Man, thanks, Block.  You know, you just reminded me that we need to talk to the people about pedestrian safety. Hey, Block, why did the chicken cross the road? Nothing? I'll tell you later. Let's start with the first safety tip. Yeah, that's right, folks. Be like Block here. Use designated walkways, crosswalks, and always obey the pedestrian crossing signals. What? Oh, yeah! And trust no one. Even if you have the walk signal, look both ways before you enter the crosswalk and when possible, make eye contact with the motorists waiting there. Man, you sure know what you're doing. That's the second safety tip. Eliminate distractions. Put your phone down and take those earbuds out. Okay, Block. What's the last safety tip? That's right. Be visible. Wear light-colored clothing and walk in well-lit areas when traveling at night. Okay, Block. Looks like we crushed those safety tips. All right, folks, that's all we got. Until next time, I'm Rock. He's Block.


The technology which allows you to carry a million songs around in your pocket, also allows apps to quickly identify a piece of music and to make this video compact enough to stream even in high resolution. What might surprise you is that the foundation for all this was laid down by a French scientist called Joseph Fourier about 200 years ago. Before I get to that, I'm afraid I'll have to take you back to high school for a moment. I know, I know, but bear with me. In mathematics, a function is like a recipe. It is a rule to take a number, referred to as a variable, perform some operations on it and return a new number, the output. One example of a function will take a temperature in Celsius, multiply and add to it, and then return the temperature in Fahrenheit. Usually we denote the input variable by x, so the function x squared plus one means take a number, multiply it by itself, and add one. We can get a curve from a function by evaluating it for a bunch of different values of x, marking the results as points, and then joining them together. If once we have evaluated the function, we add another step to multiply or divide by a number, this will stretch or squash the curve in the vertical direction. If we multiply or divide x by a number before it goes through the function, it will stretch or squash the curve in the horizontal direction. One important mathematical function is sine from trigonometry, which takes an angle and returns a ratio to do with the sides of the triangle. That doesn't matter in this case, but what is interesting is the curve it makes. It looks like a wave with peaks and troughs. Just as before, we can use two numbers to manipulate this wave. One will stretch it vertically, usually called the amplitude, the height from the middle up to the peak or down to a trough. The other will stretch it horizontally, usually called the frequency, namely how frequently the peaks or troughs appear. The higher the frequency, the more often the wave repeats itself. You are probably familiar with the idea that sound consists of waves. When this sound is made, a curve of the air pressure with time is a perfect sign. The amplitude determines how loud it is, so for example, as the sound travels further, the wave amplitudes get slower, the changes it makes to the background air pressure get smaller and smaller, and the sound gets quieter. This is the same sound, but quieter. The frequency determines the pitch of the sound, which in the last case was 500 Hz, or 500 peaks and troughs in a second. The higher the frequency, the more rapidly the wave oscillates, and you perceive a higher pitch. This is the same sound at double the frequency. You may also be familiar that electronic devices which produce sounds usually have a magnet and a coil.  The software which controls the coil must receive a stream of numbers corresponding to the voltage which must be set at every step in time. This video, for example, has a sample rate of 44.1 kHz, meaning that it breaks every second into about 44,000 equal steps, and at each step sends a number to the speaker to control the voltage, or at least it did when I made the video. 44,000 steps per second with 4 bytes per step, and that's a megabyte of data every 5 seconds. This amount of data would make it quite difficult to keep songs on storage media or stream voice chat over the internet. This is how the wave file format that sound recorders often use works. You might have noticed that it produces very large files. But here is a better idea. I told you that the sound I played was a pure sine wave. To reproduce it, we can store or send just two numbers, the amplitude and frequency, and the computer can reproduce the curve by simply calculating the sine function at every point in time. The sounds I played are all well and good for something like a retro computer game, but they're not very realistic. You don't hear that sort of beep in nature. However, you can always add two mathematical functions to make a new one. Here is a curve for two signs with different amplitudes and frequencies added together. You can keep going, though. I could give you 100 pairs of amplitudes and frequencies, and you could add up all the individual functions of time that arise as a result. Tedious and boring for a human, but for a computer this is very straightforward. Here is just such a sound made out of 100 different sine waves. Sounds a bit more realistic. To store a second of it, you still only need 200 numbers, as opposed to the 44,000 we had before. So that is the mathematical bit of magic behind the MP3 file format, and why MP3 files are so compact. Rather than store the value of the sound signal at every single step in time, we store a smaller bunch of frequencies with amplitudes, and the computer generates the sound by repeatedly using the sine function. Hopefully, I've managed to explain to you how to turn pairs of amplitudes and frequencies into a sound to play it. But if you already have a sound, how do you work out what frequencies and amplitudes you need? In other words, how do you produce an MP3 file from a recording in the first place? Well, in 1822, Joseph Fourier developed the mathematical background to do this, and in 1965, James Cooley and John Tukey developed an efficient computer algorithm, which takes any signal, such as a sound, and calculates the amplitudes of sine waves required to reproduce that signal again. This type of algorithm is called a discrete Fourier transform, after arguably its main originator, although many others contributed to this work. But here's a catch. If you did break up an arbitrary signal into individual sine waves, in basic terms, you