My Heart is Broken - moodboard ✨

Amy Lee revealed the inspiration of "My Heart Is Broken" saying: "A good friend of mine heads up an organization in New York that rescues victims of sex trafficking. My husband and I got involved and were really moved and horrified. As I was writing the song I was putting myself in that place - what would it be like to be trapped? Threatened? Alone? Unable to tell anyone what was happening because you're afraid of what would happen?" (x)

Ev.a.nes.cence n. 1 The event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight.

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“It was a golden era. Someone would call us up to do whatever we wanted.”

Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock of Guzman look back at their extraordinary archive of music photography that expanded, subverted, and transcended traditional images of the femininity and womanhood via Dazed.

Photos: Guzman. Top/Total. Total, 1996. Bottom/En Vogue. EV3, 1997.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Amy’s current style with the ball gowns (Synthesis) and chains with feather things (current), but does anyone ever wish she would go back to the Open Door through Ev3 era style clothing wise? Or maybe do her costumes similar but with fitting her current style at the same time (if that makes sense lol)? I kind of miss how dark her costumes were. Her current style is sleek and beautiful, but I miss when she would mismatch colors, corset dresses, or ripped jeans and a corset. I don’t know, maybe it’s just nostalgia lol

Her new style is more mature for her age, but I feel like some of her costumes are sort of lacking something, but I don’t know what. And I know, those costumes back in the Open Door/Ev3 era were when she was in her twenties, but still, I feel like they fit her best.

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I feel silly for asking this, but how can you tell what photo is from what era?

First of all, if you ask for explanations when you don’t know something or aren’t sure about something, you are awesome! It is never ever silly to ask, even when the question itself is silly. Which isn’t the case here! But, in general, everything we find self-evident, we ignored at one point. We’ve all had to ask “silly” questions, we’ve all had to learn stuff that are a no-brainer to some people. Asking is a great habit to have!

I’ll tame my inner mom now, sorry.

The eras are arbitrary concepts, so there isn’t a right answer. We don’t all count them the same way, and some photoshoots fall under “blurry” time periods (e.g., redhead!Amy pictures). Still, most of us will classify a picture as belonging to a certain era depending on three things: 1/was it used as official promo for a specific album?, 2/was it taken during the time period of a specific album?, 3/do they fit the era general vibe? For example, the latest pictures I’ve used have been taken in 2019 so they fall in-between eras, in terms of albums (Synthesis or The Bitter Truth). But they’ve been used to promote The Bitter Truth, and they fit this album’s aesthetic way more than they fit Synthesis’. Someone might label them as “Synthesis era”, though. Or something existing during a hiatus, which is why I have a “recover era” tag to label everything Amy did in-between EV3 and Lost Whispers.The most common practice is: everything before 2003 is “Origin era” then it works by when the album came out and for how long did they promote it/tour with it, and there’s two time periods where it’s just *shrug* (the hiatus between ToD and EV3, and the period between Jen joining the band and then actually putting out an album).

TL;DR: the eras aren’t clearly defined, everyone has a different answer but, usually, it’s a matter of when the photoshoot happened and which album did they promote with these pictures. 

End of Week10: Robots, Finishing “Documenting Your Journey” etc.

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It should be a sign that I’m already two days into week 11 before I’ve been able to post this to my blog. Ack. So, except for the holidays and sick days that knocked the program off the “plan,” for week 10 I needed to diverge the different grade levels from a unified curriculum. Every couple weeks fourth grade has SLG (Student Learning Goal) writing prompts to do, I’ve begun the WeDo robotics curriculum, currently with the three second-grade classes, I need to finish the “Documenting Your Journey” google slides project (grades three through five), and I started a “Seasons” unit with grades K through 2nd. So, I think that’s now over three different curriculum streams are running over six grade levels. It’s not new material every day, but it’s managing the learning of the whole school population every day and every week. Unlike my library/science coworker, who is trying to deliver a different lesson for every single grade level, I’m differentiating between the primary grades and intermediate grade levels, with break out exceptions for WeDo robotics that I’m currently doing with second grade and the SLG writing prompts that I’m doing with fourth grade.

