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Interview with Elizabeth Beals

Here we are at the end, our final interview! Fittingly, we're capping it off with Elizabeth Beals, the other long standing member who has stuck around since Square Carousel's very beginning. While Elizabeth's signature style has remained instantly recognizable from Challenge 1 through Challenge 143 and counting, her skills have undoubtedly blossomed over the past decade. Today, we're catching up with our resident long haul Square Carousel member, admin, and comics professional, Elizabeth Beals!

Emma Frost

Q: Even though your art style is beautifully consistent, your work still stays fresh with each new challenge. What are the biggest aesthetic changes you notice in your work when you compare your most recent pieces to your graduation portfolio?

A: I haven’t looked at my graduation portfolio in a hot minute, it’s pretty wild seeing how far I have come. I’ve gotten better at compositions/ I’ve leaned into cooler, more saturated palettes/ have a better use of textures/ and I also don’t force myself to create a full bleed illustration if it’s not completely necessary to get the story across.

Elizabeth’s workspace

Q: Has your art making process changed at all during your post college years?

A: Oh yeah, definitely!

In college I would thumbnail/ flesh out the comp at scale with normal mechanical pencil/ ink with a 005 micron/ erase the under drawing/ scan in the piece/ clean up in Photoshop/ then color until completion.

Whereas I now thumbnail/ scan in the one I like/ format and print it out at a larger scale (in light blue)/ go back over the print with a blue pencil to refine details/ ‘ink’ it with a extra fine mechanical pencil/ scan it back in/ clean up in photoshop/ and then color until completion.

And if we want to do an even deeper dive we can look at the ‘Color until Completion’ portion.

In college I would create a top layer, which was always the scan/line art set to multiply, and then I would place the coloring layers beneath it. I was just getting into textures and color holds so they were pretty crude but it was nice that I was still fussing with them.

I currently use the same process as a base but I’ve also started painting on top of the line art (like, A LOT), using overlays, adjustments, effects, and more.

Glitter Hearts

Q: What's been your favorite professional project to work on?

A: Mmmmm, I think this one’s a tie for me, the first one would be my cover run on Star Trek: TNG - Terra Incognita. It was my first cover run and the writers/ editors I got to work with were a complete and total dream. They whipped up some pretty fun concepts and I really got to stretch my art muscles for it. Plus the Ice cream I designed for issue one got worked into the story, so having a cannon ice cream design is pretty dang neat. The second would be my first OGN, Virtually Yours, with writer Jeremy Holt! It’s been a project that we’ve had waiting in the wings since 2015 and got to revamp for ComiXology Originals in 2020. It was the largest project I’ve ever worked on and it was such a tough/ joyous/ and complete learning experience for me. I was glad to have an amazing team of people to work with and you should deff check it out if you haven’t already ;D  [Link to Virtually Yours on Comixology]

Virtually Yours cover

Q: Any non-art hobbies?

A: Baking / Cooking/ Trying out new recipes! *Chef’s Kiss* Just chilling outside in general/ soaking up some sun ( as a former So. Cal girl I miss the high/ dry heat.) Binge watching trash T.V.

Q: Tea, coffee, or hot chocolate?

A: I love all three dearly but coffee wins, hands down.

Q: What's a career goal you have for the next decade?

A: Pretty broad but I would love to get to a place where I become less dependent on private/ personal commissions and focus more on Comic Covers and Pin-up work.

She Hulk

Q: Do you have a favorite superhero? A: Short answer, no.  However, I can provide a short list of some of my faves: Jubilee, Storm, Rogue, Spider-Man, Anya Corazon (Spider-Girl), Spider-Gwen, Mystique, and I’m gunna end it there before I just keep rambling.

Q: What's one thing you wish more people knew about you or your work?

A: One fun thing about me/ my work is that my love of drawing hair came from wanting to create Cammy White (Street Fighter) fan art. With braids as long as her’s you gotta take your time and learn to draw them right! XD

Q: While working, do you prefer to watch tv, movies, listen to music, or sit in silence? Any recommendations for background media?

A: Definitely a TV series or movie, preferably something I’ve already seen (less potential to distract me). I always end up falling back on older shows like Murder She Wrote or Midsomer Murders, basically anything with a long syndication. When I was working on Virtually Yours though I would have HBO’s Gentleman Jack on. It’s a newer series with only one season but it served as a good timer/ work schedule for me.

Star Trek TNG: Terra Incognita (issue 6)

Q: If you could choose one character from the Star Trek universe to befriend, who would it be and why? A: To avoid getting too crazy, I think I’m gunna limit myself to TNG (plus I have the most knowledge of that series) and go with Guinan. She’s wise beyond her years (if you could believe that), funny, empathetic, resourceful, and makes a mean drink! And not to break the 4th wall or anything, but it’s freakin’ Whoopi Goldberg!!! ;D

Elizabeth herself

Q: Excellent choice! Anything else you would like the readers to know?

A: Just that y’all are fantastic and we appreciate all the love and support you’ve shown us over that last 10 years! Thanks for letting us go out on a high note!

P.S. Stay safe. Stay healthy. And get vaccinated <3

You heard her folks! Thanks so much to Elizabeth for sharing her answers, and to you, dear readers, for getting to know us all at the Square Carousel Collective these past years. Check out Elizabeth’s website, and follow her on Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram for fresh art as soon as it drops!

