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All right, and I am honored to have, we are honored today to have Jonathan Young, as I said, who's a Presidio Trust Wildlife Ecologist. And he will be talking about the past, present and future of Presidio Wildlife. And welcome, Jonathan, thank you for being here. Yeah, thank you for having me. Let's get this screen set up, let me know when it is in view. How's that looking? Looks good. All right, hi everyone. Thank you all for joining. I, probably some of you were tuning in a couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple of months ago when a colleague and myself were doing a talk on coyotes. So we're gonna be talking, well, I'm gonna be talking about more than just coyotes today and specifically talking about the city of San Francisco, which is a national park site. You can see it here in the background, reaching out to the Golden Gate Bridge. And I'll be talking specifically about the wildlife, otherwise known as wild animals. So I'm gonna be talking a lot about nature, focusing mostly on the animals of Presidio and San Francisco. Talk a little bit about the past, present and then what the future holds for some of our animal neighbors, our wild animal neighbors here in San Francisco. So obviously you can see San Francisco and all its glory here and from the aerial shot looking west. And a lot of you probably know, but maybe some of you never really thought that this isn't how the city always used to look. This area has been around for thousands and thousands of years, of course, Elona used to live here long before the Europeans came in and eventually became the city that we see here today. But just to give you some imagery of what it looked like, this is one of the earliest images we have that I'm aware of, 1816, that's the Golden Gate right there. It's the main post of the Presidio. Just I want, I'm gonna scroll through really quickly some of these historic photos. I just want you to see what the landscape looked like before it became what we noticed today. Ocean Beach, look at all those plants, all the colors. This is a cliff house, look at those dunes in the background. A lot of sand dunes, which San Francisco used to be a lot of sand dunes. This is the beginning of Golden Gate Park. This is one of many long lost lakes and ponds and wetlands, this is Coal Valley. This is Mount Lake, I'm gonna be talking a lot more about Mount Lake today. And this is one of many seasonal ponds that would have come after the rains in our dunes all across San Francisco. All of this landscape, all of these different types of plants that would have been growing throughout this area would have been different types of habitat for a lot of different wildlife. And we're gonna be talking about that today. So this is the sunset you can see from the late 1930s.  And as you lose landscapes, as I said, these landscapes are habitat for wildlife. And what I mean by habitat is generally habitat, wildlife habitat is food, water, and shelter. All the things that wild animals need to live, food, water, and shelter. When you lose the landscape, you lose the habitat. And there's nothing there that can support these animals. And this is an example. It's the first butterfly known to go extinct, meaning it no longer exists anywhere in the world. It first animal to go extinct known to by the cause of humans. So we lost its habitat, the dunes of San Francisco and because we lost the habitat, we lost the butterfly. Same goes for our state and city bird, the California quail. We lost the habitat that supported this bird in San Francisco. And therefore we lost the bird itself. So the city has changed a lot in particular in the 1770s when the European and Spanish first arrived. That's when things really changed drastically for the worst in terms of wildlife. But we're going to talk about how that's starting to change for the better here. So I'm going to talk more about the Presidio. And again, this is a national park site within the larger Golden Gate National Recreation Area. 1500 acres, you can see right here. I'm sure a lot of you have been there. And if you haven't, after this talk, you're definitely going to want to go check out some of these animals that I was talking about. You can go find today right now. So as I mentioned before, thousands of years, the indigenous Saloni people were all throughout this area, including the Presidio. And in the 1770s, the Spanish came in and claimed it as their fort, El Presidio, Spanish for the fort. And from there went from the Spanish Empire to the Mexican Empire to the United States military in the Gold Rush, 1840s, late 1840s, early 1850s. Again, this is looking towards the Golden Gate. You can see the landscape way before the bridge was built. And so eventually in the late 1990s, this military base transitioned over to becoming a national park site that we know and love today, the Presidio of San Francisco. So when the military left, they left a huge mess. They didn't export any of their garbage, any of their waste. They just either buried it in landfills or left it like this. They just up and left for the park to become a national park. Not only did they leave garbage, but they also left a lot of munitions and other unsavory, unsafe chemicals that we are still finding and cleaning up today. However, they actually unintentionally preserved prehistoric San Francisco. So because the military didn't allow the neighborhoods to come in and develop into the neighborhoods that we know of San Francisco today, they actually prevented the loss, the complete loss of what San Francisco would have looked like thousands and thousands of years ago. But nonetheless, this landscape was still struggling and still had a lot of problems that needed our help. And that is the role of the Presidio trust. That's what we do in the Presidio. We are trying to rewild or also known as restore in the landscape. So what does that mean? What that means is we wanna improve the ecosystem health. So we wanna improve the health of the nature in the Presidio. And we do that through increasing and promoting different types of plants and animals, those different types of plants and animals that were here for thousands and thousands of years. And so you can see here, a lot of the work that's been done and is being done to help nature is done by volunteers. And you can see what they're doing there. That's they're pulling up what is called Cape Ivy, excuse me, ice plant. Ice plant came in, they brought it in from South Africa and they planted it. It's basically like a carpet. You can see it grows over all of the plants that were here for thousands of years and covers them. Imagine what happens when you cover a plant with a blanket, it dies. And that's what ice plant does, it kills all the plants. So removing the ice plant allows all these other plants that were here for thousands of years to grow and thrive and the animals that rely on those plants to grow and thrive. So that's what we do. And we are restoring the habitat. Here's another example of restoring the needs of the wildlife, the habitat, food, water and shelter that wildlife you need to survive. So this is one example of what we call daylighting a creek. So there used to be a creek in this field way below. The military came in, they filled it with their garbage, put the creek under in a pipe and then made this field. And look at this field, there's not much going on. There's some grass, a couple of weeds, not much to support a lot of wildlife. So we wanted to daylight this creek starting around 15 years ago. This is what we did. We uncovered the creek, we dug it out, we contoured the creek, there it is. The creek is now daylight. Daylighter used to expose to the air in the daylight. We planted it with the native plants, the plants that would have been here for thousands of years. And look as the plants start to grow in. So it went from that barren field to this rich, vibrant creek. So food, water and shelter. So a lot of water from the creek for the animals and a lot of these native plants that produced flowering plants, so nectar, I think butterflies, butterflies and hummingbirds need nectar food, bearing fruit producing plants, a lot of birds like fruit. And then all these trees where birds can build their nets, food, water, shelter, that's what habitat is. We've been restoring that. And now this one example, and throughout the Presidio we have a lot of examples of where habitat has been restored for the wildlife. And this is one really cool, I'm just gonna go through some really fun examples of how the restoration or the rewilding of Presidio has resulted in a lot of resurgence of our local wildlife. This is the Western bluebird. This bird used to be probably about 23 years ago was very uncommon in San Francisco because the habitat that it requires just didn't exist anymore in San Francisco. However, as we began to restore and promote healthy habitat and healthy nature in the Presidio, the Western bluebird is now fairly common in the Presidio and you can come out and see it. Every year it breeds here more and more. So we're getting more and more Western bluebirds. This is another example of something we try to use to promote and enhance and encourage some of our nesting birds, what we call secondary cavity nesters. So this chestnut-backed chickadee, as well as that Western bluebird I mentioned and a number of other birds need to live in these old cavities. Things that primary cavity nesters like woodpeckers, we all know woodpeckers, right? They peck little holes in dead trees and create a cavity to nest in. Then eventually those woodpeckers abandon those nests and then secondary cavity nesters like this chickadee will actually come in and take over that abandoned cavity. And so we find that a lot of our dead trees have to be removed for public safety and fire hazards. So we lose the opportunity for woodpeckers to make these cavities, which then chickadees and bluebirds will take over eventually. So what we have done is we will supplement the cavity with homemade birdhouses. And you can see these secondary cavity nesters are really starting to use these and we're getting more and more of these different types of birds to reproduce in our part. Another example of if you build it, they will come. So if you restore their habitat, they will come back. If they can, this is the green hair streak. This is a very small butterfly about the size of a dine. And it is very rare in San Francisco because it is very closely tied to the dune habitats that once covered all of San Francisco. And specifically what they're tied to is the host plant which is called host buckwheat. The host plant is the only plant that a butterfly can lay its egg on and that the caterpillar will eat. So many different types of butterflies have many different types of host plants. And in the case of the green hair streak, it is the coast buckwheat, which was part of the dune ecosystem that I showed earlier in those pictures. And when you lose the dune ecosystem, you lose a lot of the coast buckwheat and therefore you lose a lot of the butterflies habitat. So in the Presidio, we've been expanding our dunes and replanting a lot of dune plants such as the coast buckwheat. This tiny little butterfly was just barely hanging on in the Presidio. And as we've been expanding its host plant, so too have we been expanding the butterfly, the butterfly is starting to spread into new areas where we planted its host plant. This is another example. This is the Ackman blue rare throughout San Francisco with fairly common in the Presidio. And it's here sitting on the coast buckwheat, another host of this butterfly. Host buckwheat, a very beautiful plant. And that flower right there is also a very important flower for a lot of our local pollinators. Another really cool recent example of building the habitat and watching the native wildlife come back in on its own. This is quartermaster reach. We all know and love Chrissy Field and Chrissy Marsh back there in the background, but you can see right here near the highway. That's a brand new brackish ecosystem. And what brackish means is to the left is where creek spills out. Remember that creek I showed earlier that's what was being daylight. That's the creek upstream of this brackish area. Brackish means where fresh water meets salty bay water and you have this mixture of brackish, not quite fresh, not quite salty and this very unique habitat type that supports very unique marine organisms, marine animals and plants that is very rare in the Bay because a lot of that was cemented over. So as we've been building this, we were trying to encourage our native oysters. These are the Olympia oysters. You can see here, as we all know, or maybe not, but oysters will grow together and they're basically glued on to each other. And the more that grow in a certain