Live from Boston, Massachusetts. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering HP Big Data Conference 2015. Brought to you by HP Software. Now, your host, Dave Vellante. Welcome back to the C4 in Boston, Massachusetts everybody. This is theCUBE, I'm Dave Vellante. And this is HP's Big Data Conference 2015. This is the third year that HP has run this event that spawned out of the initial Vertica users group. Really excited to have folks from Conservation International back. Jorge Omada is the executive director of the organization. And Eric Fegris is the senior director of information systems. Gentlemen, welcome back to theCUBE. It's good to see you again. Good to see you, David. So Conservation International, we heard the story last year, but for those in our audience who aren't familiar, Jorge maybe set it up and tell us a little bit about the organization. Yeah, so Conservation International is a nonprofit organization. We work towards trying to find sustainable solutions that are both good for people and for nature. And I work in a program called the team network and we are all about gathering data about the environment and particularly gathering data about biodiversity, wildlife and other important features in tropical forests. So we developed a couple of years ago a really good partnership with Hilo Packard where we had a big data challenge and they really helped us develop some analytics and other tools to help us analyze the data and bring it back to our partners and customers in the field so that they could make use of this data basically analyzing millions of camera trap images and getting useful information from those images in terms of indices that tell you how effective are you being in conserving biodiversity? Yeah, and that's one of the unique things about what you guys do.  I'm going to bring in other data from other APIs and weather data and you may do a lot of that as well but the really unique thing is you're actually taking pictures, right? You've got film of the environment and you're trying to understand what's happening in the physical location, right? That's right, and it's not only that. I mean, as you mentioned, big data is all about unstructured and different kinds of data but as Michael Stonebreaker was mentioning yesterday, it's also about analytics and we are at the forefront of big data. We use the images as educational materials but they're data for us and we were applying fairly complex Bayesian models, the kinds of things he was talking about yesterday where the industry still has to leverage the products that we have now to deliver better analytics. So we're right at the edge of that and really doing this in environment. And Eric, we talked last year about some of the technical challenges that that brings and maybe we can sort of summarize that and get into what's new but I mean, essentially you've got a big metadata challenge. Got all these images, I get this video. What is it that I'm looking at? So maybe you could describe how you approach this problem. Yeah, it's definitely a big data challenge in the fact that we're getting images from all over the world. We have to physically get them to a central server that we have. Some places where we work, the internet connectivity is very, very low if at all. So sometimes they have to go to a big city to be able to upload the data to us. But then once we get the data, then it becomes kind of part of a normal kind of data transformation process where we extract information from the image, we identify the species and then it gets turned into this larger analytical pipeline that Jorge was just talking about. Using Bayesian statistics, we use R and then we present that in very clear, meaningful ways that our protected area managers understand what's happening with species populations in the protected areas that they're in charge of managing. So it's really insightful information that they can use, they can understand, they can also look to see what's potentially driving the trends of the species that they're seeing. So it's a really fantastic tool. And at the start of the project you must have and must continue to face sort of a data quality issue where you, again, they have to have that base metadata. How does that actually get populated? Is it, do you have a means of automating that or is it sort of the mechanical church? Well, that's interesting. So right now what we've done is in our software is we've developed ways to rapidly identify a lot of the images and the species and images. We're going down the path looking at image automation and image recognition. And it's probably going to end up being kind of a hybrid approach of using humans as well as machine learning techniques to kind of rapidly go through lots of images at a time to get the species information. Yeah, so we all know if you're on Facebook you see yourself get tagged instantly and you think, wow, facial recognition is really, it certainly has come a long way but you think it's there but it's not that simple, is it? Actually human face is easy. There's a lot of key areas you can look at but when you look at animals and their body shapes and it gets a lot more challenging. Particularly you have black and white, you have color images, you have lots of similarities in the species structures so it's actually a little bit more difficult problem than human faces. So Jorge, what's changed since we last talked? What's new with you guys? Well it's been a really exciting year for us. Now that we have the analytics system in place we're exploring other uses of the system. For example this conference we presented a case study on distributed R. We've been using distributed R to speed up the processing of image data, not animal image data but satellite image data that we use to try to quantify deforestation at these places. And so we had like a basically a tenfold increase in processing of satellite images when you compare traditional R with distributed R which is running on vertical and that's a fabulous increase in speed and in performance. I mean that's one of the kind of the breakthroughs. We've continued to work with the, we're analytics system, the wildlife picture analytics system to start engaging governments now and trying to bring this up to scale. So it's not just our network of 20 sites or so, we're trying to get into national level networks so that countries can actually use these tools to inform their policy at that level. So of course R is the sort of, let's call it the modern tool of statistical analysis. Old guys like myself are trained in SPSS, many of you I'm sure are familiar with SAS. So R is sort of the open source version of those but distributed R is relatively new. How did it come about, what is distributed R? Distributed R is a package that was written by folks at HP Vertica and they took many of the functions that run natively on R and made them run in parallel, to take full advantage of parallel processing and memory management at Vertica. So with that we can run, our normal functions in R but we can take advantage of the power of Vertica essentially. And not just in managing the data but also in the analytics which was kind of a limiting factor for us. So in this world of scale out it's sort of a better fit for the momentum of the market. And HP put that code back into the open source community. That's right. So distributed R is a completely open source package. And now Eric, you gave a talk at this event on Big Data for Good. I was commenting that last year when we were up on stage, myself and some colleagues, one of the questions that I got from the audiences and it was sort of a, there was a little tension.  