Hello and welcome back everyone. Next up in line for Arts and Culture is Inke Arns. Inke is the head curator of Hardware Medienkunstverein in Dortmund and she runs an amazing program there. I was there last time for an exhibition on Brutalism and today she's going to introduce us to Afrofuturism and the exhibition AfroTech. Welcome for Inke Arns. Thanks. It's amazing to be here. I hope you can hear me and the technology is working. So I'm going to briefly introduce you to AfroTech and the future of Reinvention. It's an exhibition that is currently on view in the Ruhr area at HMKV until late April and it's just a lot of gold in the exhibition. So what's the exhibition about? The exhibition AfroTech and the Future of Reinvention puts Afrofuturism in dialogue with alternative technological solutions and imaginations. The speculative narratives unfolding in the artworks on display, I will talk about them later, are confronted with actual inventions from maker scenes in different African countries. This creates a double shift of perspective. While the artworks project a double shift of, sorry, while the artworks project decidedly African and diasporic science fiction visions, the real devices appear as evidence of a technological development that is already underway. The exhibition thus presents Africa as a continent of technological innovation. And I will explain to you later why this is so, why we do this. This is just an overview of the artists in the exhibition, 20 artists and 12 tech projects in the exhibition. They are presented together and I will also explain later how come that this is so. Before I talk about the exhibition and go a little bit more deeply into the contents, I want to tell you a little bit more about the research I did before doing this exhibition and the research that was really crucial for developing this project. So in 2014 with my colleague Anne Bagnar, who is a design professor at the University of Applied Arts and Sciences in Kobuk and who has been researching a lot in maker spaces and maker scenes and so on, we traveled to three countries of that big continent. So we went to Kenya at the eastern coast, we went to South Africa at the southern coast and we went to Nigeria in order to research what people were doing with technology. This was the first logo which Anna developed. I think it's a really beautiful logo. It obviously shows you the silhouette, the continent with a wheel, which is very important, a satellite dish, a helicopter rotor, surveillance camera, flashlights and also something like a cable that looks like an elephant's mouth. So when we started, we had certain ideas and wishes. We wanted to look at the use, the adaptation and the reinvention or invention of technologies, new technologies in those three African countries. And it was very interesting because in 2014, before going there, we also looked, read a lot of stuff on the internet. For example, there was this interesting article by Ethan Zuckerman, Africa's hackers are today's world-class tech innovators, which was published in Wired, for example. Then there was a very, and I'm just pointing you to these articles in case you are interested in looking at who's writing about technology in Africa. White African, who's actually Eric Hersman from Nairobi. He's running this blog where you can find lots of really interesting entries. This is a very interesting and important guy, Imika Okafor. He's part of a very big family from Nigeria. And he emigrated to the US. He's living in New York City. And he is one of the people who started the Make-A-Fair Africa project. And he also ran the Make-A-Fair Africa in Lagos in 2012. So his online project is called Timbuktu Chronicles. So you might want to check out what he's writing there. This is just a really beautiful poster of the 2012 Make-A-Fair Africa in Lagos, which gave us a lot of ideas, actually, where to start our research and where to look at. Okay, that's another rather funny article. One to become an internet billionaire moved to Africa from 2011 already. And the map actually shows you the projected undersea cables in May 2013. I'm not going to read you all of this just to tell you we wrote a kind of FAQ before we went into it, because we wanted to make very clear what we were interested in and what not. And just to give you an idea, we were interested in people doing strange things with technology, electricity, software. Those who are not contending themselves with corporate solutions designed for the global north out of this dissatisfaction are starting to develop their own solutions. So that's what we were looking for. That's just my first impression of Nairobi. And the things on the people we met were quite amazing. For example, here in Nairobi and Kenya, we met this Eric Hersman, a white African who had at that time been developing the first internet server that could work without electricity or without constant power connection, which is something very important in Africa because in some countries or let's say in many countries, there are constant power failures and many people, of course, use power generators which consume a lot of gasoline in order to become independent of those power cuts. And so with this little machine, I mean with a laptop like this, it's not a problem because it can kind of survive two hours, three hours without electricity, but the servers for internet connectivity can't. And so that's why they developed this machine, which has a built-in battery basically. Somebody else I met in South Africa has developed this project, RoboHand. And the guy who invented the project is Richard Van Ass from South Africa. You can see him in the yellow t-shirt. He actually used to work as a carpenter. And at some point in 2011 or so, he had a serious accident. He kind of cut off half of his hand. And so when he went to the hospital and had to face medical treatment, he suddenly realized that he basically could not pay for an artificial limb, artificial hand. So he decided to make one himself. And at that time, 3D printing was just up on the horizon and he invented a solution for himself. But then in the process of making this fully mechanical, non-electrical hand, which is fully functional, he realized that this solution could not only maybe work for him, but also for others. And so that's when he decided to put the files online and they're accessible for anybody who has a 3D printer basically. And they can be adapted to the individual needs. This green one is a hand that we printed out for the exhibition in Dortmund. Okay, the flying donkey challenge or contest was also quite popular at the time. I think they kind of discontinued it because of several bomb attacks and they could not follow up on this. But the idea basically when you don't have infrastructure, roads and stuff, why not use transport drones? Another very interesting project is