area, the more come in and grow and grow and it creates these big clusters or some people might call oyster reefs. And basically what's happening, this is the planktonic larvae aka a baby oyster. They're floating around throughout the bay, just floating around with the currents and they're trying to sense out what other oysters are. They're essentially smelling out where other oysters are. And when they find other oysters in other hard places, they settle down on them and then they grow and they glue on and they turn into the oysters that we all know and love today. So again, a lack of habitat because most of it was just paved over. These oysters aren't that common anymore today, but what we're trying to do to encourage them to come and settle and grow and quarter master each new marsh I showed you is actually build oyster reefs. And that's what we are. What you see in the very far back, it's a big pile of old oyster shells that we collected and recycled from local restaurants. We crushed them up and then we put them into cement molds and you see these molds right here. You can see crushed up oyster shells. It's the crushed up oyster shells that attracts the baby oysters to come settle. And you can see here, these are also hollow. So when we stack them up on the water, not only do they attract oysters, but they attract all kinds of little critters of different fish and different crabs and shrimp and sea slugs, things that want to grow and move and hide in between all these nooks and crannies. So we all know pollinators and we all know the importance pollinators, but what we don't really understand or what we're starting to really show in the city of at least is the huge diversity of pollinators, primarily bees, but a lot of other things are helping pollinate our plants. And the really important thing to understand is a lot of these really unique special bees and other pollinators have had thousands of years relationships evolving together with some very specific plants. So having plant diversity, otherwise known as a variety of different plant types that have been here for thousands of years, you will have a variety of different types of pollinator or pollinator diversity. And those are very integral and very complex relationships. These very unique plants depend on very unique pollinators. And in some cases, if you lose a pollinator, you'll lose the plant. Or otherwise, if you lose the plant, you'll lose the pollinator. So what we want to do in the city is we want to promote and maintain the diversity and the variety of plants that were here for thousands of years, that a lot of these unique pollinator species and other insects that aren't pollinators that might eat those plants, we call herbivores. They rely on these very specific types of plants that they've relied on for thousands and thousands of years. So we want to maintain the diversity or the variety of our native plants because that supports the diversity of the variety of our insects and a variety and healthy insect community goes up the food chain and supports all the other predators of insects like birds, for example. They rely on insects and fruit of plants for food. So speaking of predators and healthy ecosystems, this is one of our many families of red-tailed hawks that we have here in the Presidio. You can find these throughout San Francisco, they're fairly common, but they are raptors and they are predators and they actually, you can see here, this is the mom on the right bringing in food rodents to her chicks and we actually had a live stream camera on this nest a couple of years ago. So we're actually able to watch the whole process of the parents raising these fudgelings and actually we're able to share it with the world. But this is a really cool picture. You can actually see some really cool, important things here. The mom is feeding these very hungry chicks and mom and dad are always hunting rodents to feed their chicks. So this is what we would call an ecosystem service. So think about rats. A lot of us don't like rats and we have a lot of problems trying to keep rats out of our homes. And we wanna control rats so that they don't take over our houses, right? Well, it turns out predators like raptors and hawks and other birds of prey actually like to consume rats, gophers and other little things like mice that we would consider pests. So they are providing a service to humans through their predation of rodents because they help us naturally control and balance out rodents that would otherwise go out of control and take over our homes and have all problems and return we don't wanna do. But this is another really important lesson that we need to understand is a lot of us wanna get rid of rats from our homes. So we use rodenticides, which is a poison.  See those little rodents right there? They came from the Presidio. Presidio does not allow rodenticides. But what about the hawks that are eating the rats that ate poison somewhere else in the city? Ultimately, the poison gets into the food chain. So we don't wanna use rodenticides because ultimately it gets into the food chain and poisons our wildlife that we want around. Speaking of predators, I mentioned I had a talk with my colleague, Coyote Mike, and look it up. I'm not gonna speak too much about coyotes because there's a lot to talk about. So watch that video and you'll hear a lot more. But coyotes are also predators of rodents and small things like raccoons and gophers. So they too indicate a healthy ecosystem and they too provide an ecosystem service by their consumption of small rodents that we otherwise don't want in our houses. And of course, zooming out to the bigger picture, Presidio is not about just the animals that live here locally, but it's also a really important resource for the long-distance migrations. This is such as the violet-green swallow. This bird flies all the way up from Central America more than 2,000 miles away just to nest and reproduce and raise its young here in the Presidio where it can feast and collect all the insects that it needs to feed itself and feed its young. But not only is it the violet-green swallow, there's a whole bunch of different types of ducks and hawks and eagles and hummingbirds and even bats that fuse the Pacific coast to further long-distance migrations. And the Presidio is a very important place for them to rest and or to nest. So we wanna have the resources, the food, water and shelter for these long-distance migratory animals to come and to rest and to recharge and to raise their family before going back to where they came from and the cycle will continue hopefully forever. But not only is it vertebrates, so not only is it birds with bat bones and bats, but it's also our long-distance migrating insects. And the famous one is the monarch butterfly. These insects fly from as far away as the Rocky Mountains to overwinter on our coastal California coast in the mild climate throughout the wintertime. And they actually use our eucalyptus forest, you can see here, to overwinter. And what they really want is very specific habitat. So they don't want too much wind, they don't want too much fog, but they want some sun and they want nectarine plants so they can feed themselves as they overwinter. So we actually manage the forest and the Presidio with the thought of monarch habitat in mind. So we want to promote and encourage successful overwintering of our monarchs. Unfortunately, monarchs have taken a big dive. I'm sure a lot of you have heard of that. And there's a lot that we can do locally such as planting nectar plants to support our monarchs. And hopefully they will rebound from this big crash that they're having. So this is the fun stuff. This is the stuff when we talk about the future, the current and the future of wildlife in the Presidio. Remember I said we lost a lot of the landscape, a lot of the habitat over San Francisco and the Presidio. Well, over the last 20 years, we've been bringing back that lost landscape, that lost habitat. A lot of that wildlife came back on its own, but a lot of wildlife can't come back on its own. A lot of lost wildlife cannot come here on its own. So as we've been restoring the landscape and the habitat, now we are at the point in the Presidio where we can start to talk about bringing back, helping giving the animals that were lost long ago, helping hand to come back to the Presidio. So one example, this is the variable checker spot butterfly was last seen in the Presidio in the late 1970s, a long time ago. And it went away because again, how its habitat was just decimated. Remember I talked about the host plant and butterflies? Well, this butterfly is closely linked to the California bee plant and the sticky monkey flower. And it'll lay its eggs on basically just those two plants. And its caterpillars will basically only just those two plants. So if you lose those two plants, you lose the butterfly. We lost most of those plants in the Presidio and throughout San Francisco. So we lost this butterfly. But now that those plants are back and thriving, we have brought back this butterfly and we brought it back from San Bruno Mountain. If you haven't been to San Bruno Mountain, you have to go explore San Bruno Mountain. It is a treasure of the Bay Area. And that's where these butterflies came from. And now they are thriving since 2017, they're thriving in the Presidio. So the flight season just ended, but in the springtime, March, April and May, you can really see these butterflies all over the Presidio. They're doing great and they're beautiful. Another example, this is the California arena. We're currently working on this right now. We started this year. This is a grassland species of butterfly. As we lost most of our grasslands and throughout California, we're using a lot of grasslands because they're very easy to develop over and to build houses on. We've been restoring the grasslands in the Presidio. So therefore, now we have the habitat that will support this butterfly. So we've been bringing this butterfly back from the Mern Heavens, just across the Golden Gate Bridge. This butterfly is way too small to fly across the Golden Gate on its own. So we've been collecting it and driving it over and releasing it. If you haven't been to the Mern Heavens, you have to go explore the Mern, the beautiful, beautiful wildlife and wildlands that again, would have looked like that thousands and thousands of years ago. So this is a story that I'm gonna focus in. Now remember, I showed that picture of Mountain Lake from about 100 plus years ago. That's that lake right there.  So when the Presidio became a national park site, the lake was just ruined. It was healthy. We had mosquito, unhealthy, excuse me, very unhealthy. We had mosquito problems. Not that many different animals could actually live and thrive in this lake. It was not doing well. And all the problems that we were having were related to runoff. So weird chemicals and fertilizers from that golf course, running down into the lake and highway one, the highway that runs up to the Bony Bridge, a lot of those weird chemicals and oils and gasoline ending up in the lake, causing all kinds of problems and causing a lot of the local wildlife to just disappear. And same with invasive species. So unwanted pets that people didn't want anymore. They released into this lake and those pets, those different types of species like red-eared slider turtles and crayfish are notorious for harming and killing native wildlife like frogs, those crayfish baby frogs. And those turtles will actually introduce diseases that will just decimate the animals that would have been living in this lake for thousands of years and causing all kinds of problems. So we wanted to actually help fix this lake and return it to a healthier lake full of the variety of life that once lived there. And so we wanted cleaner water and we wanted to increase and promote and to sustain a lot of the lost wildlife. And so we cleaned up the lake and we started to bring back a lot of those lost animals that couldn't come back on their own. For example, the Western pond turtle. This is the only native species of aquatic turtle that ever occurred in California and it's not doing well at all. It was over harvested in the Presidio during the Cold Rush era for the meat market. It was very popular during the early minor's days. They would actually love to eat turtles and the frogs that would have lived in the lake as well. So we partnered with San Francisco Zoo and they released baby turtles in the lake of 2005. And as of 2021, they finally started to have their own babies.  