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The film begins with a breezy tone, but the subject matter unexpectedly veers in the back half.
It Started as a Joke is a documentary about the 10th and final iteration of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, a decade-long institution in the world of alternative comedy that began as a lighthearted parody of other, bigger comedy festivals. But the title can also be taken as foreshadowing. The film begins with a breezy tone, but the subject matter unexpectedly veers in the back half.
Most viewers will immediately recognize Eugene Mirman’s voice as that of Gene Belcher’s from “Bob’s Burgers”, but the comic has been an instrumental figure in the Brooklyn comedy scene for years. His stand-up series “Invite Them Up,” co-hosted with Bobby Tisdale, was a mainstay in the East Village and helped break a number of comedians, many of whom have surpassed Mirman himself in fame. So, as much as the documentary sets out to eulogize his erstwhile comedy festival, it also explores the larger camaraderie of the scene and Mirman’s influential place within it.
His peculiar style traces a clear line from his influences Bobcat Goldthwait and Emo Philips to the entire Adult Swim pantheon of post-internet comedy culture. As such, the film brings Mirman together with a number of familiar faces that preceded him alongside those he helped break, generations of hilarious oddballs sharing space together with ease. Seeing the absurdity of Mirman’s stage work, coupled with the irreverent, inside-baseball tenor of the festival’s approach to humor, it feels sad that this film is documenting what seems to be an end to this era.
But then, it becomes clear the film is about a lot more than a festival closing. The filmmakers pivot to Mirman’s relationship with his wife Katie and her years-long battle with cancer. The dichotomy between the image of Mirman from his past with his more matured present and the extenuating circumstances that led to the transformation create a truly touching portrait of a figure previously seen as so weird as to be nearly alien.
It allows the filmmakers, and Mirman’s friends, to explore the deep humanism at the core of his strange approach to stand-up, and the way we use humor to get through difficult times. But it never resorts to easy schmaltz, nor does it feel exploitative in its gaze. This is one of those rare instances where even the most obvious platitudes about life and love come to ring true because of the subject’s undeniable sincerity.
Katie lost that battle, in the end, a year after this film debuted at SXSW, so the film is dedicated in her honor. While that seems like a downer ending to a documentary that begins so frivolously, it’s also sort of the point. At one point, one of the film’s many talking heads remarks, “It doesn’t matter how long something lasts. It just matters if it meant something.” This rings true, albeit in vastly different measures, of Mirman’s festival and his love.
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Audix Announces Sponsorship of Montavilla Jazz Festival
Audix has announced their sponsorship of the Montavilla Jazz Festival. The music festival will take place on Saturday and Sunday, August 20 and 21, 2016 at Portland Metro Arts, a non-profit community center for arts education and performance. This is the festival's third year running.
"Whenever we have the opportunity to partner with an emerging member of the local music community, everybody wins," says Chris Doss, Audix VP of Sales and Marketing. "The Montavilla Jazz Festival focuses on Portland-based artists, and we are excited to support a neighboring music organization. We look forward to doing what we do best, providing optimum audio solutions to this great event."
The mission of the Montavilla Jazz Festival is to support and strengthen local music culture and to enrich the Portland community by showcasing the best of the city's originally composed, progressive jazz. The festival chooses artists based solely on their skill and creativity, supporting musical excellence in the Portland area by providing a platform for both emerging and established local acts.
"I was thrilled to learn that Audix Microphones was interested in sponsoring Montavilla Jazz Festival 2016," says Neil Mattson, the festival's Development Director. "We are honored to have the support of one of the top microphone companies in the world. It just shows, as a local company, how much Audix cares about the jazz scene here in Portland."
Montavilla Jazz Festival is sponsored by SE Uplift, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and coalition of twenty Portland neighborhoods. The festival is dedicated to enriching the lives of Montavilla, OR residents by supporting neighborhood schools and their music education programs, and a portion of ticket sales will benefit the Montavilla Schools Music Fund. For more information on the Montavilla Jazz Festival, visit.Only a tiny proportion of Australian children diagnosed with mental disorders receive treatment from health professionals that meets minimal clinical practice guidelines, a new study suggests.
Researchers tracked the care offered to 517 children aged 6-17 years who had been identified as having a mental health disorder through the 2013-14 national survey of mental health.During this time of increased anxiety and uncertainty, a lot of us our feeling anxious and overwhelmed with it all. With no clear end in sight and many of us expected to be in self Isolation, It is important that we keep an eye on ourselves and our families and receive support in these trying times.
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During this call we might suggest approaches you could adopt to gain relaxation, clarity and serenity, such as breathing exercises and tapping. The purpose of these crisis calls are for you to let off steam and gain greater clarity around your situation.When you’re building a software product, time always feels like your enemy. Your customers want a very long list of things and you have very limited resources. It can feel like faster delivery is the only possible path to success. The resulting pressure is a strong incentive to get clever.
Co-opting an existing feature for a new use can feel extremely clever, like you’ve sidestepped a ton of work. If you build generic enough features, you can shoehorn emergent behavior into them. This is a double-edged sword. It can be very inspiring to see how folks have adapted to use your software for a divergent use case, and maybe it’s a valuable insight to how you can better support them. It can also inspire you to officially document and sanction their adapted use, which is explicitly agreeing to new product constraints. Not only are you saying you won’t break its ability to do this new thing, you’ll protect it from changes that could negatively impact it. You’ve cinched the handcuffs of this feature just one more notch tighter.
The agreement is easy. Someone wants to give you cash dollars for simply saying, “Yes this is good and encouraged” and so you do. The problem is that you’ve added a pile of future complexity that is hidden until you continue to build. Corner cases become exponentially more painful because they compound inelegantly, creating confusion for both stakeholder and customers. It becomes unclear at the outset of agreeing to add a feature how many corner cases and alternate uses you’ll now be impacting. Did you remember to write down all those agreements? Who’s in charge of remembering that customer doing the undocumented thing in three years? It doesn’t scale, it adds friction, and it adds danger.
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The cost of an easy “Yes” is a future with very tight handcuffs.
, the world around is rather studied, but he is still capable to surprise. There are unusual animals in the wild nature about whom nobody knows. Even if the photo of such creation will accidentally catch sight, can seem that it is result of work of the designer who at a leisure thought up something unusual. Actually these beings live on our planet, but they are known little.
These fishes already look enough threateningly — a huge number of sharp teeth, rapid movements and the big sizes. The meeting with such inhabitant of the ocean will frighten anyone. But the shark brownie (it is possible to meet also the name "goblin") is capable to shock with the look even on a photo. First it seems that at an animal two heads — one big, another — less — sticks out of a mouth.
Actually on the end of a muzzle is available for a shark the outgrowth reminding a beak. One more feature — very long jaws which fish randomly pushes far forward.
The shark reaches in length of 3.8 m, at the same time the largest individual weighed more than 200 kg.
Fins have the non-standard rounded-off form, sharks brownies have no third century, lateral Kiel on a tail.
Back teeth are intended for crush of sinks, lobbies — long and pointed.
"Goblin" eats those living beings who are found at a depth — fishes, Crustacea, mollusks.
biology of rare fish remains Today a r