Well, thanks everyone for joining. I hope you all have been having a great summit. It's a Friday afternoon. I really appreciate you all sticking around. Let's see. So today I'd like to talk about maps and making maps in the Open Visualization Group. Have you ever wanted to make a map to help city planners make safer roads or scientists understand climate change or just make cool map animations kind of like this? Well, making these map visualizations is now incredibly easy due to all the work we've been doing in Open Visualization, a collaboration space in the OpenJS Foundation, which is turning one in June. But before we dive into the progress we've made over the last year, I'd actually like to kind of set the stage with a bit of map making history. Cartography, the study and practice of creating maps, has been essential to human development for thousands of years. It's helped us navigate and explore the world. As well, it's helped us enhance our knowledge and perception. One of the first maps ever discovered were created by the ancient Babylonians who etched how they saw the world around them into clay tablets like this. To do this, they drew points of interests, boundaries, and lines by inscribing it into wet clay, which would then be baked to harden each time they wanted to make one of these maps. What started out by making clay can now be made incredibly easy due to all the technical advances we've made and are continuing to make, I mean, across the world but also in Open Visualization. So I'm Chris Gravang, a visualization engineer here at Joby Aviation. We're a company that is making an electrical ride sharing service for everyone. We spent the last 10 years designing and testing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that can carry five people at speeds up to 200 miles per hour. As a visualization engineer here, my role is to work side by side with our creative teams and our engineering teams to help them explore and understand our data visually. Here's an example. Behind this behind me or to the side of me is a rendering of 10,000 plus miles of flight tests we conducted last year. And I visualized this using Open Visualization tools in the web browser. Tools like these allow us to rapidly assemble data animations and quickly iterate to create beautiful and polished geospatial art. Now, let's dive a little deeper into what Open Visualization is. Open Visualization, or OpenViz, is a collaboration space established by the OpenJS Foundation. OpenViz and OpenViz were a group of developers that build data visualization tools together out in the open. The projects we're developing are KeplerGL and VizGL. KeplerGL is a powerful geospatial analytics tool for large data sets. And VizGL is a suite of JavaScript visualization frameworks. I'll go into more detail about what these projects are later on. They were created in open source at Uber and then were donated to the OpenJS Foundation to be openly governed. Often, though, when I mention open governance, I'm asked what this means. Well, basically, it's open source, as you know it, but even more open. Often with open source projects sponsored by private companies, decisions are made behind closed doors where people can abruptly leave without really transferring the knowledge to the people out in the open that want to continue the project. Open governance is where a foundation has ownership and where all of our thinking and planning around the code is always available to the public. We make it easy for anyone to contribute whether you'd like to remix the code or simply add your own ideas. Most recently, we held our first ever OpenViz collaborator summit in Madrid last October, where we brought together our international geospatial community to knowledge share and essentially collaborate. We had about 100 contributors join us and a fantastic lineup of speakers to facilitate workshops and talks. I'd like to highlight two of our talks. Paul Taylor, an engineer at NVIDIA, made it a lot easier to optimize data analysis and visualizations with the latest CUDA GPUs. Before, DECGL Performance was limited by web browsers because it's a JavaScript library. And we'd have to work with this and add in complicated tiling techniques and load a lot of data at once. But now you can run DECGL using the latest native desktop APIs within Node.js, which lets you render a whole lot data way faster. For example, in this animation, he parsed a huge 10 million data point data set for New York City to render an extremely detailed map and did it without any tiling and did it in real time like during the talk. We also heard from Kyle Barron, an engineer at Foursquare. Kyle showed us how to use the Apache Arrow and the Apache Parquet projects in your geospatial tech stack. And he showed us that it's pretty easy to do and can lead to some really impressive results. So he did this with DECGL. DECGL offers a low-level binary interface for really data-intensive applications. But writing a custom binary implementation is pretty difficult to do for day-to-day applications. But now we have geo-parquet and geo-arrow in JavaScript, and it can be done with just a couple lines of code. For example, here, he rendered a million building footprints in Utah all at the same time in observable, which is in the browser. So we kind of had a really awesome example of how you can use Node.js and desktop rendering environments and also we're continuing to push what can be done still within the browser without any special graphics hardware or specific vendor hardware or setup. While there, we also heard about the contributions from other companies, Carto, Microsoft, groups like Map Libre. We thought we heard what all the different kind of contributions they've made to our projects. It was really cool to see just how diverse these projects have gotten. And most importantly, meet face-to-face with everyone. I also wanna shout out Carto for hosting us in Madrid. It was really great that we got to use their space. Now, let's dive into the projects we actually make for developers like you. We build a variety of JavaScript libraries that work incredibly well together and easily integrate into your existing tech stack. Our flagship framework, DECGL, is one of the top web-based visualization libraries with over 136,000 weekly downloads and it's doubling its growth compared to last year. KeplerGL is a web-based application for exploratory geospatial visualization and it's built on top of DECGL and its companion VisGL frameworks. It allows technical and non-technical audiences to visualize all kinds of data easily with all kinds of data easily with a simple interface. You can just drag some data onto your map and add layers and filters to gain really quick insights. It's a major showcase of the Open Visualization software stack and it brings together multiple visualization frameworks into one powerful application. And KeplerGL offers itself both as an application and actually as a UI library. The application has around like 30,000 weekly users and has been integrated into all kinds of places like Jupyter notebooks, Jupyter Labs, VS Code, Tableau and even Apache SuperSet. Many companies in the mobility space are using KeplerGL for geospatial analysis. It's really easy to get started. It's free. There's no signup required. You can just go to the website KeplerGL and start messing around. It's also been used as a geospatial user interface library by many companies such as Foursquare and Carto. They use it to build their own customized applications. They can do this because we've added React component factories that can inject custom components into the UI and also a system of callbacks to integrate the state changes of the KeplerGL component with the rest of your application. All in all, these mechanisms help developers avoid forking KeplerGL, which reduces all that long-term maintenance challenges you might get and also encourages this collaboration amongst different groups that are using it as a library. By far, the biggest investment KeplerGL received last year was in converting it to TypeScript, which in itself represented over a person year of work. With TypeScript, developers can look up type definitions to quickly implement customizations and have a strong safety net when making changes to the code. The KeplerGL code base also keeps growing as well. So we broke up the big monolithic modules into independent smaller ones published in NPM. That means developers should now be able to install only what they want when they're building with Kepler. We also make the base map library in KeplerGL available as its own React component. React MapGL is a user-friendly API wrapper for React. And it works with Mapbox and now as of this year with Nap Libre. We released version seven this year, which was a complete rewrite of the library addressing many long-standing issues we had in V5 and V6. The rewrite also reduced the bundle size by 74% added support for any Mapbox compatible plugins like Mapbox GL Draw, which you can use for drawing polygons and stuff on your maps, which is a couple lines of code. And also it's paved the way for us to add compatibility for more Map libraries. Like later this year, we're adding a Google Maps React wrapper, which should work really similarly to the existing wrappers. As I mentioned earlier, DECGL is our flagship framework for visualizing and doing exploratory data analysis of really large data sets. So when you have just a map, that's where you might just use React MapGL to just get a base map. But when you start to add a lot of complexity and customization application, DECGL comes in as a solution for you to add all kinds of layers. It has this extensive catalog of these composable layers and it allows you to create really complex visualizations and then also to make it, it makes it easy to then package and share those visualizations as like reusable layers for other people that within like your group or even online that might want to use them. We've designed the API to reflect a reactive programming paradigm. It was originally written to just work with ReactJS, but for years now it just works in any environment. It's a pure JS application built with WebGL. So whether it's a vanilla JS or React interface, it can efficiently handle and render everything with all the heavy data loading and everything using your GPU with WebGL. We made some major upgrades to the tools that support the development and publishing of DECGL over the last year. All examples are now bootstrapped with VIT, which really sped up how quickly it can take, really reduces the amount of time it takes to get started with any of our examples. We are also now pre-bundling our scripts with ESBuild and using DocuSource for our website. It allows us to iterate a lot faster. It makes it a lot easier for first time users to get started, whether they're contributing or just using the library. It was a tremendous effort to also convert DECGL code base into TypeScript. We did it not just for TypeScript users to easily consume the library, but also for ourselves and for other contributors to improve the overall robustness and maintainability of our very large code base. Over the last year, in addition to developer experience enhancements, we focused pretty heavily on what we call DECGL extensions. DECGL extensions like the collision filter extension and the terrain extension. You can think of extensions as bonus features you can optionally add on to core DECGL layers. The collision filter extension allows layers to hide features which overlap with other features. An example is like a really dense scatter plot layer with many points that overlap. By using this extension, points that collide with each other are hidden such that only the ones that don't collide are shown. And these collisions are computed on the GPU in real time, which allows the collisions to be updated smoothly on every frame. We're talking like 60 frames per second. This stuff used to be done on the CPU side and every time you'd go back and forth between CPU and GPU, you would be wasting frames and kind of leading to like a very staggered experience. It's very, very smooth to do this now. And it's generic. It works with like all the different layers in the library, whether it's text or scatter plots or different kinds. The terrain extension, I'm really excited about. This