#Frame Tv Art Poppies

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[ideahat-universe]

Good Design, Bad Design: ARG edition!

Don't worry, it's just a framing device. Lets talk about a Good ARG and a Bad ARG.

Good Design

Shipwrecked 64 is one of the better examples of a ARG done extremely well but what really sets it apart in my mind is the fact that it's a real game.

A lot of indie games make game play a means to an end, most of it benefits more from being watched than played.

A meta of overcharging people to play chapters of a game where each chapter is a little under 2 hours and the game play is just put key in keyhole and run from thing has really crippled the entertainment the genre can offer.

Not so for Shipwrecked 64. You're expected to learn and even write down many things to find the answers needed to progress.

Learn a little bit about music, remember numbers and colors when they appear to you, watch the videos that show up, Read the notes made by stumbler, utilize a fan made cipher to decode Beaver-scratch (or decode the method yourself!), dabbled in the phonetic alphabet, oh and a bit of some googling.

The game can be a punishing experience for streamers who expect to knock this game out in an afternoon. Because of that though it can be fun to play blind. In fact it's very fun to play blind and the scares are edited fairly well as the the jump part of scare utilizes a very surreal screen tearing effect, meanwhile the game tries to come up with ways to sneak up on you to make the jumps really sudden.

It's very good. Sure Poppy's Playtime is a more cinematic experience, and the latest Freddy Game wasn't that bad either but there's something about a really well rounded experience that lives beyond its expectations.

UrbanSpook is. Well, UrbanSpook is a TV dinner.

Let me explain.

A few months ago I mentioned Who's Lila which was also a really well done ARG and meta mystery story which was born from Twin Perfect's reading on what Twin Peaks was supposed to be about.

The idea is that Twin Peaks was a response to how throwaway and artless television was becoming and specifically how murder stories were just a cavalcade of dead bodies and killers with nothing else to care about.

The metaphor used in Twin Peaks? TV Dinners. Whenever bad people were indulging in base desires they were eating TV dinners or other meals that lacked substance.

Yeah, I think you know where I'm going with this. UrbanSpook comes out the gate with a framing device for a gallery of artwork but the framing is bare bones and the artwork only satiates the desire to see gore. The artwork is good but in creating a story it is not judged as a series of images and is instead judged as a story.

As a story we don't know who the killer is, how they kill, why they kill (why they have to kill people to make paintings). We don't know the victims beyond them being dead, when they died, and how they died. We don't know who is primarily responsible for investigating the killings (as it is not uncommon for a specific person to be tasked with bringing a serial killer to justice).

We know about as much as you might learn in a B movie. Which brings me to what I believe UrbanSpook is. UrbanSpook is a no budget ARG Splatterpunk horror.

People come in expecting some kind of lip-service to pathos because at the end of the day people love character, not kills; and in almost every good horror story you get characterization of everyone as well as a strong theme beyond "We like violence, yes we do."

BUT in a B-movie or a cheap slasher film you want gore, you want some blood thrown around, you want TV Dinners.

I imagine though that the budget of UrbanSpook is quite limited so rather than make a completely animated venture he went for the Mandela Catalog effect.

And maybe it's a good gambit. With money he could make a better production but he's getting a Serbian film style reception which does hurt and lashing out on Twitter isn't great PR but that's beyond the art and really everyone is terrible on Twitter.

UrbanSpook isn't bad because it dares to do things that are audacious and repugnant, because the horror genre has gladly housed such films since the creation of film as a genre.

What UrbanSpook does bad is telling a story and while morally Horror can do whatever it wants, artistically there is a good design for a horror story and a bad design for a horror story and this is

Bad Design

[pissgod-639]

THE URGE TO PUKE ALL MY INTERESTS RN

Games: Buckshot Roulette, Roblox (Buckshot Showdown, Westbound, Daybreak 2, In Plain Sight 2, Guts and Blackpowder, Untitled Boxing Game, A Stereotypical Obby/Repleh Archives, Specter 2, Tower Defense Simulator), Outlast, Boyfriend to Death, Fear & Hunger, Until Dawn, Price of Flesh, Transformice, Persona 4 & 5, Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact, Resident Evil, Class of '09, Detroit: Become Human, Minecraft, Animal Jam, Epic Seven, D4DJ, Fortnite, Guilty Gear Strive, Rainbow Six Seige, Overwatch, Team Fortress 2, Skullgirls, Somnium, Muse Dash, Dragon Raja, Up All Night, Red Dead Redemption, Five Nights at Freddy's, Doki Doki Literature Club, Fatal Frame, Blasphemous, Hylics, Needy Streamer Overload, Ace Attorney, Danganronpa

Reads: I'm Dating a Psychopath by Nosleeparewe; Daybreak by Moosopp; Clinic of Horrors by Merryweather; Winter Moon by Merryweather; Your Wings and Mine by Hakeism; Deathsitter by Puppetology; Ghost Lights by Fantakoi; Uriah by Toffuo; Welfare Center by NANA; Stagtown by Punko; @CRC_Luna's Conspiracy Research Club, The Predator by Shin Heebin/Chi Chi; Happy Sugar Life, Killing Stalking, Black Mirror, My Dearest Self with Malice Aforethought, Takopii's Original Sin, Blue Lock, Chainsaw Man, Goodnight Punpun, Chobits, Lady K and the Sick Man, Tokyo Revengers, Berserk, All Quiet on the Western Front, Prairie Fire

Watches: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Girl from Nowhere, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Monster, Death Note, The Walking Dead, All Quiet on the Western Front, Kakegurui, Madoka Magica, Violet Evergarden, Expelled from Paradise, All of Us are Dead, Japan Sinks 2020, Pretty Cure, Glitter Force, Words Bubble Up like Soda Pop, Voltron, Gun Gale Online, Squid Game, Hunterxhunter, My Little Pony, Carole & Tuesday, Petscop, Ena, Mandela Catalogue, Gemini Home Entertainment, Children Under the House, A Quiet Place, FNAF VHS, Bambi, Frozen, Mulan

Content Creators: Markiplier, Jerma985, Nexpo, Kubz Scouts, Jack Stauber, Joel G, Quackity, Prykations, Kkelsey_spring, grayworms, breakingthepage, ashiiu, pyro.cri, m.emityy, nyoomian, rabbits.foots, munkaei, ccoffeeplz, nikoco_11, dotswappu, keo_chooo_, Antlergrave, Jumi_bits, plastic_pots.png, pocaarii, demaymayart, hagushka, lesmestiar, Nosleeparewe, Jin_jing93, aki.strike, Caseoh

Music: Mitski, Lorde, Tv Girl, Cocteau Twins, Mother Mother, Machine Girl, Grimes, Poppy, Cigarettes After Sex, Matt Maltese, Radiohead, Dazey and the Scouts, Roar, Mars Argo, Current Joys, Violent Vira

Other: Methods of execution/torture, Marine Biology, Forensic Science, Arctic Biomes, True Crime, US History, Germany, Game lore, Making lore from games, Frutiger Aero, Survival preparation, Military, Sharks, Cowboys, Gore, Flawed characters, Niche characters/games, Making art for communities, Biblical themes, Gods, Paranormal

Characters: Finley Marai (DB2), Dakari Bowens (DB2), Ren Hana (BTD), Lawrence Oleander (BTD), Strade (BTD), Finn Lewis (IDAP), Scott (IDAP), Meowscles (FN), Jing Yuan (HSR), Blade (HSR), SUNDAY (HSR), Nanook (HSR), Fuli (HSR), Yaoshi (HSR), Columbina (GI), Scaramouche/Wanderer (GI), Beam (CSM), Ironclad (IPS2), Payday (IPS2), Subzero (IPS2), Tony (IPS2), Chris (UD), Sam (UD), Mike (UD), Carlos Oliveira (RE3), Chris Redfield (RE), Miles Upshur (OL), Waylon Park (OL:WB), Marina (F&H:T), Ragnvaldr (F&H), Cahara (F&H), Pocketcat (F&H), Crow Mauler (F&H), Oh Sangwoo (KS), Yang Seungbae (KS), Yoon Bum (KS), Aiko (GNPP), Bandit (R6S), Cole Cassidy (OW), D.Va (OW), Luluca (E7), Pavel (E7), May (GGS), Faust (GGS), Millia (GGS), Ramlethal (GGS), Happy Chaos (GGS), Bridget (GGS), Johnny (GGS), Dizzy (GG), Akira/Ren (P5), Futaba/Oracle (P5), Ryuji/Skull (P5), Yu (P4), Yosuke (P4), Nagi (BL), Kaiser (BL), Foxy (FNAF), Luna (MLP), John D. Rockefeller, George Washington, Nick Torres (UAN) and more

My Characters: Leonore Dietrich, Yumi/Charlie, August Derrick, Wolf Dietrich, Osprey Davis, Griffin Dietrich, Célestine Albine, Hunter, Leandro Cillian Otto Constantine of Eden, Arlette, Bailey, Devon, Neo, Tai, Astro/a, Zadkiel, Sparky, Skinner, Adam

[jacquelinesbookclub]

The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde

“Jasper Fforde has gone where no other fictioneer has gone before” claims The Guardian in the front cover endorsement. What a load of genetically re-engineered dodo crap. Who amongst us hasn’t day-dreamed about going into the books we love and meeting our favourite characters? That’s where it all starts for us “fictioneers”. The first stories we tell are clunky re-imaginings of the things that speak to us, we get enraptured by a story and it motivates us to share that story too. It’s a tale as old as human communication. Oral and written tradition is just this, sharing stories, and over time we add parts of ourselves to the narrative and mould it to better fit us. It’s how we learn to tell our own stories, by first copying the things we love. “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness”, or so it has been said.

