Okay, we're back. We're alive on Tuesday morning. This is think take think tech and we are we're talking today with Guy buffet Say it after me. Gee buffet. It's French. Mm-hmm one more time. Gee buffet being a final exam He buffet was born in Paris in 1943 that's like And that's in France by the way. Yeah, it's had a wonderful time Wandering and traveling and painting all over the world Strikes me that, you know travel is broadening. Well, it has been especially so for a Giba Faye I think all his Tahitian Famous Tahitian artwork it and it looks like gogan. I'm sorry. Am I right about that? Am I touching a nerve? Yeah, you can say that okay. I can say that does look like okay, um, but he has Created more iconic Images of waiters. It looks like the 19th century. Can I say that? Well, the way the chefs and waiters are really timeless, you know, I just started beginning of the century until today, you know, so Nothing changed that much in France. Especially at mustaches. Yeah, and and they all were tuxedos and French French restaurant outfits your French restaurant Which was what's the name of the French restaurant in your family are angels? Yeah, angels of Paris. Yeah, actually in France. It was called Syriza. You mean at the angels The House of Angels. Yeah, and and your family ran for many years near the Eiffel Tower They ran that restaurant for about 20 years, I think. Yeah Were there waiters in that restaurant that looked like the waiters in your art? Some of them, yeah You have a lot of restaurant pictures in your portfolio of tons and tons of them Well, you know, that's that's where it started He started with the restaurant and then after that I started working for the champagne Champagne Perrier Jouette, which is the bottle the flower bottle doing branding and art for them Well doing no doing mostly posters and designs for them and then in France posters are an art form Well, yeah, there's still As a promotion with you. This is a promotion. So therefore this opened the doors to many other venues such as you know three stars chefs in France and all over Europe you like food and Well, I like I'm not although I know the best chefs in the world, but Personally, I like I like simple food, you know, I just I mean especially now but I'm very pleased with and what we call a bistro food, you know, not not Not heavy. I don't need you know, of course Okay, you have certain themes we're gonna cover those themes. Anyway, one of those themes is is Hawaii and You know, you spent many years in Hawaii and You have Contributed to Hawaii's art. I must say You know, we have we have people who do art, but not like you you have found Essence of Hawaii isn't that interesting and maybe you have to be a world traveler So the way King Kalakaua was a world traveler to appreciate exactly, you know, that the fundamental Profundity of art anyway You are a dog lover I saw the dogs throughout your work and I wanted to ask you what breed But it seems like you like all the breeds Do me for myself or as a whole I love, you know, all dogs. I'm not Why because Because they always in a good mood and they make me feel good Yeah, yeah, you're always in a good mood, aren't you and if you're not in a good mood, you don't paint, right? That's right. Yes So But painting probably puts you in a good mood because it lets you express the Oh, yeah, I'm always in a good mood. You can ask my girlfriend or my workers Try to be here every day Look up, you know, I was doing something new Every day, you know, I work and another painting something so that keeps me going You have different styles Painting I have which I will show you and it looks like a sort of a pen and ink. It's a French scene That's pen and ink, but then some of the work you've done here It looks more like a gun with it with the lines are not they're not any an ink at all They're they're kind of oily looking. Do you always use the same media? What kind of media do you use? Well, I always use basically watercolors and acrylic But as far as tides, you know, it's obvious, you know, I have a studio in France and what I do in France is different And what I do this is going to be on the final exam. That's right so I have a studio in France. I have a studio in California and then one I don't have one here anymore, but I Used to and I leave the area most of my life actually you can divide my my life in three parts You know one third in France one third in Hawaii and one third in in California So and I'm not cutting all the trips at the I went about four times around the world and I did a lot of projects abroad such as in China and And a lot of times in in Tahiti also and I spent six months in Bora Bora not too long ago doing a new hotel and the island of Bora Bora for the Intercontinental Yeah, the Navy I want to know about the Navy at the Navy the Navy. That's that's how it started, you know I The matter fact I was at I studied art at the both art school of Toulon, which is in the south of France And I was and I joined the Navy when I was 19 19 years old And that's I did I was sent around the world on that for a trip and that's how I first came to Hawaii in in 1922 I was 19 years old and Since I was the artist aboard and I was asked if I could do illustration of the You're the official artist on the ship was sort of official But that was asked to do the illustration for the book that we were going to publish after the trip While I was in Honolulu for the first time I mean because I came twice but it's too long a story, but anyway, I thought we'll just the Navy That's what the first time I came to Hawaii I had we had a show on on the ship a little show on my ship which was anchor right there by Aloha Tower and that's where I met the cook family from Molokai and and Honolulu and they They were very much interested in what I was doing and Then we became friends and they said we really like you to come back to Hawaii Islands, you know, we Will take care of you send you the ticket get your place to stay a car anything you need I mean, I thought it's too good to be true But when I was just discharged from the Navy, you know, I went back to to law That's where I was living at time. That's where you went to art school. That's why I went to art school and so my options where Go back to art school and finish About five more years to go before I get a diploma or go go to Hawaii. So the The