Alrighty, let's play this again here this sound but we let her live because that's what heroes do they show mercy But we let her live because that's what heroes do. They show mercy All right, so this sound for now And I saw your male so it's kind of like an inside joke to bartender at the end Yeah, I mean all makes sense. I read the mail with your explanations on how he starts and ends I think From a mechanical point of view There's something slightly hard when When that whole body here goes back Right there. It feels like I mean and these are hard chairs He's pretty big though. He probably bend this a bit backwards. It just feels like we could soften that moment just a little bit It's a little bit of a Right there and you can see As he goes back Especially like that's for me the frame 18. What is it 17 18? Kind of locks almost visually pinpointing that area there So if he goes back and then hits that point I would just ease into that a bit more over shouldn't come back softly though again imagine I mean you look at him. He's he's huge. It's like that behind the chair imagine Dean's back I think this can lean back a bit just a bit That's felt just a bit harsh But also it feels like there is a movement back Stop and then a rotation in Y So when I scrub like, you know, you pinpoint that button or just the tie goes back Stop and then it just moves over That feels a bit mechanical and it also feels like it's almost too soon Like it almost goes before that arm is going back I don't mind it here like when I look at just that section. I feel like okay that arm goes back Oh, turn me off on it's getting here goes back It takes the shoulder back with it, but it also takes this with it like this If there's a connection and connectivity I guess through all of this right through there It's like the chest goes back Well, this goes down and back a bit. I feel it feels a bit weird It's and that's such a weird comment for me to say just say it's weird It just feels mechanically kind of clunky where we have this big move Stop then rotation over before that big move in the arm that would drive that chest to go back So I would overshoot come back a bit Wait a bit with that rotation. Maybe by the time we get to round here ish and then it's a little bit of a one-two moment of This going back and then it kind of stops. I Like that there's still some movement there some rotation But generally it feels like it's just kind of ending there and then suddenly we have a really sharp elbow drop with a bit of a Shoulder drop as well, but mostly where arm goes back stop suddenly elbow goes down Which gives this a bit of an IK feel like there's so much rotational change in that elbow While this is staying the same now I know it needs to kind of say the same because there's liquid in it He's holding the glass, but just be careful when there's so much movement here Yet the orientation of this is pretty much the same like this just feels like an IK arm I mean you know better if that's IK or FK, but that's what it feels to me. Is your resting it at the end? No, so I don't know maybe could be something done then with With FK, but I like The weight feels after that. There's some good life little tiny things like this line right there with a cup It's a bit of a a tangent I would probably keep it more like this and then lift that arm a little bit And bring that cup out this high just to kind of get away from this line from the tangent with this so picky, but Like that is nice Bit of a line here. It's a tangent But that to me feels a bit better than just the way it's right there Yeah, if it was mostly that like connective stuff It's a little bit Sharp here and how much all of this goes back and I look at this line So again, it feels like an IK arm where this is almost glued And I think if you go back this much, I'm looking at the upper arm going back here I think you could have Maybe this line would then go down to like here and you mean like this goes down to here Just a little bit of a transit over Again taking away that one axis move back of an IK arm. By the way, I'm so picky just because you know, this is ruined the polish Stage the rest is cool. I like all the stuff you have there even like when he goes down like that Like that compression through all of this is nice But be careful the other thing that makes this stand out so much if you just look at this section, right first grab You can see all of this, right? There's something where All of this here right before it compresses look at this section with a button. It's like there's not much going on Right before it compresses. See that is so much in here But nothing really in here and then suddenly or it compresses down. So I will give While this goes down just a bit more influence imagine your painting weights and that influence goes down just a bit more That's the main thing when I'm looking at all of this is that there's some areas that feel just separated in terms of body mechanics and just the rig It feels a lot better Because even like a little moves I see how that stuff is still moving Where it feels connected again like he's a big big guy big muscles that stuff is gonna be fairly connected Watch out even here When he goes back It's a bit sharp looking a bit at that chin line and these lines here. Let's bring the sound back What heroes do? It's what heroes do What heroes do? I would just soften The amount of down you have it over It's a little bit like a frame or two I like that is and it it's better with the sound opposite with this. There's a big like Like an accent there heroes do heroes do but it's still like that last frame and then I Feel like a big sharp down and then suddenly There's only a total left and then suddenly up exactly literally a frame or two softening just a bit Let's do and I think you can get away with it by if you look at the back line here of the head By just giving This line and a bit of this line some movement in the chest in the head So you keep the sharpness in here, so I don't want to soften it too much So you kind of keep this sharpness, but imagine like all of this drives the rest of the body back a bit And it might also be because you have a little bit of shoulder movement That's only sticks right there. What is this frame 76 and yeah, it's somewhere there Let's do like that. Just look at that line on the shoulder when he says do heroes do And it's kind of pops back a bit Rose do they sure I Think that way you still retain the sharpness because of the line and the ordinary thing while keeping that a little bit soft And they really I'm just talking a frame or two. They show mercy show mercy Well, I think on C mercy Let me scrub hold on Just doing that I would extend the corners just a bit more mercy and if you want to open the jaw a tiny bit I really tiny bit, but it's mostly the corners show mercy Mercy all I'm reading if I take the sound off is show mercy Merse, you know Merse versus mercy the sea at the end is missing to me Yeah, it's cool Was the other thing too is that I don't want to loosen up everything too much I just want to make sure that a big arm move feels connected But I don't want him to feel super loose because again, it's a big guy big muscles in his suit There's a certain tightness to him that I don't want to lose Just just to make that clear But I want to make sure that everything feels connected and that we don't have little Pops here and there the only other thing at the end is like this finger really stands out to me Like I like you got some movement there You know here feels like it really just kind of sticks out, but it's okay That's cool. Don't mind that then goes back But then we're just kind of stuck in this is combination of thumb and index That just makes this really big here and then it just all kind of together there and back so I would Potentially on this you can go up and maybe bring out the thumb here and Then rest it again. So you have a bit of a different silhouette Maybe the index is then a bit lower the thumb comes out something a bit different This feels suddenly a bit too blocky and simple for a final polish See some cool compression stuff on the fingers, but we can especially hear some changes there But we can push that to the very end It's good hand pose here though in terms of just the finger and the grouping and stuff I'm gonna be labored the tangent. It's me being very picky. It's like this here It's too close to me to this line I would take this and break that line a bit, but then careful my align just with that I know that to me. That's always keep things clean. I like this here. This feels cleaner.  There's a lot of stuff going on there Which of course, you know, you can render this in stages and that's clean And the rest is blurred for some depth of field and that fixes it Now bring back the sounds just quick for the lips but but Bots, okay So you had a compression in and then but But it's really could be my player To me it seems but too early But speaking of which always good to open this up in a different player But letter lit But we let her live but we let her live but we let her This is the Windows media player. I still feel like it's a framework too soon, but we let her I still feels a bit too soon. Your butt is a bit too soon But usually in this player But it's even a frame Or two Earlier than what's actually being played last I feel like But we let her live was even here we let her live early Because that's what heroes do But then it matches nicely here So you just have to check this might be the whole thing might be a family too too early But if you shift that heroes, which I don't shift the whole thing because heroes do I like where this is at in terms of the sync They show mercy and the rest of all but we let her but we let Let you might have a bit further in your corner let We let her live but we let her live But we let her Just a bit just a tiny bit like that corner maybe to here just a bit again polish we let her live you let her live Live live even here. I would go up a bit higher in that corner careful. It's not super turning into a smile. Let her live better live We let her live let her live was it to me. It's also in the auto. It just goes up And I think you want to put that accent just a bit stronger for the shapes let her live because that's what heroes do Let her live because that's what heroes do they show more Yeah, this is cool though because it's I don't see a chatter like this a lot that he says here It's turned scrubbing off And I don't feel like it's overly busy in your back and forth. We just really good. That's what heroes do they show mercy They show mercy The only I would say is mercy mercy. I don't think that jaw It's gonna be going down so sharply in and back just watch the mercy job do they show mercy mercy They show mercy. It's a bit. I will give this See that how your jaw goes down down.  There's a one-frame direction change And I will give this another frame down a little bit if you can I know it's gonna lower it a little bit.  