module and I have kept the tagline as radars and hydrology, how do they contribute? So as part of this module we shall be learning more about what is active microwave remote sensing and in particular radar remote sensing and how radars that are onboard satellites as well as in ground help to learn more about hydrology as in how do they give us information about precipitation that is rainfall intensity in millimeter per hours, how do they help us understand about soil moisture up to what depth of soil moisture can radars measure. We shall also try to cover topics wherein radar remote sensing is used to study more about the ground water levels as well as about radar altimetry. So that is the whole summary of this particular module 4. So let us begin. Welcome to first lecture of the fourth module and we shall be learning about active microwave remote sensing. So here in active microwave remote sensing microwaves are used by the instrument themselves to illuminate the earth surface and then the scattered energy that is getting scattered from these targets they are used to infer more about the physical properties of the earth surface. So remember the example when I told you that active microwave remote sensing can be compared with a camera with flash you know the instrument themselves trying to illuminate the target and the scattered energy from the target a part of it a fraction of it travels all the way back through the atmosphere to register a signal onboard the satellite. So the concept of active microwave remote sensing is shown here and the different frequency bands that we use in microwave remote sensing is also displayed that is we have k a band radar and k u band x band c band s band and so on. So each of these frequency bands have their own specific purpose application we will cover all this as part of the upcoming lectures. So moving forward numerous ways of using a radar you know either as an imaging device or a non-imaging device radar as an imaging device was covered as part of the second module wherein we were learning about synthetic aperture radar images you know SLC images all that we have covered. Now whether it is a imaging device or non-imaging device it is the radar equation which determines the proportion of transmitted energy that is returned from a target. So given here just to reiterate is the received power as a function of transmitted power square of antenna gain square of wavelength proportional to radar cross section sigma inversely proportional to fourth power of range that is r. Now we have discussed and derived in detail about the radar equation and also if you remember we solved a few numericals on this topic. Just to refresh your memory the radar equation is displayed here because irrespective of whether a radar is used as an imaging device or non-imaging device the radar equation is equally applicable because it gives us the power received as a function of transmitted power. So once again when I say radar I am referring to radio detection and ranging and shown here is the microwave transmitter and receiver but then I have shown just a single antenna is not it conceptually the pulse that is transmitted from the transmitter travels at the speed of light hits the target the hit pulse is getting reflected from the target and it travels back all the way to the antenna where it is detected and then the time taken between the transmission of pulse and when the reflected signal reaches the receiver is measured by a radar which is given the name as range range distance. The final objective here is to detect as well as quantify the radiation that is arriving at the detector. Now though we mentioned here that you know our interest primarily lies in measuring the power received at the detector please note that there are other properties like the polarization and phase that are of immense interest you know when we start discussing about interferometry they will be clear other properties of radar like the polarization and phase they are also of immense interest. Now please note here that a transmitter and receiver is shown the same antenna can be used as a transmitter as well as a receiver which means the same antenna can also transmit as well as a receiver which is why they will be used synonymously in this module. Moving on so whenever we think of radio telescopes like the one shown in the screen the image that comes automatically to our mind is of a large parabolic reflector is not it just like the one you see on the screen. So the ratio of wavelength to the size of aperture is important when discussing about focusing mechanisms any kind of focusing mechanism the ratio of wavelength to the size of aperture is important. Just a quick comparison with the optical remote sensing wherein the visible range of electromagnetic spectrum is used. So in optical remote sensing the wavelengths used are from 0.4 to 0.1 new meter while microwaves have wavelength which are nearly 6 times greater than that of visible region because they are somewhere here which means that the techniques that we use for focusing light in optical systems like radio telescopes they do not work in focusing microwaves because size is always an issue. And when sensors are operating in the microwave region when they are on board platforms like aircrafts and satellites the size as well as the weight are important. And we need to think about different mechanisms for focusing microwaves. See with microwave systems they collect energy from many directions okay they collect energy from many directions and then they are more sensitive to signal from a small range of angles. As I mentioned in one of the earlier lectures whenever there is a discussion about optical remote sensing the eyes are introduced as a remote sensing instrument. Isn't it? In all standard textbooks of remote sensing and image processing you will find that eyes human eyes are introduced as a simple example of a remote sensing instrument because it collects information about objects without coming into physical contact with the object okay. I mentioned this in the earlier lecture but then and re-iterating so that it gets registered that whenever we talk about microwave remote sensing microwave systems can be compared to the ear okay to the ear. And in microwave remote sensing the range is measured as a function of time or frequency. Please note that microwaves and sound waves both are different types of waves exhibiting wave properties and it is very important to remember that sound waves are longitudinal pressure waves. They don't exhibit polarization okay sound waves longitudinal pressure waves and they do not exhibit polarization whereas in the case of microwaves they do exhibit polarization and this comparison between ear and the antenna of a radar this comparison is solely not intended for a direct comparison between sound waves and microwaves but this is just comparing the analogous mechanisms of measurement okay. So in the previous lectures we were discussing more about imaging radars synthetic aperture radar and in the tutorials also we were covering about how to do processing with the complex numbers of synthetic aperture radar images. When it comes to this module we shall be discussing about non-imaging radars as well. Now we will shortly see how the images look like and what are the underlying principles of collecting data from a non-imaging radar okay. Now whenever there are two coherent sources of light that are placed at a small distance apart say a few orders of magnitude greater than the wavelength of light it helps us in understanding the wave theory which is explained with the help of a diagram here. I am talking about Young's double slit experiment. So constructive as well as destructive interference occurs and Thomas Young postulated that light being a wave is subjected to superposition principle you know superposition principle. So let us try to understand using sound waves please have a look at the video here. I am showing you two sources of sound waves which are placed at a distance apart. Do you see the interference pattern when I am changing the frequency. So now I am increasing the frequency slowly it affects the interference pattern. Constructive when destructive interference are occurring. Now what I will do is I will increase the frequency to the maximum okay. You can see how the pattern is changing. Two coherent sources that are placed at a distance apart which are emitting waves how do they interfere constructively and destructively is shown here. Again we are trying to indirectly understand using sound waves but as I mentioned earlier I am not trying to make a direct comparison because sound waves are longitudinal pressure waves and they do not exhibit polarization whereas microwaves they do exhibit polarization. But conceptually you will get a feel that microwaves they also tend to interfere constructively and destructively if they are being sent from two sources that are at a distance apart that are in the same horizontal plane and which send out coherent waves that are in phase coherent in phase alright. Now for radar imaging the wavelengths that we use are from 1 millimeter to 1 meter 1 millimeter to 1 meter. Now this is a real challenge when it comes to microwaves because we need resolving power as good as an optical system. At the same time we should use the technologies that are suitable for microwaves. So in this context let us try to learn about antennas or a aperture they collect the waves and as an antenna can work as both a receiver and a transmitter they are used interchangeably when talking about transmitting microwaves or receiving the return echoes okay. So as shown in the screen in front of you there are different types of antennas we can have dipole antenna, array antenna and parabolic antenna. When it comes to dipole antenna it is most commonly used as a transmitting and receiving device and when used as a transmitter this dipole antenna transmits the electromagnetic waves when an oscillating current is passed through it okay. So it starts transmitting the waves whenever an oscillating current is passed through it and when it is used as a receiver in the presence of electromagnetic waves it generates an oscillating current just the reverse. Now please note that with dipole antennas transmission and receiving it happens in multiple directions you can get the cue from the interference pattern that was discussed just now. And the dipole antenna as it has a very useful property as in it can transmit and receive electromagnetic waves that are polarized in the axis of dipole okay polarized in the axis of dipole all right. When we talk about array antennas as the name suggests they consist of an array an array of what an array of microwave transmitters and or receivers that are arranged across a panel array antennas. Now phased array antennas consist of each transmitter capable of transmitting microwaves of a specified frequency with a phase