So they're finally starting to reproduce on their own which is a very good sign. Another classic one that was almost extinct from San Francisco is the chorus frog. Now that the lake has been cleaned up, these frogs are thriving in the lake. These frogs need clean, healthy water to lay their eggs so that their tadpoles can grow in clean, healthy water. Now these frogs are thriving. If you go out in the late winter or the spring in the evening time, you'll hear why they call them chorus frogs. Very beautiful sound. This is the three-spine stickleback, very common fish in the bay. That's right, these fish can live both in salt water and in fresh water. And so we brought this fish back and this fish has a very important role because it likes to eat mosquitoes. We don't want mosquitoes to have a big problem because there's a lot of people around the lake. There's a playground at the lake. It's a beautiful playground. You should go play it there. And we don't wanna have mosquito problems. So the stickleback, bringing the stickleback back, it was lost from the lake. But now that it's back, it's helping us control the mosquitoes. And again, that's what we would call an ecosystem service because their predation on mosquito, bathing mosquitoes actually reduces the amount of mosquitoes flying around and biting people. And the stickleback also have a very important role to play when we talk about these freshwater mussels. One of my favorite animals, these mussels are very rare and becoming more rare throughout California, not marine mussels, not the mussels you see in the ocean. These mussels live only in fresh water and they move around in the sediment and they can live for about 15 to 20 years. And they have a very complex life cycle that they actually require the stickleback as their host fish. They're babies.  They're in the water. The baby mussels are in the water. They eat the fish. They clamp down the fish without hurting the fish and they absorb nutrients or food from the fish and grow and then eventually fall off the fish and start all over. So if you don't have the stickleback, you can't have these mussels. So the stickleback are very important in the life cycle of these freshwater mussels. But not only are mussels cool because they have really crazy life cycle, they're also very important for cleaning up our water. You can see on the left, dirty water without mussels and you can see on the right, clean water. These mussels feed through filtering or filter feeders.  They can remove all the little particulates that make the water unclear and then they spit out clean, clear water. Not only do they remove the particulates like algae, but they also remove E. coli, which is a pathogen that makes us sick. So they help us clean our water. Again, another example of an ecosystem servers. Presence of these mussels are cleaning our water. Very cool. Another really cool example. This is a damselfly, San Francisco forktail damselfly. It's basically a small dragonfly. It's about two inches long as this flying adult is. This is a male here. This is one of the rarest damselflies in North America. Only exists in a handful of locations in the Bay Area and it's becoming more rare. So we wanna save it. So we've been working with San Francisco Zoo and they've started a captive breeding program to reintroduce it back into the mountain lake and other wetland areas that we've been restoring throughout the Presidio. This is a baby damselfly, also called a nymph or a niad. Very fun words to say. Tiny little thing.  Those are the gills. These little babies require water year-round, clean, clear water year-round to thrive and to grow and to turn into adults. So if you don't have clean water or water year-round like a drought, for example, you'll lose these damselflies. Fortunately, mountain lake, although very low during this drought, will survive throughout this drought. A lot of our wetlands are drying up because of the drought, but these damselflies and other damselflies will do okay in the lake because it's holding water even throughout this drought. But not only are these damselflies really cool because they're beautiful and rare, but they're also very important to focus control mosquitoes. They're voracious predators of mosquitoes, not only the adults like you see here, but also the little babies. They love things like mosquitoes. And again, we don't wanna have problems with mosquitoes. So these animals help us reduce mosquitoes. Again, another example of an ecosystem service, mosquito control.  So a lot of you youngins watching this right now, it's gonna be you that are gonna carry on the legacy and promote not only a healthy lake, but a healthy nature throughout San Francisco. So part of our jobs in the Presidio is to tell the stories of mountain lake and how to live and how to promote healthy nature in your cities. And some of these right here, don't ever feed the wildlife. Like I said with priorities, you never wanna feed wildlife. It's bad for the animals and it can result in very bad things and unsafe situations for people. So never feed the wildlife. You always wanna pick up after your pets. A lot of the Ecoli and pathogens that end up in our water can be linked back to not picking up after your pets. Don't abandon your pets. Remember I said a lot of those abandoned pets like turtles and the crayfish and the big fish. A lot of those were abandoned pets and a lot of those were the reason why a lot of our native wildlife like frogs and turtles were gone from the lake because they either ate them all or they spread and introduced diseases that killed them all. So don't ever abandon your pets and share this knowledge. We need more people to know about these really cool stories and what we can do as neighbors of these wild animals, what we can do to help promote and sustain these wild animals in our cities. And so what does the future hold for Presidio Wildlife? Well, as I said earlier, a lot of landscape and habitat was lost. Lost in the early days as the city became what it is today. So a lot of wildlife was lost as well. Not all wildlife, some wildlife stuck around just barely was able to hold on and we've been able to reverse that and increase those numbers of some of those rare species but a lot of them didn't hold on. A lot of them just disappeared because they lost their habitat but now the Presidio is bringing back their habitat but a lot of these species that you see here we know they used to be here. We have records of them being here in our museums and other records like that but they can't come back on their own. They need our help to bring them back. And so we're looking at a lot of these species thinking how can we bring them back? Why are they gone? Well, we know why a lot of them are gone and we've reversed the reasons why they're gone. We've addressed those reasons, we've restored their habitat and now can we bring them back? And yeah, I think a lot of these actually could come back and so there's a very bright future for the wildlife in San Francisco and in the Presidio. So a lot of these species, some to look out for in the future some exciting things coming down the road. So again, just to wrap it up why does urban wildlife, why does it matter? Ecosystem strength, I talked about that a little bit when I talked about some of the relationships between our pollinators and our plants. The more variety you have of native plants and native pollinators that all interact and they've interacted for thousands of years, the stronger your ecosystem is. The healthier nature is, the more resilient our ecosystems are in the face of climate change. We want to have strong resilient ecosystems to support our local wild animals. Ecosystem services, I talked a lot about that freshwater mussels cleaning our waterways, damselflies, helping and stickleback fish helping control mosquitoes, raptors and coyotes helping us control the rodent population. Ecosystem services, these animals actually make things cleaner and healthier for us here in our city. Sense of place. There's no other place like San Francisco and there's no other combination of these wild animals like that, which you find in San Francisco, they are our hometown heroes. And that's the beauty about traveling. If you go to another city, you're gonna see those local wild species and wild animals and it's gonna be totally different. So it's those local flavors we wanna have and we wanna know San Francisco. These are the animals that have been here and the plants that have been here for thousands and thousands of years and there are wild neighbors. And of course, mental and physical health.  There's a lot, a lot to go find and you'll go see the dramas that are happening. Right under our noses, there's all kinds of crazy stories happening and cool things to see like this crab spider here that you would never notice because it's so well camouflaged for that California poppy. But look at that, it's eating a robber fly and robber flies like to eat butterflies. So this crab spider is helping the butterflies by eating the robber fly that would otherwise eat the butterfly. Very cool. So go out and go explore and go find all these crazy weird characters living in your backyard, living in the Presidio. And then finally, just to wrap it up, I wanna thank you all again for stopping by learning about your local wild animals and a couple of things I want you, when you go out to an explorer, I want you to help us and I want you to share your observations. iNaturalist.org, it's a great way to share what you see, but also learn about the wild animals and plants that you might not know what they are, but this application will actually help you identify these plants and animals. And I also want you to go and volunteer, if you're interested, go get dirty, go outside, go join these different groups across San Francisco and in the Presidio. And it's a great way to really learn and be a part of the landscape and to help rebuild and rewild and restore the habitat that supports our local wild animals. And so that, I'm gonna end there and thanks again for joining. Wow, John, that was so amazing information and a great partnership.  That's so fascinating. Yeah, yeah. We have a question from a YouTuber that says, when I'm hiking, I come across plastic and other trash. My inclination is to pick it up, but sometimes it looks like the bottle or whatever has become part of the environment like plants have thrown over it.  Yeah, if you're willing to pick up the trash, definitely pick up the trash. Don't worry about small disturbance to plants. In fact, it's a known rule in the world of environmental restoration that some disturbance is actually good for the ecosystem. Some, not a lot, but when you're removing things like trash, the benefits outweigh the risk of disturbance. Absolutely. I think we lost Anissa, but we do have another question. Do you have any recommendations for guides to our local wildlife? Like what to live for, where to live for it? That kind of thing? Yeah, there's a lot of different resources. iNaturalist is one of the better ones that you can do in real time and it can even help you identify if you get a decent enough picture. But if you wanna also look at nature in the city, believe it's natureinthecity.org, they have a lot of resources about the local plants and animals. Also for plants, California Native Plant Society, Yerba Buena chapter, they have their own webpage. There's a lot of information there as well. And then for birds, Golden Gate Audubon Society, they have a lot of information there. But I think the quickest and easiest one is gonna be iNaturalist, because you can just search San Francisco and see what people are seeing and nature in the city because they've compiled a lot of information. Thank you, Jonathan. That's so amazing. We have worked with California Native Plant Society quite a bit at the library and we have a lot of their info on YouTube and they are just humongous wealth of knowledge about all the plants in the area and just a huge support. So go check that out on our YouTube. Do we have any more questions, Lisa, from the YouTube side? Can we follow Jonathan on any social media? The closest thing is the Presidio Tres social media. And a lot of the content, like photos that I get, we'll get out through there. And you can also look for me on iNaturalist. JS underscore Y-O-U-N-G. And you can see a lot of the animals and plants that I find in the Presidio Art. I'm always posting things out there. Cool, we'll make you come back to the library again too. Yeah. All right, friends, and I wanna remind you that we do have another nature boost coming up with the Golden Gate National Park Conservatory, the Presidio Trust and the National Park Services and it's a tour of the Presidio Native Plant nursery. And this will be happening Friday, August 8th, 13th at 11 o'clock, same time, same channel. Find us there. Jonathan, thank you so much for being here today and giving us that wonderful. While some of those insects were gorgeous, the colors are just amazing. Definitely. All right, friends, library community. Jonathan, we appreciate it. Bye everyone. Bye.


