Welcome to the Adam does movies podcast I'm Adam and today on the show we're gonna be talking about movie rentals how we consume media now how it's changed over time for the better and sadly more the worse what we have to do is start at the beginning back in the eighties and nineties when you go into a movie rental store like blockbuster or Hollywood video or in my case mr. movies in the Midwest Minnesota at the time you would go in though it's always the same you plop down a few bucks you get that new release or whatever nostalgic thing you want to watch you get it for a day or four or five depending on the deal going on and you bring it back and do it all over again now you better make sure to rewind if it's VHS or you get that upcharge that's how they get you you don't rewind the tape you're screwed which is really funny because the the VCR took a couple minutes to rewind a tape it felt like an eternity but if you went to a video rental store they pop it in their machine and it's like done take some like four seconds I know you could purchase what they had but it was it was very hard to find I don't even know how people did we didn't have Amazon to go online and order it you had to find it like a unicorn in the wild these quick tape robot winders anyway I miss blockbuster I miss Hollywood I miss all of that because what we have now are these competing apps these services that seem to pop up or night they change their branding constantly now we have max instead of HBO max they change their terms of service Netflix just gave me a nice little email saying that I can't share my account with other family members that live in a different household which sucks because there's so many services that each have like one or two decent shows or movies in this revolving door that you really can't have one or two and it gets really annoying to have to cancel restart up over and over when your show comes back I mean I opened up a list of some of the streaming services listen to this there's the direct TV stream you have YouTube TV you have Fubo or fit fileio Hulu plus live TV sling TV spectrum TV you got max AMC plus lifetime movie club Paramount plus history vault the CW that's a thing peacock showtime hallmark stars MGM plus Netflix Hulu did I not list these already I feel like some of these are being redundant they're redundant that's for sure Apple plus everything's got a plus for some reason I'm going to name mine a minus Adam does movies minus you get less content and less is more or at least that's how it used to be now it's more is more these services are constantly throwing tons of money trying to get something to stick so there's always new stuff on the platform which pushes people there movie rental stores they didn't have that problem new release comes out every Friday boom we're good we're golden people come in during the weekend they get their movies they get out let's step back there back in the 90s a favorite pastime of mine was not only going to the cinema to see the new big release but to go to the movie rental store in case I missed them obviously I wasn't paying for my own movies when I was a kid my parents would and they didn't take us to movies every weekend can afford that what we could afford a couple bucks to pony up to watch the new Jean-Claude Van Dan movie or the new Disney movie once they release it from the vault the Disney vault by the way was trash I hated the Disney vault because it's not a real vault it's not like Walt in the fam have this thing that they open and the vault opens up Hans Gruber's on the other side happy that he can get Dumbo out or Bambi or Aladdin it was ridiculous and unlike today when movies hit theaters back in the 80s and 90s they didn't pop up on a streaming service they didn't pop up in the movie rental store in a month or two sometimes it felt like it was a full year before a movie would come out I felt like Beauty and the Beast took two years before it hit the shelves probably not true but in my mind it was in 13 or 14 year old Adams mind Beauty and the Beast took forever to hit the shelves I miss it I miss going into the store seeing friends seeing relatives seeing the familiar faces that work behind the counter watching you judging you about the pick it said something about a person when you'd walk up to the counter with your copy of Operation Dumbo drop that means hey I'm out of options I haven't really looked too hard and this is where I felt it was always a madcap dash on Friday nights to get to a blockbuster just to get the one copy that's left of whatever the new release is probably something by Eddie Murphy he was big in the 90s Beverly Hills cop threes out I want to get it there's what there's nothing better either then getting the last copy that's on the floor shelf and you see it you Wesley snipe it from across the room and you just book ass to get there you don't go on a full run you don't sprint you do a light half ass jog run as you're kind of prancing through the aisles skipping past the video game section that's taunting you but you don't have time right now you got to get to that last copy of Pluto Nash which spoiler once you get home and watch it you will realize it was not worth the risk of getting in a fistfight over this film especially when you had Matthew Broderick's masterpiece Godzilla on the next shelf over plenty of copies of that one sarcasm aside it's a it's a it's quite a treat to be the winner to be victorious in that sort of scenario then you go up to the counter you have all the expensive trinkets and treats at your disposal the four dollar box of licorice the old stale milk duds sitting in the carton with the lights beautifully grazing the side of the packaging but I don't I got food at home I got snacks at home as much as I want to as much as I might throw a fit to mom she's not having it Adam we got leftover pizza in the fridge I don't know about you side note but I like a good cold leftover pizza from time to time at least young version of me did it's got to be one of the other either you eat the pizza cold as ice next day or you heat that shit up properly so that there's not a cold part of the cheese that hits your mouth because if there's even a minuscule infinitesimal amount of cheese that's cold that touches my tongue the whole things game over I don't want that pizza anymore I'm turned off by the entire situation and it's happened believe me it's happened as I was saying movie rental stores were a magical magical experience