Welcome, artistic friends and Monet Cafe. Today we're going to talk about how to simplify your subject matter. Often we see our reference images and we see so much detail. Today I'm going to talk about how we can reduce that to more simplified forms on the computer or just with your eyes. And the result will be, you know, usually just doing some quick studies like I did today. You can have a result that's really just more basic and freer. So let's get started talking about how we can do that. Now, in case you need to find some good reference material, we have a wonderful resource right in our very own Facebook group, Monet Cafe Art Group on Facebook. This is an image of the page on my computer. And I'm going to show you how to get to our member reference album. It's an album that we have in our group on Facebook where artists upload their own photography to give the ability for others to use for paintings. So it's really neat and we have I think probably close to 1500 photos in it right now. So here's what you do. You become a member of our group. You do have to answer a few questions like what's your favorite medium? How did you hear about us? Stuff like that. And once you're accepted in our group, you would simply go to the photos tab. Now it's a little different on your phone. I think in your phone it's in one of the little things that it's kind of across the top here. But you go to photos, then you go to albums right here. Hi Gracie. I love seeing our friends in our Facebook group. That's why the group is neat on Facebook because I get to see you guys. All right, now we have a whole lot of different albums in here, but it's going to be towards the end here. There's not that many. I shouldn't say a whole lot. It's right here. Okay, so there's a member reference album. I think I clicked like two three pages back and see we got 1455 photos in there. And if you click that and you just take a look at all of the amazing photos, my computer is a little slow here, because there are photos that are just all kinds of different landscapes, florals, animals. And what's neat is that we have, oh, look how cute that is. Oh my gosh, that make a cute painting. We have artists from all over the world.  If you love to paint, you're an artist. Okay, so claim that title. So anyway, we get photography that we may not get in our own backyard, because I mean, we're in Australia, we're in Spain, we're in Japan. I mean, everywhere, England, I can't even begin to think about all the places we're in right now. But look at this. Oh my gosh, I have a little Boston terrier named Jackson. And this looks like he did as a puppy. That's so cute. Anyway, getting a little carried away here. There's just some gorgeous photography. So that's a neat way for you to get reference material. Also, I mentioned a lot, the Paint My Photo app. I believe it's pmp-art.com. And it's a site where people upload their photography. But this is our very own reference album. So I thought that would be neat. So anyway, now I'm going to talk a little bit about how do we select a photo and simplify it? Okay, let me, you know, I have the one that I'm doing for this particular painting that I'm doing. But let me just pick something here. This is really pretty. Let me pick this. And then, actually, I think I would like one with more distance. Hi, Angela. Let me go ahead and do that. What you would do here is I'm just going to click Options here. I'm going to download it to my computer. And then I'm going to put it in Photoshop and show you how I simplified this image. Okay, let's get started. Now let me show you what I did for this particular photograph that I used for this painting. Again, these are just going to be really more studies and exercises to loosen up and get better. And a lot of times we just get too tight and fussy. And this is just a great technique to really get that more impressionistic feel that we most of us really like. So I'm going to show you how I do this in Photoshop. Now I don't always put an image in Photoshop to do this, but Photoshop will show you what we're trying to accomplish by minimalizing the content of our photograph.  And that's the technique I typically use is I just squint my eyes or dim the light in a room. And you can really start to simplify the shapes in a photograph or reference image. And this happens to be a photograph from our member reference album in our Monet Café art group. And it's from Robert Hopkins. So if you notice, sometimes we have a tendency to, let me zoom in here. It's jumping a little bit. We have a tendency to see too much. Seeing all the grasses and the flowers and the trees and the branches. And our eyes are amazing. Thank you, Lord, for such an amazing optical device that beats any camera out there. But our eyes have this tendency to, when we look at something, like if I'm looking at these trees, to put it into focus, to start to see all the little teeny things here. But in art, we have the ability to make the viewer's eyes focus on what we want it to. Create a center of interest, for example. And the center of interest here is going to be just the movement of this water. And typically, things in the background, for example, if you stare at this area and don't look at the trees in the background, but stare at this area, you'll notice that while you're not looking at those trees, they're blurry. You can see them peripherally, but you can't focus on them as long as you're looking at this. So that's the illusion that we create in art is we try to minimize things that we don't want the eye to focus on as much. And squinting is a way to help you really reduce the image to those basic shapes and values. So that's what I'm going to be doing here. So here's what I do in Photoshop to kind of represent squinting. All right, I'm going to show you what the result is, and then I'll show you how to do it with one of photographs. So here's the actual photograph. Thank you, Robert, for that gorgeous photo. Okay, here is, let me get rid of this. Here is how I minimalized or reduced the image to just basic shapes and values in Photoshop. Now squinting is, like I said, kind of the same thing. And then again, here's the