Hi guys this is Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music. Welcome back to another one of my lessons. In this lesson we are going to develop movie theme like or scores on the piano using nothing but well our right hand and our left hand and the power of the Andalusian cadence which is nothing but one minor, seven flat major, six flat major and then the five major which kind of creates this very floating minor vibe it's like either natural or on the harmonic minor natural being a flattened seven and harmonic being a raised or a major seventh. So the movie themes which I am giving for you are not actual melodic themes they are more ideas which will have a melody of course but you can develop those ideas and I would want you to make them your own and what's very important is that you communicate that with me practice it record it and I'll be happy to hear it if you send it and tag me on maybe one of our Instagram accounts which is either Jason Zach which is mine or Nathaniel school which is the schools and we will access that and it'll be great to hear from you. So I have two movie theme ideas for you the first one basically involves the scattering of directions of notes so the left hand is going to move in one direction and the right hand is going to move in the other direction it's as simple as that so tell yourself left hand goes down the Andalusian cadence and the right hand goes up and they both follow the scale. So the left hand is going to go the roots of each of the chords D C B flat A and the right hand will start with D and then when the left hand goes C the right hand goes up where should it go not E flat it goes to E because we are part of the scale so D E and the left hand goes C so D E with C and then B flat because they're climbing higher there the left hand goes down to B flat and you end with a G and you end here with an A so without me talking too much maybe the right hand can play twice left hand can play single and probably add like an eighth note at the end and now because it's a movie theme we have to make it more epic so add some thirds in the right hand what is the third D coupled with the F E coupled with G these are diatonic thirds which are written down for you in the booklet which has the notes of this entire series so do consider getting yourself a copy of that booklet it'll contain the notation and all the instructions to play this stuff so so thirds in the right hand and it's ascending there and descending here it's also what we call contrary motion in western classical composition so and two and now here's where the fun begins well the fun I think has already begun but it's going to go crazy very shortly so if you want to do stuff like basically all I'm thinking of is a movie like a epic scene in the movie where you know it's the main conclusion of the film and this has to be absolutely devastating it has to be huge and monstrous you know if that's the correct word and that's where you need to think of what the drums would do so if you imagine huge drums warlike drums what are they gonna do right and in like a huge room and you have 20 of these instruments so how do you simulate that on the keyboard well you try and do something like this so the deep the engine created which I created was so how did I get I'm just using my two thumbs that's all I can do I'm not playing a huge drum at the moment so and look at this keep the pinky to always do the pulse so let's do that nicely on D minor follow my voice for the rhythm pattern climbing dropping here in contrary motion make it very very desolate if you want will only happen once you have control over the rhythmic engine also explore different places to play it and milk the team played higher you see how many scenes this can work for in the same movie right it's the same music just playing it higher little softer also consider this like a poly rhythm instead of going done that that that's one way of visualizing it a lot of my students get it like that where I say and look at my pinkies of the two hands they're almost going together right trying my best to emulate the drums obviously we can't but this is giving you as much epicness as I possibly can and then it's for you to take it to town or you know compose it around you know an entire orchestral arrangement so the general principle is ascend the melody in the right hand descend the base and as always we are following the Andalusian cadence which is the one seven flat six flat and the five going down the right hands climbing up the right hands in thirds and then to make it more epic we add that done so I have another very cool movie theme composing idea for you using nothing but the Andalusian cadence let's move forward in this lesson itself so continue watching so with this movie theme like idea again the same story happens in the left you do d c b flat a Andalusian I hope you're not bored with the cadence by now I'm not but it can get a bit boring so you could change it but for this part just stick with me we're just using the same now super simple left hand but we look at a right hand theme and build around that the right hand theme is just that so f e d a you can play either low you can around middle c or you could play it a bit higher I'm going to start with low you see I'm slamming the e a bit louder so I'm implying that e is my downbeat or one at the e you're gonna slam the d now check this out in my left hand I'm trying to do root and my octave and toggling the guys together remember e is my one so if you don't want to play a all the time if that's getting monotonous could do a f e d g so so you're pivoting that that tune now what I like about this particular style of movie theme composition is you take the same tune and right now it's a bit haunting it's slow you could also just double speed it makes it more chaotic right all the things you need in a movie so try practicing in the slow version you're not changing the tempo but just to recap the two movie theme composing ideas guys first of all the andelusion cadence very inspired by that the first idea was ascend the melody descend the base in contrary motion harmonize and then add that that wall theme like thing the next thing I ended up doing was creating a very simple motif like this move down the andelusion speed it up and so on and so forth so what do I understand is a movie theme composition is just an idea a motif a hook which can survive the test of the movie you know so any scene in the movie as deep as the emotions go you know it could be a very desolate scene where the actor is not really doing anything the actor is just walking alone somewhere on a desert that is where music adds I would say 80% to the scene the visuals may just not not be that impactful you're just going to look at something rather static that is where you need to really bring out the life so movie themes are about that you try to create one idea which records over and over which can be played in different intensities with different dynamics which you can then pick and choose and use for different segments or themes in the movie of course after consulting your director whoever you're working with or the visuals which are part of the script of course again guys this Jason here from Nathaniel thanks a ton for being part of this series your support means a lot to our channel and thanks for all your requests which you're putting 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From the heart of the jungle comes a savage cry of victory. This is Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. From the black core of dark Africa, land of enchantment, mystery, and violence comes one of the most colorful figures of all time. Transcribed from the immortal pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, the bronzed white son of the jungle. And now in the very words of Mr. Burroughs, the story of Jungle Legacy. On August 6th, 1945, the most destructive bomb ever created was dropped on the hapless city of Hiroshima, and the atomic era was born. In the years following its dramatic birth, men combed the earth searching for uranium, the energy-producing element of the A-bomb. Those who located the richest deposits of this new gold would perhaps control the world. And no one was more aware of this fact than the shallow-faced bearded man who sat in a subterranean office in Addis Ababa, ten degrees north of the equator in Africa.  Do you not know that the use of names is prohibited? But down here? Hundreds of feet below the street? Surely it's... It is a matter of discipline. No one can hear us down here, but if you get in the habit of addressing me as Karazov, and I get in the habit of addressing you as Zavet, you may slip when we are not in a safe place. I'm sorry, Mr. K. We will let the matter pass without an official reprimand this time, Mr. Z. Thank you. And now you have an assignment for me. Yes. We must find a plentiful supply of uranium at once. But where can we go in Africa? The Belgium Congo is the richest uranium field in the world, but we cannot go there. There are sections of the African continent that have little or no international police. You will find uranium in some quarter where we can work on disturbed. You will be supplies to everything you need. Make a list. I can tell you right now. I shall need photographic plate equipment, ultraviolet lumps manufactured for the purpose, Geiger counters with the most powerful Geiger-Mueller tubes available, and everything that makes up a large safari. The latter will not be necessary. We have an excellent plane at your disposal. You will travel by air. We have done some preliminary work. You will head first for the mountain country of the Marba people. But that's what Tarzan is. I have tangled with him twice already several years ago, and I am not going to get mixed up with him again. I am not going there.  You know the jungle, and you have been selected for the job. You are not being asked to go, Mr. Z. You are being ordered. My pick up. Always at your service, Buena. You will accompany Mr. B. and the pilot. My pick up is the native of Marba. If you are forced to land, you will act as an intermediary for Mr. Z. We will have no trouble. No trouble, Buena. Look, you can sometimes detect the presence of radioactive waters from the air, but you have to go into the jungle on foot with a crew if you find it. And that means Tarzan, and plenty of trouble. Your job is to find the uranium, Mr. Z. I shall be responsible after that. When we take our crew into the jungle, we will be accompanied by a troop of secret police. This Tarzan you speak of will not be the first man our police have liquidated. It was Tarzan's way to divide his time between the jungle stronghold of the ape tribe who had raised him, his sea coast cabin, and the villages of the many native tribes who were his friends. As lord of the jungle, he settled many disputes, gave advice, served his ebb and skin brothers in many ways. Now, as Zavet's plane headed for the mountain country, Tarzan faced a troubled youth in the crawl of the Marwa people.  