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mochibuni · 7 years

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I watch a lot of YouTube, and I think some great and quality YouTube channels, and I really feel like putting out some goodness today. So here is a list of my YouTube watch list, with descriptions and why I think they're worth watching. Updated 3/16/2020.

GAMING

brutalmoose - Ian's reviews tend to be around edutainment games and old PC games, which he delivers his brand of comedy in a dry and deadpan tone. Which is hilariously contrasted by the comedic editing of his videos, some the most creative I've ever seen. I can't even adequately describe a typical video from him, other than it's creative and hilarious. I enjoy his style so much that I'll watch his reviews on 60/70's educational films.

The Completionist - Once a week Jirard chronicles his journey and struggles in 100% completing a video game. His reviews are earnest with a touch of comedy, but largely trying to accurately convey the sense of the game and his experience with it. He does, however, make bad decisions like 100% completing Hyrule Warrios and Fire Emblem Blazing Sword, which of course it's fun to laugh at his agony.

Game Theory - I usually stick to MattPat's videos, but all of them are quality in both editing and substance. However I enjoy MattPat's style and delivery the most. Even if I 100% don't agree with his theory, I 100% enjoy listening and watching him talk about it. He has energy and a great sense of humor, his voice really sells what he's presenting, but I also find a kind of mellowness to it that I enjoy just listening to. He also hosts a live stream with his wife playing games together, and they are adorable to watch.

Kshaway - If you're a League player, you probably already know about Kshaway. He makes the Wood Division series, chronicling everyone and his own fails and bugs with the game. His video style has no voice overs, just well timed music and text for the punch line.

Did You Know Gaming? - They do what they say, offering 5 to 10 minute videos with lesser known facts and production history on video games.

Pokemon Rusty - Made by Dorkly, this is a parody series following Pokemon trainer Rusty as he attempts to become a Pokemon Master in all the wrong ways. It is graphic with very adult humor, but I laugh ridiculous amounts at each video.

MOVIES AND TV

Film Theory - The sister channel to Game Theory and it does the same thing, only this time it’s about tv shows, movies, and web series (remember Salad Fingers? Mattpat made a great video series about it). They also do Did You Know Movies from time to time.

Be Kind Rewind - One of my new faves, she follows the history and culture surrounding movies by discussing female Oscar wins and their cultural significance.

Folding Ideas - Foldable discusses film theory and larger themes usually with movies. His 50 Shades series is probably my favorite, followed by how he accidentally made colonialism in his Minecraft server.

Jenny Nicholson - It’s like listening to your best fandom friend rant and rave with you at 3am in your bedrooms. Jenny has a very lowkey tone and attitude wrapped in a very silly and dry sense of humor. She talks about movies and theme parks. Her review of Avatar Land is probably my favorite.

Lindsay Ellis - I’m not even sure where to being with Lindsay’s work, I adore every video she’s made thus far. It is all film critical theory, but like talking to your smart and sarcastic fandom friend who goes out of their way to explain critical theory concepts.

New Rockstars - These are the guys going over every trailer, every second of a movie looking for easter eggs and fodder for their theories. Really great if you’re into superhero blockbuster movies.

OTHER MEDIA

Comicstorian - I love this channel, they break down comics (either series or single issues) and read them dramatically with visuals. Periodically they also give complete histories of comic book characters, especially when there is a universe reboot.

NerdSync - Somewhat similar to Comicstorian, NerdSync delves into the history and stories of comic books. They’ve moved down the path of being more history based, which is great for me since I know little about the American comic book industry.

Sideways - Remember the music theory video about singing in native languages using Moana as an example? Yeah it’s this guy’s channel, and while he has few videos, all of them are great. My favorite is his analysis of Rogue One’s score.

Atop the Fourth Wall - Linkara reviews comic books, but I largely come here to watch his retrospectives on Power Rangers.

THEME PARKS

Magic Journeys - Largely a Disney centric channel, Mig V and Lovely Jannell explore any and all types of food at the Disney parks, largely sprinkling their videos with relevant Disney history. They’re expanding to other parks in the area, but Disneyland and California Adventure are where they film. Mig edits their videos wonderfully and I greatly appreciate the bits of history he provides. Jannell also makes sure to try a variety of dishes for those with dietary restrictions and has recently branched out into trying kid’s meals. They also started a Disney Foodie group on Facebook.

Defunctland - This channel talks about the history of now defunct theme park rides.

Theme Park History - This channel also talks about theme park history, defunct or currently running.

Expedition Theme Park - Okay sometimes you just need multiple channels of the same content. Another theme park history channel.

FOOD/COOKING

Laura in the Kitchen - Laura cooks largely easy to make, no hassle meals and deserts, and is warm and personable at the same time. I’ve tried many of her recipes and each have come out very well. I also find Laura very endearing, with her genuine love of food and cooking coming through in every video.

Maangchi - Maangchi is the adorable and sweet host of her Korean based cooking channel. She provides step by step instructions, with tips and tricks, on several Korean dishes. She also talks about her time in Korea, relating dishes to stories of her life there. I have made several of Maangchi’s recipes as well, but I’d watch just about anything from her as she’s sweet, funny, and has a soothing presence to her. She’s basically everyone’s Korean Mom.

