Is the King James version actually more reliable than the Greek manuscripts? I love the King James version. As a matter of fact, one of my more favorite quotes, there are some things that I've just memorized in the King James version. When Jesus is asking his disciples, who do you say that I am? And they say thou art the Christ. There's just something about saying it that way. And I'm sure that a lot of other people will also love the King James version. Some love the new King James version. I don't know why some folks get by the new King James version because they're both going literally off the same Greek manuscripts. But personally, I don't have an actual preference. Oftentimes, you'll see me pull up either the NASB, that's because it's it and the ESV is the default for this particular Bible software. But I don't have a preference. But as you know me, I lean on what the Hebrew and what the Greek says. Now, this one particular pastor believes that because he's the King James version only as he is obviously fundamental. He believes that the King James version is far superior than the Greek. As a matter of fact, he uses it to correct the Greek. At least that's what he says. Amen. Thank God for the word of God. Amen. Thank God he's built on this. You can't separate Jesus Christ from the Bible. Now, I don't know if you ought to say it quite like that, but okay. Okay. When you say you can't separate Jesus Christ from the Bible, I get what he's saying. But remember, the Bible is not Jesus. Jesus is not the Bible. The Bible is not the word. It's the word of God. Jesus is the word. Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus died on the cross, not the Bible. And me personally, I think that we ought to hold dearly to what the Scriptures say because I think the Scriptures are what they say. The inerrant, inspired Word of God. Now, what do we have? Do what we have? Does it represent truthfully what God says? We're going to talk about that in a little bit. I think it does, but there's got to be an asterisk beside them. But don't put the Bible in the same category as Jesus. He is God. The Bible is not, although we do care for love and we esteem highly the word. That's all we have. We have the word of God. And so I think I get his point, but he might want to be careful about saying it that way. You're Bibliotters, yes. Amen. We believe the King James Bibles, the word of God, every word of it. Amen. I can take this book and correct the Greek. That's not right. That's just, it's just not right. Now, when you say the King James Bible, the King James Version is the word of God, every word of it. Well, not quite. Not quite. Can I put up the King James Version? And I want to just show you something. And we'll look at some other examples. But in one obvious area where the King James Version is just, it's just wrong in this translation because in the original translation of it, and they're going off of Erasmus and so forth, and there's a whole lot of other stories, back to the story. But Revelation initially was not what they had. As a matter of fact, there was parts of Revelation that was missing. As a matter of fact, they were looking for the whole book of Revelation. I don't want to go too far into it, but there's one particular passage where we know for a fact that the King James Version translation is not correct. And that is in Revelation 2219. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life. The problem is, it says so in the King James Version and out of the whole city, and from these things which are written in the book of life. The problem is out of the book of life, this particular word is not the book. The Greek word that's used there is the zulu, which is the tree. Now we know that it should be the tree. That's not all that very well disputed to say otherwise, but it's an example to say, or to show that if you're going to say that the King James Version can correct the Greek, well, not in this case, it can't. But let's go back to what else he's saying. Amen. Say, why?  Amen. And I've had Greek. Amen. And Hebrew. Last class Hebrew. We finished the last class thesis. What are you doing? I said, I'm going down here in the backyard and I'm burning this Hebrew grammar book. What? I torched it. I said, Ah, now he would be the first. And when I say the first, the first person that I've met that I've heard, and I haven't met him, but the first person I've heard of who, for some reason, disdained or did not find value in their Hebrew and Greek learning. Because once you start learning it, you start seeing the value. It's not as though that what it's saying is contradicting or going against the English translations. They don't. The Greek translations do not go against the English translation nor the Hebrew. Now there are some areas where we might see some discrepancies, something, and so we go and look at it, or we can get further insight from the Hebrew and Greek. We're going to look at that in a second. We're also going to see where some things that they just get wrong even by just comparing one text of the new king, I mean, the King James version to the other text of the King James version.  I don't think he's being, I'm not calling him a liar, but I don't think he's telling the truth in my sentence. The same thing. Fine. But I don't think he's been honest by saying that he either one burned his books and disregards him or that he learned it. Now, sometimes what some of these places that they go to, some of these schools and, and, and seminaries, even, even some of the less credible seminaries or Bible colleges, their level of Hebrew and Greek teaching amounts to learning the, learning the alphabet and how to pronounce some things and a few words and grammar and just a few things. And so you don't get a real appreciation from it. So it's just hard for me to believe that, but I, but I could be wrong. Had to learn Hebrew and Greek and all that mess. Amen. You said, what'd you learn out of that? The King James Bible is the word of God. Thank God for the English. Okay. A couple of things. And there's an air superiority coming from there, but the King James Bible is the word of God. Well, what do we have as the word of God before the King James version? I mean, so what we were left without the word of God, you mean tell me that we had a, we had a drought, a famine, as you would with the word of God. That doesn't sound like when, when Jesus says, not even the very gates of hell will prevail against the church, but then the church didn't have the word of God all this time. Something's wrong there. There's, there's a level of arrogance. By the way, everyone doesn't speak English when he says English as though that's the part that people are going to look at him and say, wait a second. It's just, it's because you're an American and some folks might even attribute it to maybe his race and so forth. And let's just be honest. Let's be honest. There have been, there were, there was a movement in, in America from some King James version, only us who were also very racist.  I'm not going there, but English as though English is the superior language. Really. So God and his sovereignty didn't know that. In his sovereignty, he didn't decide to give us the Bible in English. He did not give us the Bible in English. Let me just say that. I want people to understand that. He did not give us the Bible in English. He gave us the Bible in Hebrew, Greek and some splattering of the airmate. That was it. When the Bible was given, no one on the planet spoke English. Could God have given to us in English? He sure could. He sure could have, but he did not. We have these translations because men valued or at least studied and understood the value of Greek and Hebrew and gave it to us in English. Hey man, who cares what the Greek says? They make pretty good sandwiches. It's about it.  They make pretty good sandwiches. That's about it. Okay, fine. But who cares what the Greek says?   It's not to impugn the King James version. It's not to say that at all. But there's other valuable English language, I mean English versions, even those that preceded the King James version. Those came after. As a matter of fact, if you were to consult the King James versions of the King James translators, they talked about the labor and the work prior to their translation. They talked about and looked forward to others coming along afterwards and doing better, looking for even manuscripts that they didn't have, they didn't have access to very many manuscripts. And you would just be derelict in your duty to find that there are other manuscripts or earlier manuscripts and not use those, but it's a prideful selfish, let's just be honest with it. Let's just be honest guys. And someone's going to get upset, but it's not a very intelligent way of looking at things to say that the King James version is the only version you should look at. So what we're going to do is we're going to look at a couple examples just to just to show about the King James version. There are some, what we call some copyist errors or numerical discrepancies in the Bible. We're just going to use the King James version here. We're just going to use the King James version. We're going to go to 2 Samuel 24-9. This is in the King James version, it says, and Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the King. And there were in Israel 800,000 valiant men that drew the sword. So the number is 800,000. The very same story is told also in 1st Chronicles 21-5. Same King James version. And Joab gave the number, the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all day of Israel were 1,000 and 100,000 men that drew the sword. That's a million, ladies and gentlemen. That's a million. So was it 800,000? Was it a million? Which one is correct? Is 1st Chronicles 21 correct? Or is 2nd Samuel 24-9? Both using the King James version. So no one can come back and say, well, you're using, no, listen. So this is the King James version. So if it was truly given to us by God, God didn't give it to us with a numerical discrepancy. Copyists gave it to us in the incorrect fashion. As they, they're human beings. Now we know what the actual number is, but the point is it's written in the King James version. One of those two is incorrect. Say, and there's other examples as well. Let's use another example. How about 2nd Kings 826? Ahaziah was 22 years old when he became King. Well, this is 2nd Kings 826, but was he 22 or according to 2nd Chronicles 222, was he 42 years old? Well, which one was it? Again, he's still using the King James version. So you can't make the statement like he did that it, this is the word of God, it came from heaven. No, it did not. It didn't come from heaven with errors. And then there's other things that are just stated such as how it's translated to us in the English. And I'm not, I'm not quarreling with it. My point is though, we make the statement that the King James version can correct or even bring light to the Greek.  