When are we going to see big data applied for good? That was the essence of your talk. It was some color. It is. And that's exactly what we've been working on with this solution is using these, this kind of big data tools and software to be able to inform conservation decisions. And the nice thing, what Jorge was saying earlier is we've built a system that satisfies the needs of our network. And not only have we done that, we've made a system that's replicable and scalable. So as we think about new ways to use the tools with new organizations, governments, nonprofits, we can scale the system and it can work with essentially more customers but new organizations, new partners, et cetera. So it's really like this nonprofit entrepreneurial software product all being merged together and it's an exciting, exciting thing for us. And how, so how did this all come about conservation international? You know, where's the funding come from?  Well, Conservation International is about a little over 25 years old. It's an organization that was born out of another nonprofit organization that was doing some basically domestic conservation work in the United States and it was spun out of the international program of that organization.  Funding comes mostly from many of these organizations as well as, you know, private foundations and donors. I mean, we're not, we don't have a huge donor base but we have a very influential board and, you know, people that are really, really committed to changing the environment for the good and do it in a sustainable way that is both good for people and for nature. I was struck by Ken Rudin's comments today and we saw the keynotes and he was emphasizing that it's not just about actionable insights, it's actually about taking action and affecting change. So I'm curious, I'm presuming you agree with that. We have, for instance, a lot of data on climate change. We haven't really acted as much as many would like. So talk about the changes that you've been able to affect, which is ultimately the mission of big data analytics. Yeah, I mean, this is a great point and, you know, we can have all the analytics we want if we don't take action, it's not going to do anything and we're starting to see that in the team network now. Now that we have this tool, people are starting to look at the data. For example, in Uganda, we've seen that, you know, the wildlife managers in our partner site there have detected that a couple of cat species are declining and they actually, this spun a series of research around that, why is this happening? Is this happening because of food shortages in the reserve? Is this happening because of people? And there was a lot of actually really good insights coming out of that and some of the actions that were taken were maybe try to zone out some of the tourist access to the park because this seems to have an effect on where cats are and, you know, they would never had done this if they'd never seen the analytics.  So this has really actually taken park managers into a realm they've never been before because now they have the tools, they have the data, they have the analytics to be able to take action. So presumably you're able to directly affect public policy. I mean, that's kind of what your goal is, right? Because without the data, you know, presumably those that are against protecting the environment can make a, you know, stronger case or at least a more muddled case but have you seen a direct relationship between the data and the ability of those who are making decisions because you're not dictating public policy, you're just providing the data. Have you seen a direct correlation between access to that data and the ability to affect public policy? Well, the interesting thing about public policy is that many of these countries where we work already have commitments to conserve biodiversity. So it is a policy that they already have in place but they don't have the tools or the infrastructure, as Eric was saying, to basically test whether their policies are working or not. So we're, they already, we don't need to convince them that this is important. They already know it's important and now we're just enabling them to monitor the biodiversity and be able to, you know, get to the commitments that they have pledged to, you know, in front of international governments. A key kind of gap that wasn't filled is they didn't have the tools to be able to see what was actually happening in the protected areas and come up with quantifiable indicators. And so now with the software systems and our methodologies, we have a package that will enable these government agencies to do that. Well, presumably that creates some kind of flywheel effect or at least, you know, circular effect where you're providing better data that's able to demonstrate the impact, the positive impact of public policy that hopefully will get you more funding to get more data. So, from a technology standpoint, what are the sort of, to the limitations that you face, Eric, that you'd like to, you know, barriers that you'd like to break through? Is it funding? Is it other technological barriers? Is it people in process? That's a good question.  And we now have scalable software that, you know, it can run in the cloud, we can spin up as many instances as we need depending on our customer's needs. Now it's really, you know, it's just a question of really rolling out and implementing it. And so that's the phase we're in. And that, you know, comes with some funding challenges and, but yeah, I'd say, you know, we're poised to really go for it. So you mentioned the cloud. I mean, you got a lot of distributed locations, so you were a lot in the cloud. But what is your cloud strategy? Well, it's going to be interesting. We're talking about that yesterday. You know, a lot of the countries where we work, they may have different requirements about where they can store their data. And if we can work with some of the big cloud providers, like HP and some of the other big ones here, and the solution will work there, that's great. But we may have to get creative if they're being really restrictive and they want to use a country that's, you know, only available in that, or sorry, a cloud provider that's only available in that country. So there may be some other work that we have to do there. We do have on-premise solutions as well that will work. So depending on where we are, it's going to be, we may have to tweak our approach a little bit. And how does that work?  