opportunity was too too great missed. So I said I better do this. So I decided to come back. So I came back to Hawaii 1963 in November 1960, I would say the rest is history except we're gonna cover it So so Dale Madden how much of what he has said so far. Do you agree with? Just about everything Particularly I'm also a lover of France and so I actually originally fell in love with all of his French Paintings have quite a bit of it down in my house in Indian Wells, California Oh, does that mean you like the French paintings more than some of the other because as a kid growing up in Hawaii You know, you have a I love all The art I've seen and I've seen actually a lot of his work as I also travel a lot amazing how many places he has done amazing art with and Where it's featured you've been partners and promoters Involved in various deals with key and others. I guess it's in in the art world mostly we've done some art together, but When I bought Island Heritage back in the early 1980s, there were some wonderful children. I was from Bob Goodman I told you before the show that my law firm represented Island Heritage and Bob Goodman for many years Amazing. In fact when Geese books are being published my way back when yeah Yeah, and it was in the 70s. Yeah, and they had very long life It was quite remarkable. I wish I could get him to do 21st century version of them so I could take the manuscripts and put it back together with new art, but it's I've known Geese for quite a long time and it was great to meet him years ago and get to know him Also, I know we're gonna cover more but what what is the secret of Geese? Lots of talent You know if I if I if I had that kind of talent I would have been an artist, but I had to go create companies and products what other people's art But he's had a meteoric rise though in this world He's everywhere. He's global and he's been in so many things that appeal to so many people I mean he's found his his artistic niche, but also his niche in the global art world And how do you do that? How do you how do you find a niche in the global art world? I think for Geese been about The markets and like the Napa Valley and obviously comes through as well. You know, yeah, I may say something, you know I think what happened also in about 20 years ago. I started doing plates designs on plates and that was for the champagne company in France and Hostess no, I had we did special place dinner. Okay dinner place and then after that, you know, which was kind of limited Market and then because of it we got contacted by the William Sonoma stores of the US, you know, and they say oh we'd like to To serve Geese plates in all stores So talking about promotion, you know, I get a contract with a company that has 350 stores in the US 25 million customers and catalogs and every month and Here I'm on the cover of most of the catalog and give you for give In a few weeks, you know from being known in Hawaii and California became known nation Why? So a good thing of a promotion like that. It'd be very expensive if you had to do this on your own to promote your name So this we've so the product with the books and with the painting and then you know the posters and all the postcards and there's so many things to have the name around and then that's when the night started to work not only for For Different wineries, but it's hotels whose ships right now. I'm still, you know, and we have a crystal cruises doing Yeah, yeah, that's a good line And then I did the paintings for the the bistro and the restaurants Do you go on the ship? Ship and then we have a talk like we have today and then also maybe a little workshop with the passengers I'm up to do what show them how you show them how you paint. Yeah. Yeah, you show them how they should paint well So anyway, you do need talent you can't paint with us the foundation of it all So that's right, but to finish what you are saying as I said the best of life, you know, that's They'll agree to with me also though daily was born here, but for me the best years of my life We always be when I spent let's say six months Mali and six months in Paris yet before I did that for ten years, you know the best half of the time in France I'm in Hawaii. Yeah, so that's the best you smile when you paint That would make me smile. Yes So here Well, you know, for example, I mean is this we'll look at your argument This is the thing where you have cows wearing little booties I would be smiling if I painted that where you have the the the art fence here on Kapa Hulu Avenue And yeah, and you have the animals from the zoo looking over the fence. I Mean I would smile if I painted that. Well, you have a very crisp sense of Well, I think it's important. It's good for anybody. You don't have to be an artist to have a sense of humor I think you do and they'll do certainly Well, you know, it helps you keep going to live exactly Don't take yourself too seriously. So we have we have two books. I want to show the books Are these both island heritage? Dale, did you publish these? No, no All right Well, you know, you know, you know Okay, yeah, first we got this one fair nights and sunny days. Okay, and Let's see if I can get a good shot of that And and then we have the world of Giba Faye, which is thicker. I haven't had more classical There's drawings everything. So what's the difference between fair nights and sunny days and the world of Giba Faye? well Their nights and sunny days is mostly is all Hawaiian paintings as in the world of Giba Faye you have a different Everything from France to China to Haiti to Hawaii It's broken up in chapter in chapters. Yeah Exactly. Yeah, and we had another one is then publish it was Giba Faye And what I was with island heritage was mostly we did Yeah, I remember that so I'm gonna take a break now gay and Dale But before we do I I wonder if I could ask you for a small personal favor Could you just hold your hands up for the camera? I'd like them to see what your hands look like Those are the hands of an artist.  