It just is. It just is. For example, here's one that we use now. It's the same in every language, in every translation in ASBESV. But barely I say unto you. And we'll talk about the words like verily and so forth. I say unto you, what so every ye, again, ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. And the reason why I'm bringing this up because you go to the Greek and I've got the Greek, the Greek Texas receptors where we get the Greek translation of the English translation for the King James version. This word here shall be bound is the Greek word that a man out, which is the perfect tense. And so it does not mean shall be bound. It says has been bound or shall have been bound. So in other words, his point is that whatever you bind will have already been bound in heaven. Whatever you loose will have already been loosed in heaven, not shall be in the future as though heaven is going to take commands from them. No, that's not it. And then another example, how about in Genesis 126? A big, a big problem that comes up from some people that there were people that lived before Adam and Eve because of this statement here in Genesis 128. Notice what it says, and God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. What that word means or to say like that replenish or refill gives the understanding that there were people there before to read something means to do it again. The problem is with this word, replenish, it just simply means to feel the Hebrew word that's used there means to feel. It does not mean this word Malai. It does not, it does not mean to refill or refinish. It just means to feel. And that is an error, I would say, or something that could be corrected or stated better in the King James version. And then the other part of what the King James version is, let's just be honest, some of the words are just a little bit, little bit odd, little bit quirky, right? Let's go to a couple, a couple examples. How about this word? How about Luke 179?  Duth you think that or do you think that the servant because he did these things that were commanded him, I trial not. I trial not. Okay. Well, the word for trial comes from the Greek word. This is where the Greek helps the King James version, daco, which means to think. So yeah, that's an example of words. We don't even use those words. As a matter of fact, we hear that word, huh? What do you mean? What does that mean? Trout? Does that have something to do with farming? And then here's another one in Matthew 526. Verily, I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out Vince, Vince, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. How many of you have a farthing? How many of you know what a farthing is? No clue what a farthing is. A farthing is one quarter of, basically one quarter of a penny. We don't use that term. We don't have that term, a farthing. Can I borrow farthing? So the point is, no, the Greek helps us to understand the English, whatever the translation is. And I'm not saying that the King James version is not a fine translation. It is. The King James, New King James, ESV, and ASV. Now, there are some that are bad translations. There are some. And then you have to figure out what kind of translation you're looking for. The problem with all the translation is they both leave something out that they cannot overcome. When you read something, you're trying to, he see what the word says and you're trying to get the thought of what's being stated. And so for that reason, we have two different types of Bible. We have word for word translations, and then we have thought for thought. Two examples of a thought for thought would be NIV and NLT. Nothing wrong with those at all. They're trying to convey the thought. They're trying to convey what the word for word can't do. Because in a word for word translation, you can get the word, but sometimes it's hard to get the actual thought behind it. And but if you want to study the words, you can't do it really with a thought for thought. You can't really do a word study with a NIV. You have to go with a King James, a new King James, ESV, and ASV, and so forth. Now, there are some bad translations out there without question. And there are those that ought to be avoided. But thank God that we have men and women who are actually on these translation committees who are looking to see what's the best way to say it in our current language. Because remember, what we're trying to do is we're trying to convey the message to the people. It's not what it says in the original. In the original autographs, which we don't have, God's word was inerrant, was perfect. No, but the problem is we don't have the originals. And so what we try to do through what's called textual criticism, we go back and take the manuscripts, and we try to come up with what it's trying to say. And then after that, we're trying to say it in the best way possible. And remember, it's not just English. What about Mandarin? What about Swahili? What about French? What about German? What about Latin? What about Greek? Folks that actually speak Greek today? Or Hebrew? What do we do with them? Make them learn English? No. So what we're trying to do is we're trying to get across the best way to say a certain word in English. English morphs over time. Some of you guys are around my age, and when you were younger, some of the words that we use today, we did not use. Or some of the same words that we use today, we used then, but we used them differently. When I was younger, the word cool was kind of the invoke thing, and cool didn't mean temperature. It just meant that was nice. Or bad. I remember when bad became, when it stopped just only being something bad, but also bad could mean good. Mind blowing, right? Trying to keep up with our own English language in certain words. Remember when they used to tell us that ain't ain't a word? Now ain't is in the dictionary. And so that's just what you have to do. And to give a good example of this is when Jesus and the New Testament audience, when they are quoting the Old Testament, oftentimes most cases they're not quoting the Hebrew text. So they're not quoting verbatim. Many times they're quoting the Greek Septuagint. Why is it? Well, one, because they were primarily Greek speaking people. Greek was the lingua franca because they were taking captivity. And then over time, that Rome is controlling and most of Rome's empire spoke Greek previously said because of the Greek empire dominated. Then so you have those that spoke Latin, those that spoke some Hebrew airmate, but the majority folks in this region at that time spoke Greek. And so they were quoting and reading the Greek Septuagint, which was a Greek translation of the Hebrew text from the, we think, 772 Jewish elders, scholars who would go back and translate. And so they weren't even as concerned as we think they were with giving a word for it or exact verbatim translation. Their goal was to actually just give the message, give the meaning. A good example would be Hebrews 10.5, where it says, offers and sacrifice you did not desire, but a body prepared for me. But then go back and look at it in the Hebrew text and read it. It doesn't say the same thing. So what they're quoting, they're quoting the Greek Septuagint because the Hebrew text is an idiom. And so how do you, how do you translate an idiom from one language to another language? Cause if you do so, you wouldn't care at first. You got to have a different type of translation. And the whole point is to say that don't sit and try to value a translation over the source of the translation. And so for that person or anyone else that might think that the King James version is far superior than the languages, no, it's not. Is it an inferior translation? No, it's not either. It's not inferior. It's a good translation, just like many of the other ones are as well. And so I would just say, guys, be careful, especially listen to someone that would tell you the Hebrew or the Greek should be devalued. Amen.


Why so serious you thought Dante was gonna be here, didn't you? Not today. I'm here at the 2009 Boston Comic Con with my version of Mr. Dante Loomis episode. I am OTO if you don't know me by now Part of the Prime Suspects rap group, but one of the things I like to do in my spare time you know as a young man growing up with three comic books and this is possibly the biggest event that you could hold with all these people and all these comic books fans in just two days and This is the Boston Comic Con and I want you guys to come check this out. We're gonna be interviewing some very Good people some artists some writers. Hopefully some independent comic book companies, you know up and coming ones We want to just show you a whole bunch of aspects of a whole different thing some artwork pieces might check out some nice B-rolls of some of some some stuff that you might want to get yourself. So make sure you check this out Stay tuned. Take care Green landing I didn't see his ring Hey in effect the place to be I'm here. I'm Mr. Tim sale creative Hope bunch of great artwork for Marvel and on DC a lot of image stuff to Definitely make sure you check these guys out Duster stuff with a Hulk spider-man Batman Superman dare double. I really sort of got serious about drawing comics That's about 13. I did go to school, but I'm mostly self-taught. I Went to the San Diego comic-con in 1988 It's the first time I met people there showed them my work I started to get Professionally the first work I did with inking Hey with Mike McComb Does some great stuff dead pool suicide Kings covers amazing spider-man Punisher Ask me a couple brief questions to make us, you know I'm saying real quick check it out. Hey, don't I'm good. How are you? I'm old. Oh, yeah What is also OTO? Overtime often it's actually I'm actually a writer a songwriter, okay, you know hip-hop things like that, so um How um, how long have you been doing them artwork now 21 years this year? 21 years Yeah, actually, what are you from? I'm from England. Oh England. Okay. Wow from England, but I moved to New York Four months ago. Okay, so um, how long have you been doing stuff for our Marvel? Alphanon for about 20 years Really started with DC I've kind of went back Ever since I took my portfolio to the convention in England and I showed it to the editor-in-chief DC Comics at the time He took samples away with him The editor of just as they called me up and I started your filling I've seen some of your stuff. I think it was the 24-7 for amazing spider-man. Yes 594 or something like that. Um 6 or something like that Why is spider-man's head so big compared to his body like anybody else that draws him? The way I drove that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I love it by the way. I love it. Thanks.  