Hi everyone! I am back with a new video and this is going to be a tutorial on how I draw the face, eyes, nose, and mouth in a three-quarter view. And I've added a timestamp for the different sections on screen so feel free to skip to the section that you want to watch. This video is also sponsored by Skillshare and I do want to thank Skillshare for making this video possible. I think this is the best time for some of us to learn a new skill or to master a skill that we already have. And Skillshare is definitely the place to learn just about anything that ranges from art, photography, design, business, lifestyle, and productivity. There are so many video tutorials online and the great thing about it is that you learn from a professional or a creative who has succeeded in their respective fields. And you can learn all of these from the comfort of your own home and in your own time, which I absolutely love. 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There is one simple rule that I like to remember when drawing faces at different angles that I think can also be applied to drawing the different facial features such as the eyes, the nose, and the mouth. And in order to understand that rule, we have to note a few things. Number one, the head is three dimensional. And I've taken this makeup sponge that looks like a head to show my example. I've marked two lines, one vertical and one horizontal. So when looking at this from a front view, we can see that both vertical and horizontal lines appear straight. However, as we start to rotate this to the left or to the right, we see that the vertical line is actually curved to indicate the object's true form. So the line is pointing left when it's turned to the left and it's pointing right when it's turned to the right. Once we rotate the sponge head up and down, we can see that now it's the horizontal line that appears curved. It's pointing down when it's tilted down and it's pointing up when it's tilted up. So you can actually create a combination of different angles. But in this video, we will be stripping it back down to the very basics just to keep this simple for you to understand. Number two, perspective. Perspective or foreshortening play a great role in drawing the face at different angles. And this does get more and more intense or complicated depending on the angle. However, we're going to try and keep this video as simple as possible. So I won't go into so much detail about foreshortening. It's just a good thing to note that when an object is further away from the viewer, it appears smaller and an object that's closer to the viewer appears larger in comparison. So that's just a general rule of perspective. Number three, symmetry. The head is relatively symmetrical and so are most of the facial features such as the eyes, the nose and the mouth, especially when looking at these from the front view. And what this means is if you divide the object in half, we have a left side, a center line, and the right side, which is a mirror of the left side, but is also the same width as the left side. In a three quarter view, however, we're going to have an asymmetrical shape because the center line has either shifted to the left or to the right. However, we still have a left side. We have the new center line and then we have a right side and the width of the left side will be different to the width of the right.  And this rule is the direction that the object is turned to is the side of the object that appears smaller. And what that all means, hopefully in a much simpler term, is if the head is turned to the left, the left side appears smaller. And if the head is turned to the right, the right side appears smaller. And the same thing applies when you tilt the head up or down. Now let's actually start using this rule to draw the face. Starting with the head shape, I like to break it down in two basic shapes, which is the circle and the upside down triangle.  So the bigger the circle, the bigger the head, the smaller the circle, the smaller the head. Then the upside down triangle helps create the bottom half of the face. And by changing the height of the triangle and the distance of this to the circle, we can actually create different face shapes, such as a round shape, a heart face and triangle face shape. For our demonstration, I am drawing a face that is turned to the left. Therefore, the upside down triangle I am drawing is asymmetrical, where the left side is smaller than the right side. And this is following the rule that I mentioned before. Then going back to the sponge head, we will draw a center line of the face which connects from the top of the head to the chin. And we're going to make this curved to show the head's curved form. And for this demonstration to keep it as simple as possible, the head is turned only one direction. It's turned to the left. It's not looking up. It's not looking down. Therefore, our horizontal guidelines will remain straight. Now I can have a separate video tutorial of drawing a face looking up or down or a combination of looking to the left and looking up or looking to the right and looking down. But for the purpose of this video and keeping it simple, the head is only turned to the left. So let's divide the face into six equal parts, which gives us seven horizontal guidelines. This will help us place certain features of the face. So line one is the top of the head. Line two is the hairline. Line three is the eyebrows. Line four is for the eyes. Line five is the nose. Line six is for the mouth. And lastly, line seven is for the chin. Now for the eyes. In a three quarter view, I like to draw a leaf shape where the left side is smaller than the right side because the head is turned to the left. So we're following the rule I mentioned before once again.  You can also adjust the width of the eyes to make round eyes or wide eyes. You can also adjust the tilt of the eyes to make upturned eyes or downturned eyes. And the distance between both eyes is usually the width of another eye. However, by changing the distance, you can create closed set eyes or wide set eyes. Then I draw a circle for the pupil and then changing the placement of this indicates the direction of the person's gaze. I also draw arches for the eyelids, which has a similar rule where the left is smaller than the right. And you can change the tilt of this to also create upturned or downturned eyes and changing the distance of the eyelids to the eyes can create either deep set eyes or monolids. For eyebrows, I also start by drawing an arch. Then I make it thicker on one end. The same rule applies where I will make the left side smaller than the right. And you can change the degree of the arches curve to create straight brows or arched brows. For the nose, I start with a circle on the centerline of our three quarter face. You can adjust the size of the circle to create a narrow nose tip or a wide nose tip. You can also adjust the distance of the circle to the center line. So the further away it is from the center line, the pointier the nose. Then I draw two arches on each side of the circle for the nostrils. Same rule applies where the left side is smaller than the right. You can adjust the curve of the arch to show more prominent nostrils. You can also adjust the tilt of the arch and the width of the arch to create diversity. Next, I draw two lines that look like the letter C on each nostril. Same rule applies. Once again, the left side is smaller than the right. And for my demonstration, you can barely see the left side as it's hidden in view by the rest of the nose. And lastly, I like to connect the nose to the eyebrows using a curved line that touches the centerline and it goes back out to the eyebrows. And you can adjust this curve to create either a straight nose or a hooked nose. I usually only draw one of these curved lines in a three-quarter view because this is the bridge of the nose. So I feel like the other one isn't really that important. When drawing a mouth, I also like to start with a leaf shape with a V cut out on top. This follows once again the same rule where the left side is smaller than the right side. I also draw a horizontal line to separate the upper lip to the lower lip and you can adjust the height and the width of this shape to create different kinds of lips. For the ears, I draw a line that looks like a letter C in reverse. I draw this from line four to line five and I draw this just on the edge of our head. I also like to draw this simple line, which is a very simplified detail of the ear, but if you're really interested in how to draw ears, I highly recommend watching a tutorial on it as well as studying the anatomy of it. Next, I also draw ovals for the cheeks on both sides of the head. This is my stylistic choice, so it's definitely optional. You don't have to draw this if you don't like it. Same rule applies as well where the left oval is smaller than the right and I also draw circles for the chin and the forehead. For me, these help soften the face when creating the outline and in order to create the outline to the face in a three-quarter view, we first start with the forehead just following the curve of our initial circle down to the tip of the eyebrow, then it dips to the eyes and comes back out for the cheeks and this is where the ovals are very helpful. So I follow the curve of the oval and connect it to the chin, which has a circle that also help soften that point so the chin isn't as pointy. And then I round off the upside down triangle that we created before to draw the jawline and then I connect that to the ear. Now for the hairline, for the demonstration, I've decided on a round hairline, but there are a variety that I also like to use that help create different face shapes. So for example, we have a square face shape, a heart face shape, an oval face shape and triangle face shape. And for a round hairline, I basically just draw an arch and the same rule applies where the left side is smaller. And hopefully by this time you would have remembered the rule I've set out in the beginning where the direction that the object is turned to is the side of the object that is smaller. And pretty much this concludes how I draw a face. So I'm just going to finish this drawing off by adding some hair and accessories, as well as the neck, which come down from the ear. And I know I only tackled one angle of drawing the face in this video, but the rule does also apply to all angles. So I highly suggest playing around with the guidelines that I've mentioned in the video. There are so many ways to adjust the facial features that hopefully you can have some fun creating different looking faces. I would also recommend looking at reference photos to understand the concept of foreshortening and perspective. I feel like hearing this rule and the idea behind it for the first time can be very tricky. So if you need more time to take it all in, definitely feel free to do so. The more you expose yourself to three quarter view, the more you'll come to understand it.  