painting. This was just quick, rough, you know, whatever. But you see, I just have basic shapes. I don't have anything like that right there. Okay. And it's a great way to just, like I said, kind of loosen up and to get yourself focusing on the basics. Now I'm going to go ahead and pull in. Let me find that photo that I just uploaded from our group. And I believe it went to downloads. Okay, so now we have this beautiful photograph. And again, we could take the photograph happens to be really well done already, because notice how this is already blurry in the background. Okay, so this is actually already pretty good to work from. But let's try to reduce some of these, these too many details right here to get your basic painting in. And then you can just selectively choose what items you want to detail. It doesn't have to be everything. And I think I'm going to paint this photograph because it's really great. Thank you, Angela. She happens to use her camera in a way. And I don't want to give up, make this lesson about photography. But if you have a larger aperture opening in your camera, which is backwards, it happens to be the smaller number like a 5.6 is a larger whole opening in your camera, then say like a 21, which is a teeny one, the larger ones give that focus in the front, but blurred out in the background. So this was obviously a setting that did that. So let me show you what I do. I have a filter in Photoshop. I know I have my, I don't have my screen selected where you can see it. But up top here, it says filter. Okay. And if I just go to my filter gallery, I have one that I use, this is it right here. It's called palette knife. Now it's zoomed in a lot right now. So let me zoom it out. But you'll see what I mean about just really reducing the image to its basics. Okay, so that is really simplified. And I do think there's a lot of green going on here. The whole thing is green. So I would warm up these greens in the front and cool off the ones in the back, because we know warm colors come forward, cool colors recede, or not just warm and cool, stronger or bolder in color, and more neutral in color as you get to the background. But you can see how this kind of simplified it. Like I said, I kind of wanted to do one that had more, more distance and this, like I said, it was already a very good photograph to begin with. But that's the little technique that I use. You can do it with, you know, any photograph that you're working with. Let me see if I can find another one real quick. Get out of this. Oh, I already did it with that one. This was a great road photograph by Katie Lewis. And I already did the palette knife thing to it to reduce it to its basic shapes. Okay, so then you're not worried about getting off fussy with detail. Alright, so let's get into painting. You guys are probably tired of hearing about all this, but squinting your eyes basically works the same way to reduce it to the simple shapes. Alright, let's get started. Here's the palette of pastels I started out with. I want you to take note of the orange, the red and the yellow ones in there. The reason I did this is I wanted to do a complimentary underpainting. Now you don't have to do this. You could use colors that are local to the scene. But I thought with all of that green, the painting would be much more interesting with that complimentary underpainting peeking through. It's a great way if you watch some of my tutorials. Under paintings are just great to kind of loosen up and get your painting going. And it's kind of like a good foundation. But the complimentary ones are great when you have a lot of green. Now I'm using these colors just like I would a value study. In other words, the the darker browns are in the front there. And then the middle values are going to be kind of in the middle there of the painting. And the lighter values go more towards that distant field. And of course, the lightest value is the sky. Now, here's how I'm going to blend this. I'm just using regular alcohol, water, a brush and paper towels. And I put the alcohol in a little dish. And I just start working top to bottom. Now I'm going to lighten up the sky later. But I'm actually the paper towels and the water is so that I can clean my brush after I'm using after I'm brushing on those darker values, because those darker values will just run all over the painting and I don't want that. So you know, it's a it's a little technique you learn you get better. But that's why it's good to do these studies like this, because you're not so worried about it. Now I'm focusing on those darker ones are going to be around. There's like these vertical grasses growing around that that marshy area that's carving its way through the landscape there.  Now I'm getting my blow dryer. I was impatient, didn't want to wait. Like I said, I only had a little bit of time to do this. Someone asked me how long this painting took. I don't remember. I don't know it wasn't I don't it wouldn't even it wasn't an hour I know that.  Had to go out to dinner. But but anyway, now my paper was curling up a little bit here. So I just wanted to tape it down. I've salvaged a lot of you art paper that warped when my home flooded and I have to iron it out literally.  Now I got some nice colors going in that sky. But I do lighten it up a bit later. I'm going pretty bold with this one. I'm just kind of having fun. And I did vary the tree line back there. As you can see, I I decided you'll see later I change it even more. I decided I don't like a barrier of things that just goes across like a fence and blocks the eye. So I end up creating some little channels in the trees where the eye can go back even further in the distance behind them. So I'm going to paint a little while but you'll see I'm just keeping things pretty simple, not getting too fussy. And I really just having fun. That's the point of this. Simplify, have fun and paint more often. That's a great way to get better. All right. Enjoy this for now about simplifying your subject and basically just paint more. Do studies. Don't take it so serious. Have some fun and most of all, happy, happy painting. Please subscribe and come back often. Bye guys.


