Good day and welcome. This is a very special edition of the Vermont Affordable Housing Show and we're going to feature today the Cambrian Rise Development in Burlington. With me, I have some very special guests to my immediate right is Amy Demetrowitz, who is the Director of Real Estate Development at the Champlain Housing Trust. Eric Farrell, President of Farrell Real Estate. Cindy Reed, who is the Director of Development for Cathedral Square Corporation. And Gil Livingston, President of the Vermont Land Trust, all of whom are partners in the Cambrian Rise Development in Burlington at the former Burlington College site on North Avenue. Before we get to our interview and to talking about Cambrian Rise, I just wanted to make a couple of quick announcements, since this is our Vermont Affordable Housing Show, we have some very special celebrations that are coming up in the housing world. The 30th anniversary of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board is happening next Tuesday, September 19th at Shelburne Farms. I'm sure I'm going to see some of you folks there. And then also on the same day, earlier in the day, the Housing Trust of Rutland County, one of our premier members in Rutland County, is celebrating their 25th anniversary. Cindy in Cathedral Square is celebrating their 40th on September 21st at the Sheraton in Burlington. We'll be at that as well. And then finally, the Vermont Community Loan Fund, another member of our coalition is celebrating its 30th anniversary on October 12th also at Shelburne Farms. So I just wanted to get that out there for folks in the housing world. This is a couple of really important weeks of celebrations of major institutions that have promoted and funded affordable housing and built affordable housing in Vermont over the last 30 years. So with that lead-in and introduction, I was going to first turn to Eric, who is the, again, the president of Farrell Real Estate, which is the primary developer and owner of Cambrian Rise. On the former Burlington College site is, I believe, the single largest development in Burlington in many years, if perhaps ever, and has a major of both affordable housing component as well as it has a major public land dedication component as well. So Eric, if you could maybe give us an overview of what you have planned and then we'll go to our nonprofit friends to talk about their partnership with you. Okay, I'll start with a little bit of history. I'll try and condense four years into a couple of minutes. And technically, most of the land is owned by a partnership, BC Community Housing, which we formed four years ago. So Burlington College at the time reached out to send an RFP out looking for a co-developer of their site. They wanted to sell half the site off and keep the other half and expand their campus. Pretty aggressive plan on their part. We were selected after they interviewed five or six local developers. And almost from the beginning, their finances started to unravel and it became apparent that they were not going to be able to fulfill their half of the development deal. And so it culminated in us purchasing, we purchased 27 of their 34 acres, 28 of their 34 acres, which allowed them to pay significantly down on their debt. And then they were going to keep six acres and continue the college on a smaller parcel of land and we were going to develop the rest. So we purchased that land in 2015. Almost immediately we, Gil from my land trust reached out, asked us to engage with them and the city and Champlain Housing Trust in a conversation about what the appropriate level of development might be for that parcel before we deep-dived into design and permitting process. So we did that for quite a few months and that culminated in a development agreement that we executed in January of 2016. And the big pieces of that development agreement were that we would sell 12 acres of the land, all of the border on the south and the west and including Texaco Beach to the city, which means we had to forego the opportunity to build 24 single-family homes, which was part of our original plan. And the college was going to keep their six acres and then we would build multifamily on the remaining land. Other couple of pieces of that development agreement were that we would sell at a pretty deep discount land to Champlain Housing Trust for the development of both senior and family affordable housing and that the city would tweak the zoning to accommodate the development on the remaining land, although the zoning didn't increase the amount of development that could happen, it just consolidated it closer to North Avenue. So our final plan, we ended up with 739 units. Maybe if I could interrupt you for a second. I think we've got some visuals that might help our viewers understand what you're about to describe. Maybe we have the first slide if that could be projected while Eric is going through. Okay, so the first slide, the first slide shows the entire property and it shows proximity of the property to Texaco Beach, its relationship to the skate park. It's like a half a mile down to the skate park. A mile down to the Boathouse, it's just south of North Beach, adjacent to Lakeview Cemetery. Interestingly enough all the land around this property is owned by the city of Burlington and this happened to be Texaco Beach, happened to be the only stretch of beach that the city of Burlington didn't own from North Beach all the way to the waterfront. So this really completed a link for them. Another important piece I believe and Gil can speak to it more about the city being able to purchase this 12 acres was that it kept a wildlife corridor open north and south and east and west. So that was one of the benefits of selling the land to the city. So our final development plan on the next slide, the site plan, depicts about 14 buildings that encompasses 739 housing units, no single family lots. 240 of those units are condominiums for sale, 70 units of senior housing, 76 units of family housing and 350 or 353 units of multifamily rental housing. The first phase, the first building to open at Cambrian Rise was Liberty House, formerly the Orphanage, which was renovated over the last year. It opened on July 1, 65 units. How's the occupancy going on that? The building is about three quarters full after 60 days, so there's a lot of demand for this location, and of course it's a spectacular building if I do say so myself. I've seen it from the outside. Landscaping is beautiful. Some of the views must be just spectacular. You can see almost to Kansas from the veranda. So that's my short version of what we're doing at Cambrian Rise. Happy to answer questions. Great, great. Well, maybe we'll leave some questions for the end. Let's move on to Amy Dometrowitz from Champlain Housing Trust. Amy, you've been working in affordable housing for many, many years, and I know we have very low vacancy rate, especially for rental housing in Burlington and in the immediate area. Maybe if you could talk a little bit about what you see as the need and how your partnership, CHT's partnership with Eric and Cambrian Rise is going to help with that. I understand you're doing both rental and homeownership. Yes, we, as your viewers and you know, we do have a serious affordable housing crisis in the city and in the county, really. Just as an example, the Champlain Housing Trust were one of the largest landlords serving northwestern Vermont. We have 2,000 apartments in our portfolio, and we get about 120, 140 applications for housing every month. 120 to 140, and we may have 20 or so apartments that become available for rent in any given month. So there's just a really large unmet demand that we bring on maybe 30 to 40 new apartments every year. We just finished Bright Street co-op on Bright Street in Burlington. We have some new apartments in Heinsberg and in Shelburne and in Essex. We recently partnered with Eric Ferrell down on the avenue.  It's the same experience Eric is having, maybe even more intensely.  So we just have an extreme demand, and so we're especially excited to be partnering with Eric and Cathedral Square again on a project similar to what we did down on the avenue. We are building a 76 unit apartment building, and if we can put the site plan up, on the site plan, the site plan. Yeah, we got it. They're perfect. It's building L. So building L on that site plan is 76 apartments. It's a mix of one, two, and even three bedroom apartments. We do have a demand for larger units. It will have a community room where people can gather with a small kitchen. There's some common decks on the west side so that people can have that beautiful view. We have under the building parking. We'll have a playground in the center courtyard. We have lots of bike storage. What we found down on the avenue is we have way more bikes than we have cars, and I expect that at this location it will be very similar. We'll have lots of bikes and lots of bike storage. Now Eric has a responsibility through his permit. The inclusionary zoning requirement requires him to provide 25% affordable units. Normally it's 15 in Burlington. How come it's 25 for the site? Yeah, good question. Waterfront zoning requires a higher percentage of affordable units just to make sure that our waterfront is accessible to everybody. So it's wonderful, and we're going to be able to meet that inclusionary zoning by getting an excellent discounted price from Eric for the parcel. But we will actually be able to exceed the inclusionary zoning requirements. The inclusionary zoning requirement requires that the apartments are rented to families that are affordable to families below 65% of median income. It kind of gets wonky there. That's $37,500, $37,000 annual income for a household of one, $53,000 for a household of four. So that's what the target is for inclusionary zoning. Are these going to be affordable for a year or two? These will be perpetually affordable, and our units will be even more affordable. 