Lately I’ve been attempting to shift my time-use away from consumption and towards creation. I had found myself trapped endlessly scrolling social media, or watching stuff I don’t care about just to have something on the telly. I felt like I was wasting my time and getting nothing out of any of it. But the real kick in the arse was watching my kids emulate that same behaviour, and being unable to connect with them on any conversational level for the two days a week they live with me because they’d rather hide themselves away in a hole of Sonic memes from TikTok via Gacha Life via YouTube shorts. And how could I blame them? I was in my own hole of complaining about Formerly-Known-As-Twitter drama and voyeuristically watching old men build things with their hands (my guilty pleasure). None of us were engaged, and all of us were miserable. So I turned off the TV, deleted half the apps from my phone and YouTube from my Switch, and loaded up on art supplies from the dollar store, ready to set an example and give us all something to bond over. And it worked! (Mostly. As I’m writing this, my daughter is watching Spirit Rangers on Netflix and I’m listening to music with my headphones on. Lets just call it parallel play, alright?)

By the end of the first day without the addictive pull of easy dopamine machines, both of my kids had written multi-thousand word short stories. My daughter (10yo), who’s special interest is kid horror like Poppy Playtime and Five Nights at Freddy’s, wrote about a little girl with a traumatic past who solves puzzles and befriends the big scary monsters. My eldest (12yo) on the other hand is big into anime, their favourites right now being My Hero Academia and Tengoku Daimakyo. They wrote a character driven isekai turned reverse-isekai slice of life, naturally. Given the freedom to write whatever they wanted without guidelines from teachers, both of them re-told their own favourite stories with a personal flair. This is how we learn to tell stories, it’s how we learn anything really, through repetition. Just like how babies learn to speak by imitating the sounds its parents make until it learns meaning and context, in imitating the stories we love, we learn story structure, flow, framing, technique, effective use of dialogue and thematic meaning. It’s not the only way we learn, of course, we get taught the nuts and bolts of writing in school, and some take that all the way through university in order to perfect their craft, but I think that’s all polish. The people who study writing are the people who have a passion for the craft they’ve learned through personal experimentation, and it’s passion that is key for motivation.

In response to a recent live stream question about encouraging a creative design environment in the classroom, Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) said “New skill acquisition, for me, has always been based on desire.” Without the desire to emulate, without the love of a story or stories, our writing is dead before it’s even born. Writing is a slog sometimes, it doesn’t come easily to any but the luckiest few, so we need the love of the influence to fuel the work. I’m not just talking about the derivative copy cat stuff we all practice on, even the most original novels have influence. The reason we have genres of literature is because of the influence of authors who came beforehand. In 1818 Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, in 1886 Robert Lewis Stevenson publishes Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in 1896 H.G. Wells publishes The Island of Dr Moreau. We have science fiction as a genre because authors read science fiction stories and said “I want to write that too.”

The world Fforde has created in The Eyre Affair is one that those of us who were teased for being bookworms as children would long for. It’s a world in which people wear their love for their favourite stories proudly on their sleeves. Where literature is so important that the British Government have a Special Operations group dedicated to preventing book crimes. Imagine if people cared that much about literature in real life? Could you imagine people door-knocking and handing out pamphlets to argue their theories of who wrote Shakespeare? People changing their names and their dress to honour their love of poet John Milton? Imagine hundreds of people torch and pitchfork protesting over the possibility of Jane Eyre being changed. This all sounds hauntingly familiar, actually. There is one place in the real world where people have such strong opinions of their favourite stories: fanfiction.

Savage continues: “It’s frankly within pop-culture you’re often going to find a lot of intersection of desire for a thing.” Our modern internet is lousy with pop-culture, it’s incredible just how pop our culture has gotten. It drowns out any culture that isn’t pop by smothering it in mounds of double extra servings of pop. Our pop is so pop we had to create hyper-pop to contain it, another magnitude added to the pop-Richter scale, and boy oh boy, is there desire for it. I have many criticisms about fanfic, both the art and the culture, but I’m not going to go on a tirade here. What’s important is that people are doing it. They’re taking the stories they love and expanding upon them, putting their own spin on their favourite characters and creating something new and interesting out of it. As Savage says “I personally don’t care where somebody gets interested in creating something, I just want the act of creation to occur.”

The Eyre Affair is a love letter to the stories that compel Fforde, like Arthur Conan Doyle’s Through the Magic Door made narrative. Published in 1907, Doyle’s collection of essays is adamant that popular fiction is vital to creativity, so this isn’t new age thinking. What is new is that we have more accessible places to share with each other, to create community around the things we love, and yet it still feels so closed off. When we say fanfic we think of a subsection of the internet filled with wierdos, from Trekkies and X-philes in the 90’s, to whatever is popular in fanfic today, I don’t know, what are you into? Is it Gideon the Ninth? Y’all still doing One Direction? Whatever the case, it’s delegated to a shadowy basement corner filing cabinet and forgotten by the rest of the literary world, and that’s a shame, because it is often where our most base fantasies as readers play out.

“Gone where no other fictioneer has gone before”? Fforde goes where all of us go, that’s what makes this book so compelling, only he does it in public where everyone can see.

[modestutopian]

Media log for November

In order of listening/watching/reading

🎶 Funhouse by the Stooges -- I didn't enjoy this one. Something about the sound just got under my skin and annoyed me. I feel very uncultured lol

📽️ Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari Directed by Robert Wiene -- I loved this, except for the frame device! The thing I liked the most is the vibes. I just like how so many old German films have non-literal visuals. But, this is one of the best examples that I've seen, and the story sans the framing device is very compelling.

📘 Coda by Simon Spurrier and Matias Bergara -- loved this book! Beautiful art, and super compelling and meaningful story. This might be my favorite comic that I read this year.

📺 HBO's The Penguin -- Maybe my favorite TV series I watched this year? And it's a Batman show?! To be honest, this is really more of a mobster show than a superhero show, and it's also an extremely compelling character study of an extremely vile man.

🎶 Become Ocean by John Luther Adams - I totally loved this piece. There's a sort of "wall of sound" quality that I really appreciate. There was an aspect where it kind of sounded like a soundtrack, but I still thought it was an S tier composition.

🎶 GNX by Kendrick Lamar -- another fantastic album. I'm easy to please, and the poppy aspect of this album really appealed. I do have to acknowledge that it seems a bit different than a lot of what we get from Lamar. My favorite track was luther.

🎶 Chromakopia by Tyler the Creator - I really liked it, and I do think Tyler is one of the Big 3 now. I'm open to arguments about if he's defeated J Cole or Drake but imo he's gone far beyond either of them now. My favorite track is the lead single, Noid.

📽️ Baby Driver directed by Edgar Wright-- This is just a really fun movie. Fun cars, fun music, fun action sequences. It's executed extremely well tho, so it's not only fun.

🎶 Megan Act II by Megan thee Stallion -- Reissues usually feel like they carry a risk that you're just getting some junk that didn't make the cut. I think Megan avoided that, in fact, there are some tracks here that I thought were better than tracks on "Act I." Favorite Track: Bigger in Texas

📽️ Hot Frosty directed by Jerry Ciccoritti-- Awful film but it's very fun.

[unheavenlycreatures]

peppermint cappuccino :]

peppermint cappuccino— what’s your favorite genre of movie, tv show, or video game and why?

I typically really enjoy horror--I feel like it's a very good and hard-hitting way to get to the core of what a society and era is afraid of, which is something I actually wrote a thesis on during my senior year of my lit degree.

I've really enjoyed seeing the uptick of horror video games (specifically in the indie sphere) that have to do with consumerism--specifically subverting the mascots and marketing techniques that are designed to appeal to a wider audience--and framing it as exposition and pointing to the inherent horror of the capitalistic processes of business and marketing (i am referring specifically to things like happys humble, poppys playtime, etc.)

obviously i am not a game journalist, and i am sure these are all things that have been said before, but i really like to see how art mimics life ya know?

[wbtylerbooks]

Children’s Book Author Stories – Darryl Silver – Poppi the Okapi

About the Author:

Darryl Silver is a TV Producer/Writer/ Creator. Darryl is the owner of The Idea Factory (www.tiftv.com), a production company. I also own a Brand of Tequila called Calavera Tequila. www.calaveratequila.com

Creative Process:

I have always been a creative person and have had some great success in the past and still do today.

This is actually my first entrance into writing children's books and it has been an adventure to say the least.

In my early career I was blessed to have great mentors. One in particular told me, "write what you know about better than life itself." What this means is write about what you know and it will come out honest and real. I truly believe this.

When my kids were little I used to take them to the zoo almost every weekend. I did this to give my wife a break as she took care of the kids during the weekdays. It was at this time that I became fascinated by the okapi. I was actually more obsessed with the word and I created a rhyming game that my children and I used to play when we would go there. This game continues even today as they are all grown up. I always knew that this would make a great children's book and one day I just had to get it out of my head and down on paper.  

About two years ago I finally decided to sit down and write it. The writing process took me about three months and I got a great response from friends, family and educators that I had shown the work too. Since I am a TV producer/writer, I am represented by an agent. It was at this time that she submitted the manuscript to several children's book publishers. We instantly got a great response. However, during the phone calls that I had with the publishers I found experience to be creatively stifling.

My book is long. It's 48 pages long, and, when publishers looked at the manuscript their notes were, "the book is too long", "the book needs to be half the length", "there are too many words on the page" and "some of the words are too big". Being someone who is in control of my creative work in my other business I did not respond very well to these notes. The nail in the coffin for me was actually when I asked them what they thought about an illustrator and they informed me that that would not be my choice – publishers would assign an illustrator to the project.