I'm a cliff chain Artists for DC comics also been a lot of stuff for Batman green arrow Black canary And then after a couple years of that I went free late, so I'm drawing ever since I went to I went to school for English lit and I did a little bit of artwork and when I came out, I thought it was gonna be a lawyer, but I started working as an editor at vertigo and In this in my spare time I was working on pages getting my portfolio Yeah, after a couple years of that I you know have good enough samples and you know The show stuff around How did you get that break I've heard about DC to work there? They just happen to have an opening. Yeah, I mean it's it's funny. I thought that it was gonna be Hard for me to break it as an artist Turns out it's We're here again with Koi fam artists from Marvel Comics by the Hercules stuff mighty Avengers Secret Invasion Whole bunch of great unique stuff that I could think about all the time online is just incredible Stuff I've been doodling since I was a kid, but professionally started on I think 2005 actually before this I was a lawyer So doing I was working in the courtroom doing all that stuff and drawing comments on the side going to conventions And I think 2003 2004 at Boston the only wizard Boston show Marvel came by I said you want to work for us in the year later. What if spider-man book came out? Up from there a lot of people want to know like how to get the comics and how do you follow your dream? What I always tell people is Listen your parents go to school You know do the real job. All right. I mean I did the law thing for years. I did this on the side You know, so there's always a security there. So it was time to quit. It was easy. I just said This is how much money I make you want me to draw full-time you need me to pay me, you know So and then so it was an easy switch. I didn't have to struggle You know what I mean? So if you want to do something fun my advice I'm that there's a different path for everybody here. My advice is Get a regular job. It doesn't matter how much it stinks. How much you hate it get that security All right, but always have a hobby. You know what I mean? You can make that switch easy without sacrificing anything for your family sacrificing anything for yourself It's an easy switch Well, I did some commercial stuff when I was in like high school I did like those commercial signs that you see like for construction companies are like man, you know I can make some go off and there's things going all right. Then when I got into college I was doing some ad work for solo cups doing like clean-up work and stuff like that But then I went to school for fashion illustration and I worked for you know Department stores and stuff like that doing their stuff, but once I got burnt up from that a buddy of mine was in comics Already and he needed some help. So I started working on them. I'm like man, this seems kind of cool And something you did when you were a kid. I wanted to get into it So I started doing that I came to like conventions like this to Show off some artwork and stuff like that see like Walton and everybody else showed like already pros, you know Do I have the chops to do that? I showed them they should you know told me what I should work on Once you another convention, and then they offered me a job I did a couple of independent things like doing backgrounds for people, but for my own professional work Yeah, my role is my first big I did Wolverine 96 and that was my first gig and then from there I did a lot of X-Men books villains and then after that I started jumping around different companies But primarily work for Marl What's going on? We're here now with the independent portion that I'll call honestly the comic book game HB Comics stands for Hebert Brothers This is my brother Alan I Artistic director My name is Mark Slater. I'm a freelance illustrator who's right now been working in the comic book industry For the last year promoting myself in the local Boston Comic-Con scene I myself have been to three different art schools So I have varying degrees of proficiencies in all mediums and comic books It's just what I keep getting pulled to. I'm an illustrator cartoonist. I also do my own artwork. I Do my own posters and graphic design as well. I also draw comics for severed-head comics. I contribute to everything I can I just try to do strange quirky artwork stuff that people haven't seen I always wanted to do film But I just it was so hard to get into and you got to move to like California if you really want to do anything so I thought what can I do that's creative and Makes money at the same time. And so I went into graphic design I always say you have to start from day one. Start with the first page. If you always have ideas, but it never comes out It always stays in their head. If you draw that first page, if you write that first line, that's how you get started Yeah, that's


We certainly have to get more consistent. We had good moments obviously last season but we would have Week where we would win on Wednesday and then get defeated on Saturday And then if you look at the splits, we Would win one and lose one in conference. So we've got to really Have more consistent play and then that that translates to both sides of the ball. We've got to be better For longer periods both offensive and defensive. Well, we certainly learned a lot about ourselves against Loyola They were very physical and obviously a formidable opponent So they exposed some things that we went back and have to clean up and certainly address both In video and then on court. Yeah, I was really proud of how well we competed I thought we defended in half court well and And we competed on the backboard which is essential for a long-term success Well, anything we do obviously starts with Mikael Williams.  He's really consistent in his approach and and That has the ability to permeate our roster and last season We played the bulk of the year without him. So Having him and now you can see all the things that he brings not only The obvious, you know his ability to just score ability to put the ball on the floor and he's a two-way guy But the intangibles the ability to inspire and motivate the person to the lever to the right of her So he's a critically important to our overall success Bulls another guy that seasoned He's the one rim protector on our team. So He alter shots he can Clear the backboard he's relentless at both ends of the floor a really really good athlete and Can defend multiple positions? Yeah, Catholic is really really good.  There's a good teams. We'll see all year And playing at their place was a daunting task for us. But again opportunity for us to learn a lot about ourselves. We're certainly looking forward to competitive match down there and They will test us and stretch us in all ways. We're gonna have to take care of the basketball. We're going to make good decisions Then we're gonna have to have balance We're gonna have to score the ball both on the territory perimeter and getting them stopped is going to be critical Again, they've got some really really good players. They got a Couple guys that have been all conference for a couple of years. They've got one of the best players in the region And really really good experience In the backcourt. So it's going to be a challenge


This is what democracy looks like. It caused memory, tension challenges due to kids' brains and the crash statistics for F-forces. Initial Reburlington Fire Department on May 3rd. In economic justice at UVM, we recognize that our fight is intimately linked to our struggles against systems of domination. We stand in solidarity with the immigrant and immigrant farm worker community here in Vermont. Housing reform and the abolition of hikes. The testimonies my team and I gathered from the 267 we collected this summer. It reads, quote, I was an orientation leader summers ago and the chief of police came out using Taser on one of our black orientation leaders, but it didn't sound like a joke. The University of Vermont campus police department in order to construct a more equitable... And we walked back. Abolition of ice or the detention centers, we're here to stop criminalization, we're here to get at the source, we're here to get after we've divided attention, the meaning when we come here we fight for all of these causes, not just ice, not just marches, we need to go beyond the sub tweets, the hashtag, the Facebook brands, we need to go beyond it all. We need to flood not only the streets, but we need to flood town halls, we need to go in and talk about changing our system on the local level and beyond. We need to make sure that we go into the town halls and say, if the conversation is not started yet, talk about changing the laws against police brutality, against racism about racial profiling, whatever is in the book, change that because it's not working. Make sure that once you do change that, that you're actually upholding those new laws that you're putting in place. We need to go beyond just the marches, beyond just the sub tweets, beyond the hashtag. 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Our control and dehumanization is to permanently end homelessness and provide educational funding for free school breakfast and lunches, technological infrastructure, and the transition to proficiency-based grading, lower class sizes, and decolonized education used for state and local law enforcement officers seeking information regarding aliens encountered in the course of their daily enforcement activities, then this is not for you. Simply agreeing with these demands does not absolve you or me of the sins of our sick society and we must actively work to counter them through political education, collective healing, and strategically fighting every barrier that keeps these in place. I'll be someone who waits till tomorrow. For today, there will be another lynching. For today, there will be innocent bloodshed of someone's father, someone's mother, someone's child, my dad, or my sister, and for them, those people tomorrow will never come.  Do we agree with that? We show up anyway. What's wrong with this country? Of faces. And I'm a little bit surprised that I don't recognize more of these faces because I've been out at BPD with the activists there. I've been at marches, I've been at activities organized by the Black perspective. I've been on calls with the Black Lives Matter of Greater Burlington and we truly are asking for everyone to step into the way that these issues are intersectionation of Black people means the liberation of all any of these individual issues that you connect the dots that you seek to learn and understand how they are intersecting and how together we can dismantle and we also can't just be in the legislature. We need both. So for those of you who are here with us in the streets today, I expect you to have an active dialogue to a point where your representatives and their staffers address you by name and stop sending you writing in, calling in, being relentless because oppression is relentless. This is for immigrant rights on social media to learn more about upcoming actions. Again, involved with migrant justices, milk with cadence for large corporations to pay more for milk so local migrant workers can have better working conditions and wages. You can get involved in how to create fair and impartial police policies that will ensure that police are prevented from collaborating with ICE. This is for immigrant rights on their social media about how to get one started. And right now, as people have said, there is a 24-7 protest. The people will be protesting until Joseph Crowe, Jason Balavan and Scum of Scum are going to be fired.


