~:C.C.4.U:~ Where the Word “Toilet” Comes From

 

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• Where the Word "Toilet" Comes From
• How Birds Navigate
• Flixlab's New iPhone App and Moving Editing Facts

Where the Word "Toilet" Comes From Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:16 AM PDT ##EMBED## The term "toilet" itself comes from the French "toilette", which meant "dressing room".  This "toilette" in turn derived from the French "toile", meaning "cloth"; specifically, referring to the cloth draped over someone's shoulders while their hair was being groomed.  During the 17th century, the toilet was simply the process of getting dressed, fixing your hair, and applying make-up and the like, more or less grooming one's self.  This gradually began to refer to the items around where someone was groomed, such as the table, powder bottles, and other items.  Around the 1800s in America, this term began being used to refer to both the room itself where people got dressed and ready for the day, as well as the device itself now most commonly known as the toilet. Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why the Toilet is Sometimes Called a John

How Birds Navigate Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:10 AM PDT ##EMBED## Many avian life forms posses a region of their bodies that contain a biological magnetite, generally in their beaks.  It is believed this gives them a strong magnetoception and thus allows them to sense direction accurately.  More recently, it has been shown that certain birds have the ability to see magnetic fields.  How this works is the Earth's magnetic field effects how long a certain molecule, cryptochrome, in their photoreceptor cells stays in the active state.  This then affects the light sensitivity of the bird's retinal neurons.  The net effect is the birds can perceive magnetic fields with their eyes.   The biological magnate and ability to perceive magnetic fields with their eyes are thought to combine to form a very accurate mapping and directional system in the birds. Click Here for Sources and to Learn About How Many Senses Humans Actually Have

