Hey fellow buddies. Thanks for watching. All right in this video we're gonna talk about something a little bit different and it's something That I'm gonna give you my opinion about and I'm kind of gonna back it up with why I feel the way I feel But of course, there's gonna be many many opinions about this and you have to do what works for you All right, so let's get started here What I'm gonna be talk talking to you about is buyer Feedback and a lot of people will say that if somebody has zero Feedback they will block them and not allow them to buy from them So let me go in here and show you what I'm talking about There is actually a page. It's called buyer management Where this is where your blocked buyer list is so if you ever need to go in and manage that and take somebody off of it Do you put people on your blocked buyer list? I do but it has to be something pretty significant for me to add somebody to the blocked buyer list But I do have a list and basically I just cut and paste it and put it here when I have an issue It's not a huge list, but I do have a list buyer exemption list I don't think I use that you can use the buyer block exemption list to Let specific users through regardless of the blocks you've set So I don't know what that means, but you can manage it there So really what I'm going to talk to you about today is Should you block people that have zero feedback? And if you go in here, you can look there's buyer requirements And you can block buyers who have caused Blank cancellations or unpaid purchases within so many months So let's say you don't want anybody that has had Five unpaid items in a month to buy from you That kind of makes sense to me. Do I turn it on? No, because I want to get as many sales as I can obviously And just because they didn't pay you doesn't mean they're not going to pay me So I do not turn that on but I could see where that may Be beneficial and you could even change that number It looks like up to five. So if somebody has five in a month, you may say I really don't want you buying for me because the odds of you paying could be Maybe less. So that's up to you. That's something you can turn on or off Block buyers whose primary shipping address is in a location. I don't ship to So if you have locations you don't ship to you would want to turn this on Block buyers who are currently winning or have bought blank items of mine in the last 10 days so I think this is more for if you only want somebody Somebody to only be able to buy so many items from you and an amount of time Which I'm not sure why you would want to Block sales, but that option is there for you But here's the one I want to talk about only set this requirement to block buyers with a feedback score so If you want to block people that have zero feedback you would put zero here and you would click this I do not personally block buyers with zero feedback and I will tell you why Do I get unpaid items? Yes. Are they always from people with zero feedback? No, they're from people that have a lot of feedback Zero feedback buyers a lot of times they pay and I'm going to give you some examples here in just a second So I do not turn this setting on I have heard people like in the facebook group And other youtubers say that they block Buyers who have zero feedback now.  No, this is just over the years I've heard people talk about it Probably more so in the facebook group than on youtube, but um, I can't really recall where I heard it But I know people talk about it Let me know down in the comments. Do you block zero feedback buyers? And if so What benefit do you think that it has for you? So, um, I do have don't allow block buyers to contact me once I blocked a person I don't need to have any communication with them anymore.  I do not block buyers with zero feedback and I'm going to show you why okay The buyer of this item and I may have accept I may have accepted best offers on some of these items You will see these items in a future what sold This is more just for me to show you That all of these sales were zero feedback buyers I was the first person they ever bought from on ebay If I would have had feedback turned off I would not have gotten any of these sales. All right, and I just kind of went back. This one's from november 6th And this one here sold I sold this stuffed animal to somebody On december 2nd So a lot of times what you're going to find is somebody with zero feedback has probably searched google Or something maybe this person was looking specifically for this animal alley horse For their child and they found me through google And they ended up making an offer either starting an account or I think you can even buy as a guest I'm not a hundred percent sure on that But they bought this horse from me. They paid No problems all of these people that i'm going to show you they paid and most of them paid immediately So if I would have had block zero feedback buyers, I would have lost all of these sales This is a lis tech artisan signed bracelet It is a specific artisan item that only specific people maybe know about this artist So again, it may have been a google search. I have no idea But this was a hundred and seven dollars that I made off this item I would have lost that if I would have had feedback Zero feedback turned off Advent calendar same thing zero feedback. I was their first purchase So these um halloween prop teeth Zero feedback. I was their first purchase. I mean, we're talking 93 dollars 40 dollars and look all three of these sales They paid my asking price my sale price This is a jimmy bigmouth billy bass singing fish sold that This one here was a polaroid camera I sold this plush so again people looking for specific items found them on ebay They did not have an ebay account and they created one to buy the item from me It's not that they You know didn't pay me. In fact, I when I was looking through all of the zero feedbacks I don't think any of them had non payment This little butter beans cafe action figure. She's a really rare hard to find figure So somebody found it on ebay started an account and ordered this item from me And this is the lego set Now I did not go back super far To um show you guys every single zero feedback person I just went through and pulled up enough to make a point that zero feedback buyers A lot of them do pay and they are good buyers.  I mean we all start somewhere and really what kind of experience is A person gonna have if they go on ebay and they're blocked just because they've never bought on ebay before and they have no feedback That would kind of stink that wouldn't be a very good experience for me If I wanted to buy something and I couldn't buy it because I had zero feedback Well, I have to get my feedback somewhere So just something to consider and maybe reconsider if you have zero feedback buyers blocked Again, this is just my personal opinion. You do what's best for your business Maybe you've had some bad experiences with zero feedback buyers, but I'll tell you I have unpaid items and they're not typically from my zero feedback Purchases a lot of times the people that don't pay they've got feedback So you can get an unpaid item on anyone from anyone a lot of people just change their mind And they may not be a bad buyer. They may have just changed their mind and didn't communicate that to you so um I would say if you're wishy washy about this Maybe the unpaid item option would be a better fit than just somebody with zero feedback But again, this is all just my feelings on it and you are entitled to your own feelings But I just wanted to give you some examples of zero feedback buyers that did pay And sales that I would have lost if I had not If I had blocked those buyers So definitely think about that and the buyer management if you just go up to the search bar You can find that so if you want to go in and change your settings and look into that That is an option as well So this is more of a educational tutorial kind of how-to video I did show you some of the items that I sold but you will see those in my future what sold videos as well So if you see a duplicate I'll go over where I got it what I paid for it and what it sold for If I took a best offer in those future videos, so definitely stop back check out some other videos And as always, thanks for being here and thanks for watching


So good afternoon everyone. As you all know, this is going to be an interesting talk for sure. It is titled Sense Without Sight. Our next speaker is Sai, and without too much ado, please give him a big round of applause. And he's going to be here shortly.  I think that I am daredevil. I'm not, sadly. Probably better for my health. And I do not have any magic powers, unfortunately. I just have extra disabilities. He produces a cane and puts it onto the ground. Nevertheless, one, two back, yay, live demo. Feels the floor. Where did that go? No, I'm not going to fall off the stage. You're going to be falling soon. Picks up a second cane from the floor. I can walk around without my cane. It's a little hard to precisely target it. But as you can see, I don't fall off stage. So just to make this clearer, I am not faking this. And the way you can tell is I have a blindfold on. This blindfold is for real. This is a sleep mask. I can't see anything right now. So you don't need to ask how good my sight is or why. Because I can't see. The issue that I have is light blindness. Basically, I can see if it's really dark and I can't see if it's really bright. And lights that are as bright as these lights here actually hurt my eyes right now through the blindfold. So I definitely would not be able to do this talk with my eyes open and my glasses off. I do a lot of different things. Blindness is not one of them. My shirt, my slides, my website. There's all sorts of stuff that we can talk about. Let's please talk about that stuff. Not the fact that I'm blind. Except during this talk or during my workshops when you're... It's okay to ask questions about that or talk about that. Exception is if you want to work with me on stuff or if you have feedback, I welcome that. But let's talk about something else, like how to analyze a few terabytes of court data. Anyway, I have assistants for this talk.  