Strictly Dumpling - Mike Chen talks all about his favorite Asian food, largely Chinese, as he travels around exploring and eating at Asian restaurants. And when I say Chinese, I mean that he talks specifically about provinces and the differences and types of food each have. He also has a variety of cooking videos and traveling videos. Mike is informative, energetic, and hilarious, with a little bit of Chinese humor peppered in that makes Dan laugh.

How To Cake It - If you’ve seen the gif set of the realistic watermelon cake, then you know what Yolanda can do. She makes elaborate cakes ranging from multi-tier to recreating non-cake objects. Yo gives step by step instructions on how she makes her cakes and also sells baking supplies and cake inspired shirts on her website.

Binging with Babish - A charming and dead pan cooking series recreating food from various media. This channel became a must for Dan based on the sense of humor alone.

Destination Flavour - A mini series that aired in Australia, you can find the whole series on YouTube and I highly recommend it. Chef Adam Liaw travels to 9 different prefectures in Japan exploring the local food, culture, and recipes.

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner - An older documentary about the history of breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Britain, also all on YouTube. I love this documentary, it’s very thorough and I learned tons about British food and eating customs that of course influenced my own culture.

Lofty Pursuits - Based in their candy store in Florida, watch the workers at Public Displays of Confection make pulled hard candy.

ARIKITCHEN - A Korean baker with super cute bakes and a personality to match. Most of her videos have English subs.

Christy Carlson Romano - THAT’S RIGHT, REN STEVENS/KIM POSSIBLE HAS A YOUTUBE CHANNEL! It’s usually cooking videos where she invites celebrities she’s worked with to make fanservicey foods.

CULTURE

CGP Grey - This channel is rarely updated, but goes in depth into cultural and political ideologies and misunderstandings in an easy to understand way. His videos are worth a watch if you’ve ever been confused about “once removed” family members or don’t understand how the electoral college works in America.

Begin Japanology - An ongoing NHK series exploring Japan, each 30~ minute video explores one item in depth, from sushi, to mushrooms, to the importance of umbrellas in Japan. These videos are in English and are also dubbed, though many of them have deleted audio in places due to copyright restrictions.

Japanology Plus - The sequel and current version of Japanology that continues to explore Japan and sometimes revisit old videos to update them.

Lunch On! - Also provided by NHK, it explores what the Japanese eat for lunch and the history and culture surrounding those dishes. The segments also tend to explain and explore the background of the people they’re following for lunch, such as the balloon industry or bus scheduling.

ARIRANG TV - A Korean channel, it provides a variety of subbed and dubbed videos about Korea. I usually just watch the food videos, but they also have videos about current affairs, media, and variety programs.

Crash Course - If you haven’t seen this show before, it’s mini video essays hosted by John Green discussing history, literature, science, and so on.

MISC

Buzzfeed Unsolved - Another Buzzfeed series, this time exploring the supernatural with a believer and a non-believer. This series is just hilarious, the supernatural cases are presented in a matter of fact way with visuals, but often intercut with commentary from the two about the cases that brings a nice comedic tone to the otherwise serious video.

Bright Sun Films - Jake’s current video series explores buildings and establishments that were abandoned, their history, as well as projects that were cancelled. Most videos are about the Disney Corporation, but also include Target in Canada, Blockbuster, and the McDonald’s Barge. His videos are well researched, great visuals, and his voice and personality are great to listen to.

AKB48 - 48g is one of the biggest music franchises in Japan, based on the idea of Idols You Can Meet. Since the COVID outbreak in Japan, AKB has been streaming their daily theater show on YouTube. If you want to relax to some cute Japanese pop for a few hours, check out their VODs.

Laura Price - Laura is a professional artist and most of her videos are either about her life as an artist or tips and tricks on art.

Royalty Soaps - Soap making! I find Katie really relaxing to watch and listen to, and she often talks about her soap making process.

Safiya Nygaard - Quirky and adventurous, Safiya tends to make beauty and fashion try videos, and some travel videos as well. Safiya is probably one of those YouTubers you need to watch a video of to see if you’ll like because her channel is all about her and her husband’s Tyler’s personality.

The Try Guys - Four very different guys who try things together. I’m assuming you all know who the Try Guys are, but.

Watcher - Shane, Ryan, and Steven left Buzzfeed to make their own video channel and brought many of their ideas over from there. Shane and Ryan continue to be a delight together in just about everything they do. So far my favorite is Shane’s Puppet History Theater.

ENGLISH SUBS

AIDOL - One of the last English subbers, though they update infrequently now. This links to their DailyMotion account as AKB videos are largely removed from YouTube quickly. If you enjoy the older AKB generations, this is a great resource of older subs.

Animegg.org - My go to English subs place if Crunchyroll doesn’t have what I’m looking for. Their adds aren’t evasive and they accept adblock.

#mochi watches #mochi reviews #there's tons of grammatical and spelling errors in here #i'm so sorry

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Kathryn Budig on How to Really Live Authentically

Life in the spotlight is not all Instagram likes and rainbow sprinkles. YogaGlo instructor Kathryn Budig zeroes in on the ups and downs of yogalebrity, including the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone

Kathryn Budig with her dog, Ashi.