okay and they have the ability to specify the phase and amplitude of each transmitter which means I can steer the antenna pattern I can steer the antenna pattern. It is a very important point to note and the phased array antennas are commonly used in the case of imaging radars that require a relatively large antenna okay imaging radars all right. We also have parabolic antennas as the name suggests they focus the incident energy from a particular direction onto the detector very much like the mirror system on a reflecting telescope you know these are different types of apertures or antennas. They usually act as a link between the external environment and the inside of the instrument okay apertures or antennas all right. So since we are discussing about the antenna we have to touch upon gain of an antenna isn't it. The total amount of power that enters a microwave system is determined by the antenna sensitivity to direction to which direction is it more sensitive to total amount of power that enters a microwave system is determined by the antenna sensitivity to direction directional sensitivity of an antenna it is defined by the antenna gain pattern. So over here the boresight direction is shown wherever the maximum peak power is obtained the direction boresight direction and you see the main lobe and the side lobes okay. Now the gain pattern of an antenna it shall comprise of a well defined main peak that is a main beam with side lobes of much lower gain that is away from the main beam. Antenna gain pattern you can find the diagrams for every antenna and please note that we typically tend to use decibels for signifying the antenna gain decibels as we discussed earlier it is 10 let me write it down decibels as such we have discussed it it is nothing but 10 log 10 value of a quantity I am going to write it as value q by value of reference okay value of reference quantity it can be ratio of powers ratio voltages and the direction at which the peak of antenna pattern occurs as we discussed it was known as a boresight direction and antenna gain is given as a quantity expressed as shown here antenna efficiency multiplied by physical area of the antenna into 4 pi by lambda square. So we have discussed about this earlier but just to re-hydrate please remember that angular resolution for microwave antennas they are defined by half power beam width okay. Now we spoke about antenna we spoke about receiver now let us try to understand about monostatic and bistatic antenna systems see remember a detector it should be able to amplify the signal and measure the signal while minimizing the effects of noise and for coherent systems it is also important to measure the phase of a wave and not just intensity alone. So keeping all that in mind what you see here is a monostatic antenna system which can transmit and receive the signal and what you see here is a bistatic system where the transmitter and the receiver it can be in different locations okay and please do not forget that a Doppler effect occurs whenever the target is moving towards an antenna or it is moving away from the antenna whenever target is moving towards the instrument or away from the instrument. And also the antenna can tend to collect noise from the background because of the side loads and hence the usefulness of the instrument can very well be defined using a term known as signal to noise ratio okay it is nothing but received a signal divided by the system noise signal to noise ratio abbreviated popularly as SNR and whenever we have SNR that is less than 1 it implies that the system is generating more noise than the signal you are receiving remember the numerical that we solved wherein we were getting SNR in decibels that is negative the system generating more noise than the signal you are receiving. So higher the SNR better is the performance of the measurement system right. Now at this point let me also mention about calibration okay calibration. Now calibration is the quantitative characterization of performance of an instrument for any instrument that is used for measurement we need to determine the relationship between the recorded signal and the physical property of interest the recorded voltage and the physical property of interest and you know determining this relationship and its noise related uncertainty is known as calibration. And we need to carry out calibration on a regular basis please note that when I mention calibration it does not mean checking if the instrument is working or not no calibration refers to quantifying the manner in which the instrument is working. Say an instrument has to be launched in space and before launch the instrument has been tested under say different environmental condition different gravitational acceleration. Now once this instrument is in orbit there may be different factors which can affect the performance of an instrument it is there may be variations in thermal conditions variations in acceleration different vibrations and with time the machinery of the instrument can also degrade is not it. And by calibration the performance of the instrument is compared with respect to a reference signal performance of the instrument compared with respect to a reference signal and we can have internal calibration as well as external calibration in radar remote sensing we use microwave corner reflectors with well defined cross sections for calibration. So let me play a small video which shows the corner reflectors located in Shadnagar Hyderabad microwave corner reflectors. They have well defined cross sections in the region being observed so that they appear as a bright spot in the synthetic aperture radar imagery because they are placed at a certain angle so that maximum backscattering occurs in the direction in which collection of information is happening from the satellite. Corner reflectors as I mentioned earlier an antenna or an aperture is a link it is connecting the outside environment with the inside of the instrument and in a microwave system external calibration is required for an antenna and this can pose a problem for space bond systems as how do you calibrate a space bond antenna in far field condition. So till now we have been discussing about radar remote sensing and specially about the antenna sensitivity and calibration so what we will do is we will slowly try to understand the applications of radar remote sensing and hydrology from the next lecture onwards. So let me hope that you found these contents informative and I shall meet you in the next class. Thank you.


Donald Trump said yesterday that the only way to stop corporations from hiding money overseas is By lowering taxes right and the way to end murder is by legalizing it This is the David Feldman radio network Listeners to this show will be Sad for me to tell you that we lost a friend to Gary Shapiro was buried yesterday Gary was no stranger to this program. He hosted it. He would do song parodies he was a constant companion to me and people like Paul Provenza, you might have remembered him from the green room Gary was a comedian a comedy writer a musician a Cantor and a rabbi who never had a bad word to say about anybody he Probably was the most loved person in our community on this show and in Los Angeles and We lost him Last week. I don't know what happened. He was about my age and if you want to Familiarize yourself with Gary Shapiro Google him or look for his song parodies on YouTube or go to my website and type in Gary Shapiro and you can hear some of the episodes with Gary Shapiro the story I always tell about Gary Shapiro when we were doing green room for showtime Gary was working on it and he attended the after-party One of my sons was being bar mitzvah at the time.  I've been away. I just haven't been paying attention to the news. I have been paying attention to the news I just don't want to talk about it because it kind of felt like a Bad relationship Trump and the Republicans a guy who just keeps Punching you and you keep asking why he's punching you or talking about Each punch as though they're they're different These are just murderous violent people, but now I want to punch back Trump's chief of staff rinse pre-bis who as we all know killed 14 male prostitutes in April said yesterday that he's looking into changing libel laws for press outlets Chief of staff rinse pre-bis the murderer of 14 male prostitutes in April is looking into Ways the Trump administration can change libel laws and Prosecute members of the media Meanwhile, Donald Trump gave an interview where he said hey, what's the deal with the Civil War and why did we have to fight it? Why couldn't we have worked it out? You know a deal I couldn't somebody like Andrew Jackson and made a deal You know it's too bad Trump wasn't around to work out a deal back during the Civil War like letting the South secede On one hand, there'd be no south, but on the other hand Hillary would be president Trump actually asked Yesterday why America had a civil war and you know all he has to do is stay in office for a few more months And he'll find out why America had a civil war.  Sean Hannity has been tweeting in the lead-up to shines firing that If shine is fired Hannity will leave Fox News Thereby marking the first time in history Hannity has ever said anything that I actually hoped was true Meanwhile Trump and the Republicans averted a government shutdown by Shutting down everything Donald Trump stands for there's no funding for Trump's border wall No provision to defund Planned Parenthood 99% of the funding for the EPA will stay intact There is no deportation force. We still have ice But Trump had promised to create a deportation force to assist ice in separating Undocumented workers from their children Medicaid subsidies for Obamacare are staying put Trump had threatened to cut funding for the National Institutes of Health Because why do we need the National Institutes of Health? Well to keep the government open they agree to a two billion dollar increase for the National Institute of Health the new Continuing resolution to keep the government open has no provision in its defund sanctuary cities Think progress has done a study. It's out this week There are 180 members of Congress who are climate change deniers all of them are Republican 180 members of Congress are climate change deniers. They are all Republican and guess what? They've all received a total of 82 million dollars from the fossil fuel industries Isn't that interesting? We talked about this last week about how people are just paid to lie Even though we know it's not true They will lie for a price and think progress has a study out that shows that The 180 members of Congress all Republican who deny the science behind climate change They are on the take. They are receiving 82 million dollars from fossil fuel industries meanwhile 2017 is turning out to be the second warmest year on record Last year the earth reached record levels of carbon dioxide but