AKA my Harold. You're welcome. Come up. This is on the stage. It comes onto the stage from the side. Where are you? Good. And I have someone running the slides for me because obviously I can't see my own slides. Fortunately for you, that means I'm not giving the talk like this. What have I just talked about? He says turning around, looking at a slide. Make sound if anything. It's helpful because I can hear where you are. So you might wonder how I walked onto stage without my cane. I'm going to go over that in a second. But first, the cane is really, really useful. So it gives me a number of things. For instance, right here. He has two canes in his hand. There is a difference in the floor. There is this carpeted section here. If I just brush this with my feet, I can feel it. That's how I walked on stage. But if I do it with my cane, hear that whack? You can say yes in response to questions. Hear that whack? Yeah. So even if I'm lightly walking, I just keep that at a known degree and I can easily walk alongside of it, I can also feel the texture. So one thing you may not notice, but you may as well try now, is that the texture of the carpet under your feet, under your feet, the people who are live in this audience. I don't know about you people at home, sorry. But this stage I have checked out and it is smoother from the front of stage to the back of stage and is smoother from the right of stage to the left of stage. And I believe that's true for most of the floor in the audience, but it's made out of separate squares. So some of them may be oriented a different way. So feel with your feet, for real, like right now. Feel and see if you can feel which way it's smooth and which way it's rough. With the cane, when I drag it like this, it's smoother and when I drag it like this, it resists. And especially if I'm holding it like this with a firmer grip, this is nice and smooth and this way it sort of resists, it bends the cane a little bit. What else? There's sound. So something that I can do really well with the cane that's hard to do with my feet, but I can. I can do that. But I can also do this. Who waxed the floor with his cane? Those two techniques sound completely different, right? Changing between the wooden floor. In fact, walks to the back of the stage and tests the sound in these firmer areas. And then suddenly it's echoey. So that helps me tell just sort of what ground I'm on. Similarly, actually in the front of the stage. Sorry about your mic. The stage edge, it's really sort of resistant. Whereas there, it's got much more of an echo to it. One thing this is very useful for is echo location. I am not a bat, but it is the same principle. There are some people who are much, much, much better than I am about echo location. I'm not that good. But what I can hear and what you can hear and what you're going to try to hear right now is the size of the room. So I'm going to whack the stage with my cane.  You're not going to miss anything. The slide's not going to change. I'm just here. So close your eyes and move your head from side to side as I do it. And you can even sort of look behind you and listen for the sound of the size of the room. You'll be able to hear how large the room is around you. And you'll hear the echo of my cane from the back of the room. Kill the PA for a sec. He smacks the cane where it is time. Quite hard on the stage. He moves a bit around the stage and keeps hitting the floor. Okay. So that's a simple version. Another version is these stage curtains. How do I not face plant into them? Well, there's a few ways. For one, I can just run into it with my cane. Turns back towards the curtains. That's a speaker. Sorry about that. And that is curtain. Nice and soft. Brushes it only with this cane. There are several other things about this. I'm going to show in a bit. But also, if I'm... Sorry about the speaker. If I'm walking through this and I walk through the side curtain, sort of behind... There are speakers on stage who sometimes interfere with the sound. Psy walks past them. Psy is now in the middle of the stage between the curtains. They've added extra stuff to the stage. Notices something lying on the stage. A jacket. Psy walks on towards the left of the stage. It absorbs the sound when I am tapping near it. Yeah. There's... Where's that? Bit, where are you? Looks like you're lost. Do you need some help? Sorry? Do you need some help? Looks like you're lost. Psy, I made a few turns. Thank you, dear angel. No, I do know where I am. So... My dear signal angel, or my herald, is representing that person who is trying to be helpful to me several times a day and kind of annoys me. Or ranges from annoying to actually dangerous. I obviously know where I am because I'm navigating the stage. It's just fine and you saw me without even my cane. So thank you, but no, I don't need directions. He's in the middle of the stage facing the audience. Howdy. Someone has approached now. Someone who's right next to you like this. How can I tell that he's there, right? I'm not touching him with a cane, although I can. Psy has touched the other person on that person's shoulder. I can attack you in the ankle. Sorry, but that's how I can tell you're there. Especially if you're standing really quiet. It's really hard to tell that someone's there especially in a crowd like this. I forgot it. So yes, I'm going to hit you in the ankle. Too bad. That's how I can tell you're there. But in this distance, I can feel his body heat radiating. So from about this distance away, yeah. This distance, around 80 centimetres there. There's his shoulder. This is cheek. Psy has touched the other person briefly. So to turn to the person who's next to you, ask their consent first. I have asked bits consent for everything that we're going to do. What I'm going to do is put your hand up next to them. Try to almost touch their cheek without quite touching their cheek. Some people are doing this. And then deliberately do so. Psy demonstrates.  Yeah, go ahead. New interactions are sparing throughout the audience. Yeah. Psy is sitting at the end of the stage. He jumped off the stage. This is on walls. This wall, for instance, the front of the stage. There's actually wind coming through these little holes in them. That wind is colder than the ambient temperature of the room. If I get my arm really close to it, then at about this distance I feel the cold air from it and then at about that distance there's actually sort of a sheet wind that is really tight close to the wall and then there the hair is on the back of my arm tingle. And there I can touch it. So we have people He describes the relation to the AC in the stage. They're going to drive through the aisles. I want you to close your eyes and see if you can feel the wind generated by them moving past you. Sai is now sitting on the stage, on the edge of the stage again. There are people driving around with scooters and skateboards through the aisles to the back. So you feel how when they pass you there's a breeze in their wake. This happens a lot in Congress. There are lots of people on scooters and hoverboards and motorized couches or whatever. There's three people on scooters and one on a skateboard. Or someone just walking really fast like me. They all generate a wind in their wake. Another thing you'll notice in Congress there's these nice tunnels. So for instance from CCL to hall two there's this tunnel through the glass hall. When you walk through it the wind characteristics of the room completely change. You start feeling a crosswind so if I'm walking this way and the tunnel is on my right then suddenly I will feel a crosswind from the tunnel that is colder and wasn't there before. Similarly with the wall it just sort of stops. Next. So I walk to the back of the stage. Another person approaches him. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so everyone please close your eyes. And I do mean everyone. Oh, not the audio angels. Or the video angels. But everyone in the audience please close your eyes. If your phone number ends with the number one please sign Niels in such a way as to make some wind. If your phone number doesn't end in the number one point to the person who's making some wind. I can't see you so I'm not going to judge you. There's flapping in the audience. So do you feel that? Yes. No. How about people whose phone number ends in one stop people whose phone number ends in four just make some wind like wave your arm in front of you feel that? Try pointing to them. Well, not the people who ends in four. You can point to yourselves I guess. People whose number ends in seven. With all the others some are waving, some are pointing some are just not doing anything. When people move by you it generates wind when there's a tunnel when there's an air differential like the air under this stage is colder and that's why there's a wind out of it. Actually do you know what I'm going to do? Si moves to the left of the stage where two people are waiting. Let me hold your hand let me get that for you. Ah, your text. One of the people touches his arm one of the people touches his arm his herald Oh yeah, more stuff. Si approaches the chair touches the border of the stage with the cane so they found the steps walking downstairs Si vanishes from a line of sight If I open this door and I walk past it there's this crosswind I was mentioning a second ago about the tunnel so here there's just sort of flat to my right then here I walk a little bit forward suddenly there's this crosswind from that opening Similarly when people were biking by you similarly if I crack my cane I don't know if you can hear that very well but try hear how there's there's a sound off to that side that sort of ends at the door and then if I knock my cane here there's a little reflection through that door and yes I do know how to close the door we should explain that we are sitting in a cabin above the stage 1 floor up and our line of sight is restricted so we cannot see everything that's going on I can feel the that I'm close to the wall or not tingly, not tingly what's next? I guess reached the left stairs walks them up slowly, steadily somebody approaches him ah yes so it talks to the person um uh oh yeah you've added more to transfer you uh no sometimes that would be helpful but at the moment not so much because if you were to move it when I've already found where it is um then suddenly it wouldn't be there anymore and it'd be hard for me to orient one of the things that is difficult about being blind is you have to have quite a lot of memory so the things that you probably don't notice because you outsource your memory is how much of the environment around you changes so as a blind person they probably hate construction work I do and if I try to go sit down for instance for that matter looking for chairs on the state touching a chair sitting on it really hard for me to take a seat he doesn't smell that bad but some people have a pretty significant smell referring to this person perfume or cologne or axe or something like that the helper is peeling an orange on state public transit terminal