Kathryn Budig, 36, takes a swig of water on the sidewalk outside Method 29403, a Pilates-based studio in Charleston, South Carolina, where she has just sweated, squatted, and lunged her way through a 40-minute class. The advertisement adorning the check-in counter is of Budig in an advanced back-bending yoga pose.

The other women in the class, most of them anyway, had been unaware that they had just worked out with someone who, to millions of devoted yogis, is famous.

The surge in yoga’s popularity in the United States over the past two decades—especially on Instagram—has resulted in the most American of concoctions: the yogalebrity. Among famous yoga instructors, Budig’s star may be the brightest.

She has become known to, and loved by, legions through almost a decade’s worth of classes on YogaGlo, the monthly subscription streaming platform; the books and magazine articles she has written; the social media presence she has built; and the workshops she teaches around the world. She is thought of as someone who takes alignment and mindfulness seriously, but not herself. Making silly faces as she demonstrates Bakasana (Crane Pose) or Navasana (Boat Pose) sit-ups with ease and humor, she has endeared herself to yogis and marketers alike as an all-American-yoga-teacher-next-door, Debbie Reynolds meets dharma.

How Kathryn Budig Became a 'Yogalebrity'

Some time ago, Budig may have wished to have been recognized in that Pilates class, or almost anywhere. She studied theater and literature at the University of Virginia and moved to Los Angeles after college, hoping to make it in Hollywood. But she ended up finding fame on a different sort of stage—the world of Western yoga, which has become inhabited by avid, even rabid, students who look upon favored instructors as gurus and travel hundreds of miles to attend workshops as if they are rock concerts. As her renown grew, Budig also became a savvy entrepreneur, forging partnerships with Under Armour, cosmetics companies, jewelry designers, and more, becoming what is today known as an influencer. She had a personal brand before that was a thing for yogis.

See also YJ Asked: Can You Effectively Teach Yoga Through Social Media?

It was taxing. At her busiest, Budig was traveling internationally four times a year and was on a plane to somewhere for a workshop or other yoga event at least once a week. She filmed classes for YogaGlo about once a month, which required long days in front of the camera and hours of prep work with producers. She was writing for the wellness website MindBodyGreen, contributing to Yoga Journal, and was an editor for Women’s Health, for which she also wrote Big Book of Yoga, published in 2012. Then there were the website and social media feeds that needed to be fed, with photos, essays, and healthy recipes.

Of course, this was all in addition to the physical rigors of maintaining a leg-behind-your-head practice (that ultimately led to a shoulder injury) and a “camera-ready” body. She approached eating with discipline. Her curves were something she battled not celebrated.

Budig on a 2009 cover of Yoga Journal in Forearm Stand, Scorpion variation.

She came to struggle with the dissonance between the yogic messages of acceptance and non-attachment that she shared with students in her work and the messages her physique conveyed.

“You’re not doing the world a favor because you’re telling people, ‘Oh, this is what I always look like because I’m in such good shape.’ No, you just starved yourself and worked out all day long and probably have been sitting in a hot tub or a sauna,” Budig says, rummaging through a cupboard in the kitchen of her bright, lofty home in Charleston. “I was guilty of doing that to a certain extent when I was younger. I mean, we all want to be perceived as beautiful. And I think, especially when you’re in a career like this, people expect you to be a certain body type.” If any of this is difficult for her to discuss, Budig gives no indication. She is relaxed and calm in her kitchen.

She also grappled with yoga-world fame. On one hand, she sought it and relished it. “I am a human with an ego and I appreciate accolades and being acknowledged,” she says. But it ultimately became a source of unhappiness.

See also Yoga as Reality TV? Yoga Girls Documents L.A. Teachers' Search for 'Insta-Fame'

Budig's Controversial ToeSox Ad Campaign

In 2008, four years into her yoga career, she modeled for the photographer Jasper Johal in a series of photos for a ToeSox ad campaign, in which she posed wearing nothing but socks. The photos were carefully shaded and discretely angled so that you couldn’t see everything … but you still saw plenty. The ad campaign helped lead to her celebrity and to her becoming a target for derision.

Sometime after the ads appeared, they drew criticism in blog posts and news articles. In 2009, Waylon Lewis wrote about it in Elephant Journal, a publication he founded: “Sex appeal can be a turnoff when your market is 85 percent women—it can come off as cheap, sleazy, patriarchal, shallow, frivolous—something you don’t want to do with a demographic that would never call itself a demographic, but prefers community, kula, sangha.”

Budig poses in the ToeSox ad that sparked controversy in 2009.

Accusations of sexualizing yoga and objectifying women stung Budig. “That is the opposite of what I’m about, and it was really painful for me,” she says. “Fame is a capricious monster. When you acquire fame, you are stripping yourself of having people really know you. You become someone else’s interpretation of who you are.”

See also How One Yoga Teacher Reclaimed Her Healthy Body Image in the Face of Shaming

Budig realizes that by seeking attention, as one does by posting to social media and engaging in other forms of promotion, she opens herself up to the nastiness and trolling that have become endemic, even to platforms like Instagram. “You put yourself out there and that’s what you set yourself up for,” she says.

