This video provides an overview of the Council for Basic Skills, CBS. Council membership is composed of leaders from across the state's Basic Education for Adults programs. CBS will come to be an integral part of your time as dean, director, or administrator within a basic education program across the state. In addition to the formal function of the council, which will be discussed in the coming minutes, CBS provides a space for surfacing important questions, pushing initiatives forward, challenging bias, mentorship, and connection. The Council for Basic Skills, CBS, comprises all basic skills education providers funded through the Office of Basic Education for Adults at the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. This group is primarily made up of deans, directors, and others in leadership positions with basic education programs. Each provider typically has one or two representatives on the council. Before we go further into the details of CBS, a reminder of the overall commission and council structure and chain of command will be of use. At the top of the chart is the Washington Association of Community and Technical Colleges, or WACTC. This group is made up of system presidents. WACTC develops policy recommendations to the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, and to the system in conjunction with seven commissions and their councils. The Council of Basic Skills, CBS, is under the Instruction Commission, or IC. In order to move concerns, policy changes, and initiatives forward, the committees with CBS bring items forward to the whole body of CBS. The chair of CBS then takes the ask to the Transitions Committee of the Instruction Commission. The Transitions Committee presents the initiative to the entire body of IC for approval or forwarding to WACTC. WACTC then approves and moves to the SBCTC Board for final approval. CBS meets each quarter to carry out the purpose of assisting and reporting to the Instruction Commission issues affecting state, local, or federally funded adult and family literacy programs and basic education issues. CBS coordinates and improves basic skills instruction to promote student success in accordance with state and federal guidelines for adult and family literacy education. Quarterly meetings rotate among providers with an effort to hold meetings on both the east side and west side of the mountains. Consider volunteering to host a meeting. The CBS bylaws identify nine strategies to support the Council purpose. The strategies are enhanced communication and collaboration across the system of adult service providers, identify program performance, professional standards, and professional qualifications that strengthen basic literacy and adult basic education, advocate for and support timely professional development opportunities, evaluate and recommend courses of action related to statewide basic literacy and adult basic education needs, facilitate increased articulation within and between providers of instruction, disseminate relevant and timely information, participate in a system-wide assessment and evaluation process. CBS has a number of opportunities for engagement, including participation in the Executive Committee as an elected officer. There are five elected positions in the Executive Committee. Chair. Chair-elect. Secretary-treasurer. General Member-at-large. CBO Member-at-large. The Chair presides over all membership and Executive Committee meetings. The Chair is the official liaison to the Instruction Commission. The Chair-elect acts as Chair in the Chair's absence and performs other duties as needed. The immediate past Chair serves on the Executive Committee and assists in assignments given by the Chair. In total, a person who is interested in becoming Chair typically serves for three years total, a year as Chair-elect, a year as Chair, and a year as Past Chair. The Secretary-treasurer may write letters on behalf of CBS in collaboration with the Chair, as directed by the Executive or other committees, and shall maintain the organization's finances and perform other duties as assigned by the Executive Committee. The members-at-large serve on Executive Committee and assist in assignments as directed and assigned by the Chair. Participating in the Executive Committee of CBS is an amazing leadership opportunity, affording you the ability to help set the agenda and direction of the Council during your service. Committee work is another important aspect of CBS. Standing committees are formed as necessary to carry out the ongoing work of the Council. Various committees are formed and retired on the recommendation of the Executive Committee and approved by majority vote of the Council. Standing committees are typically led by a pair of co-chairs who also participate in the Executive Committee. During your course as a member or co-chair of a standing committee, you can expect to review and research all issues relevant to the committee's charge, develop and present recommendations to the full Council, represent the Council to other organizations, serve as a liaison to the SBCTC Better Office. Recommendations of a committee shall have the force of emotion and second recommendations shall then be open for discussion by the full Council. Committees are imperative to moving ideas forward and advancing change. 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It's so hilarious, the film. Thank you. What are your funniest or most memorable moments from making it? I really love the scene between Zac Efron and Josh Hutcherson. It's the first scene that we show the behind the scenes of the room in our movie. There's just something, I don't know what it is. I mean, Zac Efron gives the performance of his life in this part. I mean, he's in the movie for like two minutes, but maybe the most memorable character for me. It was fun. The way we shot it largely, especially the behind the scenes scenes, were these long takes. We would block it all out, and then we could just jump into it and live these things out for five or six minutes at a time on some of these scenes. And it was me and my brother and my very good friend, Seth Rogen, and his wife, Allison Brie, at moments. And it was just an incredible count. And then in addition, we just had like the best cameos you could ever ask for of all great comedians and dramatic actors. And every scene was fun, I think. It's so much fun to watch you both on screen together. I mean, what are your favorite things about working with each other? It's just easy. It's easy working with friends and family. A lot of people have asked like, what didn't work between you guys? What were the negative parts about working together? And there really weren't any. We do have very similar sensibilities. And we are drawn to the same things. And we're drawn to projects that feel slightly outside the box, but that are still accessible enough that you can attract a slightly wider audience. We just play well off each other, where he creates a very collaborative set where everyone's ideas matter. So no one has more power than anyone else, and ultimately best. You're the opposite of Tommy West. Yeah, exactly. Although, in another way, we are a little bit like Tommy and Greg, I think. Not so extreme, but I think we balance each other out. He likes to, I have a tendency to go, I don't know, just do too much, and he'll pull me back. And sometimes he needs a little nudge, and I'll give him that.


