Good evening everyone and welcome to Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum I can't see all of your faces anymore But I know there are a lot of familiar ones out there and it's great to be here tonight for Standing Room only Carl Fritsch. Thank you for coming I'm Alexandra Cunningham Cameron and I'm a curator of contemporary design and hint secretarial scholar here at Cooper Hewitt And we're so pleased that you're here tonight to celebrate the second annual NYC Jewelry Week annual With our program Carl Fritsch Jewelry on the Edge So Cooper Hewitt is proud to be the official museum sponsor of NYC Jewelry Week It's the first and only local week Dedicated to promoting and celebrating the world of jewelry design through innovative Education-focused programming like what we have for you tonight We're thrilled to welcome thrilled to welcome Wellington New Zealand based artist Carl Fritsch and renowned gallerist and owner of salon 94 Genie Greenberg Broaton Carl will first give a presentation on his work for about 20 minutes And then following this I'll moderate a talk with Genie and Carl We certainly have a lot of ground to cover But we want to make sure to leave some time at the end for some of your questions So just before I get started, I'd like to formally introduce our guests this evening Carl Fritsch began his education at the Goldsmith school in Forsheim and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich He has taught in art schools across the world Exhibited internationally and his work has been acquired for public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Stidelik Museum the Victorian Albert Museum the National Gallery Victoria Museum New Zealand Te Papa Tonga Wara He's running a practice that's focused on the ring as most of you all know Fritsch explores taste Aesthetics and desire as he manipulates perceived ideas of preciousness and convention The highly covetable rings have seen him win numerous awards and become a cult figure in contemporary jewelry He also works collaboratively with a range of artists including artist Francis upper chard and furniture designer Martino Gamper In 2006 Carl received the highly prestigious international Francois van den Bosch award Jeannie Greenberg Rowett in is a gallerist art advisor and curator a fierce activist She's committed to feminist and progressive politics in keeping with her belief in arts power to bring about social change Greenberg Rowett and founded her first gallery space in 2002 later adding venues on the Bowery in 2007 and 2010 Salon 94 is a unique project space in her home on 94th Street that explores the notion of Traditional white box gallery many of you have probably seen Carl show up that opened last night Next year she will consolidate her galleries to the former National Academy of Design on three East 89th Street just a couple of blocks away She is champion artist such as Huma Baba Judy Chicago Katie Granon David Hammons Kailashtyn Harris Marilyn Minter Laurie Simmons and Betty Woodman among many others Carl Fritz's rings have been featured in her program since 2007 Greenberg Roten is radical in breaking hierarchies between design and high art in 2017 she founded Salon 94 design to represent Max Lam Philippe Malone Who was a 2018 wallpaper designer of the year and Gaitano Peche? Greenberg Roten sits on the boards of white columns and performer She's a member of the ADA a board and has served on the freeze art fair committee So without further ado, I would love for you all to give a warm welcome to Carl Fritz Thanks a lot. Thank you everybody for coming. I've got 20 minutes So fast new seatbelts. I've got to run you through my ring life Here we go. Okay. That's That's where I grown up. This is a place called Sontofe and it's in the Algoir Alps on the Border to Austria. It's lots of rain there. The clouds get stuck in the mountains Long winters I grew up on skis There's this beautiful Algoir brown fee there because there's lots of grass And when I was bored at school, I Started scratching with a screwdriver Those little figures they they like an inch tall and I had a screwdriver and some kind of soap stone and that was what actually got me interested after 13 years finishing high school to do something with my hands and The idea was the tradition in that area was wood carving you know those those That kind of style, but maybe luckily I missed the deadline being 1718 and When my mother Went to a watchmaker. She met a woman there and she said oh her son is studying watchmaking at a jewelry and watchmaking school in Pforzheim. So she met that woman and She told her son he said that watchmaking jewelry school and She suggested that to me. I thought yeah, well, I I'll try so I went there to this Goal to meet the shule in Pforzheim you get a three-year apprenticeship there and It was actually love on the first side I got in right away and I loved everything about it the tools You know, you were we were busy like for for one month. You do only file bits of Brass very boring interesting enough those pieces. This is kind of how you learn jewelry you and those pieces They I think that they are their special shawry of jewelry. They are Designed and made to be only to be measured You know, you make them and then the teacher goes and measures if you did it exactly the right size as the drawing so that's How it all started then at that school you learn a white a wide range of techniques like this is all Stone-setting, you know digging up those metal surfaces properly setting those stones in and you know extensively learning this After two years at that school you have a very good background in techniques and then to finish off this apprenticeship You had to go finish it off in a company and I I went to a small silver jewelry producing company in Pforzheim That interesting bit was that being learning that jewelry in Commercial conventional jewelry is just like produced like any mass produced object like a card You know the jewel is sit there one gets like a bag and he only cuts off the sprue the next one just Sands it the next one polishes it and so I went through all these stages of production and Also through the model making department Which is you know where the designs are made but designing there meant the boss comes Like once a month puts a magazine in front of you and said it'll make something like this just a little bit smaller So anyway, there are some things I I made there But this I knew this is not how I want to make jewelry. So You know relating back to the cow you see in the first image.  You can open it up and I was just making things I saw around me like this Little strawberry. It's like an inch tall and it's not any strawberry. It's one strawberry from the garden It's I just exactly copied that strawberry it's Identical to the real one almost a same thing it opens up and you can put something in it and I was just chasing away those fruits and vegetables and you know, where do I go with that and I I Heard about jewelry Class at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich. They had jewelry and Hollowware Department. So I went there with my sheets of vegetables and Showed it to the professor Herman Junger was a press professor there for the jewelers You will know he's a very important figure figure for just the contemporary jewelry word his work mostly Comes from draw interpreting drawings in a very free way and just keeping Keeping it all alive in metal then So Herman looked at him. Yeah, okay. I mean, I think it was just strange enough for him to get me in Then there wasn't I wasn't at Academy and you know in a mountain boy and you know, then there's all about art and What's jewelry? What's art? What's contemporary jewelry? What's the problem a a lot of confusion you're thinking about things and You know cows see theories you could visit all classes there. It's very open You studied there for a minimum of five years. So you really given time to find your language So it didn't take long to get me in trouble I made These works of almost a year in and I called them for Chandler, which is like disgust them There was lots of beautiful gold work done and I in the sense of you know jewelry is Medium to attract attention. I thought you know something ugly might actually work better to attract attention than something Beautiful and Yeah, it took me quite a while to make something Like this, but you know, we got it got into a quite heated discussion and Herman didn't like he probably didn't more like the attitude about it in The actual piece but anyway, I I thought I need to take a break. I need to see other places I need to see the world and I came to New York and 30 years ago for the first time. I Was lucky. I found the Julian Mario I Would see the unfortunate died not too long ago and Yeah, this was the few for where I was living between B and C on 8th Street It was quite yeah, some friends when I said him come over they said, oh, no, I don't want to be killed And look where I'm now But You know walking around Immediately, I got to understand, you know Pop-up where it came from, you know, this refrigeration business on Bowery. I'm not sure if it's still there but I had my go at like a Pop-up jewelry like Highway on a chopstick on a potato sandwich brooch. They like as big as a hand or Potato on a chopstick on a gun sandwich So they painted metal Back home and This is the Arimatash in Byroy the King's castle and I just the use of Stones colored stones the whole building covered with stones a Mosaic and Milano train station, you know out of little stones. I especially like to spiky hair on the guy's link or This is a 12th century Venetian necklace these little buildings are all put together out of tiny little micro mosaics So I had my go at stones again, you know learning properly stone setting then it was kind of that mosaic style gave me You know the idea how I could just you know cover surfaces. So I found like those Crystals polished little crystals and created pieces You know some first rings like that or it allowed me those colored stones and Represuried allowed me to go quite decorative just probably the most decorative ones I did but there's like, you know emeralds on top of this Bulb and mix of our guides and Carniolian Carniolian, and then I thought a very clever. Oh I just you know gift the people Permanent market and they can design it themselves. It's not sure this wasn't too successful But then reducing those shapes and it's just is still academy time. This is the first pieces I used Casting again, you know a technique I learned in industry to just multiply Things so this is in this time just use as one of a kind and leaving the you know like air bubbles or leaving things from casting on and not trying to refinish it and a very key moment in Yeah, my whole making Is that ring? because to cast like the ring before I The best way the cheapest way to get metal was going to the pawn shop and buy old jewelry So that's what I usually did and then melt it down and in just you know one Moment Having just this work in front of me. I I Started fixing them. So, you know when the phone broker took the stone up because he that has resale value Yeah, you know I filled the the gap again with a gold filling or You know rings like this it's been classic conventional jewelry But it's been rejected somebody needed the money or whatever sold it away and It allowed me to have my input my manipulation on it And I felt very comfortable with it because you know, this is pieces that kind of jewelry I learnt making in