one renders otherwise 2D data along a 3D surface. For example, if you have GeoJSON of a city, which GeoJSON is like building footprints or different lines or things. If you have that of like city streets and buildings, you can overlay that on top of something like an elevation model. It's really useful when viewing a mixture of 2D and 3D data sources. And the repositioning of all these geometries is again performed on the GPU. So you can do it dynamically in real time, have it very interactive. And as you're designing your maps, you don't really need to think about the complexities of offsetting all these geometries between 2D, 3D space. And kind of along the same lines, I'd actually like to share a really exciting new integration. On Wednesday, like two days ago, the Google Maps platform released photorealistic 3D tiles with a data set that's really comparable to Google Earth, which means you can now use the DECGL 3D tiles layer to render entire cities in amazing detail. And when you combine that with the terrain extension, it allows you to overlay 2D layers onto 3D cityscapes. And all this can be done at runtime with like very little code. I think that this development opens up like a huge wealth of exploratory analysis possibilities and enables the addition of like fully textured buildings and terrain in environments to any data visualization. Also to me, this announcement signifies more than just a technological advancement. It represents a growing trend of synergies across various data providers. For years, the mapping landscape has been characterized by unique solutions from different vendors like Google and Mapbox with their own distinct visualizations. Now, we're beginning to see how DECGL's open governance model and open geospatial consortium standards can harmonize these diverse solutions and lead to a more collaborative and integrated mapping ecosystem. I'd like to extend a huge thank you to the open visualization members at Carto and our technical steering committee for their contributions and commitment to open source and open governance here. So really, really cool collaboration and I'm really excited to see what people make with this. This year, we also had a new framework join us. Flow Map GL is a framework for geospatial flow maps. They're adding a variety of DECGL layers for all kinds of flow data. So if you have, a flow is like if you have people moving around a city, like if you have maybe a subway system where you have an understanding of like where people are going from A to B around a city, you not only want to know the location, the geospatial proximity between these things, but you have a really big interest in the kind of temporal aspect of that, the stuff that changes over time. So Flow Map is a way to in one picture see all that stuff that's changing, not only over kind of a whole area of your city, but also over time as well. I'd also like to announce that we're organizing a second collaborator summit this September. This time it's gonna be in New York City. Stay tuned for more details on this and how to attend. We're just getting started with all the organization, but I'm really excited for this. It's gonna be another really great get together with everybody. So in summary, there's never been a more exciting time to explore geospatial development. OpenViz is a collaborative group of developers building JavaScript data visualization tools in the open. We work on projects that make it easy to add maps and data visualizations to your web applications. And if you're interested in learning more, feel free to reach out to me directly, join us on Slack, or come to any of our bi-weekly community meetings. Thanks. Happy to take questions now and also stick around afterwards in case you'd like to talk more. So first of all, wow, this is extremely exciting. I love data visualization. I've used D3 and other libraries a lot and 3JS and WebGL as well, but for some reason it was not on my radar at all. So I'm obviously not looking at the right Twitter feed. So first of all, thank you for creating this and the large team behind it. I'm definitely going to be using it on AR projects and on web apps. I'm wondering, so I'm a sucker for performance and I put my own game engine even in Vulkan. Not that I can use that for web purposes anyway. I'm wondering if you're using WebGPU or thinking about that in the future. And what is the performance level of this and is there a next level that you can reach through WebGPU or are we already really amazing at the amount of rendering you can do? Yeah, it's a really great question. WebGPU for those that may not have heard of it is totally funny if you haven't just came out a couple of weeks ago officially in Google Chrome. It's kind of the next generation API, like WebStandard API for accessing GPU resources. And it's a pretty big departure from the OpenGL stuff that WebGL was built on, but the same standards group is behind WebGPU. So yeah, it's something that we, so right now, DeckGL and LumaGL, it's all on V8, but V9 is actually scheduled to add WebGPU support to LumaGL, the low level rendering library and by extension over time, DeckGL. Because WebGPU kind of changes its shader language that's being used and a lot of different libraries all need to come up together in order to move to a big technological change like that, I think it'll take some time. But our approach to this so far has been with LumaGL, you're gonna be able to have a standard interface for either accessing WebGL or WebGPU when you wanna do different kinds of rendering or just any kind of GPU access. And so by introducing that standard interface, which will be a complete breaking change to the API for LumaGL, but that's why it's V9, major change, we will have DeckGL start to use that. Now at the beginning, it's gonna just use the WebGL path that it's already got. But over time, I see that changing and we really wanna see how, like see like a smooth transition from WebGL to WebGPU ultimately, because it's a modern API. It's, people always have like different, GPU APIs are never perfect. There can be very painful to use. But what I've heard so far is that WebGPU is like the least painful it could be. And people are pretty excited to use it. So given that, I think we really, really wanna see DeckGL be like a flagship WebGPU library ultimately. We do some really interesting stuff. Like you saw like on the, well we didn't show, I didn't really speak about this because we didn't do much work on it in the last year, but we do a lot of interoperability between different WebGL mapping libraries. So like Mapbox or Map Libre, they are WebGL based. And then you have Google Maps with their own JavaScript library. I kinda mentioned that we're doing, we can like render their Google Earth stuff in DeckGL now. That's actually using a DeckGL layer. But separately from that, a year ago, we had already made a, we already done a different collaboration with them, both Mapbox and with Google Maps, where you can render DeckGL layers inside of those libraries WebGL contexts. And what that lets you do is do occlusion.  But in order for that to all work, they all have to be using that same low level thing. They all have to be like WebGL based. So I see that transition where you wanna start, like to be able to support these use cases of what we call interleaved rendering between these libraries, that will probably be that long tail where we all kinda need to come up to WebGPU in order to still be able to have that compatibility. And of course, WebGPU is forward facing and we will get there, we all will. I'm wondering if you wanna speak to, I'm sure I could research it later as well, but I'm wondering if you wanna speak more to the performance that it already enables right now in WebGL, like if they have any numbers or like just like what kind of frames per second and what kind of device or, because of course like for especially for big data, which I think is a big part of this project, what kind of performance are we getting right now in the libraries? Yeah, that's a really, really good question. I'm actually not prepared to answer it. Mostly because this is so new that I haven't even really gotten a chance to see it yet. But I'm really interested in learning myself. I think that what we've seen is that with libraries like GeoAero and GeoParquette, what we're realizing is that the bottleneck is in many applications, and out there in the world, like real practical applications. The bottleneck that most web-based data viz applications have is still not actually the WebGL layer in a lot of cases. It's what comes before that. So whenever you, like somehow you have to get your data into the GPU through JavaScript. And it's that through JavaScript part where you might be still packing data in a pretty relatively inefficient way compared to the array buffers that are actually running on a GPU. You might be doing a JSON or something very rest-based or CSVs, all these kinds of like uncompressed formats that are really easy to use, but not super efficient. So what we're really interested in seeing is basically like a greater adoption and support for these binary implementations like GeoAero and GeoParquette. I think that that is gonna be what can really bridge or kind of lift up the total amount of data that you can show and interact with at like 60 frames per second for a while.  And then we'll see that WebGPU will come in. I've also heard just in general, WebGPU is gonna be a lot better for general computation and I didn't show anything like this today, but there's a DECGL library out there that can take this really kind of niche. But if you have a satellite taking imagery over the Earth, they are probably taking imagery not only in like pixels that you can see, you know, like RGB, but they're doing it in different bands of light, like infrared or ultraviolet, maybe these things. And they use that to do things like detect wildfires or see how much vegetation is around at any given point. Like, is there a drought somewhere? You can tell that by collecting different kinds of light. Now, if you're a data analyst, ideally you'd like to kind of explore and tweak all the knobs of all these different bands of light and turn it into something you can see. And that is essentially like real-time graphics, what do they call it? Like kind of real-time graphics analytics. And that right now is being done in WebGL and it's being done in a very hacky way. Like you have to express all your numbers as like RGB values when what your numbers represent are not actually like color values, they're something numerical. WebGPU is changing a lot of that and making it so that you can do a lot more memory sharing between different layers and stuff like that. And so I think like whatever kind of barriers those projects are currently hitting are coming down with the transition to WebGPU. And I think this, I can only imagine there's gonna be with all the kind of generative art and different kind of AI technologies that are coming out now. Like we're gonna see, you're gonna be able to do more and more inside of a browser and you're gonna be able to wanna visualize more and more. Like I don't know who's gonna do it, but someone will make an AI generated real-time base map. That's one of my use cases by the way. I work with AI and diffusion models and I wanna be able to in browser not just render the map but also generate the layers on top of it. And so React is what I use as well. Like today you kind of have like a satellite image or a bunch of different disparate sources that can tell you roughly what is in the map you're looking at. But it's really coarse what you're often looking at. It might just be saying this general area has trees or it's green or it has some water. But if you wanna see something a lot more rich or you have some information about what that ecosystem really has, I don't know, I could see that going into a generative art API and then being able to do it all on client side would be really, really cool. So that I think is, you know, this is very far out probably, but that's kind of a future that I'd like to see. Thanks. Oh yeah, so if you'd like to join our meetings, we meet bi-weekly on Zoom and it's all on the OpenJS calendar. So you can just go to the general OpenJS calendar and we're on there, Open Visualization Community Meeting.