and you've taken the elevator maybe you know the aroma of the elevator in public transit definitely lets you know you're in New York City so next group start moving the helper eats the orange my assistants in the audience are moving through the aisles with something in their hands what I want you to do is close your eyes the helpers are moving through the aisles with concealed objects what is it point to them see if you can point exactly where they are yummy orange it's five people walking through the audience at various points always different objects so if I'm walking past a coffee shop for instance hazardous things coffee a drug store smells like alcohol and cleaning solution a clothing store smells like leather and this weird perfume that they put in clothing stores for some reason I don't know why but they do and if you ever visit one hopefully you'll notice it now so let's see next still people walking through the audience reacts to people walking by dear asshole you know your lines you have a special line for the smelting a bit four people on state do you have your blindfold on no I don't have please do I don't have an extra one also one of the helpers is looking for a blindfold to continue to the next part of the talk fuck it's bright sigh Boris his blindfold now the helper is standing blindfolded on state first off say would you like some help sigh and give the person next to each other don't just randomly assault people just because I have a cane does not mean it's cool to assault me then if you're going to touch them do so with the back of your hand this way he knows I'm not just randomly grabbing him and yanking him around so I can offer you my arm we can walk let's go have a seat they walk towards the seat together there's a row of seats on the left that they're approaching there we go there's your seat they've arrived at the seats some people will like grab the hand and put it down and said I can just say here's the chair sigh guides the hand with his arm towards the chair all the other person grabbed and tried to push down I'm not quite sure now they're walking back towards the middle of the stage it's a little crack it's a stiff interaction do you hear the back of the room where that is asks the helper the other person is now wearing a blindfold so one thing you really don't want to do when someone is possibly trying to figure out their orientation is to randomly come up to them and grab them and pull them dear asshole a second person approaches the two let's pretend moves past sigh the other person he thinks he wants to walk towards the audience let's walk towards the audience a little bit both sigh and the asshole are now handling the other helper bit pulling him in different directions confusion I'm pretty sure you are you look lost fuck off please asshole moves away for a few steps please point to the back of the room blindfolded bit tries to find the back but is pointing into the audience instead this is what happens when you mess with someone's orientation please don't be that asshole if you want to be helpful you can be helpful I need you back to the chairs now maybe like a hand they hold you you don't hold them you can leave them the blindfolded person is holding sigh by sigh's hand and they are now both moving towards the seats at the left again and the blindfolded person is sitting down having been guided by sigh you can tell this is improvised and here I am again walking without my cane the blindfold is now off again and sigh is moving back towards the center of the stage I'll show in a sec another helper is now standing near sigh but moving by him by them oh wow sigh can walk across the stage or talk slight says just doing normal things isn't inspiring or impressive I wish I were kidding but that does happen pretty regularly can we clear the stuff off the stage please so instead of that I'd like to show you something that actually does involve a little bit of skill emptying the pockets namely about a decade worth of aikido for those of you who don't know aikido is martial art from Japan Anna a helper is now entering the stage moving towards sigh years or so learning to use a cane Anna has spent well more than that she's doing aikido and is a second degree black belt I am not however I'm wearing a blindfold and she is not so what I want to demonstrate for you is how I can tell that she's about to grab my hand there are about five steps apart and Anna is now approaching sigh her hand but still about three steps away there the vibration as it sort of rotates towards me with a nice little fist attempt here there I can tell she's starting to lean back and there I put her to the ground now Anna has fallen or been guided onto the ground by sigh they're approaching again airflow, heat slow head they're close to each other both hands in contact crook of the wrist doing the motion slow motion and he again puts her to the ground and faster the blindfold hasn't come off this isn't magic again I'm not daredevil I just can't see I didn't get extra super special hearing powers my hearing is pretty good but it's no better than the average person I'm actually a lot worse in the rain so that thing isn't a really a thing so just to prove that it doesn't just work in this sort of deliberately set up a special thing Anna is going to just attack me however she wants and I'm going to throw her around a bit Psy has now their back turned towards Anna is approaching from Psy's side they are interacting and Anna is on the ground again getting up again focus on her Anna has approached Psy again they are again interacting in an aikido way Anna is on the ground again Anna is on the ground and grabs Psy's arm they struggle with arms to each other Psy levels her to the ground another helper approach trying as well Anna is on the ground now they are both attacking Psy at the same time struggling arms held they are trying to stay up but both are getting to the ground there is quite fast movement all over the stage while both are attacking Psy once again Antra is from behind and is again on the floor the other helper is again attacking and now on the floor again and attacks again Psy defends himself and on the floor the helper attacks again and defense moves back and forth on the floor Psy now both help us and Psy bow to each other to help us move away Psy is in the center of the stage no I didn't tell them what to do in advance that's real yes I am a little bit out of breath uh oh it's been a while since I actually exercise well enough and again I'm still facing you I haven't forgotten where this line is between the wood and the carpet and in fact I can knock it with my ring sometimes against the walls a little better we all were quite surprised with the fighting it was impressive so if you want to not be an asshole uh please remember first off ask I may not want your help or need it and what you think may be helpful to me probably is completely wrong so listen to what I say yeah I would like you to please lead me to X uh that does not mean grab my arm and start dragging me to X uh I prefer to follow people by sound so I'm just going to tell you to scuff your feet when you walk follow you by sound or to just keep talking uh some people to prefer to follow by hand a bit help approach from the side so the side takes the helper's arm or upper arm let's go lead me to stage center please they both walk to the center there you go tada not that hard um if you are going to touch someone a bit here unless you've invited them to attack you because you're doing an icute exercise don't just randomly grab them and you anchor them around demonstrates touch them say hi my name is sigh would you like some help hi sigh I would thank you very much touch the helper with the back of his hand at his arm are you lost thanks I'd like to go to your place thanks maybe later and one important thing to note when people do simulations of disabilities they sometimes try to sign heels by just pretending to be blind or pretending to be in a wheelchair or something like you sit in a wheelchair for a day and then you think oh it must be so hard to be in a wheelchair because my arms hurt so much and I couldn't figure out how to get to the second floor that's because you've done it for a day and someone who actually uses a wheelchair has done it for probably years and years and years and has much better arms than you do where everything is and how to get around similarly I know how to get around without using my eyes you don't if you just try to put a blindfold on and grab a cane or let alone those blind experience museums where they just put a blindfold on you and don't give you a cane and have you walk around actually one to one once and they want to take my cane away from me like hell no that ain't happening I actually lent it to my partner so that my partner could not feel afraid of the surroundings of like accidentally walking into something accidentally walking off, well not a stage but off a step or something so you don't know what you don't know most of the things I've showed you in this talk you probably have never realized that they're even a thing like have you noticed how many different floorings there are in the mess hall touch just the floor again how many different sounds there are smells, the wind the ceiling heights you probably don't pay attention to that I do and without the experience you're just not going to be able to learn that that said I am teaching workshops you're welcome to come to them if I still have the energy to run them one is going to be right after this talk and the rest to be determined my volunteers could you please come up on stage if you're willing to be on camera help us are approaching and gathering in the middle of the state if you ask the 35C3 content crew and the VAC crew and everyone else it's kind of a pain to run something like this because it's a stereo recording that doesn't affect you in the audience live because the PAs are mono but hopefully those of you listening at home you've been listening to this with stereo headphones on and hopefully you'll hear it from my perspective what it's like when I crack the cane and you can hear the echo in the room so thank you very much thank you very much take a bow please 8 help us on stage audience coming in 9 people are on stage taking the applause bowing, the legislators can't be there very interesting talk we also have a Q&A slide please so if you have questions and you're okay with being on camera and possibly being asked to come on stage so I can answer your question depending on what your question is to the camera that's on stage right and otherwise there's cameras or there's microphones