to have the conversation about putting a million dollars towards making sure that folks have water thank you councilmember and councilmember race hi it's me again um i think so let me start by saying that after the most recent conversation we had about the water and sewer rate the fact that the proposed increase went from 2.9 to 2.1 percent i didn't bother to go back and check but i can almost guarantee you that's the lowest increase i have seen since my time in the council don you want to just off the cuff confirm that's true i believe so yeah um and uh so i appreciate you sharpening your pencil on that um after the conversation about um merit pay and i think at 2.1 percent there it's a it's a very modest increase given the the important work um that these positions do i share the city manager's concern about the customer service positions the building utility technicians i know a lot of us heard from a ton of residents uh during the last fiscal year about the troubles that they had the same this my same concern applies to the um amr collection staff which is the is the as the staffing we need to prevent that back billing issue from coming back again which is a huge priority for me the two if if there was a consensus on the council to try to shave anything off the 11 positions at at the 2.1 percent increase it would be the two billing field staff and those two vehicles um but i think on balance and though i don't necessarily like it i'm probably mostly where the mayor pro 10 is is that in that i can live with all of this but we really have to develop a solid plan to deal with uh what's going to happen um when we start being able when we start collecting again and when uh folks start running up against um the their their bills and i think one thing we what we do we should think about is setting up a pot getting a policy in place for specifically related to the to the to the balances that are accruing during the COVID-19 pandemic and coming up with a policy that is exclusive to those amounts um and i think that may give us some flexibility to talk about a longer payment term if we did that um so that's kind of all i'm thinking about thank you mr mayor thank you council member i believe everyone has had a chance to comment um and so what i think i'll try to do is i hear um i'll just add my voice to um i favor funding all the 11 positions i think the customer service positions are super important i think we've finally gotten a lot of where we want to be in terms of answering phone calls i agree with charlie that we were not where we wanted to be for quite a while um and i think that replacing the part-time people full-time people and you know really doing this service well over the long term is really going to serve us well during the service well is going to serve us well um the um so i'm i'll i'll add my voice to that and just add so maybe we could hear uh from other and i think and that's where also uh charlie i believe that's where you also came down if i heard you correctly correct yeah uh councilmember cabrera councilmember millton councilmember freeman so either any of you all want to um pitch in on where you are at this point mr mayor i'll just say that the mayor pro tem's uh comfort council reese's comfort with 11 positions that made me comfortable with it i find their arguments compelling so i'm going to thank you thank you councilmember cabrera and councilmember freeman as am i hi okay okay uh thank you uh don thank you we appreciate you and um i think we're we're finished with that item on great job by the way you did what you had to do good job thank you best head on to everybody um colleagues uh so let me see if i can summarize where we are and then we'll uh open it up for other items that everyone wants to discuss i think where we are is that we have gone through the items that the administration has presented to us uh and uh i i i'm not sure i have the sense that there may be some of those positions that people still want to talk about let me ask that first are there positions uh the public works positions and so forth uh we i think we've we've dealt with the water management positions but with the transportation and the public works positions i think those were the other two departments are there other items at any but i think the transportation position we also settled people were happy because it was not no longer in the general fund um so i think that leaves the public works position am i correct on that bertha that those are the only other positions that are in that memo that's correct so um our water people's comfort levels there um i i didn't hear anyone uh at this point saying that they wanted to take those positions out but i just want to double check before we move on from that everybody good okay may ask ask a clarifying question yeah of course those positions out are you referring to the three yeah that's right the three of this i guess i was talking about the six is that what you mean the three or the six bertha yeah i was talking about the six there so let's let's refresh there's six positions recommended by public works there are three positions that were prioritized is that what you mean bertha that's correct yeah so i'll ask that question uh in a in a clearer way uh where are we on these three and six positions not can i ask a clarifying question because the way that it was explained when bertha explained that there could be three and then three added as necessary or as filled and the backfilling conversation that's where i thought we landed but i'm assuming that's the difference so uh we'll ask um consistent as it can be you know so somebody's mic is on somebody's mic's on yeah it's don don meet your mic um so bertha um let's talk about let me go back in the let's everybody that uh if you want to go back to the public works positions to talk about this thank you page two and three um and so uh council member freeman had a question bertha did you get that i did not come here councilmember freeman why don't you ask your question again uh i almost forgot uh yes the i know councilmember middleton uh had asked about the backfilling and how that works is that possible in this case with the with the three additional positions that is and just leaving it at zero now and then at zero or three or six at three yes and then bringing in the other three as as they are as they were identified i guess however you were however you needed as you explained it bertha so well i cannot do that at six thirty i get that yeah got mayor pro jam i feel good with the three positions that would be my preference um and with the if we were to do those three positions and the um with the savings from the transportation position we'd have almost six hundred thousand dollars unallocated in the general fund given current budget parameters that we could talk about what to do with um okay uh let's hear some more about uh the public works positions uh that chart that we have on page three uh we have the three positions at the top of the priority positions and how are they oh i see this the the first is paid for out of the cip is that correct out of the storm water fund yes out of storm water funds cip the second is paid is paid for out of fees without my review yes the third um is as a general fund but not paid for by fees already is paid for by fees it is general fund is the third one yeah it's general fund and that one is not covered by fees okay so and that's the utility inspection position right away engineer yes right away engineer that does the you know the the fiber in the utility construction inspection that we can't get reimbursed for okay so and i would say to marvin williams is here if you have any other specific position questions that would be great thank you so as i understand it the two of the first three positions are not general fund well one i'm general fund but it's paid paid for by fees no the third position is general fund and marvin's on the phone if you want to clarify that is general fund not paid by fees yeah and the one above that the one above that is paid by fees yeah so the they of the other three positions how are they paid for but they all pay for out of general fund hey marvin mayor members of council marvin williams public works so the other three positions one would be paid for by development fees also the second right of way position would be paid for by the general fund and the survey position is paid for by the general fund as well all right so um there are three of the six positions that are not paid for out of the general fund is that correct three of the six right all right well let me let me then just ask colleagues of these ones that are not paid for out of the general fund oh well i'll let me be more clear they are paid for from the general fund one of them is paid for by stormwater cip one of them is paid for by uh the general fund and then two of them paid for the from the general fund but they're paid for by fees is everybody okay with supporting those three which are not paid for out of the general fund unless they're fees associated with them councilmember millton and then mayor pro tem and then councilmember caballero in light of the conversation we have we just have with don i mean i'd be curious to hear marvin make the case yeah for those three i'm gonna say yeah i'm yeah i was first i was i was i agree i was trying to make it a little easier by first taking on the three that are not uh funded out of just general fund revenue other than fees but maybe i can't do that so let me see let me see if i'm trying to i'm trying to narrow it down but i'm sorry no no worse i'll say mayor pro tem and then councilmember caballero and then we'll uh go here for marvin thank you um i just wasn't sure so there are of the three priority positions two of them are funded by fees correct correct one that is stormwater fund one is out of development fees and then there's a third position mr mayor that you are asking if we're there's a third fee funded position that's not in the top three priority positions and so you're asking us about those three got it that's what i was trying to do but you did it better than i did just not a councilmember caballero and then we'll we'll then we'll try to we'll see what we can do after that yeah i just wanted to say for me i wanted to see prioritization from both departments so we had a place to go to if the will of the whole council was to cut i wanted to know when we came to that decision what what departments really needed um if folks are willing and wanting and and marvin wants to make the case for this full six i am i'm willing especially in light of the conversation we just had with dawn um and but i i wanted to have something to fall back on if we said you know this is too much money understood i think that's good okay marvin we're throwing it to you um and um i will just say for myself that it's easier for me to decide on the fee supported positions three of the six than it is the others uh so maybe you could concentrate on