So we're providing the specific solution that the countries need or the organizations need to manage and manage their camera trap data and the environmental data. We'll partner with organizations like HP, potentially other IT contractors to actually implement the kind of mixture of we have the hardware and the backend working as needed. So the local countries are essentially, it's a self-funding model now. Is that right, or is it not necessarily? It depends, it may be a hybrid approach. Again, when Jorge was talking about a lot of the donors that we work with, and so it'll be a case-by-case basis depending on every country. So other stories, other things that you want to highlight, personal stories, things that you want to share with our audience. Well, we're putting together a new effort called the Wildlife Insights. I want Eric to talk a little bit more about it, but essentially it's a place where we are actually calling for the community of camera trappers in the world to start providing their data and aggregating the camera trap data. And it's going to be called Wildlife Insights. And Eric, if you want to get some more details. So it's interesting, we kind of have two approaches. We have our kind of enterprise solution that's meant for people, organizations that really want to do standardized monitoring. They want to look to see exactly what's happening with species populations in their protected areas. And then we're having this kind of open cloud-source solution where people doing camera trapping for a whole variety of different reasons. Traditionally, they've been collecting this data and sitting on their laptops in hard drives, isolated the data die as they move on in their careers. And so this new approach called Wildlife Insights will be this cloud-based repository where anyone can share their data and we're going to have analytics involved in it as well. These two systems that we're talking about will be able to communicate, but we kind of have two approaches and we're kind of trying to provide solutions for the entire community as well. Do you guys, what's your sort of social strategy, if you will? I mean, you've got a growing and vibrant community. How active are they? I mean, do you have deliberate social media plan strategies? We have a Facebook page and we have Twitter accounts and Instagram. I mean, we use a lot of conservation and internationals and other partners of team, social strategies. I think we're not, because we're working with governments and local partners, it has to take on first there. And then I think it's not a matter of just disseminating only globally and to individuals. So it's also working with key partners in our case governments that have the... How many people in the organization? About 1,000 people. Yeah, substantial. And what are your goals for the next 12, 18 months? What should we be watching? Well, we hope to roll out the first few analytics systems in three countries and maybe some other places. So I think it's going to be an exciting year. You know, we're in a transition mode where we're taking our network and leveraging all the resources that we have in our network and trying to spun out these national-level networks. In new countries or... No, in countries where we're already working, but we don't have that presence yet. Much larger scale. Much larger scale to cover more of the country right now. Bigger footprint. Yeah, and more influence, yeah. And you've got more proof points now. Yeah, yeah. So it's a really exciting year and hopefully we'll be here next year telling you a lot about these tools. Well, hopefully we'll be here interviewing you next year as well. So, Eric and Jorge, thanks very much for coming back in theCUBE. It was really great to see you again. It's great to see David. All right, keep it right there. Everybody will be back with our next guest. We're live. This is theCUBE from HP Big Data 2015 in Boston. We'll be right back.


Hello boys and girls, I've got a special for you today, and El Especiale. All right, let's take a look. So this is a Torro, the GTS model, Grand Turismo Super, and looks like it's a 5.5 liter. And that's big black territory, man. Stainless steel exhaust guard, good stuff. What is this? Is this bent? I'll fix it later. Yep, as I thought, rear wheel drive. I mean, look at these tires, they are smoked. Man, the last owner must have been really under throttle, you know what I mean? So I guess the Super stands for super stiff suspension. Check this out, no play at all. Some kind of a front strut bar. It even has an automatic start. Well, key turn, automatic start, but the battery is shut. Here's the battery for that. There are quite a few different attachments, which I have no idea what they do. This is the bag, obviously. That's, I guess, the mulching option. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to use this option. This, I guess, take this, this guy off and install that. It gives you the smooth finish, probably for better aerodynamics. So there's the actual starter, this little guy here. Let's see what's in here. This is just nasty. All right, we're going to leave it like that. And this is an actual aluminum body. Yep, the GTS version, that's for lightweight also. Got to leave the other lawnmowers behind. So this thing is 30 years old. It's a 1990. I actually got it going on the second pull. It's been sitting for years. It started for me on the second pull, believe it or not. Let's see if it's going to do it again. Choke is actually on the handle. So I got to fix on that. We're going to take care of some other things. And right after that, we're going to give it a good old wash. Try and bring out this Ferrari red. So now I should probably flip it over, turn it on its side and see what's going on. All right, now since I got it on its side, now I don't know much about lawnmowers, but if the blade doesn't turn when it's running, yeah, there's a problem. Forgot to say, don't put your hands in there when the engine is running. So besides this, looks like there's also an issue with this wheel over here. It actually was lifted off of the ground. Looks like there's just too much clay. Looks like there's something missing or it's just loose. But later on that. So, yeah, like I was saying before, one would think if the blade doesn't turn, you want to start from the bottom. So that's what we're going to do. I'm going to take these two bolts or nuts off. All right, let's see what's behind door number one. We can sharpen this later. Take this. This plastic? Yeah, that's plastic. We'll take that off. All right, let's see what we got. Okay, we got a short V-belt. We got a bearing in here. A bearing feels okay. This is the brake. So this slows down the blade here. Oh, this actually cleaned off. Yeah, this bearing is okay. Okay, there's a pulley right behind this plate here. Is there a nut? Okay, yeah, there is a nut behind this bolt here. This is a half, by the way. So there's a little nut. Keep these together. Okay, slide the pulley off. Wow, okay. Well, it still works. It's making a little noise. Very little play. Maybe more than a little, but this is not the issue. I don't think so at least. Let's take this guard off. Okay, so the keyway is still good. So this is the actual crankshaft. I'm gonna put this back. So this, I'm guessing right now. Remember, I don't know much about Rollmore, so I'm guessing this propels the transmission. I'm gonna pull on the gear lever here. This should move the belt. No, that ain't it.  