a project that was presented at the Maker for Africa in Lagos in 2012. It's a project by four schoolgirls who built a generator, it's a power generator, which is not running on gasoline but which is running on urine. And apparently you can produce six hours of electricity with one liter of urine. They were about to install it into their school system. So just to give you some ideas that resulted from this research trip, very often I had the feeling, okay, there is a serious lack of infrastructure, a serious lack of material infrastructure. There's not a cash machine at every street corner. There's maybe not roads that are kind of good enough to be used on an everyday basis. So there's really a serious lack of physical infrastructure. And what I noticed is that it's not about catching up, but somehow it's about jumping over. It's about going directly to the next level. So going directly wireless, and I guess some of you know that, or many of you might know that M-Pesa was introduced very early on. It's a way of paying with your mobile phone without the need of having a bank account. Of course the usage of mobile telephony is very widespread in Africa. And so a lot of ideas suddenly somehow became very virulent, so to speak, out of this idea of jumping to the next level. For the project it meant that what I had seen in those three countries somehow did not correspond to what you usually see in the media, television or in the newspaper. You always read about there's the next famine, there's poverty, there's hunger, corrupt regimes and so on. It certainly all exists, definitely. But there's also something else. When we had the opening of the exhibition I said there's normality in Africa, you know. And so that's why we decided to present Africa as the continent of technological innovation. It's a different way of sort of a different kind of extreme. So you might wonder how does Afro-Futurism come into the game? For a long time I did not know what to do with these findings, you know. I was very unsure how to develop the whole project further and then I started talking to a colleague of mine, Fabian Zavidralara. Because somehow I had the feeling I'm missing a kind of narrative. Okay, this idea of jumping to the next level, it's a nice idea. And the idea of presenting Africa as a continent of technological innovation is also quite interesting but somehow there was a lack of narrative. So Fabian suggested to look at Afro-Futurism. So what is Afro-Futurism? Afro-Futurism is clearly not something that comes from Africa, interestingly. But it's a science fiction narrative that developed in the 1950s in the US. So it's Afro-American culture. And one of the protagonists is actually Sanra, jazz musician, who always claimed to be from the planet Saturn, not from the planet Earth, but from Saturn. And as you can see, he loved dressing up like a pharaoh. So those two references are very important. The reference to the ancient Egypt, so let's say a high culture in Africa, and at the same time the reference to space, to outer space. And these are two very important references for Afro-Futurism because you will find these references in many, let's say, science fiction stories, narratives. So when you're being denied your own place in the present time, Afro-Futurism has been looking for alternative spaces and also times. So that's why space is an alternative place. And also, let's say, the moving into the future or into the very faraway past is an option, or became important in Afro-Futurism. So maybe you have wondered why we have such a very strange design. On the right hand side, it's the building we are located in. It's the Dortmunder U, it's the former Union brewery, and it has this beautiful logo on top of the roof, which obviously stands for Union, this beer brand. But our designers actually found this parallel in Sanra's hairdo, let's say. So that's why we actually developed this design. So let me tell you a little bit about the exhibition. So John Acomfras, short and experimental documentary film, The Last Angel of History, examines the relationships between pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly developing computer technology. The short film, Afronauts, from the Ghanaian director, Francis Bedomo, looks at the real history of a planned space program in Zambia of the 1960s, a time at which political utopias encountered technological progress. And this is actually the story of a 17-year-old girl in Zambia who is supposed to be sent to the moon. Kiluanjikia hendas photographs show futuristic architectures in the Angolan capital of Luanda. The artist reinterprets those post-colonial buildings in Icarus XIII into proof of the first African journey to the sun. Kiluanjikia vanga, in her Sanra repatriation project, has the goal of bringing Sanra back to his actual planet of origin, Saturn. Sanra, who died in 1993, was a jazz musician. He claimed to originate from the planet Saturn and the philosophy of the astro-black which confirmed his extraterrestrial origin. So in this video, she actually interviews a lot of scientists, some of them involved in the ZETI program, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, how to prove, is there a way to prove that Sanra really returned to his planet of origin? And she actually manages to prove it, obviously. Taking the work of the cosmic jazz musician Ra again is a starting point. The speculative narrative of Soda Jerk examines the connection between science fiction and social policy in the black Atlantic music culture. In the exhibition, astro-black is presented as a two-channel video installation with four episodes alternating between the two screens. So this was a selection of projects that deal with outer space, with space travel. Then we also have a lot of projects that deal with the sea, with the deep sea, with the Atlantic, and I'm going to present you two or three of those. So Drexia, the legendary Detroit techno duo Drexia, developed imaginary worlds inspired by Afro-Futurism in many concept albums. In their releases, Drexia is also the name of a legendary city beneath the sea. This Afro-Futuristic or Afro-Futurist Atlantis is populated by the descendants of pregnant women that were taken as slaves from various countries of Africa and thrown overboard and murdered during the crossing of the Atlantic. According to the legend, their unborn children survived in the womb and developed the ability to breathe and live underwater. They founded an unknown underwater civilization that was in possession of utopian technologies. The South Africa-based artist Tabitha Rezair deals with the sea as a storehouse for pain, lost stories, and memories in the era of colonialism. And deep down title, that's the work we see here, sorry. While it also contains the deep sea, it also contains the global infrastructure of our present-day telecommunications within it. So