The link between child imagination and creativity, wise words from Hayao Miyazaki.  He remembers waking up in the night, seeing his city in flames and fleeing while holding onto his father's hand. Despite the danger, he was unafraid because seeing the light from the burning buildings meant the sky was as bright as morning. Miyazaki created vivid worlds for many to remember that stems from his stirring childhood. This is why Studio Ghibli is more than just an animation company. It became home to millions of people who choose to believe in something more. But what's the secret to Miyazaki's creativity? And how do his stories come alive with such a vigor, hope and fragility? As much as discipline and perseverance played the backbone to all of his works, there's one important ingredient he and many artists embrace, imagination.  The world can be a scary and dreadful place. Children are smart enough to understand that when the lights go out every night, but they are also resilient enough to stand up to those monsters.  It's a curious thing how playing keeps the brain young and healthy. Miyazaki states, the greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering. Creativity has two phases, intuition and analysis. It's not so much about finding a muse, but rather research shows it's about exposure and experience. It's only from experiencing pain, pleasure and everything in between that allows an individual to understand other perspectives, problem solve and come up with new ideas. So what helps Miyazaki stay focused? One word, escapism. It's only when the individual observes the world and recognizes monotony and darkness that they feel an urge to cling and absorb to a different reality. Although Miyazaki lived through the terrors of World War II, he still treasured the idea of flying. Spellbound by his father's company that manufactured fighter planes for the war, he didn't see them as destructive weapons, but escaped these harsh realities through his dreams instead. This is where make-believe comes in. Erase the idea that imagination always stems from rainbows and butterflies. Research shows an individual is more likely to tap into their imagination in response to traumatic events. At first glance, looking at the colorful animations of Miyazaki, one might assume he's a cheerful jokester. But Miyazaki has admitted to being quite pessimistic. Still, he wants to preserve hope in his films for kids to build the courage to face the world in all its horror. Miyazaki states, When one of my staff has a baby, you can't help but bless them for a good future because I can't tell that child, oh, you shouldn't have come into this life. And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making. Portraying emotions truthfully is probably the greatest asset he has brought to his films. As his characters always search for something, whether it means making a delivery, discovering their talents, or finding their parents, Miyazaki does his best to illustrate the complexity in the simplest of actions. He had a talent for finding adventure within the mundane and relentlessly held onto hope, despite what he grew up seeing. Without the power of flexibility, he wouldn't have opened doors for us to explore his mind that learned resilience through the creative arts. Are you a Miyazaki lover? Which film resonates with you the most? Please share your thoughts with us below. Also, be sure to subscribe to our channel for more content and share this video with others. With your help, we can reach more people and provide our support. Thanks for watching.


Hey beauties, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee today and today is another foundation Friday and today's special guest is Selena Gomez. Thanks for coming on the show girl Okay, she's not really here, but I do have her entire makeup collection called rare beauty Another gorgeous pr box arrived on my doorstep. I don't even know how I got put on this pr list But I'm so grateful but I'm really trying not to be a box hoarder So I threw away the box. So if you saw on my instagram story, you guys already know, but it was it was quite beautiful It also had drawers and shelves and it was just amazing. So Selena personally Sent me this box. She was like Bianca needs it and she texts me and But let me go ahead and just read you this personalized letter that she wrote me Just me like no one else got this message. I'm so excited to introduce to you rare beauty I created this brand to help break down the unrealistic standard of perfection that exists in the beauty world today The rare beauty community is full of unique voices lives and stories I strongly believe that each of us is not meant to look like everyone else And that's what makes you rare Whether you are putting on a full face or just want to play around and feel creative or wear barely any makeup at all This is makeup made to feel good in without hiding. What makes you unique Love always Selena What a beautiful message It also states that their goal is to raise 100 million dollars over the next 10 years to help increase access to mental health services What they focus on underserved communities? So 1% of annual rare beauty sales will go directly to the rare impact fund That's awesome. So not only will her makeup make you look and feel beautiful It's also going to be going to a world of good cause to help with Mental health services something that we all need Especially maybe after this global pandemic. So we're going to be going through everything that she sent me The foundation the concealers the Miss the eyeliner the brow pencils and highlight the blush and I got a bunch of lip colors Spoiler alert what you're looking at right now is my full rare beauty face I hope you like what you see so you will keep watching. I'm going to show you everything that they sent me I did put it in a mean a bag because I threw away the box But we got a lot of things to cover. So let's go ahead and knock down one of those unrealistic beauty perfection standards walls now with my very imperfect bare face Let's get started starting off on a clean face. I just put on some vitamin c serum So let's go ahead and turn to the primer page to learn a little bit about this primer It says it's a weightless universal gel primer Enriched with ultra fine pearls for a lit from within glow And it does have a slight shimmer to it. Wow, it does give you like an illuminating glow So even if you just pour it on its own kind of gives you that shine Now because I'm an oily skin girl I usually run very fast away from anything that can create like more of a shine I am getting more into the glowy things as my skin does continue to get clear But um, yeah, this is an interesting Shimmer glow side note. I am filming on a new camera. I got the canon 90d So this camera is like extra ultra hd. So I feel like it's just showing every single pore on my face Yeah, I probably didn't need to get this camera right before I go back to foundation fridays So rare beauty sent me two different foundation shades to try and did a very good job at matching me They sent me 350c and 340c. So I'm going to show you both since I have them. So here is Color one 350c Not bad Loving the coverage and here is 340c Now they both have a c for cool But I feel like this top one is a little bit more cool. This one's a little bit more warm So I've been wearing the 340c. So that's what I'm going to continue to wear Today and as summer goes on and I do get a little bit darker I probably can even bump up to this one now for sanitation purpose If that's not the best to apply something to your skin and then apply it back into your bottle So if you want you could just take your color and then apply it to a beauty blender Whatever you're going to use and then continue on with the rest of your face. Look at that coverage though Yes, I love it Love love love the coverage and it doesn't feel heavy either. So it's a lightweight Formula but still giving me really good coverage I think this is a perfect match For my skin tone. So this is called the liquid touch weightless foundation It's a foundation elixir that feels barely there true While building coverage true And boosting your natural glow Also true. Wow. Look at that side by side difference I have a very uneven skin tone and I also have hyper pigmentation So I love being able to see like a full solid color Giving me amazing Coverage like even under the eyes before I even put concealer I'm getting some great coverage there too. Now I'll continue with the rest of my face. I don't look as crazy I know it's better to apply the foundation to a beauty sponge instead of your skin But I just do love this brush like it just makes it feel like I'm just Painting all the flaws away. Oh, I do think that there is a rare beauty sponge I should go find it. So there's the foundation love how it looks thus far really happy with the color a very cool undertone Now I did find the beauty sponge. It has a weird kind of cheese consistency But I'm going to use it for my concealer. So the concealer Comes in a little bottle like this as you can see I've been using it a lot lately And this is the color 330 neutral It has a wide applicator and it glides on so easy A very great full coverage creamy consistency So I always like to go a little lighter with the concealer to brighten the under eyes because I have very Dark circles under my eyes that I was just born with and then I also put some up here on the eyes Now I'll grab this interesting little sponge to blend. I'm not sure how I feel about the sponge I mean, I guess it's getting the job done. It's just a Different consistency from like a beauty blender It's more airy And not as squishy. I guess it's more like an actual sponge more than like the texture of a normal beauty sponge But it blended it out fine. So and I just don't know how I feel about white beauty blenders because now your foundation will just ruin it And definitely reminds you that you have to wash it Let me give you guys some price points. So the concealer is $19. The foundation is $29 and the primer is $26 So so far you're looking at a $74 face. So I haven't made a loose setting powder yet at least not that I have So I'm just going to use my Laura Mercier to set this Now I'm going to set my whole face with the full spectrum cover girl powders in the color Medium tan and then I'm going to do my contour with the deep cool one Oh, I just feel like setting powders translucent powders are just every oily skin girl's best friend Now for the brows. I have the rare beauty Brow harmony in the color deep brown little double-edged sword So it has a gel on this side and then the pencil on this side I'm not really good with gels. I mean, I'll do a little bit. This is show you Oh, see, yeah, it's very tinted and I think when I tried it my brows were just like Too dark So I'll just put a little bit on here But now I go back to the pencil that does look nice. I just haven't personally mastered the like Bushy but still pretty look yet about the gels kind of hardening So it's giving me a weird stiff feeling That I'm not used to on my brows might just be for the more advanced user It is a very thick tip for a brow pencil I just threw on some eyeshadow from my naked urban decay honey palette. There's some really pretty colors in this palette and then I also am in love with the new two-faced killer liner 36 hour waterproof eyeliner and killer black like it just goes on so smooth So this is a new fave of mine. Now. Let me grab the perfect strokes matte liquid liner It's 19 dollars a long wearing waterproof liquid eyeliner formulated with an ultra black pigments for the most dramatic Definition every time so it has a close. I don't know if it's a brush or felt tip Let's find out. I really only can do my wing liner with my nyx brush Let's see how this goes. Okay. Not bad So it's not a felt tip. It's like a