So for week 10 I tried to finish the Google Slides/“Documenting Your Journey” project with grades three through five. Half of 5th and 4th grade will need next week to finish. Third grade “might” finish next week.

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When I was in fifth grade, my teacher, Mrs. Austin, started letting us kids use this large-format to make scrapbooks as a kind of project research. I still have a project on the NASA Apollo missions book and one on Benito Juarez and a third that I might have done on my own that was a scrapbook of all the things I was interested in when I was in the fifth grade. I don’t remember anything about how we put the scrapbooks together, but I still have at least three different scrapbooks from that era. I bring all of this up because I’m trying to finish this “Document Your Journey” project, but I feel like the vast majority of the student are more focused on getting the “done” message so that they can get a few minutes of “free time” to even be aware of the gift of personally reflecting on their own heritage and the assignment. But admin has noted my lack of completion when it comes to these projects, so I’m focused on getting as many of these projects to “port” as possible and not belabor the few who don’t make it. If they can’t be bothered then I should give myself a pass as well.

The next project pending is teaching stop-motion storytelling to the students. But before that I need to create 30 cardboard iPad stands to facilitate stop motion filming. That might be something that I just do on my own, or something that I have fourth and fifth graders try to do. I’ve also decided that all students, K through 5, need to create little robotic figures, that can be used in the stop-motion filming. In the Full Sail Labs days there was huge box of action figures provided for by one of my co-workers that student could use in their projects. I decide that I don’t want to offer/sacrifice any of the mini-figs that I’ve added to my collection to be used (and “lost”) by students. So I decided that everyone will need to create their own robot character that will be handy when we get to the stop-motion project(s). I’ve also decided that instead of the hot-glue wine cork legs that were used in the Full Sail Labs experience, I want to use some of the EV3 extra parts available to me, and have 30-wheeled chassis that can be used during filming/projects.

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  It will be interesting to see how many of the students will take to the stop-motion storytelling and how many, like the “documenting your journey” project, won’t be bothered to really participate or explore this process. Sad.

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So, that’s the near future plan, get an army of glued-together robots to be used in stop-motion projects. I’d also like to have a collection of WeDo and EV3 robots available for students to use to explore (scratch) programming. We previously explored small machines: Lever, so there are four more “Simple Machines” to investigate. I’d love for this work to be more than a slight bump in the road that students try to overcome on their way to “free time” with no sense of things beyond “free time.” That’s the hope, to be the influential historical relic (like my ancient Apollo script book), that they eventually value.

End of Week10: Robots, Finishing “Documenting Your Journey” etc. End of Week10: Robots, Finishing “Documenting Your Journey” etc. It should be a sign that I'm already two days into week 11 before I've been able to post this to my blog.

Image Processing Technique using Google Cloud API and Sighthound for Lego Mindstorms EV3 Robot- Juniper Publishers

Abstract

The world today faces major garbage crisis that are due to the product of rapid economic growth, overcrowding, poor urban planning, corrosive corruption and political dysfunction. Presently, many have tried and tested methods of garbage collection but the current methods are proven to be ineffective. In this era of higher technology, humanoid robots are found to be the trends in most of the applications. Humanoid robots can support people in everyday life. The industry is moving towards the current side of automation to increase productivity and to deliver uniform quality. Thus, Trash Collecting Robot (TCR) is proposed to help in providing automatic control to collect the garbage. TCR is built by using Lego Mindstorm EV3 robot and it can differentiates between the static and dynamic obstacles and moves accordingly as it programmed. Basically, TCR consists of sensors at different levels to detect the dynamic obstacles and it implements image processing techniques where it can identify the type of waste material that has been collected. In image processing part, cloud services via Google Cloud API and Sighthound are used to identify the trash type whether plastic, can or paper. The result shows that Sighthound outperforms the Google Cloud by getting almost 100% accurate on classifying the trash type.

