All right, good morning, separate traders. Welcome on back here for another fantastic day live insider. Trading Room, great to see Bobby, Mark, Grant, Charles, Pedro, Lewis, Henry, Lita, and all of us here live, of course. They're great to see all of us on social media, Facebook, live, and YouTube. Of course, you could tell this is the voice of not Fausto Puglisi, but my name is Josh Levitin. I'm Fausto's senior instructor. Of course, you may have heard me tag in for him on various mornings. I do the afternoon meeting for him. But with that in mind, folks, let's hop right to it. Fausto is actually running a brief hour, and I mentioned to all of us live inside the Trading Room just earlier. He'll be back in for the market open shortly after 9.30. He'll be in. But nonetheless, we are good to go here. The ZVO trade, I'll tell you, we weren't good to go for it first, because it was a slow pre-market, right?  We needed the 8.30 move, right? And with that, the ZVO trade, ZVO, ended up making a really nice pop, ended up giving us a lot at first, ended up popping from like $0.95 a dollar upwards towards a $1.20 in plus. So for right now at least, hey, we'll put this on our list. But be careful at this point, just because you can see the direction it's going in. It's kind of trending more flat now, making lower highs, if anything. So perhaps after the market opens, after another big shake down, then maybe it could build up some support for the higher high. So ZVO, I don't know the news out on this stock right now. I didn't even care to check. You know what, we've got a little time here. Let's just check the news. One of the stock is up nearly 50% so far before the market opens. So it looks like they ended up entering into an asset purchase agreement back from yesterday. So there's a whole paragraph. I'm not going to go into that.  But also just be careful of the direction of this stock. Looking at the daily chart, this stock likely will be a pop and drop type of play. It's not going to be as often as we see these stocks that run day over day over day. So look what happened to your run up nicely and then completely tanked. Yeah, that could lead to a nice little short squeeze if the stars could align. But with the short squeeze, where I'm getting to here is, when the volume dies off, the stock's going to go with it. Just look what happened to the SIGA trade, right? And I'm sure we'll get to that stock just as we wrap up this meeting. You know, hey, also for all of us live inside the trading room. I know I'd mentioned this from yesterday. What day is today, right? Today is Tuesday. What do we got going on this morning? Coming up at 11 o'clock Eastern time this morning. What do we got going on? Mike's saying, Mark's saying, Michael's saying, Traders Talk, right? Layed in all of us, otherwise saying Traders Talk, our weekly workshop live inside the Cyber Group Room. You know, hey, for all of us in social media, Facebook Live, or YouTube, if you wanted to join us today for our workshop, just feel more than free to go right down to the link on the blue banner below. I had mentioned that yesterday. Just we do that weekly inside our live trading room. Now for all of us there, that's recorded. So you know, hey, if you need to step out, if you have errands to run, if there's anything going on to where you have to miss it, that's recorded. It will be up on the student dashboard, the student portal later on this afternoon. All right, so folks, let's go right from top to bottom. I know the snap trade, of course, provided some good opportunity for us in pre-market, but obviously on the short side, ZVO is really the only thing that was pushing up for us pretty nicely at first. So the bimmy trade, it was on our pre-market list, but man, this thing was a dud. Ended up like completely just pulling back after seven o'clock, and then from there, I mean, it's just been flat. So where we talk about a stock that's been trending down consistently on the daily chart, just look what happened to bimmy just back in October of last year, ended up making a big pot for us back then. I think it may have closed pretty strong towards the highest back then, if you happen to see that bar, the OHLC bar right there, and then you can see what happened the following day, right? What makes the top percent gainers list one day? I'll tell you, if it doesn't make the percent losers list literally the next day, it'll probably make the day after that, how about that? But bimmy obviously tanks in, so that's where I say be careful on ZVO. Bimmy, hey, it's trading still 12.4 million shares. Is it still possible for this to make a pop back up? Yeah, absolutely, you hope for that to happen, but it's been a dud so far, so in the sense of history repeating itself, that's where you just be a little discouraged by it. But I'll put it on our list, it might not be near the top by the end of it all. I'd say I'm not really too particular about the cheapies for this exact reason, because they don't really make as concise or consistent of a move. So