18% of the apartments, that's 14 apartments, will be specifically set aside for homeless families. We're working with the Burlington Housing Authority to provide support services for those families so that they can maintain their housing once they get in. And a third of all of the apartments will actually be affordable to, will be set at rents that are affordable to families below 50% of median income. And then we do have some that are on the higher end range. We'll have a range of incomes within this building, which will help to make the whole neighborhood a much more diverse, economically diverse neighborhood. And inclusive. And inclusive. We're going to be providing housing with Eric and with Cathedral Square. We'll be providing housing to a whole range of different types and incomes of folks. We have all of the funding committed that we need to be able to begin construction this spring. This is our next big project. 76 apartments that we can bring online all at once. Wow. And we have our funding that we need committed at this point. And you've got some homeownership units. Yes. And so we've also come to an agreement with Eric about condominiums. He's building a large number of homes for sale as condominiums. We have an agreement now for 30 of those homes to be affordable. And we're talking again, those are one and two bedroom apartments for, I mean condos for the most part. Our, our sales price will be 160, 170,000. Wow. And again, those will be perpetually affordable with our, our shared equity program of the land trust. We have 550 homes in our program that have that perpetual affordability through shared equity. And we will be doing that here as well. So we have an agreement for 30 now. And we expect there will be a second phase with another 30. So we'll have 60 total affordable homes for sale. Yeah. That price point is pretty hard to beat. And it really is a stunning location. Well, thank you. Thank you, Amy. Just as a side note in terms of the need for affordable housing in Chittenden County, I went back to the most recent state study that looked at how many units are needed, how many households are expected in Chittenden County. And the state study said that 2,375 new households were expected to be formed in Chittenden County by 2020. So, you know, this is absolutely, and some folks may doubt whether or not we need this many units, but the experts in the studies that the state of Vermont has done have quite clearly shown us that Chittenden County still, in spite of the boom that we have of building really, we need a lot more housing in Chittenden County to accommodate all that. And we especially have a need for senior housing. Cindy, maybe you could talk a little bit about what Cathedral Square is seeing and, you know, kind of how many units you have available every month. I know it's not many, and how Cathedral Square is going to help make more senior housing available here. Thank you, Erich. So, yeah, first I want to say that senior housing was not a permit requirement at Cambrian Rise, and we're really thrilled that Erich envisioned including senior housing in Cambrian Rise and that it's a lot of powerful partnerships happening here with the city and Vermont Land Trust and Erich and Champlain Housing Trust. So, Cathedral Square's building is building K on the site plan showed earlier right next to Champlain Housing Trust, right on North Avenue, right next to the bus stop, which is great because access to transportation is really critical for our community of seniors. We have, Cathedral Square has about 900 apartments in Northwest Vermont. We have over 800 people on our wait list, huge demand, and as we know, the senior population is growing rapidly. It's the fastest growing demographic. In fact, in the next 20 years, the number of adults aged 65 and older will double, and many people do not want institutional care. They want to live in the community. They want the support services they need. So, at Cambrian Rise, our building is called Juniper House, which we named after Juniper Island in the lake to go with the motif, and it will have 70 apartments, both one and two-bedroom. The rents will serve a variety of income. So, there's staggered rents similar to the CHT building. About half of our units will serve people below 50% of median income, which is about 28,000 annual income a year. And about 14 units we will prioritize for homeless and at risk of homeless seniors. So, we have a robust service program through SASH, which will help those folks achieve stability. What does that stand for? SASH is support and services at home. There's group piloted and is now statewide serving over 5,000 people around the state. It's a care coordination program to help people live at home independently with the care support they need. So, some people refer to the growing senior demographic as the silver tsunami, but we really reject that term because it's a negative connotation. And we're really about positive aging and about wellness and activity. So, this building... Appreciate that, part of that tsunami. Yeah, that's a really negative... And aging we embrace as a positive thing. Our seniors are wise people. They have wealth of experience. Retirees have a lot to give their communities. So, we try to channel that and nurture positive aging in our community. So, at Juniper House, our design includes a large community room with a kitchen, an exercise room for things like Tai Chi, chair yoga. Those programs are part of support and services at home and help promote balance and strength to help reduce falls, reduce hospitalizations and save on healthcare costs and just increase people's sense of well-being. We also have walking programs. So, Juniper House will have a lot of those wellness in the design. And we have a wellness nurse on staff and a wellness nurse office with a conference room for private consultations. We have garden space outside. We're right next to the community gardens as well with the 12 acres of preserved land, which is a huge benefit to this whole community. And then there's a lot of connection built in between the Cathedral Square Building and Champlain Housing Trust and the rest of Cambrian Rise with a sitting area and another playground. Opportunities for our seniors to hang out with the younger people in the community. It's very pedestrian friendly because as we know the parking is, a lot of it is underground. Lots of safe sidewalks to wheel on or walk on. So, it's a fabulous community. It's what we call smart growth, which is near transportation, services, goods to keep people connected to their community. Very mixed income, mixed age. We're very happy to be here. We hope to start construction next October and we want to open the doors in February of 2020. We can't open soon enough for our growing population. When can I get my application in? I'll get it in right away because we have a long wait list. I'm sure that, yeah, I know that's true for Champlain Housing Trust as well. Thank you, Cindy. So, this is an affordable housing show. So, some folks might wonder why we have someone from the Vermont Land Trust here. I think Eric gave us a little indication of that earlier. This is the single, I would say, the last large developable area in the city of Burlington. And certainly, we have a huge need for recreational lands and for green and open space. And, Gil, maybe you could talk a little bit to us about what VLT's Vermont Land Trust component is here and how you're making sure that Burlington citizens and the folks who are going to live here are going to have some adequate open space. Yeah, thank you, Eric. I am the president of Vermont Land Trust but also a proud resident of the Old North Bend and have watched this property for years. You know, we don't think in silos in Vermont and I think this partnership is a reflection of that. But I think we're observant generally of community needs and don't think about how it's necessarily separate from open space, separate from the economy, separate from health. And picking up on Cindy's health point, I don't know that we talk enough about the importance of open space, proximate to where people live and proximate to schools in terms of the direct health benefits. There's substantial and growing empirical evidence about reduced need to rely upon medical services, reduced prescription needs, improved children's educational performance related to open space. So I'm especially heartened, right? Cindy and Amy have described the location of their two buildings. They are immediately adjacent to the new public park next to existing community gardens. So I think that's a special reflection of our success here. I think we've got the slide up also so folks can see exactly where the open space is. Great, thanks