firm brush that stays into a point. It goes on very easy Nicely pigmented a little stiff if you like felt tips You'll like this one the brush that I'm used to is a little bit more bendy, but it's still really nice All right. I'll just need some practice I kept trying to go back to fix it. Now. I have this big chunk. I need to do the side over again Girl, don't do it. It's not worth it. I'm not gonna do it girl. I'm just thinking about it I'm not gonna do it I did it Should have just left it alone. Let's try this again much better So I do like this. I just have to practice with it and get used to the different type of tip I have to be a little bit more precise to try to get that straight point But I do love that it's already drawing very matte and it is very pigmented Now I just need some mascara and some lashes. Man lashes do wonders next. We have the soft pinch liquid blush I'm also really not one to use liquid blush or liquid highlight, but I have flaunt Transcend and outshine. There are three very pretty shimmery colors So we have a gold a pinky gold and like a rose gold. Let's see what this flaunt one looks like So I'm just gonna dot some on the cheeks Probably put too much Put some on the nose Another product that I'd have to get used to applying. Let me just show you the three colors on my hand to compare So here's flaunt This is transcend and this is outshine three very pretty metallic colors Now we have a lot of lip colors to choose from so we have liquid lips. We have regular lipsticks, and then we have matte Oh, and I only have one set of lips. It's supposed to add a hint of just kissed color So let's open up all of them. We have appreciate honor, which looks like a clear thankful and empathy Let's do a little swatch on my arm Oh, they're very creamy Appreciate honor. It's clear. Thankful. Oh, I'm loving how these feel and empathy Wow, they glide on so easy. So I'm gonna apply the clear one first So honor is like a really pretty fancy chapstick basically. I think I'm gonna go with thankful I love this one So pretty for everyday natural Dewy lip balm with color. Oh, correction. These were not the soft pinch liquid blush That is apparently somewhere else. I gotta find it. Um, but these were the positive light liquid Luminizers that makes more sense because this is definitely a highlight and this is available in eight different shades. Oh These are blushes I definitely thought they were more lip colors. So these are the blushes Another liquid blush in very pretty pop and bright colors. Let's watch them all Joy Lucky. Oh my goodness a blush grace and love Ooh loves pretty Can we use these blushes as lip colors? I feel like we probably can. So out of these colors, I'm gonna add a little bit of love I'm gonna be very Light with these because these are super pigmented. So I'm just gonna add like I'm so scared Just a little dot still bright Probably could have done without it. That's nice. But yeah, I'm just gonna use This can just last you forever.  I'm just really not used to liquid blush These are interesting. I'm not sure how I feel about those. I think I'd rather stick to my powders We have the lip souffle matte lip creams. These are $20 each It's a whipped lip cream that delivers a comfortable one stroke color with a vivid velvety finish up to 12 shades I don't have all 12 shades, but I have one two three four five six five half of the collection here Let's see which one I want to apply. So I have Motivate motivate motivate motivate motivate Ascend inspire strengthen Fearless Pretty purpley mauve and brave.  So now I'm gonna finish off my face with this setting spray Smells refreshing and there you have it a full rare beauty face But let's go ahead and keep this old school Bianca foundation Friday status Where I'm gonna wear this for the majority or all day Then I'll come back to the end of the day to show you how this works on my oily skin I will say that my skin has gotten a lot better since those foundation Fridays My oil is a little bit more under control and I have been using this foundation for a while And I've been pretty happy with it But let me go ahead and really pay attention and see how this looks At the end of the day I really want to try this because rare beauty also has this little compact right here that comes with a powder infused Little powder puff And it comes with its own blotting sheets. You guys know how many blotting sheets I went through back in my foundation Friday days So I want to see how these work as well. So I'll come back To blot now I have to do now. Let's finish my hair Much better So at this point it has been a couple hours of me doing my hair and filming this hair look for my next video coming soon But I am already a slight Shiny just a little bit. So let's just go ahead and try it now and see how this little powder puff works. So apparently The powder is already on the inside Let's try it much better. Let's try to see if you could see the powder. Oh, there it is So the definitely is powder on the inside, which is kind of cool. Very nice. I like it. So right now it is currently 417 so I'll come back even later in the day and we'll try the final product of the rare beauty collection The blotting sheets Wow, so um, it's been so long since I've done a foundation Friday that I uh, forgot to come back Put on my pajamas was getting real comfortable woman I have to show the ending of my foundation Friday video But here we are more comfortable than earlier to show you how my makeup looks now that it is 9 30 p.m So it's been about five and a half hours and this is where we are So the lipstick is like gone. It's not a super long wearing Matte lipstick. I loved how it looked But I did eat and it's basically gone the liner is Kind of smudging. I don't know if that's for me rubbing it because I was ready to go to bed Um, it also could be the pencil but not really the liquid liner because that seems like it's pretty intact I did take off my lashes. So Sorry about that. I told you I was getting comfortable But let's go ahead and blot now with the rare beauty blotting sheets Blot and glow blotting sheets is 100 in here. That's cool That's cute. So here's one sheet. It's actually pretty long Probably longer than like the normal blotting sheets that I get And let's see how we look so before It kind of just feels like parchment paper before after All right I haven't even Purchased blotting sheets in so long So here's the oil from my sheet. I do see a little bit of brown on here. So it kind of transferred the foundation I definitely look a lot more Matte now But this was a lot of oil, but I'm an oily girl I think it looks pretty good It honestly looks a lot better in person than it is right now on camera under all these bright lights in like my new hd camera But I'm happy with it. By the way here all of the 48 shades available We definitely got a lot of pale options. I do wish that there was more darker colors to choose from but there are the 48 shades It does look really good. I'm happy with it I have been using it for a while ever since I got it and that does mean a lot for me to continue to reach for it After I try it the first time when I have a lot of other options to choose from so it's not the most Manifying long wear foundation, but this would be a foundation that I grabbed is for like a day to day Monday through Friday type of Look, so my overall final concluding thoughts on the rare beauty collection that I received I probably would pass on the sponge and the brow pencil Just not really for me. The liquid highlighters and the liquid blushes do work great very pigmented I personally I'm just not one to really use liquid for these types of items So it's more of a me thing. I got a practice using them. The lip colors are cool. These are kind of bright for me I really would probably only wear these three. I loved how this one looked on me today Just didn't last all day long like when it came to eating and never really felt dry though Let me know if you're interested in trying any of these rare beauty products Which ones really stuck out to you these are all available exclusively at sephora and on the rare beauty website Speaking of sephora. I recently applied to join the sephora squad Which is a year-long partnership with sephora. So I already applied but in order to better my chances of getting in I need some help from you So I want to put a link in the description box if you click that link You could write a little testimonial letting sephora know why you think I would be a great addition To the sephora squad. Just let them know why you enjoy my videos Why you trust my opinion whatever you want to say and it could really help my chances So thank you so much to everyone that's already wrote me something. Your messages have been amazing I really really really appreciate it. 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Hello there, it's Sandy Alnok and today I'm going to take this sketch and turn it into a finished colored pencil drawing and very excited about this. He's so realistic, he just might melt if we're not careful. So nobody sends your heat my way. We want to keep our snowman intact. Let's do this. Indulge me for just one quick minute while I tell you about a new class that just launched this week. I want to make sure if you're watching a colored pencil video, you know there's a class that you can take to learn five different scenes in colored pencil. And these can be used for all different kinds of art projects that you're doing. If you're interested, it's an inexpensive class, it's intermediate level, link in the doobly-doo and it's called Winter Wonderland. All right, this video is sponsored by Tohito. They emailed and asked if they could send me this tracing light pad and at first I thought I don't really need one. How often would I use it and then I rethought because I used to have one and I lost the cord for it. I threw it away, I think. So this one came with a package that has these pictures that you can trace and some paper that you can use. So you can have that if you're interested in it. I was not, but nonetheless it also comes with a pencil, an unsharpened pencil, an instruction sheet and then a sheet of plastic that's over the whole thing to protect the cover of it. And it's a USB cord. You can either work on it while it's plugged in or you can plug it in and charge it up and then use it without being plugged in. Works great both ways, has different shades of light and goes up and down in the amount of light and you'll see it used a couple times in today's project. I began by making a sketch first and sketches generally help me to understand which parts of a picture I like the most and which ones maybe I'll add more detail in, which ones less and that scarf was one of the things that I decided I was going to add more into and I stopped drawing the trees in the background because I realized I didn't really need to draw them out to trace, but I did want to trace the snowman and get the elements in there using the light pad. So I turned off the lights because every light pad works better when the lights are off and then proceeded to trace the main outlines of the snowman using a blue colored pencil. It's because I wanted to do the background in powdered colored pencil and I didn't want to drag graphite through it. So I put some white tape on the outside of this watercolor paper. Note to self never use this tape on Arch's Hot Press because it ripped my paper when I was done, but at least it only ripped the outside white part. Got my pencils out, which I keep in these drawers and then started to work on the sky and trees first. So I decided the background is going to be the hardest part. I trusted myself to get the snowman right, but I thought let me do the background first in case I screw that up and then I won't have to worry about when I get to the snowman. I'll know at least the