Good morning doing chores and stuff around the house, getting ready for tomorrow's photo shoot. I am not, neither one of us obviously is gonna be home. So I've got stuff I would normally leave until tomorrow, but we're getting it done today. So anyway, we're gonna go get that done and we'll be back. So I'm here cutting up some strawberries that our gardeners brought us yesterday that are re-landscaping the backyard. And this is pretty big, right? And then you have this one. Look at this one. Look how big that strawberry is. Holy cow. Anyway, it smells delicious. I wish you guys could smell it. Hi guys. So it's Sunday night and my husband are gonna get up to God knows what shenanigans in the kitchen. He's already had one rum and Coke. He's starting his second and he just informed me. He's committed some kind of drinking sin by having his rum and Coke in a JD and Coke glass. I don't know what that means. I don't drink it. Even when I did drink, I still wouldn't know what that means. Okay guys, it is Monday morning, the 16th of April and we are literally leaving the driveway right now, headed to the photo shoot in San Francisco. So yeah, I don't know. We'll see what happens. Yeah, be back. 68 Post Street in San Francisco for the photo shoot. And I am just standing out of the way while they rearrange out that way. I tried. I'm just in the way of what they're doing. So anyway, we're having fun. We're in the back by the bathroom. By the bathroom. Yeah. So we're having fun. I will post what I can, when I can, and we'll be back. Real images that I'm gonna be getting for small business. That's who the photo shoot was for, by the way. And yeah, when we thought we would, I think mostly because I just was like, okay, what's next? What's next? Let's go. I kind of push. I was a little fushy. Anyway, we're all done. And we're trying to find our way out of San Francisco. And yeah. Turn left onto Eddie Street. Then turn right onto Cyril Magnon Street. Yeah, there's Jeeves trying to tell us how to go. So anyway, we'll see you when we get home. Be safe. Still recovering from yesterday's photo shoot with Yahoo Small Business web hosting. And it was a lot of fun. And if you need a new place to host your website and really great online editing tools, go visit them. And no, I'm not just saying that. I actually use them. My website's been hosted with Yahoo literally for years. And I wouldn't recommend them if they weren't great. Anyway, that being said, still recovering. I've had three cups of coffee. I probably should stop now. I got everything put away last night except my palette, which I realized just now was out here in the garage in the sink. So I need to wash that out because I want to finish working on the unfinished canvas that we brought to the photo shoot yesterday so I can get that finished and maybe listed up in Etsy for sale. And I've got a couple other things to do too. Another dog sparking. Sounds like the gardeners are out there. He hates gardeners. Anyway, all right, that's it for the moment. I'll be back. Hey guys, how are you? All right, so obviously I'm in the car now. It's still Tuesday. I finished the painting. The large face. They're both a large and small are titled similarly or I should say the same. The title is stepping into the light. The little one is number one because it was painted at first and the large one is number two. One or both will be for sale in my Etsy shops shortly. The large one is two feet by three feet. So it's a pretty big painting. At this moment, I don't know exactly what I'm gonna charge for it. So if you're interested, email me. My email address should be in the description of the video. Anyway, that being said, I am out obviously gonna run some errands because we're in the car. I need to pick up some more arthritis medicine for the dog, Mr. Bandit. And I need to pick up something at Lowe's and of course get the mail and all of that jazz. So I am going to go get that done and then get home so I can have some lunch and wash some laundry. Because now there's, you know, I've said this before for two people, we have a lot of dirty laundry.  I don't understand how two people can be so dirty. Anyway, all right, that's it for the moment. I am going. Hey guys, it's Wednesday, April 18th. My mom's birthday, happy birthday, mom. Everybody tell mom happy birthday. I am, it's just before lunch. I've spent the morning catching up on my daily writing. I got the website updated. I got the newsletter sent out. I am editing video. I got a couple of videos, quick videos filmed and then I'm editing a bunch of other video, including those. There's a lot of stuff going on right now. If the video tutorial quality is not what you all expect at the moment, that's just because I'm trying to keep content coming and as interesting of content as I can make for you because I'm not gonna just put content out there that's crap. But if it's not what some of you expect, I'm sorry. I apologize for that. But sometimes depending on what's going on in my life and how busy I am, I just do quick tutorials. Sometimes I do nothing but long tutorials. It just depends on what I'm in the mood for and what else is going on in my life. And right now things are really, really hectic. So you'll see the occasional long, long tutorial and some short ones. And we just seem to have some people that, I don't know, there's one or two people out there that are thumbs downing everything. I don't know. And YouTube analytics and view time and subscribers is weird. Like one day it'll be up like 10 and the next hour it'll be down by 20. It's very strange. So anyway, I am done with all of my chores. The laundry is working, the garbage is out in the can. I have to do the dishes, but I need to go to the laundry and the PO box. So I'm gonna go do that first. Plus I don't really like doing the dishes. There's that. And I'd rather just wait until after I have lunch and then do them all. The gardener should be here today to put grass in the backyard. Cause right now it's a giant dirt patch. Hang on, I'll show you. That's my backyard right, excuse me, right at the moment.  So Saad should be going in today. They're not here yet, but they should be here sometime this afternoon to put it in. Anyway, I'm gonna go run my errands and I'll be back. This is number three. Hopefully third time's a charm. Anyway, we're headed out this morning. It's pretty early. It's just before eight 30. I have a doctor's appointment on the other side of town and it's gonna take me a while to get there. So I need to be, I need to leave her. While we're there, I might run a few errands on the way home. My parents are coming into town today. So we'll see them later, which we now have to keep all the dogs off the grass. I'll insert a picture here somewhere. We had new Saad installed in the backyard and we had the sprinkler system repaired yesterday. So anyway, nobody on the grass. No poop, no pee on the grass. So anyway, that's it for this morning, I think. I don't think there's a whole lot going on today. Mostly just my doctor's appointment and then, you know, non-exciting stuff like getting the mail and laundry and, you know, normal stuff. I may go to the art supply store and if I do, I'll take you guys with me. All right, I'll be back. Okay, that's not something you see in the city parking lot often.  I don't know, it's interesting. My checkup with my doctor went well and all's good. Keep doing what I'm doing. I love those words. The goose in the parking lot I found out from the nurses is one of a mated pair that have a nest up on the roof and occasionally one or both of them are seeing wandering the parking lot, probably looking for food. So anyway, pretty cool. I'm on my way to the quilting shop now and maybe the art supply store. So I'll bring you with me. In Golden State Quilting in San Jose and I love this little shop. They have all these cute fabrics. Look at this, patterns, bags, tutorials, people that can answer your questions. They have a classroom space in the back. If you're in the area and you have a chance, you need some fabrics, stop by and visit. I'll put their address in the description below. Pretty cool. I never film a whole segment and realize the camera's not on. So I think we're not gonna go to the art supply store because I really don't need anything. I think I'm gonna wait until I'm actually out of something. But I wanted to share really quick the cute fabrics I found at Golden State Quilting.  I did get bigger pieces of a couple designs that I really was in love with, but I found these cute birds. They had some Day of the Dead fabric, which I love. This one, I don't know why I like that one, but I really like that one. They have this one with like spiderwebs and butterflies and leaves on it. A couple of Batik prints, this one. Another plant fabric. I'm really into the plant fabrics right now, but I found it, isn't that cute? I might make another accordion bag out of this one because that's super cute. I found this one that's kind of abstracted, impressionistic, kind of like, what do you call it? It's a fruit with the seeds. Holy cow. I can't think of it right now. Pomegranate, there you go. Holy cow. And I got these two and this one. Super nice ladies, super cool store. They have over 2,000 bolts of fabric and they gave me a list of other quilting shops in the greater Bay Area as far away as like Santa Cruz, Gilroy, not super close. We just don't have a lot of the close ones in San Jose anymore. San Juan Batista, Sunnyvale, my old stomping ground, San Mateo, Pacific Grove, Fremont. So I have this nice reference list now. She added a couple of other ones that are in Santa Cruz. There's a Beverly's Fabrics of Santa Cruz. It's one of the only ones that's gonna stay open. And there's also another fabric store called Hearts Fabrics, which is the one she said, you really need to go there. So you need quilting fabrics here in the San Jose area, Golden State Quilting. I'll put their website in the description below. Check them out. Super cool, very nice ladies that work there. All right, that's it for the moment. Now I'm gonna go home, I'm starving. It's almost lunchtime, which might be why I'll be back.