Keywords: Image processing; Lego mindstorm EV3 robot; Google Cloud API; Sighthound

Introduction

The robots are human like machines capable of doing duty they are programmed to do. They have shown significance in decreasing human work, especially in industries. In manufacturing tasks, speed and efficiency have long been improved by robotic systems. A robot has replaced humans in many industries especially in repeated or dangerous situations. A line follower robot is mostly a robot model for tracking and follows a pre-defined black line or path on a white surface [1]. The importance in the robotics field has been realized by researcher since the beginning of the development of machine vision because it provides a useful tool for the environment detection and decision making during the automation process. The drawbacks of robotic operations are extra hours needed for programming the operations and they are limited to certain predefines operation that will cause rigid automation. One of the solution to improve the adaptability of the system is by integrating image processing system to robotic system and make it open to other potential application for example work done by [2] aims to imitate the human behavior in sketching human facial portraits.

There are 10 types of new robotic trends which are bioinspired robots, micro-nano-femtorobots, walking machines, toy robots, ubiquitous robots, household robots, cloud robots, flying robots, autonomous driving vehicles and modular self-reconfiguring robots. Cloud robots are said to be exciting possibilities in the near future because of its reduced requirements for on-board processing and this can increase efficiency in performing complex tasks [3]. A Google researcher claims that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter by calling this approach as cloud robotics and it allows the robot to off load compute-intensive task like image processing. Thus cloud robotics could make that possible by expanding a robot’s knowledge beyond its physical body [4].

This paper proposed thrash collecting robot which can classify the thrash type and insert it into the corresponding bins. Here, a comparison between two cloud services for image processing which are Google Cloud API [5] and Sighthound [6] will be executed.

Thrash Collecting Robot (TCR)

The proposed robot will do image processing to recognize the type of recyclable trash and allocate them into a different type of recycling bin. For the image processing part, cloud services are used to understand the content of the captured image. Figure 1 shows the flow of TCR 's task, Figure 2 presents the TCR robot from different views and Figure 3 shows example of thrash images have been used.

Experiment and Results

TCR can move on a smooth track. LEGO Mindstorms EV3 is used as the brain for processing all the commands and TETRIX set is used as the brawn to support the architecture. TCR also can pick-up the objects once they sense their presence and take a picture of them using the wireless camera to distinguish its type and class via Google Cloud Vision API and Sighthound. After TCR is able to identify what type of the objects that it has collected, it will separate them into a different place with a different colour. Table 1 & 2 present the accuracy of identifying the type waste material based on the captured image using Google API Cloud Vision and Sighthound respectively (Figure 4).

Conclusion

In summary, robotics and automation significantly advance the life sciences. TCR that is based on Lego Mindstorm EV3 robot have been built to help in providing automatic control to collect the garbage. Image processing system have been integrated into TCR and a comparison between Google Cloud Vision API and Sighthound have been made. From the experiments, it is found that Sighthound can identify type of waste material efficiently compared to Google Cloud Vision API. In the future, we proposed that large scale processing works such as image processing need to be done in an environment with better processing power. To achieve that, the robot should be equipped with a wireless camera and a network card. Wireless camera will capture an image of an object and the metadata of the image will be sent to the server for image processing task. All the heavy processing work will be done at the server and eventually results will be returned, and the robot will be able to identify the type of trash.

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Taller: Jo, Robot

El taller "Jo, robot" és un recull de material dissenyat amb tres blocs d'activitats, està pensat per usar en activitats puntuals com tallers (la durada pot ser molt variable 1h a 15h, depenent de la selecció dels materials):

Activitats de reflexió/contextualització i discusió (fòrums)

Hem de posar nom a un robot?

Imaginació  Enginyers/escriptors de ciència ficció

Els robots s'han de semblar als humans?

Posem-nos a la pell del robot

Lligar-se les sabates

Cadena de producció de sandvitxos 

reconeixement d'imatges/pixelació

Dibuixar un robot

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Programació del LEGO Mindstorms (EV3  Lssons)

Moure endavant

Girs, tipus de girs

Material:

Les primeres dues parts es basen en el material de la Carnegie Melon University, era el material penjat a l'antiga web d'ASIMO, el robot d'HONDA

Es podria fer servir aquest, que també fan servir a la CMU:

 A la pàgina de la CMU, he trobat aquest material força interessant, un curs sencer d'introducció a la robòtica: https://www.k-12robotics.org/uploads/5/6/3/3/5633548/pdf_introduction_to_robotics.pdf

Taller: Jo, Robot was originally published on PlanetArduino

Survey: Lego Mindstorms EV3 implies goliath robots, effective PCs My internal 9-year-old is overwhelmed, however my external 35-year-old recoils from the $349 price.

