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James Blake Reveals He’s Written an Ambient Album, Announces ‘Covers’ EP

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Following a series of covers including studio renditions of Frank Ocean’s ‘Godspeed’ and Roberta Flack’s ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’, James Blake has now announced a new covers EP. It arrives December 11.

“One of the things keeping me going mentally throughout lockdown has been the requests from fans for different covers and performing them on Instagram,” Blake said in a statement about the EP. “It’s been a joy to discover new music and new ways of playing songs I’ve already heard. I might even throw in a surprise that no one has heard me play on socials before. I’m excited to share it with people.”

In an appearance on Radio.com’s New Arrivals With Bryce Segall, Blake also revealed he’s written an ambient album with guidance from none other than Brian Eno. “I’ve basically made an ambient album, but I just don’t really know when to put it out, so we’ll see,” he said. “It’s at that point where you go ‘oh this is an album!’”

Talking about the inspiration behind the album, he explained: “The only thing that would make me calm was either Brian Eno or Ryuichi Sakamoto, and so I decided to just make a bunch of ambient music … I got sick of beats. I need a beat holiday, so I made all this ambient music and I have to say, I love it.”

Of working with Eno, he added: “He gave some constructive criticism and was just very encouraging because you know it’s a different genre and you’re stepping into something that you can’t necessarily just nail. Ambient music can be delicate, just taking beats away from music, drum beats I mean, does not an ambient album make.”

Psychological Principles That Aid Learners Study Effectively

Instructors are exposed to different approaches that assure to enhance teaching approaches and learning. However, some of the designs do not have scholarly backing on their effectiveness in aiding scholars to learn efficiently. Psychology education is essential in learning.

This article provides some values divided into f categories of psychological to help a scholar acquire effectually. The domains are divided into cognition and learning, social and emotional extents, motivation, context and learning and assessment.

These values are particularly useful for instructors who want to provide the best education for learners. They are also effective for students who wish to understand themselves and make education productive.

Cognition and Learning: How You Think and Acquire

Instructors can improve thinking and studying in the lecture hall to help kids learn better. For grown-up learners, they can to improve their thinking and acquire more. Some of the things that you must be particular about when learning includes:

  • The mindset

Your perceptions and beliefs about your intelligence affect cognitive functioning and learning. Encourage yourself and create a positive perception of education to succeed. What you think of education will either work for or against you.

  • Prior knowledge

What you know affect your learning. It is, therefore, essential to read ahead of the teacher to nature a lively interest in the subject and learn effectively. It is the reason why many instructors provide reading assignments to get you posted on the next topic.

  • Facilitating context

Learning is based on context, and it is not spontaneous. You need facilitation to acquire more in education. Providing guidance and instructional materials to learners is excellent for enhanced learning.

  • Practice

Getting lifelong skills is dependent on practice. If you want to acquire new skills in life, you must keep practicing. Learning rests on course. The more you practice, the more you learn and find things to be more comfortable.

It is also essential for a learner to acquire self-regulation aptitudes to acquire effectively. They include attention, engagement, organization and memory approaches. A trustworthy essay writing service can help you to get more information on the same subject.

Social Emotion Context

The principle mirrors the importance of relations, society, culture and health on learning. Teachers can aid learners to foster excellent relations that produce positive results to learners. For instance, education rests on various social contexts such as families, schools, peer groups and neighbourhoods. Interpersonal relation and health are also essential in a student’s life. You can only do well if you manage to balance the social emotions.

Motivations

Find out what motivates you. It is because learners who are motivated in learning become more successful. Some ways that can improve motivation and engagement include intrinsic motivation. Developing inner motivation is essential for learners, for it helps them to mater their goals. They can only persist in the face of challenges when they are inherently motivated. Besides, they need to have mastery of goals as opposed to performance aims. Another critical aspect of staying motivated is making goals and working towards them.

Context Learning

Here the ball lies with the teachers to offer a conducive environment for studying, classroom setting, expectation and assistance is necessary to make students acquire more from the lesson. Learners need a high level of assistance and developing positive relations. Communicating high expectations is also a plus.

Assessment

Valid and fare assessment contributes positively to learning. There are various assessments that teachers can use to know the advancement of a learner. However, different required multiple designs and interpretations. They include formative and summative assessments. Assessment development is a well-defined standard for superiority and equity that measure student’s aptitudes and ability.

These are some of the capabilities that instructors and learners can employ to make learning more meaningful. The learning curve depends on these psychological aspects that a teacher and student must know.