again, ZVO, watch out, GFAI, same thing, right? This one ended up making a pop-up earlier. Looked good at first, but it's been flat since. SWTX, flat, well, not flat, but dropping off just really thin order book. All right, we'll kind of have to fish through. Dow features are down like 180 at this point, I think. They're down like over 200 at first, but then last I saw, prior to this meeting, they're down like 176, last I checked 183. So obviously gonna be negative going into the open here at first from yesterday, but we'll see what happens, we'll see which way the market breaks and we'll see if we can find some good opportunities just from the side list. Geez, stocks are looking like this here on the Gainer side, that's looking pretty bleak, right? Obviously, you got the SQQQ ETF on there, UVXY isn't up as much, but that's there. S-O-X-S, all these inverse ETFs or VIX ETFs, otherwise you label them as. That's all it got so far on the Gainer side, folks, sheesh. All right, let's get to Snapchat here. I'll break out the news one more time, how about that? So I feel like a lot of us are familiar with Snapchat as a company, as a stock as well, for all of us live inside the trading room, I mean, aside from it kind of falling out of our price range, it's been a stock we've been calling out for quite some time, even out of our price range, we've been calling it out off of earnings or off of news, whatever it may be. So we ended up seeing earnings come out yesterday from them. They ended up issuing guidance at the end of April, I know that, obviously not good earnings altogether. They blame it on the macro economic environment. I mean, I guess every company could do that too, so that's not really as good of an excuse at this point anymore. I mean, and obviously that's the reality of life, but Snapchat, I mean, at this point, has been dropping off well before the beginning of this year. So with that, it's just been smooth sailing since as a short, and we're getting pretty close to IPO numbers, if I'm not mistaken. So with that, I mean, hey, Snapchat, as a short heading into the market open, it's been clear cut really since 7.30 in the morning when it started to trot back down. And then from there, after eight o'clock, it ended up really pulling back further towards 15. So it's easy to say it, but it's been smooth sailing since then. It's been choppy since that point though, so really around 15. You had to have been pretty careful, made a quick break below 15 at first, but then it started to kind of just jump around it a bit. Now, at this point, starting to pull back a little bit further, there's not really much on the bid right now as like a major support level. So listen, if you're in this trade from pre-market right now, I would absolutely look to get out of this before the market opens up. Just breathe a little bit, catch your breath for a second, and then kind of realign yourself once the market opens, the first three to five minutes after. If you leave money on the table, who cares? Especially if you're already in from like 15.25 or 15.50 level and you're killing it. So take the money and run, especially during the choppier, and then otherwise just see what happens after you open on the Snapchat trade. I would say that there was some big selling levels from pre-market off of 15.75 and 15.50, so those are two levels on particularly watching myself. So we got Xevo on our list, reluctantly we have Bimby on our list and we'll definitely add Snapchat. So that's three so far, Apocrombie and Fitch, down off of bad earnings too. This morning dropped off from 26 down to sub 20, right now it's at 18.32. So easily enough, I'll put this on our watch list expecting more of a move afterwards. Just wait for the order book to fill in though. So whereas Snapchat at least was pretty liquid, I mean for a pre-market trade, at least this thing's on like a one to three cent spread. Order book is pretty filled in for pre-market. The A&F stock, not as much. So that's the difference between what's worthy of taking as a pre-market trade versus not. You gotta be able to follow big money, right? That's our whole philosophy at CTU. So if there's no big money to follow, then it doesn't really make it worth it to trade. Even if it does trend down or make a particular move, it's just not worth it, it's not worth the time, it's more risky. All right, alongside the Snapchat trade, you're gonna get a lot of these social media stocks and banking, so Pinterest down big, Facebook down over 8% I think at this point. Yup, damn, all right. So this could be dragging the market down as a whole here at this point folks. Obviously a lot going on in the world to drag the market down, but just when Facebook, a mega cap stock is down over 8% and that's moving in sympathy with Snap. Well, I'd like to say that in its own is dragging the market down too. So Pinterest will tag along on our watch list here. The Facebook trade, although it's obviously pretty expensive for anyone that's gonna buy puts on it, that's different, we'll