What's up guys, today I'm going to show you how to make some custom serving trays. Whatever you want to use it for is totally up to you, but we're going to do one Sprinkles themed... It is kind of a tongue twister. Sorry, let me do it again. This one we're going to do a Sprinkles themed one, and this one we're actually going to use a silicone mold with stars to make that one. Two different techniques. I don't know how this silicone one is going to work, but that's the fun. That's what we're going to do today is have some fun, see if it works. And if it doesn't, how can we fix it to make it work? Woo, it's going to be so fun. Let's go through the items that you're going to need. A mixing bucket, some mixing cups, and that's for the resin. A glue gun and some glue sticks. We got some scissors, an exacto knife. You're going to need some foam core, a marker, we're using some tuck tape. This stuff works really great when it comes to resin. Resin will not stick to this stuff. Today we're going to be using a 32 ounce kit of Art Resin, the original resin tints from Art Resin. We're going to use the metallic white on the metallics kit as well. The style that I'm going to go with because this is a serving tray, I thought it'd be kind of fun to incorporate a food item, a baking item. So we're going to use some sprinkles. I love using sprinkles in the resin because it gives a nice pop of color and they're super easy to work with. And one star tray, of course, some gloves, some stir sticks, and a good attitude because we're going to have some fun. Oh, and sorry, add some trays. Totally ruined that ending. Let's get started. For our first tray, we're going to go with a silver and black theme and then we're going to have sprinkles act as the pop of color for this. So shiny. You got to get the squeak. Yeah, it's official, it's legit. For this first one, I'm going to put my initials on this tray. You guys can put anything if you want the whole classic live laugh love theme. You can do that. But for the sake of today's video, I'm just going to do my initials, which is DJR. We've got some foam core. So what we're going to do is we're going to lay down the foam core, flip the tray upside down. Grab your marker and just to know what sort of spacing and surface that we have to work with, we're going to make a circle around our tray. One thing to consider is if this tray actually has a lip, just make sure that we stay within that line. Okay. So this right here is basically our mold. So anything that you guys want to have is a different color of resin or in our case, sprinkles. You're going to draw it out here. So for me, I'm going to go ahead and draw out my initials. This is what I'm thinking for the tray. Everything around this is going to be black. You're going to have the silver lip, which will look really nice. You'll have the black resin base of our tray. And we've got my initials, DJR, which are going to be in sprinkles. So it's going to be in resin still, but it's going to be separate from the black background. So now we've got our design drawn out. We're going to cut this out using the Xacto knife. Just be careful because foam core, you can slip, you can cut yourself, so just go slow and you're going to thank yourself because the detail won't take a hit either. Okay. Actually, before we do anything, you're going to want to get a cutting mat to protect your surface. We're using this beautiful pink one. This is great. And now you're just going to cut along the lines of whatever you drew out. So we've done one pass over our letters. It's not going to come out easy. And in fact, it might come out with other pieces. Don't worry. We're going to clean that up with scissors right after. Okay. So now we've got our letters here. This piece of the foam core, we're going to set aside. I have done a first cut. In fact, I've cut through 70% of this foam core. I'm going to go in with scissors now and just get more detailed pieces. I'm going to individually cut out each piece. Right there, we've got the R. Now some of these letters are going to take a little bit more work when they have like the centered holes like that, but take more time for this stage so the tray will actually look better in the end. Boom. Boom. Ka-boom. Perfect. Okay. So we've got our letters. So we're now going to take our foam core again. We're now just going to trace around because essentially what we're trying to do here is we're trying to make an exact copy or to make it a little bit thicker. So I know this part looks very tedious, but this is the longest part of the entire process. Just keep that in mind when you guys are picking a design.  You could serve snacks on all kinds of fun snacks. Nuts. You're going to love these. I feel like the slap chop guy. You're going to love my nuts. Okay. So we've got essentially duplicates. Now one of them is going to be a little bit bigger than the other, and if that's the case, you want to put that on the bottom. You want the pretty cut out letters on top because the resin is going to follow that shape. We want it to look good. So here we go. DJR. Next step. Now that we have our design cut out in foam core, we are going to first glue the two layers together and then we're going to use some tuck tape and cover this entire letter in tuck tape. The reason being is resin won't actually stick to this stuff, and we want to be able to pull these letters out once our first pork hears. Boom. Now I know you're thinking that, damn, oh, it's wrinkly on the back. Do not worry. Anything below half of this is going to be black resin, so you're not going to see any of the blemishes. As long as there's at least a smooth shape formation, it'll be totally fine. All right. Now here's the big moment, the tray. You want to make sure it's lined up or placed wherever you want to put it. I'm going to start with the J, just so I can center it. Does that look centered to you? Yeah, it looks good. Okay. Now let's go ahead and glue the D. Lucky for us, the hot glue is actually holding the letters. So essentially what we've done here is we've made a mold. We are now going to pour black resin around it and inside the little holes in the letters. Let that cure. Take these guys out and pour our second color. Before we actually get to pouring this, I'm going to show you guys the second technique using silicone, and we're going to do the pour at the same time for both. So at this point, you want to place down your silicone shapes. So for us, we're using stars, and I have them all sort of spiral into the center. So now that we have our stars placed, we're going to, we're going to see what happens right now. I actually don't know what's going to happen here. We're going to hot glue the silicone stars to the bottom of the tray. If that doesn't work, we'll put weights inside and that'll for sure work. So yeah, let's see if this works. Put them back. Okay. If only you guys knew what I've been through. So here's the thing about silicone. Nothing wants to stick to it, and silicone doesn't want to stick to anything. So I've tried a whole bunch of things to try to get our star molds to stick to this tray, including hot gluing it down. Nope. Rubber cement. Nope. Blue tack. Nope. Tape. Nope. Nothing's working. So what I'm going to do is I've placed silicone stars on the tray where I want them. I've got these little stones from a garden outside and I'm actually just going to use them as little weights and put them in the silicone stars to see if maybe there's enough weight that when one of the resin goes in, it's not actually lifting it up. So we're not out of the woods yet. We're going to test it out. Hopefully they do not float. So let's go ahead and weigh them down with some stones. It feels sort of like trick or treating like one stone for you. So what you're thinking, whoa, Dan, where did that like rough patch come from? Guys. Okay. This was a mix of hot glue that wouldn't come up. So I used a heat gun. It just melted it and I tried scraping it off and then it spread the glue everywhere. I'm sure if you guys are crafters, you know this happens. Not a concern because we're going to be pouring resin on top. It's going to cover it all. You only really learn when you fail. Okay. They're in place. Fingers crossed. The resin does not make our silicone stars float. We'll see. Now for the final step of day one, we're going to do our resin pour. So right here we're going to use a 32 ounce kit of art resin, 16 for our one tray and 16 for the other, eight ounces of hardener, and eight ounces of resin. And then we're going to mix both of them into a larger bucket. Good rule of thumb here is you want to stir relatively slowly for three minutes. You don't want to put any air in here. Although with trays, it's not a huge deal because we can actually use a heat gun and pop them out. Another thing is you want to make sure you're scraping the sides and the bottom to get all the resin mixed with the hardener. Now at this stage, we're going to take some black resin tints. I don't want this to be transparent at all so we're just going to use like one, two big squirts. Mix it in. We'll see. Do another three, four, five, and a good way to check actually you take your stir stick and lift it up and if