Thank you, Dale. We'll be right back after this short break Aloha, my name is Mark Shklav. I am the host of think tech Hawaii's law across the sea program My program airs every other Monday at 1 o'clock on think tech Hawaii Most of my programs deal with my own life and law experience recently. I interviewed Alex Gempel Who I have known for over 30 years about his voyage? Across the sea as a lawyer from Tokyo to Hawaii Those are the type of stories that I like to bring and like to talk about human stories about law and life Aloha Aloha, my name is Becky Samson and I'm the host of it's about time on the think tech Hawaii a digital non-profit organization It's raising public awareness Join us on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Where we talk about real issues Some of the topics will include entrepreneurship health life skills and growing your business Once again, this is Becky Samson on it's about time Wednesday at 2 p.m. On think tech Hawaii. Well, hello Okay, we're here with Giba Faye and Dale Madden and we're gonna spend a little time looking at these paintings The first one on the list is a is a and we'll show it on the screen as a painting of a waiter Of course, you spoke about waiters before and this is called happy anniversary and there are various symbols in there of an anniversary What did you intend to portray in this painting? well What what do you mean? Well, it's a celebration, you know for a birthday and then I put the parrot Because no, yeah, the parrot is why I think he's singing happy birthday to you or something like that, you know The champagne of course the bubbles and the champagne and then and then this is the champagne now is You've worked on this bottle Yeah, yeah, and he's sharing Waiters sharing the the joy of the anniversary that's part of the process. Yeah And he's very French bow tie and everything. Okay That's that's very special.  I have nothing against that Okay, here's another one This is called Bastille day on the Champs-Élysées very symbolic very symbolic and You you really love French street scenes. You've painted so many of them. Well, yeah, yeah, this is a famous restaurant on the Champs-Élysées called Fouquets And I don't know if you've been there but Number of times. Yeah and and what you're trying to demonstrate the Atmosphere of a French restaurant at the very center of French culture the Champs-Élysées Yeah, but you know, I mean this is this is This is a restaurant, but it's also a brasserie a cafe everything you know You know, the French people love to be outside on the terrace, you know and sidewalk For their cocktails So it this is about cocktail time on the Champs-Élysées And this is you see all the flags because it's Bastille day so Bastille day celebration. Yeah, that's right very important French holiday Uh, what is it? We ate kettles I thought we ate Thank you. Yeah, you should have corrected me Now were you there? I mean were you painting there in the kitchen in the in the bar in the kitchen? Okay Let's go to the next one Weekend up country with with flashing to Maui now back to Maui up country Maui And it's you like waterfalls. I see waterfalls in a lot of your work And a little house and the people are so charming the people are so convivial And they always are in your paintings of Hawaii, you know Yeah, again, like I said, this is not a specific place but It's just want to capture the spirit of Hawaii and This is you know a day in the country You can see they all get together for Ordering she has a new baby and she wants to show the new baby to her sister or cousins It's a it's every day We gain up country Maui Although this is more on the Hannah side because the mountains are quite high here as you know a country You know you're on the slope of a car but yes, it's Some of the little vignettes that I do on the islands. Yes Well, I would say you've been and I'm sure you will agree with me Dale You have incorporated the spirit of Hawaii into your your art I mean you have captured it Not everybody can do that even people even local people can't do that sometimes But you have found the the heart. So you have my opinion Don't you think he also has been able to do that in so many places around the world? I do I agree That's one of the very special talents. Yeah, I'll travel is broadening. Yeah. Yeah Okay, we'll go to the next one Oh, this is is this the one we're using as a background. No, this is another one Hula school on the Hannah coast There's some old waterfalls you get one two three four five waterfalls. Yeah, you really like waterfalls And Hannah you like Hannah Well, I had good friends there in Hannah that I used to visit quite often His name was uh, Carl Landquist I knew Carl very well Carl very well And then I did another painting recently because I don't know if you heard the story. Carl was the manager of the Hannah You can tell you can tell on the same. Yeah. Oh, is it used to be called the hunter ranch up there Or anyway, Carl and his wife Died tragically in car accident Going as a waterfall, you know doing And so I did a painting and this is not the one but I did a painting where I have both of them at the by the waterfall and Because we never found the the car or the body I know just exactly where this fits in my house. Yeah Okay, this one is called ladies of diamond head and actually it's one of my favorites of all the ones that That have been collected for the show Now, why is that why is it one of my favorite ones because it captures Diamond head it captures women of hawaii it captures history of hawaii I mean, this is this is something that isn't necessarily today. It could be in the 19th century just as easily Exactly. Yeah, I did one also but with with dog was called Miss Waikiki But the the dog instead of ladies, I don't feel anything. It's in the book. But anyway, that was that was a fun piece and that's been popular They did a shirt I hope you can appreciate this the women it's they're beautiful. They're the essence of the finest characteristics of hawaii Okay, ladies of diamond head meeting at the rainbow rainbow bridge Cafe, so now we're entering into an examination of how much you like rainbows Rainbows, but what is this one about? Well, you know, this is this is not I don't it's not a Hawaiian Fogtail, but I think it's it's a full folk telling In the u.s. For the water It's kind of universal, but they say when your favorite pets pass away He'd be waiting for you at the rainbow bridge when you oh, yeah They always say that that's right. Yeah, we've lost some pets and it's always the pet is waiting for you at the rainbow bridge My interpretation of the this this legend Weaver Hawaiian background and feeling Perfect. Perfect. And there are