we still have Republicans willing to take money from the people who are heating up the planet So nothing is being done. And so the flooding begins 15-year-old Jordan Edwards a young African American was killed by police Saturday night in Balch Springs That's a suburb of Dallas, Texas According to the Washington Post 15-year-old Jordan Edwards is now the 105th black person to be killed by police in the United States this year 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was at a party. He was sitting in a car unarmed with his brother and friends According to reports there was no fighting no drinking None of the cars other occupants were arrested The identity of the officer who killed him is unknown Donald Trump was interviewed by CBS's John Dickerson in the Oval Office on Monday Dickerson asked Trump about whether or not he believed Obama tapped his phones and Whether or not Trump still believed that Obama was mentally unbalanced Dickerson asked you do you stand by that claim and Trump said I don't stand by anything. I just You can take it the way you want. I think our side has been proven very strongly and everybody's talking about it Dickerson pressed. He said do you do you stand by your claims that Obama tapped your phone and that he's insane and Trump replied I don't stand by anything and this interview is over big tough guy in the Oval Office literally then Went back to his desk and wouldn't talk to anybody because you know, he's a spoiled baby So later on in the day there was a press conference Sean Spicer was then asked by a reporter quote the president said I don't stand by anything How is the American public supposed to digest that? You know, how are we supposed to trust what the president says? When he himself says of his own comments, I don't stand by anything Sean Spicer replied. I think the point is he clearly stands by that That's something that's been made very clear if you look at the entire back-and-forth exchange between John Dickerson Spicer is saying when Donald Trump says I don't stand by anything. We stand by that This is the David Feldman radio network Time once again for Tuesdays with Corey Professor Corey Brett Schneider teaches constitutional law at Brown and I've somehow convinced him to come on this show once a week To give me a five million dollar legal education. That's how expensive a law education has gotten It has doubled since the last time the professor has been on my show. That's a special price for you five million My mother says I'm disrespectful to you she listens and she says You need to call him Pontiff not Corey not professor. She said Any man with your credentials and patience Is it should be the Pope today? We're going to talk about libel laws and President Trump and the Constitution Your brief your friend of the court brief on the travel ban opposing it first up Ryan Seacrest has been named Kelly Rippa's co-host On Monday, what are your thoughts professors? Is this good for the Constitution of Ryan Seacrest? Is he doing too much? I just love that you begin with the most important pressing issues of the day and I have three points about Is there is there the first amendment is Is there ever an overabundance of speech with Ryan Seacrest that the guy has a radio show TV shows there's gonna be on Kelly. Is there any way to protect the American people from too much of one person speaking? Well, I don't know I guess the thing that the first amendment protects the most is viewpoint And so I don't know if what he's saying has is enough to qualify as a viewpoint So that might be our first question But I really listened to him so little Maybe three seconds at the most they could not give an informed opinion Hey, and culture. Yeah, I wanted to clarify something. Yeah, we found out that and Cultures speech was charging $20,000 to speak at Berkeley and it was being paid for by young Americans for freedom and bridge USA Outside outside groups coffin up the money. Yeah, is that still a first amendment issue? Um That's interesting. I mean, I think it is because the it was still an invitation by well I I'd have to think about it But the fact that it was money that was being funded to a Berkeley group I think that would be enough to say that the state is involved that there was state action and the Retraction I guess to now that I think about it of the Invitation if it came from Berkeley Rather than from that group then that's enough for the state action I mean the institution was involved and I think that that makes it a first amendment first amendment case I hate to give anywhere else. I hate to give and culture more time than she deserves. Yeah Here's the issue though. Let me do this. Let's turn it into a hypothetical sure You have a state university, right? There is a group. Let's just say young Americans for freedom. It's a right-wing Republican Organization on campus mm-hmm, and they invite Ann Coulter and they're paying her through outside sources mm-hmm according to the first amendment, it's a first amendment issue because it's state funding Suppressing speech Yeah, the question. I mean Berkeley gets all sorts of money in donations by from private institutions I think I mean some of the money is public and then I know they do fundraising or they have a nonprofit arm but the question in the case would be whether or not there was a government actor involved in the decision to revoke the invitation and I think here Regardless of where the money is coming from the institution Berkeley did get involved in In that question so so that likely I mean we'd have to see more about the details But would be enough and I think too it's important, you know, I think I explained this last time That the worry is about suppressing private individual speech So if there was a restriction on the ability of a private a student group to invite her to campus The worry is that the government Berkeley is intervening in the private Individuals or private groups ability to hear somebody or to invite them and that's where the real first amendment worry comes If it was a you know commencement will Ann Coulter receive an award or not or something officially conferred by Berkeley You might be able to argue that this is Berkeley conferring an honor or the university speaking would be a way to put it in the technical terms of the university and Of the first amendment and when the university is speaking or when the state is speaking It does have the ability to pick and choose who to invite or who not to invite Because the idea is that the university or the state is trying to express its own values But this doesn't look like that kind of case. It looks like it was a private group within Berkeley or student group and and the government does not have the ability to suppress the Ideas or the invitations were the expression of private individuals or including students Let me if you don't mind sure I want to push back on this a little bit I was obviously without the first amendment. I'd be nothing why I am nothing, but I'd be even more of nothing Kyle you are something. Thank you college campuses if if I Fire a teacher I'm the chancellor of Berkeley. It's a state school, right and I'm also the president of Harvard, which is not a state school, but it does receive federal funding Same scenario Berkeley Harvard one's a state school one's Supposedly a private college. There is a professor who is teaching climate change denial At Berkeley I fire him mm-hmm, and I say you are teaching something that's inaccurate Can he challenge me and say I'm violating his first amendment rights in the Harvard case, you mean well Berkeley? Let's let's say Berkeley. Yeah. Yeah, I mean teacher firing is a different sort of case than Then students or private speech because they're an employee of the university as opposed to somebody who's just attending But yes, I there are protections certainly that are afforded university professors and Although it's a different kind of case Because Berkeley is a state institution the first amendment applies and you could bring a first amendment action In a private university as you said the structure is different now There are other protections for tenure for instance are contractual protections that come With with tenure for it in other areas of law that might protect your free speech depending on the on the University The University might have promised you basically free speech rights with tenure So, you know free speech has a lot of different ways to there are a lot of different ways to defend it legally and but in the in the public Institution case the the Constitution applies directly. So the first amendment might be your best option And so at Harvard The same thing stands you can fire a professor be or a teacher because you believe it's You're free to fire somebody for teaching the wrong things. Well, thankfully private universities and The AUP the organization the professors have lobbied for protections generally for professors part of it is that there's a norm of Free expression and free inquiry that comes from the profession of being a professor It doesn't make sense to have a university if there isn't free speech and free thought in academic inquiry and that also I think includes the ability to go beyond that if your university professor Now there are different ways to get that protection legally, but One might come with the contractual obligations of the university when it comes to tenure But it's not we're not in the realm of the first amendment anymore in the same way that we are in the case of a public institution But thankfully there are rights of professors against Universities legally as well and private institutions. It's just a different area of law and it's a good thing I mean, you can't have a university in my opinion without having free thought And the ability of a professor to honestly say what their what their research Demands they say and where their inquiry leads them is a state university Allow to ban somebody From the premises is the chancellor allowed to say I do not want this person on campus because they're not They're not they're not a student and they do not reflect the values of this university So I am banning and colter from stepping foot inside or on the property of Berkeley He I think they do do that I mean if certainly like from the dorms or from the buildings or if the part of the campus is private The university I think has the ability to control who's there and who's not For the purposes of doing the business of the university the worry here is that the you know This isn't just that they were worried that she was going to rob somebody the worry was that she was Disinvited because of the content or the viewpoint of what she says And you know, it is complicated because they were worried about security And so we'd have to see whether or not it was impossible to have her on campus Only because of the security concern But it you know, what's worrying to me about the case is that