Thanks for checking out this movie review video This is for the 2019 release Coco de Coco day and yes Coco de Coco day is how it said in the film just so you know and you do hear it quite a bit in the film And this is actually a shutter exclusive coming to shutter on Thursday, March 18th And since that is the case I'm putting my review out before it's there and it's a newer film This is a no spoiler review. Although, thematically, there's a little bit of a I'll talk about at the very end what I think theme wise is going on here But won't tell you like events of the film or anything So if you don't want that then drop off towards the very end So anyway, like I said, this is coming to shutter on Thursday, March 18th Which is actually the same day as they're getting the film slacks spelled SLA xx and I have a review up for that one As well, I do recommend it but check out that review Written and directed by Johannes Nyholm who also did the film The Giant You might say where is that name from? Well, this is a Swedish film and that is where Johannes is from as well So there you go. Now very quick quick synopsis It's not gonna be much at all because I don't want to give too much away With this film because a lot of the stuff in the film is very important to the overall experience and just the overall Story of the film so basically it's about a couple who go out to camp in the woods as a way to kind of reconnect with each other and things start happening and that's where I'm gonna leave it because I would just say check this out now I will say this film is very heavily metaphorical So if you're not into stuff like that and that's kind of like the crux of the movie is the metaphor of it all If that's not your thing if you don't like to have you know end the film and really you know Think back on what was really going on from a metaphorical standpoint This might not be for you But if you are into that stuff then this is definitely for you not only that but it looks really good My only big complaint With the film itself well to two kind of complaints one It one is it in this always always bothers me Some of the camera work is shaky to the point of being kind of distracting at times not all the time But at certain times, you know in certain Portions of films it makes sense when it's kind of like unstable It's kind of shaky because it adds to the tension it adds to you know The confusion of what's going on and there is some of that in this film But there are also moments where that's excuse me That's not what's going on in the film and it's too unstable too shaky and that's distracting So that's just one of my pet peeves that might not you know Bother as many people as much but that's one of the things I don't like the other thing I didn't really like about this film is the pacing is a little bit too leisurely in my opinion But I was definitely willing to forgive that because in the end. It's a really good story It's the whole metaphorical aspect of it I just started thinking about what was that scripting like for that film and it's a really Well-written very artistic imaginative script for that reason and it's pulled off pretty pretty well And this is one of those instances that shows you that you know having the same person who wrote it direct it Can really help with the translation of what's on page to the actual screen. So pretty awesome It's got an odd feeling from the very start of the film and it is not a straightforward film It is it has some odd aspects to it. So just know that I got a very heavy Kind of David Lynch vibe from the very first scene in the film now It's not super lynching or anything like that. So don't think it's gonna go down that road There are you know, maybe some small Things kind of borrowed from David Lynch feel wise, but no I the from the very first scene I was like, oh my god, I think this is gonna be a very David Lynch type film. It's not don't worry. It's it really isn't But I will say if you note The scene in the very beginning the very first scene cryptically symbolizes the events of the film it it really has a lot of Weight to the film and I'm not gonna say anything past that but just know and you know me pointing this out to you I know you'll then pay more attention to that scene, but it's not gonna spoil anything at all because there's no way that anyone watches that opening scene and Can foresee how that is important to what's actually happening in the film You will get that by the end of the film and there is in the very very end the scene that transitions into the end credits that it should be Very big, you know aha moment for a lot of viewers that kind of get it the then see ah This is what the metaphor is. This is what's been going on the whole time. I get it I definitely get it now So that's kind of nice and maybe for that reason the fact that they have that scene This might be a little more accessible to people who typically don't like these heavily metaphorical films So maybe give it a shot if you're not typically into those just saying The music is pretty minimal in this and I really like that. I always comment on this I hate heavy-handed music and film because it has a tendency to just kind of beat you over the head and tell you what to Feel and what to think with a film where I just like it when it's more restrained it's kind of used as like an accent to scenes and This film does a really good job of having these moments where it just drops the music and it just adds so much more Gravity to what's really going on in the film, especially when it's more High stakes moments or emotional moments things like that, you know as a viewer you kind of you feel that there's more gravity to it You're kind of left to yourself To figure out how you feel and to kind of think about what's going on a little bit more as opposed to if you have You know heavily playing music. That's signaling to you. This is how you're supposed to feel right now I don't want that like I want to be able to feel conflicted in a scene If I happen to feel conflicted in a scene not have the music kind of grab my hand and lead me down a certain path So I love that this film does that minimal music use It's smart and like I said it adds gravity and in this film. It certainly does that a Major event in this film comes very early And it's actually one that I will typically kind of roll my eyes at and go off on a tangent about how I don't like things like this being used in film, but I am willing to forgive it because it does Make sense within the context of the film it feels early on to me It felt kind of like a cheap thing and usually it is used in that way But I was definitely willing to forgive it and I kept an open mind because I was like well I'll see how it goes in the end.  I hate that film by the way I know there are probably a lot of people were like oh my god arrival so good. That's fine. I'm glad you liked it I friggin hated it For many reasons, but anyway, that's not about it's not about this I think that it was used fine. It was used just fine in here There's an interesting kind of paper shadow art that's used in this To cover scenes and it looks really really cool. It really looks awesome. I love this this artistic use And it's also used to kind of signify something that otherwise would be really hard to actually put on film So I think it was a good kind of workaround for having to do bigger and more complicated things But it just looks so cool and it's mesmerizing. It really is and actually I would kind of say that to a degree the whole film is kind of mesmerizing it kind of just like grabs your attention and Just doesn't let go and one of the big reasons being not only because it looks the way it does and You know the music use I think also has a lot to do with it as well But you kind of just never know what's coming next like it really creates this air of Anything could happen and you're kind of on the edge of your seat the majority of the time Even though it's at a leisurely pace Because you're like, I don't know what's gonna happen next and you're very interested to see what happens at least I was And it pays off trust me it pays off in the end Obviously, you know, they're definitely gonna be people who don't like it There will definitely be people we've liked it even more than me and some people be about it But that's every film There's a flash forward and you can see kind of a marked diff a market difference in characters Which I thought was interesting and ends up being kind of a jarring moment for the viewer But it's important to kind of note those Moments in the film and you'll kind of understand why when everything gets is said and done at the end There's a bit of a wackiness that emerges to this film And that's kind of set up a little bit in the very first scene of the film But it it happens a little bit more but it's kind of like this dark wackiness. So it doesn't It doesn't feel out of place It doesn't mess with the feeling of what's going on and it doesn't mess with the horror aspects of the film So I was fine with it The film is not linear. So if you're not, you know, in ways it's not linear in ways it kind of is linear You'll see what I mean if you watch it So if you're one of those people who just wants like a straight story that just plays out pretty easy This is not necessarily going to be the film for you. So just letting you know upfront But like I always say Every film is worth watching at least once that way you can make up your own mind about how you feel about it Um, yeah, like I said leisurely pace. So the shadow the paper shadow art stuff Comes back later in the film towards the end of it and the combination of the artistry The music and the message makes for an extremely powerful moment in this film And that is my favorite moment in the film And that's kind of really what brought everything together for me with it And I I knew where it was what it was trying to get at metaphorically But that confirmed what I was thinking and it kind of expanded upon it and I just love that moment I think it's wonderful The very last scene. Oh, oh, like I said, this the very last scene bleeding into the end credits That will be the big aha moment for a bunch of people um This film show uh shows at a few points that choosing to not have music in a scene can create gravity I'm my apologies. I already talked about that. So really, I only have one last thing to say and this is the thematic thing So I don't know if you want to know it or not know it It it could ruin some aspect of the film But it's not going to ruin the actual events of the film or your overall experience. Definitely. It will not There's a theme about trauma and how it can drive your relationship apart if people are individually Assumed by that trauma it also further has that ignoring shared trauma while focusing on your own Will eventually lead to an unpleasant reckoning of sorts which can kind of manifest in many different ways So I for that for that reason. I think um, this film would be great To to kind of pair with the film after midnight if you've not seen that one Which I have a no spoiler review for on my channel and he is on shutter at the moment Another way to go with a double feature with this film would be since the film slacks is coming out the same day on shutter I would say just watch slacks and this film together Back to back, uh, they're very different experiences very different experiences But they're both very good and actually I'm going to give them the same rating because they're both really really well done So out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm giving this a four star rating This is one you should definitely see shutter has been doing a really good job lately Uh, for the most part not Completely because there was one I had a review on recently stay out of the attic that I was not Not really a fan of but for the most part they've been doing really well, especially with their exclusives It's their originals that are a little more iffy although slacks is slacks is a shutter original So but anyway, uh, do do me a favor and hit that subscribe button if you can and you can it literally takes you a second That is your way to repay me And I am always very grateful for that whenever someone does subscribe I get an email and I get to see your profile and I take a look at that and I say I'm very grateful to this person That's awesome. 