I decided that If was going to write I book I wanted it to be how I wanted it and not someone else's vision. This is not to say I did not listen to others when they gave me notes, this just means that if your creative vision is going to be decimated then what is the point in writing the book.

It was at this time but I decided that I would go at it by myself and that I would self-publish via Kickstarter.

But, first things first. I had to find an illustrator. I met with a bunch of illustrators domestically and I wasn't overwhelmed with any of their art. The one person that I did think was just okay wanted $170 a page. To spend $8,000 on art, for a first time book writer, was too big of a risk for me to take.  I had had great experiences with my other businesses working with fiverr.com and thought that maybe I could find somebody somewhere else in the world who might be more reasonably priced.

I put out an audition and found about a dozen artists and sent them one page of the book and all I asked them to do was illustrate the page with their style of artwork. I was blown away by the level of quality that was sent to me and the person I finally settled upon was a woman named Mary who lived in Pakistan. I can tell you that her art was far more superior than anyone I had seen stateside. It was then that I hired her to do the artwork for the book at a fraction of the price.

The way I approached her was we started with a few pages at a time and then as we went along I would pay her for between 5 to 10 pages at a time to ensure that she would actually finish the project as sometimes people on this platform either don't finish the work or disappear. I made sure that she sent me the masters with each group of pages so that I always had all the work in my possession.

Because of my inexperience I had no idea that it would take another year-and-a-half to finish the art, but in retrospect 48 fully Illustrated pages done in a year-and-a-half isn't too bad. I was very lucky that Mary was so great because as we went along there were a lot of changes to the book not only the illustrations but with the words. It is amazing how you realize what works and what doesn't as the process moves along.  Mary was amazing and even though there was a slight language barrier we got the job done.

Once the book was finished (or what I thought was finished), it was time to print a sample of the book. It was at this time that I realized that the formatting that Mary had done was completely wrong. This was not her fault nor my fault but just both of our lack of experience. It was during this time that I started speaking with printers in China. I used www.Alibaba.com and had conversations with over 20 different book printers. I settled upon a couple different printers who gave me amazing help in understanding how to format a book. They were extremely patient with me and we just kept going back and forth via Alibaba and Skype until the actual formatting was done correctly.

I'm very lucky that I have a great friend of mine and somebody has worked for me for years Andrew who knows how use Adobe in such a professional way that he was able to sit with me and we were able to go frame by frame word by word and make changes to the small artwork and formatting issues until the book was actually properly formatted. This was NOT an easy process.

I believe it's important for independent book writers and publishers to figure out the most financially responsible ways to get the job done. We are taking on all the risk to achieve our goals.

I also think it is super important for the writers to understand the process from beginning to end. Each time you hire someone to figure out something for you is one less thing that you understand in this very complex process.

A great resource that I believe every independent writer should join is https://www.ibpa-online.org/. This organization was a godsend in helping me in getting the project done and done correctly.

There are no shortcuts to learning how all this is done it is HARD work.

During this process I wasn't afraid to ask for help. I asked family. I asked friends. I went online and asked strangers for help. You would be shocked at how many people are willing to share their experience and their skills with you.

I am now at the point that I am launching the book. I chose to do it on Kickstarter because I have a great social media network due to my television background. I am relying on lots of friends and associates to help me drive sales of the book. I spent a lot of time looking at how other people were launching their books on Kickstarter and found the most successful ones. I am trying to emulate what they did. But there is no easy shortcut. I know that going forward this is going to take a lot of work and the only person who can do that work is me since I am the best advocate for my own work.

The first thing I did when the formatting was done was print one book via www.bookbaby.com. The reason I did this was that in theory you think you know how the books going to look when it's printed but only once you get a copy in your hand are you able to truly understand the nature of what you've done. I would say at this point my book is about 90% done and when it goes to the final printing we are going to be making the final changes.

I've actually partnered with a charity https://www.okapiconservation.org/ and I have found that they have been super helpful and promoting my book as well as connecting me with lots of people in the Okapi community.  They have even connected me with our local zoo who are also going to help me promote the book. I even had the opportunity to meet an Okapi and many other animals in a VIP behind the scenes tour. During all these events I filmed myself to use in my social media for the launch of the book. The Okapi zookeeper even gave me a stellar book review. The more people on camera and in print who give your book a great review, the better it will be for your launch.

I have also spent a lot of time on social media pre-promoting my book. When you settle on a title it is imperative that you get all your usernames locked down for your social media. Well before you launch the book you should be promoting the book and creating a social media community that you think would be interested in the book. As of today I have not sold one book and my Instagram is over 700 people.  It is crucial to create a buzz for your book well before you launch your Kickstarter pre-launch and your final launch page.

I've also been using my television contacts and there's an opportunity for my book to be featured on a children’s show this summer.

I always tell my kids if you are going to do something you should do it right.

You only have one shot to launch a book the first time and you should put all your effort energy and resources into launching that book.

I also believe that it's very important to have great focus groups. Within days of getting my first copy printed I met with teachers, friends and children of my friends to read them the book. I've had the great opportunity to read it to several kindergartens to see what reaction they had. It is never too late to figure out what you did wrong so you can change things before the final printing. I will always consider this book a work in progress and anytime I can make it better I will.

I'm cautiously optimistic for the launch of my book but you never know what's going to happen. I could sell 100 books or 100,000 books. You never know until you try.

I believe that it is important to pay it forward so if anyone reading this needs help...

Find me:

Here is the Kickstarter page for my book: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darrylsilver/poppi-the-okapi

E-Mail: poppitheokapi@gmail.com Website: www.poppitheokapi.com Instagram: @poppitheokapi Twitter: @poppitheokapi Facebook: www.facebook.com/poppitheokapi

[aion-rsa]

Ted Lasso and Other TV Bosses We’d Walk Over Hot Coals For

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In the heady moments of celebration after England’s victory over Denmark in this year’s Euros semi-final, the sight of team manager Gareth Southgate prompted ITV pundit Gary Neville to comment: “The standard of leaders in this country the past couple of years has been poor. Looking at that man, he’s everything a leader should be: respectful, humble, he tells the truth.” 

The former Man U right-back’s words, directed at the political rulers of a country riven by Brexit, tap into a modern craving for decency. Fed a diet of self-serving narcissism from our public figures, we hunger for more wholesome fare: moral character, humility, honesty, kindness. In the year of horrors that was 2020, that appetite was temporarily sated on TV by fictional football manager Ted Lasso. 

Played in the Apple TV series by Jason Sudeikis (who, in true Ted style, wore a shirt to the Ted Lasso season two launch in support of the three young Black England footballers who received racist abuse after their team’s eventual loss to Italy in the final), Ted’s thoroughgoing decency won everyone over to The Lasso Way. He’s the gold standard of TV bosses – selfless, caring, wise, inspirational, and patiently dedicated to bringing out the best in his players and the team as a whole. He may not always win on the pitch, but he always wins in our hearts. And if those words make you want to heave, then you, friend, may just need a little more Lasso in your life. #Believe.

To celebrate his return, we present Ted’s TV peers, the bosses for whom you’d go any number of extra miles.

Leslie Knope – Parks & Recreation

There is no finer example set in the TV workplace than Leslie Barbara Knope. The Pawnee public servant leads from the front, the sides and the back. She’s the waffle-powered sheepdog of City Hall, yapping co-workers and townsfolk into shape with her relentless work ethic and bottomless optimism. Leslie’s a boss who cares so much that she’s already bought your Christmas gift. And your birthday gift. And made you a special hand-crafted gift to mark the half-year anniversary of the day you first met. She sleeps three hours a night, runs entirely on sugar (or should that be salgar?), has a binder for every eventuality, and always, always has your back. Her rubber-soled energy is so infectious that over seven seasons she even manages to motivate the lazy (Tom), disaffected (April), dumb (Andy), aloof (Donna), hapless (Jerry) and the downright obstructive (Ron). For a gal named ‘nope’, she’s a whole lot of yes. LM

Bertram Cooper – Mad Men

Technically, advertising firm Sterling Cooper on Mad Men has two bosses – Roger Sterling and Bertram Cooper. Coop, however, is the let’s say…more experienced of the two and takes on the role of boss. And what a boss he is! The eccentric office sage played by Robert Morse takes a decidedly hands off approach to managing the workplace. Do whatever you want in this Madison Avenue ad agency, as long as you take your shoes off when you enter Bert’s office. And if you’re nice enough he might show you his collection of erotic octopus art. AB

Jacqueline Carlyle – The Bold Type

The Editor-In-Chief of Scarlet magazine, the women’s title at the heart of ridiculous millennial wish fulfillment vehicle The Bold Type is part mentor, part mother figure, part fairy godmother to the three young women at the centre of the show. Jane is an intern when she first meets Jacqueline, who greets her with “Are you a writer? You look like a writer.” Because, yep, it really is that easy to get a job at a top magazine. The Bold Type is nonsense but it’s very good hearted nonsense which tries in earnest to tackle big issues while maintaining a sunny outlook. Be yourself, be passionate, be bold, the show says, and the world is at your feet. Sent a couple of tweets? Congratulations, have a promotion! Threatened with a lawsuit because of something you wrote? No bother, have a promotion! Fraudulently passed yourself off as a stylist when you’re not, thereby ruining a key relationship? Meh. Promotion for you! Promotions all round! Jacqueline is glamorous and wise, endlessly patient with her proteges and seemingly in possession of a bottomless budget. We all wish we worked for Jacqueline and she’s a wonderful (imaginary) role model. We’re just slightly nervous for any young fans of the show who ever get to work for an actual, real life Editor-In-Chief… RF

