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elliotoille:

felt like doing a tutorial thingy (what should I call these??) again! I think I’ll make a tag for these in case I do more. This time I’m gonna talk a little about how angles affect how clothing falls aaaand stuff. here we go…

Given: The first drawing of these three is how the clothing naturally wants to fall, how it is made to be shaped. Or, whichever pose you could take that will give the garment the least amount of creases.

• I’ll actually talk about the green first; this is a representation of the hip box, which itself is a representation/simplification of your whole pelvis area. You see how your legs and hip box oppose angles here. in almost all poses except standing straight, your hip box and legs will create a bent angle, which affects how clothes fall.
• The red/blue is the skirt (obvs), the red specifically is the ellipses of the top and bottom openings of the skirt. This skirt is very stiff material for the sake of this example, so notice how the two ellipses always match eachother. the top ellipse is where the skirt is actually attached to the body, so it’s the boss; the bottom ellipse will more or less do exactly what the top one does.
• here’s where the fact that the legs and hip box are at different angles becomes important. The top of the skirt is attached to the hip box, but the bottom ellipse is in the realm of the legs. The orange lampshade shape diagram there is a simplification of this. It is very much like if you were to tilt a lampshade. The side you are bending towards will hug the body and create creases. The side you are bending away from will fall off the body in a straight line.

It even works with pants, though as the bottom ellipse(s) gets farther away from the top there’s more room for the garment to get distorted by gravity, perspective, and bent knees and such. But with this last example you can really see how the side touching the legs really hugs the body underneath, whereas the other side hangs off of it in a straighter, crease-less line.

Dresses are a little different because their top ellipse is attached to your torso/ribcage mass rather than the hip box.

Much of the time you get the same result as with a skirt. However if the hip box and ribcage mass are opposed sideways rather than forward or backward, it becomes a little tougher:

You can see in the third drawing how a shirt and a skirt together would fall in opposite ways if your body is bent sideways. If the shirt is long, just like I mentioned above about the long pants, there is more distortion of this effect.

I’ll take what I said above, “The side you are bending away from will fall off the body in a straight line”, and add a bit to the end: “… until it hits something.” In the fourth drawing above, the garment is falling off the body in a straight line on the right side. If you lengthen the garment:

The straight side continues down as normal until it hits the leg and becomes the body-hugging side. in response to that, the body-hugging side from farther up becomes the straight side when it falls off the hip.

Aaand with that I think I’ll stop lol. I hope that wasn’t hard to understand. It’s easy to do yourself, just wear a skirt or some loose pajama pants and take hula poses in the mirror lol.

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japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

• An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
• A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
• A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
• Read Real Japanese Fiction

Dictionaries:

• ALC (I use this everyday)
  →Expression encyclopaedia
• Goo dictionary
• Weblio
• WWWJDIC (with audio clips)
• JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
• JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
• Idiomatic Expressions
• Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
• Counters dictionary
• Hovering dictionaries: 
  →Rikaikun for Chrome
  →Rikaichan for Firefox
  →Floating Dictionary for Mac
• Current Affairs dictionary

For kanji.

• Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
• Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
• A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
• Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
  
  

Online reading:

• Hukumusume Fairytales
• 竹取（Bamboo-Cutting） (vertical writing)
• 吉田秀幸の日記（Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary） (recipes)
• Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
• TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
• Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]

Manga.

• Free online manga
• Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
• Sound Effects (in manga, etc)

Improving your speaking:

• Japanese pronunciation guide
• Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
• Topics for Language Exchanges.
• Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
• Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)

Listening:

• “Real World” Japanese
• 泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)

Writing practice:

• Lang-8
• www.Japan-Guide.com
• 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
• Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)

News:

• NewsWeb Easy
• NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
• Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper

Podcasts:

• JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)
• TBS Radio’s Junk
• TOKYO FM

YouTube:

• Afternoon Hirusagari
• Jet Daisuke
• バイリンガール英会話
• Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Japanese sign language.

• Heartful Power Hideo
• Shuwa Island

TV:

• Japanese subtitles for anime
• KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
• 風雲LIVE日本語（Feng Yun LIVE Japanese） (to stream TV)
• 映画で学ぶ実践英会話

Tumblr:

• Kanji-a-Day
• Holy crap Japanese
• Nihongo ga Suki
• Jumpstart Japanese
• Nihongolog
• Nadine Nihongo
• That Japan Addict
• ChilliMuffin
• Japanese through Fandom
• F-Yeah Native Japanese
• J-Vocab of the Day
• ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
• Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]

Those studying in Japan.

• Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
• Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
• Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
• Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
• Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)

Blogging:

• Yaplog

Learning websites:

• JapaneseClass.jp
• The Japanese Page
• Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
• Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
• Maggie Sensei

Other resources:

• Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning
• JLPT Resources

I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

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doctor-donna-detective:

bemeans:

Each morning, like clockwork, they board the subway, off to begin their daily routine amidst the hustle and bustle of the city.

But these aren’t just any daily commuters. These are stray dogs who live in the outskirts of Moscow Russia and commute on the underground trains to and from the city centre in search of food scraps.

Then after a hard day scavenging and begging on the streets, they hop back on the train and return to the suburbs where they spend the night.

Experts studying the dogs, who usually choose the quietest carriages at the front and back of the train, say they even work together to make sure they get off at the right stop – after learning to judge the length of time they need to spend on the train.

Scientists believe this phenomenon began after the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, and Russia’s new capitalists moved industrial complexes from the city centre to the suburbs.

Dr Andrei Poiarkov, of the Moscow Ecology and Evolution Institute, said: “These complexes were used by homeless dogs as shelters, so the dogs had to move together with their houses. Because the best scavenging for food is in the city centre, the dogs had to learn how to travel on the subway – to get to the centre in the morning, then back home in the evening, just like people.”

Dr Poiarkov told how the dogs like to play during their daily commute. He said: “They jump on the train seconds before the doors shut, risking their tails getting jammed. They do it for fun. And sometimes they fall asleep and get off at the wrong stop.”

The dogs have also amazingly learned to use traffic lights to cross the road safely, said Dr Poiarkov. And they use cunning tactics to obtain tasty morsels of shawarma, a kebab-like snack popular in Moscow.

With children the dogs “play cute” by putting their heads on youngsters’ knees and staring pleadingly into their eyes to win sympathy – and scraps.

Dr Poiarkov added: “Dogs are surprisingly good psychologists.”

Holy butts dogs are freaking smart

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