إن الحمد لله نحمده ونستعمله ونستنديه ونستفهمه ونعود بالله من شهور نفسنا ومن سجاة في عمالنا من يحمد الله فهو المهمتك ومن يُضل الفلن تتجب لله وليه المرشية وأشهدوا أننا الناه إلا الله وكلموا لا شريكا وأشهدوا أننا محمدا مع عبده ورسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم وصفيه من خلقه وخليه فلغت بساله وأكتل أمامه ونصحلكمه فكشف الله بإموالنا فجزراء الله عنه خير مجازا الذي يعنى عن قومته ودايا عنه ثم أما بعد يقول الله عز وجنه في فتاقه يا أيها الذين هاملوا تقلوا انتقوا الله واتنظر نفسه قدمت لغل واتقوا الله إن الله خذ يوم ما تعملون ولا تكونوا كالذين نسوا الله فالنساء أنفسه ولا بكم الفاسقون لا يستوي أصحابنا وأصحابوا الجنة أصحابوا الجنة لكم في فارزهم صلى الله عليه وسلم ثم أما بعد نشكر الله سبحانه وتعالى ونقوم بكلمه كما الله يكون قمت بكلمه المرأة من المرأة التي تخلق لكي تجدها إلى مجرد صورة الحشن التي يتكلم right before تكلم أنها ممتعا نames of الله عز وجنه ونقوم بكلمه ونقوم بكلمه ونقوم بكلمه ونقوم بكلمه ونقوم بكلمه سبحان الله يعمل يشكون قبل هذا العام يبدأ مع أمكم who believe be God's believer be mind of God be God's keeper be God's believer be God's breath and seek of God's pleasure it's all engulfed and encompassed in the word إتح الله but this ayat is very interesting because this one ayat has the word or the command إتح الله twice not once so this is our word all you who believe إتح الله be mind of God وَلْتَنْ بَرْنَفْسُمْ مَا تَجْدَ نَتْهِ وَالْتَنْ وَتَحُواْ إِنَّ اللَّهْوَ الْمِرُ بِمَا تَعَالِنِ so there's two parenthesis إتح الله وَتَحُواْ within the same ayat what is in between what did Allah say in between these two إتح الله الله say and let every nafs see what it had prepared for tomorrow وَالتَنْهُ نَفْسُمْ مَا تَجْدَ مَا تْمِيلَبْ let every soul see what it had prepared for tomorrow so now you think what is done there so as the word tomorrow is open and in obviously you will find that I am in Tafseel and the word the Sahaba understood tomorrow which means obviously the rest of your life what are you preparing for tomorrow so that tomorrow is better than today but most of them if the city went for tomorrow meaning the last day that is the first day I mean in life you live today the first day and the last day اليوم الأول واليوم الأخر اليوم الأول is this dunya اليوم الأخر once you resurrect that's the اليوم الأخر the first day and the last day there is no day in between so Allah said let one see what he or she has prepared for tomorrow tomorrow means life after death brothers and sisters this ayah is so accurate so relevant and so appropriate to be mentioned today which is shot upon the first day of the اليوم الأخر there is a whole year coming there is a whole tomorrow coming your way so Allah is saying be mindful and be mindful of what you have prepared for tomorrow so the question becomes what have you prepared for tomorrow brothers and sisters the worst thing you can do to yourself in life is to lie to yourself and to hide yourself from yourself الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى one of the most beautiful surahs that rhymes in a beautiful way was شمسي ومخالها والقمر إدات الله والمهار إدات جنداها والليم إدات يبشاه والسمات وما بناها والعرض وما أطحها ونفسك وما سبوها فألها تهفض وما أطحها الله سوار in these ayat the longest قسم in the Quran has the liberty سبحانه وتعالى to take an oath by his creation but his creation has no liberty except to take an oath by his name you cannot swear or take an oath except by Allah's name but Allah can say والليم إدات يبشاه والمهار إدات جنداها وما خلقت ذكا والأنثا إنساياكم شكرا الله can swear by his creation and we can only take an oath by his creation but we can only take an oath by the name of Allah so this is the longest back to back oath in the Quran the longest imagine in a short surah has the longest oath count with me وشمس ومحاها والقمر إذا تلاها والمهار إذا جنداها والليم إذا يبشاه وسمائي وما بناها والأرض وما طحها ونفسك وما سواها سواها سوه to eat the sun back to back إم편ة this long in which الله says I swear by the sun and it's day lights morning by the moon when it comes after the sun at night by the day when it brings clarity and people can see by the night when it brings cover by the sky that I have raised and by the earth أن أسفل أن أقوم بالصلاة للمشاكل. ونحن نفس المثال المتعلقين، ونحن نفس المثال المتعلقين من يصدر أن نفسك what is right and what is wrong. فهذا هو الله مض survive That Allah has put in you what we call in human language, common sense. أنت تعرف what's right هيا أنت تعرف what's wrong اللهم أحوان قال أن الناس تعرف what's wrong with him أوها أنت تعرف what's wrong with you even though you'd like to make excuses أنت تعرف what's wrong with you لكن أنت تعرف what does the human need for himself أن الناس has the capacity and this is categorized with psychiatrists as a condition in which you lie lie lie lie so much that you start developing the ability to lie to yourself so what did Allah say after اي قسم then ended up by the structure of the nafs what did Allah say successful is he who purifies himself loser is he who hides himself what is this word hide why the word hide you would think Allah would say successful is he who purifies himself loser is he who makes himself selfie no that's not what Allah said Allah said the one who hides himself which is you start hiding yourself from yourself which means you start saying there's nothing wrong with me the whole family is telling you Baba you have a short time for me if you would end me easily Baba can you come down there is nothing wrong with me why are you an angel do you not get angry do you not get thirsty do you not get upset are you an angel are you not a man or a woman are you an angel it's okay we don't get angry but the best of us the one who controls the animal the whole world is talking to you Mama you're spending too much money whatever we make is done ما كل ما تشتري تشتري but everything you desire you buy I like it but now سبحان الله in the old days in the Stone Age when you checked out on Amazon you have the type your name your ad your clinical now quick one click check out don't even think about it this maps Allah said in the Quran you lose at it so what happens people come and give you an advice but what do you do you hide yourself from yourself there is nothing wrong with you Allah said get to know yourself get to know your problems fix it and you will be successful I will help you but what is wrong with that don't hide don't say there is nothing wrong with you so now brothers and sisters we are approaching a whole new hinge here I wanted to think what advice practical advice that I can give you you know how people say new new resolution this and that so make a list then write a list that's good I do recommend you to make a list and if you write that list you are a big time successful person they made a study at Harvard they made a study on the people in the 1950s and they came back and checked with them in the 8 1970s 30 years back in the 50s the 60s and the end of the 70s so 2 groups of people and we are talking about 100 here and there and they saw which group is more successful and what is the difference this group was successful this group was now a successful the difference that the group that wrote their goals on a piece of paper actually ended up doing it the one who didn't write it the one who didn't accomplish it I'm talking about science that's why I must say اقرأ باسمه ربوك الذي خلق خلق للمسانة من علق اقرأ وربوك الأكرق اللذي عنه بيقلق رايت الله will teach you عن لبن المسانة if you hold the pen and write your goals الله will interfere الله will help you and will teach you that which you don't know عن لبن المسانة لا جعب talk to human what he knows but before brothers and sisters before we get into the details making this goal and that goal and this goal and that goal there has to be something that we're seeing with that I have to ask myself and you have to ask yourself deep inside you what do you want very similar question what do you want what do you want from yourself what do you want from your family what do you want from your money you made money stored it in the bank that bought properties شاء الله all the blessings of Allah إن شاء الله but what do you want because if that question is not answered everything else will disappear and you can write all the goals you want and it's not going to work brothers and sisters us human beings الله created for us a self protection mechanism what's that self protection mechanism that we love ourselves يعني if you get closer to five then don't touch the team up but he sees you touching it but he cannot tell you how they get from top not from the bottom don't touch the team up but I want to touch it don't touch the team up but I want to touch it then re-touch it and then he screams so loud he runs around the house you have to put the ice pad now for the rest of his life you will not touch that team up why because Allah put in us we love ourselves and we like to protect ourselves from God and not put that in us you see harm you are a knowing do you know that that's the definition of Takwa do you know what's Takwa Takwa is running away from harm Takwa means avoidance to avoid harm so we are born with Takwa we are born with Takwa but the human when he grows up reaches to a level where instead of his intellect support his Takwa because Allah tells you don't drink why I have Takwa because drinking will harm you don't drink this will kill you I love myself I already ran away from harm just like what someone says don't jump into this 100 feet drop you see of course I'm going to jump I know what I'm going to do I'm going to do that same thing Allah says don't drink and come on don't intoxicate your body don't take narcotics don't gamble don't eat blood don't eat pork don't steal don't charge the river all for self protection and the protection of the other human beings so Allah has asked you to activate what he already got so the human grows up thinks he's intellectual all animals you know animals they eat from the plant it gives them stuff and egg they will never eat from that plant they will mark its scent its taste and they will never eat again the human grows up become an adult takes a plant smokes that plant his brain smokes he almost went through near death experience and he was like wow that was very good we do it again and animal will not do that and animal will not do that a human will suspend his mind and go through that what has happened to you that's why when Allah says in the Quran they are like animals people who act like that they are like animals no they are worse than animals because animals will not do that animals will not animals will not inflect self-harm on themselves when was the last time you saw a monkey forget a human taking a blade and cutting himself what are you doing on Karima you're so proud of it what is this you understand so when Allah says suspend this thing that Allah puts in us you love yourself that's why you eat you don't starve yourself to death you starve yourself so that you stay away from Allah this love yourself in the mind of the human grows and grows and grows and grows and it grows wrong so the humans start loving themselves so much that he wants to live his life for the sake of himself are you following me the humans start living his life for the sake not of Allah but for himself so here becomes the plan you're not going to show them you're talking to yourself I'm going to show them show whom people show them what you're going to work so hard I'm going to make money I'm going to buy the best house you should buy a house just for you and your family you don't need to know I'm going to show them I'm going to start I'm going to show them show them what I'm going to start the business and make so much money I'm going to show them and what does the human get get into this moon I want to bend glory and legacy for myself so that I can show them show people who I am how successful I can be so now what's the