Good morning, my beautiful internet friends and welcome back. We are not sipping wine at 10 30 in the morning We are gonna be doing the I walk giveaway at the end of this video. I apologize that this is 24 hours late Yesterday, I was on the couch over there all day with a massive migraine Which is why you were about to see as I continue to fold paper slips with your guys's names on them and put them in My drawing glass a video from yesterday at the end of yesterday when I was like slightly more cognizant though I mean I'm still kind of out of it where I talk about two things that I don't think are discussed enough When it comes to like chronic pains and migraines and illness and things like that So let's hop into that video and then make sure you stick around to the end of that video see who wins real quick before we dive In I would love it if you would hit subscribe on my channel I'm shooting for a hundred thousand subscribers sometime in the near future because I think that would be cool So if you want to be a part of that hit subscribe and now let's talk about some migraines and guilt and brain fog I guess let me know what you think it is I've been laying on this couch here from 6 30 this morning until oh It's a literally 6 34 right now 6 34 at night when I woke up this morning Kiss Brian by my first thought was like oh crap. This is gonna be a bad one Like I there was already a migraine starting up and it was just nasty And so I've been laying down all day trying to make it go away Taking meds doing whatever I can and I want to talk about two issues I don't think I've addressed before specifically when it comes to like chronic pain illness and migraines that I don't know if you Guys face, but this is something that comes up for me just about every time if I seem a little bit out of it I'm not a hundred percent just yet, but it's definitely a lot better also side note I don't know if you guys know Gus Johnson. He's hilarious and a total sweetheart here on YouTube Got some of his his merch ordered it like two months ago And it just came in the mail so shout out to you Gus Johnson not that he needs a shout out for me He's like a million followers, but whatever something I don't think a lot of people talk about something that I don't think a lot of people talk about is that like one of migraine hits Or when you're in a lot of pain You don't think straight like you don't really have access to all your brain cells like you're You can't think well when you're in a lot of pain, right? And so I found myself Often like when it's bad days when things really hurt like today I don't even remember what helps and that sounds Stupid because I've been living with chronic migraines for 15 years now like I know what helps I know what doesn't I know what to do on days when they're like Manageable I'll put that in quotes. I know like the steps to go through but when I'm in a lot of pain I get like panicked because I'm like I don't even like what what even helps like I don't even know what helps I've done this before but I don't actually know where the list is But like I'm gonna write down like a list of like these are the things to do Like these are the things that you need to do to help yourself when you're in a lot of pain because Even though I've dealt with this for literally more than half my life. I Cannot think straight enough To figure out what the next step is to figure out that like you need to eat something you haven't eaten anything in six Hours that's gonna make your migraine worse and know it hurts to get up But you have to get up you have to eat something kind of thing I mean this is not a scientific fact But I feel like my my brain function is reduced to like 10% capacity and I am just like in haze where nothing makes sense And I'm like barely functioning and so I think it's important to have things in place Before they hit So I'm gonna remake a list tomorrow that I know where it is because I've had two really really bad migraine the last seven days Where I got to like that state, you know where I just I didn't even know what would help even though I know what helps but secondly Guilt I feel like it's my fault every time I always get this Like sense of like like I'm not doing something like I'm just being lazy or I'm Not doing the thing that would actually help or I'm obviously bringing this on myself in some way And it's gotten a lot better over the years as I've worked through different, you know mental issues I've had and I've pieced apart different things But still pops up especially when things get really bad Like when the pain gets really bad, I feel like it's my fault and I had like this nagging sense that like You did something you did something wrong or like you you did you didn't like you didn't get enough sleep So it's your fault even though I did or you know, maybe something on a larger scale I usually feel like I'm forgetting to do something like I'm bringing on myself like like I must want this to happen because it happened so often and that's a very This is what happens like I can't think of words. It's a very You know, it's a broken thought pattern like that's not accurate thinking But there's so much guilt for me that comes along with being in pain And the thing is is that there's nothing that I should feel guilty for But I'll be laying down and like trying to rest and I'll have this nagging sense like in the back of my mind That like you should be doing the thing you should be doing the other thing and I'm like But but what's what's the other thing like what's the other thing that I'm doing that like makes this my fault and there's nothing there It's just like that that broken thought pattern, you know that unhealthy way of thinking I just want to take a moment to share that with you guys I am really curious if you guys have experienced either of those things whether it's migraines or chronic pain or illness or just being a Person I would love to hear your thoughts in the comment section down below Three two one All right, so this is everybody who entered the I walk giveaway I wanted to do this the fairest way possible and I figured that putting all the names on pieces of paper and throwing them in a Wine glass was gonna be a simplest way to do this I wish that I had an I walk to give away to everybody They are really really helpful tools if you are not today's winner for not you can still get an I walk there for sale on Amazon up the link down the description and hopefully in the future I would love to be able to do a giveaway again, so let's go ahead and hop in to see who wins Also, I realized I say hop a lot like hop over to my YouTube channel like let's hop in and see who wins That's not supposed to be a joke a lot of people have pointed out that like I kind of constantly say that I do love hopping in my Real life as well as you know And our winner is Lewis. Congratulations. Whoops Lewis. Congratulations. I've sent you an email I should be waiting for your inbox for further instructions as well a huge Thank you to everyone who entered and to I walk for providing us with this I walk to give away Thank you for spending a few minutes with me here today guys Make sure you hit like on this video and subscribe if you're interested in all this channel Which I mean I certainly hope you are if you've stayed to the end of this video. I love you guys I'm thinking of you and I'll talk to you soon. Bye guys