you can see the stick below, that's how you can check the transparency of the dye. And then we're ready for our pour. So we're going to pour about halfway up this tray, not covering our letters. You've got to make sure that you can still see it and it's still above the resin surface. So let's do it. So the D and the R both have holes in them. So we're going to take our stir stick and we're just going to help guide resin to fill inside of there. Okay. One of my personal favorite parts about working with resin is actually popping the bubbles and watching them all disappear. One thing I've learned is that when it's super aerated resin, one pass with a torch isn't actually going to do enough. So I'm going to leave it for about five minutes, let more of the bubbles come to the top, run it again, and then that should be fine. So far so good. It looks great. Yeah. All right. On to tray number two. All right. Train number two. It seems like 24 ounces is the magic number for these trays. So we're going to pour all of this resin in. Three minutes starts now. All right. So for this one, I felt like a sort of a pearl or metallic white in this case is going to look really good with the gold background. So we're using a lot of resin in this one. So probably going to need about six, like one, two, three, four, five, six. Because it's a white, it's actually going to take a little bit more dye to hide the background color.   And adding the metallic, it adds some just like nice vibes. So the rule of thumb when you're actually adding tints to resin is you don't want to do more than 6%. And I know you're watching going, Dan, you just used an entire bottle. Yeah. But you know what? I'm feeling a little zany today. Nice vibes. It'll still work. It's just the rule of thumb is no more than 6%. Okay. Here we go. Will it float? I don't be too aggressive with it. They're not floating. The rock technique is working. It's not just a flat color. You can almost see where the pore has gone and it's, oh my gosh, this is so nice. It just, it makes it a little bit more regal when you're adding the metallic colors. It's holding. The stars are all aligned. Now we're going to hit it once with a torch, give it to the bubbles. That's pretty much it for today. It's been a really good day. This one is a little bit more of an experimental thing, but the good news is you guys and myself will be learning from this process. We're going to cover them and we'll be back in the morning. So I'll see you guys bright and early to reveal our trays. Bye. Day two. Oh, buddy, this is the big, big, big reveal. Let's check out our first tray. This is the one that we did with my initials. I'm pretty straight forward. So the pore worked out great. Super shiny. No bubbles. Okay. The other one is out. How are we going to do that? No problem. We'll figure it away. The other thought is, you know, the tape kind of went rogue on this side and I'm wondering if that's actually going to bring up a little bit of the resin with it. That's also not a concern because we could fix that with, with more resin. That's the beauty of this thing. So super happy with this. Look at that shine. Woo. Nice. I'm really happy with how this turned out. Okay. Oh, buddy, this is the big reveal. You know, this is the one from yesterday that we thought maybe this isn't going to work. It's a road of sort of unfamiliarity, but that's the way I like to do crafts, arts and crafts. It's a good way to actually learn new techniques. So here we go. Genuinely, I have not seen what this is. I just figured there's an issue with it because when I got here this morning, it's been covered in this box that has paper so I can't actually see it. And everyone's looking at me. It's like, oh, there's that guy that did that tray. I'm like, something's up. You know, if I don't look technically, it's not a fail. Oh, it worked out. Oh, this actually worked out. I was under the impression this wasn't going to work, but this turned out great. Yes. Yes. See, this is the thing about crafts. Okay. When you take risks and it actually works out, you get this feeling of like, mm, it works and it feels so good. It looks like marble. Yes. You guys freaked me out, man. You know, we took a risk with the silicone, not knowing if it's going to float by the resin overnight, but the fact that it actually worked, it's amazing because nothing sticks to silicone. So this is going to be super easy to remove and then we're going to fill in the stars with a different colored resin. Yes. Yes. I was so worried the video was going to go up and it was like, who's this guy? It's like both trays were a huge fail. Oh, that is great. I can't wait to finish that one. All right. So the next step today is we are going to remove our shapes. So we're going to start with the DJR platter. Keep in mind, these is just foam core. So it should be relatively easy to sort of remove it or dissect it. And it's perfect because we have a dissection kit, which slightly weird, but I'm sure it'll do the job great. It's very fragile, so we can just chisel away. Oh, buddy, there it is. Look at that. Oh. Yes. Yes. Oh. Yes. That saved us so much time. Look at that. Oh my gosh. This is working out so well. What a good feeling. So tuck tape actually came through. By looking at this, you're going to think that the bottom of the J sort of does look a little bit messy right here. If we're doing clear, that'd be a concern, but we're putting sprinkles and resin in here. So that's going to hide it perfectly. Oh, that is so good. Yes. Oh, I can't explain to you guys how satisfying it is when it just says the resin, she's like, okay, take it. Okay. So this is actually going to take a little bit of time. So I'm going to pull them out and then I'll see you guys in the next shot. And just like that, we've got all the letters out. Next step is we're going to take sprinkles and resin, put it in there and then do one final coat on top. This guy's done. Moving on to our second tray, which worked out great, is the silicone stars. And just watch this already, okay? Like so easy. So I guess what we're learning here is if you guys are going to do this and you're on like a time constraint, go with silicone like this is, oh my, that's so nice. It's like so satisfying from 40 minutes to like under a minute silicone is probably a good way to go. So the idea here is we're going to fill every star with gold dyed resin and the center star we're going to make red. Let's get to mixing some resin. We're in the home stretch. What I usually do is when I start using sprinkles, this is sort of like glitter. It gets everywhere and the second it gets into resin, it's just such a mess. So I'm actually going to do the gold tray first. We've got our resin. So by sitting in a warm water bath, it'll actually warm up the resin and reduce the bubbles when we actually mix and pour. I want to make every star on this with a gold infill. And the one in the center I want to make red have a nice pop of color. So we've got our resin tins here, probably three ounce total. So one and a half ounces of resin, one and a half ounces of hardener. And stir for three minutes because we're doing two different colors. We don't need too too much for the red. We don't need too much dye here, just enough so it's not transparent. That's the color right there. Okay, so now we're going to take this little squirt bottle and this is just to help with the control of the pour. Perfect. We are now ready to do our gold tray for slowly. And now it's time for our center star, which is going to be red. Now the stars right now are a little bit of different levels of the pouring. That's totally fine. So we're going to do actually one more top layer to finish it all off once this is hardened a bit more. That's for the most part is a completed tray. Now it's time for the sprinkles. Okay. So now what we're going to do is we're going to use six ounces total of resin. So we're going to do three ounces of resin and then we're going to use three ounces of hardener, which will bring it to a total of six ounces. That's math. Mix that for three minutes. Great. Resin's been mixed. Now let's introduce the sprinkles. Resin meets sprinkles. There's a better way to do this. You're going to need a little bit more sprinkles than you think you need. Now we're going to pour it into our letters. I need sort of like mishaps around there. We'll disappear once you do a top coat. Okay. Now we're going to hit it with the torch. That's looking good. So this one's for sure going to need a top coat. All right. This one looks good. So we've finished the sprinkles for we're going to put on one more coat tomorrow and then we have some custom serving trays. See you guys tomorrow. Day three. Oh, it looks so good. And like that top coat guys, like the beautiful thing about resin is you can fix it in so many different ways. But a nice final top coat on these guys made it so nice. Check these out. They look so good. So you guys have it. That is how you make some custom serving trays using art resin. Give it a shot. Try different things. Try different techniques. You never know what's going to work. And when it does work, it feels so good on the inside. Nice vibes. Thanks for watching this DIY later.