Across the globe, people in rural and urban areas like to eat fish and fish products. Fish is a major source of micronutrients and proteins, but unless it is processed it cannot be kept for long. Many people dealing with fish often lose money because the way they preserve it does not result in good quality fish. Dried fish that looks clean, bright and is free from sand cells at a good price. It is used for human consumption. Dried fish that is dull in color and may be contaminated with sand or soil like this, cells at a low price and is often used for animal feed. That silver fish that we have finished drying on this drying stand, it remains fresh and good. If the sun shines on it well, from morning up to around 3, it can be fully dry and if it is for eating, it remains detached and separate from others. But this one, which we removed while spoiled, it does not dry fast and remains heavy, smelly with flies. It is not good. That is where the difference is between the silver fish for eating and the one for animals. Fish is often sun dried on the ground. With a little effort, we can greatly improve this practice and increase our profit. Start constructing the drying racks by erecting stands. Metal stands last longer but are more expensive. You can also make raised drying racks using readily available wooden poles. Use wood that cannot be destroyed by termites such as from wild date palms. Make sure the stands are raised at least one meter above the ground. The width of the rack should also be about one meter so that the rack can be reached from either side. After raising the stands, spread food grade mesh over the stands. Fasten the mesh so that the silver fish do not fall through. Spread the fish over the mesh to dry. Turn the fish while removing the unwanted species. You can use a plastic sheet to cover the drying fish in case of sudden rain. After the rain, roll back the plastic cover to expose the drying fish to sunshine. Drying on the racks can take six to seven hours on a bright day but on a cloudy day it can take more than eight hours to dry. Good quality silver fish has a bright silvery color and sharp fish smell. Remove the fish from the rack when it is dry. It is important to locate the drying racks on raised open ground. Away from low lying swampy areas that are humid to take full advantage of environmental conditions to ensure good air movement. These drying racks won't be firm if you put them in the sun. Now that is why we look for a place with stable soil where you are able to plant the racks and they remain firm so that when you put this silver fish while wet and heavy the stand will not shake. It is firm. It can carry the weight of the silver fish and will not fall. That is why we look for farm ground. This silver fish, when it is for human consumption it has to be in a clean place. We have places which are clean, don't get dusty and are not near roads.  Park the dry silver fish in a plastic bag to protect it from contamination and keep its flavor. Handle the silver fish packs with care especially during transportation and marketing to maintain its quality. Now that you know how to construct and use raised drying racks, let us go through what we have learned one more time. Good quality dried silver fish that is bright sells at a good price. To obtain good quality dried fish, buy fresh silver fish of good quality. Construct drying racks from metal or wood one meter above the ground. After building the stands, fix the food grade mesh over them. Locate the drying racks on raised open ground away from low lying swampy areas. Spread the silver fish over the mesh to dry under the sun for seven hours on a bright sunny day. Turn the silver fish regularly. Good quality silver fish will earn you good money. Do not hesitate. Use raised drying racks to get good quality dried fish that you can sell at a good price.


