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By Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nicolaevich
Title: The Storm
Author: Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nicolaevich
Subject: Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Up to the years of the Crimean War Russia was always a strange, uncouth riddle to the European consciousness. It would be an interesting study to trace back through the last three centuries the evidence of the historical documents that our forefathers have left us when they were brought face to face, through missions, embassies, travel, and commerce, with the fantastic life, as it seemed to them, led by the Muscovite. But in any chance record we may pick up, from the reports of a seventeenth century embassy down to the narrative of an early nineteenth century traveler, the note always insisted on is that of all the outlandish civilizations, queer manners and customs of Europeans, the Russian?s were the queerest and those standing furthest removed from the other nations? and this sentiment has prevailed to-day, side by side with the better understanding we have gained of Russia. Nor can this conception, generally held among us, which is a half truth, be removed by personal contact or mere objective study; for example, of the innumerable memoirs published on the Crimean war, it is rare to find one that gives us any real insight into the nature of the Russian. And the conception itself can only be amended and enlarged by the study of the Russian mind as it expresses itself in its own literature. The mind of the great artist, of whatever race he springs, cannot lie. From the works of Thackeray and George Eliot in England and Turgenev and Tolstoi in Russia, a critic penetrates into the secret places of the national life, where all the clever objective pictures of foreign critics must lead him astray. Ostrovsky?s drama, ?The Storm,? here translated for the English reader, is a good instance of this truth. It is a revelation of the old-fashioned Muscovite life from the inside, and Ostrovsky thereby brings us in closer relation to that primitive life than was in the power of Tolstoi or Goncharov, or even Gogol to bring us. These great writers have given us admirable pictures of the people?s life as it appeared to them at the angle of the educated Westernised Russian mind; but here in ?The Storm? is the atmosphere of the little Russian town, with its primitive inhabitants, merchants, and workpeople, an atmosphere untouched, unadulterated by the ideas of any outside European influence. It is the Russia of Peter the Great and Catherine?s time, the Russian patriarchal family life that has existed for hundreds of years through all the towns and villages of Great Russia, that lingers indeed to-day in out-of-the-way corners of the Empire, though now invaded and much broken up by modern influences. It is, in fact, the very Muscovite life that so puzzled our forefathers, and that no doubt will seem strange to many English readers. But the special triumph of ?The Storm? is that although it is a realistic picture of old-fashioned Russian patriarchal life, it is one of the deepest and simplest psychological analyses of the Russian soul ever made. It is a very deep though a very narrow analysis. Katerina, the heroine, to the English will seem weak, and crushed through her weakness; but to a Russian she typifies revolt, freedom, a refusal to be bound by the cruelty of life. And her attitude, despairing though it seems to us, is indeed the revolt of the spirit in a land where Tolstoi?s doctrine of non-resistance is the logical outcome of centuries of serfdom in a people?s history. The merchant Dikoy, the bully, the soft characterless lover Boris, the idealistic religious Katerina, Kuligin the artisan, and Madame Kabanova, the tyrannical mother, all these are true national types, true Russians of the changing ages, and the counterparts of these people may be met to-day, if the reader takes up Tehehov?s tales. English people no doubt will find it difficult to believe that Madame Kabanova could so have crushed Katerina?s life, as Ostrovsky depicts. Nothing indeed is so antagonistic to English individualism and independence as is the passivity of some of the characters in ?The Storm.? But the English reader?s very difficulty in this respect should give him a clue to much that has puzzled Europeans, should help him to penetrate into the strangeness of Russian political life, the strangeness of her love of despotism. Only in the country that produces such types of weakness and tyranny is possible the fettering of freedom of thought and act that we have in Russia to-day. Ostrovsky?s striking analysis of this fatalism in the Russian soul will help the reader to understand the unending struggle in Russia between the enlightened Europeanised intelligence of the few, and the apathy of the vast majority of Russians who are disinclined to rebel against the crystallised conditions of their lives. Whatever may be strange and puzzling in ?The Storm? to the English mind, there is no doubt that the Russians hail the picture as essentially true. The violence of such characters as Madame Kabanova and Dikoy may be weakened to-day everywhere by the gradual undermining of the patriarchal family system now in progress throughout Russia, but the picture is in essentials a criticism of the national life. On this point the Russian critic Dobroliubov, criticising ?The Storm,? says: ?The need for justice, for respect for personal rights, this is the cry ... that rises up to the ear of every attentive reader. Well, can we deny the wide application of this need in Russia? Can we fail to recognize that such a dramatic background corresponds with the true condition of Russian society? Take history, think of our life, look about you, everywhere you will find justification of our words. This is not the place to launch out into historical investigation; it is enough to point out that our history up to the most recent times has not fostered among us the development of a respect for equity, has not created any solid guarantees for personal rights, and has left a wide field to arbitrary tyranny and caprice.? This criticism of Dobroliubov?s was written in 1860, the date of the play; but we have only to look back at the internal history of Russia for the last thirty years to see that it too ?has not created any solid guarantees for personal rights, and has left a wide field to arbitrary tyranny and caprice.? and here is Ostrovsky?s peculiar merit, that he has in his various dramas penetrated deeper than any other of the great Russian authors into one of the most fundamental qualities of the Russian nature?its innate tendency to arbitrary power, oppression, despotism. Nobody has drawn so powerfully, so truly, so incisively as he, the type of the ?samodor? or ?bully,? a type that plays a leading part in every strata of Russian life. From Turgenev we learn more of the reverse side of the Russian character, its lack of will, tendency to weakness, dreaminess and passivity: and it is this aspect that the English find it so hard to understand, when they 4 compare the characters in the great Russian novels with their own idea of Russia?s formidable power. The people and the nation do not seem to correspond. But the riddle may be read in the coexistence of Russia?s internal weakness and misery along with her huge force, and the immense role she fills as a civilising power. In ?The Storm? we have all the contradictory elements: a life strongly organised, yet weak within; strength and passivity, despotism and fatalism side by side. The author of ?The Storm,? Alexander Ostrovsky (born in Moscow 1823, died 1886), is acknowledged to be the greatest of the Russian dramatists. He has been called ?a specialist in the natural history of the Russian merchant,? and his birth, upbringing, family connections and vocations gave him exceptional facilities for penetrating into the life of that class which he was the first to put into Russian literature. His best period was from 1850 to 1860, but all his work received prompt and universal recognition from his countrymen. In 1859 Dobroliubov?s famous article, ?The Realm of Darkness,? appeared, analysing the contents of all Ostrovsky?s dramas, and on the publication of ?The Storm? in 1860, it was followed by another article from the same critic, ?A Ray of Light in the Realm of Darkness.? These articles were practically a brief for the case of the Liberals, or party of Progress, against the official and Slavophil party. Ostrovsky?s dramas in general are marked by intense sombreness, biting humor and merciless realism. ?The Storm? is the most poetical of his works, but all his leading plays still hold the stage.
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Dispersion of Revata s descendants: those of Dhrishta: those of Nabhaga. Birth of Ikshwaku, the son of Vaivaswata: his sons. Line of Vikukshi. Legend of Kakutstha; of Dhundhumara; of Yuvanaswa; of Mandhatri: his daughters married to Saubhari.
Parasara. Whilst Kakudmin, surnamed Raivata, was absent on his visit to the region of Brahma, the evil spirits or Rakshasas named Punyajanas destroyed his capital Kusasthali. His hundred brothers, through dread of these foes, fled in different directions; and the Kshatriyas, their descendants, settled in many countries 1.
From Dhrishta, the son of the Manu, sprang the Kshatriya race of Dharshtaka 2.
The son of Nabhaga was Nabhaga 3; his son was
[paragraph continues] Ambarisha 4; his son was Virupa 5; his son was Prishadaswa; his son was Rathinara, of whom it is sung, "These, who were Kshatriyas by birth, the heads of the family of Rathinara, were called angirasas (or sons of Angiras), and were Brahmans as well as Kshatriyas 6."
Ikshwaku was born from the nostril of the Manu, as he happened to sneeze 7. He had a hundred sons, of whom the three most distinguished were Vikukshi, Nimi, and Danda. Fifty of the rest, under Sakuni, were the protectors of the northern countries. Forty eight were the princes of the south 8.
Upon one of the days called Ashtaka 9, Ikshwaku being desirous of celebrating ancestral obsequies, ordered Vikukshi to bring him flesh suitable for the offering. The prince accordingly went into the forest, and killed many deer, and other wild animals, for the celebration. Being weary with the chase, and being hungered, he sat down, and ate a hare; after which, being refreshed, he carried the rest of the game to his father. Vasishtha, the family priest of the house of Ikshwaku, was summoned to consecrate the food; but he declared that it was impure, in consequence of Vikukshi s having eaten a hare from amongst it (making it thus, as it were, the residue of his meal). Vikukshi was in consequence abandoned by his offended father, and the epithet sasada (hare eater) was affixed to him by the Guru. On the death of Ikshwaku, the dominion of the earth descended to sasada 10, who was succeeded by his son Puranjaya.
In the Treta age a violent war 11 broke out between the gods and the Asuras, in which the former were vanquished. They consequently had recourse to Vishnu for assistance, and propitiated him by their adorations. The eternal ruler of the universe, Narayana, had compassion upon them, and said, "What you desire is known unto me. Hear how your wishes shall be fulfilled. There is an illustrious prince named Puranjaya, the son of a royal sage; into his person I will infuse a portion of myself, and having descended upon earth I will in his person subdue all your enemies. Do you therefore endeavour to secure the aid
of Puranjaya for the destruction of your foes." Acknowledging with reverence the kindness of the deity, the immortals quitted his presence, and repaired to Puranjaya, whom they thus addressed: "Most renowned Kshatriya, we have come to thee to solicit thy alliance against our enemies: it will not become thee to disappoint our hopes." The prince replied, "Let this your Indra, the monarch of the spheres, the god of a hundred sacrifices, consent to carry me upon his shoulders, and I will wage battle with your adversaries as your ally." The gods and Indra readily answered, "So be it;" and the latter assuming the shape of a bull, the prince mounted upon his shoulder. Being then filled with delight, and invigorated by the power of the eternal ruler of all movable and immovable things, he destroyed in the battle that ensued all the enemies of the gods; and because he annihilated the demon host whilst seated upon the shoulder (or the hump, Kakud) of the bull, he thence obtained the appellation Kakutstha (seated on the hump 12).