put Facebook on our list. Twitter ended up dropping off at first with Snapchat and the after hours, but it's like not really doing much of anything right now. So I'm gonna keep this on the side list. If you do well on Twitter day over day and if you're itching to trade it, you know who you are, right? All right, folks, I think that just about wraps it up. I don't wanna just lazily say that, but when we have a good list now at this point, I'm sure there could be a couple of good side list stocks that we could tag alongside. For instance, A&F I think is Abercrombie and Fitch, right? So with A&F, they're a competitor, AEO, American Eagle is down big too, but it's just a spotty chart. It's like side list, that's all. No need to put this on our main list. The Govex trade for as volatile as it was yesterday. Look at this pop, wow. Yeah, Carol calling that out inside the live trading room. Michael before her just earlier at 906 Eastern time. Yeah, really nice call. So big pop now. I don't know if there's news that came out on this stock. I will check, but easily enough, hey, this is the type of move that we wanna see heading into the open. It was down like 23% at first heading into the morning meeting.  So the news out on it, this could be interesting. Geovax, that's the actual name of this company. Govex, we nickname it as, Govex receives notice of allowance for cancer, vaccine, patient, or patent in China.  Hey, what makes the top percent gainers list one day makes the percent losers list the next, right? So for as much as this ran for us yesterday afternoon, came right back down going into the after hours pre-market. This thing stunk. I mean, truth be told, we weren't gonna put this on our list here if it wasn't for the news and this pop. So really good call. I appreciate the heads up more than anything from Michael and Carol on this trade. Yeah, definitely. All right, folks, I think that just about wraps it up. I'm gonna check Benzinga Pro one last time here, or not one last time, I didn't check it at all. I'm gonna check it here, and then we're gonna wrap up. Let's just see. I don't have anything else on the gainer side of things. C-Tech, but that's barely moving. And then just from the loser side, there's not really a whole lot that's dropping off as much. I guess I will jump to the SIGA trade. It's trading a lot of volume in pre-market. It still remains shortable on my platform. I don't know how. But hey, it's easily tradable. It's easily on my side list. I'm more interested in Snapchat myself. I'm more interested in the GovX trade now at this point for sure than SIGA for right now. But I'll probably come back to this around like 10 o'clock in the morning, 9.45 in the morning, just probably secondary protocol as Fausto would call it. All right, folks, for all of us on social media, Facebook Live, YouTube, Last Call. If you wanted to join us inside our live trading room for this morning's workshop for Traders Talk, just go right down to the link on the blue banner below to get yourself signed up for a week-long trial. 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Hello friends and how are you all doing today? The question says, find the mean of the following frequency distribution by step deviation method. Now here we are given the class interval and frequencies as 0 to 10, 10 to 20 and so on and respective frequencies are 7, 10, 15, 0, 8 and 10. So let us start with our solution. Now for step deviation method we first have to rewrite the given class interval and frequency again. That is 0 to 10, 10 to 20 and so on. Now the next step is to find out the mid value that we see as x. It is the mid value of the class interval that is 5, 15, 25, 35 and then 45. Further next step is to subtract the assumed mean. Let us assume a number from this x as a. So we need to subtract the assumed mean from each x that we have found out here. That will be minus 20 minus 10, 0, 10, 20. Now the next step is to find out ui. That is x minus 25 upon the number that is common to all these term that is 10. All these are multiples of 10. So we have minus 2, minus 1, 0, 1 and 2. And finally we need to find out the value of fui. So it is 7 into minus 2 that is minus 14, 10 into minus 1, minus 10 and so on like this. We need to add all these that is 28 minus 24 that comes out to be 4 and we need to find out the value of the frequency that comes out to be. Now the formula for mean is a that is assumed mean plus h into 1 upon n summation where i starts from 1 till 5 fi ui. Now we need to substitute the value a is 25 that we have assumed. h is the number by which we have divided x i minus 25 that was 10 into 1 upon n that is 5 sorry that is 50 into summation of fi ui that is coming out here as 4. So we have 25 plus 4 upon 5, 125 plus 4 upon 5, 129 upon 5 that comes out to be 25.8. So the value of mean by step deviation method is 25.8 right. So this completes the session hope you understood the whole concept well do take care of all your calculations write your formula well and enjoy have a nice day.