I always ask, what's next after cabin life? Well, there's only one way to find out. Truck camping live. Woo! We flew across the country for this. My company was great, and we almost missed our flight, but he runs so fast. I can't wait to explore in this rig. When Mav came to the cabin, we checked out his rig and we loved it. Bella loved it even more. Could have been all that good food to use cooking there, but it had our minds spinning on what truck camping could look like for our pack. This is a truck camper. A camper mounted on the bed of a truck. We're going to try living in this 4x4 Toyota Tacoma to see if this is what's next after cabin life. After living in an off-grid cabin with 15 acres and a pretty luck sprint event, this is gonna be, well, there is no toilet. It's pretty small and we're not stealthy. I like my space and my lattes, but the trade-off is that you can go anywhere you want outside. We're going to find out if truck camping is suitable for our two dogs if we could do this full-time and could we make it to Argentina in a truck camper? After a quick stop for some necessary supplies. Emergency bags. You all know what this is for. And if you don't, here's a hint. You can't get any of this in Canada. We are ready to hit the road. One thing that's obviously different from a van to a truck. Well, one, we're going on a trail. The van could never go on a trail. Whoa. What?  It was gonna be fun. You can get everywhere until you can't because there's a gate. Damn. Shit. After a failed attempt, we are back to the drawing board. We pulled out IO Rolander. And I found the perfect spot. Somewhere beautiful that will test this truck. Billboard after billboard and many hours later, our tires are hitting the dirt. Put me on a train, I don't care where it's going. Fly me on, it's just you and me. I need to go somewhere. I love it. We could never do this in our van. These are real life moguls. It's so fun. No wonder people love this stuff. I know it. So fun. Those are the kind of roads we're on, everyone.  Are you ready? I'm ready. What it takes to get the shots. Driven this fast down a road like this before. Free stay so fit in the van. Running after the vehicle. I'm so tired. And nothing's fallen over in the back of the truck. Everything will be on the ground in the van. Cover it's open and everything. It's a nice smooth ride. This is camp. We made it. Good driving. Wow, that was sweet. We made it just actually before the sun went down too. It's got some time to settle in and figure out how to open up our camper and get in there. Oh no, it's getting dark. I love the Tacoma. This is the life for me. What a beast. I freaking love it. Let's see if you say that after a night's sleep. Yeah, let's see how it really is. We were given a lesson by Stan. Hopefully we can get the door open. You got it. Paul, we're in. Wow. I don't remember. Oh, brother. The clips, there's six of them, three. Now it's time to open up the camper. Hopefully I'm strong enough. Giver. Woo. I think I used this. Apparently this one's harder. I need a reform. I think I have to lock something in there. I forgot how to make the bed. You didn't pay attention. I was. It's a lot of steps. It might fall on us in the middle of the night. I think we might have did it right. I'm not sure. I like truck camping. We do. A lot. We have no neighbors. The worst is when you're in the van and you park up and then someone parks to your side you and you're like, I wish I had four by four. These are the types of camps that we used to work so hard to get to in our van. And a lot of times got stuck. A lot of times didn't make it. But this is the four by four life. Beautiful open landscape. Gorgeous full moon. It's going to be a good night in this off-road camper van. Camper van truck, man. Camper. Dessie van. Lumber Jane, wow. Oh gosh. Please arm me out again. Bought some wood. They wouldn't let me take our 11 cords on the plane. And there ain't no trees y'all. That wood is from Canada. BC, baby. Just like these cowgirls. Oh gosh. It's been so long since we've sat outside and not froze our butts off. Also so long, actually a full year since we've been on the road and somewhere entirely new. This little bit of adventure has reminded us both already how much we love the road. We love adventuring and seeing the world. Just that spark in your soul that you can't ignore and it feels ignited. Again, sitting here. Good feeling. My gosh. Oh my gosh. As if this moment couldn't get any more special. The moon is rising over the hill. I have goosebumps. Like I can't even breathe. It's so beautiful. It's huge. How beautiful. So beautiful. I'm trying to be still for y'all. So beautiful all around. Beautiful fire. My beautiful wife and a beautiful moon. Perfect night truck camping. The sounds of the fire, the birds and the moon. Thank you. Got a tinkle. Back to the old days, eh? Yep. What I mean by that is that we lived in a van for over three years. And majority of those years, we didn't have an indoor toilet until we did run-offs. And then when we moved into our off-grid cabin, we also didn't have a bathroom until a few months ago. So we're bringing back the good old times of P&N nature.  That's for sure. How's the view? Large and in charge. What? The rocks. Bedding. Fellows, sleep in bed. Sorry. This is obviously the best seat in the house. Bacon goes in the freezer. You hear that? Freezer. Hear that? Look. Right there. Luxe. Storage pantry. Nothing quite says truck camping, like being rolled up in a sleeping bag and eating some jerky. Gotta play the part. I need to get some cutlery and some pots and pans. And it is stored in the cab of the truck. For now. Not anymore. Gotcha. We're leaving it in there. You don't actually use? No. You don't have to. Sure, this would be Bella's seat. This rig is about being outside. Clearly, it's set up with flood lights. How cool is that? But we got here a little bit late due to our, what is it called? Road closure. Road closure. Welcome to the kitchen and our very first meal in the truck. I keep wanting to say van, but it's a truck. Camper. Camper truck. Truck camper. Truck camper. First step is to turn the water pump on. This sink doubles clearly as a counter because it is also a sink underneath of the counter. She's powerful. Small but mighty. Danger. We're about to cook a delicious meal on a propane stove in a truck camper. That's wild. I love it. This is by far one of the coolest rigs I've ever slept in. Also, one of the most overlanding-like vehicles I've ever seen. And we cannot wait to show you everything it has to offer. Tonight, we are having a fancy pasta that we cannot pronounce with a homemade, just kidding, not homemade, out of a jar, rosé sauce with bacon and parmesan. Chesney pie is excited, and I said, not really, because I don't think it's going to taste that good. So rude to say to your truck camper chef. We're missing some key ingredients, everyone, like onion, garlic, any spice, you know? So we're just going with what they give you here. Sauce from a can? That's pretty good. You're not bad. I like it. You like anything? Gear or seagull? You don't like it? That was rude to say. It's kind of true, though. It's a king bed. What is it? For two queens. Oh, shigga. I have to say, everything so far about the camper truck is quite easy. Click, pull the button, pull it with this. Just a couple steps. Pretty easy. You got a bigger bed than we do in a cabin. Very smooth. Truck camping is back to the simple things. We are absolutely exhausted, and that's because we don't have anything super stimulating, like cell phones and service. And we have each other, ourselves in this truck camper, shelter, and the wind. But that's too bad already. I feel very present when I'm in here. Since getting here, you're just really focused on whatever you're doing, and there's really nothing to distract you. I like it. Which is really nice. It's a nice change of pace. Very needed. Just miss Melanizzi. Yeah. A lot. First thing going to bed in a truck camper. It's cool, eh? It's quiet. Having fun. Disconnecting. Night, y'all. Night, y'all. Good morning from a sleepyhead in the truck camper. In the middle of the desert, it was so windy last night that we were going to blow away like a tumbleweed. But despite all that, we actually got such a long night sleep, at