she really follows, she actually overlays, she finds a parallel between the undersea telecommunication cables and the roots of the slave ships that have traveled from western Africa to the so-called New World. The filmmaker Simon Rittmeier in his film Drexia, which you can also see tonight, takes up the myth of the same name in order to use the methods of science fiction to tell off the images circulating in media today and about discussion of the refugee crisis. Another film that you can also see tonight, so tonight is a video program of three films, which in the end I will show you a slide. This is actually Naked Reality by Jean-Pierre Biccolo. It's an Afro-Futurist science fiction film located 150 years in the future. The cities of Africa have grown together to form a gigantic dystopian metropolis in the film of the Cameroonian filmmaker. The protagonist, Juanita, leaves the house one morning, not knowing that her first prayer to the ancestors has initiated her journey to Dimsy, a world one cannot see. Louis Henderson, that's this third film you can see tonight, Lettre du Voyant, Letters of the Seer, is a film essay that uses documentary methods to tell off spiritism and technology. In present-day Ghana, the narrative of the film revolves around a mysterious practice known as Sakawa, internet scam, fraudulent mass emails that is enriched with voodoo magic. Fabrice Montero, he's a Belgian-Bernie photographer, comments on environmental destruction in various regions of Africa in his photographic work, The Prophecy. In his images, he stages fantastic entities. He has designed, together with a designer, Dulcy from Dakar, in apocalyptic landscapes. We're showing four of these pictures here. I only show you one, and this is obviously dealing with computer trash. Slowly coming to an end. The tech projects, I told you in the beginning we have 12 tech projects in the exhibition. They cover a very wide variety of areas. I already told you about Brick Kenya, from Kenya, which is an internet server that also ensures access to the internet, even without a stable power supply. M-Pesa from Kenya is a cash-free method of payment that functions via mobile telephone for which one recieves no bank account. There's the project Ukowapi from Germany. The people who develop it, they are working in Germany and in Africa. Ukowapi means as much as, where are you? It's an innovative address app that reliably also finds locations and areas without an existing address system. Another important area is that of health and medicine. I already showed you Robohand. Robohand provides prosthesis, fingers, hands and legs for printing out oneself for the 3D printer. At a fraction of the price of conventional medical prosthesis. GiftedMarm is an app that provides expecting mothers with useful information and contributes to sexual education. Chowberry from Nigeria combats hunger through innovative use of the expiration dates of food products. This could also be quite interesting for here. The inventor Oskar Ekponimo wants to avoid food waste. And then there's a project called Cardiopads that helps with medical diagnosis in areas with low populations and creates a direct connection with medical specialists. DuakaliScope from Kenya is a completely functional microscope from the 3D printer. And Shirikehap, and that's the last image I would like to show you, Shirikehap. And this is Henry, Henry Nyakarunda from Rwanda. He builds, it's a kind of solar kiosk which can be used for which people can use for recharging their mobile phones and mobile devices. And Henry, he also came to Dortmund. We had a one week festival and we invited several of the inventors. And Henry, he told me, because he builds these kiosks and he kind of rents them out to people. So people can rent them and they can make money on recharging telephones. And he told me, oh, I'm not employing young men. I really want to work with young women, especially young mothers because they feel very responsible. So he's predominantly employing young mothers to run these kiosks. So if you're interested in more stuff, there's a travel blog. Obviously there's a video about the exhibition. There have been some very interesting press coverage. The film screening I would like to point you to is every night from tonight at 10 o'clock in the video lounge. It's those three films. And I would like to thank you for your attention. And I'm here for questions and answers, obviously. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Just one remark. The video lounge is in the art and play area over there. And also for those of you who are interested, all of Sanra's albums are freely available on openculture.net. And I think it would be a perfect thing to do after Cronbridge to zone out a bit.


Hi guys, we are here with our second episode of Whatever we're gonna call this series regarding being environmentally more conscious about what we do and use in our art space I have no idea what to call this Series I'm filming a whole bunch of these in one day So you're probably gonna hear that a lot in the next few videos if I can't I'll cut it out. Anyway. Hey everybody so today in this series we're going to talk about pallets and reusable pallets and Spend the whole series is about spending less money being more environmentally conscious with what we do using reusable products rather than disposable products Helping to save money save our space save the environment right a little bit So hang on one second. I needed to grab this so while I do have this Which is a cutting board? It's a nylon or plastic cutting board Intended for the kitchen. I don't use it for the kitchen. I use it for when I'm doing serious acrylic painting and it has a piece of parchment paper or freezer paper binder clipped to it just because it makes cleanup a little easier for me and I Usually save the paper and reuse the paper and collage So that's going to be part of the message here is not only figuring out What to change up in the way you do things to make things Reusable but reusing what isn't recyclable. So This parchment paper once it has acrylic paint on it's not recyclable And it may not be recyclable where I am anyway because it has slightly waxy finish and or the state of Oregon It's kind of picky about what paper you recycle so But that being said usually by the time I'm done and when I'm using this palette I'm usually doing a lot of color mixing and when I'm done This is usually really full of all kinds of fun colors of paint. I usually scrape off the big blobs I usually have a random canvas or a big piece of poster board laying around that I'll smear paint on and at some point that in itself that big piece of poster board will become a finished piece of artwork But the paper and what's paint is left on it is a great piece of collage So I'll clip it up somewhere out of the way and let it dry And then I'll put it