pets all kinds of pets Okay, now we get into dogs And I I need interpretation on this one our tropical honeymoon with two two dogs who were like dolled up with With sashes And it's on a bed Yeah, and it's a it's a honeymoon picture. Are there people in this picture or just the dogs Just a dog. I did this painting in in Boa Boa actually Because the island of Boa Boa has more dogs than people And you know the french so And Boa Boa is also the place for honeymoon. So I said, why don't I do two dogs in the honeymoon? It's perfect. You smile it. Yeah. Yeah Do you like Bora Bora or Maria which one? Well, you know, I like Boa Boa because of the Maria is getting too crowded. Yeah a lot of hotels there. Yeah Boa Boa is more remote to the far end. Yeah, I mean, that's beauty And they speak french into heedy. In fact, they don't speak a lot of english. They do know I haven't been there in 20 years Yeah I love your dogs. You have dogs Yeah, we have one. We have one in California and one in They know each other. No, not yet Maybe I I don't really see that It's a cocker and and a Boston terrier Let's let's go to Rue Saint Dominique and Yeah, let's see. Um, wait, wait. He's he's not a vent. He's not a vent. I get that right He's not a vent. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's that's even before because that space I would say in the 1900 and The Rue Saint Dominique as a result as a well known outdoor market every day, you know, you can go there And I used to live in that district What what should we be looking at in this? Is there so much action here? What would you point us to in this place? Well, then of course you you have all the the restaurants the cafes There's more cafes than Then courses or anyway And the market is there a market? Yeah, the market is Is on the other side. Yeah, you have to have a market. Yeah, that's another painting Okay, um late night Close to read the lilas The lila yeah, what is Closeree mean? Closeree is is It's uh You know where you keep your plants in the winter in uh It's an enclosure in enclosure. Yeah. Yeah, okay. And is this uh, is this a restaurant? That's uh, that's a restaurant a very famous restaurant in Paris. It looks famous. It looks elegant actually Yeah, it was Hemingway's favorite When he was in Paris, it's very inviting. It wants me to go to Paris. Yeah Do you think Paris is as elegant as it was as romantic as it was these days? I mean, there have been political changes so far. Yeah, but when this year has been bad year, but uh, you know, we've what happened to Notre Dame Burning and Not the wires, but the protest industry You know key they're taking proposals for modern art For the redecoration of Notre Dame as it is rebuilt. Have you thought about making a proposal? Uh, no, I don't think so. We shouldn't talk you and I don't see what I could do You have a connection with the pope Okay, we have racetrack. This is a perfect Hawaii scene taken out of the 19th century It was so popular under under royalty. Yeah, this is the uh, that was part of the commission by the Hawaii state Is it the archives? Hawaii state foundation for culture Is this in the foundation? So I did I did 12 projects for them and the the film of the project was called Hawaii's Forgotten Places and People That was a commission the racetrack by the state And the racetrack was one of them. I think the other one was the opera house Well, the opera house also very important to start the right next to the judiciary building exactly and then now we've we've dead and uh mark we have Project do something for the eolani palace Based on what I did for the state before the uh The opera house and I think there's one here also in the So you're working on one for eolani palace now? That's that's why we are talking on Okay. Oh gee. I can't hardly wait to see that one Okay, we only have a couple left and this really touched me the chinese ball in mawi No, I think that was in the chinese ball By the chinese merchants of lahina all am hara lulu both in the 1856 At the wedding of king kamehameh the fourth and his bride emma queen emma as it were At the old courthouse on queen street. Ah, it was here. That's right. Yeah What would you like to us to remember about this paper? Well, again, this is this is what we That was the part of this portrait is to You know, this is state foundation in my yeah, but in my own style That means, you know, not just a painting of a building but to bring life to it to bring the spirit of Hawaii like and that so I because you know, I had no idea how people Especially chinese, you know, how they how they play in those days swing, but that's something I came out of my mind, you know, and then uh, you start to see but if you go to the detail this Is Just hanging in the state foundation. Yeah, that's uh, I think it's in all the public buildings Not one in particular. Oh public building. Okay Well, I must say this this really touched me when I saw this I love this one And I know exactly where this would go In my house. Okay, well, we uh Ask uh map can help you on this Okay, then we have a book I guess who are poor Lena Lena. Yeah, what is this with the dancing dog, of course Yeah, well that was the first book that that's all that's about 40 years ago or more um published by island heritage and uh Which I did I did five or six books for island heritage that when uh, we probably printed Or I'm thinking 20 or 25 years. Yeah, so it's out of print now. Yeah, it is But we resurrected it a couple of different times. So now it's a collector's item. Yes. Yeah So where can we get geese paintings? Where can we see them? Where can we tell us the universe of where these paintings are available? Well, it I'm not that Close to I know he's in lajna galleries Here and on the west coast Yeah, it's mostly Lajna gallery in maui Hawaii and Newport beach Otherwise and then also I have a gallery in in napa Napa valley called a dress old gallery and then Hopefully for god But you know that's a total of six galleries which keeps me busy all the time I have one last question I'd like to know about and that is you know, you've been painting a long time Since you were 12 when your parents gave you some paints You know a lot things about me It's easy to find out about you geek. Yeah, you're everywhere So that's a long time And uh, I'd like to know if you would tell me what you know, how your perception of the world and your Um Your painting, you know your involvement your engagement in the art of painting. We heard that the art of painting It's not redundant The art of painting has changed And where are you now? Well, you know At best, you know, I try to stay myself.  