some of them had the beaded doorway it's kind of an all-access pass to manhood they would put the scandalous rated r films the x not rated r I'm sorry the x movies x x behind this little secret passageway this was the Disney vault for teenage boys you go in there you come out an entirely different person I only think I went in there once it's always on a dare to it's like I dare you to go into the section it's like you're stealing the declaration of independence trying to get into that thing the manager is always keeping a close eye the managers of movie rental places to hold all the cards they have all the power they get to choose which movies they get how many copies they bring in I remember being very but hurt when I went to find a copy of the comedian which was a Jerry Seinfeld flick it was kind of an indie movie it featured Chris Rock and a bunch of comedians Bill Cosby had a big section this was pre him you know taking advantage of women this was back when Bill Cosby was a role model I'm sure that movie doesn't hold up very well because Jerry Seinfeld's very much like Cosby's my idol I love him blah blah blah anyway they didn't carry the movie there because they didn't like Jerry Seinfeld so everyone else got to suffer because a couple of assholes that own the company that own this establishment didn't think Jerry was funny well I don't think this is very funny that I can't find this movie there was another rental store that carried a copy of Tough and Deadly with Billy Blanks and Rowdy Roddy Piper I rented that movie and Python with Casper Van Dion stupid amounts of times I would have paid for them tenfold in fact one time I went in and I requested that I am sorry poor poor choice of words I demanded them let me buy Tough and Deadly because I've rented it so many times they said nay they wouldn't let me and then I looked at the guy said let's be honest no one else is renting this thing it's just me dude it's always here I can set my watch to this movie being here and they said like it's it's better for us to just have you keep renting it and I did Tough and Deadly super stupid movie complete schlock action flick it's got everything I love from cheesy action movies guitar strums when dudes get kicked slow motion roundhouse kicks punches jogging section where they're eating ice cream together in their pink belly shirts they're doing training at parks it's really really awkward and I love every second of it the montages are gold tough and dead and cal pythons equally as terrible rip off of anaconda starring Casper Van Dion who's the go-to sea list movie star d list I guess he's always the guy you find in top shelf movie rentals which is the other thing I want to talk about the top shelf movie rentals or in some instances it's the bottom shelf which is more apt but where I went to his top shelf these are the crap movies that don't go to theaters that often piggyback off the success of real movies usually they're asylum films or another production company of lesser quality which seems almost an unimaginable because asylum's trash for every twister there's a tornado for every volcano there is mountain that blows up there's always a child version of the film that's a complete copy but has no budget and no actors it's just trash they still make these today cocaine bear came out and we've already seen several spin-offs like cocaine shark there's a cocaine raccoon it's called something a camera what it's called but very similar on animals doing drugs they get high and they start ripping people apart these movies are amazingly bad and I had a great time watching them with my friends and again because they were so cheap usually a dollar lets you rent them for a couple nights you get a few you have some popcorn you have a bunch of soda you have stupid fun I miss it I miss it a lot and of course these are available on all the services I listed and more Netflix you can find tons of these prime is full of this trash shark versus Megalodon octopus versus Python like it doesn't matter every animal that's somewhat vicious has a counterpart X version alligator X crocodile it's there somewhere three-headed shark versus six penis bear it's all there I don't really watch them anymore but they were fun back in the day they're in on their own joke is the problem for a while I felt like they were trying to make decent terrible movies now they're in on their game they're the shark Nato's of 2023 and it's lost its magic and it's luster plus there's something truly special about going in and physically holding a copy of a movie taking it up to the register saying I would like to watch this yes I am under 17 and this film is called showgirls but I need to see her dance around naked because I watched every season of Saved by the Bell like 35 times I'm so excited I'm so scared that you're not gonna let me rent this and yeah I would also like to watch Barb Boyer with Pamela Anderson sure you save some face now at home when you rent these things kind of privately but there's something to be said about the shame you feel by doing this in public although I don't think the new generation really has any shame anymore seeing the stuff that's posted to tiktok they just don't give a shit I kind of respect it in a way it's got to be liberating to not care how you look or sound or act at all somewhat refreshing the other thing I liked about these video you know these establishments is that there was a sense of community that's missing you go into one of these places you see old and young alike both appreciating cinema taking the time to look through the rows and rows of films both terrible and good bumping into a teacher who has a copy of an inappropriate film in their hands it's something I'll never forget it's so good oh hey mr. Montesmith what are you doing with them what are you doing with that Charlie's Angels Full Throttle you a big fan of that big fan of that film Charlie's Angels Full Throttle it's gold Best Buy Target Walmart barely even have movies in there anymore or CDs I mean that's even worse you go into a Best Buy though it's it's fucking fridges and microwaves and you know obviously you have video games and systems still tons of phones and computers and then some sad little section in the far back corner it's all dank and depressing there is your Blu-rays they don't even have a whole row anymore they're in the back there they're like the misfit toys of Best Buy the remnants of a different time period there's an old janitor sweeping