Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Jurassic World Evolution! What have I got in store for you today? Well, I've spent hours actually setting up this video when I didn't really need to. But, um, some mods made me make mistakes that probably I shouldn't have made, but ended up making them anyway because I'm back clever. So we are back in the Aquatic Battle Arena! But we're not here. Just for the Aquatic Battle Arena. No, as you can see we've still got some Mosasaws swimming about. You ready for it? You ready for the super secret today? It is! What has he done? He's made a giant cake! Oh my god, I don't even know how to start with this thing. Jesus. So I made it. I made it all complete. I made it exactly as you see it basically. But what I had done that I hadn't even realized, I had deleted the monorail. This thing. So the arrival point. It's called an arrival point, which you should be able to delete. Normally you can't delete this. I wonder in sandbox if that's normal, but I can do that. I can also delete this as well. The monorail arrival tunnel for five dollars. I actually have much of this one. Oh, that one actually costs money. And then proceeded to do all of this. However, I couldn't power any of it because there was no path connection to like the arrival point. And even when I placed down a monorail station and tied it to this, it didn't count it. So obviously there's a code where this is the only arrival thing that you can have. No matter, even if you delete that tunnel, I think this will probably still count. Either way, I'm not doing that. We've got like a cake battle royale. Now the reason why I'm doing this and we've got a big cake, with the way the mod is at the moment, can't go back into the original battle arena that we've been using for years, what feels like because the way the data has been changed with us having a map expansion and being able to do things like this, I think the map expansion is the main problem. The terrain, I don't think it's too bad. But because of the map expansion, all of my old save files, if I load in, it'll do something crazy with them and then they'll be corrupted. If I switch back and then try and open it, it'll be corrupted. So they're okay and I can revisit them. It just means that I would need to uninstall our mod to do so. And I can't be bothered to do that. Not really. Why are we here today? Well, first things first. I wanted to showcase this. This, just after we made the Mosasaur video, would you believe another Mosasaur came out? Oh no. Oh God. It is of titanic proportions and it is a Mosasaur. Don't be fooled by its deplodocus name and everything. It's a Mosasaur. So here it is. It is ginormous. Look at it. And we will compare it in size to, you know, the other Mosasaur's we've got. But heart, damn. Now this mod was created by, I think, look at that. That looks so cool. I think it was digital duck. Was it digital duck? I think it was digital duck. Digital duck. But look at it floating out of the water there. Oh, they look so good. Oh look, we've got the little Mosasaur. It's like it's got babies. Because Acrocanthosaurus does not attack deplodocus. We can have babies and a mama Spino. So there we go. We've got the two little Baba Mosas. And we've got the big Mosas. Look at that, that looks so cool. Actually, you know, I want to kind of keep this alive. So I will place down a feeder for it. Okay, so we've made a slight detour. We've gone to, is it looking for water? It's looking for water. Well, it's all around you. Actually, it must be weird when it goes to drink because its head will go through the floor. Let's have a look. Let's have a look at it. You know what? It's not too bad. And because deplodocus is slow, like walk animation, it's really not too bad. Like with this guy, with the Acrocanthosaurus, you have like the hip swaying and stuff. And it definitely does look like it's walking. Whereas because of deplodocus is so slow and its movements don't really impact, you know, its spine too much. It just looks like it's generally just floating around. But without further ado, let's go to the cake battle arena. Or the big cheesecake, whatever you want to call it. No, that's a Velociraptor, James. This, nope, that's an Endonus Rex. There it is, the Excuraptor. I think, is that how you say its name? This was created by the very talented Psyche who I saw it on Twitter. Now this creature in particular was supposed to feature in Jurassic Park 4. Now it comes to us. I always thought it was invisible there for a second. Yeah, look at that. It's got its own sound effects and everything. That looks so cool. So thankfully, this thing is a separate dinosaur. It does not replace anything. So if you can mod, like you have this on computer, you can just simply download the file, copy and paste it into your OVL folder, and you're good. You want to delete it? Delete the folder. Soared, none of this weird unpacking of certain assets or maybe, you know, forgetting what's what, you can quite clearly see that's that. Delete it, copy it, paste it, whatever will make no difference to your game. But look at that. Oh, that looks so good. Not only does it come with, you know, this model and its own custom sound effects, but also its own image. I don't know if it has its own Dynapedia sort of thing. There it is, look at that. That looks awesome. So you've got a 100% Dynonicus genome and a 100% Allosaurus genome. So you can legit make it in the game. That's crazy. We've got a, like when is the last time we got hybrids? What, Spinaraptor, Ankyloticus, Indoraptor? There was a Dr. Woo DLC. This is a custom made hybrid that works in game and unlocks when you have Dynonicus genome and Allosaurus genome with custom sound effects, a custom picture and is simple and easy to install. But for whatever reason, whenever we go into maps, it thinks of it as a brachiosaur. Well, we'll not worry about, we'll not linger on that too much. But look at that, that looks so cool. I don't know, a Therizinosaurus with those claws. Looks like something from Dino Crisis with the, the almost villainous, villainous eye. Yeah, I guess you could call it. It's just evil through and through, almost to a comedic effect. It's an edgy teen's favorite dinosaur. Look at the feathers on it too. We've got, oh look at the detail on the back there, a little bit of spine. I don't know how it's Allosaurus DNA. I've never read the script for Jurassic Park 4. I don't know whether it was a hybrid. I probably should look, where's Clayton? Clayton, where are you? Did he even say anything? I don't know. Anyway, but of course, I mean because it's a hybrid, it actually has a terrible, um, stat line. Or when it comes to health, like, life expectancy is 32. And then, how much did it cost? Oh 700,000, so using it in game. Yeah, I mean, it's just one of those hybrids. It's gonna get a good star rating, 218. But it's not gonna live very long. But there are however, if we click, oh well, sorry, didn't mean to do that. We've got another one. I did want to check if there were different skins. So I've made one for each skin. However, yeah, there's no difference. I don't think between the two. Look, I don't know how they can hold those claws. They look so heavy. But my question to you, is how do they pair against a telophosaurus? So of course, it wouldn't be a battle arena without having something battle or something else. Um, oh, look at that skin. I can't remember who made it, but it looks glorious. I call this one the volcanic pizza. Um, oh, yep, they're attacking. So what are we thinking, guys? Telophosaurus versus this thing? Will the hybrid win? Probably. But let's see, let's give it a shot. Oh God, we're tilting the camera. Well, there you go. Completely missed them. Oh, a spit from the telophosaurus, however. A second attack from that. Is it dead? Oh, now all of these are base genome. I just wanted to test it. Oh, that looks like it. Yep. Is that it? Telophosaurus did get one hit in, although it was probably like a pity hit. Oh, bless it. No!  