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This is stock number 91130A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. We are checking out this super clean 2011 Chevy Silverado 2500 crew cab short box. This truck has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel. From this HD video you'll be able to tell that this truck is in extremely nice shape considering the age and miles on it. Factory fog lights didn't see any dents or dings in the front bumper. Has the 20-inch painted alloy rims in excellent shape. Goodyear Wrangler LT26560R20s and these tires have about 80-90% of the tread left. Lots of tread left on those tires. Silver metallic is the color. Has the billet grille. Nice bug shield. The hood is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on now because it's like you're right here looking at the vehicle with me. As you go down this side of the vehicle, you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and glass-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by, and just can't make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can still see the truck here, the truck, and of confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. You can see any dents or dings down this side of the vehicle. Back rim is in excellent condition as well. No scuffs or scrapes. And that back tire has just as much tread as the front tires. See the frame and underbody on this truck is in really nice condition and that it has all the remaining factory exhaust. All the lower rockers are in excellent shape as well. It has some nice factory chrome step bars, even has a little bit of lights by the step bars. Rear bumper is in pretty nice condition as well. It does have backup sensors. The only thing I saw on this truck, one tiny little ding on the rear bumper, but other than that, very, very nice. It does have a backup camera and a locking tailgate. It has an access soft roll-up tonneau cover that's in really nice condition. I didn't see any rips or tears on that. Also has a very nice spray and bed liner and it does have a gooseneck hitch in it. There's the sleeve for the receiver hitch. And as you go down this side of the truck, just as clean as the passenger side for good measures here. This back rim is in same condition as the other ones. And I didn't see any denser dings down this side of the truck. Really nice condition. It has the telescopic tow mirrors, which have built-in directional signals. They fold in like that and also telescope out, depending on how big of a trailer you have.  Both of these seats are heated. There are no rips or tears in the seats. They're in really nice condition. Both of these seats are power. 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Hello, everyone. Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I am Keeley Dorian and joining me today, we have Phil Oliveiro from Light Path. Phil, thanks for being here. Welcome to JSA TV. Thank you so much, Keeley. Good afternoon. I'm so glad to be here with you today. Yeah. Let's jump right in.  Huge, huge news went out the door just today for a brand new market for Light Path. Can you tell us about all of the things you have going on in Miami? Yeah, I would love to. I guess I should say, by the way, bienvenido a Miami. The last time I actually talked to JSA, it was with Jamie at ITW in April of this year. We were talking about the new Light Path with Altice and Morgan Stanley ownership and the new management team and what we've been up to in our first 16 months. We talked about the growth that we're starting to see in our fiber expansions in areas adjacent to our footprint, and a new market expansion that we've done in Boston. I dropped a hint at the time that we were evaluating and planning more expansions for later this year. I'm happy to say that we're now officially launching our newest market, Miami, as we talked about. You might ask, why Miami? Because we looked at a bunch of different markets, and Miami actually offered some unique characteristics and advantages for us and for our customers. First off, it's a big tier one market in the United States and with New York and Boston will now be operating in three of the top 10 markets in the United States. So it's a big market first off. But just as importantly, it has really robust business sector growth. So the pie, as you could say, is growing, which is always nice too. Interestingly, when we started looking at it as well, a good portion of this growth is actually coming from Northeast companies moving or growing in the region down in Miami and certainly throughout Florida. Further, when we looked at it, about 15 percent or actually just over 15 percent of the addressable customer prospects in Miami are already customers of light path in the Northeast, as I said, because a lot of them are there already or growing their businesses there. So we saw that and we thought, well, that's a really good interesting market for us. We also saw by the way that over the last decade or so, there's been a lot of fiber service provider consolidation. So we saw an opening for an agile competitor who is willing to invest and grow in a network in Miami in the Miami area, and to provide outstanding customer service to customers into this rapidly expanding market. So we've got a really top-notch project team, including some recent local sales and outside plant construction leaders that have been working for a while now on the initial network build, which will consist of 135 miles of underground fiber, and it's going to be rolled out in phases. We've actually been able to accelerate this rollout by a purchase of some conduit assets. So that's good. It'll also focus initially on the Central Business District, and you'll see that in the press release, there's a map of the Central Business District there. That's going to launch in January of 2023, and we're building rings to the north and west, and north up to about Hollywood, Florida, and west past the airport, Miami International Airport, and those two will be done in April, and then we've got further expansions, about 80 miles of further expansions that will come in after those two. So that's kind of the initial footprint. We're looking to connect a couple of data centers to main data centers initially. We've got six more planned, and many more being discussed with customers. And if this sounds familiar, it's actually a very similar formula to what we employed in Boston. That is an asset acquisition to help us accelerate entry into the market, followed by a series of expansions. Although I will say the one thing we did learn from our expansion into Boston was that it would be really better to kick off expansions, these 80 miles that I just talked about, which are kind of the second wave, to kick off those sooner rather than later. As we know, we're gonna need to be in these key areas to effectively serve customers in this market. So we found there really wasn't any benefit to waiting in Boston. And as a result, we're gonna kick these off very quickly as we get into the market. Let's see, we're also installing all of the latest technologies in Miami that we're using in our Northeast network. And we're gonna offer all of the services that we offer here in the Northeast, including dark fiber, optical transport, switched ethernet, internet, SD-WAN, and managed and security solutions. We will have voice like we do in the Northeast, be available later in 2023 after we secure all the regulatory approvals. And I'm gonna take a breath, I promise. We'll connect this Miami network diversely back to our 20,000 mile, 13,500 on-net location network in New York and Massachusetts with connections from Miami on the one side, going back through Dallas, Chicago, and over to New York. And on the other side, completely diverse, Miami through Atlanta to Ashburn and up into the New Jersey area and into our network there. So, a great network coming in Miami, great connectivity back to our existing network here in the Northeast, but super excited about it.  So you take as long as you need to with answering anything here, but I love it, it just seems like you have a really good touch point with your customers to recognize that they're in one spot and they need to be in that other spot and to that avail, the Lightpath network has just taken off. You've really done a lot to expand your footprint as this is the second major market expansion and in recent history. So can you just walk us through some of those other larger builds that you've accomplished? Of course, of course. Yeah, I think Kili, if I summed it up, I think we think at Lightpath to be successful in this business, you have to be willing and able to invest in growing and upgrading your network. Not to mention your processes and systems and of course your people, which we're doing, but today we're talking about the network part, but so as far as new market expansions like Miami, as we mentioned, we launched Boston in June of 2021, so just over a year ago. But Boston wasn't a one and done event, nor will Miami be. In Boston, for example, we started with 80 miles of network there and are now up to 200 miles. And we'll continue to add and densify our roots in the greater Boston area. So that's just gonna be an ongoing thing, just like it will be in Miami here. I mean, again, it's important for us and for our customers to, for us to invest in that network and continue to grow it and provide additional reach and so on. So that was one of the big ones that we did last year. We also purchased and are lighting a 300 mile alternate and diverse route to Ashburn, Virginia, home of a lot of data centers from New Jersey that'll be ready by the end of this year. To be honest, it would have been sooner, save for some supply chain issues. So, you know, we're not immune. It's certainly something that certainly everybody in the industry is dealing with, but looking forward to that coming online in later this year. And so that was a new market expansion Boston and a long haul route to connect us down to data centers in Ashburn. As far as edge out, kind of from our existing territory and just kind of edging out or adjacent expansions, we're building a 70 plus mile route in Western Connecticut. That'll connect and augment our network in Katona, New York down to Norwalk Connecticut and Trumbull Connecticut and many points in between. And we've been adding over 100 miles of network in Queens and New York. That's an ongoing process. It's