Ladies and gentlemen, we have made it. Episode 381 of our one-piece watch through the end, the conclusion, the finale of Thriller Bark.  Yeah, there were some aspects and whatnot that I've criticized, but overall, man, it's just one for the books, and I can't wait to see what's next. Last episode absolutely destroyed me, showing us the full extent of Brooke's backstory, and like I said, in this one, I'm guessing we're just gonna see the future and what holds. If you're new to this channel, drop a sub and hit that big boy bell and let's hop into it. I bet they're all like just wasted, schmacked, literally poured your lives into it, their final performance. Like, if anything ever happens to that recording, like it breaks or anything, I will just, I'll be in mess, I'll be in shambles, but that's why he keeps it in his literal head, and God, he had it. Oh, my goodness, new determination. Hahahaha, were they not there for that? Whatever he did it the first time? It's a bright future, Brooke. I don't think he even would need the recording, literally just him being there, and Labun knowing that he wanted to come back. He could see a ray of light, but Luffy and, and that's the point of Sunny. Oh gosh, it wasn't felt that way in 50 years. Hahahaha. Frankie's like, I had to run around town naked to join. Dude, now we've got a musician, let's go. He's a great fit. Gorky crowd, the first thing he said to Nami or Robin was asking to see their panties. Gorky to say the least. Why he do the 45 degree angle, bro? But he's cracked out of his mind. Yeah, dude, the two newest recruits Frankie and Brooke, just absolute psychos. It's perfect. Couldn't be better. He's still better be waiting, man. They'd have to go all the way around the world. He's the finish line. Well, that's his sort of, I guess, goal in mind, like everybody has their own thing. That's Brooks. He's got that. They're his one thing. Is this now? Is this now? Wait, what was on the newspaper? It was too fast. Oh my gosh. Oh, iceberg. Did you find a secretary? He still calls for him. It's like he knows. It's like a part of him that knows. Just, they're so far away. Hahahaha.  Oh, this is cool. What's his bounty? It's probably not going to be that much, I'm going to be honest. 33 million. It's nothing to scoff at. Yeah, chopper's face. He's so hype. My life is in the hands of Luffy. To the bone. So damn wholesome, man. The 45-degree angle is so dumb. Oh my gosh. The end of Thriller Bark, man. God dang. Two days. They set off? Oh, now they are. Oh, that is so sweet. It's so sweet.  Lion Chun. Came from the West Blue. Really? Oh man. It's so nice of them.  It's like he's a goodbye to his crew since he's joined a new one. He's always a part of it, but it's like the closing of a chapter. Zoro? Yeah, I was going to say.  Brooke knows what happened. One of the few. We're going to have a one-on-one interview with the new recruit. Oh, he's leaving it here. So much respect for his blade. I wonder if he wanted to ask him about it. Yeah, but a good hand. God, I love Brooke. Oh my goodness. Oh my gosh, he has an eye catcher. I forgot he could run on the sea. I totally forgot about that. That was a really sweet moment. This is like really subtle. Such a big crew now, man. Doctor's mad. He's attacking him with bandages. Oh my gosh, that is really nice. It's a big boat. She's going to ask him to marry her. I guarantee it. There it is. Unfortunately, I'm just too cool. Fishman Island. Just to wait till Luffy hears the news that Ace is in friggin' jail, man. I don't know if they wear panties, Brooke. I'm going to be honest. It's a good thing you asked now. Yeah. Oh my gosh. The pirate Empress Hancock is nothing compared to them. Is the pirate Empress? Wait, is that the fourth emperor? Is the pirate emperor separate?  They've already met a fishman, a mermaid, and some fishman. Born in the New World? Oh my gosh. What is a Vivaire card? Oh, shoot. Are only available in the New World? Brooke, wait, what? Water and fire can't hurt it. Paper of life. Wait, is that the paper that Ace gave Luffy? Oh yeah. That he has inside his hat. Wait, so it's just like indestructible paper? Oh my gosh. That's totally the paper he gave him, because it's blank. Oh my gosh. Dang, Lola's mom's like a big-time pirate? That's sick. Yeah. I have wondered that for so long. He literally meant it. It's like a compass, basically. Yeah, and then she sewed it inside the hat. It's burning! Is it because of what happened with Blackbeard? Vitality. Like, he's dying? We know what happened. At least it's not like too ominous for us. Oh my gosh. God, damn, that is ominous. At least we know what happened to him. If they hadn't brought up that entire thing with him being in the Impel down, then it would be much more ominous. If it had just ended with the whole fight with Blackbeard. Aww, everyone's goodbye. That's cool that they left them, uh, Brooke's ship.  The sun. They were the sun. I guess Zoro never waves, but he smiles seeing him wave. Yeah, that's a very interesting piece of information about the card. Did they say what her mom's name was? If they did, I don't think I caught it. They're off on the next adventure. Whatever awaits their saviors. Set sail. How to rebuild the Ruler Bark, bro. Oh, we got the narrator. God, dang. What? What is that? My brother, what? Oh, you just hear Brooke playing in the background. That's so cozy. Oh wait, Luffy actually kept that armband from the treasure. Time is a little consequence. He'll get there one day. Oh, it's a fine ace? Brother. That sounds like a lot more trouble than you guys are ready for. That's near where Annie's lobby was too.  That's an interesting thing, the Vivaire cards. I like how he just didn't explain it to Luffy when he gave it to him. Just purposefully ominous. Oh, sang. Put the drinks. Oh my God. Applying ship. And I love this show so much, man. I can't even explain it. It's something else. Every beginning, middle, end of an arc, it's just got something special about it. It's so different. We're 381 episodes in and there could be another 2,000 and I'd be fine. I know we still have like 800 to go, but that even doesn't even seem like enough to me anymore. It feels impossible for me to get tired of one piece. It's incredible. But now we have a new crew mate. Brooke has joined and I'm very happy. He's grown on me so incredibly fast, much faster than Frankie, but it wasn't really as apparent that Frankie was joining as quickly as it was with Brooke since when we literally met Brooke, he asked him to join the crew. But he just fits in just right and a musician adds so much. Like I said, just music in a show. It's a dynamic that just has to be there and I'm guessing it's going to be there more often as part of the crew. Guys, that has been it for Thriller Bark. I hope you enjoyed all my reactions to it. As always, I mean, we're going to start the next one without any sort of weight so I hope you're subscribed for that and make sure you are. And with that being said, I will catch you guys in the next one. Peace.