So how did you fair? Oh, never mind. I didn't do any damage to it at all. Great. What about maybe a slightly tougher herorosaurus? Yeah, look at that Jurassic Park of the Game Colossus. Now, will you fair any better? Oh, I forgot. There's nothing in here for them to... Oh God, that's a lot of water in it. A little bit less. Oh, and you want to attack... Oh God. Oh, it's this one. On top of Cheesecake Mountain. Who will win? Oh, first hit coming from the excavator. Will the... Oh, no, there's a... Oh, finally a bite from Everett. Oh, sorry, herorosaurus. A rarosaurus. Oh, no way. No way. Two bites already? Okay, okay. Oh, some blood. Oh, some paling of the skin due to blood loss. But are they quite close? I'm expecting it. It won't stand a chance against something like Spina Raptor though. That's what I'm thinking. Oh, is that it? Did it beat heror... It beat herorosaurus. There you go. Although it was not as easy this time. Look at those eyes. Look at them. Look at them. Little grinning face. I wonder if there was ever concept for X-Cover Raptor and that's how we did them, how we made them. Well, there you go. Let's see. How did you do? Sixty-six percent. All right then. Seeing as X-Cover Raptors don't really have a problem with each other, we might as well release a few more, eh? I feel like we're getting into the golden age of the modern community. We've had so many breakthroughs recently. You've had the King Kong stuff and now you've got this. You've got the, like I'm not even talking about models in particular. You've got breaking out of the boundaries that were set by Frontier. All right, guys. Let's see you take on a Spino Flippin Raptor. Let's ramp up the pressure a little bit. I think Spino Raptor is one of those creatures that can take on small carnivals though, right? Is it looking for water? It's looking for... Ah, look at that. It's little claws. It's got grabby hands. Are they, are they, are they scared? Oh, they are panicking. No, bless them. No. Wait, can they not take on Spino Raptor? No. Yeah, we'll get rid of Spino Raptor. I thought they would be able to. He would have, he would have started to fight something before now. All right then, Pro Seratosaurus, you can come out then. This sheer incline. It's gonna crash straight into it. How is it gonna do it? Are you ready? You're witnessing history. Perry slowly and delicately. It ascends over. I thought it was gonna go whoop. And while that goes on, we've got Gwanlon taking on the Excluraptor. Oh, he's already got a dart in him. Down I go. Oh, in the angle. The Achilles heel. You're gonna fall? Nope. All right then.  Oh, bless it. Looks so cool. I love that Gwanlon. The model looks awesome. Oh, we got Velociraptor, Dynonicus. Let's see if these can take you down. Now, what will be interesting is if Dynonicus, because Dynonicus is the feather version now. Yeah, look at that. Now technically, they are made from the same genome. So I'm wondering whether they'll get on. I mean, these guys look very similar. However, kind of looks like they're about to start a fight. Yep, I'm gonna say they're about to start a fight. No, these claws are bigger than yours. Recall this one, the Edge Lord Rumble. I don't know who's got the most attack out of all the small carnivores. I'm wondering if Velociraptor does. Oh, another hit. How's the Excoraptor? That's the second hit.  Oh, is it gonna be close? Oh, he takes them out. I think that's it. But sometimes they do get like one in records. Like there's two hits, I think. No. Well, they're doing damage 70%. Oh, wait, no, they're dead. There's no fight beginning. Oh, these guys are fighting as well. I thought they would get on. To what, he's poisoned. I didn't even realize Excoraptor has poison. Oh, oh, was that in the script? Did I have a venomous bite or something? Oh, that is cool. All right, guys, it's time we enter the big leagues. There is one dinosaur that I know for sure can start a fight with a small carnivore. And that is Indoraptor. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Is he going for it already? Oh, it is.  Oh, this is awesome. Place your bets, guys. Who's gonna win? Indoraptor or the Excoraptor? Too many Raptors. Oh, he goes first. What? You, not it. You don't take on Indoraptor. Oh, Indoraptor's got a scar on it already. Oh, no, no, not looking good now. Two hits. Are they gonna turn? I think I'm gonna do the little shimmy sham. Oh, another one from the Excoraptor. I don't think he's gonna win. I don't think he's gonna win. No. No, he beat a face Indoraptor. Not only that. It's all so poison. I mean, I think it takes like 40% health of a soul. It's something really high. I don't know the specifics. Oh, oh, look at that. What a shot. Look at them. They're also like getting ready.   Oh, I want it. I want it to survive just so I can see like, the final kill animation for Excoraptor. Now that could be because Indoraptor has like superior regeneration. But I think once it hits 20%, it might die. It might just curl up and say dying. I don't know. Is it gonna do it? 90%? What are you gonna do? Oh, the alpha's on low health as well. Oh, whoops. That's probably because there's no food. There you go, have some food. Oh, straight towards it. Not wasting any time. That's probably why the Indoraptor's just walking away because this guy doesn't want to start a fight because it's dying. Oh, Indoraptor. I think it's trying to get towards Spider Raptor. It's trying to kill Spider Raptor before it dies.  Look at that animation. That's weird. It sort of pops back to normal when I go away. It's like, yep, regular walking poisoned. Up, poisoned. Is it gonna kill it? Is it gonna get a kill? Yay, gonna kill. Just before it died, it goes to the cheap shop. Typical Indoraptor. Oh, there you go. There you go. The poison, yep. It's still poisoned at 1%. Even if it wasn't dehydrated, I think it was gonna die. Are you ready? Nyaaah. In comes Indominus Rex. I'd be worried, dude. I'd be worried. So, hold on. What was the attack? 102 attack, 35 defense. An Indoraptor, 92 and 45 defense. So, they're quite close. Wait, he's got some modifications on him? That's not fair. I honestly don't think these guys can fight you. Look at them, Scarper. When Frontier doesn't give us the dinosaurs we want, oh, we'll take the dinosaurs we want and we'll make them. Just like little baby Moses and Mama Moses. So cute. That looks like she's giving birth now. Look at her hanging around it, though. That's so weird. Like there's a lot of meat locked up in you, love. Well, anyway, guys, we're gonna have to wrap it up here. If you enjoyed it, I know it was a short one. Don't worry. Something very exciting's coming around the corner. Just you wait. Sweet dreams. Get it? Until next time, I'll see you later. Oh, bye-bye.


