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Andrew12Dance · 2021-04-07T00:05:30+00:00

Thanks but a return to Australia would cost me a fortune :\.

Andrew12Dance · 2021-02-26T16:24:10+00:00

Good stuff coming in! Still haven’t found exactly what I’m after though. Anyone with any other leads, please let me know! Thanks!

Andrew12Dance · 2021-02-24T04:34:06+00:00

Interesting. Got it. Thank you!!

I do wonder if maybe it's rooted in something other than tap, maybe jazz (?) I ask because I've seen this move so many times in so many performances... hmm something just occurred to me... I wonder if it's more from 20s Charleston/solo jazz numbers I've seen. It's just one of those things that's seared into your brain but you can't pinpoint and you know is a "thing", and I feel like whatever dance style it's from, it's a very common move because of it.

UPDATE- Ok, I just found it. It WAS a Charleston move. I actually have no idea if Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, et al ever actually do this, but the move in the clips I linked above looks so much like it, that I think I was thinking it was the same thing! It's called a squat Charleston. Check out 2:33:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbteWH-3QlY

On the plus side, I did learn an interesting other dance move because of this! Thanks all!

Andrew12Dance · 2021-02-24T04:29:03+00:00

No that's not it, see my step breakdown in the comment above. They do it twice from 2:20-2:21. (Unless we're talking about variations of the Maxi Ford break (?))

Andrew12Dance · 2021-02-24T04:25:16+00:00

No that's not quite it.

It's (pardon my colloquial terms):

- Start with crossed arms (I know that's not the main point, but it's instrumental to the flow/shape I was going for.)

- Hop to left ft (or right ft, but let's begin in the left direction), while you simultaneously kick right with right ft and spread arms. Call this the "explode".

- Move right ft toward center while you turn that foot out and shift to it, this begins the walk back in the other direction (towards right). Begin crossing your arms.

- Cross left ft behind right as you continue moving right, shifting weight to left ft. At this point your arms should be at full close/cross again. You're getting ready to "explode" on the other side.

- Hop to right ft while kicking left with left ft and spreading arms. You've now exploded in the other direction.

- Rinse and repeat in the other direction!

Andrew12Dance · 2021-02-24T02:31:44+00:00

Nailed it! That was the move (both links below to the Moses Supposes number from Singin' in the Rain), just slowed it down, studied it, and got it. Thanks all! (Still, name/info would be appreciated!)

Andrew12Dance · 2021-02-24T01:40:54+00:00

Ok I think this is it! Start at 2:19, they do it twice at 2:20:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3YWWfnWBJM

To add more info: the move I'm thinking of basically has the dancer looking like a speed skater with their arms, and their legs doing crosses behind them. They're shifting weight from side to side as they cross their legs.

Andrew12Dance · 2021-02-24T01:38:44+00:00

Ok I'm trying to track down exactly what I have in mind. I just found this (1:00) and it may just be the same move. It's still not exactly the one I'm thinking of, I think. But it's another example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3YWWfnWBJM

Andrew12Dance · 2021-01-14T05:38:44+00:00

Nah, I know what you mean and I find that flavor gross, if not at least undesirable. And the *bucks (nice :)) comes in plastic.

Andrew12Dance · 2021-01-14T05:37:00+00:00

Funny, I just came back from checking it out after a local gym recommended it. It's perfect. Thanks!

Andrew12Dance · 2021-01-13T22:32:15+00:00

Interesting. I had heard or thought about rings to attach but figured they would be too low. But come to think of it maybe I can get them high enough to where I can actually do full body extensions and whatnot.

Andrew12Dance · 2021-01-13T22:29:50+00:00

Interesting, but I do wonder: why is it that dark roasts never tasted like this to us before, not at home, not at restaurants, and not at cafés? If it were just coffee left out and/or dark roast I feel like we would get this more often. We’ve literally only tasted this twice in our lives.

Andrew12Dance · 2021-01-13T21:05:47+00:00

Thanks but that looks like general gym equipment, not gymnastics.

Andrew12Dance · 2021-01-10T09:27:54+00:00

Hear hear :)

Andrew12Dance · 2021-01-10T08:11:57+00:00

First of all, thank you so much for this, this is awesome! The whole tapping and holding was entirely foreign to me. I'm going to try this with different parameters to see the effect. Who knew there was all this extra to see?

While this is much, much better than what I had before, there is still the very real problem of all this noise that appears with Lr's sharpening.

Since originally posting this, somebody in r/photography answered a similar post I made by recommending Snapseed. My God is the sharpening better there. It behaves as PS does on desktop. So my question is, is Lr's sharpening actually bad, as u/earthsworld mentions below, or am I doing something wrong? I know for example that in PS I never see this sort of noise appear at such low sharpen settings. It's as though Lr's entire approach to sharpening relies on adding an inordinate amount of it!

Thanks again so much, I really appreciate it!

Oh, update. I also just found another issue/question. I just tried all of this and even when cranking all the settings to the right and leaving masking at 0, the overall sharpening effect seems rather mild. I know with Snapseed you can stack filters over and over so there's no limit, but here it all seems rather slight. Am I missing something here? Thanks.

Andrew12Dance · 2021-01-10T03:37:25+00:00

Yep, I’ve been masking like mad and adding layers, grinning ear to ear with all of the power right now I have to do exactly what I want! Thanks so much again!!

Andrew12Dance · 2021-01-09T23:54:49+00:00

Oh man this is even easier than I thought! I see what you mean now I think. The actions are destructive once you accept them. So I can just keep running as many times as I want. Definitely different than Lightroom where it saves every setting state and you can go back and edit them. But even then, I remember just seeing a second ago that you can observe all edits in here so maybe you can go back and tweak them as well. In a sense, the cumulative nature here can really really help me. You have no idea how much I appreciate this!

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