Monsoon ride to Coorg
Diary Rain, coffee, and switchbacks.
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My thoughts and ideas
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Camera X100 — field review
Verdict Great color, pocketable, lovable.
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Guide: Lightweight theming
Step 1 … Step 2 …
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The Filmmaker-Engineer
Episode Show notes here.
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How I cut scenes for speed
Notes Video embed sits on top.
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Cinematic Portfolio v3
Overview A project-style post with facts grid. Outcomes Fast Clean
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I Didn’t Get a Job in College. Now What?—A Cinematic Guide From Mahroni to Bangalore
TL;DR: No campus offer? You’ve still got four real doors: B.T.C. + Govt teacher (stable), pre-employment tests + upskilling (predictable), Bangalore walk-ins (high variance, high reward), and YouTube + personal brand (long game). Pick based on your risk, runway, and why. Below is how I evaluated each, the mistakes I made, and the steps I’d repeat.
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Description of a Pot Still
A pot still is a type of still used in distilling spirits such as whisky or brandy. Heat is applied directly to the pot containing the wash (for whisky) or wine (for brandy).
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History of the Alembic
Dioscorides’ ambix (described in his De materia medica) is a helmet-shaped lid for gathering condensed mercury. For Athenaeus (~ 225 C.E.) it is a bottle or flask. For later chemists it denotes various parts of crude distillation devices.
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Description of an Alembic
The complete distilling apparatus consists of three parts: the “cucurbit” (Arabic ḳarʿa, Greek βίκος), the still pot containing the liquid to be distilled, which is heated by a flame; the “head” or “cap” (Arabic anbiḳ, Greek ἄμβιξ) which fits over the mouth of the cucurbit to receive the vapors, with an attached downward-sloping “tube” (Greek σωλήν), leading to the “receiver”...