if she was banned no matter how vile her views are I have the ability and a student has the ability to Hear them and if the government in this case the institution of Berkeley was preventing her from coming on campus Because of the her viewpoint if that's what the inquiry revealed then then that would be a very serious violation of the First Amendment I hate what Ann Coulter says I hate the content of her views And I think she's deeply wrong, but she has First Amendment rights just like everyone In this country she has First Amendment rights. So is it fair to say that? Fraternity Mm-hmm invited her to speak at Berkeley. Yeah, is that pretty much what this group is? I don't think so. I thought they were a private Conservative group that was devoted to discussions of politics. I'm saying the the organization of Students at Berkeley who invited her to speak. Yeah, they're for all intents and purposes a club on campus, right? Correct and are the clubs do they have to if there are there are official clubs at the university they do you Have to apply to be Officially sanctioned by the university or can anybody set up a club? It I don't know the details of this club But there are clubs that are often receive funds from university from a student group and a lot of First Amendment cases involve issues around that Group seeks to become an official club and is denied or But yeah, I'm not I really don't know the details of this one, right? I'm just we're talking about a hypothetical, right case, so If let's say the school newspaper. There's an official school newspaper at Berkeley, right? They invite and culture to speak mm-hmm I hope that actually that's a bad example because that opens up a whole other Can of worms, but I guess the point I'm making is or the question I'm asking is Let's say there's a rugby team, right and they invite a stripper So they're fraternity to Strip mm-hmm, and I'm the chancellor and I say no you can't hire a stripper Is that protected by First Amendment rights? There's money, you know, they're giving her money. That's freedom of speech now There is a difference in the First Amendment between expressing a political view or an opinion The technical term that the court uses is a viewpoint and certain kinds of content and restrictions on viewpoints tend to be disallowed restrictions on obscenity in particular and That case seems to certainly be in the realm of obscenity are often more more tolerated So I I think you're there might be a case for the group that wants to involve invite Exotic dancers to campus or something, but it's weaker than it is in this case I mean, this is really about if it turns out that the worry about culture was her views That's worrying because the the whole idea of the I mean go back to the core idea of why we have this protection in the first Place it's that we want to allow for the protection of all opinions to be able to say them to hear them to have the free Inquiry that is necessary in a democracy and that's why it's not a just a sort of random Amendment the idea is that without being able to hear all viewpoints and Argue and say what you want including the ability to criticize the government criticize the Constitution On all sides, then we don't live in a democracy anymore, right? So that's why the rule is so strong in protection of Censorship against viewpoints. Yeah, I you know more about You know, this isn't false humility professor, but you know more about the Constitution than I do I know it's hard to believe Men's men's rain and you know more about the comedy world Men's is it called men's right? What is it? What does men's ray mean? Men's ray is usually in the criminal context at the mental state that's involved in a crime or okay, it's just a term for mental state if We kind of know that this wasn't about Ann Coulter speaking the same way Milo Yappinapolis the Breitbart editor who spoke or try to speak at Berkeley This isn't about freedom of speech it is about freedom of speech But the people who hired them to go to Berkeley Were screaming fire in a crowded movie theater, right? Um, I don't know I I you know there is the security concern and certainly there was violence when Around some of these incidents, but I think that we have to you know the whole idea of the university is that we allow free inquiry and If it's possible to provide security and also to have controversial speakers on campus then Berkeley I think is obligated to do that and they have a security challenge that they have to figure out But it's not acceptable to say that we're not going to have very conservative even fascist speakers Have the right of free speech Because it's too dangerous I think that would really give up on the idea that I as I said isn't just central to the first Amendment, but central to the idea of democracy and even if private universities aren't bound by the first amendment I think the very idea of a university Requires that kind of free inquiry and that they also have to figure out how to meet those security concerns We can't just give up on the idea that you have the right to say what you want and to hear everything Because there are challenges of security that those are going to arise in a term tumultuous time But those are the times when it's most important that we protect all viewpoints Free and let me get back to free inquiry. It wasn't free inquiry. She was charging $20,000 And it was being paid for by outside sources. Yeah, who are trying to prove a point right about The politically correct movement they they picked Berkeley as their beachhead, right? As I remember high school in order to have a club. You needed a faculty advisor, right? To well to reflect the the values of the institution and justify the purpose Right as I see the enculter case at Berkeley These were just a bunch of kids without I believe without a professor behind them without a Berkeley representative just a bunch of Fish out of water at Berkeley they decide to be conservatives and they Instead of studying they decide To let guys like David Horowitz or young american for freedom pay and culture to show up on campus It has nothing to do with free inquiry Well, it's not the university and it's not the university. There's no professors just a bunch of kids Yeah, I mean we talked about this last time I think part of the idea of the university is that you allow students the freedom to Have access to information and to ideas Now Berkeley, I'm sure like all universities has a process of applying for speakers or applying for speaker funds or applying for permits And if you could show in a way that had nothing to do with their opinions that they were violating those rules That would be one thing, but I haven't heard that in this case I think what they're worried about and you know, they would have a serious claim if this is true is that they're being Limited and their ability to do what any other kid on campus could do because of the Content of their views and as I said even though I deeply disagree with them I think they've got a right to uh to hear whatever they want Without censorship. This is the david feldman radio network That's all the time we have if you'd like to hear the rest of my conversation with professor Corey bretschneider, please go to david feldman show dot com You'll also see a contact button I answer all my emails from the kpfk studios in southern california.


Welcome to the OG pod. I am Scott Bernstein, your host. This is another quick hitter edition and the headline says it all. The Blue Wave has finally hit Michigan. The Pagan's Blue Wave expansion effort. The Pagan's Motorcycle Club since 2018 has been expanding the brand. An initiative, a mandate issued by the enigmatic biker Don Keith Conan, the barbarian Richter. The Pagan's top shot caller decided to expand Pagan's nation around the country. It's been expanding at a rapid pace over the last five years. The Midwest has been an area the Pagans have never been in before. They started in Ohio. It now looks like as of the spring of 2023, they landed in Michigan. There has been some social media buzz of people that are claiming to be Pagans in Michigan, jumping on social media and claiming that Pagans have arrived. But it was really only a matter of time before they butted heads with the Outlaws, which is the, you know, the big brand name national biker club here in Michigan, in Detroit, as well as other parts of the state. They've really controlled in terms of the national biker landscape. They've really controlled the Midwest and Michigan for, you know, 50 years. The High Women is the biggest club in Michigan, but they are more of like a local homegrown club. They don't have the national or international profile that the Outlaws have. But a couple weeks ago in Flint, Michigan, there was a biker rally known as Bikes on Bricks. And I guess four Pagans were cornered by a group of Outlaws and were assaulted. And that the Pagans, at least two of the four Pagans got their vests taken, their cuts stolen, and the Outlaws took it as like a trophy. I don't know really what this is foreshadowing other than this is kind of par for the course of what we've seen from the Blue Wave over the last five years, going into patches of the country that they've never been and disrupting kind of the natural water things in those areas and then getting into scuffles, most of them violent in terms of not just verbal altercations, but physical violence and in some cases, actual murders and killings that have occurred around the country because of this Blue Wave, butting heads with the Outlaws as well as the Hells Angels and the Banditos. But it stayed out of Michigan. Michigan has always been Outlaws regulated control territory. Again, when it comes to the national biker landscape. But the Pagans are here right now. And only time will tell what that means. But I guess if the Pagans were moving west, going into the West Coast, they were going up into parts of New England. They'd never been in before parts of New Jersey going into Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado. I guess it was really only maybe a matter of time before they landed in Michigan and tried to test the metal of the Outlaws. So we'll see what happens. But that first meeting of the minds, if you will, of the two clubs seeing each other didn't end well for the Pagans. And the Outlaws are saying, you know, Michigan is Outlaw territory. So we'll keep tabs on what's going on with the Blue Wave in general, and then specifically what's happening on what's going on in Michigan with the Outlaws and Pagans. Brewing tensions, escalating tensions that boiled over in Flint, Michigan, which is about an hour, hour and a half out of Detroit and is a factory town and is an area where there's always been a lot of biker activity. So we'll be we'll be keeping tabs on it for you. For Jimmy, we'll be back on the long form podcast later this week. And for Ben behind the glass, I'm Scott Bernstein, OG Podd, out.


