Finally, there's nothing we can do. Dans mon esprit du divage, je m'ai perdans de Dieu. Je m'appelle Kim, frère Jacques, frère Jacques. Dormez-vous, ou la la baguette. That's how the introduction goes in French. I will never do that again, just for fun. Good evening. My name is Kim Dias Holm, also called an ungehard Holm, and today I will be doing another Inktober is Pinktober livestream, where I draw a prompt from Stuart Semple's Pinktober prompt list. Hello, Joe, hello retro gaming dudes, and happy spooky season. Holla, Gabriel. Feeling better? Actually, I am. This is the first day where I can say, I feel pretty good after Covid. I feel pretty good. This is the first day I've been outside for any length of time after Covid, or during Covid. And then I got very winded and very exhausted, but not the type of exhausted that I did just a few days ago by standing up. So I'm definitely getting better. I'm planning on doing more of a full work day tomorrow, and then yeah. So hello from Dallas, Texas. Good evening, my good fellow. Good evening, everyone. Where are everyone located? Can we get all the seven seas and seven continents? How many continents are there? Okay, so North America, South America, Antarctica, Africa, Asia, five. Eurasia as one, okay. Arlington, South Africa, Scotland, Finland, India, Australia. Then we're just missing South America and Antarctica, and we never get Antarctica. Those dweebs at the Antarctic bases don't follow the cool artists. Kermit-O! UK, Austin, Texas. I always want to go to Austin, Texas. A lot of my favorite music is from Austin, Texas. I mean all the outlaw country and that kind of thing, and Will and Elson, and Wail and Jennings, and Towns Van Sant, and Guy Clark, and Billy Joe Shaver, and so much good music. Nashville also has good music. Leafy. How goes the COVID? I'm getting better. This is the first day where I'm... I'm not 100% again, but I feel close to that. So yeah, Texas music is the best. Loads of good Texas music. Yes, Ceasetop is another favorite. Definitely. But that's more Dallas, I think. I don't know. I don't know where Ceasetop is from. Hello from Florida, Russia. Kim is art legend. The legend of Kim. It is just very surreal to read those kinds of comments. But thank you. And if you notice, Leafy has a green letters, a green letters. Leafy has a green letters, but that doesn't make sense. Leafy's name is written in green letters, and that's because he is a member of the YouTube channel. You can pay to become a member, and you can have green letters too. I am thinking of other types of rewards that those who support by becoming a member can get, but it won't be anything exclusive or making some elitist club or anything like that. It will just be small, fun things. Kermit, oh, we're doing woo! See today. Can't wait to see how this art piece turns out. Took Leafy for a sheet. I did. I just gendered someone without thinking. I did, because my thought goes, anyone I don't know is obviously a he. Central America. Kim canceled. Yes, no, I'm not afraid of that, because, you know, first of all, cancelling is, seems like a good business plan for most people. And second of all, people who say the wrong thing, and they say, and then say, oops, my bad, tend to not get the consequences for it.  Green is a creative color. My kids and I have this discussion. Green is my favorite color. I've been shocked green. I've shown this one before. I love this color of green. I wish my nose was this. No, I don't wish my nose was that color. Inktober should be called Kimtober as well. Oh, here is yesterday's Inktober is Pinktober. That was I am, and I thought of Jesus. And I just noticed that I drew Jesus with way too short, short hands. It should go like this. Short arms. Controversial artists canceled for being sexist. Yes, makes sense. Okay, and today I'm going to unveil something special, because late in September I was at my local art store, and I saw this drawing pad, and I thought this is perfect for Inktober, because it's square format just like the Instagram posts. And also it's really high quality watercolor paper, so this is perfect. So I bought two of these blocks specifically to draw on them all Inktober.  I had simply, they had vanished from my mind. What? Just for fun has a green letter, letters now. Magic! But yeah, so I bought these specifically to draw during Inktober, and I forgot that I had them and also I was struggling the first day and the second day, and you know yesterday, because oh, I was gifted a membership by a leafy. Thank you so much! I didn't know you could lift, I didn't know you could lift memberships. That would be cool, to steal memberships from others. That wouldn't be cool, but I didn't know you could gift them, but you can! Fantastic! Thank you so much! Okay, let's get this party started. Wow! Thank you so much leafy for sharing and supporting. Now we say as in kids parties, or as in school, like oh, if you brought chocolate to class, you have to share with everyone? No, you don't.  I will remain silent for the rest of the... I got myself a bag of bumsmooms here. Do I have to share it? No, you can keep the bumsmooms.  Do members have tears? No, we're not doing tears yet, but we might do in the future. We have tears on the Patreon, which is Patreon.com slash Kim Holm, because that's more... We've been doing that longer, and that's more centered around what we do, and we even took out a few new tears where you can get a ink monster per month sent to you for, I think... I don't remember, two, three hundred... something a little bit cheaper than you get it otherwise. My classmates say hello! We are having a mental health day tomorrow, where school allows us to relax and do whatever. We're all planning, on drawing, and painting for that day tomorrow. Excellent! I thought you were going to have a mental health day where you talked about having poor mental health, and that's why you were watching me for research purposes. Hello! Hello from Mexico! How's it doing? How's it doing? How's it doing? Will! Okay, so the word for today is woosy, and woosy is a nice word. I thought that with a word such as woosy we can be cartoony, and we can do something quick and quick and cartoony, and then we could... Hello from America! And then we could make an ink monster afterwards. Okay, good night guys. It's 12 a.m. here. Have a nice dream. 12 a.m. is that that's midnight. No, I don't... What? What is 12 a.m.? I'm out drawing too. Excellent! I'll watch your streams if... Hey dude, I'll watch all your streams if you have a challenge. I'm out... A schedule! A schedule! I don't have a schedule. I try to post it on my Patreon exclusive discord. I should let YouTube members figure out how to get YouTube members over there as well. Would love to see you draw all cultures different giants. Oh, that would be... That would be so fun. Let's draw a woosy. I don't know why this is woosy, but it's probably gonna be kind of woosy. Fave thing to draw in pink. Oh, good question. Good question. I think looking back at what I've drawn so far, I... I can't remember these, but I think that, first of all, pink is a fun color, so you can do a lot of fun stuff with it. I think the cartoony ones can you sing? I think the cartoony pink drawings are fun. I really like that auntie ghost. Some of the darker drawings haven't been that good, and Jesus looks like a toast, but I also think that pink is a good color to make action in, because it's breezy and it's light, and who doesn't love a pink fight. So pink is the color of violence? What is a woosy? This is a... A woosy is a doozy. How's it going, Kim? It's going good. It's going good. Feeling a lot better after a week of COVID. I gifted a membership, but it's not showing up for some reason. Hmm, I still have a lot of things to learn about these memberships and how it works, so what should I draw on my teacher's whiteboard? A woosy. Clearly a woosy. Kim, do you have a least favorite music genre? I mean, probably a few. I'm not particular to 90s mainstream dance music, except, you know, some things like prodigy and... but not the Euro dance stuff.  What else? I'm not really into a lot of... it's hard to say least favorite genres, because I can always think of exceptions to the rule. So, just passing through, looks like a monster from Hotel Transylvania. What I'm seeing now, it looks amazing! Thank you! I think this one is somehow gonna turn out okay. What about Mumble Rap? I haven't listened to enough Mumble Rap to really have too much opinion, but I can't even say what Mumble Rap is, but I'm guessing it's rap that's mumbly, and I think I can hear it in my head, and that sounds okay. I just a few years ago, or not a few years ago, but or was it a few years ago? Not that long ago, I learned what trap music is, and I got an appreciation for that. Well, you know, the hi-hat was driving me insane a little while, but there's also a lot of more crossover trap that is great. There was an artist that let's call... I don't remember the artist's name, but the album is called Nektar, and it's his face, maybe, in red, and it was one of my favorite albums that year, and I listened so much to it, and I have to find it again and listen more to it. Your Pinktober helped me not to fall in depression. Oh, through my father's cancer treatment, he's getting his last treatment as we speak. So the cancer is in remission. Euge, Nektar by Euge, I thought that was a phenomenal album, and the reason I came to know that album was that someone in a chat, or someone in a YouTube live, in a TikTok live, asked me if I liked any trap music, because he was making trap music, and I said, I don't really know what that is. Is that like Post Malone? He said, yeah, I'll keep something like that, and I asked him for some good trap albums, and out of the ones he suggested, and that I checked out, and Nektar by Euge was just phenomenal, and I absolutely loved it, and it's more, you've got a lot of pop hooks and some rock and a lot of crossover things in it, but it's just a magnificent album, I think. So if you have any, like you said, someone said, mumble rap, if you have some mumble rap recommendations, then do shout them out. Do you like Freddy Dredd? I don't know what that is. Is that an artist? Try Breckens. He's weird, but it's called Antipop. That sounds good. Breckens. I will need to write down these things. Okay, so out of the recommendations here, it is Ken's Breckens. Do you like or dislike Sabaton? Just judging for how I say, you can sort of gather that I don't have very high feelings for them. I do like some Power Metal. It's been a long time since the last time I gave Sabaton a chance, and perhaps I should give Sabaton a chance, because I've gotten, I was a little bit allergic to Power Metal for a while, and then I sort of started getting into some of it again. It is fun music. Also, Ty, you're the first streamer that read my comments. Thank you. So instead of passing through, I'll stay. Excellent. And if you're watching this and you're not subscribed, do subscribe. I post videos about art, mythology, mental health, politics, and really whatever I want. What's your opinion on Darude? I think I've heard the name Darude, but I can't place it, so no opinion. Is that something I should check out as well? But it's always fun to get music recommendations, because you can get really locked in your own little echo chamber, especially with