This is the new C12, a clone of one of the world's most renowned microphones, and I think you are probably asking the wrong question about it. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. The AKG C12 is one of the most renowned microphones in history, being a favourite of people like Prince, Alana Smoreset and Tom Petty to name but a few. It's had a few variations over the years and there's also been OEM versions by Siemens and Telefunken. It's also one of the more expensive microphones around but we'll discuss that later. Now the new C12 clone is a lot less expensive but is it any good? Well I've been putting it through its paces on a number of different sources and I'll be playing a demo of that later on in this video. But first of all, let's discuss this term clone. The new C12 does nod its head to the physical characteristics of the AKG C12. And like that microphone, it's also a multi-polar pattern microphone and uses a tube or a valve. But have they cloned the AKG C12 part for part? Well in a word, no. Nude and Australian companies say they have cloned the sonic fingerprint of the AKG C12 at a much lower cost. Now the lower cost is definitely not in question but does it sound like an AKG C12? Is there even the right question to be asking? Well look at that later but first let's take a look at the nude C12 clone. Physically the nude C12 as well, nude, without a logo in sight. And no matter how refined it may sound, it's 24cm of heavy metal. A quick look inside revealed that it's powered by a 12AX7 also known as an ECC83 tube. Now the large case that this mic comes in reveals a nice metal shock mount, a foam windshield and a power supply. So this is going to work with preamps that have no phantom power. This not only supplies the power to the mic but it also allows you to select from the 9 different polar patterns. These patterns make use of the mic's dual headed 33mm capsule. For the nerds amongst you here are the sound specs, but for me it's all about the sound. In order to discover how this microphone sounds I decided to use it on many different sources. Over the course of about one and a half minutes you're going to hear it used on female vocals, male vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar amp, a bass guitar amp, a cajon, some drumsticks and a shaker. Oh by the way, Mackenzie's whole black peppercorns are not sponsors of this video. So give it a listen and let me know what you think of its sound in the comments down below. The current price of the AKG C12 on Sweetwater is... $6,659 US dollars. Now if you could get a clone at say half that price or 20% of that price you'd be in bargain territory, right? Well how about 6% of that price? At $439 US dollars that's the territory that the new C12 clone is in. So it definitely competes on price but does it sound like a C12? I mean is that even the right question to be asking? Sure, it's a fair question to ask when a company describes a microphone as a clone. But I want you to ask yourself, given the demo that you've already heard, considering the price point of this microphone, consider its features and the fact that it's also a tube microphone. And do you think this is just a great microphone in its own right? Let me know what you think in the comments down below. For me personally, for that price, $439 US dollars, the multi-patterns a tube microphone, I think this is really a great addition to any home studio. Now I had this microphone plugged into an Audion ASP 800 mic preamp. I've made a video about that preamp right here. It really is a modern day classic in my opinion. You should check that out now.


