Sentences with phrase «hours of amateur»

In between are 48 straight hours of amateurs and professionals sprinting through the entire development cycle of a video game — albeit maybe one you wouldn't immediately recognize as a video game.

Not exact matches

The first half hour of the trading session every day is often referred to as «amateur hour.»

The person who studied the classics at home, who wrote poetry in the early hours, or who listened in private to Beethoven quartets was, in my little patch of suburban England, no more to be despised than the expert in tarot cards, the amateur acrobat, or the breeder of exotic chickens.

A game is played, a picture is painted, or a garden is cultivated, and each activity is regarded by the amateur as a complete experience, rounded out within minutes, hours, or months, as the case may be, while for the worker — in the parallel cases of professional player, artist, or farmer — these achievements are but incidents within a continuous career.

He made the leap from amateur to pro in Austin, home of the five - hour waitfest at the celebrated Franklin Barbecue.

Ronnie Quinn of West Warwick, R.I., son of former Rhode Island Governor Robert E. Quinn, taught his 17 - year - old nephew, Bruce Morin, to play golf, then had to battle for six hours to beat him for the state's amateur title before winning 1 up on the 36th hole.

During this hands - on, 2 1/2 - hour session, you'll earn amateur brewmaster status as you mill, mash, sparge, boil, cool, pitch, ferment and package your way to hand - crafted beer greatness with the expertise of a Calgary brewery.

Amateur hour type of stuff.

Dave has spoken widely to amateur astronomy groups, logged many hundreds of hours at the eyepiece, and written eight books on astronomy.

Neuroscientists placed seven people into an MRI scanner and played them each 2 hours of The Moth Radio Hour, an amateur storytelling podcast.

I am an amateur cyclist from Ireland I have had the advantage and pleasure of working with Götz Heine during a world cup ultra endurance cycling event (Race around Ireland) Which is 1350 miles in 132 hours.

Arnold LIVE Presented by RedCon1 will feature more than 50 hours of LIVE STREAMS, including the Arnold Classic, Arnold Strongman, Arnold Amateur & much more.

It sort of feels like amateur hour.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — Nov 6 — Suicidegirls.com, an online social network of amateur pinup girls (with an online dating element) said it logged 500,000 downloads of the sexy «featurettes» - three - to five - minute video clips - in the first 24 hours targeting the new iPod - toting crowd.

Unlike other Chinese and Asian Dating sites, none of which take any concrete or proactive measures to protect their members from the endless professional and amateur con - artists that are on every dating site and social network, we actively police for these crooks every hour of every day.

45 minutes of outrageous situation comedy with hilarious consequences, 45 minutes of gut wrenching and heart felt emotional drama, 45 minutes of impeccable acting from its two leads, who's on - screen chemistry (excuse the pun) has garnered them with a total of 4 Emmy's, and 45 minutes (im about to come back full circle here) of impossible to predict story lines that make the twists and turns in shows like Lost and Fringe genuinely feel like amateur hour.

Released: September 29 Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas, Carel Struycken Director: Mike Flanagan (Hush) Why it's great: Like 128 Hours for BDSM amateurs, this adaptation of Stephen King's psychological novella gifts Gugino — long overlooked by Hollywood and underappreciated by her directors — the role of a lifetime, as Jessie, a woman handcuffed to a bed by her recently deceased husband who struggles to break free before starvation, dehydration or something worse sets in.

I don't know how much the M. Night Shyamalan comparisons get bandied about in his home, but Godse, whose novel was apparently a Top 5 bestseller in India, is an awful actor, and though the film's ensemble cast features American Radio Hall of Fame inductee Myron Cope as well as Emmy - winning TV personality Dave Crawley, for the most part this is strictly amateur hour.

Heâ $ ™ s Roger Greenberg, the sort of socially malfunctioning egotist that gives amateur psychologists hours of fun.

But just to show that Mazda remains committed to diesel on the street even as it awaits the readiness of the Mazda 6 Skyactive - D, Robert Davis decided last fall to build a trio of production - based diesel - powered Mazda 6s for the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, an amateur - level racing event sanctioned by the National Auto Sport Association (NASA).

Just like the VLN series with its 4 - hour races, the 24h race is mainly aimed at amateurs, in order to fill a starting field of around 200 cars.