There are also other video tutorials from Skillshare down in the description box, which I highly, highly recommend watching. I really liked Master Drawing the Face at Angles by Sensei, which offers a different method of drawing the face at a three quarter view, because the method that I've showed you in this video is definitely not the only one out there. There are so many and you might find this complicated and you might find another method easy. So I highly recommend learning from different resources. And I think that Skillshare is there to help you with that. I also really liked Learn How to Draw Features of the Face by Melissa Di Nobrega. I think that this would be really helpful as an in-depth look at how to draw different facial features such as the eyes, the nose, the mouth. I touched about it in this video a little bit, but I feel like this video will be more in depth. I also really enjoyed cartooning, drawing faces and expressions by Eva Marks. And lastly, fashion illustration, how to paint a watercolor fashion face with stylish accessories by Nina Edwards. I think that these two are great videos to follow up my video, especially in terms of applying these techniques into different styles and hopefully into your own unique style as well. So once again, I will link these and more tutorials in the description box below, as well as the Skillshare link for the two months of free premium membership to the first 1000 people to sign up. So go and utilize and take advantage of that link below. And if you have a favorite tutorial that you've watched, leave a link in the comment section for others to see. Lastly, practice a lot. Also, if you have any questions, let me know down below and I will do my best to explain something that might have been confusing. If you also tried this out, tag me on social media. I would love to see your work. I've also included a worksheet and I'm working on getting my tutorials up on my website. So keep an eye out for that. With that said, I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope you found it helpful. 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We are talking about the FIFA World Cup and we are talking about Qatar 2022, which is quite very interesting. So, in this video, I'm going to try to let you know, I'm going to try to let you see what are these definitely these countries that are very qualified. What is your favourite team? If you can talk about, what is your favourite team? Is among the teams that are qualified your favourite team? Yes, that is the case, then definitely you have to support your team. You remember, when we are mentioning about the FIFA World Cup, still we cannot fail to mention what we call the opportunities that are created. Opportunities, when we are looking at work itself and we are looking at rent, we are looking at the opportunities that are being created by what you call the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2020. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I see you right over here. We have what you call the colonnage and this is exactly how the place looks like. Let's go in the video and try to see, definitely, if you are given an opportunity right now to come to Qatar, could you resist the opportunity or could you take up the opportunity? Because remember, when I talked about the opportunity, we are talking about even the opportunity of being in the country that is forcing the FIFA World Cup. It's also another big opportunity. So right now, this is what we call the colonnage and this is how this place looks like. This is what we call the colonnage, definitely. And you know, when we are talking about the colonnage and this is what we call, we are talking about the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2020. So remember, opportunities, we remember the game that is going cross over and it's going to give us what we definitely see in one world. Thank you so much again. When we try to see, let us try to go and see what are these things and how do the teams look like and how definitely, what do you expect when we are talking about the FIFA World Cup. Remember, we are talking about Qatar. We are talking about Qatar 2022. We are talking about Qatar 2022. Which is pretty, very interesting and very good. Thank you so much. For those that have subscribed, please, if you are returning to Siano, please consider hitting that notification bell. By the way, don't forget to put a comment in the subsection. In this video, I wanted to move you around what we call the who board. That is the clock, the FIFA World Counting Clock. It's quite very amazing if you can see definitely how it is. This is what we call the colonnage. It is pretty very beautiful and this is the sunset down. This is how definitely looks like. Remember, when we are talking about the FIFA World Cup, we need a tournament. We are talking about the tournament of 32 teams fighting together for winning the prize of the trophy. Remember, this inviting almost all the fans around the group of the world with fighting for the men's home. So in today's video, I want to try to show you, let us try to see how many days we have as a countdown. How many hours do we have? How many minutes and how many seconds? It's quite very interesting if you can definitely look at this. We may talk about the FIFA World Cup. Remember, something that you need definitely know is about the opportunities. When we are talking about the opportunities in the colonnage, we are talking about the opportunities in colonnage. We can't fail to mention what we call the FIFA World Cup. This is what we call who board. Right now we have 172 days. We have 18 hours. We have 59 minutes and we have 52 seconds in one weather. This is definitely how it looks like. This is the crack level and definitely this is what we have to talk about. So when we are talking about this small country right now, it is hosting what you call the FIFA World Cup Catalan 2022. Great opportunities for all over. Great opportunities for people around a different group of the world. Remember, it is expecting over fans and fans millions, blocking for a kind of period of time. Moving towards what you call the FIFA World Cup. This is how the place looks like. Treatatively, if we can talk about the beauty of the place, this is how we talk about it. These are what you call the flags of the FIFA World Cup. That is what you call the FIFA World Cup Catalan 2022. And those are the flags of the World Cup countries that have already qualified for the FIFA World Cup, which is quite very interesting. We want to see how it is going to look like, how it is going to look like in this Gulf country. Hosting what you call the FIFA World Cup Catalan 2022, which is pretty very good in one way or another. So it is definitely, it is something that we need definitely to see and we need to know. Here we have what you call, we have what you call is called Mexico. Mexico is the 28 nation to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. And it is qualified on the 31st of 2022, which is quite very interesting and quite very beautiful. We have another African country, which is called Cameroon. It is the 26th nation to qualify and it is qualified on the 29th of March 2022. Right now over here we have another country is an African country, which is called Tunisia. Tunisia is the 24th nation to qualify and it is qualified on the 29th of March 2022. We have another country that is Portugal. It is the 22nd nation to qualify for the FIFA World Cup and it is qualified on the 29th of March 2022, which is quite very amazing. This is the Mekskan flag. If we can try to run it out and to try to show you, this is how the flags get to Portugal. Remember we talked about Tunisia, we talked about Cameroon and we also talked about Mexico. That is the Qatar 2022 emblem. This is how the flags are flying all over Indonesia. For right here we have another African country, which is called Ghana. Ghana is qualified on the 28th nation to qualify and it is qualified on 29th March 2022. Actually when you look at the emblem, the details on this World Cup flag, they give you the date when that country qualified and it will also give you the number when it is qualified, the position and also the date. Right over here we have what you call another nation country that is Ecuador. For those people that know about Ecuador, this is Ecuador. It is the 18th nation to qualify and it qualified on the 24th of March. We have another country is called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is how definitely look at the flags. This is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and you definitely have to look at the flag. It is the 16th nation to qualify and it qualified on the 24th of March 2022. We have another country is South Korea which qualified on 1st of 2nd of 2022. It is the 14th nation cup to qualify. If I can try to take you up, you can see the flag of South Korea. This is how definitely looks like. It's quite very beautiful how they get to be lined up in one world together. I talked about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It's quite very interesting. We're talking about the Gulf and definitely we can't wait to have the very interesting food model that is coming from the Gulf countries which is pretty very good. So we go to another country for those that have the favourites. We are talking about Argentina. Argentina is the 12th country to nation to qualify and it qualified on what we call on the 16th of November 2020. This is the Argentinian flag. It's quite very interesting. Then the next country we have is what you call Switzerland. We shall move up to all countries and definitely you see what I'm talking about. Switzerland is the 10th nation to qualify and it qualified on the 15th of 11th of 2021. We are trying to look at the detail, the position and the death when this nation qualified. Then we are sure also going to look at the national flag of this country. Such that you can have the full detail and you can know exactly. If we are talking about this country definitely you know what is the flag. How the country's flag look like. This is what we call Denmark. This is how the flag of Switzerland looks like. So we go to the next nation is called Serbia. Serbia is an 8th nation country to qualify. It qualified on the 14th of 11th of 2021 and this is the flag of Serbia, Montenegro. Then we get to another country is called Croatia. Croatia is a 6th nation to qualify. It qualified on the 14th of 11th of 2022. When we get to close up definitely we shall look at the flag of Croatia. That is how the flag of Croatia look like. For those people of Croatia bravo. You look at yourself that is how definitely you look at. We look at another country