back there what are you looking for a blu-ray what's the word I haven't heard in a long time sir there's something right next to you what what where am I right now is this Wendy's no no sir oh my god I'm in the wrong place and then he leaves and gets in our car accident on the way to Wendy's it's a it's a whole thing they find out that he was the owner of the last blockbuster that's the big plot twist here where am I what am I talking about anymore or yes movie rentals let's jump to today we have our past it was great the buddies would go with you you debate for hours with your parents with your friends with your brother your sister about what movie to watch sometimes there was one for them sometimes there was one for you the best was when you had to force the other person to watch or you got the pick that week anyway let's move on to where we're at now all these streaming services too much control too much power in the hands of consumers is what I say we used to think that choice was a good thing I'm thinking it wasn't because when I go into Netflix or Hulu or Prime or the cock which is peacock check it out in the cock there's just a bunch of noise it's chaos Max was probably the the best at least HBO Max was they put the new releases at the top it was pretty clean pretty simple I just hate it I hated so much and you can never find anything and I swear they somehow know they're in my brain at this point that when I want to watch something it will absolutely not be on any of these platforms I will have to rent it or find a different source to get this for free because like oh I want to watch happy Gilmore where is it it was on prime last week it's gone hey remember Wayne's World let's check out Wayne's World see if that holds up nowhere to be found it was there just two weeks ago I swear I saw the ad for Wayne's World nothing not a zilch they're listening man they're doing stuff behind the scenes I swear they know it there was a brief stint where red box was a thing if you remember red box you could go outside of a Walmart and there was this giant red machine they're also inside McDonald's and you just sadly stand there and kind of swipe around and find the movie out of the 30 that they have to offer that might even be too generous then it comes out comes out of the bottom this was kind of kind of the the quicker way the alternative to Netflix back when they actually sent movies to you you could mail them out they'd come to you that was very very weird an on-demand physical service kind of like kind of like ordering food and doing door-dash and it shows up Netflix dash Netflix and chill that was short-lived I know they're still around I know you can still find these ugly ass boxes but I don't see anybody use them they just collect dust in the corner streaming services keep going up in price they keep rebranding and they keep expanding and you always see articles like so-and-so is losing money now they're hemorrhaging money yet they seem to be flourishing and doing just fine so I don't really know what to believe all I know is this at the rate we're going you're spending a hundred bucks on different streaming services you have now paid for cable which is the remnant of the past as well that dinosaur that continues to keep going because it's propped up by Fox news and sports events I guess ESPN Fox single-handedly keeping this thing afloat for people that are like 85 and older and they just continue to watch but it's gonna go away and that's another sad thing because with cable was choice but you were also still very much handcuffed to what they wanted you to watch or what was available and sometimes that's okay I've seen Shawshank redemption on TV like a thousand times you'd have the one friend who would have access to HBO or Showtime or skin a max you'd always go to their house around that 10 o'clock mark when the parents are in bed and really take in the the crappy soft-core porn that they had to offer Beverly Hills bordello red shoe diaries hosted by David DeCovney real sex that one was never very good that was always a little too raw for me a little too in your face people were always ugly because they were real looking but that was a magical time in a young man's life now they can just go on the internet and again do whatever they want whenever they want see whatever they want and that's just disaster that spells disaster too much variety too much control is hard for us to handle we needed funneled we need someone to go in and cultivate the right type of viewing experience these apps try they try with the algorithms and with the search recommendations based on your history you're gonna like this you fall into this bucket well I don't like that you're telling me that I know what I like you don't know shit Netflix don't start feeding me stuff don't make me think you know me you don't know me man I never felt that with cable though it was just okay this is gonna be on this week regardless of whether or not I like it I know I have my slot for the Simpsons I know I have my slot for Seinfeld it was not a good system but I think it was better than what we have now so we cancel Netflix because I'm not paying another you know 16 bucks a month extra so that other households can have access to Netflix we don't watch crap on it and it's the most expensive app we have eventually maybe when Stranger Things comes back we'll get it again but I don't even give a shit about Stranger Things anymore it really hasn't been good since season one it's been watchable the same way Jurassic Park movies were watchable after the first they weren't necessarily good they just had dinosaurs in them and I love dinosaurs we have to do something better I don't know what the solution is I think we're just screwed kind of we've already made our bed and now we have to just sleep in it they're gonna keep coming out with more services unless something can come out that just blows them out of the water with highly crafted movies and shows but that takes years to get off the ground and none of these services have time for that they're all losing money today they need to make money tomorrow they needed to make money yesterday they're gonna keep pumping out trash after trash and hopefully something sticks occasionally it does but for the most part it's running to the ground afterwards anyways Wednesday season two and three I'm sure at some point that show is gonna start sucking really bad you can you can bet on it actually okay those are my thoughts