would need the same amount of information, the same amount of data, to store it. That's because to reproduce a signal perfectly, you would need lots and lots of sine waves. But in practice, you can make a pretty good approximation with only a limited amount. When I talk in a low register, you can't hear any high pitch sound, right? In mathematical terms, the signs with high frequencies have very low, almost zero amplitudes. So when recording a short clip of a sound with low pitch, only low frequencies need to be stored. The opposite is of course true if a clip had only high frequencies, such as Pavarotti stubbing his toe. When making an MP3 out of a long song or speech, it is first broken up into shorter frames and the Fourier transform is applied to each one in turn. The point of MP3s is to only keep a limited number of signs, which happen to have the largest amplitudes in each frame. Generally speaking, it works. This is why MP3s are referred to as a lossy form of compression. You do end up throwing away some of the sine waves required to faithfully recreate the original sound and therefore what you end up storing is slightly different to the original. That can make a difference if you want high audio fidelity, but usually lossy compression is good enough. With all that in mind, here is another way of looking at sound. Running up the screen, I will have an axis denoting the frequency. In the horizontal direction, I will have an axis with the corresponding amplitude. Remember the first sound I played. This was a pure sine wave with just one frequency. To represent this, we draw a curve, which takes a value of zero everywhere, except a spike at the frequency of that one sign. Now, if we have a sound made of two sine waves, one of them twice the amplitude of the other, we get a big spike and a little spike at the appropriate frequencies. I also played a sound made up of a hundred sine waves. Actually, some of the waves that made that sound were really close together in frequency, so it means that those spikes become slightly wider. In fact, that sound began as a recording of my voice. Here is what the original, with all the frequencies kept in, sounds and looks like. This is what the term Fourier Transform refers to. I've taken the wavy curve of a sound signal and transformed it into a curve of amplitude against frequency. Bear with me for a moment, but I'm going to color this curve by how large the amplitude is. The spikes where the amplitude is high become bright in color, and where the amplitude is low becomes dark. This allows me to squash the graph into a thin strip, representing just a short interval of time. If I once again have time running along the horizontal direction, I can visualize frequencies as they change in a much longer sound. For example, listen to this short piece of music as I do just that. This graph is called a spectrogram. It shows different frequencies come in and out as different notes are played. Remember that bright colors mean that waves with corresponding frequencies have a large amplitude at the times indicated on the horizontal axis. This spectrogram looks remarkably similar to the staff music notation. The first note being played is an F at about 350 Hz, and then it stops and the note G is played. You can see that the vertical spacing and frequency corresponds to the difference in pitch between the notes. With a more complicated piece of music, you could really see the horizontal difference in duration between notes of different lengths. Spectrograms are the principle behind apps which can recognize a song based on just a short clip. I mentioned how MP3s might compress sounds by keeping in only the most important frequencies. It is possible to use the way that Fourier transforms decomposer sound into its constituent sine waves to deliberately remove or filter out certain frequencies. If there is an annoying high-pitched noise, it's possible to set its amplitude to zero but then recreate the sound from the rest of the sine waves. Whole ranges of frequencies can be filtered out in this way. It also makes it easier to simply cut out periods of time with undesired noise. My videos don't have good audio quality by any measure, but I do filter them a little bit. Like many others, I use a program called Audacity. Normally, it shows sounds in waveform mode, which is just the sinusoidal signal. It only tells you how loud the sound is in a given period but nothing else about it. However, putting the view into spectrogram mode is much more instructive. My voice produces bright lines in the spectrogram whereas when I breathe out, there is a smattering of medium amplitudes across many frequencies. The spectrogram view makes it very easy to spot whenever I've taken a breath and I therefore endeavor to remove that sort of clutter from my audio. These sorts of spectral methods allow music to be auto-tuned and apparently can even be used for guiding missiles. Spectrograms should be familiar to anyone interested in radio technology, acoustics and analog electronics. Books and movies like The Hunt for Red October depict the use of passive sonar, quietly listening for the sound of enemy submarines carried through the water. The noises produced by the propellers and engines are unique to each class of submarine and can easily be distinguished when visualized by a spectrogram. So far I've talked about functions of one variable which in the case of sound waves is time. It's also possible to have functions of two or more variables like X and Y. This function means take the number X and square it, take the number Y and cube it and multiply them together. By multiplying the sign of X by the sign of Y each with their own frequency it's possible to have a wave in two dimensions. An image on a computer is composed of pixels with three colors, red, green and blue. Taking just the red for now, this is stored as numbers on a two-dimensional grid. Whereas before we split time into steps and had a number representing the sound at every step we split an image into pixels in both directions and have a number representing the brightness at every pixel. You can probably see where I'm going with this. It's possible to decompose that brightness data into sign waves of different amplitudes corresponding now to a pair of frequencies using a two-dimensional Fourier transform. A lossy format such as a JPEG will then compress the data by throwing away and not recording those sign waves which have low amplitudes. This might seem a little weird. With sound we had something that basically looks like a wave already. But surely a picture unless it's