So I've noticed this here. This moves, this is the brake, the actual brake release cable here. I've noticed that it didn't move for me when I was pressing this, right? So this is what turns on the drive. So how does this work? I was thinking maybe there's a handle missing for the blade or something. So then I did this. You see this move? Yeah. So now the brake is on. Now it's off. And at the same time, the wheels are on as well. So one handle does two things. Now if you let go, you stop driving and the blade stops turning or puts on the brake. Maybe I should stick with cars. Anyways, let's put it back together and see if it works. Like new. Okay, it's back together. You know, I kinda wanted to work, but I also don't. You may know the reason. All right, let's try it out. Where's my hand so red?  Okay, this was kind of part of maintenance. I was inspecting it. Yeah, that's what I was doing. I was inspecting it. So now I'm gonna just tighten up that bolt on the loose wheel right here and wash it. 30 years old, guys. 30 years old. It's when they still made them good. Some paint came off. I'm probably gonna do the filter, the air filter, the spark plug and change the oil. That loose wheel, that was just a kind of a loose nut. It's all good now. I did tighten up some of these nuts and bolts on the handle. It is a bit stiffer now. It is kind of low still. So that is it, boys and girls. Next time you see a repair video on a lawnmower, from me, just skip it. Don't bother. And as always, like, subscribe, comment and I'll see you soon.


Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book related video. And just to let you know, we're also live streaming this on Twitch as well. And once I tell you what we're live streaming, you have an appreciation for what's going on right now. But basically the short version of it is someone that's been supporting our work here that ended up buying some of the comic books that we had listed on eBay, ended up getting the comic books, I packaged them up, ended up getting the comic books and they mentioned that they were sending the comics to be great and I was really curious to see what the grays were that they were going to come back as. And the person that bought it, Mark, thank you, the person that bought it, mentioned that as soon as he came back, they were going to send one of the comics back to me as a gift. And we're going to take a look at that. I mentioned when the live stream started that I had my fingers crossed that came back as a great we were that I graded it at on the eBay auction. Either way, amazing, literally amazing. Right? No pun intended. Okay, so we're going to take a look at that. And what I'm going to do also is I'm going to show you a couple of comic books that I bought in the last couple of months. Okay, as you know, I'm sort of flying on low budget. So I've been sort of scavenging, right? There's auctions coming up for local sellers. So I've been trying to bid on stuff and whatnot. I've lost out most of almost all of the business that I put in, but I was able to get my hands on a couple of fantastic buys and very happy. Actually, more than a couple of the other ones sort of were things that I wanted. They were really on the low end. They were on the cheap cheap. And they're just filling in collections that I'm very happy to have. And at some point, I'll show them to you. But I thought I would show you these ones, which were leaps and bounds way more expensive than any of the other penny comics that we ended up buying, right? But I'm going to show you these other two as well. Very happy to have these in my collection. Okay, one of them is CGC. So we've added another CGC comic to our comic book collection, as well as the gift that has found its way to us. And there's three books that I want to review for you. Okay. And I thought we start off with the reviews. Because, well, two of these books, actually all three of these books, you would have heard me talk about. But one of them I mentioned that I was going to read, basically, I grabbed it, I bought it pre, I think it was during the spring it came out, spring of this year, right? And I mentioned that I was going to have a read through it during the summer. And I did end up having a read through it. Okay. So let's do the reviews first. And then we're going to look at the comic book hauls. Okay. The first comic book, right, is the one that I ended up getting in the spring. And I've shown this to you guys. And I showed it a couple of times during the live streams. And this book is Monk by Yusef Dakoudi. Okay. This book right here. Now, I don't, you know, I've never heard of Yusef Dakoudi, right? I tried looking him up and I did look him up and it looks like he's not a fair bit of work. I believe he's releasing the books in French. I'm not absolutely sure on this, right? I didn't dig too deep into who the creator of this book is. Know this name. I'm going to keep my eyes out for this person as well, from now on, for anything that they're putting out, right? But the reason I bought this book was because of Monk, Thononius Monk. And I've mentioned Thononius Monk before, right? And as soon as I saw this, advertising previews, because I look at the catalog that comes, you know, I get the previews catalog every month when it comes to the comic book store, he basically supplies free previews to anyone that has a subscription box at his comic book store. So I get that every month and I flip through it. And at the beginning of this year, I believe, 2019, I saw this, solicited it, and I ordered it through the comic book store and it arrived in spring, right? Now, this book hands down is brilliant, really. Let me show you some of the artwork, right? And the reason that I picked up this book is because of Thononius, this is the way you pronounce his name, or spell his name, T-H-E-L-O-N-I-O-U-S. Thononius, hopefully that'll focus, Thononius Monk, okay? He was a jazz pianist, composer, from the 19, I shouldn't know because I read this, but the dates, you know, escaped me, but from the 1950s, 60s, and I forget when he passed away, right? I believe it was last decade or so, maybe 90s or 2000s, like, again, I should know because I read this, but I finished this a few months ago, okay? And if you want to read an amazing biography on an amazing musician, consider it to be one of the greatest musicians ever, really, in some of people's top five greatest American musicians ever, top 10 greatest musicians ever, greatest composers ever, just an artist, really. This is it. You need to read this, okay? Now, for me, I had heard of Monk through a documentary that Dave Chappelle put out called Block Party, right? And Block Party was a sort of documentary Chappelle put out, where he invited a whole bunch of musicians to come and basically have a block party, right? He sent out some invitations and stuff and brought in Jill Scott and Dead Prez and Kanye West and Talib Kowel and Most Def, right? They were also playing, and there was a few other people playing, right? And I knew some of them. And some of those people, I sampled their music after watching that documentary, okay? Now, during the documentary, if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend watching it, right? It's called Dave Chappelle's Block Party. Now, during the documentary, Dave Chappelle mentions Phenolius Monk.  