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Comments (17)I never binge watch anything . . . until DD comes home from college, that is (LOL)! Over her Spring break, we bw'd "Big Bang Theory". Now home here and recuperating from her tonsillectomy, we're binge watching "Grace and Frankie" and "Fraser". All of the above, we've bw'd before....See MoreYou must watch this series if you're building!
Comments (12)Love this show! I wouldn't agree that it is free of made-up drama, though. There are loads of memes out there regarding the somewhat predictable format the show can take. https://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/this-is-what-every-episode-of-grand-designs-is-like https://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/jokes-about-grand-designs-that-are-true-af Everyone watching knows these are pretty spot on, lol. But still a really great show. With so many shows on HGTV and the like, it's a shame there aren't more that follow an entire home build from start to finish....See MoreStarting a new cooking video series!
Comments (14)The lighting was good, particularly through the window, and that's really hard, so your partner deserves the praise. The visual composition was good too, and the kitchen looks real and homey, but clean. Dirty looking kitchens in cooking videos make me nuts. Your voice and manner are very pleasant and inviting. Even though there were a few places where you didn't speak, it was natural and didn't have me shouting, "Dead air!". It's nice to have a little pause. People talking just to fill air can be grating. I figure you want to hear some negatives, too, so I'll mention the ones that struck me, but you've done a good job and should feel encouraged. Take the rest for what it's worth, or ignore it altogether. I didn't like the title sequence. It was louder than the rest and the music wasn't well optimized for tinny computer speakers. It was pretty, so you can probably work that out. If the food ties in with your music rather than being totally separate, you should show that in some way, to develop a unified identity, rather than ... wait! isn't she a ... I also didn't like the quick cuts. The presentation itself was so calm and nice, there's a mismatch. Think about what the sequence is saying about what you want people to take away. The lasting memories I have of the visuals are a girl pouring dark liquid through a metal funnel, and a mountain dulcimer sitting on the ground by itself. It doesn't make sense! I know you know that the very beginning of the presentation was awkward. You might lose people there. Once you started taking about what you were doing, everything was flowing and pretty clear. You might think about cutting to that part, or editing in a separate opening. For instance, a short introduction that says something about who you are and why I should want to learn to make sauerkraut from you might be nice. I liked what you had to say about why sauerkraut is good. I also really liked that you explained about different styles of cutting the cabbage, and that adding the parsnip or other root veg was different. The preserved lemon didn't get its due, however, and you didn't describe how these additions changed the flavor of the sauerkraut. How would the preserved lemon be different from using fresh, for instance. And I cook parsnips often, but have never tasted brined or pickled parsnips, so a clue as to how they taste would be good. You mentioned splitting the salt but didn't say why you did that (to distribute it through the jar maybe?), and I wasn't clear on what was already in the jar. You didn't say how big the jar was, how much the cabbage and parsnip weighed or how much of what kind of preserved lemon, so there's no real recipe there. You talked about being able to wing it, but you need to give a starting place for someone who has never made it. A lot of people might view the video but not bother to go to your website for the recipe if they think you aren't thorough. The discussion on brine and what it does for preservation, and the effect of the prebiotics was informative in just the right amount for a short video. You introduced the ideas but didn't weigh it down with a lecture. What was less clear was what the bubbles are from and what they mean. You also didn't include how to tell when the kraut has gone bad, which is important when you're out camping. :) I think while the silences are cozy, you could spend a little more attention on filling in a little more information, and not quite as much just pounding down the cabbage. All of the above is meant as stuff to think about. You've really done a very good job and I found the video interesting and entertaining. Welcome to the Cooking forum. I hope you stick around....See MoreIs anyone watching the series Chernobyl on HBO?
Comments (41)What it's like for me here..it's hard to write about it, I mean in this format of short(or even long, in my case) posts. I grew up with this radar though..I sense things..I've a pretty good compass of good and evil. It's hard to understand a country-any country-until you lived there. Books help of course. good books I mean. Yet still. Sometimes even physical presense is not enough-you need to really spend years somewhere. I'm afraid to count how many years I am here-and it's only now I feel that I'm closer to understanding all the complexity. So no wonder people here can't wrap their mind about things that happenned ocean plus away. I'll try to be brief..not about US for now, but about Chernobyl times.. They told only because they couldn't afford not to tell, at some point. They always seem to feel they have a lot, a lot of disposable resources. Like people, for example. I don't mean the country, there are good folks everywhere-I mean the state. the empire. There were many things they never told about. Including catastrophes and accidents. Some things that they deemed not comme-il-faut, that hurt their image and their proclamations, simply didn't exist. They existed-but they were swept under the carpet with such efficiency one hardly had time to blink. All the numbers of people they deliberately killed, repressed, deported, misplaced, etcetera-it all can be easily googled. And it's tens of millions. all of it sounds surreal. yet it was incredibly real. Here they were just, well..they weren't even in an active mode of evil. They just kept silent because they could, and until they could not. As for the writing..no..I didn't think about it, at least not in terms of describing big societal things like Chernobyl There are many very fine writers. And I just recently read some memoirs of different people who knew Leo Tolstoy-and it seems I share his opinion about writing. Which was approximately "don't write unless you feel you completely and utterly can't resist anymore" (he also thought, like me, it should be "useful'. The whatever you write. For the mankind. But we strongly disagree on poetry..me and Leo Tolstoy. lol) also I do write, in a way..it's too much of me here even in this thread)) Re Tired, I've been to Lvov-yes, it's a very beautiful city. I was with my schoolmates, we had a class trip there. I remember it very fondly....See More- 7 years agolast modified: 7 years ago
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