a big, a big build. And we've already added over 50 miles of network in Princeton, New Jersey. These were two areas that again, we're adjacent to our footprint and in like path, let's call it like path 1.0. It wasn't necessarily a big focus to expand our footprint and so on. But these are two great markets just right in our backyard, so to speak that we decided to put some real good money and time and effort to work to really help serve more customers in more places. Absolutely. And speaking of customers, you really had a lot of traction during this growth phase with them. So why do you think that is? And why do you think that enterprise customers are coming on board choosing like path as well as carriers and hyperscalers? Yeah, it's a really good question. I'm gonna get to the answer in a sec, but let me just give you some stats. So we've seen about 90, 90% increase in sales bookings in 2022 versus what we saw in 2020 the year before we started this new like path 2.0 version, let's call it. So incredible growth. And yes, it's coming from traction with enterprises, carriers and hyperscalers. And by the way, as we're installing those sales bookings we're forecasting really high single digit revenue growth due to that. So that's good. We're starting to see again, the customers embrace these investments and expansions and so on. And they're telling us with their ongoing orders that this is important to them. And what's unique as you mentioned in the marketplace is that we're seeing traction in all of these areas, enterprise, carriers and hyperscalers. And I think that's at least in part because our management team and folks we brought in came from different companies. And of course, all the great folks we had at Light Path to begin with, we've come from different companies that were successful in a few of these areas, but not all again, some were good at enterprise and maybe carrier, some were good at hyperscaler maybe not so good in enterprise. But together, we've been able to get traction really in all of these areas. Again, the hospitals, the financial institutions, the large carriers, the wireless carriers, the wireless carriers and wireless carriers and so on. And if you can achieve that being successful in all of these areas it makes justifying these aggressive expansion plans that we've been doing so much easier as you have more customers who can benefit from these expansions and more sources of revenue to turn these into sound investments. So I didn't answer your question yet the good question you started with which is why our customer is across the board choosing Light Path. And if I had to sum it up I think that our investments really in upgrading and adding to our fiber network. And again, our processes and systems and adding capabilities in people. Quick aside, we doubled our customer facing sales and support staff. Really doing all of those things allows us to offer great customer service. We're very consultative. We don't just come in and say, hey, we offer this widget please buy the widget. And if you don't like the widget it comes in maybe green or black. We try to again understand more about what you're looking for. Hey, you're looking for a specific route. You're looking for specific latency. You're looking for a specific redundancy or diversity or you want two entrances into your building to really make sure that your traffic that we're gonna carry is secure. And we're also due to this investment we're also and also the investment of people we're very responsive. But we know that these links that we're providing to customers are their lifelines and it's what allows their business to operate. And so again, that ability to offer great customer service consultative and responsive service coupled with the better reach and an upgrade in our networks that allows us to offer the latest service offerings I think is really why I think all of these customers are choosing my path and I'll go one step further and just say for the carriers and hyperscalers I think that's maybe a little bit new for traditional light path. Newer point of emphasis let's say as I think the notion of enabling carrier competitors by selling them services or selling our raw materials, let's call it like dark fiber was not necessarily a focus previously at light path but again, it is now a core competency of our collective team that has worked with and understands the unique needs of these customers. And it's frankly an area that we're interested in continuing to grow. Absolutely, just always going back to the customer and what is it that they need and how can you help them grow? Absolutely. So I hate to even ask this question because you have so much that you're already working on but what is ahead for light path in the coming year and beyond? I hope at least it's a small and short vacation for you, your whole team sounds like they do. No rest for the wicked. No, we've got lots of good still plans coming up. I think you can tell we're focused on growing our business by investing in and expanding our presence, right? So serving the connectivity needs of those enterprises I talked about, government entities, schools, medical, financial institutions, wireless, wireline carriers, hyperscalers, that's our focus really. And none of these is a side business. We're totally vested in serving all of these customers and we're clearly not done investing and expanding. And as I mentioned earlier, our customers can continue to tell us with their feedback as well as their ongoing orders that they like what we're offering and really want it in more places. So we'll continue to do our evaluations on interesting next growth markets. And as you can see, we're not constrained by geography. So whether it be East, the East part of the US, the South, the West, the North parts of the US, we'll work with our customers as you just mentioned to help us understand where else we can serve them. And that's really gonna drive us for the next chapter. Sounds good. Well, we'll look forward to an update then on that. But in the meantime, where can everybody go just to learn more and keep tabs on all of the things that you have coming up? Yeah, so this venue is open my eyes to the fact that LinkedIn does a lot more things than just how's ongoing sort of virtual resumes. So you can follow us on LinkedIn and keep up with all the great announcements of where we're going. But certainly likepathfiber.com, our website lists all of those too as well as how to contact us for your business and how we can potentially help you too. Well, Phil, thank you so much for your time here. It has been a pleasure speaking with you and learning about all of the great things that you're working on. And thank you to our viewers as well for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcast then. Until next time, happy networking.


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So, hi everybody, my name is Akangelo Dalesando, I'm an architect and designer, and I'm using Blender since 2003, not just for making visualization or to visualize my project, rather to turn them into real objects. We are going to talk today about a project that's which name is Design by Food. What is Design by Food? It's a design project that takes inspiration from the food tradition. And it began in 2012, but it's roots are a little bit older, because when I was a young boy I was used to watch my grandmother making noodles, and she was cooking every day like there would be no future. And she was making a lot of noodles and whatever, it was like a machine. And I was just watching her hands and what each piece of noodle that she was making. And I was as a young boy just imagining and scaling the objects and thinking how would be to live inside a macaroni or maybe like sleeping in a kjeta and so on. So in these, there was just remaining in my head, and in 2012, playing around with Blender, I started making some design objects. So the inspiration can start from maybe a color or the shape or just the texture, but all the way I would say can come from every sparkle in the food tradition. Till now I made a lot of objects, but we are going to talk today about only two that are to me more representative. Object number one is inspired by Las Corseta, it's a street from south of Italy, and the inspiring factor was mainly the shape. The shape and the colors of this object. So as usual, I started to think about the main shape just sketching around and thinking what I want to do, I would like to make a desk lamp, not a technical one, rather like ambient light for the living spaces. So those are the sketches. And since I didn't know about the shape, the weights, at that time I wanted to keep an open process, a sort of parametrical way of thinking. So I made the first rendering, and after that I started modeling it. This is a quiet classical approach to the design. That means I have in my head an idea of a shape, and I try to control it all the way. So I just needed a low poly geometry with maybe a subdivision surface modifier, and after that I put some booleans just to locate the lighting fixture, as well as a weight to balance the shape, and a curve modifier just to master the final geometry. Till now that's fine, I was happy with it, but I had to think in the backwards. That means I had to think about what I have to give to the people that are going to produce this lamp, and it was quite easy. I had to give them a 2D shape. How could I send it or deliver it to the production? It was quite easy. I made a picture, a background image, and I was using the UV layout editor just to export the UV layout as a SVG file, and turn it into a CAD shape, ready to be used in a laser cut, or CNC machine, whatever. This is still a step. That means the production needed a shape to curve the geometry. I already had the most geometry in my file, so I just had to produce those two pieces just to give the shape to the metal sheet. And as you see, this is the final result. It's a very, I love it. I have many in my apartment. And it's handcrafted. It's hand-sewed. And you can use it for many purposes, like ambient light, or just a place where you put your mobile phone or your jewelry, whatever. Let's jump to the second object. The second object, I love it. It has a very nice taste, and it's a Cacio Cavallo. It's a food that is present in Italy in many different kind of variation. This object is very important to me, because it has a funny and sensual shape, and I love the texture outside. So I wanted to make, again, a desk lamp, but this time I would like to, I wanted to make a little bit more or just go further, or beyond the standard design process. So I made a couple of sketches, and after that, I modeled the first exemplar. And since I got my first 3D printer, that was the wrong decision, because my living room looks like an industry, I made it, but I was happy, but not really, you know, it's like you make a shape, it's that and it's going to stay always the same. And with the 3D fabrication processes, actually you don't need the industrial standard, so you can think in another way. Basically, I wanted to turn this shape into this to the right. Let's say having a sort of variation that keeps the main geometry, but it's changing. Without controlling it too much. So, back. How could I achieve this target, this task? I was thinking about what I can use in Blender, so weight paints, displays modifier, subdivisions to