taken at the seaside doesn't in general contain waves. Firstly, a JPEG breaks up larger images into smaller pieces just like an MP3 breaks up a song into frames. Within these small pieces it turns out as the colors change it is possible to represent them as sign waves. JPEGs with a low quality and therefore a small file size relative to the size of the image store very few of the waves required to reconstruct the image. This leads to artifacts. Here are JPEGs of an apartment building in high and low quality. If we zoom in on a vertical edge of this building we can see some of these artifacts. There appear to be vertical lines of the wrong color next to the edges. To explain this let's take a horizontal slice from the original image to see the brightness values of the individual pixels. On the right the pixels are bright and therefore have a large value. Then there is a sudden drop and the pixels on the left are dark or have low values. The mathematical function which defines this curve is unsurprisingly called the step function. If we decompose this curve into its constituent sign waves but only keep a few of them this is what it will look like. The curve oscillates. If only we had kept more sign waves their peaks would have filled in where this curve's troughs are and vice versa. Images of text often produce artifacts because letters pretty much are high contrast lines with sharp changes in brightness. On the flip side most images are not filled with a large number of sharply contrasted edges so the JPEG method works pretty well. There is also lossless compression which as the name suggests stores an image compactly but without altering data in any way. For example if an image of a blue rectangle on a black background is saved as a PNG rather than storing the value of every single pixel the file would store the following instructions. Set every pixel to black and then go between two horizontal and vertical positions and set every pixel to blue. In this case there are no compression artifacts but generally PNG files come out larger than JPEGs. Finally everything I've talked about can be used to compress movies. The sound can be treated like an MP3 or similar. The visual component consists of sequential frames some of which can be stored in a similar way to JPEGs. Usually though not much changes between any two frames. A car might move forward by a short amount while the background remains the same. Therefore it's more economical to store only the change in pixels from the previous frame to the next. Fourier methods can again be used to store these changes efficiently. Typically there will be a key frame which is stored in its entirety and then up to 30 seconds of these little changes. When you see garbled footage this is usually due to the data encoding those changes being corrupted. Eventually when the next key frame has reached the video looks good again. In summary I've talked about the mathematics of a huge chunk of internet traffic. Most audio, images and video. All of these are stored and transmitted efficiently by first decomposing the signal into waves. Mathematically waves are the signed function from trigonometry with a particular amplitude and frequency. A Fourier transform is the mathematical tool which allows this decomposition to take place. Calculate the combination of amplitudes and matching frequencies of those signs of which, when added together, allow the signal to be reproduced. Thank you for watching.


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I am entirely under-qualified to make a video on this topic, but when has that ever stopped me? Hello friends, welcome back to my channel. My name is Megan and if you're new, today we're gonna do a video that's kind of, I see as a carry-on of my vlog where I run seven horror books in seven days. The whole point of that vlog was to help me figure out my taste in horror more because I haven't read a lot of horror. I am a bit of a beginner. I feel like that vlog was pretty successful. And now I want you to make a video of my favorite horror books as someone who hasn't read a lot of horror. So I think if you haven't read a lot of horror and you want to start this spooky season, this would be a good place to come because I haven't read a lot of horror. You have no authority here, Jackie Weaver. No authority at all. And so I think these are good, all of these books are good places to begin if you are new to the genre. This video is sponsored by Shortform, but we'll get into that a little bit later. Now I do want to preface this by saying I have had the cold from hell the past couple of days. No, I haven't had fun. I don't know if it's because we went through the past couple of years we've went through where we're not going outside as much, but I feel like when I get ill now it's like horrible. So like I lost my voice and stuff. It was not, it's not fun. So I would say I'm like probably 75% better, but if I seem a little bit low energy today, that's why. Because I am. Now these books are ranked kind of. I'm going to go through them in order of ratings. So I only gave, I've already ever given two horrors five stars. So we'll talk about them first, then we'll talk about my 4.5s and then there's a few 4s at the end. I have more 4s, but these are the top 4s if that makes sense. So within the ratings, like within the 5s, 4.5s they're not ranked, but I am going to go through them in order of rating. So that those of you who don't watch the whole video can get the best ones. Now this first one probably is my favorite horror book that I've ever read and that's because I don't know if it can really be cast as horror. Yes, these are concern and a worry. I don't know. I would say it's horror, but it's like tentatively horror. And that is Me and the Crusted Snow by Will Beekshig Rice. I loved this. I loved it so much. So this is set within an indigenous community when all the power goes out. They're disconnected from the main city and so they can't really tell what's going on. You know, cold is setting in as you can see. It's kind of set in an apocalypse. And I really loved this take on it because it's such like a quiet book. It's such a slow moving book. It's very short. And the way just the tension rose throughout the book because it's set over quite a long period of time and you know, the energy is out and there's no communication. And it's like, okay, we're on our own here. It's just a very interesting book and the ending is very interesting. And there's actually going to be a sequel to this, which I was not anticipating because the way it ends, it has kind of an open ending that