Yoga instructors, particularly yogalebrities, live amid dichotomies that don’t exist for most other professional athletes or entertainers. They are expected to embody yoga philosophies that the asana practice is supposed to get us closer to perfecting. This does not allow for having ego, envy, or professional and financial ambition.

“Teachers aren’t exempt from the human experience,” says Seane Corn, herself a famous yogi who has been a mentor and friend to Budig for a decade. “It can be difficult to make mistakes in the public eye. People have higher expectations than we can sometimes live up to. We are committed to the path of self-realization. We are teaching non-attachment. We are teaching to put love before fear. But we are in human form, and there is ego to all of it.”

See also Yoga and Ego: Keep it in Check with Your Practice

Budig's Next Chapter: Remarriage and Cooking

For all these reasons, and a few more, Budig is acclimating to a new phase of her career—one that is less visible.

She has settled in Charleston, a city she loves and where her parents now live. After a difficult marriage and divorce, she plans to marry again this fall—to espnW and ESPN reporter and commentator Kate Fagan. Budig is traveling far less—hitting the road once a month to teach and traveling to L.A. three to four times a year to film new YogaGlo classes. When she is home, she spends much of her time expanding her career focus to cooking, an activity that seems to both calm and animate her. She is experimenting with recipes, thinking about writing a cookbook, and filming elaborate mini cooking shows that she shares with her 220,000 Instagram followers.

“For a long time, I was looking for happiness from success,” she says. “Now I am looking for success from happiness.”

See also Find the Happiness Within You

Kathryn Budig cooking at her home in South Carolina.

From Kansas to Charleston: A Foodie Is Born

See also Self-Care Tip: Create a ‘Living’ Kitchen

Finding the 'Mecca' of Yoga (and Getting Hooked)

Kathryn Budig practicing yoga on the streets on South Carolina.

Just as food moved from a passion to a professional pursuit, yoga, for Budig, began as a side-hustle.

See also 19 Yoga Teaching Tips Senior Teachers Want to Give Newbies

Finding Love Again: How Budig 'Knew'

See also LGBT History Month: One Yoga Teacher's Coming Out Story

How Kathryn Budig Embraces Yoga in All Aspects of Her Life

Kathryn Budig embracing yoga in all aspects of her life—in and out of the studio.

See also How 30 Days of Barre Transformed My Yoga Practice (Plus, 5 Moves Every Yogi Should Try)

It’s not just that Budig wishes to spend more time building her culinary career. She is also questioning the safety of a very regular, very rigorous asana practice.

She remains focused on the philosophies of yoga—non-attachment and being in the moment—and how they connect to her love of food.

See also Kathryn Budig Shares How She Finally Started Living the Life She Actually Wants

About Our Writer Katherine Rosman is a yogi, mother, and reporter for the New York Times. She is the author of a memoir, If You Knew Suzy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Reporter’s Notebook.

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Food Network parent Scripps Networks Interactive is building out new media brands to reach younger viewers who are less inclined than older generations to tune in to linear TV.

In September, Scripps Networks — whose other brands include HGTV and Travel Channel — launched Genius Kitchen, a streaming video brand focused on making food videos for people in their 20s and early 30s. With a website, apps for all the major mobile and connected TV platforms and distribution on Facebook and YouTube, Genius Kitchen is Scripps Networks’ attempt to reach younger people with food content that’s distinctly different from the half-hour and hourlong programming on Food Network’s cable channel.

“Food Network is a great anchor brand — it’s a household name,” said Vikki Neil, gm of Scripps Lifestyle Studios. “But as we were looking at the food category and the opportunities that are still out there, what we realized is that the space is still very large. All of the content that we continue to create for Food Network — and it’s so much on a daily basis — is not necessarily reaching everyone.”

The approach to Genius Kitchen is focusing on content that’s “for the people, by the people,” Neil said. This means eschewing content like reality cooking competitions and other long-form programs hosted by mainstream celebrity chefs and instead creating more short- and mid-form programming that are useful and entertaining. This could be in the form of short recipe videos for dishes that can be made in any 20-year-old’s apartment, as well as programs such as the weekly talk show “GK Now,” which covers the latest food-related trends and news; and the irreverent “Carnivorous,” in which host Courtney Rada, a food enthusiast, tours the country in search of meat dishes and the chefs who make them.

Genius Kitchen launched last month with more than 150 hours of content, mostly produced in-house by Scripps Lifestyle Studios, which Scripps Networks Interactive formed two years ago to create digital programming for the company’s media brands. Scripps Lifestyle Studios has 20 people dedicated to Genius Kitchen, with additional support from production partners such as Spacestation (for “GK Now”). Scripps Networks has also licensed the U.S. streaming rights to some international digital shows such as “Simply Nigella” and “The Delicious Miss Dahl.”

A month in, millennials account for nearly half of Genius Kitchen’s audience across platforms, Scripps Networks said. Some videos, such as this recipe video for “pizza skulls,” have gone viral on Facebook.

Earlier this year, Scripps Networks also acquired Spoon University, a food publisher focused on 18- to 24-year-olds who are in college or are recent graduates.