Gummi Bears. That is the thing that playing with Lego blocks helps me to remember—sitting leg over leg on the floor in the back room of my folks' home on Saturday mornings, a monster tub of Lego pieces open before me while vivified bears bobbed all over and all over the place. I had my own Saturday morning toon schedule, and when Gummi Bears went ahead, the time had come to work with Lego blocks.

It's been quite a while—most likely 20 years, in any event—since I sat down with a monster bundle of Lego blocks before me, yet a week ago I had an opportunity to re-encounter a little piece of my youth with a radical new arrangement of Lego pieces: the unreleased Lego Mindstorms EV3.Robotron 2013

A great deal has occurred since the last time I sorted out plastic spaceships. In those days, the most complex kind of Lego sets you could purchase were the Technic sets, which combined the standard studded blocks and more mind boggling pieces with fitted pegs and gaps and riggings. On the off chance that you needed to manufacture marvelous fanciful starships, you purchased Lego Space sets. On the off chance that you needed to assemble real machines that moved around all alone power, you purchased Technic.

However, Lego develops with the circumstances. In the 1990s, the line of Lego items picked up another top-end: the Mindstorms sets. The Technic line is as yet flourishing, however Mindstorms go past Technic and incorporate that most compelling assortment of nerd treat: sensors and programmable controllers. This is path past anything I at any point got my hands on when I was a small chap.

The most up to date era of Mindstorms, the EV3, has abilities that would have knocked my socks off back in the mid-'80s (if a set could have been sent back in time, my response would have looked a ton like the child in this Onion story). In the first place demoed at CES back in January, the EV3 set components another controller with an ARM9 CPU with 64MB of RAM, 16MB of NAND glimmer stockpiling, a USB 2.0 interface for development modules (like Wi-Fi), and Bluetooth. The block runs an ARM variant of Linux and is equipped for driving four separate engines and accepting contribution from four separate sensors. It can likewise be connected to different Mindstorms blocks (counting past era Mindstorms NXT controllers) for genuinely expansive creations.The EV3 set we were given to audit contained three distinct engines (two substantial and high-torque and one littler) and three sensors (one touch, one shading and light, and one infrared) alongside a solitary control block. There's additionally an infrared remote control (an "IR reference point," the manual calls it, since it has a couple of different capacities also). Altogether, the set contains 594 Technic-style pieces for really assembling things; there's not a studded block anyplace in the whole box, however, so blending the EV3 set into your heap of non-Technic Lego blocks will require a touch of ingenuity.Building things with the EV3 set is the same as building anything with Lego blocks, and I took after a comparative method: unpack, dump on floor, fabricate the thing in the directions, take a gander at it for a couple of minutes, then crush it to pieces and construct my own particular stuff. Really, that is not by any stretch of the imagination adjust—there are five separate Lego-if robot outlines that can be worked with the set. I set up together two of them before going off-script.

The unit accompanies printed guidelines for the "Track3r" robot, a squat little person who can be outfitted with various diverse connections and who can shoot things, get things, and assault things with a spinny paw. It was an extraordinary approach to plunge my toes into the EV3 pool, however after I'd assembled the robot, I understood that the "manufacture" some portion of that pool is certainly the shallow end. The genuine profundity and many-sided quality of this set—and of the Mindstorms line as a rule—is the programming.I tore down the Track3r and got the opportunity to take a shot at the leader outline for the EV3 set, the 16-inch tall "Ev3rstorm" robot. It does significantly more stuff. He accompanies pre-composed projects to show a portion of the more propelled abilities of the EV3 set: he can move forward on his treads, distinguish and move around snags, and even shoot minimal red balls at an infrared target (however his precision leaves a bit to be coveted). My manufacture time on the robot was only a hair under 2.5 hours.The control block gets associated with the sensors and engines by means of an arrangement of included links. There are eight ports on the block itself: four on the top for yield, which are utilized to drive engines, and four on the base for information, which are associated with sensors. The gave links end in a plastic attachment like a RJ-12 however with the lock stick migrated left of focus. The control block is equipped for perceiving the sensors and engines to which it's associated, and even without programming them, you can utilize the block's inherent controls to relegate the yields to catches on the remote so you can drive your manifestations around physically. The block can likewise streak its lights, show pictures on its screen, and play computerized sound records from its speaker (boisterously, actually!).Greetings, program