Well, hello my friends of the internet and welcome back to my channel today! I wanted to share a first impressions video talking all about the Cultivate What Matters 2020 PowerSheets Goal Planner. If you guys want to watch somebody that uses this all the time and highlights this in her videos, I'm going to recommend checking out Plan with Lakin. I will leave her link down below. And just a quick disclaimer, I did get this in PR from the company and I just wanted to share an open box and share with you guys what I got, my impressions, all that good stuff. So I literally haven't even opened up the front flap yet. I wanted to just leave this here until I finally had the time to open it up and share it on camera. First impressions on the exterior, I love the gold foil. I mean, I know this is a lot of color for me, you guys, okay? But I love that there's the gold foiling. The foiling, you know with some covers and like some planner companies? No shade. But there are some that like aren't a full foil. Like you could already see like foil bits coming off. This is a full foil. Like this is beautiful. Even on like the thinnest sections of the words, like it's top notch. I love the gold rings. These are really, really nice. Like the cover like is really hard. I like the reinforced corners in the gold and they're also reinforced on the back as well. And yeah, they're like, it's like a thick, it's not even cardstock.  It's real, real hefty and I like it. So I like the potential durability of this planner for sure. So let's open it up. Ooh, look at that like pretty little teal thing only inside. And then there are two little cards in here and it says, you know all those things you've always wanted to do? You should go do them. Huh, you know what? I should go do them. And then this is my word of the year and such a really pretty thing on the back. There's nothing, but then you can put your word of the year. I didn't really pick a word of the year this year. And then on this side, there is, hold on, I like, I just cut my nails the other day. So it's like hard for me to do anything. So there is a little pocket right here and I thought for some reason this would open. It does not. So it just has like a little pocket flap here so you could put, I don't know, put some things in there I guess. Anyway, I'm gonna put those off to the side. And then the first play or the first page says, let's do this. And it says clear vision and intentional goals, hashtag power sheets. And I believe that this is the 2020 sixth month undated power sheets intentional goal planner. And on the website right now, it retails for $44, but it's on sale for $38 as of me filming this. I don't know if they're just like running a special or what, but I think this is a sick, like one, two, three, four, five, six. And then this is like, I don't know. I think that's what this is. I'm not really sure. I usually would say it in the front, I thought, but I don't, I don't really know, but that's okay. So we're gonna keep going. And this is just to put like your name and the day you started. So you can really start this anytime, which I kind of find really nice. Oh, look, there's stickers. Oh, you guys know I love me some stickers. And I really like their color way. It's like nice and bright. And it says, this is nice. This year I make it happen. Or I'm sorry, I can't read today. This is the year I make it happen. Ooh, the back end of 2020. Let's hope that we make something happen this year. Anyway, so there's lots of other little stickers here. I really like that. I love a gold foil because I'm just in the into the gold. And then this is your 2020 goals idea. It says, what do you want to cultivate in this year ahead? What comes to mind? First is you think about 2020. What do you hope it will look like? Write some thoughts and ideas here. No perfect handwriting needed. Just dig in. So this is basically you can just like kind of bullet point out what you want to do over here. There's some examples. It says, save money, love others well, get outdoors, take care of my body, be more present, get some rest, and then start blank. So like start whatever, start your projects, whatever you want to do. So anyway, I think that's a really great idea. I like that this page is blank too.  All right, so whoa, there's a lot in here, you guys. Wow, this says comparison isn't just the thief of joy. It's the thief of everything. Isn't that true? You guys, like I just filmed a financial video about my five budgeting tips. And one of them was about comparison. I'll link it up in a card for you guys, because that video is going to go up before this one does. And it is so true. It's like one of the things that I really struggled with when comparing my life to other people. And it was, it took me a long time to kind of get over that. And I think we're all like, I'm still a work in progress on that for sure. So over here, there's like a little, I don't know, kind of like a little checklist here. It says you are unique and that uniqueness will help you find the sweet spot. Oh, cool. Who you are helps determine where you are going and what specific goals will be. Have fun with this. Choose what's true for you.  