Hello, hello, hello. Welcome, everybody. My name is Joanne Curvis, and I'm the board chair of Longmont Creates, which is the nonprofit arm of the creative district. And we host the Creative Happy Hours. We do them quarterly. And we want to thank Longmont Public Media and Sound Post Sessions, Longmont Public Media, Sound Post Sessions for hosting here. And they kind of took the lead, and they're going to tell you all about the great things that happen here. So we do these quarterly so that our creatives can get out and meet and mingle and find all the cool things that are going on in Longmont. The creative district is run by the Longmont Downtown Development Authority and has very specific word, god, footprint, thank you. This is going to be a joint project. And so what they can only advertise and fund things within the creative district boundaries. Longmont Creates is a nonprofit. We support everything that's going on in the creative district, but we're open to supporting all of the creatives in Longmont. So that's kind of the benefit of having a nonprofit arm. And also, as we continue to grow, our ultimate goal is to be raising money for the creative district's activities, creatives, all kinds of things. Out on the table, you can find information about us. And if you want to become a member, like if you're jealous, because some people have really cute name charts, then if you join, you'll get to make one as well. We have a Pay It Forward membership. It's $35 a year. And if you participate in five qualifying activities throughout the year, one of which is a creative happy hour, then when you go to renew that next year, your membership is $0 because we want our creatives involved. Sure, we want your money. You can still give us the $35. But we want to see your faces. If you hear, we want to hear from you. We want to know what you guys need. So that's how we do our Pay It Forward. So I'm going to stop talking and turn it over. If you have any questions, I'm here all night. Thanks, Joanne. Hi, everyone. My name's Tim Golds-Root. I'm the executive producer of the Sound Post Sessions, which is a concert series that we host right here at LPM. And also, we do some shows over at the Times Collaborative over on Main Street. I'm really excited to be here tonight to have a little host, a little bit of conversation with some creatives in our community. As I've been involved in the creative district for a little while now, the question has some of our conversations on the advisory committee have been around, well, what is a creative? Is it just an artist?  So I thought this might be an interesting opportunity to talk about that and talk about what it means to be creative and the idea that maybe that definition is actually pretty wide and maybe more of us are creatives than we might even think. But also, we want to talk a little bit specifically about Longmont Public Media, the place where we are. I've been a member here myself for almost two years now. And so we want to talk a little bit about that. And there'll be a chance later on to see more about the facility and to around the spaces and whatnot. But we also want to have a chance to have some conversation about how we use the space here to give you an all better idea of that. So tonight, we have three stellar members, stellar creatives from our community here tonight. We have, starting on stage right there, Sarah Morrow, who is a Longmont real estate professional with Cell State Ace Realty. And she's also a singer, a mandolin player, and a songwriter. So I think you're going to realize that multi-talented is sort of a theme for tonight. Next, we have Amanda Maldonado, who's an artist, graphic designer, and teacher known as Koi Ink. And then also Karina Bolch, who's the director of Artistic and Digital Strategy for the Sound Post Sessions. And she's also a freelance writer and musician. So to start us off, Sarah. Hi, Tim. Hi. Tell us a little bit about the sort of creative activities that you're involved in generally. All right. I have been a member of the Longmont Public Media Center here that we're in for coming up on three years. My primary, at least my consistent project is I host a little pun of a show called Proper Tea Time. We talk about property, and we sip proper tea from our little tea set here, my prop. I confess I'm drinking water because I've overdone the tea already today. But that's something I do monthly. I'm also a singer, songwriter, actor. I'm involved in a lot of musical theater and even some opera and some gigs around town. But those are projects that are kind of short term. And I'm a realtor full time and kind of longer term. And I really just love LPM because I've produced my show here. I just finished my 23rd episode last week in terms of content production. And when I first came here three years ago, I didn't even know what Adobe Premiere meant. So I've come a long way with regard to hosting a show. What does Adobe Premiere mean? Sorry, Adobe Premiere is just a piece of software with which I have made my videos, yes. But I do a little teaser, teaser. And then I do my little episode about property with various talking, like it's an interview show. It's just like a 20 minute discussion about sort of what helps people buy and sell properties, some anecdotal things in my show. So anyways, that's a long answer for a short session, sorry. But I am a, yeah, I'm a video editor here and a video content producer. Well, one of the things that I think is so interesting about that project you have is the interface to your professional activities, which I'm going to come back to in a minute. I wait with Bated Brother. Karina, let's move over to you. Tell us a little bit about the sort of creative activities that you are involved in. Creative activities that I'm involved in. Well, I have been a professional musician, singer, also a singer-songwriter for, I guess, coming on 17 years now. I have a degree in jazz studies. And I started a record label a few years back. And during the pandemic, I started writing prose for such publications as Dallas Observer. There's a music blog out of New York called The Wild Honey Pie that I started writing for. And more recently, I was an intern with 5280 Magazine. And I'm still working with them. And then more recently than that, I started writing for Travel Boulder. So I'm also a music, arts, culture, service journalism writer, and also the director of Artistic and Digital Strategies with the Sound Post Sessions for. She does a great job doing that, Bob. For, I guess, over a year now, coming on a year and a half. And with the Sound Post Sessions, I help plan and produce some of our shows. We launched a jazz series last year called Jazz at the Times at the Times Collaborative. And also become kind of the de facto house singer for that series. So I've been back singing jazz after the pandemic, after a break, so that has felt really good. And I also write and edit the Sound Post, which is our monthly newsletter, which talks about the artists that play at our shows and also the music industry at large. And is that it? Is that all? I am an amateur watercolor painter. And although I'm not a visual artist by any stretch, I'm very interested in visual, artistic things. And so sometimes I take Amanda's classes. Definitely a plug there for the Sound Post, which is the blog she writes for us in the Sound Post Sessions. If you haven't had a chance to check that out, you can find that on our website. But Amanda, let's jump to you. Tell us a little bit about the many things that you do. A lot. I'm Coy Inc. This is my logo. It's an owl. So a lot of people who recognize me in Longmont but don't know me know me from my owl logo or my blue hair, which is kind of hard to see in the bun. So I do a lot of things. I teach art classes. I teach a business class for artists at the firehouse every month. I'm doing four free art lessons this year to make it more open to people who don't have expendable income like I do not right now. And just trying to nurture creativity and help people feel good about being creative, because it can be a very painful process getting back to where it feels good again. And I try to do it in very subtle, gentle ways.  So I do watercolor and pen and ink. I'm also a creative and community liaison. I try to bring everybody together. I was just telling someone earlier that I brought the chamber to the firehouse. And I'm like, we're all going to be friends because we're all really dorky and love what we do. So yeah, just make art, have fun, go on art dates. I'm very inspired by the creative community here and by how much this feels like home to me and how much of a family it's become and how much people are like, you want to do that? Let's do it. That sounds great.  