music, because it's so easy to just listen to the same things all over again. Greetings came and happy spooky seasons into all. So for instance, for me, I, because I draw metal festivals and metal concerts, I do get access to a lot of metal music that I wasn't familiar with. And that is very, very cool. And I'm very grateful for that. But then on my own, I'm pretty good at going through country music history and finding things I like and also finding some of the both mainstream, but mostly alternative country that I like today. But outside of that, I'm terrible at finding new music on my own. So you're getting getting recommendations from all you hip kids is cool. Ever listen to any game original soundtracks? Yes, absolutely. Favorite game soundtrack. I mean, I've used the DOOM 2016 soundtrack a lot. I like what's this called? Dan Baranovsky who did Super Meat Boy music. My birthday is on Halloween. What should I draw for it? What should you draw for Halloween? What should I draw for Halloween? Maybe we can draw the same thing for Halloween. What do you guys think I should draw for Halloween? Crazy story. I have a stalker just moved my car because my co-worker said she pulled up and was looking for me. That's not crazy story. That is scary story. Stay safe and stalkers are not cool. That is awful. So stay safe and hi, your art is amazing. Thank you so much. Okay. So this was Yikes. Yeah, that is Yikes. This was the first piece for today. Shall we do an ink monster? Finally, female stalker. I'm at home and I moved it because she knows where I stay at. Does this pink monstrosity have a name? Woosie. What do you say to art critics? Everyone's a critic. Now, I like art criticism. Are you taking suggestions? I can take suggestions but it has to be something that hits me, that I get sort of a mental image in my mind. So I feel like this is something I want to draw. Because otherwise it's no fun. No fun, no fun, no fun. Draw a pumpkin man finding love after constantly getting turned down by the frightened ladies he asked out. I'll let it cook in my brain for a little while and see if I get any images for it. And I'll also go searching for more paper. May I only request an additional piece depicting the king in yellow? We could do the king in yellow but I've done the king in yellow. I think that was this year. I think that was this year. Or your accent is so satisfying. Thank you for Halloween doing ink monster of a real current issue with a horror twist. A nightmare that protects children from worst nightmares perhaps.  What ideas do you get for this? Let's draw something on black paper. What do you say about that? What should I draw on black paper? And while I let a few requests get in, I have to say that if you like watching this stream then do press the like button. Give me your hearts. And also if you want my art then go to den ungehardholm.com and use the promo code inktober 23 for 20% off all October. And you can also become a member as some people have today, so that's fantastic. And you can support by giving super chats. Do you listen to Aurora the Norwegian singer? Yes, so she has absolutely blown up on social media and I didn't really know all that much about her music. But if I'm not mistaken, I might be mistaken, it might be I followed her and she followed me back on TikTok. Or it was that she followed me first and I followed her back. And so she is my mutual on TikTok and she's commented on a few of my videos and I've commented on a few of hers and I've sat down and listened to her music and it's magnificent and she is just a force of nature. We live in the same town I think, but I had never seen her. But just artistically she's a force of nature and the music is just magnificent. Aurora Kim collab, that would be amazing. I would be so into that, definitely. So I just gotta keep my eyes open and see if there's a possibility to do that. Not just because she is huge in her online presence, I guess you say, but also because she is really unique musically and in terms of being a storyteller and just a seems like a unique personality, never matter. Ethereal, definitely. Can you draw a person? Okay, may I request something about a guy coloured with white and a guy coloured in black can do whatever with that. To say, I'm not getting an image in my head, except I'm getting an image in my head of the Star Trek, the original series episode where, yeah, but that sounds difficult to draw in with white on black. So I am not getting how I would do that. Can you draw a person that is half dragon? That could work. A decrepit raider king set upon his ill-gotten riches. Something set in space. Hello, you sound better today. Hope you're feeling the same. I am a lot better today. I'm still a little bit exhausted from the COVID, but I'm not anywhere near how I was earlier this week. Can you do a Japanese baku? I don't know what those are. My knowledge of Japanese mythology and folklore is too basic. I read a bunch of Japanese fair tales and a little bit mythology and a little bit of Shintoism, but baku, I have to research that. You should draw something from Anime. Well, Anime are all copyrighted characters, and there are a ton of Anime influences in my style already. You can see influences from Goseki Kojima, from Otomo, from my brain is still a little bit slow. What if COVID was a monster in physical form? Yeah, from the guy who did Blade of the Immortal, Samura. You can also see some game art in my style. Yuji Shinkawa is one of my absolute heroes, and it's not hard to see, but I don't do stylistically. Am I late? Yeah, we've done one pinktoberpiece, now we're going to do a white on black ink monster, and I've asked for suggestions, but none of them have really birthed anything in my head yet. So I'm still looking for an idea. Abaku is a Japanese monster that eats nightmares. It's made of all the spare pieces left after the gods finish creating all the other animals. That is incredibly interesting.  If you're looking for biblically accurate angels, they are just persons. That's how angels are described in the Bible. If you are looking at all the cherubims and seraphims and all of that, they are actually not described as angels in the Bible, and that's where it gets wacky. I can't draw a Sadoku from Ringu, because I release all my art for free use, so you can download it, you can copy it, you can change it, you can even sell it, and that would be very illegal with copyrighted characters.    That's the first one that I'm getting images of in my head.  That I should do, but again, that requires research. Now, we're researching into whether or not this, we're researching whether this paint will stick to the black, and so far it's sticking all right, not covering completely, but it seems all right.  I'm guessing it's sort of like a minotaur, but it's a pig. Can you draw an eagle that has some of its body parts rotting away? That's a scary image. Good evening. How are you today? I'm doing pretty good. Hopefully all finished with the COVID, had my first walk outside in a week.  I wish I was as good at drawing as you. Practice, practice, practice, practice. If you really wish you were as good as me, then you should practice more than me. Noice. You really sound European. May I ask if you actually are? Yes. Yes, you may ask. Hi, are you a full-time artist? Yes, I am. Definitely. This is my full-time job, and after many, many years of being a freelancer and doing all sorts of odd art jobs, I finally am starting to make a living from my art for free use. That's been my business plan since 2001, and it just took like 22 years for it to work. A pigotaur, a swinotaurus, and it can't have an axe. It has to have a hammer. We'll go with a hammer like this. Hey, Mona, good to see you.  Not you, Mona. Me. I remember you say one of the videos and all sorts of things.  I am bisexual, but I'm also in a, what's it called, a monogamous heterosexual relationship. So at this point, my bisexuality is mostly theoretical, because I have a wife. But still, it is an important part of my identity, not in the least, because when I'm with other men, especially with heterosexual men, and they don't know I'm bisexual, they always feel like kind of a potential threat, because of experiences growing up and being openly bisexual.  That is an uncomfortable situation for me to be in. I think everyone's at least a bit bisexual. Yes, as the poet said, everybody loves you when you're bi, messing with the girls and kissing with the guys. I don't remember. It's not the best living call or song, but it's a good album. I like that album for those of you. Are you Norwegian? Yeah, de stem mit, de stem mit. Dude, me and my friends are for real acting gay in class and in the streets. Okay, kult ja jo, kult. Wait, you hacked my brain, so you are bisexual or something, but at the same time, you are straight. No, I am bisexual. I am not straight, but I am in a monogamous straight relationship. So the person I ended up falling in love with and marrying happened to be a woman, which means I'm the only one who thought the notification said kinktober. I was so scared that we'll do that next year. How did you start drawing? Did you like to art in college or high school? So that is, we often talk about this, but that is the wrong question, because people generally don't start drawing. People stop drawing in childhood or in, you know, early school, somewhere before junior or high school, people stop drawing. And then some people restart drawing after somewhere in teenage or in their early 20s. We have live ensures now. I think I'm bi, and that is something that I was a little insecure, because it was a boy in my class that was very mean to me. So I have a little problem trusting people. Yeah, it can be hard. It can be hard. And it's not like, it's not like you have to choose. You can be bi for one guy, bi for 10, bi once in a while, gay sometime, straight sometime. You can do, it's just names for how you feel. I got recommended your stream in short. Yes, because apparently YouTube are pushing the stream in short format, because every time I go live, I've gotten the recommended setting is, the recommended setting is to do it in the short format and not in the usual format. And since my YouTube shorts are a lot bigger than my long form videos, and I haven't done that many long form videos yet, then shorts format lives is ideal for me, I think. I'm bi and fell for the town peace son would not recommend. Nope, not recommend. On the topic of this conversation, sexuality is a spectrum is different and changes for every person. Yes, definitely. But that doesn't mean it's not real. And that people are on different sides of that spectrum. Don't deserve respect and dignity. Drawing war pig from Slayer Slayer. Really, there was another question that that I was in the middle of answering and that I just forgot. And that was about how I started art and that the fact is that people don't start art. You start making art when you are a kid. Most people start making art in kindergarten. And then they stop making art. I never stopped making art. I have very little education. So I'm really not all that educated in art. I do have a father who is an artist. But my brother, my older brother basically stopped making art because of me, I think. That's what he said sometime, because he was my older brother and I was really good at art. So he hated that. At the