Scripps Lifestyle Studios has 30 people working on Spoon content, aside from a network of 11,000 contributors from nearly 300 campuses who provide recipes, photos, videos and other food-related content. Scripps Lifestyle Studios itself aims to produce at least one video a day for Spoon, according to Neil.

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“You’ll see people pushing DIY macaroons, Nutella shots, Uncrustables and Oreos,” Neil said. “They’re approaching food from what you would do with a small budget for you and your friends.”

About half of Spoon’s audience is 18 to 24, Neil said. Millennials account for three-quarters of Spoon’s total audience, Scripps Networks added.

Meanwhile, Food Network is no slouch on digital platforms. While 25- to 44-year-olds account for more than half of Food Network’s total audience, the legacy brand had 26.1 million followers and 818.6 million video views on Facebook in September, according to Tubular Labs. (On Facebook, Food Network ranks higher than BuzzFeed’s Tasty in Tubular’s monthly video rankings.)

Scripps Networks plans to continue building the Food Network brand, including making shows for Facebook’s Watch and Snapchat Discover, Neil said. As Food Network, Genius Kitchen and Spoon University continue to grow, expect more collaboration between them.

“At Food Network, where scale really matters, it’s our biggest brand across everything,” Neil said. “But people can also move across all of these brands and maybe spend more time with one that they connect with the most.”

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~All the questions!~

1. If you didn't have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time? I’d probably cook or look for recipes

2. What is your favorite piece of clothing you own / owned? I don’t have one

3. What hobby would you pick up if time & money weren't an issue? Making armor and forging swords!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. What does your perfect room look like? Its a kitchen! A very large kitchen!

5. How often do you play sports? Sadly not anymore

6. What fictional place would you like to visit? Middle Earth!

7. What job would you be terrible at? Anything construction based

8. When was the last time you climbed a tree? I haven’t climbed a tree in years :/

9. If you could turn any activity into an Olympic sport, what would you have a good chance of winning a medal for? Sleeping?

10. What is the most annoying habit that you or other people have? I currently can’t think for some reason

11. What job do you think you'd be really good at? I have no idea, honestly

12. What skill would you like to master? A great many things, like cooking and such and also metalwork!!!

13. What would be the most amazing adventure to go on? Backpacking through the appalachians I think would be wonderful

14. If you had unlimited funds to build a house to live on for the rest of your life, what would the finished house look like? Like a castle

15. What's your favorite drink? Alcoholic? Angry Orchard! But mostly the green apple one.

16. What state or country do you never want to go back to? I haven’t been to enough places to answer this

17. What songs do you have completely memorized? Too many to answer this properly

18. What game or movie universe would you like to live in? Tolkien!

19. What do you consider to be your best find? My best find? No idea, probably a cool rock

20. Are you usually early or late? I try so hard to be early

21. What pets did you have when you were growing up? I had a dog!!! Avalanche! And then a turtle, bob

22. When people come to you for help, what do they usually need help with? All sorts of things! I try to make sure my friends know I’m here to help

23. What takes up too much of your time? Tumblr

24. What do you wish you knew more about? Everything??????????? (astrophysics)

25. What would be your first question after waking up from being frozen for 100 years? “What the fuck?”

26. What are some small things that make your day better? a lovely conversation with a good person! Also good food!

27. Who's your go-to band or artist when you don't know who or what to listen to? Whatever’s on spotify

28. What's the best way to start the day? Sleep until noon

29. What TV shows do you like? Chopped, Iron Chef, Voltron is pretty cool, CRITICAL ROLE (Not a tv show but I don’t care)

30. What TV channel doesn't exist but really should? I have no idea

31. Who has impressed you most with what they've accomplished? I’m sorry, but I don’t have the thought to answer this

32. What age do you wish you could stay at permanently? I don’t

33. What TV show or movie do you refuse to watch? 50 Shades

34. What's your ideal way to spend a weekend? Catching up on Critical Role, maybe hang out!

35. What is something that is considered a luxury, but you don't think you could live without? Internet?

36. What is your claim to fame? I don’t understand

37. What is something you enjoy doing the old-fashioned way? Nothing?

38. What's your favorite book or movie genre? Lord of the Rings!!!

39. How often do you people-watch? Never, I tend to make eye contact too often

40. What have you only recently formed an opinion about? Something political, probably

41. What's the best day of the year? A day that it’s snowing?

42. What subject interests you that not many people have heard of? ????????????

43. How do you relax after a long day of work? I sleep

44. What's the best book series or TV series you've ever read or watched? My favorite is Tolkien

45. Where is the farthest you've ever been from home? I’m 1553 miles from my home

46. What's the most heartwarming thing you've ever seen? No idea

47. What is the most annoying question people ask you? “So you’re like a plant?”

48. What could you give a 40-minute presentation on with no preparation? Tolkien universe stuff

49. If you were the dictator on a small island nation, what crazy dictator stuff would you do? I’d give free food and water and healthcare to the citizens and revive the barter system

50. What is something you think everyone should do at least once in their lives? Be free

51. Would you rather go hand gliding or whitewater rafting? I like whitewater rafting

52. What's your dream car? One that I own and has good gas mileage. Preferably an SUV

53. What's worth spending more on to get the best? Shoes, food, relationships

54. What is something a ton of people are obsessed with, but you just don't get? sex

55. What are you most looking forward to in the next 10 years? Loving myself

56. Where is the most interesting place you've been? Mt. Greylock

57. What's something you've been meaning to try but haven't gotten around to it? Making something but I can’t think of what specifically