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I want to thank your pastor and the Board of Elders and the church board for the invitation from my wife and myself to be here with, it's a joy. Every time we have the opportunity to come back to Nairobi, we feel that we are part of the Nairobi people, of the Kenyan people, amen, and it's just a joy to be here. So we'll be here for the rest of the week and I'll take the time, I won't take the time now to do the greetings because I'm running against the clock, so I'll be here for the rest of this week and I want to make sure you're back out this afternoon for our second presentation, which will be entitled Blunders on the Borders. So whatever you do, don't miss this afternoon, right, it's Blunders on the Borders, that's this afternoon for our final presentation, but allow me therefore just to share a few things with you before we get into the message today. I was pastor, I was particularly happy with the theme that was chosen for your camp meeting. What's the theme? Jesus is coming, what? Get involved. And one of the reasons I'm so happy about it, because I'm consumed with the theme of Jesus is coming. I believe that for, to a large extent, many in our church have abandoned the theme and it is that which makes us a church. We are called to prepare the world for that event, the second coming of Christ. And every single member of this church must have that theme well understood, well believed and ready to participate in it. And by the way, I would like to say something more. This second coming of Christ is not just for the Adventist church, it's for every single Christian believer in Kenya and in the planet. And so what we will be sharing today is, and I'm happy for folks who are watching at home on television or by YouTube or wherever you're watching. And for those of you who are watching a little bit later, this presentation is designed for you today. And so what we're going to do, I'm going to put aside preaching for a couple minutes or even for this morning, I'm going to ask your permission to put aside preaching for this morning because I want to take the time out and deal with a subject that is central to the second coming of Christ. I want to make sure that all of us understand this subject matter very well. Is that all right? Is that okay? Good. Good. So we're going to do some work together. The worship service is over, now we're going to do some work together. So bow your heads with me as we pray. Father, this is your church. This is your message. And I now ask that you will remove the preacher and speak to your people all by yourself in Jesus' name. We pray, amen. So I'm going to put a text on the screen. When we talk about the second coming of Christ, it is very clear that we get this set and put away right up front. Nobody knows the exact day or the time when Christ is coming. Yes? The text says, but of that day, and our no man knows not even, let me read, not even the angels in heaven know the Son, but only the Father. So whatever we say, read the preacher's life, nobody knows the exact day or time when Christ is coming. If we knew it, then we would not need prophecy. Does that make sense? Yes. If we already know it, we don't need prophecy, right? If we already know the day. And it is because God has not given us the day why He provides us the second best thing and that is prophecy to tell us just how close that coming is and what we can know. So everybody seeks to get more information on this subject. The apostles or the disciples after the resurrection of Christ and just before He departed, they asked Jesus this question. They said, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom of Israel? And He said to them, it is not for you, have a read, it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in His authority. What God has not disclosed to you is not for you to know, but what He has disclosed and everybody in the church needs to know that. So what has He disclosed about the second coming of Christ? That is what we're going to dive into right now. And to do that, we're heading for the book of Daniel, one of the most beautiful books of Daniel. I'm going to share something with you. I have found, I've searched the Bible from Revelation back to Genesis and Genesis to Revelation. I found only one text in the Bible that actually identifies the time period when Christ is coming, one text. I don't know if you've ever seen the text, only one I've found. If you find another one, let me know. Here's it. It's in Daniel chapter 2 and verse 44. Here's the text, says, and in the days of these kings, the God of heaven will do what? Set up a kingdom, I want to highlight a word for you. When will God set up His kingdom in the days of these kings? I should be finding out who are these kings and what days that will be because Daniel says that God will set up His kingdom in the days of these kings. And here's what the text says, and this kingdom shall not be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to another people. It shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms. And here's it coming, and it shall stand forever. So we now know that God's kingdom that will stand forever is going to set it up in the period in the days of these kings. And your question is who are these kings? And that's what we're going to go searching for. Verse 45 of that chapter says, inasmuch as you saw the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and it broke in pieces. The iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great, held the reading there. The great God has made known to the king what will come to pass when after this. So for the next 45 minutes that the clock on the wall gave to me, we're going to use to excavate the word of God to find out how close he is to the second coming. So on the screen is a map of the kingdom of Israel. By the time Daniel was born, the kingdom of Israel was divided into two kingdoms, kingdom of Israel and kingdom of Judah. In the green, the kingdom of Israel was already consumed by the Assyrians. So that kingdom no longer exists. The only kingdom that remained is the kingdom of Judah. Today's where Jerusalem and young Daniel was in the kingdom of Judah. It was about 605 BC when our good friend down in Babylon by the name of Nebuchadnezzar got his army and marched from all the way from Babylon up in, all the way from Iraq where Babylon is located all the way up to Jerusalem, conquered the city of Jerusalem and burned it down and captured, as some of you know the story, captured the strong men from Jerusalem and took them back down as prisoners of war into Babylon. Among one of those groups is our friend Daniel along with Shadrach, Meshach, and Bednego, good. So they were back down in Jerusalem as prisoners of war and the Bible tells us that no sooner had he reached Jerusalem that he was placed in the university, I mean reached Babylon that Daniel was placed in the university down in Babylon and was taught and we learned in chapter one of Daniel that he was the top of his class, graduated with a 4.0 GPA in the Babylonian university, one of the wisest guys, listen to the preacher, one of the wisest guys in Babylon. Did you get that? Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. One of the wisest guys in Babylon. So therefore when we are ready for wise men in Babylon, Daniel will be among them. Is the church with me? Yes, the church with me. So now I want, here's where the story begins about the second coming of Christ in the book of Daniel.  So I'm going to speed up the story so I can get to the prophecy. The story is in chapter two of the book of Daniel, verse one. Bible says, now in the second year of the Nebuchadnezzar's reign, that's a date stamp. Anytime the Bible gives you date stamp, the time and date, it's for a reason. In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, the Bible says Nebuchadnezzar had dreams and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him. Meaning that he had a dream, woke up in the morning like some of you and knew he had a dream but can't remember what he dreamt. Good. Then, and so the Bible says he called all his advisors together, called them in the situation room at an emergency meeting with the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans. Most of you know who magicians are and astrologers and sorcerers. You may not know who the Chaldeans are. Who are the Chaldeans? Well, these are the formally educated guys. These are the university professors. Okay. Yes. Yes. These are the formally, they speak proper. The sorcerers and magicians, you all know them but these guys are the educated ones. So they bring them together in the room to advise the king and so to tell the king the dream. The king brought them.  Big stuff. So they came and they stood before the king. I mean, verse three of Daniel two, I mean, verse three of Daniel two. And the Bible says, the king said to them, I had a dream last night and my spirit is anxious to know the dream, verse four. And so the Chaldeans, who are they again? The educated one, the university professors, they are the spoke person for the group. He's church with me. So they said to the king and they spoke in Aramaic, they said, all king live forever. We don't have a problem telling you the interpretation, but we want you to tell us what your dream is so that we can supply the interpretation. That's the problem. We want you to tell us what you dreamt so that we can give you the interpretation. It's the people who go to science men and all your people and you guys have all your people around you. What do you have here? Scientists, no, no, no, palm readers and those people. What do you call them? You don't have them around here? Huh? You're all silent. You have no people? Those, what do you call the people who read your poem and deal with devil spirits and all those people? Bush doctors. Witch doctors. Okay. Good. So when you go to the witch doctor, that's what you have to do. You have to provide him with information and then he tell you what's going on. That's what they tried to do with the king. They said, you tell us the dream and we will supply the interpretation. Okay? I will, I'm verse five. Then the king answered and said, I can't tell you the dream, why? The thing is gone from me. I don't know what I dreamt. I want you to tell me what I dreamt last night, right?  However, if you tell me the dream and interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts, rewards and great honor. Therefore, the king says, tell me the dream and give me the interpretation. Verse 11, the guy says, king, it's a difficult thing that you're asking because there's nobody who ever asked this of any wise man who can tell the king except the gods who dwell, who is not dwelling among flesh. What you're asking for us, only the gods can help you. In other words, it's a bigger sign. Verse 12, for this reason, the king got very angry, furious, and he gave a command, here's it, he gave a royal order to destroy all wise men. By the way, who was the wisest guy in town? Daniel. Woo. So now there's an order to kill all wise men, and on the top of the list is Daniel. Ah, here's the Bible says. So the decree went out, I mean verse 13, and they began to kill, notice what the text says, they began, read with me, and they began killing, that's what the text says. So some were already dead by the time they reached to Daniel, okay, they began killing.  