time, I thought he was really good at art because he used a ruler to draw noses and those noses were so straight. I thought that was magnificent. I could never use a ruler. I knew this guy who didn't like people using the pride flag because you got to pick one. No, you haven't got to pick one. I believe pride flags are just rainbow flags. Yeah, it's just a representation of diversity and a spectrum and sexuality is a lot of things, but it's definitely on some sort of spectrum. I drew Ben 10 so much as a child. Did you mean war pigs from Black Sabbath? Yeah, that makes more sense. Generals gathered in their masses. Just like that. That is one of my favorite rhymes. Generals gathered in their masses, just like with witches at Black masses. Ben 10 was my bubbly bob. I'll inform Sidious that his bubbly bobs are a recurrent theme on my lives now. He'll be happy with that, he'll join us some other day for some other live and my other son will probably join us as well someday. But yes, I'm guessing it was Geyser Butler managing to, because he wrote most of the lyrics, I think. But maybe it was just, I don't know, I don't know who wrote it, but I love the fact that they get masses to rhyme with Black masses. It is a little bit hard to get this Pigotaurus right, because the paint, the pink paint isn't drying quite fast enough. So it's kind of difficult. But I do think it's coming out okay so far. I just have to be really careful in some smart, in some instances, in some places, where I have to also, oh, Napoleon, when you ask for equal shares of food you work 12 hours to produce. Yes, Comrade Napoleon, is that his name? I'm not terribly fond of that look, but people seem to think I am, because I dislike the tendency to do the no-true Scotsman fallacy on the left. What entices you to make art like this? Having fun. So right now, this was a suggestion. I got up my black piece of paper and I asked for suggestions for what I should draw on it. And the first suggestion that really grabbed my fancy and that I could see something in was this one. I could envision a pig minotaur and I would probably not have gotten that idea myself, so that is one of the cool things of doing these lives. I did this to him. You did this to me. Pig minotaur is ace. Yes, it is. It is magnificent. I really enjoy this and I probably wouldn't have done it on my own, not because pig minotaur is, or a pigotaurus is a particularly unique idea. There are so many variants of minotaur-like characters, so it's not particularly unique, but it's damned cool. I love it. It doesn't need to be unique. It just needs to be cool. And the result, I think this result looks unique-ish, don't you? Pink and black. Perfect. The last time I caught you on a live stream, I asked what ink, paper and brushes you use. Since then, I've been gloriously failing at copying your talent. It's great therapy. Now, gloriously failing is the most important part of learning. I mean, seriously. The one thing that will keep you from learning more than anything else is the fear of failure. If you fear failure, it's really hard to learn much of anything.  It's better. Therapy by failure sounds awesome. I think probably that too. I can't speak therapeutically because I don't know anything about that, but accepting failure is probably a universally healthy thing to do, I would think. Hi! What is the most challenging part of art for you? So there are lots of things that are technically challenging, and I always try to push things further towards something technical and then away from technical again, because I find things too technical to be boring. But the very, I guess, the most difficult thing is the insecurity and the self-doubt and the self-sabotage. So even at this art level I am, whatever that is, when I do a commission, when I do a commission for a client, even if it's just a small and non-important commission, when I deliver that commission, I'm a wreck. Until the client answers, this is good, I like it, well done.  So the self-doubt and the constant self-scrutiny and self-flagellation tormenting yourself, that is probably the hardest part of art for me. Love how this is turning out, thank you, yeah, I think this is turning out great. I think this is turning out great. I, Napoleon, when you ask what happened at Waterloo, Waterloo, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Ever since I drew Ghost live at Tons of Rock, I've been going through an Abba face because Abba are magnificent. Waterloo, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Why is the pig looking scared? The pig is looking scared because it's a scary world for pigotauruses. How much time does one painting take? That depends on the painting. For instance, today it's going rather quick, isn't it? But not quick in terms of my average paintings because, or drawings because all the ink monsters I do, they are really quick. They go by in just some, some minutes, 10 minutes for an ink monster. And Napoleon, when you ask what happened in Russia, these are all good, all good. Keep them coming. What is your favorite song from Ghost? Ritual? That is a good song. I really like that one. The hits are good. Mary on the Cross is magnificent. Very cool tune. Absolutely. Love it. Love it. Love it. If Mary on the Cross is easy to have as a favorite. Definitely. It's a, what other songs do I like? I mean, my favorite album is probably still the first one because I really liked the groove they were in with that album. But apart from that, I think the other Ghost albums are more up and down, but they've gotten a lot better at writing hits and the hits are just magnificent. Oh, old. Year zero is fantastic.  How are you? I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. Napoleon, when you ask about his first marriage, it looks good. I'm showing, I'm drawing, showing with you for a bit of painting my Arttober digitally. I don't know if I understood that sentence, but if you're drawing Artober, have fun. Digitally is great. You draw great. Thank you. Thank you so much. And if you are new to this channel, and if you like what you're seeing and you want videos on mythology and silliness and politics and mental health, so the whole spectrum of things that people either like or hate, then do subscribe. Can you do my profile picture? No. All my art is released for free use. So you can download my art, you can copy it, you can share it, you can do whatever you want with my art, even sell it, and of course make your profile picture with my art. But that also means that I can't draw fan art or other copyrighted things. Because releasing them for free use would be very, very, very illegal. So no copyrighted works on my channel. I wish you could teach me how you make your art and I subscribe because I love art. That's a good reason to subscribe. I mean, that's one of the things that a lot of people get wrong. In order to follow my art, you don't really need to love all of it or my content. You don't really need to agree with everything I say. I don't love all my content. I don't agree with everything I say. But you need to find enough that you find interesting. And that's all. All I ask for. Definitely. Make brick wall with a face. I think this will be the last drawing for today because we've been going for a little over an hour and I'm still a little bit exhausted after Covid. Do you take custom requests? What should I do to get custom art shipped to my country? You should go to my web shop, den ungeherholm.com. You can find the link in the bio. You can find the link in the description for the channel, den ungeherholm.com. And then shoot us an email there and my associate, Christofed, will answer you and talk prices. But only do that if you are serious because we have seriously a lot to do. And we have to price our works to meet the demand. I think that would you do daily streams after October? I will not do daily streams right after October because we do need a break once in a while. Breaks are important. But which number is this? Which number is it?  Why can't I keep track of these things? I think it's number 1426 or 27. But I'm planning on perhaps doing some scheduled weekly streams with a new project in November. But I don't know yet. Because of streaming daily and life and all of that, it's been very exhausting. And because of Covid, it's been very exhausting this year. But I'm managing to stick to it. So I will definitely be doing more streams on YouTube, probably some on TikTok and Facebook and Instagram again, because I've been neglecting those platforms a bit. But yeah. I'm guessing you guys would like me to keep on streaming. Keep on streaming in free world. Keep on streaming in after October. Napoleon Winnick can't exact your daily social stimuli from an art YouTuber. Yes. Burners and all fun. So take care of your health. I'm pretty good with pushing myself towards my limits and knowing where to stop. But I love the Pigotaurus and I have time to answer a few questions. So let's turn the camera around. It's a very basic creature. But I like it. Hello. Yes, please stream all the time. Yeah. So if you want me to stream all the time, a good way of incentivizing me to do that, of course, is liking the streams, interacting by commenting, sending Superchats and becoming a member. Those are all good ways to incentivize me to stream more here. Also being cool, but all of you have been really cool today. In most days. I hope you get rid of Covid-19. Yeah, I'm a lot better today. I even took my first walk outside just to take a walk and catch some Pokemons. Have you considered recording audiobooks? Your voice is made for that. I would love it. And I never considered it before people started asking me on TikTok and here and on Instagram and all those places. I think this is very weird, but I would absolutely love to do it. It's just a matter of time and money. Right now, I can't afford... Oh, thank you, Mona. Thank you so much, Mona. Thank you. Right now, I can't afford to set aside the time it would take to do an audiobook properly. It's not just to read it through. You have to do a good job. And doing these one minute long sound bites is a lot quicker. When you do something that's 10 minutes long or an hour long or 10 hours long, it doesn't just take more time. It takes exponentially more time. What audiobook would you love to do if you could choose? I would probably start with Lovecraft. And I have some projects concerning Lovecraft in the works. Me and the wonderful artist and musician, Costin Cherenot, will be doing our live version of four Lovecraft prose poems at the Inferno Festival next Easter. So we will be doing our project under the name HP Doomcraft, because I couldn't think of anything better. So that would definitely be... Those will be short audiobooks. Two hour long readings plus retakes. And audiobooks are a lot of prep work. Because when I do my one minute shorts, I can sort of... Let's say I start at a calm place. And then in one minute, I build up to a very hectic place. And I can control the rhythm. Oh, thank you so much, Chef Moon. The first super on the live stream. Thank you. Number one. Wow, thank you. So figuring out how to read a one minute text is no problem. But in an audiobook, let's say, even if it's just a 10 minute long thing, you have to build. If it's a 10 hour long thing, you have to build and calm down. And you have to find that rhythm. You can't just go from like... It was a calm and dark night. When Winston suddenly saw in the tree a giant monkey. And then he died. You can't do that rhythm in a longer text. You have to build up gradually. I just found this stream. Thank you. What we do on this stream is really... We draw. We draw a Teigotaurus. And what more did we draw today? Where is the other one? I lost my art. Oh, I forgot what it was. We drew Woosie. But now we're done drawing and we're just talking. Recommend a movie. Oh, recommend a movie. The last movie I saw that I really, really loved. But that everyone loved and that got all the Oscars and stuff like that is everything. Everyone, everywhere, everything at once. That was magnificent. But I can recommend older movies. I've seen more older movies. I'll recommend older. Some of my favorites. And some of the things that have influenced me. Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch. Magnificent, super slow cowboy movie. Weird movie. Very funny. Suspiria by Dario Argento. They Live and the Thing by John Carpenter. Happy Together by Von Karwey. Beautiful movie. Taught me so much about about color use. It's a story of two gay Hong Kong couple that spent earlier time fighting with each other in Argentina. And it's set to tango music and it's just magnificent. Terminator 1. Best movie. Really old movies. We can go some like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe. Such a fun movie. It happened one night. One of the best rom-coms ever. From the 30s I think. I like two more. You'd be a great character or narrator on an audio drama. I would love to do that. I would love if someone would hire me to do voice acting or radio drama or be a video game character. Whatever. I would absolutely love that. Your thoughts on the movie The Deer Hunter. That was one of the movies that really shaped me early. I think I was probably a bit too early to see it when I first saw it. But it had such an amazing impact on me and it's just a heart-wrenching movie. I've seen it again in adulthood and it has some issues. It has some issues but it is still just a magnificent movie I think.  Oh I would love to be a troll in a game. What do you think of Lupin? Like in Lupin the Third? I don't have any real connection with that. I think I've seen some. We've seen Excalibur. Yes. Fantastic movies so long and so boring. Another boring movie choice that's too long and it's not going to be what you think. It's the original Conan the Barbarian. It is one of the best scripts ever. Oliver Stone's script for that is magnificent. And each scene is just perfect. There are no scenes and no cuts between scenes that aren't perfect in that movie. But when you put them together it's all a little bit too slow and it goes on for too long. And John Miller's good director for that kind of movie but it's a little bit too slow. But magnificent script. Love Conan the Barbarian. Shape of Water.  Never ending story. Broke my heart as a kid. Even though I had read the book. I mean I think my parents read the book for me so I knew the horse was going to die. I knew everything that would happen. I cried so much. I almost cried just thinking about the never ending story. Great movies in that sort of era. You know Princess Bride. We just saw that with the kids. And it's incredible. Incredible. We started watching Hot Shots with the kids and it's just fantastic. I remember really liking Willow and Legend. Legend with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry as the devil. Damn. Spoiler. Yeah. It's not really a spoiler. Poor Artax. Yes. Well some of my favorite movies are of course Lord of the Rings movies because I didn't want Lord of the Rings to be adapted ever. I thought that you can't adapt that. And then I heard that Peter Jackson was doing it and I did a little mental weighing of the scales and I said hmm Lord of the Rings Brain Dead. Lord of the Rings Brain Dead. And I figured out Brain Dead is the more important work for me. And I absolutely love Lord of the Rings. And you know Brain Dead is also a fantastic movie.  Wait to watch it because it's just so splattery. Dustbought. Oh Dustbought is a magnificent movie. Also Heartbreaking. What do you think about Motorhead Snaggletooth Emblem Midschool? Other great movies in that kind of street. I'm trying to think. A lot of the movies are like of course 90s movies because we grew up with came across you and the art you create.  Thank you for your amazing work both with your videos and your art love from Norwegian artists. Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind is my favorite romance. That was fun. Did you enjoy your childhood? Parts of it yeah. But from school on it was downhill. I really hated school. How much do you like history? Love history especially ancient history. Got a dip. Have a nice day. So other movies let's go over to the 90s movies that I idolized when I grew up of course.  School is not cool.  I like ancient history a lot. Ancient history is the most fun for me. When it's a mix of archaeology and the small traces of stories that is fantastic. One of the things I hated most about school was that I never I didn't learn anything from school because it wasn't fashioned for kids like me.  Stunted. Or not good at interacting with other kids. Very important. And it is sort of a system that incentivizes bullying and harassment and hierarchical behavior of the worst sort. Which means it gets you ready for society. But I don't really think that's a good thing. 90s movies. Demolition man. Fantastic. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro band. I haven't seen in a long time. I thought Scandinavian schools were better. Yes but the thing is it doesn't matter how good the schools are. It's not that it doesn't matter because it absolutely does matter and good teachers absolutely do matter. But there is something fundamentally wrong with a school system that's it's a forced school system that's mostly designed so that parents can go to work and that kids can get crushed to fit into society and can get sorted into this kid will be a good worker B. This kid will not. And that doesn't mean you shouldn't go to school. That doesn't mean that school is doesn't have good sides and good teachers save school for many individual students. But school is always as long as it's forced and as long as it's not based around the kids needs but around the economic needs of society for the parents to work. It's always going to destroy a number of children. You can't get away from that unless you develop a school system that is voluntary and based around the kids wants and needs and have three times as many teachers and actually pay them. Totally agree. Have you seen Oblivion with Tom Cruise. No I haven't. He is a very good actor. I and he seems to have fun with stunts and all that. So I can respect that even though probably not a nice guy. Hope you're doing well always admired your artwork due to its uniqueness and the inspiration behind its construction. How long has that red coke been up there? Less than a year. Misery is fun. Shawshank Redemption Nightmare for Christmas 90s made the best movies. This might be early 2000 or late 90s pie as in the number P pie by Darren Aronofsky is magnificent. Other great. My mind should my mind isn't quite functional yet. In the beginning I think there was coke. Yes I think it is time to end this live. We draw the we draw we draw the pigotaurus. Let's see here we draw we drew the pigotaurus. He looks a little bit scared and we drew something woosy convoy. Oh I love convoy. That was the movie that made me fall in love with Chris Christofferson. The crow. What a film. That was fun. Yes. Hello from Turkey. At my friend's school people do meth. What do you think? I think it's bad. Yes I do think it's bad. Don't do meth. And generally don't do drugs whether they be meth or alcohol or weed or coffee until you are fully grown. Most of these things you can wait to try until you're 25 at least. And meth you can probably just skip. Key enjoyer absolutely. I love convoy. Yeah convoy is magnificent. And I love Chris Christofferson as an actor because he is such a non-actor. He works but he shouldn't work.  Yeah that's the limit of days you can be absent and put me on a positive failure. Had some really nice teachers that pushed my creative journey and I wish there were more teachers supporting little kids like they did. Yeah individual great teachers can save school for individual students because and they have to be great and they have to be great for you because teaching is a really hard profession and because the pay sucks it doesn't attract the best students and they get put in situations where they have too much work and too many students so even a mediocre teacher or just good enough teacher will do irreparable damage on so many students not for lack of trying but because it is an impossible job to do under those circumstances. A bad teacher is absolutely disastrous and a great teacher will be able to save it for some of the students some of the individual students not all of them.  You can also support by becoming a member and you can support by sending super chats or you can support by going to patreon or most importantly if you don't have money to support you can support by using my art all my art is available for free use that means you can when this one is scanned and uploaded to my gallery you can take it and print it download it print it send it to your mother-in-law or sell it on the street or use it make a video game make a comic book about the pigotaurus and all you have to do is credit me what did I just walk on do you know the Czech Republic I would love to travel there some day thank you for a great live Kim thank you Moona thank you just for fun and Rubu how do we reference that was probably how do we credit if you use my artwork you have to just think about how you credit for instance if you use this drawing and you hang it on your wall you don't need anything more than the signature okay but if you use this drawing and you print it on t-shirts then at least the place you sell the t-shirts should have my name on it I know that you can't necessarily put it my name on every single t-shirt but where you sell it you have to say this was drawn by Kim Holm now if you take this and remix it and make it a psychedelic drawing then you have to write art by Kim Holm remixed by you and if you take this pigotaurus and make an epic comic book series or cartoon or video game or novel about him then you have to say inspired by this drawing by Kim and so just use your mind use your thoughts on how to properly credit it all depends on the situation and if you're wondering anything just ask me and that has been all for today thank you so much for viewing and I'll be back with another Inktober is Pinktober live tomorrow bye


