MMX here trying to take a look at trying to figure out what's going on with Lordstown Motors and Foxconn on this breach. Alright so what we have is Foxconn has claimed that Lordstown Motors is in breach of their agreement to fund a MIH program for $100 million and also provide some additional funding to Lordstown Motors. This is because the stock price of Lordstown Motors has dropped below a dollar for a significant amount of time and it has received a delisting notice from NASDAQ. That symbol is R-I-D-E. I just wanted to go over a framework of, this is just my opinion, I'm not an attorney, a financial advisor or engineer. Please do your own DD. This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any stock. Let me just go through my framework for looking at this development. The best-case scenario, this is a prophylactic legal move by Fox to protect investments in Lex. This is a technical filing to be first and set the groundwork for negotiations. In other words, a trigger was tripped, the board in Taiwan said, okay we are going to file this case irregardless of what is happening or what will happen and this just may be a mile marker that they have set and again this is a prophylactic legal move by Fox to protect investments in Lex. In other words, there's no malice here, there's no ill intent, it's simply a legal move to put a stake in the ground, make a claim regarding their investments. This is certainly a possibility. If you wanted to take a look at this not being adversarial or the worst-case scenario that would be one way to look at it. Now if you wanted to look at it as an adversarial takeover, this could be a backdoor takeover of Lord Sound Motors assets. It is possible this is a nuclear option to quickly take over Lord Sound Motors IP and other assets. This is a blatant takeover of Lord Sound Motors after a court battle. So in this way of looking at this issue, you could say a trap was set and that trap was sprung and the goal of this whole exercise was to take over the assets eventually of Lord Sound Motors. I'm not an attorney, this would imply bad faith I believe and I believe that Lord Sound Motors has mentioned bad faith. Is this a possibility? Yes it is. The third possibility I have here is a belt and suspenders move. Fox is covering all the bases in case of the reverse flit and new stock votes fail. So in other words, this is a prudent business move to protect their investments and they're looking at the delisting and the inability of Lord Sound to raise capital and they're just simply making a prudent business move. So you can, there's many gradations between these three positions but they're three possible outcomes. Again if this is a negotiation, if they are going to renegotiate, they're both going to start with really strong positions and then work backwards from there. So it's hard to know. I would say that, you know, let's let's split these evenly, you know, 33% chance of either one of these being the case right now as far as what's going on. Anyway, that would be my case. So it's equal equal parts of every one of those options. Where Lord Sound Motors is right now? Lord Sound Motors has a competitive vehicle in the BEV market with a high probability of success. This is in my opinion, I'm not an expert again. It's got a high probability of success, especially in the underserved BEV market, the fleet market. I mean, this is the perfect product at the perfect time. In my opinion, the endurance is also a competitive and alluring mass market, mid-market consumer BEV pickup truck. I want to tell you, after I ran my photo essay on the endurance just recently, there were several comments and other context made of where this truck could be purchased. So I do think that there is definitely undoubtedly demand for this vehicle. There's just in my mind, in my opinion, this is a truth of fact. This is a finished vehicle for sale right now. So in other words, this is not a production, this is not a beta, this is a homologated certified commercial vehicle. It's done. A production ramp is all that's needed for mass marketing of this vehicle. That's it. They have to get the production dies and start stamping and putting the trucks together. That's it. Minor technical issues are constantly being resolved on an ongoing basis and they are perfecting the first mass market production hub motor BEV drivetrain. So in other words, yes, there are some fluctuations in the range and some other things. These are software issues, okay, in my opinion, not an engineer, okay, and minor hardware issues such as the connectors and so on and so forth and components that can be replaced and re-specified. So I do not believe there are any overwhelming technical issues of any kind to keep this truck from going into mass production. I think funding is the only barrier to this being a mass market vehicle in my opinion. So there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow here whoever ends up with it and has the money to ramp it. Let's just move on here. In my opinion, there is evidence of stock price manipulation to effectively get ride delisted at a critical point in time.  