Go make things happen. So yeah, I'm just very inspired by Long Mott and the creatives and how much energy and passion we have. And I love inspiring that in people and encouraging them to feel good and have fun. One of the other things that I've really admired and seen you do recently is I saw you had a ribbon cutting for your business, Coy Inc. You're the best attendant I've ever seen a ribbon cutting be. We had a head count of 67 people, which I was very, and this was July 12th when no one wants to leave their house. They're like, what is existing? January 12th. January, thank you. Jays. Yeah, everyone's on vacation on July 12th. Anyway. Well, but I think this connection to business and our professional lives is another thing that I want to talk about a little bit. I know for me, there's a lot of overlap between the consulting work that I do professionally and audio engineering work that I do. And I really enjoy having a place like this where I can exercise some of the more creative aspects of being a sound engineer, how to make things sound good. How do I EQ this guitar or something to get it sounding just right. But also, I think the creative district is a really great platform for us to not just be creatives or working in a bubble, but actually using these creative, developing these creative skills in ways that help us professionally and help us make money, right? So, Sarah, I want to come back to you. How does being a creative kind of influence you professionally? So I'm not in this organization and I'm not a creative, so I just want to put that out there right now because I'm kind of got a little imposter syndrome going on. But now that I know you exist, $35 a year sounds pretty good and doable. Sorry, what was the question? Really? Well, I know that your property time is definitely connected to your real estate activities, right? So I'm just kind of curious how that, how did you come about to, how did you have the idea to make that start that series? What kind of inspired that? That's a good question.   But I don't know how it happened. I learned about Long Mountain Public Media. I think I just Googled video. I wanted to learn how to create short videos for like my insta reel, to be honest. I just wanted to find a way to get good with video. I was an audio engineer for a little while. You know, I learned Pro Tools, I can do what Tim does, not quite nearly as well as Tim, but I kind of knew about audio and music editing. But suddenly everyone's like, you got to produce video content if you want to be a good realtor. And so I was like, all right, let me learn how to do this. And I just needed support. So I found LPM, sort of from a marketing, you know, wanting to do local marketing in Long Mountain. So I really lucked into this place. And then once I started it, you know, once you generate an idea and you're willing to put in the time, which I was, people kind of helped me out of total necessity. I was like, can you just get my lighting better? And can you just show me this? And it's been, you know, over the course of three years I finally figured a lot of things out and I got good, if you will. But in the beginning it was just kind of like you said, it was like this idea. And all I wanted was to have a monthly something in my YouTube channel, basically. So it's just sort of unfolded. And I thought it would be easier than it was. But now I do, I have a monthly thing on my YouTube channel and there was a lot of learning that had to happen. But I love talking to people. I love producing content. I love LPM and I stick with it because it's all my favorite stuff.  And I just, I enjoy it.  Well, I would, for one, would say you're definitely creative. Thank you. And I admire your ability to use your creative skills, you know, in a way that really reinforces and helps your business. You know, I think that's great. Karina, let's jump back over to you. How do you feel like being a creative influence as you professionally?  I have always been into performing and singing since I was a kid. And then that's why I went on to get a music degree. And before the pandemic, I was working a corporate job at the fashion company Fossil. And it was a cool job and it was fun to work in fashion for a while. But after a while, I just didn't feel creatively fulfilled and made the decision to step away from that job to pursue my full-time creative career. And then the pandemic happened and kind of screwed that all up. So that kind of forced me to readdress, you know, like what are my skills? What can I do professionally? And that's how I got into writing. And I guess I'm still trying to figure out the answer to that question. What do I do next? I'm freelancing like crazy, but I need to find a home. I need to find a place where I can use all my creative skills and also make an income and hopefully buy a house someday. You know how to find me? I know, I knew a good real estate agent.  Tell us a little bit more about how it works for you. Yeah, they're so interconnected. I started off as a graphic designer. I went to college to study art and with a termination to figure out how am I going to make a living doing something creative. And when I succeeded at that, I, after moving to Longmont, fell in love with the city and felt really called to the community and the connection that I felt here and wanting to contribute and give more of myself in my time to that, which is why I started Koyank Studio, which is the business name for what I do full-time self-employed work. But yeah, I guess it's always stemmed from a love of giving back, teaching, being around community and the reason why I wanted to do, I'm not doing them now, but the marketing classes was just wanting to elevate and uplift some of the really cool businesses in Longmont, giving artists and businesses the opportunities and advantages that I have as a creative graphic designer and knowing the marketing field. So So these are the marketing classes that you offer around town, right? I haven't taken them on myself. I think maybe you did, Karina, right? Tell us a little bit more about those marketing classes you're doing. I'm not doing them anymore. Okay. Yeah, I'm taking a break. You can still. I was just gonna sign up. Tell us about the ones that you did. So basically trying to help businesses with how to use social media in a way that is rewarding and not draining. So there are some businesses in town that I am in love with and they don't respond to me when I post things on Instagram and it makes me really sad. And it's- I hope I respond to those things. Yeah, you and Karina both respond. But like I'll go to a coffee shop or I'll go to a business and I'll do an illustration and take a photo of the illustration that I made while I was hanging out there and they may not see it because they're not checking their social media as much. And what I was hoping to cultivate is helping remind businesses why they started this in the first place, why they became self-employed and did something super exhausting and a huge uphill battle and that there are people who really connect and engage with them and want to feel that human connection with that business through your social media is an easy way to see behind the scenes what they're getting up to and feel like there's someone behind this and you can be like, I love you, you're amazing. I wanna support you, I wanna tell other people about you but you're not on Instagram and I can't. I took photos and I just put the location on there but no one's gonna click on that. So yeah, just trying to show businesses that it can be something that feels good if you stop worrying about what you have to do and do what might be kind of fun. How can you hang out with the people that you started this for in the first place? Well, let us know when you decide to strike these back up again. I feel like this is really useful and valuable information. Yeah, thank you. Well, let's change gears for a little bit and talk a little bit more about this specific place, Longmont Public Media. Sarah, you mentioned coming in and not really knowing a lot about video editing in particular. There's some witnesses to that. Tell us a little bit more about maybe some of the specifics of the video resources you utilize here. Sure, I kind of compare my learning journey here to throwing a toddler into a swimming pool so they can learn how to swim. I definitely bit off a lot more than I can chew. I strolled in here like, yeah, I'm gonna do an episode and I'm gonna have content every week and I realized pretty quick that I was too big for my bridges because there was this guy who was here who was like, I'll do all your editing, I'll do your producing. I was like, fabulous. Did my first episode. He spent three hours editing it. He made me this beautiful intro. He made me these beautiful credits and then a week after it was done and I was like, I wanna hire you. This is beautiful. I wanna just have this template. I want your help. He said he'd teach me stuff. He decided to just completely leave LPM and go become a tattoo artist and follow his passion and I was like, oh my, and he just sent me a couple of stems and was like, here you go. You can work with this and you can see what I did and do it yourself. And I was like, oh my God. Like, I was so freaked out. I was just, he had done some really advanced stuff in After Effects and imported it into Premiere and thought that I could like figure this out. I'm like, I have an opera degree.  