Beneviola. That is called France. France qualified is the first nation to qualify and it qualified on the 13th of 11th of 2021. Let us look at that is the flag of France. This is exactly what we are talking about. This is what we are talking about. Then we look at another country is called Denmark. Denmark qualified on the second nation to qualify. It qualified on the 12th 10th of 2021 and that is how the flag of Denmark looks like. Very beautiful. Then we can't mention. What we cannot fail to mention is the host country. The host country which it says now is all that is what you call the host nation. It is called Katal. Remember when you are hosting the FIFA World Cup definitely you will definitely have to be one of those. Let us look at how the flag looks. This is Katal. The host country. It is the first Gulf country to host the FIFA World Cup which is going to be very beautiful. Let us look over this side and we see other nations countries that qualified for the FIFA World Cup. So remember we are on call niche. This is how very beautiful the place is. Another country is Germany. Germany was the first nation to qualify and it qualified on the 11th 10th of October 2021. For the German people, German fans. This is Germany. Then we have another country. Another country is Brazil. The third nation to qualify and qualified on the 11th of November 2021. This is Brazil. When we talk about Brazil definitely you know what I am talking about. Another country to qualify is Belgium. For those that do not know Belgium it is the fifth nation to qualify and it qualified on the 13th 11th of 2021. This is how the flag of Belgium looks like. Very interesting and very beautiful. So we are talking about these countries of the FIFA World Cup. We are talking about those countries that definitely they will die to see that they date to win the trophy. Another country which has each which was a champion in 2010 that is called Spain. For people coming from Spain it was the seventh nation to qualify and it qualified on the 15th of November 2021. That's the flag of Spain. Remember it was a world champion in 2010 that is in South Africa which actually very beautiful. We look at another country people coming from England. Definitely this is what you cannot pay to mention. England was the ninth nation to qualify and qualified on the 15th of 11th 2021. For people coming from UK this is how it looks like. We look at another country is the Netherlands. It was the 11th country to qualify and qualified on the 16th 11th of 2021. And that is the flag of Netherlands which is pretty very interesting. All these countries we are talking about they have the best football. They play the good football. The football that you get to watch and you really definitely get to enjoy yourself. Another country we are talking about that is Iran. It is a 13th nation to qualify. It qualified on the 27th of 1st of 2022. That is the flag of the Republic of Iran. We have another country is called Japan. Japan qualified on the 15th nation. This is the 15th nation to qualify and it qualified on the 24th, 3rd of 2022. Let us just try to close it and we see that is the flag of Japan. Remember Japan has been representing Asia in most of the World Cup tournament. So we can't get to underestimate it as a team. We definitely need to understand that it's also a team to take or to give a hand of our pros. We have another 17th nation team to qualify that is called Uruguay. For people in Tokyo, we shall talk about we definitely talk about surest and it qualified on the 24th, 3rd, of March of 2022. That is the flag of Uruguay. That is the flag of Uruguay. We go to another country is Canada. Canada is qualified on the 19th nation. It's the 19th nation to qualify and it qualified on the 27th, 3rd of 2022. That is what we call Canada. For those people that don't know the flag, that's the Canadian flag. Then we have another country is called Senegal. Senegal is an African country. It's the 21st nation to qualify for the 5th World Cup and it qualified on the 29th, 3rd of 2022. This is the flag. Definitely up there we can see the flag flying at full mass. That is the Senegalese flag. Then we also have another flag is Poland. The Polish people 23rd nation to qualify. 29th, 22nd. The Polish people you can see a flag flying up on the mass which is pretty very interesting. We are all talking about the teams that have already qualified for the 5th World Cup. Battling together. The 32 teams that will be battling together to see that everyone gets to win the troll. We have another African country over right here. It's Moloko. That qualified on the 25th nation. It's the 25th nation to qualify on 29th March 2022. That is the flag of Moloko. We can't fail to mention this African country because when we look at the Arab Cup we see much of the containers of the tournament of the Arab Cup. We looked at this of the most important countries that play the game. Then something else we cannot fail to mention is what we call the United States of America. For other people coming from the East it was the 27th nation to qualify on the 31st, 3rd of 2022. And this is the flag of the United States. This is what we are talking about. When we are talking about the 5th World Cup we can't fail to mention this. Guys, it's pretty very good. Let's try to enjoy it. Hey guys, it's pretty very good and this is definitely what we can say. So when we definitely mention this this is how definitely. Right over that side we have City Centre. That is how we talk about it. We talk about Doha, we talk about Qatar. Definitely you know what I'm talking about. We are talking about the freer skyscrapers all over the places and this is how beautiful the area is. This is what we call college. It's called the college. Very beautiful. Remember when we are talking about the 3th World Cup in Qatar we can't fail to mention the opportunities. It's gradually the opportunities that are there and the opportunities that are around. Remember it makes from the next question if you try to enjoy. Thank you so much. It makes from the next question. See again next video as we try to see all the other updates around. So this is definitely what we need to say. I want to show you the number of days, the hours, the minutes and the seconds which is quite very interesting and very beautiful. So this is how this place looks like. It's very beautiful. This is how it looks like. Very very beautiful. So these are all the flags of all those nations that have already qualified for the FIFA World Cup. Hope you try to enjoy. See again as we try to see other opportunities.


Enlightenment is the process of blossoming, the thousand petal lotus, on the top of the head. Now that we've looked at the lower centers, what happens when we do change and move into the higher ones? Well, to understand that, we need to understand the nature of our body of consciousness. Take the Egg of Life, the original eight cells of the human body, a form that takes place shortly after conception and is created by a wave spreading across the embryo. This particular biological cell division is important because the body coming into form is perfectly and evenly divided into the four elements with the Yin and Yang of each giving you eight perfect spheres. These spheres each contain a piece of the whole, each representing a core aspect of the various parts of the human spirit as represented by different body parts. These eight spheres become the first physical representation of the complete eight chakra system which from root to crown connects the physical energy of the earth through the body to the higher awareness of the dimensions beyond our bodies and our infinite connection with everything else in existence. The eighth chakra is the root of the next world connecting you with your eternal self beyond the limits of your physical form and as with the heart, a half step hides this portal for those who have reached the higher centers. And before we jump into this, just a reminder, if you're someone who really wants to experience a profound chakra healing, make sure to check out the seven day transformation in which we use the chakra system to completely rewire your consciousness quickly and effortlessly. The best part is, it only takes a week. Think of the chakras like your field of awareness and depending on which one you're focused in, your awareness becomes focused and narrow or wide and expansive, kind of like using them as a lens, as we mentioned earlier. When you're in the root, a survival focus, your perception is narrowed into just one thing, surviving the current crisis or situation that you find yourself in. All in all, it's a very thin beam, but now if you're in the third eye with your other chakras open and satisfied, your expanding vision goes very far and wide in order to see all of the connections at once. Your telepathic and mental reach also gets a pretty good XP boost. The third eye is all about seeing the geometry of the universe so that it can focus in on a very specific shape or expand its vision to a very wide understanding of all of the patterns in life and how they connect. You can imagine how you might switch between them on the fly too. Let's say you're camping out with some friends on a moonlit night, everyone feels safe, maybe there's some brotherly bonds being created while some guy plays a guitar around a campfire. You're telling a story, sharing meaningful experiences with your companions, and in this moment, your primary or dominant chakra leaves the heart and throat. And it's right around then that the bear shows up and for the sake of the story, let's imagine that he's very hangry. Naturally, there's a lot of physical responses. Adrenaline surges throughout the body, your fight or flight response kicks in too, both of which are a reflection of the energetic shift within you. Think about it, everyone panics. Now nobody feels safe and everyone scatters, running for their lives. I mean duh, it's a freaking bear. And he's having a bad day, taking one down, making a mess, just to turn it around. Everyone's reality lens drops down to the root focus all at once. You all go into survival mode and remain there until everyone feels safe again, after which you can scale back up the lower centers until we reach our equilibrium with each other, wherever that threshold is within your particular group. This example, of course, is only one of many possible responses to a hangry bear showing up. Depending on the awareness and training of the group, the responses could vary anywhere from calmly turning your back and walking away in peace. All the way to an energetic nod to the bear that you're friendly and if the bear is interested, they'd love to do some photography together. The idea here is to say that if someone such as, let's say, Jesus was in his circumstances, he'd probably radiate so much light and love and energy that the bear