The delisting notice is what Fox is responding to. Okay, so that's basically where we are right now. What are the outcomes? One outcome is Fox effectively does a hostile takeover of Lord Stone Motors. As with the sale of the plant, would they actually do this? I mean, they actually have some intent unless this is just a negotiating position that they're filing this breach notice on. Let me just move over with this. Fox damages the contract design of Manufacturing Service Model. This would be the cannibalization of their first production partner. Would they actually do this? I mean, when you think twice, if you're going to, well, let's have Foxconn manufacture our vehicle. Oh, wait a minute. If there's some financial problems, we're at risk of, what? Would it, you know, a takeover or damaging our company or, you know, it would seem to me that it would be in their best interest to negotiate a solution to this. But that is just my opinion. I have no way of reading the minds of what these individuals are thinking and the output of information is very limited. So do your own DD and this is not advice. Make your own conclusions. I just want to note that Rivian may have just gone with Magnus over Fox. They're contacting Magnus about doing, I think, some contract manufacturing. And as I said in that Bloomberg podcast, they were talking to Foxconn.   So, and, you know, the CEO has used those specific, let us be your trusted partner in manufacturing. Well, you can take a look at this in its entirety. And to my mind, there's a conflict there. So that, you know, the outcome may be a hostile takeover of Lordstown Motors or the alternative to that would Foxconn and Lordstown negotiate a new agreement and move forward. And I guess those terms would have to be agreed to. There would have to be a reverse split and so forth. But I think that this, as one of the commenters in one of my videos said, this whole, the endurance is at a tipping point. It is 99% there. 99.9% there. So, I think it would behooves of both parties to negotiate a new agreement. Whether this will happen, I have no way of knowing. I am not suggesting that I have any information that this will happen. But I think that would be the best possible outcome. But I am not an attorney. This is not legal advice. In my opinion, legal cases, and this has turned into a legal matter, turn on the facts. Contract particulars. What was agreed to? What is in black and white? Okay? This is what matters in court. So you must do your own DD on this. You must look at SEC filings and other available information and find out what are these terms that were agreed to. I am not a financial advisor. I am not qualified to do this analysis. I may attempt a look at it, but it is up to you as a stockholder or an investor or an interested party to do this on your own. But I think that is also key here. Now I just want to go over a couple of factors. Now, the timing of all these events is uncanny. It speaks... I am putting my tinfoil hat on here. It speaks to a conspiracy. I'm sorry. It's getting a little too obvious here. In my opinion, it is important to note that Hindenburg has just today following this breach and delisting announcement.  Hindenburg has just today announced a short attack on ICON Enterprises. Now ICON, Carl ICON, was a potential white knight for Lordstown. The chairman of the board at Lordstown was a former cop-o for Carl ICON. And, you know, ICON may have just been at the point where he said, well, now this is a viable product. You know, I'm going to invest... I have no information on that. I am speculating. But I'm just saying it's uncanny that there is a Hindenburg attack right at this particular moment on the potential white knight for Lordstown and that there was also a Hindenburg attack on Lordstown motors. And I would like to just tell everybody that, you know, Hindenburg hasn't... it's not this long-lasting firm. It went into existence in 2017. I don't think they did anything till 2019. So, they're a new firm. And here's the thing about Hindenburg. They are not... What Hindenburg does is short stocks. And not only do they short stocks, they sell their reports on the stocks they're going to short to their subscribers before they publish the reports. And this is how they make money. They're not Batman out there trying to save the retail investor. They're in this to make money. And they get subscription. And in other words, they do a report. They call up whoever the investment bank is and say, Hey, I got a report coming out. You know, you're one of my subscribers for 10 million a year. I'm going to send it to you. XYZ stock is going to be... We're going to put out this massive press barrage. And we're going to tell how crappy this stock is tomorrow. So, here's the report.  