It's mercy mercy to me is mercy It's not like her live because that's what heroes do do I do I can see this being do With the sharper with like a one or two frame ease in to keep that accent versus mercy Mercy that has a bit of a longer ease into me So watch out just that section that one frame change there. It's a bit harsh But we let her live because that's what heroes do and then through this I'm I don't know. I would cheat the pupils over so we can see them a bit more Especially here I'm just seeing white at this point. So maybe it's also a little bit of a I can go up here You know, maybe slightly reducing the lower lids maybe giving us a different kind of I was not just black Maybe you have a bit of a color with the iris then So we just don't lose this like at this point I feel like it's here, but we're just kind of losing it because we're also losing completely here I want to keep a little bit of the pupils Visible like that. That's fine here. All that reads. Well Good little highlight in there. That's nice, too So watch out for that like this still reads It's just here here. It's turns into the extra system. Yeah, I still kind of see it up here But I think we could give this a bit more Bit more read a bigger read to be a little readability Pass on that. I Think that's it. It's very picky. That's a picky stuff, but it's cool. I like it But we let her live because that's what he yeah, it's mostly it's mostly the bigger pieces to me are the Backstop turn stop shoulder down chest inflate, right? If you think about those moments back turn arm chest, I feel like You can you can instead of feeling it like this You just want to combine these and overlap these acts a bit more and just work on that connectivity And then just a little polish you things that I mentioned here and there. All right. 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Hello, and welcome to Release Date Rewind. My name is Marc J. Parker, and I am a film lover, filmmaker, film celebrator. And normally this is an audio podcast, wherever you get your podcasts on your favorite apps. But thanks to Portland Media Center, you are about to watch the video component of this show where I celebrate movie anniversaries with my friends. Each month I usually talk about two different movies that I love with different friends, and we talk about the making of the movies, Trivia, any fun memories associated with them. So I hope you enjoy, because now it's time to rewind. We're live from the Kit Closet. Yeah, Kit Closet, and Laurel New Jersey, right? Oh, I love it. I like the more loud New Jersey. Two Jersey kids talking about a Jersey movie. A Jersey movie. You know, it's funny because we saw this movie. I'm sure we saw it together. I think we did. First of all, hold your role, Kit Sheehan. I need to tell everyone who you are, not that I mean they already know you. You're famous. Obviously. But everybody, my pal of many years. Let's think real quick. It's got to be, I think it's maybe 22 years going on. Yes. Yeah, it's probably about 22 and a half. It is, because that's because my mom just sold her house, and we have been friends since like the month that I moved into our house. That's right. Oh my God. Absolutely. Yeah. So everybody, welcome back to the pod. My friend Kit Sheehan. Hello, Kit. Hi, everyone. Hi, Kitty Kat. Hey. She is right now in a closet in her mom and dad's new apartment in, like she said, Mount Laurel New Jersey. She's visiting from Hollywood, a Hollywood in South Jersey. What are we going to do? We always were. We always were. Still are, right? I love that you are back in Jersey and we're talking about this movie that's set in Jersey that we first saw in Jersey. There's a lot of Jersey happening. Right? I mean, it must be because now we live near the mall and I am sure this was one of our parents dropped us off at the mall because this is a hard PG-13.  Of course, I like some of the dirty, you know, speaking of dirty, I'll come back to that, but keep that word in your mind for a bit, everyone.   I'm wearing a Cruel Intentions t-shirt, I didn't have a swim fan t-shirt. Sorry. This was the next best thing. But you know, I still feel like I'm a little prudish and rewatching this for the first time in years. I'm sure it hadn't been since theaters. I'm sure I saw it at least once or twice in between, right? But it had been a long time, at least a decade, right? And yeah, I mean, this is a hard PG-13 and we were only, we were, we were at the start of our sophomore years. So what were we? Maybe around 15. We were. And I noted that she was, and fans of the show don't tell everyone my age, but we're going to reveal it right now. They were swim fan 85, yeah, retracted, she was swim fan 85. And I was thinking while watching it, I was like, they're supposed to be two years older than us. Like they are happy. I have written down like they're like intimate, like adults, like they are very comfortable with intimacy, which like we were not, you know, we played spin the bottle all the time. But at the same time, like we were not having free for all Michael Douglas affairs with each other. I know. Mini Michael Douglas. Awkward. I know. I know. By the time we were 17, more things were happening. Yeah. Either we were doing them or others around us were doing them. But yeah, that's funny. It is kind of crazy. But like that everyone there was having like clueless, speaking of clueless love, love shares dad's appearance. Love him. I know. That's so funny. Dan Hadea, love you. Love you. Clueless connection there. And a clueless connection in my mind, Kitchie, and I love that we are on the same wavelength. Connection in my mind during the big moment, the pool sex scene, whoa, I kept thinking of Dion of Stacy Dash in my head, saying to, I think it's too high. Murphy. Yeah. It's a tie, right? Yeah. Have you ever done it in water? Right. Yeah. She's like, you have to. I did it. Right. She's like, duh. And so as I'm watching this very sexy, surprising scene. They're not hiding a lot of it. It's not like artfully done. I mean, they are doing it up against the side of the pool, water splashing, right? Yes. And all I could think of was Dion. Just a joke. Have you ever done it in water? Right? Yeah.  Right. Too much water would actually. And chlorine. And all of. Oh, chlorine. Oh my God. We have to tell everyone, what did you write in your email yesterday? All of my notes. I'll be ready with all my recording stuff in Elburns' new walking closet. And all my notes about our favorite chlorinated psychosexual teen thriller. The sexiest chlorinated movie since Wild Things, baby. And it's so true. I didn't even think about the Wild Things pool scene. Absolutely. It's so is. And I saw that with you. The only time. I mean, I've seen like parts of it on TV, but the only time. Yeah, it was, it was after we had been swimming in your pool. And we were like, I'm sure we fancied ourselves like very mature, like very mature for 13. Oh my God. And yeah, we watched Wild Things and Ordered Dominoes. And honestly, I mean, does it get any better than that? No. A pool in Jersey. Like we lived. Dominoes, Wild Things acting like you were way older and way cooler. I would love to have been a fly on the wall looking at us.  We probably still have races. Yeah. Oh. I think we might maybe both did have races being like, yeah. Probably. It only makes it better. And we get to high school.  I think with the pool, both in both movies and any movie. Those are so kind of. Showgirls. Sexy. What? Oh, does showgirls have a pool scene? Oh my God. If you haven't rewatched showgirls, like we have to find out whenever that one comes out because we have to. Oh, yeah. I think it's a masterpiece. I think Paul Virhoeven is like a master of schlock. Like I think he has something to say. Wow. But even I feel like there was even a pool scene and she's all that around this time. Like. The blue. They put her into the pool. Oh, did they? Okay. That one's a little less sexy then. No, but they always, they did and there's and like music videos like Sugar Ray. Oh yeah. It's always either like, it's so like, take me there, whether it's sexy or just like so perfectly cool, you know, but I think it has to do with that blue light. Oh yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's the light. It's that enchanting. You can smell the chlorine too in the underground, like the indoor pools. You can instantly. I was like, oh, it's like the community house that was our town pool. Oh yeah. Where at least you're like, all right, it should smell because hopefully it's cleaning everything. But do I want to have sex in it? No, but these two did. Ben Cronin, Farley had it all. Scouts are coming next week. It might actually happen, huh? Yeah. Can you picture it? Good friends. Oh, break a wall. I just remember why we broke up jobs. She couldn't handle me in bed. And a bright future. So Madison Bell, dude, she is so smoking hot. You know I'm playing on here in that little Southern accent when she moans my name. This is a movie that you watch for fun because it's bananas. Oh, it's bananas.  Like I was rewatching it by myself and I literally said out loud, like halfway through I said, oh my God, this movie is so good. Like it's meant to just get you excited, maybe in more ways than one. And it's just an entertaining hour and 20 minutes, maybe 22 minutes, because then there's credits, right? I mean, it's just it's so fast to. I think they could have shaved a couple of minutes off too. Do you think so? See, I disagree with you. Of the pacing of the pacing. There could be a couple of minutes. I'm like, we could there were just times that I was like, this doesn't need to be this scene, like that we don't need to have a scene of her looking at this or looking at that. But I could have done with like some more exposition like I could have added some more of that. I totally agree with you because the camera lingers. Like we were saying before we started, you know, on some some silent looks where it's like, we got it in five seconds. It speaks volumes, but then it goes on for like 20, you know? So there's a lot of those. But yeah, I would love a little bit more exposition. I actually would love if she wasn't so brand new and maybe she like actually came to his swim meets and started seriously stalking him because they they meet and do it in like the span of like a day or two. Right. I think it's like that day. Yeah, like doesn't. Yeah, you like these are at school and helps her with the locker and then like almost runs into her on the street. Yes, I will say both watch rewatching this. And then I had never seen fatal attraction. This is obviously. Oh, you had never seen it. In within the past year is the first time I have seen it. So I have I had seen it a couple months ago before I knew that we were going to swim fan. Oh, good. It's fresh in your mind. Good. Yes. Yes. So I knew I had like a functioning knowledge of it. And I had seen swim fan. We had seen it together when we were kids. Of course. And what I remembered, the idea of both of those was like, this woman is crazy. This woman is like out of control and stuff. And what I gleaned, it's not that these both of those women are not a little crazy and out of control, but both with swim fan and with fatal attraction. I'm like, oh, but you're just like asking for it, though, to the guys. Like I'm not not to victim blame, but like you were just like, hey, can we just like do this? Could I get like everything I wanted? And like exactly following her. This guy, Ben, Ben, like he's following her. He almost hits her because he's looking to see if the other girl is her. It looks like her hair. Like you have a girlfriend that you love. This isn't like a trap, like a trip.  Like totally. Exactly. That's why I kind of wish like they had a few more moments, maybe at least over the span of a week. That's still pretty I don't know. In my world, that's still pretty brand new to have sex with someone. But OK, call me old fashioned, everybody, especially at like 17. Yeah, I'm 17. So I did this once or like whatever, you know, yeah. But I would have loved her to see her in the crowd and like, oh, he's like, who's that?  