So, you know, it shows that spirit of Hawaii and that maybe the The Sense of humor that's probably are you know, very gallic French Thing that let me survive and the only thing I have to know is just keep on going And thank god I have a lot of projects here and not only in Hawaii, but California and in your Well, it's not only that Hawaii is in your heart It's you are in Hawaii's heart You are that's much you are connected. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah Thank you for covering Hawaii. Thank you for including Hawaii um Your your work is really extraordinary and I'm very honored to have you here on the show So Dale can we ask you to close and that means you have a burden Of telling the people, you know, what they should have noticed today What they could have learned today had they listened carefully Um, and what is it about this show that makes it special? Well, I think D is special and as we talked about earlier his work is all over the world Um, and he is focused on so many different special destinations The Champs-Élysées in France, Paris is where he may have gotten started, but he's taken that culture and that lifestyle and concept Many countries all over the world and I think that we In Hawaii I should be grateful, but I love seeing his work when I'm traveling fabulous Well, it sounds like you have found a common denominator among all the places you visited and enjoyed and painted The common denominator, I think has something to do with whimsy And good humor and finding, you know, the best in people and places And you carry that through in every location Which is really speaks volumes. Yeah, I'll stay in it Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Merci bien. Merci. Merci. Thank you so much for coming down


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Bianca was seriously having a hard time and she did everything she could to keep her health troubles at bay, but she'd often lose these battles and be forced to spend additional time in various hospitals for treatment. With all of the issues that she faced in her day-to-day life, it's no surprise that Bianca found refuge in online communities, particularly 4chan and Discord. And who can blame her? Many of these forums that she became a part of pre-ded themselves on the anonymity that they offered, meaning that Bianca could be whoever she wanted to be without feeling judged for the troubles that she faced on the daily. Bianca found a great number of friends online, but she also made more than a few enemies. According to a newspaper article, while Bianca loved to hide away on the internet, she found herself being harassed by perverted men on multiple occasions. And these men would go to great lengths to lure Bianca in to do whatever they wanted her to do. There's really no telling with some of the creeps on the internet these days. They could have been harassing her for photos of her armpits or something for all we know. Now, I say that as a joke, but seriously, if you have teenage kids, keep a close eye on the people that they talk to online. One thing can lead to another very quickly. Bianca was about to learn this in the worst possible way. One of the men that Bianca had been speaking with online went by the name of Brandon Clark. Brandon was a bit of a troubled child. While details of his childhood and upbringing haven't really been shared publicly, we do know that he had to deal with a lot of trauma in his younger years, much like Bianca. He recalled one particular incident where he witnessed his father using a weapon to hold his mother hostage for several hours. Thankfully, the situation seems to have cleared itself up, but this did a great deal of damage to Brandon, considering he was so young at the time. As time passed by, Brandon was able to hold himself together, but he always had troubles and triggers that would send him into fits of rage, paranoia, or worse. While he was able to live a normal life, he'd been battling demons for as long as he could remember, and that's probably why Brandon and Bianca hit it off so well. It's believed by many that Bianca and Brandon met on Instagram sometime in the spring of 2019. He began following Bianca because he enjoyed her posts, but he soon began privately messaging her as well. Bianca thought that he seemed like a perfectly nice guy, so she even messaged him back. Eventually, their relationship blossomed into a real-world friendship, but that's the problem. See, Bianca was just 17 at the time, and Brandon was 21, but this didn't matter to Brandon. While he loved being friends with Bianca, for him, that simply wasn't enough. While their relationship wasn't illegal, per se, considering the age of consent in New York is 17, their relationship certainly turned a few heads. Brandon had expressed his romantic feelings for Bianca several times, but Bianca quickly set him straight, explaining that she wasn't interested in becoming anything more than friends. She felt that the two had a lot in common and they were both able to get a lot out of their friendship, but Brandon just wasn't able to let it go. But here's where things get a bit confusing. According to investigators, they have evidence to suggest that Bianca was quote, personally intimate with Brandon. Now, your guess is as good as mine as far as what that means, but to me, this suggests that they have reason to believe that the relationship was of a private consensual nature. It could be wrong about that, but that's the implication as far as I can tell. But Bianca's mother refutes these claims, saying that she'd spoken with Bianca about Brandon on several occasions, and Bianca had assured her that the relationship was nothing more than friendly. But let's be real for a minute. If you were 17 and you were having relations with someone who was 21, would you really tell your parents? Now, I don't know the dynamic of Bianca's relationship with her mother. I'm certainly not suggesting that Bianca was lying to her mom. I don't know this family at all. The only point I'd like to make here is that it's entirely possible that her