phase, decimate modifier and so on. At that time the geometry node was not there, not yet. So, first of all, I needed to remake my basic geometry, a low poly, but in a different way, a subdivision modifier, then a weight paint just to focus the areas where I put at the end my displays modifier in order to give a texture outside on the outer skin of the object. Now, the problem is how I can variate this object, how can I change the shape. It was quite easy. Here to the right you see my modifier stack. It's quite easy. I have three levels of subdivisions to phase, but the very important part is the bend and on the X axis. At the end, as you can see, we have the solidify modifier before the displays modifier. So, I just animated with just one keyframe, the bend on the X and on the Y axis and I did the same on a shape key modifier just to influence the scale of the mesh in edit mode and not outside. Just to get something like this and you can see here in the not graph editor I could reach something like that. Like a sort of variation in a certain range. So, now the problem is how can I deliver this to the 3D printer. It was quite easy. The animation is OBJ file, so I get for every frame a single object. Already ready to be 3D printed and assembled at the end. Now, since I got to be addicted to this object, so, OK, what I can put on the outside of the object and I love science fiction and space stuff and planets and so I started to think, OK, I can put maybe stuff like texture of Mars, Moon, Jupiter and whatever. And this is the final output. This object is produced only with the 3D printer process in FTM and with a small data. In the slicer I use a fuzzy skin function that gives to the outer skin a sort of roughness. So, but I wanted to get more out of this object so I started to think about, OK, I can make some bottles, I can make jewelry, I can make oil bottles, I can make perfume bottles and so on. And at the end and because I was thinking in small scale, what about the change of scale? Think something bigger. OK, I would like to have a Kachokavallo chair in my living room. So, this is, of course, nothing to do with the digital fabrication, but it's a classical process of making and producing objects. So, I have the basic geometry already. I just had to put some seam cut on the geometry and open it into the UV map editor. At this time, you can see in the middle up in the UV map editor a square shape because when you do this, you don't know the scale of the object, you cannot master it. So, I needed a geometry with a known dimension that I could use as a scale reference in a CAD file. So, it's more colorful, but it's almost the same. The blue one is the reference shape and at the end I exported it and prepared it in a CAD file for the CNC machine in the fabric industry. And this is another one. I had to make many different kind of templates and this is, those are a couple of screenshots about the first prototyping process. I'm not really happy with the final output. We have to make some changes, but we will get it. So, since this function of opening a 2D geometry on a UV map editor is this little problem that I have to scale or to have some reference, I was thinking, ok, Blender can do more. I'm not able to program in any language, but I got to know in the Blender word community, Fabrizio, that is going to talk after me. And we were just talking about this project and I asked him if you could develop an add-on that could open already in scale the geometry with maybe a control of the offset of the outer contour and maybe taking also in charge in all the considering the tension of the fabric, whatever. And he did it. It's not yet at the final stage, let's say in pre-alpha, but it's a very nice one. So, now I can get rid of and I was thinking, ok, I would like to make another scale change. What about this? Fabrizio is taking my place and is going to tell about the spin-off project. Thank you, Arcangelo. This is the conjunction point between me and him, because we have really worked together you know, so, who I am, first of all. So, my name is Fabrizio Loreto, I'm Italian as well. I'm an electronics engineer by education. I am a marketing manager by profession and I am an artist and 3D artist by passion. How all these three things fit together, well, this is the challenge of my life, but you know, putting together things very diverse and sometimes gives space to creativity. So, then I got to know Arcangelo and he described to me his research. I started to think, ok, he started from food, then he derived from food abstract shapes and those abstract shapes turned into design objects from jewels to houses. Now, can we do something else with those abstract shapes because I was stroke as well on how beautiful can be shapes of food if you put them in an abstract environment. And, ok, I will show you what I've done. I think you've put the wrong slide, but that's fine, ok. So, this this is the first one. This is the first one, so I put some irony in it and, yeah, I mean, it was just fun between me and Arcangelo to think of how nice would it be to see this Kachokavali flying in the air in the Magritte style. Next. Ok, next, I moved to Escher. So, these are starting too fast. Ok, Escher and here we have then another one. Now, there were a couple of technical challenges in it. The first was that I wanted to spread these gears into the space with geometry nodes and still avoiding that they collide with the shapes and then I used geometry nodes for animating them and, ok, this was relatively easy. A little bit more challenging was to create this feeling of pencil drawing on rough paper and to do this I had to develop a procedural a procedural texture this is a kind of tune shader, very few nodes I think I got an interesting graphical result. So, like with Arcangelo's research, Blender is always part of the creative process because when I see something then I started to think, ok, is this something where Blender could add something to the final work and so it's really a dialogue you get some inspiration then you look at the tool and the final result is always surprising in a way Oh, this was a challenge this was a challenge unfortunately I don't know how to stop this thing this shouldn't start automatically but I think you all know this I don't know if I can go back just to show again ok, I show it to show again this ok, this is a very well known drawing from Escher you know, this was a challenge because how can you imagine to realising with a tool that represents real geometry an object that is impossible a stair where you are continuously climbing up or continuously climbing down always coming back to the same point I mean, when you draw on paper you can do but with a 3D tool how can you do this now of course so all these Kachuka valley that are jumping up and down on the stairs they are remaining and you see I managed to get a convincing effect now how did I do well, basically does it start now now it starts the point is that this stair looks like a continuous object only from one specific point of view if you change point of view then everything is different and then you can see that some of these Kachuka valley are jumping into the air or from the air to the stairs so it was challenging from the concept to the realisation when I started to render this I also realised that I had another challenge that shadows were not convincing because objects that are next to each other in this illusion they are quite far away from one another so I had to use visual effects technique so the shadow casters that were placed in the right place so that shadows are all convincing so it's always there is always a technical challenge behind these objects ok now if this goes and if I can stop it ok so this was then this is the final piece and I'm going to show you this was a big challenge so now why this painting first of all because Piero della Francesca is a very famous Italian painter in Italian Renaissance the golden age of Italian art and culture I love him a lot second because I want to remind everybody that Piero della Francesca was one of those artists together with some before him honestly that has invented geometric perspective so they are those who have first studied and represent a geometry a 3D geometry on a 2D screen and without the study of people like this today we wouldn't have blender we wouldn't have the possibility of representing on a 2D screen 3D objects so thank to this guy and geometry in this painting is quite important this is not just the background the geometry is part of the painting this all this church represents gives the message perfection and harmony of universe and it's full of symbols that shell over there with this oysterish egg that is painting there the symbols of maternity fertility of perfection again so geometry is an important part of the painting and just the next thing before showing how this results into a cacciocavallo magic transformation all these guys over there who are they basically you can recognize them not from their face because nobody knows what was the face of Saint John the Baptist but from the symbols they are holding or wearing so this shepherd's stick on the left represents Saint John the Baptist or this stone that was used to hit the breast character tells us that this is Saint Jerome those guys in the background that are also staying on a higher level they have jewels on the forehand and on the necklace so these are angels and on the right among other people you can see Saint Francis from the stigma that he has on the breast so at the end of the day if you replace all these guys with cacciocavalli there is the same irony as all the other pieces but at the end of the day you recognize exactly those people you recognize exactly those people a lot of fun to do this technically very challenging because the geometry is complex and the shaders and all the textures are from a very famous artist in the renaissance but I was quite happy about that just a technical note to reproduce the geometry I had to use I used f-spy but it was not straightforward because with f-spy usually you have to input the focal lens and without the focal lens everything can be stretched in the depth direction either very narrow or very deep so since I had the reference of those squares on the roof then I used this to play with the focal lens until I got the right proportions and then all the geometry came out of it ok, this was the last that I wanted to show if you want to see more just follow us and there will be other coming because this is a project that just triggers a lot of ideas I want to close with this clip just to remind everybody that what we see on this screen at the end of the day they are just numbers flowing on a screen and you can recognize them only because they've been turned into pixels but at the end of the day we are only seeing always numbers flowing on a screen and that's it thank you very much it's coming we did it