mission statement of your life say it for me what does Allah say about the life haven't you seen the one who took his own desires as his own God and Allah misled him with knowledge he has knowledge but he spent God in this life because he decided I'm going to live my life to bend and glory and legacy for myself you either do that or you say I am here to bend the glory and legacy for Allah and this is so in the beginning of this new vision here you need to ask yourself what do you want what do you want are you here to bend glory and legacy for yourself what do you want or why are you why are you doing what you're doing بلاي الشيخ I want to get married please help me why because I'm going to get married can you have a better intention can you have a better intention I want to get married for the sake of Allah and for my own sake to have a partner to have a good muskin family so that I can bring beautiful I want to have children yes you can why why why do you want to have a child Allah shows us in Surat Al-Animran the mother of million she said يا الله I want a baby so that I can give the baby to you to serve in your house that's what I want a baby زكريس يا الله give me a baby so that the knowledge that you gave me I can give to him so that he can carry the mission and serve you they have a goal even when they want a son or a daughter they have a reason why they want a son or a daughter not just to have 12 children show them what I will show them show what you're under basket ball too you're under soccer 12 Insha'Allah 12 and you might have 12 children and as Allah to listen to Allah sometimes your own children turn to you and become your own enemy the world I'm going to show them you make a lot of money Allah says all you who believe know that amongst your children and amongst your wealth and enemy for you so beware of them you accumulate wealth and this wealth right now is your enemy how? you go to sleep the wealth will not be little wake up, wake up check the stock market you want to eat not eat, wake no time to talk with them you turn on your phone you're going to go walk in the water no no no sit down and watch the news so that you can't analyze it that your wealth start eating up your life as if you have an enemy sitting next to you and his job is to bother you every second of your life and that is your own wealth so Allah said all you who believe know that amongst your own children amongst your own wealth is an enemy for you so beware of them so back to the same question what do you want what do you want what do you want from life why do you want to do one more day why do you want to make one more dollar why do you want to do what you want why do you want to have family why do you want to have children why are you alive إذا كنت أكتبت أن تكتب كما يقول برحيم الإسلام كما رسول الله فإنك ستعود لها لكن الله أخبرهم أن يقول شيئا لكي أنك ستعلم من طريقهم قل لي قلت كنا صلاتي والمسور ومحيالة ومماتي للله رب العدن لا شريك لك ومذلك أمرتو قل لي my prayers my rituals my life and my death for Allah رب العدن no partners do I associate with them I'm not here for the sake of Allah and for the sake of myself and for the sake of people and for the sake of شيئا and for the sake of fame and for the sake of 3,000 clicks on my Facebook I'm not alive for that قل إنا صلاتي ونسكي ومحيالة ومماتي ومماتي للله رب العدن لا شريك لك all for Allah with no partners not even me وبي دالك أمرتو and that's what I have been commanded by my Lord وأنا أول المسلمين I am the first Muslim look at us brothers and sisters each and every one of us today and each one of you has a problem some of you my health is bad the other one is my wealth is bad I can't get a job my husband is bothering me my wife is not listening to me my children are like giving me a heart everybody has a problem because when you don't have a big problem all the small problems they will become big problems الله أسأل جنب big problem big problem you are here to be my agent you are here to take care of yourself take care of humanity take care of earth apply my will give charity do good work serve with your own hands put to your health wealth time energy everything in you for goodness to make my name the highest thing that few jobs you are like oh my God that's a bigger problem so then you know someone comes to bother you oh but I want this you are like listen I wish I can pay attention to you but now I have a big problem I have to do something big but when you don't have anything big you will lose it smallest issue in your life becomes a big issue smallest argument between husband and wife becomes a reason for divorce smallest disagreement between parents and children becomes a reason that the family will fall apart why? because nobody has goals nobody is working for a big goal the whole family doesn't have a meeting once a week what are we doing for the biggest goal that Allah gave us are we dirty going on D are we practicing on D are we going to the mission are we serving people in mission are we serving the non-Muslims are we talking about Islam are we helping our brothers connecting to nations for our brothers in Burma you have something to keep you busy something to give you more you go to work you come back to work you have something to do are we reading the book of Allah are we understanding it are we making tafsir is everybody here explaining something to everybody you have a big problem now small problems you know oh i said to you good morning this morning you didn't reply oh god time for that a whole other year coming which means you're closer to death by one minute for little children that's ok you know they make whatever a birthday something and we ask them how many sores did you memorize from the Quran last year oh i memorized that sore ok insha'Allah we'll bring you a cake and this Sahaba used to do that when their children used to finish memorizing their juzo or memorizing the surah or sometimes they used to slaughter a camel or a cow or a sheep and invite everybody celebrating that my son did something he said to me that's ok but you're growing older right now you're still celebrating birthday you're closer to your one year what are you celebrating for children that's ok for adults you're welcome a whole new year is about to come to dawn in Europe what is your plan this umrah is made of individuals each Muslim individual is a cell your body is made of cells when a cell mutates in your body start growing out of control now you have cancer what is cancer one cell decides to not listen to the rest of the body the body usually cance these cells every day your body cance between 10 to 100 cells that are potential cancer every day Allah saves you from cancer that's body functioning as normal immune system it has a spice it finds which but which this it goes in spice on them and it kills them before they grow one cell goes crazy the whole body dies and look at the umrah today how many mutations how many cancers do we have at our home this umrah is made of individuals you fix yourself you fix your family you come and support your message we have here a successful institution الحمد لله now the level of the umrah is not sick next the kidneys of the umrah is not sick next the stomach of the umrah very soon you will find a healthy umrah that is known what is supposed to do but it all starts with you what are your goals for next day if your goal is to serve Allah build a legacy for Allah build a monument for Allah as the origin then go ahead build your goals and set a plan how to reach these goals but if you have any other goal I really feel sorry for you because very soon you will find the money that you trust it will not be there for you if your body starts decides to start mutating you can have a million how much did Steve Jobs have in his bank did it help him with his bank care antique cancer none to happen if you trust your body your body will betray the trust it will get old on you and it will get sick on you you trust your wealth your wealth will betray your trust you will lose the money how many people will see you bubble bust bubble bust we are witnessing we are in the third bubble bank dot com bubble bust people went crazy from millionaires to homeless one lot I saw them in my own land individuals from hundreds of millions to homeless trust your money I tell you your money will betray your trust trust people and people will betray your trust trust Allah and Allah will have betrayed your trust what are you what can you know about me what can you know about me all of the believers shouldn't rely on me what are you trusting what's giving you the sense of security what security I have a house and I have a car and I have a bank account and I get a family I'm all set I'm fine I may get it made but it will fall on you one by one in front of your eyes that's if Allah wants you to wake you up so that you can only put your trust in Allah once you put your trust in Allah once you live for Allah then there is a whole year coming down on us started with Muharram and we start the Prophet ﷺ said there is no more fasting they loved to Allah after the fasting after the fasting of Allah than the fasting of the fasting of Allah this month there is no fasting more beloved to Allah after the fasting of Allah than the fasting of the fasting of Allah this month so when I start to you here with leaving you not focusing on food no more fighting with your wife why did she cook this and she didn't cook that and she thought that we're going to drop off that we're going to replace that with fasting with fasting we're going to focus focus on the load from the beginning of the year we're going to focus on giving some of our brothers and sisters and Burma deserves your support the Muslim here said next Friday Insha'Allah they will collect donations from Burma they have already given from them isn't that fun but they want to give more so each one should come next Friday ready you're going to focus when you're منهج from the Book of Allah from that example of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم you're going to gather your family you're going to say this coming year is not going to be money last year we wasted too much time each and every one of us in this family will read a book about Islam and we will sit down and learn about that book from that individual in the family so I will read this book you read this book and each time we sit down different one makes different presentation in the family being alive not just did you meet did you drink did you buy socks did you get some underwear with oh okay الحمد لله what is this did you do your homework did you take a shower did you brush your teeth okay الحمد لله when when will you be there the next time with them have you achieved your goals did you read your Qur'an are you better have you read the Tafseer have you done this what have you applied of Islam today what did you give Allah in the name of Allah today this is what you need to do as a family so that Allah will be have his birth among the family there is no one alone by himself but Allah is second there is no two but Allah is the third there is no four but Allah is the fifth be Allah then one more member of your family as Allah is the third of this book insha'Allah and I will be there through my in the name of Allah بسم الله ورحمة الله ورحمة الله وصلات ورسمان ورحمة الله ورحمة الله الله يبسد لنا بسد لنا بخير look on your system see why people are depressed unstressed anxiety phobias fears over small things doing things unpassable when was the last time you had an anxiety attack because you missed رسال الله in your prayers This is a new beginning. The first day of the hijra year. You have to wake up. If you are 13 years old and older, if you are 10 years old and older, you're not a child anymore.  You're not a child. You're not a baby.   You're not a child anymore. You're not a baby.   You're not a child anymore.