58. What is the best thing that happened to you last week? I’m going to a convention in 2 weeks!

59. What piece of entertainment do you wish you could erase from your mind, only to experience it for the first time again? All of the Critical Role episodes

60. If all jobs had the same pay rate and hours, what job would you want to have? No idea

61. What amazing thing have you done that no one was around to see? I don’t know

62. How different was your life 1 year ago? I was living in Mass and was working at a shitty warehouse. Pretty different

63. What quirks do you have? idk man

64. What would you rate 10/10? A dog probably

65. What fad or trend do you think should come back? Being a good person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

66. What is the most interesting piece of art you've seen? I’m not super into art, honestly

67. What kind of art do you enjoy most? No idea

68. What do you hope never changes? Nothing

69. What city would you most like to live in? I hate cities

70. What movie title best describes your life? No idea

71. Why did you decide to do the work you are doing now? The job was literally handed to me

72. What's the best way a person can spend their time? Having a good time????

73. If you suddenly became a master at woodworking, what would you make? Bows. So many bows. And arrows

74. Where is the most relaxing place you've ever been? Mt. Greylock

75. What's the luckiest thing that has ever happened to you? I was literally handed a job by the manager of the place next to my dad’s work

76. Where would you rather be from? I kinda wanted for my parents to have me in South Africa, but Oh well lol

77. What are some things you've had to unlearn? Toxic masculinity, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism. All sorts of shitty stuff

78. What do you look forward to in the next 6 months? I have no idea!

79. What website do you visit most often? ...Tumblr...

80. What one thing do you really want but can't afford? A car and a home (that’s more than 1 thing)

81. Where do you usually go when you have free time? My computer...

82. Where would you spend all your time if you could? The mountains

83. What's special about the place you grew up? snow???

84. What age do you want to live to? Until I’m dead, I don’t care what age

85. What are you most likely to become famous for? Nothing

86. What are you absolutely determined to do? Love myself

87. What is the most impressive thing you know how to do? I can...um...I can cook??????????

88. What do you wish you knew more about? All the things

89. What question would you most like to know the answer to? No idea

90. What question can you ask to find out the most about a person? Fuck I don’t know

91. When was the last time you changed your opinion or belief about something major? It’s been some time

92. What's the best compliment you've ever received? When people complement my cooking?

93. As the only human left on earth, what would you do? Die alone

94. Who inspires you to be better? Nobody, only me

95. What do you want your epitaph to be? It had better have my real name

96. What haven't you grown out of? These pants

97. In what situation or place would you feel most out of place in? Most situations

98. What's the dumbest thing you've done that actually turned out pretty well? I don’t know

99. If someone wrote a book on an event in your life, what would the book be about? Fuck if I know

100. What's something you will never do again? There are a few things

101. How do you hope you'll change as a person in the future? I hope to be a better person

102. What keeps you up at night? My dumb brain

103. What's the most surprising self-realization you've had? Well the whole not being straight of cis was surprising

104. What is the most illegal thing you've ever done? I’m not incriminating myself (I don’t remember)

105. How do you get in the way of your own success? I have depression

106. What are you afraid people see when they look at you? A gross blob. Or a shitty person

107. What is your biggest regret? I have a lot

108. What do you look down on people for? Bigotry

109. What bridges do you not regret burning? Several

110. What lie do you tell most often? I tell a lot of lies, but I’m getting better

111. What would be your spirit animal? Idk

112. What is the best & worst thing about getting older? My bones hurt

113. What are you most likely very wrong about? Lots of things

114. If you had a personal flag, what would be on it? No idea

115. What's happened that changed your view on the world? Tumblr, honestly

116. What is the biggest lesson you've learned? I’ve learned a lot of things

117. What is the most immature thing you do? No idea

118. What are you famous for among your friends & family? Being an idiot

119. If your childhood had a smell, what would it be? Void. I have no memory

120. What one responsibility do you wish you didn't have? Working and paying bills

121. What are 3 things you want to accomplish before you die? I want to transition, find love, and love myself

122. What do you want to tell your 10-year-old self? Hey kid, you’re a lady and also don’t try to force yourself into sexual situations

123. What's the best thing you got from your parents? Cooking skills

124. What's the best thing about you? I’m kinda nice I guess?

125. What blows your mind? Space

126. Have you ever saved someone's life? Nope

127. What are you really good at but embarrassed to be good at? I’m not good at much, honestly

128. What would a mirror opposite of you look like? Hot

129. What are 3 interesting facts about you? I’m not in the state of mind for this, sorry

130. Which of your scars has the best story behind it? I have one on my hip that I got from a game of manhunt. I ran into a fence and flipped over it lol. Ruined a nice shirt