in my paint painting paper bin And I'll either pass it on to one of my design team members or a friend or I'll use it in collage or Sometimes I'll wrap up happy mail in it or something like that It makes interesting paper. So that's one thing you could do now You don't have to do this that is this is an island cutting board. You could wash this cutting board off After each use that being said my current new house currently doesn't have a utility sink This cutting board is too big for the sink that I do use. So I need to figure out a way that's Easier for me to clean it that doesn't use 20 million baby wipes I do use baby wipes in my art room and paper towels, but I don't use that many of them because once you use them They're trash. I never reuse them for collage. I know a lot of people do and you definitely could do that I don't so I ended up that with a stack of dried baby wipes. What do I do with them throw them away? So I'm trying to Not create so much garbage With this parchment paper, I do I do use parchment paper and deli paper in my work So that is something I would use so for me covering this with the parchment or deli paper and Using that as a base and then just picking it up when I'm done that works for me That works really well for me. Sorry the camera is going out of focus. It's got nothing to focus on but something It's white. So that really works for me for you. You might have access to utility sink and you might be able to in a safe way get the Board clean without Sending all the paint remnants down the sewer system because so that's another thing We're going to discuss in a future video. So that's another thing. I was trying not to do any more than absolutely Necessary So this really works for me for large projects and large paint mixings. However, I also use these So these are variety of found objects and things from the kitchen department at different stores Especially Daiso and Target This is actually our very first set of dishes girl I Go away of safe dishwasher safe. Oh, sorry Martha Stewart Pattern, it's like I have think I have two of these teacups left. That's the only things I have left I use it generally for water Or from watering down inks sometimes occasionally If I have my I have one that I keep my little small mini torch in when I'm doing Resin to blow bubbles out. It just keeps it from when it's hot tilting over you can kind of stand things up in it But I do use this a lot These are from Daiso. They're intended for Saki or soy sauce. I use these a lot This is a disposable Single scoop ice cream cup from Las Vegas from a trip to yes I literally washed it out put it in my carry on and brought it home with me It's a again. It's a great cup for putting a little water in or watering down some ink in to do some splattering I love this cup This is from these are from these are I don't know how well you're gonna be able to see these on camera But these are from salads the ready-made salads where you get you buy the whole kit and then you just dump everything in a bowl and eat it These are great That's the same thing putting watercolors in watering down ink or paints in and using them using these as pellets And they wash up actually pretty well, and you're not sending them straight into the trash can You're at least reusing them at least once before it goes gets thrown away So that's kind of a theme reusing it as much as possible before it does finally go in the trash These are all from Target I love these plates not only for acrylic paint, but watercolors all of these I use with watercolor paint they're Different kind of plates. This one's plastic. These are ceramic They can wipe up with baby wipes or one of my rags that I showed in a prior video And I can just get the wet rag damp And especially with the ceramic ones then just wipe it off put the rag in the dirty rag bin the pallets clean put it away And I'm good to go I Try not to clean these with a lot of baby wipes or Paper towels because then I'm just creating trash and that's not what I'm intending to do so I try to use a damp rag or I go into my Room that I do use to wash things up with and I have a particular way of washing things so that the water doesn't go down the drain and I again use a rag or a kitchen sponge We're gonna go over that in a different video, but that's what I do. What do you do? do you have some ideas of what we could all do to be more environmentally conscious and Responsible with our art tools and supplies and how we clean up and how we create art in our space I would love to hear them in the comments below if you want to support The free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook groups You can click on the link tree link in the description below when you do that you're gonna find Places to follow me on social media like Instagram and Twitter. 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Save 10% with my code Bobby10 on raw, organic, grass-fed and grass-finished, freeze-dried organ meats from grassland nutrition. Link in the description box.  The end result is the skinny, fat, fruitarian look. Congratulations. All right, guys. Welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Guys, today we're going to react to Nathan Mulder with his video, how I would transition to a raw vegan diet now after five and a half years raw vegan. I truly doubt that anybody can be a true raw vegan for five and a half years. Let's have a look. Do you ever think back about how you would do things different if you could do them over again? Five and a half years ago, I transitioned to a raw food diet. It went something like this.  I can't sleep. Looking back now, I would have done many things differently. So let's go over them. When I switched to my raw food diet, I looked like this. I had been somewhat of a junk food. So he says that he was eating a lot of junk food. Sure, he's a little flabby in the midsection, but he holds good muscle mass. You can see that on the shoulders and on the traps. Even the chest is pronounced. He does have a good amount of muscle and overall looks pretty healthy. I had it for a couple of years and I couldn't count the times I'd eaten fruit on one hand. I switched from a junk bodybuilding diet to vegetarian to junk bodybuilding diet. There is no such thing as a junk bodybuilding diet. Either you were on a bodybuilding diet or you were eating junk food. I switched from a junk bodybuilding diet to vegetarian to vegan in eight months. By the time I made my raw transition, I basically ate standard vegan cooked diet with junk. Jumping straight into fruits and vegetables was a recipe for disaster and a disaster it was. It's a recipe for disaster either way. So what I would do differently now is transition slower. I would have taken at least one month to slowly introduce more fruits and raw vegetables into my diet. At the same time, I would have slowly decreased the