that's my tripped on memory lane talking about movie rental stores how it's changed over the course of time where do we think it's gonna go next it's hard to say right now these apps are on your TV on your your system whether it's an Xbox PlayStation Nintendo I don't know does an antenna switch have apps on it feel like I don't really know half the time they don't work I know for us the cock barely runs at all peacock on the PlayStation 5 or on the Samsung TV these apps are just so sketchy they're constantly needing maintenance updating where do we go from here do we somehow go back do we revert like we do with fashion like we do with music from time to time where you get back into a hook a feel from the 80s you're bringing back cords bringing back frosted tip hair can we get back to some of this stuff when it comes to movies and how we treat them movie theaters are already kind of a nightmare people are assholes they're on their phones constantly they're rude they're talking loudly they're vaping I had people vape in the movies that I was at I want some respect I want some decorum brought back into the space that's sorely been lacking lately let's get movie rentals back somehow maybe bring back a rental place but what do you have in it there's no there's no physical media anymore it's dead it's not even like the records they can go to a record store it doesn't have that boutique feel to it yes there's collectors but it's not the same yeah I don't know maybe let me know what you want to see if you're on YouTube watching this put a comment down on Adam does movies on this video say Adam here's what I want for movies here's where I want it going forward whether it's some amazing streaming 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Human memory is a fabulous thing, it's because of this ability to remember. We have science, we have technology, we have a civilization, we have information technology. It's all about memory, isn't it? But at the same time, it's human memory which is a source of all bondage. What you call as karma is just memory on different levels of life. Memory is like a doorway, a doorway can open but also it can close. If doors open for you, you experience doors as beautiful things. If doors close in your face, you always remember doors as horrible things, isn't it so? In your life, if doors are opening for you wherever you go, you see door as a very wonderful thing.  Memory is just like this. Memory is what has given us the ability to be informed. It is because we are capable of making ourselves informed about various things. Many beautiful things have happened in our lives, many. The very basis of civilization is memory. Today, what goes as learning is simply memory, isn't it? Memory transmitted from generation to generation, that is how. If your father knew how to do one stitch, you learned how to make the second stitch. And your children learned the third stitch. This is how things have happened. But if you did not remember the first stitch, reinventing the wheel all the time, nothing would have happened, isn't it? Just intelligence would not have led to civilization. Memory is important. At the same time, memory also makes your life repetitive, not receptive, simply repetitive. When you carry a certain volume of memory within you, life becomes repetitive, automatic. All sense of being human, all the possibilities of being spontaneous, all the possibility of exploring new terrain in one's life gets obliterated because of memory. As I said, it's like a doorway. It all depends whether it's opening for you or closing for you. When people try to learn by sheer memory, many things happen. And lot of so-called culture and civilization is a product of that, sheer memory, not much intelligence in it. Together, they are a deadly combination. Just memory is simply repetitiveness. One of the Isha meditators from United States wanted to come to India. Last four years, he's been planning and planning, but he has a cat that he loves. And to leave the cat for more than two weeks and come to India has been very difficult. He divorced his wife about six years ago, so he has no such problems. But the cat, slowly he became little more dispassionate and he decided to come. So he handed his cat over to his brother and then he traveled to India, landed at the Chennai airport. The moment he cleared the customs, first thing he did was he borrowed a volunteer's phone who had come to receive the U.S. meditators who were landing that day. And he said, I need to make a call to United States. Okay. So he called his brother and he… first thing he asked, how is the cat? The brother said, cat is dead. He said, what? Cat dead. He screamed and yelled and cried. And then he said, okay, it's dead. We can always get another cat. But don't you have any sensitivity? Couldn't you say in a gentler way, simply barking, cat is dead? Is there no sensitivity at all in you? Then the brother asked, okay, what was I supposed to say? It's dead. I can understand it's dead, but couldn't you say something? Couldn't you say the cat went up to the rooftop?  But he got pneumonia and he passed on but peacefully. Something, there is no sign of civilization in you. What is this? Cat is dead. Then he said, okay, next time I'll try. Then he said, all right, how are you? He said, I'm doing well. How is mother? Well, she went up to the roof. Lot of civilization has become like this because information that travels from generation to generation gets stored in different ways and so much distortion and now you can't look at anything straight the way it is. Mines get so deeply conditioned that you can't look at anything straight anymore. So what you call as culture is just memory. What you call as civilization is just memory. Memory is not useless, memory is useful. But if you do not know how to keep it aside, that becomes your biggest bondage because life becomes repetitive. When you are repetitive, you cannot be receptive.