My name is Rico Pohle and I graduated from OIST in December 2017 with a PhD in theoretical physics. Since I was an undergrad or even before I was interested in magnetism, I wanted to understand where this mysterious force is coming from. If you look in the history of magnetism, people knew about magnetism for more than 6,000 years. But nobody could really explain it until the proper development of quantum mechanics. We are able to explain conventional magnets. The magnets everybody has on average and everybody knows. But there are also some new types of magnets, unconventional magnets, which we try to understand with modern numerical techniques. I grew up in Dresden, a very nice and beautiful city in the eastern part of Germany. During my life in Dresden, I started practicing karate when I was 14 years old.  Also my first encounter with Japanese culture, Japanese language and also Japanese martial arts. For me, karate and physics is very similar because I think karate is your own little physics experiment on yourself. And it's very similar to a physics experiment. After I graduated from OIST, I took the opportunity to come to the University of Tokyo. So I took a post-doc position at the University of Tokyo. And after this, since my supervisor moved from the University of Tokyo to the Vaseda University, I'm now stationed at Vaseda University. My life in Tokyo is nice. It's a very huge city. I quite enjoy that. I really like the vital aspect. Everybody is working very hard. Everybody wakes up early, goes to work in this dynamic. I can feel every day which motivates me to work hard as well. And I feel that everybody takes a lot of care of me or other non-Japanese members in the lab. Due to the fact that we are not as proficient in the Japanese language and written in spoken form as Japanese people. So we have some kind of special status, if you want to say. However, I like to include myself and try to use this as a challenge to improve my Japanese. So research environment in OIST is very, I would say, special for Japan. It's very international, one of the most international institutions in Japan. After I came from OIST to the mainland, I recognized how international it actually is. I would like to see OIST be nicely connected with institutions in the mainland Japan. And I hope OIST could be a nice opportunity for people from Japan entering OIST, going to foreign countries. And vice versa too, people coming from foreign countries entering OIST and then going into other institutions in the mainland Japan.


What's up guys welcome to today's class super excited to be with you guys here live We're gonna do some blow drying. I know it's Friday, so we're gonna try to have some fun some of you guys are Definitely busy in the salon. I guess So we'll try to make the most of today Have have a blast have fun getting a chat get excited And we're gonna be pretty much I have no idea what I'm saying I was just doing a client and now all of a sudden I'm live on the internet trying to figure things out So we're gonna do some blow drying today I'm gonna show you guys how to pop volume into your client's hair using a round brush But most importantly, I want to go over products So this is a great class not only for professionals, but also for just regular human beings out there That want to learn to get a little bit of volume in their hair as well So I'll pack it in it'll be for everybody Carly. What's up? Good to see you Good to see everybody in the chat tons of people log it in I'm actually really surprised for a Friday to have this many people on Obviously, all of you guys want to know how to get volume in your hair. So let me shoot on over to The manic in here and I can put that there so you guys can see as well. So a couple things Before I get started So a couple things before we get started with the class today Again, I'm gonna go over some product knowledge stuff also techniques on how to Create that volume in the hair. I'm just gonna get rid of this camera. So I don't need it. So I'll back this one out a little bit There we go so First things first Obviously, I've just shampooed prepped the mannequin in that way now. I'm going to brush through it So a couple different things. I think the application of the product is super important So we're gonna go over that. I want to talk about Paddle brushing as well. So when you use a paddle brush, there's a couple different ways to use it So when she comes out when you come out of the shower when she comes out of the shampoo bowl her hair is tangled a little bit I mean, obviously I ran conditioner through it worked my fingers through it, but overall it's a little bit tangly So when you look at a paddle brush, let me show you guys from this angle here You can see that one way and a lot of people talk about this one way You can't see through the bristles the other way you can see through the bristles now the the difference in that And what makes that so great is that I brush this way vertically with the brush Obviously you start at the bottom work your way up I could start vertically with the brush and that detangles and then when I want to create a ton of tension in the hair To pull and smooth then I brush this way with the bristles Horizontal so I work through vertically I'm gonna start at the bottom work my way up We'll go right back here. This is also Danielle's Updo, which I took about 70,000 pins out of Bobby pins, so we really worked a nest in this in this hair So I'm gonna go through start at the bottom work your way up and then I just start pulling and I'm so I'm lightly Going into the hair. I don't want to pull the hair Obviously, she doesn't have feelings, but your guests will probably have feelings There we go if I see now app. Yes for sure we're also live on the Minerva beauties Facebook as well, so welcome to everybody that's watching on there and It's Friday. Are you guys busy in this line? Let me know in the in the chat If you're new to the show type new in the chat and if you're an og you've been watching this show for a while Type og in the chat. I want to say hi to my people In there. All right So almost there working through it getting everything nice and detangled then once you have everything Detangled then you can start applying your products. So There's a couple products that I actually one that I didn't have so I'm gonna show you guys how to make it kind of And it's also a nice product cocktail that I like to put together as well. So I'll show you guys that and One sec. All right, I got Amelia. She's new Catherine's an og Heather is new Robbins new a lot of new beasts. Good to see you guys Did you brush it before you washed it? No, I Did not I quickly did quickly got this thing together because I had to get on the live and I had a client I said so quickly did a haircut prior to this and now here we are Okay So now we got it brushed through. I'm gonna work this into a center parting Right down the center like that and then we'll part it We're a nice little center part So I'm gonna apply my products first and then I'll section off the head to do my round brushing All right. So what is my product choice gonna be? I've got a couple different products here First one of my favorite products for just a blow-dry in general if I'm not trying to bulk up the hair I'll go with sculpting foam by Paul Mitchell What I'm gonna do today is you could do the extra body sculpting foam, which is great as well I'm gonna add a little bit of thicken up to my sculpting foam So that's kind of where I said if I had extra body sculpting foam be very similar But I love the scent of sculpting foam and I love the The way that thicken up work. So what I'll do is I'll put a little bit of sculpting foam in my hands here and then I'll put a little bit of thicken up on top of that and just kind of cocktail those two products together Then what I'm going to do is for this I'm going to start by working mid-shaft to ends Head over a little bit So we're going to go mid-shaft To ends work that product through Now here's a little Fun fact when you're putting product in your hair at home or in your guest's hair Is you want to make sure you get product on all of the hair? If you don't get product on some hair and what's going to happen is you're you're going to get frizziness within the hairstyle Also notice that I went mid-shaft to ends. I'm not trying to glob All the product on every little bit of the hair there I'm just going mid-shaft to ends because that's where I wanted to work and then I'm going to go thicken up A little extra thicken up on the base and I'm going to go sculpting foam also But I just want to mix that a little bit different. So just kind of focusing in On each of those areas all right So then once I have that I'm going to brush mid-shaft to ends Brushing it helps get the product all the way through fully saturated on the hair But again just working mid-shaft to ends It's raining again here Fun all right, and now I'm going to go a little bit of sculpting foam not as much as before in my hand and then Quite a bit more thicken up I'll do about six pumps of that there This I'm going to work into the scalp underneath the hair work it through So what is thicken up do thicken up has panthenol base on it or in it? So what that does it kind of fattens up the hair So it's going to make the hair six times thicker than it normally was So if you're looking to add a little bit of fullness to your hair this doll head has quite a bit of hair But if you're somebody that has a thinner had a hair thinner density Then this is definitely a good product for that just plumps it up a little bit and then you get your hold from the Sculpting foam And another thing guys if you have questions about anything Type q and put in your question that way. I can see it. I'm looking at all the chat See a couple if you have questions place a q. Thank you guys for having my back on that Cool Crystal says I love Paul Mitchell. Wow. That's a lot of product you use to use the same amount with short hair No, so that's a great question. If they had shorter hair I wouldn't I'm using it based on the density of the hair She has a ton of hair. So I'm using kind of a ton of products To make sure that I get it fully saturated throughout If they had shorter hair, I would use it accordingly Trying to get a better center part here my sections So now a couple sections that I'm going to do let me pop to the top of the head here So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a triangle first out of the the front of this because what I want to do Is I want to separate that fringe area and then the rest of the head the fringe I'm going to focus on where I really want to pop that volume in So I want to just have it separate from the rest of the style So a triangle on the top of the head Here and that triangle is going to go straight down to the hairline I'm going to try to do this in as few sections as possible because obviously when we're blow drying We don't want to put a ton of sections in the hair, but it's good to separate it Because after I create this triangle in the front then I can go in And actually kind of work on that diagonal back all the way around the head. I'll show you guys what I mean this Twist this up. I'll clip it away. So kind of what I meant by working off of that diagonal Parting is I can work my brushing off the face and kind of work in a pinwheel set here just like this Uh, I'll do the underneath first and then we'll work through that top section.  