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today.  It all folds flat, you just fold in the sides there and you can store it away and then if I just open that back up again you just open the top here which is sealed with a Velcro fastening and you have a really roomy gift bag inside. It's got some nice detail here or like faux hardware detail and I'll show you all that through the tutorial and then I finished off with a pretty ribbon handle there and that bow. So let me show you how to make it. Okay so I've got all my pieces there and I'll talk through those as we go but first of all you want two pieces of 12 by 10 and a half okay and you want to score both pieces along the 12 inch side at 8 and 11 and a half and then along the 10 and a half inch side at 3 and a half okay so both pieces like that. Now if you want them to fold flat you'll want to have one piece so this one here you're you would have scored it three and a half along the 10 and a half inch side but you also want to score it five and a quarter all the way down and that will be the back and this will allow us to fold it flat and then along the 12 inch sides you would have scored it eight and 11 and a half you want to also score it nine and three quarters down to that first score line so that's the one that you just scored before okay so that one will be the back okay and then with this piece pop it in along the 10 and a half inch side so you have that half inch tab you know at the bottom but then flip it over so now the half inch tab is at the top but it's the back side and you just want to score at five and a quarter pass the first score line and down to the second okay like so and then flip it back over and then just go over it scoring it the right way that way it will all fold right it's just easier to do it that way then pop it back along into the 12 inch side and you want to again score at nine and three quarters down to that first score line okay and then you'll have all of this empty because that's the front so you don't want that score line going through so you'll see on this one here the score line goes right the way through there and the side on this one you just want it going through the side which we've created there also we've got the scoreboard you're also going to want a piece of eight by four and a half those of you that watch the facebook live when i made that one this is where i said i think i'm going to do the lid a little bit different so along the four and a half inch side you want to score at half an inch and one inch and we're actually going to have this half inch piece at the very top and we're going to add the handle onto it okay ignore all the bits that i've stuck on that's just to kind of keep the video short i'll talk you through those in a moment okay so now we just need to do a little bit more scoring so i'm just grabbing my metal ruler on my stylus and for any of you familiar with the fold flat gift bags what we want to do now we've got that half inch tab here on the right hand side and you'll see this score line that you scored down to the first one here we now want to score within this rectangle only okay so this is what we're working within and we're going to score from the bottom of this score line down to the bottom left corner and then from that score line down to the bottom right make sure you stay within that rectangle there so i'll do this one here and then i'll hold it up closer so you can see okay so if i just bring that up you can now see i've done that triangle there okay repeat that on the next piece okay and now we want to fold and burnish all of the score lines okay then we want to do a bit of cutting i've just done this one i'll show you how to do it on this one here so make sure you get your half inch tab on the right hand side and you're just going to cut up this score line and then this one here and then you're just going to remove that bit there and then just take a little wedge off of both ends there okay and now we can fold these other score lines here so what you want to do is this score line that runs down here turn that into a valley and as you bring it down to the top of the triangle there you can kind of fold everything over so can you see how i just that one then just folds up on itself because it's going to actually be like that and that's all going to fold in you can see the side there how it will all fold flat i'll show you again on this one so again make sure that one's a valley pinch it all the way down to the top of the triangle and it starts to you know kind of come up on this this side here this starts to kind of you know want to go upwards so just continue it just pull it over because it wouldn't actually go along that score line and then just make sure all that is nice and flat okay now we can stick it together so i'm just going to run some glue down the half inch tab doesn't matter you know which one you start with and i'm going to grab this piece and just sit it over there like so make sure it all lines up okay okay then flip it over bring that side over and run your glue all the way down that one and then bring that one down again everything should lie flat okay and then you'll have that one with the line that goes right through that's the back so bring it around like this and just lie it all down flat and now we can add these pieces so these are optional you might not want to do them in the same colors you know all in one color like i've done you might want to use pattern paper but i've got this piece here which measures seven and a half by six and three quarters and this is going to stick on here but this top is going to run flush with the top of the the bag so that you have an equal border on the sides and the bottom okay and then this one is going to go on top again making sure it runs flush with the top of the bag and you will have a one inch side and bottom on that piece as well but this one here i think i'm going to actually stick it using some foam so it's got a little bit of dimension so i'm going to stick this one down right onto the bag because i'm using the clow glue it will really strengthen the bag and the side of it and by the time we stick all the base down as well that will add strength to it i said in the live you know this it is a very strong bag so it's perfect for adding those heavier gifts and change the papers and and you know you can turn this into you know a bag for any kind of theme and it would be great for Christmas in some nice Christmas papers so i'm going to lay that one down again focusing on the top there and then everything else will line up and then this one here i'm just going to add some foam strips i didn't do this in the live i just use normal you know just use my glue but let's try it see what it looks like and then just stick that one down so now i've just got a little bit of dimension actually i think it looks quite good also the embossing folder i've used is this one it's from the meter surprise which is my collection and it's the zigzag and i just love that effect on this one and again on the lid here which i will show you because again although it's not a six by six bag i just want to show you how you can use embossing folders on larger gift bags which i've done on other tutorials as well now we'll put the base together so turn it upside down this is the front one so i'm going to lay the back down first and i'm going to just add some glue all along this piece here i like to stick to my side so they're sandwiched between the base between the back one and the front larger panels just gives you a nice finish inside so then i'm just going to stick that one and that one down oh i didn't take see it doesn't matter if you don't but sometimes you get a little bit overhanging there so i'm just going to snip to give my scissors a wipe after this but i'm just going to snip that away and that's why we do it because it just stops you getting any kind of you know cardstock overhanging so now i'm just going to add some glue over this side here and then i can just bring that over turn the whole thing upside down you can just go in now and just make sure all that glue's spread out okay so now we've got the base of our gift bag it's a really nice size next we want to add the lid so this is that piece where we scored a half an inch and one just fold and burnish those score lines and then just i've just rounded off the edges there and i also done that on that piece you know just don't make it out there now what i've also done is i've cut using that six by six embossing folder is i've just cut two sections here which are two and three quarters by three rounded off the left hand side of one and the right hand side of the other and just stuck them so you've got a nice border on the bottom the side and the top and again here the top the side and the bottom don't worry about this because you're then going to need this piece and this here measures three by five and a half and then i've embossed another piece making sure i've got the nice kind of you know the zigzag point right through the middle there and that is a piece of well it's two and five eighths of an inch because i wanted to get that pattern by five and a quarter and this is going to stick onto this piece here now you can either have it so that this is the top this piece here and this is going to stick on the back this half you can if you want you can stick it so it runs flush with the top of the bag here i'm going to have it so mine lines up with the top of this chevron pattern so it's entirely up to you so and you want to make sure it's in the middle as well so what i'm going to do is you can mark with a pencil here if you want i'm actually just going to hold it with my finger flip it over and then i know that i need to add my glue within this section here okay and then again you want to get it right in the middle line it up with the top there and then just stick that down if you want to bring in your ruler just to measure so it's just under two and a half i need to come across just a little bit that way just a smidge so again bang on two and a half yeah that's perfect so i'm just going to spend a minute making sure that's nice and secure okay and then i've got this bit here so the mirrored card this is three by one inch and i've just rounded off the corners and then the purple piece i've stuck on top and that's three by three quarters of an inch and again i've rounded off the corners now this lovely little detail here from this die set and it's this one here i can pop it back in here now i don't want to lose it it's from the hexagon clutch bag and it's by simply made crafts and they're just nice little real handbag little features of like hardware and i've also cut a few of these which are the very tiny screw heads there and that's just for the extra little details which i added onto here and also on the back there as well so i'll just be popping them in if you don't have that it doesn't matter you know you can just have a square piece of mirrored card and i'll show you in a minute how you can you know make that little cross effect just using a school board so you could do that on the smaller ones and if you want to get these really tiny sizes just use a hole punch because they're very similar size to that so this one here i'm just going to add some glue all onto this piece because in the live i didn't add i said afterwards i said oh right you know i wish i'd um used the same embossed on the actual lid there because i didn't do it on the other one so but that's like you know i made it from scratch live so there was a it's always the way i kind of like changed my mind and you know wish i'd added something in but it's always too late so you can see the difference between the two so that's obviously with it all embossed and that's with it playing which you know some of you may prefer okay now just realize i've sucked that down i don't