would be like, Bro, teach me. As they would be communicating on an energetic and telepathic level and they'd be right as rain, super good friends. And on that note, human-to-animal communication is far more elegant and simple than we realize. However, that said, we as humans are not quite at that level yet, so we don't exactly recommend going out and trying to take a selfie with a bear, at least not without some salmon or something to distract it. So generally, what is required to expand your consciousness into the higher centers is a stable foundation of understanding and a healthy, mental-emotional connection within. The process of moving higher is in fact a shift in awareness and transition into the heart beyond the wall of the first half-step. Now previously, we regarded the heart wall as a half-step, but moving forward, I want to continue this discussion and concept as a mirror wall, which also has some practical aspects to it for us today. In practice, when you see the mirror wall through these chakra lenses, it just shows you what you already know. And when you step through it, move into the heart, everything gets bigger. It's very through-the-looking-glass style. This mirror wall or half-step is essentially an invisible wall that hides the higher chakras from spirit when it's exploring the lower ones, especially when it's still new to this reality. But once a level of master has been established within the first three chakras, spirit can catch a glimpse of or even move into the next part of life experiences, stepping through the looking-glass. Sometimes, if there's a lot of shadow and darkness within oneself, we can refer to it as a black mirror, because it's hard to look at when you go within yourself. It's dark and sometimes very scary, and yet we must be willing to face our inner darkness, face our black mirror or our mirror wall in order to step through it.  Very briefly, however, we must touch on a rather secretive chakra that isn't really mentioned a lot, but is very important in energy work and within the higher paradigm. It's known sometimes as the Zeal Chakra and is said to be located at the base and back of the skull. Physically, this chakra governs the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and several other automatic functions, but it's also said to be the gatekeeper to your state of consciousness. It seems almost to be kind of like the at on the Tree of Life. It connects directly with the pineal and pituitary glands, the crown chakra, the heart chakra and the Kundalini and acts as a primary channel for cosmic energy, like the crown, but serves to anchor that chronic juice to the physical plane. Because of this, it's very often used in occult practices and the magic arts as a means of manifestation, which is an idea echoed in many of its other names, like the mouth of God, the well of dreams, the Jade Gate, the Jade Pillow or the Ascension Chakra. In fact, working with this chakra helps to completely balance the main chakra system and supports the natural healing ability of the body. Very dot like indeed. Because it acts as a doorway of sorts for the universal energy to flow into the lower centers, a lot of people link this chakra with spiritual abilities, like clairvoyance, telepathy and multidimensional communication. Awakening and working with the Zeal chakra will also awaken many of our dormant abilities too. So while it is recommended you start with the root, think of the Zeal as a supporting chakra that helps to make the awakening process even easier. And to relate this to the existing chakra system, this one might be between the third eye and the crown, probably like the F sharp key on the 12th chakra piano system. And in case this doesn't make sense, let's bring it full circle with this. What we're looking at here is the human eight chakra system, the primary chakras or nodal points running up and through the body. According to the wisdom teachings from which these systems come, human energy moves in the pattern you see here as an unfolded star tetrahedron opening up into a chain. The transition steps are located between the third and fourth chakras and the seventh and eight chakras. The difference between this system, seven and eight, or 12 and 13, is really just about how you're analyzing the data. It's all the same data at the core level, but it's just different dimensions or angles of observation. So let's look at how the geometry of this actually works. We've looked at this before and this time we're going to go even deeper. The key here is actually many keys. I know, mind boggling, right? It's all inlaid in a piano.  Those black keys are mid-steps known as semitones between each of the white keys, which are called whole tones. In music theory, they're called sharps or flats, depending on which key that you're using as a reference point. Normally, one white key to a black key is a half step, and with the black key in the middle, from white to white, is referred to as a whole step, because you're moving a semitone or a full tone up the scale, respectively. However, when it happens between two white keys, this is an unusual transition, though less common but still pertinent. It's a 90-degree shift in tones throughout the audible spectrum. And this is actually a pretty big deal when you relate it with consciousness. That half step between white keys is a point of transition, the singularity in aha moments when all of the dots of your life all connect with each other in a new way. Now, there's actually a lot more to this octave-based understanding that we want to elaborate a bit more here, too. It's actually pretty simple when you think about it in terms of a 13-extradimensional chakra system. Although we should say, you can use either system, both the 8-system and 13-one, have different benefits for different circumstances. See, the chromatic scale on a piano has 12 notes, and the 13th is the return note, or rather, the first note of the next octave. In every octave there are 7 notes, and then the 8th is just the return note for the next octave, as well as overlapping with the previous one. This means that the 8th chakra of the octave, and by extent, the 13th chakra of the chromatic scale, are ultimately the same note and have the same role or purpose. And fully as a fun side note here, but if you're interested in joining me personally in learning piano, I've been doing some live streams lately on my own personal channel, and I'll link that in the comments below, too, just in case you want to pop your head in. But to bring the conversation of all of these chakras to a close, it really is just the same 12 notes in creation that repeat over and over again at different wavelengths. It applies to music, to sound, it applies to color, and it even applies to us. Everything is cyclical and interconnected.


So, basically what we're going to show you today is how we make a prototype extremely fast every single week. We're going to show you the tools that we use, we're going to tell you why we use those tools and compare and contrast a few other programs. Everybody, I'm Brittany and this is Rob. Hi everybody. We are from AJ & SMART, of course, because you're on our channel, that makes sense. So I brought Rob in because he is, yeah, yeah, exactly. Just because of that. He has two hands mostly, but he is prototyper extraordinaire. He is our sprint lead, so he's doing this stuff literally every week. So thanks so much, Rob, for doing this. No worries. I really appreciate that. So, basically, if you don't know, we do a lot of design sprints, meaning that we have to build a prototype in just one day. Now, obviously, we're doing this quite often, so we've kind of gotten a nice flow. We kind of know what tools to use, how to use them, but if you are out there and you're wanting to build a prototype for the very first time and you're wondering what tool to use, what's the easiest one, what's going to allow you to kind of just jump in and immediately start using the thing without having to look at a hundred tutorials, we would suggest using... Figma. Figma. Yeah, we're going with Figma. Yeah, going with Figma. All right. So what's kind of interesting maybe for you guys to know also is that we used to use sketch and envision. We were kind of like, we were very big into the sketch and envision. Yeah. It was great actually for a long period of time, it enabled us to do everything that we needed, but there became a point in time when actually no single one person is responsible for a prototype. We have normally like a team of two or three of us that kind of work together. So basically, Figma was an option for us because it meant that we could all collaborate on the same art board and actually then kind of create those interfaces much quicker. Whereas before if two or three designers were working on the same prototype, we'd have to kind of merge those files afterwards at the end of the day and typically when that's the kind of the crucial point where it's quite stressful because we want to get a link out to the client so they can see it. And actually forming those art boards into one was just super, super tense. Yeah. So yeah, it was a great option for us. Cool. Cool. So now we're using Figma and sometimes we're using it with Marvel, right? Yeah. So yeah, there's a difference. Why? From the summer, Figma enabled you to do prototyping within the actual tool itself. Okay. And I'll go into that more in a minute. But basically we have a couple of stipulations based on what it is that our prototype and what we want to get out from it. So typically we would use Marvel, for example, if we needed to show actual video maybe within the actual screen itself. Whereas if it's quite a simple like click, one click per screen and you're not really kind of showing a complete life cycle of a product, Figma is actually a really good option because you can just kind of like just click one click and it will take you through that flow that you're going to go through. Okay. So maybe you can just, we have an app up that we've been working on in Figma. It's called Make Time. I don't know if you probably may have heard of it. So maybe you can just take me through like a few of the features that you really like about Figma and like just the simple ways that we use it. Yeah. So basically there's a number of reasons I really like using Figma.  So you have to maybe share your prototype with a lot of people. Basically those people can have exposure to this, this prototype and they can also kind of leave comments on it as well. So that's a really nice feature.  