I really enjoyed. Open endings are tricky, right? Because it's like one or the other. You either feel like it's done really well or you don't. And I liked how we had certain questions on what unanswered at the end of this. But then there's going to be a sequel and I'm like, but I still am excited. I still am going to read the sequel. So yeah, if you're looking for a horror that's kind of just all about underlying and easiness and tension and people turning on one another and human nature, I think this is a great pick. And then the other five stars given out, this is the first of I think maybe three books that were in that horror reading vlog. We have Come For Me With Apples by Catherine M. Valent. So this is a super short horror. Obviously I like short horror, apparently. Well, guess what people? I get excited about small things. This is all about a woman who lives in this perfect community and believes she was made for her husband. Her whole life and journey and being is to serve him and to love him and to be there for him. But then the cracks begin to show. A lot of you have told me to go watch Don't Worry, Darling, which I still haven't gone to see because I enjoyed this because it's very similar. I just want to tell you Don't Worry, Darling was for years and years, like since it got first announced, the movie I was most excited to see. And now I'm just like too scared to go watch it. But I do want to, but I don't know when that's going to happen. Maybe later this week I will go see it. I don't know. But yeah, my favourite thing about this was the twist that happened, which I obviously can't tell you about. But I loved the direction this went in. My mum just read this and she was like, I'm sorry, coming. But she always sees everything coming. So if you're someone who doesn't tend to see stuff coming, read this. I loved the direction that went in. I thought it had a really interesting take and a lot of interesting stuff to say. And another one where it's, I seem to like tension, like underlying unease. This one's a bit more like surreal though. I said when I read it, there'll be like a scene that kind of follows our rules of engagement, you know, as a society and then something will happen at the end that makes you go, um, what's going on here? This, this isn't correct. Do you know what I mean? Something that's just so absurd that completely breaks the sense of normalcy that's been built. So yes, absolutely loved this. Okay, next one to 4.5, which I have three, which is interesting because I don't give out a lot of 4.5s very often. But with horror, I seem to. So first we have a bit of a throwback, one of the kind of earliest horrors I read. And this is definitely like part horror. And that's the year of the witching by Alexis Henderson. I would say this book is one third horror, one third fantasy, one third historical. It's like a perfect pie chart in bed of those three. So we're following a young girl who lives in a Bethel on the fringe of Bethel, which is a cult. It's a cult, basically. No one wants to say that, but it's a cult. Stuff happened with her mother when she was younger, which means she's kind of been ostracised. And there's this whole story of kind of like the plagues that the cult went through, years and years ago the community went through to do with these witches. Then one day Emmanuel starts filling this pool to the dark wood, which surrounds the community. And I really loved this. I think it's a really successful book. I'm super excited to read House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson. But I'm going to have to get it from the US somehow because the UK cover, like UK US covers. Like just look at that for a moment and think like I'm serious. This is an attack. Life could be worse. No, not really. This is the worst. This is the worst. This is the worst. It again is slow burn, I would say eerie. But it's very feminist. It's very, you know, holding a mirror to how men abuse positions of power in society. And women are used and discarded. I don't know, I just think this book was very beautiful. This was originally supposed to have a sequel, but Alexis Henderson was like, I don't know if I can do that. And so I think it's like indefinitely on hold for now. But I'm super excited to read House of Hunger once I can work myself up to buying the US version somehow because I'm not getting the UK one. No, ma'am. Absolutely not. But before we get into the rest of the books, I want to take a quick moment to thank the sponsor of today's video, which is Shortform. Shortform is reading guides that are super powered book summaries. They are like book summaries x 10,000. They are more than you could ever imagine from a book summary. 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I have never read sapiens. And like if you live in the UK, it's the kind of book that whenever you like literally step foot in public, like on the tube, someone's reading sapiens. And I've never read it, but it's basically an account of the beginning of humankind. It's multidisciplinary. It covers, you know, history, biology, economics, the way that we have developed. And what I love about shortform is it's made me even more excited to read sapiens the full book. I feel like I've digested some of the ideas. I've learned it, it's become a bit more accessible to me so that when I read the actual book, I can really understand what's going on and it's made me really excited to do so. So yeah, make sure you use my link down below at shortform.com forward slash mech to join shortform and give it a go. Okay, next of the 4.5 styles is A Wilder Girls by Rory Power. I love this. So this is like an isolated horror set on this island where there's like a school on the island and all the girls there, there's a plague essentially and it killed off a lot of the teachers especially and some of the girls, but it also made a lot of the girls mutate. So it's very body horror. They've all got kind of like mutations and strange stuff happening to them. But I love this, you know, it's a very strange book. I'm still waiting for Rory Power to like write something similar to this that like lives up to this for me. I loved the atmosphere, the isolation, the nature, like how you're subject to like nature. It feels like a movie.  