Why? Because you have a 4.0 GPA, that's why if your GPA is not too well, praise the Lord. So they saw Daniel and his companion to kill him, and Daniel went in and said, so Daniel said, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, don't kill anybody else, just take me to the king, let me talk to the king. So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him what time? He went to the king, he said, give me a little time that I may tell the king the interpretation. I mean verse 17, Daniel went to his house after the king, we don't know how much time the king gave him, the king gave him a little time, put a stay of execution in place, and gave him a little time, you rush home, and at home he gathered the three bodies that he had, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, it's good to have good praying partners, amen? Because when you're in trouble you need somebody to pray with, hello somebody, yeah, yeah, yeah. So he got the Shadrach, Ananiah, Michel and Azariah, his companions, and they went down on their knees, and they prayed to God that they might seek mercies from the God of heaven concerning this secret which the king had. Verse 19, they prayed and they went to bed. In the morning the secret was revealed to Daniel in the night vision, can the church say amen? Yeah. In other words, get this, get this, get this, get this. The king had the dream, it is not the king who had the dream really, it is God who gave the king the dream, is the church with me? But after God gave the king the dream, God pressed the delete button, so when he woke up in the morning, it was gone. Then God transferred the dream and downloaded it into Daniel's head, and pressed the save button. So in the morning the dream was there, so the Bible says the secret was revealed to Daniel in the night vision, so Daniel blessed the God of heaven, and Daniel says God of heaven reveals deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness and light dwells with him. Therefore, I mean verse 24, therefore Daniel went to Ariach with a soldier killing everybody and said to us to him, do not destroy the wise men of Babylon, take me before the king and I will tell the king the interpretation because he now had the stuff, is the church with me? Yeah. So he went to the king, king answered and said to him, to Daniel, are you able to make known to me the dream and the interpretation?  Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, king, help me read, the secret which you are demanding, these wise men and these astrologers and these magicians and these bush doctors cannot declare it before the king. This is higher science. But he says, but there is a God in heaven who does what? The secret and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar. What will be when? In the latter days. So the dream that you have is God give it to you, but it is about the latter days. It's not about your time, it's about the latter days. It's about 2023 in Nairobi. That's why it is relevant today, right? He says it's about the latter days.  And then Daniel went and told the king what was in his mind. This is my favorite part of the text. Watch this, watch this. Don't miss this. Don't miss. Daniel says, don't miss this, don't miss this. All eyes on me, all eyes on me. All eyes on me. Daniel says, I am going to tell you what you were thinking before you started sleeping last night. Did you get that? Daniel says, as for you, oh king, thoughts, what? Thoughts came to your mind while you were in bed. Come stay with me. Thoughts came to your mind while you were in bed. Thoughts about what? And about what would come to pass after the, so, so, and so here's what Daniel says. When you went to bed last night, you lay down there and you could not sleep and you were thinking, what's going to happen down the road in life? You were thinking, is this kingdom going to be destroyed? Am I going to live forever? Your mind went to the future like some of you. Am I going to be married? Am I going to get a rich man? My children will grow up. You're thinking, you were thinking about the future, and Daniel says, and because you were thinking about the future wondering what will happen to the kingdom of Babylon, God decided to remove the curtain and show you what's going to happen in the future. Is the church with me? Yes. And then he says, he who reveals secret has made known to you what will be. And then he says, here is what you dreamt last night. Holy moly. And the room get quiet because nobody could ever possible entertain the idea that somebody can tell you what you dreamt last night. So the king was speechless and breathless and he wanted to hear. I mean verse 31 of chapter 2, Daniel says, you, oh king, you are watching and behold a great image, this great image whose splendor was excellent, stood before you and its form was awesome. This image's head was a fine goal and its chest and arms of silver and its belly and thigh of bronze. Daniel says, its legs were made of iron and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. Are you still with me? Are you still with me? Balcony, you're still with me? Good, good, good. Daniel says, verse 34, Daniel says, you watched while a stone, a what? A stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its, which struck the image on its, one more time, which struck the image on its, on its feet of iron and clay and broke them in pieces. So somebody put together a little sketch of what that may look like. I want you to take note that this image is in the form of a human being. Yes? It's not in the form of a fish or a bird or a cow or an insect, it's in the form of a human being. Why? Because what you will see is that this image represents the existence of humankind from the time of Daniel's dream to the day when the Lord puts in his experience. It's how much time man has left back on planet earth. Is it you're with me? Good. So here's Daniel. You watch while a stone, I like that for you, cut out without hand, which struck the image on its feet, I like that for you. Keep in mind I'm coming back for those two things. Verse 35, then the iron and the clay and the bronze and the silver. When the stone hit the image, the iron and the clay and the bronze and the silver and the gold, notice the iron and the clay from the feet all the way back up. They were crushed together and became like a shaft of the summer threshing floor. They become pieces and the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the earth. That's Daniel's dream. That's Nebuchadnezzar's dream and that's the dream God gave Nebuchadnezzar, took it back out of his head and gave it to Daniel and Daniel recorded for people in Nairobi 2023.  So let's see if we can roll it, this is what Nebuchadnezzar saw, take a good look, he's dreaming. He saw a huge image, head was of gold, chest of silver, its belly and thigh were made of brass, its legs of pure iron, then the feet were mixed with iron and clay. Then he said he saw a stone, what's that stone coming cut out with all his hands, coming down and coming down for the image and bam, crashing to the image and the image is no more and the stone that struck the image turned into a great mountain. Now you understand why this guy must get an interpretation for this dream. Is the church still with me? Yeah. This is this dream. Every member in this church needs to understand this and know it well because this is the clearest indication of the second coming of price. So we're going to roll it, we're going to roll this for you again and I want you to notice where the stone hit the image, take a good look at it, I want you to notice where the stone hit the image, now where are they, we're down to the clay, here's a stone coming, here's a stone coming, here's a stone coming and I want it coming towards that image, coming towards that image and I'll be notice where it hit the image, yes let me see if I can find it for you. Okay, here's a stone, here's a stone here's it, notice where it hit the image, where does it hit the image? Yeah, you seen that? Not in the head, not in the belly, not in the thigh, not even in the leg, it hit the image rear, in the feet. Verse 36, that's the dream, Daniel says, now we will tell you the interpretation before the king.  We will tell you what the dream means, okay? Here's the interpretation, fast to your seatbelt, he says, you, okay, what in the world does this dream mean? Here's it coming, here's it coming, and what's the relevance for Kenya, what's the relevance for Nairobi, what's the relevance for Nairobi Central, what's the relevance for all of you watching television right now, whether you go to Adventist Church or our Church of God or Pentecost, whatever church you go to, this dream is for you. What is relevance?  You represent what? You represent the head of gold, you Babylon represent the head of gold, at that time Babylon kingdom was from 605 BC and lasted to 539 BC, that period of time in human history represent the head of gold, right? Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom represent the head of gold, so now you realize all of the different metal represent a kingdom, there are four different metals which mean there are four kingdoms in the church with me, and then the stone which also is another kingdom, so it's five kingdoms in all, hang on, this is a geopolitical piece of prophecy that you have to stay with me on. So I put on the map what the Babylonian territory looked like, that's in red, that's what they had at the time, just a little piece there including the Palestinian lands and part of Iraq and Iran, okay. Then Daniel says, but after you, after the head, after you shall rise another kingdom which is inferior to yours just as gold, silver is inferior to gold, and then another, a third kingdom of bronze which shall rule over all the earth, notice John, Daniel says there's be another kingdom, now notice for me, these kingdoms are kingdoms that rule the entire world, the entire world is under the rulership of these kingdoms, is the church with me? Yes, good, so Daniel said there'll be another and a third kingdom, they shall rule over the entire world, the second kingdom that came after Nebuchadnezzar was the kingdom of the Medes and the Persians, yes Babylon was destroyed by the Medes and the Persians, 538 BC, the great Babylon kingdom was destroyed and how did they destroy Babylon? Ah, Babylon had one weakness in it and that was the river Euphrates that runs through the city of Babylon, and so what the Medes and Persians did was to go upstream, divert the water, the riverbed was low and so the soldiers climb underneath there, went into Babylon, destroyed Babylon, right, there's some information there, I'll give you a little bit later, but some of you read this in the book of Babylon where that night Belchessar was having a banquet, you remember that stuff, yeah, and while he was laughing and drinking there's a hand appear from nowhere out of the sleeve of darkness and started writing on the wall and that brought the end of the Babylonian kingdom and the kingdom that defeated them were the Medes and the Persians, we now move from gold to, we move from gold to silver, yeah, Medes and Persians and they extended their kingdom a little bit more, stay with me because I'm going somewhere, I'm going to end up in Nairobi, stay with me. The third kingdom, Daniel said there'll be a third kingdom because no kingdom lasts forever, only God's kingdom, am I right? So there's a third kingdom, that third kingdom is the kingdom of Greece represented by the brass, the belly and thigh and Greece conquered Medes and Persians in 331 and it ruled until 168 AD, Greece was led by the good Alexander the Great and so they conquered the world and they extended their territory a little up in eastern direction and then Daniel says after Greece there will be a fourth kingdom, stay with the preacher and then Daniel said this kingdom shall be what? Strong as iron in as much as iron breaking pieces and chatters everything and like iron that crushes this, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all other kingdoms. This is the kingdom of Rome, the iron monarchy of Rome, Rome conquered Alexander the Great in 168 BC and now Rome was ruling, Rome ruled the entire world from 168 BC over into 351 AD which means that when Christ came Rome was in power and you remember it is Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus, you remember that? Yes, yes, so it was, so when Christ came the first time we are now in the legs of iron. Is the church with me? Yes, let me say one more time, when Christ came the first time we have now moved down to the legs of iron and clay as the period and Rome extended their territory on the map. Then I'm interested in the feats. The text says verse 41, I mean Daniel chapter 241 where as you saw the feet and toes partly of potters clay and partly of iron, notice what the text says, the kingdom shall be divided, notice the text, the kingdom shall be divided yet the strength of the iron shall be in it just as you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay verse 42 and the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. So hey, hey, hey everybody with me now. We move from head, Babylon, move the chest Middle Persia, move from Asia-Persia to Greece, move from Greece to Rome. Now, now, now, now, now. After Rome, which is the legs, the only thing left back on the image is what? The feet. So who are these feet? Well, notice the feet is divided into ten toes. Am I correct? Yes, yes, yes. So what happened to Rome? No kingdom conquered Rome, none. So what happened to Rome? Rome implode. Rome, Rome destroy itself from within in fighting and then the kingdom of Rome was split into ten tribes represented by the ten toes. Is the church with me? Yes, represented by the ten toes. Daniel says those toes some of them will be strong and some will be fragile, which means ten different countries came out of Rome. Some of them strong, some of them weak. The kingdom shall be divided, partly strong, partly weak. These nations become what we now call the nations of Europe. Is the church with me? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Hang on, hang on, hang on. That's where we get the, they now are the nations that form themselves into the European Union. And if you know anything about the European Union, these countries want to be united like the United States of America. And so their mission is to get themselves united. But Daniel says they will have a problem because some of them are strong and some of them are weak and that not going to hold together. So these are the names of the old names of the old-time names of these ten countries, the Franks and the Visigoths and the Burgandians and the Uralis. These are old-time names. So I give you some old-time names and the new names, the Alamani, the German, the Franks is the France, Anglo-Saxon is the English, Burgandians in Switzerland. These are the ten toes. Three of them were destroyed when the papacy was coming to power, leaving seven. Is the church still with me? Yeah, I'm going somewhere. So I put on the map for you an idea of the old map of Rome, the Kingdom of Rome, which now become the European Union. Now what's this all about, preacher? Well, here's the text. As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the sea, they who? The ten toes. Is the church with me? Yes, the ten kingdoms that form out of Europe, they will mingle with the seed of men. What does that mean? That word seed in Greek is spermatus, from what we get the word sperm, meaning children. They will mingle with the seed of men, but they will not adhere, they will not stick together, they will not hold together, they will try to be united, but they will not come on, preach with me. They will not adhere, they will not stick together, they will try to come together, but the pack will not hold. Is the church with me? Yeah, because some are strong and some are weak. Some don't want to give up their currency and some want strong currency. So they will not hold together, but they will try to unite themselves through the mingling of the seed. What does that mean? That means intermarriage. Ah, so I stumbled up on this paragraph, and then if you know the history of Europe, you will know. One of the ways that Europe tried to keep itself together is that they marry one prince from one kingdom to the princess of another kingdom. Is the church with me? And they intermarried among themselves to form alliance. And Daniel saw that years ago, and Daniel says not even that will work because they will not stick together. And so Europe, European Union has been trying to defy prophecy. They try to get the EU passport to unite themselves together. They have an EU currency, the euro to unite themselves together. They have an EU court of human rights to unite themselves together. They have a EU army called NATO. There are two other countries involved in it, US and Canada. And they have a EU commission and a EU parliament, and they're doing everything to unite themselves together. And Daniel says it will not happen. No matter what they do, it will not happen, because iron and clay do not mix. Well, as you saw iron mix with ceramic clay, they will not, they will mingle with the seed of men. Here's it coming, but they will not stick together. They will try, and for a while it looked as if they will be united, but something will happen. They will not hold together. Something did happen. As soon as Europe settled down and thought, okay, we're united for first of all, then all out of a sudden, ah, on June 23rd, 2016, the English folks decide we want to get out. Because we're the strongest economy in this EU, and we're not giving up our sovereignty. We're not giving up our rights. And so they voted on a referendum to get out of the EU. Hey, Daniel, prophecy is taking effect. Is the church with me? And by January 31st, 2020, it became official England pull up, Britain pull out of the EU called Brexit. Brexit was a big shocker. Nobody expected to happen. Even the queen back, Brexit. And that was a big surprise. David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, beg the people, don't do that. But the bible says they will not adhere together, not one together. Brethren, let me talk to you. When the bible give you prophecy, there's nothing on planet earth that can change prophecy. Daniel says they will not hold together. And that day, when Brexit occur, the stock market around the world lost 2.3 trillion dollars. It was an earth shaking movement. The prophecies of Daniel was fulfilled. Well, that's for the politicians. For us in church, and for you in Nairobi, and for those of you watching via the internet, and those of you watching all parts of the world, here's where I want to take your focus. Keep your eyes on the feet. Your eyes on the feet. You watch while a stone was cut out without hands, Daniel says. Struck the image on its feet of iron and clay. So the question for us in church this morning, when is that stone arriving? Answer. Answer. In the days of these kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom. Now I can ask you, which kings? The kings of the 10 toes, the kings of the European nation. Watch your preacher, watch your preacher, watch your preacher, watch. While the nations of Europe are still existing, God will put in his appearance. Put another way, there will not be another kingdom that ruled the entire world. No matter how bad China think it is, there will be no world power. The last world power was Rome. Watch your preacher, there will be no more world power. The next world power that will rule is God's kingdom. God says in the days of these fragmented infighting toes of the nation of Europe, the God of heaven will put in his kingdom. Is the church with me? Four kingdoms already gone, one is left and that the last one is the stone. That's God's kingdom. That's God's kingdom. And Baba says it and we shall never be destroyed and it shall stand for how long? Forever. Now question, when was Europe formed? Well the European Union was formed in November 1, 1993. That's when they started coming together as Daniel prophesied. The founders, look at the founders, still part of the little group as Daniel prophesied, as that prophesied.   And before I run this dream, I want to ask this question. Today, 2023, are we living in the head? Are you sure? Yes, we're not in the head, why? The head was way back in Nebuchadnezzar's days, am I right? Are we living in the chest? No, that was way back in the days of the Misan version. Are we living in the belly and the thigh? No, that was way back in the days of Alexander. Are we living in the legs? No, that was way back in the days of Rome. So where are we living? Somebody says, not even, somebody said, one day I was at our church preaching and so I asked the question, somebody said, but are we not even living in the toes? We're in the toe nail. So watch me. If you sit in church today, if you realize that on that image, we are living in the feet, in the toes. It means that after the toes, there's no more time left. The image ends there. Is the church with me? Because it's a history of human life. So after this, there's no more time left. The only thing left back out of this dream is what? The stone. Because we have already, hey, hey, hey, we have already lived out the image. Oh, you just look at it. We have already lived out the image. We have already lived, human beings have lived out the image. We have lived out the image. We have completed the whole thing. And you were born at the very edge of the image, at the stone. So the only thing Nairobi should be looking for is a stone to roll in at any moment now. Any moment now. And if the stone, hey, hey, hey, watch me. And if the stone represents the coming kingdom of God, I want you to notice where the stone hit the image. And if you tell me it hit the image on the feet, and that's where you're living, then I'm going to tell you that the coming of God may strike while you are still alive. Let me roll it one more time.  This is the image. This is the dream. This is the dream. On that image we are living. We're not in the head. That's a long time gone. We're not in the chest. Long time gone. We're not in the belly. That's gone. We're not even in the legs. That's gone. Ah, but we're somewhere here. That's where you were born. That's where I was born. And that's where the stone is coming because that stone is going to connect the image right on the feet. That's where the stone hit the image. Notice heading, heading, heading for this generation, heading for this generation. That's where the stone hit the image. That's where the stone hit the image. If you're alive in the feet, it is in your time that the stone is coming. You don't have time.  Let me, I plan to get married first. No, the stone, let me finish education first. No, the stone is coming. Stone is coming. You're not living in the head. No, we're not living in the chest. No, we're not living in the belly. No, if you are living in those times, you don't need to come to church. You don't need to give your heart to the Lord. You can go have fun. Can't eat no stone coming. If you're living in the legs, you can enjoy yourself, party all night, hate no stone coming. But if you live in the feet where we are living, then everybody in this generation should be looking up because any moment now, Daniel's stone will roll into Babylon. That's why I came here in Nairobi to share with you. That's the burden I carry as a preacher. That's the burden I carry as a preacher. When I passed through Nairobi, I went on town yesterday and see hundreds of people going about and don't have a clue that the stone is on its way. And that's why I want to challenge you as I close. If you have not yet given your heart to God in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, let nothing, nobody stand in your way. This is the time to do it because the stone is coming. I want to pray for somebody as I close. I don't know who on the balcony. I don't know who down the bottom. You perhaps are in this congregation and you have not yet given your heart to the Lord. Maybe you have good reasons for not doing so, but have you having hear this message you want to say, preacher, please pray for me. Please pray for me that I may make my calling an election sure. Please pray for me and my family that we can be saved before the storm. If that describe you, can I ask you just to raise your hand. I'll keep you in my purse. Raise your hand. God bless that hand. Is there another? Is there anybody else? Is there anybody else? So preacher, just pray for me by the grace of God. You're not yet given your heart to the Lord. You want me to close as I close the prayer. Can I invite this congregation to stand with me? Is there anybody else? Is there anybody else? Can we stand together? Is there anybody else? I'm going to pray with you to close. I'm going to pray with you to close. I'm going to pray with you. Maybe you were a member of this church some time ago. Maybe you have gotten weak and step away from Christ and you'd like to come back home. I'm going to pray to close. I'm going to invite you, if that describes you, walk with a friend, come up front, say, preacher, pray for me that when the Lord comes, it can be well with my soul. I'm going to invite you to do so as we sing.