Surely your worries cannot measure up to your expression. I have a lot of heavy trouble. I want to take Kara as Maki. You want to take Kara as your wife? Well, there should be no great problem there. Have you gone to her maternal uncle to make the arrangements? That is great trouble. Anduta go to Majomba of Kara, tell him Anduta love Kara. Kara love Anduta, want marriage. Majomba make marriage price, sit in a Gombe. Six head of cattle? Well, that's ridiculous. The established marriage fee for Marwa women is but two head of cattle. Anduta is behind us, Anduta, but I shall go to the maternal uncle of Kara and speak with him. Santa Tarzan, go quickly, for Anduta has heavy heart. I shall see him at once, and then I shall return here and tell you what... What wrong? I heard something strange. Quick, hide, you straight devil bird. It is an airplane of the white men. A Tamangani comes again to our jungle. I fear that our worries shall not long be confined to those of the heart. In just a moment we shall return to our story of Tarzan. In the plane that circled over the Marwa district, Zavet listened to the Geiger counter with disgust. Although they had flown back and forth over endless miles of wild terrain, the instrument had failed to indicate the presence of any radioactive material. To return to Addis Ababa with a report of failure meant disgrace, or perhaps worse. And yet to keep searching was dangerous. The gas supply was growing exceedingly short. The drone of that infernal motor is driving me crazy. Maybe we land below is village Marwa people. There is no safe place to land near here, and anyway we've got to find uranium. How we know when we find? If we come close to a spot where it exists, this instrument should begin to click. The richer the deposit, the more clicks. Pilot. Turn north to the rocky ridge beyond the native village. There's not much gas. I said go north. This land of Marwa. From here to Buwara and Lima, big mountain. Quiet. Is Geiger counter? Yes, we found it. Marty's spot on the map, Mepeka.   Listen to those clicks. Unless I miss my guess we found the richest load in the whole Congo. Pilot, turn back. Head for Addis Ababa. Well, Anduda, perhaps my fears of the Tamangani were groundless. White man, turn back. I guess there's a little here to interest them. This is pretty barren country. Come, lead me to the Hema of Kara's maternal uncle. Hema of Kara's maternal uncle, right ahead. Is Hema with ground roof? I will meet you at the edge of the river when Goro the moon has risen. And don't worry, Anduda. I'm sure I can persuade Kara's uncle to accept two head of cattle for her hand. Who approaches Hema of chief? Mr. Tarzan. Jambo Tarzan. Jambo great chief. I come to make talk. Speak, Lord of Jungle. You are uncle of the girl, Kara? Kara, daughter of my sister. Kara's father, chief before me. And Kara is of marriageable age? Nadi. Then why do you not encourage her marriage to Anduda? He's a fine young man who works hard and is pleasant to look upon. He's true. I not tell him no. He's of marriage. You know he cannot pay six head of cattle. Why do you set the price so high? Two head of cattle has long been sufficient to pay as a marriage bonus for a woman of Marwa? Kara, daughter of old chief who is dead. I know, but... She important Marwa Namke. Chief have no sons. Kara now owns property. Property? In Maji Maji war, white men and black men make peace treaty. Black men of Marwa tribe get land from narrow fast water to big mountain. Yes, I know of that treaty. Tribe divide land. Kara's father get from North edge, crawl to sign of three stones. Now belong Kara.  And this property is to keep her from marrying the man she loves? Kara property owner. Property owner. Important woman. Price is Sita. Magombi. Six head cattle. Law not change, even for Tarzan. So when Tarzan come Kara... Then we can marry An-Duta? Big wanna fix everything. He go see Kara's Majamba. Tell me meet him here. An-Duta. Yes? You know it not Kara put price of six cattle? An-Duta no. Any wedding price. Hello An-Duta. Jumbo. Tarzan bring good news? I'm afraid not. I guess you just have to work for another few years until you can pay the six head of cattle that is demanded. An-Duta. Not like that. An-Duta work hard in few years. No, I can't let a thing like this happen. An-Duta go back to the village and get what things you require for a trip. You and I will travel. We will work and we will bring back the price of happiness. That night Tarzan and the young An-Duta left the Marwa country. Together they would earn enough so that An-Duta could buy his bride according to the customs of the tribe and the stipulations of its chief. But Tarzan and his black brother had traveled but a few days march to the north. When a mighty safari approached the Marwa country from the east. Bringing with it a threat to An-Duta's marriage and to the peace of Tarzan's jungle. Father Zavet. You're yours to my name. You told me that we weren't to... We are beyond the ears of civilization. We are not beyond the ears of Tarzan. And if there's one man he hates, it's Anton Zavet. I am not interested in your fears. Only in uranium. Mopika. Yes, yes, Buono. I had to call twice for you. Mopika was at head of safari. Excuse us. You and Mr. Zavet. My father shall hear of this. Mopika came soon as could. How far are we to the great black rocks you mark on the map? Black rocks just ahead. Have the caravan stop then. We will make camp here. Has you saved Buono? Fast. Master orders make camp. Zavet. Unload your testing equipment and set up your laboratory. You will get to work at once. As you say. There are a few of the bearers that take picks and spades and secure the samples that Zavet needs. Well, why do you stand there? Buono, master. Well? Be best make peace with Mawa tribe before start dig. Mawa have many brave warriors. We touch their land. They start war. I have given instructions for my police to guard those who do the digging. The first Mawa native who tries to interfere in any way is to be shot. Yes, Zav. We've struck it. Not so much excitement, Zavet. We must not forget our dignity even in the jungle. We are fulfilling a sacred mission. Yes, yes. Well, what did you find? It is uraniumite. The richest crystal form of pitch blend you can find. Uraniumite crystal form. I don't know of such things. Tell me straight out. According to my calculations, the crystals should run close to 80% uranium oxide. So, and the amount of it? Yes, it's the same amount. There's been a lot of work to do this. It's about the discovery. Why don't I hear the picks and shovels at work? I ordered the workers to stop. You ordered? The chief of the Mawa was attracted by the sound of digging. He came to investigate. I was he not shot as I ordered? Because I know the jungle and its people better than you do. Shoot the chief and you will have a thousand natives here by nightfall. 2000 maybe. I have a better plan. So, go ahead. The chief claims this land belongs to a young girl in the tribe. So we'll give her a few strings of beads and buy the land she is not allowed to sell it when she marries The land goes to her husband and from him to their children. I suppose we wait and buy it from the children I think we will have no difficulty cooperating with the husband. I have selected she shall marry our faithful guide Mopeca I will arrange the entire matter They like pulled it off another few minutes Cara and Mopeca will be married It's about time two weeks now. We've held up our work. It was wise now. We will have no problem The girl doesn't look very happy about the ceremony. She will do as her uncle has instructed He has been paid gold and 20 head of cattle by Mopeca God combo Marriage is ready marriage ready. I perform ceremony here Advanced Mopeca Mopeca here chief ready for marriage Mopeca When you leave tribe for white man city, you leave on the cloud But now you come back pay debts have much money pay many head cattle for bride Mowers take you back as son Santa great chief advanced Cara Undo the leave tribe maybe not come back Mopeca pay marriage price Cara must take him for Moomi No, no not take Mopeca as husband Undo that comes with Tarzan Tarzan stop wedding. He not let Cara marry man. She not love Did you get that cars up or your men ready? They all here then have them watch in all directions if you want to get back to civilization with the uranium You'd better have your men shoot as soon as Tarzan comes out of those woods In just a moment. We shall learn the fate of Tarzan as he enters the village Tarzan and Undo to Approach the village of the Mawa people slowly for their pace was set by six head of cattle Which they prodded impatiently along the tangled path Suddenly they stopped their ears informed them that some manner of ceremony was in progress and their sensitive noses proclaimed that the Tarman Ghani were near You stay here and protect the cattle and duta I shall find out the meaning of the ceremony and the presence of the white men Careful Tarzan sometimes white man much dangerous They'll go ahead with the ceremony. It would be better to get it over with it before Tarzan arrives. Think better. We wait now Yes, please wait. Let Tarzan decide what right it law of Mawa I have paid marriage price Cara is mine begin ceremony. Hmm. You speak through Mopeca Cara the wedding price paid. You must take Mopeca has Moomi we begin wedding Me free by the gate to the village that is Tarzan. Yes. Yes. All right, man. Ready M fire Yeah, that last I never thought I would live to hear him drop from a tree. I Have to hand it to your police car is up. Make sure you stay at men go and bring him back We'll bring him back. All right Yeah, wish like it that clay and arrow and arrow right for the heart of one of your men Tarzan is not dead. It was a treat. What are the oldest tricks of the jungle mr. He's on the other side of the village now shoot again Go ahead Tarzan give the order before he kills us all I do not expect my men to fire up shadows and trees This whole idea of the marriage in order to secure the property was ridiculous Then we will withdraw to our camp. You're letting Tarzan scare us away We will guard the camp in the mine We will make a virtual fortress in the jungle if the other fight this Tarzan It will not be on his terms, but ours.  Uranium so that's the reason they bring their secret police make big bombs from uranium soon rule world I shudder to think of a world ruled by Zaveta and his kind.  