full time. This is the jewelry I grew up with my aunties my my mother would wear and I could just now Gave me a way to turn them into something completely different or you know fixing the ring shank Giving them a whole new character like The ring offered its new design itself, you know I just had to help the ring to become a new one and it almost felt like a jewelry Psychiatrist, you know having those rejects from you know, they've been rejects and I get I bring them into this jewelry life on a Very different level again I've always been interested in the processes that are involved in the making, you know This also cast 14 karat gold cast on the 18 karat gold and just what gold does through the casting process It gets oxidized. It's all brown and I just I Like the look it's a real thing, you know, it's what gold does that itself It's not I'm adding this to it It that's how it looks like and I just like showing that as well and when you wear it Polishes itself so the metal quality will you know show it's show itself always you know Art thing and there's always wondering where this kind of comes from and then it's actually not too long ago in my aunties garden I realized, you know, I saw this rail that they built so, you know, my aunties They just they want to have a rail for that. Yes. They just find what they have and just you know Stick it together. That's it. It's it's Immediately it looks like because that's what they wanted and It's just I think you're seeing this then making the jewelry it's You it took me a long time to realize, you know, that actually those how much those things that I've seen growing up influenced me this very happy woman is a car registration officer in South Australian Perth Was very happy to take have a photo taken. I just came To me that you know, you go around on the other side of the world This was still living in Germany, but conventional jewelry just looks the same Wherever you go. It's quite shocking It's actually quite interesting. There is a great video or interview with a Japanese architect up here Hiroshi some Buichi Who he says that in architecture as well that you know how? Modern architecture all of the world kind of starts looking the same and it's not adapting to actually local weather and Conditions anyway, I'm getting distracted You know same thing That's how Conventionally jewelry look looks like and keeps looking like and It's just had more goals at that Things, you know, these are broaches like my aunties would wear and I I found broken ones and just replaced Some balls cast some gold where the pearls are missing that's kind of Fixing repairing them. These are not you know, they've been fashion brass cheap things But I they they meant something to People I was even making cufflinks and tie pins back then Approach and that was one thing at the academy with her study with Herman Junger You almost had to gain a brooch license like when people were making a brooch You had to look and only if he said, you know, that's good enough You were allowed to put a pin in the back and and the pin had to be you know Really, you've got to find out the right solution. So these brooches were designed. I got the pin first and kind of the pin Designed what's coming out in the brooch Double loop Just what are the what the pin bags? These are just conventional hobby shop pin bags what they offered me One of the first pieces casting just stones rubies in into place You know industry does cast stones into place as well. This is not something new. It's just they do it a bit more properly than me I like the moment of things getting out of control. So, you know when those classic rings just develop their own life or From the process what's sticking out where the diamonds are set in is actually just brew where this ring is cast so Just celebrating something. That's actually just a technical piece This is yeah kind of Fridge pavé and My lazy pavé, which I think are very popular It's some stone setting is another thing I learned stone setting, you know intensely at school and it's it's it's hard It's labor intense and it took me a long time. Look me ten years to come back to it Free enough to use it in my own way You know How to apply it so that I that it it's mine It became my technique before it was something I learned it's a by instruction, but this I I owned it then Sorry some slides are not that great, but this is you know a whole diamond extra finger This is just It's a piece about wasting time it's Passing time this is when my son Max was born when he was a baby He wasn't a good sleeper So you'd like to be carried around and as soon as you sit down and don't move people start to cry And so I took him to the workshop and when I was around my front I was I could sit when I was setting stones. There was enough movement that he could go to sleep So I just had that sheet I just filled the sheet of silver full of all little ruby sapphires emeralds that I had and so You know to keep him asleep The niece has another ring of that series. I Couldn't do that again That's the little teddy bear toy from my aunties They just keep fixing the dogs pulling it apart and they keep fixing it But you know, they wouldn't really like my Rings, but you know, they're doing the same thing In I think it was 97 I was invited as jeweler Artist-in-residence kind of to airford a town in the former East sitting in the valley and And I I Had to come up with a project and I said well, I wasn't quite sure what I'm doing So I said okay, I'm gonna look for gold Metaphorical but actually in the local natural history museum There was a book about about gold prospecting in the medieval times And there were maps in the books and they tried to find those places in the maps again and got myself some equipment and started digging there and washing for you know hours and days and weeks and This is an example of Piece of a trophy that one of the emperors of that area had made of his own gold But it took I think 50 workers a year to find enough gold So even back then there wasn't there wasn't that much gold But that's the piece of gold I found And you know the others I was as happy I was incredible because I It's a real great in spirit experience for every jeweler go out and go gold prospecting because it makes you aware how special That material actually is because it pop if you if there's gold at you You'll see very conceptual piece the pin is out of white gold and you know white goes the most refined from furthest From nature possible from gold, but you know that the pin is much more valued As material value than my little gold nugget, but my little gold nugget is everything to me Just you know jewelry Another use of a safety pin how you know kind of safety pin can be a piece of jewelry What happens it what the context does? To a piece of jewelry how a piece of jewelry become a whole symbol for a whole culture Jewelry isn't applied art, you know, it's when the person and the jewelry come together It's amazing Yeah, this is just not celebrating as much craftsmanship and you know as the pieces before It's like my version of the gold, you know must have had enough being shaped Over-century, so it's just like 300 gram of fine gold running down Alexis chest one of my first solo shows is 96 or something I just put all my rings in one showcase like it's the cut out like almost like of a piece of metal That's my first Museum Exhibition I thought wow wow now, you know, I've made it This is the new museum in Nuremberg, you know as a jeweler to make it into the holy halls and then this was the opening That's all the people that were there And and I know all of them So yeah That's another Yeah museum show up when I got Franco van den Bosch prize in The state of the museum in van den Bosch there were there were a few more people But always it comes down to the individuals through you reach you meet you make contact This guy Andy limb. He's a book publisher. He I published those books With him and he got a real fan He didn't know this jewelry exists. He got a real fan of it and published a huge Compendium some of you In here probably involved and seen it and this is the book printer, you know He got a ring for his partner and meet who is a bowmaker Because Andy limb collects violin bows. So and you meet those specialists and those specialists They could actually totally connect to this world and and that's been always amazing too. Yeah Get people new people involved Yeah, this is some of the some of the mad book Andy publishes This is a book of 4,000 drawings of an artist friend of ours and then you know, he asked me to make a handle That is totally not usable But you know, this is still I was still after my studies making stuff I mean 25 years ago, you know without friends like my friend who was an architect who had a you know stable job who when Money was needed. He would buy something or Lore a good friend who's really one person who's just not shy and wearing something extra again and just having you know enjoying this So those been really beautiful important people once I sent some stones to get holes cut through and Because I needed the stones with the holes and the stone cutter sent me back all the The cores that he drilled out. I didn't expect them. So Actually, all the all the precious stones sticking out but been the leftovers, but actually that was the most exciting bit of the whole project You've seen those those piles of stones Letting the stone just built an own shape and you know not using stones just as a decoration point on a piece of jewelry I Get pushed for five minutes. I've raced through I'll flick quickly Take one carrot of diamonds stuck on a wedding ring those rings this interesting a Diamond Company Hilton From South Africa. He saw those rings and he wanted to design a new contemporary line with Diamonds and he you know, he's producing Tiffany diamonds Sure, you know things that never could put my hand on before and we designed a group of work that was presented in come the gas stores in Tokyo, I think also in New York That was you know, I love solitaire rings. That was One One of those solitaire rings, you know, this is the same thing a diamond ring I like coming back to those classics in jewelry, you know Everybody if I say solitaire ring you have a Picture, but I like I'd like to offer a new Version today a new what how can it look today? another Part of my practice is now and then I do workshops Teach workshop, which is actually quite helpful because usually I'm in my studio just making stuff And I don't have to explain things to myself or talk to myself So this is actually quite helpful sometimes that I you know find words for what I actually do this was yeah, when Jeannie when Entered with Francis the rings entered your world. So this is a sculpture from Francis You've Richard a sloth and that sloth is wearing my jewelry and it's very So it's it's not that great, but this is how yeah our world's connected and Jeannie Obviously discovered those rings and it's funny the sloth. It's been there's another sloth who went through Been sold and to another auction and every time it comes up. It has less rings. I Like those collaborations with Francis. You've Richard. This is just That was that that's a long time ago in my workshop, but it always looks kind of similar It's full of things. I never come to an empty workshop. There's lots of things just waiting To be made and to be finished and to be taken on so I once I started this process a long time ago and it just keeps me, you know There's always something sometimes it's quick like this, you know, it's spontaneous. I like working with wax I sometimes can be quick and I know oh, this is good. That's finished and ready to cast Sometimes things sit there for years. Some I have some waxes sitting 15-20 years there and waiting to be a pace Ruby rings I see no more time sign coming up. Oh Yeah, sometimes, you know Ruby rings some too simple one is quite come back to Most convincing is a kind of raw Ruby dancing Ruby Raw diamond. I'd like same thing raw diamond Everybody knows diamond, but you know The raw form is if you see it you'll get that it's a special thing Solitaire rings, you know Real solid here. This is just a rock. This is yeah Like conceptual the most precious bit about it's a diamond with holes Wasn't easy to find somebody To put that hole in that diamond and it's not cheap either So actually, you know, the most expensive bit is the bit that's missing. You can just take them for a wonder Solitaire ring, you know, how do you set a stone? That's quite Obvious and you know You're as a jeweler. It's nice. Sometimes I get images like that sent in an email, you know You're not an undertaker or dentist People are really happy that was Daniel gave his partner that as an engagement ring after 20 years. And so, you know, it's really nice. It's a nice relationships.  