for doing that. So looking at that slide, fully 12% of the land control by Eric will be a public park. It frankly is currently owned by the Vermont Land Trust and the City of Burlington together, pending the receipt of permits which were a condition of the agreement that we reached together. That 12 acres is the most valuable component of the property because it has breathtaking views. It's eminently developable. So we had the opportunity in our conversation with Eric to really focus on what the public benefits were irrespective of land values and somewhat independent of the planning he'd done before he acquired the property. As the overview plan depicts, a long stretch of public beach, referred to locally as Texco Beach, actively used by citizens of all sorts. Beautiful open field and neatly adjacent to that. The path running from the bike path through the woodland gives you tremendous views of the lake and the Adirondacks left overlooking the Lake Champlain. That path that navigates towards North Avenue and opens up in an opening that's now occupied by community gardens, which will expand once we fully own the park. People may also be familiar with the Stone House, the historic Stone House that fronts right on North Avenue. As we talked to folks within the community, there was a high need for small meeting gathering space. There's some big auditoriums, but gathering space of a modest size, especially in a nice intimate setting like that, is that a premium. So I think the city is going to work through uses, but generally speaking, it's a place that will be available to citizens. So multiple resources there. And frankly, let me talk a little bit of the process. I mean, Eric talked about this already. There was a high level of urgency and frankly a high level of community unrest when the college announced it was liquidating the property. Eric had no obligation to pause. He could have proceeded like most developers to prepare development plans, submit an application, engage in the public participation that sometimes occurs during those processes. But instead, he was willing to agree at the request of my organization, but more importantly, Maro Weinberger decided it was an important opportunity to pause and really reflect on what the public's goals were for that property and see if Eric was willing to engage in modifications to his expectations along those lines. So we had extensive public hearings. We had tours of the property. We had a large public sort of design forum before we even talked about alternative plans. We came back after we had alternatives and talked again to the public about what we had heard through public input and how we believed we'd executed on those goals. We reached out to the Old North End community broadly. We met with the Association of Africans Living in Vermont. We met with the Old North End Arts and Business Association. We met with the Student Council at the high school. We were in small groups, big groups, just trying to hear what people wanted. And most recently, last night, you were at the Ward's 2 and 3 neighborhood planning assembly. Yeah, and I think that was for me the third time and more for Eric. So people, I think, can fairly evaluate and have their own opinion about kind of the mix of open space and development and whether that's the right mix. You know, people who love Burlington love this place and so logical to have an attachment and have views about it. But I think we can say with great pride, I'm not aware having been, actually ran the Act 250 program for a number of years, have been in Vermont for 40 plus. I'm not aware of another situation in which this sort of collaboration prevailed upon a developer who had no obligation to do so, to pause and give us six months to fully and openly engage with the community. And so I think we're still open for people's feedback about it. But I hope people appreciate that they were heard and we did our best to execute on what their goals are. You know, I'll just say as someone who's not just been involved in affordable housing for many years, but, you know, it's our 40th year in Burlington and have been involved in public policy and public development for many years. This is just extraordinary. I think we all knew that someday this parcel was going to get developed and I just have to say from my perspective, you know, I was on the Planning Commission many years ago and City Council, I can't imagine a better way to develop this site given that someday it was going to be developed and what you all are putting together is just really remarkable and my hat's off to you. But that's just my opinion. But I'm sure a lot of other folks share that as well. So I think we've got a couple of minutes left here. I know everybody's had their chance to sort of describe their component, their part of this. Maybe just in the few minutes that remain to us, Eric, maybe you could tell us kind of what are the next steps for Camry and Rise.  You know, you've got your city permits at this point, correct? Or not? Maybe I'm not as well informed. Tell us where you are. We have all of our local permits. We have all of our underlying state permits, stormwater and what have you. We have an Act 250 hearing next Wednesday, the 20th. And that's our last stop assuming that it gets completed in one hearing. Then we hope to be in the ground with our first new building in November. That would be a rental building. And we hope to start our first new condominium building, which we made a deal with CHT to buy 30 of 97 units in the fall. Spring, excuse me, spring of next year, around the same time that CHT breaks ground on their building. So the first building, like I said earlier, the orphanage is open, but we're anxious to get going on new construction in city streets and all the amenities that will be incorporated. We've got a lot of site work to do. We've got a lot of site work to do. How long is the development process going to take once you get going? You're going to do this over a number of years. Well, best guess. It'll take six to eight years to build out. That's a lot. But we've got some affordable units that are going to be coming on fairly soon. And Cindy, you mentioned when, maybe you could just say again when... Sure. We have some of our funding. We have a number of funding applications that are open and ready to be submitted. So we hope to start construction October next year. And we also will have some market units within our building. So we'll have a real range of affordability within the senior building to serve all kinds of income. And we're hoping to open our building in February of 2020, but it'd be great if we could do it sooner because we know the need is huge. And we'll likely be open spring of 2019 if we get in the ground this spring, about a year. The need is certainly great.  So certainly can't wait till we get more formal housing. And this is the land that you have negotiated. Gail is... I think it's been mentioned before, but I think it really bears emphasizing it's like the last piece. So public land will stretch from Perkins Pier all the way up to Rock Point, basically. This is the last remaining piece. And I just think that's an incredible achievement right there. Thank you. Well, $2 million is the negotiated purchase price. We've purchased it at that number. It's a significant discount, less than the appraised fair market value. We've miraculously raised almost all of that money. So frankly, I think we're ready to transfer my organization's interest to the city and for there to be a park dedication. As soon as Eric has his permits. Wow. And I assume that... Well, I know that a lot of the housing is going to be funded by the Vermont Housing Conservation Board. I kind of assume that VHCB celebrating its 30th anniversary next week has got money in the park as well. And not to make it all about anniversaries, but on October 1st, my organization celebrates its 40th anniversary. I totally missed that one. The Housing Conservation Board was a significant generous funder in two stages. In addition, the city foresightedly, going back seven, eight years, created an open space legacy fund, which is for open space park purchases. And so there was a city commitment of a half a million dollars. And the rest of it has been private fundraising and a federal grant. Yeah. Well, great. I think I'm getting the hook. We're close to the end of the show. I just want to say thanks to each of you, not just for being on the show, but for the incredible work that you're doing.  Well, it was born and raised here, so this is my community. I know. You used to live on Brooks Avenue. I remember it well. Yeah. You were my constituent, whether you liked it or not, right? I might have even voted for it. Well, we don't know that. I remember the sign you had up front. It wasn't mine. Sorry about that. That's okay. That's okay. I love you now. Things come in full circle here in Vermont. Anyway, thanks to all of you, and thanks to our viewers for tuning in. This has been the Vermont Affordable Housing Show. There will be some resources, some web resources for each of these organizations and for the Cambrian Rise Development on-screen as we end. And our next show, our next regularly scheduled show, will be Wednesday, October 4th. That's going to be a live at 5.25. So I hope you get a chance to tune in. Thank you very much.