And then when I watched that documentary, that sort of stuck with me, and I checked into Monk back then, but because I was sampling some of the other music that other musicians that were playing during the Block Party, and he really didn't get a chance to go off on Monk, right? When I ordered this, when the book arrived, right, in spring of this year, what I ended up doing was I already had Miles Davis on my MP3 player, right? So I started listening to a lot of Miles Davis. I started listening, sort of looping that with Scars on Broadway, the person that came out for System of Down, right? So I was listening to Miles Davis and Scars on Broadway, right? As soon as this book arrived, thanks to recommendations from people on Twitch that know their music, they recommended that I had listened to John Coltrane as well. So I sampled a few albums from John Coltrane, right? So I started looping Miles Davis, and I started looping John Coltrane, right? In preparation to listening to the Novelius Monk. And what I ended up doing, I sampled some of the albums from Monk. Let me give you the list of the albums that I listened to, right? Genius of Modern Jazz, Volume 1 and Number 2, okay? Live at Five Spot, Mysterioso, okay? Monk's Music, Plays Duke Ellington, Straight No Chaser, Columbia Collection, Complete Prestige Recording and Underground, okay? Those are the albums of Monk that I ended up looping. So basically the way I prepped myself, really, and you have to prep yourself for this, okay? The way I prepped myself, I looped Miles Davis, Scars on Broadway together, and then I kicked into John Coltrane looping about five of his albums, right? A few times. And then I listened to these albums from Monk, okay? Once I had gone through one iteration of this, because I needed to have an appreciation for what Monk's Music was about, right? Just a 15-second little rant that Chappelle had of Thelonious Monk. It was praise, like leaps and bounds beyond one-hour speeches of people praising other musicians, right? It was amazing. It really stuck with me, right? So I knew it was going to be magnificent. So I looped these albums once, or listened to them once. Once I had gone through one iteration, I started reading this, and I listened to the albums multiple times, right? I'm not sure how long it took me to read this. I savored it. There's times where I would just read a few pages, right? Really. Just read a few pages, and then I would listen to the music, right? And this is basically a biography. There are other musicians that have appearances in this book, right? Some of the stuff, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, right? They talk a little bit about it. There's a little bit of New York history with Roth trials being in here. That's how it started, which blew me away, right? And this book is created in a way that reflects Monk's music. Like, I can't explain it beyond that, because, well, let me try, right? This thing is sort of goes into sort of dreaming to a certain degree. And that's what I found myself happening, or what was happening to me when I was listening to Monk's music, because when I was listening to Monk's music, some of the stuff is offbeat, some of the stuff is very mellow, some of the stuff just goes chaotic. So basically, I would go for two hour walks and listen to the music. I was traveling somewhere for, you know, an hour trip or hour and a half trip. I was listening to the music. And what I found myself feeling, experiencing, was basically the same type of experience you would have if you were in a room with a lot of people where all of a sudden the conversation picks up and the volume in the room becomes, grows and grows and sometimes just becomes overwhelming and that just dies down and there's whispers in the room and quiet where you can just sort of meditate and lose yourself in your own thoughts and then slowly the music picks up again and all of a sudden you find yourself sort of carried away in some kind of experience or conversation where it's picking up and it's lots of excitement and then all of a sudden, boom, right? That's the feel of Monk's music to me, okay? And that was exactly the feel I got from this book. I know I'm giving it, like I'm really, I'm losing some of my words, right? Because reading this and looping Monk for, I don't know, it took me a couple of weeks, right? I took a little break in the middle and I looped Monk a few more times, these albums and then I went back to this again, right? Because I really didn't want it to end and I was finding that I was reading parts of this and then I would have to go back and listen to the albums again and try to catch some of the description, some of the some of the feel of what the music represents, interpretation really of Monk's music represents and then try to listen to it, hear it on the albums, right? And I would, you know, there's, they drop a few names of albums and songs in this, right? So I would go back to my playlist to make sure, you know, I had the music that I was, you know, that was being mentioned here in the albums that I was looping and some of them I did, some of them I didn't, right? Because Monk has, his library is enormous. I don't know who's, who's a larger, Nino Simone's or Monk's. My guess is Nino Simone produced 38, I believe 38 unique standalone albums and there's a whole bunch of compilations of the best of and whatnot. I haven't looked into how many albums Monk released, his discography, but what I had, what I've been looping, what I mentioned, the albums that I listed, that's just a fraction of how much work he's produced, right? And a lot of those, well not a lot of it, but a fair bit of the classic stuff that they're supposed to be, they're considered the classic, are mentioned in this graphic novel. Highly recommend it, really, I could sit here for an hour talking about this, flipping through this, but I don't want to give too much spoilers, if I've given too much already, hopefully I haven't, okay? Highly recommend reading this if you like amazing biographies, comic book, graphic novel biographies, and if you're a music aficionado, if you want to listen to someone which is unique, unique, unique, it will blow you away if, for