Newman won four amateur national championships, a second place finish at Le Mans and in 1995 won the 24 Hours of Daytona.

For every one of Andy Weir's «The Martian,» there have to be 100 military SF, zombie or dystopia amateur hours masquerading as finished works.

Carey recounts stories of children learning to recite Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, «The Wreck of the Hesperus,» and of amateur researchers spending lonely hours learning of nonsense words, before moving on to more recent work on questions of the retrieval and storage of memories.

The first half hour of the trading session every day is often referred to as «amateur hour.»

Amateur archaeologists will love the fascinating two hour Landscapes of Change interpretive walking trail, past deep gorges and permanent waterholes, and learning what the landscape was like when megafauna walked the earth, including the giant wombat.

For the last two - to - three years I have had an editor who does five of the eight hours of work that a typical Amateur Traveler episode takes.

Interesting enough, the hours of engagement for the Amateur Traveler audio show got as high as 47,985 for a September when the show was being promoted.

The articles themselves are not totally devoid of value, but they are very much amateur blog posts that could be cranked out in a few hours rather than highly researched, brilliantly written pieces of journalism.

You will need many hours of practice starting at amateur and slowly disabling driving aids before you can finally remove all the training wheels.

And yet still, I'm playing triple - AAA games with boss fights pulled straight out of amateur hour.

Three newer videos of hers each take a single screen, and production values have skyrocketed, just when artists such as Jon Routson and Christian Jankowski delight in turning even Hollywood values into amateur hour.

Caleb Lyons: Well I do have balls, or a pair of testiclesâ $ «they were on exhibit in my nude video: The Artist Is The Model: Do It Yourself, Still Life, Amateur Hour, Idiot Box, which was riffing on the ego and vulnerability of the artist, as well as the idea that through our immediate technologies everyone has become a producer, the «artist» has become the «model citizen» for exploitation.

Intended to mirror a scene created by amateurs during the opening hours of some terrible cataclysm, the scene appears like the work of a group of crazed convenience store workers who, faced with impending catastrophe, have taken whatever materials were close at hand and erected a slapdash religious altar.

The thousands of comments a week on these skeptical blogs represent a vast opportunity cost as Al Gore tutored activists continue to blanket news sites with comments, often only opposed by amateur hour skeptics who are readily shot down.

I once performed with my folk trio on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour on ABC - TV (an early early version of American Idol?)

We've got to get off this amateur hour in terms of standards making.»

Thus, the actual professionals in the field are slimed with the same public disdain / crud as the here - today - gone - tomorrow amateur - hour try - out artists, who, by their never - ending, same - incompetence - different - faces presence, keep this industry in a perpetual state of discord... thanks to the inwardly - looking philosophy and self - sustaining politics of ORE lever - pullers, aka self - satisfied puppeteers.

consumers associate the archetypical Realtor with negative conceptions of mistrust, non-professionalism and inward - looking commission - seeking mercenary behaviours... thanks to CREA's and Organized Real Estate's - in - general top - down best efforts to sell an image that does not in fact reflect the reality of what you guys are in fact pushing onto the public domain in the persons of unprepared amateur - hour short - term commissioned sales hacks.

This whole jumbled - up Canadian real estate transaction industry, as overseen and governed by a hodge - podge of national, provincial and local boards» salaried bureaucrats (who operate in a vacumn without accountability to its dues payers) and elected short - term registrant volunteers from the trenches, remains mired in a constant state of amateur - hour disarray of contentious issues (as highlighted by Mark's words on this issue), which is only one contentious issue in Pandora's Box of many others.

Many years ago we had great talent shows like the Ted Mack Amateur Hour out of America and some wonderful programming on the CBC that provided all kinds of opportunities for new actors and singers desperate to perform before some very forgiving audiences.

There would be many less amateur - hour failures - in - waiting out in the field but a much higher number of professionals who I am sure would be willing to pay higher dues... because... real professionals realize that professionalism does not come easily... or cheaply.

This is morphing into a case whereby 100 percent of the 30 percent must care and act (100 percent) enough to overcome the effects of this top - heavy, unbalanced, inverted 70 - 30 money pyramid that is powering this well paid bureaucratic in - house amateur hour show by default.