Welcome back to, if you've been away, to our Big Talk from Small Libraries 2020. I am Krista Porter, your host here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Big Talk from Small Libraries is sponsored by the Association for Rural and Small Libraries and the Nebraska Library Commission. We are annual conference and we do, we have presenters that are all from libraries for universities, public libraries, health libraries that serve populations of 10,000 or less. And right now on the, on the conference we have with us Copper Queen Library, who is, as you can see there, the best small library in America 2019. Congratulations! Yay! And with us is Jason and Allison from the library and they're going to talk about their experience and the things that they do at their library there in Arizona. So I'll just hand it over to you guys to introduce yourself and tell us all about the library. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you for having us, Krista. It's quite an honor to join you all today. And I'm here with Allison Williams. She's our program coordinator. Hi, everybody. We are so pleased to be a part of this conference. So today we're just, we're going to talk a little bit about what we've accomplished over the last four years. Alice and I have been working together to make the biggest impact in our community. And we've accomplished some really amazing things. So we're going to highlight some of those. First we're going to start with just who we are and where we are. We are in Bisbee, Arizona, and that's in the southeast corner of Arizona, about 90 miles southeast of Tucson. We are a rural community and we are, Bisbee is an old copper mining town. In its heyday, it was called the Queen of the Copper Camps. So really interesting history in our library. It's our folklore and we love to share this story. We had, our library was started in 1885 and it's kind of got an interesting start point. We had principal members of the Copper Queen mining company. They came to Bisbee to check it out and upon their arrival. The story goes that they found a swing and corpse of a fellow that was hanged the night before. And they were so shocked by this site that they decided immediately the town needed more civilized diversions and So thus in 1882, the Copper Queen Library was established and it started in the corner of the Copper Queen store, the mining store. And in 1885 we got our first building that you can see there on the screen. And that building burned and we got the 1892 beautiful building. And as Bisbee grew, that building was actually demolished to create our 1907 building where we are housed today and that's where Allison and I are presenting from. So, so a little bit about Bisbee. Bisbee serves the residents about 5500 people live in Bisbee. And we are located in the Mule Mountains, eight miles from the Mexican border. Back in its heyday Bisbee's population was over 25,000. But when the mines closed in the 1970s. And then Bisbee's population left to look for work elsewhere. And it left the window open for an eclectic group of artists and writers poets musicians and for lack of better word hippies came into town and they started to recreate the urban landscape. And this is our evolution here kind of takes us to where we are today. And it attracts retirees and travelers as well as a younger generation of entrepreneurs and creatives looking to escape bigger cities like Tucson and Phoenix. And it really is this this interesting mix of peoples and cultures that has created this extremely diverse and very engaged community. And over the past four years Allison and I have really been able to tap into this community and we really do consider it our most valuable asset. And it's enabled us to do some amazing things, which led to winning our small library award. And as well this influx when this town was the mine closed down and the mining corporation actually gave the library to the city of Bisbee in 1976 and that's approximately the same time on the influx of artists and poets and hippies all came in and that created its mark on we're known as an artist town. We're, we're definitely known as a cultural town both in the history button in arts and really amazing events. So, we have evolved through this 138 years, the library standing strong and embracing knowledge as you can see, building community and inspiring curiosity as part of our mission. So, when we, as librarians, we identify the needs and then we look at what the barriers are to providing these resources and services to our community. And the city of Bisbee is when I first moved here, it reminded me of the five boroughs of Manhattan with where the library is old Bisbee being Manhattan and Warren being Brooklyn and on and on so San Jose where our new annexes is the closest to the Lincoln border and the farthest away the neighborhood farthest away from our historic building. So, Cochise County is geographically spread out in Cochise County. Every student can go to any school in Cochise County that's because of the geographical barriers, as well any resident in Cochise County can have a library card at any library in Cochise County. And we just moved to a one card one county system which is just fantastic. One library card for all the libraries both city and county district libraries. And that just kind of illuminates how we resource share and how spread out we are and how people actually travel a lot. However, the neighborhood of San Jose, which is the closest to the border and the farthest away from us. It has the largest population of children actually, and we found that the smallest amount of those residents were patrons regularly coming to our library. As well, a couple years ago, the county had to end their, their bookmobile program, which we have a lot of unincorporated areas around the city proper that are so close to the city. Most people think they are part of the city and when the bookmobile services stopped that isolated this whole area from services in a pretty dramatic way. So, we, we looked to bring the mountain to Muhammad we identified spaces in that neighborhood and really we couldn't have done this without the busy unified school district. There was an abandoned school there a school that had been closed, and it was closed for 10 years just they couldn't reopen it. But under the rules of the school district, they had to keep the lights on so there was electricity and maintenance, however, there were no occupants. So we had the unique and remarkable opportunity. We asked for a classroom in this empty building in this neighborhood, and we were given this classroom. One of our goals was to address the, the failure rate in English language arts in the busy unified school district, all three schools having a 65% failure rate of the LA, and how we can best reach the children. And we decided to start at the beginning looking at preschool literacy programs, as well as the geographical location and so this is the, this is the birth of the idea to create the Xanax in San Jose. So, at the same time that we were looking at this. We saw that there were other organizations around town that were also trying to address the some of the problems in early childhood literacy. And one of the first steps that we were that we wanted to accomplish was to kind of rain all those organizations in together under one umbrella and work together as one team to accomplish something even bigger. We noticed that we started hearing that one group or another was also attacking literacy, which is fantastic. However, none of them were working together and we are a great believer in adapting ideas rather than reinventing the wheel. It cuts down on the workload with a small staff and we all these different resources of community members and groups. We reached out to so many of them and we created a little literacy advisory group. That was specific to preschool literacy from members of all these different organizations. One of the biggest things about Bisbee is that it is just filled with organizations and nonprofits who are identifying specific needs in the community that and working really hard to make changes. And as Allison and I started reaching out to organizations, it kind of spread. And we had organizations reaching out to us to participate. And being a very central location and just the identity of the library.  So you can see from that page. I don't know if this is everything, but it's we're just our community is so much stronger with all these organizations and it's, I think we found it rather easy to find different ways to work specifically with each one, and really enacting change, positive change. And if I could just mention a couple of these partners. So the bisbee unified district school district the Puma logo is an amazing partner and they provided the physical space and resources to make this happen. But we also use the bisbee high school CTE construction class to they volunteer to build bookshelves for us. The first step up is be not go group is similar to habitat for humanity. They do repairs to homes and buildings for low income. People in our community and they were inspired by us and started working with us and the construction class. So we had contractors and architects designing really good plans for the space and for the shelves that the students then built for us. And as volunteer and under a grant process. And then the friends of the Copper Queen library we cannot neglect them. Our friends are an amazing amazing board and group of people who do so much work really hard to support programming for and collections for us through fundraising. So working with the school was not new to us either. Do you want to talk about the registration? Yeah, so when about four years ago when I first started here and Jason came back as director of the library we reached out to the school district to find out how we could better partner and the first thing we did was we created a patron card registration form that was included in all the registered school registration packets in all three schools realizing that they have the same vetting process that we do. Checking residency IDs address and all of that so it's very easy for us to create a box for staff to just check that they had checked the same things that we would. They, we attached this form to all the registration the parents filled it out. The school sent us the forms we created patron cards and sent them off to all the children. I think over the last three years we've created over 600 new youth patron cards, which in our small population is. Relatively amazing. And that was our phase one. We then reached out to the school librarians and to all three schools and the principles of those schools to do various programs outreach going into the schools but also having them come here. We created a program coffee with the principal with all three principles coming to the library and talking to the public. We started a haunted library and that is run by the middle school builders club and the high school students mapping that out creating it working on it. And we have a lot other of other programs that the teens and the youth from the schools are primarily responsible for creating. But then when we moved, we created this relationship. People. It's so good to know who people are to know their names. We're also very small community so there are patrons as well these teachers and principals and students but through growing this relationship when we came to the point where we asked for this space. It was, we had already established our, our creds as it were we had established that we were committed to growing literacy in the schools and our student body. So, a little bit about the physical space of, or where the building exists that our classroom is in we call it the annex it's the copper Queen library annex in the San Jose neighborhood. And it's basically an empty classroom that we work given all utilities amazingly all utilities including