making the case for the others uh and then we'll we'll have councilmember questions and comments so all six of the positions are actually mission critical for us i believe the data that i provided in the prior presentation shows that our workload is at the point that we don't have the ability to add any more efficiencies in our operations in engineering whether it's in the right away management group development review group or in our survey group so even if we don't get these positions now we're going to have to make the request again next year and it may be more positions than what we're currently asking for because the work continues to come in for us especially in the development and the project side right of way the permitting has continuously increased month over month and that trend isn't going away with development we just met with the hba this morning through our development services center group and in talking to them the expectation is that the trend for development is going to continue to be on the uptick through next year at least so there's not going to be a drop-off at any point with the projects that we have in our queue and as well with survey we already have a backlog of projects and those requests are going to continue to come into us from our own engineering and storm water groups but also the other city departments that rely on survey duties from public works so all six i believe are justified it's just a question of if the council is willing to support them and allow us to have those at fiscal year 21 thank you very much marvin questions comments colleagues uh council member milton yeah um i marvin used the uh the phrase for me that the threshold phrase for me is mission critical i don't think he would use it lightly um or just uh you know for whatever so i'm inclined to support to six right i am as well but i am as well council member freeman is as well council member caviato is as well so mayor pro tem and council member rice where are you all i am i i can count to four mr mayor the rumor has it you can count even higher than that i'm skeptical at this point but i will just since i've got the floor let me just say that um the two right of way i think they're two right of way positions is that right um yes that's correct yeah those they are general fund based and in this environment kind of the hardest to accept but i think what you told us at the budget work session last week about how dangerous it is have our utilities in the right of way without the staff necessary to go out and make sure it's okay that sold me on it um and i just appreciate so much the work that you're doing and i'm on board sounds good thank you any comments from mayor pro tem sorry i had to i had to get a snack but no worries i i i'm happy with the majority opinion all right thank you did you bring enough old class yeah right make another comment please yes you may just want to point out that these positions are budgeted in appropriations not authorized meaning that if the fees do not come into support of positions we wouldn't activate the positions thank you all right colleagues um i think we've dealt with all the positions now uh and i think we're now down to other let me ask the manager first mr manager do you feel like we've dealt with all the you know what you and i have been calling the loose ends uh that you need to hear about we i need to hear we need to hear from council members if there are other budgetary items that are on their mind things they want to consider but in terms of all the things that you all flagged are we okay i believe so are the correct yes that was list yes so thank you that thank you well appreciate everybody sticking with it all right colleagues uh now uh general budget comments anything that you uh want to add subtract or talk about in terms of our budget we're getting down to the bitter end here and then our next uh our next opportunity is when we're going to have this budget from the tip to be voting on uh which will be on june the what day will that be the 15th on june the 15th we'll be voting on our budget and we're this is our last shot essentially so time and just thank the staff for uh getting us through this budget cycle i know it's been difficult and uh very taxing we're at five hours and 43 minutes at this point in this meeting and i'm sure that there's been a lot of work behind the scenes to get us through this virtually and i'm just i'm just grateful that we managed to do it so i just want to thank you i feel good about where we are and um i'm good thank you thank you thank you by the comments of the comments at this point last shot at the budget mayor pro tem um i hate to extend our lives in this way but can we talk for a minute about the fund balance i know that in our initial um discussion we had said that we would um suspend our 16.7 fund balance policy and allow the balance to go down to 12 percent i know that the current budget does not do that um what are what's the what's the thinking behind keeping the fund balance at 16.7 and not taking some of that money out of the out of the rainy day fund for the for the rain we are currently experiencing i think it really depends on for what purpose i think we're at what 17 percent birth 17.2 16.3 16.3 okay um as you recall we had to remove the oh that's five million for the gas tax power we got that so we're at 16.3 so i guess is your question mad member tim can we go lower than that if we want to spend money on something else so i'm getting questions from people that's like you know why aren't you giving our staff raises if you still have these millions of dollars in reserve and we could go lower and it not affect our bond rating like what's the what is y'all's reason for not wanting to take the fund balance lower right now well uh in my mind two full one you know the the amount of money that we are taking the fund balance down for recurring expenses is is substantially larger than we have ever done and those expenses are going to be with us next year as well um and so i you know that that's one piece and then just just again if we if we did direct pay raises uh those expenses are also going to be with us uh next year and so to the extent that we're using all of those one-time revenues which i think at that case would be more than the revenue reduction projections um it's going to really put a strain on on next year's budget uh if the council wanted to you know do some some one-time thing uh one-time you know uh adjustment for employees that was a bonus that still is going to impact the the amount of fund balance that we're taking down but not necessarily become a recurring expense so i mean i i i just can't see how we could get to an additional seven million of fund balance to pay for raises birth is that correct that's correct um it would be seven million to pay for the raises and the number between 12 and 16 is about nine million and then those raises we would have to pay for those raises in future years with the escalator on top of those thank you yeah i'm very very challenged yeah i i feel um i feel comfortable with that decision i just um need to be able to explain it to folks and explain y'all's reasoning right and i think you know the other piece uh uh mary pro tem is just the uncertainty of how long and what you know do we do we have the revenue impacts correct you know i i think that we we are making the best judgment we can right now but as i've said you know quite a number of times this is fluid and um i i'm not a hundred percent sure that that we aren't going to need more of that just to just keep from keep from having to cutting services if if any of the uh the the revenue drops are way more significant than we thought or prolonged longer than we thought thank you other comments councillor caballero yeah i just wanted to say and i know that folks are seeing and we've said this a number of times it's just we're in a very difficult situation and at this point there is no lifeboat for us as a city of Durham we have very few funds coming from the state or the federal government the only place we can go is to raise taxes and i think every single every single council member has committed to not doing that we know that everyone is in uh hard economic times and we are doing uh and again thank you to the staff because we were pretty far along our budget process and we had a lot of pretty incredible new initiatives that are not getting funded which are a huge you know i'm still mourning the fact that we're not doing some of the work we were planning on doing uh so i hear our residents i know everyone is is anxious um but even even just next door in wake county in raleigh they are getting a significant lifeboat that we just did not get and i think that our residents need to see the reality of the situation that we are facing here thank you council member the comments colleagues all right um i really thank you everything that everybody's done on the staff i want to thank my council colleagues and i thought everybody did a great job today hanging in there and making the comments and thinking this through um and it's top budget no doubt it's not the one we wanted and it is i there is a lot of heartache in it uh it's really tough for our employees and all the new things that we were excited about doing that we can't do it's just the reality we're in i'm i am concerned about the revenue projections uh that i know you all work so hard with the state and others to figure out being overly optimistic and so that gives me uh makes me very supportive of keeping a decent fund balance because i'm worried about it um and you know we've we've we're gonna we've got a lot of things we've already laid out as potential needs uh you know water cutoff related small business related are there going to be other things related to you know eviction diversion and all these kinds of things that we all care so much about we've already said that we would be willing to fund mid-year some property tax relief so all these things are on our list and i think that we're you know we're a very well managed city and i think that this is another example of that as much as it's hard i think you meant to say first go ahead i think you meant to first class well managed city i agree you know we are we are way down the line of no support and i really appreciate council member cabillera pointing that out with no support it's it's definitely been hard to watch the struggle that folks are experiencing and knowing that we we just i can't i can't see raising taxes at this time and yeah thank you thank you thank you everybody i'm gonna we have one more piece of business i'm sorry to say which is we need to hear from the clerk uh about the the positions that we um voted on sorry everybody um and uh madame clerk good evening everyone i'm kind of sorry too but work is work right i guess so okay the first one you've um decided to re-advertise the carolina theater board of trustees you've nominated rachel everhard and carl newman to fill the vacancies on