YouTube what's up, man YouTube video. This is salary cap. This is our cap leaderboards I don't think it's live yet for the last chance tournament But just getting a vibe of playing salary cap again playing all all mad And I wish all the game modes were all on all men I don't see one person that are using says, you know I wish it was on all pro and I think honestly the only reason the game is on all pro is because it's easier to tell The difference in the cards that you buy and it kind of forces you to buy different cards I think that's why they play my head-to-head on all pro rather than all mad man We've all grown up playing all mad and that was the only mode the only difficulty you could play on and that's pretty much What I wish we could play on all the time. Here you go him threading a needle in front of Jamal Adams That's a 99 speed Jamal Adams to Tyree kill a little bunch tight on action I start this game running it and then we see the gifting curse of camp Chancellor Yes, he wants to kill people and he does kill people but sometimes I get a little too hype and try to hit stick to air As I do when that first drive we give up a touchdown on the first play High ball over the middle Moss drops that one with the patch You know, they really just tried to decrease the high balls We go to ball underneath the wheel you'll catch a spin right away They try to decrease the high balls You see that little soft hit made Moss drop that one So maybe that's part of the gameplay that you know the patch since you know They want to decrease aggressive catches and they did right there on that one here We go great pass protection right there as you guys know man checked out my salary Okay, you can check out the video before this one is my salary cap video My office line is not great But boy they're doing a good job as we hit the wheel right there with Randy Moss hit a spin Most of time you bang to spin out really so you don't get hit and drop the ball Go for a high ball to Moss overthrow from big as you see big over throws a high ball But a lot of times I feel like everybody over those the high balls We get sacked here on second and goal third and go from the 15 This is pretty much third and field goal Moss can't come up with the high ball for me Babe, you see I got Moss Calvin and Julio I play no games when it comes to having the goons on the outside man, and that's what it's about That's the way the games played right now. I ran through three five normal the first drive I'm missing a little nickel normal try to you know up the heat on this bunch tight end I mean with the playbooks now. I use the New York New York Giants on defense But with the playbooks now, man You really can go ahead and you know have pretty much every defense of your disposal Dollar three through five nickel normal over G three four whatever you want. You can have your expo So I'll switch in between a bunch of different defenses against my opponent just to see which one gives them You know to the most trouble as you see that Donovan McNabb breaking out of the Davion Clowney sack I believe Complete in the past down to Randy Moss first down throws underneath here to Terral Owens Terral Owens is a bowling ball why receiver definitely fights after the yard after the catch and here we go He lasers this one into Shannon sharp comes back to the ball in front of two people scores a touchdown So two touchdown drives his first two drives obviously between nickel three three five and nickel normal He did pretty well dump it off the girly and of course, you know, he gets hit right there bang hit stick Fumble him now 14 three. I just fumbled the ball We're gonna go to dollar, but he runs on dollar right now Now I know the weakness of dollars to run But if I'm gonna stop the run, I gotta be on my safety and what I'll see here I'll look at the icons of his wire receivers. I'll hold and if did their name goes away.  He's gonna motion snap a run. I Move in with can chance or click off click back on hit stick cam bam kills them That's knowing he was gonna motion the wire receiver over knowing I had to be on my on my tight end or not My title knowing I had to be on can chance sort of stop the run a little bit better getting that his thick Fumble, that's why we put 87 cap cam chancellor there just to make plays just like that one Todd Gurley still playing tight end for me making plays in the passing game 39 cap Todd Gurley really helps me out over here high ball Randy Moss Knocked away right there about 21. I believe that's Denzel Ward number 21. I'm not sure Here we go hitting that post right over here to Calvin Johnson. Just do it regular trying to hold Why I mean I think this game right now This is what they want you to do a high ball in hella traffic You catch those passes if you go to ball to where they can get hit stick they're gonna get his stick then drop it So that's pretty much why the high ball so dominant. You can't really get hit on it Just those when I try to do you know throw a dot in traffic without high ballin Speaking of a dot we see Julio Jones coming up with a big catch right there It is Denzel world always fast. He doesn't have that same type of hip power as we get shredded right there When we're about to throw a dot touchdown Next play second and ten we go high ball Randy Moss. Look at this game get ready aggressive catches the patch and then As you can see it's just the still the easiest way to move the ball It's way easier to high ball let them aggressive catch them try to throw dots in traffic So Randy Moss pretty much got down the field and I see people not using Randy Moss or slandering Randy Moss to me He's still the best why receiver in the game 99 speed can go and get the ball and there we go all day for him right there with me Nab send the zone to go get him throws the ball away second and second and 15 right here Gotta make some plays as we see him throw the ball underneath Tyree kill. It's eight seconds left He's gonna call time out one plays out one play to get in the field will arrange I'm a little bit behind one came chance to jump that but Sean Taylor on this team I had this super Sean Taylor a hundred cap makes a play for me right here and right before the half You know, he's gonna chuck it into traffic and of course. He's gonna catch that pass Wow crazy. So that ended the second half. Here we go high ball first half That's the downside Michael Vic will overthrow that thing first player of second half over though for a pick That's what you get for high ball in a lot. That's what I did. Here he goes throws right at jail and Ramsey We got to get a play go pick that what he does right now as he flips that same play Great job.   