She started on Monday. It's it's Wednesday. Like, you know, let's give a little time there to build so that we actually maybe can start to understand why he's into her a little bit. You know what I mean? I think that'd make it a little bit more interesting. And then also the end, I swear to God, because I rewatched it on Hulu. Maybe you did too. Yes, me too. But the whole last act, I'm like, was this edited for like a plane ride? Like we are. I was getting whiplashed. I mean, even and I know we're fast forwarding a bit, we can definitely pick pick apart things. But yeah, that famous shot when she throws Sheary Applebee into the water. Amy, yeah, I remember. I remember that so well. It's a big it was in the trailer and everything, right? But like, whoa, can we let things breathe a touch? Because like, whoa, we cut to him. And now we're just he just got there and you're right. And then even literally the ending, the ending, which I actually always liked and it stuck with me. I loved how abrupt it was when he gets in the car. They're back together. He is not a swimmer anymore. So even after Madison dies, he still doesn't have everything again, which I do like that, you know, he had to lose something. But he gets in the car and he kisses her hand and they're driving and it just abruptly cuts. I did always like that last shot. But even that whole bit, I'm like, whoa. So OK, he's not a swimmer. Is he going to? Yeah, how?  Not saying he didn't have to. But how is that how? Like, how is that hitting his 18 year old mind? Totally, totally. And like, give me at least a moment between him and coach Dan Hadea.  And like, yeah, good guy. Thanks for coming. And like, were they able to? I guess they would have been because they got her on camera. And that ridiculous confession. Oh, my God, we'll get to it. Hold on to that because we will get to it because I have. I wrote in my notes. I was like, yeah. Huh, is that enough? Like, yeah, it's like 100 percent not. Like, if Robert Durst can say, what did I do? Kill them all, of course. Like, if that can be argued that no, he was just being a sotero. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Kit, I now so badly want to re-edit that scene with Jesse Bradford screaming into Erica Christensen's ear. I'm like, geez, I hope she had like an earplug in there. Also like hitting on her, like he like at one point he like opened his mouth and like ate her hair and I'm like, either the actor had a crush on her and he couldn't help himself. They were feeling each other maybe and he was like, I can't or he is. And there are many points throughout where I'm like, did you want to turn her on? How are you going to grab somebody by a throat and then go, good girl? And expect her to not be like, OK, so now I'm getting mixed messages. Now I think you're into me again. Like, yeah. You're so right. Yeah, he does. All the time. He's still kind of sexual. He does sort of like being, yeah. Oh, that's because he like has a right. It's not his beautiful, perfect girlfriend.  You're doing bad things to me. So I'm going to do bad things to you and I like it. And I think you like it. And we like it. Stop doing it. But I'm going to keep doing it.  I mean, she escalate with the murder of the people. Oh, that'll do it. Oh, yeah. Oh, we have to go through all of her escalations. But yeah, now I want to re-edit that scene with his friend who I don't even know that friend's name. Like, come on, give me a little bit more with that female friend with the video camera, which we saw in one shot at the party that she had the video camera. And it was in the background. I'm like, we can give her another minute of time and establish that she's got the video. You know what I mean? That's the thing. Yeah. But now I want... She's the champion Kennedy of this friend group. Exactly. Or us. Someone on Instagram, when I posted about this, they said, wait a minute, that just turned 20. I saw that in the theater. I'm like, me too. Yeah, we're old now, everybody. Like, yeah. And I use the retinol serum. Like, I know. Yeah.  Do you think you could? Take a look, yeah. What's the letter for, Ben Cronin? The letter is for swimming. Are you good? I'm okay, yeah. But he never imagined. What are you doing here? One moment. Okay, I want you to... Could change everything. Now I'm gonna just backtrack just a touch and I want to set the scene for you and everybody because I always think it's so fun to, especially with you and at this age, we were at the movies all the time. We had our finger on the pulse of pop culture. So you might get a kick out of what was happening at this time before we get into more details. So this movie came out wide, September 6th, 2002. We had just started school, back to school. That's the theme of my September episodes. So this is what was going on at the time. Kelly Clarkson had just won American Idol season one just a couple of days prior. Yeah. Oh my God. Crazy, right? In the guest room, watching it upstairs because my dad would not watch it on the downstairs TV. So I had to... Oh, he was mad. He didn't want to give it up. No, he was just not a fan of American Idol, but... Yeah. I remember, I saw that finale with Sarah Dugan, Norman, maybe someone else, because it was after like summer theater. So we were at someone's house. I'm pretty sure, unless I'm getting my memories crossed. Yeah, so hello, Sarah Dugan. Haven't talked to you in a while. Hope you're well. Sarah Dugan! So yeah, Kelly just won. Serena Williams and Pete Sampras were winning the US Open at this time. Funny because Serena Williams, the Williams sisters were just there. Still, yeah. I thought this was interesting. Doris Roberts, the late great Doris Roberts, everybody loves Raymond, long time actress. She had just testified this same week in Congress about age discrimination in Hollywood. Wow. I miss that when we were younger. We were like, what are you talking about?  They're in their 30s. Yeah, exactly. Let us act. Doris, get off my WB. I'm like, get out of my way. I need to watch my young teens, right? My 30-year-old teens. Yeah, my 29-year-old, 17-year-old. That's why I had to give it up for swim fan. Everyone, I looked up ages. Everyone was actually like no older than like 23, which 24 maybe, which is impressive. Which for that is impressive. Yes. And I think actually they look good. Like Jesse Bradford. I know he's like so smoking hot in this. And I know a lot of people are like, you must talk about swim fan. By the way, everyone, this won the poll for my September movies. I was surprised. I'm like, no one's gonna wanna talk about swim fan. It got like the most votes. People were like, talk about Jesse Bradford in the speedo. Yeah. So we will.  It's just the way that they like acted around one another that you could tell like you guys. His friend. You've kissed before. Right, right. Oh yeah, like you seem to know what you're doing. But his friend Josh, I forget his name Clayton Crawford maybe. I know he was on some show two years ago and had a temper. But he definitely looks older. Like he's college or above, you know? But at least the main three. Jason Ritter looked young. Jason Ritter, yes. Was probably young. Love him. Love he's hilarious in drum history and another period. Oh my gosh. He's so good in everything. I love that he is with, why can I not? Melanie Linsky in real life. Did you know that? I love that. Yes, I didn't know that until recently. Amazing couple. It's all together, yeah. I totally forgot he was in this.  But so yeah. So Doris Roberts was doing that on the music side. This is where Dirty comes back, ladies and gentlemen and everyone. Dirty by the one and only, Extina had just been released. Isn't that amazing? It was released like September 2nd or 3rd.  I almost felt like that was earlier, but like the year earlier, like I almost felt like it was 8th grade but it makes sense. Maybe cause we still were like dancing to it and requesting it at like proms later. Yeah, we would never stop. You know, like I just was such a banger, but I do remember seeing Extina and Justin Timber, like when he went solo later this year on tour. So it all makes sense. I remember that Melissa and Katie went. I remember. I think it was us and I think Liz Nicholson went and there were a couple other, I think we took a limo. I mean, but why didn't you go? Did you not want to go or maybe you couldn't go? I mean, I mean, if we're going to get into it, I was not invited and I don't know why, but I remember you, me, Katie and Melissa at the American Eagle in the Morse Stone Mall. My job is to rock. And Melissa, yes, Melissa picked up like an armband and turned to Katie. She was like, you can wear this at the, and saw me come around the corner. She went, you're wetting. She was like, serenity. And I found out that you guys were coming. Oh my God. I did. I don't know why. I mean, I definitely did not get the tickets. I can't remember if maybe it was Katie or maybe Liz, but oh my God. I know. There's more drama than just the movie that we are talking about. It's happening. I also, so funny that one because I was also kind of, I was just hurt that I wasn't invited because I also like, I don't know if I would have gone, but it was, I also like didn't have to go. I wasn't like, oh my God. Justin and Christine, I just knocked over my water bottle. Oh my God. Not like when Blink 182 came by. Oh no, she's fine. She is. Blink 182, I was like, we must. After Hot In Here by Nelly was taken the charts, number one for weeks. Guess what was the number one song during this time for weeks as well. All of August and into September during this movie, Avril Lavigne's Complicated. Complicated. I mean, doesn't it just feel so right that Complicated and Swim Fan were both number one in the same week? Yes. Why do you have to go and make things so complicated? If anything, Complicated should have been in the soundtrack for this movie. It should have been the closing credits, right? Acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated. Yes, yes. So that was it on the music side, on the TV side. Yeah. This is so funny because Kit and I have such a funny little memory of this. So on the TV side, the TV show Monk started airing that summer on the USA Channel. And so it took me a little while, but when I first met Kit and would hang out at her house all the time, your mom, Elle Burns, would call you Monk, right? Do you want to tell everyone why?   It's been short for monkey and she'll just Monk my whole life. And so I didn't realize how bananas it sounded. It was so bananas. And I thought, because I knew that Elle Burns didn't have any sort of speech impediment or anything off, I knew. Oh, you thought it was Monk? I thought she was saying Monk. Yeah, but like with a silent, a sort of quasi-pronounced N in the middle. Yes.  