I shall let you go so that you can return to those black rocks and the low animals that crawl there Tell Zaveta and the others that I shall give them until nightfall to leave Your marriage price will be returned to you Mepica, and you may leave with them And if you are not gone by the time Goro the moon rises in the heaven the entire jungle will fall upon you and the others Comes and white men not leave Tarzan I know and do to and their presence here threatens not only the people of Marwa, but those of the entire civilized world What we do it would be foolish of me to attempt to battle them single-handed Marwa warriors help Tarzan even the men of Marwa would be too smaller force against them. I Shall speak to the chief and explain things The voice of the jungle drums must speak and thousands of warriors from other tribes must join us in our siege on the fortress of the black rocks Don had broken the warriors of a dozen savage tribes had joined the Marwas in their battle against the men who would control the world Dung sounded and natives died Arrows and spears and long quissus were hurled at the barricade that have been built about the black rocks Many of the secret police were impaled on the crude weapons of the savages But fear made them renew their defense Tarzan and his men fell back They're gone they have been drawn to their village to care for the sick and bury their dead But they will be back. We have to escape. We are not leaving the uranium We will battle to the last man. There is nothing we can do for every native that drops There are two who come from a distant tribe. They're still pouring in numbers. Do not always decide battles Remember the use of the A-bomb, but we haven't got an atomic bomb.  That is impossible Who are you to give orders to one tons of it? I have no equipment for the manufacturer of an atomic bomb You will do something at once or you will be liquidated now Perhaps I can make some sort of a crude bomb, but I cannot tell what it will do to them or to us enough talk Make a bomb. We do not have to level a great city All we have to do is to destroy a small native village and its people Night fell again and in the village of the Marwa's the native warriors led by Tarzan Prepared for a fresh assault on the fortress of the Black Rocks But inside the fortress all was quiet the secret police awaiting orders and Karasov was waiting for the bomb he had commanded Zavet to make Zavet was still inside his makeshift laboratory and Mephiko was at his side Finish now Buona. Yes, this little bomb should erase all of mr. Karasov's problems. You take to him No, I think I shall let you have the honor Mephiko After all this bomb is meant to protect the property that is rightfully yours. I take bomb to Buona How it work just before it is thrown this lever here should be pushed all the way down Do you understand the deal is atomic bomb not quite But it will produce some radiation when it explodes. I think it will do the job for which I have designed it Here carry it carefully. Where you go? Oh, I'll be around I'll be around Our men make so much noise the Tarman gunnies will be warned of our coming almost to Black Rocks now Come on done. He's not shoot under stitch. They're probably waiting until we get to the edge of the clearing Slowly man, but that no Tarzan wait but Mephiko and a big one alone at the entrance to their Boma and the soldiers all behind them What can that mean and do to not have eyes like Tarzan what they do a tarman gunny has something in his hand He's seen us. He's moving some sort of a lever on Batman all day look There's the body of Mephiko all charred and disfigured like one visited by demons and there is their leader's body And their escarade a policeman But no trace of Zavit look Tarzan of the white man climbing mountain far off Zavit we go after him. No, no, he stands little chance in the jungle alone and We have much to do here on duty Remember there's a wedding ceremony that we must prepare for We shall return with a word about our next story of Tarzan in just a moment Africa is more than a collection of exotic cities and jungles and wild animals It is a state of mind and sometimes the mind takes strange forms when it is twisted by the crime of the equatorial cities Forged by the heat and the dangers of Africa's teeming jungles Tarzan is a prey of one of the strangest minds of all in our next story jungle orchids Tarzan the transcribed creation of the famous Edgar Rice Burroughs is produced by Walter White Jr. Prepared for radio by Bud Lesser with original music by Albert Blasser. This is a Commodore production


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Hello and welcome back to the channel. If you guys are new here, my name's Habiba and this is Trek Impels. A couple of days ago, the company GoPro announced the release of their new GoPro Hero 9 Black and we made a video talking about the key features of this camera, but in this video today we're going to do a comparison of the GoPro Hero 9 Black and the 8 Black. And joining us today is our friend Diane from Recreation Outside Las Vegas. She's going to get us started with a review of the GoPro Hero 8 Black and then from there, we'll do a comparison of both cameras and towards the end we are going to be answering the question whether it's worth upgrading from the 8 to the 9. And with that, I will pass it over to our friend Diane who's going to get us started with a review of the GoPro Hero 8 Black. Hi, my name is Diane and this is Recreation Outside Las Vegas. I create videos about hiking, exploring and camping near the Las Vegas area, but I also travel around Nevada, Arizona, California, Utah, and sometimes even beyond. The GoPro Hero 8 is the best investment that I've made for having a YouTube channel. But even if I didn't have a YouTube channel I would love to have this to document my adventures. The reason why I purchased the GoPro Hero 8 is because of this thing called the media mod. And what the media mod is is it's a case that goes over the GoPro. So I put the media mod on there for you so that you could see. Now it does look a lot bulkier now. If you notice the back, there's a lot of options here to plug in a USB-C, an external mic, and some other options. There's also shoes on the top and on the side. So what these shoes would do is you can actually plug in an external light. You can put an external mic on the top of this. And eventually they are making a screen that would flip up so it would be easier to do the vlogging you could see yourself. So that was actually one of the main reasons why I bought this. The media mod also has a microphone that is attached to the media mod. It's inside. So the microphone that is part of the media mod is just incredible. It is a lot better than the microphone that is on the GoPro. However, the GoPro microphone works just as well. One of the things that I really like the most about the GoPro Hero 8 is the display or the functions menu. It's really easy to just scroll through and get what you need. And then you just click on there and you can determine what resolution you want. It's easy to just go in, select, and then get to filming which is really important when you have an adventure going on, you know. You don't wanna stop and have to figure out what you're doing, scroll through a million things and then just try to figure out what you're doing but I think that the display is really easy to read and very user friendly. Image stabilization is just incredible. I don't think that I could ever go back to just using my phone which had pretty good image stabilization. That is it for my review of the GoPro Hero 8. I wanna thank Habiba and Alex for inviting me to do this review. I really did like doing that. It made me just sit down and think about what I really do appreciate in the GoPro Hero 8. So, alrighty, thank you for having me. Thank you, Diane, for joining us today and thank you for sharing all this great information. Alright, so I am going to the GoPro website right here and I really like the fact that they allow you to compare up to three cameras at the same time. So, up on my screen here, I've got the Hero 9 Black and I've got the Hero 8 Black. So, we'll compare the main or key features. If we look at the photos, the new camera has photo capability of 20 megapixel compared to 12 megapixel. And, well, that means that you're going to get better photo quality with the new camera but really depends on whether you are using this camera to take photos or to take videos. For me personally, I rarely use it to take photos so that really does not matter but it might be important for some other people. Now, let's compare the video capability. The classic Hero 8 Black allows you to take video footage at 4K 60 frames per second versus 5K 30 frames per second with the Hero 9 Black which means better quality for your footage especially if you have to do some zoom in when you are editing or cropping is going to preserve the quality of your footage but is it really necessary? I think that the 4K is already doing a great job and I've been personally satisfied with the 4K quality. And that takes us to the next feature that I like here is the video stabilization. For the video stabilization, the HyperSmooth feature is available in the three cameras. The Hero 8 Black had a 2.0 version but it seems like right now with the new camera has a HyperSmooth of 3.0 which means if you are doing some heavy shaky activity when you are using your camera you are definitely looking for a HyperSmooth capability which the new camera offers. Let's see the front screen. Again, the Hero 8 Black has a status only screen. This screen only allows you to see some basic information versus the new live preview on the Hero 9 Black which is a great feature. You will be able to look at yourself when you are filming, see what's going on, crop and check the frame and make sure that everything is good so that you don't have any surprises when you are editing. And that takes us to the question, is it worth upgrading from the 8 to the 9? If you do have some extra cash to spare, why not go for it? You will definitely get a better quality when it comes to photos and videos. If I personally had the 8 I would not upgrade immediately to the 9. I would wait to see what the next product looks like. I, for example, have the 7. I've been using it for a couple of years right now. I didn't want to jump into the 8 until I see what's coming up next and I think it's probably the right time for me to upgrade to the 9. Now, the 8 itself is a great camera like Diane was talking about earlier. You can customize it, add additional accessories. The quality of the footage 4K is really great stabilization and it is a good camera. It's easy to use. It's lightweight. I can go anywhere with this. Even on the longest hikes I don't really have to worry about weight with the GoPro Hero 8. Hope that you guys enjoyed this video. I hope that you found it to be useful. And if you did, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing to our channel. We are trekking pals Habiba and Alex, amateur hikers and backpackers. We create videos about hiking, backpacking and adventure traveling. Thank you again for watching and we'll see you very soon on a new adventure. Bye.