Mr. Krabs – SpongeBob SquarePants

Mr. Krabs is a good boss because he’s refreshingly upfront about what matters to him. Simply put: the crab likes money. As long as you’re putting in the hours and keeping the profit margins fat, Mr. Krabs will be your best friend. Sure, he takes advantage of SpongeBob’s naivete from time to time. But deep down, you know the guy has a heart as big as his enormous whale daughter, Pearl. AB

Supt. Ted Hastings – Line of Duty

Think of Ted Hastings, head of Central Police’s Anti-Corruption Unit 12, as Ulysses – a man sailing on dangerous waters but so determined not to be seduced by the sirens’ song that he’s tied himself to the ship’s mast and stopped his ears with wax. Except replace ‘siren’s song’ with ‘bungs from criminal gangs’, and ‘ship’s mast’ and ‘wax’ with ‘sheer force of will, son’. Ted’s a colossus of integrity in a world of backhanders and turning-a-blind-eye. He does the right thing even when it’s the hard thing, and if you’re one of his officers, then you’re his for life. (Unless you’re a corrupt gangster plant, in which case, by Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey, he’ll never live down the shame.) Ted may have more decency in his side-parting than most officers have in their whole bodies, but he still has his flaws. The stock he puts in loyalty makes him inflexible, and his temper’s a thing to be seen, but the key thing about Ted as a leader is that when he makes a mistake, he owns up to it. We should all be so lucky to have a gaffer like him. LM

Ron Donald – Party Down

Starz’s brilliant comedy Party Down premiered around the same time as classic NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. As such, Ken Marino’s perpetually stressed boss character Ron Donald didn’t get nearly as much attention as another boss named Ron: Ron Swanson. Let’s be clear, however, nobody would want Ron Swanson as a boss because that means you’d have to regularly interact with a libertarian. Instead, it’s far better to be in the good graces of Ron Donald. This Ron will support your dreams all the while telling you about his own to own a Souper Crackers franchise. AB

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Lynda Day – Press Gang

Bit of of a niche one – you probably have to be British and in your 40s to even know who this is – but Lynda Day, played by Julia Sawalha deserves a mention as the youngest boss on the list. Editor of the Junior Gazette, the after school newspaper run by pupils at the heart of Steven Moffat’s very first show she’s an erudite journalist, a ruthless news hound and a self possessed young woman who cares more about being right than about being liked. Lynda isn’t particularly soft or warm but she is a boss who would make you a better writer. You’d strive to please Lynda, want to live up to her incredibly high standards and know that the work you were doing on the paper could actually make a difference. Lynda is all about work ethic and integrity. Small of frame, sharp of tongue, you wouldn’t wanna mess with her, but you know she’ll get shit done. RF  

Captain Holt – Brooklyn 99

It says something about a boss when you wouldn’t just walk over hot coals for them, you would also do it for their pet dog. Cheddar the corgi is just one of many reasons to snap your sharpest salute to Captain Raymond “Do Not Call Me Ray Or Use Contractions In My Presence” Holt. Precinct captain of the 99, Holt is a walking yardstick of fine taste, good manners, linguistic clarity and grammatical coherence. Holt values simplicity and despises vulgarity. Do your job and do it right, and you will earn his hard-won respect, perhaps indicated by a very slight incline of the head if he is feeling frivolous. Holt has already earned your respect, for leading an exemplary career as an openly gay NYC cop since 1987, facing down racists, homophobes and the lowest of the low: people who use “What’s up?” as a greeting. Captain Holt’s impossibly high standards are a bar few reach, but to which we can all aspire. LM

Ian Grimm and Poppy Li – Mythic Quest

Mythic Quest creative directors Ian Grimm (Rob McElhenney) and Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao) are messes on their own. But when their personalities combine, they create one great boss unit who keeps things moving and keeps things lively. Granted, I wouldn’t want to work for Ian and Poppy as a programmer or dev on the Mythic Quest team because crunch is real (and I also have no such skills). They would make for a great boss team in just about any other industry though. AB

DCI Cassie Stuart – Unforgotten

Some bosses try to impress their status on employees by turning up the volume, but not DCI Cassie Stuart. Everything she does in ITV police drama Unforgotten, from case meetings to suspect interrogations, she does in the same controlled, low voice. It gives her words an intensity that shouting wouldn’t achieve and makes her cold-case murder team lean in to absorb the significance of what she’s saying. Usually, that’s on the theme of how they owe victims answers and are going to find them. Diligent and dedicated, she trusts her team, especially partner Sunny, and is the kind of boss whose praise really means something. A ‘good work’ from her and you’d be walking on air. LM

Conan O’Brien – Conan

This is technically violating the spirit of this thought exercise because Conan O’Brien is not fictional. What he is, however, is a boss…in both the metaphorical and literal sense of the word. No late night talk show host has ever reveled in being the boss of a staff as much as Conan O’Brien has on his shows like Late Night, The Tonight Show, and Conan. He views his role as boss as an opportunity to troll his employees like a corny father torturing his children with dad jokes. Many of Conan’s behind the scenes workers have become stars in their own right, like producer Jordan Schlansky or assistant Sona Movessian. And it’s all because Conan can’t help but want everyone to be involved and having a good time. Just like any great boss would want. AB

Captain Janeway – Star Trek Voyager

Anyone can be a good boss in a thriving workplace, but it takes a person of strong character to stay empathetic, decisive, and focused when everything goes to hell. In the very first episode of Star Trek: Voyager, Captain Janeway is stranded with her crew on the wrong side of the galaxy, 70,000 light years from home. She is tasked with getting not only her Starfleet crew home, but also the remaining members of the Maquis vessel Voyager was trying to capture when they were both pulled into the unexplored Delta quadrant. She does this all without the institutional support of the Federation, and without the certainty that they will ever make it back. It’s not always pretty, and Janeway makes some questionable decisions along the way, but it’s hard to imagine Voyager making it home without Janeway as their tough-as-nails boss. KB

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Name: Quinn

Zodiac: Virgo

Height: 5′8″

Languages Spoken: English 

Nationality: Canadian

Favorite Fruit: Peach

Favorite Season: Fall (Autumn)

Favorite Scent: Coach Poppy Flower - it’s the only expensive perfume I own and reminds me of my honeymoon

Favorite Color: Teal

Favorite Animal: Crows are pretty neat

Coffee, tea, hot chocolate: Tea, hot chocolate, coffee with lots of creamer

Favorite Fictional Character: I really like Auri from The Kingkiller Chronicles

Dream Trip: I rent out a lavish a-frame cabin. It’s huge, full of light from the large windows. A light snowfall starts outside. There’s a fire going in the fireplace. All of my friends are there, all the ones I haven’t seen in years, the ones that live in different states, the ones I’ve only ever spoken to online. We eat breakfast together and then gather in the living room. We’ve all brought gifts for eachother. 

Blog Created: In 2014, I’m pretty sure.

Morning Person or Night Owl? When I’m working I’m a morning person. Currently, I’m more of a night owl because I don’t have any reason to get up before 10 except to appease my anxiety about “wasting the day”.

Recent Embarrassing Moment: I unbuttoned my pants and did that thing where you pull up all your stomach fat and pinch it, then proceeded to pick lint out of my belly button. My husband saw the whole thing and laughed at me.

If you could see any artist/band, who would it be? Little Dragon with @infinitelines

First and current celebrity crush? Daniel Radcliffe is the first one I can remember. Current? Gwendoline Christie. 

Go-to karaoke song? Little Numbers by Boy

Winter or summer? Winter. I can’t do the whole “sun exposure” thing, my skin is not built for it.

Favorite Ice Cream? Cookie Dough.

Do you drink enough water? Hell NO.

Dog or cat person? Cats but I am allergic to them.

Favorite party member of Stranger Things? Eleven (closely followed by Lucas)

Do you sing in the car and shower? Car, yes, shower no.

Biggest pet peeve? People telling me to do a task that I was literally starting as they asked. 

Favorite Movies: I 

Favorite TV show or movie from your childhood? When I was younger I used to watch Pocahontas obsessively.

Annoying Habit: Interrupting people when they’re talking.

Least favorite celebrity? Adam Sandler.

Favorite Curse Word: Dickweed

Unpopular Opinion: Sucker Punch was a good movie

Favorite Books: Harry Potter, A Slow Regard of Silent Things, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, probably more that I can’t remember.

Introvert or Extrovert: Introvert.

Best Physical Feature: My ass.

Biggest Fear: Violence.

Something you’re good at? Art.

Something you’re looking forward to? March!

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New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: Trolls World Tour

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TROLLS WORLD TOUR— 4 STARS

When it comes to Trolls, the exuberant animated musical hit from 2016, there is a lightness to it anyone can recognize both on the surface and on the inside. In case it’s been a while, ask any early childhood school teacher, especially the ones at home right now missing the hugs of their doting students during e-learning, and they will tell you glitter is virtually weightless and gets everywhere, not unlike the easy-to-replay movie itself. The fuzzy felt texture of Trolls’ predominant homemade scrapbook look isn’t much heavier. The kicker is they were the right materials and textures for the craft project in question.  

Adding more weight from the original movie’s message of finding internal happiness and not changing for others wouldn’t take much. With equal simplicity and symbolism, the felt of this dreamy universe for the sequel Trolls World Tour is upped to include heavy quilts, denim, leather, satin, velour, vinyl, and more. The multiplication of said textiles matches an appreciated boost in weightier themes. What is ready and primed to delight can also move body parts other than your hips and toes.