G'day guys, welcome to my channel Boot Lossophy. My name is Tech. I'm on Wajik Country in Western Australia and I acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land. I'm not reviewing a specific boot today. I'm going to take a look at Thursday Boot Company as represented by four of their boots that I own and how Thursday for many people represents a gateway drug into quality, good year-well to boots. I haven't been a boot collector for very long. For those of you who have seen my other videos, you know that while I've owned boots before as part of my everyday rotation of footwear, I really only began to collect quality boots in early 2020 probably because I was cooped up in lockdowns and let my fingers do the walking on the internet. You have to be old enough to remember that Yellow Pages ad. Anyway, my interest in American heritage, mainly good year-well to quality, and I use that word intentionally, quality boots was first met by the Thursday captain. This particular model in brown Thursday chrome leather looked to me like an iconic American service boot. Six inches, cap toe, brown leather. I could imagine World War II soldiers or 50s construction workers wearing these. As an entry-level boot, the price and the modernized design was ideal to try out if I really did like these heritage style boots. I'll go into why I think that for most people new to boots, this is the ideal entry-level boot in a minute. But first, let's start with taking a look at Thursday. Thursday Boot Company was founded in 2014 by Connor Wilson and Nolan Walsh while there were still MBA grad students. They found that they had a problem that many of us found at the beginning of our boot journeys. They were looking for a good pair of affordable durable boots and were frustrated that they had to choose between delicate fashion boots or clunky work boots and between cheap boots and overpriced boots. So unlike most of us, they decided to do something about it and I'm guessing their experience and learning during the MBA course made a difference. The kickoff happened by accident when they went to a surfing holiday in Nicaragua and met someone wearing the type of boots they wanted and found out that they were made in Guatemala, made contact, made a few pairs and sold them on Etsy. I'm guessing as an MBA type exercise in sales and direct to consumer modeling and they sold out. They then contacted factories all over the world and settled on Leon in Mexico where there was the right infrastructure enough workers experience and established QC processes to make good quality boots. They met with several factories to suss out their basic values and philosophies always important in business and business partnerships to be in sync and then signed up with manufacturers to make $250,000 worth of boots with $40,000 up front. Nolan Walsh said of this, lucky it worked out. I think there was almost certainly a bit more than luck involving some great spreadsheets and business modeling plans The next step was a Kickstarter campaign in 2014 and from there it took off so they followed up by building their direct to consumer brand no physical stores all selling from a website. One of the stories I found was of Conor Wilson at the start asking a factory owner lots of questions and saying that they wanted to do things differently at Thursday. The owner replied that we've been doing this for nearly a century doesn't seem to need such a thing which kind of negatively encapsulates Thursday's thinking keep improving or die. I think that while they may have had the idea from the beginning a comment like that would probably cement the ideas of doing it differently including the development of a totally internet-based and internet-friendly brand from the sales on their websites to social media marketing and web-based marketing. Their Instagram account currently has three quarters of a million followers their Facebook account over a quarter of a million Facebook's Thursday enthusiast group unconnected enthusiasts have nearly 9,000 members keep improving or die. In the two years of the pandemic all-time bootmakers like Chippewa have closed their heritage lines larger companies that sell in retail stores took a hit on sales boosted only by their online sales the newer direct-to-consumer website-based brands like Thursday, Grant Stone, Truman they've all grown instead of taking a backward step been doing this for nearly a century is not going to cut it forever. Today you can buy Thursday boots through three primary outlets they opened a physical store in New York City so if you're lucky enough to get there you can drop in their website is their primary source of sales they also have an amazon store and for most people outside the US that is what I'd recommend because you can't take advantage of Thursday's free return policies when you're outside the US but you can use Amazon's own free return policies especially if you sign up for Prime. The only disadvantage that not all models are available on Amazon most of their boots are made in Mexico but they have introduced a made in the US range the vanguard and the logger almost all their boots are priced at under 200 US dollars and that is important on their website they have a men's and a women's range of footwear as well as leather jackets and other accessories including boot conditioners and cleaners and belts in the women's range they currently offer eight styles of boots and multiple make-ups as well as sneakers in the wide range of leathers for men they offer sneakers in both low and high tops four different styles of oxford lacing and monk strap shoes a couple of loafer and boat shoe designs and of course men's boots in men's boots they have wait for it 17 yeah go count them 17 different styles from lace-up service boots to chunky combat style boots to chelsea's and chuckers and lots more each style has multiple choices in leather including their rugged resilient range and different outsoles i counted them there are 102 different make-ups available i have a headache now let me introduce you to my four pairs of thursday boots so you can see how they have stacked up just be aware that i bought the captain from the thursday store on amazon i got the wing tips and the vanguard from thursday's seconds website page and the diplomats were in ebay purchase first the captains this was my first quality and again i use that word intentionally quality good year-welded american heritage style boots i chose the thursday chrome brown because they looked like the quintessential service boot to me uh thursday chrome is from a tannery in mexico uh as well don't look down your nose that tannery also provides hides to some of the more famous boot brands in america this is their version of hawin's chrome excel uh yes there are less lustrous but the pull-up and self-healing properties of a wax infused oil infused leather are all there uh it's fully lined it has a thursday proprietary version of a day night sole uh day night is the uk sole manufacturer famous for making these rubber compound studded soles uh with these low profile studs that give pretty good grip across many surfaces there is some discussion that both the leather and the soles don't necessarily wear as well nor are as sturdy as the originals and some at least earlier examples of the rubber breaking off but while i acknowledge i've seen some subpar examples on the internet let me remind you of the title of this video they're an entry-level boot at an entry-level price like almost everything else in life you get what you pay for the important thing is that you get what you pay for and not something less which i'll discuss when i get to value i've had these captains for two years now worn regularly but not frequently in mainly urban situations they have held up well and whenever i put them on i wonder why i don't wear them more because of the immediate comfort uh my second thursday purchase were these wing tips they were factory seconds but if you go and see my unboxing video or my review of these i honestly cannot see why they were relegated to factory seconds these are broguing tips or as the english call them country boots these are in a dark oak color and i wear them in dressy occasions mainly with a suit you can get them in lighter brown which could be worn in a more casual style what i like about these is the sturdiness of that thick sole again in the proprietary day night style studs at the design of the chisel toe uh being fully lined and the thickness of the uppers they really feel supportive of my ankle and they feel sturdy that lining helping a lot of course then i thought i'd try the us made range these thursday vanguards even though they look like the captains actually apart from the leather and burnt copper from their rugged and resilient range there are subtle differences i believe most of the materials are also sourced in the us including a different uh rubber sole manufacturer for again a proprietary version of the day night sole the last seems to be different from the captain i feel these to be a little more slim um whether the slimness of the last or the more stiff nature of the rugged and resilient leather i found these to be harder to break in now these are factory seconds as well so treat what i'm about to say in that light i found these to be less well made than the captains and the wingtips unlike the wingtips where i could not find the fault the faults and these were immediately apparent missed and crooked stitching empty stitch holes uh like they'd stitch something through and then had to go back okay one way to look at it is that the qc process stood up and they found these faults and sidelined this pair so probably unfair of me to bring it up but compared to the seconds wingtips you know i scratched my head on the plus side i do think the material stand up the rubber outsole feels like it's more sturdy and it's harder than that on the captain uh the leather uppers are great truly rugged and resilient i think i've worn these on bushwalks through rain and puddles and they stand up well and again fully leather lined finally my fourth pair these diplomats are from ebay and i bought them about a year ago these are thursday's take on the mocto wage sold work boot but as you can see modernized so it's a lot more sleek uh more so than a boxy toad mocto like the thoroughgood moctos or the red wing classic eight seven fires thursday's first version of the