"Another Brick in the Wall: The Enduring Impact of Pink Floyd"

It was the summer of 1973, and the members of Pink Floyd were gearing up for their biggest tour yet. They had just released their album "The Dark Side of the Moon," which would go on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time. The band was excited to bring their new music to fans around the world.

As they traveled from city to city, Pink Floyd quickly realized that their music had a profound impact on people. Fans would come up to them after shows, telling them how much their music meant to them and how it had helped them through difficult times.

The band was humbled by these interactions and knew that they had a responsibility to continue creating meaningful music.

But touring wasn't always easy. The band members often found themselves at odds with each other, arguing over creative differences and personal issues. Despite these challenges, they remained committed to their music and continued to push themselves creatively.

As the years went on, Pink Floyd's music continued to evolve. They experimented with new sounds and styles, incorporating elements of jazz, blues, and even classical music into their work. Their albums became more complex and layered, with intricate instrumentation and thought-provoking lyrics.

Through it all, Pink Floyd remained one of the most influential bands in rock history. Their music touched the lives of millions of people around the world, inspiring them to think deeply about life's big questions and encouraging them to embrace their individuality. Today, Pink Floyd's legacy lives on through their timeless music and the countless fans who continue to be moved by their artistry.

Pink Floyd is no longer an active band, as the members have gone their separate ways and pursued solo careers. However, the legacy of Pink Floyd continues to live on through their music and the countless fans who still listen to their albums today.

David Gilmour, one of the band's lead guitarists and vocalists, has continued to release solo albums and perform live shows. In 2019, he released his latest solo album "Live at Pompeii," which was recorded during a concert in Italy in 2016.

Roger Waters, another lead vocalist and bassist for Pink Floyd, has also pursued a successful solo career. He has released several albums and continues to perform live shows around the world. In 2020, he released a new studio album called "Us + Them," which features live recordings from his 2017-2018 tour.

Nick Mason, Pink Floyd's drummer, has also remained active in the music industry. He has released several albums with his band Saucerful of Secrets, which plays early Pink Floyd songs as well as other psychedelic rock classics.

While Pink Floyd may not be creating new music together anymore, their impact on the music industry and popular culture is undeniable. Their music continues to inspire new generations of fans and musicians alike.

Making Cents Over Making Breaths!

Listen To Some Great Wisdom Sung By POPOLOGIST® Emily Ricks. RIP OceanGate Adventurers.

The 19-year-old Pakistani college student who was the youngest to die in the implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submarine was "terrified" about going on the deep-sea journey to the Titanic wreckage, his aunt has revealed.

Azmeh Dawood, in an interview with NBC News, said her nephew, Suleman Dawood, also informed a relative that he "wasn’t very up for it" but went on the excursion anyway because it happened over Father’s Day weekend, and his dad Shazada, whom he wanted to please, was passionate about the sunken ocean liner.

"I am thinking of Suleman, who is 19, in there, just perhaps gasping for breath... It's been crippling, to be honest," Azmeh Dawood told the network.

"I feel disbelief," she added following an announcement from U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger that underwater debris found Thursday was "consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel."

HAUNTING PHOTOS SHOW LATE OCEANGATE CEO STOCKTON RUSH TEST DIVING HIS TITAN SUB

Azmeh, who is Shahzada’s older sister, also said she was fixated on international media coverage of the search for Titan this week.

"I feel like I've been caught in a really bad film, with a countdown, but you didn't know what you're counting down to," she told NBC News. "I personally have found it kind of difficult to breathe thinking of them."

Mauger’s announcement Thursday came hours after the Coast Guard alerted the public that a deep-sea remotely operated vehicle had made a discovery along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

"The debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber. Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families," Mauger told reporters gathered in Boston. "On behalf of the United States Coast Guard and the entire unified command, I offer my deepest condolences to the families."

COAST GUARD CONFIRMS ‘DEBRIS FIELD’ IS OF MISSING TITAN SUB

From left to right: Suleman Dawood, Shahzada Dawood, Stockton Rush, Paul-Henry Nargeolet and Hamish Harding, the five passengers on the OceanGate Titan submersible.(Engro Corp. | Reuters/Shannon Stapleton | @OceanGateExped/Twitter | Felix Kunze/Blue Origin via AP | Ocean Gate/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

At a young age in Pakistan, Shahzada Dawood was "absolutely obsessed" with the story of the Titanic and would frequently watch the 1958 film about it, "A Night to Remember," Azmeh told NBC News.

As he grew up, he reportedly would enjoy visiting museum exhibitions containing artifacts recovered from the 1912 disaster.

"He was my baby brother," Azmeh Dawood told NBC News. "I held him up when he was born."

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Ever Imagine Your Fashion, Yourself in a video game? Well you can be! POPOLOGY® is holding a competition of who is the next cool POPOLOGIST® Characters TO BE Avatars in the next iteration of POPOLOGIST® Camera Slinger already underway!

Have you ever been complimented on your style or persona?

Putting Yourself Into a Video Game for Free Just Got Way Easier!

One of the reasons video games are so popular is that they offer people a form of escape. Sure, drawing on an arsenal of weapons to take out the bad guys in "Assassin's Creed" is good fun. But most gamers aren't just gearing up for some real-life battle between groups of trained killers; they're just looking for a little respite from life as an office drone, for instance, or overloaded parent.

That yearning to escape may be no more clear than in a gamer's all-important choice of an avatar, the character or image that represents a real person in the video game world or on social media. Many folks go for something that resembles them physically, except maybe with bigger biceps, a smaller waist, more hair or just an all-around stronger sense of badassery.

We will put you in our next video game and make you famous, or at least Popologically popular!

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New research shows that avatar images can even change the way people sculpt their own bodies in the real world, and another study looked at what gamers call themselves online can say about their real lives. Still, a group of video game techies at the University of Southern California is betting that many gamers would go for an avatar that reflects what's reflected in a mirror.

Researchers at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies recently released a package of free tools designed to help gamers create highly-personalized avatars based on scans of their own faces and bodies.

The technology works in concert with 3-D photo scanning programs like Skanect or KinectFusion. It uses a combination of tools to add skin, hair, clothing and other animation to a raw 3-D image. Gamers can then alter avatar bone structure, as well as height, weight, shoulders, waist size and other features. The tool realistically adjusts other parts of the body as this information is logged. Adding inches to a waist line, for example, will automatically increase chest size and direct the model to hunch over more.

Here's a video showing the tool in action:

David Dodge is a video game designer and producer who runs a computer programming boot camp for kids. He says the technology could have a “profound impact” on the gaming industry.

“While some gamers will continue to develop avatars as alter-egos and fantastical characters," says Dodge, "there is a large audience who will enjoy bringing increased personalization to their gaming experience and who will love portraying their own identity in the game.” He adds that personalized avatars are likely to be a big hit in multiplayer games, where groups of friends all participate together.

The USC program also empowers the avatars to run, jump and interact with objects within a game setting. The developers are currently fast at work on adding facial gesture capabilities to the package. The say users can already create and animate a 3-D version of themselves in as little as four minutes.

Now That's Interesting The term "avatar" comes from the the Sanskrit word for "descent," and is a religious term used in Hinduism and Sikhism to describe a deity's manifestation in the physical world.