Like, you were gonna help me do this and so I just, I remember feeling really betrayed at first. I mean, happy for him but I kinda wished it would have been better if I had just created it from scratch myself. But instead I had to figure out what somebody else did which forced me to learn a lot in the editing portion of things, like in a short period of time, so that my second episode, so that I wasn't just doing one episode and then being like, I can't do this. So I just, yeah, it took me a good five or six or seven more episodes to then figure out what he had done and then do it myself but I was determined to do that. So do you do all the editing yourself now? Yes, and I'm to the point, finally, you're welcome you guys and thank you for everything. Like after 20 episodes, I can come in.  I can set up this space, I do my episode and then I go in the other room and I completely edit it fully, all of it, audio, color correction, totally alone. And that was a big- One of the nice things about 24-7 member acts last part of the week. Yeah, oh, I'm here sometimes at like one o'clock in the morning, but like I, that was a really big win for me. I know it sounds kind of like, well, yeah, you come and you produce content but you got to understand that like, I had a lot of help from the staff, from some hired guns, from YouTube, from, you know, just so, the resources were here but I was hungry for it. You have to be like, annoying. I'm good at being annoying until I learn what needs to be learned to get to make it happen. Tenacious. Tenacious. My slogan as a realtor is let my tenacity move you. Puns, all puns. But yes, I do kind of pride myself in being tenacious and learning. This is a great place to learn but you do have to kind of, people are like, maybe I'll join LPM so they can produce content for me. I'm like, doesn't work that way. Yeah, you really, it's a great place to learn. It is. It's been my experience as well. If you take the initiative, like any makerspace, all the tools you need are here. Bounce that back to you, Amanda.  I've used the iPad for sales at markets. Excellent. There are multiple iPads. It doesn't work with the square anymore. So I love coming in here and teaching classes on Adobe programs so artists and businesses can learn how to do some basic marketing things, how to use Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. And I've also brought in one of my close friends, hired me to teach her how to use Illustrator, Photoshop, and the flatbed scanner to just take her artwork and to turn it into cards. And some of that involves taking some hand lettering that you do separately, the art itself, and then compositing it together into Photoshop for a finished piece, how to take the white of the paper and make it a pure white. So you don't see like the dirty paper grain, which can be really sad, because usually the printer makes it a lot darker than it looks on the screen. And they're like, oh no, it looks gross. And then earlier today, I was here using the podcasting studio with that same close friend. And that her business is called Patchwork Girl Productions. She's really adorable. And Ryan taught us how to use the podcasting studio. And I have to tell you that the switchboard is colorful neon lights, and it just made me feel so happy and glowy on the inside. It is very lovely.  What else have I done? So there's camera equipment. If you wanna photograph your artwork for reproductions, audio equipment. There's like a sound room downstairs if you want to have the club music. Yes, there is, and you can see it later. And then I just love coming here for events. Every Thursday, I could plug almost any creative organization town I can just plug all day. So every Thursday, they have a really cool creative event going on that supports creatives in the community and builds community as well with the makerspace here. So I love coming to those. And Andy Appler does some really weird, funny stuff. And I did karaoke one time. If you ever guys wanna look that up, see me sing. Lots of things are filmed here. This is being filmed for the record. It ends up in the archive. Karina, let's hop back over to you. What kind of resources do you use here at LPM? Well, I'm so glad you asked. Public media is an incredible partner and resource for the Sampo Sessions. We host our monthly listening room concert series right here in this room. And LPM members film it for broadcast on public access TV, which is really an incredible thing for everyone. It's great for LPM. It's great for the Sampo Sessions. It's great for the artist to have that video of their whole show to use as a resource. In fact, one of our artists last year was going to use it for festival and show submissions. So it's a really great thing for the artists and it's just really cool to have that. I think that it really enriches the community to be able to archive our performances that we have here. And then downstairs, Tim, as well as our third Sound Post partner who could not be here. He's also my husband, Zach. He's in LA meeting with music supervisors, so super fancy. He's a big wig. He's sad he couldn't be here, but they have been working on the downstairs recording studio for a while now, several months, maybe a year. And so that is a really great resource for the Sampo Sessions. It's a really great resource for people who want to learn more about music engineering. And the desk down there used to live in my house for many years. Zach actually designed it and had it custom welded. And they've been... Now it lives in the studio downstairs. So you're all invited to go check it out. Now it lives here. And so you're welcome to push some knobs and learn how to pro tools. That's always fun. And you guys have also been building sound treatments. So it's just a... Long-Law Public Media is such a cool space for so many different aspects of media and just a really, really great place to be. Couldn't agree more. All right, just in the few... We have just a couple minutes left here before I'm gonna turn it over to Sergio and the rest of our evening here. One thing from each of you that you want would like all the other creatives here tonight. One thing to know about LPM. Sarah? LPM, I hate saying this because it's kind of ironic, is in my opinion one of the best-kept secrets and the best deals in town. I was kind of hoping it wouldn't get very popular when I was one of the first pioneer members because of all this what's available. So you don't want people to know that LPM... But when it gets crowded here, things get a little more challenging. There's only two computers on which I can edit. There's only one studio in which I can record. But it's, to me, like you mentioned, the 24-hour access is a huge deal.  I can do so much here for a really cheap membership each month. And I just really appreciate the Longmont centricity of this place. I am a Longmont-based realtor. I could find a studio like this in Denver or in Boulder, but not only is that a further drive and more expensive, it's just not putting money back into Longmont. I just really like how the people here are passionate about Longmont and the people I meet want to live and work in Longmont, and so I just really value that piece of things. Quick plug, Sarah Morrow realtor, please subscribe. Amanda, would you like everyone to know about LPM? It's a fantastic resource. I try to bring my artist friends here all the time, chamber people. When I go to Art Walk and they're like, I don't know how to use Adobe products, I don't have it. I don't have computers here. You can do a paid membership for the 24 access or if you can't afford it, you can come in and use the computers during working hours and have full access to the Adobe suites. And as you mentioned, they're extremely helpful and a really eager, passionate team and a very strong group of volunteers who were eager to help too. They meet every week, every Wednesday and they're just so fun, awesome, dorky and very passionate people. I've told them a few times you might regret inviting an artist to the game. A lot of them are more video and audio engineers and I'm like, we're going to get more artists in here, it's going to get weird. So come infiltrate and hang out with us every Wednesday. I love it. Karina, what do you have to say about LPM? So I've done a little bit of digging and I have not been able to find any other place in the state of Colorado that is quite like this place. It's very special. It is a very, like an incredible and unique resource and I'll just say that audio recording equipment and video recording and film equipment. Black magic design cameras. Black magic cameras, those things are very, very expensive. So to have a place where you can go and learn how to use that gear is like, I can't even overstate how important that is for a community with so many creative people and with so many people who want to learn how to do these things. So it's an amazing resource that we have right here in this town, so please take advantage of it. LPM is the best. Stop recording things on your phone. Yeah. Well, thanks to the three of you. Let's have a round of applause for our three...