ratio of cooked foods in my diet and cut out vegan junk food at the same time. This would have allowed my body to graduate. Wow, man. Dude, you lost all of your muscle mass. Do you really believe you're healthy now or what? So they get used to the switch in diets. A good option would have been to transition to raw food before eventually where you eat raw foods until 4 p.m. and at the end of the day, you have a cooked meal or two. Here you can think of fruits for breakfast, a smoothie for lunch and then whatever vegan cooked meal you want at night. These slower approaches would have made my transition less aggressive and not overwhelming. But dude, if it is your species specific diet, why would you need a slow approach? Anybody, no matter if vegan, raw, vegan, hardcore, fruitarian can eat raw fish, raw meat right away. There are no issues whatsoever. How can that be? Not resulting in cleansing reactions tormenting me for three weeks. Yes, that's how your body should react to its species specific diet with allergic reactions. I had major indigestion and constipation, which resulted in major bloating all the time. I could not eat salads.  I would literally wake up bloated. It was actually pretty comical, but also very painful and frustrating. So it's pretty comical that you believe now you're eating healthy. It meant I could only eat fruit, which made my cleansing reactions worse and also sort of made me bloated. Now you might say, why didn't you try smoothies? Well, I did. Bloated. It took me almost eight months before I could tolerate a simple salad without getting bloated and getting a stomach.  This is literally all you're eating. You're just eating plants. You are not a herbivore. Eating a plant's only diet will lead to malnutrition. Just look into the mirror. I was able to manage a smoothie after about six and a half months without pain and bloating. It took ages. Why was this? Well, I was completely and utterly constipated and full of uneliminated waste matter.  So anything I put in was extremely slowed down by everything blocking my digestive tract or it would just simply get stuck. At the same time, I wasn't used to digesting any of these foods. Neither was my gut flora. So this made it even worse. So instead of suffering and struggling for eight months, I would have three enthusiastic about this, simply done a juice fast and fixed this entire issue in three months time. I would have flushed it. Yeah, sure. Just look at vegetable police. He fixed himself as well system and all the blockages and we set my gut flora at the same time. Let me show you what I mean. Okay, so here we are getting such strong ex vegan vibes from you already. Documentation of some of my clients who are in my juice fasting program. They're addressing the problem at the core. They're pushing out everything that's basically preventing them from having good digestion. It's causing bloating. It's kind of results.  It's causing all kinds of issues. Here we have one of them. He's pooping about 10 times a day solid chunks. All of it stank day in, day out. The only thing he's drinking is juice. Five liters of fluids he's pumping in every day. Here he says plus a lot of mucus coming out through throat and in stools. Here we have the daily documentation of another one of my clients. He's drinking seven liters a day, right? Seven liters of fluids. He's having sticky and solid stuff come out. It's so sticky. He's so serious about it. So concentrated. Look at this protocol. Look at it. Look at it. Watch the toilet a couple of times. Just imagine that sticking into your bowels. Here on day 21, right? Day 21 of not eating, drinking. You definitely watch too much John Rose. It's part of your movement. It's part of your posture. For sure. Hard, solid, mucus movement. He actually privately messaged me and told me like, what a relief to get this out. It's unbelievable this is coming out of me. Wow. So hard and dry. Now it's not only men having this. Here's a woman. Day 12, a big dig. Man, why wouldn't you try to eat just raw meat for a while? See how your body would detox. Two solids with liquids, five solids, still solid stuff coming out. And every day she's getting these yellow mucus out as well. On day 13, yellow mucus. Day 14, yellow mucus. Day 15, yellow mucus.  He really tries to act interested in what he has to say. Mucous. Lots of solids and stuff. Now this is the reason why you're having indigestion. This is the reason why you're having bloating. This is why you're constipated. This is why you're having all these problems. Because this is what's inside of you. And all of them are eliminating it, getting to the root cause of the problem. And they're going to fix it in three months instead of me suffering for eight... Hey, without knowing the guy, I bet you he is a follower of John Rawls. I have to repeat this one more time. Longer. For example, you go longer as well. This is the highway to cleaning out your bowels and getting rid of these problems. Now when you're interested in a juice fest, there's a link down below, my complete guide to juice fest. And it will tell you everything you need to know about a juice fest. And when you are interested in the program, there's a link down below as well for us to get in contact. By the time I did my long juice fest... Yes, please teach me your ways. Here's your raw food. My bloating issues had basically disappeared.  Yeah, you basically lost all the fat. That is the first thing that goes. And now you started attacking your muscles. Yes, you are very ripped here. This is why the layman would think you are athletic. But if you compare it to the frame that you had prior to this, you see that you lost at least 10 to 15 kilograms of muscle mass. Unhindered. But this took me close to a year to do. With a juice fest, it would have taken me three months and I would have removed all the filth that was still inside of me, even after those two and a half years of raw. Now all I just said about juice fasting also plays a big role in getting skinny during your transition because of my absorption. Now at the end of my bodybuilding, I started to notice that I couldn't maintain my weight and strength anymore. I wasn't happy with this. So my remedy was to eat more and more. But this made it all worse. At the time, I didn't understand why. But now I do.  Yeah, but now you're not abusing your digestive system by simply drinking vegetable and fruit juices. That the food I was putting inside of my body simply wasn't getting through. It couldn't be absorbed properly. I had created malabsorption. And by eating more and more, I added on top of this problem. Now afterwards, I switched to a vegetarian. Then a cooked vegan diet and eventually a raw food diet. But up until that point, nothing had really changed. I had still been adding to the problem. So when I switched to raw foods, I had limited to almost no absorption left. Now I made sure during my transition to eat 3,000 What would you absorb in those raw foods? Let's be completely honest here. You have no fat, soluble vitamins, no bioavailable protein either.  