background is set. So the first step was to grate some powdered pigment onto the paper using my tea strainer that I got at my grocery store. There is a link in the doobly-doo, but check your grocery store and see what they've got. You never know where you're going to find art supplies. You just want a very fine grate to make very fine powder. Your pencil does bigger powder crystals or bits and pieces than graphite does, and you'll see me grab some graphite later on in this project just for that specific reason. It does make a really nice soft texture, and it definitely has some texture, especially on this Hot Press watercolor paper. I got the light pad back out because I wanted to use some eclipse tape to create a mask for just the sides of the snowman because I wanted to bring that powdered pigment at the bottom closer to the snowman's body, and I couldn't do that with just a big old cotton ball. So that was really easy to do, and this eclipse tape is basically the stickiness of a sticky note, but it comes in a roll, so you can make big chunks like this. And then I just continued pushing the powdered pigment with the cotton ball right up to the edge of my masks, peel them off, and I've got a nice, crisp edge for my drawing. Bada boom, bada bing. So dust that off with the dusting brush. That is a dusting brush I've had since college. That thing has seen a few years in its day. So next I'm going to draw the trees, and I didn't film a ton of the trees, but I have a section of them I'm going to show you, and I started with this metallic pencil, and this is metallic blue. They don't make this one anymore, but this one is part of a group of pencils that was sent to me by one of my followers, Jane, who sent me just packages of pencils a couple of different times, and she had old pencils, and this is one of the old ones. If you ever get a Prismacolor set or even an individual pencil, somebody hands you some stuff, and it's got either Eagle or Barrel, B-E-R-O-L, or Sanford on it, then those are basically vintage Prismacolor pencils, because they used to be made elsewhere, and they used to have those names on them. I used to have, I just remember the Barrel Prismacolors were the ones I had in college, and those are long gone, of course, by now, but they've moved their shipping to Mexico and all sorts of other things. But nonetheless, I was having fun using some colors that I normally don't have, because these are in the vintage set. I did figure out why they've killed off this metallic blue, though, because it did not work all that well. I ended up switching and using other blues for this, and what I'm doing is putting a coat of kind of a grayish blue down first, and I did that by switching to a different grayish blue instead of the metallic, and then starting to darken it. So part of it was using blending solution, and here I'm using the U.S. Art Supplies oil medium odorless thinner, and then adding some thicker lines and blackening some of them up so I had some contrast. Now, I didn't film all of that. I was sitting on the sofa. I gave up on sitting at the table because, yeah, fireworks and having to sit next to my dog, I needed to go sit by her. So you didn't get all that filmed, but I saved these trees at the bottom so you can kind of see what I was doing, creating some gray trees using a cotton ball to soften them. So that would push them a little more into the misty distance, and then adding a slightly lighter blue as I got closer toward that sunlight spot. And, you know, even lighter blue as I got even further into the white. So it just slowly started building that gradation, not only from the powdered pigment around the outside edges, which doesn't need to be perfect, obviously, since I was putting on all these trees all over it. I'm not sure why I labored so hard on that, but there you go. And occasionally using a little bit of blending solution in here, probably not the best idea, because then I ended up fighting the trees in that section. I just wanted something darker and so then I had to go back and fix that by using some deeper colors to create something that didn't then look like big blobs on the page. So my trees got darker than they were intended, but such as life sometimes. But those branches were really fun to do. I loved doing little tiny, fussy work like that. There's just something very brainless about them, which I can spend all my day doing that. It feels like doodling to me and trying to make them look like realistic tree branches. So next up, I decided to work on adding some color to the snowman because what I really wanted to get to was the hat and scarf. Those were the things I was really going to have a blast with, but I needed to get the gray in here first for the snowman so that I could end up not dragging any of the the color of the scarf and the hat into the snowman's body. So I made masks in the same way as I'd made the mask earlier, just putting it on the light pad and tracing it. And then I could put gray in here. I had that torn mask across the bottom because I wanted a little division between where the snowman is sitting, like into the snow and have just a slight division of color in there. And by the time it's all done, it's a very minimal difference between the two of them. So you could get away without doing that mask at all. But I love the moment of peeling them all off, even that little carrot nose. And now he's starting to take shape. So I get to do the funnest part, which is drawing this scarf and the hat because I really wanted to do the knitted texture on them. And that meant lots and lots of layers, ridiculous numbers of layers. I have decided I don't really like hot press paper for pencil drawings. Like I just don't think it's my my jam. It was very difficult because I kept getting too much texture on this. I just wanted something crisper and it was a challenge to get to that. And I had to keep adding more and more details. And I found another one of the vintage pencils among the collection, which made me happy. So every once in a while, I stumble on one and it feels a little different. The cores are just a little bit different because they were made in a totally different place and that sort of thing. So I just I love me some vintage pencils. If you ever find any, let me know. I would love to use them even if you aren't a color pencil user. And if you see some Sanford or barrel pencils out there or even some Eagles, I'll take Eagles. Those are just fun to use. All right. So next up for the shading on this, I use purples to shade in the yellow hat. And well, I guess it's more of an orange hat by the time it was all said and done because of all the blending I had to do. It was supposed to be a fully yellow hat. So I just layered and layered and layered and did blending in between and more layers and use darker purples to create those. The texture in the hat and same with the scarf, just using layers and following the curve of the fabric is really fun. It was somewhat fun on that the horizontal piece. But when I get to the vertical piece, it just made me so happy. I just I love creating that illusion of the texture. Those those ribs in the fabric going up and down over and underneath each of those sections where the whole piece of fabric moves. So tackle them one section at a time like that one going up and over the highlight areas and then anywhere that recedes you want to go down and under so that it creates that illusion of the the ribbing in the fabric of the scarf moving as the scarf kind of turns and twists as it's laying there. I just love challenges like that. And the crystalline snow texture is probably another challenge that I did this for in the first place. It's the reason that I wanted to work on a snow thing this week. And I wanted to see what it would be like to create this in pencil. And I got out my electric eraser. Now, this is like a thirty five, thirty eight dollar eraser. There's an eight dollar one, I think eight or nine dollars that I'll put in the supply list because it works just as well as this. And all I did was tap it on the surface of the paper and then use a kneaded eraser to kind of transition and soften up some of those areas.  And next is the rocks. Got to have the rocks inserted into the snow for the eyes and the nose. So I used gray for that and gave them some black shadows underneath of them and did a bunch for the mouth as well. They didn't look like they were sitting in the snow quite yet. Until I did this, I used the brush and I had a little bit of the blending solution on and just pulled out from some of the areas that looked almost like corners to create some shadows so that the the rocks look like they were pushed into the texture of the snow. And it's probably the thing that like made me the happiest in this drawing that I made that work, because I wasn't sure how to do it. I had no idea and the picture. Collection that I had of snowmen because I was studying snowmen before I did this drawing to see not how people drew them, but what they really look like. I couldn't find any photos of what real rocks looked like in the situation that I've got going on here. So I was pretty tickled that that little trick worked. I did the same thing for the buttons, creating the buttons with their little black holes in the center. Using the electric eraser, I actually sharpen the eraser to a point by using a pair of scissors and just made a pencil point shape out of it. So I can make tiny, tiny dots and then use the brush again to set these in, just push them into the snow. Didn't even bother me if it kind of reflected a little of the red around the buttons, because that's what light would do anyway. Next up was to add a little more shading onto the snowman. Even though the back lit nature of this picture has the highlights on both sides, both left and right, the shadows right by the scarf, that is created by the scarf hiding the light of the sun from that portion of the snowman. So that's going to be the darkest place on the snowman. And then used a q-tip to soften that up, added a few little sparkles. I didn't want to add too many because there's no light directly shining onto the front side of the snowman. It's all bounce light from around the snowy situation that he's in. And then I was left with just roughing up some footprints in the snow down below, adding the footprints in the ground was because every snowman is going to have footprints around it because that's what it takes to build a snowman. And I was especially glad that I had the graphite mixed in with the gray pencil down here, as well as in the rest of the snow on the snowman's body, because graphite lifts better than does colored pencil. It just does a better job when you're using, especially an electric eraser or trying to lift anything back to white, graphite does it better. So consider mixing that in with your gray colored pencils. So there we go, the finished snowman with a quick zoom in. So you can see all that luscious detail. I am pretty excited with the results of this. Hopefully he won't melt. We are supposed to start getting some warmer weather here finally. And I hope that this guy does not melt. Don't anybody send me your hot weather. I want warm weather. I want normal summer, but I don't want hot. So I hope you enjoyed this. If you did, click the like button because that really helps the channel out, share it with your friends. And if you want to learn how to draw simpler snowman smaller, then you can go watch Monday's video, which apparently delighted a lot of people. So yay for that. And the winter wonderland class linked in the doobly-doo, all of these things. In case you need to learn how to make some winter scenes for snowmen that you would like to draw. And that is it for me. I will see you later. Thank you to Tohito for the light pad. It is awesome. And I'll see you guys later. Bye.