Flixlab's New iPhone App and Moving Editing Facts Posted: 24 Jun 2011 05:03 AM PDT This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Flixlab for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Flixlab just launched their new  free state of the art automatic video editor app for iPhones and iPod touches.  This app was developed by a group of PH.D's who were seeking a way to help people who lack the time or expertise to create good quality home-made videos and compilations from clips and pictures you or your friends have taken. Flixlab allows you to take videos and pictures from your iPhone or from the iPhones of people around you who are also recording the same event as you and don't mind sharing what they're recording, it then allows you to very easily compile these all into a great quality video of the event. You just select the clips, tag people in them if you like, choose transitioning effects and any music you want, including from your own music library or Flixlab's, and then Flixlab goes to work compiling the video into a professional looking final product.  You certainly lose a lot of editing options in this type of system, but the gain is that, in a matter of minutes, you can have a fully edited video thanks to the Flixlab engine, instead of just having a bunch of clips sitting on your iPhone that you never get around to compiling into a video. So basically, the three main things that make Flixlab stand out from typical video editing software is that Flixlab automatically makes movies for you with no complicated editing or the like needed.  It allows you to pull in clips of the thing you're trying to record from other users of Flixlab around you who are willing to share; for instance, if you're recording a wedding, you can pull in other shots from people also recording in order to be able to create a much better quality end video.  It also allows for easy sharing of the final created video via Facebook, Youtube, email, etc. Download Flixlab And now for the movie editing Bonus Factoids: Up until around the year 2000, whenever a final cut of a movie was made where the director was protesting the final version, perhaps because the studio made the director make changes the director was against, the director would sometimes forgo putting their name on the film in protest.  Instead, they would use the name "Allen Smithee". The first time "Allen Smithee" was used was in 1968 Death of a Gunfighter where the lead actor in the film managed to get the director, Robert Totten, replaced by Don Siegel.  In the end, Siegel didn't want to take credit for the film because most of the work was done by Totten.  Totten didn't want credit for it either, because of being replaced, so the Directors Guild of America had to get involved.  At the time, they had a rule against directors going under pseudonyms.  The DGA then created the exception where this one pseudonym could be used in these cases where a director wanted to be disassociated from a film they made.  They originally proposed "Al Smith", but that name was too common and there already was an "Al Smith" in Hollywood, so they went with "Smithee" as the last name, as that is not too common.  Somewhat humorously, many critics including Roger Ebert and critics at the New York Times generally praised Death of a Gunfighter and complimented the new visionary director Allen Smithee. This pseudonym was later used in a variety of other movies, notable among them were: Twilight Zone: The Movie; National Lampoons Senior Trip; Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off; and Hellraiser: Bloodline. The name stopped being used in 2000 due to it becoming well known in the industry. Though nearly all major Hollywood directors are members of the Directors Guild of America by necessity(you cannot direct a movie from any of the major Hollywood studios without being a member), notable holdouts include: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and George Lucas. The first motion pictures typically did not have a story.  Rather, people would pay to simply see a motion picture of other people walking down the street or the like.  The film shown to the audience was also completely unedited and simply showed from when the recording started to when the camera ran out of film. The person typically credited as being the first ever film editor was Edwin S. Porter.  Porter was a one-time electrician turned film maker who worked for Thomas Edison.  Porter's first film was Life of an American Fireman, which was one of the first films with a plot and used basic editing techniques.  Porter then made the famous The Great Train Robbery, which even to this day is typically shown to film students.  In it, Porter spliced together various scenes to make it appear they were shot at the same time and also included various rudimentary special effects, such as using split screens and double exposures for effect.  Audiences at the time were blown away by this film as they had no knowledge of editing or special effects and assumed it was shot all at once in sequence. Many scenes from The Great Train Robbery were used in the movie Tombstone, including the scene where the bandit shoots directly at the camera in the opening sequence.  That scene is also believed to be the inspiration for the gun barrel sequence in James Bond.  It also was the inspiration for Joe Pesci's character firing guns at the camera in Goodfellas. The Little Train Robbery was a later parody made by Thomas Edison of The Great Train Robber, but with children playing the part of the main characters and a mini train used instead of a real train. The "Seven Rules of Cutting" as outlined by famed director Edward Dmytryk are as follows: Rule 1: Never make a cut without a positive reason. Rule 2: When undecided about the exact frame to cut on, cut long rather than short. Rule 3: Whenever possible cut 'in movement'. Rule 4: The 'fresh' is preferable to the 'stale'. Rule 5: All scenes should begin and end with continuing action. Rule 6: Cut for proper values rather than proper 'matches'. Rule 7: Substance first—then form. Chroma keying is the technical name for what has now commonly become known as "blue screening", where some background color that is easily edited out is used, with some other imagery being substituted in.  Surprisingly, the first use of a blue screen was all the way back in the late 1930s in such films Thief of Bagdad (1940) with its director, Larry Butler, generally credited as being the creator of chroma keying. A "Grip" on a movie is in charge of camera support, such as mounting these extremely expensive cameras in various often complex ways for the shot.  They also work with the electrical group to create proper lighting for a scene.  The "Key Grip" is generally in charge of all the grips on a set. A "Gaffer" is simply the head of the electrical department, also sometimes called the Chief Lighting Technician.  Their job is to setup and sometimes design the lighting plan for a scene, among other such things.  This term derives from the fact that early gaffers would control lighting by moving the lighting fixtures using a "gaff". Outside of the movie industry, the British also use the word "gaffer", but meaning something like "the boss" or "old man", but as a term of respect.  This British origin of the word is just a slurred version of "grandfather". A Martini Shot on a film set, just means it's the final shot of the day.  This name comes from referencing the fact that, after that shot is done, "the next shot is out of a glass". Continuity on a set, such as making sure the actors are wearing the exact same clothes with their hair the same or the like, generally falls to the script supervisor along with the film director.  Many directors don't care too much about this, with so many other things to worry about, beyond glaring issue.  This is primarily because audiences rarely notice, even sometimes in blatant cases.  One such blatantly obvious sequence that most people never noticed was in Braveheart when Mel Gibson is running and at one point has nothing in his hands, then has his sword, then nothing again, then randomly he's carrying a pick-axe, then when they cut back to him nearing the other soldiers to fight, he has no weapon in his hand and starts to draw his sword. Sources: Film Editing Edwin S. Porter The Great Train Robbery Tombstone Directors Guild of America Alan Smithee Baby Plate Chroma Key Cutting on Action Grip Gaffer Martini Shot

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