This is a style Just take this area around. So also if you're doing this at home To get this style, I think it's important to kind of separate things So obviously you just take this up in your hands and clip it away. It doesn't have to be a perfect parting It's more for the teaching purpose and I like to get as good a parts as I can But you don't have to get it perfect Just pull up the top separate the top and the bottom clip it away All right So now we've got our u-shape section across again a little upside it. That's okay, and we're going to start to work um our round brushing throughout the bottom Now I want to talk about round brush technique because I I like to hold the barrel of the brush or of the blow dryer so So I like to hold the barrel like this and this blow dryer actually doesn't even have a handle um, but I like to hold the barrel and then my technique is to I'll get away from my black clothes is to have the barrel of the blow dryer At a 45 degree angle at the brush. So this let's say this is 90 I like to tilt it down just a little bit like this. So the air is flowing around The brush that's the goal. So you don't want the air to flow right at it because that'll create frizziness in your blow dry So we work through it now When I add my client here You want the size of your section No larger obviously than the barrel of your brush now these ergo brushes have a much larger barrel So I like to really just do half the brush. I don't really see a reason As i'm working through the head to have more than that. That's up to you guys I like to have a little bit more control I like the bigger barrel, but I don't really need to utilize the whole thing Uh, and what i'm going to do is if you want extra volume, you're going to go up with the brush That's going to help dry the hair in this more up kind of On base Feeling here like that and that'll give you extra volume So the higher I lift the hair up the more volume i'm going to get the lower I go here We're just then smoothing polishing with a little bit of volume So if we want extra volume, we're going to go up. So what i'm going to do is i'm going to kick on the blow dryer here Uh high heat medium air. That's what I like to do and just work through it that way So another little fun fact about blow drying is in my opinion slow and steady kind of wins The race right so as i'm going through and blow drying There's no reason for me to be flying through this and ripping the hair around I think the the slower you go and you just kind of let that air flow go over it and polish it out You're going to have a better result. So just trying to keep things organized and work through it that way And let the brush and the air flow just kind of do its thing It's going to blow dry just as fast or even faster going a little bit slower So now here's a couple other Things as I work through it. So you want to let it cool or do the cool shot To let it cool off. So what's happening is as you heat the hair up the brush gets hot So it's kind of like putting it in a hot roller and then as that cools off it starts to set the bonds. So when you add heat water You know certain things to hair. It's going to break down bonds Then as the hair cools it starts to reform those bonds and it's going to form it in that kind of way So whether you're using a curling iron or anything else as I let the hair set and cool If I pull this brush out right away Um It's going to start to cool but being pulled by gravity being pulled down So the goal is to keep it in this formation for as long as possible. You could also um Obviously use two different brushes And go through it set a brush do your next section Maybe even work the other side then come back when the brush is cool. Take it out and work through it You could clip it. Um Again, I saw some of you guys posting some of the ogs appreciate it. Uh, you can get all these tools at shop fse So when I take this section out, I can always wrap it like this Up and then clip it right here Just like that and that is going to help let it set let it cool You could even do a little bit of hairspray in there if you wanted to to let it set that way So now we'll move into the back Another part of the technique with blow drying is I like to work slight diagonal Sections and kind of work back. That's just my thing off the face if I wanted to blow dry towards the face I do diagonal and work that way. Um I'm not so much a kind of flat set person So, um, that's just my My kind of take I like to have a little bit of movement with those diagonal sections It's just what plays out in my head, right? I don't know um You guys know that I'm more of a technical hair cutter than I am a technical styler so um Styling is more of a feeling to me. So as I come through here I'm just going to take a slight diagonal section here Clip the rest away Just so I stay away from that section and now I'm going to blow dry this back technique here Without having the blow dryer in my hand As I blow dry, I like to put the the hold the blow dryer in my hand But pinch the hair with my in between my pinky and my ring finger As I'm working and that helps me kind of pass through this section So we'll go here So that's the final kind of As I'm heating it up guys like I run it through a couple more times Just to heat the brush up a little bit and to work those ends under it And then I fold it and roll it up. So then Now I don't have to let it fully cool because if I'm going to put it in a clip I can just wrap it around and let it cool on its own at that point So Don't feel like you need to sit there and let that brush sit in the hair Now I'm just going to continue working around same thing diagonal partings up the head Clip the rest away, and then this is where I'm going to blow dry So this section is really where the larger barrel of the ergo round brushes comes in I think I have a regular. Yeah, I do Regular round brush over here Say regular or typical round brush So when I take this out, I'll show you guys Take out the section and we can slide our clip So basically what I'm going to do now is I'm going to rotate all this So I slide this clip up under And now I can take this clip out Because it's cool at this point And I don't need it to really rest anymore But when I take it out, I'm not going to touch it I'm not going to put my hands in it rush through it or anything Because I want it to start cooling and I'm going to start working on this temple area here and then work my way back Because I want to continue wrapping everything off of the face so here Here's where you can see the comparison of The ergo round brush and a regular one. So you get that much more barrel So in cases where I was working on a large section in the back I can actually fit that entire section on my brush Also has a little bit larger handle, which is great for when you're working at home Have being able to Have all this brush to work with it's like almost the size of your head to just throw the hair in and start brushing And then also the larger handle so it's easier to reach Different things also the tourmaline bristles. So the bristles in here have a negative charge A lot of times they're just kind of like a plastic bristle. I don't know what this brush is made of But this one tourmaline bristles negative charge what that does is water is positively charged So when you have a negative charge it not only lays the cuticle down better But it pushes the water out of the hair so Allowing it to blow dry a little bit quicker. So, you know, this is definitely this is the ergo 53 brush You can get it on our online store Definitely killer brush awesome brush to use Yes, that's that that is that So now I'm going to go in section off Clip the rest away We're just going to work our section back off of the face. So I'll come back this way So another tip, um, that's what this class is all about throwing out them tips. Um Another tip is when you have Uh, when you're round brushing or blow drying your hair at all Doesn't matter if you're just blow drying it to smooth it out blow drying it for volume Number one thing is when you think it's dry go a little bit longer When you do that it smooths it even better adds more shine um A healthy or cuticle that is laying down Is going to be a lot shinier. So the way that you get shiny hair is the reflection of light hitting the cuticle the cuticle is shiny And very reflective. So if it's laying smooth Then you're going to get that shiny hair effect if it is up and frizzy Then you get a dull hair effect. So That's kind of the goal. So you want to make sure just as you're going through it's going to go from being dry or damp or wet to damp and dry Dry and frizzy and then to dry and smooth. So just continue working through it and don't stop Until you get that smooth result just go a little bit longer There we go underneath now. I'll take my next term one of my previous clips If you guys have a hundred clips laying around feel free to just keep them in there, but for me I don't I should But I lose them All right So now I'm going to take a diagonal back parting We got about two sections to go in the back So we're done Here is the section. I'm going to smooth Went the wrong This is So somebody was saying I had to use a cool shot Sometimes when you're doing blowouts, I do sometimes depends on what blow dryer I have This current blow dryer that I have in my hand doesn't really have it. It has cool setting. It doesn't have a cool shot so So i'm not currently doing it I don't want to I don't want to have to flick this too cool Which is what I would have to do But that's totally fine. I'm letting it cool with the clips, which I prefer to do that Instead of standing there letting it set in the salon. I'm always trying to figure out how to maximize my time To make sure that you know I can get as many people in as I can in the day So I don't want to sit there holding a cool shot. I want to do this as quick as possible. So Last section I did say somebody Said that they used the wood brushes that's totally cool too. I get it Because of heat damage. I don't know. I mean everything causes heat damage including a blow dryer This brush being a little bit heated up You know, I don't think as long as you have heat protectant on the hair For me wooden brushes and bore bristle brushes and things like that Are definitely great for smoothing hair But when you want to create volume and you want to you need that little extra heat I think within the brush that's just my opinion But you know take it or leave it on that but If it works for you to use a wood brush, awesome. That's good So life of hair. Thank you for hanging out. Enjoy your day And gary I see I I need to do this work at a high-end salon one guy pins it like you but He does them upside down with a skinny round brush yet So here's here's another thing another little fun fact for you guys the bigger the round brush The less volume you get so a lot of people will be like, oh buy a big round brush And it'll give me tons of volume. It actually makes the hair flatter Which is great for smoothing hair, but if you want volume you need that little bend to the root So so definitely think about that when you choose which round brush you're going to use All right Go in here. I have a clip All right, so we got that clipped away. Now we can start working through the top of the head The top of head. I'm going to break up into four sections Sorry guys. I do everything Here set the cameras and see where we're at on the top. Sean, you're welcome If you're spot on about the more curl from the ceramic, yeah, for sure. I mean it only