Okay, here we go Hey guys, what's up? To be honest today, I just want to talk to you Okay, well to start off this video I guess I should tell you last night I was having a kind I couldn't get to sleep Okay, I couldn't get to sleep and I was just like literally thinking having one of those those nights when you kind of have an existential crisis and you just begin to look at areas of your life and You know, what it what's working? What's not how are things going and to be honest as I was evaluating my life I was just left off with this overall sense that I feel like I'm behind I feel like I'm behind and that fear of feeling like I'm being that I am behind actually really cripples a lot of areas of my life and And you know, I feel like I'm behind career career wise Me or making a YouTube video. I'm not like a It's just hard for me to you know, feel like what I'm doing is significant or matters and In some ways in a lot of ways just like financially and stuff like that. Yeah I feel like I'm not measuring up to where I should be in regards to like Social life and stuff like that. It's like I don't have any as many friends as I may want as I do one I want more friends to be honest like close friends like good community that kind of thing and sure Yeah, there are areas of my life where I'm like, yeah, I like that but at the same time I think we all deal with this kind of fear of feeling like we're behind in some way like we're not as far along as we should be and And and it's crippling it's crippling when you live in that in that fear on this week I've been reading I've been doing some reading and I've also been you know, thinking about this kind of topic and Just in regard to like living in fear and I think a lot of us and you know more including myself we live with fear and we We act out in fear. So it's not like we So, okay, I'll give you an example When I feel like I'm behind in some way my fear that fear of feeling like I'm behind motivates me To do something and that could be a good thing, you know fear motivates a lot of people to be productive and do things that matter But for me it actually prevents me a lot of the time from relaxing and not feeling guilty when I'm not doing something So if I'm watching, you know, the Toronto Raptors game Toronto Raptors are big here in Canada If I'm watching a Toronto Raptors game I'm just feeling guilty about watching it because I feel like I should be doing something else Maybe that's a sign that maybe I haven't finished everything that I should have but maybe that's also me letting fear of being left behind being You know behind all my other peers or whatever it is this fear that I'm not measuring up Get in the way of me actually enjoying blessings that God gives me in my life And maybe you experience this too you act out of fear kind of as a preventative measure to Not experiencing the things that you're afraid of so you work extra hard You let your work become your idol because you're scared that you're not gonna be come successful Or you're not gonna be able to provide All that stuff, you know, and there's a couple other areas that I was thinking about what do we live? What are motivations for living kind of thing when we talk about yeah living With this motivation of like fear like letting fear drive us Some people let pride drive them and pride just like this idea that I'm the best. I'm awesome So I'm gonna do all this stuff because I'm just that awesome That's another area that I struggle with as well, but you know this idea of Can faith motivate us to actually live lives that aren't consumed with fear so when we trust in God fully Then we can kind of let these things go and we don't have to be afraid of feeling like we're behind in some way like we're not You know, we're not where we should be or think we should be it's like when I think about my career It doesn't make sense. I have no idea what I'm doing I try to feel like I try to piece it together like I have some kind of plan that's going on but the end of The day I'm 20 years old and trying to make YouTube videos online and write articles and write books and just You know try to see what works and just trying to serve God and at the end of the day Honestly, I don't know if it's gonna work I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do what I want to do or be able to Like there's a lot of questions. There's a lot of questions, but at the end of the day if I'm trusting God Then then that should be that should be a place of peace, right? Cuz if I told trust in God and I was talking to my dad about this this morning If we have total trust in God that he has our best interest in mind Then we shouldn't be afraid of being left behind in some way like we're behind of our peers or other people like we're We're not measuring up because of God's grace. He accepts us. He loves us and that's what I'm honestly trying to really really began to understand You know, there's Last year I was at a conference actually a local homeschool conference It was the conference that I actually spoke at this year Which is kind of funny, but last year there's a speaker that came in I don't remember a lot of what he said, but he had mentioned that there was a moment when he truly understood that God loved him And I was just thinking about that how so often we're kind of consumed with Anxieties and worries and fears and and especially for me That's a big thing that I battle with every single thing every day of my life. I I'm battling with the idea What am I doing? Why am I doing this? You know, I feel like I'm behind I feel like I'm not measuring up. I feel like I'm not good at anything But when I When I heard that this guy had this moment when he really truly understood that God loved him That kind of that moved me a lot because for me, that's a daily a Daily struggle to really understand that yeah, God does love me and what are the implications of that and I want to ask you what are the implications of that in your life where the areas of That fear have really taken hold of you and you're just acting out of fear like you're you don't want to be left behind or You want to seem like everybody else or you want to fit in and all this kind of thing? because I guess What I want to get across to you guys is it's really really really really hard to be To be okay With not necessarily knowing what you're doing It's really hard to be in that space where you're just trusting God Even though you might not know where the next step is You know, I don't know what I'm gonna be doing two months from now I don't know what I'm gonna be doing a month from now Like there's so many questions in my mind and ever since I left University which I'll probably be making a video about soon and why I did that But ever since that happened there's kind of been a lot of questions But the end of the day if we're trusting God, we can't let that fear take hold of us And that's what I'm trying to do So I Guess that's all I have to say is that I'm gonna begin to trust in God continue to trust in God And believe that that he has his That he has my best interest in mind and ultimately that he is working things out for my good and his glory And that's all I could ask for and at the end of the day if I'm you know If things don't go exactly the way I want to or maybe even I am behind in some ways that that's okay The God's got me and that's what I'm gonna continue to believe and I encourage you to Believe the same thing. It's not easy. It never was never never will be But we can trust God Thanks for watching guys, and I'll see you later. Bye


I keep having this issue and I only have one question after this of like my stuff goes viral by itself. So I don't really need to plan for that. I need to learn how to capitalize on it. I keep I don't know if this like for me I feel like the LMA concept boot up I can pop later and that's not really what I'm focused on but at the same time I'm like oh am I low-key messing up not trying to capitalize on those or just the fact that I'm letting those do their own thing and grow its own self and even though it keeps doing numbers should I just leave that be and focus on like what I'm doing on my game plan and wait for that to grow or should I just be like ah let me run this up real quick and then get back to my plan. It's the matwork. Well first let's talk about your game plan.  Um my game plan is to basically get everyone geared up to go towards my website at the end and purchase like DVDs from me so they'll be able to purchase DVD contents. Yes sir so like I make um me and my brother like we do skits and I realized people weren't really able to appreciate the concept of it so I took them down because there's too much work going out for nothing the way you have to pay to play so we do skits and I do um vlogs and personal life and what I'm doing is gearing my artists my audience towards getting used to my life and seeing that and then eventually hey I'd rather buy a DVD content with them because the only type of merch I'm going to sell forever is this piece of shirt this shirt this is the one shirt one and only and then that's it and then maybe stickers from my wall is what I also drop for them and I go with that but then outside of that my game plan is just to put hope as hey you need to inspire hope and if you need some hope come here this is what hope looks like go be hoping the hood be a hope dealer like me right um the game plan can't be strict it has to be malleable right and so think of it more of a framework than a bible that means when stuff arises you do have to take advantage of it but that doesn't mean you forget the framework right you keep operating on the game plan but this is a side step to capitalize but you want the game plan to overall create a net on where you're taking people to so it is important to have everything that you said but when these moments happen you do need to consider what does what does capitalizing look like it doesn't mean you have to build your entire brand around that now but it might mean all right let me triple down on streams right or maybe i'm paying a few more tiktokers real quick to do some post to it so it just takes off and more people discover me and they fall into my game plan right so that's how you should approach it and think about it i haven't heard the songs yet but obviously a lot of ways you name your songs and the ways you act is very cultural like um so there's a lot of moments that are probably happened because of the seo and the and the relatability just from the content themes that you push yeah and it's like i did first before i got any other stuff like i was set aside like oh i'm gonna set aside 300 or 400 dollars a month and i was like that budget ain't gonna fly and like before hence i paid off my car to get ready for like brand man elite this past year like that's what i did and i was like you know what i gotta be able to have that income coming in monthly for that but then so since me like trying to take a step back and save up for june um that's where i'm like ah i don't know if i should be like that that money that i am squaring away for that too i'm like the only way that i do see that i could capitalize if i'm gonna have to throw money towards it on ads and stuff and right now with me getting kind of squared away new like i'm getting the hang of it and i'm trying to run i got three running right now and i forgot till y'all were talking about it um two that were running on youtube that i did from that playlist test and i can actually screen share on this one but um i got those running now and i'm just like outside of that i was like i'm gonna take a step back till i finish this course and run any ads