And then you can basically just go, yeah, I think this is great. Maybe let's look at some examples. Okay. So you can actually like you would drop that exactly where you want the comments. Yeah, exactly. And you can even like you can even post that to a certain person for example. Right. As well if you wanted to. So that's really nice. So then you can kind of just step away, leave that for example quite often what happens is that we involve our clients quite heavily on our prototypes. So for example, we will have a check in and then they're able to kind of spend the next hour of themselves writing up some comments. And then we can come back maybe after lunch and then we can kind of see what their feedback is. It could be something as trivial as maybe just copy changes or it's never anything too significant. But if you're using Figma in a larger kind of design capacity, maybe you can kind of expand upon that and actually have some maybe some creative direction from those as well. Cool. Okay. Can we like see, can you show me a few more of these screens? Like what does our, what does this actually look like? It's like. So this is basically just for the, this is a couple of screens that I've copied in. Oh, yeah. So this is on make time, which you'll obviously be seeing very shortly. And we have a notification pop up here and then this is really quite cool. This is our timer as well. So this is how we've mocked this up so you can kind of see the level of detail that we have here when you, and all these components are selectable as well. So you can kind of just see, you can kind of click into it and then move on as well. So yeah, it's pretty selectable and what I would say is that actually if you have used sketch in the past, if you're new to Figma, like don't sweat it, like you will pretty much learn the basics of Figma within like a few hours. Okay. And within a day you said you would be pretty proficient at it as well because a lot of the functions are quite similar. Okay, good. So it's quite an easy learning curve. Great. I would say. Yeah, that's cool. Okay, so let me, like what if, so you have these screens and everything and you've designed the, like the pop up and stuff. Yeah. What do you need to do? Like how does it work when you're wanting to like actually implement the, like the functionality like, like connecting screens or, like this is just a prototype, right? Yeah. So we would do all our, this is where we create. So this is like where, for example, if you're just getting started, I'll come to your question in just a second. I think it's good to start at the very beginning. If you're using this product for the very first time, there are plenty of templates out there that you can use to get you started. So for example, you don't have to redesign like the home screen on your iPhone. Right. You can kind of pull those devices in. And would you find the templates within Figma? You would want to just do a Google search for them and then within Figma's like ecosystem, you can find all these templates. People just tend to post things as well, just to help each other out. So you can pretty much find most things and that's actually how we often are able to get started really quickly. We can kind of use these templates just to kind of get going. Do we have templates now that we use like basically every week? Yeah, absolutely. We have several to choose from. Yeah. Like for example, if we're trying to mock up someone downloading an app from the app store, we would have that screen already made. So we basically just change the icon and the description and put these screens in. That's a really good example actually. A good time saver. Yeah. So this is kind of like the create phase. So what's really cool here is if I can just draw your attention to these three tabs at the top, we have design, prototype and code. So we very rarely use the code one. But for example, say you wanted to now link these screens, say you didn't want to use Marvel. We're going to go, you know, we're going to just go with Figma. We're going to link a few screens together. We can then just do it in here. So what you basically would do is select the screen that you wanted to link, just click done. So select the screen that you want to link. And you get like these little nodes here. And then what you can do is you can then just drag that to basically the next screen. Ah. So you could potentially go around this one and like attach it to the next one. Exactly. So you could just bypass that actually and then get straight to that one. How satisfying. Yeah. It's quite, I mean actually this is a really good like visual way of actually like linking some screens up. Because quite often when you're using Marvel, like Marvel's probably a little bit more of a complicated act to use. It's not difficult, but it's just slightly different. Yeah. I think if you're a designer, I'm a very visual person, so it's kind of nice just to see exactly how these screens would link like this. Yeah. And I'll come to Marvel in a minute. But yeah, this is a great example of, for example, like now we'll go, let's just move this one all the way up to like the pop-up, for example. Right. So then what you could then do is then go play. It's just loading it now. So then once you click on it, then it would take you to the next screen and you get that. I mean, there's obviously a screen job, it's not a real blow, but it just shows you exactly like. Right. What if you want it to be like that you press on certain things to take you to certain areas? Certain areas, yes. So again, so what we can do is we can go back now. So say you wanted to go to a component, as I was saying, so say you wanted to dismiss that, yeah? Yeah. So what we can do is you can actually click on that component and then actually go back and we could probably just take you to, let's go back to this screen, for example, for this example. There. Okay, so then we can play. So then when you click, it then goes. Cool. Yeah, so you can kind of link all these kind of components within your UI or you can just link screens as well. So just down to you guys, like how you need to work out the complexities of your prototype and what it is that you need to show your client. Yeah. And then you can kind of work out the simplest way of kind of executing that. Yeah, yeah. I'll make sure that that pop up isn't shown on. Cool. Rob just got an email from a client. Yeah. But we're not going to show you that. No, no, we're going to cut that bit out. We're going to cut that part out. Okay, that's really cool. So yeah, you can actually, you can link just screens or you can get these components as well. Yeah, that's cool. So I guess you don't have to make it so complicated or so detailed. Exactly. So basically one of the problems we find with Figma though is that although it's really great and it kind of streamlines our workflow, sometimes when we're kind of playing the prototype back and front of the client, it's you have to be really sure about where those clickable areas are. For example, in Marvel, you get these really nice kind of highlighted blue boxes, which are really nice screen cues. And we don't actually have those in the Figma. So as you'll notice that when I was showing you just now, you just need to know where it clicks. So if you have a lot of complexities on the screen, like maybe for example like a web landing page and you have multiple buttons that you need to click, sometimes it's good just to have those highlights, especially when you're guiding the user through for the very first time. Totally. Yeah, so you don't have to know remember exactly the flow. Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah, that's a good point. Exactly. Okay. So Figma is really great for, for example, say your team are working on PCs and in Macs as well. It's actually a web app so that you can actually just use the machine that you're most comfortable with. You don't have to conform to like either one or the other. That's the Figma. Yeah, that's the Figma. Actually, I'm in Marvel as well. So they're both web apps. That's a plus side for both of them. Yeah. How fluid are they like when you're using them? Like does it really feel like an actual app, like a real app? Yeah, actually it doesn't feel like you're on a website. Okay. It feels like actually like the desktop version as well. Okay. Which is really, really cool. Yeah. So I would definitely say that there's, I mean, there might be some performance issues for sure. Mm-hmm. So for example, say your internet drops that obviously there's going to be problems. Right. It's all about based anyway. Yeah. But if you have the desktop version, then you can still work. So another good thing about Figma is that as I mentioned before, like we can share the project between a number of people. Mm-hmm. So here you can see for example, like Fedor, Fedor's editor, he's obviously working on this component on this screen. Mm-hmm. And it's really, you know, it's really unintrusive as well. Like we've even been working on the same button styles together, for example. Really? And maybe just tweaking the Bevel or something. So it's really good that you can kind of have that exposure of what your colleague is working on and obviously what you have to do as well. So again, this aids the kind of speed in which your prototype will be made. Okay, so you're in design and then there's prototype. Prototype. And that's where you link the things up. Yeah, exactly. And code which we don't use. So code we don't use so with Oak we were working very closely with the developer. Mm-hmm. And actually they were able to just literally pull out, for example, like if you have this blue, for example, it's a hex color. Mm-hmm. They were able just to pull out those pieces of information from here. Literally every clickable component you click on it and it gives you the code for it. Fantastic. And then that obviously helps them kind of build things much quicker as well. Yeah, great. Cool. And yeah, so doing a hand over from Figma to the developers is actually a question mark. Yeah, it makes it really seamless because they work on different files. And like in the past, you know, we've just had experiences where they're trying to get like a color reading from a JPEG, for example. Right. Just you have all these kind of complexities as well. Yeah. So they have the same exposure again because it's web-based. They don't have to actually have the application on their desktop. That's cool. So it's totally, yeah, it makes it so much easier. And they can make notes on questions and stuff. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's really cool. So it kind of completes the loop, if you might know. Yeah, great. Okay, cool. So that's it for today. Thanks so much for watching. Please give this video a like if you enjoyed it. If you like seeing how we're working, what we're working on and definitely subscribe if you haven't already. Thank you so much, Rob. Thank you, guys. And have a wonderful prototyping day. Yeah, good luck. Bye. Are we classed? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Are we classed? I have no idea. We're classed. We're gonna stop in. Are we gonna stop in? Are we gonna stop now?