This is, in my estimation, market manipulation. I mean, I don't know what... Now, the SEC and the DOJ is investigating these firms. That doesn't imply there's guilt. However, some of these firms, they've gone in and rated, taken documents out of SACE and everything. Why they're dragging their feet on this? I don't know. But I think it's uncanny that right when this happens, when icon enterprises could have swooped in, potentially, I don't even know. I'm not a financial advisor. I don't know if this is true. However, the timing is uncanny that there's a Hindenburg attack right at this moment. In my opinion, it's also important to note that BlackRock, which you can watch my videos on the subject of BlackRock, has political ties to the President administration. And again, the timing to all of this, and I'm not going to... This is not a political channel, but do your own DD and come to your own conclusions on what the political aspects of the timing of all this is. And I'm just going to finalize this by saying, in any case, no effort has been spared to keep the endurance BV off the market, and it would seem with explicit timing. So, I guess to sum this up, I would say that the best case scenario for the parties involved is to negotiate a new deal. But will that happen? We don't know. I hope you like this video. These are my thoughts. I'm not an engineer, attorney, financial advisor, or accountant. These are my own opinions. Please do your own DD and satisfy anything I've said here. Verify it to your own satisfaction, and this is not an effort to get you to buy, sell, or hold any stocks. This is MXUX. Good luck in the market.


The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. This is the story of the Pacific, the drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea, where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace. This is the background story of the events in the Pacific, and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. New Caledonia. I stood at the rail alone. There were others on deck, but I was hardly aware of them. So much had happened. That last blast of the ship's whistle gave me a strange feeling. It was like the end of a chapter, or perhaps the start of a new one. The ship headed out of the harbor of Noumea, out through the pass, into the open sea. I was leaving New Caledonia. People had been coming here for centuries, explorers, adventurers, missionaries, soldiers, spies. Good people, bad people. Some had stayed. Some had gone away. Why hadn't those first Englishmen and those first Frenchmen understood the value of New Caledonia? They ignored it. I wondered what might have happened to New Caledonia, except for that incident down in Sydney, Australia. It gave sort of a bear, what? Indeed, it is for me a great pleasure. Well, to the French Navy. Merci, the French Navy. Excellent whiskers. Only place you can get it's out here in Sydney. How unfortunate that you must come halfway around the world to Australia to get it. Oh, it's worth it, worth it. I'm satisfied with just the taste of wine. You have a new coming out here, I can see that. I afraid so. The first time your ship's been here in the Pacific? First time. Well, it's an old story with us. They keep us in his majesty's navy busy, you know. Of course. As a matter of fact, we're out here on a mission now. Now? Yes, yes. Yes, we've got orders to go over in the next New Caledonia. For me? British naval officers named it, you know, Captain Cook. Reminded him of Scotland. But oh, come on, there's no hurry. You're having such a sporting time here in Sydney. Why should he be in a hurry to leave here, huh? There's plenty of time. Certainly. I say, waiter, will you fill up these glasses again? It'll make my double. Well, not long after the incident in Sydney, the French naval squadron and the Pacific Admiral de Point called his officers together in his cabin. We have received orders to proceed immediately to New Caledonia and claim the island for France. Our orders are to raise the flag at Balade and Ildepa. We will build a fort at each place to repulse any possible attacks. However, the orders stipulate that should any other nation already have claimed the island, we shall return here to our base and avoid any trouble whatever. Are there any questions? Very well. We will get underway for Balade at noon today. dismissed. Admiral de Point raised the French flag at Balade, ordered the fort built and then sailed for Ildepa. Several days later, he was approaching the harbor of Ildepa. Admiral de Point, look, there's a British warship anchored in the harbor. A British warship? Here, let me take that longer. Yes, sir. Yes. It is HMS Herald. They are Peter's, yes, sir. Yes. Shall we come up out and head out to sea? No, no, they have seen us. We will have to pay our formal respect to the commander of the Herald. We'll anchor alongside her. Yes, sir. But, look, I'm sure, I see no British flag of the village. Do you? No, sir. Perhaps they have, um... Not yet. Yes, sir. Perhaps there's still a chance. I'll go alongside the Herald. Yes, sir. Not long after the French Admiral dropped anchor, the commander of the British vessel, Captain Denham, paid a courtesy call. Admiral de Point. They are honored, Captain Denham. Each knew what the other was there. They parrot word through their pleasantries. Admiral de Point carefully drew out the British officer. Not much of anything, actually. We'll map out the coast and then return to Sydney. Navigation information. You understand. Yes, of course. Captain Denham returned to his ship. Admiral de Point's suspicion grew. That same evening, he and his first officer returned Captain Denham's visit. They called on him aboard the HMS Herald. The captain was not expecting you this evening, sir. If you'll just make yourself comfortable here in his cabin, sir. I'll tell him you're here. No hurry at all. Yes, sir. Admiral de Point. Yes. Look. Look what is at the captain's table there. Axis. Yes, shiny new axes, cotton, cloth and glass beads. Just what I thought. He's going to bargain with the chief. Yes. We shall have to get back at once. Ah, Admiral de Pa.  