sure, read the graphic novels at the same time, because you'll have an appreciation for what's going on with the music, right? Because at first, first few loops that I did, I really didn't appreciate what was happening until I hit certain parts of the graphic novel that was talking about some of the tracks that I was listening to, and then I would go back and listen to those albums, I would go, oh my god, that is brilliant, that is amazing, right? And then you can sort of try to focus in on the piano, because Monk was the pianist in all of these, I believe, right? You can listen to the piano and try to catch the notes that Monk is playing, right? And then no matter how hard you try, you find yourself sort of lost in the music and the piano drifts away from you, and the other instruments kick up, and then once the sound, right, the rhythm hits a certain place where I haven't figured it out yet, but it's most likely when Monk is sort of slowly coming back into the conversation of the music, you see it pick up again and go, oh, wow, wow, wow, boom, drop, right? Absolutely brilliant, highly recommend it, highly recommend it, okay. The next graphic novel, the next graphic novel is volume number four of Monstress. Now I've been collecting and buying the singles of this, and I bought, I hopped on this from the get-go when the number one came out like in 2016, I believe, right? This thing is brilliant, highly recommend it. If you like epic tales and the artwork is very unique, right? And this is created by Marjorie Lu and Sanata Takita. Okay, the names are up here, Monstress. So this is volume number four, don't pick up, don't start reading this from volume number four, that's like jumping in to Lord of Rings in book number two. You can't do it, you need book number one, you have to go through that, right? This is on the same level, it is absolutely an epic piece, and in this volume, I'm going to give a little spoiler here, in this volume, all of a sudden we see the players that are about to embark on the journey, just like many great fantasy science fiction tales in literature, where there's character build-up, incredible for issue after issue, and then all of a sudden you find yourself, you know, sometimes lost in the story, but once you move on a few pages or a couple of issues down, you realize what was happening in previous issues, right? Absolutely brilliant. If you want an epic read, one of the greatest comic books, comic book stories that have been told at least in the last couple of decades, right? Fantastic read, highly recommended, highly recommended, okay? Great read. The third review, sorry about the quick review on these ones, because I don't want to give away any spoilers for Monstress, right? I really don't, because it's very important if you like science fiction and fantasy to have a read through that. Okay, here's another book that I picked up, and I picked up the first issue of this when it first came out, and this is Black Hammer. Now, this thing just came out last week or the week before, so week before, right? And it's a $1 special reprint of Jeff Lemire, Jeff Lemire and Dean Ornstone. Ornstone are the creators of this book, right? This universe really, Black Hammer. And Black Hammer just had a recent crossover with Justice League from DC Comics, so it's pretty much established that Black Hammer, this universe is going to be around for a very long time to come. And what's happened is Jeff Lemire and Dean have formed a production company, and I believe there is movies and TV series about to be produced based on this universe, right? So if you want to delve into this universe, go to your comic shop, the odds are they will have copies of this. I grabbed the high and full of copies of this, right? Because it's three comic books in one reprinting three number one issues of different stories from the same universe, right? The first one is the first Black Hammer issue that came out. Now I picked up the first, this issue, and I picked up, I think there was at least, I got both of these covers, like this one was one of the covers for issue number one, and this one was another cover, I believe there's a third cover. I picked up the first few issues of Black Hammer, and I had to read through Black Hammer where it first came out. It is absolutely brilliant. Fantastic storytelling. And if you watched some of the other comic book videos that we put out, we've talked about Jeff Lemire. Jeff Lemire's work specifically related to Valiant Comics. He's told some classic, epic stories for Valiant Comics, and he's put out a lot of independent works as well, right? This one, I just did a little research on them. He considers this to be one of the most important things that he's released, right? He said this is dear to his heart, so there's a lot of depth to this series, Black Hammer. And what this thing is, is the first issue of Black Hammer that came out. And then he put out another story arc related to what's it called, Sherlock Frankenstein, right? And this was cover number one of the covers for right here. And this is a cover by Mike Mignola, the person who does Hell, The Names, right? What you would call it? Hellboy, right? And he did the cover for this one. And this story was pretty good as well. It wasn't bad. The art style was a little different, or it could have been the same. You know what, I didn't really look into who did the artwork for this. Yeah, I'm not sure who did the artwork for this. It felt a little different. The inking might have been different. So the second story is not bad. It's related to the original Black Hammer story. And the original Black Hammer story, I forget how many issues it ran for, okay? I believe it was a Maxi series. And then the Sherlock Frankenstein was a mini series, I believe. And then there's another number one that came out and he called it, what was this one called? It was called The Quantum Age, okay? And this is the cover of the first cover A, I believe, and this was cover B, okay? I didn't pick up this one. I picked up Sherlock, the first issue of the Sherlock Frankenstein one, but I didn't continue buying any of the other ones because I didn't read it. And I didn't pick up this one, but this one wasn't bad either. But the cream de la creme for this is Black Hammer, in my opinion. Pick this up. It should still be available in your comic book store. Go to your comic book store. There should be plenty of these around, okay? Get them to order this. For one dollar, you get three comic books and the first appearance of the characters in this universe, Jeff Lemire's story. It's a great introduction and this is the back cover for it, right? Great introduction to this universe. And for one understand, TV series and possibly movie in the works for this, okay? That's the comic book reviews I wanted to do. I went off on Monk a little bit hardcore because really, I'm still looping Thinolius Monk. I'm still looping the music. So when I want to sort of drift away and just lose myself in my own thoughts and experience something magnificent, right? I'm listening to Thinolius Monk and I'm not.  