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Chad, we've been eating healthy for the last month for Camp Canute as it winds down. We got to celebrate a little bit. Oh yeah, it's beans. This is just the appetizer channel. We got a hell of a lot of meat coming forward, too. Look at this, Chad, look at this, this is love. When you were competing, how much were you eating a day? I'm eating roughly like 10,000 colors a day. 10,000 calories? Yeah, yeah. Like when I was trying to really gain weight. And you weighed 450 pounds? Of my heaviest. Yeah, your heaviest. Yeah. I feel like it gets to a point where it's just hard to eat. That was my job. My job was to eat. And then train you.  The training was the one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  He wants to look good on stage. So when he was competing, he would not have these these kind of meals often. I would never have barbecue for a cheat meal. Really? Because I would only do one cheat meal a week because I was so sugar deprived. I always wanted like a cheesecake factory. You've got to play the cards you're dealt with. Your cards are not always going to be as good as everyone else's.  Yeah, would you like me to bring you some actual food, some real food? Yes, please. Thank you so much. And please for Asma. He needs to eat. Yes. I'm a growing boy. After this, we're going to have some desserts, right? Right? Oh, yeah. We've got the best desserts in all of the house. I'm actually most excited for that. Purple brisket, we've got jalapeno sauces. We've got chicken, turkey, and pork ribs. I love it. We are going to gain some weight and get stronger. Oh, wow, look at that. Oh, that's a lot. Look at that. Beautiful. Here we go. Just start picking at it. I think I'm going to add too much bread already. I'm already starting to feel it. What? I'm trying. You're going to be a strong man. Do you want to become a strong man or what? I'm trying to hold on to him. Do I eat two more so I get smaller? Eat more. Or eat more? Well, how do I eat more? You force it down.  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It's like five small meals, but. It's supposed to be, so you haven't been doing it? Maybe four. Four? Maybe three. No, I changed it. I changed it because I needed more carbs. There you go. So I'm still eating good, but I added more carbs. You added more carbs? In less meals. He's just trying to check on you, make sure everything's all right. Howdy, sir. Got the meats, got the pizzas. Out of here, I'm not going to eat cheese. Well, that's for me. It's my memos, it's a special recipe. Everyone happy with what we got here? Quite good. Fantastic, it's fantastic. There's going to be more hair in there. We really embed them. That's good, extra protein. If it's a head hair, meals on us. So from the head, it's on us, probably. So the short hairs are free. That's a garnish. Why is this one so curly? I've had every piece of meat except for chicken so far. What? Chicken's great. I'm just happy with my size right now. I don't really want to get fat again, so. Look, these are just excuses. OK.  It's a rid. It's a rid. Just work out more and make up for it. Sure. I'm going to have cheesecake as well. Oh, true. You have cheesecake, right? Do we have cheesecake? Oh, wow.  Finish this. What is that? Let me go with dessert. Let me go with dessert. I was thinking, do you have a milk? Because when you're trying to gain weight, you won't hold milk with your cheesecake. Yeah. You're trying to pack on some calories. All right. All right. All right. And please bring a big glass for my friend, Asfand, because he's trying to put on some weight. Like a real strongman. Oh, why is mine bigger? Because you're trying to be calm. Yes. All right. All right. I'm getting the shakes from you. All right. All right. All right. Put this away. Let's have the cheesecake. An office or not? Oh, God. I can't wait forever. I've disappointed my coach. Yeah. Here. I'll mix this. I'll mix this for you right here. Mix it. Oh, I can't. Come sit next to me. Oh. I'll sit next to you. Oh, Bonnie, you're so strong. Okay, one piece is good enough. No, please. No, we'll have three. We'll have three pieces. Three? We'll have three pieces. At least. Yeah, I'll get it. Yeah. I'll move four pieces. Half a cheesecake? Cheers, my friend. Oh, all right. Cheers. Oh, yeah. You got mine too. You got mine? Just me.  I don't know. One or the other. He's just horrible.  It is. It happened. All right, kid. Is it hard? Still ways to store my food. Oh, my God. How would you rate today's barbecue, the meats? Wait, what the hell? 10 out of 10. Good. I love it. There we go. Wait, why? It looks like you're eating a cookie. Thank you. It looks like he's eating cookies. I was watching you stream. You were eating a pizza. I thought you were eating pita chips. No way. I feel like that. I said, oh, my pizza's here and you came back with three boxes. Yeah, I was actually reacting to you guys. Yeah. I've never had cheesecake with milk before, but it's really good. Is that all right? The milk washes down the cheesecake good. Milk is just good with everything. Well, on the subject of eating, I saw an interview with Peter Dinklage like eight years ago. He said he had dinner with you and you ate seven chickens. Is that true? Yeah. There weren't even cooked. They were just alive. He didn't believe that I ate the whole thing. There's a big, big meal, big table, and I literally ate eight chickens. It was eight chickens. Eight chickens. Thank you for clarifying that. My pleasure, man. This is good cheesecake. It is. This is good cheesecake. This is a good choice. Finn, good job making this cheesecake on your own. This is good. Good choice. Good job, man. I'm not used to eating like this. I'm used to eating like this. But recently, my height is 4.5K. I stopped eating and I'm retired and so on. I'll say one thing. I am packed. Really? I ate by far the most. Well, we have to check the table now. That's great. Thank you so much for having us on, man. Yeah. Now I'm glad.  It really has been. How many have you eaten? I think I had two. You had two? I had two. Bonnie stole one of mine. I had two and a half. You did well, man. It was good, Tom. It was really good. It was long. It was good. It was long, man. Okay, so Thor, how would you rate my eating like a strong man? Was I able to do it? Was I able to eat like a strong man? I didn't have that. It was a tall guy. So, if you clicked this button. She just clicked the button. You did okay. You did okay. Eating wise, I wasn't very impressed. Really? Yeah. Okay. So, what can I do better? You have to get used to eating more and just try to fill up this. I feel like I'm going to have a hard time. Some people, I'm telling you, some people, it is not born to eat a lot. I'm telling you. Some people just can't eat a lot. So, you think I just can't do it? You're still strong and still big. You know, some guys, the Jesus is just best strong. And I feel like you're just best strong. So, maybe you just don't need as many calories because you're just best strong. I tried to eat like a strong man. I disappointed Thor, but it's okay. I also don't know how to shake hands. That's great. It was a lot of fun. We had a great meal. What did you think? You liked the Texas barbecue? I loved it. And I think it's also, for having me, maybe someone is in the field after all. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe strong man is just not for me. But you're strong. You're strong. I'm strong, but I'm not hungry. That's the problem. That's the problem. I need to get hungrier. Yeah. Yeah.  You had some barbecues.