I still like, you know, there's part of Making jewelry as a jeweler people come and everybody has like jewelry inherited and Once the woman came to me gave me all her old drinks and said, oh, can you turn this into something a new ring? And you know, I just took it all out and piled it all And yeah, but this is from a ring from serious cause seven deadly sins. This was greed This was idle kind It's funny. I used to For a long time try to get rings into places and then it's sometimes the rings take actually me to places and Sometimes you get, you know, they make up those funny. I just thought it was a weird invite But this is actually one person With she she owns all those rings. This is, you know So nice This is probably the heaviest ring I I've made is like two kilo On my finger. I had to go at some signet rings lately. I hope you're all right I always made a series of ring abusing my colleagues This is Otto Stoff. He was my professor also and Rotman sucks at an opening at an opening at his house. I Could sell that three times. I couldn't it's just one presentation. We're like, oh Ring sitting on that Skeleton, I don't know in German And that's my auntie Annie. Thank you Thank you Carl. I'm so grateful to be on the stage with two people. I admire so much and Hearing you walk through I'm meant to put this the next thing on The narrative of your life and work has been incredible I wanted to read a quote to you your own quote I hope you don't mind which was included in the retrospective at your gallery The ring is desperate desperate to find a finger Desperate to tell you I love you. I'm beautiful. I'm rich.  I come from Ireland or Austria I want more. I have enough. I'm married. I'm funny.  I can't help you. I am When and why did you start focusing on rings? Pretty long time ago, but it just naturally evolved there was not I couldn't It wasn't a decision I made, you know, now I made rings. It just evolved into that being my favorite medium and favorite Volume to work with and also just trying it on I've been wearing them all so, you know I I like that back and I can't tell much better if it rings good than if earrings are good So We always say that You you make rings for the wearer and in fact when we wear our jewelry the only jewelry we can actually see is the rings on our fingers and That's something very special that you When you when you wear earrings you wear them usually for the enjoyment of others and it's a kind of gift to other people And when you put on a necklace it gives you a certain kind of carriage but a ring is is this wonderful intimate experience that you have all all the time and So that's it's it's kind of a gift and in fact most of the rings do come in coral size Really big and and we're really grateful that that Carl also has collaborations with other jewelers And we have a jeweler in New York who comes in But the rings come in coral size and more than just a literal size also because the rings are telling your story and they're They're in a way expressing Your pleasure your pain fantasy And so they're also for you. Yeah Sure, you don't want to know No, but I mean, you know, I can pick some and and can identify but they you know, I speak in rings That's me What's on the table there and but I don't want you don't have to know It's open. It's meant, you know, you can interpret it your way. I don't have to unload my Yeah, you know My life on to you. There was something that happened last night that was was pretty interesting that tells two stories one was your story Collector came in to choose a ring for his wife who he had been in a very big fight with and He went down the line and I said, oh beautiful for her and instead he chose the ring with all the screws and You know, it was it was really the most violent ring there and I said you clearly don't want to make up with your wife and And Carl looked at it and said, oh I made that ring when I was building my studio and you could feel all the work of your studio in that one ring the frustration and and all the tools that it takes and the time and And so off he went with with that ring to make up with his wife And so I love how the rings do tell these stories that we make them our own as well Yeah, and and you're also saying genie that the ring transforms aware. Oh, absolutely You know, it bewitches us In a certain way and and also each ring really does find their own Person and that's why I always really encourage people to pick them up and try them on and see what suits them Because different and also what suits you changes through time as well I mean that that's also I I like the term applied art, you know, I think that's what it is It doesn't it's not a minor thing. It's it's when the thing is applied It's actually it's final destination and that's when it proves how good it is and and these are great moments when When they happen and I think it's a very good prescription Yeah, what I do. Yeah, in fact, I you know on a personal level One of the rings that you showed was that raw diamond ring Which I actually asked you to make me a raw diamond ring because all of a sudden I started to look at my own wedding ring Years later and and I was uncomfortable wearing it and I thought why am I still wearing this with this, you know emerald cut diamond. I you know, it doesn't feel like me anymore and the minute I put on the raw diamond to kind of counterbalance my other one I Kind of became alive again. And so I you know that that I was really great performed So I still wear now a different raw diamond from you Every day because that one's too big But that sense of connection with the where I think is quite important, you know you are putting a very specific story in each unique ring and When people are approaching your work in a way, they're reading what you're putting into it but also, you know in a way projecting their own desires and fantasies and interests and curiosity onto this this particular object But you are also Very connected to your work. I have one of your rings Which is the KF Carl's initials And he did not know before a couple of days ago that I had this ring and I've never seen Such pleasure on someone's face to be reunited with his ring Which I never thought he was going to see I never think anybody will buy my initials But it's a perfect You know, it's it's a thing. It's something I had to make But and it's I mean, it's great that I mean This almost felt unsellable for me. Here we go It's so fitting That a curator, I know super fan clearly, but should be it makes perfect sense to me Yeah, and that's that's why it, you know, the rings find the right finger. Yeah, the right person. Yeah And so many people also, you know, see what they want to see in the ring and this one in particular It's initials, but it's an abstraction in most cases to people and they don't see your initials You know and the those hidden values Are so integral to your work, right because you're playing with ideas of beauty and of value And do you think that's a responsibility of a jeweler or of jewelry to critique society today? I wouldn't make it a rule if you feel like it. Yes, absolutely. You shouldn't I think it's important, but I wouldn't you know It's also all right if jewelry is just beautiful There's a reason for that too I mean you try and make everything ugly as well Well, sure, I've got a challenge. I mean it is As I say I I want to make it my what can I say It's got to be my my thing to say That's why you're looking you're looking for this new space. So what can you say or what do I have to add to Everything that's out there. Well, in fact, when I look at the the signature ring, I think You know called her for many years. That's what he did. He made he made You know all of his friends signatures and in fact, you don't make rings For other people necessarily you make them for yourself first Yeah, I do a look for myself You started to talk a little bit about Your influences and where you source materials and unorthodox places And I was hoping you could tell us a little bit more about your process How much is planned out? How much of it is intuitive? How much your local environment influences you? I I thought I did that No, I mean it's it's It's an open range I I work very intuitively but sometimes, you know, as my brain I have ideas too and then I process ideas but I think the most honest truthful things are when I when The things are just in front of me And I start making that's when things happen In thinking kicks in and but that's where I'm most comfortable When there are no expectations, yeah, but it can go anywhere, you know, but this is I need that that's what I I need I Sometimes I go to the workshop with an idea, but it's Yeah, that's all right but The comfortable areas is just me and the work in front of me and We go from there and wherever it takes me So we've collaborated on many shows together now and one of the Great ways of that we work together is in the presentation And in the actual display and what you're seeing here a few of them are Some of our Our displays and so I thought maybe you could tell us a little bit about the plasticine and how you Came to just some of the the kind of tricks of showing your jewelry Yeah it's Things that also come kind of Naturally close sometimes, you know, I use plasticines.  