mother wasn't aware of the full nature of this relationship. Now, I may seem way out of line to even suggest such a thing, considering Bianca was a minor. But the reason I've come to this conclusion that Bianca wasn't being entirely open with her mother is because one of Bianca's mother's close friends claims that she feared that Brandon was manipulating Bianca. The friend claims that Brandon would get Bianca high and then coerce her into sexual encounters. So if this family friend had reason to believe that Bianca and Brandon were intimately involved with one another and detectives claim the same thing, well, I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to assume that they were intimately involved. But we still need to treat this idea as nothing more than a rumor since it can't be proven. But the real kicker here is that in all honesty, regardless of the details of Bianca's relationship with Brandon, one thing is certain. She was not interested in him when it came to a serious or even long-term relationship. While they may have been slightly more than friends, she didn't plan on things going any further than that. But Brandon was a very jealous man and Bianca was a young girl who turned quite a few heads. And unfortunately, this would lead to a dramatic fallout in their relationship and one that Bianca wouldn't recover from. It was July of 2019. Over the last couple of weeks, Bianca had been speaking with her mother about attending a concert in Queens, a gothic folk singer that Bianca was extremely interested in was coming to town and Bianca wanted more than anything to be there. Bianca's mother was extremely nervous about letting her daughter go to a concert unattended, but she soon learned that Brandon would be there as well. Bianca's mother loved Brandon. He seemed like a very clean-cut guy and she felt much better about letting Bianca go to the concert after learning that he would be going with her. Now, to be clear, her mom still didn't want her to go, but in her mom's own words, Bianca was nearly 18 and she knew that she would go whether she said yes or not. When the night of the concert came, Bianca couldn't contain her excitement. She'd spent the majority of the evening trying on various outfits and asking for her mother's feedback.  It was around this time that Bianca's mother learned about another person who'd be going with the two to the concert, a young man named Alex that Bianca had met on Discord. We don't know Alex's age, but we know that he lived somewhat close by and Bianca thought that this concert would be a great way for the two to meet up for the first time. Bianca eventually left home with Brandon and met up with Alex a short while later. According to various reports about the meetup, Bianca appears to have been romantically interested in Alex, even though she had told her mother that she wanted to remain single so that she wouldn't be tied down when she left home to attend college in a few months. But for whatever reason, Bianca appears to have been taken aback by Alex. The two had so much in common and Alex was an incredibly sweet and caring young man. The two had chatted for hours upon hours online talking about anything and everything. Bianca felt that the two had been friends for years, even though they'd only known each other for a matter of weeks, as far as I can tell. This relationship only continued and strengthened once they met in person and Bianca seems to have been falling head over heels for Alex and the two ended up kissing at a nearby store in Queens. As you could imagine, this kiss angered Brandon greatly. Brandon being somewhat possessive felt betrayed by Bianca. After all, she'd no sooner told Brandon that she wasn't interested in anything serious when she, in his eyes, then turned around and began pursuing someone else. Brandon was devastated to say the least. Bianca insisted to Brandon that this was nothing more than a friendly kiss, but Brandon consents that something more was going on here. Nevertheless, it appears as though the three attended the concert together anyway, but Brandon kept a much closer eye on Bianca after this. Bianca had been checking in with her mother all throughout the evening and her final text rang through at about 7.30pm when the three were looking for a parking spot at the show. After this, her mother was left completely in the dark. When her mother hadn't heard back from them by about 1.45 the following morning, she became a bit concerned, but she assumed that Brandon and Bianca had pulled over somewhere to sleep before attempting to drive home after dark. Unfortunately, this wasn't true. By 7am that morning, Bianca's sister Olivia heard a knock at the door. She answered and was shocked to find that it was the police and they wanted to talk about Bianca. When prosecutors arrived at Bianca's home, they weren't there because Bianca had gotten into trouble or had been arrested.  Bianca's life had been stolen from her and if this weren't bad enough, it was taken by a trusted family friend. While Brandon may have given outward appearances of being a very calm and collected young man, he wasn't by any stretch of the imagination. The two had argued about Bianca's kiss with Alex for hours after the concert had let out. While Bianca thought it was nothing more than a misunderstanding, Brandon perceived this as a direct violation of his trust and he wasn't going to stand for it. Brandon truly believed that he loved Bianca and he would have done anything to have had her love him back, but if he couldn't have Bianca, no one could. While the two were in the midst of a heated disagreement in Brandon's car, Brandon pulled out a knife that he'd hidden in his car earlier and claimed Bianca's life with one swift movement. For reasons that remain unclear, Brandon appears to have been under the assumption or the delusion that he and Bianca were dating, even though she had allegedly made it painfully obvious that she was uninterested. We know that this is the case because Brandon actually called the police himself and confessed to the crime, but rather than admitting that he had taken the life of his closest friend, he phoned 911 and said, quote, I just killed my girlfriend. But here's where things get disturbing, confusing and just plain dark.   