diplomat was a more old and indy style design with a flatter and sleeker vamp and the u-shaped mocto stitch was much more inboard uh these have reverted to a more traditional mocto with straighter side walls these are in matte black and i haven't polished them but to be honest i think if this was a wall paint color i'd be calling it low sheen rather than matte again fully leather lined the wage sole is a true vibram wage sole not a proprietary version these are the most comfortable boots i have now that's a big statement with currently over 60 pairs of boots but it's true the insole is built over some sort of structured arch support that fully holds up your arch and combined with the usual thursday pour on footbed uh the vibram wage sole the very soft and supple fully lined uppers these really feel like sneakers in fact with the white wage sole i often wear these like minimalist sneakers the fact that they go six inches up my pants leg is between me and my socks so there you are again i only have four pairs of thursdays all right uh based on my experience with these four boots while i may never buy any more thursday boots mainly because of my knowledge and experience of boot wear and collecting has grown uh into appreciating more expensive and handmade makes i will never stop supporting thursday because of the quality for the price their affordable entry point for a beginner and the customer service that i've experienced now why do i consider thursday boots as entry-level boots and is that a bad thing to be honest if you were an experienced boot collector and you're now buying whites or nicks and other pacific northwest boots i don't think thursday would cross your mind anymore if you're a construction worker or have another kind of manly um manual job you would not and probably should not look to thursdays for a sturdy everyday work boot they make no such pretensions by the way they are a blend between service and dress boot and not work boots even though their design may give a nod that way if on the other hand your appreciation of boots uh where you have like me and some of my friends a wide collection thursdays will likely form an appreciated part of that collection but if you're new into boots and you want a nice looking pair of boots that are sturdy enough to last a few years and be resold at least once if you're looking for a pair you can wear to the footy and spill tomato sauce and from your pies on them if you want a pair of boots do wear to the pub and step on puddles of beer if you want to walk the dog in the park and look good while your feet are also protected thursdays are a perfect first pair of quality there's that word again boots to buy some people will sneer when i say quality boots and mention thursday so here we go again these are quality boots at the price you get what you pay for you should not expect olden quality or trueman quality at 200 us dollars why would you expect that however the critical criteria is do you get what you pay for or do you get less i don't care where things are made as long as they're made well and in doing so have not abused the workforce thursdays contracted factory in mexico are part of several quality registered groups including sustainable registrations and audits for labor wages and conditions thursday so dependent on social media and the internet would be absolutely stupid to partner themselves with any manufacturer or company that has bad labor and other practices remember the importance of making sure that your values and philosophies are in sync that's what they did at the very start as for the quality received at 200 dollars they are good you're welcome this is the gold standard for quality recraftable footwear they don't often use brand name materials yep no original day night souls for example but what they do use are all right their leathers are good no doubt about it including some innovative rugged and resilient uh treated leather and waterproof suede most of them at that two mils thick standard for sturdy leathers and all of them fully leather lined their quality control is okay maybe not excellent given the number of returns and discussions and social media about should this be happening but it's okay for the most part and when you contact them by all accounts including my own experience the responsiveness is better than okay so don't compare them with the next level of 300 dollar boots like redwing compare them with other like priced boots and you will see cement construction whole spread factories around the world that maybe you're not sure of what kind of practices and qc to get up to faceless large corporations bring it all together i think you do get 200 dollars for the quality for a 200 dollar boot it's not overpriced you can't say in a reason analysis that you get a cheap boot for 200 dollars you get exactly what you pay for so that's why it's an entry level quality boot it's affordable at 200 dollars maybe a bit more than you'd like if you're used to 130 dollar tims or 90 dollar more boots go rewind and replay my spiel about quality just now it's good you're weltered so you can start to get used to breaking in boots and learning about recrafting they're comfortable and you can get used to them before you enter the world of a leather and cork midsoles with no foam and no pouring that you have to break in their letters are resilient and you can play with different conditioners and cleaners make mistakes and learn you can wear them and learn that a scarf or a nick is not the worst thing in the world for heritage style boots you can stop being frightened of wearing them hard and actually learn the difference between dress shoes and heritage style boots it's a journey and thursdays are a great start now i want to end with revisiting that thing that comes up even if not named on thursday's website in interviews with connor wilson and no one wash and in online discussions about what thursday offers i'm a management consultant in real life i help build business brands and the big words are vision and values these are the two things that companies must get straight and live up to in order to be identified as a value brand and be believed by their market it's about planting your flag on the hill and being authentic to that flag that's why no one wash talked about meeting the factories to make sure that their values and philosophies sync that's why connor wilson has said that he responds to social media platforms because he feels passionately he takes it personally about fixing customer issues it's about what the brand means to them and how they make it live let's just run through their our story page on their website and see what they prioritize in vision and values and if they still deliver there are five headings comfort durability versatility and honest pricing commitment to quality world-class partners a better experience for wherever the day takes you now these aren't published vision and values but they would uh should embody what those vision and values mean in real day-to-day life those are the value propositions in their vision those are the primary colors in the flag that they planted on the hill today in my opinion they design footwear that is comfortable durable at least for that price standard is versatile and the price two hundred dollars now not making a killing per boot i don't think using that basis as the central focus when they introduce new styles new leathers means they live up to that i can't say their quality and the evidence of what you sometimes get is excellent but i think i can honestly say that commitment to quality reacting to make things right ensuring they listen and adapting in new developments this i believe they show in their actions i've already mentioned earlier their customer service is super responsive and excellent they will and i have seen try to make things right that doesn't satisfy every customer and i have to say that when it does not i believe that some part of what that complainant demands is probably unreasonable when you look at it dispassionately they have in the past reacted to feedback and changed components and construction surely a desire to continuously improve is a commitment to quality as part of both the above and in fulfillment of world-class partners they seem to do business with highly reputable renowned and skilled people they look for high ethical standards they'd be fools not to under a better experience they say that their team will always respond to questions and comments and they do they monitor comments they answer they react they take things personally i will bet that within a reasonable amount of time there'll be a comment in this video from someone in thursday's team thanking me for this video i'm not sponsored all right go check again over the next couple of weeks and finally for wherever the day takes you yeah okay that is a bit of a marketing spin but embedded in that is a mission statement that whatever you do for work where you go for fun you can stand confidently in your thursdays marketing maybe but as a mission not too bad an inspiration huh in the description below i'm going to link to two interviews one from stitch down interviewing connor wilson and the other is published on thursday's own blog pages with no one wash read them they are open and honest and revealing and that's it i hope you like my dive into thursday boot company and the concept that for many they are the first plunge into the world of quality heritage style good year-world boots i'd love to hear what you think in the comments below and if you like the video or at least if it arouses some emotion in you click on the like button below please i also have loads more boot reviews and brand reviews so if you don't want to miss anything click on subscribe until then guys take care and see you then