Hello everyone, Drew with GeoAlarm and I am back to talk to you about adding and deleting users from the all new GeoAlarm application. All you have to do is go ahead and get logged in, you click the menu button and then on the left hand side over there you click users. Once you're in there, you're going to see that you have your admin user GeoAlarm and a plus sign underneath it.  You can see there's all kinds of different fields here. The first thing that I recommend doing is going to user type and selecting the access level that they're going to have to your GeoAlarm phone app. In this case you just select a regular user, then you're going to go ahead and enter the full name and in my case I'll just go ahead and put GeoAlarmTesting but you would obviously put in your full name. For user names I usually like to use email addresses, in this case I'm just going to call it GeoAlarmTesting. I should put a space in there, let's go ahead and get that erased on there. GeoAlarmTesting is the user name. The app password you can make whatever you'd like and then it's going to ask you to verify that password after you've entered it. Once you've done that then it'll ask you to enter your email address and the mobile number for the account. So we'll just use our GeoAlarmTesting address here. Then you're going to go ahead and put in the telephone number, the cell number for the user that you're setting up here. Go ahead and enter the office number here. Then you're going to give them the user code that you want them to use, a four digit code and then give them panel access. At that point create user, you want to go ahead and click that and you'll see that it's adding user and all of that information's in there. I always like to click save user again, I don't think, and then I go back. As you can see now there's an admin and a regular user and it's really that simple to add the user. Deleting the user is even easier. You just go back into the user, you scroll down to the bottom and you'll see right under save user, delete user. Click delete user, it'll ask you to confirm. Click delete again and just like that, your user is deleted. And then you go back to the main screen and everything is normal without that user being attached to the account any longer. Ladies and gentlemen, that is how you add and delete users from the Geo Alarm phone application. If you have any questions, please leave a comment down below. Thank you and take care. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button below for more videos, products, services, and more. And don't forget, visit our website at www.georm.com. For new parts, the lowest cost month to month monitoring options including Pro, DIY, GPS, remote cellular sensor, video verification, DIY video, home automation, and more. Also check georm.com for manuals, videos, technical support, updated videos, products, announcements, and more. GeoArm, the worldwide leader in DIY security.


In summary, our study showed that lamnospora indica PCC 8005 can be used as a potential candidate to further explore as a radiomitigator counteracting pelvic irradiation-induced dysbiosis in the presented in vivo irradiation gut microbiota model. This article was authored by Charlotte Seegers, Mohamed Massara, Omly Culkins, and others.


Hello, I am Obyora Odugu Joshua and I am from Nigeria. I will be an Inforsifelo in 2021 advancing sustainable development goal 2, zero hunger, and sustainable development goal 9, industry, innovation and infrastructure. I want to apply my engineering skills for social good because I have seen for standing the impact of great products in people's life. As an Inforsifelo, I'll be working with Katie on developing a newer version of Greenhouse which is a super affordable $500 greenhouse light for the bottom of the pyramid farmers. I am most excited about this fellowship because it reveals me the opportunity to work with individuals from different cultural backgrounds in advancing engineering for global development. In 10 years, I hope to be working on projects that use modern technologies to alleviate poverty in my community and take the community forward.


Ford's Theater in Washington has opened a new education center. It tells about President Abraham Lincoln, who was shot in the theater just after the Civil War ended. The new center has a 10-meter-high tower of 7,000 books about the president. Tracy Evans says there are more books about Abraham Lincoln than about any other American. He's just continued to be fascinating and people throughout every generation seem to want to redefine who Abraham Lincoln is to them. The center has a recreation of the train car that carried Mr. Lincoln's body. There also is a recreation of the building where John Wilkes Booth, the president's killer, was himself shot and killed. Charlie Doerr likes the computerized exhibits. I think it's pretty cool. Pretty high-tech for Abraham Lincoln. The center was opened to answer questions about the president.  The Civil War began after 11 southern states split from the north over the rights of states, including slavery. The center's Tracy Evans says some people questioned President Lincoln's actions, but he was respected. It has a lot to do with his leadership style and his personality, the things that he championed. The fact that he had an ability to relate to the common person because he had come from, you know, humble roots himself. The center shows other American presidents and world leaders who have used the words of President Lincoln. He was writing, encompassed really big ideas, championed important issues, but he wrote in a very eloquent but very simple style, which was not really the tradition at the time. The center has created a video showing Americans using the words of President Lincoln. I'm Steve Embers.