least 10 hours. All right, world. We have seriously been considering truck camping life for a very long time. And my favorite part about it already is where you can make it. I am just picturing Bella and Izzy running out and enjoying this entire area as their backyard. Because if we all know Bella and Izzy, we know they are the wild girls that they are. Speaking about Bella and Izzy, I wonder what those floofs are up to today. They seriously make me the happiest human in the world, just watching them play together. I miss them so much. Today, bagged coffee. I can't wait. I've never had, but oh yeah, once I have. But I have a feeling this is going to be real tasty, because we're doubling it up. Bagged coffee. This is truck camper coffee, everyone. Truck camping. Truck camping. It makes sense. It feels more like camping. Yeah. It is called truck camping. You're camping. You're camping, but it's very luxury. Yep. There's no greater smell than when you're in the wild, than coffee and bacon in the morning. Smells damn good out here. Judging by the color, we're going third bag of coffee. Nothing a bag of parm can't handle. That's some safety features. I know we only just woke up, and this is our very first night in here. But I have to say, I already feel so well adjusted. If you could just see me hanging out in this corner up in the race that we still have, I like it. It's croissants and bacon, and this coffee's looking good. Sign me up any day. For you. Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom. Smells like a good brew. By yours, Julie. Ooh, and it's piping hot. I've missed it. Good morning, America. This is really fun. We haven't camped like this in so long. We've been working so hard at our cabin to get it to an off-grid home. Just get out in nature and be totally present. It feels so good. Just do what we used to do, also. All the time. What the? Truck life, how about plane life? I'm having deja vu right now when we were in Massa Saga. We were actually on YouTube, so we brought probably a lot of you at the time. And we just sat and ate breakfast on a rock, and this is what it reminded me of. I miss these little adventures. Honestly, this morning, I woke up in my PJs and walked up that big rock to look at the birds. And anyway, it re-inspired that little adventure in my soul. It feels really good to be somewhere foreign and wake up somewhere new. I feel really happy inside. There's a lot of bees. I know, I actually don't know if it's safe to be outside. Yeah, OK, passing my flight, let's go inside. It's the fruit. Yeah, they're bad. You're in the camper. I got chased in. Whole family of bees out there. We promised we'd show you the rig, and now is the time. This is the Toyota Tacoma 4x4, fitted with all the best off-roading exterior components, such as a winch that's going to help you or your friends out of a stuck situation who knows where. And I want to go to who knows where. Considering the truck in the exterior is our favorite part, we had to start here on the outside because look at these off-roading tires. This is my dream tires, baby. Wink, wink, wink. This is a full-size truck, meaning that you can sit five people comfortably. Or in our case, Bell and EZ are going to be sitting in luxury driving around. With their own windows? Yeah, that would be so nice for them. The camper sits on a six-foot bed. Do you want to know how I know that? All right, trying to figure out how big this cab is. It's six. I'm five feet tall. You're not five feet tall? I'm not five feet tall, but I'm definitely not six feet tall, so that's six feet. On this side of the camper, we have everything. I hit a lot of bees. Everything is on this side of the camper. We have ventilation, exhaust, shore power, water fill up, and what else is in here? A shower! There's a shower over here. So a few things that I have complete hard eyes to is just how rugged this is. Look at this exterior. I love it. I think we need to talk about the most important part, which is why we even got out here. This clearance, this is amazing. You have at least, I don't know, almost two feet of clearance under here, which means you can be taking on big rocks and boulders, all kinds of landscapes, and you're not going to be touching any of the very important truck parts. Ah, bee! I don't know, this is it for me. Clearance. This clearance is like what this lifestyle is all about, and if you don't have that, what do you have out here? That's how we got here. A true overlanding vehicle has a spare tire, a shovel, and an axe. Being in a truck like this one means you're spending all of your time outside. This awning is built for that, and I can just picture Bella Izzy and I, and you, underneath it with all of our van camp gear, and it would be just perfect. And the reason we don't have any camp gear, and we're sitting on rocks, is because four wheel campers do not rent these, they actually make them. They've been making them for 50 years. They're absolute pros, and shout out to Dan for letting us take this rig out and give it a try, because we've been thinking heavily about what our next move would be, and it might be truck camping. That's the stance. It's so easy. And on our way in, take a peek at all these exterior lights. This means big business at night time. I wanna remind you all that we are standing in a truck bed, and look at all of this space. This is great. There's a long list of luxurious amenities in this truck camper, but the first thing I noticed was how bright it is in here. They took a lot into account, considering there's so many windows, they have insulated covers on the walls, ventilation, and a heater. This is gonna make your stay really comfortable. I love that, and there's two fans. Check mark and Chris's bucket. Five stars. Off-grid solar system, heater, on a thermostat, storage, outlets, and can you believe it, a full kitchen in the back of a truck, stove, sink, and fridge. What else do you need? That's logs. And the living quarters. Is that a bed too? I don't know. Cause that could be a bed. I would sleep on that. Anyway, there's practically two beds in here. And this is the living area where you could sleep or dine.  And lock down the six clamps holding it in place. This truck camper is sleek, yet rugged, and has many incredible off-road capabilities. The question is, would this be right for us? We think that for sure, truck camping is upper alley, but it would definitely take some adjusting. Yes. From living at a cabin and a pretty luxe winter van, we would definitely need a two week period to get settled. Which I believe is fair. I thought van life had a lot of steps. Truck camping has even more steps. Yeah, so I would say you give up some amenities and luxuries of van life, but you gain a whole lot more. Could we drive into Argentina? Maybe. I think it would be a better vehicle to drive to Argentina.  Probably. Think about the places we could go. Would Belen, is he like it? They would like to drive. But when we're in the home, it might be a bit squishy. Yeah, I don't know about the girls. The big question, will truck life be next for us? It very well could be. I think Crystal's more on board than I am. I love it. I think that we could adjust. We could definitely adjust. We're very adaptable people. Coming from the van, you do lose a lot of luxuries, like a full-blown inside bathroom and shower. I love my cabin. But. I love my 15 acres. You gain all of this. What about all of you? How do you all like truck camping? It's kinda cool. Would you do it? And they're not asking me why. Do you think sacrificing some modern day luxuries is worth it? For cooler camp spot. But. We're talking having beaches to yourself, which is pretty cool. Yeah, beaches to yourself. Think about this in Baja or anywhere else. Yes. Woo, now I'm ready. After a year away from traveling, this trip reminded us of our roots. The many years living in our sprinter van listening to our adventurous spirits. I'm in the middle of nowhere. Woo! As we think and dream about what's to come, these last two days have rekindled the spark inside of us to be curious about new experiences and explore what's important to us. We only have one more thing to do, y'all. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I'm gonna do much more. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.