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today so this week I popped to Hobbycraft and I picked up these bits here so I have already used one of these for a project and you'll see that in due course but you get I thought you'd get five, oh no four pack I could have sworn there was five anyway so you get a four pack of these mini wreath decorations I think I want to say they were two pound they're really really sweet you can see they're they're very nicely made because sometimes these kind of things can be a little bit naff looking but these ones are actually quite sweet so I've used one of them then I picked up the mini trees again these ones I really like the look of them because a lot of them you get they're squashed in the packaging or where they've been you know you know during their deliveries to the stores some of the greens are a little bit funny whereas this one's a real deep green and it's just got just the right amount of snow it's a little bit full up there but they're all really really nice so these are going to be for some of my 3d projects like I said I have been building it all up ready for me to kind of do it and also for shadow boxes I like to make little shadow box Christmas kind of scenes these fit in perfectly so they're not too big they're not too small I do have some original like ones from like the kind of 60s and 70s so those are like different colors I've got like a quite a bright pink and yellow and things like that so they will all get incorporated as well but you can put a little star on them you can add little you know extras to them so I've picked up those then I've got this one which I wanted now this one was £1.50 which is I think rather expensive for something just like that I would have thought more around £75 but I really wanted it because again it's the perfect size cute little Christmas sleigh isn't that sweet and I'm going to put some um some string on it as well I just thought that'd be quite nice you can obviously paint these if you want I think I'm just going to distress it with some darker brown because I have an original one of these with the metal on the bottom which I always had around my tree so I'm kind of going to you know use that as my inspiration in terms of the decoration for this so that's what I will do with that so you're going to see this and this all kind of featuring together it's very very sweet and then I already have the artificial snow which I love and I've already been using but they do have the white beads now this is just like in your beanbag so if you imagine but this is going to flow and look really nice in shaker cards and also any snow globe kind of cards that you might do this is the perfect kind of stuff so yeah I picked that up that was only a pound I think it was really nice to squeeze I turned the volume off then because it doesn't sound nice but it feels nice so yeah I picked up that okay then I popped into the pound shop and I picked up these now they are wine glass charms anybody who's not familiar with these basically it was all together but I've um taken them apart and I'd already started to use them in a video so that's why they've deconstructed them but they had these beads either side and then one of these hanging and they go around the bottom of your wine glass so that if you're at a party you know which glass is yours so you know you'll have this the snowman or the tree or whatever but I want some really nice Christmas inspired little dangles and charms to hang off of mini albums and things like that and the ones I've seen online and in some of the stores they're really expensive just for such a small little thing so I saw these and you know what they are really really like well made they're solid pieces they've been coloured I think really well because usually things like this you know they're they're just coloured badly so I think these have turned out really well I mean look at the tree they're really really cute and then like I said they're solid nice pieces now if you wanted to you could turn these into jewellery as well they'd look quite nice as Christmas earrings but like I said I've used them to have on my Christmas projects so these look lovely hanging off of gift bags and things like that so if you have a pound shop near you now I imagine stuff like this will be all over the world in different kind of euro one euro shops or pound shops or dollar shops and things like that so I hope that you can find them because I think they're really really good and for five for a pound I think that's really good value for money 20p so you can't go wrong and then you get these pieces here which I'm sure I will find another useful because they're little clips so they're clipping like so again they could be used within my jewellery making and then you get those beads and again the colours aren't too bad they don't go at all with this but yeah you got these kind of nice turquoise and the gold there so yeah I picked up two packets I probably will get a couple more packets if they're still there over you know the coming weeks because I think it's again they're timeless and I'll just keep them in my stash because I know they're going to come in very handy so yeah you'll see them in again some up and coming tutorials let the bell I think that's really nice and even his face you know I was checking quite a few of them but they're all lined up and I think they look really sweet so yeah I was pleased with those okay then I just picked up some more of the A4 double-sided adhesive tape so I usually get the stick to brand or I've had the crafters companion before actually I've had the hunky dory as well so there are a few brands that do them and they're just A4 sheets of double-sided sticky sheets so it's just like your double-sided tape but in a sheet form and I use this a lot for when I'm doing like the herringbone technique or when I'm using like glitters and just want to make big stickers and it's good for intricate dies so you can stick this onto the back of your pattern paper your glitter card whatever it is then put your die on top run it through your die machine and then you can just peel off the back and stick it down so it's perfect when you don't want to have to use glue on those really detailed dies so yeah I picked up them again I'll share the links below these ones were I think I found them on Amazon in the end so I think they were a little bit cheaper so again I'll find those links for you and then a few weeks ago I got those really lovely dies by the John Next Door brand and they're like die plates and you can just run the plate through and it will cut all the different flowers now when he done his demos he used a lot of this foam so this is I think it's not what yeah 0.8 millimeter now that's the very very thin foam and that's the perfect foam for using for flowers flower making and it's beautiful it's really nice I have done some something kind of yeah it was a long time ago when it wasn't really the best stuff to use so and what I thought I