What do you want to absorb? 2,000 calories of raw foods a day. But I was still losing weight rapidly, getting skinny was being bloated at the same time. It doesn't get it. Alright, let me cut you off right there. You are losing weight because you're not absorbing food. But why didn't you lose weight on your junk food diet? Dorb anything. It didn't matter how much of the raw foods I was pumping in. It wasn't getting through as it should. This is the case for many of my clients and loads of people who reach out to me. Dude, you're just getting sugar and vitamin C. Now you're starved.  Obviously now you need less calories and you're cannibalizing yourself quite literally.  My daily basis. Now on top of all of this, my body was also very toxic. You remember those three weeks of cleansing reaction hell?  This is why veganism is a religion and raw veganism is an extension of that. Raw veganism, fruitarianism is the spiritual pinnacle of veganism, where you're not only living compassionately, but you left your toxic body behind as well and you're transcending to a light being. Those people really believe this. And it would rebuild it later. This combined with malabsorption issues meant I was breaking down faster than I could assimilate or rebuild with food and digestion. Yet again, a challenge to you. You seem to like to experiment. Why don't you just eat raw meat and see if you would have any malabsorption issues? Words, there was no way to get around this in the current state that I was with eating. It took me many months of weight loss and frustration to finally see this turn around. If I had known this at the time that I could have done a juice fest, flushed out my bowels and fixed this malabsorption problem in three months time, I would have done so straight away. And I would have personally started with the slow transition of a month, as explained earlier, and then moved into a juice fest. Okay, so those were the big things. And then you would be here. That I would have done. Great job. But what else would I have done? Well, I would have reached out to more people and gathered more information that way and learned from their experiences. Now, of course, there's many resources out there. For example, he's going to look back to this video and cringe so hard. Juice fest is my raw food. I know how it feels. My complete guide to juice fest, you can see all my videos. They're down below in the links in the description. But there's many more people out there. Back in the day, I didn't know any of this. I didn't know much. But no, you know. Learn from your experiences. Ask them, what were your struggles? What mistakes did you make? How did you overcome these obstacles? How did you make sure you want to make these mistakes again, so that I could learn from it and not make mistakes myself and thus not be in cleanser reaction hell? Poor guy. I have to say I have sympathy for him because I was a vegan, a raw vegan and a fruitarian myself. He will wake up one day eventually and this will be very embarrassing. Help me so much. This will help you a lot too. So reach out to those people. Ask them, get into contact, download the resources, watch their videos and learn. So there you have it. That's what I would do. I would transition to a... Fantastic. And now you're at a state where you lost all your muscle mass and on top of that you can't even maintain your definition because your body ends up in a super stressed state. This is when it tries to rebuild some fat storage through the fructose that gets metabolized within your liver. The end result is the skinny fat fruitarian look. Congratulations. Raw food died all over again. Knowing what I know now, five and a half years later. Yes. I would not bother with that long-term approach. I'm going to turn to the fruitarian Batman. And then suffer for months and months with bloating, indigestion, all kinds of constipation, all kinds of symptoms, not being able to eat a salad or not being able to have a smoothie for months, getting skinny. No, no, no. No, no, no. Now you're jacked. Juiced fast and in three months I would flush it all out, fix the problem and be happy. Bro, stop it. It's the same thing that my clients are doing. They have been transitioning sometimes for a year and still having problems. And then they lower it on juice fast and they flush it out. Now you might be like, yeah, but Nathan, you know, maybe it's not inside of me. Maybe this is not causing the problem. Look, man, I was robbing over two and a half years, then I did my lung juice fast. I still want all this stuff come out of me, out of pockets and holes. It's there. It's causing all these problems. It's crazy. I would highly advise you to just jump on a juice fast, man. Get it fixed.  You can just jump straight into a juice fast. Research it properly. Get all the resources. Okay, Nathan. There's a raw food blueprint down below, a juice fasting blueprint. My complete guide to juice fasting. He's imitating John Rawls. Two years on six different occasions before I realized number one, I wasn't going the distance. And then when I finally went the distance, when I finally realized how much of a cesspool I had inside of me. A 20-pound cesspool. Once I finally realized that, then I was motivated to not put anything in that had the wrong bell transit time. He really tries to be him. There's a link to you down below as well to get into contact with me. We can have a chat about that. Whatever you do.  Do it for the best reasons. Do it in such a way that you don't have to suffer or whatever. And that you don't have to go through a long-term process of basically having to struggle. Yeah, but that is impossible. When you go vegan, you will suffer. Get the quickest route. Just do a juice fast. All right, that's it. Hope you're having a good day wherever you are. Have fun with this. See the fun in it.  And remember, you don't have to be bloated or in pain. You can just take it away. It's been six months. Maybe it's time now. Not again. There has to be a way. Okay. All right, guys. And this is it for today's video. I really wish you well, Nathan. You seem like a likeable guy. I don't want you to keep on suffering five and a half years on a raw vegan diet. It's too long for anybody. Honestly, even a few months is already too long on a raw vegan diet. I really hope that you will see the light at the end of the tunnel and reclaim your health. Guys, if you liked the video, leave it a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, please do so if you want to support this channel. All the links are in the description box below. Thank you very much. As always, may God bless you all. Much love and peace.