we can also just play in questions if you don't want to come on stage you can just ask your question from any one of the four microphones in the room Si looks for help a bit microphone number two which one is two it's for the person asking which one is the sorry which one is the one on stage right you can ask them on stage let's see if they want to come on stage which number microphone number two is number two is the microphone you want to come on stage I don't know yet number two is in front of you on the island number three behind there number one left on the and the two is walking number four if you're willing to be on camera so the question is right here thank you thank you for the really impressive talk my question is the following I want to know how your imagination works so when someone says imagine a box what's that you think of is that the material or how it sounds, how it feels just how does it work well there I would actually go to my psychology talk that I gave it 27 C3 and a box is a category theoretic concept that has a prototype possibly it's like asking imagine a furniture hmm imagine a box, a mobile kind of box is a shipping box, is a box of mate that are those little crates that I walk into etc. imagine a box is it an elevator yeah I don't know how to answer that kind of question so maybe I got that incorrect but what I want to say is that when I try to think of something I don't know any idea any project plan or etc I imagine how it looks so how I am at certain place how I for example see a box if someone is talking about the box so my brain works visually creating visual pictures I was interested in how that works for blind people well that depends on the blind person I have I've never really had a visual thought process so when I talk to people and ask them what is it like to think for you people in the audience think about this if you're imagining what you did over the last day try it okay many people feel that as sort of a quasi audio monologue it's like a voice in their head it's their voice it's not other voices many people have it like you have it of sort of visual experience some people have it as scrolling text could I get a clap for anyone who has their thoughts as text anyone okay two or three people who have that for me it's purely abstract but if I want to think of a box yes I can think of a box I can imagine it visually I can imagine what it feels like etc also please remember to see in dark light I can't see here because when looking up it is painful with my eyes closed under this blindfold there's enough light coming through that it hurts I definitely would not be able to open my eyes and I could take my blindfold off temporarily but that was because I was willing to tolerate some pain so with if it's a dark room then I can see just fine so thank you so the next question is from the internet so they won't be able to come on stage yes how do you feel about the app be my eyes be my eyes it's actually not bad there's be my eyes tap tap see be specular several for iPhone which I've never used because I've got an android though iPhone for what it's worth has and Mac products in general have really excellent support for blind people tap tap see is useful it's not as useful for me because at home like if I want to identify a can of soup or whatever I will just look at it with the lights down so I can see it myself and it's too much of pain to use if I'm out like if I'm grocery shopping that's something that's a real pain to do and an accessibility issue for those of you thinking about such things if you only if you only support the operation search or the operation look up and say I walk into a grocery store which I have done shock and they come up to me and say hey how can I help you what do you want I say well I don't know what I want what do you have I would like a savory snack that's vegetarian what do you have well what do you want name it but I don't know especially if I'm in Germany I have no idea what I sell here they still ask me that so browsing is much harder and with tap tap see and with be my eyes and so forth it's really for identifying a specific object one thing that you may not be used to here but in more barbaric countries all the paper currency is the same size and has no distinguishing features except for the next print run because the American Federation for the Blind sued the US Treasury and won so the next generation of bills except for the $1 note which the Treasury is not allowed to change by law but the next generation will have blind accessibility features here they have different sizes if you feel your euros they have a little strip on the edge of them and some versions of them have little braille dots that you can tell what they are if he has the dots be my eyes is more useful for someone who's blind at home as well another question another question for microphone 4 that's to the right of the stage they can ask from there but if they want to come up ask first I'm going to sorry for all the it was very impressive how you pick up on all these things that I normally don't so I was really curious when you meet a new person what do you pick up about them how do you assess the person how do you know they are interesting because I use visual cues for that so so I'm going to answer you assuming that I'm blind at the time if they come up to me and say how much can you see then they're probably not a person I want to continue interacting with if there's someone who comes up to me they've read my shirt about all sorts of different things and they have a conversation about that substantive and they say hey how would you like to implement liquid democracy or how do you make a non-linear writing system or something like that and they're more likely an interesting person or if they introduce themselves and are nice how do you evaluate people like you can't evaluate them just by what they look like I can tell your age and your approximate gender and your approximate place that you were raised linguistically and if you were at the same floor level I can tell your height I can probably tell roughly your weight just from your heat the sound of your voice the kind of pressure that you're making on the floor depending on what kind of floor it is the stone out in the mess I'm not going to get anything from that blind people can be racist too if that's what you're thinking so it describes everything with his hands everybody can be racist we're all a little bit racist dancy same way to anyone else so we'll do one last question for microphone number two the best center aisle so thank you for your talk I think that was very inspiring I was wondering most of the message that you showed were the analog so have you also tried something like maybe a smart cane so we have some more technical approach to detecting surfaces and obstacles or other things what's your experience hopefully my slide is still up there where it says I'd be interested in collaborating on that Eric Boyd at Sensebridge of Noisebridge where I used to be made a nice anklet called the Northpaw which is basically a series of pager buzzers that vibrate to point to which way is north I sadly broke mine and if any of you have a working one I would really like to have it absolute orientation is really difficult so relative orientation like what I was doing with the IKIDO I can tell where someone is I can focus on them but then it's easy to lose track of which way you're facing so something like that is quite useful there are some products that do this on demand so I forget what it was called but the LHZ Desden had this product which is a tactile feedback compass and clock so you click it and it'll vibrate in different ways to tell you which way you're facing but that's doesn't really work very well what you would want is something continuous I've heard of canes where they've like attached a camera to either the cane to the grip and it beeps when there's something there I've never used one so I can't comment on that directly but from blind friends who told me about experiences with them they tend to be engineered by sighted people who have no idea what it's like to be blind that said it is true that tree branches are a real obstacle because if I try to sweep something and something is above this height like a tree brand roughly one meter from floor or a metal sign like in Boston or DC or New York or really anywhere not so much in London they're pretty good about that except for the one time I walked into a building and there was a monitor fixed to the wall at this height head height hit the column I knew there was a column there and I was just walking past the column and walked smack into the monitor this was in a government building sadly demonstrating with this head and I haven't found any like that here but trees there's always trees bus stops often have sort of the sign on the side there's like this gap that might be say this high 30 centimeters from ground canes are usually anywhere between sternum and nose mine is just at the edge of my nose if I'm standing up tall it's quite long because I walk really fast so mine has a lower angle and that means that it's more likely to go under that and hit it like here when I'm almost at it tangles up my cane it's kind of a pain so it's possible that something that detects a higher range would be useful one thing that I'm specifically interested because it's something I'm bad at is absolute orientation so if you are an engineer interested in collaborating on something like putting little things in the cane grip or in a hat or on the side of eyeglasses or something like that that would tell me which is north constantly please get in touch or for that matter if you can make glasses that will take standard lenses and have zero light leakage please get in touch because it turns out there aren't any such frames on the market for some reason that's the technology but it ain't there so I think we're out of time thank you Sai for a very interesting talk big general applause thank you for listening this was the live description


part of the reason why I was so keen to include these devout prayers is they really illustrate the mystical side of Thomas the Campion. The prayer of love and praise to the Blessed Virgin Mary. I mean, these things are absolutely beautiful.  Let my prayers poured out to you with devotion. Enter into the sight of your most holy presence.  And you're a poet as well in translating this to where we can read it like that. But it's just almost radiant star, illuminating the firmament and gracious queen of heaven. I mean, it's just like a love letter to our lady. It is. It is. It's absolutely beautiful.


