concreteBuilding In reply to Yandereheavydelphox [2017-03-29 06:05:51 +0000 UTC]

Pretty cool stuff. Just know I'm not giving a follow because A. their work isn't much I'd be looking at anyway and B. I followed you because it's hopefully the start of something we can all be a part of while we're in different places. 

Nothing personal, really.

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Yandereheavydelphox In reply to concreteBuilding [2017-03-29 06:15:25 +0000 UTC]

Eh, a sibling in Britain, a friend in Greenwich, and a friend in Canada.

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concreteBuilding In reply to Yandereheavydelphox [2017-03-29 21:37:18 +0000 UTC]

You have a friend in Greenwich?

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Yandereheavydelphox In reply to concreteBuilding [2017-03-29 21:57:12 +0000 UTC]

Yup. Finchwing.

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concreteBuilding In reply to Sarieu [2015-08-07 04:20:49 +0000 UTC]

No problem ^^

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concreteBuilding In reply to TheSonickid131 [2014-11-07 16:06:36 +0000 UTC]

Hey, thanks man.

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rklover13 In reply to rklover13 [2014-07-04 03:36:49 +0000 UTC]

And thank you for the fave~

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concreteBuilding In reply to SM-13 [2014-02-09 21:25:55 +0000 UTC]

Hey, I don't consider anyone of any country to be evil, unless they actually are evil. And that's usually fueled by a religion of some sort. Not saying religion is inherently bad, I just think it's being utterly misused constantly.

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SM-13 In reply to concreteBuilding [2014-02-11 00:02:13 +0000 UTC]

Hi! Have you ever seen Soviet cartoons? (Well, there is a good one. The title is "Голубой щенок" (Goluboy schenok - Blue Puppy). You know, it's devoted to the problem of discrimination. But there is another interesting aspect. In modern Russian slang "blue" mean also "gay" or "fag". In view of that, an innocent phrase "If everybody loves you and your friend is next to you, it's not bad to be blue" from the final song of Blue Puppy could be interpreted very... interestingXD Of course, in USSR nobody construed it THIS way, but today it's very funny. Be careful, if you try to mention this in a conversation with Russians, they can react... crossly. We adore Soviet animation (along with Gagarin, V-Day, figure scaters and gymnasts et ceteraXD), and associate it with childhood and purity. By the way, I have a suspicion that Charlie Chaplin was the prototype of the Puppy. Here is an article in Wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pup… and the film www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7dvtt… . Such a shame I can't find video with English subtitles T^T But still it's very beautiful

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concreteBuilding In reply to SM-13 [2014-02-11 01:33:53 +0000 UTC]

Any other Soviet cartoons you'd like to point me to? Doesn't have to be a message, could be for pure entertainment. I'm really interested, here.

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SM-13 In reply to concreteBuilding [2014-02-12 01:19:01 +0000 UTC]

Prepare yourself!

Three from Buttermilk Village
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOebKn… part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hnPSS… part 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2L6sS… part 3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PuN-j… part 4

The Bremen Town Musicians
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66NNY5… part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNodD… part 2

Cheburashka and crocodile gena
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZpUD…

Just you wait! (last episodes are not soviet and this is striking =_= I don't like new series)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHTbB2…

Flying ship
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yLzD5…

The secret of the third planet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhrnXD…

Winnie Pooh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqdiEU… part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adogzj… part 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=73uIn5… part 3

Woof the kitten
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Y1d4…

The Kid and Carlson
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDqtv_…

Mother for a little mammoth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsl9ZG…

The scarlet flower
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7xz4…

The Frog princess (Russian tale)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pprEzG…



By R.Kipling

Rikki
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRryHN…

Mowgli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYdBWC…

The cat that walked by himself
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLjpsr…




The Golden Antelope
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWsP71…





Sinderella
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_l6o…

The Nutcracker
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GThJ26…


By Andersen

The Steadfast Tin Soldier
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Z9Dm…

The Little Mermaid

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPHDmm… part1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq1431… part2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LafMpA… part3

Snowqueen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=39PH16…

Wild Swans
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tUNlb…

The ugly duckling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkUPu1…


The enchanted boy (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjzsyf…

The Canterville Ghost (no, there is no Otis!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aVVMQ… part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wVY5u… part 2



Once upon a time there was a Dog
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tveZG4…


Kazaki
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd-lt6…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNiDgD…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlKFk2…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZRO_2…


Oomka
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtLzoL…


By Pushkin
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpMBDm…

The tale of the dead princess and the seven knights
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaNFeL…





Perseus (no subs) (there another 4 about mythes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=krN41E…