Then we're checking out this review video for the shape of water Yeah, this is a movie that's been huge in in the You know media at the moment everyone's all about it because of the Academy Awards That's been nominated for and the fact that it only got a very limited release in just a few theaters And now all of a sudden because of all the Academy Award nominations. It's getting Pretty widespread release at this point. So anyway the shape of water This is no spoilers by the way whenever I do these movie reviews There will be no spoilers really And I am gonna give it like a star rating at the at the end that I do out of five which includes halves Anyway, so my feelings on the shape of water. First of all, I'm a fan of Guillermo del Toro always have been pretty much he tends to do Have like a certain gothic feel to his directing in the cinematography that he usually has for his films And I'm a fan of that. I like that kind of look that feel So I'm always kind of drawn to his films But also he usually has at least solid films one of the problems with Guillermo del Toro films in my opinion Has always been that they get overhyped people see them They don't expect anything out of the film because he's not like this blockbuster name He's not like a Spielberg or he's not like a you know a Christopher Nolan or anything like that He's Guillermo del Toro like people know his name and they know he's been around But if you ask your common person, how many Guillermo del Toro films have you seen a lot of them will be like Oh, I don't even know like they don't even necessarily know everything. He's done So that's one of the issues so people will see it no expectations and then be like, oh wow That was that was really good So that said do I think that the shape of water fell into the same situation where it got way overhyped Yes, I do it got way overhyped. Is it still a really a quite good film? I don't say really good, but it is still a quite good film. I did enjoy it I liked it quite a bit and that happens with a lot of his films Other ones I can think of that I felt the very same about a pans labyrinth that one got way overhyped was also a very good film as well as Crimson peak that was another one and even when Guillermo del Toro isn't like knocking it out of the park He's at least making films that are like good, you know, like the hellboy movies. They're not like phenomenal or anything But they're a good films and the one thing that's a constant throughout his stuff is his directing his directing is outstanding the cinematography is almost always outstanding and The music used in the films like I've never known anything to like mismatch or just you know, you hear it and you're just like so He does a solid solid job So that said for the shape of water itself The biggest strengths for this film are the cinematography the directing the music the acting the script itself is Not the strongest point of the film the script is Good the script is not great and I will say that if you take this exact same script You give it to a different director who will handle it in a different way It could be a bad film, honestly So I think all the other things with the film fell into place Well didn't really fall into place. They were intentionally put into place in order to make it a quite good film So that's you know, that's Guillermo del Toro He can take a just a good script and make the outcome of the film be more than the script is And I think that's what happened with the shape of water because when you look at the actual script There's not too much new stuff here. It's it is very much like, you know film like Beauty and the Beast You know, it's a love story. It's You know, that's not a spoiler like everyone knows that based off the trailer. So Yeah, so it's nothing like crazy new but with everything else that he does he makes it new in a way One of the interesting things about the film is it has a bit of a French film feel to it Which if people are familiar with French films, you'll know what I mean when you see the film Sally Hawkins, who's the leading lady in the film does a phenomenal job, especially because of the fact that she plays a character who cannot speak and It is much harder to act when you can't say anything because you need to be very good with your Expressions your hand gestures everything like that and she does a phenomenal job with that with that so She did an outstanding job all the other acting and it was really good as well Michael Shannon plays a very menacing individual. He's very good at that type of stuff and No Jenkins. Why am I blanking on his on his name right now? I actually have it right here. I had pulled it up on IMDB because I don't want to forget people's names And I forgot his name Richard Jenkins Richard Jenkins did a very good job as Sally Hawkins characters confidant like her only like real friend who kind of understands her and She's the only friend that really understands him at that point too. So The way he played his character He's always been a good direct or a good actor very solid good actor But he's never gotten an opportunity like this film to really shine and showcase himself as an actor And I'm happy to see that he finally got that so maybe he'll get like a little more due that he's Ben owed in my opinion so The creature itself I know people have seen like portions of the creature through the trailer I will say that in my opinion it it doesn't surprise me what it looks like because it's a very Guillermo del Toro type creature it looks like a cross between Abe sapien from the Hellboy movies and The creature from the Black Lagoon which doesn't really surprise me all that much because obviously Guillermo del Toro did Hellboy and was involved in the design of Abe sapien and then on the other hand he is a huge Universal monsters fan and like the old horror films. So he is a fan of creature from the Black Lagoon So you can see where his influences come from and that leaves me do another thing that I really really love about Guillermo del Toro Is he's very very committed to using practical effects and films for me when there's a lot of CGI Things don't look right in certain situations if you're using CGI and like quick shots Where people don't have to the can't like take the time to like affix their eyes on whatever is in front of them Then usually it'll be pretty fine But when you're doing it for an extended period of time sometimes the CGI can just look weird and just not that good but he gets around this obviously by Taking the harder road, which is doing practical effects so his dedication to practical effects always amazes me and his ability to be involved with the creature design in a lot of stuff that he does like in the Hellboy films He does a lot of creature design They look great like he comes up with some very awesome things in his brain And I know I think he does like sketches to like this is what I'm interested in so yeah, so that but overall Like I was saying like the story the story is not the strongest part of it Everything else is strong super super strong actually and that's the reason that it it comes out to be a real You know quite good film like I said so that said out of five stars I would give this a four star rating that is nice. Obviously. It's well above half 2.5 being half But I just don't feel like it's quite at that point where he'd get the four and a half or get the five star And like I said, I do feel like it's a little bit overhyped at this point Actually, maybe a little bit more than a little bit overhyped I feel like it's kind of a film that people who don't usually watch Smaller budget films or more indie films or more like independent films like happen to see it and be like oh my gosh Oh, that's amazing. I didn't know that there were films with original ideas out there Which actually it's not even like super original, but there there's some real original stuff in there including what Guillermo del Toro likes to do which is set a lot of His films in the settings of like conflict times like this one's kind of done in the United States during the Cold War He likes to do those types of settings Which always is interesting for me. So at any rate, that's kind of my review of this Let me know if there's anything that you think I missed on it. You can you know put some comments down there I'd like to interact about the film whatever everyone else thought of it Maybe out of people out there thought it totally sucked and I'd be totally Open to hearing what you have to say about it or maybe people out there were like no you're wrong It was like unbelievable one of the best movies ever You know say that as well, but if you could also give me likes, you know subscribe would be awesome And if this this video does well enough I may consider doing more of these movie reviews and going out to the theater and intentionally just going to see Movies just to do reviews on so for that reason people could also make requests and I could see if I can make that happen in that case But yeah, I want to keep these videos like You know under 10 minutes if possible maybe even shorter if possible in the future But anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out I do recommend the shape of water go ahead and see it because you can see it at the moment and until next time Keep it brutal


I found 16 remote job companies that are hiring right now with no degree needed. And not only am I gonna tell you the company, but I'm also gonna show you the jobs that they're hiring for and the exact job posting. And my team and I did over 100 hours of research for this video. So if you appreciate all of our hard work, always trying to get you the best possible jobs, go ahead and gently tap that like button. And let's jump into it right now with the first one on the list, which is going to be one support. And this is a company that for over 30 years has been providing business process outsourcing, contact center solutions and tailored agent modeling to internet service providers, IT startups and Fortune 500 companies. And their motto is a better way to outsource with a partner you can trust. Now they hire for many different jobs and they're pretty much always hiring, but the one I'm gonna be talking about in this video is a sales support representative. Now I think the job is pretty self-explanatory, but one thing to note is you're likely gonna be talking to other companies because this is what's known as a B2B company or a business to business company. And that means if you're able to close a contract and you get commission, it's likely going to be a massive amount of money because the contracts are usually hundreds of thousands to even millions of dollars. And so typically after you include commission, you'd probably be making well over $30 per hour, probably more like 50 or above. So this is definitely a really good one for you to look into, but I totally get it sales is not for everyone, but I always say that everyone should have at least one sales job in their life because I think it builds a lot of character and it teaches you skills that you can use for the rest of your life no matter what you end up doing. Next is going to be the company Yelp. And I'm sure you're familiar with this company. It's basically the go-to guidebook for customers seeking the best local businesses and it's akin to a knowledgeable waiter suggesting the finest dishes in a restaurant.  