While the party goes on for Queen Poppy (Anna Kendrick), Branch (Justin Timberlake), and the rest of their popping partners in their forested funhouse, a mighty melodic menace is invading other realms. It is the electric scourge of rock music, an onslaught orchestrated by Queen Barb (Rachel Bloom). She seeks to capture the magical strings of each style of music and stamp out their artful individuality. Barb’s first conquest is the underwater Techno Trolls led by King Trollex (Anthony Ramos), leaving her mascara-ed gaze focused on the Classical, Funk, Country, and Pop strings next.

The naive Queen Poppy learns of this looming threat coming true and seeks to make Queen Barb her friend with a cutesy invitation. Meanwhile, the four-legged Cooper (Ron Funches) ventures to find his true origins amidst the chaos. Just as the pragmatic Branch warns, the combative rock ruler wants no such thing from Poppy, triggering a pursuit that sends the spunky squad visiting new places beyond their borders with saves, rescues, and dance breaks aplenty. 

LESSON #1: GOOD LEADERS AND GOOD FRIENDS, FOR THAT MATTER, LISTEN— From a topical character standpoint, there are many hairy and daft dwarves that hear only what they want to hear. They put too much trust into their own thoughts and interests without considering those same things of others, especially those they mean to care about. Stuff like this is on the nose, for sure, but welcome. 

LESSON #2: HEY KIDS, LEARN YOUR GENRES OF MUSIC— Likely to much parental delight as they share a streaming couch with their tikes, Trolls World Tour spans the whole gamut of musical genres. With clever wit and artistic design choices, the movie rightly pokes fun at each type’s images and fandoms within our collective entertainment consciousness. Rock might be made the “villain,” per se, but no genre is free from little digs at its strengths and weaknesses (like how Pop has ruined everything).

This journey into different musical motifs gave the animation teams full creative opportunity to enlarge worlds with these new tactile tones. The work from Art Director Tim Lamb, Head of Character Look Andy Harbek, and Head of Environments Michael Trull deserves high praise. The results are stupendous with every inch of the frame draped in material detail that would take hours to appreciate every CGI thread. 

Like a good sequel should (even one to animated fluff), Trolls World Tour elevates stakes with its ambitious amusement to become an even bigger compilation tape than it already was. The talent, led by returning star and musical producer Justin Timberlake, is boosted further by the addition of genius Black Panther Oscar winner Ludwig Göransson as an additional producer and Rachel Bloom performing her own rock leads. Collaborations with Anna Kendrick, Anderson Paak, Icona Pop, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Dierks Bentley, and others power a musical energy that is boundless. That is precisely the blast audiences were hoping for. 

The truest surprise of Trolls World Tour circles back to that notion of weight. Underneath all of the new fabric surfaces is a mass of glowing and beating hearts which, as we all should realize, is where all music starts in every literal and figurative fashion. The script, begun by the returning Trolls duo of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger and freshened by the TV talent Elizabeth Tippet (Life in Pieces) and the A Dog’s Purpose/A Dog’s Journey team of Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky, is filled with cultural metaphors and excellent message of positivity and inclusion. The examples are as stout as they are sunny.  

LESSON #3: “DENYING OUR DIFFERENCES IS DENYING THE TRUTH”— Look no further than this delivered line. Differences do matter. We all can’t and don’t look and/or sound the same. Music is the storytelling vessel in Trolls World Tour, but people are the true target. All music should be saved, just as all people should as well. Who knew a Trolls movie would go there?

LESSON #4: THE DEFINITIONS OF “HARMONY”— The big word the newly home-schooling parents and guardians can pull out of this movie and write on their imaginary blackboards is “harmony.” Real harmony takes different voices. Whether you take its musical definition of “a pleasant combination of different notes of music played at the same time” or its societal connotation of “living together peacefully rather than fighting or arguing,” Trolls World Tour screams and sings for calming and celebratory unity. Make that happen and put a pinky promise on that shhhh…ugar.

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NOTE: Despite the fact Ocean Waves was originally released on Nippon TV, it debuted as a theatrical film in the United States in 2016. As per the rules I set out for this blog, it will be treated as a theatrical film.

Ocean Waves (1993, Japan)

The operations of Studio Ghibli are unusual for your typical Japanese anime studio. In an industry where employee burnout and turnover is high, Ghibli’s founders have always wanted to retain their young, promising talents. Their results have been mixed, but are markedly better than any other studio working in anime features. Before the temporary shuttering of the feature animation department, the first major occurrence of significant staff changes was when Sunao Katabuchi (2001′s Princess Arete, 2016′s In This Corner of the World) was demoted to assistant director on Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989).

Based on Saeko Himuro’s novel of the same name, Ocean Waves – also known as I Can Hear the Sea (a direct translation from the Japanese title) – was an attempt from Ghibli executives for their younger animators and staffers to display their creative prowess after Katabuchi’s unceremonious reassignment. Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki, a journeyman storyboard artist/director who had never worked for Ghibli before (or since) and whose directing experiences are more television- than cinema-based, this is a work for Studio Ghibli completionists only. The inexperienced animators and staffers should be proud of what they accomplished, even if that means it is one of the weakest films in the Ghibli canon.

Taku Morisaki is at a train station in Tokyo when he thinks he recognizes the woman on the opposite side of the platform. Ocean Waves then flashes back to two years earlier to his high school days in somewhat-rural Kôchi (on the island of Shikoku and the capital of Kôchi prefecture). We learn that the woman on the other side of the platform was Rikaku Muto, a transfer student from Tokyo who he met through his best friend, Yutaka Matsuno. All three of them are in the same year. Ocean Waves is more episodic than your average Ghibli movie, and we see sequences of a school trip to Hawai’i – damn, what kind of high school can afford such a trip? – where Taku lends Rikaku some money which, for events that will probably leave you in disbelief, he will never get back. But using Taku’s money without paying back might not even be the most frustrating thing that Rikaku does to Taku. Amid of all this high school drama that trailblazes new territory for said drama, there is a love triangle between Taku, Rikaku, and Yutaku. Calling Ocean Waves a messy melodrama is being modest.

Studio Ghibli co-founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata maintained a hands-on, teacher-student relationship with the junior staffers at Studio Ghibli – these staffers would become the storyboard artists, colorists, art directors, screenwriters, producers and directors of future anime features within and outside the studio. Considering the contemporary setting of Ocean Waves, those who worked on this film were most influenced by Takahata’s Only Yesterday (1991). Indeed, Only Yesterday’s influence can be seen from Ocean Waves’ flashback structure (not as intricate as the earlier film) and its utilization of partially washed-out backgrounds to suggest the passage of time and the imperfections of adult memories (both films share Katsuya Kondô as their animation director). Regarding the backgrounds in Ocean Waves, the white-washing is not as emphatic as the flashbacks in Only Yesterday. But compared to Only Yesterday, Ocean Waves’ flashbacks are not reaching as far back in the past; thus, the whiteness of the backgrounds in the later film are less impressionistic, emotional than in Takahata’s.

But just because the young staffers successfully studied Only Yesterday’s artistry does not mean that the decision to whiten the backgrounds exactly helps the film – especially when paired with a screenplay written by Keiko Niwa (credited as “Kaori Nakamura”; Niwa provided screenplays for 2010′s  Arrietty, 2011′s From Up on Poppy Hill, and 2014′s When Marnie Was There) that has severe pacing problems and has problems connecting the audience with the characters. Only Yesterday’s screenplay connected a young adult named Taeko to her elementary school self, that some of the strands of Taeko’s childhood are reflected in how she carries herself every day – empowering the animation style I have described. When Ocean Waves breaks from the flashback in its final minutes, it is too difficult to trace how present-day Taku has changed from a few years earlier and what about him has stayed the same. As a result, the formula replicated in Ocean Waves that was used in Only Yesterday – though superficially mimicked in Ocean Waves – never connects to the potential storytelling and thematic elements that it should.

If Taku’s character development makes little sense by the conclusion, his best friend Yutaka almost becomes an afterthought past the halfway mark, and Rikako is always erratic, oftentimes infuriating. Where Taku almost becomes a protagonist-as-witness, Rikako is the one pushing the story along to areas that audiences might not be comfortable with. She is combative, deceptive, selfish. Her parents have just divorced, but that might not be why she acts the way she acts (Ocean Waves gives passing suggestions, but they never develop into anything meaningful) What surprised me the most while watching Ocean Waves for the first time is that I could partially understand how Taku and Yutaka could still harbor feelings for Rikako despite her verbal and, in one scene, physical derision. The boys’ behavior reminded me of my middle school self – complete with my youthful, albeit hopeless optimism that someone who I liked but held me in silent contempt might change and return my feelings. But Taku and Yutaka’s feelings for Rikako exist on a more dramatic, romanticized basis which feels undeserved and inexplicable by the time the credits roll.

Ocean Waves asks the viewer the relive the awkwardness and irrationality of one’s teenage years. With the narrative’s incomplete, sometimes nonsensical character developments, there just seems too little of interest in our three main characters to care too much. Rikako’s behavior just becomes too exploitative and inconsistent to understand – perhaps it would make more sense if Ocean Waves was told through her best friend Yumi, another classmate who doesn’t have a crush on her, or Rikako herself. Through the frames of Taku and Yutaka, there is some objectification of Rikako that prevents all three of them from being likable.

Composer Shigeru Nagata’s score is simplistic, almost inappropriately comical at times. With a limited budget, restricted instrumentation, and a languorous end theme, there is nothing here, musically, to challenge Joe Hisaishi’s lesser compositions.

Mochizuki’s film, intended to cost a pittance and be completed rapidly, instead resulted in a ballooning budget and production overruns. It is not a great movie, but it is a laboratory of experimentation for the younger Ghibli staffers and should be valued as such. Ocean Waves was released last December in North American limited release, and received middling reviews. The film’s Japanese reception is something of a mystery as I am writing this, as I have not been able to find any free, English-language sources confirming how Japanese audiences might have reacted to Ocean Waves and whether that has changed over time.