Caliph-Stork (some people find it a bit scary, but I like it)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCvQaQ… part1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1IQTK… part2


Alice in Wonderland (without subs T^T)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpLeL…

Hedgehog in the Fog
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsJZV…



I think it's enough for the first time. Enjoy

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concreteBuilding In reply to SM-13 [2014-02-12 01:24:53 +0000 UTC]

oh, yikes, that's alot. XD That will probably get me through the month. I do intend to watch all of them, though ^^

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SM-13 In reply to concreteBuilding [2014-02-12 01:40:32 +0000 UTC]

Now it's your turnXD Tell me about the USA. For example, about your schools, it is interesting to compare I want to know about timetable, subjects (I heard in the USA history is an art, is it really so?), classes et ceteraXD If you want, I can tell you about our education And by the way, how old are you?

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concreteBuilding In reply to SM-13 [2014-02-12 04:15:56 +0000 UTC]

To start off the question, I'm 20. And of course, I'd love to hear about Russian education.

I suppose since there's no actual starting point I've been given here, I'll just start with school from Pre-school up.

But, Before I start with grades, there are 3 types of schooling, all of which follow the same basic flow and teach *most* of the same classes. You might guess which ones can be substituted for others, as these types are public schooling, private schooling and homeschooling. Public schooling is probably the one you're thinking of, and it's the one I'm going to use as a model to explain how things work. That's the one that each town likes to root for, when [an american] football game is talked about. That's the one that you see in movies, basically. Private schooling refers to one of 2 things. It's either a religious institution that functions similarly to public school, but is geared towards, or at least has more religious content. For example, my brother is in a Christian school run by a Lutheran church. He has science classes, but he also has "religion" which he has informed me is just Christianity. Basically Sunday School mixed with your other everyday classes. The other thing Private Schooling refers to is something very similar to public school, but it just isn't funded by the government. The main difference between public schooling and private schooling is that private schooling tends to have mandatory uniforms, while public schooling has a dress code (which seems to be violated more often as people get older, I've noticed). The last type, Homeschooling, is, well, schooling from home. Your parents are your teachers. Or parent. You get the gist of it.

Another thing to take notice of is that every school varies in what they do. For example, when I was in elementary/grade school, in music class, we had a "composer of the month" to raise awareness of said composers. That could be Tchaikovsky in December and The Beatles in January, and then maybe Mozart in February. I've been to 3 school districts, and the other two didn't have anything like that in their music classes. And that could be said for any class. Some school districts have D.A.R.E classes (which are an anti-drug/violence campaign with a police officer as the teacher), some don't. Even in D.A.R.E classes, those can vary with how they're interpreted.

So. Pre-school. Some kids go, some kids don't. Honestly, I'm not sure if that makes anybody here smarter. I learned how to read in pre-school, and it was actually kind of fun. Listening to the teacher read a book, some basic "history" about the US (like what most people learn about Thanksgiving), a little bit of science. Most of them are in churches, but some are public. Nobody's given any homework because everyone except for the teacher is 4 years old.

WAIT! Now that we've taken attendance, we must say the Pledge of Allegiance. This is the only thing that doesn't change in how it's done, wherever you are. If you've done it in the North, you can do it in the South. You could be doing anything. The teacher could be going over the curricula for the day, you could be drawing your best friend a funny picture, you might be hanging up your coat, or even better, you might be using the bathroom. No matter what, you must stand, face the Stars and Stripes with your right hand over your heart (and I've been taught to put my left hand behind my back, and now I realize exactly what gestures I can make. Ah well, too late) and say the words exactly with everyone else. No longer, no faster. You can probably  guess that it gets old really quick, and it starts to become lip service after a certain point. To me, this kind of thing, at least in the way it's done, is extremely pointless. Especially when we're at the point where we're basically the earlier England, and our stereotype is probably the worst you can imagine, it's really hard to say you're proud of your country. When we're at a point where we're damned if we do something and damned if we don't, there's obviously a problem that needs to be fixed. We have a political system that has been warned about by our FIRST PRESIDENT, who told us the consequences of what would happen if we became what we are now. To me the Civil War wasn't in the 1860's. We should have called that the "Slavery war". The ACTUAL Civil War started when the GOP and the Democratic party formed, and it hasn't stopped since. It has killed several Presidents, and it has been the ultimate dichotomy with certain viewpoints. Some people can't call themselves part of the GOP because of the ridiculous things the GOP has said about minorities. This is why I've been reluctant almost every time I've said the Pledge of Allegiance. Ever since 9/11, I heard the people on the radio talk about Muslims as if they're all the evil incarnate in the world. How can you pledge allegiance to a flag that represents those kinds of people?