free internet paid for by the busy unified school district. And also close to not go Arizona which is lies on the border with Mexico and the sister city of not go Sonora Mexico is right on the other side of the border. And not go Arizona has only a K through eight schools so after eighth grade, all of the students from that school feed into this be high school. As do many of the smaller communities surrounding this be so once high school is reached there's a whole new influx of students from the surrounding areas so attacking literacy as it were at such an early age and providing services to the surrounding schools and it's not just not go we provide services to the preschools the head starts to other charter schools and to home schools as well, all building bridges between all of the education branches in our community. And also I just wanted to just say the annex is not a separate library it is an offsite collection it's a collection in a different physical location, and again finding this way to do to make this project work. We couldn't establish a whole new library, but we could establish this offsite collection which gave us this ability to do a huge project on a manageable scale. And also, students from not go Sonora Mexico cross through customs each day to to go to school and not go Arizona. So, really we're, we're affecting patrons from both sides of the border. So they come they so they those kids come to your annex as well. Yes, they're technically have residency in the United States in order to enroll in the school district. However, especially at the not go elementary K through eight. There is a large influx of students who cross that border every morning and every afternoon. And we are a bilingual community and for many English is a second language, but it's also the broader picture of parents while students might speak English fluently. There's also the communication barrier with interactions with parents and getting parent engagement, and we're able to provide resources to cross this international boundary. The wall as it were. That's awesome. I love it. So, and this neighborhood also so there's. That is the most family homes where there are annex location is and it's within walking distance of a lot of those homes and apartment complexes. So just the central location in terms of that and it's kind of hard to explain this because it is a it's a small town and like Allison said our burrows are very distinct and separate. And we've got a lot of just physical barriers in the way I mean we've got a giant open pit where copper was mine separating where we are we call old busy from the rest of the town and we've we've also got the geography of the mountains that create these physical geographic barriers. So, it is hard for some of these neighborhoods to visit us an old busy we've, we're a tourist community parking is. It comes at a premium it's it's very difficult nightmare. And it's a lot of people that live outside of old busy. Unfortunately, they've had to give up on coming here because it's sometimes just not worth the fight for them to find parking so this really could not have worked out better for us and I think, you know, if we look at providing services and eliminating barriers and building bridges. This, this, this begins to really check off a lot of boxes on our library mission. So, I love before and after pictures and this kind of gives you an idea of what we were given. I mean this empty space when Allison and I walked in there we were just like this is ours like, oh my gosh we just we started the, you know, the wheel started spinning and you know lining up potential partnerships and people who were interested. Everyone just kind of came together under this one roof and that's the second picture is the CTE class the construction class building the shelves and this project gave them such community investment. So all the participants all the students who helped build those they signed their names on the, what was it the bottom of a table that they created for our, our workshop programs, this long low table for the kids and yeah they've all signed it and it's so valuable to have them do real work in real life as opposed to doing a project in the school classroom that they bring home to their mom and, and it gets put in the basement basically. They're very invested in in this project. And as a result invested in the library.  We do not have money. So we had to start looking at grants and possibilities of bringing money in specifically for this project. We knew we needed a lot in terms of collections and materials and furniture, computer equipment printer.  We realized that we were going to have to start looking elsewhere for possibilities and we were successful in writing to major grants. One of them was to the Arizona State Library and LSTA grant, which was for collections and furniture and computer equipment and then we also wrote a grant to Freeport Macmaran, which is the mining concern, not the original mine owner, but that was sold to Freeport about over 10 years ago. So Freeport Macmaran, our mine is no longer a working functional mind. However, it is still there's still a presence here with soil reclamation as well as we lease a mine tour. So we there, that's one of our tourist attractions is going in into the mine tunnels and Freeport Macmaran has a community grant foundation. But one of the things that they were remarkable for funding is staff. So when we wrote this grant for $40,000, we allocated 20,000 of it for staff, which enabled us to fund a part time employee for one year. With a vision presented to eventually have this become a permanent city funded employee over while we had a three year plan for that. We are incredibly lucky that our city manager, our mayor and council saw the value in this space and the value in this employee and funded this position as permanent within one year of the creation of it. This is a remarkable accomplishment for our city and for our library. After so many years of cuts, I can't tell you, but they too saw the vision, they too participated our mayor and council in understanding the need for these resources. So Freeport Macmaran, we were able to have $40,000 that LSTA grant was $25,500. And on top of that, we had a lot of smaller partners.  And these small small amounts from local individuals and organizations are as powerful as the large numbers in the representation of how many members of our community were standing behind us and creating this epic project. Yeah, and when I think the, when we were looking at furnishing this space, we did not want this to be an afterthought we wanted to provide a really vibrant space with with new things in it that were specifically for this neighborhood. And it looked beautiful and and it does it's it's it's an amazing feat and to look to look back at these pictures of the empty room with the boarded up windows and to see now this beautiful space that's that's being used it's amazing. And another thing we did was we replicated. And I get to brag about Jason here which is that he has an amazing ability and vision to look at space and reconfigure it and redesign it to use space in the best way possible and this was designed with the many children's library and a mini adult library and many compute public computer station, and then a work table, a maker space, our staff computer. And all of this fit into this one classroom with some low shelving and furniture but it's also the same furniture that we had recently bought for the main library so there's a feeling of familiarity and continuity. And, and also a space for the adult collection mini adult collection mini DVD collection all of that. So that really was just a shell of a building then there when for a long time before that you were able to use it. Yep. Yep, what it up first picture there yeah. But we have some exciting things to say about that coming up. So, so we knew right away that our focus on this space was going to be early literacy and parent engagement and our early literacy coordinator that we hired through the report grant started designing and implementing preschool programs. And we started to tap into volunteer resources. And when we, we first open we thought we'd be open for maybe 16 hours a week and we had such a great response to our volunteer call that immediately we were open 28 and a half hours a week. Yeah, and I, I don't know how other small libraries are we have a really good volunteer team here at the main library but we had a volunteer open house. A couple weeks before we officially open the annex, and we have 40 people show up and fill out volunteer forms 40 new people who wanted to help us. That to me was an astonishing day. And one of our regular volunteers, she had gone door to door in the entire neighborhood, knocking and talking to people and handing them an invitation to come. So that's, that's the kind of support that makes something like this viable. Yeah, and this is given an opportunity for our volunteer base to really expand on what they do. I mean, I think for many years volunteers were just asked to shelf books here and now it's volunteers are using their skills that you know a lot of our volunteers are retired teachers and psychologists and professors and PhD. Yeah, and they're using their skills now to help facilitate preschool programs are open play is so much more than just a playgroup for kids it's bringing in professionals and having a very informal opportunity for parents to react to interact with people of, you know that in professions that can help them with parenting and, and being engaged with their children. It's, every volunteer has brought such a very special and unique perspective to this project, and it's just it's fun finding a job for everyone and so far we've been really good at doing that. So, when we asked for this classroom and we're told yes and had the agreement and started moving in the building was empty. But pretty quickly, the school superintendent decided to move the administrative offices. Over into this building so immediately half of the building office space was renovated and the district office staff moved in that that alone was wonderful because we were willing to be alone but we wanted more life in this in this community. Aborted building has a really detrimental effect on the neighborhood. It's the word blight is accurate. People feel ignored and as soon as they moved in and we moved in. A new, you can see the Bisbee science lab logo up there in yellow. They were so impressed with what we were doing and they are, they were just down the street from the main library. They wanted to come over to San Jose into the annex that they asked for a classroom. At the same time, the U of a cooperative extension for each club also asked if they could have a classroom. So within six months. There were multiple programs occurring the hallways filled with children. As well, we did not keep ourselves isolated and reached out to these other groups and in fact formed a small coalition where we met all together to look at our programming schedules and make sure that our programs were complimentary that they did not compete but rather. Made it so that we had accessible programming to children. At almost every day of the week we started this last summer with a summer reading program. We included them in our summer reading program schedule so that families would