There's really no safe, like simply safe. Over the past couple months we've been working room to room renovating and restoring each room throughout my 1929 Spanish Revival duplex that we're turning into a single family home. This right here is what the lobby looked like. The lobby also known as the lower living room. I had this space painted dimmity by Feroin Ball and brought in some of the furniture pieces I've been collecting for the space along with the 17th century tapestry that I could not wait to share with you. I pieced together some random items to create a coffee table and it looks pretty good and then we hung up the curtains which just created the biggest impact and visual interest in this space. Hi everyone welcome back to my channel. The first thing I got to say in this video is I'm a little under the weather again. Every time the weather changes this happens to me and the weather has just been fluctuating so much. So anyways if I sound a little weird in this video that is why and we are back in the lobby and I love love love that you guys love the lobby because I love the lobby so much. It is such a cool space and if you haven't really seen anything about the lobby or heard about this lovely lobby in my home it's actually the lower living room in my duplex. As you know I ended up purchasing a duplex and I'm converting it into a single family home and the lower living room I wanted to turn into like a really great entertaining space. I wanted some unique seating areas and I wanted it kind of formatted a little bit differently than a traditional living room per se. So that is what we were going for in here and in the last episode we actually ended up bringing in the sofa which you guys have seen the tapestry and I'm not gonna lie there were a ton of controversial comments about the tapestry just in terms of me hanging it in this living room and there being like a large window over here in the direct sunlight affecting my collars on it and with how we ended up hanging it with the velcro and I'll just say that the velcro was actually suggested by the man that I purchased his tapestry from. He's had it hung on velcro for I don't know how many years so I just did the same thing but when we ended up lowering it a bit we did actually end up taking those velcro strips and stapling them to the wall. So it's a bit more mounted on the wall as opposed to a lot of people saying I was taping it to the wall. I have to also tell you guys that I probably will be moving this at some point. As many of you guys know I switch around things in my house all the time. I'm putting this in here at the moment so I can enjoy it in this living room. The sun actually never even hits it there's never direct sunlight on this wall ever and I'm kind of thinking of maybe moving this to the stairwell in the future. It wasn't my favorite idea when I first got the tapestry because I thought that it felt very expected with the tapestry to put it in the stairwell but I've come around to the idea a little bit more and I still think we can make it really unique and fun. I mean it's such a beautiful piece but I thought I'd enjoy it in here for a while for a couple of months while it's in this space until I could find something large to maybe replace this with or put something on this wall that fits a bit better so then we can transfer this over to the stairwell but I didn't want to leave this folded up for any longer. It's been folded up for four months in my studio room so wanted to get it up and I love it so much and I put the rug down in the room but everything you saw was more so on this half of the room. We still have this entire half of the room which I have some pretty fun ideas for. I have a few DIY projects as well so we should get started. I actually want to share with you guys a chair I got over the weekend on Facebook Marketplace. It is so cool. You can see a little sneak peek at the chair right here and I found this on Facebook Marketplace. When I saw this chair I sent it to Justin was like oh my gosh look at this club chair and I ended up DMing kind of asking if she would go a little lower on the price and we did. We negotiated a little lower. It's going to be going right over here and it is a French club chair and it is the coolest French club chair. The listing said that it was over 100 years old and the lady who owned it said that she had it for over 20 years and it just didn't fit in her new home and I loved it. I ended up actually sending her a photo of it and she was so excited to see it in the space and I love it so much. It's so unique. The arched back really kind of mimics some of the arches in the home. This is such a beautiful chair and so let me see on camera if that's kind of where I wanted to put it. Kind of right there-ish. In this back corner over here I want to do a tree or just something more organic and then I have a little side table I want to put right here as well so let me share it with you guys but isn't this chair stunning? The chair is pretty large and substantial but it's nice because we have the tapestry on the right side so I like how this kind of balances it if I pull the camera so you could see the actual scale of the chair with the sofa and the coffee table. It looks so so good. We need some heaviness over here because we have the tapestry over on this right side. I still want to go ahead and try to find something different in this lampshade. I'm not 100% set on this lampshade still and I wanted to go in and share with you my curtain panels because I had so many questions about these curtain panels when I shared them in the last video. These are from a company called Two Pages and they are the most stunning beautiful linen curtains I have ever seen in my life and if you guys haven't heard of Two Pages before I actually found out about them through Arvin. I was watching Arvin's videos and I noticed his curtains were just absolutely stunning Arvin Alano and I always loved them and he ended up linking a company called Two Pages and I found them through him and I just love the quality of these curtain panels. They're on Amazon. They're custom made to your window. This one is the taupe gray colorway but they actually have a little like Rolodex you can order of curtain swatches which I will link below for you guys because having that on hand is so nice. It's like $25 and it allows you to see every color of curtain so if you're redoing your house or you want to order some but the quality and just overall everything about these curtains unreal and they hung so nicely they're perfectly like touching the floor. I mean I did install them so I mean I did a pretty good job I'll say that but the curtain I mean it's unreal so I'll link these below for you guys. This one's the taupe gray and yeah I had them custom made for my window size they look so good. So as the side table on the sofa I'm going to be using one of my favorite side tables. When I got these I actually ended up ordering two sets of them and I just had so many of them. They come in a pair so you get this larger size and then a smaller size as well and I love them for everything. They're like iron they have these little ball feet on them. They're such a cute silhouette. I have a few books that have kind of touches of blue in them to pull back to the coffee table. I have this little lamp that looks like this. I found it at the flea market. It kind of has this very arts and crafts style base to it and then it has this wicker shade that I love and so I'm going to put this right on top. So it's going to be kind of like a smaller lamp for this side table but I think it's going to be really cute. The great thing about this living room is it's wired so that any of the lamps that are plugged into the top outlet when you turn the switch on it turns them on. So like anything plugged into the top outlet in the entire room turns on with the switch which is great.  