It just really helps my office alignment block better I don't know why I couldn't tell you but just the time I get when I run play action as opposed to regular plays is unreal Here we go again a little smoke screen that I playmaker over here to Calvin Johnson Underneath just getting what I can it's hard to hit stick the big megatron Falling down to the 31 man. I'm down by 11. I go ahead and make some plays here post route Calvin Johnson Fight and fighting some more get to the six yard line And you know what we're gonna do once we get this close to the end zone Randy Moss one hand catch falling on his back I mean he was wide open on that play. I could do a rap But like I said if I were to do a regular he might have got hitched thick that might have bounced up He might have not got his feeding high ball everything YouTube I'm telling you guys the high ball for some reason that's why I have all these tall Y receivers and Man, I wanted cam chance or to jump that cam chance some balls just flying over his head pause That he really didn't touch but this one Jamal Adams is gonna touch that and take it away from the court back Try to run back try to make some plays Jamal Adams doesn't have quite that 82 spin you need to get the good spin move First intent.  It's still live right here fall forward little drag gets me five yards instead of two Here we go second and five here. We got to go up top. Well, we'll round wide open when you're late You're not gonna knock the ball out of Rainey moffs his hands wide open right there Like I said, man, I could have do a regular but Sean Taylor could have got a hitched thick if I do it Regular throw that thing high and hold wide man That's pretty much what mad 19 is right now Make sure you're loading up with the big body receivers to David and clowny He got a fall forward animation, but luckily he fell sideways right there Bank 30 19 tries to fit it in but cam chancellor breaks that one up almost thought he caught that in front of 87 cap cam chancellor right there. So we're at that up by three. This is a drive if I can score a touchdown here I can end the game especially with time left Little scramble with Michael Vic right there.  Here we go.  I'll go this way touchdown were up by 10 under two minutes That one's gonna seal the game man. I'm telling you YouTube I don't get enough credit for my run stick man. That was dirty tough run right there I use 26 cap Joe mixing he has 89 speed cuz I got the double sprint going on sack right there Cullo Mac once I went to this dollar defense and really started just give sending a little bit of pressure Rushing forward a spy gave him a lot more trouble than the 335 or the nickel normal as you see him there using his timeouts Those a high ball cam chancellor breaks it up though got to come up with interception fourth down Really boxed the play up tries to go to zig real late in complete turnover on downs That one's gonna end the game just gonna run it out here with Joe makes it another fall forward animation Although that one kind of went backwards And we'll see that one twice because that's my quality editing skills that I wanted to show you guys that run twice But that will end the game man. I'll tell you the patch I was down in this game 21 to 10 just an example with the patches done man The high balls are still there. You should still have the goon wide receivers and this fall forward animation is Rather right now. It's all over the place. So let me know what you guys think


What's going on guys? It's your boy Noah Pescatale. Welcome to another video today if you guys are wondering what's going on It's like six o'clock right now. I'm about to leave if you guys are wondering why I am cooking food over there It is because One that food would get bad if I didn't cook it out of the throw it out That's a waste of money. Also. I do need some food for traveling today. That's the main basis of this vlog I'm actually going home today. I'm done with school.  I mean like I said, I've finished like eight projects in two days I pretty much finished like two weeks for the work in two days So I was like working my butt off this quarter so psyched about that and so happy and blessed I get to do that So I'm going on with what I got right here So as you guys to tell got my bag right there sunglasses boxing need to take home Blender some male Keys Grab over here. I do have some camera equipment. I have some big things coming soon So I'm trying to bring a decent bit of equipment. I got my Canaan X8 30 right there Got some shoes. I want to take home backpack for my laptop in it That's just a bunch of random go-price stuff mostly again bull just some batteries tried to tidy up the house Just get everything ready before I leave Meals for the car ride. Well, I just ended up eating one of these right now I can't believe I ate that this early on. Oh Oh, yeah, that's a lot of food guys. I want you guys understand a lot. They might not look like that much That's 900 calories right there. That's a lot food. But yeah, I'm gonna clean up all this stuff right here I'm gonna get this pack for the car. I'm clean that up clean all this up. We should be good to go We should we should be great and gets out of here because I don't need to be waiting too much longer I wanted I woke up early because I wanted to get I wanted to hit decent time So guys that is about it I just packed up everything really quick because I was like I just need to get out of here. I didn't really feel much That is about it. I'm not believe that else. No, I've been I'm gonna kind of miss it, you know I've been here the past three months. Um, it's been good.  