And there's like places for you to write in certain things. Oh, that's really cool. Like what you value. There's lots of different really cool things in here. This is kind of reminds me of like kind of getting to know yourself as well. I think like some self reflection is sometimes really difficult for some people. I don't know. I want to like show you everything, but I also don't want this video to be like an hour long. So this one's like, what fires me up? What things, activities or experiences fire up your heart and lead you to live with intention. Write those things, sketch them or place pictures here from them. Oh, that's really cool. I like that idea of putting pictures. That's really cool. And then ooh, a life evaluation. Holy moly. This is getting like way too deep y'all. So it's not a bad thing. It's actually a really good thing, but there's different categories of like health friends, spouse or significant other, which would be like that for me. Family, finances, spiritual and personal growth work and then recreation. So yeah, that's kind of cool. You kind of just evaluate like where you are and maybe what you want to do. And then it says break your identity box. What have you decided that you cannot do? That's actually really good to know is what you cannot do. And then it says I am capable of change. Where were you 10 years ago? Holy moly. You guys don't want to know where I was 10 years ago. There's a lot going on in Emily's world. Not always good things, but you know, whatever. And then it says where are you today? And then what has changed since then? I think that's really good. Like in your name, I am a and then think just think beyond your job title here. And then in the past I have blank, but now I'm ready to blank and then I value blah, blah, blah. That's cool. And then this says I'm moving past fear. I fear blank because blank. And then you can kind of write a few of these. And it says if I were to step into these fears and take action, I would feel blank. Wow. This is a lot of like at least my perspective. Like I said, I hadn't looked at any of this at all. I watched a couple of Lakin's videos. So I wasn't super familiar with this like whole setup. I have to say this is like basically like you need to know who you are to make progress. And I think that is a part of doing the work is you can need to know who you are and how you operate. So you can make choices to get to whatever goals you have. So this is a good thing is what worked in the last year and then challenges what didn't work in the last year. Those are good things to know for sure. Lessons I've learned of people I'm grateful for. Let's see. And then like the big picture, where do you want to be when you're 80 or 90 or 100? What will matter to you then and what won't matter to you then? That is that's pretty deep y'all. And then my legacy, where do you want to be? What do you want to be known for? Why I want to make what matters happen in the big picture? And then um yeah lots of other good stuff. Okay I'm trying to ooh brainstorm for your year ahead. Goals and ideas for the season. Ooh what I'm saying no to and what I'm saying yes to. I could fill that up. And then over here oh this is where you choose your word. So you know what your year is, your word and why you chose the word. And then yeah then you can write a little thing about imagine your best year ever. All right and then you get into your goals. Hold on I'm gonna keep going here. So how to choose your best goals. Simplify your goals and then you've got let's see eight goals on this page. I don't know if you would necessarily have to make eight goals. I mean maybe I don't know that works for something. Maybe you just need one goal. You know what I mean? Like sometimes you just gotta start with like baby steps you know. All right next page is oh okay so these are like the the tips for your worksheets. So we'll get into the worksheets in just a few minutes but there are just some tips. And then so your goal one is your action plan, your goal, why, progress, all that good stuff. So and then you've got okay so this is your overall goal and then these are your mini goals. No I'm sorry. Whoo can't talk today. So your goal number one which is from here. So this is your number one goal. Put it here and then these are your mini goals to achieve this goal. Does that make sense? I think that makes sense. And then again goal number two, goal number three. So you just break it down into smaller action steps. So four, five, six and seven. And I think again you wouldn't necessarily have to do all eight goals but I think it might be there for you know if you start achieving goals and then maybe making some new ones or I don't know everyone can use this differently. And here's your yearly overview. So quarter one, two, three and four. And then here I think is where the months start I think. Again my first time flipping through this thing. So it says prepare well important to do. I'm excited for on my mind and I am hopeful that and then and it says clear the mental and heart clutter to move forward with clarity. Ain't that the truth? Oh and then you can write the month right here. And this little tabby is blank so you could take it is laminated but you could take a like permanent marker and probably write on there or like use a little label maker or something if you wanted to label the tabs. And here's your months you could write in and you know put the put the days and all of that if you want to track certain things to you know reach the goals that you had set out for yourself. I like that there's a little column with some lines as well. And then in here some top trending tips. Oh share your goals. Use your stickers. Well I would use my stickers. Make what matters happen this month. So here's your goal to focus on this month and your action ideas, encouraging words top priority monthly action items and your progress weekly action items and like you know your week and daily action items habits. So if you want to like you know have like fitness or water intake or like make the bed or whatever it is it could be as easy as like taking a shower or self-care or like washing your face you know you could put those in as well and then this is totally blank so you could use