Anyway, let's get back to class. After Pre-school, people go into Kindergarten (gotta love a language that steals from others). This is basically Pre-school on steroids. You focus more on learning writing, you start to take art and music, snack time and sometimes nap time are still a thing. Most kids focus on reading (some are taught by the phonics method, which sometimes works.), maybe a little bit of science, and some basic math (addition and subtraction) are introduced. I've noticed that social relationships for the future tend to start here. The pretty princess girls that tend to be cheerleaders in High School start their cliques and become bffffes around this time. The football guys tend to start training for life here. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just like "meh, whatever I do what I will" Consequently, other friendships and enemies are made. Discrimination also tends to start here, as I know from personal experience. And the most important day of the year is obviously the 100th day of school. Don't ever forget your (hastily) colored paper hat with the big "100" on it because IT'S SO FREAKING IMPORTANT.

Next up: Grade school. From grades 1-5, we call that "Elementary school". From grades 6-8, we call it "Junior High" or "Middle School". And here are the main classes people take:

1. Math
2. Language Arts (reading, writing)
3. Science (With the occasional "Bill Nye" or "Magic School Bus" video, which are always, without a doubt, THE BEST DAYS. No teachers, National Geographic videos can NEVER replace Bill Nye the Science Guy or The Friz. They do and show science how it's supposed to be done.)
4. Art/Music Sometimes both.
5. Lunch (yes, lunch is a class. According to the students)
6. Gym/PE (Physical Education - which is sometimes questionable. Some days it obviously lives up to its name).
7. Social Studies (fancy term for "Geography and world history")

Some schools have the following as classes, but are usually just other extra-curricular groups:
- Band
- Choir
- Math team
- Speech team
- Chess  team
- (insert sport here) team (I will include cheerleading/poms for the sake of length for now).
- Media/V-club

Now, there is a grading system, and it is as follows:
A+ = 100%
A = 99-95%
A- = 94-90%
B+ = 89%-87%
B = 86-84%
B- = 83 - 80%
C+ = 79%-77%
C = 76%-74%
C- = 73% - 70%
D+ = 69%-67%
D = 66%-64%
D- = 63% - 60%
F = 59% - 0%

As you get into Middle/Junior High school, you start taking classes like:

-Industrial tech (Making things with drills, saws, the fun things that Daddy wouldn't let you play with and then you threw a temper tantrum about it)
- FACS/Foods/HOMEC (Cooking, some of them have sewing as well)
- Intramurals (more PE)
- US History. I'm not sure what inspired someone to say that it was an art. It's not really an art. However, there are some interesting and fun ways I've seen it taught. Simulations of events such as WWI Where we crumpled up paper balls, made trenches out of the desks and proceeded to throw the paper balls at each other (if someone was hit, they died), and when the teacher played a certain sound, that meant that mustard gas was in the air, and if you weren't in the trench, you died. We also did debates in class which was always fun. Obviously learned about the Cold War and the "Evil Communists" when really, the only evil people when it came to this issue were Stalin and Senator McCarthy. Meanwhile, we learned about the "non-crook" Richard Nixon and his part in the Watergate scandal. I really could go on about this kind of stuff. But the main part of why US history is a thing is this: The Constitution test. You've got to know what parts of the Constitution give what parts of the government what kind of power AND you have to memorize the Bill of Rights (Don't the US Citizens know that part).
- Some middle schools teach Health, which includes Sex education. From there, it's basically the following: Use a condom, practice safe sex, don't do drugs you know are extremely horrible for you. know the difference between love and lust, don't eat McDonald's all the time, eat your fruits and veggies. Mostly stuff we'd been taught from Day 1 of our lives. Oh yes, and of course, the all-time favorite, how a baby is made (See, now we know it's not the stork. Progress!).

Now we've worn the cap and gown once. TIME TO DO IT AGAIN! YAY! Time for High school!

BUT:

Know that you're a Freshman. Which means that since you are new, you are the lowest scum on the face of the earth, unless you keep your mouth shut. Then you might as well be praised (Yay, logic).

Within 2 weeks, I was presented with this:

Freshmen are shit.
Sophomores think they're the shit.
Juniors know they're the shit.
Seniors don't give a shit.

If that weren't the best way to describe American High School without typing up a long paper like this, I don't know what is.

