Welcome to Moments with Melinda, and my guest today is Diane Gair. How are you? I'm fine. I'm glad to be here. I am so glad to have you here. You and I go back many, many years, I think 30 or 40 years, we go back and we've sort of been aligning in each other's careers, and I have been dying to learn more about you and to share with my viewers your life story. So for my viewers, let me tell you a little bit about Diane Gair. She is an architect, an environmentally conscious designer, a teacher, an artist, and a writer. Anything you'd like to add to that illustrious list of accomplishments? I guess that will hold for now.  I aspire to be a troublemaker, but I don't think people know that. Oh, I think they know. No, I do. I think people have, I think you have impacted people, and certainly in my work in sustainable redevelopment, you were always there, sort of the conscious in the back tapping me on the shoulder and saying, Melinda, have you thought about this? Have you thought about that? And you've always stretched me to think a lot deeper in the work that I was doing. And I think that's been one of your roles is that you are someone who does not hold back if you know that something could be done better to protect our planet. So I think I've always loved that about you. You are not a wilting flower.   So let's start with you sharing with us a little bit about your life and your childhood and where you grew up and a little bit about that. Well, I guess I would start by saying I didn't grow up in the U.S. I grew up in Switzerland in French speaking part in Geneva and came to the U.S. at age 14 with American parents. So that gives me a little bit of an outsider viewpoint at some times. And I think that's added to my architecture that's added to my world view of how to solve problems. But it was a very urban but small place. So coming to Burlington sort of met a lot of those childhood pieces of having an urban context, but it was still small. And I don't know what all to say. Living at age 14, I went from being able to access the whole city on buses, on bikes, on walking. It was safe. And then I landed in sort of a suburban rural part of Pennsylvania where I rode the yellow school bus for the first time. So my world as a pre-teenager, teenager, went instead of expanding contracted. And I find that interesting and retrospect in terms of how that informed some of the ways I see and work. So you came from Switzerland where you were born and you lived at 14, you moved to the States and lived where in Pennsylvania? Well, it's not a famous part of my life. So I don't tend to talk about it. I'm from Pennsylvania. So that's why I'm here. Oh, right. So it was a mountain outside of Valley Forge. It was called Valley Forge Mountain. And it did form a couple of different things. But I think one of the... And when kids change schools and change cultures, all sorts of things happen. But the first two years that I was there, I pretty much isolated myself. And I think because of that, it informs my belief system in myself. I am very strong internally because I depended on myself for two years. And I know some people have different experiences out of that. But for me, it was very powerful.  And 14 is a difficult time to be thrown into a new... You're going through a lot of stuff anyway at 14. And so to be thrown into a new environment. So can you share a little bit about who had the most influence on your life and your career? Hmm. Hmm. Maybe a litany, a collection of friends and people. There's not one particular person that stands out. Although there was a course when I was in high school. I did end up in a Waldorf school that's sort of Rudolf Steiner philosophy. And there was a course called History Through Architecture. And in that course, we explored the meaning of space and sort of modulating there are three nested envelopes about space, personal space, community space and cosmic space. And that in particular, not only influenced my life personally and my work in the community, but also my belief system in terms of being part of the cosmos. So that's critical. And it was more a course following Rudolf Steiner than a person in particular. And then sort of unfolding at the same time, I had a couple siblings of friends who were studying architecture, one of whom was a woman who's now deceased. And so I knew right from the beginning that architecture was a possibility. As well as my father's an engineer, was an engineer, my brother was an engineer. So I ran in the family and where I didn't quite want to do what they were doing. I could go from engineering to architecture. And my father totally supported that from the get go. I said, teaching or architecture? And he said, go for it. I'll get you one tomorrow. So I would say my father was also a huge influence. As was my mother. I come from a long line of very educated women, both my grandmothers from both sides were educated. My paternal grandmother was in the extension service in Nebraska. And I was totally surprised when I went to visit with the archives several years ago that that was unusual. They were like, wait, we want her history, too. Because they said, no, extension service was always met. I'm going, what are you making? It's always been women to me. And my mother and my grandmother were also early in banking. So I'd have to say, you know, strengthen families in there as well as sort of friends along the way. So share with us a little bit about your journey from Pennsylvania. To to Burlington, to Vermont. So Pennsylvania was the high school for five years. And in 1971, my parents picked up and said, OK, that's it. We're going back out West because they'd started out West and landed in Colorado. I ended up not in architecture school, but a liberal arts school in California. Called Carlton University. And the way I like to say it is even Obama didn't like it there. Because he went to Carlton, maybe he graduated. I left. So I went to Carl, sorry. I went to Occidental College. And then I went to the University of Colorado. And then I spent a year in Germany and then I came back. So I went to five school, two schools twice, three schools total and graduated in four years. And then I went off and taught skiing, right? Isn't that what we did in the 70s? Yes, we did. I guess we did. Yeah, I was skiing. I was teaching skiing at Mad River. I guess we did. We did. And so so you now you you and your ex-husband was he was your business partner. You established your own practice called Artemis design. Artemis design or Artemis design. Tell us a little bit about your time in Colorado and the important work you did while you were there. OK, so to segue back just a little bit. So I end up in Colorado teaching skiing, three part time jobs. That's when I come home and I say this isn't sustainable. I need to do something else at six in the morning scraping sugar off of donut racks was not going to be my future. So I end up in architecture school. I meet Jeff in architecture school. We graduate and we decide. Well, I work for a couple other architects for a couple for a year and a half. And then we become part of the. It was a HUD renovation zone in Denver. And so we buy a building. We start to renovate it. There's a fire in it and there have been fires in several of my key iconic projects as it turns out. Jumping ahead old mill had a history of fire in it before that became my key project at UVM.  And the building burns down to the degree that then all the code violations kick in that we have to take care of. As opposed to just thinking we're doing a simple renovation, the whole thing has to be brought up to code. And I think you might know what some of that means. So so that's the beginning of Artemis designs. I basically named it after my own name. Artemis was the goddess of the hunt, the Greek goddess. And I become the one that's licensed. I'm sort of in charge of the office and Jeff and I work together and he does the renovations part more than I do. And it's sort of a split office. But after several years of that, the economy in Denver totally falls apart and it continues to fall apart for a total of eight to nine years. So at year five, I'm applying for jobs elsewhere and one of the places is UVM. And I keep track of the eight years because it wasn't like, oh, yeah, I could just go work for UVM for six months or a year and then go back. The economy continued to be non-existent. So I end up at UVM and it's it's a total love. I fall in love with Vermont. I fall in love with the work that I'm doing. I'm finally getting paid. I mean, all things are good, except I did leave a life behind in Colorado. And that was OK, too. Well, we're so glad that you came to Vermont. Well, Vermont ends up being and I came. The first visit was in November after Thanksgiving, frozen ground by the lake, dark. What year was that, Diane? What year was it? It was November 1988 or I moved in 1988. So maybe it was 87. I totally fell in love. I said, this is it. The smell of the earth in that frozen November night did it. And that's probably not what most people say. For the smell of the earth, I think that should be a book. And I know you've written a couple of books. We're going to talk about that. But I think you're next to be called the smell of the earth. Oh, cool, because I agree with you. There's there's something about the smell of the earth that it smells right. It's a great place to be. So talk to us a little bit about your work as an educator, because you were at Norwich University, the University of Vermont and the Yester Morrow Design, Build School in Waitsville. Talk a little bit about the work you did as an educator. So it evolves out of working for UVM for five years. And I think. Well, there was somebody teaching an architecture course within what was then still Votek, and they stopped doing that. And so I am asked to step in and fill in. And that meets a need in what I like to do and and expands from doing drawings to helping other people see the world and know that they can make a difference. So that's the engagement and teaching is is that. And what I found at UVM versus Norwich is that I could teach drawing and design skills to environmental students or natural resource students at UVM so that they had more tools where if I was at Norwich, they were already thinking that they were architects and and they didn't want to learn maybe about the environment. And what I've always been doing is meeting the environment, that place where we live with how we engage in it. And that's the architecture for me. So OK, go ahead and come together. Well, I also want to say that that you also had your students work on projects and actually design important parts of the city. Talk a little bit about that. So so the way to sort of help them manifest their voices was to take on various design projects. Barge canal for one, the waterfront