Hello and welcome back. This is the second introductory lecture to the Beyond Network course while the first one was trying to sort of introduce me very quickly and sort of The topics that were covered and the motivation for this course This is going to be a very brief sort of commentary on what I understand by teaching and learning What we want to achieve here. So what is the point of giving this course? What is the point of the university? What is the point of getting an education? I Hope you have asked yourself this question. The point, of course, is to be successful in society Blah-dee-blah-dee-blah, but what is the point for yourself? What does learning mean for yourself? You should ask yourself this question And I should ask myself the question. What is it that I can achieve with such a lecture? How am I gonna leave some sort of impact?  That are important now The way our field of biology is moving probably not so important in the future Many of those facts would not be relevant for you and most of them you would forget after having learned them by heart for the exam Where you recite them. That's not what we're gonna do here. I Could give you practical tools. Okay, let's say I was a modeler I used to model gene networks. I could teach you how to model Mathematical tools computational tools we could practice make some simple simulations analyze them and I could hope that you would understand At least a little bit with modeling is about okay, what it can do what it can't do But again, most of the people here would not use this and that's also not the point I Am trying what I'm trying to do here is I'm trying to give you a new perspective Okay, a new perspective not just on the biological topics and what an organism is an evolution What evolution is but also a new perspective on your approach to these topics? How do you do science? Okay, and I want you to reflect and question the way you do science I want to you to change the way you think maybe in the best case and I would would would like you I would like to give you the tools that you need the thinking tools to make this change Okay, so after taking this course, I hope you see the world with slightly different eyes That you're a bit transformed. This is called transformative learning and I think this is the only lasting and true learning That we experience. I want you to be a slightly different person maybe just in the way In which you ask different question And this is very important. Okay, if I succeed with this course just a few of you Will see the world with slightly different eyes or ask slightly different questions Will be a slightly different person And this is what gets us out of this meaning crisis out of this breakdown of our models of the world Okay, that is the cultivation of wisdom Which used to be The point of the ancient academy, but we've lost it a bit. Okay, so what modern academia is is more a factory of Facts, okay, you get into it You get fed all these facts you need to learn and then you have a qualified job You can do something you have some skills, you know a few facts You do something that we've been doing for a while and you're very productive you produce a lot of stuff Okay, and that's how success in academia is measured now It's but that's not the point the point of academia is not to produce facts Okay, in my opinion It is to cultivate wisdom in the students So this sounds a little old-fashioned. It's 2000 years old, but we'll try it. Okay We'll give it a truck Let me explain a little bit more what I mean by wisdom. Okay, so the absence Let me demonstrate it with a negative the absence of knowledge is ignorance. Okay The things you don't know it's very important to understand ignorance. I use it in my creativity courses Okay, because it's very important to understand what you don't know because that shapes the way you ask questions But the absence of wisdom Is not ignorance. It's foolishness And as I already told you in the last lecture the modern world is full of it Increasingly more and more fools more and more foolishness even inside to come back to this topic during the lecture series So you could look at wisdom in two different ways One goes back to play to a lot of things go back to play to and he says wisdom is sort of an internal justice of your psyche So What does that mean, okay, he says by cultivating wisdom you're sort of minimizing internal conflicts And therefore the self deception and foolishness within you Okay, he has this word anagogy Which is sort of the process of stepping out of his cave Into the sun and see instead of just the shadow on the wall of the cave The real life for the first time in your life Okay, and this is what you get When you cultivate wisdom not just knowledge Another aspect of wisdom is it's sort of situated knowledge. It's it's appropriate knowledge So if you're wise you not only know Stuff you not only know that but you know how to act to do the right thing So your knowledge is integrated with your context social historical, but also With your moral values It is an integrated coherence sort of picture. So it relates to the first meaning But here the focus is more on sort of knowing the right things in the right place Okay, so it's about facts, but also their relevance called situated knowledge And importantly, it's also about prioritizing. It's knowing what to care about Plato again calls this ta erotica, which is an exciting word but has nothing to do With eroticism unfortunately, it's just it's what to care about the knowledge of what we care about Harry Frankfurt has written a lot about this the guy who has written on bullshit. I really recommend his book Which is called the importance of what we care about Okay, so Knowledge is knowing facts it's knowing that and wisdom Is much more knowing how to act in our world Okay, so it's it's more practical It's embodied. It's appropriate to the situation. It's not just in your head. It's sort of a whole body experience And that is what learning should be it should be the cultivation of wisdom your personal cultivation of wisdom Not just filling your head with stuff. You can go on Wikipedia for facts. Okay, it works pretty well Unless it doesn't But you don't Get any wiser from reading the Wikipedia from a to z. Okay So the meaning crisis that we are in can only be overcome By stepping out of our current perspectives those that are fragile poor based on on machines and mechanisms and control Uh and manipulation This is a self deception and we want to lift The veil of this self deception. We want to re-embed ourselves into What charles taylor calls the continuous cosmos. So we want to gain wisdom not just knowledge So what i'm trying to do here. This sounds very grand Oh, yeah, okay, and a bit woolly right.  We don't have to do that. That's not the point. The point is that you For yourself get a different perspective. There's nothing mystical. There's nothing woolly Um, there is nothing touchy-feely about this. Okay, it's a different qualitatively different kind of learning That is very sort of the aim is very specific Okay, and again, so we'll start off with a philosophical lecture Next week which starts Uh is about perspectivism. Okay, so by giving you a new perspective I don't mean that you have to forget everything that you knew before But basically a new perspective Gives you a new angle. It enriches your view of the world It does not have to compete with what you knew before But it often highlights different aspects or maybe weaknesses in your thinking It highlights new problems or questions that you could ask And if I manage To get you to ask those new questions Then that's exactly what I wanted to do Okay, and just a last word on this All of this is particularly important when we're dealing with massively complex systems And processes such as organisms and their evolution Because as I said in the first lecture complexity can be defined By the number of different perspectives you can have on a system And the point is that all of those perspectives even though they do not necessarily add up in a straightforward way All of these perspectives are valid and enrich your understanding Of the complex world So in this spirit, we'll start our discussion and we'll move on to the philosophical foundation Of studying organisms And their evolution beyond the metaphor Of the network See you next week. Have a nice weekend