Hi guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I'm going to be doing a review on the new launch that just came out from one size, which is Patrick Star's new makeup brand. So I purchased the eyeshadow palette, the liquid liner, and one of the glitter toppers. So if you want to see my thoughts, then let's just get going.  You can kind of get my thoughts as I go, especially because the palette itself has a lot of shades. It is going to take a few uses before I could give my full opinion on the palette. So this is a first impressions. Of course, my opinions could change as I continue to use these items. But wear time is a factor, how the different colors go on my eyes and just all of that stuff. But first impressions, let's just get into it. So the only product that I didn't purchase from this new launch is the Point May 24 hour gel eyeliner pencil. I just bought an iCole from Wayne Goss's line and I feel like I have so many gel pencils anyways. I passed on that, but I didn't get one of everything else. So just to kind of run through, I did of course pick up the Patrick Star visionary eyeshadow palette, which is a 15 pan palette. This guy is $42. Also in the line came out these eye popper sparkle vision liquid eyeshadows. These are $22. Now he came out with five shades. I only went with one, which is everything and more. This is the more pinky one. It's the one that I thought I would use the most. I picked this one up and then he also came out with a liquid liner. This is the Point May 24 hour liquid eyeliner pen. I'm always curious about liquid liners. I feel like I've been on the hunt for the perfect liquid liner for a couple years now. So I did get this one. It is $19. So more specifically, let's take a closer look at the palette here. So this online is described as a highly pigmented 15 pan eyeshadow palette, featuring matte and shimmer shades in yummy neutrals and bold pops of color for endless makeup play. So immediately looking at the palette and the design, it is just a pink cardboard packaging with the simple one size logo. Nothing to write home about really. Nothing too special on the back. I could just say it is made in the USA. We love that. And it has a 12 month shelf life. It is also a vegan. And one thing that I thought was weird is it's kind of this cut off design. So it's actually easier to open the palette because of that kind of crooked edge. Honestly, I thought they cut the palette wrong. Like I thought something was wrong with it. I had to look up to see if other palettes were like this to realize that was on purpose. But to me, I thought the machines made a mistake. So you have a nice big mirror and then you have all of the shades. As you can see, there's a couple in there that had his logo and what is it? Just some fun little prints of him kind of embossed in the shadows themselves. So in here you are getting nine matte shades and six shimmers. Pretty simple. I think it's a very good ratio between matte to shimmer. As much as I love shimmer, I do realize that when a palette has more mattes, it makes more sense because I use mattes more. The color story in here is definitely more of a neutral palette with a couple of pops. I really like this color story.  It was boring. I like it. This is my kind of palette as far as the color story goes. I love these green neutrals here, the pink neutrals. Almost transition shades here, more golden, warm, and then a really cool look. I feel like this has a great variety as far as neutral lovers go no matter what tone. It just plays with a lot of different tones, which I like. And I'm coming off of reviewing the Wayne Goss, the new little six-band palette, which I did like, but it was very, very neutral and plain and understated. Whereas this one, we're talking more of my language here. So coming off of that one, this one looks pretty adventurous to me. So I do like the color story. It's not anything new or innovative, but this is his first eyeshadow launch. I mean, you got to have a neutral palette in your line. I know if I was to come out with a palette in my very first makeup line for my first launch, the palette will be boring and neutral, just colors that I like to wear. So I don't think there's anything wrong with that. And as long as the quality is good, there's always a room for a good neutral. So what I'm going to do is this is weird, but I like to do this eye first so that I can do a better job explaining this eye. So I'm going to quickly go off camera. I'm going to do a look and then we'll repeat it over here. So the look might be a little bit odd right now, but I promise you times a thousand, it will pull together liner lashes, glitter, all of that. But I did want to play with a couple of different color families for this look. So to start us off, we're going to take vanilla sands right here. Love that we have a nice vanilla cream shade. These are a personal favorite of mine to just pop under here to lift the eyebrow, kind of smooth the area out in a central shade that I think a lot of people forget about.  It's a softer formula for sure. So I'm going to take taupe of my game, love a cool toned taupe color. I'm just using a Kaleidos s1 brush and we're going to work this into the crease. Honestly, I really am liking his mattes so far. This one is blending very easily, very smooth, and all of his mattes really do. From what I've tried in this one look that I've done, of course I need to try a few more times to really give you that firm. Yes, these mattes are good, but no, so far I'm really liking what I've tried. Next up, we're going to go into brownie right here, a deeper brown. Obviously he had 15 opportunities to do it, but as far as an everyday look, this palette pretty much has everything that I need with the exception of a light champagne color that I can use to really highlight my inner corner. I do feel like that shade is missing, but other than that, I feel very comfortable with what this palette has to offer for sure. As you can see, again, this kind of blended effortlessly for me. I'm pretty impressed with this formula. $42, not bad at all. I've been using a lot of blacks lately, but blacks tell a lot about a formula. So we're going to take Turban Legend. I'm using my good old Riffa 14 brush and I'm really liking this matte. It's quite black, so use it sparingly, but it doesn't really stick where you put it. Sometimes with blacks, when you put them down, it's pretty hard to blend it out. This one I'm finding pretty easy to soften. So now that I've really deepened that, I'm going to take the original bake crease brush that I used and we're going to try and diffuse and lighten the smokiness of that. Now, I feel like normally I wouldn't do this next step, but I am trying to play with as much color as I can here. So we're going to take Blue Mondu, which is this blue color. This is a hard color to do, you guys. And even comparing it to the swatching of the other colors, it's a drier formula for sure. And I'm only putting it on this little part of my eye, so it is difficult to tell, but I didn't need to build this up and in not a bad way. That just made it easier to work with a little bit more forgiving for this type of shade, but I do need to test it out like in the crease to see how it works. But as far as blending it out on the lower lash line, it's sticking, it's building. It's not losing too much of the vibrancy without having like anything underneath or a white base. From what I can tell so far, it's doing pretty well for me. The only thing is that consistency does feel different to the finger and I can see potentially having problems if you use a lot of this shade. If you're just applying it to a small area of the eye like me, it works good, it shows up. I do like it so far, but I will have to keep you updated on that. So because I have the pink glitter, I did have to use this glittery pink shimmer shade. So this is called everything. Now, here's the thing with this. It is really beautiful, but it is just a bit chunky and I think on a more mature lid, this is not going to be flattering. It definitely is going to show every wrinkle, every crease in the eye because it's so chunky and reflective. So it's not necessarily flattering on those of you with more mature