makes sense I wouldn't even say that's like a a unique thought it's definitely It just makes sense that a ceramic's going to get hotter So it's going to have more of a curling iron kind of effect or hold So here's the deal. So I break that into two and then I'm going to break this into two And I'm going to round brush this stuff on base forward But back off the face I want to you could get more volume going forward But I don't want to make this look like a helmet either. So it's kind of where we're staying away from And separate this one as well I just want to make sure that these saturated sections I'll actually just brush them out real quick because Then I can work quicker when I'm ready to take them So here brush this section out And I'll lay it towards the front on this side And I'll brush this section out I'll lay it towards the front on that side Now I've got two sections to work with in the back here Brush those out. I just don't want them sitting on the dry hair for too long All right So here we go. So now grab my round brush And we're going to work section one up in the air off Uh And on base See if I can keep this cord out of the way here So there we go. So now, uh, we let that kind of set let it cool a little bit Obviously, I can grab a clip from underneath and curl it up So we just I feel the brush to see where the heat's at on it And now I take the hair out. I'm just going to Wrap it and keep it on base Right here. I'll just clip down on base So now I can take the next section right here right next to it and then I can start round brushing that All right, cool. So I'm going to let that set for one sec The two sections that we're going to work on in the front part of the head here these two panels before the fringe I'm going to blow dry One Forward this way and then the other one forward the opposite way. We're working on a center parting That's really the reason for that So I'm going to let this kind of set down. This section is going to come across and over Just like that And then the fringe will be horizontal and go that way How are we doing so far? Let me know in the chat I wish the blow-dryers cord was longer on some of them. It drives me nuts. Yes And I did see somebody say have you ever tried a cordless blow-dryer? Tina's asking. Uh No, um, I was supposed to get one from one of the companies. I never I don't know if it ever came to fruition or whatever but um, now I never tried it and The problem is those cordless blow-dryers. They just don't have a long enough runtime yet and The battery has got to be so heavy. That's the biggest problem. So I'm going to lower this All right, so actually here's a little trick too.  If I take the brush If I take the brush like this And I unravel it like that and kind of spin it out So the whole time I'm spinning it like that and it doesn't pull the curl out of the head So that's another little trick you guys can do if you don't want to If you're not going to pin it Up, then you don't want to just stretch and pull that curl out. All right. I've got My section from the front here So Catherine, this is the ergo 53 brush.  Help me out I also want to say thank you to all of you guys For posting so much and being interactive in our app. Uh, it's definitely picking up And we're getting the community really going in there So if you're looking for the coolest hairdresser community ever Go to the fse now app create a profile and start chatting it up sharing your work Sharing videos maybe your favorite fse videos you could share those you can go live talk to people Um, just have some fun with it. So download the app. I'm just gonna let that cool a little bit Like we have been Read your comments a little bit like I have been Is there a link you can post for us? So the blow dryer is paul mitchell neuro I forget exactly I mean, there's only a couple but go to you can go to paul mitchell pro Dot com or paul mitchell dot com and you can pick it up there um There we go. So I want to keep this on base guys Wrap it around on base Now we're going to do the same Thing on this side working this hair over this way. So one little Tip here because I'll get myself into a mess is to Once I'm going to start blow drying kind of low like maybe three inches from the root working the hair this way While I let this section cool, then as soon as I get to go to the root I'll just let this section down so that I don't tangle it up. That's that's the Goal there. All right. So now I'm going to let down this one Still not running my hands through it at all just moving it out of the way And then I can work a little closer to the root now in this section See the finish line that he's in gentlemen I'm going to set this back just a little bit Here let it cool now. We've got our fringe So I'm going to do the same thing with the fringe. So I'm going to let this down I'm going to break it out. So it's nice and organized and then I'm going to start brushing it forward round brushing it forward Break this up into two sections I'm going to split this fringe in half Straight across here. Just cut the triangle in half round brush this front part first Just working with a little less hair Nothing wrong with that Let's go over to this side. All right We're getting there one more so, uh I think it was diam was asking if I go through and hit it with a cool shot When it's all done to set it in I don't because It's kind of the process that I'm doing now So I'm letting this cool, uh, and then I set it And let it cool and then I'll eventually take it out. So I don't take it out until it's cool um So I don't really need to do that cool shot plus that cool shot to me if I add wind or air to that Uh, it's just really kind of helping to work that curl out. So my goal is never to To do anything that's going to Take that out of there. I just keep shifting whistling and shifting Those clips around as the sections are cooling Less clips less clips to take out at the end Obviously, this is not for like a runway. This is for reality. So Uh, just a quicker way of working through it I kept trying to read your guys's comments. So literally I was tangling myself up in that That section every time I would look up to read all of a sudden I would grab A chunk of it All right, so we'll let that cool for a sec We got blowout king in the building here To check out that youtube channel um All right, so now Again, don't want to touch it too much. Just kind of looking through make sure I got all my clips out and then Can start to let Some of this section go And we've got the last fringe section kind of let that go back All right So there's a couple different things that you can do to finish this out, right? I could push my client's hair forward And put some spray into it and then flip it back. You could let her lay back put it in that way I'm a big fan of the forward. So I feel like it gives me the most volume So let me go here I'm gonna tilt her forward like this so now and then I'm going to add in a little bit of hold me tight Which is one of my favorite hair sprays From paul mitral flexible style And I'll just lift her hair Lift her hair up And this is just to kind of start to set the hair.   I don't know. Do we even do that anymore? But tons of volume fun little set Hope you guys liked it You can see all the movement how big it is tons of waves All right, cool Glad you guys like it Let me see I'll go over here Pop up to you guys back out So I'm glad you guys like it Let me know in the comments Esther, thank you so much See other people in person. Yeah, that's that's true. That is really funny Uh, Carmen. Thank you so much It's very myc. All right, we'll take it Uh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um Lynn, thank you so much Rebecca. You guys are awesome I always have a hard time to get the roots could you give me some tips to get into the roots Probably with the you're probably talking about with the blow dryer. Um, yeah, I gotta like so for me Whenever you're round brushing And you can't get quite to the root. You might have seen me, uh right here So you might have seen me when I was round brushing like this I would kind of hold the hair up and I would hit the root a little bit so it would kind of go like this Round brush And I would hold it And that to me just kind of helps, uh Get to the root get it keep the root nice and tight when you pull that tension on it Hit it with the round brush or with the blow dryer and then let it cool And then you kind of have you know that piece worked at the end so That for me is probably my my go-to there. All right guys I love the crisscross at the top learning something new awesome. Sarah That's exactly what it's all about, right? That's what it's all about So I'm glad you guys picked up some new things. Uh, really enjoyed hanging my hanging hanging my friday with you guys hanging whatever Back to work. Um Can't find smo-mo on fsc app. I actually need to figure that out because I think she's having issues on there. Um So good reminder Adele you're always good with the reminders All right. Um, I think that's it guys. I appreciate you all Thank you for being a part of the friday. Remember we're live pretty much every day of the week monday through friday Uh Check the fsc now out for the schedule. Uh next week schedule will be going out probably today I'm going to work on that now. Um, and then uh, yeah, so I'll be live monday Doing some men's cutting then tuesday more haircutting wednesday color with brian thursday Danielle next week is going to be doing. Um A cornrow style with a bun, uh, which is going to be super cool and then friday i'll probably do some finishing tips Uh product knowledge type classes for you guys out there as well just to finish up friday with some finishing work That's it. Thank you guys very much You're all awesome. I'll see you next time