What do you do for work? I'm a project manager. What do you do? So I work for the county. It's a lot of work, but someone has to do it. Today I had seven one-on-ones and did clickies on the buttons too. Clickies on the buttons, the little circles with the check marks, they turn blue when you click on them. And blue is my favorite color. So. Did you get nap time too with a juice box? No. But I tried, but the teacher wouldn't let us. Anyways, that's the bell. I gotta run.


What's going on then guys welcome to a new video so today then we're going to be talking about niches in 2019 so one of the easiest ways to make money in dropship and then is to sell trending products obviously because everybody wants them so over the past kind of couple of months really I've been doing my own research into what's going to be popular into 2019 and today then I just want to share with you some of my findings some of the niches then that have increased in popularity over the past couple of months only for that to increase and continue on into 2019 and ultimately then give you guys ideas of what kind of products are going to be popular in the year to come so that means something guys that's the top of the video thank you for tuning in and let's get straight into it. What is going on then guys welcome to my computer so a couple of things just quickly before we jump into this now I'm going to show you guys three niches today I'm not saying these are the very best niches as it's difficult to kind of put like a price or a value on each niche these three niches then are kind of ones that you might not hear everybody else talking about I don't just like to put the same information as everybody else out there I want to show you guys new things essentially and number two then the way I kind of do product research I tend to make a list of about 50 products and then I'll kind of experiment with five maybe 10 max at a time just so it doesn't get too overwhelming so at the moment I've got all these products that I'm going to be working through for 2019 and if you guys want to see a video on those actual products say maybe another three of those products the same so sort of three niches three actual products that are on that list then make sure you let me know down below in the comment section or leave a like on the video either way make sure you let me know and then next video will be actual products for 2019 as well anyway that being said then let's jump straight into the video so the number one or the first niche you want to show you guys then is smart home technology so this is things like you've probably heard of the amazon alexa or I think it's called the google home hub and I think apple have got their own one now as well well they've had it for quite a while so as you can see what I tend to do when it comes to choosing niches and products as well actually is use google trends because it's absolutely brilliant you just put a search term in here at the top and then it just shows you really clearly like the popularity of this search and as you can see it's slowly and steadily increased and the most popular it's ever been was last month so in terms of it continuing on into 2019 and even more and more popular then I see absolutely no reason why it wouldn't do that and you only have to probably think about the kind of people you know more or less well a lot of people have an amazon alexa at least that I know in their house or some sort of smart technology like smart plugs or smart lights and the popularity is just going to increase increase increase and it's been out long enough as well for suppliers and factories in China to kind of get it down to a T so when new technology when new technologies come out then a lot of chinese factories will jump on the bandwagon and know that it's becoming popular in the western world but it usually takes quite a few months if not at least a year for them to kind of iron out all the problems and make a decent quality product essentially so we've gone past that point so you can actually source decent smart home technology products on aliexpress as well so before I actually show you the results and the products on aliexpress I just want to point out a couple of things with google trends so number one it gives you like a heat map to tell you where these searches are coming from so ideally you know exactly where to actually advertise these products as well so as you can see it's really popular in germany then united states canada again so they're the big two english speaking countries and then if you just flick through to the next page you can see australia uk so it's brilliant it actually tells you where these products are popular as well and then if you want to niche it down so rather than just smart home technology specifically you can use this related queries kind of toolbox as well and again you can just flick through those and it will tell you again it even gives you like different ideas of specific products that you can sell as well so definitely something to check out and all you have to do then is simply head across to aliexpress you can start with just putting the niche in in general and then filter it by orders and it's going to tell you then exactly what kind of products are the most popular or essentially get in the most order so if I just flick through a few of these then and just to show you guys the kind of products that they're showing so as you can see as well I just want to point out one thing this particular product advertised that it works with a lexer as well which is absolutely awesome so you know then as long as they've got that system that this particular product is going to work and if you have a look at the related categories box down the left as well it gives you again ideas of what I like to call sub niches then so kind of niches within a niche so these are all potentially things that you can go ahead and look at so as you can see then you can have smart switches smart lights sensors different alarm systems they're really popular now I know on TV in the UK a lot of people advertise in these like the fact that you don't even have to be at home and you can see who's ringing the doorbell at your house so they're getting really popular so I believe in 2019 stuff like this is just going to become more and more popular people have been able to control their heating as well from home for a long time and eventually everything is pretty much going to go that way at point at some point in the near future so definitely definitely definitely a niche to check out and what I want to point out as well is the fact that with trending things things tend to come to like a point in which or like a bubble if you like and it keeps building and building and building and then it pops and then it will just be kind of like steadily popular and we haven't reached that point now so if you get in now and you become good at what you do and you can offer a range of products and pretty much be the go-to place for smart technology then there's a huge amount of potential there so the number one then is smart home technology moving on to niche number two then guys and speaking of trending niches the next one is Jim Leggins now I'm probably going to get a bit of hate of this on this but it had to be included in this video just because the potential is absolutely massive we're coming up to the time of year where going back to that bubble example then January is that bubble and I can illustrate that to you guys here so if we look at how it's still steadily increased in popularity over the past few years and if we just look at where the spikes are so at the bottom of that spike then is December and then the spike is in January obviously this is when everybody the most popular new year's resolution is to get fit or lose weight get in shape so this is the time where the majority or most people then are going to be searching for Jim Leggins and as you can see December at the bottom of this spike and then January is the top and the same in this year as well so as you can see that at the most popular point for this product was January 2018 just gone so the same thing is going to happen in January 2019 again you can look at the regions to see where it's most popular where it isn't now America isn't in there which is was surprising to me probably because they cool leggings something else I'm not quite sure what they choose over there and again they give you related queries and what I want to point out is when I was doing this earlier is high wasted leggings were were up there so high wasted Jim Leggins in fact I think I was doing the last five years and I think highly high wasted leggings was becoming more and more popular so as you can see it's up there I was getting closer to the point let me just try the past 12 months let me just try the past 12 months in fact I think it might have been UK let me just try UK quickly United Kingdom so there as you can see near over 12,000 monthly searches now this is an extra tool that it's a Chrome extension that I've installed it's called keywords everywhere if you search for it you'll be able to find it so high-waisted leggings Jim's as you can see it's really popular search thing so again that's what I call a sub-niche so it's a niche within a niche and just to show you guys the kind of product ideas on aliexpress then and fairly straightforward as you can see now what I would recommend is rather than going where it depends what kind of target market you go after so well my belief would be then a younger audience would prefer something like this one on the right there's a bit more bold and brash a bit more stand stand out ish and then an older generation might prefer something a bit more neutral I might be completely wrong that's just kind of my opinion unless I did the research I wouldn't really know but the reason this is so good as well is number one the potential is absolutely massive and when it comes to actually targeting people as well you don't just target people like fitness in general there's so many different avenues so you can target women who or men maybe men will start wearing leggings believe it or not I have seen quite a few men wear leggings in the gym but you can target like women interested in yoga because they wear leggings for yoga women interested in crossfit because they wear leggings for crossfit women interested in pilates in bodybuilding there's so many different avenues within the fitness niche that you can go ahead and target that the potential is just absolutely huge so if I was you I would pick something quite bold and brash quite stand out ish and even better if you go try and find somebody to model it and use a video ad if you can you can go on Fiverr a website called fiverr.com and pay someone like two three hundred quid send them a pair of leggings and they'll video it and send you the video back and things like that then it's going to be absolutely huge especially in January come in so number two then I had to include in the video just purely because of the potential which is gym leggings number three then guys so for all the people watching this video that don't just want that trending products where sales are going to drop they want something they can consistently sell throughout the year then this niches for you and it's minimalist jewelry as you can