The son of Kakutstha was Anenas 13, whose son was Prithu, whose son was Viswagaswa 14, whose son was ardra 15, whose son was Yuvanaswa, whose son was sravasta, by whom the city of sravasti 16 was founded. The son of sravasta was Vrihadaswa, whose son was Kuvalayaswa. This prince, inspired with the spirit of Vishnu, destroyed the Asura Dhundhu, who had harassed the pious sage Uttanka; and he was thence entitled Dhundhumara 17. In his conflict with the demon
the king was attended by his sons, to the number of twenty one thousand; and all these, with the exception of only three, perished in the engagement, consumed by the fiery breath of Dhundhu. The three who survived were Dridhaswa, Chandraswa, and Kapilaswa; and the son and successor of the elder of these was Haryyaswa; his son was Nikumbha; his son was Sanhataswa; his son was Krisaswa; his son was Prasenajit; and his son was another Yuvanaswa 18.
Yuvanaswa had no son, at which he was deeply grieved. Whilst residing in the vicinage of the holy Munis, he inspired them with pity for his childless condition, and they instituted a religious rite to procure him progeny. One night during its performance the sages having
placed a vessel of consecrated water upon the altar had retired to repose. It was past midnight, when the king awoke, exceedingly thirsty; and unwilling to disturb any of the holy inmates of the dwelling, he looked about for something to drink. In his search he came to the water in the jar, which had been sanctified and endowed with prolific efficacy by sacred texts, and he drank it. When the Munis rose, and found that the water had been drunk, they inquired who had taken it, and said, "The queen that has drunk this water shall give birth to a mighty and valiant son." "It was I," exclaimed the Raja, "who unwittingly drank the water!" and accordingly in the belly of Yuvanaswa was conceived a child, and it grew, and in due time it ripped open the right side of the Raja, and was born, and the Raji, did not die. Upon the birth of the child, "Who will be its nurse?" said the Munis; when, Indra, the king of the gods, appeared, and said, "He shall have me for his nurse" (mam dhasyati); and hence the boy was named Mandhatri. Indra put his fore finger into the mouth of the infant, who sucked it, and drew from it heavenly nectar; and he grew up, and became a mighty monarch, and reduced the seven continental zones under his dominion. And here a verse is recited; "From the rising to the going down of the sun, all that is irradiated by his light, is the land of Mandhatri, the son of Yuvanaswa 19."
Mandhatri married Vindumati, the daughter of sasavindu, and had by her three sons, Purukutsa, Ambarisha, and Muchukunda; he had also fifty daughters 20.
The devout sage Saubhari, learned in the Vedas, had spent twelve years immersed in a piece of water; the sovereign of the fish in which, named Sammada, of large bulk, had a very numerous progeny. His children and his grandchildren were wont to frolic around him in all
directions, and he lived amongst them happily, playing with them night and day. Saubhari the sage, being disturbed in his devotions by their sports, contemplated the patriarchal felicity of the monarch of the lake, and reflected, "How enviable is this creature, who, although horn in a degraded state of being, is ever thus sporting cheerfully amongst his offspring and their young. Of a truth he awakens in my mind the wish to taste such pleasure, and I also will make merry amidst my children." Having thus resolved, the Muni came up hastily from the water, and, desirous of entering upon the condition of a householder, went to Mandhatri to demand one of his daughters as his wife. As soon as he was informed of the arrival of the sage, the king rose up from his throne, offered him the customary libation, and treated him with the most profound respect. Having taken a seat, Saubhari said to the Raja, "I have determined to marry: do you, king, give me one of your daughters as a wife: disappoint not my affection. It is not the practice of the princes of the race of Kakutstha to turn away from compliance with the wishes of those who come to them for succour. There are, O monarch, other kings of the earth to whom daughters have been born, but your family is above all renowned for observance. of liberality in your donations to those who ask your bounty. You have, O prince, fifty daughters; give one of them to me, that so I may be relieved from the anxiety I suffer through fear that my
it may be denied."
When Mandhatri heard this request, and looked upon the person of the sage, emaciated by austerity and old age, he felt disposed to refuse his consent; but dreading to incur the anger and imprecation of the holy man, he was much perplexed, and, declining his head, was lost a while in thought. The Rishi, observing his hesitation, said, "On what, O Raja, do you meditate? I have asked for nothing which may not be readily accorded: and what is there that shall he unattainable to you, if my desires be gratified by the damsel whom you must needs give unto me?" To this, the king, apprehensive of his displeasure, answered and said, Grave" sir, it is the established usage of our house to wed our daughters to such persons only as they shall themselves select from suitors of fitting rank; and since this your request is not yet made known to my
maidens, it is impossible to say whether it may be equally agreeable to them as it is to me. This is the occasion of my perplexity, and I am at a loss what to do." This answer of the king was fully understood by the Rishi, who said to himself, "This is merely a device of the Raja to evade compliance with my suit: the has reflected that I am an old man, having no attractions for women, and not likely to be accepted by any of his daughters: even be it so; I will be a match for him:" and he then spake aloud, and said, "Since such is the custom, mighty prince, give orders that I be admitted into the interior of the palace. Should any of the maidens your daughters be willing to take me for a bridegroom, I will have her for my bride; if no one be willing, then let the blame attach alone to the years that I have numbered." Having thus spoken, he was silent.
Mandhatri, unwilling to provoke the indignation of the Muni, was accordingly obliged to command the eunuch to lead the sage into the inner chambers; who, as he entered the apartments, put on a form and features of beauty far exceeding the personal charms of mortals, or even of heavenly spirits. His conductor, addressing the princesses, said to them, "Your father, young ladies, sends you this pious sage, who has demanded of him a bride; and the Raja has promised him, that he will not refuse him any one of you who shall choose him for her husband." When the damsels heard this, and looked upon the person of the Rishi, they were equally inspired with passion and desire, and, like a troop of female elephants disputing the favours of the master of the herd, they all contended for the choice. "Away, away, sister!" said each to the other; "this is my election, he is my choice; he is not a meet bridegroom for you; he has been created by Brahma on purpose for me, as I have been created in order to become his wife: he has been chosen by me before you; you have no right to prevent his becoming my husband." In this way arose a violent quarrel amongst the daughters of the king, each insisting upon the exclusive election of the Rishi: and as the blameless sage was thus contended for by the rival princesses, the superintendent of the inner apartments, with a downcast look, reported to the king what had occurred. Perplexed more than ever by this
information, the Raja exclaimed, "What is all this! and what am I to do now! What is it that I have said!" and at last, although with extreme reluctance, he was obliged to agree that the Rishi should marry all his daughters.
Having then wedded, agreeably to law, all the princesses, the sage took them home to his habitation, where he employed the chief of architects, Viswakarman, equal in taste and skill to Brahma himself, to construct separate palaces for each of his wives: he ordered him to provide each building with elegant couches and seats and furniture, and to attach to them gardens and groves, with reservoirs of water, where the wild duck and the swan should sport amidst beds of lotus flowers. The divine artist obeyed his injunctions, and constructed splendid apartments for the wives of the Rishi; in which by command of Saubhari, the inexhaustible and divine treasure called Nanda 21 took up his permanent abode, and the princesses entertained all their guests and dependants with abundant viands of every description and the choicest quality.
After some period had elapsed, the heart of king Mandhatri yearned for his daughters, and he felt solicitous to know whether they were happily circumstanced. Setting off therefore on a visit to the hermitage of Saubhari, he beheld upon his arrival a row of beautiful crystal palaces, shining as brilliantly as the rays of the sun, and situated amidst lovely gardens, and reservoirs of pellucid water. Entering into one of these magnificent palaces, he found and embraced a daughter, and said to her, as the tears of affection and delight trembled in his eyes, "Dear child, tell me how it is with you. Are you happy here? or not? Does the great sage treat you with tenderness? or do you revert with regret to your early home?" The princess replied, "You behold, my father, how delightful a mansion I inhabit, surrounded by lovely gardens and lakes, where the lotus blooms, and the wild swans murmur. Here I have delicious viands, fragrant unguents, costly ornaments, splendid raiment, soft beds, and every enjoyment that affluence can procure. Why then should I call to memory the place of my birth? To your favour am I
indebted for all that I possess. I have only one cause of anxiety, which is this; my husband is never absent from my dwelling: solely attached to me, he is always at my side; he never goes near my sisters; and I am concerned to think that they must feel mortified by his neglect: this is the only circumstance that gives me uneasiness."
Proceeding to visit another of his daughters, the king, after embracing her, and sitting down, made the same inquiry, and received the same account of the enjoyments with which the princess was provided: there was also the same complaint, that the Rishi was wholly devoted to her, and paid no attention to her sisters. In every palace Mandhatri heard the same story from each of his daughters in reply to his questions; and with a heart overflowing with wonder and delight he repaired to the wise Saubhari, whom he found alone, and, after paying homage to him, thus addressed him: "Holy sage, I have witnessed this thy marvellous power; the like miraculous faculties I have never known any other to possess. How great is the reward of thy devout austerities!" Having thus saluted the sage, and been received by him with respect, the Raja resided with him for some time, partaking of the pleasures of the place, and then returned to his capital.