Okay, so this talk is about the Go language. I gave this talk in Bucharest earlier this year, and it was called an introduction to Go, and people told me it was like such a boring title that I should have a more interesting funny title, and they suggested let's get ready to Go, so I renamed it to let's get ready to Go, and yeah, apparently some people were confused about this thinking that this was like some other kind of talk, and not a talk about the Go language. Anyway, so a little bit about me, I'm a Deviant developers in 2005. As a Deviant developer, I first started maintaining some electronic packages because I'm an electronic engineer. I then organized several dev comps, particularly I was the core organizer of dev comp 8 in Argentina, and this year I'm also part of the core organizers of the comp 15 in Germany, because in between I moved from from Argentina to Germany. I work as a site reliability engineer at Google since 2012, and I've been mostly a Python programmer for more than 10 years, but I've been writing Go code since February, so I'm not an expert, but the intention of this talk is to give an introduction and let people know what things they are going to encounter when they try to learn Go. Of course, it's a 45-minute talk.  I hope nobody expects that. It's just an introduction so that you have a basic idea of what the language looks like and the things that you can do with it seen mostly from the point of view of a Python programmer. So a bit of history, Go is a very young language. It was created in 2007 by some famous people. Robert Grissmer is less known, but probably many of the people in this room know about Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. They are like the oldest of Unix, C, and many other things that are the foundation of what we are doing. And the goal when they created the Go language was to create a language that was similar to C, but that incorporated all the good things that had been discovered or developed since then. So when C came up, it was a revolution, right? Because before that, people were writing assembler. And it's been going on and being a great language for a long time, but now it's time for something that's created this century and not last century. So what Go is not? Go is not an interpreted language. It's compiled. It's not a replacement for Python. I say I come from Python and I have this feeling that before I used to do everything with Python, and it's not like you will do everything with Go. There are certain things that are better suited to do with Go, and there are certain things that are better suited to do with a scripting language, an interpreted language that is faster. When you need to just do a quick prototype, you do not want to use the whole thing just for a quick prototype. It's not the answer to every programming need. And it's not very well named. So this is kind of weird, right? It comes. So Go was developed, the people that developed Go worked for Google, and I find it a bit surprising that they decided to name their language Go, which is something that you can't Google for, right? If you Google Go, who knows what you will get as a result? So if you need to Google stuff for the Go language, what you use is use Go lang, right? The key word is not Go, it's Go lang. And that works fine. So you can get documentation, stack overflow answers, blog posts, everything includes the Go lang string, because otherwise it doesn't work. So what Go is, it's an open source compile language. It's this century C. That's what it's intended to be. It's intended to be the 21st century C.  Well, so it has all these new things, while at the same time it tries to keep the philosophy of C. Some nice things about Go, the compiler catches a lot of errors. This is particularly compared to interpreted languages, but also compared to the C compiler. The compiler, I don't know, if you declare a variable and don't use it, the compiler tells you, hey, you declare a variable and you didn't use it. Maybe there's something wrong there. And things like that. Usually the compiler is right when it catches errors. Sometimes you say, okay, I had this variable, I will use it later. Why do you complain? But yeah, you can just comment out the line. It comes with a very full set of libraries with lots of functionalities that are already there, so you don't have to develop them yourself. It has native concurrency support, I will talk a little bit more about that. And for people that like the quickness of an interpreted language, there's the goal playground, which is like an interactive web page where you can write some code and execute it and see it executed there without needing to compile it yourself.  And also, it's good when you are sending code back and forth, if you put stuff in the playground, you can then create a shareable link. So you send it to someone saying, I have this code and I don't know why it doesn't work, can you help me? You send them the link and then this person finds, oh, yeah, you forgot to do this or that. And they send you the link with the fix. So this is very good for exchanging code with people on the Internet. So what does Go look like? This is a very simple Go program for people that come from C that's going to look familiar. So package main means that this is where the main function is going to be, then import fmt, it's bringing in the package that will allow printing on the screen. Then this sum, no, I don't know how it is. Yeah. Some column equals zero is the pseudo dynamic typing that Go has. So what's happening there is that Go is seeing that zero is a number and assigning some this type. So it's not only that we are assigning zero to the variable, we are also assigning the type. What will not happen is if we later on try to assign a string there, it will fail because some is an integer. So we are excused from declaring the type, but the type will stay, right? We can't just change and say, oh, now I want some to be eight. No, it can't. So it does the type declaration for us, but then the type stays. The same for the for loop. The for loop is exactly the for loop from Z except without the parenthesis. And then at the end, this just brings it on the screen. So that seems like very similar to see and very nice and okay, but there are some quirks because I didn't have any types there and it didn't look weird, but the types are declared exactly the other way around that they are declared in C. So instead of in star C, which is a pointer to an integer, it's first the variable name and then start int. So the idea is that you read this out loud. C is a pointer to an integer. And that's how the order goes. Or the same for arrays, which in Go are called slices, but you can think of them as arrays. A is an array of bytes. So it goes the other way around. Then when you are dealing with visibility, the case of the first letter of a function defines if a function is private or public. There's no public or private keyword. It's just the case of the first letter. So if you suddenly change your mind and want to export the function that you are not exporting, you have to rename it to have the first letter be uppercase and change all your code so that whatever calls it, now calls the uppercase version. And it has error handling, but it takes a while to get used to it because it's kind of strange. I will show some code soon. Interfaces. Go does not have objects in the Java sense, but it does have something that it's almost like objects. What you have is you have structs or types. It doesn't need to be a struct. It can be just a simple type. And you associate methods to those structs or types. You can even associate methods to like int. You can associate methods to any type you want. Doesn't need to be a type you declared. It can be any type you want. You can associate methods to it. And then polymorphism is done through this interface. So you can declare an interface and it's done through these interfaces, but you don't declare that a struct or a class or because there's no class. You don't declare that these things are of that type. If they follow the interface, they just are of that type. This is something that it's only possible because it's compiled. It wouldn't be possible in an interpreter language, but being that it's compiled, it's like if it has all the needed things to be part of the interface, it just is. You don't have to declare these follow this interface. You just have to make it follow the interface. Okay, so I have more snippets here. Are they readable from the back? I think they are, but yeah, okay. So maybe should I stand here? So the first function, because it starts with a lower case, it's private, right? It's a private function because it starts with lower case h. It receives a string and returns a bull. So what comes after the parameters is what the function returns. Yeah, the rest is just showing some of the functions available in the strings package. Then the next function is a function that is associated to a type. So the parenthesis that comes before the name of the function, this KC key config parenthesis, is the type to which this function is associated. So this is a method of the key config class, right, speaking in Java terms. And KC is the name that you will use to access the instance, right? So what in Java is this and what in Python, it's usually self that you can rename to whatever you want. It's this KC here and you can name it whatever you want. And this one, because it starts with a uppercase K, it's an exported function. And then in the last one, we have the error handling that I mentioned. It's weird. So what's happening here is that the first function that is in the first line, file stat, returns two things. The first thing is the file information that the function is wanting to use. And the second thing is an error. So what you do is you check if the error is nil or it's not nil. So if it's nil, it means everything went right. And if it's not nil, it means something failed. And you have to handle the error. And this function returns a boolean and an error. So what you do is if whatever you call return an error, you also return an error. Usually you add more information, but it depends. So you can add more information to that error that you are returning. In this case, it's not adding more information.  But it can go much more complicated. The problem that I see with this, that takes a while to get used to, at the end you get used to it, but it takes a while, is that for every call that might return an error, you have to check the error. If you come from Java or Python, you are used to just putting a try and doing all the stuff there that might fail and afterwards catching whatever exceptions you might have to catch. But in this case, for every call you need to check, did this return an error, did this return an error, did this return an error. Yeah, so it takes a while to get used to. But in the end, it's very simple. So you just check every error. And sometimes it makes sense because depending on what is the error, you may want to do different things. So it's not that it doesn't make sense, it just takes some time to get used to it. So concurrency, this is one of the things that I said, like Go, it's designed for concurrency. The main way of doing concurrency in Go is using Go routines, which are like core routines, but special. And you can start any function that you have in your code. You can just start it with the Go keyword.  And what this means is that it will run on a separate thread, but it's a very lightweight thread. It's not a full thread as we normally think of, but it's very lightweight and very cheap. So you can start many, many Go routines in parallel and it will not make your computer try. Then there's channels to synchronize the Go routines. So you can send information to a routine and receive information from the routine using the channels. And the basic idea behind this is you don't share the data by sharing memory between threads, which is what gives so many headaches regarding concurrency. But rather, you share the data by sending it or receiving it. So reading or writing from the routines, but not sharing memory. Because sharing memory has been proven to be really hard to do right. So this is very easy. You should send the data, receive the data, and it's very easy to get right. So before I go into that, I wanted to do a small demo. Are there any questions up to now? Do we have someone with a mic if there are any questions? Okay, apparently not. So I will go do a small demo. Let's see how that goes. Let's start first with the usual thing. Instead of printing Hello World, this is DevCon 15, the biggest DevCon. Okay. So this is like the basic quest of Go programs. To build it, what did I call the directory? This is 15 Go. So Go build example.go. This will build binary. The Go compiler is really fast. And this is one of the features of the compiler that it's really fast.  