for another, but it also involved projects in like Middlesex or St. Johnsbury. So having students engaged and at this point, then I'm also director of the Vermont Design Institute, which was a nonprofit that did this kind of work, nonprofit work of helping towns or nonprofits engage in design and planning around sustainable issues and giving them the resources that maybe their volunteer staff didn't have. One of the projects that I really like and we can always come back to to Wadesfield, but St. Johnsbury was a key early Vermont design project. And it was one preservation trust also still had runners, road runners. What are the when we used to have journeymen travel from town to town with the news, that kind of thing. Anyway, Steve Libby was was one of these folks for the preservation trust of Vermont. And together we created a team for for the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum and they were very worried because the courthouse was being reconstructed. And everyone was talking about the parking problem in the town. And the courthouse wanted to build a five story parking garage behind the town offices that would have dwarfed the Athenaeum. And so through a process of meetings with locals and pie socials started at that point. We engaged neighbors and folks who lived in St. Johnsbury and asked them about their parking habits, all of which ended up showing that there was a really easy non-built solution. So the state was happy with us, the Athenaeum was happy with us. The parking needs were solved and we didn't build anything. So no natural resources were used. What it really amounted to was re measuring all the parking meters so that people at the courthouse could park for six to eight hours and people at the post office would have 15 minutes and it was just a flip of all the hours on all the meters and then there was plenty of parking. So that and that was also in the time that the Rutland parking structure was controversial. So that to me, that was a win-win. We didn't have to spend five million dollars of concrete and we didn't ruin the Athenaeum. But that's how we go. That was like over 30 years ago. And you've been doing this work for so long. So now you so you just mentioned that you were the director of the Vermont Design Institute and I was going to that was going to be one of my questions, but you are committed to and have devoted your life's work to ensuring that architect chair creates a more sustainable future through community empowerment and integrative design approaches. Can you share with our viewers what that means and maybe bring in some of the projects where you've done that? Excuse me. So it ranges. It ranges from the Athenaeum project, which was a no build project. The the building that Jeff and I invested in, which was a HUD neighborhood target zone that had been redlined and no one could get loans for those buildings. And so it took, you know, physical engagement, direct involvement to make a change on those neighborhoods. And in that case, I wasn't only working on our own building, but I was part of a community coalition that helped neighbors gain a thousand dollars for a facade renovation. And with that facade renovation, the neighborhood streetscape would change and get bus stops, benches, street trees and new sidewalks. So that's sort of the very urban scale. And I think in between is the smaller projects that you know, an example would be participating and teaching with Yes, tomorrow, where there was a band of us that did hands on projects within civic realms. I went to Ball State with a team of folks, I think two years in a row. And we did a shelter along the river one year with the students and another part of that was for the high schools were building small houses for folks for like a habitat house, for example, and we were doing a carport. So that's the very direct hands on in the building, as opposed to sort of community engagement, which the Santa Fe project is. So I want to because we're getting so I have some I could talk to you for hours. And of course, this is a world that I'm just so in love with. Talk to me a little bit about about what you are working on now. And I want to move on to the Green Tara because you you stopped working at the nonprofit as a director in 2016. And so that's a while that's a while ago, six years ago. And I've been up to Green Tara. So who is Green Tara and share with us the community that you have created in North Hero that's named after her. So Green Tara, let's see, maybe I bought that building in 2017. So it flows that there I am going back and forth to North Hero because we have a cabin there and I'm watching a building fall down for seven years. So I keep saying, well, somebody needs to buy the building. And, you know, nobody's buying it, so I buy it. So that's the beginning and it's a 200 year old structure. So of course, you know, there's there's a lot of sacredness in the structure. Plus, of course, it was a Catholic church initially. No, sorry. Initially, it was a general store. So I like the fact that it started as a general store. Then it became a church and now it's sort of an art and community gallery. When it opened and it was as I was working on it and I was working alongside the builders, it was very clear it needed to be big open space because that's what it was. I mean, it's not a huge building. So that led it to being an art gallery and I managed a sort of coffee and tea bar and then under covid, it became the tasting room for a micro brewery and they're now moving out. So next year, year seven, it's undergoing its own transformation. And we'll see. We'll see where the snakes lead us. You know, I opened the water heater the other day and there was the fattest snake I've ever seen in the water heater. That's a blessing. So warm. That's a blessing. I know. So can you tell our viewers where they can find the green Tara? So in the village of North Hero, it's pretty much only open on weekends and right now through October, Kramer can move out before Halloween. So it's only open until then, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, noon to six. There is a temporary. I've been curating the shows, but we got to the end of the. Set curated shows. Janet Van Fleet's work just came down. So I pulled out of my archives. You'll like this old ecological drawings that students made from 2016. So those are now pinned on the wall as little transformative drawings. Yeah, wonderful, wonderful. So, Diane, what is your vision for the future of our species as we experience the tragic effects of human inability to deal with climate change and protect our planet for future generations? How much time do I have left?  I mean, you've been thinking about this and everything that you've touched.  And I just would love to hear from you, your wisdom on the future of our species. And so go for it, girlfriend. Yeah, so I have both a short term view and a long term view. And the middle ground view is the one that's the most difficult that we always ask the question to. But the first part is I went back to 1967 and I'm reading The Territorial Imperative. And I'm shocked as to how few people that I know in my circle know about these three books that he wrote. And I'm gleaning so much about this Territorial Imperative to sort of inform my questioning about what's going on in all the migrations, in all the wars, in all the tragedies that are unfolding with our nation states.  I mean, this is human nature. What what what. I think when I breathe deeply, it's just so much more. Than our day to day experience. I mean, I'm I'm I'm lucky. I'm I'm in a good place. And I know not everybody has that, but the ultimate reality that's behind all of this is eternal and free and pure. And that's sort of where I go to to remind myself that it's OK. There's more to it than than than the hurricane hitting Florida. That's devastating. I'm not denying that. But at the same time, there's there's a whole bigger, bigger, bigger world out there that's not a manmade world. And I think that's my connection that that's beyond our community space to the cosmic space that that gives me hope and and you know, you either have faith or you don't. And it's hard. It is it is hard. And I think I think this this boats for you to maybe start a podcast in some way that could educate people to to think this way, because it is horrific and the suffering is is beyond belief. And at the end of the day, I think people do need to to be able to look at this maybe in the way that you are. So thank you for that. Now, what words of wisdom would you want to share with our younger generation? Well, I've come back to meditation as a serious endeavor, where in my 20s, I did a lot of Zen Buddhism and meditation. And then in the, I guess, in my 40s and sort of get very busy with with my worldly life. And then I come back to it. And I would say spending time meditating is worth every ounce you put into it. And that that would be something that I would suggest to to anybody, but young people in particular, finding where the the depth is and not being afraid. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how to tell somebody not to be afraid. There's so much to be afraid about. And yet it is sort of a choice. You can choose to not be afraid. Like you can choose to be happy. Right. And and that. And that's easy for us to be happy. I mean, we're in Vermont. We're so this is a whole different different interview with you. But I think that young people and I have young grandchildren and I hear them all the time that this is the world they're growing up in. And where will their species be in 30, 40, 50 years if the planet keeps forming? But anyway, so we're coming to the end of my show. And I just want to tell you that I'm going to go. I'm going to go so people can see both of us here. Hello there. I just want to say that your career has been one of activism and action to provide education, systems, visions and policies for a better future here on Earth. And for that, I want to thank you and honor you. And I want to let you know that your work has been deeply and influential and important to me in the work that I've done. And I want to honor you for challenging me because there were times in my career where you would call me and say, hey, wait a minute, let's think about that, you know. And I also know that you agree with me that Act 250 and the permitting in Vermont is really important because without that, Vermont would look like other places that we would not want to live. So and you've been really active in all of that.  And I want to thank you for being on my show. And I miss seeing you more often. Yes, maybe we need to plan to get together more often. Yeah. So actually, I would love that. And to my and to my viewers, thank you for joining me today, which Diane Gair, and I will see you all soon.