In the course of time the daughters of Mandhatri bore to Saubhari a hundred and fifty sons, and day by day his affection for his children became more intense, and his heart was wholly occupied, with the sentiment of self 22. "These my sons," he loved to think, "will charm me with their infant prattle; then they will learn to walk; they will then grow up to youth and to manhood: I shall see them married, and they will have children; and I may behold the children of those children." By these and similar reflections, however, he perceived that his anticipations every day outstripped the course of time, and at last he exclaimed, "What exceeding folly is mine! there is no end to my desires. Though all I hope should come to pass for ten thousand or a hundred thousand years, still new wishes would spring up. When I have seen my infants walk; when I have beheld their youth, their manhood, their marriage, their progeny; still my expectations are unsatisfied,
and my soul yearns to behold the descendants of their descendants. Shall I even see them, some other wish will be engendered; and when that is accomplished, how is the birth of fresh desires to he prevented? I have at last discovered that there is no end to hope, until it terminates in death; and that the mind which is perpetually engrossed by expectation, can never be attached to the supreme spirit. My mental devotions, whilst immersed in water, were interrupted by attachment to my friend the fish. The result of that connexion was my marriage; and insatiable desires are the consequences of my married life. The pain attendant upon the birth of my single body, is now augmented by the cares attached to fifty others, and is farther multiplied by the numerous children whom the princesses have borne to me. The sources of affliction will be repeatedly renewed by their children, and by their espousals, and by their progeny, and will be infinitely increased: a married life is a mine of individual anxiety. My devotions, first disturbed by the fish of the pool, have since been obstructed by temporal indulgence, and I have been beguiled by that desire for progeny which was communicated to me by association with Sammada. Separation from the world is the only path of the sage to final liberation: from commerce with mankind innumerable errors proceed. The ascetic who has accomplished a course of self denial falls from perfection by contracting worldly attachments: how much more likely
uld one so fall whose observances are incomplete? My intellect has been a prey to the desire of married happiness; but I will now so exert myself for the salvation of my soul, that, exempt from human imperfections, I may be exonerated from human sufferings. To that end I will propitiate, by arduous penance, Vishnu, the creator of the universe, whose form is inscrutable, who is smaller than the smallest, larger than the largest, the source of darkness and of light, the sovereign god of gods. On his everlasting body, which is both discrete and indiscrete substance, illimitably mighty, and identical with the universe, may my mind, wholly free from sin, be ever steadily intent, so that I may be born no more. To him I fly for refuge; to that Vishnu, who is the teacher of teachers, who is one with all beings, the pure eternal lord of all, without beginning, middle, or end, and besides whom is nothing."
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Amos: I’d like the .45 instead of the 9 millimeter
By Gina Harkins on March 13, 2014 Battle Rattle, Commandant, Marksmanship
A congressman told Gen. James Amos that Marines in his district would like to see their M9 service pistol replaced with a .45-caliber — and Amos replied that he would, too. Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., said he recently spent time with Marines during a wounded warrior function, during Wednesday’s House Armed Services Committee hearing on the proposed Navy-Marine Corps fiscal 2015 budget. Before the congressman launched into questions on the budget, he said there were a few those Marines asked him to speak up for. The first was the deadly A-10 Thunderbolt, which the Air Force flies to provide close-air support.…
Video: Larry Vickers discusses the new Marine Corps rifle sling he designed
By Dan Lamothe on January 20, 2012 Gear, Marksmanship
The Marine Corps made a significant change in the fall, deciding to adopt a new common weapon sling for service rifles. That sling, as Marine Corps Times reported here, is the Vickers Combat Applications two-point sling, made by Blue Force Gear, of Pooler, Ga. It’s designed by Larry Vickers, a retired special operator well regarded for his innovation in the marksmanship world. Rob Curtis, Military Times’ Gear Scout blogger, ran into Vickers at SHOT Show this week. They discussed several items on video, including the new Marine Corps sling. Check it out here: [brightcove video=”1401244280001″ /]
Your chance to read the Marine Corps' marksmanship program analysis
By Dan Lamothe on October 13, 2010 Marksmanship, Training
By now, you may have seen Marine Corps Times’ coverage of a controversial report filed last year by the service’s Operations Analysis Division assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the Marine Corps Marksmanship Program. As my story points out, Weapons Training Battalion, out of Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., took exception to some of the findings by OAD, which falls under Marine Corps Combat Development Command, also out of Quantico. Four major recommendations were made: Develop a new organization to oversee all marksmanship training, embark on a substantial range upgrade plan, remove rifle scores from the promotion process and overhaul annual…
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Boulder, Colorado: Leading Solar By Example
{ January 16th, 2012 }
By Tor ‘Solar Fred’ Valenza
Boulder, Colorado has been on my solar radar for a number of years. It’s one of the cities that I covered in 2009 when part of my job was tracking solar rebates. They were generous then—around $3/watt… less so now. But those generous rebates and other factors have created a beautiful and inspiring solar community, although it’s not a perfect solar world.
The last time I was in Boulder was about 20 years ago. Since then, it has grown from a progressive University and renewable energy research town (NREL is there) to an upscale, progressive, outdoorsy Denver suburb and bedroom community of about 100,000 people. For those in the San Francisco Bay area, think Burlingame with snow and lots of visible solar roofs.
Beyond the solar visibility, the town is just flat-out eco-friendly. There are bike lanes everywhere here. Some are in the roads and other paths are hidden behind homes in a tree-lined bike alley system. Although I arrived just after a December snowstorm, I continued to see Boulderites using those bike lanes, and as the snow melted, their numbers increased. (I’m told that the warmer months are especially filled with local bike commuters.)
Boulder’s commitment to the bicycle lifestyle despite potentially harsh weather is reflective of its commitment to solar and renewable energy. Yes, there’s snow, but that hasn’t dampened residential solar too much, though I do have one solar friend who wishes someone would create a device that could cost effectively remove snow-covered panels more automatically.
Beyond its residents, the City of Boulder has committed to 1.7 megawatts of solar, and their installs are very public. They can be seen on recreation centers and even on a huge municipal building on Boulder’s main shopping district, Pearl St. Here’s a shot of the public recreation center with rows and rows of solar thermal collectors.
The city’s installs are a great symbol of green energy commitment, but that wasn’t enough for Boulder residents. Though you have to credit Xcel’s initially generous rebates for part of Boulder’s solar boom, some residents thought the investor owned utility became half-hearted once they approached Colorado’s mandated RPS quotas. Many saw Xcel starting to get in the way of distributed solar (and growing solar jobs and businesses) through abruptly slashing rebates, attempting to limit net metering, or impose new solar interconnection fees.
Rather than constantly battle Xcel through the Public Utility Commission, petitions, and protests, Boulder residents recently voted to unplug Xcel and create their own municipal utility. Although residents were warned that their utility costs could rise as a result, Boulder citizens nevertheless decided to become energy independent with an emphasis on green power, though it wasn’t a unanimous decision. The new Boulder utility’s goal is to create an energy mix of 84 megawatts of natural gas with a mix of 40 megawatts or more of rooftop solar power, and about 55 megawatts of wind, thereby reducing the city’s coal power needs to zero.
I can’t tell you how common it was for me to see solar panels on so many homes. Many homes I saw had solar hot water panels as well as solar PV, despite solar thermal incentives being less. So, how did Boulder become such a robust solar town?
In some ways, Boulder’s rapid solar growth is a reflection of today’s solar PV consolidation. Initially generous incentives from Xcel, combined with a state RPS, and the introduction of the residential 30% Federal ITC inspired this already green-minded community to demand lots of solar.
New installation companies were born to meet the demand, and that competition drove prices down — way down. In 2009 — before modules prices hit their lows of today — it was not uncommon to see installed residential prices at around $5/watt, or even in the $4’s. Today, my solar friends tell me it’s still in that range.
That kind of lowest-priced competition was great for consumers, but not sustainable for new under capitalized solar businesses, and I’m told that several installers have closed their shops. Nevertheless, their installs remain.
From a marketing perspective, my solar friends tell me that neighbors greatly influenced each other. That is, once one house on the block went solar, neighbors became curious and got a quote for themselves, and then eventually installed their own, often with the same company.
It’s unclear whether Boulder’s success can be repeated in larger cities. This is by no means a formula, but in summary, here are the points that seem to have contributed to Boulder’s solar growth:
A green-minded community. Boulder’s citizens were already progressive and open to green energy. That’s not to say that less progressive communities aren’t also open to solar, but far more customer and community education is needed than for Boulder.
A green-minded state. States with a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) compel utilities to act. Clearly, Xcel responded to the letter of the law, providing generous rebates at first. However, their perceived reluctance to go beyond the law’s requirements made the majority of their citizens vote for their own utility. That’s very difficult for any community, especially larger cities. Nevertheless, Boulder made it possible. We’ll have to see how their green aspirations compare to the reality of owning and operating their very own green municipal utility.
Generous rebates and incentives. Studies have shown that solar has to make financial sense to be adopted. Cities may not need $3/watt rebates with the recent fall in solar module prices, but every incentive helps, and Boulder has a lot of them. For now, these subsidies are still needed for rapid solar growth and states, cities, and utilities need to support them as they did in Boulder.
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It really was inspiring to travel through Boulder and see so many solar roofs in such a concentrated area. There may be more solar installed here in Los Angeles, but the city is so spread out, it requires a sharp eye to catch a solar roof.
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“If there is constructive criticism, I will surely introspect, because that is the way to grow as an individual. I cannot say I know it all. No. As an actor, I am constantly working on the nuances in my performance, and the possibility is endless,” he added.
“I am the same actor who started from zero, I started with one scene, one dialogue… a small part. My aim is to make that single opportunity magnify. I will make you remember that one dialogue. Since I did not get success overnight, I do not have the arrogance. I could have, if I would have got success at the age of 30! I have crossed 45 now, and every achievement makes me humble and not arrogant,” explained the actor.
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“Again, I am not talking about the length of the role, but the credibility. Of course, I would also like to be part of stories in which, I am the central character, for example Kaagaz,” smiled Pankaj, referring to his new OTT-released film that streams on ZEE5.
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The studio albums, live releases, compilations and box sets
Re: Greatest Hits
Sat there with a pen, rewinding them.
I see the attraction of resurgance of vinyl. Looking back, cassettes at the time had an advantage of being portable, small and convenient, and the disadvanage of not being able to withstand heat, magnetism, they seize up and stretch the tapes, or being f*cking eaten by the machines that played them.
In fact they're absolutely hideous, and compared to minidiscs, cds, downloads and streaming, are largely pointless.
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Post by Generic username » Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:37 pm
Sir Didymus wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:13 pm While it's certainly a niche market, there's definitely scope for a full set of Queen studio albums being reissued on cassette. I doubt I'd buy them myself, but they'd do enough business on them to justify it, I reckon!
Really? Something like 150,000 cassettes sold last year in the UK, and you think enough of those people might want a full set of Queen albums AND not already have them?
Post by Ray » Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:39 am
Kes wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:37 pm Sat there with a pen, rewinding them.
Exactly. I was really surprised when I suddenly saw some cassettes in my local Saturn market last year, only about 20 of them, but still, and the "Bohemian Rhapsody" soundtrack was one of them. I grew up with cassettes and liked them at the time, but today I see absolutely zero sense in buying them except for the usual collecting for collecting's sake. It's the same as with VHS, just outdated in every sense.