Oh, I could use that for presentation And so practical because you can just stand up your rings and you know, it's so model of Modular So it has been growing and I don't lose interest in it. It just keeps I can I can just always take it further and Reinvent it in every space, you know Adapt it Like with it with you or with I mean with the paper. It's just it's nice to find Simple solutions To because you have I mean the jewelry is usually Very small. It's rings. So, you know in an art. I had experience in art galleries where I show work Then people start standing three meters away with a glass of wine looking at a wall where there's like objects like this So that's a great thing with genie because you you're close. You have this and you know this intimate relationship that you you are close to the jewelry and and it I like to transport it and you can come close to it and you know Get near it and that's a that's important thing that intimacy of jewelry. You gotta touch it. You have to touch it I remember actually the first time I visited a jeweler and They poured into my hand from a little envelope of um, you know, they forgot their envelope and they poured in my hand the diamonds And they said you have to pick them up and feel them and and you know, it was it was so It was so physical and And your work is so physical when you pick them up their your fingerprints are in them and uh, and that's something that When people do work with me I kind of insist upon and so when I see a visitor kind of looking far away I said pick it up, you know, I pick one up put it into their hands. It's really important And it's a it's an important interaction and we don't get that So much in art We we do though in sculpture and in bronzes and that's you know, my practice comes out of showing art And one of the things that that I've always done in my practice is I've always taken pedestals off You know, I hate things in betrines. I um, I try and bring bring works as close as possible to the viewer and And kind of this sense of preciousness or this distance. We really do try and break that And do you notice a different audience for Carl's work in comparison to When you have an art exhibition well now, um Over, you know, we've we've been showing together for over the year. So Carl has all kinds of followers. Um, you know, certainly this this room is amazing Many of whom I probably don't know And they you come out of the jewelry world Mostly my the you know people who I work with come out of the art world And so they come to me for art and then they discover Something else and so that's part of my practice is to to show other other disciplines that I believe and practices that are also In the category of art for myself And nyc jewelry week it was designed with the intention of trying to broaden the audience For jewelry and also to create connections in between Different areas of jewelry and you know, Carl you're showing your work all over the world and traveling I mean, do you notice that there is a shifting and understanding or appreciation for the type of work you're making? I think I'm lucky with having these opportunities to come meet me and you know, there is definitely a different audience from the jewelry gallery audience I Know and these are great moments and great moments to see that people Can engage in how they and how they're surprised They're amazing surprise when they because they haven't known this existed and and how they just Can actually adapt it and this is a it is a great moment and I don't too often witness them because I'm not usually Most of I'm not there in the rings Handled over but it's it's this is great too. You know, it's wonderful to see and to see when they Basically you're killing all conventional jewelry when somebody starts putting on your rings. It's it's really true I think we've we've had a lot of people who who came in wearing one kind of jewelry and go out Wearing yours and they never stop and that's why you have Women sending you pictures and men too with you know, but their hands completely covered in your rings over the years But we do we have people who come And kind of take a pilgrimage to to pick out their new carl fish ring beautiful Well, we have an audience here Maybe of some people who are discovering carl's work for the first time Um, and definitely some old friends, but we would love to open up to questions if anyone Has something to ask carl Kara's going to pass around a mic.  Like how does that process go When I There's different ways sometimes it's francis uberchin and martino gampa.  We put things in a room And and the very nice thing is you know, martino coming from the design world France is coming from the art world and i'm You can say craft world, but it's it's totally even value for us There's no, you know, it's it's such a fun play. It's it's just fantastic But also sometimes we we work together. We had Residences or three of us together and we all because we all like making and we all pretty much start The same thing we start find material and then make stuff together and it happened, you know But materials mixed In in each other's work and these are really wonderful collaborations As one example of them. Yeah The sonographies that you create for your work are so Particularly special and evocative and I think are one of the ways that people Feel as though they can approach your work. Have you ever thought about scaling up? And playing around with design furniture lighting architecture Oh, yeah, totally. Um Well, I you know That di why my auntie's di why mentality? You know when I need a chair For the barbecue tonight and at home in new zealand. I'll just I make it up but you know, it's It's not it's not meant to be I make it for myself when I'll I'll do things because you know, I'd like making anything I would love to build a house and just so far it's just been renovating but you know Yeah, I'd love to see those barbecue chairs I'd love to see those barbecue chairs So shitty Hi, thank you very much Uh, so in your work you work with both, um, like precious stones such as rubies and sapphires But also synthetic stones such as cubic zarkonia. Um, which ones are your favorite the synthetic or the precious stones? I this there's no favorite. I mean, I I think that's um That's important for me that they the There's like no favorites, you know, I can I pick up pebbles from the beach. I I I buy diamonds I They come from all Different ranges from all different places, but there's no hierarchy in it. I mean The stones, right? It's my favorite when it fits the thing when when when the rings good then That's the one but it's not it's very democratic those materials And that's just favor them by intuitive approach How frequently do you destroy an in-process ring and start from scratch? Oh, I once did that and I hate it that I didn't So there's boxes with lots of things sitting there and now I I Think I really only once did it and now I'm I'm I'm a very annoyed at myself That I didn't Because it's nice if you can it's the great thing. It's small. You don't have so much storage problems and Yeah, it's true Even when you travel to show it's very convenient little boxes in the mail sometimes But yeah, no often I as I say with the waxes, you know, some things I make quick I know they're good, but sometimes I'm I don't know right away and I can't read them yet and they Sometimes they take time for me to understand what I actually did at that moment and this can take a long time So there's something something I you know, I did it So sometimes you'll put a work away and wait and then bring it out again. They can be away for a long long time Some haven't made Haven't made it out of the drawer I When I saw the the piece that you showed with the plate with the plate metal plate and all these like Little stones, right when you were You know, yeah, yeah with the with the young child I realized how much your work is similar to Lisa Walker's work in her way of Like it was just really touching to me like the way she responds In her art and I was in it was like, oh my god, they're exactly the same but in different Could you tell a little bit about the like artistic relationship and influences between the two of you as as artists as partners and Maybe some I don't know how how does it work? It works well It's really good No, it's uh, I think that's pretty amazing. We're very lucky that we actually so Innovate close but innovate also so far apart in how our work looks You know, it's very different forms. It finds and It's sometimes we laugh When things Things cross over, you know, there might appear some praying hands or at some stage He and These things happen quite naturally, you know, but if you have the same gel you're exposed to them So no, it's it's a very good, but we keep it very separate We don't work in one room together the biggest insulation actually is between our two studios just Not to disturb each other we go to work separately and We don't often sometimes only The other just last month we were Lisa had a show in London and then I had a show in in munich and we sometimes Haven't seen each other's works until we go to each other's shows So it's like, oh, I didn't see it When did you make that? What does your packaging look like? Packaging for jewelry. Yeah, how you go with so long this Made some up It's really good, but I'm sure everyone wants to wear the rings out Yes, people never take the boxes. In fact, I noticed we we still have a big stack of boxes And we made beautiful boxes. Yeah packaging not needed Yeah, no, usually I'm not Usually it's not my uh, I mean packaging when a ship rings. Yes, I put lots of tissue paper And big boxes Yeah, I'm curious to know how many people here have a piece of carlfridge jewelry And are wearing it tonight. Okay, so everyone look at each other's fingers as you mingle After the talk Well, thank you all so much for coming tonight. Thank you carl. Thank you very much. Thank you genie


Hey guys, welcome back to Come Again TV. We're all geek culture collides today. I'm gonna be taking another look at the 2016 Mattel Ghostbusters classics line Winston Zedemore Winston was portrayed by Ernie Hudson in both films as well as the video game and A quick little note Ernie did try to play Winston in the real Ghostbusters cartoon However, that was ultimately turned over to our Cineal Hall Not sure why they did it that way because you would think if the live-action Actor wanted to voice the character in animation. They would go for it, but We ended up with our Cineal Hall. So with that being said let's go ahead and take a look at this guy we'll take his a Neutron wand out of his hands. We'll plug it into his pack. There is a peg right there and There's a slot right there Should just peg right in They can be slightly difficult the very first time that one went on no problem Let's go ahead and take his pack off real quick So we can get a better look at the figure himself All right, so first things first I noticed when I was doing the review the Egon review that They actually reused Packs from a previous line copyright 2011 and these figures came out in 2016. So But very nice detail in the pack You got the four lights there that are actually pistons in the video game when the pack overheats those pop out And you got to stop blasting for a little while to let it cool down they go back in Resets and you're good to go, but very good likeness As I said before I do wish Mattel would have released these guys with a few more accessories You know Peter should have came with Peter should have came with maybe a radio in his hand and the little air plunge air plunger thingy that he used to investigate Dana's apartment Ray should have came with his goggles and maybe a radio Winston should have came with maybe I don't know maybe a I don't think they could have done cigarettes Maybe a Twinkie Maybe a trap Egon could have came with a PK emeter And a few trays for his spores moles and fungus collection But as you can see here, they did get a fairly decent likeness to Ernie Hudson Which is a lot more than I can say for the Ray stands figure Ray stands didn't really look that much like Dan acroid I wish they would have done a better job with that, but it does look like They did a really good job with Ernie Hudson's likeness here. All right, so His head can rock up and down Side-to-side it is on a ball joint However, sorry about that guys. I had to turn the light on so you guys feel a little bit better however Unlike the Ray figure his head doesn't really move that much And I think it has to mainly do with the ball joint Ray's kind of just sat in there He had kind of a slimmer neck whereas Winston Egon and Peter have Thicker nexus seems like thicker ball joints So they don't really get as much articulation and The collar does kind of hinder things as well so far articulation As I've said in previous shows as soon as I get these guys and get them out of the box I take a look at them real quick and then they go up on my shelf. So their joints are very very tight Go up to there go all the way around and as I said previously in other in reviewing the other Ghostbusters, I wish their joints would have been on the inside in The elbow pads rather than under the elbow pads. It really makes it difficult.  