spins. In this video you're going to learn a seven step process that you can follow today to get started and become a UX designer. If you follow this simple process you will stand out above the crowd and have a great chance of getting a job in UX design even if you have no experience and starting from scratch. The first step is having a good understanding of the basics. UX stands for user experience. This is how a user, who is a person like you or me, interacts and feels about a product that you make. Every company in the world wants people to use the product that they're great, and as a UX designer, it's your job to make something that's simple to use, solve a clear problem and put the end user at the centre of the design process. UI stands for user interface. User interfaces are what you interact with on a day-to-day basis. We all know them, we all use them. Everything you see on a computer screen is a user interface. It's the presentation layer to the application. When working as a UX designer inside the company, you'll be part of what's known as a Scrum team. This is a collection of designers, developers, testers and managers who all work together to make a digital product. Scrum is part of agile project management, and you are a small team led by a Scrum master whose main job is to clear away all obstacles to the team completing work. You'll have a product owner who prioritises the team's work based on communication with the business. Work is done in short two to three week cycles called sprints. At the end of each sprint, you should have something to release or show to representatives of the business at a show and tell meeting. The team meets daily to discuss current tasks and there are other meetings called ceremonies which help keep the team on track and plan for future sprints. At the end of each cycle, the team gets together in what's called a retrospective, discuss how the last few weeks have gone and what can be improved for the next sprint. I've seen a large shift over the past ten years towards what's known as design systems or design languages. A design system is simply just a collection of components that are used to build websites. The goal is reusability. A great example is material.io. This is Google's design language used for creating Android apps. In your design app, you are expected to work within these guidelines. There are examples here that show exactly how apps should be made using material design and a case study that breaks down how they're made along with videos of interactions. On this website, you'll also see things like colour palette, typography, navigation and even an explanation of how motion is used. DesignSystemsRepo.com is also a really good frequently updated collection of design systems. That's great for inspiration. Apple has their own version over at developer.apple.com. Along with the website, there's usually a file that designers can use which has all the elements already made and creating a page is simply a job of organising. Accessibility means what you design and develop is usable to all people regardless of disability type or impairment. Accessibility requirements are implemented at the development level but as a designer, it's really good to know and one thing you can also check is if your colours are accessible. I've left a link in the description to webaim.org and this is where you can put in the exact colour combinations that you want to use. You'll get a score to see if they're passed. A great example of accessibility being used in real life is the London Underground. If you go on over to their website, you can download an accessible version of their tube map and instead of colours being the different lines, there's actual textures on here so there might be some dashes or dots and it really helps people with visual impairments to tell the difference. UX design process is also known as the user-centered design process. It's UCD and is essentially how you make a great digital product. UCD is split up into four stages and it's all about understanding the problem you're trying to solve and testing with actual users along the way. The first step in the UCD is research. This is where you really understand the problem that you're trying to solve and who you're solving the problem for. There are lots of different UX techniques that you can use to understand your users. Creding personas allows you and the team to keep the user at the centre of the design process. Personas are the answer to the question, who are we designing for? Personas are not just made up out of thinner. They are created by researching information about your audience and summarising it in the creation of one or more persona sheets. UX tasks such as user interviews and surveys can help with research for persona creating and give you some valuable insights you can use during the design process. Your main task during the research phase is to develop a realistic vision of your user. These insights enable you and the team to create user-friendly products based on real-life feedback. The next step in the UCD process is the design phase. This is where you're going to get down on paper an initial design for the project you're working on. The quickest way to get started is to use pen and paper. I normally have a kick-off meeting with designers and other team members to sketch out some initial ideas. The level of detail you need to go into is very low. Don't be afraid to draw boxes and scribble lines for text. The idea is to see the big picture. The small details can come later. Over the years I've found it better to get collaborating early on in the project and make others feel like they're part of the design process. When working on paper it's much easier to throw away and make changes. Once you have an idea of what you're going to create, the next step is a basic prototype. The goal should be to have something usable and test it early on with potential users. Having a workable prototype early on is also a great thing to show stakeholders within the business to make sure that you're on the right track. There are a few really good tools that you can use to create prototypes and in the next section we're going to discuss them in detail. The next step is testing and this is vital. The difference between the first design of your product and what makes it into the world can sometimes be night and day and this is all down to user feedback. Just imagine your first design is a draft and then once you start showing it to people and getting feedback this will change. There are a lot of different techniques for gathering feedback on your design. If you work for a large company you may have in-house testing facilities. Normally there will be someone from the business who has a list of tasks for the user to perform. This can be quite eye-opening as you get to see how your design performs in real life and assume it becomes obvious where the problems are. If you want to do some testing online there are plenty of places to go to. I'll mention these tools in the next section. All you need to focus on is that once you have a design the goal is to keep improving based on user feedback. This feedback will be invaluable and can be a little heartbreaking too if I'm telling the truth when someone sees your design and they're shown to be unusable. The next step after you have incorporated all of this feedback into your design is the development process. Your design will be broken down into small