see then the popularity has grown over the past few years so again there's no reason why this shouldn't continue on there's loads of different countries where this is popular mainly in the English-speaking ones as well so as you can see the US Australia Canada United Kingdom and then a little bit in France as well should you want to go that far but to be honest those top four should be more than enough to make as much money as you wish to make again there's related queries and stuff which gives you kind of ideas or sub niches to search for within aliexpress so the number one reason then why I've included this in the video is purely because stuff like this will sell all year round like from January all the way up to December purely because it applies to so many different occasions like so I've just searched for minimalist jewelry on aliexpress I've filtered by orders and you you can buy or people will buy stuff like this for somebody all year round and for so many different occasions like I just said so for christmas valentine's day thanksgiving day if you're in america um birthdays christening weddings there's so many different occasions and times throughout the year where stuff like this becomes relevant and falls into that kind of gift category which just makes it a great product now one thing to mention is when it comes to advertising this stuff on facebook is you have to be really specific with your audience so for example then these are cat are they earrings these are cat earrings so they would be a lot easier to advertise on facebook than say these hoops here purely because you can target people who love cats and when you advertise in any product then you have to kind of narrow down on a specific audience because if you go quite broad especially when you don't have the pixel data to back it up then you're really going to struggle to make any kind of well to be profitable essentially so minimalist jewelry is great but it is quite difficult to be profitable in it just because it is quite general so when it does come to choosing actual products you want to advertise on facebook then make sure they are specific to a particular occasion or to a particular subject so like I just showed you some cat earrings or if we scroll down more cat things because stuff like this is just going to be so much easier to find an audience or elephant elephant things like this I have sold stuff within the elephant niche it's a really good niche definitely some potential there and that's pretty much all I can say about this it's going to sell well throughout the year just because there's so many different occasions people can buy this for and as you can see as well by google trends that it's just increasing in popularity so in terms of there being a demand for this stuff it's always going to be there if not it's just going to increase and get more and more over time as well so that being said then guys that pretty much wraps up the video there's not a lot more I can say on these subjects hopefully I've given you guys some inspiration or at least some ideas then or different avenues to start going down doing more product research and getting excited about 2019 there really is a lot of potential and now's the time then to actually capitalize on it and take some action so as I said at the beginning of the video then if you actually want to see a video on specific trending products make sure you leave a like on this video or leave a comment down below and that'll be the next video I release then I'll look at this video tomorrow and see what kind of response I'm getting and that being said then guys if you're still watching thank you very much I really do appreciate the support and I'll see you guys all in the next video


Alright, good afternoon everybody. Thank you so much for being here. My name is Neil Romanoski. I'm the Dean of Libraries. And it's really wonderful to welcome you all here for what is our first in-person authors at all in vaccines, I believe, maybe early spring 2020. So it's really wonderful to be here all the time with all of you here today. And I'm really honored and privileged to have Adger Pounds joining us for this conversation about his work and beautiful book. Adger, by 21st edition, is a press. And Adger will be in conversation with Julie Dunermuth, who is the director of the School of Art Plus Design. So really a great conversation today to bring forward to you. A tech note, unfortunately the live stream is not working, so we are going to record the session and make it available on our YouTube channel. And Jen was chatting with people in the waiting room on her live stream to let me know we can do our best, but it is what it is with technology. But so glad she can all be here today. And I do just want to take a moment to thank our Libraries and Events Coordinator, Jen Harvey, for her work on today's event, as well as several other members of our team. Phil Skocik, Robin Wooten, Kevin Kopelkamp, Kay Mason, Mimi Calhoun, Charlie Nick, and Michelle Jennings for all their work on the event. And last but certainly not least, I want to thank and introduce to you all Dr. Miriam Intritor from Armand Sender for Special Collections, who initiated and coordinated Adger's visit today. And I'd like to welcome Miriam to the front of the room to introduce our speakers. Thank you, Ken, for being here. And hello everyone. Thank you so much for being here this afternoon. I'm thrilled and absolutely honored to introduce our guests for today's authors of all time. Julie Demmermuth is a tenured faculty member at Ohio University's College of Fine Arts, School of Art, Coast Design. Her creative research field is in the areas of painting and drawing. Julie has participated in solo exhibitions and group and jury exhibitions in both the United States and abroad. Her research employs painting and drawing as sites for investigation, examining aesthetics of holidays, the psychology of celebrations, and both the questions around our relationship to sites of ornamentation. Most recently she has developed new biomedical arts courses and a new undergraduate certificate in biomedical arts. Julie has been teaching at Ohio University for the last 17 years and is in her sixth year serving as director of the School of Art, Coast Design. Today Julie will be in conversation with Adra Cohen. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Adra Cohen turned down a full music scholarship to Capitol University to become one of the first African-American students to earn a degree in photography from Ohio University. He studied here with Clarence H. White Jr. Cohen then attended the School of Motion Picture Arts and School of Visual Arts in New York City. As the first African-American film still photographer in Hollywood, he photographed over 30 sets alongside directors including Francis Ford Coppola and Spike Lee. In 1958, Cohen's joined Gordon Parks at Life Magazine. As a mentor, Parks encouraged Cohen's to use his camera against racism. While living in New York City during the 1960s, Cohen's became a founding member of the Cohenier Workshop, a rights arts collective who used their talents to undermine racism against black communities. The collective was a driving force in the Black Arts movement. Cohen's photographs and paintings have been shown and collected by the African-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney, the International Museum of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Harvard Fine Art Museum, the Detroit Art Institute, James E. Lewis Museum, and the Getty Museum. Cohen's numerous awards include recognition of a distinguished career at the 2001 Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art, a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, the Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks Visiting Scholars Award from Wayne State University, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Brown University. Please join me in very warmly welcoming Julie Demmermuth and Adria Povins. It's just a privilege to be here, and I'm just listening to that list. That's amazing. I don't know who that is. Well, we all want to know who that is. We all want to know about your life and your career, and kind of starting this off, I know Maren said you were here in the 1950s studying photography with Clarence White, Jr., and you were one of the first black students to get a degree in photography. I know you and I have chanted a little bit about this, but what was it like here at Ohio then, at Ohio University? Ohio University was at that time a little country town. Everything was close, everybody knew everybody. There was only one black family in the town, the Saunders, and all the children were very talented. Philip, Ronnie was a teller, so we all were very talented. But it was a real country town in the sense that in walking around outside the University where people had never seen a black person before this in the 1950s, and they looked at me very strange, and somebody asked me where you're from, and I would say I was from Columbus, Ohio.  Lots of different questions. On campus, it was good, you know, and I had a great time. I had great teachers. Clarence White Jr. was terrific. Walter Vialen and many trucks. Well, Walter Vialen was really a good guy. And then Don Roberts was a really unusual character in the way that he taught, but I learned a lot from him. And then there was just a mania in the theater, because I was in the light of the day in the black. But it was a nice campus. I think that year that I got here, there were only 22 black students in my class that came in, I think about 10,000 students that year. And I first lived in what they called the Barracks, because I guess at that time, Ohio University had been a base for the Army, I think. And so I lived first disabled in Chief of the Barracks. And I had a board job, because my parents couldn't afford to pay for the whole tuition, so I had a board job all four years ago. But it was a real home county, a real country. But the knowledge that was here, especially in the photography department, what I mean was very interesting, because Clarence H. White's father, Clarence H. White's senior, had been able to have the artists to show and see this as gallery, and see this as considered the father of modern photography. So he brought a castle, just a lot of different artists. This is about the first time that people would see this kind of work. So he was a real leader in bringing photography to Florida. I mean, when I said that I was going to come to Ohio University to study photography, my father said, why would you want to go study a hobby? It's just a hobby. And photography at that time was considered a hobby, and it wasn't something you did to make your life's living work out of it. To be a photographer was just photographing over the number of lessons for it. Here are the newspapers, stories from magazines. It wasn't really the kind of career that you could make a living from. Because it just wasn't happy. So what was the impact of your time here on your career? My impact? The impact of being here at Ohio University. Well, I think the knowledge that I got here was the impact. I learned a lot, and I kind of actually found myself to a certain degree. Because I was basically lazy. I didn't want to work. I didn't want a job months and a clock. I