citizen advisory you've nominated julie julie malavade to fill the vacancy on the city county environmental affairs board representing biological science uh you've nominated christopher tones to the homeless services advisory commission and you've decided to re-advertise for the corporate private sector position there were three applicants for the open space and trails but you decided to re-advertise one so you've reappointed derrick beasley and camilla hayward rotini you've nominated carmen williams to the planning commission and you've reappointed susan scott to the Durham sports commission you nominated three applicants to the human relations commission you've reappointed john rooks appointed erik chicone and reappointed nathan plumber and then for the final two there there was um some discrepancy the housing appeals board everyone agreed to reappoint kevin davis and casandra stokes received three votes by um mayor schull councilmember middleton and councilmember freeman and then there were three councilmember um votes to re-advertise the position for the tenant and was that decided to re-advertise no we haven't decided that yet let's hear the women's uh the it's also related to the next one right and then the final one the mayor's council for women uh you voted or you've nominated gloria de los santos to be reappointed for ward three and then there was also a discrepancy here margaret brunson received two votes from councilmember middleton and freeman kermisha ramirez received one vote from mayor schull casandra stokes received three votes from councilmember reese um councilmember caballero and mayor pro tem okay well we've got a conundrum but we're so good at solving those um so casandra stokes has three votes for housing appeals and does she have two or three votes for women's commission it's also three votes for women's commission she was extremely popular she was just popular from different people for different it was unanimous we all voted for okay um so uh how do you would you all like to proceed here um i was going to make a yeah mayor pro tem um i just wanted to say i've been the liaison to and the current liason to the women's commission and then the have been the liason to housing appeals board and i felt that miss stokes skills and interests and background were more um were more fitted for the women's commission um they also have had um they're still kind of trying to figure out like what their place is in the city and what work they want to do um and i felt that she would be a really strong contributor to um to their mission so i just wanted to put it on on women's council okay i'll i'll change my vote to casandra stokes for the women's commission which would give her four um it then though therefore means that she's not she can't be on the housing appeals board so um before we go back to the housing appeals board though let me just say that um i hope colleagues uh i hope uh shea ramirez has been uh applying for things and i think she's great and i hope we'll find a good spot for her in the near future she goes under the name kershimia that's a real name so i just wanted to keep that in mind for the future but now let's go back to the housing appeals board um and tell us again without miss stokes who has votes but also like to say the same thing for miss margaret brunson agreed she has a great application we had good good she was a good candidate mr mayor the housing appeals board um casandra stokes received three votes from yourself and councilmember middleton and freeman and then who else got votes and then there were three votes by council to re-advertise the time because she was the only candidate okay so we'll re-advertise the housing appeals board okay how do we do madam clerk did we finish that we were finished all done you did great mr manager um are we prepared to settle the agenda i think so mr mayor uh what i have is items for consent one three through eleven thirteen through thirty three uh general business gba item twelve gba public hearing for june the 15th items 37 through 40 and item 47 gba public hearing for june the 24th items 41 through 43 and gba public hearings for july the first items 44 through 46 mr manager item 12 is the budget correct colleagues can we put the budget on consent i'm happy to put the budget on consent i feel like we've beaten it today i would just offer that with the way that public comment has worked it might be better to just have some run through or on it just a short version but that's okay maybe we'll we'll put it on gba maybe we won't need a presentation but we can ask if anyone makes wants to make comments good people will make comments mr mayor okay well then it's not a public hearing so we won't uh we won't allow oh yeah you know live comments anyway oh okay got it understood yeah so that we'll hear from people we'll hear from people uh by mail by email and that kind of thing and then we can respond as council members to correct sure by some of the things that get mixed up in the correct yeah so we'll keep that on gba then is there any um that's the only gba item like separate public hearing items correct you all have heard the manager's recommendation to settle the agenda i'll accept the motion second uh motion by council member caballero seconded by council member freeman that was settled the agenda per the manager's recommendation madam clerk will you please call the roll mayor shul uh mayor pro tem johnson hi council member caballero hi council member freeman yet oh god i i i vote yay yay yay thank you the longest work session of my tenure this is it good job everybody thank you everyone the motion carries unanimously the agenda is settled um i believe that there is no more business to come before this council and i'm going to declare this meeting adjourned at six fifty six thank you all night everybody bye see you next


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This is a composite presentation by two persons for this particular reason. So let me start by stating the obvious, since I've been the teacher for the whole of my professional life, so I'm stating the obvious to start with. We are talking about archaeological collections. Very broadly speaking, archaeological collections in general are treated by, observed by, perceived by. Something is done to them by two groups of, well, two groups of individuals, two groups with different starting positions. One is professionals, which is us, and second is the public. We should bear in mind that somehow what we do with the collections eventually ends up in one way or another, in one form or another, in some public domain. So there is definitely some kind of relationship between professionals dealing with the collections and non-professionals or the wider public also wanting to know something. Otherwise, we would be completely redundant. If the public, the people not being professionals, were not interested in what we are doing, then what the hell? So those professionals are, in fact, offering or are supposed to offer some kind of an invitation of these archaeological collections for the public. So again, there are two ways of doing it. First of all, by presentation, which is quite conventionally thought of as a museum practice. So there are people, professionals doing interpretation in order to present things in the museums. On the other hand, there is research, of course, and research is somehow seen as a thing located very, very firmly in academia. So we have people doing in museums, people presenting things in museums, and on the other hand, people researching and doing some kind of academic, very serious work. And for one reason or another, especially in the, judging by the experience from my own academic community, from my own professional community in the country I come from, these two groups of professionals don't communicate quite well. And that's one of the reasons that Tatiana, who is a museum expert and myself, who come from academia, decided trying to do things together and to try thinking over this bridge inside the professional community dealing with collections. So what we are going to talk today is more or less one of our efforts, one of our attempts to try and bridge the gap inside the professional community dealing with collections. So we, in fact, have the same professional training, but for the best part of our professional lives, we have different experiences, different aims, and more or less different priorities. And there's quite a lot of very severe problems for our profession. So to start from my point of view, somebody had to be first. Not the professor. Let us, for the sake of argument, imagine that there is some definite thing called the past. And that definite thing called the past, of course, is a kind of a construct, but for the sake of the argument, as I said, let's start there. And now I'm building very hardly on the things done by Kevin Lucas, and he's talked about total record. So one part of this, the past, is then being preserved because of all kinds of physical and other agencies. Yet smaller part of it is being retrieved by archeologists. Even smaller part of it is being studied by archeologists. And finally, we are shrinking to the part which is presented. And in each and every cycle of selection, there are some intentional and unintentional criteria that are being employed in order to shrink these cycles. So what we get in the end is a very small part percentage of the whole possible potential past that we might be collecting, studying, and presenting. So from the point of view of an academic archeologist doing research, that's how things are for me. And now a slightly different view is going to be presented by time. Oh, sorry, it's not. So now we are moving to the Ringelow Museums and we do have there something that is archeological record that our colleagues are sometimes nice, sometimes not nice to give us. While they are giving us my lot of material. It is great when the material is coming to the museum and it could be acquired in completely different ways. One is research done by a museum or by an institution. And then happily we do have all the data we need to explain that record. And they could come as well as gifts or donation or purchases and probably most of the time with not really accurate and really true data that we have. So we are insisting on the context. We are then processing material, making that selection even smaller, doing first our favorite description. And then we are categorizing things into something called the collection and something called static collection, giving already that some kind of selection. And then we are valorizing those objects first of all in the terms in my country, is it really normal cultural heritage or is it extraordinary? But basically we are valorizing objects in the terms of could they be exhibited? So do they possess quality to be in some kind of presentation?  