pieces and every little detail discussed as a team and documented ready for development. A lot of people ask do you need to know code to be a UX designer? You may get a lot of different answers but from my experience you don't. Personally I know the basics of HTML and CSS and that's about it. As a junior designer you don't need to know code as this is actually a different job. In every place I've worked as part of the team there are actual front end developers who specialise in this. A front end developer will take your design and make it come to life. They will put it together in code for whatever type of product you're working on. If you design a website then this will be HTML, CSS and JavaScript. If you're designing an app then this will be different. There may also be Java developers which can be confusing because Java and JavaScript sound the same but there are actually two entirely different code languages. Many tools I've built have had multiple front end and Java developers working together over many months to create. This is why I believe you don't need to know code. It might be nice to know but it certainly isn't necessary. Once your product has been developed and launched to the world there's still one more thing to look at and that's analytics. When you create a website for example there's a tiny bit of code that you get from Google that you can put on your website and this tracks all the interactions. This is so useful as a designer to see how things are going. You can see things like how many people visited your site, where they clicked, where they came from, how long they spent on each page and find out where they leave the site from. Now is the time to collect all of this data and package it together ready for improvements favour on. As a designer this is really fun and interesting and it's a step not to be forgotten. The user-centered design process is a loop. All of your analytics can now go back into the research phase to discover new problems and things that can be improved on your site. You can keep making your product better and better and now have a framework to do it in. If you're interested in learning more about UX Basics I've put together a free guide which you can find in the link in the description. This will cover everything we've talked about, provide all the links in one handy place and you can keep referring back to it from time to time. OK. Now you know the basics of UX and what a designer does day to day. Next is the part you've been waiting for. Let's get you up and running with the best design tools. In this section we're going to look at some of the best tools for UX designers on the market. There are hundreds of tools out there so I'm only going to talk about the ones which I've personally used. The great thing about most of them is the free or they offer a free trial and you can get up and running quickly. Let's start with my favourite design tool, Figma. Head on over to figma.com and sign up today. The best thing is for you that it's 100% free. Figma is used mainly for UI designs, designing websites and apps. I use Figma for all of my design work and prototypes. Prototyping is built into the tool itself and is really easy to learn. If I'm designing a website I'll put together a detailed prototype of all the pages in Figma and share this with the rest of the team to get feedback. Figma produces a shareable URL for the prototype. This doesn't share any of the design assets, just the clickable prototype. When you work as a UX designer there will normally be other designers that you work with and Figma is really good for collaboration and sharing design files. With the free version up to two designers can work on the same file at the same time and for collaboration this is great. One of the great things about Figma is that it's opened up as software to extensions in the community tab and you'll find lots of great resources. There are even fully completed design systems to get you started. One other thing I found really useful about Figma is that you can import design files from other tools. This saves you recreating all your artwork and it normally does a great job. I've put together some tutorials where I walk through creating a website in Figma and if you're interested the links in the description. Adobe XD is Figma's biggest rival. You can find it over at Adobe.com forward slash products forward slash XD. XD again is free for personal use and for professionals and small teams it has a small monthly cost. I've used both XD and Figma and there isn't much to choose either way, they're both really good. The benefit of Adobe XD is that it's created by Adobe and they have an amazing track history with design tools. You can guarantee that XD is going to keep getting updated regularly and there's going to get better over time. Within XD you can create designs, prototypes and has really good integration with the other Adobe tools. If you're familiar with Photoshop, Illustrator or Premiere this may be the best for you. There really is no in the through standard UI prototyping tool and it's up to you and your colleagues which one works best. Sketch is another UI design tool similar to Figma and XD. You can download a 30 day free trial over at sketch.com. Unlike XD and Figma, Sketch is Mac only and once the free trial over there is a one time fee for the software. This is still great value and I know plenty of teams who still use Sketch. A couple of years back I used Sketch to design Barclays.co.uk and the tool was great. It was one of the pioneers for digital design tools specific for UI design. Sketch has prototyping built in and some great calibration features. The mirror mode is great where you can preview your mobile or tablet design right on your device. One of the best things about Sketch is the developer handoff where you can share your design with a single link. Developers can open this link and check it out in a browser. They can inspect elements and even export assets. This is extremely useful in a real world project environment. If you have time check out all three and see which one works best for you. There is no right or wrong and they are all pretty similar to use. You won't have trouble using one over the other and you'll pretty soon get the hang of things. Now that you have your UI designs it's time to test it out. Check out usability hub. This is one of my favourite online user testing platforms. You can sign up today and try it for free and see what different type of tests they offer. If you were designing something simple like a logo for example you could set up a preference test. This is where you show multiple variations of the same design and ask a user to choose which one they prefer. It's a great way to get lots of quick feedback on something which is a straight up choice. If you have an email list then you can send out a link to the test and the feedback will normally come quite quickly. It's a really good way to provide evidence for any design decisions and base your choice on data. If you don't have an existing audience to send your test out to usability hub have a panel of over 170,000 users that you can recruit for a dollar or a response.  Design surveys help you make confident decisions by collecting user feedback. You can ask multiple choice questions and even show your design when the question is displayed. This way you can ask the user about certain elements on your page. Another test you can run on usability hub is a first click test. This is where you ask the user to perform a task and then show them your design. Usability hub will then provide a heat map so you can see where users clicked. This is awesome to see if you've got the placement right for important elements and make sure your site is easy to navigate. You also get a breakdown of how long users took to make this click so looking at the speed lets you know if this is an intuitive location. If you already have a website then CrazyEgg is an unbelievable tool that will help you understand how users interact with your site. For every new site I build I get CrazyEgg in store from day one. This way I can make sure the site is behaving like it should and any problems will be quickly discovered. CrazyEgg tracks user sessions as they browse your site and allow you to watch them back. It provides heat maps of where users viewed and clicked. Nothing beats watching a user interact with your product and it gives you a different viewpoint. By watching multiple sessions you will soon see a pattern of how users behave. Users may not view entire sections of your content that you may have put a lot of time to and they also may miss the main call to action on the page. By watching sessions and discovering