Here everybody, Dr. O here, and this is where we're going to cover DNA replication. So in order for one cell to become two, your DNA has to replicate or double so that both of those cells have all the DNA they need. So DNA replication, here you see it very simply, the player is involved. We have a strand of DNA that's going to be copied. The enzyme that does the reading and transcribing and copying here, not replication, not transcription, is DNA polymerase. So it reads DNA and makes chains of DNA. DNA replication always occurs on the three prime end or from the five prime direction to the three prime direction. You'll see why that's important in a moment. The other key thing to note here is the complementary base pairs. So DNA polymerase does its job because anywhere at season A, it knows that the complementary base needs to be a T. So when it reads an A, it lays down a T. When it reads a G, it lays down a C. So remember A and T are complementary base pairs, G and C are complementary base pairs. Let's go ahead and dive in.  The beginning of this process is going to be started there because the double helix has to be unwound or unzipped. An enzyme helicase, you see right there in the middle, it's going to unwind the DNA so that the two strands can be broken apart and each strand can become the template for making new DNA. That's going to be initiation. Elongation is going to be DNA polymerase grabbing on here and anywhere at season A, it lays down a T. If it sees a T, it puts down an A. Sees a C, it puts down a G, sees a G, puts down a C. So it's just going to go and go and go until it runs to the end. So this is going to be very straightforward and very simple on the top there and what's called the leading strand because DNA polymerase is actually copying DNA from that five prime to three prime direction. It's not going to be so simple as we'll see in a moment with the other strand called the lagging strand. Then so this is going to be the entire process of DNA replication of the leading strand very straightforward. Then zip it. DNA polymerase grabs on and starts reading DNA and making a copy pretty straightforward. I wanted to zoom in here to show you one more thing before we get into the lagging strand. DNA replication, a key word you're going to see is DNA replication is semi-conservative process. So that means that there really isn't any brand new DNA. So here's what semi-conservative means as this one piece of DNA on the left is becoming two brand new daughter strands on the right. Each new piece of DNA has an old strand and a new strand. That's what semi-conservative means. Very, very important process though because less copying errors. If I were to give you a page in the textbook and say you have two options, you can rewrite or retype out this page of the textbook or you can make a photocopy of it, right? The photocopy being from a template, which is going to be less likely to have errors. There will still be errors. Maybe there'll be a streak on the copy machine or you'll put it in there wrong. But you're going to see way less errors if you copy DNA using your complementary base pairs than if you were to start from scratch. So that's why this term semi-conservative is very important. So all new double-stranded DNA has an old strand, the template, and a new strand. That's what semi-conservative means. Okay, leading strand I think is very straightforward. Things are a lot more complicated here on the bottom and what's called the lagging strand. And that's because DNA has to be copied backwards. So DNA has to loop around and make copies of itself backwards. So in order to do that, the first step is you lay down RNA primers. I'll have it circled there, the RNA primer. So a little chunk of RNA. Here's how I think about this. DNA polymerase can make DNA, but it has to have a starting point, just like a zipper. A zipper can be 100 miles long, but it needs that little thing at the bottom in order to get started. Once you start zipping, then you can zip as long as you want, but you need that place to start. So the lagging strand requires these little RNA primers. That's where DNA polymerase will start and make chunks of DNA. So the lagging strand has to be, it's going to have a bunch of little RNA primers, chunk of DNA, RNA primer, chunk of DNA. So chunks are not a technical term. These chunks are called Okazaki fragments. So the lagging strand is copied one Okazaki fragment at a time. The next thing that's going to happen, these RNA primers are replaced. They're removed and replaced by DNA. So now you have a long strand of DNA, but there are still little gaps everywhere you had one of these RNA primers that need to be sealed together. So the last step with the lagging strand is there on the right. DNA ligase is the enzyme that comes in and seals all those gaps. Now once you're done, you look at the top and bottom. The leading strand was synthesized easily and continuously. The lagging strand had to be synthesized by Okazaki fragments, so discontinuously. But once you're done with all these steps, you cannot tell which strand was the leading strand, which strand was the lagging strand. So it takes more steps. But in the end, both new daughter DNA molecules are perfectly fine. So that is DNA replication, why it's important that it's semi-conservative. And that is how you synthesize the leading strand and the lagging strand. I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.


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So, VJTF is a very high readiness Joint Task Force, and it demonstrates NATO's capability to have a highly trained, rapidly deployable unit on standby to respond to crisis or conflict if necessary. Well, to NATO at large, it demonstrates interoperability across multiple nations. It demonstrates standardization, and it really demonstrates the combat readiness of NATO's land forces. As a NATO land com commander, I focus every day on the combat readiness of NATO's land forces, and the VJTF is the tip of the spear. This is about interoperability and combat readiness, and there's three types of interoperability. Human interoperability, where soldiers from different nations work together and they develop that human interoperability. Technical interoperability, like the ability to control attack aviation, to synchronize artillery, and then process and procedure interoperability, where you learn to work together using different processes and procedures. So the soldiers and units leave here more interoperable, more combat ready, and more capable of defending this great alliance.


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It's been amazing, you know It's been a lot of support. I'm especially going through rehab. So that's all I really wanted at this point and There's been that and much more. So everything's been cool so far Kevin, how's it going Christian Winfield in New York Daily News? Kyrie was talking about his relationship with different guys and how he was able to kind of bring you here with him Can you kind of talk about how you guys's relationship has built over the years and just what it's like now to be on the same team now and going forward for the next four years? Yeah, man We got to build that mutual respect for somebody especially following since high school kind of following each other's careers and It's very rare. We could meet up at this point and have a decision in front of us where we can control our destinies and We sat down and talked about it and what basketball meant to us as as a whole and you know I think this is the perfect spot for us to hone our skills and continue to keep growing. So, you know, it was a It was one of those things you just it kind of happened organically and we kind of move just pretty smooth with it Kevin Greg Logan of Newsday. Can you also tell us? He said that that what better place to start than with the nets and the the core of guys they had grown How did that discussion go? You know, there was so much talk about you guys would go to the Knicks and so on How did how did you wind up choosing the nets themselves? And what did you see? I mean, we just fans of basketball and we know it pretty well and it's really easy to see You know with these guys brought to the table. So It's not like I had to do any deep analysis on any player here. I mean just watching games and playing against them and Seeing a continuity throughout the last couple of years is pretty easy to kind of figure out what kind of team this And kind of organization is this place is Kevin Brian Lewis from the New York Post front row here When Gary was just up here, he was talking about I guess his relationship with you and he was mentioning that He'll never go out and say hey, I I expect Kevin will be back x-day or y-day Because he says You know the guy was put on the floor before he was ready to play and we see the result of that I'm gonna protect him from that I'm just curious your reaction to hearing that from him and I take it That's basically a window into the kind of relationship that you guys are formed look, I mean when I when I went down it felt like Everybody wanted to put their arms of protection around me from People I didn't know to you know my best friend and Kyrie, you know So I felt like everybody was real protective of me around this time And I feel like they will continue to be that way especially involved in my health But I make my own decisions Kevin Gerard Hector BSO You know Kyrie talked about the personal side of it that you guys are humans not just basketball players I know that's something you talk about regularly as well What's gonna be different for you when Kyrie talked about that and what are you gonna sort of share with your teammates in terms of? Making sure that That side of you the personal side is taken care of and everything is good so that you can do what you want to do When you show up at the arena and in practice I don't get what you're trying to say Kyrie's basically Kyrie said that It's important that we're human he was talking about his grandfather dying and you know Sometimes basketball is not the most important thing and you've often mentioned the same so for you How are you gonna approach that in terms of balancing balancing both? I mean we're veterans. I mean just because we talk about it. I don't mean we don't have it balanced. I think it's We when we talk about things like that is just a inside look into what we're thinking as basketball players Really thinking that you want to hear what we got to say so you know at this point