Aside from that, I haven't heard to Greatest Hits in years. My first three Queen albums were "Live Killers", and then both GH 1+2. Not a bad start at all in general, the problem is though that after having three compilations it's weird to listen to the actual albums. You then have your GH and LK tracks there mixed with the still new other ones in between. It took me years to stop seeing the studio albums like that and actually see them now as album tracks alongside the others, not as "the song from GH/LK".
That's why I don't like compilation albums in general. They're good for the many "casual fans" who just want a collection of the big hits. But if I really like a band/musician, I want to listen to the actual albums, at best even in chronological order.
The only thing that still remains from the GH albums to me is the different version of "I Want It All" that I still prefer to the album version...the song just flows way better there than with that weird order of song parts on the album version. I always get a little annoyed when the solo doesn't yet start at the part where it "should" start...like I know it from the GHII version of the song.
Post by Kes » Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:06 am
If you look at the history of I Want It All in the US, One of the major releases was screwed up. I'm not sure if it was the first Capitol album issue, or the first Hollywood album issue. It had half of the first chorus chopped out.
To add in the confusion, there's a third version that's on Queen Rocks, which is a hybrid between the single and album versions, it's effectively the album version with the single's intro.
I guess I feel similar about the US 7" of Radio Ga Ga, it has edits, that just sound wrong to me, everywhere else got the full album version as a single release,, the US got an edit.
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Post by Sir Didymus » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:38 pm
Generic username wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:37 pm
100%. Because cassettes are incredibly popular with younger 'collectors' at present. And hell, if Bjork can sell a whole series of her albums reissued on cassette, I'm pretty sure Queen can, especially to newer fans who hopped on board with the film. Plus you have the collectors who just want a copy of everything, and the ebay scalpers who think they'll be worth reselling at inflated prices.
Honestly, press 1,000 copies of each, sell them at £8 a pop, and watch them fly. Maybe do them in batches of 4-5 at a time... but they'll absolutely sell out in a matter of days. One look at the amount of tat that sells out on the QOL store can tell you that much.
I don't see the appeal either, and the only ones I've bought in the last decade have been ones that came as a 'bundle' with something else and I haven't bothered playing them... and yet, there they are, making easy cash for a lot of artists right now. IIRC, there were SEVEN different versions of Kylie's latest album on cassette (standard, deluxe, and then five limited edition covers) and all of them played their part in securing that #1 chart placing. Clearly from the looks of TM Store, there's enough of a market in cassettes now to make it worth it - they're cheap to produce and highly collectable til this bubble bursts... so why not have one last print run for them?
Post by BitterTears » Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:47 pm
They could definitely do a cassette version of the studio collection, make all the cassettes different colours etc and put them in a nice box.
I don't know how many they'd actually have to sell to break even though and wouldn't want to guess. I do sort of see the cassette revival stalling though as, unlike vinyl, there's not really as many reasons to actually want your music on cassette. With vinyl, you lose convenience but can argue you prefer the sound over digital alternatives. Not sure if as many people would argue the same about cassette.
Having said that, did anyone buy the Studio Collection on vinyl to listen to? I bought that purely for collecting, and wouldn't even risk those records on my turntable. I wonder if most people who bought it are the same or not?
Post by Ray » Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:58 pm
Sure, if they can sell perfume, socks and coins, they can as well sell cassettes. If Brain was into old home video stuff as much as he is into 3d photos, we would have Wembley even on Super 8 and laser disc...(better google quick)...lol, there even IS a laser disc of Wembley.
Post by Kes » Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:24 pm
Ray wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 5:58 pm ..(better google quick)...lol, there even IS a laser disc of Wembley.
Apparently, still a very popular format in Japan.
Certainly every Queen home video release up to Queen Rocks is available on laserdisc.
Post by Ray » Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:35 am
Since we never had those, I was so surprised when I ever heard of them...giant CDs with movies on them.
So glad we have Blu-rays today. Also from Queen. I wish there will come the day we get all Greatest Flix on Blu-ray as well. The DVDs are still great, but for a band like Queen it would be the right thing to also bring those over to Blu-ray.
Post by Kes » Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:47 am
Being fair, the quality on them is a bit crap, but they had a few advantages over VHS tapes, sound quality being one of them. I've got a player for them, but probably haven't watched one in five years.
As regards Greatest Flix on blu-ray, you are one of many to wish for this, and many complain about things like the aspect ratio on the past DVDs GVH 1 & 2. Their best solution is to put as many formats on there as possible original aspect ratio, cropped, widescreen, original stereo, 5.1 surround, remastered stereo. Etc etc.
They were looking at chucking them out in 3D, not really neccessary in my view.
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Re: Season 2014/15
QPR = Quit please, Rodgers.
Quote from: Ed on May 02, 2015, 02:02:08 AM
I've also noted some buzz from certain quarters:
It's clear to me though that any honeymoon period Rodgers might have
enjoyed from the fans is now well and truly over. The problem for the
club is that this creates massive pressure on the manager - cup finals in
September. Under such circumstances it just seems unwise entrust another
transfer window to a lame duck? Do we need to reach crisis point next
Autumn or Winter. Then what?
if we let this motley crew of young dimwits (the Jolly Rodgers, Barry Hunter, Alan Pascoe, etc and Pam Ayres) get another chunk of cash to spend, we will be even further into the mire.
It is so frustrating, United are there for the taking this year.....so are City and even Arsenal.
A good manager would have won the league, with Suarez.....and would have easily cemented a top three position this year.
Rodgers has to go.
I think we all know that.
The problem is though, that the issues run far deeper than merely the Brentmaster General.
Quote from: the dude abides on May 02, 2015, 11:02:10 PM
Was that you up in that there aeroplane over Anfield this afternoon?
I agree regarding our problems Dude. It's likely, imo, they'll bring a DoF in
over the Summer to protect their interests and a transition should they
need to give Rodge the bullet early next season. I can't see them doing
nothing and there's no one with a clue about football matters for them to
consult with.
Seems bizarre that we need to reduce them to 10 and then have to summon
Stevie G to bring his cavalry over the mountains to rescue the points at home
against QPR in 2015...
A sad indictment of Rodgers reign. He starts to remind me a bit of Blair.
if they bring in a DoF, we will be even more in the mire, Ed......and will show that they are even more out of touch.
And the media all lick the posterior of Gerrard yesterday.....despite his missed penalty, and all the other madness that surrounds him. He brings nothing to the team these years.
And Carraghera called the aeroplane banner an 'embarrassment'............yeah, those senior people inside Anfield who brought about the overthrow of Rafa are THE embarrassment.
And no, Ed.....twas not Dudely Biggles flying the plane. I have an alibi.
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Jurgen Klopp Says Arsenal Play Like An Orchestra But He Likes Heavy Metal
The video above impressed me, because I had been under the impression that Klopp's english was non-existent, or not very good.
It is fine.
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THEY ignored the stuff that Rafa had to do to keep the club in the mix despite the carpetbaggers that was Hicks and Gillette. Sell and buy players...
Carragher and Gerrard were instrumental in that...and now look at us...begging for scraps at the table.
yes, the un-named senior muppets who worked behind Rafa's back at Anfield, and in some cases used their media friends, to undermine Rafa, and get him sacked, have no part to play in Liverpool FC.
they clearly have not got the slightest idea about football management.
as you say, Bart, Rafa brought success to the club DESPITE the turmoil of the time.
Alan Pascoe, etc and Pam Ayres
Dude showing his age. Pascoe wasn't too shabby at the hurdles if I remember.
I betcha Pam could put into a poem the frustration we're all feeling - maybe a re-wording of The Housewife's Lament.
I bet he has all the Scorpions and Accept LPs, maybe even the odd Michael Schenker one, but for such a great musician himself, Schenker always, without fail, surrounded himself with amateurs not worthy of sharing the same stage with him.
Klopp has both intelligence and personality, though still a risk.
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Quote from: Tes on May 05, 2015, 09:30:51 PM
Very good English indeed. I'm not sure what you mean when you say he's a risk. Care to expand on that one? In any case he's deffo a risk worth taking.
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Quote from: Martinmarx on May 06, 2015, 12:20:46 PM
His record prior to Dortmund is very poor. He's done well at Dortmund, building whilst having to sell his best player(s). However, after a few good seasons, last season (in comparison) and definitely this one has seen things dive. Has the cycle ended, has he lost his touch, have simply too many players been sold, just a temporary blip, or what?
Another season at Dortmund would have given us a better idea, so we'd be taking him not knowing whether it was because or despite him that Dortmund's fortunes have so dramatically dived, especially in das Bundesliga .
It is a risk I'm not averse to either, and I have a huge amount of time for Klopp, both as a manager and what I've seen of him personally.
Funny being an LFC supporter this time of year with
nothing, nada, happening football-wise while other
clubs contest for trophies.
Must be how it feels like to be a mid-table club - which we're becoming,
albeit with a higher league position.
Quote from: Ed on May 06, 2015, 03:05:03 PM
According to Lallana we're still playing for 4th, which seems an odd thing to say when the team we're competing with happens to have recently beaten us at home, and whilst that very same team has just lost three league games in a row, we still steadfastly refused to take advantage by actually winning our games. We seem more intent on keep close company with Spurs and Southampton than actually getting any nearer to the Mancs.
And to think, we finished 2 points ahead of them last season, two major signings for them later and they're now 21 points ahead of us. They've kicked on whilst we've kicked success back into the long grass.
Under Rodgers we're also-rans, Ed.
When you look at the likes of Barca, Real Madrid, Bayern...they dominate world football because they built strong balanced squads with the odd superstar thrown in. As they gain success all they have to do is enhance with 2 or 3 players and never have to buy 8/9 players as a panic buy.
It's a slow and steady process which ultimately pays off.
I have a great deal of time for FSG and how they've kept the stadium at Anfield and enhancing that atmosphere. The problem is, is that we're not enhancing the team itself.
I see that we're now in the top six superclubs in the world (world fan base, social media buzz) with real, barca, manure, citeh and chelsea...and yet look at us, praying that manure slip up and we can have a miracle against Chelsea.
We need to dump the buying kids and selling them milarky now. With agents involved nowadays then every 18 year old think they're Messi.
We need to go back to the old ways of Liverpool. No primadonna's, no ego's...just a strong balance team which plays until their lungs burst and kicks ass.