So whenever she would say Monk, I would be like, oh, yes? But you would say yes as well. So I'd be like, oh no, she's saying my name just in a funny way, Kit. Yeah. It sounds like Tommy Wiseau from The Room. I'd be like, oh, hi, Monk. Oh, hi, Monk. Is it all American men? Oh my God. Yes, yes, yes. Oh my God. Absolutely. You are so right. So yeah, so Monk was a new hit. Thanks to your mom. I love Shalube. Yeah, yes. Good old Tony Shalube. Dr. Phil had just, oh no, it was about to debut. Isn't that crazy? It was about to debut a week later, as was speaking of Jason Ritter, his dad, who everyone loved, John Ritter, just talked about him in Stay Tuned last episode. Eight simple rules for dating my teenage daughter was about to start. I remember that was a big deal at the time. Yeah. Yes. I remember, and I remember the memorials that they had when he suddenly passed. He was a great actor and a great guy. So great. Oh my gosh. And he was in a great episode of Buffy, Ted. Remember that way back in the day? Yes. And speaking of Buffy, Buffy was about to start its final season this time, September 2002. Season seven on UPN. Yeah. That makes sense. Buffy got us through like elementary and middle school. Oh yeah. Late elementary, all through middle. She saw us off. She really, you know, I do think, I mean, I know tons of people out there love Buffy, but our specific age group, those born in 87 who were interested in Buffy, what a fantastic time to have her air, you know, in our lives, right? Yes, totally. It was right there. That and the Harry Potter, we also, those also hit us being born in 87 and a really great one. They got big in the States when we were 12, and it starts when they're like 11 and it hit a couple of milestones. That's so true. Yeah, because I remember they were getting popular. Yeah, when we were in like middle school. Absolutely. You're so right. Wow. We were really lucky in that. We were born at a good time. Thanks, parents. Yeah, then we had like 9-11 and the recession. Yeah, and then like the crash as soon as we were like getting out of school and you know, yeah, then later it wasn't great, but. We made up for it. You know, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times really. Yeah. I really took corner frames. That line was written about us, yeah, for sure. So that was it on the TV side and then on the movie side, other popular movies that were playing around this time.  This unseated it, right? Yes. This broke it for number one, because it was coming to the end of its tenure. That was, I remember seeing that and loving that. I was looking on box office mojo. It was the kind of movie where it would be number one and then it wouldn't for a couple of weeks, but then it would go back. Like it just wouldn't die, right? Yes. And another movie that was like that, that we definitely saw in theaters. I remember it so well. It's crazy how I can remember sitting with you in the theater and being a friendlies by the Morse Town Mall afterwards. Which is Buffalo Wild Wings now. It is, yes, I've never been. But signs, M. Night Shyamalan signs had also just come out. I remember sitting next to you watching it too. I loved, I felt like at the time I was like bummed a little bit more because I like really loved the Sixth Sense, but honestly, a signs is still pretty good. It's still pretty good, man. Yeah, I remember we like saw that and then like digested it while eating friendlies and having that Munchie Mania sampler. Yes, the Munchie Mania, oh my God. Right? Yes. How many of those do you think we ate in our whole lives? At least, do you think we shared at least like 50? I would say it's around 50. It could be a little bit more, honestly. I love that you were my friendlies buddy. I mean like we went to friendlies with a bunch of people but like I feel like Kit and I probably- But like we always meant friendlies. It just was so good. And you would always order so politely. You would say, I'll have a cup of your chicken noodle soup every time. I mean it was good. That soup is so good. And it was, yes. And then I used to get there when I, I guess I was still eating meat and then they had that ranch burger that like ran up. Oh yeah. It was good. Their food was good. I know there's really not, probably not much for us now. I know, the chicken fingers are big. Oh, the chicken fingers in my jam. Oh my God. Anyway, yeah. I love a side salad and grilled cheese. Yeah. Oh my God. Yes. When you hear your family. Because. Thanks so much for watching. Next week will be part two of this discussion. And in the meantime, please follow Release Date Rewind on Instagram.


Hey guys, how are you today? So right before I got on camera? I just scraped some gesso on here with a palette knife. This is one of my old canvases from 2013 that we're gonna paint over today. And actually before I get started, hang on, let me go grab something really quick.  It's on the same size canvas as the one we're gonna do this week. I'm gonna put it back up here. So we're gonna do a female this week. The pair of them will be for sale. They don't have to go together to the same place. They will be in my Etsy shop. The image will probably be edited for Etsy, so I don't get in trouble, but they will be for sale in the Etsy shop and or privately if you want to just PM me through Facebook is the easiest way. My email address is in the description below. Anyway, they're both for sale, $25 plus shipping. It shouldn't take too much to ship them because they're not very big. So I would say five or ten dollars for shipping in the US. I don't know about internationally, but we'd have to check on that, but that being said, they're gonna both be for sale. So this week we'll do a female nude. I don't have any place to hang them. I'm running out of places to hang stuff, so they've got to go to a forever home. All right, so first thing we're gonna do is put our tracing paper on our canvas and hi Eve, hi Kylie. How are you guys all and everybody else who's watching and not chatting? Hello everybody. I'm gonna feel for the edges of the canvas to center my image and then I'm gonna use my pencil to just give me, you know, a basic outline to work with. This is a great shortcut. When you're doing any, you know, any painting, but especially figure work, especially if you're, you know, new at it, you're unsure of the proportions, that sort of thing. I may even give these canvases to somebody, so if you're interested in acquiring them, let me know. I haven't decided yet, but they need to go to somebody else because I don't have any more room in my house to hang anything. Not to mention the fact that we have a room full of nudes in my husband's office. So, yeah, there's that. I didn't put a book under here, so let's see. Actually, I got it well enough, I think. It's easier if you put a book under there because you get a sharper design. Hey, Deb! All right, so this tracing paper, by the way, or transfer paper, this is a deco art product. You can get it, I'm sure, on their website and probably at any of the big box stores. It might be either in the paint aisle or the fine art department, I'm actually not sure. All right, so now we're going to take our image and I'm going to stick it for her back on the clipboard, and I'm going to stick her up against my cabinets over here off-camera, so I can use her for inspiration for shadow and light and also, of course, shape.  I was really happy with the last one. I'm really kind of not in the mood to paint a nude, so as all of you who are painters know, when you're not in the mood for something and you try it anyway, sometimes it comes out great, sometimes it comes out like poop, so we're going to just try it and see. I have no idea. I'm going to grab a few things. I've got this, I think this is for cleaning like your fingernails or something. I don't know. This is from the Japanese dollar store. It looks like a little coffee cup thing, but anyway, I like it for texture in the paint, and then I'm going to grab some brushes and just a couple of like, mark-making tools. I have my palette knife I used for the gesso is in the water, so all right. First, let's do the background and let's see. We're going to grab a plate. I've got the Americana Deco Art paints out. All right, I'm going to grab some purples and some blues, because of course I am. I'm going to grab a little bit of pink and some white and actually, we might do yellow instead of the pink. Well, I don't know. I think we want to use similar colors to the male nude only instead of a dark background with a light figure. I might want to go with a light background with a dark figure. Yeah, see, and I'm, so we're going to just have to like wing it and we'll see what happens. And like I said, it might turn out like poop, but no, no, I don't know. We're going to find out though. Oh, there it is. I'm going to, in the Deco Art Americana paints, they make a paints gray, which I actually really love and I've used for a long time. They don't always, oops, they don't always have it in my craft store, but you can get it from Amazon or directly, on Amazon or directly from Deco Art. All right, so let's do the background first. I'm going to grab some white. That's not enough white. I can tell you right now, that is not enough white to cover this canvas. Okay, and then I'm going to put that upside down because it's almost empty. And then I'm going to use the pink, I think. Add this color. This is gold. It might be interesting to use gold. I'm going to try to keep track of what colors I end up using today. For you, like last time, so that I can make a list for you. You know, I'm kind of thinking, okay, so this is flesh tone. We're not going to use it for the flesh though. Wouldn't that be interesting? Yeah, as long as you're being creative, there's no, you know, there's no rule that says you must do this or must do that. I liked Tamara Laporte's recent live broadcast that she did on Facebook and where she, somebody asked her about drawing every day and she said something or journaling every day and she said something like, why do you have to journal every day? As long as you're being creative, what does it matter what you're being creative with? And I really like that because it doesn't really matter. As long as you're, you know, doing what makes you happy and you're living a creative life, what does it matter exactly how you're doing it? So I'm going to, just like before, kind of map out the figure a bit by painting out the background. I'm just going around the lines that I made and I'm going to grab a few of the other colors and I'm going to just kind of do this. Nope, I went over her hand. That's what baby wipes are for. I posted last night that I just cleaned all my studio rags and I do use rags instead of paper towels. I do use the one disposable thing I do use are baby wipes. I don't really use them for cleanup though. I use them to push paint around. Oh, and there I did it again. That hand, I think, wants to be painted over. It seems to. So this is just a little bit of the gold. Can I rinse the brush off? Exactly. So art, being creative is not all about just painting. There's a lot of ways to be creative. So think outside the box a little bit. Okay, I'm gonna, I want to get the edges. So I've got my hand. Let's see if I can show you. Braced in the back like this, when you have little canvases like this, that's an easy way to pick them up and paint your edges without getting your fingers stuck in everything. And I like these canvases that have the canvas wrapped around the edge and stapled in the back, gallery-wrapped instead of the staples on the sides because you don't have to necessarily frame them before you hang them up in a place for sale or your house. Oh my colors are in the way. Okay, I'm gonna put that big brush in my water and I'm gonna grab the paint's gray. So one of the joys of acrylic paint is you really can, you don't have to work like with watercolor light to dark and consciously work on getting all the light areas correct and or saving the white space and working your way darker because you can't really take it back. With acrylic, you can just keep putting as many layers as you want. Oh, I hope you guys are all doodling or art-ing or something. That would be fabulous. I'm gonna take my filbert. Y'all know this is my favorite brush. And we're gonna start mapping in our shape with the dark, this dark blue, which is paint's gray, is really a dark blue black. Start with our hair. Blurring the edges just a little bit. Pushing the paint around. I told you that's why I keep baby wipes in this studio is really to push the paint around. Oops, stuck my arm in something that I didn't want to stuck in. So now I'm going to start looking at the inspiration photo and putting the paint's gray into the areas of shadow.  