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I think we're live, but I know how I got talked into doing this But babe, I ruins I don't do colors good everybody Loves how you do colors. No the colors for you. It doesn't matter. I don't know how to like do stuff like I just I just go from what you're doing. I don't ever do stuff.  It's gonna be loud Debbie, I have sworn my fair share of resin. Oh, yeah, you did what? Does anyone own any clothes really that don't have just all of the resin on it? If you do then you're not doing that work, right? This is a medium where you can get messy Take chances and make mistakes. Okay. That's what you're supposed to do What's up Shane? Manana, I bow bow. What do you want to see what's up here?  I don't know how long she mixed this so I'm just gonna mix it for just like a minute more But boy cat Well, it's A lady I'm gonna pick stuff up And apparently our front door was open If we have the windows open in our place and it's kind of windy It's not I guess it is kind of windy.  I don't know what what I'm doing here So we're just gonna mix I guess a little bit of that I don't think the size that she got me is gonna be A good size. I have no clue what I'm doing y'all I really don't So let's do um I don't want to do a marble one. I have no idea This is the new color It's called Kimmy shimmer It looks it's a little Little more turquoise than it shows on on camp on well, I don't know it might be different On my monitor Um So I'm not 100 sure I made sticks so I can use them over here and I don't even ever use them All right, so it's like a metallic. It's it's a really nice color um And we have these windows open so You have a lot of natural light. It's a little bit more turquoisey in the real life um, I'll do a True true color video. Hopefully it'll show up. You guys know how How uh Teals and turquoises and those kind of colors don't really show up that well on camera Don't I don't know why I think we're gonna use some uh, just resin. Oh no lures, sorry Um lures angel white Which is a really good white That we sell all this stuff on our website if you guys didn't know So I went back to driving school bus Oh driving a school bus Sounds interesting Angel white and some gold so Maybe what we'll do Look at that gold Let's do that. We're gonna mix some gold because I know we'll use that Uh Very lightly If I miss a question or something. I'm sorry. I'm I was hoping erica would be In here I don't know if that's gonna be enough. That might be No I think it's all right This stuff is really opaque, isn't it? All right, so now let's mix I think I'll do just a white background with uh Oh, this was color obsessions rich gold Rich gold shimmer this stuff is really nice So let's do a white base. So let's just put this back in here and make all this white Anybody working on anything new? Or a new project in the home Or you get a new puppy or kitten Or what? What do you guys what what's happening over there in atd world? Camping god. I haven't been camping in years All right, so let's make some of this shimmer. This is a kimmy shimmer from color passion kymmie shimmer I want to make this stuff nice and Vibrant and opaque. So I'm gonna put quite a bit in there You know how we do it We do it to where, uh Our fairy art mother judy goes I can just hear her say jeffrey Yelling at me like my mom used to when I was little I guess she wants to do a What do you call it? I don't know if that's gonna be big enough for that like Bowie calm down We might just make some, uh How about we just make some coasters? Uh, yes, it is stone coat countertops resin This is art coat We have quite a bit of it available on our website artist till death.com um Yeah, if you guys are new this is uh, we use stone coat countertops art coat resin Um, it is a one to one mix by Is it weight or measurement Or is it just measurement? I don't know one might be a little heavier than the other so I don't think I would do You just do one to one put one ounce And one ounce it makes two ounces one ounce of a one ounce of b Or two and two or five and five or however much you need to mix measurement, okay Yeah, there's some that I think you have to weigh but I do not want to deal with stuff like that Because I will get stuff mixed up real easy All right, I'll mixed Um, she got me this board which I don't know. It seems a little big for as much Gain we have here. So I think I'm just gonna Oh, yeah, we're going to the fair today to the fair today We're gonna go see some crazy people at the fair today. All right. We got some coasters.  We can do Some smush stuff. We can do some dirty pores Some tree rings You know, we can do Do a lot of fun stuff We don't think about that Because I I literally I'm just not comfortable using a big board without knowing what the hell I'm doing first I'm not Like Erica.   We have A honeycomb shape we have square we have circle and we have That's it and MDF we also have it in Our acrylic All right, so let's do this. Yeah, this is a lot George I hope that doesn't I hate when people do vast text messages Especially when I use my phone to go live How's everybody doing welcome welcome welcome welcome everybody We don't have I'm gonna heat this up just a little bit more than normal so I can Blow on it You know how that goes These are gonna be nice looking coasters I think I need to put a little bit more That shimmer in the paint or we can just Wine it maybe You can do one of these guys See when I say you should you might want to spray paint these coasters Uh because you see that tan edge You know, you don't want that if you want a white background So and let this might even out it might sink and even out so We'll see where are my Do I not have any heat over I don't have any fire I'm not a fan of using this Because then it'll get it'll make all that it'll make those hard lines spread. I don't want to do that Whoops All right Can you guys hear that every time my phone goes off? Put a little bit more in here I'm gonna make this nice and opaque So you can hear it Sorry about that I don't know why they're doing that I think it might be for the fair but I hate that Especially when you don't know half the people You know like one or two people in the in the mass techs and And whenever you get whenever you get these coasters always wipe them off because there is a little dust on there that will uh Definitely you'll be able to see it so All right, let's try this let's try We'll do a white background Oh my gosh, I might have to I might hold on y'all let me see if I can when that comes up I can just Turn off those notifications Because that's gonna drive me insane I'm gonna put this a little closer to myself Right now. I don't have a Glove on This I don't want to touch my screen All right Pumpy are I don't know I don't I can't read that right now I'm trying to read the comments on my phone So that I can see this text message this thing so I can touch it and Make it go away All right, let's try We're gonna try A dirty pour about that Of course, it doesn't come up or it does it right when I'm That gold takes over so you guys got to be real careful with this gold I'm just gonna stir this one time And then we're gonna do This I know this is a lot of resin, but we're gonna smush it up I know this is not gonna work. It's just gonna get all Yeah as I thought It just kind of blobs together when you do that Well, that's kind of fun. I don't hate it. I'm at that old table. We did Boy See don't leave me alone with resin I have way too bad of abd. So Really bad abd Well, it really it just kind of I think I'm just putting too much gold in so That's gonna drive me nuts All right, let's see here. Let's do Let's do we'll do a Color for the background And then we'll do white and gold on top of that Oops, sorry about that Quake I'm just trying to put it on here random just to kind of Not make a actual design or anything You've seen how this stuff reacts with other stuff. That's kind of fun. I'm not having that much fun But the color looks good Yeah, it just kind of blends like it just kind of That one looks fairly okay It's because I made I made it the base color Let's see here What's black lava? Do we not have any clean rags over here? Yeah, we just have a bunch All right Okay, do we have alcohol? Yeah, give me I'm gonna clean my hands because I want to keep this What's up? Yeah, I don't I'm pretty sure he doesn't tell anybody his technique I'm remembering proper Mike art he does that like lava look. Oh, yeah It's just a bunch of Uh texture with matte or shiny Right, but I think the question is what he uses for the texture. You can use a modeling Yeah, you can use modeling paste you can use grout grout It's probably a sprout but what is that what's not grout but like drywall mud? I don't know. There's a a lot of ways There's a lot of work Oh for sure He's done something lately that I was really like Spackle or bondo. Yeah. Oh good. Let us know how that works out with the spackle Yeah, babe. I'm just not good at this. I don't I don't especially when it's colors that are Just not what I would use. I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing here I'm literally just making a mess Do you want me to take over? It's like I forget how to do anything like this I'll just do negative space Yeah, that sounds easy, but it's not I'm glad you got the replacement package Welcome, Valerie Absolutely, Tammy Chris Logan. I sent you a message on Facebook With the email that I have for you. So Um, yeah, I'll double check my email Evelyn. He's done ATDs poor people and a bunch of other resin groups I don't think he has a youtube, but I'm not sure Do you want me to worry do that? Oh He's like there's a group text message or something and it's driving me insane What do you think about that color? I like the color. There's just I think I'm just I don't know if I'm just putting too much other colors down But it just seems very it gets washed out really easy And I maybe just because it's a shimmer and I don't use it, right? I think that looks awesome