I don't display my own like that But I know some collectors might want to So anyway, he does have a waist swivel and as with most as with the other Ghostbusters when you do move his legs this piece of His belt does kind of hit against the hose here So you got to kind of lift that out of the way Before he can lift his leg goes up that high go back that far and Can go out to the side just like that You got thigh swivel you got Knee joint You've got boot swivel right at the Calf and then you've got an ankle rocker. No side to side just up and down Front to back whatever you want to call it Overall not bad. I do like how these guys look take a look at the writing on here 2000 so it looks like they may have used the body's previous line as well and Maybe just updated the heads Perhaps not entirely sure but it does seem to be that way 2009 made in China Mattel So they just pretty much Frankenstein'd These guys together and then resold them You've got packs from a 2011 toy line You've got the bodies from 2009 toy line and then the heads from 2016 I have to say I'm a little disappointed in Mattel for that This is the first I'm seeing of that. I noticed the 2011 proton packs earlier in When I was reviewing Egon and again with Ray, however, I did not realize That the Ghostbusters bodies were made in 2009. So again, it seems they may have may have just Use the older bodies and the older proton packs and the only thing that got updated were the heads I will have to do some research on that though guys and Double-check on that, but I'm pretty sure that's what they did now to put the proton packs back on as far as you can Try to get them straightened out as much as possible It's gonna be kind of difficult and you want to be very careful because the straps do tend to hang up on the elbow pads And it is a softer plastic, but that just means It's easy to tear there.  Hope you enjoyed these review guys Once I finished the 2016 answer the call Ghostbusters collection. I will be taking another look at those individually So far all I've got now is Abby Yates And I just did a review on her not that long ago, so I'm not gonna go do a second review on her just yet We'll go ahead and wait until I get the other three coming up next though We'll be taking a look at the combiner piece that came with this toy line the no-go symbol So tune in then


Let's praise the Lord. Give him some glory. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. To shield the faithful on beach. Hallelujah. The pastor here is Bishop Arling Alexander and the first lady is First Lady Bobby. Pastor Bobby Alexander. Amen. We're so glad that you came this morning to worship with us. The fellowship will be wonderful. Hallelujah. The Lord is going to bless your soul today. So, right where you are. Come on. Stand to your feet. Hallelujah. And give the Lord. Dr. Sykes. Savior, hallelujah, name of Jesus. Hallelujah. We enter to your presence with thanksgiving, with a heart of praise. Hallelujah.  What a wonderful Savior you saved us from sin. You put your Holy Spirit within us. The time you said you'd never leave us nor forsake us. Lord, this morning we praise your Holy Name. Hallelujah. We're so glad to be gathered together in your presence. We came to worship you. We came to honor you. Hallelujah.  We honor you. We look forward to your coming Lord. Even so, come Lord Jesus. Take us home to live with you through all eternity, hallelujah. In all that we say and do today, our presence in this church, you said you'd never leave us nor forsake us. And we feel your presence right now. We honor you. Hallelujah. We give you glory. We praise you. Bless the message that comes forth. Help us to receive it with an open heart in the name of Jesus. Saved by your power divine. Let's save. Put it in the hearts of people to come to church, Lord. Put it in their spirit to come to worship and save us by your pardoning. By keep us free from sin. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus, we give you praise. We honor you. Thank you. We bless your Holy Name. In Jesus' name we pray. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. How about Shiah? I'll be reading into your hearing Psalms 100. Congregation, make a joy for noise unto the Lord. He says, serve the Lord with gladness. Come before His presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord, He is God. It is He that has made us and not we ourselves. And say, we, speaking of all of us, we are His people and the sheep of His pasture. He said, enter into His gates with thanksgiving and enter to His court with praises. He said, be thankful unto Him and bless His name for the Lord is good. His mercy, which is renewed every morning is everlasting and His truth endured to all generation. May the Lord have a blessing to the reading and hearing of His Word. Hallelujah. We come to give the Lord glory and praise and honor this morning. Our God is great and greatly to be praised. Hallelujah. We give you glory, Jesus. The splendor of the King. Clothed in majesty. Let all the earth rejoice. Let all the earth rejoice. He wraps himself in life. And darkness tries to hide and trembles at His voice, trembles at His voice. How great, how great is our God in His hands. Begin of God, head all in one and sun. The lion and the lamb. The lion and the lamb. How great. Water. He's the bread of life. Only He satisfies. You can search all over, but only the Lord God Almighty can satisfy. A shudderable stuff. The bread of life. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. In order to drink of that living water and in order to taste the bread of life. Hallelujah. We need to be saved. Amen. Oh, but you know what? Jesus saves even today, even with what's going on in the world right now. Our God has all power. His blood was shed once for all the sins of the world. Hallelujah. And I just want to invite anyone today. If you're not saved, you need to know that Jesus saves. Jesus, ultimate sacrament. Oh, my voice I will raise and tear from the sting up. Jesus saves. Hallelujah. We don't have to worry. We don't have to fret when God saves you. You are saved. Amen. By the grace of God. At this time, we will have a solo this morning by our one and only Sister Shy. Sister Shy Gilliam. Amen. She'll see. She'll see. Jesus. Hallelujah. You know how we're going to get, get to heaven. We're all going to get there by the same route. We're going to have to go to Jesus. Hallelujah. We got to get some grace. Got to get some mercy. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank God for the blood of Jesus that washes white as snow. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, praise them. Put your hands together. Let's raise the praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank the Lord. I praise the Lord for that anointed song. Thank you Jesus. I understand that when we get there. Yes. Go ahead. Praise him. Praise him. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Anybody got victory here today? Anybody got victory? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. See the adversary of the soul who was the devil would say, how dare you sing that? How you know you're going to get home? Come on somebody. But we serve a true and a living God and he's already sees us in his presence. Hallelujah. Thank God for a loving kind God and Father. Hallelujah. Who causes us to try out. Hallelujah. We have salvation right now. Right now. Right now we have it. Thank you Jesus. So then well you can just take that and go on to the lake. Yes. Soon as I get there. Soon as I get there. Yes. Yes. Give him praise. Give him praise. Somebody said, why don't you go ahead? We have a church already. Hallelujah. The Lord is being glorified. That's what we came to do to glorify his name. Give him praise and honor. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thanks just to shy for that song. Hallelujah. Anointed song. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Everything that we do in this service is to bring glory and honor to our Father who's our maker. The creator and our maker. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Well it just happens that what I'm going to preach about today is victory in Jesus. Victory in Jesus. Pay your attention this morning to the book of Deuteronomy chapter number 20. Deuteronomy chapter 20 it helps us to understand what our purpose is and how to accomplish that that the Lord has called our hands to do. Yes. When the Lord calls in order for his army as I say very often is that God doesn't want any coward soldiers in his band. So in this chapter this portion of the chapter there are laws that govern the conduct of war. As I was looking at this passage I couldn't help but think about Ukraine and Russia and as I watched the news and I saw how Russia is taking advantage of a smaller country and we we've seen this in action in in our settings when we were in school when the big guy who was a bully he just walked up and just take people's stuff and I detested that from the first first time I saw somebody taking advantage of it didn't sit well with me. I didn't have any right to try to rectify it or anything like that. I'm thanking God that the United States of America has been very wise in its actions in my opinion. There are people who probably disagree with me but that's all right. It's a sin and a shame what's going on there that they're not able to defend themselves but I was kind of glad to see that Russia didn't run through there like they thought they would. The Ukrainians got their women and children moving to a better place and they said we're going to fight and they said we don't care if you know how to shoot a weapon or not we're going to give you a rifle and you're going to stand with us stand side by side with those who have the ability and we're going to fight the battle. So as we look at Deuteronomy chapter 20 verse 1 it said when thou goeth out to battle against thine enemy and seeeth horses and chariots and of people more than thou be not afraid of them don't get scared be not afraid of them far and far means because the Lord thy God is with thee which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. He said I'm telling you about a deliverer who was able to give you the victory. He said when I'm telling you that the God that is with you has a record he's done things before he's done great things for his people. He said you remember when you were down in Egypt and you couldn't you couldn't get out Pharaoh wouldn't let you leave he said by the Lord himself the same God that is with you in this battle he said he brought you out hallelujah I want to tell you today whatever you're going through whatever test whatever trial whatever misunderstanding there is in your life you got to fight make up your