You know, there's stuff going on with the girls that kind of links into nature. It all just feels very like haunting and like vines are growing everywhere. I don't know. And I loved the aspects of survival in this. There's some really interesting chapters that are written in really interesting ways. The female friendships and relationships in this were wonderful also. So yeah, I feel like Watergirls, a lot of you have probably read it if you want to, but I think this is a wonderful place to start with horror. And then another one that I just read in that video was Horrid by Katrina Leno. I really, really enjoyed this. So in Horrid we're following a girl after her father's death. Her and her mum have to move from California to Maine and they move into her mother's old house and there's some creepy stuff going on. It's definitely like a haunted house book and it goes there. I loved this. I thought the atmosphere and it was wonderful like the rainy, dark, dreary, scary, windy, creaky house. You know what I mean? It just, the atmosphere was incredible. The tension built really well over the course of the book. It reminds me of White Smoke by Tiffany D Jackson which I did not enjoy. This is like a great haunted house book if you want a haunted house book. I feel like the, you know, events that make you think it's a haunted house build really well throughout the book. My only complaint is the ending. It has a very open ending again. Like Watergirls actually has a super open ending but in that case I think it's done well. This I feel like it didn't quite make sense. Like it didn't. It was like an abrupt ending where characters acted a certain way and I didn't feel like that had been built up sufficiently for it to be satisfying basically. So yeah if you want a haunted house mystery this is where you need to go. And then we have a few four stars. Now these obviously I gave four stars. I don't love them but I do think of them quite a bit. I think they're very good beginner horrors. So this is probably one of the first horror books I ever read and that's A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. This is the illustrated version. I'm gonna try and find actual illustrations. So yeah I would 100 recommend getting the illustrated version if you are thinking about reading this. So it's about a young boy whose mother is ill and he starts seeing a monster. A monster called basically. But this is a very emotional book. I don't know if this is technically like middle grade but it does have a young protagonist. And I feel like this is the kind of horror that is helpful for young kids to read because it deals with a lot of difficult topics. I can see why this has won so many awards. It's hard hitting emotionally. It's eerie. It's spooky. I mean the illustrated version I think just brings so much to the book. I mean like come on it's so cool. I really really loved it. I think this is super accessible to people who read all kinds of different genres. I think it's the kind of book that anyone could read. So yeah I would super recommend this. But then these aren't I mean I suppose they are horror but it's light horror again that kind of anyone can read. We have the graveyard book the graphic novel versions. We have book volume one and volume two. This is a book as well but I would recommend the graphic novel. I really enjoyed this. So this is about a young child whose I think the parents are murdered and before the assassin can murder him as well he wanders out into the graveyard and meets all the ghosts. And this guy who's like kind of a vampire we don't really know what he is. And these graphic novels follow him throughout his life on different events that happen. And each kind of chapter is a different story and they're illustrated by different people which is super cool. But I think if you're getting into horror graphic novels are a great place to start because again they're very like not gonna be super scary. So I included this because I think it's a great place for beginners as well. If you want ghosts, if you want eeriness, if you want spooky, oaky, kooky and creepy. And finally a quick honorable mention to Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendricks which I read again in that vlog. And this is like an unpopular opinion. I really enjoyed this. I do feel like the second half or the last third dragged and this book could definitely have been shorter. But in this we're following women who are in the support group and they are all Final Girls from like the 70s, 80s and 90s. They all experienced massacres and were the last girl to survive. And now in the present day it seems like someone is trying to eliminate them all and hunt them down. And it's just it's very fun. It's a very fun horror. I'm so excited to read more Grady Hendricks. I don't currently own any Grady Hendricks because at the moment when I'm buying books I'm trying to buy less and I'm trying to only buy sequels or new releases. Like I'm really trying to contain myself. But I would love to get more Grady Hendricks either Horror Store or my best friend Exorcism. I'll probably read next. Oh all the Southern Book Clubs guide to saying vampires. I think you guys told me I'd like that one more. I don't know. I do really want to read his stuff. I think this is just fun slasher horror. This is probably one of the more gory ones that is on this list. And I just loved the like the slasheriness of it. And I loved the movie references. So after every chapter there's a piece of mixed media that is somehow linked to kind of like the horror movie world because all of these women had horror movie franchises based off of them and their bassicas basically. And I loved that. I loved that little element of like flavour. I feel like Grady Hendricks is really good at that. So I feel like this might actually end up being one of the lower rated books I read from Grady Hendricks and I might prefer his other books more. So yeah just honorable mention because I feel like this might be where I go with some of the horror that I buy and read next. It's kind of like this vibe. But feel free again to recommend me any horror that you think I would enjoy based off of this list. So there we have it. That is my favourite horror books that I have read as very much a newbie in the genre. But I enjoy chatting about this and like I said if you maybe read a lot of thrillers, mysteries, you don't read a lot of horror I think all of these books would be great places to begin this spooky autumnal season because don't forget November you can still read horror. November is still kind of in that dark vibe. So yeah I hope you enjoyed this video. If you got to the end comment the scared shocked face down below. Apologies for my low energy. I feel like I'm gonna go need to take like a 10 hour nap. Thank you so much for watching and staying to the end anyways. I love you guys so much and I hope you have a good rest of your day. See you soon. Bye!