If that's not okay, dude. Wow, it sounds like it has a harmonic tone. Oh, oh, that's sick! Oh, oh, whoa! Everybody, welcome to Road to Ride. I'm Les Flair C. I'm Bobby F.P.V. I'm Peter F.P.V.  The idea behind this is that it is going to be the ultimate gap hitter, right? Okay. You can shrink yourself down, hit the gap and then expand back out again. So when this thing is flying and you give throttle, then all the arms extend, right? Exactly, yeah. So they're just extending on their own thrust. So I've had to do a few things in Betaflight to make this possible. I had to go in and turn off all of the good juiciness that makes our drones fly well today because all those filters and all the stuff that Betaflight's doing in the background actually interferes with this. It's trying to correct constantly. And it was trying to correct with all the motors like that. You can imagine what's going to happen to the drone. Talk about the frame with the most resonance or whatever, right? Exactly. So I had to actually tell it to completely turn the motors off and actually stop them whenever I drop the throttle to zero. So keep that in mind.  And unfortunately with the five inch, they have so much thrust that in order to get the arms of drop back down, I had to add rubber bands on the bottom to kind of pull it back centered. I mean, that's good though. So that when you do like let off throttle, it definitely goes back really fast. Yeah. I mean, just when we're feeling it, let's see it like, boom. Yeah. Super fast. So let's go ahead and put this up in the air. I'll fly a little bit line of sight just to kind of show you guys what it's capable of. Yeah. And then we'll try to see if we can chase it around here and hit some gaps. I want to just see you do a test hover once it's hovering, make it go like that. Make it go like a squid. Dan should probably stand over here. Yeah, Dan will go over here. Hey guys, I'm standing behind the tree. I don't know. There we go. Fly it. That's gonna be it. Sounds better. That's the cool guy. That's the cool guy. It's kind of going to feel of what it's doing before I get in the FVV. Cause when I get in the FVV, I don't think I'm going to be able to know what's going on. What is that? That's the tree. It does not start spinning because the motor's code will complete stop at zero throttle. Oh. Air mode is off. There's no air mode. And no idle. There's no idle. Yeah. Well, it's really good for you. It doesn't like me. Oh my God. What are you trying to do? Don't know. Don't yacht. Don't yacht at all. You have to give it enough throttle to keep the tension locked in place. Oh. If you don't give it enough tension, if you don't give it enough throttle, then they're not locked in place and the rear bands are trying to pull them back down. Gotcha. I'll see how we get the vibrating motor again. Oh. Oh. What? Oh. Oh. Oh, jeez. Oh, you flipped. Oh. Oh. That was acro right there. That was acro. I didn't try to do a flip. I just did a flip. This thing is crazy. Well, let's FPV it before I break it. Mitch is back now. I'm going to sit down and fly because I feel like once it freaks out, it's my disorientating little bus. Ready to follow? What's your other part of your phone? Squishy. Oh my gosh. It's so weird. I have to be really high in throttle. Oh. I'm just going to fly around for a sec. Okay. It looks like it's doing okay. All right. Oh my gosh. Oh, what? Oh. Fire. What, fire? What? Fire? Fire. Oh, yeah. Motor smoke. See, I completely stopped. Yep. All right, let's do it out there now so I can actually make it do its thing. Ready, Peter? Yep. Nice. You got it, you got it. Ready, John? Now let's go find that gap. I know where it is. It's just right here. Let's go. Here it is. You got this? You want me to take the safety-ness? All right. I'll just go slow. I see you. Oh. There we go. Oh, there we go. Nice, you got it. That was sweet. You did it, Peter? You got it. All right, do it again. All right, come on. Okay. John, yeah, I'm on you. All right, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow. You're too fast. It just doesn't ring. It'll squid. It's squided through. Oh, that was good. That was good. Okay, okay, so I just got to give a really big flip. Oh my goodness.  Okay, hold on. You're doing really good now. This thing's flying awesome now. Peter, did you get- I don't know what you're doing differently, but it's already got three. You got it? Okay. Ooh. You ready? Oh, I know. There's a gap. Crackle. Oh, it's going to go up. You ready? You got me? Oh, there's one. Yeah. Oh, it's squided through it. Ooh. Power, power. Power, power. But in doubt, power out. Oh my goodness. Did you fall in that, Peter? Oh, yeah. As much as I could. You want to try again? Right behind him now, yeah. Over going through the small gap down here, nice. Okay, let's find another one. All right. Let's go find a gap. Yeah. Right here. Peter, you on me? Yup, I'm on you. Peter, you on it, okay. I'm on you, boy. I'm on you. Let's see what we can do. Oh, it's squided. It's squided. Oh. Oh, oh, oh. It's a little squid. It's just like every other drone though. The planet is stuck in a tree. At least it's pretty low. It's somewhere in here. That's fun. You guys think, is this going to be your next drone that you're going to want to fly every day? Not really. I don't know. I don't know. Not really. So at the end, I kind of started to figure it out.  