mind we're going to fight because we ain't scared. He said I'm telling you that the one that stands with you he's got a record of doing things such as this. He said and it shall be when you are come nigh unto the battle that the priests shall approach and speak unto the people. He said now the priests they're not called to battle they're not called to fight in the army they're the administration they're the preachers they're the encouragers and so he said the priests when they come close to the battle the priests shall approach and speak unto the people and tell them say now don't you all be afraid you just know that God is able just know that if you do what the Lord has called you to do if you'll follow the law or the rules that he set forth he said just know that God is going to cause you to wait to win a victory he's going to cause you to win a victory come on now God could have done it by himself but the Lord said you're my people and you need to participate in your deliverance come on somebody the Lord gave you the power of the Holy Ghost to help you to live free and separated from sin he said but I'm not going to force you to do it come on he said I've given you the power you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses your life is going to change and the people around you who knew you win they're going to look and see what the Lord has done in your life your life is a witness hallelujah so I want to tell you all don't be scared let me let me do it don't be scared you have no reason to be afraid not when we're serving the God that we serve a God who holds all power in his hand the creator of heaven and earth we have no reason to be afraid we are conquerors then said and shall say unto them the priest are going to say unto them here oh Israel yes you approach this day unto battle against your enemies let not your heart faint he said don't get weak in the knees and fall out in a day of adversity he said fear not and do not tremble neither be terrified because of them and I love the far again because the Lord your God is he that goeth with you he said understand you're not going by yourself understand you don't have to bear the burden alone understand that that he that the God that is with you he has all the strength all the power everything that you need he said you just understand you've got it made when you stick with Jesus walk with God talk about victory in Jesus come on somebody the victories that we can can amass on our own or don't account to a pot of beans a cup of beans but with Jesus on our side we have the victory that's why we can say soon as I get there soon as I get home I'm gonna put on that robe of glory and tell the story how I made it and the how we made it you know how we made it by the grace of God by the mercy of God by his strength by his might and power hallelujah victory victory in Jesus for the Lord your God is he that going with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you now it's one thing about the Lord that I've I've seen the record of how he works in situations such as this and I'll tell you a little story when we were building the church in Pasadena Pastor Simeon myself some other brothers blood brothers and brothers from the church and there was a guy that worked with me a carpenter and Elder Simeon and I I was on the fire department at that time and we would come to work early in the morning when he go to his regular job and we would work and take a nap at about three o'clock and get our strength rebuilt and then when my friend came afterwards we start framing we framed up a great big old huge wall and we tried to set it up but it was so heavy we needed a crane but it happened to be on a Wednesday night come on somebody and there was some saints that was in the building all right and we kept trying and he says I'm gonna try one more time then I'm going home and so we got all all the young people and the people who were capable of doing that kind of thing lifting whatever they could lift we all got on it and we're trying to lift and and he said all right I'm out and I don't know if it's myself or Pastor Simeon but one of us said all right now we got the doubter gone since the doubter is gone now we're gonna get it up and we strained and we figured it out and we went right into place now that's the way the Lord works come on somebody the Lord knows that that when you have some doubters on board is not any help so in the next few verses it talks about the Lord gave some exemptions let me give you this one see I have a couple a couple of these presentations I want to give you this one because it gives numbers I'm sorry first lady all right here we are the scripture says my wife is organized she don't like to see me turning pages like this that's why I said excuse me in the left hand the scripture says verse five and the officers shall speak unto the people saying what man is there that hath built a new house and hath not dedicated raise your hand all right said let him go and return to his house unless he die in battle and another man dedicated he said anybody like that raise your hand all right all y'all y'all go ahead y'all go on home then he says and what man is he that has planted a vineyard and hath not yet eaten of it let him also go and return unto his house lest he die in the battle and another man eat of it lest he die in the battle both of them die in the battle did you get that see because if you're going there thinking about the house you built and you may not be able to get back home to to to live in that house you're shown up going to be divided in your thought process instead of having your mind on the prize having your mind on the on the task at hand you thinking about the wrong thing he said y'all going to go ahead and go on home so you won't die what man is there that had betrothed a wife and hath not taken her let him go and return on to his house lest he die in battle and another man take her and the officers shall speak further unto the people and they shall say what man is that is fearful and faint hearted come on somebody where whoever is scurred and whoever is chicken at heart let him go and return unto his house lest his brethren his brethren heart sorry lest his brother hearts faint as well as his so he says when he's there and he's a chicken heart and he's scared of his shadow said he needs to get on out because as long as he's in the bunch he's going to draw somebody else into that same spirit he's got so he's saying when you're doing things that you're not supposed to do he said you need to be separated from the army of God come on somebody if you can't walk it if you can't talk it if you're looking back on things that used to be and how you you left this and you left that he said you need to go on home because you're no good to the kingdom of God not like that hallelujah go on home hallelujah now what the Lord was doing was the Lord was thinning out the army anybody know that hallelujah yes here it is all right now to God the size of the army wasn't important the heart of the army was far more important the heart of the army was the most important thing that the courage that was there the strength and the determination that you have he said that's the most important thing he said i i don't need a whole lot of folk to do what i got to do hallelujah hallelujah he didn't want people who might be distracted from the real battle by worrying about the cares of everyday life yeah so he said they they need to go home to their vineyard go home to their fiance and do what you do he said but you got to go you can't stay in here i'm we ain't telling you where to go but you can't stay here you got to get on out you're hindering the work hallelujah he didn't want people who were not really trusting him trust in god trust in god trust in god trust in god he's able to deliver you he's able to set you free he's able to cause you to stand in the time of difficulty of testing and trying he said you just stand and stand and stand and after you stood continue to stand on so now i'll remind you of the story of gideon gideon in judges chapter seven the powerful illustration of this gideon started with an army of 32 000 soldiers but it was too big it was too big and it was it was too big for a number of reasons one that comes in my mind right off is if the the lord used 32 000 men to do it they when they got through beating up on the enemy if you walk around with their chest out look at what we did we did it we did it right it was too big so he sent home those who were afraid he said all of y'all who prayed go home and you know what 22 000 of the 32 000 went home now i can tell you when you look at that and that many people didn't have the faith right that many people couldn't believe that it could be done that many people weren't trusting in god they all needed to get on about their business it was too big so god had him send home check this out seven more thousand and seven hundred people so he only had an army of county 300 300 to fight against the midianites who had an army of 135 000 soldiers yet god gave them the victory it doesn't matter who comes against you it doesn't matter who tries to defeat the body of christ the lord is with us the lord is always on our side and he said i'll never leave you i'll never forsake you in the darkest of the hours when it seems like you can't wake it he said i promise you you're gonna be victorious i'm gonna give you the wherewithal to be victorious he said just trust in me just trust in me trust my word hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah let's see okay i got a few more minutes so i can i can use my other verse in the book of romans roman's chapter number eight all right and it begins by and we know that all things we know all things work together for good to them that love god to them who are the called according to his word to them who are called into the army of the lord to him who is called into the body of christ we know that all things work together for good for them for whom he did for no he did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the first born among many brethren moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified i will stop right there i will stop right there when god calls you and he claims you as his own he puts his stamp of approval on who you are he says when you belong to me he said no matter what the devil tries to do against you no matter how he continues to to put his foot out in front of you when you're walking past and trying to trip you he said if you're if you're slipping fall he said you're gonna get up he said i'm gonna justify you i'm gonna it's gonna be just like it never happened hallelujah hallelujah thank god for jesus thank god for his lovingkindness thank him for his mercy hallelujah hallelujah then he also justified and whom he justified then he also glorified i like this what shall we then say to these things if god be for us if god is for us i want to know who who who can stand against us when god is for us he despised not his own son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things he said i'll give you all things and what does that include all things who shall lay anything to the charge of god's elect it is god that justified so not what i had to say elder ross yes sir if you hold me up you rob me and when i turn around to walk away you hit me in the back of the head that's not that funny yeah i know see see what see what you're talking about god has promised it's going to be all right come on he said who shall