There's a delay. Hold on one second. Uh, I think we're good. Okay. Yeah, right It's great. It's watch me work. It's Thursday, which is um the new friday And we're here we've been doing watch me work for 11 years and We want to thank the public theater for supporting us in those 11 years And we also want to thank howl round who came on a few years ago to help us live stream from the lobby of the public theater Where we usually hold this and then Also recently to help us create this beautiful mosaic this beautiful community.  It's as simple as that and the Idea is that we get some work done And we talk a little bit about the process to keep you going to encourage you along And uh, if you have any questions during that time during the during the question time Audrey's going to tell you how to get in touch. I probably forgot something, but it's okay I think you got it. Oh I'm gonna go get my timer You get your timer amazing So if you have any questions, uh, and you're inside of the zoom All you need to do is click on the raise your hand button in the participant tab Likely on the bottom of your screen on a laptop or the top of your on a tablet or an ipad Um, and if you have a question and you're watching on howl round tv You can actually tweet at us at at watch me work slp with the hashtag howl round h o w l r o u n d Or tweet at public theater ny or messages in our instagram Not that That's it. So, um, it's really simple all we're going to do is work and you can do any kind of work. It doesn't have to be writing work Um, it can be any kind of work. You'll feel like doing and then we will talk with you about your process Um, after we're after the 20 minutes has passed. Here we go. Are we ready? No effort is ever wasted no effort is ever wasted, uh anybody have any questions I know what that it's always good to for me to remember that anyway Uh, yeah I don't see any hands up quite yet Okay. Oh, I see one All right Let's just sit inside Ah, cool. All right All right. First we've got verneeda Are you with us? Are you? Hey, hey verneeda. How are you? Oh, uh, hi slp. Hi Audrey everyone Um, yeah, I said, okay, I'll take the opportunity to jump in here. Um, I'm really grateful to be here today and um I missed Logging in and on time for Tuesday, but I was listening to the live stream um and heard the conversation around anger and um so I am very Emotionally activated after the last, you know, 72 hours or so and this is a question. I would have asked yesterday too but um I've started writing. Um, I have about Uh a thousand words. Um We'll rewrite but I'm finding that I'm like So Emotionally activated about these current events. I want to write a piece that gives a Positive framework. Um That contributes to a broader narrative change around black men and boys In this country, but like all that keeps coming out is like how Angry and devastated I feel right now and I don't know if that means like That's just what I meant to write or keep writing until the positive framework emerges or You know, put it all aside and maybe come back next week when I can You know put a collective coherent concept together. Um, so any thoughts around Um how the channel um That energy when it feels so elevated and active it's kind of hard to Focus in a way. Um, other than like what I really just feel right in front of me right now I love your question It's good to see you again. I'm happy you're here. I'm happy you all are here. I love your question I love your question. Um It's a great question and it has a big answer one is um cultural maybe more culturally specific and this is again just me talking so it's not You know, I know in this country or all over the world we have a A model of one person of color standing for all people of color, but I'm just reminding everybody That it's just me talking This is just my opinion. So I think we're needed um as I have also, you know With all of us been living through the recent events. It reminds me How we um, how to say black people Um specifically and this is not people of color But it's people of african descent in america are not allowed Simple emotions often like anger We do we are not allowed simple emotions like anger And we if you're feeling anger right now To my mind that's okay And if you're writing from an angry place I hear you want to get it into a positive narrative framework and all that beautiful stuff But so often we are not allowed anger.  Okay, society doesn't allow us anger and we have internalized that to the extent that we If we want to if we feel like I got to keep my job. I got to keep my situation. You know what I mean? I got a smile Um, I've done it a million times Smiled because I didn't want people to think I was You know dangerous at me dangerous, you know what I'm saying?  But I'm so so this that's the culture is just culturally specific answer. I feel like if you feel anger right now I think it's Perfectly valid and I think one of the problems is that this country does not allow us to feel pretty much anything Except something that it's going to be pleasing to their bank accounts And anything that happens, it can be perverted and twisted in such a way that makes us look as if we are less than Anything Any way it goes down Okay, so I think that in the privacy of your own home in your own thoughts on your page that is private now and that will one day Hopefully go public Maybe even at the public Um, I believe that if you are feeling anger verneeta or anybody out there regardless of your color or background or whatever we talk to the person we were talking to on tuesday From what I could see did not present as a as a poc. Okay, but I couldn't tell these screens are very small Okay, but if you're feeling anger I think anger is is is is okay Also, if you're not feeling anger, that's okay to you know what I mean? I'm not telling anybody to feel a certain thing if the anger turns into something Else great if it doesn't verneeta, that's okay too Um We uh, again, we're not allowed to feel so I mean I mean the idea that people can Uh go to a governor's house with guns and demand the right to get a haircut And yet a brother can't Just you know You know what I'm saying or a sister or a person So that's where we are right now and I feel like um It's it's okay to get angry about that Or whatever you want to get angry about actually That's my opinion Um and bless your heart that you want to turn it into something positive along the way that is that is that is That is the african-american experience really I mean really can you imagine if if black people were as angry as we should be It's not about a haircut. You know what I'm saying We're not even allowed to be angry about you know We have to hold it together because if we don't hold it together We'll be seen as bad and we'll be jailed and I'll get off that so much because we've heard it a hundred times already Right Go ahead No, I'm just gonna say no it is helpful. I definitely relate to the not being able Or like not being allowed to feel that feelings. I tell you I'm missing my car right now So I can just like go in my car and scream without a neighbor in another apartment. You know wonder what's going on um, and I think this particular story with uh, George Floyd for whatever reason it just hit me but it was it was jumped to close to My brother's birthday And it was almost like seeing a split screen on the left side You know, I have this image of the officer with his knee in this man's neck and then to the right It's like my family's having this celebratory zoom um And you know, I guess the positive framework i'm trying to get to is to be able to highlight an uplift and give reinforcement that our black men our loved are doing well our fathers our husbands our You know community builders Who have a right to be here?  It doesn't have to be something's happening right now, but anything we're writing about You got to let that anger run or you got to let the feelings flow Whatever those feelings are right now for you right now today. They're anger and and a desire to Find that that place So so yeah, don't don't I mean I would suggest that you allow yourself to be free vernita I was about to say don't police yourself, but that's a don't Instead I'm gonna turn it into just an affirmation. I am free I am free. I am free Now what you're gonna do I'm gonna write That's a good answer bingo Thank you. Thank you, vernita. Good question. Thank you. Great question I'm all right. Thank you. The next person is john John are you with us? Yeah, I'm right here. Hi john. I see you. Hi. How are you? I'm well happy to see you Thank you for having this forum I do have a question. It's about writing scripts I I'm not a playwright myself, but I'm an interpreter and a translator And I have 20 some years of experience of working in courts hospitals With immigrants people who are uneducated people that Certainly the complete opposite of my experience And I've done the um, I'm doing what you're telling me to do. I take notes I write cards of people every day. I'm reading poetry again, and I'm tapping into this Literature that I study for years to get me where I am right now, which is speaking in two languages So my question is this Because of you and and you know, you do these script things and I read your play I incorporated a script of Of whatever it was into my last blog piece. So my question is where do I go for guidance about Writing scripts because I it's I just instinctively did it, but I don't know if there's you know Something I should follow some type of things I should do to make a script really Pop up the page because I hear these scripts all the time I say them in two languages But is there anything that I need to do when I'm writing a script incorporating it into A piece I'm writing like a blog post or something that To make it sound cleaner and make it sound more real Because I can't in a sense I can't say exactly what I've heard people say because that's the trust that they have of working with interpreters It's all confidential. But how can I incorporate? actually what happens in a In a in a script and that I can include in my writing piece if that makes any sense so I mean if I want to make sure I understood you that you're A translator you're working with people who are entrusting you with their stories. Is that appropriate? I mean, I just want to okay, and you want to you feel moved to include Aspects of those stories in your own work. Is that correct? Yes, yes, I just want making sure that I understand because you use no word scripts and I just want to make sure So you hear stories from folks and you feel moved to include Well, I mean you could So you don't want to include it like a a documentary kind of thing it's not going to be like So-and-so that I met yesterday mr So-and-so that I met yesterday said this and this is sort of his story like a journalism piece you don't want that you want it to to sort of It to move from the factual and the person you know into sort of into fiction or Dramatic fiction