We are ready to head back to Atlanta But I do have to get gas first Like next level Chevy First of all, I like to apologize if it's too loud right now But I do want to talk about a little topic since I'm in the car And I think this is a great opportunity for me to get some business stuff done I do have a few phone calls say that I do need to get done Handful of phone calls. I do need to get done today and just get a lot of work done and get just pound everything out So there's one thing that a few of you guys have been asking about that. I think it's very important I think it's a great question Especially for the youth and for people who are wanting to build their self and apply their self towards life to Go kick ass every single day There's one comment on my last video that I actually just posted yesterday. There's two comments Where a few people have asked how do you build a business in the fishing industry and Make it successful with the first thing that I've been doing this for five to six years now and I've learned so much is ridiculous and Anything of business there's ups and downs and the first thing that you want to you evaluate and figure out before you even hop Into this whole business deal Hop on that phone call later Business the whole business side is the first thing you need to know is what are you going to love doing it?  Are you willing to do this for 30 years? That's the first question because I don't believe in starting anything if you're not going to put in a hundred fifty percent And blow it up because there's no point of fall off. I mean starting something and not following through I think that's shitty.  So that's one thing you have to stay committed You're gonna have to know that you love what you're doing. That's the biggest thing hopping into this I think this is amazing most of my fans and supporters or people who watch my videos by my demographics are from 18 years old to 35 years old that that is great. That means most of the people who watch my videos are around that age and Which is awesome because they can relate to me A lot of you guys who are asking this are a lot of younger kids It just depends what you're looking to go about I think it is awesome if you're like 15 16 17 wanting to do this right now And if this is what you're wanting to do I I truly suggest that you go pound it out a hundred and fifty percent And you go knock it out and do what you want to do with it because you're starting young and You can't beat that. That's what I did. I started young. I'm 19 years old right now I started this when I was 14 years old like and now I'm seeing where I'm at and I've got to build this empire and of course it's filled with ups and downs And right now it's on the lower end, but all on all Just go ahead and start start with the business if you want me to create a video on this I don't want to take too much time in this vlog to dedicate towards this because This vlog is just about my life and what I'm doing today And I don't want to spend 10 minutes talking about this But if you want to see a video more in depth on you know What I did to start kicking their bass TV or if you guys want some tips on what I think smart in the vision industry right now Then go ahead smash the like button. Let me know below and I'll go ahead and get that to you Here in gas station stop number two What's up people will update just got back to Atlanta about the drop of the truck Or not the truck but about to drop the boat off right now Just got a lot of stuff done got on a lot of phone calls on the ride back I still have a lot more I have to get done today I believe I have like three or more phone calls three more phone calls I need to get done that I promised I'd get done today because I've been so busy past two days You know where my lap or the days that I've actually had off pretty much of class and so these past two days I've just been kind of you know slouching around a little bit So today's the first day of pretty much I guess you would say break quote-unquote break, but this is not going to be a break This is going to be you know the next two months of working my ass off That's what this is going to be I'm not even going to label it a break is somebody labeled working my ass off next two months So I'm going to drop this off get this done hop on to the next thing I do need to go home and do a few things and then I have some video plans I want to plan today because I need as you guys know tomorrow is Thanksgiving And I want to make a Thanksgiving video, which I'm going to be doing today And uh this video I don't know when you guys are going to be watching this because my upload schedule might change As you guys know, I usually upload Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays I might even do something where I'm uploading almost every single day If you guys want to see that smash that like button Let me know because I'm ready to bust Shit out this break How are you? Yeah, I love you Oh, you glad to be home? Yeah, that's good Well, you got home, but I mean Currently eating a meal right now and working on On the instagram photo if you guys were wondering I do all the graphics, you know all the graphic design work for Thumbnails all the way to instagram post official media post All the way from my motivational posts to thumbnails for the videos All that all that stuff I feel like the value of content is really good. I enjoy making this stuff And a lot of you guys enjoy seeing it. I don't get as many reactions, you know like stuff on it, but In my opinion, I think it's Very very great content to post All right guys, so I finished up some stuff at that house took a shower and now I'm back on the road again I have to stop by extreme again because I need to pick up something for my dad He actually sold something on craigslist. So I'm picking this up heading to ss, which is my dad's other job I'm gonna be filming a video with all them there. I guess this is what he sold a big sub box I need to make room for that in my truck How's everybody doing? What's going on guys? What's going on guys? I'm actually at my dad's second business right now. Um ss We just finished filming the Thanksgiving episode. You guys are watching this after the Thanksgiving episode So if you guys haven't seen that it's not like based 100 towards Thanksgiving So be sure to go check it out. It should be titled Thank you family. I love you. So go check out that video. I think it's really good videos to my whole family right here Go check that one out. What's going on, dude? What's going on brother? How you been? All right good busy, but good man like always I guess right yeah, man. I'm about to Today's the first day. I'm about to get stuff rolling dude.  You're excited about work Well, I don't know about free time, but I got I got business time. I'm excited Yeah, just finished up a few phone calls. I still got Two more that I need to take care of later tonight, but this is a post I actually just made. I don't know why I won't focus I know it's not one of the folks perfect if you guys haven't followed me on instagram Definitely go follow me, you know, I'll put a lot of time into these posts And I it really I'd really appreciate if you guys go check them out Like lately I've seriously been putting a lot of time into these like Instagram posts these high quality pictures, you know editing them to the best possible Making great captions. Um great headlines on the post and it just mean a lot if you guys could check me out on the instagram at kicking underscore t h e i r underscore bass underscore tv What's going on guys is actually Thanksgiving.  