lay anything to the charge of god's elect it is god that justifies who is he that condemn it and so the point i'm i'm making with all of that that you just did to me and laugh see he laughs when he did i'm not a judge i can't judge god's people come on somebody all i can do is tell you what the world of god said this is god's law this is what he commands but i can't judge you yes i'm hands off is my responsibility yes to tell you when you're missing step yep that's right but i can't judge you that's right well i can't judge you but i can't exercise judgment against you all right who is he that condemn it it is christ that died see i didn't die for you that's right yay brother that is that is risen again who is even at the right hand of god who also make it intercession for us i'm gonna try to judge you try to send you to the lake when jesus is before the father pleading your case i lose i lose every time and so do you and you and you amen i'm gonna tell y'all this is mother alexander y'all leave each other alone if there's anybody who bothers somebody in this church it needs to be me or this guy or dr sikes these ministers all right we were not a courtroom of judges right that's right trying to sentence you to the lake i watch court i watch court cases too uh-huh and i see i can tell when i see uh an attorney losing i say oh there you go he's out then after after he says he also make it the intercession for us that who shall separate us from the love of christ who shall separate us from the love of god come on somebody try to pull you away they get you and try to pull you off away from the body of christ and you got to fight you got to when they're pulling you this way come on pull me when they're pulling you this way you say i'm a fight i'm a fight i'm not letting him take me out i belong to jesus i don't belong to you holly i belong to jesus and jesus belongs to me hallelujah who shall separate us from the love of christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword as it is written for thy sake we are killed all day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter come on somebody next verse said nay nay nay no no in all these things we are more than conquerors we're more than conquerors come on somebody hallelujah you know what what more than conquerors it implies that that we're not just a conqueror but we have we have overwhelming we have overwhelming victories come on overwhelming victories are attached to us come on somebody hallelujah we are more than conquerors come on when the devil tell you you can't make it you may as well quit you know that you you did so and so you know you told the lie you know you stole the cookie out of the cookie jar say sentin get out of my face i'm more than a conqueror you can't have me i stand for jesus i'll give him my heart i'll ask for forgiveness as often as i need to ask for it come on somebody hallelujah in all these things we're more than conquerors how do we get to be more than conquerors through him come on through him say it through him that loved us hallelujah hallelujah i must do like some of the old preachers used to do this they're getting ready to go to my seat he says for i for is because y'all because i am persuaded i'm persuaded that he is able i'm persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come stuff that don't even exist if it comes wherever it comes from it don't get a chance at me i'm persuaded that he's gonna keep me i'm persuaded he's gonna cause me to be victorious hallelujah i can't lose because god is on my side and he holds me fast hallelujah hallelujah i'm persuaded hallelujah i'm persuaded hallelujah he says persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor death nor any other creature come on you know what you're talking about he says any other creature he said he said whatever creatures are down in the bottom of the depths of the sea yes sir that no creature no creature shall be able to separate come on somebody put your hands together for separation for us hallelujah nothing can separate us from his love he'll never let go of your hand hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you for your love hallelujah hallelujah neither height nor death nor any other creature shall be able some of you all know about earthquake the guy that i used to work with big guy i mean muscles on top of his muscles and he loved to talk trash we played basketball he played the center he said don't come in here you'll lose well i tell you what i'm saying to the devil come on somebody somebody who know what i'm talking about when the devil comes to tempt and try us and cause us to to long for the things that we left behind i'll tell him don't come up in here because if you do you're gonna lose come on somebody we serve a god that is able we serve our god that is able to do wonderful marvelous things for us and he will hold me fast as a little boy that our church choir back in those days they sung anthems and stuff and they sang he will hold me fast he will hold me fast for my savior loves me so oh hallelujah he will hold me fast because he loves me he loves all in mcclore alexander jr he loves me i'm his and he's mine and i'm glad that he holds me he holds me fast come on it didn't mean hold like that fast like that he meant he holds me and he holds me tightly so nothing can hinder so nobody can take me out of his hand he's holding me fast yes sir my savior loves me so you'll hold me fast and when i'm safe in the arms of jesus i'm more more i'm more than a conqueror because i've got victory in jesus god bless you somehow somehow got you got to make this journey some shenanigans on my track all the devils on my track he's trying trying to turn me back i got you i got to make this journey somehow shenanigans somehow somehow i got you i got to make this journey somehow shenanigans on my track he's trying i got you i got to make this journey somehow Tried to make this journey work It goes on my track Yall who's sitting down? Y'all gonna be on the journey? Come on, stand up We gonna declare this thing Somehow, something is trying to stop you. I want you to come down to the all-time victory in the name of Jesus I said, we're not scared, but God has given us a victory. Come on down. He's already giving you the power in the Holy Ghost Bishop told us about that. But if you haven't been baptized in Jesus' name if you haven't received that power in the Holy Ghost, today can be your day. As a minister's minister to you, just let them know. I need to be baptized. I need to hold it. Whatever you need God is going to meet you at the point if you need them. Those that are watching us by live stream if you need that power, we invite you to come next week. Somebody will baptize you and God will fill you with the Holy Ghost and I don't care what the enemy tries to do somehow we're going to make it. Somehow we're going to be victorious. We're going to be defeated even when it seemed like we can't make it. Just don't be scared and don't walk away. See, God said, all I need for you to do is show up and let me fight for you. Father, we thank you for the word of God. Father, we thank you for those that have heard the call, that you will meet every need, that you will meet every need, that you'll be glorified. Father, we pray for those that are watching us by live stream that every need will be met and they will come to know in a very weird way. We give you the praise. We thank you for victory. We thank you for breakthrough. Thank you for healing. We thank you for prosperity. We thank you for victory over the adversary in Jesus' name. Amen. Somehow, somehow, somehow God was glorified. Hallelujah. Victory is so worthy of our prayer. God is here. Hallelujah. Come on. Those of you, amen, get ready to be blessed by the Lord. Amen. Have you been served already? Hallelujah. Might need a little wine downtime. That's okay. I understand. Amen. Hallelujah. The Lord ministers to you like he did to us this morning. Amen. It's just, it's just wonderful. It is wonderful. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We thank you. Everyone have your envelopes, any whatever it is that you need. Have you been served? Hallelujah.  Come on up. Amen. I want to encourage you that you can give by Ghiblify, Shield of Faith Long Beach. Amen. And you can also meld it to 4934 Long Beach Boulevard. Right here in the beautiful city of Long Beach, California. Zip code is 90805. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Just want to praise you forever. Hallelujah. And ever, and ever, sing thank Lord. I just want to pray. We thank you for this offering, God. We give you glory. Thank you, God, for blessing us to be able to give. Thank you for the hand of the giver, God. Thank you, Lord, that it will be meet for Long Beach, Shield of Faith Long Beach, God. We thank you and we praise you. All needs will be met in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. Well, I am determined to walk with Jesus. Come on. Let's all stand and we'll be ready to dismiss. Hallelujah. God was so good to us today. Let's praise him out of here. Hallelujah. Glory to your name, Jesus. Thank you for healing his place, but never from your presence. Bring us back at the important time. Ready to give your name glory and praise and honor. In Jesus' name we pray you are dismissed saints of God. We will see you next week. Hallelujah. God bless you.


The president's budget proposal eliminates public media funding. Learn how you can help at lptv.org slash action. Coming off their record-setting win season, 33 win season a year ago, the BSU softball team opened their 2017 slate on the road with 15 games. The Beavers went 10-5 over that stretch and today opened up conference play taking on Minnesota Crookston for a double header. Game two action and it was the justio show early on, Katelyn Neumeier looking, then ringing up Jenna Bordman with the backwards K as well. She finished with eight. Eagles would finally get a chance in the fourth. Rocky Biorgi sends the fly ball to right. Angie Roberts makes the catch. Her throw home is just a touch. Late UMC goes up one. Top five now Beavers with the base's juice Jessica Berlingame sends the chopper to short, beats the throw and Angie Roberts scores. We are tied at one. Then top seven, Beves up 2-1 Alina. Karachi adds some insurance singling through the right side. She went three for four. Megan Castor scores BSU goes up 2-1. They win three, 2-1 in that one and then in game one, they won eight to nothing just yos with a perfect game and 12 strikeouts.


Hi, and welcome to our session. Let us discuss the following question. The question says, find the sum to indicated number of terms in each of the geometric progression in exercises 7 to 10. 10th part is x to the power 3, x to the power 5, x to the power 7, so on, tell n terms if x is not equal to plus minus 1. Let's now begin with the solution. Given gp is x to the power 3, x to the power 5, x to the power 7, and so on, up to n terms. Now here, the first term, that is, a is equal to x to the power 3, and the common ratio, that is, r is equal to x to the power 5 upon x to the power 3, and this is equal to x squared. We know that sum to n terms of the gp is given by a into 1 minus r to the power n upon 1 minus r. Now here, a is equal to x cubed, and r is x squared. So we have x squared to the power n upon 1 minus x squared. Hence, the required sum is x cubed into 1 minus x to the power 2n upon 1 minus x squared. This is our required answer. So this completes the session. Bye, and take care.