Learners who get the proper instructions from childhood develop into successful students. Therefore, this article gives a preview of what you are required for an instructor to provide to enable learners to benefit from education more effectively.

It only highlights the main ideas of how psychological elements are essential in education. However, you can get more information on psychological principles. Psychology in education is necessary for it helps a learner to note specific strengths and weaknesses in particular skills. Know the expectations of a learner in a specific age group as well as the positive and negative stimuli that can affect learning.

Therefore, read extensively to get more content that is beneficial to both instructors and students. Not that achieving educational goals is a collaborative effort between students and instructors.

 

13 Atmospheric Stills From On Chesil Beach (2018)

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Ian McEwan’s 2007 novel On Chesil Beach was adapted for the big screen in 2017 with the eponymous film starring Saoirse Ronan and Billy Bowle. Ronan – who also starred in the adaptation of McEwan’s Atonement – shines in the leading role of Florence Ponting, a budding violinist. She has just married Howle’s Edward Mayhew, who is from a family of considerably lower social and financial standing. The story picks up just after their wedding reception as they’re heading to their hotel on Chesil Beach.

Inside, they encounter a few difficulties as they attempt to consummate their marriage. From this point on, the film alternates between the present and the past. Viewers come to know who Florence and Edward were before they met, as their romance bloomed, and the conflicts that ruled over their respective families.

The film’s atmospheric setting of 1960s England is accentuated by its beautiful, colorful cinematography. Here are thirteen of the best stills from On Chesil Beach.

Sia Criticized for Casting Maddie Ziegler as Autistic Lead in New Film

After revealing the first teaser trailer for her forthcoming directorial debut, Music, Sia has received backlash over casting a neurotypical actress as the autistic lead character.

The film revolves around the character of Music, a young girl with nonverbal autism, who finds herself in the care of her older half-sister, the newly sober Zu (Kate Hudson). However, many people were not happy with Sia’s decision to cast her longtime collaborator Maddie Ziegler as Music rather than an autistic actress.

Responding to critics on Twitter, Sia wrote: “I actually tried working with a beautiful young girl non verbal on the spectrum and she found it unpleasant and stressful. So that’s why I cast Maddie.” In a separate tweet, she added that “casting someone at her level of functioning was cruel, not kind, so I made the executive decision that we would do our best to lovingly represent the community.”

She also stated that she “cast thirteen neuroatypical people, three trans folk, and not as fucking prostitutes or drug addicts but as doctors, nurses and singers. Fucking sad nobody’s even seen the dang movie. My heart has always been in the right place.”

However, several autistic actors asserted that they were available and willing to work on the project, and that they were subsequently ignored. Sia responded to one such actor by belittling them, saying, “maybe you’re just a bad actor”

You can check out the trailer for Music and read some of the back-and-forth below. Earlier this week, Sia announced a new album accompanying the film titled Music – Songs From and Inspired by the Motion Picture and shared a new song, ‘Hey Boy’.

Listen to Future Islands’ Remix of Matt Berninger’s ‘One More Second’

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Future Islands have remixed Matt Berninger’s ‘One More Second’, from the National singer’s debut solo album Serpentine Prison. Check out ‘One More Second (Future Islands Remix)’ below.

“Every time I put on Future Islands my impression of the human condition improves,” Matt Berninger said in a statement. “Their remix of ‘One More Second’ kills me.”

Future Islands issued their most recent album, As Long as You Are, in October. Serpentine Prison arrived later that month.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Matt Sweeney Collaborate on New Song ‘Make Worry for Me’

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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Matt Sweeney have shared a new collaborative song called ‘Make Worry for Me’. Recorded at Nashville’s Butcher Shoppe, the new track follows the Superwolf collaborators’ charity single ‘You’ll Get Eaten, Too’, which dropped back in March. Check out ‘Make Worry for Me’ below, along with the single artwork, made by Harmony Korine.

A press release from Drag City reads:

“An apparition you can’t explain is cutting through the viscous mist in your brain. The contents of your pockets are suddenly unfamiliar. That sound again –

This year of super wolf moon brought A Visitation and the message, “You’ll Get Eaten, Too.” Now, in the earthly chaos of total celestial blackout, one body containing two galaxies is once more among us…

This is no miscount – this is the bestial duo, the two headed dawg, the Superwolves: Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, talking directly to our face. They know no fear, only curiosity. “Make Worry For Me” is manifesto, and we can only hope to learn from it. To grow from it. For limbs to extend, beneath its blue, electric sky. To become Super, like the Superwolves.