And you know that usual numbers for museums are, the most is 10% and I think that people are usually lying about that because it's not. And then finally you have some kind of mediation. So in that process you have several selections going again, several psychoses, but in this case one very important moment is really moment of categorizing because that is the moment that objects are transforming into heritage and they are now written in the records as something that is recognized in heritage and the moment of exhibition when they are losing the context we really wanted in the first place. We don't really care in museum about context because you're never ever going to reconstruct the context that someone else destroyed. And then we are doing it by the criteria that are really connected with the training that basically personal, even if there is a policy of a climate that acquisition we are doing it personally, we are doing that very intentionally and we are not objective at all. So we are not neutral. So every our decision about what to keep, how to divide, what to collect, what to exhibit or more importantly what not is really very subjective and very political and connected with different aims, objectives and everything even if we have same training. And we wanted to show you really on the example of the collection of the National Museum how those selected representation of the past finally look. So for the National Museum in Belgrade which is the central institution of Serbia, museum institution, Asian, Greece and in this busy talk was from the 1930s. We then gained the beautiful building which was previously meant to be a court building and it was under the name of the Museum of Principle and a huge part of it was re-collection. Then represented the museum with the idea to show really European origin of our culture and connections with European ideas. Then in a new building in the 1950s when we got the new building which was previously a bank central Greece was even physically in focus because it's the atrium type building which continued until 98. And again Greece being in focus but do we really have Greek sites in Serbia? We don't. All the material is coming from the excavations National Museum done in Montenegro and in Macedonia. Finally, in one point of time we got our own Greek site which was the obviously most northern site with Greek material and most southern site with Celtic material. And we were so happy, it is called Kalikršica and it is beautiful and very important site. And we were so thrilled and the excavations were done by Archimagic List, the Geotank by National Museum and the Museum. We made a couple of exhibitions showing them not just in Belgrade but in other cities in Serbia and as well as in Slovenia in one moment of time. Finishing with great big exhibition with a strange message that you are going to hear more about after us. But after that great big exhibition that took like 80% of our exhibition space Kalikršivica is now in our new display just one showcase. So did we shrank the importance of Kalikršivica or what is going on with that? So the site is still relevant. The site is really very important but as we want to show and we are basically showing in our permanent displays those prestigious windows of tower and progress and idea of how old nation is and how beautiful things are. We were creating kind of very false past and history and expecting and that is happening the public to bow to our authority and what I'm asking and what is happening is how our collections are really mediating past in this way. What tiny little part of the past we are doing. This collection is now, Kalikršivica is now in inventory of the National Museum of Allegrate Greek and Hellenistic collection but that's not the only thing that we have. We have some other important things that. So among the collections in the National Museum among the objects held in the National Museum of Allegrate are things from the Princeton graves and I won't dwell upon Princeton graves it's another issue but that was a particular focus of my research as a researcher and I was doing stuff such as this thing which is from Novipazar and also another thing held in the Museum of Belgrade which is material from Trebenista. So I simply took out of the collection of the Greek collection in the National Museum the pieces I wanted to take care of to think about to study. So I simply fragmented again not only myself that's what we do. I took out of the collection the pieces I wanted to study. So they are together they are physically stored together does that make them a collection? Or perhaps collecting and collating through research I was making another collection. I was in fact devising, constructing another collection by joining these artifacts with another simple set of, similar set of artifacts which was found in another museum. So I was in fact joining the material from the National Museum of Belgrade with the museum in Sofia with the museum in Sarajevo collating in fact all kinds of different material different collections, different physical collections different museum collections into my own assemblage for the sake of my own research. I was merging collections in order to back up my authority of researcher. So in fact, the collection may be what is collected in physical sense but also a collection that we are making through research sometimes doesn't overlap neatly with what's being stored together. We are in fact inventing collections all over again. Now back to that. Yeah, so as you saw the first slide with Treveniste and this is actually one site divided in three, three states. Three states? Yeah, so we have on one side that authority of creator and we have collections. So what were our question about the different cycles of selection and election because I really do think and we both think that our authority is really creating what do we think it's heritage and archeological material. So are the collections things that are sorted and packed or just part revealed because the public can't see everything. And when we are thinking about that you have to really be aware that we are talking, we were talking today quite a lot about history of what's happening in about 19th century and 20th century but what we are doing now is the same thing. So we have also really interesting histories of collections happening right now and you have really to be aware what we are doing, both of us, what researchers are doing with giving us material, what archeologists, creators are doing, showing material and we are so proud, museums are really proud that we have all the evidence thinking it is real. It is really showing something but with that kind of selection, my question is really, oh, sorry, that's not my question. I'm sorry. Yeah. Is this selection when you neatly pack your material and put it in a storage? What kind of selection is that and what kind of accessibility we do really have? And we had to think about that because really what we are doing now and what kind of selection we are making and what kind of connections we are making is really creating archeological heritage for the future. And we do have to think about practices and we have to think about new policies and we have to think about better cooperation in between two of us. Yeah. Thank you.


So now that we have enabled working with macro, it's time to actually work with a macro. One of the big things that we can focus in on here is the idea that we can actually record our tasks and then actually kind of automate that process out for ourselves. So one of the things you notice inside of this code section is this record macro button. Now when I click on this, what this is actually going to do is now it's going to ask me how do you, what do you want to do? Like what do you want to name this macro? What do you want to do with it? Well say for example, just to kind of see it, this guy right here, this is a receipt, right? So I want to go ahead and have this be the only thing that gets printed out. And I want to export it out as a PDF all in one motion, all in one thing. So what I can do is I can call this PDF receipt. And now I actually can give it a shortcut key. I can actually say that if the user, for example, were to hold Ctrl R, R for receipt, what that's going to do is suddenly that's going to activate our macro. Now we haven't made it yet. We actually are about to, as soon as I hit OK, notice what appeared up here. Suddenly stop recording. When I finish doing whatever I'm doing, I would click stop recording because that's going to now kind of bundle it up into a nice little bow. So the first thing I want to go ahead and do is I'm going to go ahead and click hold and highlight my area. Now again, like I said, this is sort of my, this is the receipt. This is what I want to have printed out. Now again, I have to actually specify that. Right now I've just highlighted out my information. This is the only thing I want to print out. Well, if we venture way back to the earlier days of Excel, we talked about the print layout section and we had this print area section. Now if I come in here and I say set print area, what that's going to do is now because this is the only thing highlighted, if I come into print preview, that's the only thing that's going to get printed. So suddenly that allows me to now have this one area printed. Now just to kind of do a little bit more, I want to center this just to kind of make it look a little cleaner. So I can actually come into my page setup section and I'm going to make my margin so that it is centered horizontally on the page. Notice it's a little horizontal. And I'm going to give it a custom header of registration receipt. Now when I hit OK, again, all I've done is formatting. I still have to do the action of printing this out. So I'm just going to name it as a PDF, for example.  Once I say create PDF, I give it a name. For example, I'm going to call it receipt.pdf and for me I'm going to save it to my desktop. I like to save things to the desktop and I'm going to hit publish. Now as you can see it pulled up and it's going to give me a sneak preview of one for me.  Now inside of my macros section I can actually see I have that available to me. Let's actually give it a shot. Let's change this from myself to Susan. Susan is of the, I don't know, U7 Leagues. She wears a small and her sock size is small, I guess. I don't know sock sizes so I'm going to assume that's small. And we'll go ahead and say that Susan's parent is also James Smith as well. But she didn't register on time. So now we have that entire setup. So again if I go through my process I can either click record macro, I'm sorry not record macro. I can run the macro and say to run it. Or because we specified a keyboard shortcut I'm going to go ahead and hold control and I'm going to press R. Look at all the stuff that happened there on the fly. Suddenly I have Adobe Acrobat Reader up with Susan's receipt ready. And just in case you guys can't see it, you guys can't even, let's say, screen to monitor screen to. Here's that receipt as soon as I open it up. There's Susan. Beautiful.