And then you can slowly drop the throttle again. Exactly, yeah. It's like a balancing act. You have to give it enough throttle so these things engage. Yeah. But not too much to where you're in the trees and not too little to where it splops around. Yeah. This is like the maximum test. It's so funny when it goes through the trees like this. Yeah. This is like the maximum test of throttle control. I wish I would have been a follow along in your goggles because I think it probably looked sick. Yeah. It looked really cool. Yeah. And then all of a sudden you flop with an almost hemiplegia. Well, I don't know if this was a success or a failure, but I think it was pretty cool to play with at least as a prototype and as a proof of concept that something like this could be really cool in regular everyday drone flying. If you can get it to fly better than I did. Yeah. I think this would be awesome to be the ultimate gap hitter. Yeah. So if any of you guys watching this video want to maybe try to do the same thing yourself, I think it would also work really well if you can somehow put servos on the arm. I thought about using servos, but that was a whole other level of complexity with programming and stuff that would have had to go into beta flight to make it happen. Yeah. And on top of that, it would be less durable because the servos, we know after experience, they break really easily. Yeah. So our vans are pretty durable apparently. Yeah. So if you guys try this project at home, let us know in the comments below and also just tag us wherever you post it because we'd love to see what you guys do with it. If you guys like this episode of Rotorite, make sure that you subscribe and then right next to the subscribe button there's a little bell and if you press the bell, you'll get pinged when we upload every Monday. So let us know in the comments what project you want me to do next. Yeah. Sean's our mad scientist builder. You can build anything. Anything you put in the comments, he will build. And be sure to check out Rotorite.com. We have a store where you can buy all the parts that I use to build this except for some of the carbon pieces. If you guys want to try this out for yourself, I'll leave links to all the STL plans for this in the description so you guys can try it out for yourself. Yeah. Thanks for watching guys. We'll see you next time on Rotorite. Woo!


I didn't want to make this video. I don't like posting videos like this. I tell myself I wouldn't again, but I have to this time.   You don't take things serious.  And it's hard for me to breathe at times. It's hard for me to breathe right now. I actually had to stop the video a couple of times. I start to question, was this the right path for me to choose? Was being in the public eye something that I've always wanted fame? I don't consider myself famous at all. Do not take it that way. But to have 500,000 plus subscribers, I've always wanted this, but is this really what I wanted?   And sometimes, to be honest with you guys, I just wanna jump in traffic. And I don't say that to be funny. I actually mean that. I was literally just laying on my couch for about two hours staring at the wall. And it scared me because I'm like, what am I doing? I should be downstairs. I should be working. I should be doing my videos for the channel. You know, recently I started doing anime reactions and you have a lot of people claiming I fake my reactions. So now you have all of that on Twitter.   I never understood that. Am I special? I never understood directing hatred and negativity or even a dislike on a video somebody's way. I never thought of doing that, even if I did not agree with a video. For example, I watch a guy named Angry Joe on YouTube, he's a gaming channel.  Sometimes he says some stuff that pisses me off. I don't comment that. I don't reply to him. I don't dislike the video. I just carry on with my day because I don't wanna put more negativity into the world because there's already so much of that. And this is not me playing victim. Do I fake my reactions? A lot of people wanna know this. No, I don't. Do I amp up my personality 1,000 fold? Yes. Who you see in my videos is not who I am in person. So if someone sees me in public and expects this insanely energetic crazy kid, you're not gonna get that. You're gonna get someone that's laid back, chill and very nervous. I've been getting this on my channel since the very beginning that I fake my reactions.  And now it just makes me very depressed, which is a sign that I need to stop doing certain things. I need to stop looking at comments. I have to stop opening my messages. I have to stop entertaining people. So with the anime reactions, I've been doing music reactions for three years. I wanted to do something else for a week. I did anime reactions. Now we have three sides. We have one side that really loves my reactions and they want more anime stuff. Then there's the second side where people think I sold out that I forgot about the music reactions. Why are you reacting to these cartoons? Did you use us to get to anime? It's been a week. It's been a week. I'm trying to do something different. Please. I have that third side that looked at past videos of mine where in the videos I say that I like a certain anime or I like a certain song or you see a poster of an anime in my background, meanwhile flash forward a couple of months later and I'm reacting to these shows or these songs as