It is our pleasure. I'll ring for some wine. What will you have? Oh, no, no, no. Merci, Captain Denham. I was just returning your call and I'm afraid that I must go in a very few minutes. Back aboard his own ship, the French Admiral gave instructions to his first officer. There is no time to lose. You will go ashore immediately. You will go to the French missionaries and tell them to prepare for it. The Adorelle directs that you missionaries go to the native chiefs and persuade them to accept the protection of the French flag. We will disembark before dawn. And by the time we land, the you missionaries will have erected a flagpole for the raising of the French flag. The first officer returned and reported that all preparations had been made. Before dawn and a heavy rain, the French boats with men and supplies landed on the island. And in the presence of the chief and many of the natives, the French flag was raced. At daylight, Captain Denham aboard the HMS Herald was awakened by the booming of cannon. It's the Prince Vessel, sir. But what are they shooting for? I think it's some kind of salute, sir. Salute? What kind of nonsense is this? The captain reached the topside just as the last of the 21-gun salute was being fired. Then he trained a long glass on the village ashore. They've raised the French flag. Hi, aye, sir. The French flag. That means, Lord my gig, I'm going ashore. Hi, aye, sir. Captain Denham tried to prevail on the chiefs to hold down the French flag and accept the protection of Britain. They refused. Then he went out among the natives. You have been sold out by your chiefs to the French. And what did you get out of it? Rise against your chiefs and set yourselves free! Captain Denham failed. He went back to Australia and killed himself. New Caledonia became a French island. But neither the French nor the English knew the value of the island. France used it for a penal settlement. 20,000 prisoners were sent to New Caledonia. Thousands of them political prisoners. France itself paid so little attention to the development of the island that it hardly knew that the Marist missionaries had exploited the natives until the natives rebelled and almost threw the French out. I don't understand, Sealy. Why don't more Frenchmen come out here and develop this island? American businessmen came out looking for investments. Look at this island. 250 miles long and 30 miles wide. The climate's cool and dry. Five months of the year, the temperature is about 72. The rest of the time, about 65. We've already got the start of raising cattle here. Well, this country even looks like the ranged lands of the United States. The ranges are not fenced. And the cattle roam over the grazing lands and forests. And the mining. All the nickel and chromite and cobalt and iron here. You think the French should come out here and get the industry going? But for the French investor, New Caledonia was too far away. Instead, American, British, Australian and European capital came in. And they opened the mines. Almost from the first day you land in New Caledonia you learn about the society, the nickel. It is an international company. All the shareholders live outside New Caledonia. Big European moneymen. No Frenchmen? Perhaps. And this is just one of the society's mines. The society also owns ore deposits all over the island. In a practical sense, it has a monopoly on all the nickel in New Caledonia. All the foreign capital controls other mining concerns. Actually, the companies before the war were controlled by overseas money, even Japanese. Long before Pearl Harbor, the French colonials of New Caledonia mistrusted the Japanese. It was a mistake for us to sell mining property to the Japanese. Japanese investors founded the Société L'Effaire to mine New Caledonia's iron. There are more than 20 million tons of iron ore on the island, and the Japanese are planning to take out half a million tons a year. The Japanese company tried again and again to get the right to bring in Japanese labor. No. The Japanese already here are not to be trusted. We must not make another mistake and permit them to bring in more. Shiploads of tonkines from Indochana and Javanese from the Netherlands Indies were brought in. The Japanese had an excuse for using this labor, which was virtually indentured. You were not to permit us to bring in Japanese labor? The other companies had other reasons. The native people of New Caledonia will not work in mines or industries. We've got to bring in this kind of labor. They also had excuses for paying them wages, which in their own countries were forbidden by law. We cannot pay them more. Look what it cost us for transportation to bring them here. Besides, we brought them in under three years in five-year contracts. By the time the France went to war in 1939, the Depression had almost ruined New Caledonia. It is good that these tonkines are going back to Indochana. What about their contracts? There is no work for them here. No, they are being sent home. We cannot afford to take