Babe, this is terrible. What are you talking about? This is like So you would do that just be done People want to see what that color looks like if you put it up to the camera It's not that this doesn't look like it doesn't look the same. It's more blue on camera than it is. It's a little bit more aqua IRL You got requests for smushies. I'm not doing a good job at anything. So Kind of over it. That's the spirit. Well, if you want me to do it, I'll do them Call it beauty in the chaos. It's awesome I like that Hey Amanda first life feed up and able to catch in a very long time Hope you're having an awesome day. It does less than it's very shimmery Color passion did very nice when they did this color I guess I'm just not I don't I don't I don't know what to do with the colors like the technique, I guess you could say They can hear that I was just gonna leave those there. Hey, why doesn't why can't this be tightened? That's a little better dirty for a few. I'm not really Yeah, it's not good. This isn't this is what the dirty pour looks like Like it's really not it just it really doesn't do well Let's just see All right, but we might wipe my hands off since you like to wait Till I get sticky See I would be fine with this And just see what it does Yeah, um, it could be too mid-tone and a dark accent would be awesome, but also Really wanted to kind of just showcase this color. So You want some fire? You can do fire too Yeah, it's too like it's too, uh It's too light Give me like a dark blue But I like a light color too I don't mind you, but Let's drop it. Yeah, maybe we'll try a dirty pour with just the gold and um, Well, Phillip, how's it going? I think this gold will take over But we're gonna give it a shot Nonetheless See that's fun and then just tilt it one way tilt the other way Yeah That does look fun Yes, this is camey by color passion What if I did a gold base and then just did white and blue In the dirty pour because obviously Something is making all of them mixed together Let's just give it a shot and see what we got I really like this camey color actually Give it a little swirl for character That's what I tried to do and it was just like So we have to tilt it some because there's just too much Epoxy on the surface of it and it's gonna flow off anyway. So we have to go and pre-flow it So that we can kind of clear the gold is uh Is rich gold by color obsession You can like that I'm like jumping in Where I shouldn't be jumped in I think she wants to go get something Where are those gloves? I want to try these gloves on They're there Little bit it's got medium large That's uh, they don't have like It was medium large or XO Sounds good Claire. I thank you for coming in Again, it is called Kimmy shimmer From color passion So we are gonna have a sale um after I get all of my Let me start over. I just got three cases of just resin and as soon as I get them in the system I'm gonna do a sale and the code is just resin one word So You guys are going It's a tg let's do one with a kimmy base If you're gonna go get colors use the just resin discount code for 10 off I think I'm gonna run the code through Either through friday or through the weekend I don't know. I only have one box Unloaded and in the system so far But I wanted you guys to know that that was Gonna happen So let's do white and gold With apparently a little bit of the kimmy still mixed in I don't have any pink or purple mixed up. Sorry Little swirl for action Those colors are fun together No worries Tim my pleasure Thank you katie for supporting our shop Megan I don't have any pink or purple mixed up if I did I totally would But I don't even have any clear left However, I do think that this blue would look really nice with pink and purple I'm not really sure where I'm going with this one, but Join me for the ride I guess I could do a smush. I haven't done a smush with these yet I do I am concerned a bit that it will muddy some Actually, I just picked this up Off the table I think I'm gonna keep it But back to this one I'm just putting some epoxy on this so that it Has a little bit of flow when we do the smush I don't know if you guys know this but I was down at ronda's Um, most of the weekend helping with Our class And now I'm seeing this with like a spurts of alcohol And spray paint I don't know if I'm gonna do that That's nice It's super soft Loving it All right I've got a little bit of color left Let's see what magic we can make with it. What if we Just add a little bit for background noise and then added some Heat and gold Okay, and see guys So now this one I got it too thin It's too soft marble color Let's try to sink some gold lines in it You'll just hear me out on that one How much resin did you mix? It was eight ounces because I prepped a board for him to pour on and he went the coaster route Miss communication All right, I'm gonna let the gold sink a little bit So I'm just gonna put it off to the side while we do the next one and then we'll go back to that one All right You can do a white and gold smush So what art pieces are you guys working on? My next piece is going to be a an alcohol ink piece Elephant and a baby elephant. I know very polychee of me, huh? All right, we're gonna smush it so that some comes out all the sides so that we know there's no dry bits quarter turn day class a Darla, I believe in you with your first Ocean piece The interference you can add to other colors to give them an iridescence or you can Use them just out of the package mix into resin and give like an opalescent kind of look That's classy looking I would do a countertop that color geodes one of my fav z's Bamp your skulls are amazing if you guys haven't seen vamp skulls check her out Do upcycle bathroom remodel sounds exciting? right chain Congrats sparkle on your first upload That is a big step. Y'all go check out sparkles channel I love it when the gold sinks under the white and gives that grayed out look Just gives another level of depth All right, let's check this out You can tell that it did sink because there's that darker Bit of gold under the white, but I just rolled back over it Whoops, let's see if I can bring that shadow back up. You'll see it right in this bit See how it's slightly darker right there. That's because the gold is under the white So that gives some depth as well Okay, last one This makes me want caramel so bad. Don't judge me Evelyn, um, what's that about? The just resin code for the sale on the website Evelyn, I'm not sure what your question is Happy to answer it though See babe, you make everything better Aw But you don't give yourself enough credit, but oh Should I add white to this one? No, you would like that I think that's what's maybe doing is the white Could be The code is just resin that one word All right, I'm gonna run these to the dfz she had that dfz like Paper sticking up everywhere sale code Erika and when is the live when is the live? Okay, calm down. No need to cap code all caps Vamp screaming in the room It's only Tuesday The code is Just resin it's live right now and will be that way at least till Friday possibly through the weekend Welcome back Clara I have shoes on I know Key doki I still have this one. That's not the cutest. So maybe y'all what do I have left? Some white Some gold from right here Maybe Only thing I have to smush with is a square. So Let's just Pre-paint it with some this That doesn't even look that bad Yeah, yeah, yeah He was just messing with y'all what Vamp said I always do caps so you see the questions. She is the cap queen and no one else is allowed to cap Shane says I didn't even know she owned a pair of shoes Thank you, Melissa A lot of coasties with only eight ounces. I know it's just It's good stuff That's super fun And that's super fun. All right, we're gonna let these guys live Oh That's fun Just dropped a cup In a different coasting She came for paint and also dropped off Hugsley because he escaped Hello, hello, hello Going to make two countertops one for 36 and one for 30 cabinet bases. How much resin should I get? A half gallon. Uh-huh. I have no idea Depends on what kind of pour you're gonna do but typically You need at least three ounces per square foot for each layer. Thank you, christie so I don't know how much square footage you're working with but Calculate the ranches per square foot unless you're doing something with crazy lots of resin In that case, uh, like for a dirty pour it's gonna be Six ounces per square foot Also practice the Evelyn knows what she's doing so you guys I hope you enjoyed the video today and That you enjoyed the colors that we used if you have any requests Put them down below if you have sent me an email. I'm sorry. I haven't gotten to those yet I wanted to get all the fire sale items out Get everything caught back up from being in a town for so long Um, but I should get to emails today or tomorrow most likely tomorrow But um, right Tammy, but Evelyn knows about the addiction. She's been to our classes before She knows but so yeah, I sure did Evelyn. Um, you're interested in these colors or any other color We carry about 800 of them On our website artistsledep.com you can find the link right in the chat box or in the description box below this video We, um Appreciate every time you guys go to our website because It can't do without you guys so yeah You guys so so much for being new for coming in and arting with us You guys are amazing Sorry, I'm losing my train of thought while I'm trying to pick up So he wants to say hi to you guys If I had anyone in gold left, I would do a smush for you. Hey bubbo My pretty boy Hey, are you so pretty? Who told you be so cute? I know it All right, you guys have an awesome day Be kind to one another because you never know what someone may be going through And always remember at ATD studios We do the tests says you don't have to Ew Huh Hey, that's really bad when you See I can't not get excited Right Chrissy Um We're so glad you're here carry terms on this camera. So anyways Job and I'll stay. We'll see you guys tomorrow.