actually want to do that yet what i want to do is add these rings because they're going to tuck ever so slightly under the very bottom one so these here are all my little rings for the handles but to create these here it's very easy just got a small circle punch and then a slightly larger one so this one will cut a five eighths of an inch circle and i cut the circle pop the punch the circle first and then this is a one inch punch and i pop it in and i just want to make sure i get a perfect ring so just move it around a bit and then punch it and you'll get this effect okay and then i've done that to do the you know to get these rings but if you see they're quite thick so what i've done is inside there are four in the purple color stuck on top of each other and then a silver one on the front and a silver one on the back so then you've got your a very strong but little faux metal ring so that's how you get that effect okay and you can do this with circle dies as well if you don't have any punches but it's really handy if you can get your hands on any of the just your basic circle and your basic shapes in your punches it's just quite good and it just speeds things up a little bit so you can find those ones are from hobby craft i believe they're still in there but there's lots online places like ebay and amazon and stuff you probably pick some up so with these ones here i'm going to create this chain effect coming down through the middle completely optional but to get that you just want to cut into one of them so that you can then link through so that one there is going underneath like so okay and then this one so what you want to do is where you've cut here you want to have it so it's at about four o'clock okay and then pop this one in and that's going to then sit over it and cover where you've cut it so you wouldn't be able to see and i think i done how many did i do on that on there was it six six or seven one two three four five six seven you'll see that just tucks under that bottom one so i'm going to carry on doing that and as i go so what i'm going to do is i'm going to stick these three down together and then this one i can cut and feed into that one and so on until i've got them all laid down i'm going to use the cosmic shimmer glue it's a little bit i've got more control with this i think than i do with the callow so i can just really put the the lightest amount on there and then just put one on the very top there as well just to kind of you know tack it into place i can use the the zigzag print you know or pattern to make sure i'm getting it like all in the centre like so don't worry if you get any smudges let it dry or if you can wipe it away in time then do so but let it dry and then you can just buff it off with a piece of kitchen towel toilet paper and that will get rid of all your smears and it'll make it nice and shiny again so i'm going to just cut this one snip it there and then i can just think that one through like so and then again go on to the next one so i'm just going to get this finished okay and now i've just stuck that piece back so okay next i'm going to add glue on the half inch section so the most outer part there like so and then i'm going to sit this over the bag like so so now we've got this half inch kind of piece here open up the bag and you'll be able to go in there and just line up the back if i pop it on its side this way actually it's probably a bit easier for you to see but you just want to make sure that it lines up there with that bottom score line okay and now that can come over so that was one of the changes that i've made to this one from the one in the live the one in the live i just didn't add that second score line i just done the half inch and that was it but i do like having this bit now because i can do my handle slightly differently so while that's just kind of drying there i've got these pieces here and i've got these strips here so these strips are all three three-eighths of an inch wide and that's purely because of the size of the ring i'm using here i need it to sit through this so if your ring's slightly bigger you might be able to go wider with this piece of cardstock but it's going to go over like this and we're going to create these like little pieces to hold it in place so what i'm going to do what i suggest for these ones here because these are actually going to attach themselves what we do let's pop the velcro closure on now because actually we can keep it all closed shut so these are the 16 mil velcro dots the ones that i always really use i'm going to pop it in the middle of that piece there and then lay that down make sure everything lines up actually that's turned into like a pocket because it's on that foam it looks like that that's a pocket but just push that down if you fold the whole thing flat you can just really push down on that okay and we can open it back up again and to fold it flat just push your fingers on the top of the triangle pieces and then with these fingers push against that score line and it will all lay down okay but again i'm going to keep it open for the minute but now we can work along this top piece here so these here i just trim this one i'm going to stick on to here okay and then i'm going to have another smaller handle here and then i'm going to have a bigger handle attached to the back there's going to be two handles on this one which is what i did think during the live but then i just changed my mind so um this here measures in total so i'd say three inches and then folded in half on each other so each side here is one and a half and then i'm just going to with my glue just stick this together you don't have to glue all the way up there just enough to stick it together you want that to be able to move i'm probably going to trim that shorter again but that's that one and then again these rings are really strong you know you've got six layers of card stocks stuck on top of each other with a layer of cement in between so it's they're very very strong pieces okay and then what i'm going to do is just kind of fold it where it wants to kind of naturally fold you can see there just below it and then i'm going to stick that on there but i don't need that much over you know i don't need that much there so i'm just going to trim it so that i've got a half an inch there and that's what i'm going to stick onto the top there okay and i'm going to then put one of these in fact i might do that now while it's a bit easier to do so i'm just going to use a tiny little dab of the cosmic shimmer there and then i can just pick that up and sit it on top you see that nice little decoration you get and then i'm going to use this glue now and for that half inch section like so and it's up to you where you kind of want to come in here so let's do one and a half inches there so i'm going to pop that one down and then we're going to have another strip that goes through there so you won't really hold the gift bag with this one i wouldn't say you may decide you want to i'm going to have them ribbon on the bigger one so just make sure that's nice and straight this one's more just decorative to really kind of look like a handbag so again i'm just going to fold that one where it kind of naturally wants to fold and then i'm going to cut that half inch that one down again about one and a half inches in from this side here and once that dries completely that's going to be really you know nice and secure then this piece here and it's kind of up to you how long you want it to be but the idea is is it's going to go underneath one side so you kind of need to sit that in and stick that down you're just going to wrap it around the top there add a bit of glue there so i'll do that i use this one just because it's got a quick grab so like so and then wrap it around like that again kind of give it room to move i just think it adds to the overall look makes it a little bit more authentic with it being able to kind of move and then this one's going to wrap over and then go under this one with that same kind of overhang so if i give you a rough idea of this length before i stick it down so this was six so it's eight inches by the you know again by the three eighths because of the size of the the rings that i'm using there but again i'm just going to wrap that one around pop a bit of glue just in there and there you've got a really nice handle and like i said you could have it like that if you want it's very very cute it's got that kind of Chanel look about it again which i really like but i am going to add the the longer straps as well so i've got two more of those which i've stacked up and again you want to make those little kind of pieces that are going to hold it together and this is going to attach onto the back here and they're going to poke up like this either side and then the ribbon is going to be attached to that so i'm going to get those ones done again the same width the length is up to you okay so i've got those pieces i've just trimmed that one so basically you want it so that it's going to sit at the back and line up with that half inch piece there and you've just got enough of it poking out the top there so i've got kind of the bottom of the ring is sitting just above the top of the bag there and then you can just lay that one on the other one and then just you know lay down your scissors there and then you can just trim that one so at least they're both the same and then again i'm just going to use the glue just spread that over there a little bit and it's entirely up to you where you put it i'm going to kind of have it you know kind of in the middle of this yeah it's about in the middle from here you know that in the middle of that one and a half so about three quarters of the way in and again you can see that it's just sitting nicely on there again this one okay so now we've got this effect here so while that's drying i'm then going to bring in these pieces here so these are the the kind of excess from where i made these rings all of these here and to create the little cross i just got my embossing folder and i've got one here that i've not done and just sit it in here you know i'm using the four inches just as a little guide and sit it so you've got equal amounts hanging over you know that four inch section and just score you could keep it just with the one if you wanted to but i'm going to do the two so pop it in there and again just pop the cross in there so now you've got those faux screws and then you've got those tiny ones if you've got that die set so all that's left to do now is i'm going to add one of these to each corner here it's a slightly bigger ones just there and then the small ones i'm going to add just onto these ones here and probably on there so it's like it's it's you know holding them together so i'm going to get those all stuck down just fold it flat so it's a bit easier okay so you can see all the little details there now that i've added and then finally just to finish with the ribbon so i'm going to pop it through this way because i want the joint a bit the front so i'll show you the way that i'm doing this because i'm rather than tie this in a bow i find it easier to do the bows separately and stick it on so what i'm going to do is decide on the kind of you know how long i want my strap to be so i think about there's fine and then i'm just going to cut this here and then using my hot glue just going to run a bead of glue just along the bottom there and then sit this piece over the top and then i'm going to cover this joint with the bow and that way your bow is perfect and it's just a bit easier to do i find but of course if you want to do it all in one then you can now i've got my strap like so and then my bring that up a bit there there that bow is now going to cover that joint perfectly so i'm just going to pop again very thin bead of glue there and then just lay that over the top and it's very strong you know the hot glue with fabric works really well okay and now you've got that really pretty bow at the top there and you can move the straps if you want that bow to be you know closer to the bottom there then you can just move everything down if you want it higher up you can do like so i think it's just a really nice finish and touch and you can easily add a gift tag onto this if you want to and then you just open the fastening and inside you've got all that space i've said very strong it's going to hold some really nice treats yeah it's a really nice size and i'm really pleased that let me just bring in the other color there so you can just see a slight difference with the top there so this one's just got that longer strap so you might decide to do that just don't add in that extra score line and then you'd have to work out your sizes so the measurement will be slightly different but all of this is the same there's no change there i think they both look really nice i hope you've enjoyed this tutorial please check out all the links for the product that i've used below and i'll be back very soon with another video thanks for watching bye