never wanted a job months and a clock. I had a few of those, but in the summer I would work when I went home, and I would have two or three jobs to make money. I worked with Timothy Goldberg and Company, and then I worked with the American Air Conditioning Factory. So I did two jobs in the main money when I was in school. I think that learning was very important for me here. I was exposed to things I wouldn't have been exposed to. All of my mother was a very educated woman. I knew Paul Armstrong Barr and Paul Robes, things like that, and my mother would read poetry to us and stuff. So I came from a big family. My group was, I would say, a typical American family only guy. That's great. You've got a chance to walk around campus a little bit today, but what do you feel has changed at home? Everything. Everything. Some of the old buildings are still here. The photography building was a big barn, and that's all that was in that building was photography. It wasn't that big. But the information and the knowledge was great. To learn what photography was all about. And I guess what I really learned, and that was later on, was to, I showed my work to people. That was my big secret, to see what they would say about what they saw. And in doing that, I learned about that person. They said, I don't like that, or I like it, or whatever. It gave me a window into their head, and that was around my junior, and that really got me excited about that I could make something that would move somebody to say something about it to me. That meant that I had connected with them for some kind of way. It didn't matter about the color. We had a very good buddy. He was white, his name was Taylor Chan, and we were everywhere on campus. In fact, he helped me get my first life, because he lived in New Jersey, and we hung out, and I was pretty friendly with James Corrales, who became very famous, I'm hearing, he photographed a picture of the march in Cecemo, and so the sun was in the sky, and you see the whole line of people. That's his photograph, and Paul Fusco, he photographed Kennedy, Kennedy trained, and went around, he was on that train, and did a whole lot of that. So they were both graduates from Ohio University, and I think that when we went to New York, and we were hanging out, nobody had the knowledge and information that we had. When I left here, I knew how to take a picture. I went and worked with Gordon in first grade. Do you know how to load holders? I said, sure. So we were in the dark room, and he closed the door, and he gave me four rows, he had about two rows, and they cut the lights, and let me know when you're ready, I said, okay. He says, you may have a lot of noise over there, so I said, yeah, I know what I'm doing. So he took my son out, yeah, yeah, I'm here. Really, he said, after that he never questioned my ability or my knowledge about the dark room, because he realized that I knew what I was doing. Because in those days, if you wanted to be a photographer, you studied with another photographer, and learned from him, and then he would give you some of his clients to get work like that. So you learned, it was all the job training. They were going to any school. Ohio University was the only school that gave an degree. I think Arizona State had a program, but they didn't make new rows. That's good, and they didn't say black, and we don't make new rows. I mean, in those days, they were really bold about whether they would admit you or not.  But I think that, at the time, OU was the only place that gave a four-year study course, and then later on they added master's. And I felt that the information that I got at Ohio University, you couldn't get anywhere else. You know, Clarence was very thrilled about what he was doing, and he had all that history of students behind him. We didn't have books. There were no books, you know, or any history of photography. But because his father was who he was, he was able to show us prints of Western actual prints. And I think that the first prints that I saw blew me away, they were so three-dimensional, Western's work. We had Ansel Adams. We had Steve's. We had all the guys who had Oregon, all those guys who were well-known at that time. And none of that looks until later on. In fact, it wasn't until Ansel Adams was on the cover of Time Magazine, that was 1979, because he had sold a photograph for $1,500.  Now you think it was something like that for $50,000. But I think that at that time, nobody really knew how big photography was going to become. I felt lucky to be in the history of all that new before. Yeah, we really blazed your own trail. Yeah. Like, again, you were the first African-American to film still photographer. Can you talk a little bit about how one sustains oneself as a first? How the mentorship? Well, I think that you can learn on your own, but you do have to have some instruction to understand why you can understand chemicals, understand how that works. You can't just have a dizzle camera to take your system. You know, kind of like, dizzle camera to take your system. You know, put it up there. When we started, there were 36 shots in a film camera. That was it. So you had to be very selective about what you were going to shoot and have to think about what it was that you were going to do. You only had 36 shots. Now you have dizzle camera to shoot $5,000. Did I get a good one? You know, whereas in those days, you knew at a certain point that you were going to have a good photograph of this company. So back in 1958, you joined Life Magazine, right? No, I never joined Life Magazine. It really worked at Life Magazine. I did some things for them, but I never joined the staff. I never wanted to be on staff. I never wanted to have a job as a photographer. I wanted to do. I really realized, because Gordon told me, he said, you don't want to work at Life Magazine. We're in the magazines. He said, because you do work and they edit for their policies. And he said, you have a... He said, you... He said, Jerry, I have your point of view. He said, just keep doing what you want. At first, I thought he was going to be here one week. He said, but then, you know, I met more than a sweet who worked every page. And he told me the same thing. He said, do you have your point of view? He said, do you have your point of view? He said, that's great. He said, you should stick with that. He said, it may not come overnight. And it didn't. He said, but he said, you have your point of view. You need to stick with that. He said, don't worry about your name for these magazines, because in school, the idea of being a photojournalist, that was the idea. We like Eugene Smith a lot. We love Eugene Smith. And we like that whole school of instantaneous photography in the street, that type of thing. Being able to capture a real moment in life, and we love that. Doing that, so those were kind of our heroes, you know, that style of photography. Sounds like you had a good mentor in there. Yes. Can you talk a little bit more about that mentorship or relationship? Well, I think that when Gordon saw my work, he realized that I was very serious about what I was doing. So we remained friends throughout this whole life, because when I went to work with him in the live page, and I lived at the house of the family, Gordon Jeniger, maybe I was a year or so old. I mean, we became tight, and we did all the running around with the girl. And Gordon had a swimming pool, so we'd invite girls over there. I'd go swimming. I mean, it was a great, great thing. Oh, yes.  But he had lessons, and Carl was my twin. So he was really good silence and things for him. So we hung out a lot. But I think that when Gordon, and I got really close after Gordon Jr. was killed in Africa, then, I mean, I used to talk to him every now and then, but after that, and I talked to him sometimes two times a week, writing books and stuff. He would ask my opinion about what he was doing. And then he learned some things from me, too. You know, because I had the latest information about what he was about guitar. I could develop color film, things like that, into a poem. I had knowledge of sea prints and art prints, and that was new at that time. So I had been, you know, knowledge of that. And one of my first jobs after Gordon was working in a color band, making art prints. So I had that information. And then when I got in the movie business, he started asking me, he said, what kind of film did he use? You know, another time. And he did some work like that, too. But I think that he was like my pops. And he was very much like my father, in the sense that he was dedicated to what he was doing. And Gordon was a hard worker. He wasn't, he wasn't slack. He was very... I mean, he would work three o'clock in the morning to get to work with that. Gordon, I never knew anybody that put so much into his work at the time. He was totally dedicated to that. His writings, his photography, his music, all of it, he was, you know, very dedicated. And then you also went on to become a founder, founding member of the Khamungi Workshop. So for those of you who don't know about it, it's an important civil rights art collective, right?  Can you talk about how that came together and how did it start? Well, it started actually, it was 1961, I had done a picture of Louis Armstrong on the cover of Theater Magazine. They sent me to the Newport Jazz Festival to do these pictures. And Ray, who worked at a camera store in Harlem, he saw the magazine and he said, he said, I didn't know you were black, man. He said, that's a great shot of Louis Armstrong. Then you come up town and help us. And he said, I got a bunch of guys, you know, and they're mostly hamachers. I think Ray was in the kitchen in the camera store and Cleen was in Bellevue. Different guys worked in different jobs. They weren't professional photographers, they were basically hamachers. So I went up and showed them what I knew. And then we started getting together. And then we said, well, if we're going to do this, and my thing was, I didn't want to be part of a group that people knew immediately was black. I was more interested in photography. I mean, the first thing we had was a group of 35. I said, great. They'll know you were black later on. But the first thing they'll know is the quality of the photographs. That's right. But they all wanted to have this thing. Ray and I were both in the boat for it. But then later on, it was good that we had a name.  And his wife would make chili. And we'd have chili and wine. Some guys would decorate their head. That's the way it was for years. And the guys began to learn. And then most of them became really new professional photographers. So the show that was put together, called Lou Drake with the Komungi photographers, Lou started writing in 63. He started writing notes in our meetings. Before the meeting, we were writing it down. So they start with 1963, but it started in 1993, taking pictures. But my thing was, in my teaching to the guys, it was, you have to take a really good photograph. I don't care what some black people, purple people, green, white or whatever, you're taking a picture of, it has to have that quality that made it lasting. That was the main thing. And then we decided, since there were so many negative images about us in the media, that we would show that we were beautiful, that we were everything, that any other race of people is. So we kind of dimmed that tide of the negative images. And the show is now, Star Dimension, and then it was at the Whitney, and then it was at Cincinnati, and it was at the Getty. And I talked to the curator last week, and she said, and it's only been up about a month, and she said, the first two weeks, they had $70,000 of people see the show, and they had all kind of comments about it. They didn't know that kind of work existed, and it was a sensitive thing, and a lot of writing was about it. But I think that that was the thing that I felt was important. Even though you're black, but you're still, you know, the artist is not, I do black art, I do art. I just happen to be black.  