skin, but it is a beautiful shade. So that's up to you. But just traditionally, you know, what you're talking makeup school, this is not going to be flattering for a more mature lid. And because the reflex in here are a bit chunky, I wanted something that was going to kind of smooth it out into that black. So I'm taking some of walnut strut. So this is a bit of a smoother formula. I would say everything is definitely the most glittery color in this palette. Tidal holder also has a little bit of glitter, but the other shimmers in here are actual true shimmers. No like glitter particles in there. And when I say glitter particles, it's not that chunky. It's just extremely reflective. So I put that on top just to blend it into the black, but I am going to take a brush again and we're going to kind of smooth everything out, make it seamless. So that just kind of helped as far as the chunkiness was going. It's not an extremely bad chunky shadow, but it is noticeably thicker on the eye for sure. One of the favorite things that I did, we're taking some of rebel gray right here. Now this shade, I need to test this all over the eye because right here is a little bit of an inner corner color, beautiful, but the way that she swatched was not good. It was kind of sheer, kind of flaky. So this I'm not too sure about yet, but working with this blue color and the pink really beautiful you guys. So that's going to wrap up the use of this palette. Let's move on to the eye popper here. So like I said, this is $22 are five shades. You get a green one, a blackish one, this pink one, kind of a tan champagne and then a peachy one. But of course I wanted everything and more. So this guy is also made in the U.S. You get 0.14 fluid ounces and it has a six month shelf life. I only wanted to get one color because I have so many glitter shadows in my collection that hardly get used and as much as I wanted more. I just don't use them enough to justify it online. By the way, this is a one swipe wonder this long lasting liquid eyeshadow features a mix of glitter and pigment for high impact sparkle. And shine that's flake free. So the packaging is quite tall. A lot of liquid products aren't like this and you can see the color down here. It's nice, pretty and rose gold. Now the applicator is kind of a flat no foot as you can see. I'm just going to apply it right on top of that pink. I love me a good glitter topper. It does pair very nicely with the everything shadow. And I do think you probably should use your finger to spread it out because I think just going like that a little bit thick which makes it more prone to creasing which we don't want here. So again, I'm going to put a few swipes. Yeah, so you see you can actually probably do a pretty neat glitter cut crease with this so you don't need to blend it out. But if you're doing a blended look definitely use your finger to pat it out just be aware it'll be more likely to crease if you don't blend it out and thin out that layer. But on the eyelid the glitter isn't too crazy but you can see there are thicker silver sparkles on there. It's really pretty. I don't think it's anything unique from what I can tell thus far. It does have a base color to it. It's not just clear glitter but I think just the nature of the product itself like this color it is going to kind of blend in with your skin tone a little bit more. Oh, but it feels nice. It looks nice. It's not too chunky but it still gives you some extra glitter so I like that. I don't think I need any more than one color if you already have a collection of these eye glitter toppers you probably could pass on them but I don't have anything bad to say right now but I will have to keep you updated on where type and we're going to finish off the look with this eyeliner pen like I said $19 he only has this black color here. It's a true matte 24 hour waterproof liquid eyeliner that glides on like a dream to create precise lines that won't fade, flake, bleed or smudge. Looking at it I feel like it's not really matte from the swatch I did on my hand but it is very very black. So it is a felt tip for those of you who like brushes. I don't mind a brush or felt tip. I think they're both fine. Oh, you guys I really really like this. So I like how long the felt tip is. It makes it really easy to just glide across your eye. It's very very black. You got a lot of product at once and I even covered the glitter on my lid with other liquid liner. Sometimes they can struggle with getting full opacity over glitter shadows. This is like pure black. Obviously wear time is important on this but I really like it. It does have a little bit of a sheen on it. It's not super flat black matte but it's nothing that's bothering me and I still think it looks super good. Wow. Okay, so I'm going to finish the rest of my makeup because I'm looking a little bit crazy right now and I'll be back to give you my final kind of roundup thoughts so far. Okay, so kind of as I'm applying makeup. I forgot to mention a couple key things. One, I did get some fallout on my eyes. So just prepare for fallout. It did happen and I normally don't get a lot of fallout because I tap off my brush a lot and I'm very light-handed. So that that was noteworthy. Also this liquid liner it's made in Germany and it has a six month shelf life. So yeah, already guys. So here is the final look if you're curious about anything that's on my face. It of course will be linked in the description box but let's get into these products. So we'll start off with the eyeshadow palette. This one I would say out of everything is probably the one that I'm most uncertain on because there are so many colors that I didn't get a chance to try and because this is a new formula to me, a new brand to me. I don't want to dive in and tell you whether or not it is for sure good. The colors that I did use, I did enjoy. I didn't have any problems creating a look today. I think when we go over here, I need to test these colors more because I didn't swatch the best and I feel like they could be difficult to work with because it's just the nature of those colors. But as far as everything else on the neutral side, I think it's pretty safe to say this is a nice formula. I don't think it's a groundbreaking formula. I don't think this palette is anything that you need to run out and get but I do enjoy it. I did get a nice look and this is a palette for me. I really feel comfortable having and from what I've tried so far, it's a thumbs up. The eye topper, I think it's very nice again. I don't think it's anything unique that you need to run out and buy. $22 is quite expensive for what it is. If you're looking for a more affordable liquid glitter option, I would like to point you in the direction of L. They have some comparable colors. If anything funky happens with wear time with this, if it gets greasy, it falls on my face. I will make a note of that down below for you guys. But I liked how it spread it out. I think it's really pretty. I don't think it's anything groundbreaking but it's very, very nice. I think probably my favorite thing out of this line has to be the liquid liner. This is the one thing that I can confidently say I really like. Again, wear time could destroy that. So I'm going to wear this today. If anything weird happens, I will put it in the description box for you guys. But as far as application, I love the felt tip point. I like how long it is to really glide it across my eye. I love how pigmented it is and how it covered everything on my lash line over the glitter and the layers of shadow and texture and everything. So this is really good. That is all I have for today's video. You know, if they are products that you are interested in, I definitely think they are worth checking out.  I think you can wait on these products, but that is up to you. I didn't have a bad experience with any of these today. Thank you guys so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it. If you aren't subscribed to my channel, I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. I have a lot more reviews coming. I got a lot of makeup recently just to re-inspire me for some new videos for my channel. So I will see you guys in the next one. Bye, guys. Have a good one.