But whatever. For the designers, it was really important that the compiler was fast. So it's really fast. So there we have our Hello World. Now let's do something a bit more interesting. So first, I'll print a random number. So there are two randoms. There's math run and there's script run. So for script things, you want to use the real random. For just printing a random number on the screen, you don't need to do all the script things. But I think it makes sense because the script random is harder to use because it's script. So there. Let's see how that goes. Yeah. What do you think will happen when I execute this again? Same random number? Why? Yeah. I need to see this user random generator. Otherwise, it doesn't work. So here's where you say, okay, so how do I see this user random generator? There's a lot of documentation. This is a good thing. So in golang.org-package, you have all the packages that are included with the language. And I'm importing math, sorry, math run. So let's open that. And here it says that there's this seed function. Where is it? Seed here. So we need to seed it in order to get real random. So seed. So what will I seed it with? Time. So, well, okay. Let's go faster here. Okay. If I do this, let's just do it. So what's happening there? The same second gets the same to the random generator. So instead of Unix, we want Unix, nano. I would have shown the spec for time, but I want to also show other things. So yeah. So now it's working. Yeah. It's a random between 10 numbers. You won't expect to have more than that randomization. Okay. So now I want to show some go routines. Because we have limited amount of time, it will be a very simple go routine. It will not do anything useful. But just to show how it works. So it will first print that it's starting and then print that it's done. And in between, I'll make it sleep a random amount of time. Sleep takes a duration. Let's go look at the sleep. So sleep takes a duration. Here is the spec from sleep. And here there's an example, but it doesn't work with the random number. I will need to cast the random number so that it's a duration. So I think it's time.duration 100 times time dot millisecond. Possibly got it right there. We will see when the compiler complains. So now, so I have this function that starts, does something for some amount of time and then says I'm done. Right? Let's pretend this function actually does something useful, like parse a file and then store the result somewhere else or whatever. And then I will do four, four, five times so that it fits on the screen. Is it clear what I'm doing? What do you think will happen? The deadline should come back in random order. Yes. What happened? I didn't wait. Exactly. Because I didn't wait, they were started and then the program finished and they didn't have time to do anything. So let's wait a little bit more. Let's wait one second. Here we can use time. Second. There. So I started them in order, but they got done in a random order, right? Because they took different amount of time. Well, so as I said, this is a very useless example, but it just shows how easy it is. It's like any function, this function, the slipper function didn't have anything saying this is a function that will be inside the thread or anything. It's just any function that you can start as a go routine and then it's concurrent. Then you need to make sure that you wait for it, but that depends on whatever you are doing. You can also like send data and receive data. Shall we do that? Do we have time? I don't know. Are there any questions? I don't want to eat all the time with the demo if there are no questions. Wait, wait, wait for the mic, please. There. My question is how do you do that with a normal function? Just omit the word go. Sorry, there's too much. I don't understand. One, two, three, four. How do you do that with a normal function? It's just a normal function. That's why I don't understand the question. So I just created a function and then here I use the go keyword to make it thread it. The go keyword is for... The go keyword starts a go routine. If you add this keyword, it becomes a go routine. There is no other way to call the function. Yeah, I could just... So if I call it without the go keyword, it just does it in order. How do you do a modeling of interdependencies between the different threads that you have fired up? Can you repeat the question talking slower? How do you model interdependencies between the different threads that are fired up? I mean, how do you communicate with each other? There was a channel, right? So that's what you were mentioning in the beginning. Yeah, okay. Let me see. I don't want to go... It's a lot of code, but... So I will look for the example so that I don't have to type on the example. But first, I will introduce this site, like tour.go.lang.org. It's like a tutorial. So if you... After this talk, you feel like you would like to learn how to code and go. This tutorial is recommended and it has some part about concurrency. So let's go look at the example there, because otherwise it's a lot of typing. So here, can you read from there? Should I make the font larger? I don't know how to, but I will try. Yeah, there. Okay. So this is a channel. C is a channel. So this function receives the channel to which it has to write. It's a channel to which it will write. And it does the sum of a lot of integers and by the end, it sends the sum to the channel. Like this arrow notation means that the sum is sent to the channel. And then in the main function, so the channel is created with this make keyword. And there are two go routines called summing half of the array and receiving the same channel. So they both have to write to the same channel. There are some. And then this method receives using the, so it just changes where the channel is, right? So it's the same arrow thing, but on one side, the channel is on the left and on the other side, the channel is on the right. And so in this case, you are receiving from the channel into these two variables. Yes. And we can run it from here. And sorry. And they are like, it has the sum of both channels and the result of the summing both numbers. For, this is also like, not a very useful example. It's just an example to understand channels. But the idea is that if you have workers that need to do something and at the end, they have a result, you just give them the channel and when they are done, they send the data to the channel. And on the other side, you read from the channel and when you read from the channel, you wait until there's information there. So that's like the way it is done automatically by the operation of reading from the channel. Yes. So they are usually synchronized because you are reading. Other questions? You're firing off to go routines at that point. There's no guarantee which order they'll complete in, is there? No. So the x and y could end up being unlikely, but it could be minus five and 17. Yes. Yeah, they could be. In this case, it doesn't happen, but yes. Yes. There's no guarantee. Okay. So let's go back to the presentation. Oh, no. Okay. So the state of going devian. You can get install go long and you have the whole developing environment installed. You will have this go build command that I've been using and all the libraries to build go packages. There's DH go long. Yeah. So this state, this stats is from May. There are probably more reverse build dependencies by now, but I compiled a number in May and there were 53 reverse build dependencies from DH go long. So there are 53 packages that are using DH go long to build. There's a guide.  And if you want to package go packages, I invite you to also be part of the team. Makes sense to do it together and not separate. Yeah. So basically, devian is ready to go. And yeah. That's basically it. And please have more questions.  Yes. Is that not a problem for devian, especially in the realm of security support? It's one of the main reasons I have not touched go is it does not seem ready for deployment that is not Google style. We build everything every time we ship. It seems like goes not suitable for distributions at the present moment in time. Yes, I agree. I don't have a better answer. I agree with you. All I did question about versioning. I mean, all libraries are usually in versioned. So we pick the current version at random and it stays as is in devian. I'm sorry. I don't understand you. I mean, because in go, you don't version your libraries. It's also a problem for devian because we put a git hash in the package version and it's difficult to know if the version is up to date. If you pick a good version or not a good version, maybe there is a bug. We don't really know. Is that something that will change in the future? Many go projects are using rendering because of that. Yes. So maybe a better solution would be to say it was a bad idea to tell everybody that you don't need to put a version number on library. Please use version number instead. Well, yes, but you need to convince people to use a version number. Yeah, but I mean, I agree. It would be a good idea to have version numbers. So go has a version number. It's the libraries that don't have a version number or not all of them, but some of them. And I agree. It's not a good idea because it's hard to just go with the git date or commit version or whatever depending on whoever uses what. But yes, you need to convince people that it's a good idea to use versions. And I don't think I have the power to do that. Other questions? We have five more minutes for questions. Not actually a question, just a comment. In Go 1.5, they do have shared libraries now. So the very latest version of Go has shared libraries. Okay. It's possible to statically compile everything anymore. No more questions? All right, then I guess we are ready to go. Thank you.


And the last is about the nonprofit and for-profit connection. Hopefully everyone who came today has built some great new relationships this last year. And maybe those relationships were built out of necessity. This is an example I particularly like because I'm sort of personally proud of it. It's this, the CEO of this marketing company is someone I went to high school with. And they came together with their local United Way and a couple grocery stores. And they created a website where they made it easy for you as an individual to buy a gift certificate to a local restaurant or a local business to basically put money into businesses, right? To even if that gift card was never redeemed, that business is helping, you know, is getting help staying afloat. And then at the same time, then whatever was bought, then that's the amount that was also then donated by these partners that came together for grocery assistance. And then kind of that one-to-one match and partnership. And these are the sorts of projects that can only be possible when entities join together. And basically that we've already seen the lines blur between what a for-profit is supposed to be and what a nonprofit is supposed to do and serve. And that that line is going to continue to blur. And so if you haven't already, then think about the partnerships that you already have. Think about what those partnerships have brought you, what you can bring more to those partnerships, what opportunities exist to expand the networks that you exist in. You're going to continue to see a rise of social enterprises and B corporations. And again, that blur of lines that exist because it's cross-sector is what is going to continue to make make change happen. And that a lot of times those are kind of personal relationships that we can leverage. That I have someone I really trust and they work in a completely different environment than me, but that doesn't have to matter, right? That there can be ways of partnership and being creative together.