If this weren't bad enough, these photos spread like wildfire, but it gets even worse from here. Considering Bianca was an up and coming Instagram celebrity, these photos eventually made their way to Instagram, and soon enough, the photos had been sent to the inboxes of Bianca's family members.  These images were sent alongside hurtful and untrue statements with some users claiming that Bianca got what she deserved with some even saying that Bianca was sleeping around with various people and that she had it coming, but this statement is an outright lie. When detectives dug into the situation further, they learned that Brandon had first posted the images to one of Bianca's regular Discord servers that she was known to frequent. He posted the image alongside an expletive laced comment saying that her fans would need to find someone else to follow now that Bianca had been dealt with. Detectives have even suggested that Brandon filmed himself committing the crime, and it's rumored that this video is floating around on the internet as well, but to tell you the truth, this isn't an allegation that I'm willing to dig into because some videos are better left unseen. So if you're curious about the validity of these claims, I'll let you do the digging on your own. When police arrived at the scene of the crime following Brandon's phone call and his confession, he turned the weapon on himself and attempted to take his own life, but thankfully first responders were able to administer aid in order to keep him alive long enough to stand trial. In the end, Brandon made a full recovery. Investigators say that they have every reason to believe that not only did Brandon take Bianca's life out of jealousy, but they believe he also did it for the fame as they found a note left behind at the scene of the crime that was written by Brandon, reading, may you never forget me. Worse yet, the crime may have even been premeditated and the kiss may not have actually been what provoked Brandon. He may have planned on committing the crime from the very beginning. Police claim that they have more than enough evidence to suggest that Brandon had been planning the crime for quite some time. If you remember the weapon that Brandon had used to commit the crime had been stashed away in his car ahead of time, presumably long before Bianca's kiss with Alex. Brandon had also spent several days googling information about the location of the carotid artery online, as well as how to incapacitate someone. By all means, it seems as though Brandon had every intention of claiming Bianca's life for weeks in advance, but in the end, he was only sentenced to prison for second degree murder, presumably due to a lack of irrefutable evidence. But thankfully, Brandon was given life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. But if we're being honest, I think we all know that this man will never see the light of day again. In the aftermath of the crime, Bianca's crime scene photos were popping up all over the internet. Her family were forced to not only live through the tragic and heartbreaking loss of their loved one, but every time they opened social media, they were greeted with more disturbing images of their family member. One of Bianca's friends recalled a time when someone had forwarded the photo to her. The friend had flagged the photo and reported it to Instagram so that it could get removed. But get this, she got a message back from Instagram the following morning, saying that the image didn't violate their terms of service and thus it wouldn't be taken down. This happened on more than one occasion as well. Some of Bianca's family members said that they continued to receive these images in their inboxes for more than two years after Bianca had lost her life. With her family essentially being unable to do anything to drown out these disturbing photos, fans of Bianca came up with a different idea. Her followers all worked together to begin sharing photos of pink clouds in Bianca's honor. The idea here seems to have been to snuff out the images of Bianca's crime scene with images of peaceful pink clouds. And this movement certainly worked to a certain extent. For Bianca's family though, the damage had already been done.  Worse yet, she found out that the Oneida district attorney's office also leaked private images and videos of Bianca to the press. So now these videos are circulating around on the internet as well. These images supposedly came from Bianca's private phone and when investigators and detectives searched the phone during the investigation, these images were uploaded to a database shared by multiple law agencies, then eventually leaked to the public somehow. Without getting into too much detail, all I can really say is that these photos and videos, well, they're disturbing and highly illegal as Bianca was underage. That should tell you all that you need to know. Bianca's family has since pressed charges, but as of now, the case hasn't been settled. This story is just disgusting from beginning to end, from Bianca's mental health issues to the actions of her close friend, to the mishandling of her case by the district attorney's office. Everything about this case is just tragic. Bianca's family will still be battling court cases for many years to come, but maybe on some level, the incarceration of Brandon will help bring them some form of peace, knowing that the man that ruined their lives will now be locked away forever. At trial, Brandon certainly did show signs of remorse, but whether these feelings were genuine or all for show remains to be seen. All we can hope for now is that Brandon never gets to live his life in the free world ever again. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of True Crime Stories. If you wanna see more true crime documentaries like this, be sure to hit the like button and subscribe. If you'd like to help support the channel, the best way you can do that is simply by leaving a comment below, any comment at all. It helps out the channel a lot more than you may realize. If you wanna help out financially, you can do that by clicking the blue join button below or by picking up a True Crime Stories mug from tieknots.com. 