Let's put your hands together for for auntie and way and the team the slush team has put this amazing show together It's here for them. Thank you guys So I just want a quick shout out to my partner Aika Kumamoto for telling me about this opportunity at slush To auntie and way and the team for putting this together in the invitation. So I Absolutely love Japan. I love Tokyo and I'm here today to tell you about The the living room on wheels when cars become more than mere transport That's where I'm here to talk to you about and I'm also here to tell you a story about how the company I founded Clear Motion based out of Boston in the US Was inspired partly by a trip I made to Tokyo Back in 2011 on the Shinkansen train Who here we're all looking forward to autonomous cars We're all looking forward to getting into out of our apartment into an autonomous car going to Ji Chan's house Without anyone in the driver's seat, we're all looking forward to that I'm looking forward to that but I know for certain that The trip to Ji Chan's house in a autonomous car is not going to be what I needed to be Because of this situation here. This is a trip. I had in Manhattan just a couple days ago And as you can see here It's no Shinkansen experience Thumbs down. It's not so great Think about this for a second. We in cars every year the average human being spends approximately Seven working weeks behind the wheel of a car Let me repeat seven working weeks. We spend stuck driving cars every year That time seven working weeks is at best unproductive at worst nauseating we get motion sick and so we think about a world in which We're sitting in the car We're bored. We're unproductive. We're nauseous. We're unsafe And I think about a world of autonomy that the biggest single promise of autonomy other than the number of lives That it's going to save is the amount of time that it will unlock The productivity gain and autonomy that's coming to towards us. Okay, the Robo taxi business is not too far away This is a little picture. There's 22 billion hours that we waste in cars today Let's just assume 25 dollars an hour in In value and let's just make another assumption of 90% productivity. This is a Morgan Stanley assessment It's about a half a trillion dollars and wasted productivity that can be clawed back But the big assumption is 90% productivity Clear motion is a company that I found it out of my dorm room at MIT I was a student at MIT in 2009 and we were dreaming up crazy ideas about where the car industry was headed and autonomy wasn't really a thing back then but in 2011-2012 I happened to be in Manhattan. I happened to be experiencing roads like that Mobile I was a was an Israeli company filing to go public working on software for autonomous cars Uber had raised a very large amount of money and I said to myself what change is happening in the business of moving people I would love to be a part of this would love to play in the white space would like to make our mark on it and This was the vision of the company We want to build a product that improves the quality of time in the car and I want to actually just go right into What we've built So what we're going to show you here is the best cars in the world going over this bump strip Look at the human look at the driver behind the the wheel of the car And I want to show you the clear motion system the same car with our technology This is a five series BMW passive from the dealership and the same car with Most advanced systems in the world So there you have it In the event you have this problem that you need to solve you need to transport champagne So there you have it guys clear motion five years of work of my team and I in Boston Producing the world's first and only High bandwidth proactive ride system. So what you just saw there was a system that essentially Combines the best of two worlds the ultimate Sports vehicle the ultimate comfort vehicle and it takes two opposite worlds and puts them into one car and essentially how it does it is it Much like noise cancelling headphones cancel the noise going into your ears The system we've designed does the same exact thing for motion it cancels the unwanted motion going into a car and then when we talk about the living room on wheels we talk about the mobile office we talk about Billions and billions of hours that we're trying to bring back and make productive Our vision is that the clear motion system delivers that high-speed train experience that we all would love to have So a little history into the system. It was invented in formula one active ride. It was So incredibly good on formula one cars that it got banned in F1. This is the 1987 Lotus car driven by art and Senna And it was so family it's the system the vehicle was so fast in the corners. It was so It was so capable with the aerodynamics that the teams that had it were so much more competitive than the rest and the races were boring to watch after formula one invented the system in the 1980s all the Main auto manufacturers have been trying to push active suspension into the market for the last 30 years And so for reasons that follow in the that that that fall into the four following buckets The systems are too power-hungry the systems are too heavy the systems are too costly and ultimately even if they solve these problems They were very they were they were they were just not not not impressive enough We had clear motion sat down and said that the technology is so amazing When you get used to this product in a car and you drive a car with Proactive ride your body stops moving. It really really does feel like you're on rails and As I thought about the history and how many people have tried to do this. I Told my team we need to run towards the gunfire. We need to be able to make this system affordable and practical in production cars Now beyond driving cars the autonomous piece of this is really the holy grail and This is a picture from General Motors as you know There's a bit of a there's a bit of a battle going on in the u.s. Right now especially in San Francisco where the streets of San Francisco are completely replete with autonomous vehicle testing General Motors has listed out this priority stack Get me there safely table stakes Get me to exactly where I want to go table stakes and Thereafter get me there smoothly get me there cheaply give me there quickly and it entertained me so when we think about What all the autonomous guys are working on right now the first two pieces Clear motion we very much look forward to Piece number three, which is where we sit So a little window into how we've built this and how it works What you're looking at is the corner of a car clear motion lives in the suspension of a car And it completely it takes an analog relationship We have with the road and digitizes that relationship so that Software controls our relationship to the road and we have ourselves a an experience That's completely isolated from the road when we want connected to the road when we want The technology as I said was a was a was a brainchild of a late night Late night session in our dorm room a lot of great ideas happened to come out of dorm rooms Unfortunately, you know the team and I at MIT Had this idea to create a mini power pack that clips onto a damper and the damper becomes a computer controlled actuator that can push and pull much like noise-canceling headphones for motion And that's how the product looks like and it sits in the suspension of the car There are four of these in each car one at each corner and a little animation of how it works When we again look at how many people have tried to do this Many many decades many billions of dollars almost every single auto manufacturers have tried how do we? Five guys in a dorm room figure out how to square the circle. How do we figure out how to circumnavigate the challenges? We did that Thanks to a very very unique architecture that we call the clear motion active valve and this is inside that power pack Inside this guy if we were to open up that device on the side This is what it breaks down into in three main pieces the all the control electronics and control software the BLDC motor and on the right it's an electro hydraulic core This is the beating heart of what we've designed at at Clear Motion and Again when we think about the digit the really the foundation of autonomy the foundation is the digital chassis It's allowing software to control our relationship to the road It allows for the ultimate riding and driving experience. It allows for dynamics in the corners It allows for haptic feedback where it creak and create virtual rumble strips Ingress and egress for those who have difficulty getting into vehicles Mapping and localization This is now the new frontier for us as we move forward a Very very exciting thing. We've now started to develop in concert with a very large technology company Is the mapping of all road surfaces in the United States? We thanks to the high fidelity sensors that we have we're actually mapping the roads That we drive over and creating a virtual fingerprint of those roads So it turns out that if you go over that same segment of road We actually can pinpoint the location of the car very precisely based on the fingerprint of the road and so Think of it like Braille except for localization that there that the sense of touch is what we've introduced into Clear Motion if you were to remove GPS Remove vision remove LiDAR remove radar remove it all you still have the sense of touch to know where you are on a road surface at any given time and a little animation that we have here That that shows These two white lines down here are actually the the the contours of the road surface that are being measured The red is when we know we're in the vicinity of an event that's very distinct when you hit a pothole You hit a manhole cover you hit a bridge divider. It's very distinct and when you hit the green The green says boom. That's exactly where you are We know exactly where and we pin you know pinpoint the location of the vehicle This is a very important piece for autonomy localization simultaneous localization and mapping So put it all together we have the User experience that really is king for living room on wheels that everyone is going to come to expect that we can read We can work we can sleep we don't get motion sick and at the same time We're taking all of this data from the road surface pushing it into the cloud and using that As a topographical layer a very high fidelity layer of data to create high definition maps in X Of what we're what what what a lot of companies are doing right now and in the last couple minutes. I'll just close with You know some of our work here in Japan I spend I'm spending increasing and increasing amounts of time in Japan with really some amazing technology partners of ours was notably Bridgestone and We've created a broader vision now that goes beyond just You know right comforted right handling it now is from tire to human we want to create from tire to human this the the To really control that the new the neurological response of what we're feeling in the road and to do that All the way up from the road surface through the tire and into the human body And if you understand human physiology and human anatomy like we've gone to that extent We can all have a very exciting future to look forward to in autonomy again We think it's it's so important to take that analog relationship We have with the road today and digitized that and in order to digitize it. We need to be able to sense it We need to understand the path From input into human and we need to erase it Do for motion with noise cancelling headphones do for noise and that is a vision that we said about you know Five years ago if really just put our heads down pencil sharp trying to figure out how to make this in a commercially viable form employ 200 people in Boston to do this Raise the capital. It's it's really the it's really the startup story and it's really the grit It's the vision. It's the passion of a team of very capable people I'm very fortunate to work with every day and Partners that are are also just really outstanding. We cannot do this alone in the business of moving people We have to in the ecosystem of automotive the the what's happening in this I mean for those of you that are looking to participate in the change in automotive in the mobility. I Can tell you there's never been a more exciting.  