Ageing Stick Insect
BBC Radio 5 Live have just announced that Memphis Depay has signed for Man Utd.
Without possession of all the facts it's impossible to say why he chose them apart from the obvious that he gets the chance to play in 6 CL games - half against Euro-dross. And Utd probably threw stupid money at him. If LFC did that the club would be hammered by most who frequent this board I suspect.
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Hadal Sherpa — Hadal Sherpa
(Bandcamp SHERP-001, 2017, CD)
Hadal Sherpa is a relatively new progressive rock band from Finland wih an outstanding self-released first offering. From the city of Vantaa, they’ve been together as a band since the end of 2013 when drummer Ilja Juutilalen joined completed the current lineup, which also includes guitarist Ville Kainulailen, bassist and cellist Sauli Marila, keyboardist Matti Elsinen, and last but not least Vesa Pasanen who contributes guitar, keyboards, percussion, and bouzouki, the latter giving the band much of its unique middle-eastern character. Pasanen also writes all the band’s material and arrangements are done by the entire band. Guest players on flute, trumpet and percussion, track depending. round out the arrangements. It’s a challenge for any band to keep things interesting in the complete absence of vocals, but Hadal Sherpa succeeds in presenting eight solid tracks of purely instrumental progressive rock, with hints of jazz and the aforementiond ethnic influences that sow up first on the third cut “Chafa Azeno,” but right out of the gate on the two part “Nautilus,” they seem to show a bit of a Camel influence, with the flute out front over its near sixteen minute duration, though more aggressive and psychedelic than one might expect, building as it goes. The album’s centerpiece is actually the three songs “Ikaros,” “Heracleion,” and “Marracech,” (tracks 4, 5 and 6 respectively) which form a 27 minute non-stop continuum of music that shreds all the proggy-prog pretenses of the opener and cranks it into high gear Turkish flavored rock, with the follow-on “Abyss” offering some Floydian moves that could have been lost dreamy movements from “Crazy Diamond,” but the power, might, and aggression steadily increase over its ten minute duration, and before you know you’re running at a fast gallop straight into the desert sun of the Sahara. The album closer, “Black Elk,” brings back the flute as well as trumpeter and extra percussionist for one final seven minute trek through the Arabian sands with guitars blazing. A very impressive debut from a band I hope to hear more from!
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The classic Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere rotary pedal: true Leslie speaker sounds in compact form
Every guitarist (and keyboard player) knows the swirling sounds of the legendary Leslie speaker. The Rotosphere, which authentically recreates the Leslie vibe in stompbox format, is possibly the most fabled of the Hughes & Kettner TubeTools pedals, and it’s been a mainstay on the boards of such guitar luminaries as Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, Warren Haynes and even Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner, among others. Here we give you the story of the Leslie’s success, and how the Rotosphere took things to a new level for guitarists, with an excerpt from our official company history, Into The Blue: A Brief History Of The Technology Of Tone.
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
Aquarius! Aquarius!
They keep giving Nobel Prizes to physicists, yet the great question of the universe has already been asked by that R&B genius Billy Preston: “Will it go around in circles?”
The answer is, apparently, yes. All things elementary want to revolve.
Electrons orbit atomic nuclei, planets orbit their sun, satellites orbit whatever celestial body in the neighborhood exerts the greatest gravitational force.
Well, we never thought we’d get to wheel this old chestnut out again! But truth, if needed, that everything guitar-related does indeed orbit something greater than itself.
But, as far as we know, no two orbits are identical (someone let us know if that’s not true in the comments down below please!).
The trajectories of protons, planets and other orbital protagonists usually vary wildly in speed, distance and angle of inclination.
Let’s go round again
Don’t worry, this gear blog is not about to morph into an examination of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
Instead, we’re going to explore how a device combines the same sort of chaos and revolution to serve up a swirling smorgasbord of satisfying sound for guitarists and keyboardists. (The latter usually go unmentioned in this space, but as much as it pains us to say it, they do come in handy sometimes.)
The origins of the Leslie speaker
A rotary loudspeaker-and-amplifier system developed by one Don Leslie in the 1940s first went by the name of Vibratone.
Taking on its inventor’s moniker, the Leslie cabinet soon became the go-to sound-sculpting tool in the arsenal of many a Hammond organist.
The Doppler Effect caused by the rotation of the loudspeakers, paired with the surround sound of reflections bouncing off all the walls, created an enveloping sonic image that seemed to come from everywhere. It’s also the foundation for an unbeatable party costume:
But, clothing-based woes aside, that immersive audio experience was its ticket to success.
Oscillations, modulations, and tone and volume fluctuations conjured an irresistible cloud of sound that continues to charm and delight those of us who like that sort of thing.
Join us on a journey Into The Blue
Perhaps inspired by the budding psychedelia genre, more and more guitarists discovered this effect later in the 1960s.
To put it in the patois of the day, that sound was “heavy, man”! And, crucially, it could not be properly reproduced by any other means.
Now we’re going to delve into Into The Blue – our official history tome – to tell you a little more about why the effect is so special, and just how much work it took to distill the tone of a genuine Leslie cabinet into a compact floor pedal – the Rotosphere!
This is it: the legendary Hughes & Kettner Tube Rotosphere pedal.
SRV and Gilmour – the first Leslie superstars
“Since the 1960s, various guitarists had borrowed a typical keyboard effect to conjure an effervescent sound that swirled like a cyclone and bubbled like witch’s brew.
In particular, two iconic guitarists – Stevie Ray Vaughan and David Gilmour – had made waves with their use of a Leslie.
The late Texan bluesman liked to kick it in towards the end of a solo to send the finale swirling into the stratosphere, while Pink Floyd’s guitarist used it to summon evocative soundscapes.
The two styles were worlds apart, but had in common that the effect could only be achieved with an original Leslie (or some other rotating speaker).
How to achieve those heavyweight Leslie tones?
That idiosyncratic tone was not easily generated.
To achieve it, a louvered drum called a rotor is mounted on the bottom of the cabinet. It then revolves in front of the Leslie’s speaker, while a top-mounted horn also spins, both driven by a motor and amp.
All this paraphernalia is heavy, cumbersome and a living hell for any roadie or tech.
An original weighs about 100 kg (that’s 220 lbs.!) and perhaps nobody will be surprised to learn that it also costs a pretty penny.
Yes, that’s how big and cumbersome an original Leslie cabinet is! Pictured here are Rotosphere creators (left) Thomas Blug and (right) H&K’s genius head designer, Bernd Schneider.
Effectively, this put the effect out of most guitarists’ reach, unless they stumbled across one on the off-chance in a studio.
Switchable motor speeds and a foot brake
It might have been maddening from a practical standpoint, but the Leslie was redeemed by its tone.
The motor has two switchable speeds – slow and fast – and one of the best aspects of this effect is that the speakers’ rotational speed can be adjusted on the fly using its brake circuit.
If you ride the brake hard, the speakers come to a standstill.
The positional relationship between the speaker and horn is ever-changing, creating a sense of movement and a sound that is constantly in flux, which is partly what makes the effect so fresh and compelling.
However, it also makes it hard to emulate with an electronic circuit, especially given that the rotational speeds of the woofer and horn are not the same.
To replicate that chaotic – if not entirely random – maelstrom of sound was a task to make most engineers quake.
The Doppler Effect
The effect’s different speeds stir yet another delicious flavor into the pot.
The Doppler Effect, whereby pitch is varied according to the speed at which the sound source moves towards and away from the listener, is responsible for the lion’s share of this sonic voodoo.
The constant to and fro between natural chorusing and tremolo causes a wild warbling, burbling sound that was thought at the time to be inimitable.
The late, great Jon Lord – of Deep Purple and many, many other classic rock mainstays – was a fervent Rotosphere fanatic.
What made it even harder for would-be simulations is that the best-sounding Leslies owed their appeal to their speaker rotation units’ worn drive belts: a certain amount of slippage added another welcome element of random chaos.
Recreating the Leslie in pedal form
Naturally, then, the intrepid H&K R&D team wanted to have their own bash at a Leslie-type effect.
The main challenge facing them was to quantify all these myriad properties, render them with a device no larger than the original’s foot control, and ultimately create an electronic effect indistinguishable from the original for keyboardists who had grown up with this sound.
From the outset, it seemed like a herculean task, and so it proved: the team would take an intensive year of analyzing sounds, developing circuits, writing algorithms and A/Bing results before this magic could be distilled into the layout of a compact PCB.
Enter the Rotosphere
At last, the deed was done, and the team proudly introduced the Tube Rotosphere.
The name of this spellbinding little box was a portmanteau of ‘rotary’ (a nod to the original’s revolving speaker), and ‘sphere’ (the bubble of celestial sound it enveloped you in), prefixed by the ‘tube’ that shaped its overtones.
Finally, a standalone pedal had been created that took guitarists and keyboardists on the same psychedelic magic carpet ride as the original Leslie.
These days, the Rotosphere is becoming increasingly rare, and therefore extremely collectible, with prices for models in top working condition (and with power supply!) seemingly going higher by the month.
Since then, the Tube Rotosphere has become the go-to solution when producers and tone freaks worldwide want that spin-cycle sound without the hassle of chasing down the original behemoth.
It’s fair to say that no other device of a similar nature has captured this effect in such style.
Witness the glowing endorsement of Deep Purple’s Hammond maestro Jon Lord: a cherished friend of the company, who was a loyal devotee of the device until his passing on July 16, 2012.”
Fascination with the Rotosphere and the Leslie effect continues to this day.
With the advent of digital technology, something like that Leslie sound can be had in many effects and pedals, sometimes in impressive quality, for a scant few increments of your local currency.
Every guitarist who likes to indulge in a little chorus or flanger from time to time really should explore the Leslie effect. Try it; you may join the ranks of those of us who love it.
If you see one, buy it!
Sadly, the fully analog Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere is no longer made for a lack of components that are indispensable to its analog circuitry.
So, if you come across a second-hand Rotosphere somewhere, just bite the bullet and go for it!
You’ll be the proud owner of a bona fide classic pedal.
Guitar gods like Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa, Warren Haynes, Doyle Bramhall II, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, and Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner – as well as the aforementioned Jon Lord – have all got great use out of the Rotosphere over the years, and we’d wager that they’d second our opinions there!