Hey everyone, so today we have to talk about the Activision Blizzard FTC versus Microsoft case, not because we're gonna go into all the nitty-gritty details and some of the interesting stuff coming up, but because it turns out that we might know roughly how powerful the next generation Nintendo Switch is gonna be and I'm using the term next generation on purpose because the system has now been referenced several times today in court as the NG Switch and they are shortening the original phrase next generation Switch and this is because, believe it or not, Shintura Furukawa was mentioned today in court and it turns out that Nintendo and Activision CEO, Bobby Kotek and president of Nintendo, Shintura Furukawa have been in direct communication about Nintendo's plans for their next generation device. This is not a drill, this is an actual thing we have recorded records of this. The case is still ongoing right now, there's still like three or four hours of testimony left to go in today's proceedings, but what we have right now is extremely interesting information and yeah, of course, a lot of it's centraled on call of duty so you might not care about call of duty but you probably do care about what the Switch specs actually will be. Now, before we dive into what those specs are, thank you so much for being here, if you're enjoying the video, I'd appreciate if you would subscribe, we're on our road to 150,000 subscribers so I would just appreciate if you drop those likes and maybe go down in the comments below and let me know if you're excited for a potential next generation device. Now, a caveat before we get into what Bobby Kotick said, I want to note that just because we are talking about this today does not mean the Switch 2 is coming this year. Nate, the hate is put out there that he thinks by the end of the year we will start to hear a lot more murmurs and information on the system but obviously he's heavily implying it's a 2024 release but let's get into what was said today because why was the future Nintendo platform brought up? Well, a big sticking point right now in Call of Duty is it coming to additional platforms if this deal is approved because obviously the trying to prove this is anti-competitive, it coming to Nintendo for 10 years is sort of the opposite of being anti-competitive. So Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard was on the stand and was brought up with several things, several things we learned. One, he was asked why Call of Duty wasn't on Switch already and he basically admitted, yeah, I had the prototype of the Switch and I didn't think it was gonna sell well and that was a mistake on our part. So he basically admitted, hey, we had Nintendo's prototype of the Nintendo Switch and I made a bad judgment call that it wasn't gonna sell well and so we never really went in active development for Switch and as the years gone by, obviously the Switch got really popular and blew up, he just sort of sat there realizing that he missed the boat and he really wishes that he could have gone back in time and supported the Nintendo Switch from day one. So he admits that he made an executive decision that was incorrect and that's just the way it is. Now he was asked the technical capabilities of Switch and if Call of Duty could run on it and he said, I don't really know, we've never really tried just kind of throwing all that out there because again, they've never actively tried to make Call of Duty for Switch and then he asked, well, with the support of Microsoft and their teams, can you make a version for Nintendo Switch and he unequivocally said yes and then can you make it for several years and he unequivocally said yes. So he was in lockstep with Microsoft on saying, hey, with Microsoft support and money, well, yeah, we can probably make a Switch version of the game, they asked how well the Switch version were running and he said, well, we haven't actually made it so how can I actually, it's a question that he can't really answer. But there were some interesting things like he didn't find out about the 10-year contract between Nintendo and Microsoft for Call of Duty until he saw it in a news article which to be clear, isn't the most shocking thing in the world because part of this agreement to buy Activision Blizzard, there is part of the agreement actually removes Bobby Kotek as CEO of Activision Blizzard. So he wouldn't need to be involved in any of the contract negotiations that only kick in if the merger occurs. So it's not really surprising that Phil Spencer would not have called up Bobby to try to get his approval on this 10-year deal with Nintendo because again, it wouldn't be Bobby's call in the first place, right? So he wouldn't have to have direct communication with Phil Spencer on it. So he personally didn't find out about the deal till then and he really thinks that the deal is more about the next generation switch and that's where the next generation switch came up was when Bobby Kotek said that this is really about the next generation switch and he was asked several questions on if the merger happens or if the merger doesn't happen, what would happen. They asked him specifically, would call of duty, if this merger didn't happen, would call of duty come to the next generation switch and he basically said, well, if it has the specs and performance that we think it does, then it is definitely something that we would consider doing and then he was asked to fully commit to just bringing it to the Nintendo switch, the next generation switch and he said that's not something I can make a comment on at this time. Then they said, if the merger happens, will it come? And he's like, well, as you know, there's already been a document signed. So yes, if the merger happens, it will be on the next generation switch. And he said, what would prevent it from being on the next generation switch without a merger? And he said, well, you know, I don't have all the exact details, but you know, if the system isn't that powerful or something and we couldn't get a good version running, but again, this is all hypothetical. And then he said, well, how powerful is the next generation switch? And then this is where Shantara Furukawa was brought up and it turns out that Activision and Nintendo have already been talking about the next generation switch. This was something already happening before the merger even occurred. And it turns out that Nintendo had been informing Bobby Kotek of details for the next generation switch. Now, I wanna be clear, Bobby Kotek stated they do not have any dev units. So he does not have a dev unit to base this on. This is just based on direct communication with Shantara Furukawa from Nintendo being told the rough estimates of what to expect for this thing. So now when we get into how powerful this next generation switch is supposed to be, I wanna note, we can't give you exact specs. We can just give you a comparison because this is a comparison that Nintendo gave to Bobby Kotek. All right, so now that we have that out of the way, what was said? The next generation switch is expected to be as powerful as a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Now, that is not shocking, but that is exactly what he said. And he said, hey, we've been putting Call of Duty and stuff on that stuff for years. We don't see any problem, you know, if this is correct that we would bring it to that switch. But the point is that we now have actual communication from someone at Nintendo involved in this court case, basically stating the next generation switch is gonna be at least as powerful as a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Now, this isn't including any possible DLS or off-scaling or anything that could potentially make it look like it's punching above its weight, but it is right about what many of us expected. A lot of us thought it would be like PlayStation 4, maybe PlayStation 4 Pro level, especially when you include DLS, SS and all that. And the Xbox Series S is actually not that far off from a PlayStation 4 Pro in terms of what they're both capable of. So I do think that that's actually kind of good news. It's kind of good news that it'll be at least as powerful as that. Nintendo's not trying to undershoot again and go with too low a specs and look, a portable PlayStation 4 in your pocket is really, really, really good. Now, obviously this would probably still be a hybrid system and still hook up on your TV, but the bottom line is if they're using more modern architecture, it's probably gonna be more capable than a PlayStation 4 and probably have features like DLSS to support it, maybe even ray tracing, although probably on a much lower level, then you can get on a Series X or Series S or on the PlayStation 5, but still, obviously Nintendo was never given us a PlayStation 5 in our pockets. That's just, that's not something that's feasible, even like Steam Deck and other things like that aren't there. Now, when we talk about how this compares to something like a Steam Deck, well, is a Steam Deck as powerful as a PlayStation 4? And the answer is sort of, yeah. The Steam Deck, with its architecture, sort of runs somewhere between a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro, and this seems to be right in the ballpark that Nintendo would be aiming for, obviously using Nvidia Tech, which is going to be different than the Ryzen stuff anyways. It's gonna be different than AMD. So there'll be some benefits to Nvidia stuff, maybe some shortcomings, but the point is that if you like Steam Deck, you pretty much have an idea of the performance that this next generation Switch is going to have, which, look, that's pretty good. Steam Deck can pretty much run everything. So that's pretty good. I gotta say they price this correctly. If they come in at $299, even 350 max, but they come in at $299, that is a killer price point for basically a Nintendo Switch Steam Deck. So we'll have to wait and see if any of this is true. Obviously, these were just conversations. As always to note, we can't talk about final specs because Nintendo didn't give Bobby Kotek final specs of the system, but it's very interesting that it came up, and we'll be keeping our ears to the ground if this starts to spurn other conversations, because we do know that dev units are out there with certain very specific game developers, and maybe they've been unwilling to talk about stuff because of NDAs and all of that, but now that this is sort of coming out there from a legal perspective, like this is legally available information now, that maybe we start to hear those murmurs pop up a little bit sooner than even Nate The Hate expected, which he didn't think would begin until pretty much later in this year, maybe around the holiday season. So I don't know guys, you let me know what you think about this down in the comments below. I am Nathaniel Rubblejance from Nintendo Prime, and I'll catch you guys in the next video.