That's my word of the day, I think, today. I have this feeling. I have this feeling. That's my word of the day. Poop. I'm glad it got quiet over here right before I went live talking about noise because the gardeners were just here next door. And right before I went live the dogs to the parking. I was like, Oh, that just totally figures. So now I'm just gonna move the paint around.  I'm not gonna really clean it. I don't mind that it's dirty. We're gonna stick with the shades of blue for now. This is Aqua Sky, which is still a cool like a shadow color, right? But it's a little warmer than the paint's gray. So I'm literally just following the canvas around and I am working on my shadows. Now if you have an inspiration photo you're gonna work with and you're not sure about shadows and, you know, the values of your colors, of your shadows, printed in black and white. Sometimes the fact that the photos in color, especially when you're doing a figure work that's non-traditional colors, having the inspiration photo in its original form can be distracting. I'm gonna switch to a smaller brush right now. Switching brushes, shapes and sizes will help keep your marks fresh. Hey, Mama Cats, how are you? We're doing more naked people. As I was telling my sister earlier, I was emailing back and forth with my sister this morning, Elizabeth, and I said, I gotta go. I've got to paint more naked people. I don't know what she said to that because I really had to go. I need to go with, let's see. I'm gonna get a couple more brushes because, you know, okay, so we're gonna put some purple in here. Now I'm gonna go instead of going with this cool purple, which I could, this is very blue. I'm gonna go with this warmer purple, which is more red, which is purple pizzazz, which I really, it's an Americana color that I really liked actually.  And just like with the other painting, I am counting on not getting this done in one layer and having to do it in a few layers of paint. This leg is not quite shaped right, so we're gonna have to fix that.  At first, I'm going to bring in some dark. Okay, and then I'm gonna just wipe my brush off like that. Now, this is a little more challenging in that the background is light. So the edges of her really show.  That being said, I don't want to get too literal with the painting. I want to keep it loose and suggestive, so I'm gonna try hard to do that. Sometimes is a challenge. So now we're gonna go back to the purple and work some more on where really we're working our way darker to lighter and warmer, darker and cooler to lighter and warmer.  So be gentle with yourself and know that you know, a really good painting doesn't happen. Overnight. That's better. Okay, so I'm gonna go with a little flat brush, and I really want to go with maybe some yellow. I'm gonna have to be careful with the yellow that I don't mix it too much with the purple because I'm gonna get brown. I don't necessarily want brown. So we're gonna let the purple on the body dry just a second. That's a really great question, and I do want to encourage you all while I'm painting to ask questions. I do have the iPad like right there, so I can see them. It's difficult, especially it was at first when I first started doing this kind of painting, but also especially if I like a piece of the painting, and I like it so much, but it's really not working with the painting. It's still really hard to go over it. Does that make sense? Because there might be a part of the painting that I really like, and yeah, that yellow is gonna be interesting to add. We're gonna try it anyway. But it took a lot of practice to just get myself to the point where I just realized, you know what, it's just a painting. What's the worst that could happen? And you know, to figure out how to be okay with that, it's fine. Hey, Yasna, how are you? We're doing more naked people in case you didn't know. In case you didn't know that already. Okay, here we go with yellow. Let's find out what happens.  And don't kick yourself over it.  It was to everybody. Now, I'm also not treating any part of the painting too preciously, and if I go over the edges, I can touch them up. I am trying to not have to, you know, touch them up too much, but with acrylic painting, it's really the layers of, you know, marks that you put on the canvas that make it interesting, and especially if you get the right color in the right place. Yeah, the yellow, the yellow is a really warm color, and it's going to make her really pop, and these kind of paintings, it's a color that's really needed. And like I said, have the baby wipe in your hand, because in some areas maybe you want more of the yellow than others, and maybe you just want to hint of it. Like I did in the hair. I just wanted to hint that was too much. Yeah, you can just go over it if it doesn't work, or like I said, if the background is dry, then you can just wipe it off with a baby wipe. If your under layers are already dry, then I wouldn't worry about it. I would just wipe it off. Now a lot of yellows are not real opaque, and that's true for lots of different kinds of paint. So you will probably find that lots of your under layers will show through the yellow, and you may or may not like that. If you don't like that, then you're going to want to put white there first, or gesso, and then put the yellow. I don't mind that. I like layers. And don't forget, we're mixed media artists, right? So what does that mean? That means if after you get the painting done on here, and you want to go in with some of your gelados, or some of your paint markers, or crayons, do it. Do it, do it, do it. Don't let anybody tell you you shouldn't be doing it. You do what makes you happy. Now here I go with the purple again, but again, I've got to be careful because we don't want too much mud if we can help it, right? So I'm continually looking at my inspiration photo, altering the edges of my image, where appropriate, correcting the shadows, correcting the color, layering my colors on top of each other, and I'll keep doing that until I get something I really like. And that's what I'm talking about. If you get too much of something somewhere, just go in with your baby white. The one thing I liked about this original inspiration photo, this painting that somebody else did, probably in oil, was that the female figure wasn't skinny. Hey, Aquarius artist, hello. I don't actually often do an underpainting, but then again, I seem to always be working on top of an old painting that I'm not real crazy about, so I don't know. Can you call that an underpainting? Maybe. Maybe that's what that is. I don't intend to always do underpaintings, I should say. Oh, thanks.  I didn't like that there.  Again, what's the worst that could happen? Just experiment and play. And like I said, I'm not really, those of you just came welcome. I just started out by letting you all know, this may turn out like poop, I don't know. I promised to do another nude, so we're doing another nude, but I'm actually not kind of in the mood to do nude. So, you know, when you're painting and you're really not in the mood for the particular subject matter, it could go either way. We'll see. She's not turning out too bad, actually. I'm kind of surprised. The background behind her was just a little bit too white, I have to tell you, I think. Does that mean I think it's better now? Not necessarily, but we'll keep playing with it. Yeah, a lot of the old masters reused their canvases. They painted over old paintings that they didn't like or that didn't sell a lot, so I don't, you know, ever feel bad. And honestly, I have pictures of all these old paintings. I do have pictures of all of them. So, you know, I have a record of them all. Somebody, somebody is going to see it and go, what the heck? What's she doing to this canvas? I won't be around to answer them. So, thank you. Yasna, I appreciate that. Wow, it's already been 41 minutes already. Holy cow. All right. Let's keep going and going and going. There's a little too much paint there. That's why I have a baby wipe in my hand still. There goes the salesman again. I can hear the house phone machine blinking and beeping.  They were going to do that when they wouldn't call me on the telephone. I have done some palette knife painting in the past and I really like, I really like working with palette knives. So, again, this is the yellow and the purple is wet. So, that means that I'm going to be dabbing this on in a way, hopefully, that I like the mark because I can't move it around too much or we'll get lots of brown on here and that's not necessarily what we want. And, did you know that they have palette knives with different textured edges, which are fun. Now, of course, you don't need them. You can make texture tools, but out of, you know, just cut the edge of an old gift card or something, but they do make a series of palette knives that have a textured edge or a dappled edge. So, they're a fun tool to have in your repertoire. Also, deco art has hold on. Okay. Also, deco art has some plastic texture tools that you can use to scrape in the paint. Sorry. I was, you know, painting and talking at the same time. You probably don't work so well. Yeah, I'm frequently like to incorporate a palette knife in my painting when I'm doing something that I really want to be super expressive and be very loose with my lines and I frequently use my left hand. You know what? I'm going to get this other blue out because, you know, one more color. I don't know where to put it on my plate. How about right here? Oh, let's shake it up first. Hi, Hina. How are you? We're painting more naked people. Now, in the description below of this broadcast, there is listings of different places that you can get inspiration photos to try something like this and do some figure work in cool and warm tones instead of just flesh shades of flesh tone. There is fan suggested sites and also my Pinterest board. The link to deco art, of course, is there and a bunch of other stuff. Oh, thank you. I'm good. I'm actually, I wasn't so sure how she was going to turn out today because I didn't really think I was in the mood to paint a nude, but she's not too bad. I don't think she's done yet, but she's not too bad. I switched to the fan brush because I have less control and I think my marks were getting too controlled. I was trying too hard. Maybe I probably would have actually started the canvases with a neon background. I know that's probably not what you expected. Generally speaking, when I do canvases like this and I'm not painting over old work, I usually start with a neon background, abstract neon background. When I say neon, I mean neon. It's just more of a challenge to start on a background that already has something on it, but I kind of like the challenge. Does it always work? No. No, but I like the challenge nonetheless. Yeah, and sometimes the neons show through the layers in and I'll rub the paint back until I actually see some of that neon color in the figure somewhere and that may be what this is missing. Now that we mentioned it, that might be what I'm missing. I have some neon orange. My favorite neon paint on the planet is Americana Neons and any of their colors, but torred orange. It's my favorite one. It always has been. Oh yeah, I think that's what it needed. Now because I put that white on there where if I put this on or near that white and then move it around where the white is, it's going to be brighter and more vibrant. Yeah, I do think she needs some splatters, but this is a really bright warm color and it will really go far in helping you suggest those light bright warm spots on your painting and you can smudge some of it. You can leave some of it, make some interesting marks. Yeah, now the background has too much going on and she doesn't blend with. This is why I don't do light backgrounds very often. I usually do a dark background, so you guys shouldn't be surprised if I darken up the background because I don't do light backgrounds on figure work like this very often because I have problems with it. To be honest, I always want the background to be dark. I think it suits it better. I mean I'm really wanting to darken that background, so I think I'm going to have to do that. Now what we can do is just mix all of our dark colors together that are on our palette instead of wasting paint and I'm not necessarily going to cover up the whole background, but I am going to make it so she blends in more with the background, sort of hides the edges of her figure and then get a baby wipe out and just blended around. I'm actually going to mix my a couple of colors over here and make a dark color.  