Alicia is an ELL teacher at Amherst Regional Middle School, where she's also served as a foreign language teacher and as assistant principal. She exemplifies the writing project idea of Teacher as Writer. She has a wonderful blog called My Astrid Teacher, which I lurk on occasionally. And she has recently co-written a book with her mom, Sionni Nieto, who is here as our guest today, called Teaching a Life's Work, A Mother-Daughter Dialogue, which will be published in January by Teachers College Press. I'm really looking forward to that. Alicia is also an advocate for social justice, and she was honored in 2015 by the Massachusetts Teachers Association with its Louise Gaskins Lifetime Civil Rights Award, which is a very prestigious honor. I have no doubt that she has many more lifetimes of achievement ahead of her, and we're very proud that her work continues to include the Western Massachusetts Writing Project. Thank you, Alicia, for your service, your example, and your corazón. Okay. I'm not going to talk for long because I didn't know if I would have time to talk or not. So thank you, Bruce, and everybody on the Western Massachusetts Writing Project Executive Board for this honor. It really is an honor coming from my professional home, which as a teacher it's the place I always go to for resources, for ideas, for encouragement, and I really feel like it's a big part of why I've stayed in teaching, and this is my 24th year as a teacher. So thank you very much. I also want to thank my mom, who's here, as you know. My mom has been my inspiration forever as a teacher herself and writer. It's just been such a pleasure to write a book with her. I mean, how many people could get to write a book with their mom? It's been a very special time for me, and thank you for always being my biggest fan. Thank you.


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Access is everything. That's today's topic in today's deconstructing photography. Welcome to another deconstructing photography. Today's episode is another installment in our photojournalism series. Today we're talking about the access needed for news photography. It should probably go without saying that access is very important when it comes to news photography. In fact it's probably very important in most photography. But it might be the most important part of news photography. If you can't see what's going on, you can't take a photograph. So I thought we'd analyze that a little bit today. Talk a little bit about access, how you get access, the difficulties around getting access in a typical day as a news photographer. One of the most stressful parts of being a news photographer through the years was trying to get access to breaking news. Trying to figure out the location of where you need to be. Trying to figure out what you're hearing on the scanner. Trying to translate that into is this something I need to be concerned about? Is this something I need to try to find? Since we spent so much time listening to the scanner, most of the time you could tune out a good portion of what's going on. But every once in a while something would stand out and you would catch your attention and you would try to figure out is this something I need to be concerned about? Is this something I mean you go photograph? And then there are times where if emergency crews were called out like fire department they would have a tone out. So anytime there would be a tone out you would listen to the tone and then they would give you the location. And nowadays we have apps like PulsePoint that also help tell where this event is going on. If it's a rack or a fire. Of course there are also times where it's not a tone out.  That's a little more difficult. Then you've got to really try to tune in to what they're seeing and try to figure out where they're at. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can. That usually is a law enforcement kind of thing. If there is a phrase like shots fired boy then you really your ears perk up and everybody's scrambling trying to figure out what is going on. We've got reporters calling dispatch trying to figure it out. Once we have a fairly good idea where we're going then we hit out the door. Not really knowing what we're going to see but we know there's something that we should see. So we get out the door and we hit that direction. Since I worked in a county at a county wide paper we had a lot of agencies to deal with. We had sheriff, we had state police. Each town had their local law enforcement. In each town had fire their own fire departments and volunteer firefighters and that kind of thing. So each time you went out you could keep that in mind who is it you're going to most likely be dealing with when you go out to this emergency or fire or wreck or whatever the event is. So when dealing with law enforcement police I would always just assume that they're going to have a hostile attitude towards me. They never wanted us there. They never wanted a photographer there. I would go to where I needed to be to take the photo. Now you can't ever cross tape. A yellow tape you don't cross that. You just get the rules. But if there's nothing marked and you're staying out of the way you just got to go to get the shot. You go where you need to get the shot. And there will be times where they'll come over and tell you you can't be here. You got to move out of the way. Or they've got you so far back already having a barricade up that you can't see anything. And it doesn't hurt to ask well it doesn't hurt to try to get closer. I never asked the question where can I be. It would be more like would it be okay if I stood over here by this tree or behind this car. If I didn't move any further closer to the scene instead of just leaving it up to them. I would point out where I thought I needed to be. And I wouldn't be greedy. I have a long lens with me. I've got an 80 to 200 70 to 200 maybe even longer. Telephoto is a good place to start. We don't need to be getting in their faces with a wide-angle lens. Especially when they're trying to do their jobs. You've got to understand that they're under some stress to pinging on what the scene is. Could be a fatal wreck or something like that. There's some stress on them as well. So if you can just point out to a spot where you want to be. And often they would say sure okay that'll be fine. If I was to say where can I be they would just say well here's fine. Here's not where I need to be over there's where I need to be. So if they don't want to accommodate what your needs are don't argue with them. You're never going to win an argument with law enforcement on a scene. What you need to do is just look for another angle. Look for another. Come in from another direction. Look for a side road. Go down another block. Try to get some elevation. There are a lot of different approaches. You've got to be creative sometimes to to get at least some visual something that you can see that you can take back to the office. If all else fails take a photograph of the blockade. But that's really kind of the last ditch thing before you head off to your next idea. Shoot a picture of where you were. Something that says there's law enforcement. There's fire. There's something here that would indicate it's some kind of emergency situation. Now if the officer lets you get closer or works with you to get you a spot sometimes they'll actually take you to a spot. They'll say I'm going to go take care of some business real quick.  You've got to work with these people and if you abuse that that trust if they've given you some place that you can go and they're working with you you need to make sure you don't abuse that by creeping in closer or going to a different spot. So odds are you're probably running to this officer again at some point. And this is where you're starting to build relationships with these people so they'll trust you in the future on something that may be even more dramatic or something that's more intense. They'll know and trust that you're going to be professional and do what you say you're going to do. So it's important to keep that in mind when you're dealing with these people. Don't argue with them. Comply as best you can and be professional and if you're not getting what you need you're going to have to figure out another way to get it. Just can't you're just not going to argue your way into that position. Now it's at this point where you've got to decide if I leave here and look for a better angle am I going to miss everything because the time it takes to move or you decide do I stay here and just get what I'm getting. Sometimes you can get you're getting a little bit but you think if I went just down their ways down past this fire engine over here or something maybe I could get a different angle and on what's going on. But you've got to consider that the time you take from here to there it could be over you could miss everything. So it's always that little roll the dice or it may mean you have to get in your car and drive around to a whole other side of what's going on another side of the scene that you have to take another road in to approach it.  