has now received a pricing, it was revealed by Samsung’s spokesperson, though, the exact availability date is still unclear. The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, archaeology, mythology, religion and history around the globe. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exist countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and explained. Top Image: Hanuman and Ravana in Tholu Bommalata, the shadow puppet tradition of Andhra Pradesh, India.( CC BY-SA 3.0 )Īt Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. Ancient Automata: The Magic of the Mechanical Realm and Machines Brought to Life.The Monk and the Poet: Meet the Rebels behind the Legendary “Journey to the West”.Semar: The Fallen God and Divine Jester of Indonesian Mythology.When you subscribe, you get immediate and full access to all Premium articles, free eBooks, webinars by expert guests, discounts for online stores, and much more! To enjoy the rest of this article please join us there. This is a free preview of an exclusive article from Ancient Origins PREMIUM. Unfortunately, unlike the success of the “first” shadow play in China, Batruni’s shadow play was condemned as sorcery and he was sentenced to death. One night in Kfifa in the eighth century CE, an actor by the name of Batruni presented “a show of phantoms.” Using shadows, he conjured the appearance of Qail, an Arabian king, making him appear as encircling the yard of the mosque, riding on horseback. Somewhat similar to the Chinese story of the origin of its shadow play is a Middle Eastern tale with the same theme. This last phrase is mostly ignored in history.Ĭhinese shadow theater figures. However, Gao Cheng also asserts in the same piece that “the shadow play have not been seen in the dynasties since,” -implying that it was done merely to give the emperor a chance to say goodbye to his concubine. In his Shiwu Jiyuan ("The Origin of Things"), Gao Cheng repeated the Lady Li story in his own words and then added, “This was the origin of the shadow shows”. This early attribution of the Shadow Play in China was advanced by a Song dynasty scholar, Gao Cheng. From where he sat, the emperor could see a figure of a lady resembling Lady Li behind the curtain, moving and sitting, and in that brief shadow play Emperor Wu could see his beloved again. As night fell, the minister had the emperor take his place behind a curtain and observe him moving the puppet between the curtain and the light from a distance. ![]() ![]() This inspired him to make a cotton puppet of the concubine and painted it. One day, a minister happened to see children playing with dolls and saw vivid shadows of the dolls on the floor. After the death of Lady Li, a favorite concubine of Emperor Wu, the heartbroken emperor continued to think longingly of his deceased concubine and was thrown into melancholy. The historical record of this story is found in Ban Gu's Hanshu, or History of the Former Han. ( CC BY 2.0 ) The Chinese and Middle Eastern Legends of the Shadow PlayĪ popular Chinese legend from the second century BCE begins with the conjuring of a “shadow” of the deceased beloved concubine of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE). Shadow puppetry is so embraced by many different cultures that each culture seems to have their own history and legend of the first shadow play performance- therefore claiming it, or at least different versions of it, as their own. It has a long history in China, India, Nepal, and Southeast Asia, as well as in Turkey and Greece, surviving everything from war and famine to cultural revolutions. The art of shadow puppetry, or shadow play, is an ancient form of storytelling which utilizes flat figures (shadow puppets) to create cut-out figures which are then held between a source of light and a translucent screen. Plato's Allegory of the Cave by Jan Saenredam, 1604. However, it also illustrates an early example of the use of shadows and the significance of caves as sacred sites for the performance of religious ceremonies, as well as an early example of a performance of a shadow play. This story illustrates Plato's discussion on the illusory nature of all perceptions. The fire behind the puppets casts shadows of them and, according to Plato, they are seen as a form of reality by the fettered audience. The inscription refers to a shadow play performance where puppets of humans and animals were manipulated by a puppeteer in that cave. ![]() In his Republic, Plato mentions a cave in India with an inscription from the second century BCE. |
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