Yeah, yeah, better already. Yeah, I don't think I want to make the whole thing dark. I think I just want to make around her dark. I think she works with the background better, at least that's what I think I want to do. I just got to splatter a paint over there, but we'll see. I know that the light background is not working for me right now. Of course, I did already say a couple of times that this whole thing might turn out like poop. I did say that.  Get some rubbing alcohol and it should reactivate the acrylic paint enough that you can move it around. Now I kind of like that you can see the pink and white through this background. Just because I'm doing it one way with one set of colors doesn't mean you should do it the same way. If you guys are going to do this and I hope you try it, I want you to choose your own colors and experiment. What is the worst that could happen? Don't worry about it. Just play and have some fun. Right? So yeah. So I like that. This baby wipe is really, it was really dry and past it. So let's get a fresh one. Oh yeah. See? Much better. This is not where I thought this painting would end up at all, but I like it and it does sort of look like she's opening a curtain, which I kind of like. Oh, thanks. So now I need more. Do I want to do something I don't normally do, which is use black? Or do I want to just use dark blue or really dark purple to darken up our shadows and really make her pop? I might want to use purple. I have this dark purple. No worries about yelling. I always forget capital means yelling. Oh, I kind of like the dark purple. Let's see. Oops, that was too much paint. Yeah, I think the black is too harsh. That's why I chose the purple. I think the black is too much for the painting. I do still think I'm going to go in with more Payne's gray in here, but the purple is helping. The background is much better. I'm very much more happy with the background now than I was. This brush I think is too big. I keep getting too much paint in the wrong spot. So let's switch to a smaller one because that big one's giving me problems. Yeah, that's better. Does anybody else have any other questions for me this morning? I should say this afternoon, it's just about lunchtime. Oh, yeah, it is past lunchtime. It's 1.02. That might explain why I'm kind of hungry. I did get myself to the gym this morning. So just keep layering your colors and making interesting marks and putting the cool colors in the shadow spots, the warm colors in the warm spots, and keep doing that until you get something that you like. There's no rhyme or reason to it. It should take you this long or that long. There's just a matter of working at it until you get something that you're really happy with. At some point you'll know that you can't do any more to it without screwing it up and that it's as good as it's going to get and or that you really love it. So that's probably the time to stop. Honestly, I'm just about there. I heard you say that you were moving again, Deb. I can't believe that again. We're not planning on staying in this house forever, but honestly, I dread the day when I have to move. I've been here so long, kind of in my own place now, Kylie. So I have a really small brush here somewhere. I thought I did. That was it. Let's try this one. This is the Payne's Gray again, which is a dark blue. And actually, you know what? I'm going to mix it with one of the blues that's on here. I'm barely touching the canvas. I think references are good. Yes, I agree with you. So the reference photos are really just for shadow and light and especially when you're doing figure work so that you can, you know, keep an eye on where the shadows should be or shouldn't be. But you really need to make the painting your own as I'm obviously doing here. This painting is very much my own. It looks nothing like the original at all. And I really think that you need to, and neither does the first one I did, you need to, you know, keep that in mind when you're doing this kind of work. I'm kind of liking. I'm getting to the part where I like her. There's something her face isn't quite right.   And it's still not, but it's getting better. And there's always one part of a painting that just takes me longer than the rest of the painting to get right. Always. In her case, it's her head and her hair. Painting her in watercolor, I have to tell you guys, I think it was much easier. See if the light's coming this way. It is an evolving thing. Definitely it is. And don't we all just love it. That's why we're here, right? Good or bad, we enjoy the process. At least I hope you all do.  What is the point? To be honest. Yeah, so yeah, so I did tell my husband that when when and if we do move that, you know, my requirement is that he not stick me down in a basement somewhere. Because, you know, I can't paint in the basement with no light. That's just not gonna work for me. I spent so much time getting her boobs right now. I'm having trouble with her hair. It's always something.  So I told him it's gonna have to have a good lighting. Yeah, I know I shouldn't complain too much. I'm so sorry you have to move again, Deb. That's just not fair. You just got settled in, it seems like. See, she's getting better. Her face is getting better. I don't know. I like her body.  Sounds bad, I know, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, you see me, we had the same idea at the same time, Ian, you see me in here with the white. We had the same idea. Great minds think alike. So if you want your, whether it's yellow or it's the neon orange to be brighter and more opaque, you need to put white down first. I know I already said that. It's not going to be if you don't put the white down first. I don't have too much yellow left on my palette, but I wanted to use up what was on there. So, oh, I agree too. Well, I don't know.  It can't be that bad. Oh, there we go. I thought the screen froze. It was just me stopping to look at the iPad. You know, holy moly. All right, let's see. We're gonna stay away from the muddy gray tones that are now on the palette because I don't think they're helping. And I'm gonna have my two purples and I do have some blue that's on here. So let's grab some of the blue, one of the blues that's on here. That was too much blue on the face. I got a mark in a place I didn't want to mark. Oops. Okay, now our warmer of our two purples. Now if the sun's this way, her face would be this part of her face would be in shadow. And there's always we're gonna do figures and faces and you're gonna have every time you do one, no matter how many times you've done them before, there'll be one part of it that just gives you fits and you paint over and over and over and over again. It's not right. Sometimes you need to just walk away. And sometimes you can work your way through it, but it happens to everybody.   Okay, that's the warmer. Let's go with the cooler now, which I need more of in there.  That's not a bad idea, Ian. Talk about a warm color, a little bit of red. I told you guys I need your help today because I'm, you know, that's better. I got to tell you guys right there, that's already better. I'm already happier with that than I was. Let's try the little bits of red. I tried to put the two caps together. Did you see that? Holy cow. Let's not do pink because we put pink on the man. I would like to see something different about this one. Let's try the red. I have this tomato red that's really pretty. I have neon red, but I think there's enough neon orange on there. We don't need neon red. A little bit of crimson is too dark. Let's try this one. This is tomato red. I actually like this color. It's not going to be as warm as the neon orange, but it is a warm color. Oh yeah, Ian's right. See, look at that. This is why even when I'm not in a mood, I paint with you guys. You guys steer me right. Look at that. I'm going to zoom in a little bit so you can see. Just not too much. You don't need too much. I'm actually barely touching my brush to the canvas. Her body is pretty dry.  I think you mean that literally, Ian. I'm going to do this. I messed up her hair a little bit, so I'm fixing it. I wiped it too much with the baby wipe because, you know, little name is not grace or patience, especially today. Yeah, I agree. Or in this case, red and neon orange. If you're ever unsure about what colors to pick in your painting that are going to work together, get a color wheel out. If you don't have one, you can buy one. If you can't afford to buy one, you can download one on the internet. They're everywhere. And that's a great reference tool, no matter how long you've been painting and how much experience you have, we all still need to occasionally refer back to a color wheel. Okay, now I do want to do this and tie a little bit of that red into the background color a little bit. Not a lot, but I don't want to just have the red be there like for no reason and have it not be anywhere else. That doesn't mean we're going to go crazy with it. I really like the way she turned out. I'm surprised because I didn't expect this to turn out good at all today, to be honest with you, as if I'm ever anything less than honest. Yeah, I really like her. We need to fix the edges though now.  And I'm going to just take what's on the palette that's wet, whatever is wet. I'm going to just use that. It gives a nice balance to have a little bit of the red in the background so it's not just on the figure. I agree. Again, I can't seem to do a painting, whether I'm using acrylic or watercolors with, you know, if you just tell me, you can only use three colors, I'm in big trouble. Obviously, because you know, I don't know how to do that. There is, I haven't seen it. It would be interesting to see. I'm putting this in the background to warm up the background a little bit and pull some of the yellowy colors from the figure into the background. This is, but this isn't yellow. This is the gold paint that I had on my palette that's still wet. I haven't heard about this color wheel and I don't know anything about it. Maybe you should give me a link or us a link. I just have your standard old color wheels. I haven't heard anything about a new one. But then I'm, you know, completely absorbed right now in either doing these tutorials or the secret project. So there's a lot of stuff I don't know about right now. I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure there's a ton of stuff I am missing right now.  