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The Bedford Playhouse is well underway to becoming a not-for-profit cinema, cultural center, and community hub. We've raised $4 million, but we need another $2.6 million to finish what we started. For the past year, we've been designing an exciting new space. The goal is to create a cultural magnet, not just for Bedford residents, but also our neighbors and surrounding communities. Places like Pound Ridge, Armop, and Greenwich. We've been studying how best to position three theaters in a cafe. Where to locate the new elevator, how to make sure the concession area is visible and accessible, how to optimize the overall flow so that walking through the playhouse is always a pleasant experience. You walk in here, there are going to be two side aisles. During demolition, we've discovered unforeseen challenges that forced us to refine the original concept. The good news is, we now have an even better plan. It's been a challenging but rewarding journey so far, with a lean staff and a fantastic group of committed volunteers. Still, we have more to do, and we urgently need your help. Please get involved, tell your friends, and give generously. Let's turn these amazing plans into reality. Thank you.


The LP is an arts organization that advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities. We do this through our create change artists and residents and fellowship programs as well as creative community building initiatives. Everything we do is meant to make art, build community and create change. And today we'll be together for about half an hour sharing about our new space with an additional 10 minutes afterward for any questions you might have. So we invite you to put questions into the chat throughout the throughout our time together and we'll pick a few at the end to answer as a group. And we also wanted to say if you come up with any questions or thoughts to share after today, there's a form where you can submit those questions on our website on that laundromatproject.org slash bedstie page. You can also email us at any time at info at laundromatproject.org. And just a couple of housekeeping things. If you would like to select closed captions today, you can do that at the bottom of your Zoom screen. And this meeting is also being recorded.  The recording will just be shared publicly afterwards for people who weren't able to join us live for the open house but who want to engage with this info and learn more. All right. So today you're going to be hearing from a number of LP staff members including our executive director, Kemi Alasimi, deputy director, Ayesha Williams, our community engagement manager, Ciavel Shiko Tenkal, our programs fellow Erika Rawls, artist engagement manager, Lady Sasha Jones, our development manager, Amelia Broad. And you'll also be hearing from our architect, Nandini Bagchi. Very exciting. We're pleased to have Nandini with us. And before we get started, I just wanted to share a land acknowledgement and an excerpt of our intention and accountability statement, which you can also read in full on our website. But just to say, LP staff are scattered across the east coast and actually the country and the world right now, but our new space is in what's now called Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. And we wanted to acknowledge some history around that. So on the screen right now is our same image of our home and it's got our land acknowledgement on it, which I'm just going to read now. As we join the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Central Brooklyn, the Laundromat Project respectfully acknowledges that we are on the occupied and unceded lands of the Canarsie, who are part of the Munsee Lenape. We recognize them as the original stewards of this land and pay respects to their elders, past, present, and future. We acknowledge the long-time gentrification and displacement happening within Bed-Stuy and persistent injustices that Bed-Stuy faces around police accountability, food and health access, and education inequities, to name a few. The LP has adopted a critical stance of deep listening to better build trust and feedback loops within our communities, prioritizing impact over intent. We understand that our vision is stronger and our destination is closer when we move with community front and center. And you'll be hearing more about our community engagement efforts today. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Kemi Alasimi, our Executive Director. Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you so much for that grounding and introduction, Emma. And I'm looking forward to hearing from everyone else on the team, as well as those of you who've so kindly joined us on this Monday afternoon. Thanks so much. It really is an incredible day for us. It's an emotional day for me to be here with you today, celebrating our 15 years and our first long-term home that brings together all of our dreams of anchoring, both our programs and our administrative operations in a single location. And allows us to grow our roots even deeper in a community that we have been a part of in at least a small way for all 15 years that we have been an organization. And while we have worked with artists and neighbors and communities of color all across this beautiful city of ours, most intimately in Harlem, in the South Bronx and also in Bed-Stuy, we made the decision as part of a street visioning process that ended a couple of years ago that we really wanted to anchor in one location. We'll continue to work citywide, particularly with artists all across the city, so that won't shift. But being able to be embedded and part of a neighborhood felt important. And we were able to get in this process, even in having an office in Harlem and having a space in the South Bronx and went through a really intentional process of selecting a neighborhood that would give us a critical mass, both of our Create Change artists, our flagship program, as well as all of these incredible neighbors that we've been working with in various ways over the last 15 years. And that process, which took over a year of listening and talking and thinking and analyzing and following heart and head led us to Bed-Stuy. So after this incredible year of reflecting and learning and listening and reconnecting, we identified a beautiful new home. It's a two-story street facing storefront at 1476 Fulton and something we discovered in our listening process. Thank you, Ola, for your Facebook post a couple of months ago. A few months ago is that this stretch of Fulton Street is also known as Harriet Tubman Avenue. That is the co-name. So it just felt like an especially wonderful homecoming to be on this Freedom Trail. I literally spent this weekend in Dorchester, Maryland, on the former home and grounds that Harriet Tubman walked on. So being able to be part of her legacy and her history and have the LP be part of that on Harriet Tubman Way slash Fulton Avenue just feels especially beautiful and poignant. So thank we look forward to welcoming you to this space. We could not be more honored and thrilled to be able to be part of the Bedside community, the central Brooklyn community and continue to serve them as well as our larger New York City community and beyond. So with that, thank you for joining us this afternoon. And I will turn over to our Deputy Director, Asia Williams, who will give you a little bit more information about this space. And thank you, Kemi, for sharing a bit about our process in Path 2, 1476 Fulton. And while, unfortunately, we can't walk each of you through physically in the space at the moment, we wanted to give you a little bit of a sneak peek of what you'll actually be seeing when we are able to welcome you and open our doors. So what you see here is not only a picture of George Settles, our board chair standing in front of the storefront with our Black Lives Matter Black Life Eternal statement that is emblazoned on the storefront windows. You also see the layout of the first four of our storefront, a creative community hub. And as Kemi mentioned, the space itself is two levels. The top level will actually house our reception area, artist storage space, programming and community gathering space, as well as a work area and a modest backyard, where we can gather and entertain and share in community with one another. In addition, there is a ground floor space, which will be used as flex area and flex space. And I should mention that the first floor of the storefront is ADA accessible. And yes, lots of opportunities to gather with community, to welcome community. Many things are mobile and accessible and able to bring out into the street and engage with community directly in front of the storefront, and to pass our buys, which we love to do at LP. And I will also share with you a bit of the space. And again here is Kemi, at least me our executive director standing inside of the storefront with her hard hat on. And so you can kind of get a general sense of the interior of the space, as well as some animations of the space being fully activated. And what we hope will be lively gatherings once we do open. And as Emma mentioned, at the top of the call, we actually were able to obtain Nandini Banshee, sorry Nandini, as our architect for the build out of the space. And Nandini has so generously joined us on this call. And I'm actually going to turn it to Nandini just to share a little bit about thoughts and inspirations in designing the space for us together. Thank you Aisha. I'm really excited to be a part of this project. I'm someone who is always advocated for such spaces. I've written about them so this is in a way a real opportunity I had to work with the LP people. Starting in the beginning of this year, we had one meeting in person and then everything else has been worked out and designed on zoom and it has been challenging but a really exciting process because people had set up their own boards as to what they wanted to see. People had very clear ideas of ways in which they would envision the space being used. And so we work towards this really sort of warm space that is somewhat designed but also a lot is left open-ended to see how the LP will insert itself and how it will evolve over the years. So the idea of flexibility which these moving animated drawings show is very much a part of the design of this project. Thank you. Thank you so much.  