131. What's the title of the current chapter in your life? Welcome to Texas, Don’t Die

132. What were some of the biggest turning points in your life? Realizing my queerness

133. What's the hardest lesson you've learned? I’d rather not think about that

134. What do people think is weird about you? A lot

135. What mistake do you keep making? Falling too fast

136. What have you created that you're most proud of? A batch of brownies

137. What do you doubt? Myself

138. What are some of your morals? Don’t be shitty??????

139. What do you want to be remembered for? Being kind

140. What do you regret not doing in your childhood years? I don’t remember them

141. What is your favorite fragrance? Trees and mountain air

142. What do you think your last words will be? Fuck

143. Who or what do you take for granted? Fuck if I know

144. Why would you be annoying as a roommate? I snore, apparently. And I shed like a motherfucker :/

145. What is something you're insecure about? My physical appearance

146. What's the best & worst piece of advice you've received? I don’t know

147. What irrational fears do you have? Heights, spiders, men????

148. What makes a good life? Happiness

149. What's the last adventure you went on? I haven’t been on an adventure in a long time

150. What is the most memorable gift you've received? My dad’s Lord of the Rings book

151. Last kiss An ex, ages ago

152. Last phone call My mom

153. Last text message This cute dork :p

154. Last song you listened to The Critical Role opening song!

155. Last time you cried A few weeks ago

HAVE YOU EVER:156. Dated someone twice Yes, once

157. Been cheated on Yes...

158. Self harmed Not traditionally? I smoked for a bit hoping fr cancer and I binge ate for a heart attack. Bad shit

159. Lost someone special Yes. My grandmother

160. Been depressed Hella

161. Been drunk and threw up Nope

THIS YEAR HAVE YOU:162. had sex lol no

163. How many people have you had sex with this year? Zero

165. Made a new friend YES!! :D

167. Laughed until you cried No

168. Met someone who changed you Not this year

169. Found out who your true friends were No

170. Found out someone was talking about you No?

171. What did you do for your last Birthday Went to dinner, I think

172. What time did you wake up today Noonish?

173. Name something you CANNOT wait for Well I have a date this weekend (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and a con the next weekend, I think?

174. Last time you saw your all of your siblings at the same time March :/

175. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life A few things

176. What are you listening to right now Critical Role!

177. When is the last time you had sex? Never! :D

178. Who's getting on your nerves right now Nobody

179. Most visited webpage ...Tumblr...

180. Favorite colour Dark red or blue or black

181. Nicknames El

182. Relationship Status Single

183. Zodiac sign Libra

184. Male or female Female

185. Primary school South

186. Secondary School Bellingham memorial

187. High school/college Bellingham

188. Eye color Brown/hazel

189. Height 5′11″

190. Do you have a crush on someone MAYBE

191. What do you like about yourself I’m kinda nice

192. Piercings 3, nips and lip

193. Tattoos No :/

194. Righty or lefty Righty

FIRSTS:195. First piercing My lip!

196. First best friend I don’t remember!

197. First hookup I’m a virgin

198. First Bestfriend You asked this?

RIGHT NOW:199. Eating Nothing

200. Drinking Nothing

201. I'm about to Finish this damn thing

202. Listening to Critical Role

203. Waiting for The weekend!

YOUR FUTURE:204. Want kids? Nah

205. Get married? Someday

206. Career Something cool!

WHICH IS BETTER:207. Lips or eyes Eyes

208. Hugs or kisses Both!

209. Shorter or taller Neither

210. Older or Younger Neither

211. Romantic or spontaneous Both?

212. Nice stomach or nice arms I don’t particularly care

213. Sensitive or loud Neither

214. Hook-up or relationship Relationship

HAVE YOU EVER:215. Kissed a stranger No

216. Drank hard liquor Ye

217. Lost glasses/contacts I broke glasses, not lost

218. Had sex Nope

219. Broken someone's heart Yes

220. Been arrested Nope

221. Turned someone down Possibly? I don’t recall

222. Cried when someone died Yes

223. Fallen for a friend Hella lol

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:224. Yourself Ehh

225. Miracles Ehh

226. Love at first sight No

227. Heaven In a sense

228. Santa Clause No lol

229. Kiss on the first date Maybe????? Never done it, don’t have a problem with it?

230. Angels Ehh

231. How would you label yourself? A few things

232. Someone You Pray Everyday For Nope

233. Did you sing today No

234. Who From All Your Ex's have You Cared The Most About No idea

235. If you could go back in time, how far would you go? I don’t think I would

236. Out Of Everything In The World What Do You Wish For Happiness

237. Are you afraid of falling in love? No

238. Do you like the way you look? FUCK no

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how to make money with my computer for free

If you’re analyzing this, you in all likelihood have ready get admission to to a computer with an internet connection. The majority are aware of some approaches that a non-public computer can save them money, but there honestly are a plethora of easy, moral ways that everybody can use a pc to make a few bucks. Here is a listing of 14 ways your computer can placed cash for your pocket that anybody can do with out ripping every body off. Lots of these thoughts may also have occurred to you, however I’m certain there are at least some right here which are new to you. With any luck, something on this listing will spur you on to strive something new and perhaps have a bit little bit of extra pocket cash. Please be aware that i am most effective citing fully felony methods for such offerings in this article, and i’m generally directing humans closer to clean-to-use offerings if there are a large number of alternatives. As an example, i'm aware that there are loads of applications for gambling lower back audio in your computer and i'm aware of the ease of obtaining pirated track and video.

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The pc may be a totally valuable tool – you simply have to recognise a way to use it.

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