It's not going to hurt anything. I want to add some of the blue back. I lost some of the blue there. So and I like the blue and I'm actually liking those streaky finger marks. I don't know what else to call them. You're going to have to figure out the link for that because I haven't heard anything about it. Like I said, though, I've been crazy busy with the secret project. So it doesn't surprise me. I missed something. I'm going to stop touching her because I really like where she's at. And I don't think there's anything more I could do to her to make her better. And I'm happy with her. Is she perfect? No. Do I expect her to be? No. I'm going to move all my stuff out of the way. And let's see. I'm sorry. I'm looking at that. Oh, hold on. I'm looking. There we go. Look at the computer screen behind me. I haven't heard anything about any of this. I haven't heard anything about a new blue. I mean, like I said, I've been kind of oblivious about all this stuff lately. So maybe you guys need to send me a link to an article or something so I can read up on it. So I really like the way these look together. I have to tell you. I think I like the way they look together better than I do individually. Now, our nude man has already been covered with deco page and then whack, cream wax and dried. I did sign him on the edge that it was repainted in September of 2016. And I put my art signature on here. I will be doing the same thing with the female nude. And the original signatures from the original times they were painted are on the back. This one, of course, was painted twice. Oh, thank you. So they will be for sale. And if you are interested in buying them, let me know. You can email me my addresses in the description below. I'm going to figure out how to get the images on Etsy without annoying somebody because they're nude. I don't know how to do that. So I love to find out. I might have to just list them in the Facebook group and let it go. I don't know. $25 each. Plus shipping. All right. Thank you so much. I have no room for them. I don't know what I'm going to do with them. My house is being overrun with paintings. And I do like how she seems to be picking out from the curtains. We've got similar colors in both paintings. So they coordinate nicely with each other. I really like them. And I like this sort of suggestive style or painting. Now, I will tell you, it's not any easier than doing a realistic portrait. It's just different. It makes me happier. Despite the issues I had with her hair, I love the way she turned out, which surprises me because I was not in the mood to do a nude today. And I kind of was feeling like poop about it. I told you guys already. So the fact that she turned out well surprises me. I do tend to more often than not use the trick of making the background around the figure dark. So that if my proportions are not exactly off, are not exactly right, that they blend into the background. Oh yeah, my dining room. Those of you who have seen my old, some of my older videos, my dining room is Florida stealing paintings almost. I will try to take some new video and post it maybe directly in the Facebook group. Yeah, and I'm always changing the paintings out there. But I have too many. So some of them have got to be sold. You're welcome. So if you're interested in these or any other paintings you have seen me do on YouTube or you've seen me post on Facebook somewhere, message me there. If it's not nailed down there for sale and none of them are nailed down. So you guys let me know and have some fun painting and creating something interesting. Don't be afraid about. Oh, there you go. Don't be afraid about the fact that you don't think you can do a figure. Just try it. Just try it.  I have to tell you what's the worst that could happen? It turns out like poop. Well, we all have, I mean, I look at all the canvases I'm painting over. You know, you don't have to show anybody the ones turn out like poop. That's all right. So just have fun with it and play and experiment. And you know, if painting figures with realistic colors, you know, kind of frustrates you like it does me and doesn't make you happy and just kind of find it tedious, then switch it up to warm and cool colors and do the figures in some of these colors and see what happens. You don't have to have fancy paint. This was done with a decor artist traditions paint. This one was done with decor Americana craft paint. You don't have to have fancy paint to play like this. All right, but I would recommend with these paints more than artist paints that when they're dry, you seal them with a varnish or something. I always put a coat of wax on there, too. And let that dry and that way during shipping, I don't have to worry about it getting hot and sticking to whatever it's wrapped in. So there you go. That's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing. Go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. And I'm going to have to look up this new blue paint because I don't know what you're talking about. As per usual, I have no idea. I'm always clueless. Those that know me would just shake their heads and you can just do that. I don't know how to do it virtually. All right, that's it you guys. So male nude and a female nude. Give it a shot. The links for Mike Deakin, Aaron from Improving Impulses and Paul Browning's original videos that sparked this whole thing with me are in the description below. If you haven't yet gone over to their channels and watched their videos and shown them some love, please do so now. And anybody else who has the guts to come on a public venue like YouTube and do something artistic with a nude, show them some love. It's just art people.  We all have these body parts. So, you know. All right, that's it everybody. I will see you Wednesday for Watercolor Wednesday. I don't have any idea what we're painting except that I want to try to finish up my Watercolor Journal in the next few weeks. So, if you guys have suggestions for what you would like to see on Wednesday, then message me over in Facebook and let me know. All right, that's it everybody. Bye guys.


What's up guys we're back with another epic video today's gonna be an awesome one We're doing a top 10 pulls of 2021 by me. So these aren't just box breaks. These are my personal pulls Maybe we'll do a box breaks top 10 as well in the future because we've got some crazy pulls out of those But this one's gonna be top 10 of my personal pulls We've had some great pulls already in the first half of this year So I figured we'd do it halfway through and then we can do a final one at the end of 2021 But before that I do have a giveaway. I'll be giving away These three cards. These are all legacy of darkness Super rare's if you guys are interested in that giveaway just like this video be subscribed and let me know your favorite moment from the top 10 Maybe some snubs if you think there was one that should have been in from 2021 Let me know and we can include that maybe in the end of the year Also, if you guys are interested in king's court check out the link in the description to sassy auto He has a link use code ruxen 34 Kc and you get 5% off your order. So you guys can get some epic new boxes You can do 5% I think it's a pre-order at this point because it's not out But it's coming out this coming week july 9th. I believe is the release date So check that out if you guys are interested They'll you'll be able to get your boxes probably by the end of the week Maybe next week and let's get into the top 10 I'm stating the obvious there. By the way, if you're wondering the ratios. Oh Yes As I was saying it okay Breaker the magical warrior. That's a super rare Oh, that's minty Centering is good too. This might have a ps8 10 chance guys And let's see what we can get. There are three very good ultimate rears in here. First of all the cyber dragon That's the one we want. There's also the forbidden droplet, which is a very big card as well Are you kidding me? You've got to be kidding me the first pack is a cyber dragon ultimate rare And yes, you guys haven't seen this open yet. The ulti stamp is insane. Like you can see the entire artwork through the back It's really weird Still like really nice condition just like very weird that it was stamped that hard I don't think I've ever seen that cyber or a borosar before I know I've seen it because of the cyber dragon um theme deck the uh, oh, okay Yeah, I know. I know what you're talking about. Yeah Spell chronicle. Okay. We don't have the secret yet. This is a little a little bit scary. Yeah shield Oh We are happy with that I couldn't tell us a secret at first and then I read what it was. I was like, oh, that's a secret. Look at that. There we go All right, this is a successful box. I can't say successful that that is really nice. I'm kind of having fun right now So maybe we'll just keep going for a while The different types of stomp summoning. I'm not your guy. I don't even know how to link summon To be honest, I don't know how to link summon. Maybe we'll do it Yes, oh look at it. Wait. Are there print lines? I don't see any You guys see any Okay, here we go Another euro pack. Oh, this feels like a good one. Why does it feel? Okay, let's go like that. There we go Darn magician. Okay, it's got some print lines. Oh, wow. That thing looks kind of bad for this angle Yeah, but if you look like that looks nice, but yeah, we look like that.  Can you guys see that really bad? Whoa? Okay, it's not quite raw level, but it's cool What this is like a retro pack secret Yeah, let's see it. Here we go We have a legacy of darkness. We're gonna start off with one pack I don't know if we can possibly do that well, but we have not pulled the injection fairy literally guys I want to see it. I want to see it. So if if there's a way to win this not actual pack battle Yeah, there we go. How's it look? I'll go over here. Yeah, I'm stuck on the right. Yeah, okay room for our faces Right, right.  All right spirit Ryu We've got the spiritual energy settle machine Super robo lady and First pack first pack catching Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? This has a good scenery. Really? Okay. I got the sleeve ready. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay You might not know this legacy of darkness is notice having the worst sintering in Yu-Gi-Oh really consistently This card and yada are always off-center. But if you look at that, let me put it on the screen It's pretty good Look at it. It's a barely off that. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That is If this gets a tin, it's very very low pop. It's a very I don't have one of these So this is a you do if this gets a tin. It's crazy First pack magic and the back looks pretty clean too. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that looks pretty good. Wow Okay, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay Like button for luck guys Destroy it. Here we go. This is our chance. Well, we have a few more chances, but I have a good feeling about this Spell reproduction Giga ego We got it. Oh my goodness. Okay. We got to put this in sleep. I'm getting a little sweaty because I got hyped All right, here we go. How's the back look? The back looks Really nice. It has that slight scuffing that they've all had Wow, what a third ultra. The sintering is pretty good. That card is a solid candidate, etc All that stuff. Let's go ahead and start opening. Let's pull something good I hope you guys are hyped about this video because I just decided you know what we got this box Let's just open it up Obviously the goal for the ultimate the ultra rare which are 1 in 24 per box So it's actually kind of weird because they're actually harder to pull than ultimate rares We would like the ancient gear golem obviously and the ultimate rares We want the ancient gear golem the flame wingman Thunder giant wing caribou and like brain controls. All right. We wouldn't mind her chef either.  