And so that's some quick overviews of the space itself. I hope you are as excited as we are to gather, make, build with the community and create change in our new home. And now I'm going to turn it over to Siebel Shingal Pinkal who is our community engagement manager here at the LP and she'll share a bit more about the community engagement efforts as we call Betsy our home. Hi everyone. I'm super thrilled and thank you Nandini for jumping on this call. I get really nostalgic just looking at the blueprints. I really miss being a community with folks and workshopping and having programming but I'm really excited. I see some, a lot of people on this call that we've spoken to in the past and yeah we're super excited although you know we have a new storefront space. LP's presence in Betsy and Central Brooklyn is not new. LP was actually founded in Betsy 15 years ago by Risa Wilson and so throughout these past 15 years we've been building community and building relationships with folks on the ground both through artists, neighbors, family and just LP friends. Throughout this time we've had 16 residency projects, more than five field day annual festivals and more than 30 plus community partners. Being all community gardens, other cultural orgs, small businesses, other storefronts and what we're seeing on the slide are people hugging in front of an art installation for our past field day and people making art in front of Marmee Laundromat. And this kind of sums up our relationship with Betsy. We've had many projects within the space and we're super thrilled to be reconnecting and rekindling all of those past relationships and friendships that we've had on the ground. And so I'm also going to turn it over to our community engagement fellow, Erica Rawls, who will be speaking a little bit more about what we've been doing on the ground as of last year. Thank you, CFO. So on this slide, there's an illustration of a stoop with folks gathering and hanging out and a list of organizations that we've spoken to so far during our listening tour. It's organized by the hyper local city wide and country wide, and also notes that we've spoken to local artists current and former residents and create change alone as well. So the LP began a citywide listening tour in 2019 that has gotten more and more hyper local over time. We've been thrilled to connect with Betsy residents, local artists, cultural and community institutions, collectives and small businesses, as well as some national community arts organizations that are doing similar work across the country. And the listening tour has been a way for us to be in conversation with folks in Betsy. And really think about how we're being intentional about the ways in which we engage community collaborate with our neighbors and compliment that size ecosystem of arts culture and civic engagement. So during these conversations, we've been asking questions like how can we be good neighbors, what are ongoing local initiatives, issues or challenges, how are people collaborating, how might we be best, how might we best support artists. Where does community and culture show up in the neighborhood. So what we're learning from these ongoing conversations will guide the focus of our future collaborations partnerships and programming. And I will pass it on to Lady Sasha Jones, our artist engagement manager, who will share more about the programming for the space. Thanks so much Erica. Hello everyone. My name is Lady Sasha Jones. And I'm the artist engagement manager here at LP. I'm excited to share with you all some of our dreams and plans for the storefront space. Again, I would like to describe some of the graphics and texts that are featured on this first slide. There's a teal color rectangle that reads new home and top left corner underneath it is the section header new help programming in the same graphic of our storefront that was described earlier is positioned to the right of the side with our logo directly below it. And exploring the future of the LP through this move to that side, we have been considering the opportunities it offers for the growth of our flagship create change residency and fellowship programs alongside our engagement with our artists community. The opportunity to redefine the role of public programming for the org and the opportunity to strengthen our practice as a community based arts organization that deeply values place local histories and people power. In place in this way, enables us to deepen what it means to be hyper local in our approach towards building cooperative partnerships and investing in leadership development through art and culture with artists and community members alike. As a staff we have been discussing for some time now. Anchoring our fellowship program within our new spatial context alongside developing a new residency for local artists to create community programming and our activations from the storefront itself. We're also evaluating the role of cultural programming for the org and when we are able to gather again in space. We are considering programmatic formats that are at the intersection of our civic engagement, and that can add to the already rich cultural landscape of the name put. Next slide, Asia. So now this slide features the section header our dreams for the space and there's a series of four quote blocks positioned across the page that I will read momentarily and filling the bottom of the slide is the graphic of our storefront space and LP logos positioned in the top right corner. So as we continue to plan for activating our storefront. We have been inviting our close community members to join with us and to share their own reflections for the future of the LP in bedside and more specifically how our space can be a resource for artists and local community members. So the first quote I'll read is from one of our alum, Shawnee Peters, who imagines our storefront as a space to gather a space to create in a space to hill and recharge input. Our board chair George settles rights. I hope the LP and coming home is able to become an integral part of the already vibrant diverse community. The LP has resources and a desire to be of service to its neighbors, and I know we will come to our new home with that mindset and quote. Russell Jelani offers as a bedside resident LP member and create change residency alum I can't wait to see the LP set down roots in bedside. I think deepening pre existing relationships here and having a space for community to gather will be really meaningful to both the org and the neighborhood and quote. And finally, alum Natasha in Nevada digs shared the following declaration. Let it be a space to create have serious discussions tell jokes and have fun. Let it be a space that can balance the heavy with the light and quote I really love that one. These are just a handful of all the dreams and imaginings we are holding for this moment to smooth. We invite you all to contribute to our vision mapping for this space as well. Next, you will hear from our development manager merely abroad on how you can stay involved. Thank you. Thanks, Lady Sasha. Hi everybody. I will I'm going to be talking a little bit about how you can stay involved. And I will describe this slide very quickly. So on the right we have the same graphic of our new storefront space that was described at the beginning. And then I will walk you through the text that's currently on the slide. So today is a very exciting day for the LP, both because we're talking to you about our new home but also because it's the first day of our 10 day people power challenge, which is, I'm going to drop the link to it into the chat. It is a 10 day challenge to raise 40k to support our new home. So I invite you to both donate or sign up to be people movers or to amplify the campaign. And Aisha has just switched to the graphic for the people power challenge, which is a brightly colored graphic that has an image of a group of our alums looking very happy and smiling in the right hand corner. And it says be part of the LP's future raising 40k as a community from October 1 to 14. It's also very currently a very busy time at the LP because we also have our open call for our create change program. So I'm dropping the link to that also into the chat. Please help spread the word and send to any artists who are interested in working with community who you might know. And then finally, I'm also going to drop the contact information for C of L our community engagement manager if you'd like to be part of the listening tour, and also a general email if you have any general questions. Thank you and I believe I'm passing it back to Kimmy. Yes, thank you so much as you can see everyone it takes a village teamwork makes the dream work and I'm really blessed to have such an incredible team of humans to work with as the LP staff. And of course we have, as you might imagine, really generous supportive and visionary board that has allowed us also to get to this incredible moment 15 years into our history. So before saying a final thank you and inviting questions and answers. I'd like to actually ask George our board chair to say just a few words. He has been an incredible partner and working in line with other board chairs that have helped get us to this moment. So George. Thanks, can me. Yeah, I don't want to take up too much time. First and foremost, I'm just, I come into this virtual space, just filled with with gratitude and excitement. You know, us coming back home to bedside Brooklyn is something that's been in the works for, you know, for a couple of years now. And when it's safe for all of us to gather again. We were just anticipating the opportunity to be in physical and actual community with all of you. So I just want to say thanks all of you for taking the effort for taking the time to be with us today for our virtual open house. I'm incredibly grateful to the staff, my fellow board members, and just everyone who has been involved in this homecoming process. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And we look forward to continuing to be in community with all of you. So thanks, can me for giving me this opportunity to say thanks. Thank you, George. I really could not have done it without you and each of our current board members who are incredible as well as the many board members who have been part of this journey for 15 years and just to reiterate that of course Risa Wilson. The project was her dream starting in the late 90s that was incorporated in 2005 and that's what leads us to this very moment and incredible former staff members, some of whom are on this call I saw Kiva. For instance, is on this call started a week after I did. So it's it really, really, really is community work, just to get to this moment and could not be more grateful for every single one of you on this. This zoom, each and every one of you has played a part, including today being here to celebrate with us and to lean into joy in a particularly challenging time for humanity. Being able to be this green shoot of hope and generation and joy and building something in this moment just feels like a privilege and a joy. So really want to say a deep, deep thank you to each and every one of you and all the multiple roles that you've played many of you have played multiple roles as supporters and and create change artists and donors and volunteers and amplifiers and just LP fam, LP fam, all of you. So thank you so much for all the congratulations. Like I see you and so many folks. It really has been a journey we are starting the construction process I'm so happy and Dino is able to share some of that with you live. And when it is safe to do so, we can't wait to have you in the space with us in physical form. In the meantime, we are on Instagram, our website is active, we're on Facebook and Twitter. And we are remaining in community and we have reached out to many of you to talk and to hear what you dream for us and continue to invite you to keep sharing that with us. We see this very much as a polyphonic dream, many, many different voices, not just our own. So we really, really invite you to keep in conversation with us. And right now invite you to share any questions you might have. So this is the end of the formal parts I know it's Monday afternoon and lunchtime so if you need to dip out, totally understand and thank you for joining us and if you have questions we invite you to hang out with us for a few minutes and ask them. Myself, board members, staff members, etc are here and ready to jump in with any questions you might have. And I think we actually have a question from Ryan. Hi Ryan. The question is, Ryan loves to hear a little bit more about the kinds of gatherings we imagine in the space when we are able to complete prep and also wants to know how many people we can host in the space when gathering is possible. So it's perfectly handy on this call to share a bit more about that. And maybe we can throw it to someone from programs to share a little bit more about gatherings in the space. We also have our director programs at the same time in the call with us as well or in the zoom room with us as well. So throw it out there for anyone programs are coming to share more about gathering and then also capacity for hosting. Atui, do you want to take that? Sure. And I think well and then then you can know more about the other things. So thanks for joining us today. I'm very excited to be here and see so many familiar faces and new faces too. So great to connect again. I'm Atui. I'm the director of programs here at the LP also an alum from our residence back in 2012. So great to continue to be in this journey. So let's see. So right now we're going as you heard, we're going through a listening tour with different stakeholders in the community. So we're assessing right now what are the best ways for us to engage in the space while we're still in this moment. And, and there's a couple of things that we're thinking about from activating public spaces not inside the space per se yet. Of course, from activating public spaces around the community from also activating the window space that we have at the moment storefront with artists commissions. So, and then we're we're also trying to figure out some of the ways that we can partner with other organizations so we're able to be present at their events and things like that. So right now we're still in this, you know, assessing moment but that's some of the quick ideas that we are exploring at the moment. I hope that answers. It's not an answer exactly but you know. So yeah, the main floor is divided into three kinds of spaces. The first is a reception area, which also has is going to have like a place to read and a library and a reception area where it's easy to comfortably have say 10 people just in an informal setting and then the center space is the programming area and that could accommodate about 25 people in a sort of lecture seating we have so everything about this the way it's been designed is very much things move on wheels and they fold away and this chairs that are on the wall you can hang your coats up so there's a lot of details that allow us to sort of change and move the space to make it more or less usable so the middle area could be used for workshops or you know some sort of dance class or yoga and whatever the programming allow you know wants to happen in the center and the last room is really a workroom it's for the LP stuff and this is what they're so excited about being in the same space where the program is ongoing previously they were in their own offices up somewhere and then they had all these other spaces that that that the community was using so it's really to try and bring these two elements together. There's also a lot of built in storage since they have a lot of supplies that they use in their projects with with the community and there's a wide sidewalk so there'll also be some ways in which they're going to occupy that with some of the mobile units that go in and out of this space so it's mainly this floor the lower floor is not wheelchair accessible so it's a flex space and has like other kinds of purposes built into it such as conference room, meeting area, storage etc. I wanted to make sure folks could visually see what Nandini was referencing. So thank you Nandini for that. I'm going to go ahead and pull another question and this is a kind of combo related question but I think I'll answer related. So there's a question about sharing a bit more about what listening tour is and combining that with and that's the question from Rikia and combining that with a question from Delaysia, hi Delaysia, about what community support is the LP look forward to making available as it as to the local best side community as experiences a huge wave of displacement and potential future waves of displacement of long term black residents. So great question and full question so I think as addressing it as much as possible within the timeframe we have here but always a continued conversation ever continuing conversation but I can throw that question to again programs and can be Yeah, I'm happy to jump in and and programs and talk a little bit about the listing tour, but thank you Delaysia that's definitely something that is very deeply on our heart and our minds as as humans and as people of color and many black staff members as well. And it is the heart of why we are listening and why we actually feel it is important to be in bedside and really to be in community with folks right and asking what is needed and I know we've met with you as well as many other folks some of that might be space. Some of that might be connections some of that might be being able to hire and pay people in the community and that's something in so many ways that the LP is really always centered is paying people for their time and their expertise and recognizing them for that. And and also asking what are the other ways that we can show up and how do we some of that might be showing up for everything from petitions to to protest to other ways of being in space and in community with folks and and the central idea for us when thinking about issues of displacement and thinking about issues of gentrification is how to follow the leadership and the concerns of the people who are most affected. How do we in our program and these are questions where we're asking ourselves and continue to put fronts in center is we care about folks of color black folks specifically in a neighborhood such as bedside people on low and modest incomes. So how do we center those folks how do we start conversations that they if these folks are are feeling like they are taken care of and heard how does that inform our work and and what would we need to do differently or continue doing. So for us it's so much about how do we remain accountable and in conversation and it's why we've leaned so heavily into listening which is always in part of our culture but just knowing that returning to bedside in this moment which is very different than the bedside of 2005 and very different from the bedside of 1998 or 1999. How do we show up in a way that feels responsible accountable and caring. So for us is very much about continuing to ask those questions and then continuing to make our sources which vary again from space to other things available to folks and inviting each of you to help us remain accountable right it is a reciprocal process. And that's why we've reached out to so many folks not just here but in other places to continue it's very much always learning in real time and oftentimes learning in public. Does CFO