The gauntlet is thrown. You’re dancing with the wolf again. Brooding and grooving upon their prey. Succumb to their ritual. Move your ass. Sing their song. Fight. Or die.”

In recent weeks, Will Oldham and Bill Callahan have been sharing a series of collaborative covers, offering their take on Steely Dan’s ‘Deacon Blues’, Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ ‘Blackness of the Night’, and Dave Rich’s ‘I’ve Made Up My Mind’. Their rendition of Hank Williams, Jr.’s ‘O.D.’d in Denver’ also featured Matt Sweeney.

‘Make Worry for Me’ Single Artwork:

Watch Car Seat Headrest Perform ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’ on ‘Fallon’

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Car Seat Headrest were the musical guests on Thursday night’s episode of the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Crammed in a small bedroom, Will Tolledo and the rest of the band performed their single ‘Can’t Cool Me Down’, from Car Seat Headrest’s most recent album Making a Door Less Open. Watch the performance, featuring masked member Trait, below.

Making a Door Less Open was released back in May. It marked the follow-up to Car Seat Headrest’s 2018 project Twin Fantasy.

Chloe x Halle Share Cover of Zhané’s ‘Sending My Love’

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Chloe x Halle have offered their own take on R&B duo Zhané’s 1994 classic ‘Sending My Love’ for Spotify Singles and Are & B. The Bailey sisters have also released a stripped-down version of their Ungodly Hour song ‘Tipsy’. Take a listen below.

“We first fell in love with ‘Sending My Love’ by Zhané because our parents would blast it all around our house in Atlanta,” Chloe x Halle said in a statement. “We fell in love with the fact that they’re a duo as well, and how their voices blended so nicely together. It was very inspiring to us as a duo too!”

Ungodly Hour, Chloe x Halle’s sophomore LP, came out back in June. It follows their 2018 debut The Kids Are Alright.

5 Myths the Movies Have Perpetuated About Casinos

In a sense, the casino is the ultimate movie prop. It can act as a simple way to build tension – think of Martin Campbell’s direction of James Bond in those brilliant Casino Royale poker game scenes. It can also act as a device to build drama, conflict, fun, excitement and just about every other emotion. It’s little wonder that casino scenes pop up so frequently in Hollywood movies.

But the casino scenes in movies also tend to perpetuate myths that don’t happen in real life, and they can imprint that on viewers who believe it to be true. Below we are going to discuss five of the more common myths and explain what the really goes on:

Counting Cards Is Difficult

The main culprit here is Dustin Hoffman’s autistic savant, Raymond Babbitt, in Rain Man, but we could also point to Doug (Zack Galifianakis) in The Hangover. While Raymond has the mathematical skills to be a very good card counter; it’s really not that difficult. If you have a look at the blackjack online @MansionCasino, you could come up with a card counting strategy within minutes. It’s really just about keeping track of whether high or low cards have come out of the pack. Card counters also come up with simple systems to help them remember. It’s as easy as learning a phone number. Another thing: Card counting isn’t illegal – far from it. However, it’s not likely to earn you a fortune either. Card counting could tip the balance slightly in your favour, but just enough for you to profit – not win millions.

Winning at Roulette Is Easy

We are basically taking the opposite line to blackjack here, with a big caveat. Winning an even money bet in roulette is very common; you’ve around a 47.4% chance in American roulette, for instance. What we are talking about is the straight-up number, 32 red, for example. The probability is about 2.60%, and yet we see it time and time again in the movies with the big win in an all or nothing situation. This is not indicative of how players usually play the game, nor is it very likely that your number will come up.  Of course, roulette in the movies often shows the fix in play, as we saw with Humphrey Bogart’s Rick in Casablanca. That’s another fallacy.

All Those Big Poker Hands

You will all have seen plenty of royal flush hands pulled out at heart-stopping moments in the movies; Maverick with Mel Gibson is one such film, where the hero (Gibson) pulls out a royal flush to win the prize of $500,000. The odds of the royal flush in this five-card variant are 649,739/1. Not bad, Mel. In addition, two of the other players had a straight flush (72,192/1) and four of a kind (4,165/1). Again, the film doesn’t reflect the realities of poker play – professional poker players might spend their entire lives playing and not get those types of hands. It doesn’t stop them from winning millions, however.