So I get to the location and I can just barely see what's going on. There was like a little bend that that I could not see very well around to get to the other side of the road. I would have to go all the way out out of town. I mean it was quite a distance. So I had to decide do I stay here and just try to get something get a picture of a vehicle or maybe a jet ski going out in the water or do I gamble and risk that they're going to be done everything's to be over by the time I get to the other side. I do make my way around and I get to the other side and my gamble paid off. I actually had a much better view of the rescue and it was still going on when I got there. The person was an elderly man that was trapped in his vehicle. He had about six inches of air between the roof and the water line and they were able to extract him out of there and take him to the hospital and so he survived. Sometimes there are events that go on that require the law enforcement to cordon off many blocks worth of space around whatever's going on. Maybe a hostage situation, bomb threat, whatever. And it makes it tough to get to where you can see anything. Sometimes you have to probe the edges. You have to kind of start at one point where you see something, get a photograph or two, and just keep probing the edges, keep moving along until you can find another view of what's going on. In the case of this incident here, there was a hostage situation in a liquor store. The police were staged a ways away and so I started where I could see the police and I got a couple shots, some atmospheric stuff and then worked my way a block or two over down, probing to see if I could see enough through the streets, get to the other end where the road was closed off, see if there was another angle. And at some point I came across a spot where I could get into where I could see I was behind a bush or something, able to see well enough the front of the store that if they were going to go in and do something, I'd be able to get a shot. So I was able to see I'd be able to get a shot, but I had to kind of probe the edges. It wasn't a very easy thing to do. It was very physical, took a lot of running, a lot of physical activity. And that could be the case for a lot of things. There are times where the road may be closed because of something going on down the road. It could be a half a mile down the road. There are times where they won't let you go. Somebody that's at the, where the road's blocked off may not let you go or just don't have the authority to let you go. Maybe their job is just to keep the road closed. And so at that point you have to decide if there's no other way to get down there, am I going to spend all that time and energy trying to get a photograph.  And never once would you get lucky enough that the person that was blocking traffic recognized that you were there for a job.  And that was, that was always welcome. I remember one time hearing some chatter on the scanner and I couldn't figure out where it was, what was going on. And somewhere I heard a side street or somebody was telling another officer how to get there. So I started heading that direction. I thought, well, I'll go check this out.  And so I see a car down, down the street. So I pull over and I park and I just kind of start walking down towards the squad car. Then I see a police officer with his gun drawn pointing over the hood of a car. And another one was heading, running down the sidewalk towards me. And I just walked right up on a scene where there was a standoff going on and I didn't realize that I was not aware that I was like right in the middle of it. And they quickly let me know that I shouldn't be there. I got a photograph and I got out of the way. You got to be aware of your surroundings. It can be dangerous. I've gone to a fire in the middle of the night, stormy bad weather and the house was lit up with the lights that they would use. And I'm taking pictures thinking, well, I'll get a few shots and I'll get out of here because it was late. And all of a sudden these fire firefighters are yelling at me. I'm thinking, why are they yelling at me? They never yelled at me like that before. And they were telling me, I couldn't understand what they were saying to me. And finally when the one ran up to me, he said, don't move. He said, you're three feet away from a hot power line. And of course, then it was dark.  I didn't pay attention to what was going on over here. I'm just looking right at what's going on over here, right at where the lights were. And in the dark here, there was death dangling to get me. And luckily they saw me there. And of course, I promptly moved out of the location. Once I got my shots, I was out of there. Well, I hope this little bit of information has been of some interest to you. If you're considering a career in photojournalism, you might start in a newspaper, or it might be something that you make a career out of. These are the things you're going to be faced with in the modern day. It's the same as it was in the old days. You still got to have access. You still got to be able to see what's going on. You may have to shoot some video while you're down there. You may be sending images from your location, but you still have to see what's going on to make your images. So I'm going to end today's video right here. Until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride.


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Parrot security version 4.7. Well, it's officially not officially out just kind of way I look at this So I did a review a few months ago of the Parrot Linux distribution if you're not familiar with Parrot Linux It is a security focused Linux distro based on Debian And it's also set up to be a rolling distribution Which is really nice the nice thing about any rolling distribution is you don't really Have to wait for the point release and do some type of major upgrade to it It just kind of happens and right now it's at 4.7. So they do give it names They do give it point releases for announcement reasons But they're always adding features and setting what the default should be because at some point They do have to close these updates and then release an ISO. So the ISO isn't out for parrot Linux 4.7 but Even though it's not out and you can still download parrot 4.6 when you go here to about Because I've just been running all the updates. I'm at Parrot Linux 4.7 Which also means I have the new Colonel that comes with it which is currently 5.2 This is really nice because you get all the bleeding edge features all the time But it's actually stable. I haven't really had any issues I said haven't really had and that does imply some issues The one thing I've run into a couple times because they moved to the latest version of Maté Which I have both Maté and KDE Installed in here that way whatever mood I'm in I can switch between them I've talked about that and the other one you can literally just install both desktops no matter which one you download You can easily install both desktops and switch between them at the login screen In Maté occasionally the network does not update What I mean by that is a little in the corner and I can't produce it on demand But occasionally when I'm swapping between networks, it will sometimes pause and not let me click the little network icon at the top Everything works in the command line. It's still online. It's not a functional thing It's just a visual thing of not knowing whether you're connected to the Wi-Fi the VPN or the hard line Minor problem And I know I just got a bunch of updates this morning And so I was gonna test it some more and see if it still happens But when you update a desktop that does occasionally occur, but it didn't hurt the functionality of it at all And considering how so to speak cutting edge all this is I don't really look at that as any type of major issue It doesn't have any problems at all and I've been going back and forth and I probably use KDE More than I use the Maté desktop now on my laptop here And if you didn't notice because this always comes up. This is the four Core well two core hyper threaded 4x Intel Core i5 5300U low powered 2.3 gigahertz running on my Lenovo which I always want to call it an IBM But it's a Lenovo think pad because the think pad series came from IBM X 250 This is not a spectacular laptop by any means matter of fact, you can find a pretty cheap on eBay And I'm it for my daily driver for what I use at home Obviously, I'm not doing any video editing or high-end gaming on this But I don't really game and video editing is done on my new thread ripper not thread ripper 3,900 X Ryzen machine back to the Parrot GNU here So I haven't any problems with it. It's been working really well I kind of like the wobbly windows again, which is why I went back over to the KDE desktop I I know it's stupid, but they make me happy, but what did I use this for I guess was being one of those questions People ask a lot. Why would you run parrot on here versus Papa West on your desktop? So I found that parrot on my laptop is handy because I spend a lot of time going to clients And one of the tools that is just really well put together in parrot is net discover And this is a lot of times when I get to a client and I got to start sorting things out Especially when you're talking about new clients new client onboarding, you know Really quickly I can go here and go. All right. Let's just find some stuff. Yes that quickly we started enumerating my network and I'm on the network where a lot of our stuff is the private network and You can see the switches I found on there You can find the Chelsea. Oh communications and if you follow any of my free Nass videos You'll also realize that the Chelsea. Oh communications is the free Nass with the 10 gig card It just identifies everything