Right at least down here I wanted to do kind of a collection of items because I'm not going to lie. I do feel like this fireplace is a little less interesting than the one upstairs. However I do like the opening of this one like the actual like tile work on this one more. The overall fireplace I don't know there's just something about it that I wanted to amp up a bit and I thought adding a ton of these vintage and antique pottery pieces that I've been kind of collecting over like the past year just on top here. I also went ahead and headed to Berber Imports in Los Angeles if you guys have not been there it's such a cool place they have so much vintage and antique pottery. If you let them know I sent you they'll give you a lovely discount it's actually a great one and I added a couple more so I was able to kind of fill in this area ended up picking up like six more pots so I love these and I also found these candlesticks there too but I love the shape I think it adds such a cool bit of height. I was going to use them on a different shelf but I thought they looked really nice in here. I also went to the flea market yesterday and found a fireplace screen. I found a fireplace screen this is only $20 and I was like you know what I'm going to potentially try it because it's really pretty it has a barley twist on the edge which I love and this little kind of diamond and then we also got this painting lovely so pretty. I'm not a huge fan of the frame but I love the painting itself. It's XO. You guys are probably so over me buying scary portraits this one's not scary though he's cute it kind of looks like you does it and I like how he's just faded into nothing I do like how that looks on there like the whole the whole composition of this this one's really great I need to give it a bit of a cleaning but look how cute this is you guys I found this the flea market yesterday and I just love how it fits so perfectly inside I love the barley twist on the side that's what this kind of twisted feature is and then the little diamond or like this kind of motif here I love it I think it's so cool with this one I don't know I just really like this and I like how it brings a little bit of darkness as well plus it hides our lovely tile mishap for the time being and I can work on that a bit later I found this set of antique Chinese jars at a flea market like over probably about a year ago when I first got the house and I knew I wanted to use them somewhere in here there's actually these outlets on either side of the fireplace and I thought some symmetry could be nice in here just by incorporating those two vessels to kind of block the outlets just a little bit and I like the way that they look on either side of the fireplace so I think those will live there for now over in this corner I got to use my wooden pedestal that I got from olive atelier I love this pedestal it is so so cool and unique but it's extremely heavy so I maneuvered that into place then the pot on top of this actually berber imports gave to me as a housewarming gift which was so sweet of them and if you could ever find magnolia branches they dry down so beautifully this is a dried branch I've had it for like two or three months now and believe it or not these sconces came with the house original 1920s sconces that just fit so perfectly in this space as well I'm putting my hd camera over in this corner on top of the wooden pedestal and that's because this video is kindly sponsored by simply safe now 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in between these two beams here and sadly it is not wide enough I mean it's too wide for that section like this isn't wide enough for the tapestry it's like three inches too short and also if I had it all the way up to the edge it would actually hang over the arch a little bit because of where this beam ends is right like an inch over the arch I kind of mentioned that one of my main goals down here was to create unique kind of seating areas and that's why I'm calling it the lobby because there's kind of like different areas that you could sit in if you could imagine like a hotel lobby what I'm going to be adding over here is actually an old diy project that I love love love it is this really great kind of like fluted walnut table that I created and I created this for my breakfast nook back in my apartment and it was such an easy project they actually sell like the round wood circles already pre-cut so I got two of those and then I just bought a ton of dowels and I nailed them to the exterior of those circles and then I glued on top of it a circle table top base also from Lowe's I'll link all the materials that you are interested below for this and I'll also put a card if you want to see the full tutorial we're not going to leave our table just standing right in the middle we're actually going to pop in these chairs that I have been saving these are from Badlands vintage they are so cool they have like a flat wood base so they're not the most comfortable chair in the world but the nice thing is is the back actually pivots so you can kind of like lean back in the chair but something I found online when I was shopping were these so cute look at these little h&m if you could believe h&m home these are little chair cushions how perfect does that fit and it makes it more comfortable I'm not going to lie so I want to add these four chairs at this table the cushion still I can't tell if I want to paint the inside of this built-in actually let me share with you this is what it looks like it's a little off-centered on this wall as you could see which doesn't really bother me but I also feel like I could paint the interior of this and make it like its own moment but I do have an art piece that I want to hang on this wall so maybe I'll bring in the art piece and kind of see what color might work in here and then I also have some items for on top of this because I'm turning this into a little mini bar section so when people come over we can make cocktails here I'm going to have lots of extra glassware and just kind of like essentials under there and then we can wash it all in the lower kitchen which is really nice and here is the art piece for the wall it's an abstract oil painting and it was done in 69 it's actually signed on the back it says like alice silverson it says self portrait right here so maybe maybe it was painted over it could have been something else and then painted over the top of I think the colors are great now it actually was just the canvas when I bought it it didn't have a frame on it but I ended up framing this and I will share with you guys how I framed this because if you have any sort of canvases that are on frame this is a great easy DIY to kind of create a frame for it super quick and easy it cost me like ten dollars to make this and I think these chunky wood frames that are really simple like this highlight the art so nicely and they look really great and you can stain them to whatever you'd like to create this frame I got two one by threes and I opted for a red oak just so it was a little bit of a better quality I'm measuring out the size of my artwork it is 24 inches by 30 inches and I'm actually going to be clamping my two pieces together that way I could just cut them at the same time so both cuts are exactly the same I just freely mitered one side and then I measured the width of my artwork and then I mitered the other side to make sure that it was a perfect size and then I brought the pieces inside and just laid them on either side of the artwork the great thing about the one by threes is they are the exact thickness of a traditional canvas so it really looks custom and then once you have them all butted up on the edges and all of your four pieces are cut I just used a staple gun and I stapled along seam of the wood if that makes sense so right along that seam and this is really just to hold them in place because we are going to be going in with the brad nailer just to really secure the entire piece so once you have them kind of held in place and this is creating the base of our frame I'm going with a couple brad nails and just shooting those down either side of the frame for a good stability then I'm bringing the piece outside and I'm just staining it with the exact same color of stain that my upstairs floors were actually stained in I love this color it's antique brown and by quick coat and overall I think this looks really really great I let this dry and then I just popped it right over the top of the canvas a little trade from my online store got some paint because I think I want to paint the built-in so while the bookshelf is drying down as you can see we have a lovely cord mess right here and this is where the internet is actually installed in the units and then this part of the internet actually like makes it span farther so we have a lot of cords and boxes over here but I had this idea of actually using like a basket and then putting some books inside the basket a lot of you might remember this basket from a long time ago like one of my first ever flea market finds I feel like was this basket and it's so cute it's a fisherman basket I'm just going to pop the internet in there you need a taller book to really cover it and then layer in front I'm going to add some smaller books over on this side and then our internet is just going to be kind of concealed in here inside the basket and then once this is dried down I could actually put the mesh this and back on the shelf it is blue it is dry and I already went ahead and added just a couple of things I knew I wanted to add towards the bottom here I wanted the bottom to feel a little heavier than the top section so I added