Yes, I am African, but I've been to Africa and all that. But the Africans don't consider me a brother in the sense of brotherhood as they look at me as an American, right? You're not African. But now it's beginning to get close because a lot of Africans are beginning to understand, you know, there's a cross over there, especially in hard work. But I think in the beginning of the Kimo Geku, it was very important, you know, and then Roy came in, so I was the first president, the first sort of leader, and he'd done a book with Richard Wright called, Two Black People, Right. And we kind of really loved the work that he did. It was, you know, sort of black people as people. Not any of them were something weird, but the humanity, the humanity was the same as anybody else. So Roy became the first sort of student when we got a reality. So it led up to us finally having this show because Lou Draper's sister had given all of his work to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. And they saw him and said, this is great work. And then they, as they did more and more research, they found that he was part and so they decided to put a show together about the old and saw that. And they've been shows and shows and shows in a bit. So you've got this prestigious, epic career, collections, awards, shows. Can you talk us through a few more of those highlights? What kind of highlights? Where do you start? Well, I mean, I got into the movie business and that was very interesting, the story behind that.  And I worked that one job. I got that because I went to C748 and somebody said, you know, go C748, I like guitar, I like to see him. And he looked at my book and looked at my work. He didn't say much, he's very quiet. And he got to one picture and he closed the book and walked out of it. And I sat there for a long time learning.  And he saw Estani Carroll do a little show where he said he had been engaged to her when they went to a movie Paris movie. And I guess it didn't happen. And he still had some kind of feeling. And I guess because it was a sexy picture of her, he was like, you know, just a little bit. But then Joel told me that there was a guy who was playing with this picture with Ozzie Davis. I didn't know what it was. He said, go over and see this guy. And, you know, I'd been through a lot of changes. I said, yeah, right, go see this guy. I'd get it right. He said, no, no, no, he said, he said, sit down and go call it. He called me right there and said, I got a guy here. He's coming over right away. And I went over to see him. And he said, all right. I said, they do what? I had no idea. So he photographed what he said in the movie. You know, on the sets behind the scenes, the actors and so on and so forth. He said, your work is perfect for the way you shoot. He said, do you have these intimate pictures of people? So that was the first picture that I worked on. And there were two guys working on the film that told me about there was a unit. So I finally got ordered into a unit. And somebody just recently told me that, I think a couple of years ago, another African man on the tower, he said, I've done a research on how many, you know, black photographers in the unit. He said, there's only 12. He said, you were the first one? I said, come on. He said, you were the first one? And it was all analog at that time. And so at some point, you're on board of the digital. Maybe switch from analog to digital. I mean, from the first side, in the beginning, digital was a capital. But as they improved it more and more, then in the beginning, you could do all the same things that you could, especially bringing up highlights and opening up chattels and stuff, the things that you could do digital that you couldn't do. How has that shaped your recent work? Or do you have a favorite camera? All my cameras are favorite cameras. I want to take the best pictures. Well, now I got this guy. Yeah, talking about this. This is the monochrome, the Leica monochrome, bad news camera. This is a very photographer-friendly camera. You don't really have to take your eye out of the camera because you see everything right there. You can adjust the exposure here and here without even taking the camera away. You can look at the here and the eye. When you look at the back, it goes off of the camera. It brings the image on the back. It's really sharp as heck. The images, you take raw, but they should be upside down. That's right. It's my favorite camera. Did you use this in the making of the book as well? No. There are no pictures in the book. All those are negatives and animals. I use an iconic animal, so I like them. I want to turn to the book a little bit. We've got these two amazing editions. There's a trade edition. There's a deluxe edition. Can you talk about your choice to produce both? How did that come about? Why a book now? I didn't have anything to do with it. I'm going to talk about the... Oh, okay. ...and Steve Albihari. I had a book before that. It's called... It's a big book published by Glitterati. That book was the first book of my photographs. I was... That's the first book. I never thought that I would ever have a book. I didn't really care. But that book happened. And then this book happened. And Steve saw the book. He liked the book very much. I was kind of low. He's a stand-off person. Since Guy's kidding me. But then he was very serious. He said, do you trust me? I said, I don't trust you. And then, you know, before he talked about photographs, we were hazing him. And I realized that he had a point of view that he had looked at the thousands and thousands of photographs. So he felt some of my work. And I didn't say he didn't. So we worked, you know, and he said, trust me, I want to do my book with you. He said, if you have these other pictures of artists, you know, he said, I would have to do my version of my trust. We argued a little bit. We were arguing. I said, I don't like that. And he said, it's great for us. I said, I don't like it. He said, let's be honest. I don't want to believe it. There were two photographs that I didn't go under the book that he didn't go under the book. And then there were a couple photographs he wanted that I didn't go under the book. But we, you know, it was a work in progress. You know, but I had left a lot of decisions, you know, about the book to him. But I told him, I said, one thing, I want it for the book.  And I want no words or writing or dates under the photographs. I want those. I want people to experience the work. I said, most of it, the white pages, you look at it and you get it after it. And I said, this book, you go from the Emmys to Tony Blacks, which is a rest.  So he didn't go to the next page. Several pages of it, it's black. But I wanted a book that made people look at the photographs. It's always on the pages, no bird on the tree or a bottle on the table or none of that. I just wanted people to experience the book photographically. Even the writing is dark. But then you have to, if you tilt the book, it's still in white. Then you can see the black writing until you let the light reflect. So that's another dimension of the book. This isn't a book that people go like this. And the writing is a specific font, right? It's in freight and freight stands, and these are typefaces designed by Joshua Darden. And he's the first known African-American type designer. How did that come about? How did... Steve. The process. Steve. And did you have a role in that process or was it all Steve? No. When he did this, he sneakily recorded me talking. One day I said, I said, I said, do you mind? I said, what are you talking about? I said, I'm in the sand. Things you couldn't be friends with. That guy. That's funny.  But he cut a lot of that out, and he still maintained my sort of rhythm. And so they made the racial poetry, which was new to me, but I felt it was really great because if you read the white writing, it gives you an idea of what the rest of the words are about.  You will never find out who the target is that way, but this gives a picture of who this person is and talking. Plus he gives you the image. So it was different. I didn't know that. So we have both copies. The only difference in the copies is the deluxe edition has two black copies. One platinum print is probably 20 books. So the platinum prints are, we had to make a decision about those two, but I think that platinum is longer lasting than any other process of writing. Even longer lasting than Silverjump. So any platinum salts printed into rag paper, that's something. These ones made by hand. I didn't print them, somebody else printed those. Plus I didn't know what to do with them. But I saw these ones. So how do you envision students interacting with this book? Like either, like how do you see students interacting with your book? Are you doing a classroom or a studio? No, I'm kidding. They look at the book. I mean the other book, Personal Vision, which is about a little writing. There's a lot of writing. This book is a book that you have to live with. If you have one day, look at it, it's not going to get it. So I think in a classroom situation, you could probably discuss each picture of what it means to be a person. What is that about? I need to discuss taking the wadi to that. Because I don't play that information in there. Because I think it's not known. It's only important to curators. They go back and look at all that information.  Just reading about somebody on books and pictures of information doesn't really give you the full flavor. And then you've got this book. This book is all words. There's no pictures of this. These are the stories that a friend of mine actually wrote in the book. He had me tell him stories. Because I used to tell him, he's younger. I met him when he was 13 years old. He was, I guess, I was 20 or something. And he used to ask me, well, what do you do with it? And I would tell him these stories. So now he's 17. He said, hey, man, we got a good book. He would tell me these stories over all these years. And at first I wasn't interested. And then he started writing stuff when he showed it to me. I said, it's interesting. I'm still interested. And so I would talk to him right now. So now he wasn't doing that much. So you don't need to have those stories. We're about an 1878. So we're thinking about it. So you collaborated with my first editions. On this book. And you talked a little bit about then making the decisions. Is that sort of how they collaborated? Well, yeah. He said, do you trust me? And I said, yeah, I trust you. So he would show me when he was born and ask me what I thought. And we'd discuss it. One of the ladies over there chose the image of the bush. And she was adamant about it. And I think it's the design job is just fantastic. So I hope you all get a chance to see the copies of the library. I know we have a number of students here as well. So and then you got a chance to be with students today like during lunch. And so I wanted if they were like, what do you thought are the most important things that students in photography should know or need to be thinking about? Well, any student or anything, any person the first thing that you have to work on is your own knowledge and spirit. You have to, it's not outside of you. Your art is not outside of you. It's inside of you. And you have to work to become a human being. And what does that mean?  