Isi Osanjo a singer-songwriter who started at the age of 7, believe it or not. Welcome to the E-Circuit. Thank you. He started at the age 7 after hearing Michael Jackson's Heal the World. Ya. That's interesting. So MJ is like your goal now. No, not really. I think the song inspired me. I was like, I like this song. Then I just wrote something similar. Ya, okay fine. Actually think I can sing. Nice, nice. So do you remember that particular song that you wrote at age 7? Actually do. It's trauma a little bit. No. I think I rather not ready for that one. So how has your musical journey been ever since then after writing your first song? I think it's very similar to Wajinkes. 7 wrote my first song. Then joined the school choir. Then joined the school choir again in high school. Then uni I joined a collective of artists. Ya, they were called Spoken Heart. Ya, so every Thursday we'll meet. There'll be spoken word, there'll be music, painting, photography. It was just fun. Ya. Then I think a friend of mine, we were having a discussion. This was in 2013 about music. Then I realized I actually like music. So they decided to just dive in and see what the industry is about. Ya. So this friend, this collective that you started in uni. Ya, we didn't started, I just joined. You just joined. Ya. What were you doing exactly? Was it like a poetry after lunch? Ya, something like that. Ya, something like that. Ya, it's just people meeting once a week on Thursday. Like from 7 onwards just to chill. And enjoy poetry and music. Exactly, ya. So it's more of a mix and not like just plain poetry. Not music, no. Have you ever doubled in poetry? Because a songwriter is a poet. Well, I think, ya. Let me say, ya actually I did try writing poetry. Then I was like, doesn't do it for me. So I just stopped. Ya. So what inspires you music? What inspires me music? I'll be cliche. Life experiences. Life experiences. Ya, and also maybe sometimes a tune will just get into your mind. And it will be like, let me write to this. Then it will be like, oh fine. I find the words from Hapa Hapa. Bring it together and you have a song. Ya. So if you were to describe your type of music, how would you describe it? I don't have a description yet. Ya. It's still experimental? Ya, I think because like I'm listening to a lot of songs. And I'm trying to play with my sound. And it's just seen like a genre. Like I can box myself in. But the obvious one would be just maybe Afropop. Afropop. Ya, that's what everybody just say. Ah, I hope Afropop. See, negishan kiswaili. Afropop. Ya. But when I listened to Amobi, Amobi recorded it in 2016. 2016, February. What genre would you call that? That was rock. That was rock. Ya. Okay. So in 2019 we were talking earlier. You're telling me there's a lot in store obviously. Is there an album? Ya. What would you put inside that album? Well, I think only the Lord knows. What's in store for 2019? That's for now. Ya, actually I thought that ya was like, I wanna do all this stuff. Then I'm just like, whatever happens, happens. Ya. If I may ask, what attracts you to the music industry? What attracts me to the music industry? I think, okay, like, in 2017, September, and what's consistent with all of the creatives interacted with was that you'll find that we create, we perform, and then when you find yourself not doing that, you can't wash or to just be like, man. So you just want to be in a space where you're able to create? Basically that's it, just an outlet, because you'll find that, like you want to gig for a month and to wash or you'll just be like, man, this sucks, ya know. And I've tried like, go incorporate, like just a job and stuff like that. You didn't work out for you? No, because I ended up singing badukwa phone calls and then we'll be like, you're singing sags and like, you need to come to the manager's office and just be like, ya know. This is where I'm at now. We're kubali too, ya know. So you've decided it's music, plain and simple? Skerily enough, ya know. Skerily enough? Ya, it's very scary. Why do you say that? What scares you about the industry? They're not knowing, ya know. Like there's no path, no for instance, if you're doing like CPA like CPA 1, CPA 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, how many K? No. But then basically uta maliza I'll be like, I'll find a job, then I'll do masters. Ya know, you know the way forward but with music, literally, maybe you'll even be in the loo in a club as well. So I'll be like, you sound nice, I'll sign you or maybe you'll take 50 years before someone even knows about you, ya know.  Ya, that's the scary part now, just like not knowing and then like, there's Instagram, there's your friends are like taking the steps that are defined and they will badukapu I have a dream, ya know. So it's that not knowing and the business side of it is also very scary.  Like, lasimoji for India 2, I would say. Ya, I think we always have this conversation on the e-circuit when we say like our older brothers and sisters, when I say that, I'm talking about the more established musicians, they rarely go to someone who's appraising like yourself and say, take these strouts to this, to this. Ya, exactly. Kwa taku blutik, trust me, I've tried. It's like, what? Do you think it works? And I think also it's like, also kwa janiya self-discovery like these things you have to find out on your own. I think. But then, what works I think is like having like structure through and through like, you know, in the states or like abroad work on the labels. So, and these labels have actually worked for hundreds of years so they allow us beyond say that I know I'm too or not, you know that someone is going to be discovered and signed a data hit after a few years of effort, you know. But Kenya we don't have that. We don't have those platforms or. That's the people are trying when I'm trying to