some extra books I got this at the flea market this last weekend and look how cool this is marble carved art deco situation one of the largest pieces I have which hopefully I don't get demonetized for this naked bronze man but this is the coolest statue it has a maker's mark on the back of it too right on the cheek right there do you see that and I want to put this piece up here have this little artwork that I've had in my last book case I think I'm going to pop that next to it and this little taper holder which is just like this little kind of flower shape just on the side and then this taper holder I got when I was back at my parents house at the thrift store and I love the curly kind of organic nature of and then a couple of wooden bases I thought these would be nice just kind of layered kind of like that also picked up these really cute little mini cala lilies at Trader Joe's this morning and styled them in that base on the left let me add the finishing piece this is the finishing touch to this area and it's this candle stick holder that I got from the Creighton barrel Athena Keldarone collection when it first came out because some of the iron pieces I felt like were so Spanish-y that I had to pick them up this has been sitting in that room since the end of last year so I'm very happy to break it out added a couple of candles in there and I love the base I feel like it just like overlaps the arcs so nicely look at this vibe you guys just over here making them a cocktail like we need to style the coffee table and I want to do some pretty minimal coffee table styling just because the coffee table marble is so beautiful I don't want to cover it up too much but I do have some really pretty tulips and I just put these in water so hopefully they start perking up just a little bit more it's in one of the vintage brass containers from my store I will link them below there everything I have this taper holder that I love it looks like this I love the shape of it and the feet on it are just so unique and I want to put this on the side stole this from the movie theater room because I feel like we just need a little yellow glass on this table gonna pop that on as well okay also how did I just do that entire coffee table scene without realizing I haven't shared with you guys this tree yet I mentioned on Instagram that I was a little under the weather the past couple days so I was kind of just laying low on my computer and Justin actually sent me this tree link it was $50 on Facebook marketplace and I love the organic nature of it so he went and picked it up and brought it back and it looks like this we ended up putting it in a pot and just putting it over here in the corner and I absolutely love just the organic kind of fluidity of it and over arches and kind of mimics the shape of this window as well which I love as you see I'm six foot tall myself and this tree probably is like eight and a half almost nine feet actually ended up toning down the coffee table a bit just kept it really simple with the flowers the little bowl and the candle holder which I love and I also forgot to share that I added this bust head that I got this at a garage sale a long long time ago I think I did right when I moved into this house I drove past a yard sale the lady sold it to me for $40 and I picked it up and I put it on top of this green pedestal that was actually in the upstairs living room I need to find another one because this one really looks so nice here and I think this adds a nice touch kind of behind the couch because originally we did have the lamp back here but I actually ended up swapping it for this lamp right by the sofa which I love and I got this one as well a lot of pieces in this room are actually from right when I moved in one of the first pieces I purchased for the home was this lamp and it is a bridge lamp and I'm not sure why it's called a bridge lamp but I love the mica shade and I just love the ironwork this is an actual antique light and I just love the details all the little intricate hammerings and just a tripod base it's so cute and I thought it fit perfectly on the side of the sofa and I just wasn't loving the overarching something about the pleated shade it just added too much of these linear lines also you can see them in the curtains so yeah I think this one just fits a little better I think the last thing we have is pillows on the sofa I just have three pillows keeping it really really simple but let's add them we are going to be adding this anthropology pillow that I had in the old apartment for a long time I'm just gonna put it right here because I think it kind of channels and brings in the gold color from the top street and look how gorgeous this pillow is it is the most beautiful pillow I've ever held in my hands this is actually made from a vintage rug and these are going to be part of the next vintage drop we're going to have an exclusive amount of these vintage rug pillow covers like look how beautiful these are and they're really like not that bad of a price point I'm not going to lie I think there's like 10 of them that we have but I ended up stealing two for this living room this one here and then just the longer lumbar shade right here and this is another one of the vintage rug pillows they are so just insane quality this one's so pretty with the blue okay I think everything is in place in this room and I love this room I love love love it and I cannot wait to reveal this to you it is so bright it's kind of different from some of the other areas in the home but it still has just the elements that it needs to kind of feel cohesive with the other spaces and I'm so excited for you guys to see this room because it really really I don't know there's just something about it that is perfect but let me reveal it to you in three two one and that lone fox family is the lobby all complete and I absolutely just love this space and I hope that you like it as well it definitely is kind of a different layout a different orientation Justin Marie and I have just been working out of this room it's nice to be able to like eat lunch over here and then work over on the couch on your computer it just gives you like options for sitting and also you could see so many people in here we could probably have one two I'd say this couch can probably fit six so eight probably like 12 to 14 people can comfortably like sit in this room which is really nice and yeah this is the room I absolutely love it before letting you guys go because this one was a long one I do want to let you know that over on lone fox we're having a memorial day sale and it's a buy more save more sale so you can get up to 20% off your entire order and orders over $99 ship for free so I definitely say check out the site if you have it in a while we have a bunch of new arrivals as well yeah so little sale over there and I will catch you in my next video I think a couple upcoming videos guys we are going to be kind of channeling older lone fox videos I really want to do some Ikea hacks I'm wanting to do some DIY projects I've been itching for a good DIY so let me know in the comment section if that's something you'd like to see and I will catch you guys in my next one bye


For the CircuitPython Parsec today, I wanted to show you how you can use NumPy to speed up LED fades. What I have running right now is the straight sort of normal CircuitPython code. What it's trying to do is fade these NeoPixels as fast as possible so there's no delays. This is as quickly as it can go from the full color down to black. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn on the NumPy version of this. It's going to restart here in a second and you should see about a 10 times increase which is really tremendous. The way this works is I'm importing from the MicroLab library NumPy as NP. Then when I'm setting up arrays of LEDs, we're setting up a NumPy array. That's this NP array which is the LEDs and it's an int 16. And then we're setting up this array for how the amount it's going to fade by. Then when it comes time to fade these down, again in this if use NumPy so that I can run just this, we adjust that fade amount. I'm going down by one step, negative one. Then we take this NP.clip, the LEDs NumPy array and then setting it between zero and 255 for each of the elements in the color list. And then finally we're taking that list and applying it back to the group of LEDs. So essentially NumPy does these calculations off on the side, then gives them to the LED rather than running it in real time like we normally do. Here's our normal loop that we would go through. And so you can see here we get a 10 times speed up using NumPy. And that is one way that you can increase the speed of LED fade using NumPy inside of CircuitPython. And that is your CircuitPython Parsec.