You have to find out what is your destiny. What did the creator put you here for? Everybody's life is important. Now, what are you here for? Just taking the space to eat food? You have to realize that there's something that you're here to do. Maybe it's not hard. Maybe art is just a way into something else. But it's very important for you to understand and deal with the energy and power that you have. Because everybody has it. You haven't been taught that. I think that religion, education and politics puts you in a box.  You learn. You get educated.  You get out. You get a job. You get a family. You get a grandkids.  That's not life to me. Life to me is about discovering who I am. Who am I? What are the things in me that's different than anybody else? Is everybody just like a friend that's different? So you have to find out what it is in you that you want to do it. Whether it's hard or anything you have to do. It's inside of you. It's not outside of you. You're taught in this world to go outside of you. This little cell phone means I thought television was bad. I thought television was terrible. I thought television was terrible. But I think that the cell phone has really got everybody. They live their life in the cell phone. Information comes from there. That's not all information that they want. Wikipedia is not the answer to everything. But I think get out, live life. Just travel.  And don't expect something. Just see what's there. Experience life. Don't be angry at anybody. Don't hold on to hate. Realize that we all have to share love. It's very important. And forgive. You didn't make anybody down here on this planet. What right do you have to judge when a thing came in? You don't know anything about it. You know. But you don't. You don't need to know yourself. If you knew yourself, you would be kind and loving to everybody. To the animals, the birds, the trees, everything. You would give the best of yourself. And that's what you should do. And then those things come back to you. If you make space in your life and in your heart for love, it will come to you. If you make space in your heart for hate, that'll come to you too. Love and consciousness will give you what you ask for. It's not what you do, you know, or even what you think. It's how you express this God-given right inside you.  Do this. Be a job. Do this. You're all taking your energy away. The job takes your energy away. You do it because you need money. You have your family, etc. But if you look at it realistically, if you apply your energy to your dreams, they would come true. That's how you make dreams come true. When you were little and you wanted a bike or you wanted a birthday or whatever, how much did you think about it? You thought about it every week now. You thought about it. Well, you made a space for that to exist and finally it materialized. And because you are making a space for it, it's true with everything in life. You make a space for it in your life. You say, I want to be in love with someone. I want to do this. Whatever it is you want and it's to the better good of the universe, it will come.  I mean, it's in the mind. I mean, all this stuff is ancient information. Ask and you shall receive. That's in the mind. It's pretty powerful in life. People believe that.  It's very simple. If you extend yourself to somebody with how you feel, they feel. And you walk down the street and you want to say, good morning. And you smile. Maybe that person is like, Good morning. And you say, good morning. Good morning. Almost automatically. That makes them feel better. But I don't even know if they feel better because they say good morning. Mr. Rupp. You say, good morning. How are you? Good morning. It takes them on that thing. Think of energy like when you meet people. We all walk around this energy around us today. We don't see it. But we live with energy all around us. What do you mean? Because everything has an energy around it. And you deal with it every day. You make decisions every day. Based on how you feel. What you wear. You meet somebody and they say, How are you? They do your hand like that. I'm mad that you didn't even think about it.  Yes, you do. You don't like that person. I mean sometimes, you haven't even met a person. They walk in the room. Or they move the service. I don't like that person. Your energy is going. You're done. You don't like the person. But a lot of people don't pay attention to those little things that happen to you. It's always in the details. Life is in the details. To me, everything in my life is in the details. That's pretty powerful. Pretty powerful advice. I want to open it up for some time here for our guests to ask you your questions. If there are any audience members with questions, I can repeat it and get that recorded. Initially when you were out in college. Was that from a technical perspective? Was it both technical and artistic perspective? So I'm going to repeat that just so we get it. You mentioned that you had a leg up in some of your professional practices in terms of like... Was it just technical or technical and from an artistic perspective? Was it from the technical or technical and artistic perspective that gave you a leg up on some of your other colleagues or competitors? It was technically because I learned things in school that you couldn't learn unless you worked with somebody. And even then what you would learn from them wouldn't be how to read a senseicometer. What is a senseicometer? What is the photo lab index? And what does it exist in? But in the photo lab index you had formulas for developing films. It wasn't just D76 or D76. There were other formulas in there. There were other types of papers that talked about what is polarization and how to do it. All these different things how to make different types of prints. So it was a book for photographers. It doesn't exist anymore. It doesn't exist anymore. So it was more technical. What do you feel like community or collaboration has played for you? I think photography a lot is sort of an individual act What do you feel is an independent work or what do you feel is more collaborative or community? I think artists work alone first of all. You don't work with somebody. People do collaborative works but the artist works on the energy. The community comes in is do you connect to these people with these images? Then it becomes community. And the more people that you can work with people like Tomomi was a group of people. We work humanely and in the community photograph humanely. But still from that particular person now it becomes humanely when people in the community say oh we like that then you're connecting to the people. That's the thing is how any artist is connected with people.  Whether they know it or not they say they'll look at some images I don't like that or I like this they're making the decision based on who they are. That's all spirit. Iron that's in the universe and all the chemicals and all the everything. Energy electricity. All of it that's in the universe is also in your body you're part of the body. You live in 15 pounds with spirit I tell you without telling so what do you mean? Try getting out of 15 pounds with spirit that happens to your body. You live in a dome of energy 15 pounds with spirit everything that was ever here is still here.  How do those come to be? Do you reach out to them? Both. I just recently photographed the Native American tribe they had this 347th meeting since the 1800s and it was great they like me and I like them they look like me they're writing into it You were the true editor I don't repeat that so that people can hear in the back the question was now you work with editors in the book do you feel like you yourself are the true editor because you're working on the capturing images You're not the editor you're the doorway this stuff comes you get it sometimes photographers are the worst editors in their work because they think that what they feel is like it's not necessarily true you have to show it to other people because sometimes somebody will tell you something about your work that you haven't thought about because that's another person so editors edit your work but usually they work for magazine they edit it based on what their magazine goal is So the question is about working off of emotion as a kind of way to drive photography and are there photography works that come to mind that do that for you? William Hansel Adams and Weston Eugene Smith all those guys who really hit the nail on the head you know Cartier was on and he only had a 50mm lens he didn't have a telephone he only had a 50mm lens but it was the field that he went into he said he saw so yes there are a lot of photographs that remember from Steven Smith's photographs of the horses in wintertime being in there he's shooting in the snow with a basket on a tripod and those guys walking them to the mountains with these glass plates on their back you know photography wasn't always filmed the old days these guys had these glass plates and they were playing with you know flamboyant things you know gunpowder and all kind of stuff I mean photography wasn't like it is today it was easy technically it was a whole process of a glass plate that you had to expose and then make a print and put it in the sun you know to make a print that's why I think if you're going to learn photography learn how to work in the dark take a shot develop it print it and be excited when you see the images just shot come out it's not like digital digital we have that sense of touch and sensuality that is in photography touching the actual other questions yes do you feel that your painting is independent of your photography or do you think that the two influence each other the question is about Andrew's painting if it's independent of his photography or if the two influence each other I'm an images but by photography it's not like my painting you couldn't say this painting is indicative of Andrew's photography my photography and painting are two different mediums two different but the feeling and the image is important if I make a painting and somebody has a feeling about it I'm one if I make a painting maybe it is maybe it isn't it was a poet way back Basso everybody thought he was a bum but he would walk around he wrote these poems and he would show them to the people and the people said oh that's terrible he'd tear it out other questions let me think about pieces and I was just astounded about the right cast of people that was a feeling of talent that I didn't know but is