that for whatevs. And here's your monthly review so you can kind of put some things in here and then also what I'm saying no to and what I'm saying yes to and then the next month and all of these pages I believe are the same. Let's do like a little clip through just to make sure my suspicions are correct which they are. Okay so then let's go all the way back okay so on the fourth month hold on it's a different so it says hooray it's time for a refresh write out your thoughts on the past three months oh cool all right so I think this is like a yeah this is like a quarterly goal session oh okay and then it starts back to normal again. Got it okay so the middle one here is your like quarterly refresh because I was wondering why there were seven tabs I was like this all makes sense like I'm no mathematician but that didn't make sense to me so this is your refresh to kind of reevaluate your original goals your original eight goals and either adjust them or maybe you've met some of your goals you know because a lot of things change in three a lot of things change in a month let's be honest so yeah and then there are more sheets back here that are all the same for your month and then you've got your last one and let's see if there's anything different in the back side of these two okay so here is the last sheet and then for like you know your month view and then over here it says celebrate progress and then celebrate what you want to see more of and then there's all the highlights and you can you know use them from all the different months so these are the last six months very cool I really like this this is a really neat idea if you guys use these power sheets let me know down in the comments below I'd be really interested to um you know know how this has worked well for you and if it has worked sometimes I feel like for me personally um writing things down just like makes it happen you know what I mean and I feel like sometimes if I don't write things down that's when I tend to have like lots and lots of struggles and that is not good and sometimes when you have there's a dedicated planner of just like here's my goals laying it all out on the table here's what I struggle with here's what I excel at and making an actual plan is sometimes really really rewarding in the end so anyways I'm gonna jet thank you guys so much for hanging out with me today and checking out the cultivate what matters 2020 power sheets goal planner I will leave a link below to this company so you guys can check these out if you're interested like I said the book is on their website right now it's $44 retail but it's on sale at me filming this at $38 um there's also other things that you can get on their website too so definitely check those out if you're interested yeah I hope you guys enjoyed it thanks so much for watching make sure to give it a thumbs up hit the red subscribe button comment down below and I'll talk to you guys in my next video bye guys well folks it's time to kick it old school


Let's chat about the vlog. All right, we're still at this undisclosed location celebrating True Love's birthday, happy birthday True Love. I thought it would be a good opportunity as we rest here to not film any B-roll all day. And to talk to you for three, five, hopefully not seven minutes about where we've been, where we currently are, and potentially where we're going with the VLOG. You gotta be flexible, you gotta be patient, and you've gotta be persistent, meaning persevere in your goals of the VLOG. And what do I mean? So, it is October, 2017. In case you don't know, in case you're new to this channel, I started a daily vlog. I think, actually, I think it was March, 2016, maybe April. Basically, we've been going with a daily VLOG for 18 months, 18 months. And when I started the VLOG 18 months ago, I had three goals, to get better at video production, to have fun with video production.  So those were the three goals when I started the daily vlog, okay, okay? Now those goals have evolved a little bit into what you all know so well, and by now is seeking beauty, working hard, and loving each other. I wanna ask all of you right now, for real, who have been watching for a long time, or maybe you've only been watching for the last month, how am I doing on those six goals? Having fun, do you think I have fun when I'm filming and when I'm creating a video for you every day? Do you think I'm doing pretty well with improving my video production skills? How am I doing at communicating my story? How am I doing at seeking beauty? How am I doing at working hard? And how am I doing at loving others? So those are the six goals now that have come to the forefront of this daily video on YouTube. Basically, where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going? With this daily story. And I've evolved a little bit on that as well in calling this channel, this daily video, instead of calling it a vlog, calling it a story, because I am aspiring to be a better storyteller. My goal, really my bigger goal is certainly to share a little bit of my story with all of you, but probably more importantly is to actually get to know your story. And that's another question if you care to chime in is how can I do that?  I think personal stories from people, and you know who you are, that comment on a regular basis, that is, that's part of the reason why I kind of came up with the question of the day is to have a dialogue with all of you and get to know you better and get to know your story better. And I feel like I actually have a really good idea about some of you out there that watch on a regular basis and comment often.  