know that every day of the week there was something for them to do. And we are continuing that collaborative relationship. So, as with any project, you get unintended consequences and one of the first things that we saw was that a lot of adults wanted to be a part of library services they wanted them to be to have resources and. And a lot of teens also wanted space and a collection for them. And this is great I mean this is exactly the organic growth that we wanted to see and not even a little over a year since we open we are already in the process of expanding into another classroom. And this is so super exciting for us and we're within the next two months. We're going to be working on furnishing another classroom that would house the adult collection so you can see this is the pictures are on the other side of that children section. And there is a small adult collection of books and DVDs and it's just it's not meeting the needs of our patrons and so we approached our city manager and the busy unified school district again to see if obtaining another room was a possibility and they were quick to sign off on a yes. So, it's it's very exciting you can see that the second photo is our adult living room and adult collection that will move across the hall into this larger classroom. Also, I would like to mention that could she's county library district is another amazing partner as they are going, they are recently moving and they are going to be providing shelves that they don't need from their move and also giving us access to their collection of adult fiction and nonfiction that we will be able to place in our library it's we're all because we're all under one catalog, we can be the new home, and every library has access every patron still has access to them in fact more access is the way that district is looking at it because they're more administrative and not all necessarily open to the public. So the existing adult area is going to become our new, our new teen center. So we're going to deck it out with some fun colorful retro to me a century modern furniture that's so cool. We're working on some grants to provide teen resources, including books and we're working with an organization called kids need to read and grow your library who are donating over 700 kids books to this project, which is just an amazing partner and opportunity. So, we'd like to talk a little bit about some of the, some of the programs that we have done in the last four years. Kind of some new things for us. The, the first thing is that that I'm so proud of and just love is the library of things, creating a library of things seem daunting at first with the lack of shelf space, as did creating a seed library but with the help of one of our amazing front desk employees who's a master gardener. She was able to help us in creating this seed library which does not take up a lot of room and in fact we just reuse a card catalog unit and it is so active and we perfect for that I see that in lots of libraries that those doors are just perfect for this. And it actually doesn't take as much in terms of physical space and money to create it we buy larger seed packages and then we break them down into individual amounts. We've also gotten several grants from seed libraries from seed foundations that will provide it. But we also through Arizona libraries grant created a hotspot a Wi-Fi hotspot program so we have 45 Wi-Fi hotspots that is pretty much the most successful in demand program and that we have with a holds list of 30 to 40 people at almost all times. We also have pickleball sets, botchy ball sets, a button maker, but one of the things we realized in this second room addition at the annex is that there are already these built-in shelves that are larger that are like cubbies that are perfect for an expansion that we wanted to do but again didn't have the space or the resources and we have a volunteer who is very mechanical and he collects tools and he is going to be providing all kinds of tools to us to create a tool checkout program with power tools and gardening tools and actually we want to add some kitchenware too because sometimes you just want to bake a Bundt cake but you don't want to buy the Bundt cake mold necessarily. So we are having so much fun looking at all these items and how to make it not a burden on staff and volunteers to make these resources accessible and I think it's going to be amazing. Yeah, the thing about these new spaces it's like those dreams that you have like when you're walking around your house and you realize I have a whole nother room I never know about. And it's just it's been fun to be able to do these things. We are maxed out at our main library in terms of space and we've been really creative and creating new space here but you know it comes to the point where it's your, you know, you can't do that anymore. So this is really exciting and just in terms of the opportunity to do more things. And I know we're getting down to the time here. I think it's only 20. But we want to kind of just share some pictures of some of our programs that we've been doing over the years and you know this job is amazing and when you actually just stop and and just take a breath and look at everything that you know we've been able to accomplish and inviting the community in and really giving them the space and the support and the resources that they need. I don't want to wait till the end to give a shout out to all of the librarians listening. Thank you, all of you and I hope you two are having fun at your jobs, because we've really really are. It's it's really amazing. Just some of the pictures that there's a we have a return to the vultures parade where actually we have a workshop going on right now downstairs. The turkey vultures come every spring and somebody created an event with a parade and our workshop downstairs is a paper mache workshop for such a parade workshop, creating paper mache forms to walk in this parade. That's main street they're walking down and every return of the vultures signify signify spring and and they are actually someone just bought it one so that's perfect time. And then we'll also have an adult program on the birds themselves nature's cleanup crew carrying eaters and how they benefit the environment. And then the shots of the band are the Bisbee high school band who on the top picture we're playing on our balcony. For the parade and on the bottom picture where we have an end of summer reading party at our, our city pool where the fire chief and police chief come in and the firemen come in barbecue for us. And we have free passes for the pool. And last year the band came and played and you can see they're on their swimsuits. But also playing for everybody at the pool. And the handmaid ends is for band books week it's one of our favorite celebrations is just celebrating the freedom to read and each year we've come up with characters to dress up as and we from the book that we will, we will sit and discuss and we do flash mobs out on Main Street just to raise awareness and that was, that's always a fun time this past year we were penguins from and Tango makes three on Main Street on a rainy September day, which is actually perfect for penguins. And it's, it's kind of grown and it's, it's people. You know, randomly, it will spot us out there and, you know, scratch your heads and like what's going on and exactly is just we're celebrating our freedom to read.  Those are new courts that were built so we check out the equipment so people can go play. In the upper left hand corner is astronaut and children's author Mark Kelly, who for last summer's reading program a universe of stories was our guest author. That's taken from the front but so Mark Kelly. During the process of asking him to come he actually declared his candidacy to run for the Senate of Arizona. So we ended up working side by side with his campaign manager. However, this was not a political event. This was an author reading and Mark brought his wife Gabby Giffords who used to be our Congresswoman. And there are about 100 people there. And he read from Mousetronaut. And then we did a Q&A and the questions from the kids were amazing, amazing. They asked him, what is your favorite planet? And as you can imagine, he said earth. And it's always been a dream of mine to turn the library into a haunted library over Halloween and that picture up in the right hand corner is a picture of, it's a total transformation of the library. Two floors. Two floors for two hours. It's a lot of work. The first year we had over 300 attendees and like Allison said, we worked for the Builders Club from the high school. We worked together and last year they did twisted fairy tales. They plan a whole tour. They map out how to block off the stacks to make a maze and they tell a story and they create costumes and get actors or become the actors. Really phenomenal work and just that last, the bottom picture of us in the cemetery was from summer reading program. We started taking the library out of the library on a series of field trips and we use Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children to go as our theme to go to the cemetery and take Victorian pictures. So we were being photographed and we asked the photographer to please make it black and white. I think, and I'm just smiling here, but just talking about some of our programs and I think Allison and I are just, we're willing to try anything. And I think that's where, you know, and we find something that works, you know, you can grow upon that idea.  Yeah, but even if we reach one person or three people, we are excited that I think that people have to remember, you know, whether or family or other events you never know, you never know what's going to happen. So we just keep trying to find out what the community wants and needs and remove barriers and fulfill our mission to support them and to sustain them in the best way possible. And part of that is experimenting and so and breaking boundaries ourselves and and and learning new things ourselves. So when we went to our soul last year to accept the award. That was such an amazing conference and such a privilege for us because we have a $0 professional development line in our budget. However, this year we have received a grant we applied for a professional development grant and we are going to Wichita, Kansas in. Is it September, October 2020. Yes. End of September. Yes, end of September 1st week of October. Yeah, I'll be there. Yay. So we do want to invite if anyone has any questions or has, you know, heard something that they want more information about Allison and I are available. Contact information emails and telephone number. Please reach out and contact us we'd love to hear from you. I think that's the other lesson that we've learned over the past few years is that, you know, we don't need to reinvent the wheel. There's probably a library out there that's done it already and we've reached out to other organizations to see how they do specific programs and offer services and we've learned so much and. Yeah. And that, you know, what works for us might not work for you, but you can take these ideas and adapt them to best for your staff and your physical space, your budget and your community needs. And I think the other thing Allison mentioned just a little while back it's providing what the community, not