Balancing Screen Time and Wellbeing for Children: What Educators and Parents Need to Know in 2025
Children worldwide spend more hours than ever with digital devices, raising urgent questions for parents and educators about how to balance the benefits of technology with the risks to well-being. The challenge is clear: how can parents and teachers ensure…
Black Myth Wukong Spreads It’s Unoptimized Joy To Xbox Players
According to a Digital Foundry rundown, Black Myth: Wukong suffers greatly on the Xbox Series S. There is a severe lack of quality on the Xbox Series S, with it almost feeling like a prior-generation game with downgraded visuals and effects that…
Doechii Anounces 2025 Tour
Doechii is heading out on her biggest ever tour. The run, dubbed Live From the Swamp, kicks off in Chicago on October 14 and runs across North America before concluding in Seattle on November 10. Check out her full itinerary,…
Is the Next Phase of Sex Positivity Choosing Not to Have Sex?
“She just needs a good f*,” a friend said of Charlotte, Sex and the City’s archetypical romantic. “Why is she waiting for Prince Charming?” asked another. It was 2006, and my friends and I—all 20-somethings—were huddled around a tiny laptop…
Dancing Makes You Happier
Are you a dancer? While some of us might answer an adamant “No!” to that question, we were all dancers at some point. In fact, as a three-week-old baby, you were already starting to sync up your movements to the…
A Brief History of Pie
They’re simple, they’re American and come Thanksgiving, everybody saves room for them. But the pies we know today are a fairly recent addition to a history that goes back as long as mankind has had dough to bake into a…
Why Is My Drink So Damn Weird?
I don’t know what to order anymore. When I walk into a fancy cocktail bar—I should add right away that I absolutely love fancy cocktail bars and always have—and they slide me the menu, I feel like Elmer Fudd. It…
The trends behind the historically low U.S. birth rate
This week, correspondent Jon Wertheim reported from Japan, the land of declining sons and daughters. Over the last 15 years, the East Asian country has seen its population decline, amid low birth rates and falling marriage rates. Last year, more…
Physical Media On the Rise
How many of you have experienced something like this? You get home from a long day of class or work; you boot up Netflix, and you realize your favorite show has been taken off the platform. It happened to me…
The Inner Life of Cats
Feline Functionality As anyone who has spent time with cats knows, our feline companions are mysterious—much more so than those otherfurry family members. Here John Bradshaw, author of Cat Sense (Basic Books, 2013), fields a selection of questions submitted by…
Updated Standards of Dating in 2025
Dating Standards and Sustainability My young, single clients are fed up. Their tales of dating woes sound completely exhausting. Many come to sessions traumatized after evenings gone wrong, so I try to help them change the negative core beliefs they…
Eight fun party games you can play over Zoom with friends and family
Eight fun party games you can play over Zoom with friends and family Updated December 20, 2021 More than 3 years ago (The Washington Post illustration; iStock) Analysis by Teddy Amenabar The great video chat faceoff: Six apps. Dozens of heads….
Like Stardew Valley’s farming? Try these games.
By the Washington Post: Like Stardew Valley’s farming? Try these games. November 4, 2021 More than 3 years ago (The Washington Post illustration; iStock) By Alyse Stanley The last major free update for “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” rolled out early, landing…
staples in the screens of switch 2’s
Video game retailer GameStop said Thursday that it is investigating claims made by some customers that they received damaged Nintendo Switch 2 consoles. In multiple social media posts across X and Reddit, some consumers reported an issue in which it appeared…
God Admits Heaven Was Way Cooler In The ’70s
HEAVEN—Speaking with obvious nostalgia regarding the “raw and gritty” quality of his experiences in decades past, God the Almighty Creator confirmed Thursday that Heaven was “way cooler” in the 1970s. “Sure, there was a lot of more crime and corruption,…
The perfect escape: What goes into designing cozy life sim games
By The Washington Post: The perfect escape: What goes into designing cozy life sim games January 18, 2023 More than 2 years ago (Washington Post illustration; Electronic Arts; Nintendo; iStock) By Aigner Loren Wilson Imagine it: a life similar to your…
New Jeans Disbands
Just a few weeks ago, New Jeans announced their decision to disband amid tensions with HYBE, marking the end of a record-breaking era in the field of K-Pop. New Jeans is a five-member South Korean girl group in the ADOR…
Croquis Sketching
Croquis Sketching Croquis sketching is quick and sketchy drawing, usually of a live nude model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose or leaves and another croquis is drawn. The word croquis comes from French and means simply “sketch“. In clothing design, a croquis is an outline silhouette, for use by a designer.[1] After the initial sketch, a croquis drawing can be used as a foundation for another work of art such as a painting, or it may be used as a work of art itself. Advantages The short duration of the pose benefits models because they do not need to keep still for a long time; this also benefits the artists because it helps them concentrate on the essential elements of the pose, or the most important parts of the drawing. An artist does not have time to draw all the details, so they learn to concentrate on the important elements. Croquis is also a good method of drawing subjects that generally do not stand still and pose, such as insects, animals, and children. Croquis Sketching In Fashion Design In fashion, the term refers to a quick sketch of a figure (typically nine heads tall as this is the accepted proportions for fashion illustration) with a loose drawing of the clothes that are being designed. Often a large number of croquis drawings will be created for one finished look, which is fully drawn and finished. The short duration of the pose benefits models because they do not need to keep still for a long time; this also benefits the artists because it helps them concentrate on the essential elements of the pose, or the most important parts of the drawing. An artist does not have time to draw all the details, so they learn to concentrate on the important elements. Croquis is also a good method of drawing subjects that generally do not stand still and pose, such as insects, animals, and children. References ^ Colussy, M. Kathleen (2001). Fashion Design on Computers. Prentice Hall. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-13-083838-4. This art-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Get a hobby. No, really!
By The Washington Post Opinion Renee Yaseen Get a hobby. No, really! September 28, 2023 More than 1 year ago (iStock) Want to read more about life after college? Sign up for the Post Grad newsletter. In my first summer post-grad,…
Ballet and fashion
Throughout its history, the costume of ballet has influenced and been influenced by fashion. Dance specific clothing used in productions and during practice, such as pointe shes, ballerina skirt, legwarmers, and leotards have been elements of fashion trends. Ballet costume itself has adapted aesthetically over the years, incorporating contemporary fashion trends while also updating fabrics and materials to allow for greater freedom of movement for the dancers. The classic ballerina costume with a tutu and pointe shoes debuted in the 1830s. Ballet costume is marked by the innovation in lightweight materials such as tulle, chiffon, and organza. In the early 20th century, productions by the Russian ballet company Dnce Russes had a large influence on fashion design in Paris. Designers incorporated danceinspired themes in their creations. Designers that have been influenced by dance include Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Jacques Fath, Jeanne Lanvin, Madeleine Vionnet, Molly Goddard, and Simone Rocha. History of Ballet 17th and 18th centuries Ballet costume originated in the 17th–century royal courts of Italy and France, including that of Louis XIV. Early costume designs in the productions were based on court dress, though more extravagant.[1] All of the performers in early ballets were men, with boys performing the female roles en travesti. In the 18th century, as show became professionalized and moved from the courts to the theaters, women joined the ranks of dancers.[2] Traditionally, dancers wore heeled shoes,[3] until the 1730s, when Paris Opera Ballet dancer Marie Camargo was one of the first to wear ballet slippers instead.[4] She also wore midcalf–length skirts and close–fitting drawers.[3] Until the late 18th century, lead dancers in a ballet company often wore masks.[5] The practice was abandoned after dancemaster Jean-Georges…