 

The Hot and Cold Tables

In The Cooler, William H. Macy plays a downtrodden schmuck who is employed by a casino as “a cooler”; basically, someone who is so unlucky that they only have to approach other people and touch the table to make them lose. Of course, this is nonsense, and few movie-goers would believe that casinos employ these type of people. But it taps into the whole idea of superstition, lucky numbers, hot and cold games, and so on. What we are dealing with at the casino is pure random chance – nothing else. The movie-makers tend to lean on this to romanticise the casino, which is fair enough.

The Debauchery and Anything Goes

Perhaps this is a little more about the concept of Sin City than the casinos alone. But, by and large, casinos are quite serious places, and it’s not recommended that you visit one when you are hammered. Most likely, you’ll not get in through the door. Copious drug use? Forget about it. Getting caught with drugs in Nevada can lead to a long prison sentence. If you wrecked your hotel room – The Hangover, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – you would expect the hotel to phone the police straight away. Of course, there is some hedonism in casinos – they are supposed to be fun. But if you ever visit one, you will see that the drug and alcohol-fuelled folks tend to stand out like sore thumbs.

Romeo and Juliet Screen Adaptation: a modern retrospective of the classics

When it comes to stories that have lasted throughout the ages, there are few better examples than the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet. The five-act play, written by a giant of English literature William Shakespeare, originally premiered somewhere between 1595 and 1598, yet the story has lived on. In the hearts and minds of the generations who have come since its premiere, the enduring cultural fascination with Romeo and Juliet is a testament to its literary power.

Romeo and Juliet has been adapted countless times, for the stage, television, the screen and beyond. Its constant readaptation means that the story has never been far from the public consciousness, and is one of the most featured culture magazine pieces and studied works for students in school literature classes. A whole host of academic writing explores the different interpretations of the star-crossed lovers’ story. Any student tasked with writing such an essay can check out free examples on Romeo and Juliet with  https://eduzaurus.com/free-essay-samples/romeo-and-juliet/ which will enable you to better interpret the tragedy of William Shakespeare in your student work. The sheer range of different ways in which Shakespeare’s tragic tale has been reimagined is a fascinating subject for study and reveals a lot about the text.

The screen versus the stage

Romeo and Juliet has been adapted for the screen perhaps more than any other play or book. These adaptations are not restricted to mere restagings of the historical play, but can take the setting and characters into almost unrecognizable directions. Samples of the plot can be found in some of the most iconic romance movies of all time. Beloved movies such as West Side Story, Titanic, and Romeo + Juliet are, in fact, all modern adaptations of Romeo and Juliet. What’s so powerful about Shakespeare’s story is that it can resonate with audiences across time and culture.

The way each generation and society adapts the original work serves as a reflection of the values of that time. Funnily enough, this often means that some of the original meaning is often greatly misinterpreted of the play when for Romeo and Juliet historical context is ignored. One great paradox in Romeo and Juliet reimaginings is the fact the depiction of the lovers’ fate. While, indeed, the original play’s depiction of two lovers from different backgrounds who ultimately fall in love goes to prove that love knows no boundaries, many adaptations fail to emphasize the unhappy ending that the characters meet.

Both Romeo and Juliet fail to survive the curtain call of the original play, and this is down to their families’ unwillingness to relinquish their historical feud. Many Romeo and Juliet movies simply go as far as to depict two lovers from opposite sides of society falling in love despite their differences, and call it a day there. This makes sense from the commercial perspective of Hollywood, as it can be hard to turn a profit out of such a tragic ending. The idea of our two main protagonists dying without a happy ending can be a hard pill for modern audiences to swallow, but back in Shakespeare’s time this kind of tragic ending was run-of-the-mill!

Versatility

Even if the glamorous Hollywood reimaginings of Romeo and Juliet’s story sometimes fail to capture the tragedy of the original, their prevalence is still a testament to the thematic power of Shakespeare’s work. The strong construction of plot, and emphasis on the rawest of human tendencies, has given this play an unrivalled versatility in its capacity for reinvention. Shakespeare’s ability to take themes such as family, love, hate, and forgiveness and put them in a captivating dramatic form is exactly what has driven the constant reinvention of the story since its first staging. The theme of defiance, in particular, has made Romeo and Juliet a potent story for highlighting the mistreatment of marginalized groups, as is the case in modern tales of star-crossed lovers such as Titanic, Carol and Brokeback Mountain.

Hundreds of years after its premiere and the death of its author, we still have William Shakespeare to thank for Romeo and Juliet in its original form, and the wide variety of adaptations it has since inspired! The enduring cultural fascination for this play serves as a testament to storytelling and the power of a good love story!