They basically have a six month developmental program where you basically get paid $15 to $18 an hour and you get to learn valuable skills. And if you do a good job at the end of the six months, they're likely going to offer you a full time position that pays even more than that. So yeah, another really good one to look into, there's lots of other job opportunities that they offer as well. So definitely check them out if you're looking for a remote job. Next is going to be Power Digital Marketing. And this is a full service digital agency that provides customized performance marketing strategies to empower business growth. Now they've had some really well-known companies that they've worked with. For instance, they've worked with Figma, MyFitnessPal and Stripe just to name a few. Now they're always hiring for different remote roles, but the one that caught my eye is a TikTok content producer. And this is basically where you would be controlling the company's TikTok account and creating content on it. And content producers typically make $56 to $103,000 a year. Now this company has really good ratings on sites like Glassdoor. For instance, they have a four out of five star rating from employees, which is really good. And 85% of the workers approve of the CEO. Now by the way, if you're interested in digital marketing, you've come to the right place because I have helped a ton of people get into digital marketing. And I've interviewed a bunch of them on this channel. For instance, James was a 16 year old who was able to get a full-time income only working 30 hours a week. And they were all able to land their jobs by learning from my friend Seth who has a free digital marketing masterclass which I'll put down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. And you can click it in order to check that out. Next is going to be Southwest Airlines. And if you're from the US, you are probably familiar with these airlines and you've probably flown on them before. And they're kind of known for being one of the best of the budget airlines. And they are almost always hiring for customer support and customer service roles. Now for customer support, starting pay is $17.94 per hour. And they also have pretty good benefits. But they're also almost always hiring for a bunch of other remote roles. So it's definitely worth it to give them a check. By the way, comment down below if you like one of the companies that I recommend or if you think I should talk about a different company on this channel. Next is going to be the company Steyr. And this is Steyr.net. And this is basically a team of 100 plus content strategist, writers, editors, designers and video producers. And basically they help other businesses produce content. So this involves things like research, development, marketing, support and instruction. And then creating an overall content strategy making sure that the content meets the budget that is set and even running quality assurance on the content itself. And they make all kinds of different content such as blog posts, white papers, ebooks, explainer videos, tech docs, knowledge bases, marketing collateral, end user documentation, videos, user research and training content. And they hire for a bunch of different jobs but one of them that they're hiring for right now is a UX researcher. And UX stands for user experience. And this is basically someone who makes sure that the user experience of a website or a piece of software is really good. And they're paying about $65 to $68 an hour for this position. Now this is not an entry level job. They say you need three years of experience but to be honest, that's usually just a suggestion. You could probably get by with a lot less experience than that but you definitely don't have to have a college degree. Now this is a company that's extremely highly rated, 4.5 out of five stars and 90% of people approve of the CEO. Next is gonna be the company, Equus. And they basically encompass several different organizations focused on comprehending, engaging and investing in Latino communities. And they basically serve as a hub for Latino research, innovation and leadership development. And they aim to reshape engagement approaches in various spheres. And they hire for many jobs but right now they're hiring for an operations coordinator. And in this role you'd make about $75 to $90,000 a year. Plus they have a lot of benefits. And these include comprehensive health coverage, life insurance, generous paid time off for a 1K matching, professional development stipends, remote work stipends, parental leave and an emergency relief fund. So yeah, another really good one for you to look into. The next one is going to be the company, Corridor. And this is gonna be CorridorGroup.com. And this company is kind of like a specialized online toolkit. And they collaborate with home based care providers offering tech enabled solutions to streamline patient care and optimize revenue management. And they hire for a lot of different jobs but one of them that I'm gonna highlight in this video is an HMO insurance collection specialist. And basically you'd be doing tasks like tracking unpaid claims, resolving discrepancies and pursuing full financial reimbursement from insurance companies for a healthcare revenue cycle management provider. And you'd be making about $20 to $25 an hour in this position. And there are a ton of different random niche healthcare related careers out there. This is one of them. They're usually extremely stable. They usually pay relatively well and they're easy to get into. So this one does not require a college degree or previous experience. And by the way, on a lot of cases they'll actually put that in the job description but in reality you can apply anyways. And in many cases you will actually end up getting an interview and in some cases a job. So most of the time that's more of a recommendation. Next is going to be EXL services. And this is a company that provides analytics and digital solutions across industries partnering with global clients to enhance business outcomes and foster growth. And they hire all the time for a lot of different remote jobs but the one that I'm going to highlight is going to be a PT scheduler. And this role is going to involve coordinating appointments for field consultants, offering concierge services for homeowners via mobile apps and ensuring productive scheduling within the castle high value and risk control divisions of EXL's insurance. Now in this role you'd likely make between $41 and $60,000 a year and there's pretty good benefits. Competitive pay and benefits, superb training program, work from home, flexible work hours, career advancement opportunities, tuition reimbursement program and an excellent culture and team. So yeah, pretty good one. And by the way, if you have a friend out there or a family member or someone who just needs to get a freaking job, go ahead and share this video with them. Next is going to be the company AHA Media Group. And this is a very interesting company that basically does healthcare content marketing. So they'll do things like content strategy, content writing and content training for companies like hospitals. But they also work with health systems and health tech companies. Now they hire for a bunch of different remote positions but the one I'm gonna highlight is going to be an editorial project coordinator. And basically you're gonna be coordinating with writers and editors to ensure editorial standards across healthcare related content projects. Now they don't provide a specific salary but editorial coordinators typically make about $59,000 a year. And you don't need a college degree or previous experience to land the role. This is also a really good company, 4.1 star rating on Glassdoor and 84% of people approve of the CEO. Next is going to be the company Aquant Talent. And they are a global leader in talent and recruitment for marketing, creative and design. And they basically match people to opportunities and build relationships that mean big wins for everyone. And they hire for a lot of different roles but the one I'm gonna highlight is a paid media manager. And basically you're gonna be running pay-per-click campaigns. And pay-per-click is basically like the ads that pop up at the top of Google. And if you click on one of those ads the company actually has to pay Google for that. And in this role they're advertising $80,000 to $90,000 a year. Now it says that they require four plus years of experience but in my experience helping tons of people get jobs in these types of roles that is almost always a suggestion. And in many cases you can get a job with one year of experience or in some cases even none. But if you don't have any experience you have to have a great portfolio, right? Because you have to be able to prove that you have the skills that you say you have. By the way, if you made it this far into the video go ahead and hit that subscribe button or ring the notification bell so that you don't miss out on future videos because I've got some really good ones planned. The next company is going to be Robert Half and they basically connect employers and job seekers to jobs in finance, law, technology and more. And they're hiring for like thousands of different jobs but the one I'm gonna highlight is going to be a remote content analyst position. And basically you're going to coordinate, develop and maintain websites that produce valuable information and tools to serve internal and external customers. And this position pays about $20 per hour and they even say that it's entry level so it doesn't require a college degree or previous experience. The next company is going to be Launch Potato and they're basically a digital media company that owns and operates a portfolio of brands and technologies. And they're honestly a really cool company that has a lot of benefits. For instance, they have a flexible vacation policy, flexible schedules, 401K with company matching, free life insurance, subsidized medical and free dental insurance, profit sharing. You have the opportunity to give back to the community annual retreats and energetic and fun culture, workout whenever it works for you, shiny new laptop and LP swag, training and mentorship, personal development, downtown HQ with free snacks and drinks and two minutes from the beach if you worked at their physical company. Now they hire for a lot of roles. In many cases they are remote but the particular one I'm going to highlight is an editorial assistant. And basically you'll assist and support the finance buzz and all about cookies editorial staff and the team's mission to produce high quality content that helps our readers make smart, personal finance decisions that better their lives. And you'll get paid around 35 to $55,000 a year. And by the way, this company has a perfect five star rating on glass door. So yeah, definitely a good one to look into. Next company is going to be Ulteus and they basically provide writing and editing services. And they give you an opportunity to be a freelance writer at their company. Now writers make a wide variety of different ranges. It really depends on your niche and what type of writing you do. But a lot of the time you're going to make anywhere between $20 and $40 an hour. So yeah, I think everyone knows what writers do. There's a lot of opportunities like this out on the internet. I do think that writing is actually on an uptrend. I know a lot of people are saying because of chat GPT, writing is going to be bad now. I actually completely disagree. I think because of chat GPT, good writing is going to be even more valuable because people are slowly going to get used to content that's generated by AI. And they're going to have a sixth sense for sort of seeing what type of content was actually written by a human being versus what type of content was written by AI. I'm sort of already seeing this now because I've seen enough content out there that I can almost automatically spot when it was written by AI. So yeah, another really good one to look into. Next company is going to be Veya. And Veya is a company that's on a mission to provide everyone around the world with access to the products that they want and need. And they hire for a lot of different roles but the one I'm going to highlight is a customer service representative job. Salaries about $15 an hour to start but they do have excellent benefits. And these include health, vision, dental and 15 days of paid time off accrued in year two, seven paid holidays per year, company jacket from the North Face, company water bottle from Yeti, 401k, HSA and FSA and quarterly social events. So yeah, another one to look into especially considering customer service jobs are really easy to land. They don't require a college degree or previous experience. And it's a good way to get your foot in the door working remote. Next is going to be Stanley Black and Decker. And you've probably seen this company before if you've gone to Home Depot. This is actually a Fortune 500 American company. And they basically manufacture industrial tools and household hardware. And they hire a lot for remote jobs but one that I'm going to highlight is a customer experience representative job. And this is basically a customer facing job where you're going to be interacting with customers, answering their questions. And if it's a good fit, you'll be selling stuff to them. Now they don't give an exact salary range but chances are it would be somewhere between 40 to $60,000 plus you can make bonuses if you have good performance. The next company is going to be Oneforma. And basically what they do is they bring together data, intelligence, and experiences to deliver human-centric solutions to complex business challenges. So they're basically a company that works with other companies AKA a B2B company. Now they do hire for a lot of different roles but the one I'm going to highlight is a data collector job. And this is going to be good for you if you just want to make some quick money because this is not a full-time job. It's basically a one-time project. And you'd basically be helping them with geolocation by taking a bunch of photos with your iPhone. But they hire for a bunch of other remote roles so definitely check them out. By the way, I had a video that went viral and got over a million views and that was the 17 work from home job companies that are almost always hiring. And you can check that video out by clicking right here.