in our lives we're accomplished so much and We fought through learning how to balance both and It's hard to do that But I think we're being Kyrie especially gone through so much in his lead understand Exactly what we need to do to maximize our talents every day and it'd be great people off the floor Kevin over here to your left Justin Walters files one Kenny I can submit long ago that he thought that your presence alone would help the team and that you'd be able to help the coaching staff I'm curious what type of role you plan to have with the team while a practice and during your rehab And do you think that it can really help them play well and mesh together as just yourself when you're able to re-answer the lineup? I mean just be a teammate. I mean I'm not gonna do anything extra Just do what I usually do. I mean Come in work hard at my rehab and hopefully that sends a great message out Anybody has a question on anything what they're in practice or in the game. I Know the game pretty well So I can answer those questions as quick as quickly and honestly as I can and just try to approaches In an everyday manner, and then you don't try to take it a day at a time, you know, I'm not planning to do anything I'm just it's gonna be myself Kevin to your rights Michael Lee with the athletic Just want to ask you how you plan on approaching this year. I know how much basketball means to you and how much it's always Been a shelter for you, but now that it won't be there How do you plan on approaching this upcoming year where the game may not be there for you? It's still there. I just don't Miss not playing an NBA arena that's 7 p.m. The game is always gonna still be there I still can walk into the gym and shoot shots and work on my game Kevin Mike Masia right over here from Yahoo Sports a lot was made of that talk you had with Kyrie at the all-star game It's kind of wondering, you know, how that friend how your friendship kind of started He called me and said his best friend and you know Did you guys think even at the all-star game that this was a possibility you could play together? Yeah, I mean really doesn't matter how we became friends. I mean, I don't really think that's a huge topic You know, I think We're friends with me you cross-pass with all these basketball players, you know whole life You know basically especially once you get out to the circuit, so It is not like we sat down and say, you know Kyrie you're my friend, you know, we just just kind of happen, you know, so With anything's possible we feel in life Kevin Steve Lichtenstein WFM to your left We hear a lot about the Nets performance team and training staff I was curious what your interactions have been so far and is it different than in the other places you've been? I mean the great thing about the NBA is that you know teams are investing more and more and to You know supporting other players whether it's from, you know meant to leave obviously physically and so One says better or you know worse than any other place But I think it's just top of the line and he lead nothing. That's just what the NBA is as a whole So every every program is at that level now Ian Bagley from SNY Kevin any team with cap space this summer I'm sure would have loved to sign you but it seemed like The Clippers Golden State the Nets and the Nets were those teams that were the serious shooters How seriously did you consider the Clippers Golden State and the Nets before you made your decision to come here? I thought about it for a couple seconds and See how my life would look in all of those places for a minute, but ultimately I wanted to be here Hey Kevin Stefan body with the New York Daily News a couple days ago Sean was saying that the expectation of team is that you will not play next season. I'm just curious in your mind What do you think? I mean do you think that you can return this season or? even I mean me and Sean have been in contact since day one So if he says it then it came from me We came together and make me sure that was a message So yeah, I mean anytime he comes up here and say something you don't have to ask me right after him because I'm gonna say the same thing That's how we think in the day. It seems like think he said last week is what I'm thinking right now Kevin Adams agoria from Forbes. How you doing? It seems like the NBA is more wide open You know this year than in the past five or six years. There's no team. That's favored to win it Do you agree with that? Do you see that it's more wide open than it has been and and how do the nets fit into that in the next Couple years attempt into contend for a title Yeah, there's I mean, I just think the landscape is different. I want to say more open. I think a Lot of you guys probably favorite of Clippers as a team to beat So, you know every year is a team to beat team you think is gonna win But you know just like last year Toronto came out of nowhere Milwaukee came out of nowhere After losing in first year on the previous year to be a finals contender. So each year. I think teams are getting better and Guys are improving and also free agency. Half of the league was free agents So obviously it's gonna be a landscape change when it comes to the dynamics of the league So I just think the business of basketball is booming and the league is always gonna be great if the players continue to keep Getting better and you see it every day. So, you know, you never know what you'll see coming forth coming in the future The NBA with type of players you'll see in the league. So every year I feel is wide open Kevin Barber Barker from Newsday You said when you thought about other teams you thought for a minute or two what your life might be like there When you think about what do you think? What did you think when you thought you're what your life is gonna be like in New York slash Brooklyn? What did you really like both basketball and non-basketball about being here? I Was doing a lot of YouTube research on like Kenny Atkinson and watching interviews and See how he talked after games and stuff and I really liked his approach to his craft as a coach and That's what drew me in pretty quickly. I Didn't really do too much research on other coaches. So I guess I guess he always had to leg up But you know, once I started to get comfortable with how he you know approaches his craft This it started to make me feel at ease even though I'd never even had a conversation with him I could just see it through YouTube and through the clips that that he was pretty genuine about the game And you know, obviously the talks with Kyrie and then watching the team and Knowing Karris and all of this stuff kind of combined at once and obviously being in the East Coast again Was something I was really excited about playing most of my basketball career either in like The Midwest or West Coast, so I was excited about being at least a few hours from home so all that stuff played a factor and I thought about it all and You know, but basketball is probably the main factor Kevin Brian only from the Associated Press You were obviously an MVP of the World Championships. It's always Kyrie actually were you surprised what happened with the US this summer and Knowing you're not gonna play a lot of ball this year. Will you consider playing again next summer if they're interested? I wasn't surprised About team USA, I thought a lot of those guys were young and still you know experiencing a lot in the league and still trying to figure out the International game and I feel like a lot of players dropped out at the last minute to that kind of kind of hurt that momentum and continuity a bit So they had to work on the fly I think so I wouldn't expect a great results But I feel like a lot of those guys got a great experience out of that, especially Joe being a part of that group I think it's gonna do nothing, but but help him but as of right now I'm just rehabbing every day and thought about even shooting a jump shot. Yeah Kevin Bob Windrum Nets daily Just before Kyrie Irvin talked about how you and DJ and he spoke at 416 in the morning The day of free agency. Can you tell us a little bit more about those conversations? I mean We just like we are we ready to do it and Everybody was like, yeah He was really that simple. I Tried to think of something deeper, but it really was that simple Kyrie Joe, Miss. Here. He picks 11 news Obviously said best basketball the main reason that you wanted to come here to Brooklyn But all of the areas that you were considering pretty metropolitan areas How much does being in the city for you and your brand impact where an NBA player goes in today's basketball? Well, I just look I mean, I'm I just looked at how I came up in the league I mean, I came into the league with a lot of expectations You know having a good college career. So I came in kind of like with some popularity if you if you would say so Market stuff really didn't matter Coming up, you know brand and stuff is only how I play on the court That's how I kind of looked at it. So if I play well on the court, then that stuff will follow So it wasn't huge, but I also knew that you know Who I am right now and being in a big city like this couldn't do nothing but help my situation You know I'm saying so I looked at that as well. So yeah, I deserve to live in a Good city. I've been in the league for 12 years and I get to make a decision like this Of course, I only looked at cities like that How we can saw in New York post Kevin you obviously were on one of the greatest teams of all time You went a bunch of titles and I guess how difficult was the decision to leave there? And I guess how important was it for you to have a new challenge?  No, I didn't look at it that way Every day is a challenge To stay at this level that I met So I never looked at me switching teams as a new challenge every day. I wake up I got a fight against that standard I set for myself but I Felt like it was a time for a change and I wanted to play for a new team and simply put I just did it I Didn't really think about What I was leaving behind or like what we would be accomplished I put that up on the shelf already and when it was time to make decision on my future Just thought solely about me Kevin Christian Winfield again New York Daily News There's been a lot of reports about your relationship with Karris. I'm just I guess I would like to know how You've watched his game develop over the years and really where that relationship started growing I'll really do Adam Harrington. I mean I work with Adam in a critical part of my career And I was transitioning to a different player And so we built the relationship and when he got this job, he was Just wanted me to get in the gym with a few of his players.  So You know, just we just hanging out at the crib every day then going to the gym It was just cool and that turned into having a relationship and just bouncing texts and when he came to the city, you know, we hung out so Like I said, everything kind of happened kind of organically once again And I see his career and see how good a player he's become always Always figure he'd get to this point