care of these thousands. The mines and metal industries are scarcely operating. And look what has happened to our agriculture. The plantations are growing up with weeds. As a cattle, we have today not one fifth the cattle that we could raise. So we must bring our milk and our butter and even our vegetables and fruit all the way from Australia. Maybe it is as good as these tonkines go back to Indochana. They have become a liability here. Stagnation had set in. And the rift was widening between the Frenchmen in New Caledonia and the Frenchmen in Paris who ran New Caledonia. The government has done as little as it could in New Caledonia and taken as much as it could. That is the trouble. The trouble was rolling up. The New Caledonian French had long chafed at the way New Caledonia was run. The governor is appointed by the Minister of Colonies in Paris who has never been here to New Caledonia. No understands or problems here in New Caledonia. Yes! The prime minister is appointed from Paris and nearly all the civil positions are occupied by Metropolitan who are sent out here to have no interest in New Caledonia and to have no thought of settling New Caledonia. And what have we? A council general elected by secret ballot which is not actually a parliament but only an advisory body which can be dissolved by the governor any time he wishes. What exactly the voice do we have in the affairs of New Caledonia? The New Caledonian Frenchman watched the progress of the war in Europe. They were swept with anguish when Hitler's pens and divisions broke through and swarmed over France. They waited eagerly, desperately for each word from France. We are not getting information. What is happening? There was no word. None until it started filtering in. It's your verse. Yes. France has surrendered. What? I have just heard. They have signed an armistice with Hitler. No, no, no. Yes, yes, it is true. Look, they are worth. They said they would never make a separate peace with Hitler. It was better. Better? Why has this been kept secret from us? Why has this not been printed in the government gazette? It is treachery, Monsieur Verge. I must come for us to break with the government in France and deal with our own affairs. And use flu through New Caledonia. We have been deceived. The town of Valhalla betrayed us. The local parliament, the concierge general, submitted a proposal to the CIA that New Caledonia be grounded autonomy until the end of the war. And asked that he cable this proposal to the pretend government at Vichy. Unfortunately, it is not possible to do this. It is the will of the people of New Caledonia. I am charged with the responsibility for New Caledonia, Monsieur Verge. The people do not concur in the action taken by the Vichy government. I cannot cable the message you propose. I will, however, inform the Vichy government of the position taken by New Caledonia. Several days later, Governor Polissier announced the text of his cable to the Vichy government. Considering that France, in full agreement with Britain, had promised never to sign a separate peace or truce, considering that France has signed an armistice with Nazi Germany, New Caledonia, therefore, has decided to continue the fight against the Axis powers at the site of Great Britain. But this was not enough. New Caledonia was still tired to Vichy France, still subject to the men who had surrendered France and were collaborating with Hitler. Monsieur Verge prepared a petition. We demand local autonomy for New Caledonia.  The Consul General was no more than an advisable body. Governor Polissier cracked down on Monsieur Verge. Monsieur Verge, you are under arrest. For what? Do we not even have the right to petition? You are charged with disturbing the public morale. Monsieur Verge was jailed, but the sentiment he expressed was still in the hearts of the people, and they were free. We cannot continue under France. I demand that New Caledonia immediately be placed under the protection of the United States and Australia. This is not a solution. We shall fight at the side of Britain, but it is not practical for us an isolated island out here in the Pacific to cut blues from our mother country and seek the protection of two other countries. As Governor Polissier was leaving, a telegram was handed to him. It was from Fatah. From information reaching me from certain colonies, it seems that some governors, by inadmissible defection from duty, have not exercised or personally supervised the rigorous application of government orders. These defections will be mercilessly punished. Cable acknowledgement of this message. He thrust the telegram into his pocket, went back to his quarters, and secretly cable Fatah and Vichy. My decision taken with full approval of the Secretary General and Chief Army Commander as being the only ones of faith with circumstances and geographic location of New Caledonia asked you to realize these elements in judging the situation in my colony. Signed Polissier. What way the wind was now blowing was clear to Governor Polissier. He released Monsieur Verge from jail. Verge immediately resumed the work on his petition demanding local autonomy. He presented it to the Concierge General and the Concierge General drew up a program. A freely elected, popular