if I just didn't say a few months ago, I liked it. And then I explained that I had a girlfriend at the time that I was trying to impress, that I would always say that I like anime just to impress her but I was lying, which was wrong but then she cheated on me so I felt like it was justified. But I guess the worst part of that is that not only did I lie to her, which I'm fine with but I somewhat lied to you guys, people that watched me and thought that I actually watched these animes before while I was just saying that to impress a girl. And a quick note before every comment in the comment section says this, I private videos because I can't handle the criticism. Even if I explain my side and prove myself to be in the right, you're always, or in my case, I'm always gonna have those comments of people claiming I'm lying. And on those videos that people say I've privated because I'm hiding things, I'm not hiding anything, I just can't handle it. And I've handled it well in the past, sometimes I just let it be but this time I just can't take it anymore, I can't. So I privated those videos and they're gonna state private whether you like it or not. I recognize my flaws, I recognize that I was wrong for lying, but I don't fake anything. I don't fake my reactions. If you see me reacting to music or if you see me reacting to an anime or a movie, I've never seen or heard what I'm watching. I can't put on an act, I can't fake this, I can't, I don't have the mental stability to be able to act the way I do in my videos if it was acting. I completely respect someone that says, I don't like this guy, I think he's faking his reactions. I completely respect that, that's your point of view. Do I agree with it? No, but it's your point of view.  I just don't understand that. And then you have these people copying and pasting these negative things on every single video I do. I don't fake my reactions, but even if I did, you should see the thousands and thousands and thousands of messages and comments that I receive from people saying that my happiness, that my videos saved them, that I made their day. And that means more to me than anything else. If it means faking a reaction to save somebody's life, I will do it. But I haven't, I have not done that yet. And if I do do that, I'll come clean about it one day. But I did not do it yet, I did not. I know people get mad at me when I talk about this. They're like, man, just move on, like we love your content. Don't worry about these haters, there's not much of them. Guys, even if it was one or two people, this is where I'm at right now, I can't handle it. It's hard, it's hard. And I'd be lying if I was sitting here saying that it's easy.  I don't know what to say, I don't know. And that's my fault, it's my fault for putting these videos online, I'm open to criticism. I'm not playing victim. People that probably get a quote to eat this and say, look at this guy, playing victim.   It's just who I am. All I want is to meet the love of my life, move away and just start an entire new life and just make a family and have a great time. You can't please everybody, I understand that. But it's like, I'm just trying to have a good time. I'm just trying to make people smile. And if you have nothing nice to say, this isn't the channel to criticize. There's a lot of channels that are open for criticism. There's a lot of channels that bring up these critical points that are more of discussions. But for my videos, I'm just reacting to stuff. There's nothing to criticize. There's no room or need for negativity. Let's just have a good time. If I was faking things, if I was lying to people, I would understand it. But I'm not, I'm not. Maybe in the past, I've strayed away from saying negative things about something because I didn't want to get attacked by a fan base. I did that with the K-pop community. But I stopped doing that, I learned from doing that because I don't want to lie.  And also, with this OnlyFans thing, it's good money.  The people that subscribe to my OnlyFans get what they came for, literally. I'll never search my name again because some of the things I've seen just destroyed me.  People honestly hate me. And I don't do anything to deserve that.  But I don't think I've done anything in my life that makes me horrible. Anyways, sorry if I ruined anyone's mood. I just wanted to clear this up, to get this out, and to explain myself because in a lot of comment sections, people are calling me out and my messages, I'm getting hateful messages, I'm getting criticism, valid criticism, and very hateful criticism. And I just wanted to make this video to air out everything inside of me because I can hardly breathe, guys. And please don't think I am playing victim and I am asking for attention. I, this is why people end up doing things because everyone thinks they're doing something for attention and then it's too late.  Anyways, reactions resume tomorrow. I did not stop doing music reactions. I'm gonna keep doing that. I just wanted to take a little, little, little, little break from doing music reactions because I've been doing it for three plus years straight. And I just wanted to try something else. But yeah, guys, I love you. And to those that hate me, I don't know what to tell you. To find something better with your time because you're not living how you're supposed to be living, you're dying slowly. All right, guys, I love you, goodbye.