would you like to join in a little bit and just talk about listening to I know issues of gentrification displacement have been really central to a lot of what people have been raising as a real concern. For sure yeah thank you Kemi. Yeah I mean there's no way for us to enter this neighborhood without acknowledging that as an institution as an entity regardless of beds that are not just being in the city. But we also know that this is not new work. We had a beautiful partnership model at Kelly Street in the South Bronx with a housing advocacy entity for the past five years with the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association and we really plan to lean into this partnership model and what does exploring what does this look like for bedside specifically tapping in and working in with Brooklyn Movement Center and Brooklyn Impact to really partner with folks that that do this kind of work and what does it mean for us to kind of join forces the same way that we were doing back at Kelly Street and this all goes back to the listening tour right of coming in with an informed sense of what the feel of the neighborhood is specifically speaking with residents both artists and folks that are doing work on the ground. Another model that we tested it at Kelly Street and that we really liked and I think some of the CLC folk are on this call but what does it also mean to create like leadership coalitions of residents and artists that actually live within the neighborhood. What does it mean to hold space for people to to use our space and to to use some of our funds and to use some of our programming to actually direct and lead their own neighborhood initiatives right what is it what is what does it look like for us to provide that kind of space. And so we plan to pull in all of the things that we learned back at Kelly Street and the models and the ways of working with people to really center those experiences first and foremost as we're we're building within the neighborhood and we're getting to know the neighborhood and knowing truly that this is extremely important for us and extremely important in the work that we're trying to do and build with folks. But thank you for highlighting back to Asia. I think that was a really important question for for you to raise to all of us. And I think we are at a little over I have to know a lot of them some questions unless there's any burning pressing questions for us in the immediate time a moment while we have all of you on the call go ahead and wrap everyone up and let them go about their day holding on to the reality that this is a space that will be our home and your home. I will be able to gather and build and connect and learn and grow and all those beautiful generative things. As mentioned just a couple of housekeeping notes are people par challenge campaign starts today raising support for the space itself as well as our trade change open call which ends on October 18 recruiting individuals to come in and take part in our flagship trade change program. So many things that we had going on right now. I think those are the two key things at the moment that I can think of unless anybody else forgot anything please jump in and mention if you want to connect around listening tour and we'll have see a bell drop her email into the chat also please feel free to reach out to see a bell and listening to our team for more information. If you want to share comments hope streams wishes for the LP things that you want to bring to our attention. We have the comment box which is on our LP home bedside web page if I can ask somebody to drop that link into the chat many many different ways to reach us and contact us in this virtual space we are here we want to hear from you we want to learn from you. And so with all those housekeeping notes I'm going to turn to Kemi. Thanks for my yes. So again thank you Aisha. And thank you to the team. Thank you to our board. Thank you to each of you. Once again, Tony Morrison reminds us that if we cannot imagine that we cannot have it and we want to have joy we want to have love we want to have space for imagination and for making art and building community and creating the change that we want the building of the world that we deserve all of us and that's really at the heart love is at the heart of the work that we do at the laundromat project our grounding principle and values that we are propelled by love as a radical act. Bell hooks reminds that is an action it is not just the word. And we stand on the shoulders of so many and so many dreams. And that is what certainly keeps me going and keeps me waking up and fighting for spaces where we can be our whole cells. And we hope that this space that we are building and creating and so many folks involved. Thank you Nandini who I met 15 years ago building an entirely different kind of space or 20 years ago in Minneapolis. And here we are now working together. You know love and connections relationships matter so deeply and I feel like life continues to teach that lesson and I happily receive it. And once LP fam always LP fam and each of you thank you for being part of our family and we cannot wait to welcome you to our new space. So good night or good day enjoy the rest of the afternoon. All the things. Yay. I feel like I'm at Disney World.


So, I had an interesting situation happen recently. Things like this don't happen very often and it's because usually I'm very good at checking things to make sure things are okay. This is one of those unfortunate situations where something kind of fell through the cracks. But I thought I'd go ahead and give you the details of that and explain what that means and maybe some implications for me as well as for you lessons to be learned. So recently I went out for those who watched it, it's been about a month and a half. I went out to the limonite pseudomorphs in Utah. I've been there multiple times and on this occasion I was found on YouTube by a couple who apparently had staked a claim now on that location. I was pretty surprised because I never saw any signs or indications that a claim had been staked and since I had been out there the first couple of times I hadn't checked again to see if any claims were posted after that. Something you don't normally think about.  In this instance there was nothing. So anyway they contacted me and like hey that's on our claim, I'm not supposed to be collecting anything on our claim. I was like oh I'm sorry I didn't actually know it was a claim now because when I had first gone out it wasn't. The first time I went out back in I think it was right at the end of the June beginning of July of 2021 there was no claim on it. I went and looked on SITLA because this is state land, this isn't BLM, this is the state public lands which is a little different and I went and looked and sure enough they had posted a claim about two months after I had posted those first three videos right. So of course there was no claim on it when I first went and when I researched about it. Then it begs the question okay what happened to why not why not put a sign up. Turns out they did put a sign up but some inconsiderate person went out there and removed it. So I feel really bad for them but also that made things difficult. For me too because now how do I know it's a claim other than going back and looking at SITLA which I just didn't think to do. So looking back it's like okay when I went out this last time because it's been over a year since I went out it would have been a good idea to check and see if anything had changed. So moving forward that's good information to you know be checking those things. But also it's a good opportunity also to realize that as claim owners you know you got to do a good job in trying to make it known to the public that this place is now claimed. Anyway some good lessons learned there. So moving forward for you for anybody who has found out where this location is because when I posted the videos I didn't give GPS coordinates but it's something people can still figure out right because as I'm moving around you can maybe see some mountains or landmarks and you know you kind of know the area kind of where it is and some people might just simply go online now knowing that that's in that area and look online and maybe even find the claim and be like oh that must be where it is. So if you know where this location is if any of you have figured out where to go to look for these limonite pseudomorphs please do not go out there it is now under claim all right and respect the claim owners also I don't know if you maybe have noticed but I did remove that video as well as the two other videos that I had filmed a while back that did occur after they had posted the claim so I went ahead and remove those videos for respect of the claim owners and I'll give them back the stuff I found during that time and I'll probably give them some extra stuff why not I like giving stuff to people and so yeah just in case you might have been wondering some of you may have noticed that those videos have been taken down or disappeared it's for respect for the claim owners and this was just a very interesting unusual situation like I said I do my research before I go out the first time but it looks like in this instance I should have looked again because something had happened in between and of course as claim owners remember it's really important to try and do your best to stake your claims and maybe they are maybe they're just stuck with a really horrible individual who keeps your moving signs and things like that and if that's one of you that has actually seen my videos stop it right don't do this all right be respectful of claim owners and make a good impression of rock counts we need to be better rock counts anyway that's the story there some good things to learn and hopefully things will be good moving forward and remember until next time remember there is treasure everywhere but be respectful of people who own claims and do the best you can by them