would do is I've picked up white so I've got crafters companion in white because you can add inks to this and you can add pastels and it looks really really lovely so I'm looking forward to using this one and then I thought I'll get this one here because it has red and green in it and these are real nice Christmas colors and I've got some lovely dies Christmas dies and they'll see the green and stuff that I want to use with the holly leaf die that comes in that set or in the collection so I'm going to be using that and I just take it out again for anybody that's not seeing you can see just how thin it is very very thin normal fun foam is about two mil so it's like a chipboard standard chipboard kind of width whereas this is very very thin and the thing with this is you can twist it you can stretch it you can do lots of things with this to really make those flowers look like they're very real and it shows you on the back there as well or yeah that's it you can apply heat so you can use it they're using it on the back of an eye in there so I do have an old eye in which I use you know crafting so I'll be able to give that a go as well and you can die cut multiple like layers like you can fold it in half then in half again then in half again put your die on top make sure you get your sandwich right on your die machine run it through and you'll have all your layers for your flowers so yeah I'm looking forward to using this and I've been holding out using those dies for a while because I wanted to wait for this to come through so that one and then I picked up this one here as well which is the greens because there is just that one green there and I plan to use that for the holly I thought this one's going to work well just for the nice leaves and stuff with the other flowers and using the white there so yeah really pleased with those ones and then I saw this magazine on Facebook I think maybe a week and a half ago and I thought oh my god I love it I need to get it and then I kind of forgot about it and then when I was in hobby craft I always looked through the magazines and they had it there and I thought I've got to get it so let me show you so you get with this one you can create these characters so these are characters that you can create they give you the card shapes here which I will do some like that or I'll probably do them all because it's only stumped and that's what they're there for I wouldn't really probably use them for anything else and then so yeah you just basically build them up so it has the scarf let me just take this out so you get these little kind of bits here which are you got a mix of actual sayings what we've got here Christmas and we've got holidays taking out the bits there holidays happy okay so you can have happy holidays and then Christmas wishes I'm just taking out those bits because they bug me there we go and Christmas wishes okay so you get them and then you get these red glasses which if you don't want the red you can turn it over and color it in you can have black ones so that's them then like I said these are your oh this is your oh no yeah these are the cards so they go they're any dinky but they're going to look really sweet so that's the cards and then these are all of the stamps turn over for bonus templates oh okay so that's here oh look what you can do oh I love it so here you can add paws to them so that you'll just cut that out and then trace around it and then you can add the little envelope but I have these already made ones which I think they're going to fit perfectly because once it's folded down look at that oh my god it is literally meant to be so the idea is is that you would have the little envelope then a paw coming around each side so he's holding the letter and then you literally stamp any of the characters and you can mix a match as well you don't have to have them as they are but I just thought these are things that you can use all year round because the eyes and the glasses and the ears and things aren't you know just for Christmas so even the scarf that's just a nice winter kind of one so apart from the present and the fish that's wrapped up as well which I thought was really nice yeah look you can put the little present oh I love it but the idea was that it's not just going to be used with this because you can do any shape and I've got a few kind of I guess kinetic style cards in mind to use this I'm really excited with this one I love it I think it's really cute if I bring it up a bit close you can see what I mean so like there's the little paws that come around holding the present we've got the glasses on and then that one there she's she's holding the drink and there like they've got the stamped little kind of little bell but you could put a real bell I think that'd look really sweet but they are they're adorable you've got the elf love that one there yeah really really nice I just thought it was a really unusual and it's nice and big like you can I mean you can see they are that's going to be a nice nice size so yeah I got that one and that was papercraft inspirations I didn't even say what it was and then I shared over on my Facebook page I think it was the end of last week that Trimcraft let the design team know that now the range have actually made a specific area for all of the simply creative product so up until then you just kind of clicked on something and then you'd have to search for something else and if you didn't really know the name of it you couldn't it was really difficult to find and now you just click on simply creative and it will bring up everything within the collection so I was fortunate enough to be given quite a lot of the Christmas stuff as part of my design team package which is all in this tub because I'm working on Christmas stuff now I just kind of put it all together this can then go on my desk when I'm working and then at the end of you know Christmas this will all go into another tub and then that gets filed away until next year so what I wanted to do is we got sent for example I got sent the gold tinsel so I wanted to get the silver so I've got that one there now the thing about the simply creative range is that it is budget friendly crafting supplies they just do really really fun stuff and there's so much to it as well so do go and have a look if you haven't already it's not just on the range there's also on amazon and you will find some of it on craft stash and a lot of other independent kind of craft online stores as well