Carol. Carol. Carol, who else? Two loves over there. Uh-oh, the sun is setting. I better bump the, excuse, the sun is setting rapidly so I had to bump the ISO up. So you know who you are and I appreciate of course your comments, but basically I'm really interested in new ideas for this particular YouTube channel. In addition to the vlog, where are we at? We're doing a daily vlog. Where are we going? I foresee and I would like to aspire to sharing other people's stories. And who knows? Maybe for those that watch on a regular basis, maybe that includes your story. I don't know. I don't know. But that has been mulling over in my brain and my heart and I'm interested in that idea of sharing other people's stories on this particular channel. So, because I know like, you know, you watch me make a lot of coffee. You watch me commute a lot. You watch a lot of sunsets, a lot of sunrises, a lot of time lapses, which is all good and beautiful. But I know there is more to be shared here on this global video platform that is pretty amazing. And there's a lot of challenges out there on the digital continent. A lot of situations that are, you know, tough. And so we wanna bring that goodness back to everything in the world, but in particular here on the World Wide Web. The, yeah, the World Wide Web, the digital continent. So that's what I'm trying to do a little bit of. And I just appreciate all of you tuning in and chiming in here on the channel, watching, subscribing, commenting, and yes, sharing with others so that more people can get into the conversation down in the comments below. And it's, we keep going because of you. And I wish I could pick up my phone because there was a comment on yesterday's vlog and it was amazing. But it's currently the tripod right now, so I'm not gonna mess with it. But it was an amazing comment and it keeps the fire burning for more video production for you. All right, that's it. Seek beauty, work hard, love each other, have fun with video production, get better video production, and share a little bit of your story. See you tomorrow.


How's it how's it? Books in photography. Oh, there are many many books. A lot of them are simply tutorials, lighting guides, you know the sort of thing, but there are books that I feel every photographer should absolutely read. Anybody who's watched the channel for any amount of time will realize that this guy here, Joel Maievitz, and this is not one of his photography books is a huge favorite of him. I think he is one of the most eloquent, one of the most supportive photographers of this modern era. He talks about photography in a way that I wish I had just a tenth of of his enthusiasm for and is extremely generous with his knowledge. And this particular volume here, which is called seeing things, isn't a book that I would initially have considered because it says a kid's guide to looking at photographs. I'm not a kid. Why would I look at photographs?  But I bought this as a present for a friend of mine's daughter. And I flicked through it and I went wow. This is a really good, but this is like you should, I think this should be required reading. What Joel has done in this book is that he has taken various concepts. I'll just give you an idea here. The past and the present, actions and angles, the power of observation, the right moment, the blue hour, the human condition. Concepts which I think everybody can use within their own photography would benefit from using in their own photography and explains them in a simple way to understand. Then it goes, it's not talking about, you know, the decisive moment, for example, how much has been written about the decisive moment? And yet Joel's explaining it as if he would to a child. The concept here of light and happiness. Now once you go here, I'm going to hold this like that, right? And there's a photograph here called by Sally Gal, called Flying 2014. And this is, I'll put it up there. I'll put a better picture up on the screen. And the text I'll give you an example. It goes, if a friend asked you, did you do something interesting today? And you answered, I looked at some laundry. She would probably think you were nuts. Laundry? What about it? A lot of things that might inspire you don't sound so interesting, but you can see something that changes you, astonishes you in a split second. It goes on to say, people ask me all the time, how do I know what to take a picture of? That age-old question? And I answer, whatever it is that makes you stop photograph that. This book is full of these ideas of prompts that are easy to read one-in-one out that are going to absolutely change the way that you think about your photography. It certainly did for me and all of this in a child's book. And you can see, I was so impressed with it, I actually bought my own copy. So that's one book. A little known fact, here's a bit of trivia for you photographic eye fans, is that when I was trying to think of the name for the channel, I was looking through all the books and stuff like that. And I just kind of got all, because Alex Kilby talks about photography, sounds a bit rubbish. And I found this book in my collection, The Photographer's Eye. I thought, that makes a fantastic name for a channel, we'll have that. And then as the more, I think, astute amongst you may have noticed, it's not called The Photographer's Eye, it's called the photographic eye, because when I went to go name the channel, I misnamed it. So there's the origin story. This is a book that I purchased, of course, a while ago now, but it's by the Museum of Modern Art, written by John Zvarkhelsky. This particular book breaks things down into ideas, like the frame. Here is a whole section about how to use framing within your photography. But again, not in a tutorial sort of way of like, this is how you frame things, this