a lot of focus on which quarterback the Patriots will draft or sign in free agency or do both. Don't forget though, Mack Jones is still on the roster, Phil Perry asked Pat's OC, Alex van Pelt about possibly bringing him back. You know, really right now everything is on the table. As we go through this process, we're really this last couple weeks, 10 days have just been diving into who we are trying to evaluate our guys. You know, a lot of people in this situation and staffs that have been here, they're doing free agency. Well, we're doing our guys as they are free agents. We're trying to understand who we have here as well as looking at other players out there. But right now everything is on the table. How would you describe your idea? Smart, tough, you know, and a leader. You put them in those categories. You mean obviously there's accuracy in the pass game and mobility and decision making. There's a lot that goes into it. But at the end of the day, that role is such an important role for the rest, not just the offense for the team as well. So a guy that's a true leader that can come in and really, you know, understands his teammates and gets the best out of those guys. All right, let's deep down about Alex van Pelt's how to say there about the quarterback. I mean, a Smith joining the conversation as well. What's your reaction to Alex van Pelt saying when keeping Mack everything's on the table? Honestly, I think about the fact that earlier in that press conference, he also talked about everyone having a clean slate coming into this season, whether you'll be on the roster, your free agent, or you're on the roster already. And I feel like that was almost directly talking about Mack Jones, because I take a look at Mack Jones last season and he was pretty much butchered in the national media. So, you know, Alex van Pelt talked about the preconceived notions. When I think about the preconceived notions, I immediately think about Mack Jones and how he was perceived in the national media as not being able to be a starting quarterback here in New England. So I mean, for Mack Jones, he needs a clean slate, right?  So for Alex van Pelt, I feel like for him, it's giving Mack Jones a clean slate to prove who he is. So I took it a little differently, Phil and Andy. I looked at him saying everything's on the table as you have to have everything on the table, because we're not sure if we're going to be able to get a free agent veteran quarterback and maybe they don't want to go with Bailey Zappie, maybe Mack Jones fits the scheme better. But you do have to keep your options open and there is an opportunity for Mack Jones to maybe prove some things. But I think the clean slate is probably a clean slate somewhere else. Well, if you remember, that was the theme last off season when Bill O'Brien came in, everybody got a clean slate. We know how that worked out. So I agree in that this felt like a well executed, strategic answer where you're certainly not committing to him, but you're also not ruling it out that he'll still be with the team and good potentially in some way, shape or form end up behind center. I don't think it's their preferred option Andy, but while he is still on the roster, you're still so far from the draft, other teams are trying to figure out their roster. So they're probably trying to decide at some point in time here. If not now, is Mack Jones worth trading for? Is he worth us giving up a fifth or sixth round pick to send to New England to make sure we get that guy on our system? So not a commitment by any stretch. And honestly, it would surprise me if they worked really hard to make sure that they were keeping him on the roster for 2024. Yeah, it would stun me if Mack Jones was back with this team. It's funny because the description of the quarterback that Alex van Pelt likes, I think sounded like Mack Jones coming out of Alabama, but doesn't sound like Mack Jones after I watched him play the last two seasons in New England, in terms of mental toughness and leadership, even accuracy, which became a negative for him at times over the last couple of years with turnovers and interceptions and bad balls. So I think it was sort of coach speak or honeymoon period, whatever, no need to alienate him. As your guy, Tom Karn likes to say, he is still a cost effective young quarterback who a couple of years ago was a pro bowler and a couple of years ago was a good player. So why alienate him? Why end it now and say he stinks? He's gone. I also thought it was interesting. He was like the first guy Alex van Pelt brought up. Now my guess is that's because Max here working out sometimes and he bumps into him and that may be intentional by Mack Jones trying to save his career. But no, I would be stunned if Max still here. And based on the description that Alex van Pelt gave today about what he's looking for in a quarterback, who do you think does fit that description particularly in the draft? I actually don't think there's an obvious answer to that in the top three based on what he said, because I think you're going to look at mechanics, leadership. Was he a captain? Was he not a captain? We did a little research and apparently Drake May was a captain in two years ago. Last year wasn't a full time captain, was a game by game captain. Jayden Daniels wasn't a captain. Then he became a captain. Whose fundamentals are better? Like there's just a lot that goes into that. And we also need to remember they're not sitting at one or two. They're sitting at three. So as you parse it and decide, oh, I actually like Drake May better based on all my factors, oh, he just went two. So do I still like Jayden Daniels? Did I talk myself out of him? If you made me guess right now, I think I would say Jayden Daniels. And I don't, you know, it's interesting coming from Alex van Pelt's experience with the Browns, which was a unique experience with all those quarterbacks and all the different styles and mindsets and experiences he dealt with.  Well, guys, both Alex van Pelt and Gerard Mayo took some time to discuss what they're looking for in not just a quarterback, but also a player and the culture they want to build. Here's what they had to say. I'm expecting, you know, first and foremost, a tough team, tough team. And I think after that, it really gets into smart players, but you don't have to be a jeans, but you have to be smart enough and really explosive players and guys that really play for one another. We want to check our egos. Oh, hold on.  I mean, we talk about football family. I mean, that's one thing we'll talk about a lot. This is, this is us together, you know, doing it for each other as with one heartbeat and, you know, one purpose. I mean, does that sort of kumbaya stuff work in today's NFL? Is that what guys want to hear? Honestly, I would say even the description that they gave right there, isn't more so like a kumbaya type of environment in a locker room, but I feel like it's more so getting everyone on the same page. And that's exactly what they do need here in New England. If they want to make things work, not only this season, but beyond it. Jarrah Mayo brought up a good point. You want to have guys who are tough. You want to have guys that have the same makeup that are also smart out there on the field. You can't have people doing different things out there on the field. Everybody has to be going in the same direction. I think that's pretty much what they were putting out there. I don't know if the kumbaya is anything that would, that would work in the NFL at this point though. One heartbeat, Phil Perry. One heartbeat. That's what we have here. One heartbeat. Yeah, I think the message was pretty similar from Jarrah Mayo to Van Pelt to Covington to Springer. I think it is pretty clear, even though it's not necessarily kumbaya maybe the strengths that these guys have, and I would focus particularly on Mayo, Covington and Van Pelt, all are described by players, coaches that I've spoken to that have worked with Van Pelt over the course of his career. Guys that really are culture builders. Guys that when they step into the room, everybody feels at ease. And I think, I think Andy, if you're a little bit younger, if you're Jarrah Mayo, if you're DeMarcus Covington, if you've been in the building here specifically, you've seen basically the opposite end of the spectrum approach, which has always been, we need you to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And there is certainly merit to that. There's no question about it. I'm sure even Mayo would acknowledge that. But what's the best way to get consistent results from your players? What's the best way to consistently motivate them and have them play for you? I think there is some relating to them on a human level that has to be involved that this staff seems like it'll be able to bring. A human level in a way they've been treated as they've come up the football ladder, right? I keep talking about this. I think we are trending toward more of an AAUification of the NFL through seven on seven in these camps and these tournaments, and these guys are treated a little different. This isn't bare Brian and guys throwing up all over themselves in the heat. It's a different world that they grow up in because I would go back to some of it is the delivery and the culture setting they're trying to set because some of the words are the same as you've heard from every football tough, smart, like Bill Belichick was smart, tough, dependable for 20 plus years. So that's what he wanted his football team. We're here in the same thing. Same words is just the delivery and the way they feel when they get it delivered that we're asking you to do this. Maybe we're not jamming it down your throat and punching you in the face when you do it.