Okay, so if you watched my previous video, 10 confidence tips for artists, which I will link up here and of course below this video as well, then you might be ready for a bit of a challenge and I really hope you are. Today I'm talking about getting out there face to face and building your network the kind of old fashioned way if you like. Yes, I am talking about business networking. Now before you switch off, I want to let you know that I actually think this is one of the most fundamental powerful marketing strategies that you can use to build your art business today. It's been a little bit forgotten and it's something that a lot of people don't talk about, but it's what I use to build my business back in the day and I am definitely going back in to do exactly the same now. I often hear things like, oh, I went networking once, it didn't work. All right, I'm going to explain in this video why that sentence is so wrong and what you should be doing instead and the one key thing you need to be focusing on in order to be highly successful with networking. Well, hello and welcome or welcome back to my channel. My name is Sophie and I help artists just like you to build successful profitable businesses doing what you love. Now if you'd like to learn more tips and tricks to how to build that successful business, then you're in the right place. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and of course hit that bell to get notified every time I post a new video. Okay, let's talk about business networking. It is one of my very favorite subjects and of course, while everyone's been in lockdown, it's been impossible to do face-to-face events and a lot of people have been doing sort of similar things online. So group Zoom calls and, you know, all those sort of online meetups. But I want to stress that it's not quite the same as actually going into a room full of people, shaking someone's hand, saying hello and having a conversation. Networking is a way to build relationships and ultimately friendships over time. We know that business is all about people, right? When we think about building a business, it's people related. Everything about it is people. It's people who are going to come into your shop. It's people who are going to come into the gallery. It's people who are shopping online. People who are going to subscribe to your email list. People who are going to buy your products and services. People who want to stay in touch. People who are going to have questions. It's a people business. Everything we do is about people. So why then do we often hide ourselves away behind a nice Instagram carousel, post that up and then wonder why, you know, our network or our business isn't really building? So your goal here and your focus here is to meet people, create relationships, build friendships and of course to go on to create win-win situations. Now the caveat here, it's not going to happen overnight. All right. You're not going to go to one event, shake somebody's hand and they're going to buy something from you. That's not at all what it's about. So when I mentioned at the beginning that phrase, it didn't work for me. Well, number one is it's not an overnight strategy. You're not going to go to one business networking event and make a huge sale and suddenly build the business. It's about building relationships. So that's what I want you to hold on to when I give you these tips. So before we dive into that, we need to work out, well, how are you going to find events to go to?  Should you go to the free events or should you join something that's more paid? So of course, there are lots of different types of networking events. Some will be nice local groups that are free to attend and others will be more of a kind of club or a membership situation. I'm going to recommend a mixture of both. So assuming that you have a bit of a marketing budget, once you find a group that you think is really going to work for you, I suggest in actually investing in a couple of memberships. It's definitely what I did and it made all the difference. The people that are going to invest in themselves and their business to be part of a membership are far more invested in their time. And they're going to find out more about you and they're going to work out ways they can help you and you are going to do vice versa. Free events, people often kind of it's a toe in the water. They dip in and out, they go, they're not quite as committed. So for sure, mixing the two things up is a great way to go. How are you going to find networking events in your area? I would suggest Google them, have a good look, maybe look on Eventbrite or Meetup. And here's the thing, you just need to find one event to go to, go to that event and then when you're there and talking, you can say to people, what other events would you recommend? And that way, quite quickly, you can build up a list of networking events in your area. OK, so now you've found an event that you want to go to. You're going to register that for that event before you turn up. There's just a few things to think about. So here are my kind of 10 tips of what to consider when you go business networking. So number one, have a kind of goal in mind of how many people you want to talk to. Now, initially, on your very first event, your goal might be just to get there and start to feel good about chatting to people. But after you've been a few times, you really want to go with an intention. So you might say, my intention is to meet three people and really connect with them today. So knowing that you can go and when you walk into the room, you can start looking for people that you naturally are drawn to and that you think you might want to meet and have a conversation with. So the next tip is think about being the host rather than a guest. Now, this one I learned from an event that I used to attend here in Brighton in the UK, where I'm filming this video today. And I used to go regularly to an event. I think it was called First Friday. Used to be on the first Friday of the month and there was a gentleman there and he would be on the door every time I turned up. And so he would meet everybody who arrived. I assumed he was running the event, but sometime later I discovered he wasn't running the event at all. He had nothing to do with it. His strategy was to be on the door, meeting and greeting and connecting with everybody that came through the door. So I really like this. And I thought that's something to think about, not that you necessarily have to do that. But if you think about being the host rather than the guest, you're going to make sure that you're going to go and say hello and make eye contact with as many people as possible. My next tip is about asking questions. All right, the last thing you want to do is hello. My name is and then verbal vomit onto the person because that's not what they're there for, right? You want to lead with questions. It could be that the other person is just as nervous as you might be about being at their event. Perhaps it's their first event as well. So you could say, OK, where have you come from? And that gives a great opener. OK, I've actually come just around the corner or I've traveled an hour to get here. You know, what do you do for a living? Where else do you go? What other events? What other events do you go to? All right, so you want to be thinking about those W questions. They will open up the conversation and get the other person chatting. They'll feel a bit more relaxed. You'll feel a little bit more relaxed because ultimately you want to do 80% listening to 20% speaking. OK, so that leads nicely into the next tip. Be genuinely interested in the other person. Now, we've all been to events where we connect. Somebody comes marching over and you just not feeling a connection. You're thinking, OK, why am I really meeting that person? So instead of just watching the clock ticking and thinking, OK, I can talk to this person for a couple of minutes and then somebody over there that looks good, connect with them, make eye contact, really be genuinely interested in them because you don't know who that person knows. All right, you might have decided, oh, no, this is a no go. I'm going to move strict past this person. I'm not remotely interested. But if you genuinely form an interest and you really listen and you ask the questions and you have a conversation further down the track, you might find that their brother owns a gallery that's really hard to get into that because you network together and because you formed a connection, they will pass you on as a warm lead. All right, so this is the way the networking game works. But if you go with the intention to say, oh, who do you know? What can I get out of the event? It's not about that. It's what can you give and you want to think about connections, connect with that other person. So my next tip I find is really powerful. All right, you want to think about actually giving a referral or a lead or some help. So as you're talking to the person, remember, your goal is to have three conversations. For example, that might be, you know, there's hello, hello, hello. But you want to have three longer conversations with people that was your goal. So that's three bits of help. So as you're talking to the person and they say, oh, you know, this, this and this. And you said, you know what, actually, my friend does that. I could absolutely recommend them or I use a tool online for that very same thing. Anywhere where you can give help because that person is going to remember you. You are the person that gave them a lead, that gave them a phone number, that gave them a contact. It doesn't matter where it goes. You want to be thinking about giving. You want to give the help first because, you know, down the track, it's going to be reciprocated, right? That's the way it works. OK, my next tip is super important. It's probably the most important thing. It's a fundamental part of business networking. And you need to have something like a 10, 20, 30 or even a 60 second little introduction about who you are and what you offer and to whom. So otherwise known as an elevator pitch. See, business networking events can vary. You might go to one where you mix and mingle and all you're going to do is speak to one person at a time. Or you might go to an event where it's more of a sit down breakfast or dinner. And at some point you have the opportunity to stand up and introduce yourself to the room. This is a powerful moment. If you get that opportunity, everybody on the room is focused on what you do. Now, I have further tips on that and I will make another video on that. But for now, let's just think about it. You know what my powerful introduction is because you heard it at the beginning of this video. Hello, my name is Sophie and I help artists just like you to build a stable, successful business doing what you love. All right, that's really easy. So if I say that to somebody in a networking event, their brain can immediately go, oh, I've got a friend who's an artist. Actually, they could probably really do with your help. Whereas if all I say, hello, my name is Sophie and I'm an artist or I'm an art business coach or I'm a business coach, it's a conversation stopper. All right, so we need to have that little introduction what you do and for whom. So your audience, what I do is help you grow a profitable business and I'm doing that for artists. So you've got to work out what it is you do. So you might be an abstract painter and you specialize in working with corporates. So you might say, hello, my name is Sophie. I'm an abstract painter and I create large canvases for corporate spaces, for example. The person you're talking to might say, wow, actually, my business has a really large entrance office and could really do with some amazing art on the wall. Now, right there, you potentially get a lead to put your artwork into an office situation straight away. All right, you were not expecting that, right? That can happen. It might not happen and it won't happen at every event, but it definitely can happen. So you must work on that sort of captivating introduction. Your artist introduction that explains what you do and to whom. My next tip is to make sure to either exchange business cards with everyone that you've had a good conversation with. So you might have created a physical business card. Or these days, quite often, we sort of have an online thing. So you might just swap your contact details.  Oh, I hang out on LinkedIn. I hang out on Facebook. I hang out on Instagram. Or you might simply take that email and or their phone number. But it's a way for you to stay in touch and follow up with any conversation that you've had, right? My next tip is one of my favorites. And that is keep some notes about the person that you've spoken to. Because when you see them again, maybe in a week's time or a month's time, if it's a monthly networking event, you sometimes might be thinking, oh, goodness me, I know that person, I've met that person. What was it again?  Or you might do a follow up email. You can say, hey, it was great to meet you at Sunso event today. You know, I hope your project XYZ goes really, really well. Look forward to seeing you at another event. Follow up is also really important, but you can only do it effectively if you remember what you were talking about. So make some notes wherever you've put their name and contact details. And that leads me absolutely to the next tip. Follow up on everybody you've met. All right, there's nothing worse than having a conversation, just leaving, going home and forgetting all about it.   You know, ask them if they're going to another event. Can they recommend other networking events? Just keep the conversation going a little bit. Now, you might say, I haven't got time to do that. You'd need to make the time. This is about growing your business. And these are people that you've met. So you wouldn't make friends at a party and then never contact that friend again. This is pretty much the same thing. All right, carve out the time to go to the event and follow up afterwards. OK, all right. So my next tip is all about the bigger picture. You want to focus on friendships and relationships and not in your head. When can I mention that I've got an exhibition coming up and I'd love them to come? When can I mention that I've got a workshop that I need to fill? When can I mention that I need something? All right, this is not about selling what you have. This is about building your network. This is a medium to long term burn, but could underpin everything you're doing. Like I said, back in the day, I built my entire business from networking alone to a bit of PR thrown in, right? It's super important and you will meet other people at the event who don't understand that's how it works. They come over and they want to sell something to you immediately that you can make your excuses and move away and move to somebody else. Remember, it's about win, win experiences. All right, so sometimes you might even just need to demonstrate to that person that that's not the way to go about it.  So I hope you've enjoyed today's video. As you can probably tell, I'm pretty passionate about networking. I really love business networking and I hope that you're inspired to do it as well. Thank you so much for watching this video. Make sure to watch other videos in the marketing playlist that I've got those links below this video and I'll pop a link up here so you can watch more marketing videos, more ways for you to grow your art business. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you on the next one.