Welcome to the AI for Good Global Summit. I'm delighted to be joined now by Jovanke von Wilstof, songwriter, musician, and also founder of the Diana AI Song Contest. Hi. So I've got to know, what's the song contest? Oh, we found it in 2020, actually, because I was at that point giving workshops for musicians and taught them how to use music tools in a way that's actually inspiring and not taking away their creativity. And I felt that there was so much interest. And I thought, like, how do I get this musician actually to work with it, and not just in the workshop, but on a longer term? And then I thought, well, Diana, first of all, sounds better than Oscar. Then Diana, you see the second and the third letter. Switch it. It's AI. The rest is DNA. So that was the name for the contest.  And within one day, each group of three musicians and seven AI tools write and produce a song with AI and produce a video. And then, well, then, we need an award ceremony. So the next day, there should be an award ceremony. That's what we did. And we do it this year for the third time. And what's beautiful is that even though all the musicians use the same AI tools, the genres they come up with, the songs they come up with, could not be more diverse. It's like we have from quirky rock bangers to really artsy, techy stuff to total pop songs that are beautiful. Some people bring a cello or a guitar, so it's really about cooperation. It is not about generating. It is about using AI as a creativity tool, not a creative tool. OK, but Jovanke, I'm a big fan of world music. I like Flamenco. I like the Senegal sound. I like the 70s, nearly young Janis Choplin. They didn't need AI to come up with amazing music. No, and Beethoven didn't need an electric guitar. So there's so many kinds of music. And AI anyway will not replace music, but inspire some musician and give a new approach to certain kinds of writing. And music is evolving, but also it's so, there's so many different kinds. Why should AI be everywhere as an electric guitar, as a synthesizer? We don't need a synthesizer in a classical concert. Or we can, but we don't have to. So if we feel, if we find out that AI can actually inspire us, then it's great. Then it's an extra tool we can use. You're here, of course, for the summit as well, because you're doing a partnership. So tell us about that. Yes, so what I will do is I met Sophia and Hansen Robotics in April at the Salz-Einund-Svanzig. There was another. So we work together. And thought we should really do something together. So what we are doing here is Sophia and I make a robo-rocho, which means we play each other's snippets of wonderful AI-human collaborations. Our first robo-rocho will tap into the classic aspect, the history of AI. And we talk a little bit about it.  So there's a second part of the robo-rocho, where we go into a state-of-the-art artist who work with AI. And since I do the Diana AI Song Contest, since I am a creative consultant, I know all these artists who are super creative but are infused by AI. And I got some of these artists to collaborate. So what we do is we tease certain of these collaborations. We also show something of Mario Guzman, who actually works with very differently trained algorithms. Because what we do notice is that most algorithms in AI are trained on Western data. And that is kind of limiting the inspiration. So even if everything is open and we can go any style, the data it's trained on is Western. So Mario Guzman comes from a totally different direction. And so we're trying in this one, like half an hour just to tap into all these things. And hopefully we have a lot of fun. And even more hopefully, the audience will have some fun. Fantastic. Looking forward to listening and watching that. So thank you very much. That's Yuvanka Yvonne Wustov. Yes. Who will be showing off her musical AI-themed skills over the next few days. Thank you very much. I thank you. Bye-bye. More coming up from AI for Good's Global Summit over the coming days.


Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, and this is a video Unboxing the donations that have been sent to me by you guys This is everything that I got in January And these have been sent in by generous viewers donated to the channel And so this is my opportunity to express my appreciation for that to say thanks And to show you guys some of the stuff that's been sent in I want to remind everyone that you don't have to send stuff to me. It's not a required I don't need you to I do appreciate it when you do and it certainly it has helped the channel But nobody should feel obligated to do that If you do want to send something to the channel, I will put it in front of a camera and show everyone so If you'd like to send something I have a post office box I will put the post office box address on the screen right now So that is where you would send it if you want to send something to me, but remember It's not required. This channel is doing fine. This channel is doing great I doesn't require your donations, but if you are generous and want to donate Certainly whatever you send I will put it on TV and show everybody normally in these videos I would show you things that I have purchased, but everything that I've bought recently Is for upcoming reviews and I don't want to spoil the surprise So I'm not going to show you those things right now. You will see them very soon when they are reviewed Okay, let's start with this envelope. This was sent by Robert Stewart And he sends this figure that is wrapped in black here and I know what it is And now I'm going to show you what it is. This is kind of cool. This is a fun school barbecue, that's a barbecue released in India and Check out these colors on barbecue. This is something else It's really amusing. Check out the blue. Hey, I guess the blue isn't all that different from like Sergeant Slaughter's Marauder's blue But like a yellow face mask And it has his accessories here too Mostly the same or similar to what we got in the US So looks like he is complete, but there you go. That's fun school barbecue Really unique and interesting figure. So thanks for Robert. Thanks to Robert for sending that. I appreciate it I don't have a lot of fun school figures And it's really interesting and amusing to see them and actually be able to hold them in hand and kind of look at the differences in the plastic and the differences in the paint Fun school is something special. I have had fun school Ronnie An actual fun school GI Joe collector in my videos a couple of times. He's my fun school expert But this stuff fascinates me. I'm not a collector of international releases of GI Joe but Just because I'm not a collector doesn't mean that I'm not interested in them. They are very interesting and Sometimes amusing But always intriguing the changes that these figures went through as they were released in other countries This box is from Brandon Knight and Brandon Knight has been a friend of the channel for some time and he has a letter And his letter says as we close one year and begin a new one let us remember the journey We are on the new friends we make and most important the memories we share together It has been and always will be great to find other people who still love GI Joe Thanks again for the hard work and fun you put in your videos also for having an awesome family who support and love you I think that's pretty awesome too. Thank you In this package are some figures and cards to help the channel and to share with the community I want to you wish you and your family Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Your Joe Powell Brandon Andrew Knight Yojo and Cobra. Thank you very much Brandon That is a very well written note and I when I especially appreciate about that note Is that it keeps the proper priorities the friends that we make and family those are things that always are the most important So let's see what Brandon sent in this box And right off the bat. All right, I'm gonna pull this one out first it Right off the bat we have a version of Cobra commander. Let's let's zoom in on this Now Brandon sent another one of these figures In a previous box These Cobra commanders from I think the year was 1992 And this is one that I Do want to review here in the near future It's a different look for Cobra commander. He should normally have like a Translucent red face plate On this helmet, but this one is missing. I do have one with the translucent face plate But this is a variant of the one that he sent before some of these Cobra commanders have The eyebrows painted in and others do not this is the one with the eyebrows And so now that I have both variants and one that has the red Face mask I think this guy is ready to review. I need to make sure I have the file card I believe I have the accessories already. So I think this guy's ready to go so really interesting and unusual version of Cobra commander One of the stranger Cobra commanders from the vintage line. Let's see. What else we got? Oh Always welcome Always a great figure to get your hands on the range viper with some of his accessories there Really fascinating figure of the range viper Haven't reviewed them yet. I'd like to review them at some point in the near future, but It's just a fascinating figure. I stare at the range viper and I just keep staring at them and Just all over this figure. There are interesting things to see unusual design choices So range viper is cool What else we got? Uh-huh. We have Our old friend skidmark. There we go Pretty good condition this skidmark I do have a skidmark, but maybe this guy'll be in the in the desert fox with the other skidmark He can be in the passenger seat So skidmark the unfortunately named Is it even possible to say skidmark's codename without also saying The unfortunately named skidmark? Um, let's see what. Oh, hey. Yeah, we got um Got trading cards A big stack of them here um a while back I did, uh Uh video on these trading cards. I didn't have very many of them. Uh, I believe I have the whole set now Uh, but let me see Hey, this got a lot of the vehicles um, I don't know if you can There's bazooka shock wave tripwire Spirit Cap and gridiron a lot of fan favorites in here. You know what you know what I'm looking for You know, I I've got one now, but I always still look for Uh stalker Because he's my favorite It's the flak. I I it is cool that they you know, it does include like the old The old 82s Uh got a special place in my heart, uh for the 1982 stuff So, uh, I don't know. I may not Uh find it right now, but um, I always check to see if there's a stalker card in here Uh, and I don't see run right away. I'll I will go through these later. Um Tunnel rat some great characters. Uh, and it's really cool to see Their cards. So, uh, anyway, so thanks for those Uh, Brandon and let's see Let's see what else we got here