I am leaving. Hey guys, welcome to this week's vlog. So it is Sunday evening, it's about five o'clock and I'm getting ready to prep some of my meals for the week. So I wanted to share with you guys what I make for the week and I'm gonna make this super quick so that the rest of this vlog can be classroom related stuff, but Cash is asleep right now, luckily. My parents are gone. Normally my mom would watch Cash kind of hang out with him while I did this, but he's asleep so I'm taking advantage of it. So what I like to do is I like to buy the ground beef from Costco and it comes in packages like these and it's organic ground beef and then I also get organic chicken thighs, which I really like, but I'm probably gonna put those in the crock pot in the morning because I want them to be super flavorful and soft and delicious. So I'm probably gonna put those in the crock pot in the morning with some chicken broth, but what I'm doing right now is I'm just cooking up this ground beef and then I also get this. These are harvest grains and they're from Trader Joe's and I really like them.  I really like jasmine rice as well and I'll cook some of that up and then I like the green beans from Costco as well. They're organic frozen green beans. I like the frozen ones because they don't go bad and I can buy like a package of them and it lasts me like a month. So they look like this and they're just organic frozen green beans. And then I can do peas or I could do broccoli. Broccoli tends to get the baby kind of gassy so I kind of steer clear broccoli and just stick with the green beans because they are really good. But so right now I'm just working on the meat since it takes the longest and I'm working on the grains and then since the green beans are frozen I'll just throw them in last because they take like no time at all. So I'm just cooking up this ground beef and then I also bought some bagels. These are the Dave's Killer organic bagels and then I get organic Greek whipped cream cheese which I'm gonna pull out right now. So it looks like this. I don't think this is organic is it? No, it's not organic, that's okay. And then I also get this Butcher Shop uncured turkey bacon and I like this one because it has no nitrates and it's not preserved. So I get that and then I will grab some eggs. Probably, let's see, I'll probably make four. So I like to make one egg per day because I don't really like eggs that much.  I don't really mind eating them plain and it's just super fast and easy. So yeah, that is what I'm making for lunches and breakfast for the week and my mom cooks dinners so I don't have to worry about that. But yeah, so that's what I'm doing. Oh, I also bought this milk flow drink supplement. It's like a fenugreek and blessed thistle breastfeeding supplement. I don't know, my supply has gone way down. So I got those, I got that, sorry. And then I also got these Aussie bites, which I really like because they have oats in them. And they are soaking wet. These are from Costco as well. They're organic and they're made with oats and fruit and like other super healthy stuff. So that is what I am doing currently. But I'll show you the containers we bought. We got them on Amazon and they're just these black containers and they have like the lid. If you look up food prep containers, you'll find a ton of stuff on Amazon, but that's what we use. So now I can put this in the freezer and this is two weeks worth of lunches for me. Probably more than two weeks actually because if I do chicken, half chicken, half ground beef, then it will last me a while. But Scott actually eats like this too. So this will probably last us like a week and a half because he'll have one and I'll have one depending on how many meals are chicken, how many meals are beef. So yeah, that's what we're doing. We're just cooking up our food for the week. Morning guys, happy Monday. So I just walked into my classroom and I have some unpacking to do. I went to Costco yesterday as you guys know and I got some more whiteboard markers, dry erase markers, sorry. I also went to Target and I bought some prizes because I'm doing the shark tank invention thing I got on teachers pay teachers. I forget who the seller was but if you look up shark tank on teachers pay teachers you'll see it and I'm gonna choose three winners. They're gonna be starting to present tomorrow and then on Thursday. So I bought these cute little dollar spot Dr. Seuss bags and then I got each child a pack of pencils. I got each child a bag of Starburst and what else did I get them? I know there's something else. Is that it? Oh I got them. And then I was gonna go buy a couple of restaurants and see if they could give me some coupons for like a free kids meal or something.  These are the candy pop ones and I actually have something coming in the mail that I'm really excited about and it kind of goes with those. So and then I have like a crapped on a food I need to unpack because basically I live in my classroom and I brought a bunch of food because I need to get my calories up so that I can provide more milk. So I'll show you what I brought. I got these at Costco. They're like protein chips and I think they're plant based so they're not super fatty. So I got those and then I brought some organic almonds and those Aussie bites that I was telling you guys about yesterday. I brought the whole thing in here. So I'm just gonna get unpacked and then I need to get started with planning because I'll be honest with you. It's the day after spring break ended and I have nothing absolutely nothing prepared or planned for the day. I do have the standards that I'm teaching so that's kind of fine. I mean the reading standard that I'm teaching is super simple and I already have a PowerPoint like done and ready to go for that but I don't have any copies made or anything for the rest of the week but it is kind of like a weird day because we do have the shark tank stuff due this week so today we're just finishing up speeches and things like that and then I'll be gone on Wednesday so it's kind of gonna be a short week and we have AZ Merit testing or AZ Merit practice on Thursday afternoon so really like our whole afternoons are kind of like taken up. So I'm gonna get this whole mess organized and then I will catch up with you guys. Ooh, I also picked up these from the dollar spot because I'm planning on doing a STEM project probably not this week, maybe this week but it's like an Armyman launcher and I just thought this was perfect because Army guys are like really hard to find and these are super perfect. Then there's 24 of them so if I have them in small groups then I'll be able to use these year after year. So while I have you guys here I'm gonna give you some really exciting really sad but super exciting news. I am leaving. My husband and I are building a new house as you guys know and the new house is not here in Prescott. It's actually down in the East Valley. If you're from Arizona you know where the East Valley is if you're not from Arizona it's in the Phoenix area but yes we are moving away.  Scott was going to transfer up here but they actually don't offer as much money in the field that he's in and it's much better down there he'll make more money and the cost of living is a little bit cheaper I'll make more money and so I just really need prayers from you guys that I can find a job I have applied for a couple of positions in the district where we're gonna live and so far I haven't gotten any interviews or any like responses but I'm hoping I'm staying positive that something will come my way and if it doesn't then I do plan on subbing for a year until I do get my own classroom so hopefully things will work out the way they're supposed to work out and we're really really excited we've been doing long distance for about two years now when my husband got his job it was he got hired in July and we moved up here in April so we didn't know that he was gonna be getting that job and when we purchased our home up here it was on a VA loan and you have to keep your house for two years before you can sell it on a VA loan so we had to wait two years to be able to do this so it does suck leaving my family, leaving my friends but family is most important and Scott and Cash are my family and moving is what we need as a family so our new house is not in Prescott it's actually in the valley I've been waiting a long time to tell you guys because our house actually closes on Wednesday which is why I won't be here because I have to drive down, sign the papers do the final walk through and then my principal and everybody they already all know that I'm leaving but we had to just wait until the house closed to really announce everything because it's really just like, I don't know it's not ours yet until Wednesday but it's going to be so it's kind of exciting and we're really, really looking forward to it and our house is gonna be beautiful I don't know if you guys have been following me on Instagram but I did put a little bit of it on my story last week and I did pre-film some footage of the house being built and stuff that I will be posting up on my YouTube channel after this video goes live so that you guys can see kind of the progress and I don't mind sharing what my house looks like with you guys because I am really proud of it and it's part of my channel you guys have always been involved in seeing my home and things like that so I'm super, super excited to be sharing this with you guys I am really, really sad to be leaving but it's for the best so it's a positive, positive thing it's not anything to be sad about but I am just sitting here getting my things ready for the day oh yeah? yeah you couldn't do that today we're gonna do speech writing this morning say hello to the