Preowned prices can get pretty high these days, but perhaps your stars will align when the moon is in the seventh house and the universe will send an affordable Rotosphere your way.
More information on Into The Blue is here.
First published: August 02 2019. Most recent update: August 05 2019.
Into The Blue is the official written history of Hughes & Kettner, written by one of Blog Of Tone’s very own contributors!
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Milan on August 24, 2019 Reply
I own a tube rotosphere and have it connected to my hammon c2 organ. It is great and I really love it! The only thing I don’t like about it is that you cannot stop the rotation permanently but have to press the button for the whole time. Is there any way to alter this? I really love my rotosphere and do not want to give it away for something less great just because of this lacking feature. Are the switches still beg produced so I could simply change it?
Hughes & Kettner on November 5, 2019 Reply
Hi Milan. You must be running an original MK 1! The Rotosphere MK 2 had this change: the breaker was changed from a non-latching to a latching switch, and the electronics were changed in a way to make the rotors always stop in the same position. For you, exchanging the switch is an easy mod, but to make it stop in the same position is not possible. It would then stop in a random position. So, maybe see if you can find a MK 2 Rotosphere somewhere, and you’ll have all you need!
Team H&K
Kevin Smith on August 1, 2019 Reply
I spent years searching for a Rotosphere after I saw one on Bonamassa’s board! Finally picked one up used recently and it’s everything I wanted and more! The only way to get that Leslie sound without a real Leslie 🙂
Hughes & Kettner on August 1, 2019 Reply
Thanks for the kind words Kevin, and glad you found a Rotosphere at last! They’re getting rarer and rarer these days, so you got pretty lucky! Hang on to it and treat it well!
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August is Anal Pleasure Month!
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Construction to start in early 2020 on The Banquet and The CANADIAN ICEhouse – the future home to Edmonton’s largest rooftop patio
EDMONTON – September 30, 2019 – ICE District Properties is thrilled to announce the addition of two new restaurant concepts coming to ICE District. The CANADIAN ICEhouse and The Banquet are the latest additions to ICE District’s growing list of tenants. The two new eateries will be located in ICE District’s newest development, Block BG – formerly the Greyhound terminal site. Construction is expected to start in early 2020 and the public will be able to enjoy the new restaurant concepts in winter 2021.
The CANADIAN ICEhouse will bring a unique spin to the already well-known Canadian Brewhouse brand that people in Western Canada have grown to love, which opened its first restaurant in Edmonton in 2002. Fans can enjoy wall-to-wall sports coverage on a variety of screens, while enjoying their favourite cold beverage at the CANADIAN ICEhouse. ICE District will be the flagship location and will consist of three levels starting on the ground floor. Each level will have its own elevated look and feel. The top-level will span over 10,000 sq. ft. and will be Edmonton’s largest rooftop patio once completed. The patio will overlook ICE District Plaza and Rogers Place and will be fitted with fireplaces, outdoor games and much more. Restaurant guests who wish to skate at the soon-to-be-completed ICE District Plaza skating rink will also get the added benefit of having their skates sharpened while they eat, a complimentary service offered by the establishment.
In addition, visitors to The CANADIAN ICEhouse will enjoy an expertly crafted sub-zero vodka tasting in the ICE room, a room entirely composed of blocks of ice and snow. This immersive experience includes an in-house vodka expert, a diverse selection of unique vodka samples, and provides guests with a Canada Goose® parka to keep warm while in the ice room.
The Banquet will be Edmonton’s newest social playground where patrons can enjoy regulation-sized bowling lanes, shuffleboard, ping pong tables and more. Starting on the second floor, The Banquet’s two-level concept will add to Edmonton’s night life and game night crowd, providing guests an assortment of customized dishes and signature drink menu options, as well as an array of entertainment. ICE District will be The Banquet’s third location in Alberta.
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Both restaurants will have connectivity to downtown Edmonton through the fully indoor pedway system, providing convenient access to the LRT, as well as a vast amount of underground parking in ICE District Central Parkade, making it convenient for visitors and residents of The Legends Private Residences and SKY Residences in ICE District to live, work and play steps from their door.
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Full Name: Leslie Claude Deacon
Born: 22 December 1895
Came from: Devon County Went to: Devon County
First game: 18 March 1922 Last game: 29 December 1928
Appearances: 5 (5/0) Goals: 1
Deacon signed for his hometown team in Argyle's second season of League football, having previously represented Devon County. A seven-year spell at Home Park followed, but the half-back found it hard to break into the team, making just five appearances and scoring once, in a home draw against Brighton & Hove Albion in March 1923. Records show that Argyle was Deacon's only League club, although he did go on to play further matches for Devon County on leaving Home Park.
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September 9, 2018 News
Moving On!
A note from the content editor ~
Brant Guillory, 9 September 2018
If you frequent our forums, then you’ve probably seen the announcement that I’m leaving GrogHeads. This wasn’t an easy decision, but it’s the one I felt the need to make at this point in my life.
I’m leaving behind a fun, vibrant, exciting community that didn’t exist 7 years ago. Together, we took GrogHeads from “non-existent” to a serious site in the wargaming world. At one point we were one of the top 100k sites in the US, and were regularly killing our competition in some pretty neat measurables, like the time the average user spent on the site.
You guys rallied around your fellow community members like no other. One of our Wives of Grog™ got inundated with Christmas cards when they’d moved to a new base only weeks earlier, and he had to pack up for Afghanistan, leaving her with a newborn and few other kids in a new town for the holidays. Twice, you guys rallied to support Bayonet Jr getting to a major soccer tournament when I was un(der)employed. You pitched in for the community ranging from fighting childhood cancer to surprise birthday card avalanches to helping a young man fighting possible vision loss. We’ve had Grogs show up a funerals for folks we only knew through online interactions, with cards signed on behalf of the whole family.
That generous spirit is a key reason we had an active and vibrant thread just to donate extra copies of games to each other, usually digital codes, but often tabletop games, too.
And the annual family reunion that was Origins became a tentpole event for some people’s summer vacations.
We started a podcast, a video show, tried a few different recurring series, and peppered a variety of Civ AARs with unnecessary sexual innuendos. We wore our bowling shirts like a university history department tried to form a biker gang and ended up going out for tacos instead, and what started on a lark turned into 2500+ posts of puns to torture MetalDog.
It’s been a fun 6-1/2 years, but it’s time to pass the torch. Gus & Jarhead will be steering the ship now, and it’ll be exciting to see where they take it.
I’d tell y’all to give them the same amount of love you gave me, but that’s just kind of a mean thing to wish on them!
You guys take care, and remember that it’s all just one big, dysfunctional gaming family.
— Bayonet 06, Out.
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2018 – Looking Ahead to the Next Year in Wargaming
We also asked folks in the hobby to look into the next year and take a stab at predicting the future –
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Ty Bomba, Game Designer
I’m taking part in the founding of a new, 116-page, quarterly, one-topic-per-issue magazine from S&T Press to be titled Strategy & Tactics Quarterly. At least at the start, there won’t be any issue-wargame inside; instead there will be a full-size, two-sided, frame-able poster. At the same time, the 116-page format will allow us to get into each issue’s topics in such depth that most wargamers won’t be able to resist getting into them. My first two issue contributions will be: Stalingrad: The Whole Story, and Cold War World Wars: Armageddon’s that Might’ve Been, 1945-1991.
Alan Emrich, Victory Point Games
I predict the hobby will soldier on, but with a continuing need for more introductory wargames on topics that will send new players to learn more about the battles, campaigns, and personalities. Since they don’t do justice to history in schools as they used to, lighting that fire of passion in the next generation is vital.
2017 – Looking Back on the Year in Wargaming
We asked folks in the hobby what their biggest personal accomplishment was this past year. Here’s what we got from them –
Iain McNeil, Slitherine
That’s a tricky one as it depends if I use my business hat or my gamer hat. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock has been a huge project for us and is going really well on PC and just released on console, but from a personal point of view I love Field of Glory II. It’s not as commercial as BSG but I’m very pleased with how it has turned out and still enjoy playing when I get the time.
SURVIVING this year is my biggest accomplishment! 28 releases for a small company is rather astonishing. And also moving operations for Stronghold Games (and my residence) to Florida made this year very challenging to say the least.
However, if that’s copping out, then I’ll go with Terraforming Mars. While released in the latter half of 2016, the success of the game was truly realized in 2017. Getting out two expansions in 2017, “Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium” and “Terraforming Mars: Venus Next” (releasing on 12/31/17 worldwide!), solidified its stature as one of the most significant hobby game releases of all time. Terraforming Mars is now ranked #6 (soon to be #5) on BoardGameGeek.com.
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A Look Back at 2017 from GrogHeads
2017 – What hath we wrought?
It’s been an eventful year here at GrogHeads.
We’ve expanded almost everything we do – more articles, more pictures in our articles, more traffic in the forums, more podcasts, more events at Origins, waaaaay more games to give away at Origins, more advertising partners to help us keep the lights on, more video features, and more members of our forums.
But none of that does much for us without you, the reader, to join us for the ride, and for that we are the most thankful. Our readership stats have gone up aross every metric: clicks, reads, time on the site, and reach with our social media.
So what’s coming next year?
Well, we’ve got a handful of things to work on. First, we’re going to updating some of our merchandise options, with new shirts and new products. We’ve got a podcast series already out there, and a new video series, too, but we don’t do much with live video, and we’ll look to start experimenting with some of that.
We’ve got some ideas getting more involved in the wider gaming community, too. We already plan, sponsor, and execute a bunch of events at Origins each summer, but that really only reaches the Grogs that can make it to Origins, so we’re going to look into some plans that can help reach our Grogience where you live and play – at your FLGS and smaller conventions. We’ve got some ideas about how to tie that into our social presence, too, but that’s admittedly a bit of a science project.
2017 By The Numbers:
– Over 200 articles
– Over 150 new members
– Over 30 Interviews
– 16 GrogCast Episodes
– 16 New Videos
– 68 Origins Events
– (20 just for kids!)
– 7 Conventions Covered
– 28 T-Shirts given away
Finally, we’re going to start experimenting with some new graphics updates on the site to go along with some new (Gus!) and reborn (GARPA) columns we’ll be putting back into rotation.
As with everything we work on – these are moving targets. We’re going to try something, and if it works (The GrogCast, #TBT ads) we’ll keep doing them, and if it doesn’t (Tuesday Screenshot, How To Make It In The Game Business) we’ll cut it out.