I usually can't I mean, I usually have to work at least until you know 12 o'clock 11 12 o'clock like it's just kind of like a habit like 11 minimal There's always a weird habit and um, I stopped kind of early yesterday, but Today what I'm about to go do, you know, I've had my dinner and everything or lunch Thanksgiving lunch already I got like an hour of daylight Daylight which sucks and I just can't stand it because I really didn't get much done today I actually went to the gym very early because they were open this morning And I'm going to a local boat ramp because I do want to take some photos of my truck And also some of my new 13 fishing gear. I want to get some photos done because Um, just some content on instagram and that'll give me something to do tonight I will be able to edit this vlog As well, so I'll be able to edit this vlog and also edit some photos and um prep Pretty much some content for all my social media platforms and instagram I think that'd be pretty cool these next 30 days guys are going to be absolutely amazing I'm so pumped about it. I can like I'm so excited that I can like Put the next 30 days all into my business Wow guys, this is the boat ramp I usually put in and look at all these trees We are good to go.  I'm going to come out in the next couple of days and I'm going to go Slay some fish because I got to redeem myself I only had like one or two bad days on the near this year and one of them was the tournament But that's that's just how it goes. I'm going to take some cool photos here. Just got some sick shots I'll play of them. Just got some sick shots. I'll play some of them right now All right guys just got home. I'm going to edit a lot of stuff and finish everything up But I hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving. Hope you spent time with your family like I actually did earlier I know you guys are just seeing a little bit of today But you know I'm grinding the rest of the day. I'm going to be working and doing my thing But thank you guys so much for the support if you guys enjoyed these types of vlogs Where I'm just documenting my life documenting what I do every single day Then smash the like button smash it up smash it up smash it up and comment below And also subscribe and hit the little bell, but thank you guys so much for watching I love you guys so much all the support that you guys show me It truly means a lot to me and uh, I couldn't thank you guys enough for helping me out and the reason I'm Where I'm at today is because of you guys and I'm just going to be more thankful But thank you guys so much and I'll catch you guys in the next


Okay team, exercise number six in our nine exercise progression for fixing a chest cave when you're squatting. We've restored mobility in the rest of the spine so that that extra stress isn't put on the middle of the back. We've taught our hamstrings how to turn on both on the ground and on the wall, taught our abs how to turn on, stay on under some load during our rocking exercise. We even started to get us into more of a squat pattern with the backwards bear crawling with the wall supported squat. Now the next one that I want to do, I want to teach you how to get into your hip, how to really load your hip. Oftentimes what happens is with this tight back that we have we only know how to load our back when we squat. We don't know how to, well we know how to load our back when we squat, we don't know how to shift back when we squat. Hopefully that visual helped a little bit more than me just saying that. So the first progression into loading the hip a little bit more is we're going to teach you how to load one side at a time. So we're going to do a split squat. So one leg forward, one leg back. I'm even going to turn a little bit more like this.  Okay so we come on down here I want to try to keep my hip tuck. Oh I feel a little stretch there that's cool. Hang on to my hip tuck and keep looking forward. So making sure big thing that'll happen is the foot will try to roll out that front foot as I reach around. I want you to keep that foot down so that you're loading your hip rather than just bending your ankle outward like this. Okay so we're holding here my foot's pretty stable and good. Okay do about 10 flip sides do the other side. You're gonna feel usually that one is easier than the other. Keep pushing through big things to think about make sure that foot stays flat make sure you're getting your target you're reaching all the way around to the outside of your heel not just the outside of your ankle it's much harder to get down to your heel and if you find it very difficult make sure you exhale as you come down or as you're setting up to get all the air out of the way because if I try to hold too much air I just compress that air inside my body right and there's not as much room for me to move around so pressurized air can lift a car correct so what we need to do is we need to teach you how to move around how to be stable without all that air pressure that we need. Taking a big breath during your squat can help but there is such thing as doing it too much so you got to find this nice balance if you're having a chest cave and you're taking big breaths in you probably don't need more air you might need less because you might need a more general rule going all in one direction is usually wrong okay so keeping your chest up it's a common cue that will give in the squat especially as the chest is caving what I've noticed is that people keep their chest way up they reverse their spinal curve so my thoracic spine gets really flat my lumbar spine rounds out and then as I squat I lose motion so I just don't have any more mobility left because I've driven my chest up so far and what happens is then they'll break at the middle of their back they'll try to get back to some semblance of normalcy but everything's all torqued and jacked up and all that stuff so what I need you to do is learn how to stay in some sort of a happy medium right you don't want to crank way up you don't want to crunch way down you want to be somewhere in between and you're gonna kind of have to trial and error through that to find out what position that is for you