go to the jungle like so generation have a label there's bitandoati, there's all these people work on the labels. I'm just hoping they go to the jungle to figure maybe like what can I do when I'm doing building those structures, you know. When you say this music industry is still, you know in the experimental stages, what do you mean by that? People are trying to here's to detail structure but I think we're still trying to find what works. So, what do you think about this genre because I think we always have this conversation as well. You said it earlier as well, Afropop. It's dominant in East Africa right now. It's like a banga banga banga banga. No one is doing soulful music, croc music. People are doing it. But where are they? That's the thing. I think because if you tell me if you want a jazz artist they know several if you want like rock artists like 20 more days. So, people don't know about them or their music. No play kei. I think they are play kei. Because if you ask me content wise we have tons of contents. Wah, well like go underground. We have tons of contents. Everything. Any Kenyan artist we have like if you want an equivalent of like now ama like elamai kenya yuko trust me like people are good out here but I think we just don't they don't see the light of day. But they're just as cared as you are. Of course because they're still wengina kuna office jobs and stuff like that because they just They're uncertain to your visual. What can we do though? I really don't know. Yeah? To say I'm a DJ. To say I must do who. Because I don't think that's it. Because yeah people normally say that the secret source is getting to know some DJs or media personalities but I don't think that's the case. For real because that's what I think is the case. Okay, for me say maybe if you talk to DJs nicely. DJ? Let me ask you a question. This is a very sensitive topic. I know it's like kuna liyazu nyingi. So that's I'm telling you there's no like. Wait, who could talk to him on DJs? What's going on? Why are underground artists the ones who are real content not just buying is why are they not being played? Because they haven't given each to us. For real. How would we know if they don't give us? That's true. And then some are not on YouTube. Yeah. Some are not on YouTube. Some are on SoundCloud. Just go to SoundCloud. But SoundCloud has tons of music. How would you know? But how do you know? Yeah. Then I guess what we can say is the education part. People becoming educated as artists and how to you know put the music out there. And not necessarily having to pay someone or get to know someone intimately to get the music played. But with you you want a different direction with the music as well. Like you want to write our children's songs? Me. Okay. I'm also a little happy. Okay. 2018 I was like I'm going to pursue anything and everything creative. So one day I was just like let me write children's stories. Then I came up with this character called Kats. Actually it was Sulwe. Then I found out this was in IG 2019 January. Lupita was going to do a storybook for kids. The character was going to be called Sulwe. I was like no amount of SEO will save me. If I picked Sulwe then I'm sorry to change it to Kats. So it's basically a 10-year-old and her dog who's gone various stories. So the 10-year-old goes on various planets discovering things and she's dark skin and she has dreads. Give us just one song though. What? Will you guys play a love song? Will you listen to the adventures of Kats? She's singing children's songs. I do? You sing? Yes. So you should go and sing baby shark do-do-do-do. No. I can't say baby shark anymore. Baby shark did it? I can't say baby shark anymore. I know. I'll say baby shark. Give us some cards. Let's say baby shark. Baby shark do-do-do-do-do. Chazachini. Baby shark do-do-do-do-do. Baby shark do-do-do-do-do. Okay, fine. What's the need for this DJ? We need a mute person. Mute. I must say, kunae ini the sleeping game. So basically after all I cook on you ma, we just go like this. If you do that and so we're sleeping. Let's run. Then let's eat. Maybe let's use a phone. So don't forget the action. So it's basically a sleep. Okay, this is A. The sleeping. The sleeping. The sleeping on a bed. We're running. Running. Running in the field. We're talking. We're talking. Talking on the phone. Yeah, but basically like I was reading the stories. The kids love it. People like rate to love it. So I was like, ah, that's a business also. So I'm doing now everything creative. So music and that too. Yeah. Nice, nice. We wish you nothing but the best. Baby shark. Thank you so much for coming and inspiring me as well. She actually just wants baby shark kabisa. Baby shark. Wait, it's a request. Baby shark. I've seen. Baby shark. Okay, let's just get it done. Let's be a baby shark. They actually do the actions also. Yes, let's do that. It's like this. Baby. Baby shark. Baby shark. Baby shark. Dandi. Demiru vajun. Dandi. Okay. Yo. Yeah. Recorded in 2016. Yeah. But the video. This year. This year. And we have so much more. It's not like it's just your own songs and the children's songs coming up. But where can we find you in social media so that we anticipate them? So basically osango everywhere. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter. Yeah, Twitter. That's a dark corner. Anyway, yeah. Yeah, basically. Osango with an underscore. Yeah. Osango with an underscore. So make sure you go and stalk her. She has a lot in store for us in 2019.  We have the guitar there. I want you to play. It's called Osman. Osman? You named him? It's a him. Yeah, him. It's a he. It's a he. It's a he. Hi Osman. Hi.  Give us an acoustic of our movie. Okay. But our movie name, not actually. I'm gonna be the fire. I can be the heat. Oh.  You can be the water. You can be the quencher. You can be the breeze that tones me down.