there a feeling of talent that you have who would like to share with us I mean the question is this is a little harder part but you know there's always a feeling to share with others the question is what are your hidden talents I started as a musician but I I play saxophone and I'm involved in producing them right now I'm a very good cook I thought so I had a sense of it my mother a poor boy and one girl now they depend on me and my grandmother told me stuff and my father was a cook and a baker so I learned how to cook so my aunt when do you cook? I cook every day one more question sir if you would for students who have only read about or heard about or seen a YouTube clip here and there of life in America in the say 50s, 60s, 70s this idea of honoring negative images of blacks and the media gives a little more context I know you can talk about everything but again my larger point is to the lay person and I don't want to generalize general people but heard it, heard it, hear about it but what did that mean to you from a lived experience that point that you could give just a little bit of insight living in America as a black person yes and being intentional about being proactive and countering negative images of blacks and the media I try not to hold on to negativity number one that's a trap somebody calls you out of your name and you respond to it that means they got you they're taking you out of yourself and what you have to do is realize that person doesn't know you so whatever they have to say about you it doesn't mean anything means something to them but it doesn't mean anything to you you do as an African American or a black person or a Nero or whatever you want to say in America you have to deal with racism it deals with you look at all the young people that get killed men and women and young and old for no reason cops stop it they shoot you I thought he was gone or sleeping in the bed sleeping in the bed but we thought he had a gun in the bed there is a definite and it was happening in the 50s and the 40s it's changed a little bit you know I think there are more opportunities to express yourself as an individual but you have to concentrate on what you want to do that's going to be there you can play with it or not the most important job for you as a black person in America is to define your destiny for every human being but it's important for I tell you this all the time Charlie Parker paid that years ago now is the time and now is the time now is the time for you to come forward as John Henry Clark said the black men and the black women women wait in the wings on the stages of the world and they await our engines but we've already been here everybody's in Africa life started in Africa I know started in Africa believed people again and his daughter they proved that the first woman they named her and that probably wasn't her name Annie was the first woman to birth life in Africa life started in Africa but we've been so restrained everybody white people too young and brainwashed too you know you've been brainwashed the same shit that I've been brainwashed you know you used to say there are 12 saints in the African or Catholic that were black you don't know that there would be no America without black people all the things you enjoy is built on black black people cotton cotton made America not just in the south but in the north in the whole world was the money that was the goal and then even back in those days there were some black people that had slaves if you had slaves you had money there were black people that had slaves there were Indians that had slaves wasn't just white people that was the money if you wanted to be you know we had 10 slaves or how many slaves you had that was the money but that's how America was built Yale, Harvard even named all these universities they were all built on cotton the cotton and the slave trade they built those universities and colleges from the higher learning so I think what everybody has to understand is to understand American history and you have to start with black people where they came from how they came here in Africa the pyramids they still don't know how pyramids were built and those were built by people of color how did they build those pyramids but each stone weighed over a thousand pounds how did they do it so well they drug them they don't know what kind of information and knowledge did they have we have to open our heads to a world that in order to understand and change the things that are happening where we have to be honest with ourselves as human beings we're all human and we all breathe blood we say, God, we don't need blood I mean like, ooh, it's green where are you from we all have a shadow everything to be it's how we share with each other we're all breathing the same air in here you can say, well, I don't mind you can hate but you're still breathing the same air everybody breathes H2O where we are on the planet so we're all connected anyway let's find out what we can do together that's such a privilege to have you here I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry we have to do that anyway I think it's important that we understand and think better pictures when you realize that you're a human being and that a bug divides you and you could die tomorrow you think you're invincible but you're not why do people come to you because we need each other why do we have families because we need each other we need each other try being alone for a while by yourself I mean really by yourself why do you think when they put people in jail you put them in isolation they go crazy they go crazy any little sound any little thing they can live again we cannot live with each other we got to have each other let's get to that we will begin to have fun then we can do other things discover things and use them for advancing our minds and our stuff rather than making more well this has been very fun this has been a good time it's supposed to be fun but it's not supposed to be it should be fun so it's such a privilege to have you here we've got we've got Pam here let's invite you to stick around to meet Adger there's some refreshments in the back and we also have Pam who's here to my right we will be taking orders on the focus if you're interested so again thank you a thousand times Adger Cowins and thank you all for coming and please help me in thanking you one more time


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Hello, Syed Hashimi here with another Visual Studio Format Tips and Tricks video. In this video, I'm going to show you two tips on how to work with multiple solutions. First, I'm going to show you how you can open more than one solution in the same instance of the IDE. And then after that, I'm going to show you how you can launch multiple different instances where you can load up different solutions of Visual Studio Format. Alright, in Visual Studio Format, here I have a particular solution loaded up and imagine that your boss comes over to you as you're kind of knee-deep working in a feature and says, hey, I need you to make a bug fix in this other application that you were previously developing. So we can do that. You don't have to stop your workflow and close out of everything. What you can do is, using Visual Studio Format, we have a kind of a workspace concept here. And the workspace represents a single instance of the IDE. So it's possible to load up more than one solution inside a single instance. I'll show you exactly how to do that now. So I'm going to go to the file open. This is the open project dialogue. I'm going to first select the solution that I want to open. And then I'm going to go down to options. You can see we have a checkbox here for close current workspace. I'm going to uncheck that checkbox and then click open. As I do that, keep an eye out to the solution pad. So we can see that the previous application that I was working on is still loaded up, the .NET new web solution. And now I also have my web app solution node that has been opened here. The way that this works is whatever file you're currently editing, the solution that's associated with that will actually be the one that's going to be launched on run or debug. For example, here I'm editing the template pack controller that's a part of templates API. If I was to click the run button, it will launch the .NET new web solution. So let's go ahead and do that. Here we can see that it has successfully started the .NET new web application. Let me go back to Visual Studio for Mac and I'm going to stop debugging that. I'll minimize the .NET new web. And then I'm going to open a file that's associated with the my web app. And then I'll go ahead and click the play button on that. Here we can see it has successfully loaded up the my web app project instead of the .NET new web. So let's go back to Visual Studio for Mac. Let me stop this. Another thing to keep an eye out is the toolbar that's here that will also give you an indicator as to which solution is currently active. You can see when I'm on my web app, I get debug and default as the options. But when I go into a file that's associated with the API or the web project, the .NET new web, I get some different options here. That's because the .NET new web solution contains a run configuration to launch more than one project on start. Alright, after you're done making your bug fix in the my web app, you can right click on the solution and select close. That will bring you back to the previous solution that you are working on. And let me show you another way that you can do this same thing using the recent solution. So I'll go to file, recent solutions. And then here, if I were to click on control, hold control while you click on the node here, so my web app, that would do the same thing. Instead of closing the current workspace, that'll keep the current workspace open and then open the additional solution into that workspace. Let's move on to our second tip, which is how can you open more than one instance of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE? So we don't have a built-in feature to enable you to launch more than one instance today, but we can use the terminal to do this very easily. All I have to do is execute a command, so it's open, dash in, dash a, and then the path to the application that we want to launch. The default location for Visual Studio for Mac is applicationsvisualstudio.app. So I'm going to go ahead and execute this. This will then open a new instance of Visual Studio for Mac. Here you can open up a separate solution that you might have been working on previously. So let me go ahead and open that, and then I'll bring it side by side to my other instance. All right, so here I've got my original instance of Visual Studio for Mac, where I was developing my .NET new web application, and then I've opened up a second instance of Visual Studio for Mac for my native iOS and Android project here. All right, to recap in this video, we showed you two tips on how to work with multiple solutions. We showed you how to open multiple solutions in the same instance or workspace of Visual Studio for Mac, and then we showed you how to launch more than one instance of Visual Studio for Mac. This is Sayed Hashimi. Please keep an eye out for future videos in this Visual Studio for Mac tips and tricks video series.