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What's up guys? So I feel like it's been a really long time since I've been posting or really talking to you guys on the YouTube channel So I wanted to Start a conversation with you guys and kind of let you know what's been going on on this end because a lot of people are like where have you been I miss your videos and I want to let you guys know that over The last four weeks I have been Creating lots of videos and those videos are gonna be out very soon And they're also being collected on a new project that I've been working on So that new project that I've been working on for the last four weeks is a website called FSE on-demand FSE on-demand is if Netflix was only hair videos That would be what FSE on-demand is. It's a platform. It's very similar to Netflix It works like Netflix and also we will have an app launching Hopefully in the next week. We're just waiting for the approvals that Allows you to carry around hair education videos for free With you right here on your device or on your computer or whatever. So the biggest part of this project has been Getting the videos up on to the site and we've created over the last four or five years 700 Education videos now those were kind of catered towards YouTube. So I did a lot of this talking and a lot of that That's not on this website. So I had to cut up a lot of the videos. So we've been re-editing them That's been helping me out with that. We re-edited the videos To just focus on the education part and then we put them into this library. So now We're creating different sections. So you're gonna be able to easily find what you're looking for Search it and learn it on the on-demand website. The other exciting part about this website is that it's not just gonna be Me creating the videos or even the free sign education team as you've known it Some of our friends are coming in they're filming videos. We're having featured artists every month Companies are gonna provide their own Education we're doing live classes That we're putting up there as well and all of this stuff guys is free. So it's very exciting I'm excited for you guys to get signed up on there So I want to show you guys real quick what the website is and a couple of the really cool features That we currently have with the website. So here is the on-demand website and a couple of things I really love is the fact that you can click on categories. You can search all different categories here You also have all of these different videos throughout. This is our featured artists section We have our live our previous live classes. We have haircutting. We have coloring We have styling all kinds of things. We've already gotten loaded on there now. The other cool thing is Once you're signed into your account It opens up a couple other things you can watch our live stream on YouTube or easily get to it from there And also if you click on my profile, it brings up some different things like your favorite videos So if you really like a video, you can favorite it. It gets added to your collection You can hit some you can hit different videos and hit watch later and you can go find those easily You also have your viewing history on there all the different videos that you've watched So that's just like a quick preview of what we have to offer on there But there's gonna be so much more and it's just gonna keep evolving and there's gonna be more content on there So I'm super excited about this. I hope you guys are as well So what I would love for you to do is go to FSE on demand or click the link below FSE on demand.com create an account. It's free and get started with it and let me know what you think Back here in the comments because I'd love to know your thoughts on the whole thing. All right guys, so that's the update That's what's been going on. I hope you guys are as excited as I am about this whole thing Let me know if you have any questions about anything in the comments below So there's a ton of videos that are gonna be coming out that we filmed for this whole project So I'll see you soon


Night Song is a light sculpture atop the Rolling Hills Radio Tower that's installed at the Rolling Hills Water Treatment Plant which successfully reinvents the commonplace radio tower which we see everywhere in our landscape now to again link it to the excitement and the modernity that it saw in the 1930s. Artist Connie Aras-Mendi and Laura Garnsway were the artists on this project. They took their inspiration from the 1930s logo from the RKO Radio Pictures which shows a radio tower that essentially visibly illustrates what the tower does and this inspired them to do the same with today's radio towers with five rings of light that graduate from small at only 12 foot in diameter to a 50 foot diameter ring of light located at 460 feet in the air as the largest ring on this project. Every night the artwork is illuminated with a dynamic color changing program that uses many different animations and patterns and the colors are pulled from a palette of nature inspired colors that the artists have used. They were inspired by the cool blues of Texas swimming holes and in autumn the colors of the changing leaves and in the spring colors of blue bonnets and other flowers that are blooming. The color program changes four times a year on the solstice and the equinox as well as an additional Fourth of July program which is very celebratory. In addition to being an innovative artwork and one of the only artworks atop a radio tower in the U.S. it also serves a function the tower was replacing an existing tower which had reached the end of its lifespan. I think the real crux of this whole thing is the is the fact that this is our public safety radio system for police and fire primarily but we also use it for transportation public works water department and we have 23 other agencies around here including Tarrant County College even Star Telegram we have the Sheriff's Department Tarrant County itself uses our system as do a number of all other smaller cities and and agencies around the city ideally we're gonna have it as we expand this process into the new radio system it will be interoperable across all those agencies so it's a huge thing from a public safety standpoint that that's how the police communicate regardless of whether they have you know cell phones and all beyond that this is one that the city runs and owns totally so we're able to manage it and control it so even if the even if there are other things that are that are out of commission or not working or overwhelmed we still have our system to manage