everything done. I'm looking at everything done. Everything. So now here we come to the dialogue part and we're going to stop at exactly 4.25. No, 5.25. What is it? 5.25. Not 5.26. So if you have questions about your work and your creative process and I'll keep the answers really fast but not unhelpful. I like children. If you have a question or you're just like fine with your pencil, you're just like yeah Adam. So if one is writing something and one is having a problem like with a scene that like they wrote and finished earlier and it's like but the whole piece isn't finished. Would you recommend like taking the time and I mean like this one this earlier perception is like driving the rider crazy. Would you recommend just going back and revising it just to not be crazy even though it's not finished? Or would you recommend like just going through and finishing the piece and then coming back? How do you think I would just say? Finish the piece. Yeah so Adam's like yeah. So he's written here. Adam comes like he's a regular. So he comes. So so this week Adam's asking if one is writing a piece and a scene before sorry to make your business loud like but the scene before scene before is you know you're on you've written scene two and now you're on scene two. And scene two is driving me crazy.  And it's a joke right? It's a joke question. I would say go forward go forward out of west go west go keep going to the end because then you're really going to know what that scene should be. Right now it's driving you crazy probably because one you're already crazy. Two you're nervous because we all are working on things right? We're all nervous I'm nervous because you think like maybe I'll never get it done. Maybe it'll never be good. All those concerns we have and three I don't know. But all those reasons are making you want to go back and make something perfect and we talked about perfection it's the desire of a smaller mind. Right so forget being perfect just get done you can make it better later. It's a mirage. You know if you've ever been like have seen a mirage you know we're just like a bad like boyfriend or girlfriend. Oh I should have been with him. And I'm gonna work it out please. This is gonna make me sound even more crazy but like how do you kind of put down the voices that are saying like go back. No no no because they're there right and they're talking to you and they're saying come on Adam. Like lost wife. You know we want to say you know sister talk to the hand you know like Indiana Jones and the temple of whatever the first one. We had to close his eyes whatever it's called whatever it's called. Thank you. Okay yeah Raiders right and you know they said keep your eyes closed when you open the box. And all the people were like him he was smart which is why he's now with those new Star Wars. He kept his eyes closed and all the demons were looking he just like. I will not be tempted. Actually there's a more beautiful thing attempting you and you can't see the beautiful of that thing.  You have to listen to that small voice. I guess that was my real question I guess. How do you just not listen to that you know or say look I'll deal with you when I'm done. Yeah. Voice me out of voice of your character. I have a lot of that in my work what they're thinking and what they're saying. And the thinking sometimes becomes part of the saying for the audience but it's not a model. It's kind of like a reality that's beyond the reality of here and now. When does when how do you curtail that how do you control that and yet allow it. I'm having a difficulty with reality. My character is often for this other world. But the other world and the reality come together in their confusion of their journey. But often audiences are kind of like wanting the reality version but here and now the tangible as opposed to the psychological. How do you as a writer find a way to keep the audience engaged in the psychological reality for theater in a way that keeps the story moving forward and yet honors the story of the mental world. Okay so my characters are fantasy people. They like to run off into fantasy.  Because the reality of the world around them is a bit much. Right. Do you find a way to keep the audience in a proscenium stage or even a black box engaged when those girls keep on intersecting and jumping in in a way that's effective for the audience not just effective for the character. Right. So you make you this is true for maybe everything. Maybe it's a unifying theory. I don't know.  That's sufficient. Even if the storyline is completely degrading. Sure. Sure. That's called though. What is that? Sure. There are I mean for you example. Think of Hamlet. For example. Right. At the play. Yeah. Okay. You know. Okay. I know. I know. Where is this going? I don't know. I'm not sure either. Think of Hamlet. Think of Hamlet. He has a mental problem. What if he thought he enjoyed to think of other things we could say. What if he thought he was say a grave digger really. What I'm saying is every time we cut to the grave digger we're seeing a story line with stakes. What I'm saying is invest the storyline with stakes. So you have character A and he likes to imagine himself as character B flat. The life of character B flat must have stakes. That would be best actually. That's how Shakespeare did it. I mean it was like connected. You know what I'm saying? Then like Alaskan York. You know you're dead. I don't know. He flips whatever. Whatever he's saying. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So he contributed. It had something to do with character A. That's like the best. Or you can just have running parallel tracks or something like that. Okay. But that's the best when they contribute somehow or A is contributing to the story of B flat somehow. The choice that A makes. Well the fantasy world is an extension of their own mind that it's not a cop out. But how much of it have you written? Okay good. So you just have like how many more pages? So just finish it and then see. I mean you got it mostly done. I mean it's a cop out. That's such a good one. I don't know. You wrote like 90 pages, 150 pages. No it was just a reticule. They took it to another realm and they accept it. But the audience knows what? The audience is given this visual that says yes this is not real. I don't know. Really? I don't know. Like fight club? Didn't you know Tyler Durbin wasn't real until he was like not real? No I thought he was really grand hit with some other clubs. I was like yep. I thought he was really grand hit with some other clubs. I thought he was really grand hit with some other clubs. I was like yep. I was so fine. She's part of this. And you're two. I don't know. One self in her process comes across censoring herself, myself. I am being challenged with that because I'm writing for myself. I see myself as the one performing it. And so I'm not allowing myself to, because I can, the character is so far from myself. I'm censoring myself and I know it. How can I stop myself from censoring myself? Like the stuff that's coming on the paper is just so, I'm like whoa. Am I really going to get there and say that? But I think it needs to be said. But I feel like the work is, I'm giving a work injustice because I see myself up there saying these things and anticipate reaction. And so I feel like my piece is struggling because of that. Or should I just take away the fact that I'm thinking well should I convince myself that someone else would do the work and they could say it. And then finish it like no, I'm going to do it. If you can believe that, you know what I mean? If you can trick yourself into believing that, that's a great way to do it.  It's not going to be me. It's going to be somebody else do that. Another thing is to write fast. We talked about the censor. The censor is really slow and uses a walker. And they're really shrewish. Their voice penetrates, you know, your quietest moment. But they're really slow. They're not elderly. They're just slow. Because they have a lot of thoughts. You know what I mean? So you can get by the censor by writing very quickly. That's another helpful thing too. But yeah, you can tell yourself that someone else is going to perform it. You can actually, I don't call up a friend and say, this is actually, I'm writing something for you. I don't know how deep you've got to get into the land of make-believe to get your work done. You can just also say like if you'll have, talk to the hand. Just talk to the hand. Like, shut them down. Imagine there's someone talking to you. Oh, I didn't know what people are going to think about you. Just, you know, I don't know what kind of language you're comfortable with. But you know.  This is stuff that doesn't even come from the paper. You know what I'm saying? Excuse me, I'm writing. Yeah. You know what I mean? You don't think of all kinds of... Oh, excuse me. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm, I'm... Hi. You're pretty great. The first year is now I know. I just said, who are you guys with? I'm English, but... Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. And just keep writing. Like, keep showing up every day. We'll weaken the resolve of that censor. It was very helpful, but not now. She or he is really good when you don't even rewrite it. But not now. Not now. Anybody else? Yeah. Good to see you again. What do you do when you sort of fallen out of love with an idea? What do you think? Like, are you in the middle of writing it? Yeah. I'm like 30 pages in and I don't love it. And I did love it and I don't love it. So, well, they're different. It sounds like dating, yeah. Or marriage. So you either... Well, both are very different. Well, there's a moment in every relationship where you go, am I really going to stay with you? Because you're like, I don't know, don't wash your socks every day somewhere. You know what I mean? Or you have to say, do I really not want to be with this project or am I scared? My guess is that you're scared. I'm just guessing. Something about it is scary. Something about it. So we have... Or you don't love it and that's easy.  It's scary then it becomes interesting because then we have something to work with. Right? I think the suggestion is that it's just feeling very, like, routine. Like, feeling like, oh, I'm going to wake up today and write that scene. Yeah, boredom is a way that we mask fear. I don't know. He's so bored.  He never takes me to the Eiffel Tower. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? I mean, really, boredom is a way that we mask fear. Just so you know. And whether you are really bored or scared, I don't know. But I would say everything you're feeling, just entertain the possibility that maybe everything you're...  Yes, you are. And so maybe you're just scared. There's something there that frightens you.  You have high level of craft as a writer.  Right? Get the stuff done. Get to page... How many pages? 120, 90? 120. 120. Okay, how many are you now? 30, 40. 30, 40. Good. Make a deadline for yourself and just get the stuff done. Just get the pages done. And then... Just do the boredom. I'm bored. So what? Because then you have to learn something else. Like, hey, even if you're bored, what does Joyce Carroll say when my soul is as thin as a playing card? She's great. She's right. You're okay with me, you know. Girl puts out big time, right? So when my soul is as thin as a playing card, somehow writing makes it better.  But she shows up regardless of her mood and gets the writing done. So I'm sure there have been many times when she's been bored. Right? But the boredom is a natural thing. That's not like the world's worst side. It could be fine. No, it could be fine. And sometimes we have work for hires that we do. Maybe it's like that. And sometimes, you know, we're bored.  Ha!  