people hello YouTube people hello YouTube people hello I have 80 pence this morning helping out a deep pence a deep pence little cute patoots over there putting stuff in the inboxes do you know where the pencils are? back there I think you don't have to get them now I'm just making sure you know where they are oh yeah they're right here okay goldenness I don't think it'll be enough for the next couple of months so I think so you're killing me you're killing me, Smalls okay maybe I'll do hey Aiden so I just got my new lip sense color from Amanda I got blue red structure baby yeah it goes tech structure baby alright stop collaborate and listen I have skills to read nonfiction structures pick one of the five problem and solution oh rise what is the problem yo gotta know I don't know how this goes let's watch so is this teacher like all of them? hey guys so it is the end of Monday and I had a pretty good day I taught my kids the tech structure song from Bethany Humphreys teaching and so forth and I also did some small group with decimals and fractions and I was gonna show you guys I showed this on my Instagram but some of you guys aren't following my Instagram so I thought maybe I'd show it to you now but basically I created a way to utilize base 10 blocks and use them with a whiteboard marker so I just had my kids put them in a little like dry erase or sorry sheet protector and then I would have them write the fraction so let's say six tenths and then I'd have them write it as a decimal so this and then I'd have them show me a model of it using this by just coloring right on top so as you can see there's six tenths colored in so this is just a fun way if you have these blocks to kind of use them for fractions and decimals and the kids really liked it and it was just an easy way to have them drawing the models of the fractions and then you just pull them out and you can reuse these anytime they're also great for like a quick whiteboard if like you run out or something and they're a lot cheaper than buying whiteboards at Lakeshore or something you just put in a blank sheet of paper and then there you go it's a whiteboard so we were doing that and I'm sure I have a ton of things to do today but I think I'm just going to go home tomorrow we have our shark tank presentations and we're going to be doing them all morning and then we have fire pal coming at two o'clock so that kind of dampers that section of that and yeah so it's probably going to just be me being the judge which sucks but it is what it is I think I'm just going to pump and go home I'm cutting my own half again I think I'm just going to pump and go home because I really want to get home to see Cash because he went to the chiropractor today and I'm really eager to see how he responds to that so I'm closing everything out here and I think I'm going to just get going I do have to plan for a sub for Wednesday I already kind of started doing it but I just really need to compile like review things together for the kiddos and not like have anything new so yeah I'm just logging off I'm going to go use the restroom and then I'm going to head home so yeah so thank you guys so so much for watching this week's vlog I hope you enjoyed and I will see you in the next one bye guys


I used to think my plants did not need fertilizer. Fertilizer is for pros and for agricultural purposes. That's what I used to tell myself. I only started thinking about fertilizer more seriously when I saw that my palliative permeatives started to have black spots on the leaf. I went online and I saw that one of the possible causes is lack of nitrogen. But I can tell you, I did not know where to start. Should I start making my own fertilizer at home? Should I go to the shop and buy one? And if so, which one? Because there are so many options. When should I start fertilizing? What should I look in the labels? There were so many questions, but I can tell you now that after taking care of my plants for three years now, I'm very happy that I put my fears aside and I learned about fertilizer because now they're growing really healthy and they really are thriving. So if you are where I was, this video is especially made for you. We're gonna go over all of the things that I know of fertilizer for houseplants so you can get there and your plants can be happy and thrive. Let's start from the beginning. When I went to the shop, I just didn't know where to start. There were so many options, but what I saw is that there is so much of liquid fertilizer and then you can also pick liquid fertilizer for specific plants. For example, for succulents, for orchids, for tropical plants. So I thought, okay, liquid fertilizer may be a good option for me to start my process. Another thing that you can check at the shop is that you can look at the labels and you will get a lot of information from there. And one of the most important things is the percentage of macronutrients that your plant will get from this fertilizer. These macronutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. So if you look at this bottle right here, you can see that we have three numbers, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. This is the percentage of each of these macronutrients in this bottle. Now, after doing some more research, I learned that organic fertilizers and fertilizers that use naturally derived ingredients are going to have a lower percentage of these macronutrients than synthetic fertilizers. So if you look at a synthetic fertilizer, you will see that the percentages will be up in the 30s, 20s. So it's going to be a higher amount of these macronutrients. So since I still consider myself a plant beginner and I'm still experimenting with my plants, I tend to stay with lower concentrations of these macronutrients. So I try to go for organic fertilizers or fertilizers that use natural ingredients. I can see your next question here, which is, okay, but then what's the rest in that bottle? And that is actually filler. So this can be water or any other substance that is not going to affect your plant. When I learned this information was one year after using liquid fertilizer for my plants. And I can tell you it was working for me really well because it's very easy to use. All you have to do is to follow the instructions in the bottle and just add whatever measurement they tell you to whatever measurement of water that you're going to be using for your plants. So you dilute the fertilizer there. When I learned that most of that liquid was filler, it didn't go well with me because first I was paying mostly for filler. And second, it's not very sustainable because if you think about it, we're transporting plastic bottles with filler inside. So it's not really sustainable for the planet. So I went online and I looked for a more sustainable alternative for my plants. And this is when I found this one right here. This is called Instant Plant Food. And as you can see, it's very small. So these are actually tablets that you put in the water that you're going to use to water your plants. In that sense, it's very similar to liquid fertilizer because with liquid fertilizer, we also add this fertilizer to the water that we're going to use to water our plants. And it is very easy to use. However, the big difference here is that it comes in this very small tablet. So we're now transporting a big amount of liquid inside of plastic bottles around the world. This was a game changer for me because I'm taking care of my plants with this wonderful fertilizer. And at the same time, I'm opting for a more sustainable alternative.  And this is because spring is here and we usually start fertilizing our plants during the spring. But why is that? Spring is generally the growing season for most of our plants. And we want to provide that extra nutrition for our plants so they can grow and thrive. Some plants may grow the whole year. And this will depend on different factors. For example, where you are in the planet, what kind of plant you have. So always observe your plant and if you see that your plant is actively growing, this is a good time to provide some fertilizer. And you know, in this video, I'm really trying to encourage you to observe your plants and experiment with them. I think that's the most beautiful thing about taking care of a plant. You start observing it and then you start seeing new leaves, new stems and that's super exciting. So I encourage you to do that. And this takes me to how frequently do you want to fertilize your plant? Again, this depends on many different things. It depends on the type of plant that you have, the type of fertilizer that you're using. So for example, with the one that I'm using here, they recommend that we use it once every three months for tropical plants and once every six months for desert plants. But I can tell you, because it is very mild, this gives me the opportunity to experiment a little bit more.  Of course, if you're just starting to experiment with your fertilizer, I recommend that you follow the instructions in the package. But as you go, you can just observe your plants, how they react and adjust your routine accordingly. How do you fertilize your plants? I would love to know. So make sure to go in below. I can assure you the whole community will appreciate it. And that's including myself because I really learned from you so much. So keep the conversation going down below. Also, if you would like to support this channel and the work that I do here, we do have a Patreon page where we meet every month and we talk about these issues. We talk about plants. We talk about fertilizer propagation. So if you would like to join us over there, just check out this link right here. And as always, I will see you in the next one. Okay, adios.