Damn it look good. Hi, Bidgets. My name is this today.  The rumors are true That's all NYU students talk about is the fact that they go to NYU. I'm currently majoring in digital media No, I'm not. I'm currently majoring in integrated digital media. What does that mean? I really don't know I think I'm wasting all my money on this tuition But a few weeks ago I made a video and I put in a poll where I asked you guys whether or not you want to see my Portfolio website or like see me make one and I think 95% said yes And I expect 95% of you guys to watch and if not To your surprise, I'm not just a self-centered youtuber who makes videos about himself I also do photography where I take pictures of myself and other people and I've had a portfolio website in the past Have I deleted because I went to college and didn't think I would do anything with it But I'm about to be sorry. I don't want to say it.  And also having your username as that mediation really turned some people off But thankfully Wix is not one of those people. God bless your soul. I'm sure you'll regret this But I'm sponsored by Wix today Not only are they gonna help me build my new website, but they're also gonna help pay for my college tuition If you don't know what Wix is, it's a website builder And I've used it in the past to make my original website that I took down and I'm just gonna be brutally honest with you If you don't have a website in college people literally look at you like you're a different person They say oh, you don't have a resume with your website attached. Your website is just your Instagram handle Yes, we are that pretentious So I'm gonna show you guys how I'm making my website in real time And if you want to make your own website, just go to wix.com slash go slash that mediation as always the link is in Description so here's the Wix website. It's pretty cute So I see two options ADI, which I don't need because I'm what a design major So I'm just gonna go ahead and use the Wix editor and there's around five pages. Okay seeing a lot of options here I'm seeing a very attractive mail. Oh, there's a lot of options. So my thing is portfolios and Portraits someone just look at portfolios. I like my portfolio simple. So like this is appealing to me I think the background is spicy because it's not just white and I might add my own code in because if you don't Know she knows HTML CSS and JavaScript barely. First of all, let's do this. You have to have your name in the title I like fonts that are sans serif.  So let's change it a role We learned in design is never have bold and italics. It's like wearing a belt in overalls Which I have done in the past don't remind me but let's turn that off And I'm probably gonna change this again because I don't like how it's taken away from my other type to bold fonts in this economy Disgusting. I like that more semi bold. Okay. So my gallery gonna delete all of these photos This is the moment when people can start judging my photography. Go ahead judge me. Just don't be mean It's almost cancer season. All right. I went through found my best of the best portrait photography and now have to wait All right, I see that there's a lot of projects and I don't want to explain every photo I've ever taken in my life So I'm probably gonna get rid of these. This is my bio Got it. I'm gonna make a new page and then call projects nature photography because I also take nature photos Portraits nature info contact. I don't really have graphic design stuff I want to put on here yet. I might add that later But for now, I'm just gonna keep it as photography and I'll rename this to portraits Oh, I've delete all the projects. All right, if I go back to my gallery I should have all my images done at the page. I've always like organizing my color So I'm just gonna go by the rainbow seems fitting for pride month I also like using color in my photography But it also gets very hard because some things have more than one color and then I can't decide You know what? I'm gonna add my nature photography too because I only have four photos of them that I like And there's no need to make another page for them. Sorry nature gonna have to cut you off See you next year and I guess I have to rename this to photography again Let's add the other four photos now. I can organize red yellows yellow blues Oh It's gonna get messy blue green more green. I guess I can fit that here. Okay blue dark blue purples multi-color blue. Um I think that's the best. I'll be able to get it.  I can't fix it. This person I took a picture of she's in the first three photos Sorry, I use her as a model too many times. I would rather have it switched up You know not have this clump together, but it's fine. Oh, this is kind of cute You can do grid. You can do masonry. I think I like masonry the most and I'm gonna change the padding around it I would prefer these to be bigger. The spacing can be a little bit smaller like maybe 25 yeah It's fine if you click on one of these photos it expands it for you to see in detail And I'm gonna try out an animation for photography glide expand. Oh no for anyone who uses the spins This is not a microsoft powerpoint like this. Oh No, I like fades fades are easy. I don't like the spacing. I'm gonna move this Just a tad bit higher. I would like to change the background color too. I don't like that My favorite color is yellow. I don't know if you can tell my hex value for my favorite color is this That's a little drawing to see. Yeah, don't do this.  I like that. I think that's good Okay, let's have a preview Oh, and it shows the name Yeah, I don't want that borders. Is that too much for them to handle?  That's what I want Oh info to display nothing. There we go adjust this so that this ends right around here I don't need that either. What I do want is this let's make this bigger space it out a little more All right time to do all my social links add me on linkedin. I need 500 plus connections guys there I also want to edit my text again because I like having Drop shadows that I would like it to do is be white and have a black Shadow, I don't know how to add that drop shadow yet, but I will keep looking probably I don't want to spend 30 minutes looking for that. This also might take a day or two for me to finish Let's go to info. Okay time to be boring info about me. Hi My name is frederick chin. My major is integrated digital media. You know, we got to sound fancy I can't think right now. I'll figure out something smart later. That seems good for today frederick Let's reflect I'll come back here in a few hours and finish the rest because I need a coffee break the next day I took some time to look up some stuff look up some example websites And I think I've updated this enough. We're almost at the finish line Yesterday I had a problem figuring out how to do this drop shadow that I always like I couldn't customize the options they gave me, but turns out you can just group elements together I don't know why that didn't come to mind, but I just copy pasted the same text put it over it made it white Now look at this guys. Look at him Photo taken from two years ago still looks better than what I look like today As much as I would like to be a thirst trap and put a selfie on there You have to pretend that a very professional company is looking at you and they want to see like the best of the best So a photo of me doing this Isn't gonna appeal to them. You can read the description if you want I'm not gonna read it too much But basically you want to make it look like you know what you're doing Not only do you have to convince people that you are skilled at what you do But you have to be able to write proper sentences have correct grammar and sound formal ish I don't really like going too formal because those are my high school days I've written enough essays to know how to do that I don't know if I like this here before it was a quote that was like I make art or like art should be alive something weird. I figured I can call myself those things I'm not gonna put animator on there when I can't even do that yet Just list some of the skills mine are all adobe programs Before on my resume. I used to have like a percentage of how good I am at a program But then I realized that makes no sense. What does 80% good at premiere pro look like contact page. There's nothing on there yet I'm gonna add a contact form. I don't want to put my merch on here It's not about my merch website. So I'm not gonna do like business there yet. Just simple black and white I feel like works best I just realized I don't need a contact page because I'm only gonna be providing my email If you want just know that there's a contact forms here I know that's an option I used to do a lot. I like keeping a site as few pages as possible And I would put my design page on there except I'm not confident with my design So we're not going to then I'm gonna put it right here like right above this I can change that in the future. But yeah, this is mainly just for my portfolio website at the moment So in case I want to do photography, just show this to them.  So I'm gonna make the font smaller Yeah, this is gonna be hard if you're on an iphone You're just gonna be scrolling like this, but there's that's the only option changing this icon to like an easier one Square button seems good info Oh, that actually worked out pretty well. Only thing is I got to move the skills down a tiny bit I'm also going to change my domain name because I do have one already Frederick chin.com. There it is boys. I'm pretty happy with it I just needed something to be able to show people my resume I'm gonna add design and stuff that I've done in college as another tab soon Because on my resume it says go to Frederick chin.com and I would prefer it if they knew that I had Design stuff on there. I just need to design stuff. That's the first thing.  Now this website is simple because there's not much going on But that's how I prefer it. Thank you again wix for sponsoring me and I hope you guys enjoy the video Once again, if you want to sign up go to wix.com Slash go slash that midget asian if you enjoyed this video give it a like Leave a comment down below and subscribe for more videos every week Turn on my notifications social medias are all that midget asian and as always I love you guys and everything is less than three I'm to apply for some jobs