I don't care when you're watching it. It's Dunk Tip Tuesday. Tip Tuesday. All we do is dunk. Dunk Tip Tuesday. Boy, you don't want to chump. Dunk Tip Tuesday. Don't my vert is going up. Dunk Tip Tuesday. And I do it for the money. And I do it for my subs. Dunk Tip Tuesday. And I can have Tuesday. And I ain't never giving up. You for stopping by, welcome to Dunk Tip Tuesday. And that's how we do it. We're here, three things you need to be doing every single day as an athlete and not just an average athlete that wants to play some sports. I'm talking people that want to dunk, that want to have an elite vertical and want to dunk on people so hard that they leave the entire genre of the sport. So yes, that's what today's about. And we're going to focus on training. So it's all about training because I can go in through the body, mind and spirit which is actually the course I'm developing. So I'm in a locked over month for those newcomers here, locking in about daily habits and I'm making a new program that's going to help athletes go from above average to elite and that is something I'm really passionate about from the training to the nutrition, to the sleep habits, the healthy habits, the daily habits, the reading habits, mindfulness practices, meditation, visualization, all of that in one course. So I'm super pumped about that. The sleep itself, by the way, if you guys don't know me, sleep is number one in everything and it's the foundation of energy. And so that is going to be a solo course on its own and that's almost done already. So super pumped, stay tuned. Let me know what you wanna see and let me know if we have any questions or what do you wanna see? I would love to make things for you. So training, today is focused on training, three things you can do training wise as an athlete daily. And this is not for people, like I said, this is not for people that are just getting into sports, this is for people that are pushing the limits and when I say pushing the limits, it's about the doubts in your head. It's about overcoming all these limited beliefs you have which is what Dunkin' did for me, hold another video more about my story. Okay, so number one is the warm up test. And I learned this from Ben Greenfield's book and from my own experience, but in Ben Greenfield's book, Beyond Training, he has a ton of things understanding your recovery and when you're ready to push yourself because it's easy for me and I'm sure it is for you guys to push yourself past your limits and it's easy to over train. So how do we find that stimulus sweet spot which is something I'm big on? I think that's the art of training right there. Again, whole another topic, but one huge takeaway is that going through your warm up because so many days, I'm almost starting to like it kind of like David Goggins, not now, but like the past friggin' years. When I get to the gym and I feel a little sluggish, I feel a little tired, I'm like, this is what separates me, this is when I push hard and push through it, but you gotta be smart as well. If your body's telling you that everything's tired, then you need to rest. So I'm wearing this whoop thing that tells me my HRV, my heart rate, how I slept, so that's really helpful, but there's other ways and this warm up test is one of the things you could be doing and you need to be doing daily and I'll tell you why right now. So when you warm up, before you get to the gym, if you're sluggish, you go through the warm up, you may feel fantastic. It may have just been the cobwebs from sleep that you shook off and now your blood's pumping and you're feeling good. On the flip side, you may be feeling good or you may be feeling bad before the warm up, but if you go through the warm up and you just do light movements and get a sweat going, breaking a sweat is the key and you feel worse, that is a big sign that you're overtrained or you're very fatigued because the warm up gets those processes going. So you gotta learn it for yourself and I could help with that, I do the coaching and I love learning about the mind and it's very connected with the body because we're trying to fight through these doubts and push ourselves, but we also have to monitor our body and think long term. So the reason why I say you need to do this daily is because when you break a sweat, so many processes happen throughout your body from the hormones, the oxygen and the blood that moves through your body and your limbs, it's really healthy to get that blood moving and sweat, you sweat out toxins, you release all these different things and so that is really healthy for your body. So at the minimum, I highly encourage you to sweat. In fact, I say you need to sweat every single day and again, this is for the elite athletes. So if you're sweating every single day, you're not gonna overdo it, you're not gonna overtrain and that's why I say the warm up test is huge because if you go through your warm up and you get that sweat and you don't feel that good, you didn't push yourself, you didn't overdo it where you're gonna be worse the next day, you're actually going to be better and that is a huge key because active recovery, there's a recovery day rest day when you do absolutely nothing, I think in my opinion, when you just sweat, even if it's just a walk, a brisk walk, even if it's just like a sauna or a hot bath, when you sweat, you need that blood to flow through your body to help the recovery process further itself, because if you're not sweating or moving that blood, it's just staying stagnated and that's where I stand. Number two. So this one is again, for the elite athletes for you guys to think about every single day, a lot of us are training and already doing this, but it's cardio and so for someone like me, some days like today is a perfect example. I did a lot of dunking this week, I dunked twice and in the middle day, I still did some handles and some little bit of jumping so my legs have taken a beating and I can feel my feet and my legs are sore because I'm doing more than usual and so today I still wanna get cardio in and number one reason for that, I learned from Ross Edgley's book right here, conveniently on the shelf, the art of resilience, I have a whole video on this, that cardio increases your work capacity so if you're an athlete and you're trying to get stronger and this is for any athlete that's doing endurance ultramarathons or trying to be an explosive athlete, I truly believe that strength and stamina go hand in hand hence his book, that's what he talks about in one of his chapters but I also believe, it just makes sense that if you're trying to run a long distance, you need to be healthy and you need to have strong muscles to endure that and if you're trying to be explosive, you need stamina to be able to have, you have the explosiveness to jump your highest but you also want stamina to play a game and play your sport, you don't wanna just be explosive and dead and the key is stamina increases your work capacity so if I do strength training, I do dead lifts and squats but then I do cardio later in the day as well or another workout, now my body's getting more stress but in a different way so my overall stress is being increased which means next time I go for strength training I have more capability of putting stress on my body so simply put it increases your work capacity now these two tips so far, they kinda work hand in hand because if you do the cardio for the day, you're increasing your work capacity and you're getting that sweat so that's a huge bonus and now the other thing I was going to say was my cardio today will be swimming so I'm gonna stay off my feet but I'm still getting that heart pumping, I'm still getting that cardio and I'm still increasing my work capacity without hammering my feet and my ankles and my knees mine are all healthy I just wanna be gradual with it and that's a whole another video as well with tendon health and understanding how long, how to gradually improve those things and increase the stress you put on those swimming is a great example of a low impact cardio so maybe you go for a walk or maybe you go on elliptical where you're not pounding your joints the same way you do for your sport so whatever your sport is if your sport is swimming maybe take time off swimming and go for a walk or a run or something maybe that's more leg intensive and less on the arm so low impact cardio every single day increase that work capacity increase that stamina, increase your strength last but not least recovery slash mobility so the reason I bring it up and kind of both is cause the reason I want you to do recovery every single day is because for athletes especially in my niche of dunking and basketball