Most importantly, though, we’re going to try to have even more fun this coming year than last year, because ultimately that’s what this is all about, right?
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How Fashion Nova beats out Dior and Gucci to Become the Most Googled Fashion Brand in the World
Fashion Nova is a MASSIVE hit in the world of fashion:
Generated more than $400 million within just 18 months after launching their website.
A tailor-made Instagram brand with over 20M total followers on three different accounts. The value of Fashion Nova’s social media exposure is more than that of H&M and Zara combined.
Partners with more than 3,000 high-profile celebrities and top Instagram influencers like Kylie Jenner, Cardi B, Khloé Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Amber Rose.
Sure, you’re surprised by these numbers, but are you really all that shocked?
If the answer is no, this will shake you to your core…
Last year, Google released its 2018 Year in Search report, which showed that Fashion Nova is the most Googled fashion brand of 2018.
While your go-to budget fashion fave stands at the top of the list, timeless classic giants like Louis Vuitton, Versace, and Givenchy followed in second, third, and fourth place for search. Brands like Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Dolce & Gabbana, Dior, Moschino ranked in the remaining top 10 spots.
That explains why Fashion Nova gets a huge number of website traffic: 15M monthly visits per month — much higher than these luxe names I mentioned above.
Fashion Nova achieves the top spot by not doing any traditional marketing like others.
It means that “There was no runway show, no interviews, no press releases, no placements in magazines, and nothing with traditional marketing campaigns or SEO tactics.” — said Richard Saghian, Founder & CEO of the fashion blockbuster.
To figure out EXACTLY how Fashion Nova has grown so fast that they beat out fashion’s biggest luxe names, I completely decoded their business & marketing strategy in this blog post.
It’s the most strategic and detailed analytics you’ve ever found about Fashion Nova on the Internet.
Now, sit tight, sip your coffee nice and slow because you’re going to learn the best strategies from the most Googled fashion brand in the world.
Who (or What) is Fashion Nova?
[Tip #1] The “One Thing” Strategy: The strategy behind all strategies at Fashion Nova.
[Tip #2] Influencer Marketing Pyramid: How influencers bring Fashion Nova’s viral growth.
[Tip #3] Over-priced fashion is dead. It’s time for ultra-fast fashion.
I believe I don’t have to say much about this.
Because Fashion Nova is the viral clothing brand and a social media phenomenon that you can’t stop hearing about in the past few years — and for good reason.
Fashion Nova has been based in Los Angeles, CA since 2006. With only 5 physical stores scattered across Southern California, its globally insane popularity is the result of its work with high-profile influencers and its speed at delivering trend-led pieces.
Currently, the brand has over 20 million Instagram followers and an exponentially growing rate of 600% year over year.
The brand makes bona fide apparel, accessories and beauty business that’s attracted women with body measurements that don’t always fit within standard sizing.
Its target audience is women with shapes like Belcalis Almanzar, also known as Cardi B, or Blac Chyna — who have bulbous hips, round butts and spindle-like waists.
Fashion Nova’s clothing is revealing, tight, barely-there streetwear and club attire — but the company is not.
Richard Saghian — the millionaire Founder behind the fashion empire — largely avoids the spotlight as much as he can. He rarely does interviews. It’s partly because being interviewed makes him uncomfortable.
He even dismisses the idea of a portrait photograph for the very small number of interviews he accepted to join.
Till now, there are only two memorable things about him we’ve found on the Internet:
Remember the breathtaking Hollywood Hills mansion of Swedish deceased DJ Tim Berge, also known as Avicii? Saghian is the one who bought it last year — for a huge sum of money — $17,500,000, to be exact.
The other memorable thing…Saghian once boasted that: “Fashion Nova is the fastest-growing women’s apparel company in the world.”
And I think he has a point about that.
[Tip #1] The “One Thing” Strategy: The strategy behind all strategies at Fashion Nova
Let’s define the strategy first.
“One Thing” strategy: You can achieve anything if you focus on ONE thing at a time.
At some point in life, you & I, can all relate to a situation that our desires are constantly changing. We pursue new things before we achieve old goals.
“We’re dealing with an invisible force that is always trying to confuse us. Instead of focusing on one thing at a time, we set multiple goals, and think we can multitask ourselves to achieving them.” – Darius Foroux.
The important part here is: It matters less with the number of goals you set, and matters more with the way you choose to execute those goals. Yes, you can achieve a lot of things… But just NOT at the same time.
Source: Darius Foroux
It’s a time-tested strategy that’s been shared by many successful people. And this time it’s proven by the Founder of Fashion Nova once again.
Richard Saghian applies the “One Thing” strategy to every area of his business. From the distribution channel, marketing strategy, to business’s goal and mission, etc.
1. Focus on one distribution channel
Saghian claims Fashion Nova’s physical stores have become tourist destinations in California. But he has no desire to open up a big flashy flagship store on Melrose or anywhere else for that matter.
At the Burbank Town Center Mall, the Fashion Nova store, which is about 3,000 square feet, isn’t picturesque or fancily decorated — think a lower-budget Rainbow or H&M for instance. But that doesn’t seem to matter with Saghian at all.
“I had a goal of opening 100 stores across the U.S. when I first started the business, but the effort it takes to launch a store is far harder than it is to increase revenue online,” said Saghian.
He added, “Why open up more stores when I can literally open up to more countries — with less effort?”
So instead of building out flashy brick-and-mortar stores, he and his team dedicated their energy on building the brand’s social media presence — especially on Instagram.
By updating their feed every 30 minutes and executing influencer marketing fluently, Fashion Nova becomes the Instagram blockbuster that every eCommerce brand dreams of.
Richard Saghian realized the power of Instagram very early on.
Celebrities like Kehlani, Kylie Jenner and Cardi B have changed the way customers react with advertisements and sponsored posts with an authentic feeling.
Their detailed strategy about how they use Instagram and influencer marketing to get the most traction will be revealed in the next part of this story. And it’s gonna be good.
2. Focus on one goal at a time
Folks said: “Profits are the only business of business.”
But Saghian said differently.
“A lot of my competitors have teams that work on a budget all day and are obsessed with profit margins,” said Saghian. “I don’t want to focus on that right now. I believe that as long as we focus on giving the best product at the best price and getting it to our customer fast, we will continue to grow.”
He shared that the only focus of the company right now is “getting as many people onto the platform as possible.” No matter the cost.
Keep reading, I’ll explain why he called his business a ‘platform’ in the later part of this blog post. It’s one of his secret sauces to run a wildly successful clothing brand.
3. Key takeaway
You can have multiple goals, multiple strategies, but just choose ONE THING to focus at a time.
You can’t build an online store, promote it via social media, magazines, emails, billboards or trade shows, etc. at the same time — especially when you’re just starting out and having a low budget. But you can test all those things in a business lifetime. As long as you don’t take it too slow.
The key is: If you saw something works for your business, stay true to it. Keep doing it and develop it as much as you can.
Just like how Poo~Pourri applies the hilarious and magical theme for their before-to-go-toilet sprays since 2013. Or how Levi’s takes the sustainability factor into every campaign they run and make it the official core value for their brand in… a century — as I’ve mentioned in our previous growth stories.
Remember: Don’t be afraid to set goals and aim for great things. Just achieve one thing after another.
[Tip #2] Influencer Marketing Pyramid: How influencers bring Fashion Nova’s viral growth
In 2018, Fashion Nova was Instagram’s top-performing brand in influencer marketing based on Earned-Media Value (EMV), according to InfluencerDB.
On the EMV chart, the brand stands first at $125.2 million, brands such as Zara and H&M come afterward at 59.5m and 39.1m.
Celebrity and mega influencer endorsements are one key factor to their success, and the brand is well-known for their close collaboration with high-profile celebs like Kylie Jenner, Cardi B, and Amber Rose.
Besides that, they’re also joining hands with thousands of micro-influencers and NovaBabes (it’s what Fashion Nova called their fans) to complete their marketing strategy.
1. Close partnerships with mega influencers
Fashion Nova has built an entire empire around a vast network of influencers. Very few brands are able to do the same.
It’s a difficult thing to coordinate and execute well. Because getting handfuls of social influencers to all work toward the same goal, with the same general branding style, is no easy feat.
Fashion Nova’s partnering with a network of 3000–5000 social media influencers who have a large following on Instagram.
These influencers create content on social media that looks no different than the content they would otherwise post on a daily basis.
The only exception is they are wearing a piece of Nova’s clothes, and sometimes — in the caption – they are providing their own unique discount code (which Fashion Nova can use to track conversions).
Fashion Nova as seen on Kylie Jenner
Cardi B mixed a $40 pair of jeans from Fashion Nova with her Versace blouse
And if you partner with a mega influencer whose family is also full of celebs like Kylie Jenner, the social media exposure is sometimes doubled without…no extra work:
Kylie’s brother, Rob, loves poking fun at his sister
$50,000.
That’s the extra sales driven to Fashion Nova in a few days after a single promotion photo was posted on Kylie’s Instagram. Saghian told The Cut in 2017: “A post from Kylie’s page is better than any Super Bowl ad.”
Let’s imagine…with 3,000 influencers — including Cardi B, Blac Chyna, Kourtney Kardashian and Nicki Minaj — create roughly 6,000 pieces of content about the brand each month, it’s not surprising that Fashion Nova become a social media phenomenon and the #1 popular brand on Instagram.
Quick question: Can you spot a pattern among those photos taken by Fashion Nova’s influencers?
Those celebrities are not featured in professional photoshoots, rather they are paid to take unprofessional photos or even mirror selfies — with their own smartphone or camera — to create an authentic sense of style.
This technique works to make the advertisement appear natural and genuine, even when the celebrity has been paid a great sum of money for their post.
When Fashion Nova reposts a celebrities’ advertisement photo on their own page, the number of likes is boosted up to around 80K on a single post.
Fashion Nova as seen on Valérie Cossette
And you know what…celebrities like Cardi B were paid $20,000 per month to wear Fashion Nova and promote it to her 46 million-and-counting-followers.
But wait…You’re thinking: “I don’t have thousands of dollars to work with A-list influencers like that!”
Good news: You don’t have to spend a huge sum of money on influencer marketing. In fact, a relevant influencer marketing strategy is to consider the influencer industry as…a pyramid. Just like how Fashion Nova does.