Boom welcome back to the 21 convention 2021 day 3 15-year anniversary at 21 summit in Orlando, Florida Our first speaker of the day and our next speaker for the event is actually Luke Hanks cousin You might know him from Mortal Kombat. It's pretty awesome, dude He's also a 2020 artist of the year and for real the man is here's greatest artist He's actually personally introduced and recommended to me by dr. Sean Smith You guys saw speak on the first day of the event He's a good man great man and a great artist and he's bringing back Masculinity to art in the art world. He's had he has an incredible story what he's been through personally Coming out of the closet as a pro masculinity artist. You can only imagine what that's like in the art world today And any without further ado, please let me welcome your next fighter Arthur Kwan Lee Welcome Good morning so the subject of this presentation is on the social landscape and I'll be expounding upon how the normalization of decadence and the irreverent climate we live in has greatly brought down our collective aesthetic standards This presentation will crystallize what your common sense knows about the radical left, but from the vantage point of a classically trained fine artist One of my goals here will be to dismantle the pretentious elitism associated with the art industry today And I'll show you that while the pen is mightier than the sword The brush or the instrument is mightier than the pen any any medium by the way You can replace painting to understand this context So I want you to first pardon the ego centricity a little bit. I'm gonna share my story Because it's your story In my own paintings. I'm most known for resurfacing masculinity Religious iconography and traditional sentiments with a modern lens Most notably is when I went artists of the year in 2020 by the Eileen S. Kaminsky found me foundation I've shown my work in Milan Tokyo Japan where I mean really everywhere. It doesn't really matter Here's a taste of my work. This is a heroic rendition of a chili's Notice the saturated color palette that oh, yeah I'm so sorry Yeah, notice the Color palette it pays this oblique tribute to fovism. This is a slavic interpretation of a phoenix The gestural mark making Annunciates the intensity of my compositions that I'm going for So within three slides you can see my paintings are a conversation between the past and the present Where the ancients are placated in front of you with the new painting materiality available today This was a scene when Beowulf was entering the cavern towards the archetypal devouring mother and this is the painting in its entirety So my central claim here will be that masterpieces are produced by masculinity And I'm more often undergirded by religious subject matter And that the truest sense of what a fine artist has been art historically speaking is that of a spiritual servant? I like to read your quote by Joseph Campbell now Myths are so intimately bound to culture time and place That unless the symbols the metaphors are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts The life just slips away from them You know, there's a reason why Campbell repeated the adage of mother nature and father culture, right? There's patterns here and as we lose our pedagogical understandings we deteriorate that social cohesion This is why Dr. Jordan Peterson is so venerated today because he's doing what Campbell did in this 20th century and Every man here has to take a symbolic role publicly for novelty to continue its evolution So when you look at the ancients across all civilizations, they regard truth the reason Good and beauty as the fundamental building blocks of their society Notice beauty is up there and the truest sense of beauty is the sacred and As our culture becomes more antithetical and polarized, you know, I just reminded that we've all been here before Right every empire falls from the inside out Where the men become spoiled from the fruits of their fathers and that same toxicity ventriculates onto the society's creative class and the artist transitions from the Preserver of truth to the spreader of vanity When masculinity is not yielded properly in the arts, it is shoved underground to fester and All we have to do is look at the most popular form of creative expression in young people today And I don't know why not all people talk about this as a case study because it's a it's a phenomena, which is hip-hop You know if an overcompensation of masculinity ever had a name, it would be gangster rap You know the unconscious attraction when you look at hip-hop as a phenomenon is a freedom to be hyper masculine You know the the gold chains being surrounded by lascivious women. You're pretending to be this musical warlord essentially and I look I there's a place for it when I'm exercising from intoxicated It there's a place for it all but we have to acknowledge it for what it is So my journey as a fine artist. I had this obsession Excavating the symbolic. I believe we've we've lost touch with paying tribute to our shared consciousness And that's the seeds of this counterculture that You know, many are referring as this masculine enlightenment over here. They're planted in the wisdom of the ancients That is to say the canonical and pedagogical sentiments like the answers to the ideological subversions Consistently controlled by their mainstream media academia in Hollywood This painting here is titled agony and ecstasy. We have two central figures in this composition here First we have the guardian food dogs one has a ball under its paws symbolizing yin the other has a cup under its Paws symbolizing yang These statues are traditionally given by elders to the children when they purchase their homes and are starting families so the pedagogically given and the sentiment is to defend the family Cohesion from the Mongols. So it's a very wonderful gesture interesting side note is a Celestial figures in Eastern mythology that are on the side of good Manifest very darkly often because the integration of the shadow is very evident in their mythology But these these ghoulish figurines. They love human beings. They're their primary roles to protect children actually and on the other hand We have the Madonna This is the pieta from Michelangelo, of course You know when the very feisty Dona Torpomante was given the task of demolishing the chapel of Santa Pichonella The first thing he did was remove the pieta due to the symbolic weight that it carried so The stubborn and inflexible man allowed thousands of years of art to be put into the rubble, but not the pieta and There's something significant in that I'll give you a modern parallel in World War two When we're trying to give a statement to Japan who is on the list for us to drop the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Nagasaki and Kyoto Kyoto has all that beautiful Japanese architecture all that transcendent beauty in the history and philosophy associated with it and All the wise men they set up and said we will win by any means necessary But we cannot distort Kyoto. We need to remove it off the list because it's one thing to get to the other side But if you get to the other side and we lose our sense of beauty We lose our sense of humanity and we need to understand that especially today with the direction of our climate Notice the Virgin Mary here looks Very youthful for our 33 real Jesus on her lap. It implies that a woman's value is deeply connected to her purity So what happens if I put both of these figures onto one composition? It represents this universal archetype that any society that does not defend and preserve the archetype of the mother and child inevitably falls into hell. I Think that this painting resonates with the 21 convention deeply. I see a lot of pick-up artists in a manosphere and You know, I think they're blindsided by a certain degree of hypocrisy and I understand there's 15 years of baggage But if we're going to allow the manosphere to evolve we need to ameliorate this You know in their private lives they vote conservatively But in their but in their public lives they show off this body count and you cannot speak of social cohesion on one hand now the other hand You know, leave your brothers and sisters astray. It's a logical fallacy Now we need to address this if we're gonna allow the manosphere to evolve You're welcome Oops, you know, it's funny when I talked to the the new atheists that dismiss religious models as if Materialism has the tools to decipher the mystical, you know, I see this Island here with exhausted resources and the ferry boat that gets us to the other side is Greek reason Judeo-Christian values and masculine romanticism and The radicals are hacking down this method of transportation. They're exhibiting a lack of gratitude in any perspective whatsoever but Fortunately for us when he studied the Christian apologetics in the 1800s They talked about how the only thing more beautiful Even to the everyday man then the opposite sex is your religious experience and Anyone who has had those linguistic connections or have had a mystical experience or had have a tasteful psychedelic experience knows what I'm talking about This is what one of my more popular paintings today is titled apex we have central warriors and Authorities and conquerors around the world the author of the art of war Sun Tzu This is an unknown samurai, but the preserved condition implies he's very high ranking William Wallace on the left Julius Caesar at the bottom Genghis Khan, of course Kimu Shin god of naval warfare in East in the East Surrounding these Authorities are apex predators We had the brown bear above Wallace the soaring hawk the killer whale at the bottom and this explosive red Siberian tiger That's in your face I'm sharing my paintings with you guys because the same source that I create from exists within every man in this room And I get great excitement awakening that latent fire You know the when I said that masculinity is what produces masterpieces I mean specifically your capacity to endure suffering Interpreter analyze it and publicly share it with your artistic means Your risk-taking your leadership qualities. These are all alpha male traits. You can channel to take novelty to a higher place I'm gonna show you some quickly now This colossal youth sliced in half is a very fitting representation of the times. It's another popular painting of mine. Tell the rebirth often regard Moses Christ and Buddha is the three greatest alpha males of our history. It's one thing to lean towards their physical gifts you know, it's another thing to Val you know validate your status by getting attraction from a lot of ladies But it's another thing to go within and integrate your shadow or sin that takes real go nuts This painting was acquired by the special forces Foundation Organization dedicated to supporting Greenberry veterans the vast majority of my collectors are military veterans with an entrepreneurial spirit I'm honored to Give some light to the brave men and women of this country so ten years of consistent effort in the gallery scene Exploring philosophical subject matter Traveling museums across the world for inspiration and training under some