Some of the most humanistic films ever made have emerged from Japan; some from Studio Ghibli itself. Those films have helped viewers – young and old, Japanese and otherwise – realize repressed anxieties, remind us of the small triumphs that exist during times of suffering, and show us characters with the dignity and grace to attempt an understanding of others. Ocean Waves is itself part of that tradition, but as a sort of training ground film with just too many screenwriting snags, its impact is dulled. 

My rating: 6/10

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Through his forty-yr treatmenter as a backyard garden author and photographer, Derek Fell has developed numerous garden places, a lot of involving his spouse Carolyn. The very best instance of their operate can be considered at their house, historical Cedaridge Farm, in Dollars County, Pennsylvania. There, they’ve designed a lot more than 20 topic locations, introducing shade gardens, sunny perennial borders, tapestry gardens involving trees and shrubs, a cottage garden, herb garden, reducing garden and an formidable drinking water garden.

Derek labored as a expert on garden design to the White House throughout the Gerald Ford Management. Derek designed Ford’s ‘Get’ garden, adhere toing his ‘Win Speech’, advising the nation ten techniques to struggle inflation.

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Derek has authored more than 60 books and garden calendars, including 550 Property Landscaping Thoughts (Simon & Schuster), The Encyclopedia of Garden Style (Firefly Guides), The Entire Garden Getting ready Guidebook (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).

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Drinking water Garden. Water is the tunes of character. It can be tricked over stones, cascaded from a great top so its crashes on to rocks. It can drop in a sound sheet or as silver threads. A beautiful water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones can be discovered in sunshine or shade. The water garden revealed here’s located at Cedaridge Farm. It incorporates a pool for dipping, and it attributes both a collection of koi and hardy water lilies. A well-known water garden design features a koi pool fed by a sequence of waterfalls, and the water re-circulated by means of filters to sustain the water distinct.

Sunny Perennial Border. This can be official or casual, sq.}, rectangular, spherical and kidney fashioned, in the form of an island mattress or sponsored in opposition to a attractive hedge, wall or fence. Crops can be decided on to produce a parade of coloration through all the years, or targeted for a specific season. Shade themes can be polychromatic like a rainbow, monochromatic (for example all white – ideal for a marriage ceremony), or it can feature an Impressionist color stability, this sort of as yellow and purple; orange and blue; red, pink and silver; blue, pink and white; even black and white or black and orange (one of Monet’s favorites). A popular perennial garden design is 2 parallel border with a grass course creating a focal point such as a sculpture or gazebo.

Tropical Garden. You do not need to reside in a frost-free area to have a beautiful tropical garden. At Cedaridge Farm we’ve two – one is a tribute to the design philosophy of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who designed spectacular tropical gardens all around Rio. It really is in a frivolously shaded area and features crops that are hardy (like ‘Quantity & Compound’ hosta) but look tropical and tender plants that are tender (like banana trees and tree ferns) that possibly need relocating indoors during wintertime or can be discarded like annuals at the end of the season. Our minute tropical space is a patio with tropical plants developed in packing containers.

Shade Gardens. We design two sorts of shade gardens – one the place the plants provide primarily foliage focus (like ferns, hostas, heuchera and hakone grass), and plants that flower well (like impatiens, coleus, and lilies), or a blend of the two.

Woodland Garden. Whether or not you’ve got current woodland or you need to create a woodland from scratch, the result can be sensational. Decide whether you want deciduous trees that provide fall color or evergreens that remain green all winter, or a mixture. At Cedaridge we manufactured a ‘cathedral’ garden where the existing trees are trimmed higher so the trunks look like the columns of a cathedral, and the branches arch out to fulfill overhead like the vaulted ceiling of a cathedral. Right here, we provide two more levels of interest, at floor stage and the underneath-tale.

Vegetable Garden. We can design you an basic-care garden of elevated beds where veggies are planted in blocks or an edible landscape where edibles are grown for ornamental result. We can provide the plan for a garden that was acknowledged for the White house during the Ford Administration where Derek Fell worked as a garden consultant. Derek Fell’s book, “Veggies – How to Pick, Increase & Adore”, won a best book award from the Garden Writers Affiliation.

Herb Garden. The herb garden at Cedaridge Farm is a ‘quadrant design’, feature in numerous calendars and books, including Derek Fell’s ‘Herb Gardening for Novices.’ We can also provide a cartwheel design or a parterre herb garden for bountiful harvests of refreshing herbs. The Herb Garden can also do double-responsibility as a vegetable garden.

Slicing Garden. The cutting garden at Cedaridge Farm features bulbs such as tulips and daffodils for spring, and ever-blooming annuals to follow the bulbs so armloads of bouquets can be harvested from April through Oct.

Victorian Garden. A garden with passionate overtones! Picture a white gazebo framed by mostly white flowers for a wedding in the loved ones. Or select from in between several color harmonies, such as yellow and blue, red, pink and silver, or blue, pink and white.

Cottage Garden. You are going to not need a cottage to have a cottage garden. Nevertheless if you do, such as a visitor cottage, why not wrap it in shrub roses and climbers, additionally individuals delicious English cottage garden plants like poppies, sunflowers and pinks. We also like to include plants to draw butterflies and hummingbirds.

Flow Garden. Fortunate you if you have an existing circulation to be landscaped. At Cedaridge Farm we have a stream, but after we moved here it was overgrown with poison ivy and brambles. These days it truly is criss-crossed with bridges, and beds of dampure-loving plants like astilbe and water iris. If you don’t have a stream, but needs one, we can create a design where the water is re-circulated alongside one that is man-made but seems organic.

Orchard. You don’t need a good deal of space for a successful orchard. By making the right alternatives, fruit trees can be grown in containers or espaliered against fences and partitions to help save space. Peaches and apples can be educated over arbors. Simply a handful of plants of small end result like strawberries and raspberries can be extremely productive.

Bog Garden. Optimum for soils that tend to remain moist all season, bathroom gardens can be extremely colourful and highly creative, incorporating stepping stones and bridges to cross soaked areas, and developing some of nature’s most different plant family members, such as water iris, Eastern primroses, astilbe and waterlilies.

Japanese Garden. The dilemma with many Japanese gardens is a inclination to use pseudo-Japanese ingredients such as Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has two times traveled to Japan, has prepared award-profitable content about Japanese garden design, and has the confront to design unique-seeking spaces in the Japanese custom making use of elements of Zen or Feng Shui, or a combination of the two disciplines to create a magical space.

Italian Garden. Though Italian gardens can be highly ostentatious, necessitating steep slopes to acquire the best effect, like the Villa d’Este, shut Rome, small spaces can achieve the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell hasn’t entirely frequented some of the best Italian Gardens, such as La Mortola on the Italian coastline, and Boboli overlooking Florence, he has toured and photographed the Vatican Gardens.

French Official Garden. The elaborate flavor of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, might be outside of your signifies, but elements of French garden design, such as a parterre garden, can be included in small spaces.

Monet’s Garden. This beautiful artist’s garden north of Paris includes more than one hundred particular planting tips to create what Monet regarded as his greatest work of art. In addition, his planting ideas have absolutely impressed more new garden design than any other garden. Monet’s arched bridge, his waterlily pond, his arches leading to the front of his house, and his color harmonies are simply some illustrations of Monet’s innovation that men and women these days like to emulate.

Tapestry Garden (Trees & Shrubs). The great French Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne’s garden, in Provence, is made up mostly of trees and shrubs, not only as a labor preserving machine, but to provide a tapestry of color from leaf colours, leaf texture and leaf designs. What could be more eye-catching than to look out of a window of your home at a prosperous foliage panorama, including all shades of green from light green to dim-green, plus blue, silver, gold, bronze?

Hillside Garden. Even dry hillsides makes beautiful rock gardens, with paths twisting and turning in a zig-zag to create a visible experience from the prime of the slope to the base. They can be terraced and threaded with streams to create waterfalls and planted with some of nature’s most beautiful plant varieties. Bridges, benches and belvedere are some of the structural elements that can contribute interest to a hillside.

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Surveything

Have you ever talked to someone online, but when you saw each other in person, it was just super awkward? Have you ever made a really good friend online? Once or twice.... But, most of my friends are people I knew first online, and frankly they’re better friends than almost any of the ones I had before.   Do you enter sweepstakes or scratch lottery tickets or anything like that? What’s the best thing you’ve ever won? Nah.

Right now, would you be upset if you got pregnant, or would you not mind? Have you ever had a pregnancy scare? I’d be incredibly upset.  Then I’d promptly find out where the closest abortionist was and get rid of the reason for being upset.  I have had exactly one scare, and that is a crazy story I do not share lightly.

Have you ever let someone be your everything? Many, many years ago, I was that stupid.  Thank heaven I believe in learning from my mistakes.

Do you have any weird inside jokes? Some.  Mostly between me and my sister.

Could you go the rest of your life without a cigarette? Easily.  I’m allergic to cigarette smoke.

Is there anybody you’re really disappointed in right now? Yes.

Do you have alcohol in your house? A fair bit.  I’m out of port, though.  I should fix that.  And I haven’t bought any absinthe in a long while.  I should really fix that.

Have you ever wanted something you couldn’t have? Who the hell hasn’t?

Are you a morning or night person? Night, all my life.

What is your favorite color? Purple, though I’m generally pretty happy with anything dark and rich and jewel tone-ish.

It’s 4 in the morning, your phone rings, who is it? Likely no one I know.  (Otherwise, they’d know to text me instead.)

Have you ever had a really big fight with a best friend? Yes.