Oh, yeah, we've got hawk and I forget which version of hawk this is. Uh, I want to say version Three or four. I can't remember but it's the one with the talking backpack Um, it's got his rifle in here Um, and these you know, this is actually a really nice figure. I think, um, this figure looks like, uh general flag the late general flag From the gi jo comic book series But, um, this is hawk Um, there is a way to remove these backpacks. These backpacks are like, um, affixed to the figure, but uh with a screwdriver you can remove them and without the backpack This is actually a really cool looking figure. Uh, not a bad iteration of hawk. I like that. Um, and then we have Oh, yeah, this Let's see. It doesn't have the, um, duke Figure, but it is Duke's crotch rocket Oh, yeah, other accessories too. There's just a crotch rocket. Oh, it's got the it's got the missile in it. It's let me see Will it fire? I'm gonna fire it at the camera Oh, yeah It shot across the room. Okay. Um, oh, yeah, look at this There's his rifle. Now the one that I had, um Had lots of Plastic stress marks and this one does not Um, that's in pristine shape. That's really nice and his helmet. So accessories for that duke. Oh, I'm sorry Now here he is I found him. He was in the bottom of the box. He must have slipped out of the bag But there is there's duke. Um, and his accessories at least most of them Uh, and it has included the missile for the the crotch rocket, uh, which I just shot across the room Uh, so that is that box from brandon. Uh, and I have one more box from brandon right here All right, this is the final box to open. This is also from brandon knight. Uh, so he has another letter. So let's read that Um, let's see. Um, he has some cash in here. Oh my goodness Um, I wasn't expecting that Let's see Um, okay dear hcc788. Thanks for taking us on an amazing adventure. I can't wait to see what wonders We will see next. I know not all adventures will be great We still have many 90s figures and vehicles to go through but uh at the best part of But that's the best part of adventures. Yes, that is true Um, it was the best of time. It was the worst of time Keep up the great work and never stop playing with gi jo toys. Evening for wife is lol from the corner Yes, sometimes she does catch me playing with my dolls Um, and also here's a special bonus for your daughter's birthday. Thank you. I will pass that on to her All right, so let's see what's in the box and in the box is Uh, this is nice. This is special Um It's I gotta hold on. I gotta zoom this in so you can see it's a cobra bat bat Um, what year was this? Was this I think 93 um It's a cobra bat. Um, it's b a a t Not just b a t And it's it's one of those clunky battle armor articulation Like robo jo looks like he's got his accessories in there Missiles and guns and figure stands and missile launcher But this is um This is uh, this is nice. This is I mean, I didn't have one. Uh, so certainly it does help. Uh, but these guys Um, I haven't I need to get back around uh to reviewing these. Um I think they're called battle armor Figures, um, I haven't done one since robo jo and there are a lot of them and uh, I really should talk about them We need to talk about these So, um I really gotta kick out of this. Thank you, brandon. Um, this is a very amusing Figure, uh, and I look forward to reviewing it at some point. Thank you guys for sending these. Uh, it's very generous It's very much appreciated. Um, if I get more donations, uh in february I will do another one of these videos Next month, uh, if I don't then I won't so Um, that's just kind of how it goes So, um, once again, don't feel like you have to send something I'm just happy having you here having you watching the videos and have you going on this Journey with me this adventure as brandon put it. Um, this is an adventure that we are all going on together and That's the important thing for me. Um, but if you do want to send something and have it in a video like this You can send it to this post office box Um, and if I get it, I'll I'll show it to everyone So that's all for now. Uh, thank you for all this and thank you all for being a part of this great project with me It's been a lot of fun. Uh, and we just keep moving forward Um, so I will be back soon. Um, I should have a full review for you in the very near future Until then remember Well, you know what to remember. I'll see you later


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2020-2021 Upper Deck Black Diamond Hockey. Pick your team number eight from jaspyscasebrakes.com Big thanks to this group of people right here for getting in on it. There it is. Thank you. A lot of R&B spots here. That means random number block. So we took out a bunch of teams and turned it into a serial number break right here. And we did this randomizer in a different video if you want to look out for that. So for all these teams you get a block of numbers only for this pick your team break. So let's leave that right here. I'm sure there might be a lot. Alright, so now there it is. Remember we did seven. Pick your team seven earlier today. And we marked that eight so we know they're from the same master case. We've had it really glorious with a little bloop single. It's usually going to be an exquisite card on the bottom right here. So let's use this blank card here. Let's see what we got. We got Mark Stone to 349. Golden Knights. That'll be Vegas. So we go by that digit right there. Vegas eight. It'll be for Joe. Joseph with that one. We got Victor Sodersturm for the Coyotes. Rookie Gems Autograph 134 out of 199. Andy Owens picked up the Coyotes straight up. Nice. Love these Team Logo Jumbos. Kareel Cap Resolve from Minnesota. And that'll be for Joseph. Drobeck with that one. Larger time.  Now these are manufactured patches but they still look pretty sharp. Next up is Diamond Mine Dual Relics. Sebastian Ajo and Andre Shvednikov for Carolina. Carolina is a number block team. And this is actually not numbered, huh? Can I see a number anywhere here? No, so we'll randomize that to one person in the break. 56 out of 99. Tim Stutzel for Ottawa. He's pretty good, right? Supposed to be pretty good. Is good. Ottawa is a number block team so that goes to Ottawa six. That's going to be for Stephen K. There you go, Stephen. And the last one here is Nick Robertson. Toronto Maple Leafs, 71 out of 99. Toronto Joseph with the Maple Leafs. I'm about to say Blue Jays. We've got Montreal Nine, Brennan Gallagher. And that'll be for Matt McLaughlin. We've got a Diamond. We've got Ollie Uelvi. Uelivi. 48 out of 49. Single Diamond for Vancouver.  Ooh, nice Homer by Justin Turner. Two days, two homers. And Diamond debut relics. 171 out of 399. That'll be for Montreal. And so Canadians won right there. That'll be for Matt Arnold. Bryce, hit the support button on the website. And then give us as much details as possible. AJ, hit the break schedule. And there's a shipping tab there. I'll tell you exactly what you need to know. 151 out of 349, Ottawa. Number block team. Matt Arnold with Ottawa one. You just base cards down here, I think? Yeah, Rookie, Gems, 266 out of 399. Canadian six, Stephen K. And right here, Vitaly Kravstov. 12 out of 299.  Yeah, AJ, that break schedule tab not only has the break schedule, filler information, whether there's late night or not. I can't stress enough how important that link pinned in the chat is. And has shipping information. And for entertainment purposes only, has my picks, my plays of the day, if you're into that sort of thing. That's enough how important that page is. In fact, everyone should bookmark it. There's Dominic Kubelik, 59 out of 349. Chicago, Nick Stover. Wow, a triple diamond. 55 out of 99. Bowen Byron, 55 out of 99 for Colorado. And Colorado's a number block team. And that goes to Jay Goins with the abs five. That's pretty sharp. That is nice. And Gabe Velardi, team logo jumbos. Nice looking one for the Kings.  So what I'm going to do is the name on top will get this, right? When I do that randomizer, the second name will get the second card that was pulled. And we'll keep that going if there's any more of those, that situation. Diamond mind relics, Andre Vasilevsky. Tampa Bay was picked up last spot mojo. Brian Vornberg with that. All right, we got Victor Soderstrom. That's 92 out of 349. That'll be for Andy and the Coyotes. And then the exquisite, oh, it's extra exquisite. Josh Norris, Ottawa Senators. Kind of hard to see the numbers against that silver right there. 73, yeah, 73 out of 149. Ottawa three will be Carolyn. Kind of hard to catch in this light right here. But I assure you it's a three. Kind of catch it right there. Sit that right there. All right. Ryan O'Reilly, 156 out of 349. Blues, six. Stephen K. We got an Ivan Proverov. Sparkling scripts for the Flyers.  That's that auto, not numbered on this one either. Nick Robertson, Team Logo Jumbos, Toronto. Joseph Drobeck with the Maple Leafs. We got a Matt Sundin for the Maple Leafs. Diamond Cutters. That's kind of cool. You can kind of see the clear parts right over here. It's pretty neat. It's another one for Joseph. Another autograph, 14 out of 25. Ty Dallandrea. Sparkling scripts for the Dallas Stars. That'll be for Kenneth. Picked up the stars straight up. And we got extra exquisite Claude Giroux for the Flyers. Nice. They're there for the people that want them, Rex. All right. And that is to 149. Looks like that's 131 out of 149. All right. And the last box. All right. There's Leon Driesetal, 109 out of 349 for Edmonton. That's going to be for Carolyn. And there's Nicholas Lidstrom. Sparkling scripts autograph for Detroit. That's going to be for Steve Wright. Team logo Jumbos for Ottawa. That's a number block. So that's going to go to the third spot in that randomizer. We got Black Diamond, Diamond Mine Relics for the Rangers. Mika Zbenyad for Nick Stover and the Rangers. Got the Rangers straight up. A couple more to go. We've got JT Miller for the Rangers. The Winter Classic embossed on that foil there. That looks pretty cool. Winter Classic Memories. Looks like he's having a good time. He's having fun. That goes to Nick Stover and the Rangers. And the last one here is Exquisite Collection, Exquisite Material, 31 out of 49. Patrice Bergeron. Bruins 1. No, Bruins picked up straight up.  There you go, Brad. Brad with the Boston Bruins. Good alliteration there. Nice. There you go. That was Black Diamond Hockey. Five box picker team number eight. Now we're going to randomize the group in that number block right here. Name on top. We'll get this one. Second name will get that one. Third name will get that one. So let's flip back to the number block list right here. Let's grab Carolyn down to Matt. Here's some new dice, some new list. And let's roll it. Randomize it three times. Top three after three. One, two, and three. There you go. Jay, Carolyn, Carolyn. There you go. After three times, Jay, you've got the first non-numbered card that was pulled. And Carolyn, you get the next two. The Gabe Velarde and the Josh Norris. And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Black Diamond Picker Team eight in the books. Now I looked in the back. We don't think we have any more Black Diamond Hockey, but keep your eye out for more. Some pretty good stuff here. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards We are ripping 23 Bowman's best university of the late five box break number 10 random team style Looking at your random results as always you can find those on the website under the results tab as well as a link in chat Good luck here everybody. Let's do it Yeah, absolutely Forgot it was a home game. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. All right. You didn't miss nothing 10 of 50 studio stars of Drew Aller and And gold for Clemson it or no for Texas. Excuse me. It should be on Sanders to 50 got Jane and not for Cal To a hundred drew pine all other Take lava To 25 Makai lemon for USC. There you go, Brandon. Nice one there, buddy 21 of 25 29 of 50 Keon Keely for Alabama To 150 Michael Pratt for Tulane all other green wave Got Logan digs 14 of 25 going to LSU on the orange auto Exactly what my brother said before he asked me if I was okay Life-saving searcher Jesus To 15 tail and green. I just went there for Boise State all other and Then refractor Otto of Robbie Ashford for Auburn on to next one. They really do I like Tulane's color scheme I really do toke. I love their logo that they use now with a little wave that has the Green to good green sign 20 of 25 Jordan Travis elements of the game for Florida State and Aqua a 15 Javon Bullard for Georgia Bofa Javonte Barnes refractor Mario Williams to 150 on the true blue any day now Bofa Bofa the 75 is Sam Hartman for Notre Dame To 100 Trey Benson Going to Florida State Green to 99 Donovan as a Raku pop powers refractor Otto for Georgia Orange to 25 Mason Taylor for LSU Nice one there LSU 17 to 25 and Chikori Brooks for Ella Bill hasn't come out guys gonna leave It's still hasn't come out Hey, you might have not known to go get he might have just thought that Jesus Is to the stars Marshawn Lloyd let's go Matthew. What's up, buddy Matthew what up man welcome welcome. Thank you, man It's a 50 Ohio State Agbuka, which one are you in Matthew in the next one Blake Corum? Like any day now to 100 will Howard for Kansas State We've got three mini diamonds the 99 AJ Swan for Vanderbilt Hall of there Gold Jordan Travis three of 50 true gold for Florida State Shrew blue to 150 smell Mondon, Jr. For Georgia to 25 14 to 25 Sam Hartman for Notre Dame True gold bonix 25 not true gold, but gold Otto 25 of 50 go to Oregon Congrats, Oregon Harold S. Bonix true gold or a gold Otto to 50 And refractor Jacob Cohen your cowing going to Arizona so that is all of it Sitting out there looking at us sitting here Sees you go into the room. Yeah come back. I'll back down Go back out And then this little three-year-old comes out No children work here evidently so got a thickie masterpieces Caleb Williams That's on that USC Brandon and orange Eli Holstein to 25 for Alabama Carson Beck For Georgia to 100 Casey Thompson FAU all other to 99 Mason Smith for LSU blue Tyler Buckner for Alabama to 150 and To 75 for Ohio State Marvin Harrison, Jr. We've got a Wanted that is 45 of 50 on the gold Jackson Arnold for Oklahoma. Nice one coming up here. It's gonna be a Travis Hunter Jersey Auto Congrats on that one for Colorado Brandon, let's go baby. Nice one there Brandon. Let's see it, baby. That is Caleb Williams to colored Prospect patch auto for USC Congrats Brandon. Good stuff, buddy. Let's go man To a colored prospect patch auto numbered to 49 Get that into a mag for you, buddy. Very nice Brandon said let's see a Caleb Williams and we just saw a Caleb Williams Bing by the bank easy. Nice one there Brandon.  I love it. Oh Shadr to 25 on the orange masterpieces Congrats, Colorado and gold Ruben Owens to 50 for annum Justice Ellison Blue to 150 Brady Cook from a zoo Let's form a team See 100 Paris Jones for Virginia all other we've got to 99 Jetevion Sanders green mini diamonds for Texas and Then true gold Julian Fleming 46 of 50 for Ohio State See with a couple of spots. Thank you, buddy. God First hit really nice one here for Alabama That is gonna be an orange dual of Kool-Aid McKinstry and Dallas Turner 2025 25 Kool-Aid McKinstry Dallas Turner Congrats Bama masterpieces auto to 75 that is JJ McCarthy Congrats on that one Michigan. This is a really good box actually Michigan's killed it in this entire case Joshua E with Michigan this time How about a Blake Corum Jersey auto for Michigan again, very nice Congrats on that Natty champ as was JJ McCarthy. Very nice quick recap here start with our colors To 99 under 299 Jetevion Sanders Mason Smith AJ Swan Doddman as a rock who 75 Marvin Harrison Sam Hartman to 50 Jordan Travis and that could look up to 25 Jordan Travis To 50 as well Keon Keely at Julian Fleming Rubin Owens Jetevion Sanders Drew Aller to 25 Shadr Sanders Eli Holstein, Mackay Lemon and a 15 Javon Bullard Autos now we had a Blake Corum Is Travis Hunter Jacob Cohen to Cory Brooks Rock Bowers Robbie Ashford JJ McCarthy Jackson Arnold Bonix Sam Hartman Logan digs a tailing green Mason Taylor dual of Cooley and McKinsey and Dallas Turner and then the prospect patch auto of Caleb Williams to color to 49 for USC That'll do it for the break everybody. Thanks again for the film coming up next is number 11


So I visited this site with nothing in the space to come up with the idea of what I thought would make sense for a very site-specific piece here. And the thing that I really loved about the space was that it has this kind of really the quality of a pavilion where you don't really, you're sort of halfway between being indoors and outdoors. It's this interesting intersection between architecture and nature and how architecture can frame landscape and how landscape can frame architecture and that kind of relationship. So I wanted to make a piece that really felt like it was growing in the site, and it had this organic quality of almost like a garden, but also a garden that sort of interrelates with architecture. So you have a lot of things in the piece that are very structured, that kind of measure out, if you will, things that are of a natural form. So this entire tree shape is actually just twigs. They're all broken twigs, but they're being held exactly in place by this kind of scaffolding, which is also wood that's obviously been made straight but as a tree, but held together to make this tree. So this kind of dialogue between something that is very, very geometric and something that has a kind of organic shape was interesting to me. I like to have a piece that feels, where you feel like you're almost entering a studio space. You wonder whether the piece was made here, and you think about time.  So you imagine it being made, and you imagine it falling apart, so that the piece is sort of halfway in between being constructed and deconstructed. But one of the ways that I make you think about time is I try and put things in the piece that are very local, that you know as you're sort of looking through it, you read things that you know came from the site. So I'm actually going to put in from my lunch, I'm putting in the rose butter from my lunch, so that when someone comes through, they sort of think, oh, that happened here. And there's things like, there's things from the airplane coming here. So they're located in time. The way that when you pick out an old jacket, you have it worn in a long time, you look in the pocket, and there are these strange objects that really locate you in a place and in a time. So I'm going to put those in. And then one of the things that I liked about what sort of happened, I'll put it here, what happened in the piece that I didn't know would happen, because I always think that actually sometimes the most successful things about an artwork are the things that happen when you didn't plan them or you didn't know what would happen. But one of the things I like is that these strings that sort of anchor it very, very precisely, one of the things I like that we knew would happen is that it came straight, comes straight down on a plumb bob, and then the whole piece had to be built up to that plumb bob to center it. But one of the things that I liked that I didn't know would happen is, I try and use movement in my work, but usually movement that has a kind of fluttering or unexpected quality that is the reaction of wind or water. It has a kind of movement that is unpredictable, like in a natural sense, unpredictable. But so the fan blows these two strings and these paper on them. But when you walk down, when you see this from far away and you walk down and you see the movement of the paper, your mind imagines that the space is open to the wind outside, because it's moving. You think that there's access to the outdoors. And that access to the outdoors was sort of originally what I was interested in, that when you came, I also think about the approach of the work very much. So when you came down the hall that you would see the work framed, because so much of this pavilion is about the approach and then seeing the landscape framed through that window out beyond. A lot of the work is how to make sense, in my mind, is about how to make sense out of information. They have this plethora of information and we create systems of reading it. So all of these different locations you find, the kind of created format or system that is trying to make a kind of logic to have that information. The other thing that's interesting to me about the colors and the screws, the work example screws, but they're actually, they're parts to a whole in some ways. And this idea of how parts break down or they come together. And also sort of tools in and of themselves. They are, like a screw is actually a tool, but then to see it out of context and actually see it as an aesthetic object. Everything about it in terms of its design is about use, but it also is actually sort of beautiful as an object, the same with the colors. But they're really tools. And so how do you make an artwork that is actually where the tools itself of making the artwork become it and become the work. And that kind of goes back to this idea of the museum becoming a studio that you see, but all of these things that are made here are made, you know, often elsewhere. To see something where, A, with the making of it in the site is part of you being there. But also the imagination of it being made elsewhere becomes part of the seeing experience. It's not divorced from, these objects are not, they're not born here. So it's not divorced from its evolution as an artwork.