we're running a lot we're using our legs a lot we're jumping a lot and when we're standing like I'm using my arms I'm Italian so I use those more than usual more than average I'm elite at that you're moving in the full range of motion with your upper body but a lot of times with our legs if we're sitting one we're restricting blood flow when we're sitting on our hamstrings a lot of us sit all day long I used to have nine to five as well so that's why I have this standing desk now and that's a huge killer of blood flow should have done it before but there's the old desk nothing really fun about this but very satisfying I don't see the instructions whose idea was this put the instructions on the cardboard oh here we go alright let's get to work oh yeah I'm on the screen and here get off your ass it's time to level up so many metaphors let's go so the recovery mobility is really emphasizing getting the full range of motion in your legs and the reason that's important is because when you get in those full ranges of motion you don't have to go full range but you're just kind of trying to stretch in those ranges it's recruiting blood to those nooks and crannies of your body again helping the recovery process so you want to do things like stretching foam rolling and simple functional movements where you're kind of doing dynamic stretches and the reason for that is because the foam rolling what I love about that and these functional movements you learn about your body as well which is a huge takeaway for an athlete to do every single day for example, I've been foam rolling more than ever and what I've noticed is that my calves some days feel very pliable and that's a great way for them to feel where they feel strong but they feel open and they feel healthy other days they feel tight and coarse and rigid so they feel like really just stuck healthy where it's getting blood flow through it and you could use it properly it's got the full range of motion where you do exercises so foam rolling helps you build that body awareness you can understand, okay, today this is a little tight yesterday I hammered this leg a little more than this leg that you find the imbalances you find the weaknesses and that's gonna help you really separate yourself and help your body reach the next level because you're gonna have those details add up for you to be an elite athlete and I have a question for you a question of the day but before that quick bonus go to Tuesday meditation I'm gonna have a whole meditation course specifically for athletes so stay tuned for that but meditation, look it into it five minutes a day transforms every aspect of your training from being able to understand what you're doing to your body with muscle growth or muscle damage to understanding how you're actually using your body when you're mindful you're pulling with the right muscles you're pushing with the right muscles you're focused on every single rep so my question for you is why are you not chasing your dream athletically or actually anything because whenever you say what's your biggest dream I can't do that I'm too short or I can't do this no one's ever done this how come when no one's ever done it why does that make it impossible here's a really good takeaway for you and I actually heard David Cho say this on Rich Rolls podcast and I loved it because he's an artist he's had a very troubled life where he's got a lot of pain and suffering and he had a part of his life where he thought great art required that suffering and now he's coming around where he's thinking positivity and a healthy life you can still create great art that transcends generations and the reason that's so amazing is because he's like there's not many examples of that I don't even know anybody that's done that and maybe it does and he said to himself you know what why not be the first and that's my takeaway for you whatever you doubt think about whatever goal or dream you want and if no one's ever done it you think it's impossible because it's never been done if you were the first how would that feel does that resonate with who you are and who you wanna be that is what I want you to do think about why not be the first Russell Westbrooks why not why not be the first why not be the first four foot dunker think about amazing that is for me why not be the first 5'10 guy that murders people with a dunk why not be the first 5'10 dunker who posts or someone in the game breaks the backboard and eats the glass why not and that's it baby roll the friggin' outro stop making excuses stop doubting yourself start now you're wasting time you're limiting yourself the only obstacle is your own mind so when you can overcome that you can overcome anything I truly believe in no limits and get to friggin' work it's all work we all know it's work do the work do the inner work the inner work represents the outer work


Hi everyone, I'm Rob Horlacher from Project Sandbox. In this video, I'm going to show you how to connect Blender and Inkscape to OpenShot. So the first thing that you want to do to connect Blender and Inkscape to OpenShot is you want to go to the Project Sandbox website. So you can do that by going to services on the library homepage and clicking Project Sandbox at the bottom of that list under services. After that, you'll want to go into resources and then the freely available and open source programs. From there, you'll be able to find a link to Blender right here. So if you click on that, you can go through the installation process by obviously clicking on the page and following more or less the same steps that I showed you how to install OpenShot. Um, Inkscape under image, you can see Inkscape right there and you would go through a very similar process once again. Once both those programs are installed on your computer, you just need to open OpenShot. From there, you would go into edit and then go to preferences right there. That'll take you to a screen that will allow you to manipulate how OpenShot actually functions. So if you look on this very first general tab, you'll see two options right here. One is Blender command path and one is advanced title editor path. So the Blender command path is obviously how you would want to hook up Blender to OpenShot. So what we need to do to do that is to click this browse button next to this text box here. And then what you need to do is you need to find the executable Blender file in all of your computer. It's a little easier to do than it sounds like. So if you didn't modify where Blender actually saved to, it should more or less belong in the same place on your computer, at least if you have a Windows computer. So for me, that's under program files. Blender foundation, Blender. And then once I'm in Blender, I have to find this file called Blender.exe. The exe is what you're gonna be wanting to look for. So if I click on that and hit Open, you can see the Blender is now added here. We need to do the same thing in order to get Inkscape added. And that's what you would put in this advanced title editor here. So to add Inkscape, we'll just go to browse, we'll go to program files once again, Inkscape. The next step is to click on this bin folder. And then you can see Inkscape.exe here. Make sure you're not clicking InkView.exe because it won't give you the same functionality. But we can click on Inkscape.exe, hit Open, and then we've connected both of those to OpenShot. So now what I can actually do is go to title and animated title. And this will pop up with a whole bunch of animated titles that I can use and manipulate. Or I can click on my title. And then once I click on one of the templates, I can click on that use advanced editor now. And what will actually happen is that it's going to bring up the Inkscape program to modify this little text box. But that's all you have to do to actually add Inkscape and Blender to OpenShot. Thank you very much for watching this video. I hope that it was fairly clear all the steps that you have to do to actually add Blender and Inkscape. The most difficult part of it for you will probably trying to find just where those exe files exist on your computer. But like I said, if you didn't modify where Blender and Inkscape actually get saved to on your computer, it should more or less work out for you. But if you have any questions on how to do any of what I just said, please feel free to contact me just on the Project Sandbox webpage. Thank you very much for watching this video. And I look forward to seeing you in the next one if you haven't watched anything else. Or I hope that this workshop just worked out for you. If it doesn't though, once again, you know where to get ahold of me. Thank you very much and have a good day.