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All right, so to set this up for you guys, I'm over at Lake Fork here. I've been doing some crappie fishing and I've been planning on doing some bass fishing after these cold fronts that have come in and we are entering into those warming days. Full moon is almost here. It's like right, it's happening right now. The water's 62 to 65 up in the shallow water and that means bass are going to be moving up shallow and one of the fish I just caught right there, a fresh fish. You can see the white belly, it's come from deep water and those fish are going to be moving up and they're typically more active on feeding two or three days before the full moon and when the full moon hits they really start spawning and it's important to look on the banks and look for bed fish and I already saw about a six, seven pounder on a bed this morning. I saw another fish, about three or four pounds with another four pounder that was paired up yesterday and it looks like these fish are starting to move up but they're not quite locked on the beds yet. So we're going to start off doing some shallow water bass fishing, throwing spinnerbaits, throwing crankbaits, throwing plastics, just up in shallow water where these fish are starting to move in. I'm stuck. Okay, they're all be started off right here. Ooh, ooh, ooh. That was a textbook spinnerbait shallow spring bass right there. Right on the daggers top. It's all with it. Switched up to a square bill, got him. Bass fishing.  Just a little mail. Third bass of the day, two on a square, one on a spinner. Heck, we're you when I was filming the last video, dude. What in the world? I got my videos mixed up, guys. Going to the pan. Just had a bass follow it to the boat. I was looking down to like hit the record button on my GoPro and I looked up and there's one sitting right behind it chasing it up. It's probably about a two and a half pound or nothing. Nothing crazy. Just going down these banks and I'm looking for anything, any sort of change. So if there's any sort of color change up on the bank indicating a piece of brush or grass clump or something in the water, I'm going to throw that. I'm looking at the life scope to see if there's any trees just kind of scanning.  Any little piece of cover that's going to hold these fish because I'm not in a, not like for it, but I'm not in a creek that has a ton of trees up in the shallows. It's mostly just kind of sandy. There's no hydrilla or anything. It's just kind of moss. So we're getting one of our first looks at a bass. That's moving up on a bed, but I don't know if it's fully ready to go, but it is in a sandy spot. It's doing circles. I can't really show you guys through the lens because it's not polarized or anything, but it looks like a decent bass. Could be four or five pounds. So if you're throwing out a bass on a bed and it just takes off and doesn't come back at all, that means that that fish really isn't settled on that bed. It's not super defensive of it, so just keep going. But if you throw in there and that fish kind of swims off, but then comes back, that means that that fish wants to be there. And you just have to judge their attitude by how they're reacting to different baits. I like to start off with a weightless plastic bait first and just see what they do because it doesn't make a splash. And it doesn't put out a lot of vibrations or anything. And if they just let that go by and don't do anything, but they stay there, then I'll start using Texas Trace and things like that. Sometimes they use the soft plastic right away. The weightless one, that's what we're going to start off with. I'm really close, so I'm just going to stay in the crouched position here. It's coming back in, but it did a wide circle and it went under the boat, which is not good. Don't want to see that. Don't want to see them go under the boat. It's going to come back, but it's not really digging. What's going on here?  I'm going to throw to this bed ahead of me. I just saw one, like a cruiser come over it.  And again, doesn't like it. He's nose down on it right now. I don't think he's going to eat it though. Got to look. All right. This is not a big one, but we'll just see. Oh, goodness. You know, I've been looking for the last hour for sight fish, and I've seen some, but they've all been pretty skittish. I'm probably just going to take a break from this, or I don't need to sight fish right now. I need to wait until they really get locked on. What beds look like is it's a sandy spot. The fish literally take their tail and their anal fin, and they just push out sand and they push out debris and stuff. And they make a little nest and then they stay in there. And I can see these little grass holes in this, what's called gator grass. I can see bass. Look at this bass coming through the weeds right here. That was wild. Those weeds are moving. That's a bass moving through there. Or maybe it's a gar. But there is a bass in that hole right there. There's a bass in that hole. There's a bass in that hole. There's about a five or six pounder in the hole right behind my motor, but super skittish. Just can't get it to go. So another thing I'm seeing is a lot of gar. A lot of gar paired up. They're spawning as well. It is full-blown spawning season. Little bit of steak for lunch. Let their fish do the thing, get locked in, fish the evening, catch some more. Making life a lot easier, guys. Golden crispies. A lot croppy. I've got catfish waiting over there, but I'm going to use these steaks while I've got them. It's absurdly windy right now, too. I'm glad I came in taking a break. Jeez, holy cow. Unfortunately, I have no plates. I just got this thing, and I mean, I'm going to use it off the board that I usually fillet my fish on. You know, got to make do. Fantastic. It might be a miracle if I get back on the water, but I'm going to wait for this wind to die down. Perfect timing. I got to fight the urge to take a nap. All right, y'all. Time to get back in the game. Simple as that. Didn't even have to put the trolling motor down. I think I'm going to fish where I've been camping. These lights that are up under the dock, we're seeing five, six, seven pounders swimming around in that light, so they can't go far, right? Here's a bass. Midday spinnerbait bass. All right, under the dock. You've got a full belly just like me, buddy, but you're not big. Y'all, this is the only time of year when I throw a spinnerbait just midday, even if it's not windy. There's