Building anything but the Track3r configuration requires utilizing the Mindstorms EV3 application to show the fabricate directions. This application works in Windows or OS X. I ran it on OS X while I was taking screenshots and on Windows 8 (by means of a Surface Pro tablet) while I was stopped on my family room floor building. On discharge, there will likewise be iOS and Android applications accessible (I didn't attempt both of those out, however). The application contains manufacture guidelines for the five gave EV3 develops and additionally test programs for each of the robots.Building your own projects includes moving system components into a workspace, much like building a chart. Essential guidelines like "go ahead for 10 seconds" are anything but difficult to characterize, and projects can develop to high degrees of multifaceted nature by presenting circles and branches. The intuitive condition couples sensor information and engine yield with all the standard instruments of a software engineer's unit: factors, constants, and an entire suite of intelligent administrators and numerical functions.In reality, the experience was a bit of overpowering. I'm unquestionably not a designer, and the application's substantial reliance on graphical components without much content set aside a considerable amount of opportunity to grok—I needed to lean vigorously on the tooltips even to assemble an essential program to make the control block go "beep" at me. Programs made inside the EV3 application can be exchanged to the control block straightforwardly by means of a wired USB association or through a SD card. Wi-Fi is additionally bolstered, yet that requires an outside USB Wi-Fi dongle to be fitted to the control block.

In case you're fairly masochistic, you can even program the block specifically from its front control board. The block's non-illuminated show makes this excessively troublesome for more than snappy program spot checks, however.

Similarity and group

These intricate Lego sets are costly, and the move from the past era Mindstorm NXT controller to the new EV3 one is critical. Luckily, there's critical in reverse similarity (and even a touch of forward similarity!). The Technics-style construct components are unaltered, so there's no issue there. As indicated by Lego devotee site Robot Square, the EV3 block can control a large portion of the past era NXT adornments, including engines and sensors. On the other hand, the NXT block can drive the EV3 engines yet not the more up to date sensors.Above is a finished program for the Ev3rstorm bot. This program runs when the touch sensor is discouraged. On the off chance that the light sensor peruses splendid light, it will play a sound and trigger its medium engine to turn three unrests at low power; if the shading sensor peruses a low esteem (in case you're concealing it with your hand), it will turn the medium engine with more drive. The medium engine is likewise snared to a little ball shooter gun thingy. The final product is that, contingent upon regardless of whether you have the shading sensor secured with your hand, the robot shoots the ball either very far or only a short separation.

From a product point of view, the EV3 application can program NXT blocks too. This ought to empower NXT clients to buy the new pack and incorporate both sets together without much grating. The Mindstorms application is developed because of sharing things, and there's a colossal, flourishing Mindstorms people group on the Internet. The EV3 sets that show up will be immediately incorporated into the group overlay.

Venturing off the painstakingly cleared and studded Lego block street for a minute, there are a lot of different approaches to interface with the EV3 control block other than relocating in the official application. The Lego Mindstorms people group is worldwide, and that group has thought of a not insignificant rundown of dev apparatuses to play with. For the present, taking care of business with outsider dev devices is a little past my capacity. At present, with the EV3 blocks in prerelease, there didn't have all the earmarks of being much to do in any case. This will quickly change after the sets turn out to be generally accessible, and seeing what the group will have the capacity to dash on to this as a beginning stage will energize.

At the point when and what amount?