so yeah keep an eye out because it is very very yeah cheap so I got the silver there so I'm going to pop that in there just so I know what I'm showing you then I raved about these when we got them we were all using these when we were at head office they're just just really really popular and just so easy to use and I've already used them on my star card that I used on the front cover so I thought you know I'm going to get some more now because I know that these will end up selling out so I already have I've got one left in the gold and I think I've already used yeah the silvers have gone because I've got another project coming so I've got them just to keep me going then we all got sent a different one of these stickers so I got the gingerbread man and we I just love them when again when we were at head office so I've got the rest of the collection so you get this beautiful snowflake and these are lovely as gift tags but you can also put them on acetate and you can have them as like a shaker there's so many fun ways to do them so I thought I'm going to get the collection then I'm going to do a really nice tutorial featuring all of these so I've got the snowflake then I've got the Christmas tree beautiful all with rhinestones on them and then the Father Christmas he's got a really cute face I like him and the penguin so I think that's all of them from what I could see I could be wrong maybe there is a couple more but I think that's all of them so there's five there and I just love them I think they're really really sweet so they're all going to go together and then I've got the felt reefs and I've used these on a really nice project that you'll see soon so I thought I'm going to get the felt reindeers and the felt penguins super super sweet and they've all got the little googly eyes there googly eyes googly eyes googly eyes oh I don't know they move so aren't they sweet so I've got those ones and then I had the white pom pom trim so I wanted the red so I've got the red as well and again I've used both of those on a fun tutorial which is coming then I've got the mini snowballs these make fantastic shaker cards they will be quite deep but they look really fun inside so so I'm going to try and do a um a tutorial using these also they're great just to use you know just literally stuck on cards for like the snowfall and you don't just have to use them for Christmas either so they would work on other projects so that's going to go just on the top there then we did get a really nice selection of the dyes and stamps I'm so pleased I got that one so I love that little bear and there's a really fun tutorial coming with that one love them um so I've got those stamps oh yeah and I've got that one which I love as well and the sentiment but I wanted the presents because I use that one more again when I was at head office this one says do not open until Christmas morning and then you've got the presents they're two separate stamps there I've just got a nice selection to crack on with and those are the dyes which you would have already seen with the original unboxing and then these here are another very popular thing that we use in the day you get 16 these are metallic snowflakes let me just take them out so you can see them a bit more detail but look aren't those really really lovely beautiful so and there's some lovely cards that have been made by the others on the team which Trimcraft will share in due course so again if you don't share um don't follow them on Facebook go check out Trimcraft on Facebook because they've always put a lovely inspiration and also go over to the craft blog which is their website and there's you can upload your makes there and there's tons of inspiration there as well so that was my little kind of simply creative haul I think I'm going to have to get a bigger tub actually because it's a little bit squashed and then I'm not going to do the unboxing of this I've already done a separate tutorial but this is the new papercraft society kit this was something that I've been raving about for about the last six weeks and it's finally here and it's amazing I've already been making some lovely tutorials with this product so I can't wait to share those but if you want to see this in detail click the link here and you'll be able to see inside it is beautiful so do go and check that out I don't want to make this video any longer than it needs to be so yeah go and have a look there for that one but if you like kits I think you're really going to enjoy well it won't be this one anymore because this one's gone but you can certainly subscribe for the next ones


Thank you, Commissioner Combo. Please, everyone, join me in welcoming Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Equity, Sadiah Sherman. Thank you so much, and thank you for those remarks, Commissioner Combo, so very inspiring. I'm Sadiah Sherman, I'm Commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of Equity, and it's really wonderful to be here today to celebrate what is a bittersweet holiday, but certainly a holiday that signifies the steps that our country has come to realize democracy. Juneteenth is an acknowledgement of our history, our country's history, and it's very painful and violent past, but it's also a reminder of our long fight for freedom. Juneteenth, it went from an intimate family holiday, backyard barbecues, community festivals, to a city and a federal holiday, and now us standing here raising the flag to commemorate Juneteenth, who could imagine? To say that I'm deeply honored to be here today is an understatement, because I'm not just honored, I'm proud. Us being here today, our very presence is a revelation. I'm proud to be part of an administration that demonstrates daily why diversity matters. I'm proud to be the granddaughter of Ms. Mary, who came to New York from the rural South and faced discrimination in this city, and now I get to lead an office that's focused on equity and racial justice in that same city. So, in a time across our country where there are book bans and there is an A historical accounting of contemporary issues, it's critical that we celebrate and we lift up holidays like this. Holidays that acknowledge our tragedy and our triumph and keep us honest about the history of this country. And so, by gathering here today, we're celebrating the accomplishments of us as a people. As Commissioner Combo said, we're standing here being our ancestors' wildest dreams. We're honoring them, we're lifting them