really quickly. So from there I can start doing things like our I know the IP address It's that 3.8 for that particular device. We'll cancel this And we'll just run something like Zen map Because I wanted a UI and I can start doing more scans. So let's dig a little deeper and I know you can load all these tools on other distributions, but they've built it all in which just makes it really really nice So let's just do a quick scan and let's see what it figures out about my free Nass Oh, look, there's the port center open and things that are available In you can see really quickly you can pivot and start doing things a lot faster The VPN support is still, you know, really nice in here. So if I need to jump to I'm in my office, but I still have my Quickly connect here. I did the video on the non-surf It's with this latest version which works great the non-surf But being able to switch between VPNs the non-surf if I need to go outside and look in The non-surf can be pretty cool for that when you have to be somewhere But want to look at the firewall from an external view. That's another reason. I like having the VPN in there the VPN actually puts it so I map through my own network and What that means is what I'm at a client, but I need to look at their firewalls. I'm configuring it I can see how that firewall looks from my network and be able to scan pair. It just makes all this really smooth for me Already having all my other tools like proxy chains and things like that that I've used regularly built in not to mention all the Information gathering things like that. So it's still running it It's still one of my favorite Distributions to have on my laptop because just having everything at your fingertips is really really handy Also running the latest kernel means things like this and I did a review of this device the alpha networks This is the exact model and I'll leave a link to the review is AWS 1900 place right model number. Yeah, AWS 1900 I'll leave a link to the review I did on this But if you're not familiar with this nice powerful Wi-Fi for doing testing It's handy because I don't have to and other distributions Maybe you'll have to load a driver on this because it's running latest kernel. It seems to pop right up. No problems And like I said back to the advantage of running parrot with all the latest bells and whistles So I still think it's a great distribution I just want to do a follow-up on there because I get a lot of questions What distro are you running and I'll just refer back to this video until I change But I don't do distro hopping much so I'm a really happy pair at the development team has been really good Feel free to join their forums to keep the discussion They're still looking for suggestions of you know What are the defaults going to be for 4.7 everything else and I'm also going to be doing some testing I just got to get around to it to trying this on a raspberry pi they have been working on a raspberry pi implementation of this with the pi 4 being affordable and Powerful at the same time. I'm really hoping to get some testing done with this I know Kali works fine as I've read on the pi 4 But I you know, I'm kind of used to the parent environment, so I want to see how good that works in there So there'll be some future testing. I do but let me know your thoughts below in Comments questions of concern, but overall like I said, I'm parrot is still a great distribution to run Watch my more in-depth review where I talk about a lot of the tools that are on there But it is wonderful to go out to clients and be able to quickly start enumerating a network Because that is sometimes the first thing I need to do when we do on-boarding and having all these utilities Built right in makes it a lot easier easier to do and if you need to get more in-depth It does come with open VAS set up on here, which will allow you to do like whole application testing and things like that Gonna get to a later video on that. It's just a complex piece of software says for those of you wondering why I haven't done a video on it That's really why it's a matter of getting around to doing those more complicated videos They take a little bit more time to put together. All right, leave your comments below And if there's something real specific besides open VAS that you want to learn about from parrot OS, let me know leave your thoughts below Thanks. Thanks for watching. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up If you want to subscribe to this channel to see more content hit that subscribe button and the bell icon And maybe YouTube will send you a notice when we post If you want to hire us for a project that you've seen or discussed in this video head over to LawrenceSystems.com where we offer both business IT services and consulting services and are excited to help you with whatever project you Want to throw at us? 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You are totally doing bad on purpose. You're not drinking water. I've never heard that in my life. Only when I'm really thirsty. Welcome back to Life Lessons in Film. Hello. Today we're going to be making sense of life through The Fablemen's. It's a loosely biological film about... Biological? Does it say biological? I meant... We should go to bed. We should go to bed. I think we can do it. I think we'll do it. It'll just be a bit sloppy. Yeah, loosely a biographical film about Steven Spielberg's early years. Going through teenage and then like early college. Pursuing trying to be a film director. Balls his life family. Mostly focuses on his family and the dysfunction they're in. Like what got him interested in movies. And then how he starts making movies as a kid. And just kind of takes and he keeps doing that forever. His mother was very interesting. I'm still upset about the mom. I gotta say I am. Yeah, I'll be upset for a while I think. Does it fair to say she was a mess? I don't like calling people a mess. No, because heck I'm a mess. But I feel like she was very self-involved. Maybe she was neglected and kind of ignored by the husband who seemed to be more preoccupied with his work and with science and the other things that occupied him. Maybe he wasn't the most present husband, you know? I don't know. He would watch her play and literally be on the verge of tears. I do not think that the husband was not present. Like they said, he worshipped her really. Yeah, he worshipped her like the kid says. And I feel like there is a chance that she had bigger dreams for herself because we later meet the uncle saying when she would go to visit Mitzi was just going on about how she's going to be this great musician and as far as the uncle was concerned he felt that she was capable of becoming a concert musician. She could have played. You name it she could have played there. So there is this seeming loss of... Potential or life that could have been lived. Yeah, and so she has those regrets. There was this distance in their marriage because she felt unfulfilled. Yeah, it was devastating for me because he was clearly in love with her. With every scene it seemed like he really did love her. But he was oblivious to her unhappiness though.  Oh my God, you're so right. You know, you're so right. I remember. Yeah, no, she was. There were a lot of times that he refused to take a hand. It makes it so that nobody was the victim in the end, I would say. They both definitely did not tangle well. Honestly, and I feel like that's where Sammy is like you have no clue what's going on. You're so focused on your life and you're not seeing the reality. I got a better job so we move. You don't even care where you are. You get to go to work and that could be in Iceland. You're working with your goddamn machines and you get to be happy while the rest of us are miserable. What's wrong with you? You're bleeding on the carpet. It's a rental house.  A lot of times kids can end up being mature for their age because they kind of have to pick up the slack. It's not because they were blessed.  I cannot even believe this woman. But he immediately feels like the need to protect her even after he's so upset with her. Of course, he's been raised by wolves. Someone has to be a parent. She doesn't comfort him enough. She really doesn't the whole time. Not even talking about it's not about you. I recognize the harm I'm causing. I recognize that it must have been devastating for you, my child. To have seen your mother canoodling with a man that wasn't papa. A lot of times when kids are like Sam it's because parents are dropping the ball all the time. I don't know the details of Benny and the husband but I just kind of felt like if Benny was indeed a friend this man welcomed him into his home. Loved him like a brother. The kids called him Uncle Benny. Two people that you love are hurting you. Neither of them can actually be an adult enough or a good enough person enough to talk to him about it. That was devastating for me to watch something like that. When you're in love with someone like the husband is and when you have your best friend who you say is your best friend doing that I think it can be really hard to get yourself out of that situation. And then on top of that you have kids.  