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This is the chair pod. It's an air mouse and presentation tool. It comes in around 50 pounds on Amazon. I wanted to try this out because it's a very compact mouse that you can use as a wireless trackpad. Now I'm just gonna unbox this and showcase to you guys how this looks and how it performs. But one of the reasons why you might want to buy this is if you want the capabilities of having a mouse, a trackpad and a wireless presentation laser pointer then this is something that would be really useful for you. So in the box you can see there's some instructions here. Essentially there's two modes to this mouse. There's air mode and ground mode. Ground mode is what you will use the mouse for on the actual desk like a normal mouse or a normal trackpad. Air mode is if you wanted to hold it in your hand some of the gestures that you can use in that mode. So you can see there's some options listed here as soon as you open it up of what each of those modes can do depending on the location where you press on the trackpad. So let's open this out. You can see how incredibly compact that is. It's kind of like a very mini Apple trackpad and I'll show you a comparison in a second but this is only 2.3 inches and this is extremely light. This weighs only 33 grams and it can fit literally anywhere. You can put it in your pocket, backpacks, wherever you like. Before I turn that on let's just see what else is in the accessories box. Now it charges with USB-C which I think is a great touch. I was predicting it might be micro USB but thank God it's not. And then you also have the user manual which will give you some instructions of the air gestures. So let me just go over to the English version. So it's pretty straightforward to connect to Bluetooth. All you need to do is press and hold the middle button for a couple of seconds. The LED light will blink twice then it can be found as cheer pod on your Bluetooth device which will be your laptop. So it's compatible with both Mac and Windows. So if you see here these are the gestures that you can make when it's on ground mode and this works across Mac and MacBooks, Windows and iPads and other tablets and they do different things and these are all of the air mode gestures. So I will be trying a few of these out to see how well it performs. Let me just quickly run through the cheer pod itself. You'll notice there's a blue LED light just on the side of the cheer pod. That's the USB-C charging port. You've got a few click areas so top left top right and middle click as well. So it's very compact. On this side you have the laser pointer there. So once it's in air mode you can use the laser pointer by holding down the middle button and these are the switches. So right now it's in off. The middle one is ground mode and the last one is air mode. So very simple but just by way of comparison this is my Apple trackpad. Now this Apple Magic trackpad 2 is £150 and this cheer pod is £50. So a third of the price I wanted to see how well it compares. Of course this is super large and super responsive. It's a very premium product. This is one of those that you can find as a cheaper alternative and this clearly has more features than this but I wanted to see how well it performs. Let me go ahead and pair this with my MacBook Pro. Start using it in ground mode first and see how well it performs and how responsive it is in terms of its latency. So let's go ahead and do that now. Right so I've got the cheer pod now connected by a Bluetooth on my MacBook Pro. Make sure you put it on air mode when you follow the instructions to pair it. It was quick and easy. So as you can see it's pretty responsive. Now if I start scrolling I can just use one finger to do that. It does scroll quite fast. Of course it's not like the Apple Magic trackpad or anything like that but for the most things that I would probably need to do on a day-to-day it actually works pretty well. So I wanted to try some of these other gestures listed here for ground mode which is the mode I'm currently on. Right click that works very well. Left click like this that also works very well. It's a very nice soft click so it's not loud and it's very easy to press. Now you can also zoom in and out with pinching your fingers. So let me see how good that works. Okay that was pretty straightforward. I'm quite impressed with that actually. It doesn't zoom in fluidly like an Apple Magic trackpad but it actually zooms in as if you're zooming in manually through the keyboard. So when you do command plus it goes in the incremental percentages to zoom in and out it does it exactly like that which actually works fine for me. Now you can switch between all of the windows as well by swiping up with four fingers so let me try and see how easy it is to do that. So it took a few attempts obviously it's probably due to the size and the weight of this device because it actually ends up moving with you when you use multiple fingers to control things but it did do it in the end as well. The one thing I would say is if you are going to use three or four finger commands to do anything it might be a little bit tricky because it's so lightweight it ends up moving with you on the desk but as you can see it done a pretty good job by moving the mouse itself with your fingers so it still showed like the mission control. So if I really wanted to have a compact mouse like this to use on a desk I think this actually works very well. So now let me switch over and try air mode to see what gestures I can do while holding this in my hand. Okay for air mode you have to basically switch the mouse to free vertical like this with the middle button there on the left hand side and then you can hold the mouse in your hand and use the air gestures. So this is where you'll be able to use the laser pointer by holding down the middle button. There you go. Works very well and if I'm doing presentations in the office or anything like that this will be a very convenient thing to have and you can also use this to cycle through your PowerPoint presentations by just pressing the button anywhere to go through to the next slide. To scroll the page you literally swipe down the left hand side of this while it's in vertical mode as you can see and then if you wanted to go down to the page if you want to scroll up a little bit you press the bottom if you want to scroll down a little bit you press the top so it's very quick and easy. Again if you wanted to zoom you'll have to use two hands for this you just simply pinch that is very responsive and I'm quite happy with that. If you wanted to see emission control then you can actually swipe up with two fingers and that was very quick and responsive as well compared to the ground mode so I quite like that and there's plenty of other things you can do you can drag items by double pressing and then dragging it along the mouse you can also use three fingers to show the desktop like so you know and that's essentially it and to be honest is it worth 50 pounds? I reckon it can probably be a little bit cheaper because it is such a lightweight product if you drop it you know it possibly might break but for the things that it can do in this small device I think it's worth checking out so take a look at the link in the description below it's available on Amazon if there's anything else you guys want to know about the capabilities of this then drop a comment down below if you like this review and you like all things tech and you like gadgets like this make sure to subscribe I have plenty more videos coming out each and every week and I'll catch you guys next time take care