The press materials take note of that Lego had a group of people hectically taking a shot at the equipment and programming for a long while now. The level of clean in the new framework is self-evident.

The EV3 set is relied upon to retail for $349. Lego says that the sets will be accessible to buy on September 1, in the nick of time to be gobbled up for the winter occasions. Great planning, unquestionably, yet the abrogating inquiry is regardless of whether the EV3 set is justified regardless of the cost.

In case you're a parent with a keen child who adores Lego, the set is certainly something to consider. The crossing point of the physical and the dynamic spoken to by these sorts of programmable Lego sets is effectively appealing. The capacity to rapidly develop programs from visual squares—themselves.

Evanescence Oceans moodboard. 💙

I always kind of thought that Oceans could be an alternative name for the entire Ev3 album as well.

In 2010 Amy posted this about the album creative process: (x)

"Some inspirations: unknown worlds, the ocean's abyss, life within dreams, strength, detachment, love and liars...."

Speak your mind Like I care I can see your lips moving I've just learned not to hear Don't waste your time

I just found this video and i had to make these. I was there too. First Evanescence show in Prague ever.

Evanescence: Made Of Stone in Prague, Czech Republic, 2012. 📽️ Karel Waldmann

From the same 2011 session as the previous French magazine cover.

Beautiful photo of Amy Lee is featured on the cover of the new issue of the french magazine MyRockMag - taken from their older photosession from 2011.

Source: EvWebsite x x

Evanescence - Amy Lee live in this gorgeous black outfit, EV3 era 🖤 (Sonisphere Spain 2012 & USA summer tour)

Evanescence - Evanescence (Ev3) Deluxe Edition, 2011 - Digital Booklet

(hq via archive.org)

Amy would like to thank: I want to thank everyone at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, for letting us use your amazing place to create, and for making us feel like part of the family. Special thanks to John and Martina McBride (for running such an awesome studio, and for the BBQ!) Nathan Yarborough - the best and sweetest assistant engineer anywhere, and all the interns who gave me rides home. Also, thank you to all our friends at S.I.RNash- you’ve been such an important part of this record. From writing and pre-production to rehearsing and performing, it all happened in the big room at the end of the hall! Thank you for being so good to us. Big love to Nick Raskulinecz, the man with the plan. Thank you for believing in me, for pushing me, for making me stronger, for cracking me up, and knowing when to say HELL YEAH!! Thank you Paul Figueroa: Engineer extraordinaire, master chef, bowling champion! Thank you Terry, Tim, Will and Troy for having my back, for bringing rad, inventive ideas to the table, and most of all, for making it LOUD! Thank you so much David Campbell, Dave Eggar and all of the string players. Thank you Chris Vrenna, you rule! Thank you Will B. Hunt for the inspiration, the good times, and the very special music we made together. Thank you to John Nicholson, one of my new favorite people! Also thank you to Phyllis Sparks and Mike Simmons. Thank you Dave Fortman, for your advice, support, and friendship throughout my career. Thank you Diana Meltzer for discovering me and always supporting me! Thank you Josh, for supporting and encouraging me to be brave and remember love, above all. Thank you Mom, Dad, Carrie, Lori, and Robby for being my biggest fans and always supporting me, making me feel safe when life gets hard, and taking me to Disney World no matter how old I get! Love to all of my wonderful family- I am so blessed. Gotta give a shout out to my girl, Beth! Thanks for being someone I can always count on. I can’t wait to laugh around the world with you once more! Thank you Zach and Stacy Williams, for your friendship and your inspiration. Thank you Eddie “Muscles” Mapp (for being awesome). Thank you everyone at Wind-up records for working so hard for us and putting out this album. Thank you Andy Lurie for all your hard work and support. Thank you Chrissy Igoe and the rest of 110 Management. Thank you Gary Haber and Patty Wicker for everything you do for me! Thank you Ken Ewing, Sheryl Rowling and Steve Baron. A very special thank you to our fans, for listening to our music, for letting it take a place in your hearts, for sharing your lives with us, for making all of this possible.

evanescence 2003 - 2023 poster i made in canva