Welcome, Devani. Welcome to Arizona State University. Welcome, Whit. Here we are. Hey, to be welcomed by you is the greatest treat. But we should be the ones welcoming you, of course. So Metropolitan, your first film. Yes. The Academy Award nomination for the screenplay. I know lots of people who continue to talk regularly about the Lionel Trilling, Mansfield Park essay, the way that Mansfield Park seems to inspire that film. I even, I read one review recently that says Jane Austen is almost a character in Metropolitan. How would you, how did your character respond to that? Well, it was a big help. This is the first screenplay. I had no idea whether I'd get to the end of it when I was writing it. I had no idea if it would work at all. I was very scared of the whole process and whether I'd have enough, you know, useful material. And one thing that's very important in dialogue comedy is you have things to talk about that there are other people who know what you're talking about. And in the film Last Days of Disco, we took Disney films. So they debate about Lady and the Tramp, Bambi, Uncle Scrooge. All over the world, people recognize these things. In Love and Friendship, they talk a lot about the Bible, Bible characters, the commandments, things like that. And in Metropolitan, there's a debate about a Lionel Trilling essay about Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. So there's a focus on Mansfield Park in Jane Austen. And it is not an adaptation of Mansfield Park. I don't think you can say it's inspired by Mansfield Park, but I think there's sort of three props from Mansfield Park helping the story. So there is this debate about the point of view of this very sort of non-fiction sensibility of the guy, the sort of socialist Tom Townsend who doesn't read fiction. He only reads the criticism. And then Audrey Rouget who loves the books and really appreciates the books and reads them and knows them. And, you know, the debate between their sensibilities. And then the sort of comedy of his misinterpretation of the novel from the essay. And then her defending Jane Austen, how she defends Jane Austen, how he deprecates Jane Austen. And then inspired by that, there's the idea of the virtuous heroine. One of the things Lionel Trilling points to the beginning of his essay is that in modern circumstances we can't have a virtuous heroine, which she really rejects and I reject. And then the other thing is the sort of plot, the plot moment in Mansfield Park is her defending something that seems indefensible. It's her uncle's prohibition of them, the young people putting on amateur private theatricals in his great house. Her point is that he is their host. She is the impoverished niece who is being allowed to stay with this family and often made to feel her poverty and social inferiority. But still she's being housed and fed and clothed by this family. And she's grateful to them. And he has a rule against this and even though he's not there, she feels the rule stands and they have to respect his rule even though he's not there. His children and the visiting young people say no, no we should, it's nonsense, we'll just do this. And then in this story of Metropolitan they want to do the game Truth or Dare where you have to answer questions completely honestly. And she says no, we shouldn't play this game, it's really dangerous.  So it's again an indefensible, defending an indefensible prohibition that actually has a lot of sense behind it because there's a reason why people don't reply to questions with absolute honesty and candor because they can hurt a lot of people and cause a lot of trouble. A lot of things should not be told. It's a beautiful scene. And then it isolates her in the group and then there's a loyal fellow who likes her, who comes to her aid and the other guy who's kind of obtuse about it. And so there are these three or four things that helped me in the screenplay of Metropolitan but it doesn't make it an adaptation.


It's been a while since I checked the subreddit, so today we're checking the subreddit. Why am I talking like this? I don't know! It is evolving- oh, and not backwards, yes. Ethan's hair growth progress, April 7th to July 15th, and now. July 15th, it is April, um, August 14th. This is my hair now. Wow, it looks shitty in the back, guys. I can't get a haircut, though. I don't trust anybody to cut my hair, so. It's coming back, though. It's coming back. I'm excited. It's not- look weird. I can't wait to get a haircut, because then it'll look normal again. Pretty boy number three. Portrait of Ethan done with pro markers, Derwent color soft pencils, and golden silver metallic markers. Enjoy and have an amazing day, everyone.  Ooh, a Scorpio necklace. That's kind of cool. That's kind of cool. This is sweet. I think this is based off of the, uh, the picture of me in, uh, wetter. That's like my icon on Twitter. That one. This is awesome. Thank you so much. Ronnie ain't a vampire. Ain't a vampire. Thank you so much. This is awesome. My little brother also has ADHD, and he loved the reviews. He even gave his own opinions and points. He loves that he has found someone equal, uh, like him. It was also a thunder for me to watch how he engaged with the video. Thank you for this, Ethan. I'm really glad that- that so many people enjoyed those two videos of me doing the- the ADHD toy opening thing. It was really fun to do. I also still use the- some of them, like this one I use all the time, uh, this one I use all the time, and this one I use all the time. Except now, the sound, um, is like mac and cheese, or something else if you know what I'm saying. But I'm really glad that so many people, um, that that video resonated so well with so many people. It was also cool to get so many opinions on- on the different toys and stuff, so. Pretty sweet. Pretty sweet. Our prayers have been answered. Very excited. I finally contacted a vocal coach and we're gonna start voice lessons. Yes! I started voice lessons. I've only done one of them so far, but it's- it's been- that one lesson, uh, was even helpful. So, uh, that was cool. I'm excited to keep going, and, uh, the lady that I'm taking voice lessons from seems really sweet and really cool, so. Yeah! Found another- it looked like for Ethan. I said this right from the beginning. Actually, I think what I said with this one that I looked like the guy from Iron Giant, you know, the guy from the hot artist man from Iron Giant, you know, this guy here. But, yes, I also look like this kid too. What's his name? Ta- Ta- Ta- Toggy? Yeah. It's a bird. It's a plane. Wait, what is that? It's- it's Eve. Lord of Flight.  