something about, they just get on the shad, and the way this thing imitates shad is so good, that thump. What's fun about fishing a spinnerbait this time of year, too, is you almost see the bites a lot of times. You get that blade flashing, and you'll bring it by some sort of shallow cover, and it's like they are just barely out of your sight when they hit it. All right. Three quarter ounce spinnerbait. Magnum Soccola. Slowly building. A big sack of those. It's not what's supposed to happen. It's boring to not do that on a stump, but maybe a bass. Absolute snot ball out of it, too. Hopefully we see some just doing the nasty up there, but if they're not, we're going to have to go and explore. I've only fished two creeks since I've been here, so kind of anxious to go check out some other areas, but the Elite Series guys are out here, and it is pretty much anywhere they're fishing. You can expect fish tonight. They've been vacuumed up. All right, y'all, I've made me run across the lake. This is a place where I used to catch a lot of bass in April, back when the lake had grass. Really sad. It doesn't happen anymore. I got a fish that's on a bed. I don't know if he's going to stay, but we're going to try. We're going to give it a whirl here. I'm going to go ahead and just get out some Texas rig stuff. All right, buddy. Let's get fired up and do it. Fired up and do that thing. Come here. I just needed to catch you. Two and a half pound or not. I just had to get him. I was pot committed. You work on these fish, and it becomes personal.  You think that they're going to eat, and I thought for sure when I pulled up just the way that fish was positioned, it was going to eat pretty soon, a good 20 minutes to catch that one. So way too much time to spend on a two and a half pounder on Lake Fork, but I just had to do it. Just had to do it for my soul. I'm just not on the juicy ones that were bite. I mean, could be tomorrow. They might come up tomorrow. I might have to worm it. It's one thing I have not done. I've just gotten out of Texas rig, and it's the last thing I'm going to do. In a place where I know, in April, some of the biggest bass in the world live. Right here in this part of the creek arm. That's pretty crazy to say, but it's pretty truthful. There's really more 10 pounders that come out of here than anywhere else. Let's give it one final go, fishing freaks. Mid-depth wormin'. This is like what you should do when it's slow. I just kind of had a stubborn head today thinking I was going to sight fish when they weren't quite pulled up where I was at. So I got a Lunkerlog Texas rig. Oh, man. Anywhere out here, I'm kind of on a flat. It's about six foot. Anywhere out here, there's trees. This is just a really good place to pitch this Texas rig around, drag it around these trees. And these females will often set up on the base of these trees and we're getting ready to move up and spawn. Especially with there not being any grass in this lake, this is like their only cover.  Oh my gosh, and he's small. Yeah, that's the one you want. Let me just drag real slow out here. Dude, you're smaller than those bed fish. What are you doing? Could not resist the tastiness of a slow worm drag. I need you to tell your big sister, Marlene, to get with the program. All right, guys. Sun going down, about to actually take the boat out of the water because I think I might have bent my prop shaft. I hope I just bent one of the prop blades. But I was getting up on pad right at the end there, right after I saw the eagles. It's a beautiful end of the day. And then I go to get up on pad and boom, get a stomp. Lake Fork, it happens. But if I bent my prop shaft, that could do some damage. There's a lot of, not a lot of, but I can feel the vibration in it. So I'm going to pull the boat out of the water. I hope this doesn't mean I have to get the boat repaired before I can come back. Hopefully I can just limp, but I don't know. We're going to see how bad it is. Guys, moment of truth right here. Okay, this is what you do. Boat's out of the water. This is what you do. You're going to line your eyesight up with the middle of this pin right here. And you're going to spin that and look for irregularities. And I do see a wobble. I don't know if you guys can see that on the screen, but that means that the prop shaft is bent and not repaired. And that is not good. Dead gum! That means, y'all, the silver bullet is out of commission now. You do not want to run your boat with that prop shaft bit like that because it can break the seal. The vibrations can break the seal. And when you break your seal water can get in and get bad stuff. Bad stuff going on. You don't want to ruin the murk, man. What a mega bummer, y'all. Full moon. Lake Fork. April. Baster coming up on beds. Ah, man. And I also had some buddies I was wanting to come out here with me and fish this week. I'm probably going to have to take the boat back to Fun and Sun in all honesty and get them to work on it. Maybe they can just replace the prop shaft. Hopefully there's no lower unit damage. But, man, it's Lake Fork. This definitely happens out here. Would not be my first. I've been on another prop shaft before I actually ruined my lower unit because I was in a tournament and I was running and it was a bad wobble. So you just shouldn't do that. That's how it goes sometimes. But still a fantastic day in the outdoors getting to spend the day next to Lake Fork. And luckily I can say that I'm really out here. I'm glad I can say I've spent probably five springs fishing almost every day in March and April out here and getting to see some really, really nice fish. Obviously stay tuned. I don't know what's going to happen here. I'm probably going to have to go back and regroup. Worst case scenario I could bring the kayak back out here but that's not really good for sight fishing and all that. Then be safe on the water out there. I don't want to lose any fishing freaks. So I love you guys. Thanks for tuning in. I'll see you on the next one.


This study found that THP1 cells produce less cytokines than monocytes and PBMC when exposed to pseudomonas aerigenosa. The authors also demonstrated that specific adsorption of TNF alpha or selective cytokine adsorption from the conditioned media prior to Huvik stimulation reduces Huvik activation. This suggests that THP1 cells may be better suited for use in cell culture models than other cell types. This article was authored by Anita Schildberger, Eva Rosmanoff, Tonya Eichhorn, and others.