assembly with full executive powers. What they ask in effect was an actual voice in governing themselves. Governor Polissier ignored it. The last straw snapped several days later. Look at this in the Government Gazette. What? This. Let me see. Then this applies to New Caledonia. And we were neither informed nor consulted. Not only that. It means that Polissier has been in contact with the Vichy Government behind our back. Polissier has deceived us. The public was outraged. The Concierge General called a special meeting. Read the motion. Considering that the promulgation of Patan's decree was made without consultation with the Concierge General the Concierge General disapproves of Monsieur le Gouvernaire and declares that his words and deeds are incompatible. The Concierge General to avoid all misconceptions has decided to establish direct relations with General de Gaulle. Governor Polissier had been defied. The Governor tried to compromise. It was too late. The bomb had missed him. But he knew its meaning. The Concierge General put it in words several days later. Only the departure of the Governor can bring peace to New Caledonia. Patan dismissed Polissier and elevated the command of the forces Lieutenant Colonel Denis to his place. The committee was formed to call on the new Governor. We ask of a referendum be held. Yes, my good friends. It is a question of force. If you are stronger, you will win. If we are stronger, we will win. The Lieutenant Colonel smiled at the delegates. Fury boiled up in them as they left. Colonel Denis. Yes, we've just received intelligence that Monsieur Henry Sato, the resident commissioner of the New Hebrides, is on his way here to take over your duties Governor Sato. He is a de Gaulle. He has already declared for free France. Rest him the minute he sets foot on New Caledonia. But word of the coming of Sato had also reached the people. And from secret headquarters of the free French movement, messages were sent out to all the centers where the sympathizers of the free French were rallying. The hour has come to show that you are willing to take your destinies into your own hands. Time presses. Prepare immediately to assemble at 6 a.m. in Noumea. The hour is grave. Keep eye on your hearts. Vive le France! Vive le Gaulle! Vive la Caledonia! Boussard piled into 80 trucks in the interior and before daylight rolled into Noumea. And Lieutenant Colonel Denis's headquarters of vigil had been kept all night. Colonel Denis, a convoy of trucks loaded with Boussard have made their way through the barricades. This is mutiny. Our drive sent back. It is too late, Colonel Denis. I will show you how to deal with them and come with me. Streets were throng. The whole population had turned out to meet Sato. The Norwegian freighter, which was carrying him, was coming in through the pass. Signal the ship not to land. Order it to go away. Yes, sir. Colonel Denis says to signal the ship not to land to go away. Yes, sir. At once, sir. A semaphore station on top of the hill signaled to the Norwegian freighter. But below the Boussard were watching. Where is Colonel Denis? Look at that, up there. The semaphors this year. What? They are signaling to the ship. Uh... Do not land. Return at once to Nouébredi. So that is the order of Colonel Denis. Up the hill, take the semaphore station. Take the semaphore station and signal the ship to come in. Yes, sir! The Boussard overran the station and the ship was signaled to come in. Sato landed. In the name of Free France and the General de Gaulle, Lieutenant Colonel Denis will have until 3 p.m. to vacate the governor's ship. After 3 p.m. I shall be the governor of New Caledonia. New Caledonia had been snatched from the Vichy government. But Japan was now a member of the Axis and we were alone. How concerned about the Japanese in New Caledonia grew as the situation in the Pacific grew more tense. The attack on Pearl Harbor struck us like a thunderbolt. When the news came of the simultaneous attacks on the Philippines, Malaya and Burma, we waited uneasily. The Japanese rolled like a tidal wave down through the Indies in New Guinea and the Solomon's within 700 miles of us and nothing to stop them. We waited. Huh? Mr. Sealy! What? Who is it? It is midnight. You get up. Ships come. Suddenly I was awake. I threw out the covers and a bound was at the door. It was my Melanesian house boy. What is it midnight? Ships come. Many ships. Where? So it had happened. I threw my clothes on. The tour was alive with half-wakened, half-dressed people. And the dawn is scurried to get away like bugs when a rock is lifted. Midnight at the car at the door by the time I got down. How many ships have been sighted? The Frenchman with us peered out through the gloom. I mean it were reported midnight. Many. They are Japanese. Our nearest help is in Australia. 