Here we go Oh We got an ultra ulti Finally I didn't think it would be that fast Oh my goodness and the sintering is pretty good on it Wow, I didn't even get a chance to talk about why the ultra ulti's are so hard to pull This is open Okay, let's see. We might have to open to a hollow to make sure definitely man. Okay All right, come here. Definitely real cards. Yeah, the cards are 100 real They would be much redder on the back and then the text would be off too Okay Okay So that's why the pack didn't seal because yeah, because it was cream that that right there stopped it from the Oh, I mean people someone might pay more or less for it. Wow Bring that boy on the sun. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah, I was like, what is going on with this pack? Because it just like fell open to a lot of these cards are worth a lot because This is our first printing and tons of them didn't get reprinted So they just have like one random printing That's just kind of weird for tournament pack common sometimes and then they just have a ton of value because there's just no other cards of them They're kind of unique All right, third pack. Here we go We get the statue of the easter island if that doesn't remind you of 9th museum And I don't know what what will the judgment hand here we go Make sure you guys hit the like button for this video because this is pretty expensive pretty epic old opening The sintering is pathetic. Look at it. Oh my goodness mechanical chaser ultra rare pulled from tournament pack one Unbelievable that is like an eight sintering though That is so epic. Look at the back. Oh my god. This is like some of the worst sintering I've ever seen It might be able to get a 9 o c if this thing's nice this Might be it.  They're big. I pulled red eyes on the on my channel So we'd prefer one like one of those. I'm just gonna get really excited If we pull any of those, I might I might pass out just saying Um, and of course I'm getting sleep ready. Just super ares are great Any foil is good that and also it means that might actually scale the packs which is kind of good Maybe we can actually know what we're gonna pull. May or may not happen. We'll see. All right Kumutoko we got some weird ones. Um, definitely glossy. Yeah, I noticed that one You see that that's the difference glossy looks like this wavy looks a little different All right, Kumutoko. This just looks really nice Forest very good. I like the magic cards in the originals. They're just the nice green. I'm a big green fan We got some green in the background as well skull server. That's pretty good. The centered comments, too These actually are worth a little bit if they're graded Green phantom king. Okay. This is it guys. Please. I hit your camera. Okay. Oh my gosh I can't believe this. This is insane man. We just name. Okay. Actually you said what you want I said everything I wanted to pull we pulled every card I said I wanted to pull more than the blue eyes, believe it or not The dark magicians is my favorite card growing up and we just pulled it. This is amazing and the sintering is pretty good on it It's a lot better than the flame swordsman I'm speechless and that's it for the top 10 video. Hope you guys enjoyed it Let me know what the snubs were what you think was in the wrong order Tell me what should have been number one number five Whatever you think was the right order for it or if I put one way too high or too low Let me know in the comments so I can take that into the count for the end of year 2021 But it was pretty fun to recap these old moments. We've had some pretty awesome pulls so far this year Hopefully we can have some even better ones in the second half of the year and that's it for this video I'll see you guys later Oh


This is my new updated tester for our feather RP2040 with RFM9X Laura. I did this board before and I had this module kind of like dangling off these pins here and I wanted to clean it up a little bit. And one of the things I added to our brains tester board is this iSpy connector. And this has SPI and iSquared C and lots of GPIOs. It's got way more pins than just these because it's a tightly packed connector. And then over here you see I have a Laura module and this antenna and this antenna are coaxial. And so when I put this board down and I do the test, the RP2040 programs the client board, the feather, and then communicates with the Laura module, sending data back and forth that hello world and make sure that the signal strength is correct. So this is a nice fast test for our new feather Laura boards.


Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Jessica Bidwell. Tax season is here and your federal income tax returns are due by April 15th, however service members overseas may qualify for an extension. Army Sergeant Jesse Antalan has more. With this year's tax deadlines fast approaching, for most U.S. citizens, extensions are available for military personnel and families serving overseas. It's good to know there's extra time to file. We understand that people are really concerned about getting their taxes done by April 15th. If you're filing your tax return from overseas you have an automatic extension until June 15th. The sooner you file, the sooner you get your return. Resources and information are available online at militaryonesource.mil and tax centers are open across Europe, ready to lend a hand. But hurry, time is money, your money, and the clock is ticking. Reporting from Wiesbaden, Germany, I'm Sergeant Jesse Antalan.


Sonya Mbill and Ayandan Gwain assist KZN flood victims. Actress and businesswoman Sonya Mbill is set to play her part in disaster-stricken Quasulunatal after the province was hit by floods. Sonya wants to donate 5,000 litres of her premium 99% pure alkaline water alco-max valued at RAD,000. President Cyril Ramaphosa's set on Monday evening cabinet had resolved to declare a national state of disaster to provide relief to Quasulunatal and the Eastern Cape, which had been extensively damaged by floods. In a statement shared with Chvisa Liveyi, the businesswoman said she will be distributing water on April 20 to rescue sites in affected areas of Quasulunatal such as schools, community halls, and homes. I've been through it all. I know the good, the bad, and the storm. Giving is in my nature. I've been giving in silence. When I get a gig, I would award the underprivileged. Not because I'm rich, but because I know and understand poverty. I know what it feels like to lose everything, and I'd do anything to lend a hand where I can. She opted to be in Quasulunatal and not just send her water. I'm a mother of four and all my children depend on me. In our industry, there is no guarantee. There are the good times and the bad. I know both. And the bad is traumatic. I don't wish that situation on anyone hence I feel the need to physically be in Quasulunatal. I don't only want to send my water, I want to be there, within and among the people, because I know that pain, said Sonya. Businesswoman and reality TV star Ayandan Quayne took to her Instagram recently to share with her followers that she was in Quasulunatal and in her hometown where she could see the destruction first hand. Homes are washed away and bereaved families are mourning at neighbors or relatives places. It's one thing watching the news. It's another when you hear them tell you how they had to dig for their loved ones for days. Some are still buried under heavy stones or washed away in rivers. We have done our little bit to donate towards funerals and other emergencies but it's not enough as there are way too many people in need. I'm pleading with business owners who are rural born to check our people, wrote Ayanda. TVO Touch and Zaks Bantweeni, Noms Bozikode, DJ Tira, and others are also lending a hand to flood victims and started a campaign called United Creatives of Essay Relief. He told Daily Sun their aim was to buy at least 20,000 blankets, 1,000 ventilated tents, and tinned food. None of us will manage the account and instead we are talking to a church to assist us. The flood victims will have to go the identified church and prove they have been affected.


I am extremely excited today because we are going to Rochester Institute of Technology here in Rochester, New York. Rochester Institute of Technology already has a university episode. They were the first university to say yes to an episode, for which I am forever grateful. But the thing is, it was like early 2021, I couldn't come to the campus. So I said, I gotta come here, I gotta see this place for myself. And that's what we're doing today. This is the Magic Design Studio, and I have a feeling I'm gonna feel right at home here. This is everything I've ever wanted. How's it going? Good. I feel like I'm home. This is awesome. So that was just the west half of the campus. We still got the east half to cover, and I'm heading that way. I think it's about to be a good time for some student interviews. You don't want to do it too early in the morning because people are too tired, right? They don't want to talk to you. And I don't blame them. I wouldn't either. I'm gonna start going to the east half of campus. Maybe we'll see if after some classes let out, people are talkative, they've kind of woken up. So this is definitely more like the residential side of campus, like pretty much everything around me here are residence halls and then like buildings for student services and places to eat. Apparently all the east campus is actually connected by a series of tunnels underneath the buildings. Now, since a lot of these are residences, I'm not going inside those because that's kind of like people's personal space. They're all connected. So if you don't want to get cold in the winter, you don't have to. So here on campus, you'll actually see quite a few people using sign language, and that's because the National Institute of the Deaf is also over here on the east campus. So let's take a look at that. Rochester, New York is a pretty decent size city, but Rochester Institute of Technology is located on the outside of the city. So you've got these beautiful scenes of nature back here that you can take a look at. Like we've got a river right here. The back of our IT is nothing but nature, okay? So there are trails that you can go up and down if you just want to take a break from the classroom vibes. And there's all sorts of like bike paths and stuff around this back part of the campus. So you can walk around and do whatever you want back here. So far not one person has like asked me what I'm doing here. And I kind of find that funny. I like to play this game when I get to a campus, like how long will it take for somebody to just be like, hey, what are you doing? Well, whether it's a security guard or like whether it's a student, faculty, whatever, just like, I don't know how long it takes for that first person to come up to me and be like, what's going on here? I've been here now for like two and a half hours, nothing, nothing. I could probably just walk around here forever and maybe no one would say anything. I'm going to have to make the first move.  So I decided to separate the interviews into another video that's going to come out next week. So I hope you enjoyed the campus tour. Thank you for watching it. If you're still here, it means the world to me. And next week, we're going to have a whole bunch of interviews with RIT students. So I hope you can check that video out too. If you're interested in RIT, check out rit.edu. If you need some help with it, go to prepwithscore.com and we can help you apply. Thanks again, and I'll see you next week.