All right, right now technology regaining that strength today. This is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is calling out Google and Microsoft from backing away from working with the Pentagon saying quote If big tech companies are going to turn their backs on the US Department of Defense This country is going to be in big trouble Brian Velsky is back with me along with Melissa RMO stocks was Melissa of course is referring to his rivals who don't want to work at the Department of Defense They're too much above that. I think he's absolutely right. What are your thoughts? I think it's really a shame that Google isn't going to participate in this project. First of all, it's not good for the share shareholders because obviously you want the company to do well It's a big contract and second of all, I think it shows political bias for them not wanting to do it for the reasons They're saying and I just don't it's not supporting the country and google I think the stock overall as far as the tech sector has not looked good They're 150 points off the previous high which was back in july So if you look at the stock and you compare it to amazon, I mean amazon's clearly doing better than google Well, google also facing some regulatory pressure in the EU side of five billion dollar fine I think also hidden amongst all of this is the fact amazon Brian starting to take a lot of those search That search business from them It is and I think Something that's very very understated and maybe not understood with respect to amazon is amazon's technically in the consumer discretionary sector And we had a huge sector change This month with the new communication services sector where netflix went into that new sector So if you think about where performance has been in consumer discretionary 95 percent of the upside this year has been Before the sector change than amazon and amazon is is amazon. Yeah, and and It's a consumer. Which one is in the consumer discretionary amazon amazon is now So the problem is is that from a fundamental perspective what traditional retailing stocks? Do you want to own like really own instead of trade? And it's really difficult with respect to what's happening in the consumer discretionary in particular 22 or 23 Weight of the consumer discretionary. So that obviously is huge, but there are other opportunities there as well We saw 7.1 million jobs out there We know wages are on up swing two-thirds of the economy molissa is the as the consumer So you would have to suspect with these companies doing omni channel that there are opportunities broadly in this market To buy you mean is that we're saying? Yeah, I definitely think so I mean earning season typically is the time where you'd want to either take profits at certain stocks before the earnings report Because you never know what they're going to do or you would want to enter the stocks and get in after the earnings It's it's always risky to do that before the earnings. We're talking about netflix is out tonight That may have an enormous move after the close. So well, we know it's gonna have an enormous move The reason we brought you on is to tell us it was going to be up or down. Well, I will tell you this I'm looking into my crystal ball and I'm telling you netflix is a better long than a short So if netflix gap here's an ideal world if netflix gaps up tonight between 390 and 400 It's a media buy and we'll make brand new all-time. You'll chase it. You would chase it It's not chasing it. I'm telling you it's going to go over 420. So it's a great buy a 390 400 if it gaps up tonight Which I don't know if it will it's interesting because I've followed netflix for a long time People used to laugh at me four or five years ago on this channel when I said you got to own it But more recently netflix and facebook if they didn't bounce like the way they used to after missing I thought that was an interesting sign. I don't know. Maybe maybe lower expectations is what the stock needed brian Well, I think facebook also we know faces bigger structural secular issues with its core product in decline But at the end of the day, I think when you're in this earnings environment charles We're in a market of stocks and I think that's what the most exciting thing is as these stocks come out with different results You have to really focus on the fact that we've entered I believe an active stockpicking environment where you want to focus on stocks and less on industries and sectors and by the way ETS we were reminded of that even before last week Well, if the s and p 500 over 200 of these names still in the red Uh 20 of them and bear markets and then of course in technology 90 had a correction Which only means they came down 10 from their high So we know this has been a stock pickers market real quick brian because you talked about financials Morgan Stanley Goldman Sachs out this morning right now Morgan Stanley is the biggest winner in the financials But the financial ETF still doesn't have that on it still looks relatively flat compared to consumer services health care Real estate technology. It's still not leading the way. What's wrong with the financial couple things I mean from a broader perspective We would not be buying ETFs We'd be buying stocks and we'd be concentrated in those stocks not all banks were created equal I think the primary theme for the next three to five years are wealth management and commercial banking You want to buy those themes that have scalable businesses? So some of the regionals can't compete with bank of america morgan stanley or goldman And I think that's the biggest problem The other thing too is that the majority of analysts quite frankly that are analyzing these companies have less than 10 years experience So all they remember is the credit crisis and all they remember is that stocks only go up because of Interest rates going down people are having a hard time understanding that financials can will and should do better in this type of Environment. I know but overall the I have to say none of the financials Did anything that they were supposed to do in the last four days of the earnings that reported not one the fact that goldman And morgan stanley are rallying today and they gapped up in the morning It's a it's a pathetic rally to me for the day. They should have done better JP morgan chase didn't do it and this whole entire year of 2018 the banks have disappointed And when you look at the fact that interest rates have been rising you say to yourself Wait a minute markets bullish making new highs all the time and the financials are laggy And to me that doesn't make any sense guys. Thank you both very much. Melissa and brian a great conversation Dow Jones industrial average we're up near almost 500 points. We're going to hand over a pretty sizable rally We'll continue to call it the cp effect. Let's claim it over to you. Isn't this interesting?