It's really hard I think. All three of these people really were not making rational decisions I think. There's this conception of family that he's so respectful of being supportive of your kid. Okay your kid is interested in making movies. We're gonna get you a camera. We're gonna do all of these things for you. He'd be there rooting for the kid, watching the movies, helping him make the movies. Absolutely supportive of this passion that Sammy has. But then at the same time talks about it. Oh it's just a hobby. I'm talking about you looking for work, looking for opportunities, things that are real things. I want to make movies though. I mean something real. Not imaginary. Something someone can actually use. In some ways it might be even more frustrating than a parent that just from the get-go doesn't support your passion because it's like to a degree he wants to help him out and then once he's doing it he's like, that doesn't actually take it seriously. And he's like, yeah that's great, no. But like I'm hoping that you'll change your mind to grow out of that phase. You could afford to be a little encouraged. About what? Well I didn't say that. Maybe he's moved on. From what? He hasn't picked up his camera once since we got here. He'll be going to college this September. Maybe his feelings about it have changed. He's growing up. I'm enthusiastic about that. This mix of where the mother who is kind of too carefree and too about what makes her happy alone, she is the one that you know tells him at the end. Sammy, you do what your heart says you have to. You don't know. Which is probably the little bit of good advice she does give but then it's also kind of like well yeah but you also take it to an extreme. And then there's the dad that they kind of both, both parents kind of word extremes in their own way. One was too much kind of you could say by the book or like traditionally you just get a good job and you keep following where the money is and you keep going for the promotions and you move wherever you have to. No matter how much disruption that causes. And then the mom is like we follow your heart no matter how much disruption that causes. So they're both kind of following these things and not an ignoring the damages being caused. I think you have something to say to me Sammy. And if I'm right about that then get it off your chest and say it to my face. I'm sorry.  And then the mother starts singing oh hey I started therapy. And I'm like wow. Again, who is the parent here? Yeah, exactly. And then the son is caught in the middle of the two parents. I thought that was so unfair. Yeah. How much you loved using it for your war picture so I figured you ought to have one of your own. It's some bon voyage, see you later alligator. I believe in you, president, from your uncle Betty. Does it for me? Also Betty. None of the adults were adults there. You know and he's trying to like chum up at the end gives them like it's kind of like I know I really broke up your family but here's a camera. I was like are we supposed to be to feel endeared? I don't think so. I mean at times I think. Are we supposed to be endeared to Benny because he is the true love? I don't think so. I didn't take it. I mean he's funny because and the point is that he's funny and that's why she has a better rapport with him. Yeah. He's the one that's kind of more fun to be around. The dad is not really as, doesn't have the social skills. You think whatever bad things you want about me can't help but you stop making movies. It'll break your mother's heart. You will break her heart, I mean it. She doesn't deserve that, not from anybody, at least of all from you.  Putting so much guilt and so much weight on this kid. That is so crazy. All the adults were manipulating the kid. They were manipulating that poor kid. And then you make this kid feel responsible for the parents' feelings. Kids are not responsible for the parents' feelings. It's the other way around. You're supposed to be the security blanket, not the kids. The uncle talks about art and loneliness and art will leave you lonely. Right? Is that what you say? Yeah, it's like... Insert here. Yeah. I'll give you crowns and heaven and laurels on earth.  You'll be a shanda for your loved ones and exile in the desert at Chipsi. The thing about that, right, I can totally understand. I can identify with what the uncle is saying, except that I don't think it's limit. I don't think it's art. I think it's like passion. What? Your purpose, the life you're trying. Your purpose, yeah. Whatever it is that fuels your fire. Yeah. It does not have to be art. No. Because sometimes when you're in a family, there's just something about you that's just very distinct. And sometimes your family is quite happy to keep trudging along with the two. And then you're just kind of like, I feel like I just want to create a new tune. And that doesn't have to be art. It could be maybe everybody in the family are bread makers. And you just felt like, I just feel like... Yeah. I want to... I want to make Nat. I want to make Nat. Exactly. Exactly. And so I don't think it's necessarily just art. I think it's just sometimes it just happens. And what he says about the loneliness, I felt it. I felt what he meant. Even if it's not art. As long as you are different from your family and you want to be true to that difference. That's what he's saying. It's like basically following and like being your true self. Not ignoring that part of you. That authentic part that doesn't care if it's different or it's going to be hard. It confuses everyone else that knows you. Why are you doing this? Don't do that. But you just can't help but follow it. Yeah. And when you do listen to that authentic part of you. It is a very lonely place. When you think about Sam's dad him trying to get Sammy to go into engineering like him. There's this... Family likes the comfort of familiarity, similarity. If my dad is an engineer then me being an engineer that's going to be great because we're going to have stuff to talk about. Between us. And that's a safe. It's comforting. Family is often quite scared of differences. If your son is all of a sudden going and you know I'm going to be like I don't know... Tightrope walker. Yeah, maybe a tightrope walker dad. What is that? I can't relate to this thing. What are we going to do? Are we going to talk? Now we're not going to be... Are we going to be close anymore? That's where it really does get lonely. If you are threatening to break out of the norm that is your family you don't have a support system because nobody wants you to break out of norms. They're quite comfortable with how things are. That's the lonely place. You have to do it all alone. You have to fight like crazy for it. Sometimes you end up doing things like well I'm going to go to school you know because like my parents want to do this and it will make them happy but you're just... It's awful.  I'm not living my life. Yeah. You know that conversation he has, time he has with the dad.  Like a lot. And I want to get work on a movie or a TV show so I send out all those letters but nobody ever writes back and my life is just going by so fast but it's not getting anywhere. My life is just going by and nothing's happening. Exactly. And your family doesn't understand this thing and so that is the lonely place to be. Oh beautiful what you made, darling. You really saved me. When they finally do show the film of the mom and of course he edits out all the edit parts so just you know makes her look really good and does all this and then of course she's happy for a bit but he doesn't feel anything. It just makes him resentful because he's like oh that's great that you're all happy but like first of all I know the stuff that I saw you refuse to talk to me about to be apparent to me about. The worst thing it was the film that the dad guilted him into doing. Yeah.  You get the family you get that kind of family wow the fact that he managed to sustain his passion with all of that stuff happening that says so much to me. Maybe part of it had to be just to survive that maybe like when the sister's like I don't understand how you can go back to your beach blanket movie after that. We're different I guess. Maybe that's his way of coping. Yeah. You know who knows maybe we became an addiction for a little bit right. Yeah he's like the uncle says we're junkies for art. We're junkies. Art is our drug. Family we love. But art we have a sugar for art. Why do people become junkies? You're fixing an imbalance so maybe his filmmaking became that for a while. Lucky him that filmmaking was his drug because there's also cocaine. That's true. Hard to make films all on cocaine. Exactly and that's that's a tough time. Okay. Yes. But there's still wounds there. Yeah. You can't grow up in a family like that and not have things that you still need to get over. Yeah. The things that must have stuck with them like I have a feeling that one part did definitely happen where the guy's like you tell anybody about me getting upset. That would be a mistake. Our secret. Unless I make a movie about it which I'm never ever going to do. Yeah. He does. But yeah. Just don't show your kids a scary movie because it'll turn them into directors. That make the world very happy. Yeah. One moment. Huh? Scary movie is a 2000 American Sl�ster directed by Keen and Ivory Wayne. That's what that was. It's serious. I had no answer. Shh. Don't go into some food burn and Aaron Seltzer would you like to hear more? No thank you. Anyway. That's some stuff that we thought of about the fablemen's. What would you guys think? Have you seen it? Let us know. Comments down below. Share your thoughts and our thoughts. Until next time. Thanks for watching. That's a wrap.