So what? I'm going to do it anyway. Because then you are becoming a professional. And that's what we want to become. Regardless of how much money we get paid, we're becoming professionals. This is your calling. What? This is your calling. Hello? It's calling to you. It's calling to you. Come on. Pass the boredom. Pass the fear. Pass the... I want to know if this is a good idea. Pass the... Oh, I'm going to have to fix the second scene and get it perfect. Your calling is calling to you. I'm in class right now. Yeah. And I don't know what it's about. And I'm wondering how do you figure out what the play is about? We have a lot of good characters and conflict. But at the end, you're like, what am I writing about? What does that mean exactly? What am I writing about? What does that mean? What am I writing about?  What does that actually mean? Like what the story is?  Or am I saying anything? Or am I just got a lot of characters that are just confused? I'm making faces because I'm not on camera. Am I saying anything? Lauren, have mercy. I don't know if I've ever said anything. I don't even think about what I'm saying. You know, I'm thinking about what I'm saying right now. We're talking. But you know, like a play. I just want to park saying. I don't know. But I tell you what the story is about. I can tell you the story. Okay. So, because I stand the level of story. And I leave meaning in all those important aspects to the scholars and the literary critics and the people who read my play. That's not for me to know. It's a need to know basis. And I don't need to know to write the story. Okay. Okay. So, here you are saying what's my story about? Now we're talking about something you can do something about. Okay. Once upon a time there was a woman who was in the army. Was in the army. And she got out. And she got out. Yeah. And some things happened along the way. Yeah. Okay. Tell me the story. What is it about and the themes and the place in cultural history and all those important things that are spoken about once your play is up and running and all that. Leave that to the scholars. It's not. I feel it's not. You don't need to know that to write your play. Okay. Good. Okay. Yeah. You're free. You're free. Okay. Oh, thank you. It's good to see you. I'm sorry. Not my class this semester. It was fun having you class this semester. I'm here though. Okay. You come visit us. I'll watch you. Okay. This is good. You're good. Hi. This is from Texas. There may be longer. Keep her Texas. Every week. Every week. Keep her Texas. Hey. Hi. I'm one of Carol's students. Hey. Nice to meet you. What's your feeling? I do a lot of time writing. Yes. At home.  Put the phone on the moon. Do not disturb. Turn everything off for 20-minute increments at a time. Sometimes 30. What is your... What do you think the next step is? Do you go to 45 minutes? Or is it like exercise moving up slowly? Because that's, to me, the most magical time when everything is off. Wow. So if you can... That's a great question. Everybody hear that time thing? 20 minutes. I think 20 minutes is a really magical amount of time. And if... I don't know your... Other things you've got going on in your life? A lot. Okay. So 20 minutes... So if you can have 20 minutes here, there, here, there, then you can add it up at the end of the day. And you've got like an hour done. And you've got two hours done or whatever you can do. Sometimes it's hard for us with a lot going on to manage three hours. There's nothing totally about three hours or an hour. Okay? The most important thing is what you're doing right now. Setting the time, setting your timer, putting your phone, as you said, beautifully on the move. Okay? I would suggest... Yeah, so then that... I would suggest that when we use a timer, I didn't use one today because I forgot mine, but usually I use a regular egg timer, like a kitchen timer and not your phone because as I said, your phone is cracked. So sometimes crack is great. Oh. Crack is really... Crack is what? And it's true. Crack is really bad, but I was making a joke. Yeah. Yeah, true. Yeah. Or in the phone? Oh, you in the phone? Yeah. Okay, your phone is cracked. It looks like it's really wonderful and as the gateway to the entire universe, it's not. The universe, the gateway to the universe is right here. That small school voice within that thing you were born with, you got it already. The phone, it really helped you. Except if you need to know the meaning of a word like sui generis, but so 20 minutes often is great. It's great. If you want to do an hour block or something like that, cool. But that doesn't... I do 20 minutes blocks. I have a lot going on too. So if I want to do, for example, I told people I dropped off my son to take care and then I come home and I do like 20 minutes of songwriting, miraculously, and stuff actually works. I've gotten so much stuff done with little 20 minute blocks. Okay, thank you. Sure, thank you. Yeah, Dallas, Texas. But I feel like next week I'm going to say I'm actually from Florida just to mix it up a little. Because every week you say I'm from Texas. Well, that's because it's true. It is. Okay. Go, Texas. Yeah, go, Texas. It gives us a chance to say go, Texas. Okay. Who's next? Nobody. Oh, we have... Hello. Hi there. You're great here. Okay. So I'm sort of between projects. Yeah. I have a play that I've been in between drives. Right. And I feel like I want to start something new and have a box full of ideas and paint them all. Oh. And so I'm kind of like, what do you do when you're stuck? I feel like in my writing I'm sort of rich at a level where I need it to be better. So I don't want to start all these ideas that are... Right. Right. You know. Right. I feel like I'm richer than that big step of challenging justice. Right. I suddenly fell off the wall and my eyes wandered from your face. I'm sorry. But that's a really good question. So if you have a box of ideas and you haven't started anything yet and you just look at them and you think, well, I came up with these ideas when I was in a different place. Sounds like you're in a different place now. And you want to start something new. You can just take your notebook simply and write out, here are some fun ideas for plays, for example. Here's some fun ideas. I always wanted to write a play about...  You write those out. That works too. Sometimes you let yourself up with hope a little bit. You know. You can do that. I would say that, if you really feel like before you open the box and I don't like any of those, great, fine. Don't look at them. Maybe come back to them at another time or burn the box. If you're not going to use it, you want it to take up space in your life. But if you kind of think, maybe let a light come in. Yeah. Maybe you might think, then you can keep them for another minute. Does that sound helpful? Just can't or not? Maybe not. Something else. You mean something else, right? Like you're in between products so you're feeling like I'm witty. What are you waiting on for the rewrite? Oh, no, I do have to do it. I'm waiting for the director to read and get back to me. You know, I have time. Oh, that's great. She's nice. That's really, really great. Yeah. I just feel like I want to fill this gap with something. What do you want to write about? Anything? Yeah. Whatever you know. What do you want to write about? Just pretend like you know. Just pretend like you know. Something political and urgent. Good, political and urgent. How does the main character look? What is it? Random? Probably a woman. Probably a woman, right? Is she like of this country or what country? Well, I live in Australia. Okay. So she's probably not from there. Okay. So she's from somewhere other than Australia? Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Does she have kids or no? Or is she... She might. Yeah, I think she might. Uh-huh. Okay. And is she like running for office or not? That's a good idea. I mean, I'm just saying. What do you think? She's running for office. Yeah? So maybe your next play can be an urgent play by the woman running for office in a place other than Australia. Cool. See, you like that, right? Okay. So tell me how you did this. Sometime you just have to pretend like you know, yes. because the actual reality is you actually do and what we do a lot of times we do this and we tell I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Like that. Like you really just pretend like in American Football which is a game that you don't want to play. Asian foot desse. I don't know. American Football. Like that. And if you really just pretend like in American Football, They're trying to make the touchdown, and they can't, right? And they call out with kicker, and they punt.  What? Goal, whatever, I've got a touchdown. Whatever it's called, whatever it's called. But there's that fear, isn't there, that there's not that much time left. Do you know what I mean? Well, we're getting older, right? So you don't want to spend, it's like, you don't want to spend. Yeah, you don't want to spend, you know, like, am I wasting my time? I mean, you don't want to kind of go, I don't want to write a whole play. But we each have these voices. This is singing too, isn't it good? I'm bored with my project. Time is moving along, we're all getting older, you don't want to waste your time. I don't know what the audience is thinking.  That's all it is. It's just clutter in your mind.  So if you're 20, maybe it's not, I'm getting old, but it's, do I matter? Maybe when you're 40, it's getting old. I mean, it doesn't matter.   We have to learn that that's all it is.  Just the chatter of the mind. And no matter who you are and where you are, we all have it. And what we have to do is work in spite of it. It's not that we're going to try to shut it down forever and ever because it's useful for some things. Five minutes, we have five minutes. We have time for one more quick question or a really quick answer. Yes. No. Yes. You. Cameron, I think you used to hear your work run out loud by actors. I don't know what stage shape of the company doing that. And also, how important is it for you to hear it in front of an audience and do you make big changes in time for those things? I think audiences are really important. I love audiences. I love my camera. And I think actors are really important too. So this is the thing, going back to square one. As a writer, and I know you're a very good playwright, because I know for the handy class this semester, what we need to know is that you can hear your work already. The idea, the thing that we're taught in some institutions not in my class at NYU, but maybe someone has heard it somewhere, that you can't hear your work unless you have actors read it. And that is not true. The truth is that you can hear your work already.   Actors are expert amplifiers. They're speakers. Oh, now I can hear it in full color sound. You know what I'm saying? Because they're actors. They're brilliant and fabulous. So they're useful. But I don't give my work to actors until I'm really solid with it on the page. Okay? Then I give it to them. And yeah, I can hear, ooh, that doesn't sound right. That's a little long. That ties the tongue up in a way that's not helpful. That's confusing. Because these expert speakers are speaking it, so I make changes in front of audiences. I might make more changes, but not because, like, when they like that part, they don't like that part. So I'm not, you know, doing focus groups with my work. With my work. With work for hire. Sometimes, yeah, they're our focus groups. And that's, you know, what happens. One more? No? You got it? So can we stay or we go? It's confusing. We're like as immersed with us. Well, we do have another event happening downstairs at 5.30. Great. We should talk about next week. Okay. Next week here. Next week. Okay, so thank you to everybody who came out tonight. This was really, really awesome. So next week, we are not having Watch Me Work because SLP is out of town. I'm doing. I'm opening Father Comes Home from the Wars at... Theater theater room. It's great. Congratulations. They're in great trouble. They're in great trouble. So if you're out in LA, go see it. But we will be back April 25th. Same at our regular time at 5 o'clock. Thanks to everybody who tuned in at 4.30 today. But we will see you in two weeks at 5 o'clock. Thank you. Bye. Thanks a lot. Thank you everybody for coming out.