Has someone ever called you at midnight on your birthday? Not that I can remember.  I have been texted, though.

Are any of your friends virgins? One or two.

Has anyone got on your nerves today? I happened to meet a girl at this dinner thing, who could have if I’d let her.  

Has anyone told you they would never leave, and left? Not that I can recall.

Do you have a member of the opposite sex you can tell everything to? I’m not sure there’s anyone at all that I can tell everything to.

Did you kiss or hug anyone in the last 48 hours? No.

Are you usually early or late? I’m more likely to be early.

What’s annoying you? Nothing, at the moment.  I’m feeling pretty chill.

Do you have anything to pay off? Just got a doctor’s bill from when I got so sick, after Ireland.  That’ll be taken care of soon enough, though.

What are you wearing right now? My work uniform.

Do you know anyone that wants you dead? I’ve never had that impression, but there are a couple people I’d like to see drawn and quartered, as a matter of fact.

Do you believe that regrets are lessons learned? Often, yes.

First color name you can think of that isn’t in the rainbow. aubergine.

What timekeeping devices are in the room you are currently in? My laptop, my phone, my kindle, three work computers , and the clock on the wall.

What gaming consoles do you or your family own? I have a PS2.  Sky has... a bunch. I don’t know which ones.  Probably all of them.

What’s the best job you’ve ever had? The one I have now.

What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? I spent a few months being a telemarketer, some years ago.  

What email service do you use? Yahoo.

Is there anything hanging on the walls of the room you are currently in? Just motivational, informational work stuff.  My favorite is on the wall in font of me, just now.  It’s this poster with a bunch of guidelines for good guest service, with a pretty, smiling Asian girl off to the side sort of presenting the info, named Janet.  (So it says on her name tag.)  I have come to depend on Janet.  She’s a good egg, Janet is.  

(Working third shift makes you weird... er.)

Earliest moment in your life you can remember? Sitting on the floor in the apartment at Lincoln Village.  I was drinking coke from a glass bottle, and my dad was moving the new couch into the living room.  When I remarked on this memory, my Mom said I wasn’t quite 3, at the time.

What did you have for dinner yesterday? Salmon with a honey herb glaze I kinda made up on the fly, and couscous. How often do you brush your teeth? Twice a day.

What’s your favorite candy/chocolate? Turkish delight.  Or those fancy chocolates they sell at this one lunch place I know.

Have you had other blogs on Tumblr? Do you have any other blogs currently? I have a side blog for witchy things, and one I’ll mess about RP-wise with from time to time, one for writing.  There’s another I made on a low day, not long ago, I’ve been considering abandoning this blog in favor of,just to have a fresh start, but I’ve not been inclined to commit to that decision, yet.

If you were suddenly really hungry, what would you choose to eat? I’d probably make a sandwich or toast a bagel.

What fandoms would you consider yourself a part of? So, to be a “part” of fandom, do you have to hobnob with other fans?  Or can you just really like the Thing in question?  If it’s 1, I suppose Phantom of the Opera, Doctor Who, Marvel, and Star Wars.  If 2... Jeeze, too many to count.

What kind of position are you in at the moment? Sitting.

Do you wear much jewelry? Sometimes, though I don’t go piling it on.  

Furthest away from home you have ever been? Germany, I think.

How many times have you moved houses? Right around a dozen, if you count all the times my mom moved.  But I was one of those shared custody kids, so there was all this motion on one side, and stability (at least locationally speaking) on the other.

Who was the last person you had a conversation with on the phone? A woman from India calling about rooms.

Have you ever had a best friend who was of the opposite sex? Sure.

Has anyone said they love you in the last week? Sure.

Who was the last person to comfort you as you cried? Jade, I think?  It was back when my cat died.

Which friend are you most similar to? Probably Callie.  It can be scary when we get on the same wavelength X-D

Your ex calls wanting to hang out. What do you say? *click* Would you get back with your last ex if they asked you? See the above.

Have you kissed anyone whose name starts with a M? Yeah.

Would you kiss the last person who texted you, on the lips? No. X-D  

Camping with a ton of friends or hotel with a few friends? Hotel with a few. 

Have you ever kissed anyone who’s name starts with P, J, R, M, C, or D? I... don’t... think I’ve kissed anyone starting with D, but the rest, over the years, yes.

Do you think your ex will ever want to be with you again? I neither know, nor care.

Where would you rather live: England or Australia? England, probably.  I’m not a fan of extreme heat.

What’s your relationship with the last person you texted? My sister.  

When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought? Oh, look, there’s me.  

Do you fall for people easily? Not remotely.

Do you ever wonder what your ex is up to? Not really, no.  I don’t make a habit of looking back.

Have you ever kissed someone who was drunk? Not seriously drunk, I don’t think.  Tipsy, though... probably at some point or another.

The nearest window to you now - what color curtains are on them? None, just pull-down blinds.

The shade of the color of your eyes can be described as: I dunno, man, they’re blue.  

When was the last time you drank alcohol? This evening I had a glass of champagne with dinner. 

At what age did you stop believing in Santa? I don’t think I ever really did.  I was under the impression I was supposed to, though, so I pretended to, so as not to disappoint the grownups.  I did things like that a lot, as a kid, actually.  Pretended to be what they expected. (Sometimes just to get by with the minimum amount of fuss, or out of spite, depending on the situation.  I tended to feel like, if they actually wanted to know what I was like they’d quit making assumptions and just... y’know... talk to me, instead of at me or about me.)

Do you own a wok? No.

Is there a particular type of music you really don’t like? I’m less than fond of most Country music,  and I’m not really into a lot of rap.  There are examples of both that I like, but mostly... enh.

Do you like going to weddings? Depends on the wedding.

What do you have on your toast? Lately, I usually use it to make sandwiches.  I keep thinking I should try this avocado toast thing the younger folk like so much, though.  It sounds pretty good.

Who was the last person you know who became pregnant? A work-friend who had to move away because of a complicated situation her husband left her in.

Beach, city, or mountains? Yes.

Do you have a stapler at your house? Nope.

Would you rather read a book or listen to an audiobook? Read, definitely.  

Which is larger - your book or dvd collection? At the moment, DVD, but that will slowly change now that I have room for my book collection to properly grow again.

What is the last spontaneous thing you did? Randomly decided to drive over to this cute little artsy, touristy town to look for a centerpiece for a necklace I was making and have a nice dinner, last week.

What is your middle name? Elizabeth.

What are you passionate about? Art, culture, books, learning, seeing the current regime go down in flames.

Do you have any fears? Who doesn’t?

What’s your sign? Pisces sun, Aquarius moon, Taurus rising.

Future names of your children: N/A

What are you listening to right now? Just the keyboard.

Do you believe in fate/destiny? Somewhat, but not to the extent that we don’t have free will.  We choose how we react to things, and that can create change despite whatever else is going on.

What are your career goals? World traveling writer, and ambassador to Faerie.

Have you ever had a near-death experience? Not as such.

Are you a procrastinator or do you get things done early? Little bit of both.

TV shows and anime you watch regularly. Pretty much everything I watch, I either marathon outright, or just watch off and on.

Halloween costume idea for this year? A scary fairy queen.

How much does your mother know about your sex life (or lack thereof)? Nothing, really.  She knows I’m bi, and that’s about it.

Do you enjoy watching cooking shows? Yeah, they’re okay.

Do you worry about gaining weight? Possibly just a bit.  I am working toward losing, just now.

Have you ever used fake tan? Fuck no.

Do you ever look at someone cute, and automatically make a move? No.  Cute isn’t enough.

How many times have you been to Walmart in the past week? Once.

Do you live in a house, apartment, or another type of arrangement? A house.

Are you kind of a loner? Do you like being alone? Gee, if I weren’t it’d make all those quotes I post about solitude and being an introvert kinda awkward...

Are any of your siblings married?  My stepsister is married to a guy who I apparently went to high school with.  He is continually offended that I don’t particularly remember him.  I think it hurt his pride.

Does your father have any creepy or scary friends you don’t like? Yeah, one.  His oldest friend is kinda sleazy.

What color are the walls in the room you’re in right now? Sort of parchment-y

Do you watch any shows that you know your parents wouldn’t approve of? I doubt it. It really wouldn’t matter, if they did.

Do you have any siblings who still believe in Santa, and are over age ten?Nah.

Something you really want right now? An omelette sounds nice...

If you could seek revenge on someone, would you? One or two, yes, indubitably.

Are you happy with the way things are going? Fairly.

Would you ever get a tattoo? Yes, I’d like to, actually.

Do you think you will be in a relationship 3 months from now? I rather doubt it.

What plans do you have for tomorrow? Visiting my grandfather at the old folks home.  Beyond that, I dunno.

What happened at 9:00 a.m. today? I was asleep.

Do you tend to waste a lot of money? I try not to, but I’ve slipped a couple times, this paycheck.

What did you last drink? Water.

Do you have trust issues? Yup.

Do you think this year will be better than the last? So far, it has been.

Are you a jealous person? No.  Jealousy’s fun to spice up a story, but irl, I detest it.

Do you think age matters in relationships? Sometimes, but not always.

Where will you be 2 hours from now? Still at work.

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Ep44: Wicked + The Big Lebowski

Load up your t-shirt canon and get your bowling balls ready, because this episode is coming at you like a flying monkey drunk on white russians. This week, we’re mashing up the Broadway smash hit Wicked with the Coens cult classic The Big Lebowski. Check us out on iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for a conversation about unicorns cakes and salads, letting your heart jump out of your mouth, and the true loneliness of Real Life Sam Elliott. This one is also essential listening for you Eagle People out there; they can’t keep you down, because you can fly.