my name is Ben. So recently I got into urban farming and I'm interested in things to do with growing plants. And also part of that is composting because the food waste can be turned into compost which is like natural fertilizer which you can use to create your own soil for growing your own food. So it's like a circular loop, like closing the waste loop. Okay, so for those of you who are not familiar with what composting is, I have on my screen a picture. Can y'all see my screen? Okay, good. So this is what I call traditional composting. So traditional composting is very simple. You're just alternate green layers and brown layers. So what are green and brown layers? So green layers are your food waste because it's normally green in colour, you know, like vegetables or food pills, you know, they're very colourful and they are usually green, like green glass glass kippings. And then browns and they're actually wet. Okay, browns are things that are actually brown in colour and dry. So they're things like newspaper, cardboard. It can be dried leaves, brown colour dried leaves. It can be cocoa peed. Cocoa peed is what we use for our machine. Cocoa peed is very good because it's made from coconut husk. It's basically like the leftover shavings from coconut husk. And it's very good for putting in the compost bin because of the properties, very fluffy. It absorbs a lot of moisture and it's very good for like encouraging microbes. So traditional composting relies on microbes to break down the food waste. It takes, depending on how you do it, it can take anywhere from like two to three weeks to like maybe two to three months, depending on how you do it.   So it's not very big. So we've now reached the high temperatures that we want for very fast composting. So we are normally, we're doing it for like over two or three months. So the idea is that once the bin fills up the gardener or the maintainer of the machine needs to take out the bin and then empty up the contents or replace with the empty bin. Okay, so we are using the traditional bin composting method. So imagine this is a compost bin.  So we asked like, this is a volunteer project. So I'm also like a volunteer. So we asked somebody like a student to create a short video of what the bending machine would look like or great. Okay, so this is at Amokio community garden, that's community garden. Okay, so the compost bin is over here somewhere here. So there's a keypad over here for the user to unlock this door. There's a door over here, access door. So there's also a RFID card reader or keypad. So you can enter a very short password to unlock this door. Okay, so when you unlock this door, inside, this is the top view from looking out from the top view, the brown containers, it's the one that contains the coco peat, the coco peat, right? And then there's a grinder, this is the top view again. Okay, then there's a weighing scale over here. Yeah, and then there's a screen, they continue the video. So you need to put your food waste into the grinder, there's a funnel for you to put the food waste into the funnel and then there's a grinder. So you turn on the grinder by pressing the start button. And then after you're done finishing, you have to press the stop button to stop the grinder. And then you have to turn this knob on the brown container to add a layer of brown onto the compost bin. So composting, we try to avoid meat waste, dairy products, grease and oil because these will attract pests like rats and cockroaches and all that and we don't want that. And it will start, you'll sync up the bin as well. So we can only collect certain types, the best would be vegetables and fruit, basically non-processed food, non-processed food, natural food. Then one of the outputs that we need to weigh to find out how much food waste is collected. This is the funnel for putting the food scraps. Yep, so that's the video.  So based on our discussions, we came up with a flow chart. This might not be a very proper one, but it's a very quick one. Okay, so the video loops in the idle mode and then you can open the door either by using RFID or a code on the keypad. Okay, then once it verifies that the person has entered the right password or the RFID card, then you unlock the door with a message, welcome message, and then you'll ask the person to start adding the food scraps into the grinder. So you press the green button to start grinder, then you add your food scraps into the funnel, maybe grounded, you'll be grinded, and then you will be deposited in the compost bin below. And then after it's stopped, then you, because the grinder is not attached to the microcontroller, we need to actually tell the user to tell the microcontroller that it's done by pressing the keypad. So I ask the user to press the x-rings button, or, no, sorry, the hash, hash, hash tag button, hash button, yeah, to tell the program that they have finished the grinding. Then after that program will tell the user how much food waste was contributed, and then you'll ask the user to turn the knob to add the layer of grounds. And then again, because the knob is not automated, it's not connected to microcontroller, so you need to tell the microcontroller that you're done. So you press the keypad to tell the program that you're done, adding the grounds, and then the program will tell the user. Okay, then we came up with the block diagram. So this is the components that we use. There's a keypad here, the RFID reader, the 50kg load cell, which is this HX711 is an amplifier that will amplify the signal so that the Arduino is able to pick up the signal from the load cell. Okay, then we are using two ultrasonic sensors to, one is for the ground to find out how full the ground is to track whether it needs to be topped up. If it's empty, then we need to tell the maintainer of the machine to top up the ground. And this one's for the compost bin. So once the compost bin is full, we need to tell the governor to replace the compost bin. Then there's the solenoid block for the door. Then we need ventilation for the electronics, and also the compost bin because compost needs oxygen for this aerobic process, which needs oxygen. So it's good to have ventilation in the machine so that you have the compost as well to break down. Okay, so this is a demo or okay, so I'll show you a demo actually right there. Okay, so this was like, before we installed it on the machine, this was like the breadboard stage. So I use the Raspberry Pi for the, I use Python on the Raspberry Pi to create a very simple program. So, so do we know talking to the Raspberry Pi? The Raspberry Pi runs a Python program with the simple user interface. So, so, oh, sorry, I think I ran a bit too fast. Let me start with it. Okay, so it starts on the idle mode, which is the video loops on the idle mode. And then I use the RFID tag to unlock the door. And then the program hotel will welcome the resident and then tell the resident to start processing the food waste. And then, oh, okay, so I put the RFID tag there to stimulate the food waste. So pretend that it became heavier, it became heavier with that tag. And the tag weighs four grams. All right, so the load cell is able to detect a resolution of four grams. Then I'll tell the user to turn the knob and then press the hex button when they're done. So press the hex button. So the user has finished. So tell the user to close the door and go by. Okay, so, oh, one interesting thing is that we had to last minute, we found that the ultrasonic sensors didn't work because the cocopeat is very soft and fluffy. It actually absorbs sound. So we found that it couldn't detect the cocopeat, like you can read it like minus one. So we had to change to an infrared sensor at the last minute. Okay, so yeah, we are using infrared, infrared works with soft fluffy materials. Next thing I'll show you is, okay, yeah, this is what the machine looks like. Okay, so like this is the grounds container, this is the screen, this is the door and this is the panel and the grinder. So we use a liner. This is an ammo cube near the community garden. This is what you call, it's not a final product, this is what you call the MVP, the minimum viable product, still not working very well. Oh yeah, this is the infrared sensor which we put, see like this points downwards towards compost bin. So this will detect how full the compost bin is. This is for the grounds container, the IR sensor for the grounds container. Okay, so like this is the, this white box is the Arduino Mega, we use Arduino Mega and this is the Raspberry Pi 4 in the black box and we use a Wi-Fi dongle video. The ventilation fan is behind. This is the at the back of the RFID card reader. The RFID card reader somewhere in here, the lock is here. This is the back. This is the testing with the Pocopy and the IR infrared sensor. Okay, I think the rest are not very interesting. Yeah, okay, then the next thing I'll show you is things speak. So I'm using the free version of things speak which allows you for up to four channels. So I maxed out the four channels and actually today was like the first day that we started collecting data. So the first data that we need to track is the RFID tags we, we've given out like, we've just prepared like maybe about 20 tags and we named them from one to 20. So this RFID tag nine, eight and one and so on. You see it's still not working very well. Like I think it's, my program is still a little bit buggy. Like sometimes, okay, like this is food waste contributed. Okay, this, this sounds legit, like 178 grams legit. 