up, we're thanking them for this fight, for this fight towards freedom and for never giving up. And so, now it's my honor to introduce a man who exemplifies, never giving up, the fight towards freedom and the fight for New Yorkers every day, the 110th mayor of New York City, Mayor Adams. Thank you. Thank you so much. And to Brother Ben, who created the flag that we're going to raise today, thank you so much, brother. The symbolism that is associated with it. And the long road, I think that Commissioner Combo, who I'm sure she's the first commissioner in cultural affairs that ever doing a tired away to Commissioner Combo is doing. So, showing that African diaspora, the spirit and energy. This is a significant moment. The first time this flag is being placed on this pole here at Bowling Green, it placed assembled powers. And it just shows you how much and how we should always remain resilient because it was right here where people of color were sold into slavery. It was right here where many of the auctions took place. And just a few distance and yards away, you see the Indian Museum, where many of our Indian brothers and sisters saw their land removed and taken from them. And so this is a historical moment that we raised the flag for the first time here in Bowling Green. But it also is a moment of reflection. Slavery brought a level of draconian and terrible deeds. We saw even some of the famous songwriters describing the tone of strange fruits. When you saw a large number of African American men and women hung from trees. We saw the demonization, we saw the challenges of giving birth in the cotton fields and then going out in heaven to continue to pick the cotton. We saw the clansmen riding through, destroying homes. We saw Tulsa, Oklahoma, and how Black Wall Street was destroyed. We've come so far and we stated that we never surrender to violence again. If that is our real belief, as we focus on Juneteenth, we must also reflect what happened across our country during Juneteenth. Right here in the city of New York, we had 10 shooters, six homicides. On the day that we acknowledged our ancestors, it became one of the bloodiest days of violence in our city. And the hands of those who inflicted that violence were those who we are raising this flag with. We cannot believe that it's all right to stamp our slavery but be enslaved to violence in our city and in our country. Look what happened in Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta, all across the country as we paused on Monday to reflect on our ancestors and what they fought for.   It's not acceptable. It's not acceptable. We have an obligation as we acknowledge Juneteenth, our liberation, our freedom, our fight, our fortitude, our discipline, our resiliency. We have an obligation to make sure that these young boys and girls grow up to understand the contributions that we have made in this country. America is America because of the black and brown people who built this country. As Dr. King would say, we made Cotton King. We built the foundation of this country and we did not build this foundation to watch it turn to violence across this entire nation. So I thank all of you for coming here, acknowledging the importance of Juneteenth, going from a federal holiday and I was able to sign it into law as a city holiday. The 110th mayor, it took 110 mayors before we realized that we should raise the flag and raise the rich tradition of our community. Thank you so much. Let's continue to say for it ever, back with never. The mayor has agreed to accept an award on behalf of a great African who has never been honored from the colonial period, from the Revolutionary War. Most of you know even better than I that thousands upon thousands of enslaved Africans and even some non-enslave all refer to themselves as Cato. Cato was used, the name they used in white society and for many of them we don't have their original names. One of those individuals who may have been enslaved but not enslaved, he spied for the American cause. He risked his life for the American cause, carrying information about British troop movements from here in Lowam Manhattan to George Washington and Alexander Hamilton in New Jersey. He was in prison, he was tortured, he was not the British who were never convinced that he was and they freed him. In all this time, this Cato has never ever been honored once. I'm so proud, as modest as it may be, that the Bowling Green Association has the privilege of being the first to honor this great African. Let me read this citation if I may. A New York City hero, New York City as our nation's largest city creates many heroes all the time. Many are unsung heroes from every part of our city and from every ethnic and racial group we have so many ever since the arrival of Juan Rodriguez at the Southern Temple of Manhattan Island which is today's Bowling Green. We have the honor and opportunity to recognize just some of them each year. Today we have one of those heroes in his life has made a difference and a better city and a better nation for all of us. Today on the occasion of the raising of the June Team Flag high over New York City here at Bowling Green we honor on this day, June 22nd, 2023, a New York City hero, Cato, African American New Yorker and American Patriot spied for the American cause and saved George Washington's life. I hope his spirit is here and the spirit of other thousands he would never have thought that an African American mayor would accept an award in his honor. Mr. Mayor. We'd like to thank everybody for coming here today and the number of groups are numerous so I won't give them all a shout out but to the organizations who have worked tirelessly to continue to support their communities. Thank you. I see that many of you are here and I've helped partner in this event right now. To Mr. Mayor, thank you so much for being here this afternoon. Again, like we said before, black history is American history and to steal the words from Commissioner Combo Mr. Mayor from the auction block to Gracie Mansion you are setting the standard for us all we want to thank you for leading leading the black community and everything that you do. And so now we are going to go and raise the flags and we're going to have two singers, Tanet Spann and Yodit Steven Smith sing the national anthem as we raise the flags. So let's all focus on to my left as we raise the American and the Juneteenth flag. Who say can


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