Hi, you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hem. After I got so much feedback from you guys on the ready to wear inspiration video I did on the new new look patterns, I am back to do the same exact thing for the new bird of style patterns. So I have picked my three standout favorite, most inspirational bird of style patterns. And I am going to be showing everyone my ready to wear inspiration and also where you can get the fabric so that you can make the garment yourself. So our first one is this little gem. And if you remember from the first impression video that I did on the new bird of style patterns, I said if I had seen this pattern a couple of weeks ago, I would have gone right past it. But I had just started seeing all of these double breasted kind of like dress coats, dress coats, dress dresses that look like coats. I guess that's what it is. And so that made this really stand out to me because this is very, very on trend right now, especially wearing it sleeveless without a turtleneck. So I found this little cutie from Calvin Klein. Is this the only way to zoom? Yeah. Isn't that adorable? You've got your little peak lapel, your double breasted closure, they even got welt pockets. Super cute. Here it is in the back. You can see there, I think they've got a center back seam. Really good job matching the plaid though, I do have to say so. And then you've also got my favorite back darts. Yay. And then here is a close up version of the bodice portion of the dress. Super cute. $140. All they have is this gray color. I do want to say before I showed the fabric that I found that this looks really cute in any kind of plaid. I've seen it in lots of different versions of plaid. Always really cute. And it also looks really nice and elegant and sharp and a solid too. So don't feel like the one that I chose is like the only one you can use. It looks really cute in a lot of different fabrics. I will say though that you do need to find a stretch suiting. This one here is made from Pauly, rayon and spandex. So the one that I found is a teleo fabric from fabric.com that has, you guessed it, Pauly, rayon and spandex. So it's a little confusing because here it says very lightweight but in the description it says medium to heavyweight. So I think you just have to trust your knowledge base of fabrics. I know that this is going to produce a not very lightweight fabric but stretch suiting is really the key words here. I would go to your favorite fabric store whether that's online or brick and mortar and look for the stretch suiting that they have. And I think you'll be just fine. But I chose this one. It is gray that is reminiscent of our inspiration. I couldn't find anything exactly like this that was so minimalist and like tone on tone. I have seen stuff like that in the past but just couldn't get to it today. But this one does have your gray background but then it also has a little bit of black, a little bit of white, a little bit of blue. I think that in my opinion the more menswear that the fabric is the cuter that this dress looks. I think it's just like a juxtaposition of like hard serious menswear with kind of like a playful cute dress. Do you know what I'm saying? So these are adorable. These are everywhere. You will be seeing them a ton, a ton, a ton. I went to Joanne today and my Joanne was sold out of this pattern. I was going to buy it. They were sold out. So that's any indication of the popularity of that style. Okay. Next up is this adorable comfy sweater with kind of like a funnel neck and then a drop shoulder and ties on the sleeve. Kind of basic, nothing really special, but I did want to show you that, you know, there are luxe versions of it out there. This one was from Madewell. It's already sold out at Nordstrom. That could just mean it was like last season's version. But it was the closest one I could find with the drop shoulder and the tie. I did find current versions at J. Crew and Gap, but those were a little bit more fitted. So I didn't want to show those, but I did want to show you another version. This doesn't have the funnel neck. It just has a crew neck. Here we can zoom in a little bit more so you can see it better. But yeah, I did want to show you that like major brands, major luxe brands were making this kind of style. And if it's similar to any of the other Madewell sweaters, I think they range in like the 50 to $75 range. Here, let's go to Madewell now together. Isn't this fun? Very spontaneous. Okay, no, I don't want that. I want to search or I guess I could do clothing sweaters. So let's see. So yeah, 80 bucks for that guy. 88. These are all still very transitional, but you see 80, 90 bucks, something like that. Okay. Oop, sneak peek. So yeah, that's the inspiration picture. Now I found this tonal sweater knit. This is from Stylemaker Fabrics because originally I found this ruby one, which reminded me of kind of like the reddish color of this Madewell one, but she only has like an end of bolt selection of that. It's in her selvedge yard, so she's only got two and a half yards. So if you're the first one to get there after watching this video, you can grab this for 11 bucks a yard, but you have to buy the whole two and a half yard cut. But she also has these really pretty emeralds, which I think would look amazing in this pattern, remember? And then she also has this really pretty sapphire. Jewel tones are still very much in. These had a little bit of sparkle to them, so you could even like wear it to a casual like party or event. I mentioned this blue with like nice black wide leg pants would look so sharp, so sharp. I think you could wear that to a very fancy dinner, well not very fancy, not like black tie or anything, but you know if it was like a really nice dinner where you're trying to impress like some people at work or if you're going to a work holiday party or even your neighbor's holiday party, I don't know. I just feel like that would look really sharp. So that's my inspiration for this guy. I think it is a really cute pattern. The sleeve ties are very on trend, so I think that everyone should make this up. The only thing that I was able to find out about the Madewell fabric was that it was a blend of cotton, viscose, and nylon. And so this guy is polyester Lurex, which is the metallic thread and spandex. So this one might be a little bit more lightweight, definitely more drapey, but I think that the Stomacher Fabrics fabric is maybe closer to what this is. I can't zoom in any more than I already am without losing like photo quality. Is that even getting closer? No, it's still really hard to see what it is. Gosh, that might even be like a sweatshirt please. I don't know, you guys get the idea. Let me zoom out a good Jillian times. I don't even remember. Oh gosh, I think that's what I normally am at. Okay. All right, so there's that one. And then our third one is, I know, I know when I talked about this one originally, I was like, oh my God, but I think it really comes down to fabric choice. And I'm just not sure Cheetah is the way to go for this. And I don't even know what to say about this. So I just kind of ignored that one. This is the one that I was searching for when I found this inspiration. Again, it's another sold out item. Sorry, but it was the closest that I could find because it does have a drop shoulder and it does have a collar that was sort of hard to find. But I wanted to show you what would happen if you gave it a curved hem and maybe made it a little bit more slim through the waist. You can see this is very boxy, very oversized, which I just think in fur is difficult to pull off because fur is already like kind of bulky. And then you're putting it on an oversized pattern and it's just like drowning her. But I did feel like this girl was able to accomplish kind of just a more chic, but still relaxed fitting a faux fur coat. And options for fabric come from fabric.com. Again, I found this alpaca faux alpaca. This is from the brand Shannon. It's the same brand that I recommended for the Sherpa in the New Look Ready to Wear Inspiration video. And I chose this because it has like the really long, like shaggy fur like hers is. Very shaggy. And then you can also see the tone of this is like got a bit of like a pink undertone to it. So I thought this latte looked a little pink. I mean it's certainly ivory. But if you really, really, really like pink, I also found this faux yak. Think I've ever thought I was going to say the words faux yak. And it's this really pretty pink. So I think it's very cute, very trendy. The pink sort of elevates it a little bit even more. I don't know, I think the pink could be really, really chic as well. For what it's worth, fabric.com does have a lot of faux fur options, as did Joanne. I was kind of surprised to see what they had online. So, you know, if you're not into like the shaggy fur look, there are still a ton of options for you. But I thought that this kind of fur would look best. And it's the most similar to our inspiration, which looks like that. So I think this styled maybe a little bit differently. I'm not opposed to skinning jeans with it, but maybe just a darker wash. I don't like these light wash jeans. Our girl in this picture actually was headed in the right direction with her outfit. I love these cute leggings with a high heel. And this looks to be like a shirt with kind of like a bow applique maybe. That was never in any of the patterns that I saw. But I think that this is close to the right styling. These earrings with this though way too much. But anyways, I'm just rambling now like I tend to do. So yeah, those are my recommendations for the new release from Burda Style. Let me know what you guys think of what I picked out. And that's going to do it for me today. Thank you all so much for watching. Please give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. I will see you all very soon. Bye.


Here is what you probably didn't know about actor Menzi and Gubain. Mzansi has still not processed the fall of the giant. Yes, the entertainment industry has been robbed not only in South Africa but the world at large. South Africa is in shock after learning that the greatest thespians Menzi and Gubain and Naki Makashelilov passed away. Menzi is was an award-winning South African actor who made all sorts of headlines when he joined the Queen Zansi cast after leaving Isabaya. And Gubain had an illustrious career that spanned decades. To many, he was well known for his on-screen character Sibysis Odlamo on Generations. He was later axed from Generations with several other lead actors after a fallout with the show's producers. Menzi and Gubain who has been battling diabetes and kidney disease for years succumb to a stroke. He was 56 years old. His family broke the news first and has since kept Mzansi updated on the funeral procession of the legendary actor. Menzi spent much of his time in trying to demystify issues relating to kidney disease and sugar diabetes while promoting positive lifestyle changes needed to cope with the diseases. Menzi and Gubain was born on the 4th of September 1964 in Ladysmit, KwaZulu Natal Province. Menzi cheated death several times. However, and Gubain suffered ill health for a number of years including receiving a kidney transplant leading up to his death. The seasoned actor was married to C. K. L. O. Sishiba. The two were once divorced but remarried in a traditional ceremony in 2015. Despite starring on several screenplays in his illustrious career which spanned for decades he was best known as Sibysis Odlamo his on-screen character on Generations. The veteran actor once made all sorts of headlines when he was part of the seasoned cast that was axed from Generations. His Sibysis Odlamo character came to an aberrant end after a fallout with the show producers. Menzi and other cast members were axed in the backdrop of salary woes and poor working conditions. He was one of the longest serving lead actors he had decades day at Generations from 2003 to 2014. And Gubain won and was nominated for a number of film and television awards in South Africa. And Gubain appeared in a number of South African films including How to Steal 2 Million alongside John Connie, Terry Fito and Rapulina Saipima. The film won Best Picture at the 2012 African Movie Academy Awards. The vivacious actor was a jack of all trades and master of all. Apart from acting and Gubain was a philanthropist motivational speaker and businessman. He had a master fortune for himself and upon his untimely death, his net worth was valued at R35500000 million.