of the most respected masters in the industry did me very well So I'm 20 in that photo Typically at that stage artists are competing to get into group shows and to get rejected at like a 10 to 1 ratio But I never had that problem because the nerve I was hitting You know, I knew very early on I wanted to play in the major leagues And I found myself getting big and small solo exhibitions regularly and As word got around some of the players in New York City started to collect me and I started to enter their social events as well And I'll be clear here. I Really kept to myself the entire time even amongst these people and the closer I became to these elitist ship of fools The more the true colors revealed on to me though, you know, I was in full transparency guys I was in social camouflage Notting as a yes, man in free of losing my financial security Realizing I'm losing something former sacred in turn you know the degree of wokeness and social justice and Necdotizing the art industry can't be repeated enough. I've had like I've had a art director who wanted to have an initial meeting with me at a Black Lives Matter rally I've had Dozens of critics suggested I depict more female or lgbtq figures implying need to write about my practice further, but nonetheless I Found myself awarded artists of the year internationally and This is Berlin Mexico City. You name it all the top art cities. I got a lot of attention for this But in that that exact same week one of six galleries. I was consigned with in New York City Told me to take a white supremacy survey Because they wanted a more inclusive roster of artists and and her logic was To recognize my unconscious male bias Towards systemic forces. I may be unaware of I was I was a Labeled adjacent white upon his completion. So you'll know You know, we all understand severely what the radical left is doing right Marxism in different Christmas packages BLM Feminism would have you but if you work in the arts and entertainment The where the gatekeepers literally demand the bending of the ideological knee. It's a very different thing So I found myself at this crossroads here Do I?  Who by the way are paying my bills? Right, and I you know, I thought a lot about this as to why so many good men do not speak up and stand up for what's right And I'm starting to realize it's heavily circumstantial Because as many we're all here on the journey to improve and we don't need everyone to like us We can toughen our leather. That's that's fine, but it's one thing to be hated It's another thing to be hated and poor And if they look at your two kids and they say why I can castigate your source of income You're gonna listen to them And that's that's actually the circumstantial reality as to why people are not speaking up I've thought about this a lot because we can we can Annie up, but if they can if they can make you jeopardize People you're taking care of it's a whole different story This is this is why I became an artist right? to preserve This is my father here, how can I look into his eyes? senior pastor military veteran rooftop Korean president of the council of Korean churches You know from the perspective of the gallery of empire and today that is a nexus of cultural Marxism atheism Unconscious determinism go about your whims and You know as the Bible says only greater pain a man faces than losing a loved one is abdicating his more responsibility Because art like morality consists of drawing the line somewhere So at this point of the story, I was just poking the hornet's nest, you know, I shared my disdain for CRT feminist Miss Andrew Shared my conservative predilections that was all there and I kept this professional Cushion so I can keep working with these art dealers at a safe distance and One of the interns in the Lower East side said that Arthur was selling your work. So at the end of the day, you're still salvageable right salvageable Until I started speaking up for the 45th president This is where things are rocky for me I went to this dinner party with the purpose of schmoozing and the curator says You know, we have all these black lives matter artists and we want to do a show with you group show to commemorate the stop Asian hate movement and She expected me to be giddy because of these slanted eyes and She said what do you think about? How do you feel? I said, I think it's very odd that blacks assaulting Asians based on race is white supremacy and There's three things you should never Disparage in this industry, right? First is the LGBTQ, you know, they're the most privileged people today, right? second is BLM and last are the feminizes So she thought she could checkmate me. Well, what do you think about black lives matter? You know the sacred cow and I Said it.  You shouldn't do that, right? But um, I Made this commitment to just let go and let God And I've had dozens of these interactions with many of the dealers I worked with and One plus one is two. This is a microcosm of what occurs with Kanye West Regina Carano. This is what happens if anyone is a masculine conservative and wants to use your artistic medium where there's comedy Fashion Painting what have you if you're yielding your medium towards the logos and want to preserve tradition They will castigate your income You know and in full transparency being placated with these people has put me in a transition phase You know Lower East Side, Soho, New York.  You know, but like like I said All the answers are in the ancients So if we're gonna go forward We want to first look back again so I'm gonna show you guys six works of art produced when The arbiters were masculine the gatekeepers And I mean specifically the Medici family military generals and wealthy patriarchs and Then I'm gonna show you guys six works of art in today's intersectional landscape And we're gonna play the quiet game here because the picture is worth a thousand words I want you to exercise the art in a very conscious looking Notice your process of articulation the architecture your your standards just Experience the art enter post-modernism You read that You get the idea preposterous and trivial. How do you go from the divulging of the logos? encapsulation of the sublime We're in addition of some of our deepest archetypal realities as food for the soul To a banana duct tape to a wall Selling for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in our battle 2019 well It's because as the Russians say Fish rods from the head down and I'm not gonna even get into the money laundering component or the demonic artists venerated by the political elite It's a much larger cultural issue that we the people even acknowledge this garbage as anything but insulting to our intelligence Another way to say this is politics is down to culture and This sentiment has also been echoed by Michael Savage Dennis Prager and I hate to say it but the majority of I don't want to just say conservatives but Anyone who acknowledges and protects Freedom of speech the right to bear arms in the family. They just repeat this as an empty mantra and are not active participants Let me reiterate that my conservative and traditional values Are nested on aesthetic and sentimental reasons first and you you have to be able to justify it to the same extent as policy implementation on welfare taxation abortion, what have you Like you should be a conservative because you don't want your daughter to have a septum piercing a blue hair and be 300 pounds Right, you know that at a gut level, but when it comes to the conversation We go into this echo chamber or we just stack red pill data and just throw it into each other And we know it's not effective. I hate to be the bearer bad news, but it's not gonna get the job done we need to be a part of the culture because Romanticism is nested in traditionality in the first place And more often the praise aesthetics of the time will give you hindsight of things to come Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. Yes, there are cultural and biological differences differences of taste But beauty at an instinctual level is defined as identifiable boundaries refined to the nth degree Look at a bodybuilder. Look at a beautiful sports car or marble sculpture and there's relativity in there. I understand but The refinement the commitment to that That's something that needs to be harnessed The the degeneration of beauty comes from one thing actually and What has been pushed down our throats since the baby boomers took charge? Political correctness Political correctness is not just a tool to shut right-wingers up Political correctness is ultimately the propounder of relativism and relativism is not having the Conscientiousness to distinguish the pita the pita from the levitated mass To give some further context the levitated mass is regarded as our generation's pita 10 million of taxpayer dollars to be acquired by LACMA relativism central claim is that objective standards and expectations belong in the trash and I'm telling you guys right now We're gonna break this down. There are institutional roots as to why this is So if you looked at the 1800s all our education was like atelier based art training. It was like any other trade school, right? You want to be a mechanic? You know you want to Learn plumbing. What do you do? You go to somebody who knows the skill and you your apprentice under them But the advent of art universities are a completely different creature and it's nested in the Frankfurt school So 1983 John W. Murphy of the Frankfurt school publishes art and the social world through the studies in Soviet thought a study into Marxist Aesthetics and its intellectual heritage Our end the social world is what all the art critics and theorists that are in the universities today used as a foundation It's all nested on this is built upon this foundation According to Murphy the role of art should transcend Representing conditions of beauty and truth towards a practice of what is deemed as socially beneficial And official art should serve as a political arm rather than a religious one You fast forward to the top five art universities today. They're all being taught by radical post-modern ideologues on the left The first person to catch wind of this was American cultural critic Tom Wolf So this story is pretty interesting because mr. Wolf was a lover of art of art history in New York City When the art world was going to his renaissance He walked into this gallery in Soho and saw all these blank canvases Usually an artist produces a series Takes maybe two to three years the curators and critics come to the studio We determine what works fits most cohesively based on the theme. We'll work out a statement. It's this that's usually the go-to template But he saw all these campuses. So he got excited. He walked and he goes to this Front desk girl wearing her all black Ponytail pretty enough where you want to talk to her but she definitely studied a liberal arts degree So she has a little snarl in you that little that dissonance was there that typical image He walks in and says look at this artist here, but all this work up. He's already getting ready for the series He's planning it this ahead of time. Who's this artist? Who's a what is he producing and she looks and says no, this is your art show? This is the art show. These are White canvases with white paint on top of it. It's very bold and daring and He's confused, you know because art is supposed to have cultural value She looks at him. Oh, you haven't read Greenberg. You haven't read Clement Greenberg. This is your problem.  