It's all about the partners and it's all about that vision That's crisp. It's clear We're all pulling on the same end of the rope and we look forward to participating and contributing our our piece of the story of What we're all about to enjoy so I want to just take one last minute here to thank you all again for your time your attention Thank you so much. Thank you to auntie and thank you to slush team for for having me very much I really appreciate it and wishing you guys all the best I look for I'll be here at slush for this afternoon So please come find me if any questions are interested in mobility and automotive. I'd love to talk to you Thank you so much guys. Thank you


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says give reasons for the following. First, a triangle cannot have two right angles. Second, a triangle cannot have two obtuse angles. Before we state the reasons for the given two parts of the question, let's recall the angles some property of or triangle. According to this we have the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees. This is the key idea to be used in this question. Let's see the solution now. First we have that a triangle cannot have two right angles. Now, if a triangle has two right angles, that is if a triangle has two angles of 90 degree measure, then the sum of three angles for triangle would be more than 180 degrees, which is not possible since we know that the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees. So this is the reason why a triangle cannot have more than one right angle or a triangle cannot have two right angles. Now, the second part of the question is a triangle cannot have two obtuse angles. Now we know obtuse angle means angle of measure more than 90 degrees. Now, consider a triangle two angles measuring 100 degrees and 120 degrees, that is they are the obtuse angles. Now, the sum of the given two angles of measure 100 degrees and 120 degrees is 220 degrees, which is more than 180 degrees. This is not possible since we know that the sum of the three angles of a triangle is 180 degrees. Therefore, a triangle cannot have two obtuse angles. So this completes the session. Hope you have understood the solution of this question.


Hey, my name's Dylan! Welcome to the surf station! Let me know if you got any questions. Just wondering if you had any questions. Oh, are you a robot? No, we're a surf shop. We can't afford robots. Well, I was looking for a bikini and um, what's it about your cup sizes? And possibly, could you tell me what one's a Brazilian but? Wow, um, I'm gonna have to get some help on that. Give me a minute. Hey, did you ever find this board shirt I was looking for? Oh my god. Here you go. Wait, what are these? Were you even listening? This isn't even close.


Hi! I'm SouthernShotty, and today we have a new Blender 3.2 update, which means we're going to go through all the new features in less than 5 minutes. With that being said, let's get started. A long request of features finally here. We have light groups and cycles. This allows you to group collections of lights to use in lighting passes. This opens up a ton of creative potential for lighting artists in the compositor. We now have true shadow caustics in Blender. Example uses are underwater caustics and eye caustics. This is based on manifold next event estimation, a method developed for production rendering where precision and performance are important. It's intended to be used on few selected objects in your scene, and this first implementation has some technical limitations such as no reflective caustics, and check out these release notes for more details. Another big addition is volume's now support motion blur. It works by using the speed attributes from volumes made in Blender or external open VDB files imported from other software. AMD GPU rendering is now supported on Linux for RDNA and RDNA2 graphic cards. You can override color management settings on the render output now. Some other changes include support using adaptive sampling with scrambling distance, alpha outputs on the object info node, and finally, you can now bake two UDM tiles. Apparently being the cool sculpting tool in Blender wasn't enough because now you can paint in sculpt mode. With existing tools such as the various masking options, this makes it an advantageous option. The painting mode is now much faster and able to handle up to millions of polygons plus new tools to modulate wet paint. There's a smear brush, color filters to modify existing colors, and you can mask by colors. Vertex colors are now called color attributes. They've been refactored into more generic attributes that are faster, play better with geometry nodes and support 8-bit and 32-bit colors in vertex or face corner domains. Geometry node curves got some hefty improvements across most nodes with some seeing up to 13 times performance boost. Other nodes had been improved as well, full list in the released nodes. We have a new node called the duplicate elements which can duplicate points, edges, faces, instances, and curves. Named attributes are back. Last seen in Blender 2.93 LTS, support for naming attributes was removed in 3.0 to make room for the field system. They are now back as 3 nodes to get, set, and remove named attributes. The geometry nodes modifier now shows which attributes are used and a new overlay shows which named attributes are used even inside node groups. The new faces player node can tell when the triangles of an Ingon don't lie on the same plane. There have been many minor adjustments to the UI as well for readability. We got a cool new grease pencil modifier. The envelope modifier draws a line between points for a pretty neat sketch like effect. The dot dash modifier can now cycle the generated strokes. The build modifier has a new face mode and the smooth modifier can keep shape and got a much improved smoothing algorithm. Playback speed has been improved for grease pencil objects sharing the same data. We have a new curve pen tool in curve edit mode that can be used to be rapidly edit and create curves. You can now apply modifiers on objects of multiple users as well as applying location, rotation, or scale, finally addressing a long overdue request by the community. Select vertices with similar increase values and NURBS Curves Nots generation have been improved. Library overrides saw a big performance boost. Resinking libraries is now over 10 times faster depending on the project. Adjusting library overrides is now much easier thanks to the new properties view in the Outliner displaying all overridden properties at once plus the hierarchy view that shows relationships between properties. Collection assets are now supported and automatic preview images generated when marking them as an asset. We got a new experimental OBG importer and NXPorter written in C++ which is much faster than the previous importer. Blender now supports WebP which is similar to PNG but saves faster and generates smaller file sizes. The sequencer continues to be polished with the ability to name channels as well as lock or mute an entire channel. Handling of animated strips has also been improved with better filter method on transform and many more usability improvements. Virtual Reality now supports more view options and HTC Vive Focus 3 controllers. The GLTF exporter has seen huge improvements across the board and has been refactored completely. FBX now has support for camera depth of field, f-curves grouped by bones, and other small improvements. Animation has had lots of little user experience quite over life tweaks including discontinuity filter is now available in the dope sheet. Bake action is available from the edit menu. Motion paths now select more sensible frame ranges by default and provide more options such as selected keyframes or all keyframes. Markers are easier to select and can be renamed with F2 now, the same way you can rename NLA strips. You can enter NLA tweak mode now without disabling all other tracks. Proxies have been removed for good in this release and Blender will do its best to replace existing properties with the much more flexible library override. EVs also minor under the hood changes including plugging in a bump without height is now optimized. A shader compilation info has been moved to the viewport. Materials using shader to RGB no longer receive screen space reflections or subsurface scattering effects and displacement bumps now affects image textures box projection mode. Bigger under the hood changes for EV are planned for the coming releases so be looking forward to that. Python exceptions from the text editor are now displayed in the info editor as well as the usual additions and deprecations in the Python API. These are a bit too technical to list out so check the notes for exact details. As usual there are hundreds of bug fixes, minor features, and improvements which of course can be seen at the link in the description below. If you like what you see go support Blender by joining the development fund.