dramatic literature. Is that correct? That's it. Yes I would I mean if you can do things like Respectfully, that's the first word Respectfully because it is someone you know and met and has as you say has a trust in you Start creating characters So you have the person mr or miss Miss beauty. Let's just say miss beautiful, right and she's told you something and start creating a character based on them and think about Most all the Writers that we love, you know, think about like, I don't know Charles Dickens and you read about Charles Dickens life and how he went through this and that and the other And then you read about the care they read his novels and you read the characters in his in his novels And you think wow, you know, these are based on people, but they're not the people So your character isn't miss beauty as she appeared to you in that actual situation She is somebody else with a different set of circumstances and different desires start stepping away from the character And imagine maybe miss beauty imagine these people that you spoke with and have interviewed as people members of your family You love them and respect them that much It's a tricky territory. I keep using the word respect because a lot of times we One might have a tendency to use these people You know like like a mine like a mine owner in South Africa might send those people who are less educated down into the mines to gather things bring up And then they can be appropriated and I know I've heard many conversations about in America We could all appropriate each other stuff But it's all free for all and they're writers who have said this and I've Heard them say it in live, you know, you know, like on they're on stage And I'm in the audience and I have to hold the chair to sit down because I don't want to shout from the audience and scream No The playing field is not equal And often the people who appropriate for profit. It's not a level playing field are people who are not POC people who are people who are educated, for example And people who are I'll just say white folks That's what often happens That's a historical fact. That's just Information, you know, so if you're working with people who you have said are less educated and maybe POC You got to be really you got to have your respect your respect in spades and that is intentionally said You know what I mean Because we can't hear you just taken okay So so as much as you can't think of them as your family as much as you can't step away from the character Allow the person you met. I'm sorry the character step into character Allow the person you met to be a springboard like a character that a person that dickens Charles Dickens might have met and then be it build Like a mofo from there to have so at the end of the in your piece you have a character not just What that person said which is sounds like what you want to try to go for right? That's exactly it. Yes. Thank you. Okay, great sounds like it's gonna be a great project Thanks Thank you john All right up next we've got Andrea or Andrea. I'm sorry that I don't know Are you there Andrea? Hold on one second. Oh, there you should be unmuted Can you hear us? Did me? Sorry my yes. Yes. Yes. It's you Sorry, my connection is pretty poor. Oh good I kind of wanted to go off of um verneeta's beautiful question A few weeks ago. I finished class susan lori and I had a class with oscar use this And we talked about your your play cycle fathers father comes home from war and um He talked about in that time in the development in the writing of that play what Happened that now we see continuing, you know with trayvon martin almost as Not the beginning but what really propelled the black lives matter movement forward And and your response to that and how It impacted what you were doing at the time And just as I was that that last day of that class I had just finished a play And then the very next day was the first time we had seen the footage of amon arbery And so i'm i'm sitting on this play that feels just too Real and it feels like it's hitting the nail on the head I've spent so much time working on it so much time developing it And now i'm just sitting And i'm and i'm i'm not necessarily stuck but i'm just trying to Read the moment and and read the room, you know and see When is the right time? And I was wondering if you had Any advice thoughts about What to do when you have the play but When is when is the moment for it to be to be read and shared and especially when it's When it's happening Well, I would Okay, so what's your ideal situation now?  Well, we're kind of all on a kind of hiatus So would you want to invite your friends? On a zoom call and read it that way I mean, what what were you what are you hoping to to do? Unmute unmute yourself There you go. All right. Oh Hold on. Let's see. Ah, there you go. Okay. Um, yeah, I've been thinking about doing readings I just like i'm really trying to avoid being triggering Especially for for black actors like asking them to I have a whole I'm sorry. I I never I try not to talk while people are talking but triggering um That's a that's a concept that's relatively new I kind of feel like it's like new math my son does new when we homeschool him He does new math they're teaching all these strategies for addition Because why I asked the teacher because basic addition is too hard Oh, it's too hard. Guess what? girlfriend Like life is hard. Maybe, you know, some brothers and sisters Need to be triggered. What because what what what you watch the news You don't want to be triggered triggered. What reminded that the world is difficult Um, I'm sorry. That's a whole thing. I would if you're worried about triggering people Put the play away write something else. Okay I mean Triggering people what we're supposed to make things easy now for people so they won't get their feelings hurt Right Floyd's on the street with a Cops knee in his neck. He's dying He does not use a contraction He says I cannot breathe You know when you say you you make a conscious choice not to use a contraction Because you don't want to sound like you don't know nothing And you want to be heard. I cannot breathe man I say like I said to Renee, you know, let us not let us worry less about triggering People that's again. That's my opinion. Okay on this specific subject So we get some folks in a room and they're triggered. Maybe Feelings will be felt You know, maybe feelings will be felt. Are we trying to keep each other from feeling feelings?  I was reading one of my favorite writers today And also a writer who happens to be my mentor. I have a mentor James Baldwin And we have James Baldwin. You only need one mentor and he says When you're pessimistic, it's because life has the the the idea of life has become academic Yes, everybody. Let's crawl up into our heads and not get triggered Right So we can just think about it and it can be an intellectual exercise. So if you're play triggers people I don't think that's a bad thing Andrea Okay, if you feel like you're hitting it on the head and it's too fresh for you Or you won't be able to really deal with it and get a good rewrite and all that out of it I can pause for a couple of weeks put it away write something else work on something else and bring it out When you can get a little bit of perspective. I'm sorry. I I react to that that phrase that the idea that we're supposed to soft pedal this shit And not hurt anybody's feeling. It's very different from other situations, you know Where people have gone through domestic violence or physical violence or whatever and they they are managing a lot of things But this is this is not that And I think we You know getting triggered in this situation is not something we should avoid Whose feelings are we trying to protect? Yours mine You know Brother out there, you know, right I mean I get I mean talk about getting triggered. I get triggered when people do shitty writing Because they didn't go for it I'm like, yeah, all right So I'm here to encourage let us go for it together right, okay It feels too fresh right now and you don't want to be like hitting the nail on the head give yourself a few weeks That's a fair thing Okay It will hopefully it will always be triggering Hopefully it'll always make people feel something rage confusion despair fear anxiety You know Yeah I hear you Thanks, I talked a long a long time about that But you know, that's the subject I feel very strongly about this like we have to like make everything nice and palpable Because what we're actually saying is we have to make it marketable Marketable that's what we're saying really we got to have people leaving the theater going. Yeah, hooray. I could laugh at that I saw a play about racism when I laughed I felt good at the end of it.   You're feeling things good good good Or whatever subject you want to write about it's not just racism Jesus Thanks, okay. Thank you. I know she's ranting today. It's ranting. I thought obviously we're Wednesday ranting Wednesday Ranting Thursday I'll rant today. Okay This is what we're here for Thank you All right, we got about 10 minutes left Um, and we will go to mc I'm see are you there? Yes. I'm here. Can you see me? Yeah Can we can see you? Hey, hello. Thank you so much for everything everyone. Um I wanted to go back to the what you were talking about The idea of I love that as writers We're free to go into different characters to create characters that are anything from Um With lives so different than our own But at the same time, I'm very aware You know about what you were saying about respect respect for people and situations and cultures That I wasn't born into So I'm working on something that said in the 1930s There's a chinese immigrant There's an african-american musician and there's another character a white character from the south and When I brought this up with some friends, you know as the daughter of immigrants You know, they really liked that I could inhabit this this Chinese immigrant character. I had a legitimate I was allowed and They trusted what I was saying But when I tried to I was experimenting Well, what if I go into the point of view of this african-american? real-life character a musician Who found himself in shanghai in the 1930s? Then I got oh be careful You know and there And and I want to be sensitive and then of course. I'm not a white man from