Going on everyone, Sam here with late in sports cards. We are ripping 22 Panini Playbook football hobby, 16 bucks full case break, number six, random division style. There's a look again at your random results as always, you can find those on the website, under the results tab as well as the link in chat. So good luck here everybody. Not doing personal tonight, Patrick. Kyle usually rips on drip on Saturday night and he's doing personal tomorrow morning since Kenzie's off so I decided I'd say I'd just give him the personals in the morning so, because they would have been his anyway. So yeah, personal tomorrow morning with Kyle. Tomorrow morning with Kyle. Over here, over here, yeah. Tomorrow morning on the main channel, personal with Kyle, Sunday morning. Yeah, no problem Patrick, you got it buddy. All right, box one, three. Justin Jefferson, 36 to 49, two color patch. The NFC North, Jameson Williams, 71 of 99, three color patch. Also for the NFC North, got Gus Farrot, that is hash marks, 10 of 25 for the NFC East. And playbook, first booklet is John Mechie, that is to 299 for the Texans, AFC South. This one there, AFC South. Again, I'll call out what division each card is in while we're doing the break, after the one we're doing the recap, I'm not gonna do that though. You're good at that though. I know, I know, but sometimes Oh, it's a safe box. Yes, there you go. Down and dirty to 149, game used of Steve Young, NFC West. Aaron Rodgers on the Sunday's best 299 for the NFC North. This is sick, dude. Oh, I need this card now. We've got hash marks to 49, Derek Mason for the Titans, still the Ravens all-time receiving leader. Nice one there, congrats on that. Now we're just messing around with him. We're just messing around. There's 62 out of 199, Chris Johnson, AFC South. We're talking, we're just making up a story of somebody coming in and calling down your names. Oh, yeah. All these, dude. Jalen Tolbert, Nexus 299, NFC East. That was the booklet. Yeah. Got Devante Adams, 7 of 49 on the auto, nice one there. That is going to the AFC West, Devante Adams. Nice one here, going to the AFC North. Kenny Pickett, one of 25. Nice one there, congrats to Todd D with the AFC North. There we go, buddy. Very nice, very nice, very nice. Sorry. And that is going to be numbered 24 of 25 storybook. Booklet's patch of Aiden Hutchinson. Yeah, the storybook. NFC North, they're so clean, so clean. I like the front design. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, I was thinking that too. I'm the same page, good, good, good, good. It is a pick at night, dude. My good lord. Right? I remember Kenny Pickett out of Sapphire. Probably. He's really a kitty, man. Got Mack Jones, yearbook to 99 for the AFC East.  Stop, leave the forloka alone. There's Sunday's best to 99, and that is Kyler Murray for the NFC West. Another one, now it's just haunting me. That is going to be 2199 hash marks, Derek Mason for the AFC South, as a Titan, all-time Ravens recipient. He needs to be a Raven in this.  And we've got nice one there. That is good. Oh, what that is. Two-color patch auto of Erica Zucconma. 2949, some sort of strange stain on it. Wait, what? Just look at it. Some sort of, like, Could it, wait, are these Game Ward? No. I was going to say, could it be, like, eight from the field, because that would be cool. That would be cool, yeah. AFC East, Garrett Wilson. Nice one there, too, 1199. We've got AFC South, Jonathan Taylor, 27 of 40 on. This one's, well, it's a Vaughn card right here if I've ever seen one. AFC East is going to be like Garrett Blunt. Four of 75, goal line graphs. The AFC East, Garrett Blunt. And AFC East, again, Pierre Strong Jr. That is a four-colored patch auto booklets, 56 of 99. Yeah, whoever was handling the EZE probably just had a stain on it. Yeah, I know. Jimmy the Intern was moved over to the patch department. Damn it, Jimmy. God. Rest of everything. Kenny Pickett, 275, two-color mammoth material, AFC North. We've got a Alec Pierce, 39 of 99. That is going to the AFC South. It is a throwback right here, it's a name. Dorsey Levins, 76 of 199 for the NFC North. I don't even know what the name is. I don't know, it's a throwback. And nice one here, 225. Tyrion Davis Price, two-colored patch auto booklet, a rookie patch auto booklet, 225.  Every like button, Sam Giggles. Donny does a back flip then, every like. One Donny back flip. Let me get my moon shoes on, get some extra hair. There's Justin Jefferson, patch in Jersey, 10 of 25, NFC North on the double loops. Got another Kyler Murray, this time a two-color patch to 49 for the NFC West. Auto is going to be AFC East, Javon Holland, hash marks, 39 of 199 by way of the Dolphins. And going to the NFC West, 40 of 49, Samir White, three-colored RPA booklet. Samir White, Georgia legend. Yeah, it's pretty good there, actually. Not as good as the others, though. No, neither of those guys is as good as Todd. There's a triple for the AFC West. Three-color, two-color, two-color. Justin Herbert, Austin Ackler, Mike Williams, 24 of 49. Team Trio's. Got Romeo Dobbs, that is 96 of 99 for the NFC North yearbook. Playoff Lenny, 25 of 25, Lombardi Lenny, going to the NFC South, Leonard Fortnette by way of the Buccaneers there on the auto. And to 199, Skymor, rookie Jersey auto booklet. 116 of 299, excuse me, 299. Very nice, on to the next one. That's gonna be cool. That is Wondale Robinson to 199 for the NFC East, hot-routched jersey. Got goal line graphs of Eddie George, 41 of 49, AFC South, the Oilers. Eddie George. Next up, we've got Trevor Penning, that is 9 of 10. Nice one there for the NFC South, some O-line auto love there. And 11 of 49 is gonna be Armory booklet, Matt Corral. There you go, NFC South. I haven't seen anyone with a flip up yet. I know, these are cool. Three-color football helmet, patch, patch, glove, I think. So nice one there. Congrats to the Panthers and the NFC South on the Matt Corral Armory booklet. Those are cool, I love the Armories. Armories are cool. Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, I think it's a really nice one. I love the Armories that have the picture of them doing like diving or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know which one you're talking about. Maybe we had like a Josh Allen or Derek Henry. Pulled a one-on-one Bebo of that too, which is pretty cool. Yeah, I think I remember that. I think I remember that, that's sweet. That is gonna be Danny Gray, 17 of 25, two-car patch. Yeah, it's pretty sweet, pretty sweet coffee. Also got Danny Gray again, the 199, NFC West. You agree, boss? So, Antonio Gibson, 49 of 99, NFC East on the Auto. 259 of 299, Sauce Gardner on the Jersey Auto booklet for the AFC East. Sauce, sauce, get this guy out. This guy needs to mix the water in for sure. Vaughn, I gotta balance you, man, you're out here. Yeah, sorry, man, code of conduct. Down and dirty, 11 of 75, three-color patch, Joey Bosa, AFC West, that's awesome. Grats on that AFC West. Got Auto, Kyle Hamilton, 18 of 25, AFC North. Grats on that AFC North, Kyle Hamilton, Rookie Auto. Another Rookie Auto's gonna be Logan Hall this time, 43 of 99, the NFC South, Logan Hall, and NFC East, we've got Rookie Jumbo, Brian Robinson, Jr., Jersey, Jersey. Look at the commanders. Calvin Austin, 299, two-color patch, the AFC North. Got, that's pretty cool. Clinton Portis, goal line graphs, 7 of 25 for the AFC West. There's a couple pretty decent flawless heads today, for sure. We've got NFC West, George Kittle on the Auto. Congrats on that, George Kittle, Titan University, and 33 of 299, 3, and Davis Price. Rookie Jersey Auto, booklet. Booklet. No, nothing like the hard end, unfortunately. Hey, what's up, Walt? Walt, eight hours later, booing again. Oh, no. Cuts, Kareem Hunt, down and dirty, two-color patch, the 99, AFC North. I'm so happy to have these down.  What are they, game use? Yeah, they used, I don't, anymore, I don't think.  Staphon Diggs to 199, AFC East. The Sips got a duck, the Tomatoes from Walt. Got NFC South to 199, Hashmarks to Mall Anderson. By way of the Falcons, and by way of the Falcons again, Desmond Ritter, Rookie Jersey Auto Booklets. Nice one there, too, 199. Congrats on that. Erica Zucanma, Hot Routes, 275, two-color patch, AFC East. Got, nice one here, DK Metcalf, that is 13 of 199, going to the NFC West. We've got Natrone Means, nice one there, Hashmarks 45 and 75, going to the AFC West. Another name, throwback name there, by way of the Chargers. And Traybon Walker, Rookie Jersey Auto, nice one there, too, 299 for the Jaguars. Of course, legend. We've got a Name of the Material to 199, Erica Zucanma, AFC East. We've got Alec Pierce, that is 6 of 99 for the AFC South. Nice one here, one-of-one printing plate, AFC South, Bobby Trees. Robert Woods on the auto, nice one there, again, one-of-one printing plate, Robert Woods. Congrats on that. And a K9 to 299, Kenneth Walker, Rookie Jersey Auto booklet, NFC West. Box, we've got a, ooh, one-of-one, Wandaille Robinson, NFL Shield. Going to Matt T and the NFC East, that is some last pack magic right there, Steve. Pretty sick. Let's go, congrats, Matt. Pretty sick. That's awesome, dude. That's sick, one-of-one NFL Shield, Wandaille. We've got a CD-LAM, that is 2199 for the, let's go Rift, let's go Matt, NFC East again. We've got, ooh, cool one here. It's gonna be Shotgun Signatures, 8 of 25, John Elway on the auto going to the AFC West. Nice one there as well, the other one. Still solid, but congrats to other Matt T. And then we've got, nice one here. It's gonna be AFC North, George Pickens, rookie Jersey auto booklet, 167 of 299. It was a stealer night of football tonight. It was, dude. All right, let's do a quick recap here, everybody. We've got Jerseys first, CD-LAM, Alec Pierce, Erica Zucanma, DK Metcalfe, Erica Zucanmas, the Frond Diggs, Karim Hunt, Calvin Austin, Joey Bosa, Danny Gray, Danny Gray, Wanda Robinson, Romeo Dobbs, Chargers Trio, Kyler Murray, we have Justin Jefferson, Alec Pierce, Kenny Pickett, Garrett Wilson, that is Jonathan Taylor, Kyler Murr, Matt Jones, Jalen Tolbert, Aaron Rodgers, Steve Young, Donna Durden, Jameson Williams, and Justin Jefferson. Yeah, Last Pack was a banger for sure. Multiple Matt T's coming in congratulating the Matt T you hit. Love to see that. Look at that. John Elway, Robert Woods, one-of-one printing plate, Neutron Means, Jamal Anderson, Clinton Portis, that is George Kittle, Logan Hall, Kyle Hamilton, Antonio Gibson, Trevor Penning, Eddie George, Leonard Fournette, Jevon Holland, Dorsey Levens, little Garrett Blunt, Derek Mason, Devonte Adams, Derek Mason, and Gus Farrot. Thanks, other Matt T's. That's so funny, I love this. I love this. Booklets, we had Zamir White, Matt Corral, Armory, Tyrion Davis Price, Erika Zucanma, Storybook Aidan Hutchinson, Chris Johnson, and John Mechie as well as George Pickens, Kenneth Walker, Desmond Ritter, Tyrion Davis Price, Sauce Gardener as well. We've got a Pierre Strong Jr., Sky Moore, Brian Robinson Jr., and Trayvon Walker. We've got Kenny Pickett, nice one there, one-of-25 on the auto, and one-of-one, NFL Shield, mammoth material, Wandaille Robinson, nice one there for the NFC East. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the film. Up next is Sapphire.