is how you do it. This is showing you images of various photographers and the way that they are using the frame of the camera. This is what this book is about. It's about giving some visual stimulus of suggestions like, this is a concept, and this is the way that many different photographers have approached it. And it's that reason that this book, absolutely, I think is one of the must reads for anybody who wants to improve their photography. The reason I talk about these books like this, that I get so excited, is because it is an unfortunate thing that photography has so much depth and it has so much breadth, and I appreciate not everybody wants to know about the history of photography. Then that is a very niche topic in things. But the more that you look at the photographs outside of what you are normally told about, normally that you see on Instagram, or the tutorials, or the people who are doing the workshop circuits, you know, the same name seemed to crop up time and time again, who are all teaching you how to use off-camera flash. They're not really feeding your visual library with images that are fresh. I've used the analogy in the past where people are talking about having this pool of inspiration that we all drink from. And much like the waterhole in the African savannah, lots of animals come to it and eventually it shrinks and shrinks and shrinks because it doesn't get any rain and it just becomes a sloppy muddy mess. What these books are doing are giving you ideas, giving you outlets to feed that pool of inspiration. So it always remains fresh. Then there is a book that this is the actual dog-eared cover that I've had since I was getting started with photography. This was a set work that we had as students called The History of Photography and Overview. Now it was only published just a couple of years before I started studying photography. I think it's testament to how important and great this book is that it was on a set list already. Now as you may have guessed, it says this is the history of photography. And one of the great things, I say great, it's not great actually, it's one of the awful things, that often come up against when I'm meeting people in the photography world is that they often don't really know many photographers beyond maybe some of the greatest hits as it were. And I say that sort of, I don't mean it's awful that they haven't taken the time to find out. I mean it's awful that it is so hard to find photographers whose work you're not sure of, who you've never heard of. Because how can you go looking for somebody if you don't know who you're looking for? And this book kind of solves that problem. This is my first introduction to photography as a wider thing. It ranges right from the very first photographs, you know, Nietzsche and Daguerre and all that sort of thing. And it doesn't go through the history of photography chronologically, talking in very dry terms about, you know, Fox Talbert and then the cyanotype and all those kind of things. It flits through regarding concepts. So social documents, he says here social documents, photography and social culture. And it goes through people like Eugene Ajay, and I'm just I'm flicking through here to see who else we've got. Edward Curtis, he might be a bit more unfashionable these days. Dionne Arbus is in there. So you can see jumping around, showing you or the reader, are you me, a whole world of photography that is just waiting there to be explored. If you're looking to broaden your interest in photography to be given some rabbit holes to go and fall down, this is great. And all these books here are actually for once when I'm showing books on the channel, they're pretty affordable. I mean, this is like 10 bucks, right?  So in this book here, this is letting go of the camera by a guy called Brooks Jensen. This is just text. These are musings and thoughts about photography in a way that gives much like the, I think the written equivalent of kind of often what I talk about that, you know, that gear is not particularly important and how we can use other ideas to influence our photography. I'd certainly like the ones that when he talks about, you know, going to a workshop, how to make the most of a workshop, how it's ridiculous to think that you're going to make a living being an artist and things of that nature. So some of the talking, some of the advice in here, it's a little bit tongue in cheek, but it makes you stop and think and it's enjoyable again to dip in and out of their short essays. Each one stands alone and, you know, this is a man who understands about photography, not necessarily a kind of very, you know, serious earnest sort of way. All these people who write about photography, they're all serious about their photography, but they also understand that you can make it more accessible by just, you know, having a, having a bit of laugh from time to time. So that's letting go of camera by Brooks Jensen and he does actually have a, there's a whole website that they have around this. And I also believe, another bit of trivia, is that Eddie, he runs the longest running photography podcast in the world. So there we go. You know, so Brooks Jensen, that's an investment of 50 bucks maybe, right? You could spend that on a lunch, but looking at those books will give you a huge boost to taking photography, the photography that you already have, and just thinking about it from a slightly different perspective, getting some fresh ideas, you know, and just reinvigorating you. I talked about Joel Myovitz earlier and if you want to see how to create photographs like the Great Master himself, check out this video over here. Thank you ever so much for watching and I will see you again soon.