the south But I'm putting my characters together in a room And I want to feel the freedom and the exhilaration You know when I saw I saw your play father comes home from the wars a couple times and it moved me so much, you know And clearly, you know, I want to be able to write from the perspective of a dog too and get into the dog's head But I also want to show respect And care and sensitivity Your thoughts Please Yeah, um Just a question mc. Did they did they have pause when you talked about being the white male? I'm guessing southern earth the white southern earth person. Yes, uh less But no, no, it was just Well, I didn't write that characters fully uh, okay, so You know, so right, but it's really the exchange between the chinese immigrant and the african-american musician And their their worlds they've never you know Yeah, um that this is this is a great question and it's respect and I don't know. I don't I'm not a latin scholar I don't know what actually the word respect means like if I had an oxford angostiction or I'd be able to flip through right now Maybe someone has one and they can they can tell me or I'll look it up later on my phone but the the the notion that you You You got to go there This is a skill. This is a craft skill Thing, you know, you can't you don't want to just slap a care I mean, it doesn't sound like you're doing this at all from what you're telling me and I can I can tell that by the um, because I have little ways that you know Well, the the sound of your voice conveys a certain kind of feeling even over this contraption the sound of your voice conveys a feeling Um, that is somewhere where you want to go. You got to go there So, you know what I mean? It's the same if if when I write characters who I who I was not, you know, born into I got to really leave myself and go Into them You have to be willing to leave yourself behind. You also have to ask yourself. Am I doing I mean this Maybe you should ask yourself this first. Am I doing this for money? Do I think this is going to be again marketability? No, no, I'm not suggesting you are I'm just saying this is a question that we ask ourselves Why am I am I doing this to because I think it's going to be the next hot You know what I mean? Or is this a story that I'm like so moved to tell You know, so you've got to be willing to leave yourself behind Maybe you'll never come back I don't know but you have to leave yourself behind and do more than walk around in their shoes I I don't know the the words for it. You have to take yourself out of yourself And enter the big self which is where you have access to these people and creatures who are Who don't look like you You know, so it's a it's a practice. It's a big practice. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead And just the mechanics when I'm writing it down So my my chinese character speaks he's just learning the language So he speaks language. Which one you see there's nothing for granted here. Go on So when I write it down because I'm writing in english I'm writing it down the way I hear him speaking which is in broken english and at times Now, um Of course that can and I'm so glad you brought up how you feel about triggering because that was the other part of my question But you answered it really your thoughts. Um, but so if I write from this And I'm also writing from the perspective of you know, the 1930s and the way people talk to each other was different and and in some ways or maybe the slang they used or things that were considered Like if I have them hurling epitaphs of each other I'm not but if I did Is that being insensitive and not showing respect? I mean I Well, no, no, it's it's it sounds like it's something that might happen in a scene if they start doing some name calling Yeah, that they see your language. They start doing some name calling. It is an exchange Yes comes out of the scene. Perhaps. I mean, I don't know if you know, you know So that sounds like it's kind of part of the scene But you you you started talking going down a road and then you stopped and you went down this other road Your character your Your chinese character, right is learning english and he speaks he correct Yes speaks what you said is a broken english sometimes a pigeon And then you said and I am writing for and then you stopped and went down another road and I So my other I can guess what you wanted to say, but I'm not going to Yeah, so and then and then of course It's the southern character who's hurling these And the the chinese character doesn't even know what it means but then You know what i'm trying to convey and I I can't But I want to be sensitive and respectful without Taking away the sort of our freedom to How does the how does the character of african descent speak? You approach that question didn't ask it Well, actually since he's a real life figure. I looked at his memoirs. I've taken things directly from how he speaks And he was born in kansas city He speaks you mean you take you took things directly from how he wrote them down Yes, which is different from how he speaks You got to go is he talk is he talking did he talk these out and whether I inserted some of things from his memoir But then I embellished too. No, no, no. I'm asking was his memoir a written document or was it an oral It was oral. Yes. So he told his story to someone else who I guess This was um, let me see his name is buck Clayton with the bacy band and I love him and um Told to nancy miller elliot. Mm-hmm. Who is that? I don't know. Mm-hmm Maybe maybe you could find you see are you familiar with the wpa project where the where there were all these legions of awesome Writers who went around and collected the slave narratives Predominantly white people well meaning and learned went around through the south and collected slave narratives if they hadn't done it We wouldn't have probably all this wonderful material, right? But the material is Come through an ear that is perhaps not You see what I mean? So fine. Yes, that is because people writing down what other people say In likely if I'm writing down what you say it's going to go through my ear And I'm going to write it down Which is always why I tend to repeat questions to make sure that I understand what you said you see So you're writing things down the way he spoke It's the way perhaps that it was written down I'm When I did foregain best people say oh, that's how they spoke people wrote Not necessarily Right, but you got to go beneath you got to go deeper. That's what I'm saying when you got to go there You know you you understand what I'm saying. So you're writing His voice is the voice from his memoir yes and The southern guy you got to go there too. You got to really go there.  What else does he do for crying all out?  Okay. Okay, cool.  There are only three characters in your play which may or may not be true But short changing any of those characters is what makes it See me You know Yeah, you know what I mean? So you really got to go there. I mean, yeah, I went. Yeah I went in the heart mind and soul of the dog.  I love the kernel people didn't get why I love the kernel The white guy I was like sitting in rehearsal everything the kernel says I love people like look at me like what? Like because I go there I see so you got it. You got to just continue to go there Every character is well rounded fleshed out Loved by you. Yes If you can say at the end of the day every character in my play. I love every single character Okay, thank you. Yeah, thanks. Thanks everyone. Yeah I'm grateful. Thank you. Thank you All right, it's six oh two. This is like a fierce one man That's because Tony was on yesterday. We're like, yeah, everybody's Yeah, right Oh, Eslipi, thank you for another great week. You're the best. Yeah, thank well, you're the best You guys are the best. This is wonderful and gives me great joy. Yeah Um, so next week as a reminder, we'll have all those links up tomorrow at 3 p.m For you to sign up for our monday through thursday 5 p.m classes And we'll have a couple of guests next week too. Yay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I'll have a wonderful weekend Oh, thank you for the heart Thank you


For our next example of a time and flow visualization in raw, we're going to use something called a stream graph. Now here's the small multiples that we did a moment ago. This is a stream graph. And it's useful when you have a situation where you have data over time, and maybe you would use a whole bunch of stacked bar charts to show how common various categories are. To do this one, I'm going to use the same music data set. I've got it open right here. Just put it into table view. And then let's come down to stream graph. It's already selected. And so these are the options that we have for stream graph. Right now the canvas is blank. But let's start dragging in a few things. What I'm going to do here is I'm going to take media, put that into group. And then I'll put year into date. And you see we're getting something that's very similar to what we had previously. And then I'm going to take a market share and drag that over into size. And then we get a dramatically different kind of chart. And what it's showing us right here is the percentage of music purchases that were in each format over time. Now, truthfully, it's kind of hard to read because it's just kind of this big crazy thing.  You have something called offset and most of these silhouette and expand and zero are very similar to each other. They're all going to look like this, where they come up to 100%. I truthfully find the most interesting of these is wiggle. Because what this says is it tries to make each of these so that it is vertically symmetrical so that it's bulkiest in the middle and it tapers off on each end. And it's easier to get a feel for the growth, the expansion and the contraction of each. So you can see for instance, LP is really big right here contracting down as cassettes pickup. And then that tapers as CDs pickup for a really long time. And so this is an interesting way and truthfully it's really engaging because you know it's kind of pretty want to say what is it. So you look at it for a moment, but I still find it to be pretty easy to read. And so a stream graph might be a compelling alternative to something like a stacked bar graph for changes in proportions over time.