Where to find this week’s pop culture (as of show date):

Wicked is playing on Broadway, and touring around America. You can also buy the Original Cast Recording from iTunes.

The Big Lebowski is streaming via Cinemax at the moment, and can be purchased on BluRay (or borrowed from your local library!)

Readers’ advisory, aka other stuff we like that we think you’ll like, too:

Les Miserables

Phantom of the Opera

The Wiz

Rent

Into the Woods

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Grendel 

Let the Right One In

Wreck-It Ralph

Chinatown

The Big Sleep

North by Northwest

City of Angels

Brick

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Burn After Reading

Hail, Casear

O Brother, Where Art Thou

 Barton Fink

The Big Lebowski (Network TV edit)

Thoughts on the song titles for our musical mash-em-up? Got no snakes left to give? Ideas for future crossovers? Just want to say hi? Email us at crossoverappealpodcast@gmail.com, get lost in the poppy field of our Facebook page, and tweet us your favorite quotes from both properties, even though it’ll just be, like, your opinion, man. Ratings and reviews are our favorite, and make us happier than John Goodman dancing with Kristin Chenoweth.

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Creating Ambiance With Gardens

Throughout the 40 year career of his as being a gardening writer as well as photographer, Derek Fell has created many backyard areas, several involving the wife Carolyn of his. The very best example of the job of theirs can be viewed at the house of theirs, historic Cedaridge Farm, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Generally there, they've created over 20 theme parts, which includes color home gardens, sunny perennial borders, tapestry gardens affecting bushes and trees, a cottage garden, herb garden, cutting back garden as well as an ambitious water backyard garden.

Derek functioned as a specialist on garden layout on the White House while in the Gerald Ford Administration. Derek created Ford's' Win' back garden, following his' Win Speech', advising the country 10 ways to battle inflation.

Numerous backyard models by Derek Fell were applied without examining the website. The fantastic late architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed gorgeous homes for the customers of his, completely from pictures without the demand for a website inspection.

Fell's gardening areas are showcased in the paper, magazines, publications and on tv, which includes Architectural Digest, Gardens Illustrated, The Garden (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society), HGTV, Country Gardens, PBS and QVC.

Derek has written over 60 publications as well as yard calendars, including 550 Home Landscaping Ideas (Schuster and Simon), The Encyclopedia of Garden Design (Firefly Books), The entire Garden Planning Manual (Friedman), Garden Accents (Henry Holt) and Home Landscaping (Simon & Schuster).

Curb appeal and ambiance are essential to jazz up the propoerty of yours or ready it for sale. Be at liberty to question Derek any garden associated questions no matter just how small or big.

Several GARDEN TYPES

Drinking water Garden. Drinking water will be the music of nature. It may be duped over stones, cascaded from an excellent level so the crashes of its onto rocks. It is able to fall in a good sheet or as bronze threads. A lovely water garden with waterfalls and stepping stones may be placed in shade or even sunshine. The water back garden shown here's located at Cedaridge Farm. It provides a swimming pool for dipping, plus it offers both a set of hardy water lilies and koi. A preferred water garden layout comes with a koi pool given by a number of waterfalls, and warm water re circulated via filters to always keep the water clear.

Sunny Perennial Border. This may be informal or formal, square, rectangular, round as well as kidney shaped, in the type of an island foundation or even backed against an ornamental hedge, fence or wall. Plant life will be selected to develop a parade of color through all of the seasons, and concentrated for a specific time period. Style themes is able to be polychromatic such as a rainbow, monochromatic (for instance almost all white - ideal for a wedding), or maybe it could offer an Impressionist color harmony, like purple and yellow; yellow and pink; white, orange and silver; blue, white and pink; actually black & gray or even orange and black (one of Monet's favorites). A favorite perennial garden style is 2 parallel border and have a grass path triggering a center point like a sculpture or even gazebo.

Exotic Garden. You don't have to live in a frost free area to have a lovely tropical garden. With Cedaridge Farm we've 2 - you are a tribute to the design philosophy of the late Roberto Burle Marx, who created remarkable exotic backyards close to Rio. It's in a gently shaded area and also has plant life which are hardy (like' Sum & Substance' hosta) but look tender and tropical plant life which are tender (like banana trees as well as tree ferns) that possibly need going inside in the winter and may be dumped like annuals in the conclusion of the time period. The second tropical space of ours is a deck with tropical plants cultivated in pots.

Shade Gardens. We model 2 types of color gardens - one in which the vegetation give mainly foliage interest (like ferns, hostas, heuchera and hakone grass), and plants which flower adequately (like impatiens, coleus, along with lilies), or maybe a mix of the 2.

Woodland Garden. Regardless of whether you've pre-existing woodland or maybe you have to make a woodland from scratch, the end result could be sensational. Determine whether you desire deciduous trees which offer autumn color or maybe evergreens that remain green all winter, or perhaps a combination. With Cedaridge we made a' cathedral' back garden where existing forests are clipped large and so the trunks look as the columns of a cathedral, moreover the limbs arch out to meet overhead love the vaulted ceiling of a cathedral. Below, we provide 2 additional levels of interest, at ground level as well as the under story.

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Veggie Garden. We are able to fashion you an easy care garden of raised beds whereby veggies are planted in blocks or maybe an edible landscape whereby edibles are raised for ornamental outcome. We are able to supply the for a vegetable garden which was authorized for the White house throughout the Ford Administration wherein Derek Fell worked as a gardening consultant. Derek Fell's book, "Vegetables - How you can Select, Grow & Enjoy", received a very best book award from the Garden Writers Association.

Herb Garden. The herb garden at Cedaridge Farm is a' quadrant design', characteristic in several publications & calendars, like Derek Fell's' Herb Gardening for Beginners.' We are able to additionally supply a cartwheel style or maybe a parterre herb garden for bountiful harvests of herbs that are fresh. The Herb Garden can additionally do double-duty as a veggie garden.

Cutting Garden. The cutting back garden at Cedaridge Farm has bulbs like daffodils and tulips for springtime, and then ever blooming annuals to stay within the bulbs so armloads of blossoms will be harvested from April through October.

Victorian Garden. A backyard garden with romantic overtones! Picture a white-colored gazebo framed by mainly white blossoms for a wedding party in the household. Or even choose from among a few color harmonies, like blue and yellow, red, orange and silver, or pink, white and pink.

Cottage Garden. You do not require a cottage to get a cottage garden. But in case you are doing, like a guest cottage, why don't you cover it in shrub roses as well as climbers, and all those charming English cottage garden plants as poppies, pinks and sunflowers. We also love to include plant life to attract hummingbirds and butterflies.

Stream Garden. Lucky you in case you've a current stream being landscaped. With Cedaridge Farm we've a stream, but when we relocated below it had been overgrown with brambles as well as poison ivy. Today it's criss crossed with bridges, along with beds of moisture loving plants as astilbe as well as water iris. When you do not possess a stream, but would like one, we are able to develop a style in which the water is re circulated along a camera that is man made but appears normal.

Orchard. You do not require a great deal of space for a prosperous orchard. By making the proper choices, fruit trees could be cultivated in containers or even espaliered against walls as well as fences to avoid wasting space. Apples as well as peaches may be trained over arbors. Only a couple of plants of little fruits like raspberries and strawberries might be extremely productive.

Bog Garden. Ideal for soils which often stay hydrated virtually all season, bog gardens can be very colorful & very innovative, incorporating stepping stones as well as bridges to cross damp areas, plus growing several of nature's most diverse place families, like water iris, Japanese primroses, waterlilies and astilbe.

Japanese Garden. The problem with most Japanese gardens is an inclination to make use of pseudo-Japanese elements like Chinese dragons. Derek Fell has two times traveled to Japan, has authored award winning posts about Japanese garden design, and also has got the experience to develop authentic-looking areas in the Japanese tradition with components of Zen or maybe Feng Shui, or maybe a mix of the 2 disciplines to produce a sensational room.

Italian Garden. Even though Italian gardens are able to be extremely ostentatious, needing steep slopes to get the greatest impact, such as the Villa d'Este, near Rome, small spaces can easily get the aura of an Italian garden. Derek Fell hasn't merely gone to several of probably the finest Italian Gardens, like La Mortola on the Italian coast, along with Boboli disregarding Florence, he's toured and also photographed the Vatican Gardens.

French Formal Garden. The intricate design of Versailles Palace and Vaux le Vicompte, might be beyond the means of yours, though components of French garden design, like a parterre garden, could be integrated in areas that are tiny .

Monet's Garden. This gorgeous artist's backyard north of Paris has much more than a 100 exclusive planting suggestions to generate what Monet considered the best work of his of art. Additionally, the planting ideas of his have undoubtedly inspired more brand new garden design than every other garden. Monet's arched bridge, the waterlily pond of his, the arches of his resulting in the entry of the home of his, and the style harmonies of his are simply a number of instances of Monet's feature that individuals nowadays love to emulate.

Tapestry Garden (Shrubs and trees). The fantastic French Impressionist artist, Paul Cezanne's back garden, in Provence, is composed largely of bushes and trees, not simply as a labor saving device, but in order to make a tapestry of color from leaf colors, leaf feel as well as leaf shapes. What could be far more attractive than to look from a window of the home of yours in a wealthy foliage panorama, which includes many shades of natural from light green to dark green, gold, silver, plus blue, bronze?

Hillside Garden. Often dried up hillsides are able to create gorgeous rock gardens, with paths flipping just twisting in a zig-zag to make a visible adventure from the roof of the incline on the bottom. They may be terraced as well as threaded with streams to produce waterfalls and planted with several of nature's best plant forms. Bridges, benches & belvedere are several of the structural components which could add interest to some hillside.