Ah man, where to start? The latest patch, the 1.3.0, supposedly fixed many many issues the game had and people reported. But I ain't going to lie, my experience and the experience I've seen from many others since this latest patch is a real real bad one. Has it gone guys? My name is DPJ and if you enjoyed the video, hitting that like button really helps out and if you do like what you see and want to see more, be sure to subscribe. So the version 1.3.0 patch was utterly massive. Someone said over 1000 fixes, I mean Jesus, 1000 fixes.  I actually love this game, I love the Avengers, I see it has promise and for the most part the bugs or issues I experienced were not that bad of an issue. For sure some of the issues I'd seen other people mention, they were far worse than anything I had experienced. Now I don't want to go on forever explaining the many issues it seems this latest patch has caused, but what it seems they want for us is to boycott the game. The major issues we have with this game, the ones we wanted to fix in ASAP, they were left out of this patch, but instead they seemingly nerfed our substitute methods in farming due to missions being either unplayable or just completely bugged. I mean for sure, 22 challenge points were a nice touch, but they do not make up for the modules many of us have missed out on due to bugged villain sectors, which people for the most part are still bugged. This is something a major thing we wanted fixing and really should have been sorted by now. Yet with 1000 fixes with this latest patch, this wasn't one of them. Their lead heroic hives are bugged still, many people are planning up to the last few floors, where enemies then stop spawning and reloading checkpoints do not fix this issue. Their mega hives are a nice touch, but even these are crazily broken. People are reporting the exotics dropping from here, yet the exotics I've only seen people mention and showcase that they have you seen from here are extremely below power exotics. So what happened within the latest patch where they said exotics have higher stat rolls? To me it's like oh look an exotic, it's only cruel because it's red. Yet we are expected to re-farm all the resources to upgrade it over again, where for the most part the resources needed to upgrade such come from places which either don't reward as intended or have been stout patched at again because they don't want us earning fast resources as it takes away the longevity expected. Now here's my problem, yes using cheap methods to farm certain things for the most part I can understand if said farm for example are crazy broke, that they do remove them, I understand fixing such, but limiting mission chests for the most part taking away resources and gear needed to upgrade is it doesn't move and it doesn't end there, that's just one example. What I am seriously hoping is Square Enix are seeing what's happening and revert many of the new changes because for the most part it seems to be heading into that spiral of video game patches making the game worse and worse. Now a quick example of what seems to be their stance right now with these patches, Miss Marvel's Ambigen being staggered win this Ambigen literally every two seconds by enemies who couldn't fart without blowing their insides out, yet the immunity effects when Ambigen stated Stagger, so she was immune to be staggered, yet it's all that seem to be happening with her, so what did they do to fix said Staggering, did they some have fixed this issue, yes they fixed the issue alright, they removed stagger from her immunity effects while embigoned, quite literally guys they removed the text, maybe hoping people wouldn't have noticed it there, or will go on to forget about it, or commonly excuse she shouldn't be immune to it and never should have been while within that embigoned mode, now I mean I ain't no dev, I don't know the ins and outs and it does seem to me this stagger feature is hard called it somewhere and is real difficult to remove, but what happened with this to me in my opinion is a little sneaky, now I hate to say this but it does seem to me like this game is heading that same route and from whence, which I do not want to see, the devs slowly taking away what we play games like this for, even if that means running the same mission over and over and over to get that loot, isn't that what this game is all about, no well shit I'm playing who I'm game, now to sum this patch up and the issue it's having on thousands, I mean read its main page check it out, it's gone from people actually posting things showcasing enjoyment the game was bringing them to literally post of everyone complaining about the game in its current state post patch, which is a true shame, now the games in this early days still but it hasn't gotten off to the best start and to be honest what we are seeing here is like a trend I've seen over the past 10 years, games being released clearly not ready, only for a year or two years later for things to be finally sorted, this game had what like 5 years of development, where did that go and the thing about this trend with games being released and ready, some game developers do get away with it as the base game is decent enough to keep players coming back, the core of certain games has the elements of you wanting to keep playing even though the fundamentals were not ready, there's anyone as a prime example, the only problem with Avengers is I don't feel its core is good enough, I mean even if it was it's to a point of people now mostly being fed up with the same shit over and over these games keep bringing now don't get it twisted people I haven't given up hope yet I still think this game will come good it's just Square Enix needs to sort out those very core issues before dropping thousands of fixes via a patch which in turn broke the game more so than pre-patch but yeah guys I'm going rant over please Square Enix don't allow this game to turn into just another anthem it's better than that it should be better than that and hopefully it will be and on that note guys the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like truly helps out let me know what you think about the game now let me know any issues you are having and let me know how it's looking going forward in your opinion and people again thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one


Years ago, I received a piece of career advice that I'm so grateful for still today. It's very simple. It goes like this, go where you're respected. So, of course, this person, by the way, this person was Paul Hocken. He's an eco entrepreneur, very well known in the green business industry. And I was lucky to have gone to a career fair where he was there and shared that advice with us. And the idea is wherever you're going in your career, if you can go where your strengths are naturally appreciated and accepted, not just accepted, but appreciated and valued, and here's my cat's tail, in case you're wondering what that is. Here he is, he just jumped up onto the seat. Go where you're respected, right?  For example, that's what Mango is doing here. He's respected up here.   And so, of course, those of you watching this probably are building some kind of business. So I'll talk about it in terms of business. How can we make selling unnecessary in business? I mean, you don't like the feeling of selling, do you?  Neither you like that experience and the person that you're trying to pitch to doesn't like that experience either. So the aim of authentic marketing, which is what I teach, is to make selling unnecessary. So how do we, how does that happen? How do we make selling unnecessary? And I need to say that I have seen this in my business for the past two years, selling has been unnecessary. I basically share, and I'll tell you what the four steps are, okay? Step number one, I am consistently showing up for you with my content, like this video, for example, I am being myself, I'm not trying to be anybody else.  I could be in a suit, I have suits and ties. If you want me to wear suits and ties, no, I'm not gonna do what you want me to do. I wanna do what I wanna do, right? In terms of how I express myself, I feel it's important to be authentic, just how I am, how I'm comfortable. And authentic and then relevant, meaning I'm trying to be as helpful to you as I can. Again, I express myself how I want to express myself, but the content of what I say, I'm trying to connect with you and uplift you and be of service to you, help your life and your business be better, right? That's where, that's a big part of it. And then I am consistent at doing this, and I'm consistent at doing this, not as a chore. This is really important.  George, tell me some content. You've already lost if you think content is a chore because then it's not authentic to you, then it's a chore, okay? So instead of content being a chore, like when I was showing up today, I reconnected with how important this, whatever message I'm sharing with you, I believe is, and that I've seen as I talk to people about this, it's helpful for them. So as I show up for you, I'm thinking about how this can help you and that makes me feel good, right? And also I'm doing this as a continual practice of personal growth. I could have slept in more today, sure. I could have played video games this hour, okay? It would have been more fun on a shallow way, but there's a deeper fun happening right here. And the deeper fun is connection to purpose, connection to somebody else, somebody else in their purpose, what I do. And so it's a practice of letting go of the shallow fun, playing video games, surfing Facebook, surfing the net, whatever, eating junk food, whatever I could be doing, watching Netflix, I could be doing anything, I work for myself. So letting go of the shallow fun, noticing what's shallow fun and diving into the deep fun, which is a discipline, because letting go of shallow fun and trying to get the deep fun at first, it's not fun, right?  