One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten albums. I'm going to be looping these ten albums for a while before I load on anymore, right? Because I only have a little four gig mp3 player, so I have a few masters on that thing and I cycle through things, okay? Now, aside from the comic book reviews, let me show you comic book halls and a little gift that we ended up getting, okay? Here's one book that I bought and I didn't have this and it's a golden age comic book and it's three dimension adventures of Superman in 3D, okay? Awesome. And this, you know, they released this thing in 1953. It came with 3D glasses and if you open this up, it's got the 3D. Here, let me crack this open so you see it. It's graded at two, right? So it's graded at good, so it's low end, right? So two out of ten, basically. But I ended up getting at an amazing price and then I'm picking it up for, let me put the tape here, and then I'm picking it up for 1950 Canadian, which is basically $15, $14.50 US, which is a fantastic price, fantastic price. So you can see it's, you know, it's worn, it's still attached, like the cover is attached and this is what it looks like. Take a look. I don't actually know who the artist for this is. Does this even say who the artist for this is? I try to find it initially just quickly, but the man who stole the son, Superman. Take a look at this. Awesome. So the whole comic is like this. I haven't put on 3D glasses. Try to track one down to see what it looks like in 3D. I've actually had other 3D comics as well. I got one, I got the, I believe there's only one EC comic book from 1952 that they released in 3D and I ended up getting that as a steal as well a while ago. And this was a great price. Okay. The EC comic one, I think we got for less than $10, maybe maybe for $12 or something. So that was a great buy and glad to have that in my collection as well. But this one, fantastic. Golden age 3D Superman comic. When I picked it up, the comic shop owner was like, damn, you got that at a great price. Very happy with it. Who doesn't love a 3D Superman comic? What was the price on this when it came out? $0.25 in 1953. That's seriously on the expensive side from that period. All right. Let me show you this. I tried to get my hands on this and I can't believe I got it for this price. Again, the comic shop owner was, damn, you got that at a great price. It's a CGC graded. Let me take it out of the plastic. CGC graded comic from 1952 and it's crime detective comic volume three, number three. Serious reflection here, right? You can see the camera. What I'm looking at, right? And it's a female smoke in a cigarette. This is so like, and it's a brand new case. That's why it's shining so much. He mentioned that this was a brand new case. So let me show it to you like this. All right. Fantastic. Fantastic. Maybe this is less reflection, right? Beautiful artwork. The crime comics from that period have someone almost amazing artwork and there's Bill E. Lee art in this. It's the last story. I looked this up. It's the last story, right? And the reason that this is graded at two, I believe is because the spine, the cover was detached. And I didn't know this, but it looks like when the cover is detached, it automatically drops down to two. Someone, you know, if that's false, if I'm on the false or I understood it incorrectly, please let me know. But as far as display wise goes, this thing looks beautiful, right? There's no extra notes on it here, but it only mentions here at the bottom of the CGC thing that the cover is detached. So I'm assuming if the cover is detached, it automatically kicks it down to a two. I'll have to look this up. Okay. I'm not 100% sure how the grading works. I just grade things according to what I think they are. And personally, just because the cover was detached, I wouldn't grade a comic book as a two, not if the cover is this intact, right? Oh, yeah. How much did I get this for? Check this out. I ended up getting this for $26 Canadian, which is basically $20 US, right? That's less than what it cost to send this comic to be graded, right? When I picked it up, the guy said he was expecting to get a lot more from this. And I think what happened was some of the other books that he had went for insane amounts. So people were tapped out. They couldn't afford to bid on some of the other books. So luckily Chicho ended up getting this guy for $20, basically. The third one, right? Now, this book is the book that was with me a few months ago. It's a book that one of the people on Twitch popped in and, you know, we're talking about comic books and stuff like this. And they knew, I'm not showing you the front of it just because the names and the addresses and stuff are on there, right? So we're going to crack this open. And this thing is basically a comic book that I put up part of a collection. And if you're following the other videos, you would have seen it being loaded on, we graded it and put it on to eBay. It's Amazing Spider-Man 361, right? And I put this up with the rest of the Amazing Spider-Man, the appearances of the first appearances of Cletus, the cameo appearances of Carnage and Cletus, and the first two full appearances of Carnage. And this is the most expensive one. It's first full appearance of Carnage was Amazing Spider-Man 361. And this thing, Mark is the person that ended up buying it. Thank you, Mark. I mentioned during the last stream that I appreciate it very much, right? And he mentioned that he was going to send it back to me. It was like, no, man, you can't do that. Because this was more expensive than, I believe, most of the other ones put together, right? So it was a cream, right? So what he ended up doing was when he got the books, he sent the scent to CGC, got it graded and then sent it back up to me as a gift, right? So huge, huge. And if you know the history of Amazing Spider-Man, this is a very, very important book, right? Very important book. And what I ended up grading this as was 9.4, right? Near mint. Seriously, I'm like nervous on this. I think that's why I've been sort of forgetting names and sort of losing my train of thought because this thing's been sitting on my couch for the last day for us to set up the live stream for me to crack this open, right? So it's packaged like lots of bubbles and wrapping and stuff. So let's take this out. Look at this. Oh my God, serious bubbles. Look at this. Awesome. So we're going to crack this open. Hold on, let me put this guy here. Okay, let me put this here. Crazy. Let's see what this is. And I don't have this graded. For sure I don't have this graded. I only have, I think with this one, we have a total of, I don't know, probably 10 or 12 CGC graded books or something. Let's check it out. And this thing, when I graded it, I mentioned that on the spine, on the lower staple, I should, dangerous. The lower staple was a little bit of crease on the lower staple. So I'm not, my estimate of this thing would be 9.4 because