Energy is invisible so many people overlook it and many people don't see the real power that it has and the real foundation it provides in our everyday lives. Life particles make up everything. Your body, even this empty space that seems empty, it's flowing with infinite life particles that have infinite potential that move and change depending on the intention of your mind. So your mind is the key. Your mind is the most important thing. Hi guys, this is Linda. Welcome to Brain Education TV. If this is your first time, welcome. Please click the subscribe button down below like this video and click the bell for notifications of each new video. Today's topic that I'm going to discuss is about life particles. What are they and why should I care? So this concept of life particles is particularly useful and interesting for people who are wanting to know more about the law of attraction because why? The law of attraction says that your thoughts manifest things and the bridge that makes your thoughts into things is energy. The foundation of energy is life particles. Life particles refers to the small little tiny building blocks that make up all life. So in essence, life particles are particles that make up life. Even in this empty space around us, there's life particles that fill the air. So when you're trying to manifest your thoughts into reality, whatever it is that you're trying to manifest, you need to know about how energy works so that this invisible idea that you have can materialize in reality. The thing that will help you do that is life particles. The name life particles was created by the founder of brain education Ilchili, but the concept of life particles dates back thousands of years in energy practice and principle. So first of all, we have to understand that nothing in this world is concrete. Everything is ever changing, ever moving, always evolving, always in motion. Nothing is set in stone. Why? Because energy makes up everything and energy is always flowing. So for example, there's an experiment that I really like. This experiment takes two onions, gives them the same amount of water, same amount of sunshine, same amount of air, the same conditions in the environment. The only thing that's different about these two onions is that one onion is given words of love, energy of love, life particles of love, encouragement, support, while the other onion is given words of hate, anger, low self-esteem. So things are like that are that induced doubt. These negative energies, negative life particles, negative vibes are given to this other onion. So if things were absolute, if energy is just firm and fixed and not mutable and not changing, these two onions, because they're the same exact onion, they should grow in the same exact way. But actually what happens is, is that the onion that receives love, receives good intention, receives support, grows a beautiful stuck that's green, looks healthy and vibrant. On the other hand, the same exact onion that's given the exact opposite kind of energy, negativity, self-doubt, hate, anger, this onion starts to rot. How can this be? It's because there's energy all around us. There's energy in the words we say, there's energy in the thoughts we have, there's energy in the actions we do and depending on the energy of these things, life around us as we know it changes. So knowing this, we have the power to send, receive and communicate with energy, in other words, life particles to create our reality. So all of this is to say that energy surrounds us all the time and that energy has limitless potential to change depending on the intention of our mind. If we choose to have positive intention and use and move this energy in a positive way, energy will move as such. But if we choose to move this energy in a negative hurtful way, then energy will also move as such. So knowing the concept of life particles and knowing the limitlessness of the potential of how life particles can react based on your intention, you can send healing energy to others and yourself or you can send killing energy to yourself and others. Energy is invisible, so many people overlook it and many people don't see the real power that it has and the real foundation it provides in our everyday lives. Life particles make up everything, your body, even this empty space that seems empty, it's flowing with infinite life particles that have infinite potential that move and change depending on the intention of your mind. So your mind is the key.  That kind of energy is what changes the quality and quantity of life particles that are at your disposal. I'll drop some links down in the description below of blogs that are featured on ChangeYourEnergy.com that are really excellent ways to read more and learn more about life particles, so make sure you check it out. I'll also link a book by Il-Chili, the founder of brain education, who details and tells the concrete principles and exact science of life particles based on quantum physics. So if you want to check that out, I'll also link that in the description below. So I'm curious, maybe this is your first time hearing about the term life particles, but have you had experience with the concept of life particles? Whatever you knew it to be before, whatever you other term that you've heard being used to describe life particles, do you have experience learning or feeling or seeing or hearing about the foundation of energy in this way? I'd love to hear what you have to say, so please leave a comment below about your experience with life particles. Thanks for tuning in to this video, I'll see you next time. Bye!