these flaws you can improve your site and repeat. Another amazing tool is A-B testing. CrazyEgg can analyse your website and allow you to offer the users who visit your site to slide variations. A-B testing is the survival of the fittest in the digital world. If you can generate more sales for your business by changing the colour of a button or an image choice then this is game changing. CrazyEgg handles all of this for you and you can make the changes via the interface pretty simply. At the end of the test you'll get a breakdown of which variation won. You need to define before you do the test what success is such as purchases or clicks to a certain page but this one is one of my favourites. I've put a link in the description and the guidebook to one of my favourite articles about A-B testing. This is from the 2008 director of analytics at the Obama campaign entitled How Obama raised 60 million by running a single experiment and it's a great read. It details the test they ran on Barack Obama's website for the US presidential campaign for sign-up rates and they tested two things. The wading on the button and an image. By creating a multivariant test they randomly combined these two factors and discovered that they actually performed quite differently. The winning combination helped boost sign-up rates by 40%. That's an extra 2.8 million emails and according to the article each email on average donated $21 to the campaign which translated into an additional 60 million in donations. This test could have changed history. When you apply for a job as a UX designer the most important thing is your portfolio. You're going to take away something from this section and that's to saying it's not personal, it's business.  As a junior designer you don't have a wealth of experiences so your portfolio is the digital representation of you. This is all a hiring manager will look at and most of the time it may only be for a few seconds. If you have 30 applicants and you can't afford to read through every word in the portfolio it's more about the overall sense you get from it. It's obvious who has put the effort in and who hasn't just by viewing for a few seconds. This is where you're going to stand out. Rather than leave this up until last minute we're going to get set up now so we can build towards something. To begin let's start with the basics. You need an online portfolio. When I started I used to put my design files and a CV on a USB stick and handed out at events. This is when USB sticks were expensive, how I envy you. Now it's easier to have your portfolio on a website and keep it updated. Don't worry you don't need to know how to build a website you don't need to. There are plenty of ready made templates and builders out there that are fantastic. For this process let's make things simple and stick to Adobe portfolio. If you already have a creative cloud account with Adobe then great it's free. If not you can sign up and publish a website for free within 60 days. I've used many different hosting platforms over the years bought domain names and done everything myself plenty of times. It's easier just to sign up for something like this with Adobe. Yes, WordPress and other content management systems you have more control but at the end of the day it's the actual content within the portfolio not the flashy website itself that's the most important thing. If you head on over to portfolio.adobe.com and click get started for free you'll be able to preview and click a ready made theme. The best thing is that you can change your theme anytime if you change your mind. Each one of these themes has been designed carefully by Adobe for the specific purpose of hosting your portfolio. They all work responsibly across desktop, tablet and mobile and are nice and simple. Choose the one you like and get started. You can even assign it a custom URL such as yourname.com. One reason I also like Adobe portfolio is that it combines well with Behance. If you check out Behance.net you'll find lots of design inspiration from amazing designers around the world. It's a place where you can showcase your work and discover new artists. If you already have a profile on here your work can be shared with Adobe portfolio called Straight&T Website. Behance is free to sign up and another place where you should be building your online presence with your work. The reason we've set up our portfolio so early is that it should be the goal to make the best possible portfolio. Each project you make is a reward for all the hard work you've put in. All the learning you're doing needs to be documented. Your portfolio is not just a finished work it's a living document that showcases your journey. Remember it's not personal, it's business. The hiring manager doesn't know you. They don't know how much work you put in. Your portfolio is all they see and it's up to you to show them the work you put in by making the digital representation of you as good as the real thing. Now it's time to dive right into the fun stuff with some example projects. I've found this is the best way for beginners with no experience to get started. Having an example brief and project to work with helps you structure your work. You can put as many projects as you want in your portfolio. In this step we're going to look at how to present your work and make sure that you stand out when applying for a job. This is where a lot of designers don't do themselves justice. And being honest I'm definitely including myself in this. When you apply for a job you need a portfolio that represents you to the best of your ability and it's easy to forget or just rush. At the end of every project or piece of work that you do it's important to write a short case study. This is why we set your portfolio before doing any work. We're going to create this as we go along. A lot of the time you may be tempted to just put in a picture of the finished designs into your portfolio or a link to your prototype when applying for jobs. A case study done well is simply a documentation of the process you've gone through to come up with the design. This includes problems that you're trying to solve, sketches you've made, wireframes and early initial ideas. Include any details of any problems you've solved along the way. This is really good. In the description I've dropped a link to a great medium article called 6 Case Studies Done Right. This shows six really good examples of how to do this and structure it well. Don't be embarrassed to include versions of work that didn't work out. This is all about telling a story. Your persona and user flow diagram that you created in the last step should go in here along with the design work. It's really important when applying for a UX designer role that you show more than just UI design skills. UX as a skill set has loads of other deliverables that you could include in addition to your designs. UX Planet has a great article called A Complete List of UX Deliverables by Nick Babich that shows you all the other examples such as mood boards, analytics and usability reports. Not every task is right for your project but it's better to show some other deliverables to make you stand out from everyone else. The key thing here is to show a journey and tell a story. You will have learned things along the way in every project. Take time in your writing to use gremly.com to make sure that your spelling, punctuation and tone are all in check. This is a wonderful tool that I'm actually using free right now to do this script. You certainly don't want to spoil your great work with spelling mistakes and I can't count the amount of times that I've done this personally over the years. Another great place to host your write-up is on Behance.net. This is perfect to share your work with the design community and find lots of other inspiration. A lot of designers write up their project on here and you will see some good examples of how to structure them. It's really important to always see what other designers are doing and some of the best in the world are on Behance. You might even make some new friends and get some feedback on your work. It's always cool to check what the community is doing as well. When presenting your work you can actually use a video. It's not something I've seen many designers using to the full capacity. I'd rather watch a video than read in something and that's just being honest. Your phone probably has a decent video camera and for writing up you could always do a short video talking about the project. Don't worry about production quality. I've spent loads of money on a fancy studio and most of my successful videos were either me filmed outside on my phone or a presentation made in iMovie like this with simple words on a screen. If I were to see a video of a designer talking about the work it would make me more inclined to call you for an interview. I don't know why, it just feels more personable. You can of course still write up your work but a short video of you talking about something goes a long way. This is a step that almost all designers neglect.   