Nevertheless, you walk into the school and things are totally new. It's still a 4-year prison as has been before, but those years have names. Listed 2 paragraphs above this one. The cafeteria has a much wider choice of food. It's like a small restaurant. In some ways, actually, it is a small restaurant. Hot dogs, pizza, chicken nuggets are to name a few. You also can get things like pop tarts, cereal, donuts, parfaits, milk, etc. Once you return to the cafeteria, it's a social mess with basically The Breakfast Club on steroids. The jocks (sports guys) have their own table (which sometimes meshes with the popular girls), freshmen tend to get their own table which is the one that's not taken. Nerds and geeks like me who stayed in the dark did weird things in the back (no, not those kinds of weird things. Those would be at the Jock's table). There were also Scene kids (the kinds who always talked about getting high and going to raves) at their table talking about whatever they would talk about. And sex jokes. Everywhere. No table is left in an innocent state. There's a rule in the school that says "no cards" but everyone plays with cards in the cafeteria.

As for classes, they each go up by year, so long as you pass the current one for that year. For example:

Science:
Freshman - Earth Science
Sophomore - Biology
Junior - Chemistry
Senior - Physics

Math:
Freshman - Algebra
Sophomore - Geometry
Junior - Algebra 2
Senior - Calculus

For History and English, they do cover certain things for each year, but sometimes it's ambiguous as to what class gets what, because so many Freshman students will take a class that some seniors take at the same time mixed with a couple sophomores. Sometimes it gets to a point where it just depends on the person.

Foreign language classes are taken for most students. The ones that are usually taught are Spanish, French, German and recently, Chinese. It's mandatory to take a foreign language class, but as to which one, it's your choice.

Sometimes people are advanced, and they'll end up taking a class ahead of their year. So by Senior year, they have anthropology under their belt. Or something else.

Electives are also a thing. Meaning half of the schedule is core classes, half of it is classes you choose. Some of them could be the following:
-Band
-Choir
-Music Theory
-Graphics
-Video
-Computer Science

Gym is basically a great big locker room where natural selection is at its finest.

Now for the real news, the part you've been waiting for:
The reason why school is set up like that is so that people can do well on tests.
That's mostly what colleges want. High test scores. And so, I've been taught how to bullshit a test. From a teacher. Standardized tests are the reason why American Education is like this, and in the Science and Art departments, it's practically tearing them down. Schools have progressively gotten rid of art programs. Standardized tests completely take away the scientific method, which is the backbone of all of science. There's no actual experimenting. It asks you to look at a piece of text and give an answer based on it. It's not much different than the reading tests.

College is kind of like High school on steroids, but you choose a path to go to (I'm a film student) based on what you want to do. Mix High school with that, and you pretty much have college.

Hope that answers your questions.

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concreteBuilding In reply to SM-13 [2014-02-11 01:31:39 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that was a very interesting cartoon. Definitely a different style than I've seen, for sure. That cat was really freaky, but not necessarily in a bad way although he was an antagonist.

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concreteBuilding In reply to SM-13 [2014-02-11 01:10:48 +0000 UTC]

Watching it right now. Can I just say that's the most amazing cat I've ever seen?

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concreteBuilding In reply to TheSonickid131 [2013-10-20 14:15:43 +0000 UTC]

Hey, no problem. Honestly, it's so much fun to do these events. I'm doing 2 other jobs alongside this, and they're all fun. But after last night, I'd say that PCW trumps all of them. I've got a gameplan of how I'm going to operate my side of things next month, since that card got damaged. But as I said before, that was really the only downside of the whole thing.

I dunno what I'd do with the dog food can, unless it's part of a PCW video (Might put it in Butcher's video, if I'm ever assigned that).

Oh, I'm also working on another logo, and Tatum's is going to be changed, since I talked to Creed shortly before the show.

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concreteBuilding In reply to XoX-totalfangurl-XoX [2013-08-24 14:58:26 +0000 UTC]

No problem! :3 I remember seeing you at Gen Con and it was a really good cosplay ^^

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XoX-totalfangurl-XoX In reply to concreteBuilding [2013-08-26 01:28:29 +0000 UTC]

Aww! Thank you so much! OuO

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concreteBuilding In reply to vltraviolet [2013-01-19 18:55:28 +0000 UTC]

Pfff a fellow TFS fan? AND the one I know who can draw some of the best fanart of them? And I'm NOT watching them? That, my friend (?) is a sin.

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vltraviolet In reply to concreteBuilding [2013-01-20 00:16:53 +0000 UTC]

oh gosh wow thank you * O* <3333333

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concreteBuilding In reply to 11meister [2012-07-13 03:39:49 +0000 UTC]

Oh, no problem. I'm kinda surprised you're not like... doing this for a living. You really captured Hugh Laurie quite well as House.

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11meister In reply to concreteBuilding [2012-07-13 04:42:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks concrete, comments like this make me go: oooohh

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