750 miles west. American forces were gathering in Australia. But it is too late now. I wondered what we'd do. If the Japanese were coming in many ships our situation was hopeless. The invasion force would certainly be greater than the entire population of Numea. And possibly almost as great as the 50,000 population of the entire island. Stop here. No more road. People were gathered at the point. Stringing their eyes to see the ships on the horizon. In the gray of the dawn the sea almost blended with the sky. There is one. There. See it? I could just make out the outline. It looked like a warship. There is another. And two more. Transports. The people, Frenchman, Americans, Australians, Britishers, a few Melanesians and Polynesians stood there. What they thought was written on their faces. We waited. Maybe we hide in hues. No, midnight. The Frenchman shaded his eyes and squinted. Look at all of them. Coming up over the whole horizon. I thought about all the Japanese residents on the island. The flag on the vessels. You can see it, Mr. Sealy? No, my eyes are not... That is not the Japanese flag on those vessels. What? Look sharp. See if you can make out what flag it is. The flags were hanging listlessly in the calm. American flag. Yes, they are American. Yes, it is an American force. They are American ships. I yelled as loud as long as the rest of them. And as we yelled, midnight just stood there and looked at us. I had the feeling that he knew more about the importance of New Caledonia than any of it. Admiral Gormley and General Fetch beat the Japanese to New Caledonia. Millions of dollars went into airfields, shore installations, docks, roads, facilities of war. New Caledonia became the best in the stuff the South would drive with the Japanese. From New Caledonia, the great Pacific counter-attack was launched against Guadalcanal, the counter-attack which at last ended in Tokyo. Today, New Caledonia's biggest war is done. Yes, the big airfields are just about deserted. And our armors, where once aircraft carriers and other men of war used to anchor are empty. But the problems of New Caledonia were not settled by the war. Do you think New Caledonia will ever go back to her pre-war status? Never. We will never again be simply a distant outpost of arms. The value of New Caledonia is at last known. 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Hello and welcome to my YouTube channel. My name is Sandy Allnock. I'm an artist and I work in a lot of mediums and you're going to see two of them today a Few weeks ago. I posted a video that was called 14 tips for better drawing of plants and In that video, I asked if you guys were interested in a class With that drawing in it in order to learn step by step how to do all of it and I do have that class available now In that class. I wanted to put something extra I put a half hour long alcohol marker version of the same drawing in the class That one is sped up because it was three hours of drawing in alcohol markers. So it's not a marker class Please don't expect that but I thought it would be helpful For you to see after you finish the entire drawing How do you then take what you learned in the graphite drawing and apply it when you start making a drawing in Color in whatever medium you choose. It doesn't apply just to alcohol markers There's some kind of general philosophy on art and how to approach a drawing that are in that video as well So let's get started with this comparison side by side So you can kind of see the differences between graphite and alcohol markers So I hope this is not visually too confusing for you because it was visually Editorially difficult for me to try to get the footage to line up for the graphite on the left and the Olo marker on the right And I used Olo markers Kind of as a challenge to myself because Olo notoriously does not have currently a lot of greens in their collection And it was my one complaint about Olo. I really like their markers But I wanted to see as a personal challenge if I could mix enough colors To make an entire drawing like this It was by halfway through Evident to me that this was not the best way to go I probably should have just done this in Copic markers where I have a wider selection of colors I still would have had some mixing to do But at least I tried this right and I learned something from it Here I was using the complementary color of green which is red to make some deeper greens since I didn't have that But boy did I struggle throughout all of it trying to layer yellows over top of blues and and blue greens And blues and blue greens on top of yellows and yellow greens to try to make a variety of greens Because it just was really impossible to use just I don't know six or eight colors Which was all I had in the you know traditionally green category. I don't remember exactly how many it is But it's very limited I did eventually Give in and get out a pen Because a pen could give me at least the detail that I wanted because I was trying to do something apples to apples with the graphite drawing I Don't know if I succeeded you can judge at the end if you think one is better than the other But it did allow me to get into a lot more of the detail And with markers they have a fat nib to them So it's usually not as easy to get their super fine detail There are things that I've done in alcohol markers Where it looks very detailed, but it's really actually quite loose if you look at it up close But here I was trying for a little more apples to apples with it now When you're working in multiple mediums a lot of people are Like always asking me like how can you just pick up a medium and you know what to do with it Because I work in a ton of