I think that I'm ready to drive over the road like it's a whole other experience no I think I got it after doing that what's it called the simulator okay like I think I got it figured out now I've worked with some of amazing drivers over the years and even though I will only be able to experience a small part of it I want to better understand the challenges that are endured while living a life on the road okay cotton are we taking this to like a mattress place what do they do with it we're taking it to Calcott what Calcott does is they take it off of our trailers they'll store it there and then they'll load it on the port trailers going overseas to China I don't unfortunately but this isn't a port load they just do port their own no they transfer it there do we then haul it on that one of our containers over do you know that would be like I'm not sure but I think we do yeah I've seen our port guys there before hmm do they have to take take some of the cotton out it's just the whole thing goes over because it's all it's all in the bags yeah we just can't load it into the port containers at our instructions are we can either load it on a drive-in trailer or a drifter trailer but not a port trailer are you jealous I am supposed to get one really you don't get when you're local exactly I'm just kidding that's exactly why I went local so I I'm keeping this truck you don't get all the fancy things oh he is hugging the right real close why oh oh nice timing this road is notorious for that do you think that they redo it and then it just gets terrible again because of all the weight that runs through here I don't know if they've ever read on it it's all patchwork you can see yeah they've repaired them but it's not the same how many trucks come on coming down the road today with the roofing company here we got dominoes right here that's an old truck old freight liner oh and an old night I'm ready to drive over the road like it's a whole other experience no I think I got it after doing that what's it called the simulator okay like I think I got it figured out like that turn how you went wide like that I knew that already honestly so when I was in Ireland the road the lanes are so small you obviously you drive on the other side of the road the driver sits on the other side of the truck and there were obviously truck drivers they're like moving freight around there yes they did I don't so I think it self is so small you don't even need a sleeper berb now you really don't but you know cab over they're gonna have a better turn radius and oh yeah that's true because they're shorter great because the very front of truck is the wheels oh yeah that yeah yeah yeah so you're not gonna have to have you don't have a big nose sticking out like we do yeah well they have no room to navigate there their roads are just so tiny so that's good that they use that how long have you been at night now see my one year solo will be April 11th I started through Squire in February last year nice who hired you Emily CDL school okay how cool how was the CDL program it was awesome yeah so you did CDL school with us why did you choose to come to our CDL program all the research I did really the night had the better deal yeah as far as repayment program went just the reviews for night were much better than the other companies where did you look at the reviews everywhere yeah I spent a good two weeks doing all my research did you look at like YouTube videos as well as like Google reviews and Facebook reviews that's cool that makes me feel good I'm one of those research for everything yeah good so my dad always is I picked up from that I mean it's a big decision like deciding where you're going to get your CDL did you have any regrets with your decision no I love the company I mean it's especially the team that I'm on players in a great team they're taking care of me and they've been there when I needed them and who's your favorite person on the team Joe's been Joe Stefani has been my DM pretty much the entire time yeah even when you were Squire or yeah my trainer Steve Higby had Joe as his DM Higby that so I went from having Joe with her DM been with Steve and then Joe was my DM when I got off Steve's truck so you started over the road when you did Squire when you were with a trainer you were over the road yes and then and then I started doing soak out turns okay I'm back and then how often did you get home with that one I was home almost every week oh and even more so right like during the yeah I just do all night at home because you know I live four miles from the yard oh nice so I was delivering a load I'd stay here at night and go home and go see your wife and baby yeah baby girl so then when you talked to them about wanting to go back to school then they worked with you on doing something local so that you could do both yeah and they were very good because of what I'm going to school for is there's a position here at night for it what I'm going for it oh yes they want they were doing everything they can to keep me here and I didn't want to leave to begin with yeah but I knew I couldn't do over the road while trying to get my degree at the same time yeah you know internet not always a guaranteed thing out there yeah truck stops you usually have to pay for it are you doing online I am or do you have any in-person classes all online for now are you using your GI bill or did you already use that because you're a military yeah no I'm not using the GI so you've been a year what's your favorite part about night so far that I can truly walk into the office and people know who I am you're not I mean it's you see the signs that everyone says you're not a number it's actually true yeah it's hard to convey that because every other trucking company says that too they do like in all of their advertising and stuff oh no scrubbing off the graffiti yep how interesting this gets here why there's a spring training stadium up here nice I think the Milwaukee Brewers play up here oh I appear in this vicinity there are a ton of teams in town right now yeah and Sonny my uncle usually flies in every year about this time since he's retired now to go to different spring training games section I'm doing it this year though it's not really you just had another grandbaby oh so he's probably too caught up in that where does he live he lives in right outside of Cincinnati Ohio but on the other side of the border in Indiana don't remember the name of the city that he's actually in but it's on the outskirts of Cincinnati because he was a doctor in Cincinnati oh nice what kind he's a pathologist so they are the ones that they read all the different tests one of the bigger than the more famous pathologist right now is the guy that discovered CTE and football it's the head injuries and he's a pathologist and that's kind of the same one so it's a very investigative type of medicine which all medicine yeah that's for sure that would be a fun job I love interpreting data so that would be right I usually have family from Illinois that comes into for the games I feel like it's all people from the Midwest I mean the weather there is usually pretty terrible so family services summer is this a nice facility I've never been look at these lurkers the other side of the fence that's trying to watch the game although it's not that's not the actual part of the game I think I've been to one spring training game and I was born and raised here so I grew up down the street from the Cubs Spring Training Facility they're all come and I went to that one all the time oh you did okay all the time and when I was growing up a lot more to teams played down in Tucson as well the dime backs were down in Tucson so I never once a dime message unless they were playing the Cubs here why would they go somewhere else to do training spring training but in two locations done here is the floor all the team travel except for the time so they just travel from chase and then no games are played at face field but it's it's kind of just the history of the game where spring training is always played in an outdoor facility it's always better weather who wants to play baseball at Wrigley Field right now or you could play at Sloan stadium it doesn't get cold enough here to need to go somewhere else for spring training so there's three different spring training leagues I could be very wrong about this I don't remember I think the world was called the great bootleague and one here is called the cactus league very fitting yes we have a lot of cactus but it's I remember as a kid it's not horrible but I'd skip school with my family some day isn't it go after spring training game it's always done like morning afternoon responsible I think every parent have a really allowed their children to miss school at some point or another for or not a good reason especially if you're gonna like if you're gonna go to Disneyland now you got to do it during school season like in the middle of the week otherwise you're gonna pay a fortune and wait horrible lines is it bad that I don't want to go to Disneyland ever again this is a very weird facility oh yeah it's very open it looks like an old Air Force base and that's actually they used to have a lot more of these buildings and you'll see where they used to be this is weird is it the hole down there oh yeah why is there a water tower I don't know what are we doing we have to scale in and scale out oh what's this next or where are we going now following the arrows on the pavement in a circle yep so then I'll go park and I'll go take the paperwork up to the window they keep a copy I'll keep two and then I go back and I'll unload us and I give that guy one copy and I keep a copy let's go since we don't have that other load could go drop this empty number Bob tail so we're scaling out yeah scaling out they'll record that and that's what they'll send in for the billing oh the difference yep 77 78,000 yes yeah like 78 7 and that's what I was reading off before my mirror that red sign yep that's our gross weight so it's 43,000 pounds almost even except you if you want to go back to drop the trailer and then grab something if we can find something on the way that's fine but I don't know we'll be able to park we'll go drop it we went to we flew into Dublin and we booked the whole trip through this website called European destinations.com did you do the Guinness Brewery yes if you didn't go if you went to Ireland he didn't do the Guinness Brewery did you really go to Ireland I mean it was so it wasn't my favorite thing I'm gonna be honest with you Guinness is not my favorite