2. A breakdown of Fashion Nova’s use of influencer marketing
They use a model called Influencer Marketing Pyramid.
Much like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the Influencer Marketing Pyramid is a motivational theory in marketing comprising a four-tier model of influencer marketing, often described as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.
The Pyramid divides consumers into four different levels. From top to bottom, the passion and interest for a topic decrease, while the size of the audience increases.
Source: InfluencerDB
This model helps define a methodology and an architecture to target your content and media efforts.
To better illustrate the model, I break down Fashion Nova’s influencer marketing strategy into a pyramid like this:
Fashion Nova’s 4 levels of influence:
The lowest level — I KNOW IT: This is the largest group of the pyramid. This level assembles all Fashion Nova’s followers and consumers who buy fashion for the sake of needing to get dressed, but without any actual interest in the fashion pieces they buy. They do hardly follow Fashion Nova’s trends and their style revolves more around “I need to buy something” than “I want to buy this piece”.
Level 2 — I LIKE IT: This group consists of thousands of #NovaBabe — who’re superfans of the brand. NovaBabes are consciously aware of their interest with the brand, spend time consuming it and might even see it as their hobby. They’re actively posting pictures about them wearing Nova’s items on social media for a chance to get featured on the page.
Before we jump to the two highest levels of the pyramid, let me explain this point further. Because it’s really worth noticing.
Instagram opens a new era of young men and women — the generation who needs to be seen, heard and validated — go to show off their best sides to the world.
And Fashion Nova’s success lies in that.
It lies in the brand’s willingness to give their fans — the opportunity to share posts, get attention & validation from millions of people around the world.
They encourage their followers to take provocative mirror selfies to showcase the clothing, which is not a technique used by many fashion brands such as Zara and H&M.
By this way, Fashion Nova has gained its own group of highly loyal brand ambassadors and advertisers literally…for free.
Photos of #NovaBabe
Level 3 — I LOVE IT: Assembles those influencers who depict fashion as their favorite hobby and their biggest passion. These influencers wear Fashion Nova to isolate themselves from others and have extensive taste and expertise in the topic. They spend a specific amount of time & effort to promote Fashion Nova. They can be both macro influencers who have paid and micro influencers — who get free items from Fashion Nova on a weekly/ monthly basis — to do this.
Level 4 — I LIVE IT: On the highest level, Fashion Nova finds the absolute experts in a topic, who live and breathe Nova’s style and best illustrate their visual. And you may guess, Fashion Nova joins hands with the American Rapper Cardi B even before she becomes a signed artist. Today Cardi B is considered as one of the driving forces for Fashion Nova’s paid as well as organic mentions. It is estimated that each of her posts delivers around $128,198 Earned Media Value for the brand.
“We were doing well before Cardi, but she definitely gave us some legitimacy,” said Saghian, Fashion Nova’s Founder & CEO. “She is one of our favorite partners because when she talks about Fashion Nova, she speaks from the heart.”
Cardi B makes a signature statement with Fashion Nova. She constantly states that she chooses the low-budget Fashion Nova over designer brands because it fits so well with her body measurements.
It turned out that this budget lifestyle sat well with her audience and Fashion Nova even transformed into a marketing campaign with Cardi B’s famous quote:
“I could buy designer but that #FashionNova fit.”
See the full video here
The quote appears in the lyrics of Cardi’s new song at that time — She Bad.
And right after that, Kylie posted a picture of her wearing a Fashion Nova’s black jumper on Instagram — with Cardi B’s lyrics in a caption:
It is not necessary that the influencers with the largest follower base will be most effective for a brand’s promotion.
Sometimes micro-influencers can give brands a better promotional boost, as compared to the big names.
Multiple numbers of strategically placed micro-influencers can provide a decent amount of organic brand and media value, upon consolidation.
You may not know: “Marketers have noticed that once an account is over a certain size, however, fewer people bother to engage questioning the value of a multimillion army of fans.
The ratio of likes and comments to followers peaks when an account reaches around 1,000 followers.” – Sidney Pierucci
Get more than 100,000 followers, then engagement starts to flatten out. The audience just isn’t keen to interact with a big celebrity compared to interact with someone they can relate to more closely.
Remember: Start small, then scale.
Saghian once said: “Over-priced fashion is dead.”
And he has a point when saying that.
Fashion Nova proved it right when it beats out all luxe names like Versace, Gucci, Dior, D&G and Louis Vuitton to become the most Googled fashion brand in the world.
Mostly because retail is dying, killed off by eCommerce and a post-recession preference for experiences over things.
Young men and women are now both into fast or even ultra-fast fashion like Fashion Nova. Why? They’re super easy to get. And how easy it is? To explain this, let’s talk about Fashion Nova’s business model first.
The Platform Business Model
There are two popular models in the business world today: Pipeline and Platform.
Pipeline is the one that dominant since most fashion brands are using that model to run their business.
They create stuff, push them out and sell them to customers. The core value is produced by the product itself and it represents for the whole company.
For example: We see pipes everywhere. TV, Radios and Blogs are pipes spewing out content at us. Our education system is a pipe where teachers push out their knowledge to children.
Unlike pipes, Platforms do not just create and push stuff out.
“They allow users to create and consume value themselves. It has resulted in a complex relationship in which producers, consumers, and the platform itself enter into a variable set of relationships.” (Parker, Van Alstyne and Choudary, 2016 p.6).
Competition is no longer only over who makes a better product, but increasingly over who builds a better platform.
Source: Praxent
Saghian is using Platform to run Fashion Nova.
Much like Facebook, Uber, Alibaba — the goal of Fashion Nova is to create communities and markets with network effects that allow consumers to interact and transact.
Consider the situation at Fashion Nova: Network effects occur when Fashion Nova becomes more valuable as more people buy & use it.
Simply put, if you are wearing Fashion Nova and no one else of your friends or family is, Fashion Nova has very little value. As more of your friends and family buy & wear Nova’s items, the more valuable the brand becomes to yourself.
And to create network effects like that, you’ll need as many people to sign up or go into the platform as possible. The more, the merrier.
Saghian executes this strategy by making the clothes super easy to get with two important advantages:
1. On top of them, being so cheap that everyone can buy
Fashion Nova items are surprisingly affordable — compared to a piece of designer clothes.
A pair of jeans costs around $40 on Fashion Nova’s site. Shoes are priced between $30 and $55. Dresses can be found for as low as $28, and no more than $50. Plus, there’s always a sale or discount code to take advantage of.
This rock bottom prices that come along with its speedy fulfillment firmly situate Fashion Nova amongst the likes of other fast-fashion giants, such as Forever 21, H&M, Mango, and Zara.
2. Deliver trends faster than fast-fashion brands
Saghian likes to say he’s turned fast fashion into ultra-fast fashion with Fashion Nova.
Note: “Fast fashion can be defined as cheap, trendy clothing, that samples ideas from the catwalk or celebrity culture and turns them into garments in high street stores at breakneck speed.” — Good On You.
Over 600 new items are released each week on its website.
“It’s important to have a lot of styles because our customers post so much online and need new clothes. We don’t want girls showing up to the club in the same outfit. We need 50 different denim jackets. Not just one.” Saghian told WWD.
Fashion Nova’s ability to speed up the supply chain because of its access to over 1,000 manufacturers, many of which are located locally right in the Los Angeles area.
Saghian told WWD that it takes the company just 48 hours to design and manufacture a product.
After 48 hours, the items are ready to be shot on models — who’re in the office from Monday to Friday to pose in the 600 items Fashion Nova releases each week.
This constant newness keeps customers coming back frequently to Fashion Nova, because they don’t want to miss a single trend.
“The devil works hard but Fashion Nova works harder”, read one viral tweet with screenshots of the brand’s products. It was liked by nearly 96,000 people on Twitter.
If you haven’t spent at least the same effort on the business model as on the product, you are only half prepared for the real world of business today. It’s hard to win by doing half the job, especially if that’s the easier half.
Defining one wisely, you get 50% chance to win.
It’s Fashion Nova’s growth story. Now, it’s time for yours.
Fashion Nova is defying a slump in fast-fashion industry by turning it to ultra-fast fashion.
They’re releasing 600 new looks every week and harnessing an army of 3,000 Instagram influencers around the world.
The brand has perfectly executed the art of instant gratification for a very specific customer persona: young men and women. The generation who consumes content on Instagram, know their angles and follow fashion trends from celebrities like the Kardashian – Jenners rather than fashion magazines or designer runways.
Now, my dear friend, using this Fashion Nova’s growth story as your inspiration, you can make this year your best year ever, whatever your goal is. Who knows, maybe next year, your own business journey will inspire us to write another eCommerce success story like this.
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Data Innovation: Generating Climate Solutions
UN Global Pulse and Western Digital Host Data for Climate Event at the 8th Sustainable Innovation Forum During COP23
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Global Pulse, the United Nations innovation initiative on big data and data science, and Western Digital Corporation will host an event on Data Innovation: Generating Climate Solutions, at the 8th annual Sustainable Innovation Forum during the United Nations climate change conference (COP23). The event, which will take place on November 12 in Bonn, Germany, will jump-start the Forum with discussions and examples of data-driven innovations to enable and accelerate climate action.
The public is invited to watch a live-stream broadcast of the event at DataMakesPossible.com/Bonn.
The event will kick off with an address by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Climate Change, Mr. Robert C. Orr, and continue with panel discussions on how to advance big data for climate action through effective partnerships, engagement of all stakeholders and strategies for scaling of collective efforts. See the full agenda here.
It will also showcase the winners of the Data for Climate Action (D4CA) challenge, an unprecedented data innovation competition to leverage big data and analytics for social good. The challenge was launched earlier this year, with support from the Skoll Global Threats Fund, and called on innovators, scientists and climate experts to use data to accelerate climate solutions. Western Digital will be donating awards for the challenge winners.
Learn from speakers from Orange, Earth Networks, Planet, Tableau, Twitter, the World Resources Institute and more for an exciting afternoon of data visualizations, big data analytics and impactful panel discussions.
Find out more about the event and how to attend in person: http://bit.ly/2ylRs0w
Find out more about the Data for Climate Action challenge: dataforclimateaction.org
Watch a live-stream broadcast of the event at: DataMakesPossible.com/Bonn
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