There is a fantastic channel called The Art Assignment and on there there's a video called The Myth of the Tortured Artist where the host Sarah talks about how this idea that we have that all creative people are somehow mentally unstable that to be really creative you need to have some sort of problem going on is just that it is a myth but there is I think a curse in creativity that often affects a far broader spectrum of people that never really gets talked about how's it how's it yeah so you know that the idea of you know the the the vango type figure up in a garret you know cutting their ear off and and that having to be if you want to be a real creative person that's what you need to have some medley unhinged somehow is yeah it's a trope that's been built up over time and it makes for a neat movie and you know that kind of stuff but it kind of glosses over something that I've certainly struggled with in the past and when I talk to other photographers and other people who are into creative aspects especially people who are for whom this is a hobby it's a it's a it's a theme that surfs is again and again trying to get the idea from up here inside this gray thing and the sloshes around the side of the heads into a form we can share with other people it's that struggle that is so often the problem because you know you've got something up here it's there and yet how do you get it out when you look at creativity if it's trying to be often you know sort of compartmentalized or you know put into a process a if you kind of look at these things about what exactly creativity is it kind of makes you feel less creative and and so kind of we go to the opposite spectrum the chaos that the creativity is built from chaos and all these things going around and it's it's the job of the creative person to wrestle these elements you know to beat them into submission and and make something unique okay that's kind of cool it looks you know it's appealing to to the 20 something hard student but for most of us that's a little bit beyond there and I look at somebody like Ansel Adams and he strikes me as somebody who's very organized very deliberate and yet he is creative he was well known as a as a very competent piano player he was well versed in music and always kind of very again you know set up the creative outlets that had a system you know music has written music and form you know those kind of things and you I could see why he's the sort of person who would develop the zone system the whole process of taking photographs because he wants to make that creative process repeatable to be able to get this idea that he has in his head that visualization of the scene in front of him how to expose it correctly how to you know make sure that the tones rule there and he's got the the negative which is then processed in a very specific way often these were just individual sheets of film so they could be processed individually you know so you can have this one for five minutes and that one's for six minutes and so on and so forth and then printed in in a way that again you know is to a system that worked through and so the whole process of creativity for for Ansel sort of was there on a series of steps and if that works for for you then I would encourage you to to look at the the zone system and Ansel's you know approach to photography as a way of being able to grease the wheels as it were but what if you're a little bit more like me what if you want to be a little bit more out there on the edge do you prefer to kind of embrace that chaos of of creativity a little bit more dianne arbis was a very well-known photographer in the 1970s and there's been lots of like written about her photography about you know is she looking for herself because her struggles her mental struggles have been well documented and ultimately ended up taking a life and there's another photographer I've touched on in the past bob collis clark who also struggled with these kind of themes and if you're interested in him I'll link to it at the end of the video where I did a bit more in depth but dianne was photographing things and or people sorry they're not things they're people who are somehow I think she's you know she's maybe trying to find a place that that kind of resonates with her and and so she's leaning into that feeling of of maybe displacement of you know of being not part not fitting into society you're properly and if you have sort of ideas of this nature that you kind of go do you know what I I feel odd with with say modern world and you know or I just I really like you know aloneness or solitude I find solitude I personally find being in a city in a busy crowded street one of the most quiet and just spectacled quiet places because I feel like I am now just a cipher on there and I can relax and so if you if you are able to channel into those feelings and to put those ideas into your photography then that's a way of kind of you know embracing a little bit of that chaos but how do you make sure to actually make that leap from what's up here into that that finished image that you can share with people at the end of September I'm going to be starting the second iteration of the cohort creative photo mastery and this is a few weeks where we really in a small group talk about the processes of making that leap from you know what's really up here what was our true voice in photography into these images that we're proud of that we love