beer either but they did say that the Guinness in Ireland is different than the Guinness throughout the country well throughout the world because they put formaldehyde in it when they ship it over for a preservative which is so disgusting so I had a pint of Guinness that I poured myself at the Guinness factory when we were in Dublin that we spent in Dublin I think we walked like 15 miles or something because everything it's just easier to walk there to get around we went to see castles like Dublin Castle cathedrals I think St. Patrick's Cathedral is one of them there's just so much good food there and the brown bread they serve brown bread with like everything and it's basically just like Irish soda bread like made with baking soda instead of yeast and it's so dense and heavenly then after Dublin we went to a place called Ennis and we drove we stayed there for two nights and had really really good Italian food very proper like they're influenced heavily by London because it's like an hour flight and they do a lot of teas and like tea time and so much Nutella which is the best thing. I've actually never had Nutella. Oh my gosh. Why? Who raised you, Brandon? Why? I don't remember that. It's so good. Yeah my mom never bought Nutella when I was younger. What? When you buy Nutella at Costco it's cheaper than peanut butter is. Oh is that really? Yeah. It's like yeah I suppose. It's because it's a fad thing now. I mean it's true. It's so good. It's so bad for you though. I'm a firm believer if it ain't broke don't fix it. You need to try Nutella. Like peanut butter is not even in the same category as Nutella. Where's their truck parking? I feel your pain right now with not being able to eat wherever. That never crosses my mind like if my vehicle will fit in the parking lot. This is Lur. I haven't seen one of those in a while. Right? Wow. We're going sis. What? We're gonna have a wide man catch up. Nope. Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Nope. Do you know what he's talking about? I do know what he's talking about. Don't admit it. Say no. We can then say that he's just old and we're too young to know what he's talking about. It's a cold thing. That's what people know. It was a 90s movie. I mean it's not that old. You weren't born yet. I was. Oh. What were you born? 91. Oh. You weren't born yet. You're the same age as my little brother. Oh how cute. So I have an SUV. Like a small one. And I really like to go off-roading. Okay. And really enjoy it. Okay. My SUV is all-wheel drive. It's not four-wheel drive. Okay. And the ground, the clearance is not very high. Okay. So I was at the lake at Lake Pleasant and back of the lake and with my dogs and we were driving along on the dirt road and there was a boulder and I thought that we had plenty of clearance. And you didn't. And it stopped us. Like dead in our tracks. Like I hit a wall. It just stopped us. And my dogs like went flying forward. And I think because the ground on either side of the rock was soft so I'd like sink in a little bit. Yeah. So everything was like the car drove okay. And then four days, five days later my fuel pump went out which like that has nothing to do with what stopped me. You know like very separate issues I think anyways. So my car still at the shop because the fuel pump is on back order. It depends on where your fuel pump is located. It's in the back. On the driver's side. Well I'm pretty sure. Because there's two different kinds of fuel pumps. There's ones that are actually in your fuel tank. And then there's fuel pumps that are actually located up near the engine. Oh. That works kind of like a vacuum system. Oh. For a pole's fuel. So it just depends. Oh. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I don't think that's a road. It's not. So I had my older brother look under the undercarriage part and he told me that okay so you know the metal bit that holds the engine up. Well I broke it. I can't have pictures. But I like crumpled the metal. Not enough to where it like completely pushed the whole like metal bit back. But it like crumpled the metal. Is that bad? So depends. I'd have to see it now for sure. Because but. It cannot affect the body of the car. Most likely no. Okay. So it's hard to say for sure. Everybody to listen. Steve's sleeping right there. Yeah Steve fell asleep. Unintentionally doing intermittent fasting today. The things you have done to come get this delicious Mexican food sir. I have no idea. Do you think it looked good? I was translating some of the stuff because I don't know what it means. Like close to the end. What are you getting sir? I'm getting that tamales. They have it in their name. They gotta be good. You'll pick middle. What happened? This will turn purple. And then someone will push it for you. And then you're ready to go. Okay. Final comfortable. You've never played this? Wow you did really good then. Yeah she did really awesome. I don't know this game. 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Hello and welcome and welcome to Scene Lighting. Today we're doing a cinematography breakdown for the video I've been thinking by the artist, Tyler. And I think it was shot by the director, Mejiela B, and cinematographer, Matthew M. Vinn, EMVIN, I don't know if I'm pronouncing it correctly. But yeah, here's another break video falling up from the lighting breakdown where I will just catch up and do some of these interesting ways on how you can approach your lighting and take some concepts from these talented artists and creators and say how you can apply to your own local library of projects and see how they can help you get more out of it. We're also running a competition whereby we're giving out $8,000. You could check in the link below to see if you've not joined. It ends by June, so get in the family, get in the tribe and let's all make great wins together. So without going much, let's just first of all scrub through the video. This one is quite interesting because one of those video whereby the camera move played a lot, although the lighting actually was still amazing, but a lot of the interest and the energy came from how the camera motion could deliver such kind of energy that translated into the visuals that we see. So we start with a pullout shot whereby the camera just pulls out and we cut to some other bureau shot and we continue to pull out and we continue some beauty shots, creating interest, body frame, slake, everything. It continues for a bit and we go into some performance shot and some more bureaus and just dynamic camera move. So we're just like scrolling through it just to have an overview of what the entire video is. So she's dancing and she's been thinking. I do not know the lyrics of the song, so but yeah, it's just more in objective visuals. Look at me shaking, shaking, shaking. Have a great body. There's this cool guy. He's all sweaty and oily and he has snake eyes and I'm on a pedestal. Like it looks like a cake and there's... Oh yeah, there's this one Kawaii effect where he's in slow shutter. You can see here and everybody's like all hazy and the guy's like looking moving slower. This is usually done by shooting at the very slow shutter speed. So you have more motion blur in frame. Like you can see here, you have like more motion blur and a lot of the levels in this video is a lot very low. Like there's a lot of underexposure going on but it's really talented artists. So there's a lot of really separation that's happening. So if we turn on our first color for this bit, you would notice like, you can see how low the exposure is. Like it's just the skin on zone and it's set around one stop underexposed already and the next side is like already going to three stops underexposed. So most likely to be able to get this cleaner shadows, you may have like shoot at lower eyes. So it's like maybe at your 400 or something that's below the normal rated so you can move the dynamic range of the camera down into the shadow parts you get and I will just scroll through it so that we can like scroll through faster. So we have like performance shots. We have like the camera moves and back to that same scene that's by the car in different costumes, the same scene. So it's just a call of several scenes on different camera angles and we'll end at the end of the video. Okay, so let's go to the beginning and actually now break this properly. Great. So we start with a pull out on a steady cam and this is like the same room setting but if you look, you can see like, this would be the top view of the couple of shutters yet to come. Presently, if you look at this shot, you can see the light is coming from the right hand side and it's quite hard based on this pillow shadows that you can observe here and there's also like some other light source here that's also diffusing this shadow here that's coming up on the rails which becomes more evident when we go into this shot as this shot also is also a continuation for another interesting shot I will show in the future. So yes, if you look at this shot now you can see what I'm saying. There's a soft hop method that's going here soft on the body. I mean, hard on the body, soft on the face. You can see the oils is picking much of the highlights of the light that's coming through. We can see the shadow that's coming here and also on this rail, we have like foreground interest that is adding dynamicness to the frame just to eliminate the whole boringness of the shot. And we have more beauty shots that's just designed to show calls and sex appeals or beauty appeals. I guess that's like the bane of most music videos. That continues for a bit. We caught back to that same shot again. We continue, yes. Now here's an interesting shot that we're looking together. So if you look at this shot, there's a lot of things that's happening. We have this neck wall that's happening across the frame here that's creating the negative side, the downside you can see on her face. Over the neck wall, we have like some HMI or sky panel that is lighting this wall creating the entire wash that creates the contrast against the cold temperature of tungsten that's coming in from in the windows with hard light creating these lines of visual interest. What do you have leading lines that's created by this building to create like a vanishing point in terms of the framing? And we have like a side key source that is, we have like a side key source coming in from the left side of the frame that's actually becoming her key and also a top light that you can see but in no shadow and also the line that's actually coming to give this definition