So you do it as a discipline, but the discipline is to tap into that deep fun of connection, of authenticity, of personal growth, of lifting somebody else, okay? And so that's the first thing I do. The first overall step is consistent content that is expressing as my authentic self and being relevant to uplift and serve you, right? First step. The second step is to distribute that content more widely. I mean, if you surf Facebook, okay, if you surf Facebook, you probably see my postings all the time, right? Like almost every day you surf Facebook, well, hopefully, right? You'll see some posting from me. Now, is it because I am showing up like five times a day? No, I show up Monday through Friday once a day and then I use Facebook ads to distribute that content to you on a regular basis so that whether you're surfing Facebook at 11 a.m. or 11 p.m., you'll probably see something from me, not because I'm there typing away and, you know, no, it's because I'm using ads to just show you whenever you're on Facebook. And soon I'm gonna start using YouTube. I know some of you are watching this on YouTube and I'm gonna start using YouTube ads soon as well so that if you're surfing YouTube, you'll see me as well and Google and elsewhere. So the second step is to use paid advertising to distribute your content to the people who are most likely going to like your stuff. And learning paid advertising is a skill. My favorite is Facebook ads. I think it's the cheapest and easiest way to get your content out to the people who are most likely going to love your stuff based on look-alike audiences targeting very clear, you know, the Facebook ads allows us to do very clear kinds of targeting. So this is what some of you aren't doing. Some of you are like, well, George, I'm just posting on Facebook. Nobody's responding. I'm uploading to YouTube. Nobody's responding. Well, because you haven't taken the second step of using paid advertising to distribute your content to the people most likely going to like your things, right? No wonder, $30 a month. Do you have $30 a month to spend in your business, right, on paid advertising? I hope so.  I don't know what you're doing. I'm sorry to say $30, it's not that much. The $30 a month on Facebook ads, okay, personally I spend $200 to $300 a month just distributing my content on Facebook. I spend another couple of hundred dollars a month distributing my offerings, my product services, but just content alone, I spend $200 to $300, just on free stuff like this, just not asking you to buy this or buy that, just on free stuff. I'm asking you to spend $30 a month. So for $30 a month on Facebook, you can reach at least 1,000 people who are more likely to like your content than the rest of the population, $30 a month. That's all I'm asking you to start with, and you can grow up to what I'm doing now with 200 to 300 if you would like, $30 a month. Got it? $30 a month, for $30 a month, you can get it to 1,000 people at usually more than that, but I'm gonna say usually at least about 1,000, okay? So the second step is distribution through paid advertising of your content. Third step is to personally connect with your biggest fans. So I've talked about this recently with the concept of fan interviews. Personally connect. Now some of you I actually reach out to, and I'm sorry I haven't reached out to you yet, but I have a lot of people to reach out to. But I personally connect with at least one of my biggest fans every week. So I do four fan interviews a week, okay? If you're interested in doing a fan interview with me, let me know in the comments, but I'm still getting to all of you. But yeah, I do one fan interview a week where I am taking the beginner's mindset of just wanting to learn how you describe your business challenges and your marketing. This is what I help you with, right? How do you describe your business challenges? How do you describe your marketing challenges? Who else are you buying from? Why are you buying from them? What else are you not finding in the product and services that are out there to help you with your business marketing? I'm not, in those conversations, I'm not trying to sell you on my thing. I don't have time to sell you on my thing. I'm trying to learn about you, okay? That's all I have time for. Barely, not even if time, just beginning to learn about you, truly. So step three is doing fan interviews or doing other ways of truly one-to-one understanding your ideal audience. Are you doing that? I do one interview a week, but what about you? With my, this is private interviews, not the ones I do publicly with my clients. I post those on Saturdays, you've seen those. That's separate, I also do that once a week usually. But I'm just talking about one private conversation per week, that's what I do. What about you? If I'm doing one a week and I have plenty of, I don't even need any more clients, what about someone like you who does need clients? If I were you, I'd be doing two to three a week if I could, fan interviews to really connect and understand so that you can develop what I call that compassion, focused empathy within yourself about your ideal audience. Okay, so that's a third step is one-to-one connection with your fans to truly understand how they describe their issues that you can help them with. And then fourth is to then offer the product or service that they have been telling you that they need and that they want in the language that they have been using to describe their problems and their goals. That's it. One, two, three, four. One, content and ideally content that's authentic, relevant and consistent, okay? Two, step two, step one is content. Step two is distribution of your content. That's what a lot of you aren't doing. You're posting on Facebook, but you're not using paid ads to distribute that to the right people. No wonder you're not getting any traction. So let's step two is distribution through paid ads. And step three is one-to-one connection with your fans. Okay, fine, you have an audience but you've been trying to sell something and it feels like selling. It feels like, oh my God, you have to promote this, promote that and nobody's buying or too few people are buying. It's because you're not selling what people want. If selling is hard for you, it's because you're not selling what people want. I honestly, you could be so excited because you created this wonderful program. You created this wonderful service but it's all in your head. That's why it feels so wonderful. It's because it's in your head, it feels wonderful. But if people aren't buying, it doesn't feel wonderful to them. You know what I mean? It's people buy what they want from people they trust. People buy what they want from companies or people they trust.  I'm sorry to say. They don't want your thing or you don't have enough people to sell it to because you haven't been doing the first two steps of content that's authentic, conscious and relevant and distribution of your content. That brings your audience and then once you have an audience, the questions are they buying what you want? Is there not buying? You're not selling what they want.  Plain and simple.  Oh, oh, I know what you want. Here's what you want. Oh, wow, oh my God. Yes, right? And that takes one-on-one conversations to really understand the state of the market today. How do you understand the state of the market today? By conversations one-to-one, private conversations with your fans. That's it. What are they buying? That's the market. Where they're spending their money is literally your market. That's, and where are they spending their money? What are they getting for what they're spending their money? And why are they buying that and not yours? Right? Why are they buying that one? Oh, it's because that thing promises this and this and sometimes the promises from our niche mates are hype and we need to explain that in our content as well. Don't demonize any particular person or company but talk about the hype in your industry. This is what I do. Notice that I talk about the hype. I say, don't believe not specific people but don't believe those people who say this because I tell you it's not true. I'm telling you what I've experienced as the truth, what I've seen my clients experience as the truth. Okay, so recap the steps and I gotta go to my next call here. Content that's authentic, relevant, inconsistent. Step one, content. Step two is distribution of that content through paid ads so that you don't have to spend a year or five building an audience. That can happen in three to six months but you've got to use paid ads starting with $30 a month on Facebook and then more if you can. If you want to do it faster, spend more, period, right? Third step is understanding your market today through one-on-one fan interviews and step four is of course creating an offering what they've told you they want and they can't find, right? Or what they're buying. It's just your version of what they're already buying and whatever your version is, clearly gonna be in your own voice, in your own style, you can't help it. No matter how you try to copy somebody else, you can't literally copy someone else because you haven't lived their life.  No matter how you try to copy them, I'm not saying to copy other people but I'm just saying some of you are so worried about copying other people, don't worry about it. Try to, no, don't try to copy but just notice what's working and do your version of that and it's gonna be unique just because you're the one doing it, okay? I hope this is helpful and any questions, comment below. Thanks to those of you who were able to join me live. Jill, DeVora, Evelyn, Suzanne, Michelle, Rebecca, Miriam, Esther, Ilsa, Sam, thank you so much for joining me live here and I wish you a wonderful rest of your day.