this feel like the a real expression of our photographic you know joy if you'd like to join me on this cohort which is limited to just 10 people the waitlist is open right now there's a link in the description box below here on the channel I don't really talk about gear techniques stuff like that too much because it's not really the focus but one of the great I think issues that people struggle with in getting these images from your head into the final thing is possibly a lack of technical know-how right you got the idea but how do you translate it and so in this regard I would suggest that you know much like Ansel Adams you he he systemized the whole thing that he knew exactly what he was doing that you take a leaf from these books modern cameras I have so many bells and whistles back focus this focus da da da da right back focusing and you know pixel pee-pee and all that sort of stuff is not really teaching you to use your equipment in a way that maximizes its potential I think that's the main thing if you look at all the photographers in fact most of the photographers who are featured on this channel they worked with cameras that were considerably by orders of magnitude more basic than the one that you have even on your phone so you know learn to use your equipment learn about its limitations what you can do with it what you can't do what lenses are going to you know create a feeling that you want to you know to give the viewer that goes so far into you know making that flow from from brain to image so much easier so once you've got that flow of this image going back and forth then you sort of go okay right I don't need to think about the technical aspects of things anymore now I can fully embrace expressing creativeness because you kind of pushed all that stuff to one side but where do you get that creativeness where do you how do you start working on on bringing that through I remember when Pinterest was was first you know first launched and I was waiting for a different time and was all talking about how to how to use how are we going to use this new tool of Pinterest and I was kind of like well what is this you know this seems like it's just it's a place for people who are into scrapbooking to post pictures of their scrapbooks you know it felt like it was it felt like it was a digital scrapbook which in many ways it is but it is there is a far greater more hidden kind of benefit to using Pinterest and that is something I used to love to do with with music I would go on Amazon and people say ah you know if you like this band this is what other people have bought and you could use that as a way of you know finding in this you know Roxy music leads into Genesis and so on and so forth and you could do this with photography and you go onto Pinterest and you go to look okay so I like photography I like Anton Corbane so I would look at Anton Corbane and I would start to suggest other photographers images or I could go do you know I'm going to look at I have in my head an idea to photograph solitude okay so how do I what what of other people how they approach that thing so I can I can do photos of solitude or just put solitude in and see what comes back to find ideas and then curate those ideas into a board of Pinterest and it gives me a starting point that I go do you know okay I like this I don't quite like that what have you when you start adding all these bits together then you start to kind of go again a bit of a clearer picture about how you might want to express solitude whatever kind of feeling that you'd like to get in your photographs it's a wonderful expression of being able to you know get a little bit of support because again you know we need we need to put we work best I find if we create people when we can bounce ideas off of other people and Pinterest although be it is a one-way bouncing of ideas at least you're getting a step ahead you're going along you're finding new avenues and directions of course with cohorts and stuff you've got the people there all the time and I have to say I love the you know the interaction that goes on not just between me and and everybody there but between the students as well you know it's been fantastic to see I really hope you could join me but if you are struggling with this idea this cursor creativity that you you feel creative you know because if you can create something up in your in your brain then that you're creative right you don't need to be some sort of tortured man like oh my I can't deal with that I just I need to be alone you know if you if that sort of thing we've got if you're if you're making up ideas in your head then that's that's you being creative just learn the basics of photography get that stuff down cold get ideas about way how you can express it and and use those technical chops that you've now built up to look at what the photographer is doing of the pictures that you like and analyze it pill it apart why have they done this how have they done that how they're going to get this how am I going to do it when you do that you make that curse is like it's lifted like magic spell goes away now earlier I talked about a photographer who I think is outstanding his work was was something that I certainly resonate with me a lot when I was younger and his name is bob collis clock to find out the and it is a very sad story about him check out this video over here thank you ever so much for watching and I will see you again soon