only what they need and that a lot of times that's what we concentrate on but it's also what they want. And that's sometimes the fun, the fun part of it is finding out what is fun for them, you know, it's, we do concentrate a lot on on community needs and providing resources to address those needs but also let's have fun together let's let's let's do something and converse together let's let's build community that way and just enjoying something together. Leisure time is as important as everything else. Oh, definitely everyone needs their downtime in their less brainpower dime time. That's why I read I mean I love reading for that. Absolutely and actually what you guys just saying that's what that's what big talk from small libraries is all about sharing, borrowing, getting ideas. Libraries are all about resource sharing and everyone who is presenting here was happy for you to totally steal their ideas as someone did comment earlier. Do it. Yes. Absolutely and as Jason said, we're happy to share how we created the contract for the Wi Fi hotspot checkout form, how we created the library patron card form. I mean we are, we're absolutely want to offer assistance in supporting other libraries who are also, you know, you know, short on resources. Also, another shout out to Arizona libraries. The resources that they provide to us across the state. Phenomenal, just an incredible group of people and through grants through education opportunities through their three year library Institute program. So, I didn't really understand at first. I thought that they were too far away from us being in the capital in Phoenix and that they wouldn't be interested in it as for and that was just my misconception. Boy, was I wrong. They are such amazing people and such a huge support. That's great. Yeah, that's what us I mean here in Nebraska the Nebraska Library Commission where we're at here. We are what you would call the state library is just called the commission here and we are here on the eastern side of the state in the capital but we are the agent state agents library agency for the all libraries across the entire state. And try to have what we can do to support all of them and all their various needs, which is very wide range and yes. We do have a few questions that have come in that I think I'll have you answer here anybody have any questions use your questions section to type them in and I'll grab them for Jason and Allison. We have a question about the science walk that you did who helped with that and what are some of the things that are in that science walk that you. So actually, that what I meant to add that on to the end of so part of the annex expansion it's again there are phases to it we're expanding into the second classroom. But as well as this being an abandoned school, there's also a giant, giant abandoned playground outside in the back of the building. And we are working with the school district as well as the science lab and some other partners to enter into an agreement with the city of Bisbee and the busy unified school district to create a outdoor park outside of the library and the science lab in the back of the building, which will be literacy walk. It's a it's a it's a large space that's a combination of some science park installations and outdoor classroom. A literacy walk. We're going to look at the history of the story. We have some gardens. So we have some gardening organizations, but also a solar panel garden demonstration garden, which is where the plants underneath protect and keep up the panel. And the solar panel provides energy but also protects the plants. It's very interesting. So it'll be science literacy. It'll be steam basically, as well as a giant mural that we're working on on the side of the building. So, and then we hope to do some sculptures and some other playground equipment. And we're going to be working with different organizations and different funding. The way we've looked at this. So looking at the overall plan seems huge and intimidating parts. It sounds like yes. Yes, but we can divide out every part of it into a smaller project for one group to work on. We have the overall plan. So this is similar to I know I heard of lots of other libraries doing story walks. You have that as well. Where's that part of the history of storytelling. So starting with. A large rock and some little built in box of chalk that people can draw do their own cave drawings drawing on that going to a circular storytelling area like a oral hit oral tradition of telling stories around a fire. We're not going to have a fire pit though. But it will be a dual purpose community gathering space as well as for outdoor classes for students to sit around and then going into papyrus and tablet. So a place to make clay tablets or work with the earth. Again, we're forming this idea. There are a lot of moving parts, but we are slowly but surely progressing on this. Yeah, so on the story walk someone wants to know where you got the picture signage for that. Is that something you did yourself or was there from like the story walk. No, we haven't created that yet. So story walk the actual organization. You buy the story from them and that goes in to stands that are usually created by the library who does it. But we also have a lot of local children's authors, a lot meaning good, like a few for the amount of for our population. Local story. Children's authors who are willing to collaborate with us in writing a story for us. We're using their stories. So basically they will be helping donate copyright so we don't have to buy the licensing. Yeah, we're kind of going we're going to create we're going to create our own. We're going around. Oh yeah, you have the capabilities to do that you don't have to yeah. Yeah, we can't afford that copyright on story walk. So we're calling it literacy walk. Nice. Okay. Question about the seed library. They want to know how you got started with doing that to your seed library. Well we reached out to another, a small rural library within our county system who had started one. And said one of our part time workers who is a master gardener she took this on as a special project of hers and she reached out to seed companies. It all started with donations and small grants. And all of a sudden we've got boxes and boxes of seeds on our table that, you know, we then repackage. And, and not only that it's local donation so we also have a garden club that supports the sea library and helps to, you know, teach people how to garden and we have master gardeners from the U of A cooperative extension and coches college who come on. They come to pay them they come and do presentation so the garden club meets monthly and then the local nonprofit called the Bits be bloomers provided. They bought these large so we're downtown we don't have an outdoor area what we do have is a balcony, and we have these large tabs along the balcony both sides which are like big cattle watering chops, but they're filled with cattle and our seed librarian Kathy, she plants a spring garden and then a summer garden and this past year she did a small winter garden with Swiss charred kale. And so that we have the preschool kids come and help plant that garden last spring, and then that grows. It's amazing to see a full beautiful bountiful garden on the balcony downtown. And if anyone's interested in starting one seed companies have been more than willing to give free seeds and we're already we're restocking our library now and we're again Baker and Baker Creek seeds is donating a bunch of seeds to it so there don't be afraid to ask because that we've gotten a lot of free seeds and again the idea of the seed library is to keep this a sustainable project and you are. We're teaching people how to harvest seeds and bring back seeds from their most successful and healthy plants. And the idea is to get these seeds acclimated to our climate where we're in the high desert. It's a very challenging growing area and when we know a plant does well, that's what we want to keep in our library and also teaching teaching people how to garden in this climate because it is possible. And the other thing is when we first thought of this idea we thought oh my gosh this is so big, but then an even smaller rural library nearby. We talked to them about their seed library and it was basically they started it in a shoebox something the size of a shoebox and when we heard that we thought oh we don't actually have to like imagine this giant thing we can start small and see how that works. And I love that idea of, you know, work with what you have and provide what you can, you can start small, even with a shoebox. Yeah, absolutely. Do what you use what you've got. Yeah. One last question we're going to ask here. Someone's questioning about the loading out of the tools that you're doing. What about insurance for that when people are using that? Are you covered by libraries? That's a great question. We're still in the process of creating this and going through the vetting process. We will create a separate contract agreement. We have rules about being over 18 and not have any fines and all of that. But also we have a liability release form that they will have to sign and cannot check out without that. And this will go through our city attorney or city manager and all of that. So it will be properly vetted until it is structured in a safe and manageable way. We will not start the program. And again, this is something other libraries are doing. So we are definitely going to reach out and talk to some other libraries that are doing something very similar and see what they do. It's the best resources in other library. Absolutely. I think it's Portland, Oregon has a library of things. I looked at their catalog and everything there. They provide their contracts and information. So we will be reaching out. Yeah, there's lots of places to get resources about that and how to do all these different things. All right. Great. Thank you so much, Jason and Allison. I was thrilled to be able to have you guys at the conference this year. We always do try to bring whoever has been, and I think we've been successful this year, the most recent Best Small Library in America along. So thank you so much for joining us today. Well, thank you for having us. One last word for any library considering applying for Best Small Library is to just do it. We did it and amazingly we won. And it's a great exercise in being able to write down some of the great things that you're doing. And even if you don't win, you've got language written already. That's great for grants. It's great for showing what you do. You're not too small. It's hard to be small and you are the best. We are honored to be amongst so many great libraries. It's hard to promote ourselves oftentimes. Exactly. And that's why I was thrilled to have you guys on too. We've had, like I said, we've had the Best Small Libraries on and ALA Library Journal who does this award. Thank you Taylor. Their definition is populations under 25,000, which to my brain is really big. That's what we said too. Yeah, you guys are what I think of when I think of who should be the best small library in America. We've had many of them that are 22,000, 26,000 populations served. So congratulations to you guys. Thank you so much, Kristen. Thank you so much.


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