421 grams is legit, but occasionally you get like a negative like 400. I'm not sure why. I think my program is still a little bit buggy. And then this IRR sensor, the bin is for the compost bin. So over time this will fill up. So the bin fullness will go out slowly, right? This should slowly go up, but the IRR sensor is not working very well. So it's like 50% most of the time, but sometimes you get like a 40, yeah, 1%, yeah, that's not working very reliably. And this is the browns container. So the brown should go down over time as you use up. So this should start from like a high number and it goes to zero slowly, but it's not working very well. I need to debug it. Yeah, so it perverse around 60%. Yeah, okay, that's it. So I'm actually was wondering if like anyone would be interested to help out with this project. We're trying to get some funding for the next situation, but this is a non commercial project, it's a community project. So if you want to learn to find out like I also want to learn. So I'm not a professional engineer. So I would need like, I'll probably be asking people that know more things than me about how to like mess, mess, produce this, like lower the cost and then how do you go to mass production? Like, like maybe we start in by the third of all iteration, you want to increase the number of machines and I don't know a few hundred. I don't know. Like, so like some ideas I have now, of course, we need to come up with some sort of PCB for the circuit. Then you can mess, the software is not issued, right? Software is quite easily scalable. The hardware will be issued like a frame and all that, but I'm not taking care of that. So that one, I'll leave it to the experts, other people, other people do it. But the software we might want to use, like, like some sort of cloud service for collecting data for many machines at the same time, instead of using a free version of things, for example. And of course, the user base has been improved. Like now it's just bare minimal. So we get designers to come in to make a very nice user interface. And also, of course, the sensors need to be working reliably. So there's still a lot of room for improvement. So if anyone is interested in this project, do let me know. And then I can add you into the kit up page. And then I can also invite you to come and get me that once in a while to think about the next situation, how to improve on it. So do let me know if you're interested in this project. This is a non-commercial project. So I think there's no issues about, I don't know, like proprietary stuff or stuff like that. Okay, I think I'm pretty much done with my presentation. So good for questions. Yep. Thank you, Ben. Yeah, anybody has questions for Ben on this project? Oh, wait, I just want to share something with you. So I found out there's this thing called VNC Connect, which is really cool.  So I name it Raspberry Pi. I mean, it's a demo, I'm at home now. So I'm actually able to log in, like to see what's on the screen on my Raspberry Pi in real time. And then I can even like, I can even like, control the Raspberry Pi from here. Like you type it or use the mouse or you type commands into, you're using it, like you're actually physically there. So I think this is really cool. Like, okay, so now the video is playing, I don't know. This is what's happening on the machine now. So you can actually like toggle. Yeah, you can actually exit and then you can go to the desktop and all that. Yeah, I'm using a Mac now. So I don't know how to quit this on my Windows. I can just quit this, but I have to figure out how to quit this on my Mac. I'm using a Mac now. So yeah, but you get the idea. You can control it like you're physically there. So it's really cool. Yeah, okay, that's all. Yes. I have a question, Ben. So I'm just curious, you know, what's the use case for, you know, because I think you have in place, you know, some kind of authentication. Is that right? Yeah, what is the purpose of that? We don't want people to like, because we want to train people, we want only like the residents of that block or people who know what the machine is about. We want to restrict the number of people to use it for now. The idea is that it's for the community garden. So actually, we are only targeting like the local residents in that area. We don't expect people to travel like from somewhere else to just use the machine. So it's like a thing a bit like a vending machine for those one or two blocks of the most two or three blocks on that that surrounding the community garden. So we want to restrict the number of users. Then we want to train like just a quick like to train the users and how to use the machine, what composting is about. Yeah, so yeah. It's more like, you know, you authenticate that the person has been trained and you know, experienced user and local user. And as a resident also, so we know like this tech number, like which unit number is allocated to a tech number. We know who has contributed. We want to keep track of like who like which unit. So let's say we have like 100 techs and then like there are 100 units in the HDB block. So we know like which unit has like contributed how much food waste. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Anybody else has any questions? You know, if not, nobody. I have a question. Yes. Who is this? John. Yeah. Okay. Can you hear me? Yeah. So while composting, right, do you have to deal with methane gas or anything like that? Okay, no. So if you do it correctly, right? If you do it correctly, that means you are able to let it breathe. So we put, we actually drill holes in the compost bin so that the air can flow through. So it's an aerobic process. So if you do it correctly, like there's, it's not supposed to have any kind of funny smell. If you do, there's a funny smell. That means it's what you call an aerobic and there's a lack of oxygen and you'll have this like ammonia smell and all that. So that's, that you're not doing correctly. So the correct way is to actually alternate layers with greens and browns. Yeah. So if we do correctly, there shouldn't be any kind of weird smell coming out. In fact, it should smell nice. Yeah.  It's not fantastic. That's no way they think gases produced. All right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, just covered the outside. It's like the microorganisms, they need oxygen and then they, they respire, they give up on the outside. Yeah. It's a fan to circulate the air. Right. Not familiar with composting. So I thought that I'll produce here. Yeah, bad odors will happen if you put in things like milk, dairy products or oily food or cooked food or processed food with a lot of chemicals, then the microbes are not able to break it down because it's chemical, you know, it's not like food for them. Whereas if you put like cardboard, newspaper, eggshell, coffee, coffee grounds, tea leaves or vegetable and fruit waste, these are things that in nature the microbes are able to break down. So they'll be very happy. That's why we do trade with people. That's why we want to restrict people who use the machine because if they start adding tiny things in there, they'll cause problems. Okay, yeah. Thank you. Yeah. All right. All right. Thank you very much, Ben, for sharing. Yeah, I think Ben, will you still be around? I think you'll be around after the meetup, you know, to answer any, to hang out and then you answer any questions you may have. Yes, and I think for information, there's a lot of local community groups in Singapore that does composting. You can Google search Project Black Gold as another composting project.


A previously unseen video featuring Aaron Bushnell, a courageous U.S. servicemen, has come to light showcasing a deeply troubling act in protest against the ongoing brutality in Gaza. The emergence of this video has sparked intense debate, with opinions divided on the potential impact of his self-immolation in the pursuit of lasting peace in the Palestinian region. The Information Department of the Palestinian Resistance has issued a statement commending Aaron for what they perceive as a heroic act on behalf of the Palestinian people. In the aftermath of Bushnell's tragic death, reactions and counter-reactions have flooded in, focusing on the underlying issues that prompted his actions. Two distinct camps have emerged from this discourse, one suggesting that he was driven by personal despair and impulsive behavior, while the other contends that his actions stemmed from a genuine sense of solidarity with the suffering people of Palestine and frustration with the United States. Particularly its repeated vetoing of UN Security Council resolutions calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Our commitment is to deliver factual news and impartial geopolitical analysis. We encourage you to engage with our content by liking and sharing this video to stay informed. Subscribe to receive timely updates on developments related to Palestine. Many have speculated that the discrete deployment of U.S. personnel in occupied Palestine to assist in targeting and documentation may have played a role in motivating Bushnell's drastic sacrifice. A document obtained by our team outlines the necessity of secrecy as the U.S. Air Force aids occupation forces in addressing targeting issues and other combat-related processes. Given Aaron's background as a software engineer, it's plausible that he had access to a significant amount of documentation allegedly implicating the U.S. in supporting the brutality in Gaza, while simultaneously purporting to seek solutions to the conflict. This perceived hypocrisy may have contributed to this tragic turn of events. Before we delve further, let's take a moment to view a segment of the video. I'm Bushnell. I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided. Once again, the mainstream media has demonstrated its insensitivity regarding the crisis in Gaza. A glance at most of the headlines reveals a glaring lack of coverage on the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Notably, none of the headlines delve into the reasons behind the recent self-immolation incident. It's crucial to highlight that the individual involved was a U.S. airman, not just an ordinary citizen. This oversight diminishes the significance of his protest. From an independent analytical standpoint, while the actions taken were extreme and tragic, they shed light on the sentiments of millions worldwide who were deeply troubled by the perceived political games being played, particularly by the United States, with Palestinian lives in Gaza. Even in the Middle East, where anti-Hamas sentiments have been prevalent, there's growing skepticism about the sincerity of the occupation's intentions. It appears more focused on quashing Palestinian resistance than on pursuing genuine diplomatic solutions to the long-standing crisis in Gaza. Many have also questioned the boldness of Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to proceed with an invasion of Rafa, the last refugee zone in Gaza, despite calls for a cease-fire. Netanyahu's assertion of imminent victory in the territory raises concerns about the potential escalation of violence and further humanitarian suffering. Three or four goals. The first is to release the hostages. The second is to destroy Hamas. And the third is to ensure that Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel in the future. And obviously, the three are intertwined. They're achieved basically by our very effective and often heroic military operation and also by tough negotiations. We're combining the two and I hope it yields the result. But understand that unless we have total victory, we can't have peace. We can't leave Hamas in place. We can't leave a quarter of Hamas battalions in Rafa and say, well, that's fine. Netanyahu recently confirmed to reporters that negotiations are underway for a potential deal, though specifics remain undisclosed. Discussions resumed in Qatar on Sunday at a specialized level, with further talks slated for Cairo, aiming to secure a cease-fire and the release of numerous hostages in Gaza, as well as Palestinians detained by Israel. Meanwhile, Israel is on the verge of approving plans to expand its military operations against Palestinian resistance fighters to Rafa, located on the Gaza-Egypt border, where a significant portion of the territory's 2.3 million inhabitants have sought refuge. Humanitarian organizations are sounding alarms about the potential for a humanitarian catastrophe. Rafa serves as Gaza's primary entry point for humanitarian aid. Despite calls from the U.S. and other allies for the occupation to avoid civilian casualties, many view such statements as hypocritical, given the U.S.'s history of supporting the occupation through arms sales and diplomatic backing. Efforts by the international community to broker peace in Gaza have repeatedly been thwarted by powerful states. Adding to the complexity last week, the United States once again utilized its veto power to neutralize the U.N. Security Council's ability to act decisively, allowing the occupation to proceed with its aggressive incursion into Rafa. The delay in the U.S. presenting a new resolution calling for a ceasefire is deeply concerning, as it appears to align with efforts to enable the occupation forces to advance into Rafa and escalate hostilities. However, in the wake of the tragic death of the U.S. servicemen, despite attempts by the media to downplay its impact on American and global consciousness, the stark reality of the situation in Palestine has reverberated.  