Welcome artistic souls to Monet Café. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and if you want to know more about pastel painting You've come to the right place. This demonstration will be on the power of neutrals I would say this is part two if you'd like to see part one You have to be a patron of mine on my patreon page which you can check out later and in part one I go over some very interesting things about neutrals really the science of color behind neutrals How you can actually make neutrals yourself and loads of information about color and value that will improve your artwork Now here is an example and following you will see another painting that we're both done with the exact same neutral palette Isn't that amazing? We could get two different moods in these paintings now I always forget to share that my work is available Of course the originals are available, but prints and products are sometimes more affordable and they're available on my Pixels.com account you can see there, but enough of that now Let's get started with our lesson in this lesson and there will be a part three by the way in this first one I will be focusing on how to create a value study a little sketch from the reference image You are welcome to use this and follow along and then after this sketch I also will be doing a little mini painting with a neutral palette again You're welcome to follow along with this and here we go All right, so let's get started with the sketch it always helps to do a preliminary sketch and even sometimes a small preliminary painting and I'm just using a piece of gray drawing paper right here. It's actually I think it's the piece that I used for my last demo Yeah Why not recycle and reuse right and I also thought I'd go ahead and combine I got a lot of you guys who said you would love more drawing instruction and so I thought I'd combine two things together here and go ahead and Do a little preliminary sketch and give a few tips for drawing some things I've covered before but I'll try to go into more depth One I'm using right here now. Just a little Derwent charcoal pen. This is a pencil. This is the medium one I've actually got a dark medium and light pencil and That really kind of works great for a little value study You can also just use one pencil if you want and there's different little techniques of shading and everything to get a good value study So I'm just getting a general sketch in see if I like the composition and work out any issues and Also, it just always helps so I wanted to share with you too that I kind of use this one down all the way I had just bought these not long ago, but what I do is I use my exacto blade I've got one right here That I I basically just shade it over a trash can to get this long piece of lead showing and That really helps when you want to do any any shading can't get it as good here With the wider part the reason it's not as I haven't sharpened it yet So how we're going to sharpen it is I've just got a piece of regular a hard-wrestled sandpaper This is some that I actually used to experiment path with pastels on but this works great to be able to sharpen Your charcoal so all I do and it does make a little bit of a dusty mess Is I just continue to rub on the sides until I get more of a little sharp point and make those edges to where I can actually Shade better. Let's see if I've got it good enough now All right, so now I've got more see I've got more of a flat surface that I can shade a wider area with that All right, so I didn't sharpen these but I think that'll work fine. All right now Let's take a look at this composition. I'm just using the same little moody photo Sorry if you see my circle light in there The same little moody photo that I took the other morning and I was like wow I've just been focusing on neutrals and doing a lesson on neutrals And I thought this is a great photo to work from because look how muted it is with the not only the low light But the fog so that's what I'm using and I literally just took my iPad and put it up here and got a general Size for it. Now what I want to explain here about drawing is I've talked about this before But I think I'll try to be a little bit more specific with it. My iPad has Little marks on it already where and kind of see where the center is This is this little button here or this little camera or whatever it is this is the center and This is the center and I can kind of get an idea of where the centers are so you can really kind of judge things Just by those four quadrants. So what I'm going to do Pardon my old sweaty head from working out and getting in the way What I what I typically do is I just look for like the sinners Okay, and you're just kind of guesstimating especially with a landscape I'd be probably a little more specific if I was doing a Portrait or dog portrait or a people portrait, okay? So I've kind of got my centers now I can look at my iPad now and I can see this has got a some interesting shapes going on here Let me first just kind of get in this tree this tree actually some of the base of the stuff The darkness is actually a little below the center point. There's like a little dark area there now the tree Actually reaches out Almost to the center not quite. Okay, so we've got it and how high does it come? All right, so Here's here's the bottom of that dark value. Here's the edge I can see it's not quite all the way over to the center and now Where is the top part of that tree? All right, if I've gotten my center point here and I look at the top of my iPad I see that the top of the tree is about Almost a quarter of the way. Okay, so now I start getting some ideas kind of for the shapes of the tree and Kind of where it is. All right, and this doesn't have to be real specific Nothing nothing too too crazy detailed at this point. So there's that tree Now let me take a look over here. I know I've got the the actual trees behind some very dark Shrubbery, there's some things here. That's like really dark. So we got that in here and Then another little darkness Dark area. I'm looking literally at shapes and dark values right now. It comes out like right about here Now, let me go over here. Now that I've got the tree I can go ahead and shade that into And on the value scale The tree is not as dark as this foreground. It's also not as dark as this area in here So I'm using the side of that charcoal These are my darks And this just kind of stops right here and it goes over and you don't have to do this exact But I kind of kind of like some things about this composition. All right, so we know that's very dark now We've got over here at the other side of the photo I noticed that that little rolling area where the the fence post are it's underneath the halfway point it would be kind of like right here where it starts and it kind of ends down here by This part of this tree right here, which is not quite halfway. I've got this a little further over so Anytime you want to you can erase or whatever, but this is not so specific that I need to do that Again, it's not like I'm doing a portrait.  That's a little bit lighter It's like some fog is cast across it this little area right in here, okay? And this does come up a little higher right here. Okay, so we've got that little area and the rest of this is all very dark So I'm just going to go ahead and shade all this in This remember this is just a value study. We're not supposed to be making anything That's a masterpiece, but this will help you with your final painting. Okay, so we've got all this dark area No, I do see that down in here. I do have like some of those grasses. I could go in here with darker darks And kind of get an idea of where some of these are going I do like the kind of the motion of them They're kind of turning and twisting There's a real dark one like right in there and This will all be done with pastels to get the that little real grassy Feeling and then up in here. There's some real dark on this edge It's like clumps of grass that are growing on the edges here And again, this is the area that's not quite as dark. Okay, so we've got our our darkest darks going here now a little more of this down in here a Lot of it seems to be flowing whispering like that way Which is kind of neat. Okay. Now right up here. We got some more of that dark it's kind of going from Thick to thin and making these little um, you know how grasses are nothing super consistent with that Okay, so now I can see this is where the fence part is This is where it gets kind of foggy in there Darkest dark here dark is dark definitely down here But of these two things this little clump of whatever this is growing in front of this tree It's like weeds and brush and bushes is darker than this. All right, so now let's focus on these things Well, actually, let me go to my my medium value Actually, I was using the medium value forgot I'm gonna go back to the dark now and make some of my darkest darks darker. You'll be able to see this, okay? All right, I don't want to make these too dark I probably don't want to mess with this too much because that's more medium. All right So now let's go in here and get some of these darker darks You can definitely see that's a darker charcoal pencil and once again, you don't have to have three three pencils I also do the technique with the three markers of three different values So that can work too. There's lots of options and pressure has a lot to do with it Obviously if I give hard pressure I Get more of that darkness and if I if I do lighter pressure It's not quite a start. All right, so enough fiddling around with that So now I'm gonna go back to the medium the one that I sharpened and I'm just gonna do some kind of some lines here and See my pressure is much lighter here This is that area that's the fence post Okay, and see how I don't want to make that value too dark because it is definitely lighter than the rest of it You can even with charcoal if you want to make