the rest of the book was absolutely beautiful, right? And that was sort of a stress mark or whatever it is on the staple. So I'm not sure how much that kicks down the grade, but let's see what CGC considers that to be. I don't know yet. Oh my God, no way. Awesome. By the way, Mark is watching on the live stream, right? So I guess we're lowballing it on the eBay auctions, right? This sucker came back as 9.6. That is sweet. Crazy, crazy. Awesome, awesome. Mark, fantastic. And this thing, by the way, this thing had, because of the printing, right, the way they print comic books, in the bottom of it, there's the cut things that they do with Marvel. Marvel had a lot of these because this stuff was sort of on newsprint. When they did the cut for the comic books, there's usually a couple of slits, not usually, but a lot of the comic books have a couple of slits at the bottom where the cutting happens. So they look like holes and they are holes, but that doesn't knock it down on the grading. So I knew about that. So I didn't knock off anything on it. I just assumed just because of the spine thing on here. I was a 9.4. But it came back as a 9.6. Oh, crazy, crazy, dude. Awesome, awesome. So some of the things we must have graded at 9.6, 9.6, they would have come back as 9.8 and kick it up, kick it up, right? So people that did the buys on the eBay, the auctions, I'm glad they're getting great comics. We have one person commenting, laughing at how low I was grading some of the comics, right? He was very happy, the person buying, there's a few people that have been buying the comics, they've been very happy with the comics, right? So first, full of fears of carnage, 9.6 slapped. And so this thing basically, Mark ended up buying for it was 167.50 Canadian, which came out to, you know, that comes out to $126 U.S. or so, right? So $126 U.S., right? I don't know how much it costs to send in for grading. I know it costs, from Canada, it costs too much. It costs like 40 bucks or something or more, right? So 40 bucks Canadian, so it would be 30 bucks U.S., right? So this thing total cost, not including shipping that Mark sent. Mark, seriously, dude, thank you for the love, man. Thank you for the love, right? I'm just doing a price thing just because we're doing a lot of price things on comic books, right? So include the shipping and all this jazz. So 130, not a 30, 160, 170, let's say, 180, let's say, right? 9.6 CGC for 361, I think it's selling for 200 plus, right? So with all this shipping, sending in yourself to be graded, doing a Hail Mary buy on eBay, you find a right buyer, you get great deals, right? Fantastic. And if the seller is super lucky, has amazing people that are sending them amazing love, they get a grade and send them back to them. So this is great. What else did they say here? Amazing Spider-Man, 361, Marvel Comics, January, February, March, April, 1992, $492, David Michellini's story, Mark Bagley and Randy Ember-Lean cover and art, first full appearance of carnage, cleatus caceti, fantastic, like this thing. Awesome.  I've never sent a book in to be graded, right? The feeling I'm getting right now, this was in my hands, right? I looked at it, we flipped it just to make sure, right? We graded it, we sold it, right? Went to the United States, Mark kind enough, sent it in to be graded, comes back, comes back here, right? This is a book that was in my collection that went on a serious trek and found its way back. Fantastic. Wow, wow, wow. Super, super cool. Super cool. This thing just became one of my favorite comics in my collection, really, like cherished, right? Cherished, cherished, cherished. Very cool, very cool, Mark. Thank you, brother, thank you. Awesome. It was about time we did more comic book videos. We're going to do more. Okay, we're going to get into readings. We're going to start doing a little bit more comic book hauls. The odds are I probably won't do any more, we might do more videos where I load comic books on eBay. We'll see how it goes on way behind. I've made some promises to people to load stuff a few weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago, and I'm way behind. I'm going to try to get some done this week, but slowly we're going to start rolling back into comic book mode. Mathematics mode will always be there, okay? Julian Assange will be there, but comic books, you're going to slowly start seeing more presence, more videos being put out. We took long enough break from comic books. We've got to do some readings. We're going to talk about some history and whatever else comic book involves, which is many, many, many, many amazing things, gang. Okay, aside from that, thank you for being here. Thank you for watching. Pick up Monk, read it. Pick up Monstrous, read it. Pick up Blackhammer, read it, and enjoy your comics. Bye for now.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's CaseBrace.com with our last filler to unlock that 15 box football mixer That's coming up in the next video, but first let's do this pack break first 2014 prism football cello pack All right, we'll do the break just as normal and then we'll re-randomize everybody's names top 10 We'll get spots in that 15 box mixer big. Thanks to this group for making it happen appreciate you There the teams right there appreciate the teams. Let's roll it Let's randomize it one and two three times for names and teams one two and three obviously a Different dice roll as always for the giveaway part One and a two three times for the teams one two and three. I know trade winners Dolphins down to Nolans All right, so there's the first half of the list right there and the second half of the list right over here and let's Sort by column B alphabetically by team and let's print and rip on this quarterback Quarterback show on Netflix looks interesting everyone gonna be watching that They're really using I think it's the same team that did The f1 show drive survive the golf show full swing tennis show So I think they kind of have like a nice little nice little formula going here All right, any surprises here 2014 rookies Think about this was Brett Smith was a rookie back then Nothing crazy there. What about here? Bonus pack All right, nothing too crazy there, but let's flip over back to this screen The 10 hits in this break are gonna be spots in the mixer think of it that way Together everybody's names one through 32 pop them back into a fresh list a new dice Let's roll it randomize it five and a one six times top ten After six good luck one two three four five and six then final time All right, so from 11 on down that's the close, but no cigar spot But surely Chris has enough spots to be up in the top 10 somewhere But for now sad times for 11 through 32 But thank you for getting in happy times at the top 10 you're in the next video next break Chris is happy Chris with a C Chris M Chris M Matthew Chris M James Brian Chris H Chris with a K Brian Matthew and Kevin There's the top ten right there after six. We'll see you in the next video for the break jaskies case breaks calm