The ongoing brutality inflicted by occupation forces in Gaza, while the world looks on, is profoundly troubling. It's understandable that individuals with a deep appreciation for the sanctity of human life may resort to extreme measures to draw attention to this plight. The suffering of Gaza and its people demands our unwavering attention and action. With the escalation of brutality by occupation authorities in Gaza, the global community is increasingly questioning the root causes of the conflict and demanding accountability for the Palestinian people. Netanyahu's seeming impunity in his actions has sparked outrage as he pursues plans that inevitably result in civilian casualties, showing a disregard for the consequences. His actions suggest a callous disregard for Palestinian lives, prioritizing his own interests in the conflict zone. Despite labelling Palestinian freedom fighters as terrorists, Netanyahu fails to acknowledge the distinction between Hamas and the Palestinian population as a whole. Targeting mosques, refugee camps and hospitals under the guise of counter-terrorism is deemed a clear violation of international law and constitutes a war crime. Yesterday, the Palestinian freedom fighters issued a press statement honoring the courageous sacrifice of American pilot Mr. Bushnell. The resistance conveyed condolences and solidarity following Bushnell's tragic death, attributing it to what they perceive as the unjust policies of the American administration and its support for the occupation. The statement recognizes Bushnell as a martyr who sacrificed his life to shed light on the alleged atrocities committed against the Palestinian people, particularly in Gaza. Drawing parallels with the death of American activist Rachel Corrie in 2003, the resistance places blame squarely on the occupation, accusing it of complicity in the extermination of Palestinians by supporting Israel. Furthermore, the statement suggests that Bushnell's actions aim to pressure the American government into intervening to prevent what the resistance describes as Zionist massacres and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. In conclusion, the Palestinian resistance honors Bushnell as a symbol of global solidarity with the Palestinian cause and condemns what they perceive as a growing dissent among the American populace against their government's policies regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rest in peace, Erin Bushnell. Thank you for your attention. Please consider sharing and liking this news update with your loved ones. Don't forget to subscribe for the latest developments from Palestine. Until our next update, peace.


Hey guys this is my review for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This is one of my favorite stories in the entire Harry Potter series and I think this is because this is a nostalgia overload in terms of what it was for me as a kid. This was the peak of Harry Potter fandom for me, I was really into the books at this point, as well as the Chamber of Secrets video game. I mentioned that in the last review, but honestly guys this was one of my, still is one of my favorite video games of all time because it let you explore the world of Hogwarts, it let you go on a majority of the entire film's sort of narrative. I just love this game and I think that did give me a bit of rose-tinted glass as when it came to this film because this film is not as good as I remember it being. Don't get me wrong, it's still a very fun and enjoyable film, it's also the longest one and you feel it. However it is a very joyous sort of experience if completely over-dramatized and it's not just Gildroy. Even though I hated Gildroy Lockhart as a character when I was a kid, watching it now again seeing Kenneth Brennan do it, I actually love the character even more. From his over-dramatic characteristics to his just completely scummy attitude to his absolutely fabulous attire in the film, he actually goes to being one of my more celebrated characters of this film because he is essentially a compass of what this whole film is. They changed the DOP for this film because the kids were a little bit better at acting so they were able to add a little bit of variety and the variety is literally just doing this with the camera angle, just butt-load of Dutch angles. And there's a lot of exposition in this film, there's massive exposition dumps that just kind of come out of nowhere and hit you like a truck. There are some very, very corny moments in this movie ranging from Ginny's first reaction to Harry to every single scene with Lucius Malfoy in it. My god, is he over-dramatic. He makes Kenneth Brennan look like he's underhanding it because of how over the top he is, especially at the end of the film where he almost kills Harry Potter over giving his house elf a sock. Which by the way, Potter, Potter, Potter, Potter, Potter. The amount of times that is said throughout this film gets a bit arduous. It is a cool story, it's a cool mystery, you can see that Rowling was trying to take it in a little bit more of an investigative, more mystery sort of children's story tone and I do appreciate that. I was a big fan of the Hardy Boys when I was a kid so the whole figuring out who Tom Riddle was, figuring out what the Basilisk was, figuring out just how the chamber was being opened has always been a cool little mystery to me. Yeah, it gets exposition dumped just like every other kind of mystery story does but it was still an enjoyable experience and funny enough it's a mystery story that I enjoy watching over and over again. Some of the visuals have updated themselves, like I said they were able to do a little bit more dramatic camera angles in terms of the DOP, however you notice that this guy never comes back. It's pretty evident as to why because all he could ever think of was Dutch angles and that's just, it's a very archaic form of visual storytelling now that it's not cool anymore to just keep doing Dutch angles, technically Battlefield Earth ruined it for everyone but this guy just does it too much. The acting from all of the kid actors definitely improves, it's been a year now so they've gotten used to the experience, all of them do a lot better, even Emma Watson does a little bit better in this film too and I do find that certain parts have upgraded themselves and there's also just really good special effects in this film, ranging from Dobby being a pretty breakthrough thing even though people were kind of comparing him to Gollum but Gollum had a lot more work to it, Ergon, Fox, all of the production sets including the Chamber of Secrets, all really, really cool and very, very cool visual elements. The Quidditch match is also very cool, a much more upgraded version of the sport that's just so embedded in Harry Potter culture but again, things just don't come off as well. You can see that Columbus was kind of just going with the first takes on a few things because some lines just don't come off well, certain characters don't get a lot of explanation to them and certain elements of the film are completely mitigating in things that were very necessary to the novel, mainly being Ginny. Ginny is in the beginning of this movie and that she's at the end kind of because she has to be. For a character that's so pivotal to what's going on, she's completely absent from the entire mystery aspect of the story and that doesn't really bode well in terms of the overall twist. We kind of guessed it was going to be Ginny from the very onset because of how little she's in this film and also there's going to be a few departures from this film. Obviously Albus Dumbledore is not going to be played by Richard Harris after this film because he passed away and I actually could see that he was reading lines again at one point in this film. Also Wood, the captain of the Quidditch team, he just disappears after this. I can't remember exactly what happened to him in the books but I always was upset because I like the actor who played Wood. We're also going to be seeing big departures in the third film in terms of place setting, costume design, how the film and the world is visually told. I do like Chamber of Secrets, Don't Get Me Wrong. It's the biggest hit to me when it comes to Harry Potter fandom. It was the peak for me. I remember reading the book again before the film came out and just thinking I wish that this world was real to the point where I think I had a slight crisis as well as the video game too. I'd love the video game if I could ever do a live or capture or a recording of me playing any video game it would be this one but I don't really know how to do that. Maybe it might be something I could do in the future but we'll see. Either way though Chamber of Secrets is still fun but it's definitely more set for Harry Potter fans rather than actual film going fans and even then it's a little bit of a stretch and while I have denied it for a long time I admit that Prisoner of Azkaban is going to be a breath of fresh air for this series and it happens far before the books did so that's also something that's going to be pretty evident. So in the end I'm going to give the Chamber of Secrets a 4 out of 7. It's fun, it's cheesy, some people don't enjoy it and I understand as to why. It is one of my favorite films in the series to me but at the same time this was also because of where I was at that place and time in my life. So anyways guys I hope you enjoyed this review if you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe. Prisoner of Azkaban is coming up next so make sure to stay tuned and I'll see you guys on the next one. 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