He goes up to his loft He finishes his book. He comes back down and totally trolls her. Oh It's the purity of the painting materiality that makes it transcendent. It's pure art. The purity of it is what makes it And so why are you able to charge it at this rate and In his bewilderment she believes him. She goes now you get it Now you understand the art world. This is what you know, we're we're doing a new fold here, right? So Wolf's primary claim here in the painting word was that the American art movements from 1945 to 1975 Was a religion of the educated classes if you want to understand one of the great weapons of the radical left Look at the art gallery. They're doing a lot of underground self there and this is where a lot of them meet Absurge expressionism pop art and minimalism were just different denominations of the modern gallery attempting to replace the church The heretics in today's far now world are those who expose that the emperor has no clothes on in other words that Don't excuse me those who see the culture for what it is mere Philism backed by second-generation liberal guilt of the upper class This is an important thing like today those who supported Wolf's claims were insulted as fascist Bigots and racist by the students of Rosenberg, Steinberg and Greenberg Sounds pretty familiar, right? Well, I agree with mr. Wolf and his fantastical literary style of writing I don't think he went deep enough though, and I don't blame him because no one could have predicted How did the you know the decadence would proliferate with social media and technology? The logical conclusion of this never-ending Avangar reframing of high art is elitism. Yes So by nature those who will consolidate in this industry are those in the anti-american elite agreed But who did the culture Berg associate themselves with? Who are the intellectuals who are the academics who supported these art gallery gatekeepers? Radical Marxist who spoke of feminist Miss Andrew against the patriarchy Before we look at the numbers here. I want to make one thing very clear though We're not blaming or attacking women because there's so many powerful female artists That's not the point you're missing the point if you think that's the case. It's the absence of masculinity. That is the problem We need this balance, you know, I can't tell you how many masterpieces and amazing work of art there are From men exercising their romantic instincts selectively. There's amazing tremendous beauty that's You know generated just from that source But it's important to understand that When masculinity leaves a window aesthetic standards will plummet You know, I showed that photo earlier with my girl and I with the Trump hat There's layers of an onion to this It's not Trump per se Right, you peel that and that's conservatism. You peel that it's traditionality. You peel that again It's masculinity. You peel that again It's standards We're the ones who can uphold those standards because we're the ones conscientious of boundaries We have that territorial system and that applies psychologically as well and that also applies to the artistry So let me prove to you that there's no men in the art world today women earn 70 percent of bachelor fine art degrees and 75 percent of master of fine art degrees from leftist universities in the United States This is from the National Museum of Woman Artists In 2016 the globally recognized art website artsy did a study of 33 thousand artists and found that woman in the arts did not experience the motherhood penalty In their careers 22 conventions gonna love this In other words woman in the arts consciously choose to avoid bearing children and becoming mothers Freeing up all the time to have that vehemence towards masculinity in 2018 art museum staff demographics showed a vast majority of woman employees and by 2021 the same woman are running all the museums Feminist art coalition national association of woman artists woman-made gallery woman art guild gorilla girls the feminist art project There are hundreds of art collectives dedicated to supporting this Anti-masculine frame in literature art you name it I saw one of your faces when I said that when masculinity leaves a window aesthetic sounders plumbing this is something I believe in and You're probably thinking how can you make such a claim? That's too much of a wide thing to say Well, we don't even need to look at the art We can look at the woman themselves So we're gonna look at Students who went to liberal art school or studied art education All right, and check that some of you are gonna want to chuckle but uh That's fine, but there's a serious tone to this as well, you know, what if this was my sister, you know What if this is your daughter God forbid? Probably wouldn't be your wife because you wouldn't want to deal with that, but um Let's have a look here. Oops. You forgot this one, but you know, I don't even blame them Because this is what they're reading the Cosmopolitan used to be a housewife magazine and You know the whole trope that The men use acrylic and a royal the woman use watercolor The ladies would paint in watercolor and they'd submit it to Cosmopolitan and then the best one was getting the cover It was a beautiful sentiment. Now you have this sphere Total chick the other lover what everyone I call it, right? This is what has happened. This is the this is the decadence I'm talking about and speaking of Reading You should judge a book by its cover the overall sentiment that I'm trying to relate to you guys here is that We need to put a handle on our optics Every time I see someone on the right and the left have a conversation the right Gets the spreadsheet in the pie charts stacks up this again red pill driven data and 90% of the time they just talk to each other, right? What does the left do? They don't even bother with that and they're effective They have absolute ownership of big tech academia the gallery Hollywood entertainment. Those are all spheres of influence So they're getting all the young people the influencing everyone who is not so nested in with the data We're gonna do an exercise here and I'm gonna prove to you right now right here with the social experiment I'll prove my point Anyone who can recite to me the 150 second line in the Constitution raise your hand Okay Now I want you guys if you can to finish the lyrics of this melody Okay, it seems today that all we see is violence in movies and That's culture that's culture Culture data we need we need these red pill driven men here. We need them. We need to store guys here Because then if they want to argue with us on a table, we got that But if we don't participate in the arts actively, we're doomed. We're doomed Okay, I want to end this little tastefully. So I'm gonna Quote one of my heroes here sir Roger Scruton rest in peace When art becomes merely shock value our sense of humanity is slowly degraded The culture of the civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines this vision of the world So let me show you guys some hope because there are artists who are trying to fight for what's right. They're trying to Preserve our tradition. This is Edward nippers. He depicts biblical stories with all the new Modern painting techniques with so much movement and breath. It's a beautiful thing Lee Hongbo he paints with classical standards with paper and he draws you in by Bending reality you can unfold them Alex Gray in the Cosm community I don't like how left-leaning he is but at least he's making spiritually-oriented art. So it's that's halfway there And he's done, you know, regardless of bringing art back to the sacred. He's contributed quite a bit Eric army sick biblical realism You know, if you look it's important to say while I'm on the subject the greatest artists are Christian for a reason This is I mean there's this is not just It's not a coincidence You know art that points to a transcendent morality That's the good stuff right there James Jean Resurfacing aesthetics from the East with modernity Mr. Tung Han more classical sculpting. I Could have shown you hundreds of artists that I know and if I didn't show some of my good friends. I'm sorry I have too many to pick from Bottom line here is that when femininity is is left in the arts in the aesthetics You get aesthetic relativity when mass humanity comes into the picture. It introduces universal standards or hierarchy And that is the distance that we need to ameliorate Men have to participate in the arts Let me give you more specifics So my professor always suggests to people who do not have any art experience who wants to just get their feet wet Take your family take your kids and learn the ceramic wheel make the bowls and plates That you literally break bread and eat together It's a hell of a familial glue and it's very affordable and you get a taste of the aesthetic experience That's one option. I've heard him say this many times If you're in a blue state, you got a lot of galleries Go in check it out and challenge the status quo if you see this vague me as to make Horse manure it might be horse manure if you see this stuff Ask somebody that works there. What is the cultural value of this? And maybe there is maybe there is a context that you don't know who knows don't go in with hate But you must be willing to challenge the status quo because these elitists they will talk they will talk down to you and You know you have to dismiss all that because people's wisdom is only as deep as their experience and these people just have vanity and narcissism and narcotics really Join the Genesis Council. I started this art collective For all the artists who want to take the culture back, you know, we have our classes. We have yoga We have a writer's circle. We have a book club We have all these different learning resources where we can consult and support each other. There's nothing like this So look we have to return to tradition Restore the sacred and make some art You know, I probably should have started with this But what is the functionality of art in the first place? Let's go to base reality. What is the purpose and function of art? The point of art is to fortify the values you believe and are fighting for You purchase some art you collect something you put it up on your home that energy and aura permeates to your whole family in your home the investment is insurmountable and I think a problem with people on the right side of the aisle is they look at every investment based on an ROI How many digits does this add to my bank account? don't you want to have your hands on the wheel of actual culture and I leave you with one saying This is a sentiment that I have echoed upon in my whole practice inside the studio that tradition my friends It's not the worshiping of ashes, but the preservation of fire Thank you guys


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