and shape to the face. You get, and I think it's a lot more isolated because it's not spinning over to the ladies on the side. It's just well on her. And I think for the side, yeah, for the side source is just merely chipping in and raising this side of the frame while we have like our neck that this wall's becoming our neck that's creating this contrast. If we check our first color, it's a lot more obvious that it's been lit from the top. You can see all the gray and the neutral gray is coming in from the highlight to the chest while most of the downside that's coming from the neck of the wall where we have like two stops on the exposure is coming from the right side of the frame as opposed to this side that is just one stop over one stop on the expose compared to that. So the contrast ratio here is not that much. You get, and middle gray is still existing on the wall but we have either the sky panel or the HMI that's making those levels and the windows are actually one stop slash, yeah, a couple of stops. Just one stop or some points that some hotspots are two stops over exposed but all it's just to create visual interest. You get, so the ones that are in shot like this ones are the ones that like two stops over exposed but the rest are just one stop over exposed. So everything is just within a small contrast ratio gap of like one to two stop which is not as steep as our last week video whereby we're working with sky, open-ended exteriors. Here's a lot more interiors and in this shot they're gonna repeat it later in the future but with a change of costume. Now you can now see what I'm saying of the side key that's coming in because you can now see there's like a red, a clearly red key that's actually adding to the tungsten field that's actually coming in on her. So just like the other shot wherever you can now see the headlights not coming up more to the face here. Same scene, more bureaus, same alleyway shot but I believe the same alleyway because of the walls but I may be wrong but you have Titan tubes for interest, a lot of string lights just to create visual interest, some toppy sauce. Now the cameras won't do most of the heavy work creating movement that actually makes it more appealing and all these signs that's on the side like the light signs on the left and the right that just also creating more visual interest. If you continue now there's a whip hand by Steadycam that creates more dynamic zoom into the next scene. We continue with some top lights and it's like oil skin is like the theme of the video to be able to catch most of this highlight since most of the time they're underexposing. So the shine from the oil gives us like the most interesting part that they want our eyes to go to. Yeah, so we get more of that with some DMX programming that's creating most of this pulsing effects which is the hallmark of a music video creating visual interest. It continues for a whole lot of it. As you can see, it's just way more toppy. You can see the shadows, the player defines almost like it's more smaller sauce due to the hardness of the shadows and where it's coming from. And the mirror creates depth because you have this in the foreground and that is like the main frame of the shot and the rest is like lost into darkness like you can see. Most of the shot, the room tone keeps it just barely underexposed so it doesn't fall just black into the shadows and it doesn't have a noisy shadows. So you have like the room tone that's actually keeping us two stops underexposed on the background and the key is just one or a half stop underexposed judging by our lackman zone. I really like lackman zone because it really allows me to see the ratio that exists within the entire image. Then we continue to the interest whereby we have the choreography and the pushing in with the wide angle where you have way more interest because it's just more interesting going through hands of people so that continues for a bit. Now here's another interesting one. So for this, we have our DMXC playing a role because you can still see the pulsing light but there's this whole toppy sauce and a small field that's actually raising up this side of her face you get that mixed up key light because if you turn on first color you can see just barely keeping it half stop underexposed here and we have like the background windows that are actually creating visual interest all to draw our eyes into this part of the frame in jet black. So that's why it's a low key video it's not like that noisy you get and we have like the main key like that's coming from the other side of the glass whereby you can see it's on the forehead and you have like a neck on this side the camera stays on the shadowy side to be able to go from like dark to light to dark again to light to dark and just keeping on creating visual interest. So the video continues, we're back at the dance hall if we'll call this a dance hall we have the chandeliers for interest most of this frosted windows to be able to give texture to the environment why it's been lit so those are like the I would like to call them the room tones why most of the moving heads are the ones that are creating like dynamic light into it so there's all of that going on to be able to highlight people like in the background thereby get like more hot sauce and stuff but you can see just the key but for some ever reason the face is in the shade though I was thinking maybe like a full spot or something to be able to just elevate the face but all this could be depending on the architecture that the cinematographer is just facing you get so you can see most of the light seems to always just come below the chest and there's like the hot backlight but nothing's really accentuating the face the camera dynamic movement and that could be like a crane that then we come into the real steady cam groove whereby we have like more visual interest of the rules of the camera and we have like moving lights here that you can see keep moving and we have the stained glass actually now create more texture but it's time to flip the color temperature to become blue and we have more higher contrast ratio and less fill into the shadows because there's some fill going here that's maintaining the floor at two stops under right it's only the people on black pants that are dropping like three and four stops which is like related here there's some level that's going on the floor and that creates that but the window still draws our eyes in and the framework is designed the entire frame is designed for being able to catch your interest and energy and stuff and that's like the theme of the video I think Tyler's been thinking of some party sessions visual interest continues which is the entire theme of the video then we'll come back to that same scene remember that car and the windows and the backgrounds you can see the wall that's at the back now we have like a key here this is probably either a magic slot or it's not a glitch Muslim because of the way the nose shadow is had so it could have been magic clouds satin or half green something that softens up the light but makes it a little bit more hard then the ambient light that's coming out from the entire ambience here is just casting this edge light on her that we can see here so this edge light that you can see here is the one that's giving us visual interest we have like light to dark to light to dark to light to dark to light so it's just layering the light in such a way whereby you can actually follow through you can see her face now she's not like properly exposed you get skin tones just belly on middle grey and a little bit of it is like half stop over exposed then drastically goes to like an undexposure of like one stop goes like under three stops you get key to fill is like one ratio three here and just the background is held at minus one stop you get an even the sky the ambience which is what this is is held at one stop and this is all beautiful stuff you get this how you make beautiful images here she's left her key light like you can see so she's going down into the shadows it's no longer as it's like way in the shadows now just because of the move she's making or the moving lights that's pulsing one of one or both of them is causing that you can also see the reflection on the car that suggests like this they're like top lights that's actually creating the room tone for the shadows so that it's not like all lost in darkness on the floor which is the same light but this time a different angle looking up and creating a frame an interesting frame and that continues for most of the video whereby we can now see more of the sourceness of the lights when we come into the shot it haze it up the cabin becomes god rays in the shot here you have the key light is also coming there still maintain that's in visual tone we still have our room tone now when I have more interest in the windows cause it's like a different perspective and you have like the background element keeping it busy and also the car itself is illuminated with its own RGB lighting music videos are actually fun there are no rules just make it as pretty and visually interesting as it can be you get using camera movements, lights and set pieces and some haze you get so that continues you get more of the dust of the earth and the whole haze giving this layered steaming feel and there's probably some ultra contrast that's been placed on the lens here to be able to like keep everything a lot more even and a little bit more easy to be able to maintain them and yes it continues like that for a bit till we get to the end of the video whereby we just have one strong magenta light going across the face not the favorite color I like but yeah it's not so great with skin tones nobody likes magenta skin tones at least I don't so that's it for the video being thinking by Tyler directed by Mejia Labi and cinematographer by Matthew Ebbvine if I pronounced that right if you found this useful leave us a thumbs up share it with somebody who can benefit from it and subscribe to the channel whereby we create this community in helping ourselves grow and become better storytellers if you haven't joined on the contest check the description below and join in and be part of the family and next video we'll try and work on something different but this was just like a follow up to some of the lightings we'll be doing if you have any video you're also interested in us for breaking down you can send recommendations and we'll look into it and see how we can break that down and until next time when I see you improvise, adapt and overcome