Morning class. I'm Will Kemp from Will Kemp Art School and this week we're going to look at different whites you can use in your acrylic painting and which is the best white to choose. Often if you use a white that isn't opaque enough, then it can cause real troubles when you're trying to block out different areas of your painting. So let's have a look at different ones in different price ranges and see which one's going to be the best for you. So the first paint I've got is this one. This is the cheapest paint that I could find. This was about £1.50 on an offer from a local craft store. And then I've got here an example of a student quality titanium white and this is from Windsor & Newton. And then I've got a few different examples of artist quality titanium white. I've got one from Dayler Rowney. I've got another Windsor & Newton artist acrylic. And a golden titanium white. I've also got two other paints. One which is a golden open titanium white. And I've also got a zinc white. And we'll talk about zinc white a bit later on. So the first thing I'm going to do is just pour out examples of the different whites so you can start to see how their consistency varies. So this is the first white. This is the craft white. And one thing that you'll notice when you use craft acrylic paints is they've got a real smell to them. They're quite strong and that's because they've got a lot of different additives that have been added into them. You'll find with artist quality paints, they don't really have much of an odour at all. So let's now have a look at them on the easel so we can start to see the different consistencies between the paints. So here you can already start to see the difference in consistency of the titanium whites. So this is on the very far left, the one from the craft store, and you'll see how it's just already dropping down onto the palette. And it's quite thin when it's quite easy for my palette knife to go through it. Then this is the Galleria, which is the student quality titanium white. It's a bit thicker, but it's still starting to move down the palette. And then these are the three artist quality titanium whites, and they're all holding their shapes really well. They're not moving down at all and they're all in these kind of exactly the same shape when I first put them out. So this one here is the Daler Rowney, and that's got a really nice stiffness to it. This is the Windsor and Newton. It's not as stiff, but it's still it's got a nice consistency to it and this is the Heavy Body from Golden, and that's the the thickest of the lot because of the Heavy Body. It's a little bit thicker and a bit stiffer. And this particular titanium white is towards the bottom of the pot that I've been using. So it's probably a tiny little bit thicker than you'd normally get from a fresh tube. The one that I haven't put out is the Open Titanium White. So just to show you that. And you can see here, this is some of the issues that I have with the Open acrylic from Golden, is that they're artist quality paints, but look at the difference in the consistency. So this is still the titanium white, but it's so much more translucent, so much more of a looser bodied paint, and it's coming down the palette, almost the same as these first couple of paints here. So that's just something to bear in mind if you're looking at the open range. The titanium white is a lot looser and a lot thinner than the standard acrylic titanium white. So we can now just test just with the brush to see how they cover over black. So you can see on here that the first one, the craft paint, didn't really cover it over that much at all. The second one, the Galleria paint, that starts to cover over quite well. The Daler-Rowney one covered it over really well. It's a little bit thicker that, but it worked really well there. This was the Winsor & Newton artist quality, and that's about the same as the Golden artist acrylic here. The Open and the acrylic again is about the same as the Galleria acrylic, the student grade there. So let's just try with a palette knife with thicker applications. So what's interesting to note here is how when you're applying them thickly with a palette knife, they've got similar coverage. They still all cover the white underneath it, and that's applying it reasonably thickly, but they can all cover over whatever you've got. Now let's have a look at the different tinting strength of the whites. So what I've done here is laid out about the equal amount of the titanium white to some Phthalo Blue with a green shade. I'm just going to mix them together and start to see if we can see any differences between the finished tones that are mixed. So you can see that the two end ones are the slightly darkest and the ones in the middle are all slightly lighter. You'll also find that with this one, the Kraft Titanium White, it's got a real gloss finish to it, whereas the others have got more of a satin or a matte finish to them. And that's just due to the different fillers that have been put into this Titanium White. Just seeing how they're drying off. And they've each got a very, very slight different hue to them due to the different white that's been used. So the final white I've put out here is just the Zinc White. And just to show you the difference with Zinc White. So Zinc White is a lot more transparent white. It isn't as solid as the Titanium White. So what you'll find with it is what called a mixing white. So if you've got, you know, some blue and you just want to lighten it up slightly but still retain a lot of body into the paint, you can just add in some Zinc White and it will just change it ever so slightly. If you're doing the same thing with Titanium White, you can start to see that the hue can be changed a lot more rapidly with Titanium White. To get to the same hue with the Zinc White, we're going to have to add quite a lot more, even a bit more. You've really got to keep on adding that Zinc if you want to try and lighten it up to the same level. I might even say a bit more. Oops. So that's looking quite close in hue. But if you just look at the difference in volume of paint. So you need loads more of the Zinc White to get the same level of the Titanium White if you're trying to lift up the value. So make your colors a lot lighter. But if you're trying to subtly lift the color, then Zinc White can be very, very handy because it can just shift it ever so slightly. So now what's interesting to note is the whites are actually drying off a lot more. It's the first one, the craft white. You can see how it's drying off here and notice what's called the color shift. And this is a shift from when it's wet to when it's dry. And you'll see here the color there is a lot darker than when it's wet. And that's because often you'll find with the cheaper quality whites is that they have a greater color shift. So you can paint it onto your canvas and look perfect. And you come back when it's dry and it's shifted a lot darker. This is with the Daler Rowney. That's dried there, but this is still wet. But the actual shifting color is quite close. And again, with the Windsor & Newton, that's nearly dry there and that's wet at the top. So you can see very, very subtly there. There's a very slight darkening off. It shouldn't be as much with the Windsor & Newton because they use a clear binder rather than a white binder, which is usually used. And again, with the Golden Acrylic. That's dry down here. It's just going off there, but you can see they're very, very close in color. This because of the open acrylic will still be wet and will still stay wet for quite a while. So if you have the very cheapest white you can find, sometimes it's a lot harder to cover over that painting that you're working on top of. And also you have to be aware of the color shift that will happen with the white. When you start to go into artist brands, so Windsor & Newton or Daler Rowney or Liquidex, then you'll start to find that there's more consistency in the actual paint between the students and the artist quality. I mean, this one here, the Galleria is done really well in comparison to some of the artist quality paints. But the one thing you'll still notice a difference is is in the actual consistency of the paint. The paint is a lot thinner when you're actually first working with it. If you want something that's got a real heavy body to it and something that's going to hold the actual shapes of your brush. So if I do a mark here, you see how it holds the shapes. Whereas with this one, it kind of smooths it out more than using an artist quality titanium white is always going to be a real benefit to your acrylic paintings. And then when you want to have subtle mixes, you can use a zinc white to get these lovely translucent mixes that could be so effective when you're using very subtle shifts in tone such as portraiture. This is Wilkham from Wilkham Art School.