What's up, how are you guys today knife sharpening 101? I'm going to teach you guys the basics on how to sharpen your knife This is something a lot of chefs actually have to do every night because they're chopping all day Most people maybe once a month and to be honest I would just take this to a local guy if there is someone Sometimes at these farmers markets, you'll have a guy with like a sharpening wheel and he does the knives really quick and easy It's worth it unless you want to sit down for an hour or two to sharpen a few knives So that's what I do or if you're in the boondocks middle of nowhere and you have some extra time This is what you need now before I show you guys the wet stones There are quicker and easier solutions, but the knife is not going to be a sharp These stones it's going to take five to ten minutes depending on how dull the knife was you got little quick things like this that You know you just you run over the knife. I mean this isn't the best design thing It's kind of sketchy, but you know you put your hand on this and then You go over the knife a few times and this works pretty well. It gets the knife kind of sharp, but you know It's not super sharp and the edge doesn't last that long all this stuff guys including Matt I'm going to put it on my Amazon shop So I have three stones here and that's because we have to go from coarser to finer You know the coarser stones a lot rougher taking much more steel much more metal off the edge And then the finer you go the more refined it is This stone we're not going to actually be using today This is a 400 800 and if I need to sharpen like my wood cutting axe or something really blunt that takes a lot of abuse Or if you have a really messed up knife you might use this But it's going to take so much metal off the edge and kind of ruin the bevel Which is you know the angle that the knife is currently sharpened at So I have two stones and these are combinations. So this is a 3000 8000 and this Which isn't labeled is a 1000 6000. So ideally you have three One that's around a thousand which we have here one That's about 3000 to 4000 which we have here and then you want a five or six thousand Which we have here this eight thousand We might not actually use and then you can get really fine, too We have a leather strap that I'll show you guys if you're trying to get it razor razor sharp But you know if you're feeling this 8000 it's actually really really really smooth So the knife's pretty much going to be sharp by the time you go to that to to make it any sharper These have been sitting in water. They're called Wet stones. I'm not sure if it's because it's wet But they do soak up water and need to be soaked for you know an hour or two before you actually use them and These are on my Amazon shop as well guys So I'll link that down below if you guys need some but again You know to buy all this and do the prep and all that type of stuff That's why I'm saying you know just get someone local to do it once a month if You don't have the time and guys be sure to use a really high quality glass bottle of mineral water So you don't get any fluoride or chlorine on your knife Guys that was a joke. This might be the only time I've ever used tap water. So this is a heavy knife I kind of use for like chopping up tartar and stuff So I'm not going to spend like 20 minutes sharpening this on these stones, you know I'll probably just run that other thing over this one, but I do have some you know more delicate Japanese knives that I use pretty frequently. So here's my chef's knife and here's my vegetable cleaver that I use a lot We're just gonna do the the classic chef's knife for you guys for this video and When we talk about the bevel the angle of the blade You would look at the knife this way and it's hard to get this camera in focus, but the end of the blade Turns into like the really tiny edge That's what the bevel is and usually on most kitchen knives and Japanese knives. It's around 20 degrees Sometimes it goes a little lower. So, you know 90 degrees the knife is straight up 45 degrees is half way, you know So you go from 90 to about halfway down is 45 and a 45 degree angle is actually okay It's not that sharp That's what you would use for like a wood cutting axe or something that is using a lot of chopping force and then to get to 20 It's about halfway down from 45 and then a little more So the tricky part here is when we're on these wet stones is Replicating the angle of the sharpness and they do have like new devices that'll actually hold the knife at that angle But then you're gonna spend more money and it's gonna take longer to sharpen. So This it's not too difficult. So We're gonna start off with our 1,000 over here.  It has to be roughly the same amount every time So if I go if I'm trying to measure, you know from 90 to 45 to 20 You do it a few times 90 45 20 you want to get an idea of where 20 is and I like to lay the blade flat and go up about that amount every time So I do this I'll go back and forth 10 times Go move up on the blade Go back and forth 10 times move up on the blade Go back and forth 10 times move up on the blade Back and forth 10 times Then up to the tip the tip is going to be a little different because you have to Angle the knife to get the entire tip and we do the other side So down up about the same 10 times back and forth as we go up the blade So I like doing the knife in sections because if I'm down here and I'm at this one angle and doing this section It's easy to maintain the angle sometimes. You'll see people go like this with the knife, but it's kind of hard to maintain I mean you can kind of maintain the same angle doing that But to me it's just easier to to go like this this and then just do some pretty rapid motions back and forth I mean just testing the sharpness of this knife now. It's already pretty sharp After only doing you know 10 motions back and forth on each side and the way I test the sharpness of the knife is You put it on your nail and if when moving gently across your nail if it kind of sticks That means it's really sharp. Don't do that stuff where like you see people shaving themselves Testing the tip with their finger. You're gonna slice yourself open So we'll just put a little more water on this stone And we'll go back and forth one more time on each side at a thousand grit just to be safe Again, the only part that's gonna be at a weird angle is when you do the tip So that was a thousand grit. That's as coarse as we want to go with this knife. Now we're gonna do 3,000 So we're going a little finer to make the edge even sharper same procedure guys Oh, and I don't think I said earlier this wet towel on the cutting board is so the stone doesn't move Sometimes these stones get uneven which isn't that good for the knife So don't press too hard It's a gentle consistent pressure You can see in the water, you know, there's It's a little gray, which means, you know, we're taking some metal material off of the stone and on the knife You can see there's some color from the stone. So, you know, there's a lot of friction sharpening this knife. All right, so on the 3,000 we did 10 movements throughout the whole blade twice on each side so Now We'll move up to 6,000. It's very smooth. You know, you can feel noticeably less friction So when you go up in grit When it's finer you're even gentler with the kind of rubbing motion Because when I'm pressing down on this blade, if I press a little harder, I'll notice I won't feel any more friction So you want to find the point where you're pressing hard enough that you have maximum friction And then when you press harder, you don't really feel much more because There's no benefit to pushing down too hard on this You don't even really need to go up to 6,000 or 8,000 here. Just the 3,000 we did previously is Plenty sharp for most kitchen knives Get in the groove a little bit and use to the angle As long as you're at the similar angle, however you sharpen on the stone is fine It should feel the same as you go up and down the blade That's our 6,000 And since we have 8,000, we might as well use it, right? So this is the final sharpening on the stones Super smooth, super smooth Now I'm kind of rushing. I'm not being super careful and slow with these motions. So We'll see how the end result is. So we went over a few times on 8,000 but there's one last thing you can do if you have it.  So when you do that on the knife It will fill in the burrs on the edge and what burrs are is there's like tiny little metal holes Imperfections from when you sharpen the stone. So what this leather does is it fills in those holes and makes it really sharp and In a barbershop old-school barbershop, you know There's sometimes like videos of the guy rubbing the razor blade on like a leather strap So they actually sell leather straps. This was just a cheap thing at the time You can look up leather strap. I'll see if I find one on Amazon. I'll put on my store, too But this is kind of overkill, you know, you don't really you know You're not shaving your face with this and you have to do a really good job on the wet stones for this to make a difference So the typical test to see how sharp a knife is is you know, you take a piece of computer paper and you kind of slice it this is sharp, but It's not like super razor sharp We did okay as you get used to it as you get better at holding that like 20 degree angle any more consistent Then the knife just gets sharper and sharper, but for most purposes you don't have to do like a crazy good job It's already a massive improvement from the blunt knives that a lot of people are using in their kitchen. So Thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully this gives you a little bit of insight to go to your local farmers market And let someone else do it or someone nearby that does knife sharpening But you guys can go to frank-to-found.com if you want to check out all of my businesses and support me as I mentioned earlier I'll put the stuff on the Amazon shop down below if you guys want to check that out As always if you could please drop a like on the video leave a comment down below Make sure to subscribe and check that notification bell and I'll see you guys soon You