Facial hair is gross. Friend, you can't hear photos. Me and everyone in this subreddit. That's the outro. This is so cool. Expanded a concept from a doodle posted on an r slash oonus on this two days ago. Meet Eve, Lord of Flight, version 2.0. This is so cool! This gives me heavy, like, aang, uh, vibes. Maybe just with the colors and the short hair and stuff.  Look at those talons, baby. Ethan and Tom Holland mixed together. I think so. I think that looks super weird.  I mean, I think I kind of have small lips anyway.  This kid looks weird though. Looks like a weird alien person. This kid doesn't have a belly button. Feeling sad? Don't be, baby Eve. It's so funny. Oh, there's two of them. Oh, hey, there we go. That's like my mom's lingerie. Why was I allowed to wear that?  Their connection. I just can't. My little baby boy giving him some pets, giving him a couple of kisses. My best boy in the whole world. I want to set up, like, a very official Spencer cam someday. Probably not in this space if I move again. Maybe I'll set up, like, an official one with, like, a good camera and stuff. Maybe multiple angles. But I love that boy so much. He's so good. He's so good to me. Ooh, it's me. First time trying to draw Ethan. I love this. This is sick. Super Shmega. Thank you so much. This is cool. I really like the sketchy kind of style. Death comes for us all, but death is also patience. Shoot, inspired by Unisonous, includes pins, sockets, split teeth. This is sick. Now you just got to switch the boots. These are sick.  Wait, are they both reverse, baby doll? Are these two separate? Because I want them both. But switched. Can I get one of each? That's not... Baby. All right, fam, I bought these shoes. I'm f***ing bummed for those.  I'm excited. This is a cool outfit. Thank you for inspiring me to buy shoes. I love shoes. Singing Eve, singing Eve. I don't want to listen to this actually. Thank you, though. No, you shaved. No, I like the mustache. Why? I got bored. It's already growing back, dude. Don't even worry about it. I was watching some old Markiplier videos last night and stumbled across this beautiful moment. What video is this from? Like I remember this, but what video is it from? A drum.  When I see you, I just think of a baby. Yeah. Well, I got a gift for you too, Mark. You should open it. What great acting for me, guys. That's so good. I should win an Oscar.  In the videos, I laugh. I laugh out loud, but on the inside, on the inside, I'm crying. Anyway, we don't need to watch this anymore, but one time, somebody came over to clean Mark's house and all of the prop guns were left out on the table and they were like, oh, we're like, oh, no. Wait, what? That was rough. That was rough. All right. This is mean. All right. This is a little bit mean. This is okay. Stop. My mom bought ADHD fidget toys for my bird. I don't know if this counts as a fidget toy, but that's really cute. That's adorable. Dropping my Ethan affection bomb. Thank you, Ethan, for everything you do, and thank you for just being the amazing person you are. You made my life so much better and never failed to make my day better with one of your amazing videos.  That's really nice. Thank you. I love that shirt so much.  Excuse me. What is this, my cranky crew? I would also like to know. Oh, is that what I would look like if I died my hair white? That'd be interesting. I don't think it would look good at all. That'd be weird looking. I'd probably dye all of my hair white if I did this though. This was so sick. I posted about this on Twitter. This person made a full Unison's ball gown. It was so sick. So cool. Go watch that video. I posted about it on Twitter. Sweet. Ethan's fan base is 99% female. I mean, that was really true for a long time. Hold on. What is it now? My, like I can look in my demographics and it's not 100% correct, obviously. My demographic was like 73% female at one point, which is kind of funny. Yeah. So now it's 50.8% female. Wow, you can really see that a lot. 50.8% female, 49.2% male, which is kind of funny. I don't like glitter. It's coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere. That's true.  Also, I want to look at Star Wars memes again. My whole TikTok for you paid just all Star Wars and I love it so much. It's wonderful. Oh, these are the grossest things I've ever seen. This one is horrible. This one is really, really horrible. Also, getting weird flashbacks to when I lived in this apartment. I did not like living there. This is a nice apartment. I just didn't like living there. This is terrible, terrible, terrible. Can't believe I never watched Ethan watch the gelatin art episodes of the Game Grumps 10-Minute Power Hour with Eve. Yeah, that was a really fun time. That was a really, really fun, good time. I miss those guys. I miss them. Baby Eve. I was recording in my grandparents' house because we were in the process of moving. I forgot about that. Oh, she my little boo thing. Oh, shawty got the fatty. So good. Okay, my challenge for you guys for sometime soon. And I may have already said this before, but post on the Crank Game Plays tag on TikTok. Just hashtag Crank Game Plays and make some bomb Crank Game Plays TikToks. And I will review them in the next time I feel like it. But damn, did I look good? That's pretty true. That's pretty true. That was way too accurate.  That's really funny. All right, I'm going to... Oh, my body hurts. I'm going to leave this one here. Thank you guys so much for watching. Again, Crank Hashtag Crank Game Plays on TikTok. Go post things there, and I will look at them soon. Anyway, thank you for watching. Take that. Take that. All right, bye-bye.