something look even further away and subdue it and lighten it a little more I'm gonna just do that with this area down here because it's lighter. All right, you can just kind of Blend it out. I could do that with a tree too a little bit Make it look far away because you notice that tree it does this part of that moody look it does look Really covered by fog. Okay, so now we've got Kind of an idea of what's going on here. Now. I'm gonna take my lightest charcoal pencil here Okay, and I'm going to just represent some of this other stuff that's going on I see right here if you go back to the middle mark and I come straight down it's where a little Something a group of trees or something is kind of behind here kind of goes up and down here and Then behind that is where the other group of trees are I think I will make this tree go a little higher here, you know In the in the final that I do And that's another thing too. It's no problem to correct with stuff Okay, so you can definitely do that as you go along Right so my tree will be a little bit taller now. I'm going to bring this down here And then there's that other grouping of trees. It's so distant and so far away. It's incredibly light Okay, and it's just a little Idea of some trees going along here and then right about at Not quite a quarter of the way. Okay, so there would be a quarter I see about right here is where this other Distant tree and it's taller than this. Okay, this other distant tree. What I'm doing is I'm I'm comparing shapes all I mean proportions of things and shapes and Where they are in respect to everything else. I guess proportions. I'm always drawing Based on where something else is I'm not just looking at that one thing Maybe that makes sense. I'm looking at where it is in relation to other things and I'm also looking at negative spaces So maybe I can break this down. I didn't mean for this to be just like a drawing Lesson here, but I thought I'd add a little bit in on it and I think later. Is this the light one? Yeah, I think later I'll do a drawing video where I focus more just on this kind of stuff and also talk more about negative shapes and and how to compare objects and You're basically just training yourself none of this is going to happen unless you practice But you're training yourself to develop these skills and then low and behold when you Practice and you do it over and over and over again It just happens, you know before you know it You're not having to try so hard at this now You notice these are way back like that. It's almost like I see something else back there If we lived in the mountains, I'd say there was a mountain back there But I think it's just a cloud or something. Okay, and now down below this we've got at about Right in here. There is another sort of another little tree back here in the field and Yeah, maybe I will leave that in there Wasn't sure if I was gonna leave that tree in there or not, but perhaps I will all right So it's gonna be a little darker Then this that's back there. All right and now this right here I drew it in but I didn't give it a value yet and it's actually about the same value as this one It's lighter than this and it's darker than this, but it's about the same as this one So let me see if I can with this And I do notice that Stop right about there. I do notice that This area with the the fence post Also, too, here's a quick little tip with it should be darker. I should complete my sentence Also with little fence post it never looks right to draw Let's say that some fence going back around over a field or something. It never looks right to draw a fence post Just perfectly equidistant Okay, that looks very amateurish fence posts. They have personality especially when you've got cows next door like mine that um knock them over and they're not that dark which Some of our cows have actually gotten out, but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give them a little difference in width and Difference in how they're leaning and also difference in how close or far they are together This one's actually a little closer and it's leaning kind of that way and then there's one that's a little further apart And there's one like right in here All right, so they're gonna have more character and personality if they're Not so consistent And then again, this is a little bit darker some of this in here There's a little bit of growth growing around that fence post. I don't want to get it too dark. I'm using the light one Yeah, okay All right, so this is just to give us an idea. You know, do I like this composition? Is there anything I want to change? Should I Should I take anything out? What what is what do I like about this and what don't I like? Well right now I can see for me now. I'll work on the sky with pastels I'm just you know, basically giving this some value I feel like I don't have much rhyme or reason to these grasses and I will Work on that when I do the pastel painting, but I do like the composition I like that we've got something larger over here, but that it kind of balances out It's not so heavily weighted over here because of these two distant trees over here And it's just got some interesting things going on So anyway, that's just a a little basic Example of getting in a little value sketch and now I think I'll go ahead and do a a small mini pastel painting to Work out any other issues and my composition will I'll hopefully get it where I like it even more the more that I work on it There we go. We've got a little bit of a value study there This would be a little bit darker in here. Let me grab that's the cool thing about charcoal You can grab some on your finger It's a little darker, but this is still a lighter area than either of these all right, and so um, you know now now we can kind of Get an idea and Start working on a little mini painting Now I've zoomed in here to show you the color choices These are the actual ones that I used for the mini demo I may have grabbed one or two other neutrals My neutral palette is literally right next to me and put them back in their spot, but not many so And surprisingly not many pastels were needed for this particular painting These again are the Underpainting selections to give it that nice warm. These are going to be our bowls underneath the neutral palette and sorry if this keeps focusing on my hand and So those obviously I have in varying degrees of value darkest next to darkest medium medium to light and light So if you have anything that's these Five values that is in the magenta. I mean you could even do this with reds and oranges and yellows but just some warmer tones and That's really all you need for the underpainting selection now notice other than that All of these are really more neutral colors. You don't see any really bold colors jumping out at you These are my green choices. They all look kind of like dead greens Nothing is really like that bright vibrant green and again darkest value down to lightest value Some of these are a little cooler like maybe that one And actually this one over here is a lighter value This one's actually got some green in it. It would it could actually go down here and then I've got some cooler blues some have a little more green in it than others, but Again according to value and then I've got a purple that I use sparingly and then I've just got kind of a this is more of a doled out brown kind of a taupe color and Then some lighter versions of that. So that's our neutral palette with our bold Underpainting which really has a neat effect. All right time to paint Right now.  Oh and in our patreon group as well, man, that would be fun Okay, I just had an idea though. That'll be a neat thing that I can think about and hopefully do all right, so Basically, I don't even think I'm gonna sketch anything in with this. I've gotten one two three four five different values of this pink Coral magenta color here a little bit of a more of a purple in this one, but they're really just different values Let's put them in the order that they go. I'm trying to do this without dropping them. Hopefully this is showing up Okay, so darkest Next next next and lightest. Okay, so we're gonna use this to create now Why would I choose these colors to create like a little underpainting? I'm choosing them because when I did my last little neutral painting I put down More of the the bolder colors as an underpainting actually did it with oil paint and I've since figured out a way I've got to change it but but I loved putting the neutrals on top of a more vibrant color and It just it made the neutrals kind of pop and they just work together really well, so that's what I'm doing here All right, so now I'm just gonna get in. I think I'm just gonna go ahead and tone the whole thing I know the sky is pink or not pink, but this is the lightest value the sky is the lightest value in This mini painting portion. I'm speeding it up a bit because it's a little bit redundant it's basically following the exact same principles that I discussed in the value sketch and Just take notice of where I'm using. I basically just applied the lightest value and the darkest value there I got my two end degrees of my values and Kind of work from there and then I basically just go in with all of the other values and again This is really teeny so it's a little hard to do but just do a value study with the five Magenta pink tones that I chose and again you can use whatever warm colors you have and You know, it will have a similar effect. All right, enjoy this. I'll add some music and I hope you will learn from this lesson and learn that by using neutral colors You're in no way decreasing the Brilliance of your art because they have a life all their own when used correctly. All right, thanks guys, and here we go As I'm wrapping this up here. I thought I'd share that I actually really liked the final result of this mini painting I I think I actually liked it more than the large one. I did there's something sometimes about doing something a little bit more spontaneous and not overworking it that gives a life to your art work and So I learned something from this too and stay tuned because part three of The power of a neutral palette will be coming soon and also if you would like to see part one It is exclusively for my patrons on my patreon account www.patreon.com Susan Jenkins where for five dollars a month you can not only get a little extra content But you can also help keep these free videos coming to Monet cafe for hungry artistic soul Thanks guys and happy painting