different mediums And I can do that because I have the basic drawing skills under my belt And I know there's a ton of people that say I don't know how to draw Well, you don't know how to draw until you practice drawing It does take a while to do Which is why I always say we got to eat our vegetables We got to do the basics of drawing and learn how to draw in graphite because When I had already completed this drawing in graphite in black and white I knew the values really well I knew exactly where I wanted my darks and my lights And when it came time to doing a section like this where I was doing some negative drawing around grasses Which in graphite you can do by erasing You have to do negative drawing when you're working in markers because you can't just erase things and I already knew though How to handle some of those Contrasts in value All I had to do was think about the technique in the marker and the colors that I was using Which again the colors were just the bane of my existence while I was trying this drawing However, the values were no problem for me. I knew exactly what I was going to do And I was ready for it by the time I got to each of the sections because of the experience in graphite So even though the video in that's the bonus lesson of the marker one Is in like super speed because it was three hours and I'm not about to put anybody through watching three hours of me Doing a marker drawing It's a half an hour and during that half an hour I do talk a lot about You know the ways that I was mixing the colors the things I was thinking and my general philosophy on art as well And the way I Approach a drawing like this. So a lot of that might be helpful Even if it's a rather crazy drawing that I don't know that anybody's really going to try In olo or any other markers necessarily My recommendation if you want to do this drawing after you do it in graphite and you want to do it in color I would recommend probably Trying it in colored pencil because the techniques Are fairly direct from graphite to colored pencil You can use the same blending tools you can use the same blending solutions And you do have to think about the colors and figure out what colors you're going to put in things But there are a whole lot easier to To mix when you're working in colored pencil Because especially when you're working in something like olo markers or if you have an incomplete collection In whatever brand you have It can be a challenge to try to layer those colors and get them to look right And of course this one is not looking anything like the colors in the original photo But I was trying for the values that was what I was going for and I think the values I got down pretty well The two drawings are relatively comparable So if you're interested in becoming better at whatever your medium is I highly recommend learning to draw the drawing class The plant drawing class is a level three because There's some expectation that you've tried some drawing before it's not for necessarily First time people just setting out if You're somebody who's never drawn anything at all before there's two classes That I can recommend That'll that'll kind of get you there and then you'll be ready for this one and that would be Probably the 30 days to more confidence sketching class Because that just gets you every day for 30 days putting pencil to paper And I give you something to draw and I show you my drawing, but a lot of it is very self-managed It's you know, you just sitting down with pencil and paper every day and doing some drawing Getting in that habit and if you've taken that class you can probably handle this one But if you want more traditional Art instruction on drawing like I have a drawing 101 class that I consider What I would have wanted when I went to college for my very first drawing class Because I got all of that information in bits and pieces, but I run it more like a drawing class In that we talk about you know cones and cylinders and Shading on them and you know like those kind of traditional exercises, which some people do find boring Which is why I created the 30 days to more confidence sketching class because at least we're drawing You know turtles and trees and otters and just all kinds of things all sorts of different subjects Even like drawing your pantry is one of the early lessons in it So I do all I can to try to make drawing and art accessible for as many people as possible And not make it boring Now I don't know if you'll agree or disagree with me about this drawing But I think it hangs together Even with the crazy colors Because the values are still correct And I got the values from doing the value study when I did the graphite drawing So if nothing else let this encourage you to do a pencil study Before you proceed with a finished piece because it's going to teach you so much and make your piece much better And if you're interested in any of the classes It's all linked in the doobly-doo down below and it's on sale for the rest of March 2024 And I always have something on sale So just check the sale page anytime you're looking for a deal And I will see you all later in the meantime get out there and create something every day. I'll see you next time


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