This is something that you can work on throughout your career but let's get started right now. Everything you do in this step is extra and will help you stand out when applying for a job. The first thing to do is sign up for a LinkedIn account. This is 100% free and LinkedIn is a professional networking platform. Although it started out as an online resume it's much more than that and has grown in the last five years. It's positioned itself as a social media network for professionals and it's a great opportunity for you. There's a real lack of quality content on LinkedIn and any post that you make has the opportunity to reach thousands of important people in the business world. Just doing a simple search for head of UX can pull up hundreds of names and add people to your network. If they accept you will see future posts from them. Don't be shy here, the goal is networking. We'll talk more about this in the next step finding a job but just know for now LinkedIn is your most powerful tool for being part of this design community. Whenever you create a new project in your portfolio feel free to stand out a status update to LinkedIn. Share something you learn, there's an update or write an article from time to time. The key thing to remember is that nobody knows you exist until you produce something. This isn't personal, it's just the truth in the digital world. There are other social media platforms for you to share your work but the most important ones are Behance, LinkedIn and YouTube. I mention in YouTube because there's lots of potential here. The key is to share something that others find useful. Don't make it all about yourself. The best way to learn is to teach. So if there's something cool that you learned in Figma or Adobe XD then make a short video on poster. You can share videos on LinkedIn and YouTube and remember these are evergreen and live forever and people will be finding these in years to come. So for now, stop building up a body of work. For each project you create remember to document it in written and video format and share it. Even spending half an hour a week you'll soon grow up a library of content that you can grow throughout your career. In the next and final step we're going to see finally how you can break into the industry and get that first job. This is my favourite step of all and it's the hardest. If you've put in the hard work to learn the basics create a portfolio that's got some sample projects in it have an active LinkedIn account then it's time you made the next step. Here's the secret.  My first job was with Wired magazine in the UK and there's pretty much a 0% chance that I would have got that job by applying on the website or through a job board. As a junior designer your biggest asset is you and your work ethic. To compete with thousands of other designers on paper is pretty much impossible and unfortunately this is where most people give up. Not you, not today. In the UK we have Work Experience which is an internship in most of the world and it's where you volunteer at the company for a few weeks to get some experience. Before I got my first job at Wired I was lucky enough to have already interned a Vogue magazine, GQ and Ferrari all in the same building. The only thing I was paid for was lunch money and tube fare. I stayed in a hotel until I ran out of money and then into a hostel. I travel to London every summer from Liverpool for three years and made as many connections as I could. I only found out about the job in Wired because I had arranged to actually intern there and the first day I arrived they needed a full time junior designer. I was given the role because I was already in the building. This is how the business world works. A lot of the time it's who you know not what you know unfortunately. The great news for you is that it's never been so easy to make connections from home. On LinkedIn you can send out messages to UX designers from across the world. All you need to do is a quick search for UX designer filtered by people and location and then hit connect. You can personalise your invitation to connect with a message and it's something I suggest you always do. Try searching for head of UX and send a few nice carefully written messages with a LinkedIn portfolio and ask if there are any intern programmes available. This is all about putting in the work. Not being put off by a rejection and a slice of luck along the way. If you try enough people then eventually this may lead to an opening. From there once you're inside the company then it's time to put in the work, network and find out how to get a junior role by asking people in the company. This work for me and I've seen it work for others too. I also know how hard it is to get a junior role and how tough it is getting rejected by company after company looking for experience. My only answer to this is make them an offer they can't refuse. All the friction out the hiring process and get your foot in the door before you even have a job. As today I've got some really exciting news for you and that's if you're interested in a career in UI UX design then my brand new course of course careers is just for you. This has been months in the making. It's my basically dream to make the world's best UI UX design online course and the goal is really to get you a starter job in UI UX design because I know that's the hardest one to get and according to Glassdoor the starting salary is around 77,000 US dollars it's a great career it's just really hard to get into and that's why I've partnered with I think the best course provider in the world coming up today which is course careers. So if you check it on out it's the links in the description but it's around the 6-12 week course it's self-paced and really my job was to make it better than the 10,000 dollar boot camps out there. I've put all of my 15 years of experience design and websites in there and the goal is really first of all when I hire designers I'm looking for relevant qualifications and we all know boot camps are really popular but they are very expensive so this course careers course is going to be on the equivalent level of a boot camp so this is what recruiters are actually going to be looking for and within the course we design a portfolio together so a lot of boot camps need a portfolio till the end but with me basically in the very first section we get you set up on Behance and the course is to create an amazing case study there's an app that we take through the user centre design process and we basically tick off everything that recruiters are looking for so we do we do research we do testing, we do wireframing, sketching prototyping we even look at user accessibility so making sure that the product everyone can use it and then at the end of it we even do a handover to developers and I walk you through the basics of code and you know how you will go about it and recruit products in the real world whatever you choose to do I wish you the best of luck and I want you to know that it is possible if you decide to change your life and break into the industry then you can do it it's really all down to you build a great reputation of yourself online and let people know you exist take the friction out of the hiring process and get in the door


Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with a very esteemed colleague of mine, Bundy, about Fenechia, a relatively new CSE listing. Would that be correct? You're particularly given the change in our business model a few years ago. And of course, you're hitting the ground, running in the new year. Tell us what is Fenechia and what should investors anticipate from you? Thanks again, Tracy. I think that the best way to describe Fenechia is a proxy for exposure and investment in this emerging digital asset economy. We represent a liquid listed security that has an underlying exposure to this emerging web 3.0 multiverse economy of digital assets. Of course, you have great comfort in digital media assets in general. And you're providing some research as well, on a regular basis. Would that also be correct? I think the strength of a lot of institutions lies in, one, its talent and people, and two, the depth of its research. Because from that, you can build analysis, predict trends, and make calculated bets. So for us, having an in-house research team and talented individuals with experience and a high degree of enthusiasm is super important. And it's probably some of our secret sauce. So now that you're back kind of beating the drums for Fenechia, can you tell us what we should anticipate as shareholders moving forward into 2023, Bundy? Well we have some very ambitious plans for this year. That's the reason why we closed a very successful private placement in 2022. That was about 25% higher than our initial 4 million target. And part of what the proceeds will go towards are some products that we want to launch in the 2023 calendar year. You've seen the advent of exchange-traded funds in Canada, which are backed by crypto assets. What you've not seen is a lot of innovation around them. They tend to be plain vanilla crypto exposure exchange-traded funds. What we want to do is take it to the next generation, which basically brings innovation to this product and provides not only exposure to the asset appreciation of such cryptocurrencies, but also helps to generate yield along the way. So if you can find cryptocurrencies that are yield-bent generating, which in this market is quite important, that plays to something called decentralized finance or DeFi to generate such yield, then you're getting the best of both worlds. You're getting yield, no matter what the price, and you're getting the price appreciation should the price move up. So we're looking very seriously at some products that bring the best of this world, both worlds, and brings innovation to the space. The second area we're looking at is NFTs, but not NFTs, as you would understand them to be in terms of art NFTs or board-aid-style NFTs. We're looking very specifically at music NFTs. And the reason for that is that people understand music. People don't necessarily understand art, but people love music. And music is something that's set to double in terms of global revenue over the next eight years from where it was five years ago. That means that there's going to be proliferation of music across devices. This is ultimately a digital media to your point about digital media assets. If we can create a partial ownership of music tracks through a tokenized version of those assets, you can then have a democratic participation of music ownership. You and I could own part of a track that gives us one certain amount of bragging rights to say, I'm a part owner on this track when you hear playing or see it on TV. And second, you get income because music generates royalties.  You're going to be a part recipient of those royalty streams. So we're looking at NFTs and the music world precisely for that reason, because it's more understood. It's people are well worse with it and it does have an income generating side. And second, of course, brings some innovation to this emerging exchange created product asset class of crypto cryptocurrencies. So if I hear you correct, we're talking about digital media assets, research and, of course, NFTs, music NFTs. Is that correct? That's correct. And combination of that, plus our own private investments that are made sort of from the company's balance sheet, which we'll continue, should really give investors a kind of 360 exposure to this emerging asset class of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets. And as a listed company, people know that we're transparent, regulated and, of course, liquid. So it's a lot easier to participate in this economy than trying to figure out what's really going on and where. Well, Bundy, welcome back. It's nice to see you. And we're looking forward to seeing what Fenechia does in 2023. Oh, we have lots coming your way. So watch this space. And I'm sure we'll be talking a lot more this year. Thank you, Gantrese.


I understand the need to stand out from the pack of other turn based role playing games but wow, this looks like some kind of bizarre fever dream. Look weird is fine, I like weird, but within the game's first 20 minutes you travel here, here, here, here, and here. I mean where am I trapped in Nessa's dream and earthbound? The Easter holiday pastel color palette here is also, uh, kind of uncommon. That kind of sums up the overall vibe of this game, it's just strange. Even the localized name Paladin's quest is weird because, well, there's no Paladins in this game at all. The Japanese title is Lennis, Memories of the Ancient Machine, and that makes a bit more sense since Lennis is the name of the planet you're inhabiting, and you play as Chesney, a 13 year old kid learning magic who wanders into the tower of Gavnit expecting to find some nice treasure but instead inadvertently awakens an old machine made of evil that ends up destroying the whole town. Whoops. This ancient machine inherently inhibits some kind of evil power, so of course the supervillain named Zagos wants to harness its power to rule the entire planet of Lennis. He's already conquered the southern continent and now he's after the north. The story actually turns out to be pretty interesting. You learn how and why the machine was built in the first place, and you learn the history of your main character Chesney and his companion Midia, and how they relate to characters of the past, and you befriend other characters on Lennis that have fallen victim to Zagos' attempt to conquer everything. In fact there's a total of 16 characters you can recruit to help you that all have their own personal beef with Zagos, so that not only adds a lot of replay value to the game but it makes the world of Lennis feel complete and lived in. This game may look really strange, and yeah the dialogue is nothing to write home about, but make no mistake the world of Paladin's quest is unique unto itself and the story fills it with characters and quests to make it feel fully realized. This game is definitely something different from the likes of Final Fantasy or Breath of Fire or the Lufia series. The combat system is also a little different, sure it's structured in your typical turn-based style straight out of something from the Dragon Quest series, complete with an over-the-shoulder viewpoint with your party consisting of a total of four playable characters at once, but there's no MP in this game. Magic spells cost HP instead, and not only that, there's no healing spells here. Well that would make sense since you'd be spending HP to gain HP, so yeah there's only potions here. All the elemental magic stuff is here too, all the Captain Planet stuff. Yay, even Heart is here! There's eight total elements and you level up magic simply by using it, so yeah it's like Secret of Mana where you grind and grind and spam the same attacks over and over in order to power up your magic. You can at least combine elements with certain spells so both elements will level up at the same time, so at least there's that. Still in terms of combat this definitely feels like an early Super Nintendo title, meaning you walk very slowly and the encounter rate is very high, so yeah Paladin's quest can be a grind fest. One major positive that makes this particular grind fest worth it however is the soundtrack. It's composed by Kohei Tanaka, who is responsible for the music and games like Alundra, The Violinist of Hamelin, and the Sakura Wars games. The music and Paladin's quest really caught me off guard, the whole soundtrack throughout the game beginning to end helps set this game apart, and it definitely helps you come to terms with the bizarre visual style as well if that makes any sense. It's definitely original sounding so it makes the world of Lennis feel more complete. Paladin's quest got a sequel that was only released in Japan titled Lennis 2, Fuin no Shito. There's a translation available on romhacking.net and while I haven't played that much of it I can say that if you liked Paladin's quest you will love Lennis 2. It's got a similar vibe but it's way way more polished in every sense. The graphics are cleaned up so they're not as harsh looking, the combat is more streamlined, and the music is just as good. I'd say if you're not afraid of trying Super Famicom RPGs with English patches is well worth your time. But what about the North American release? Paladin's quest is that worth playing today? It's hard to say. I love the music and being able to recruit a bunch of different party members is cool. It kind of reminds me of 7th Saga or the Genesis version of Shadowrun in that regard. But the game is just such a grind at times. Dungeons go on and on and let's face it the visual design here is just so dang goofy I can't get over it. If you haven't played stuff like the SNES Luffy games or Breath of Fire games you'll want to check out those first. But hey it's a lot more worthwhile than something like Lagoon or Seeker of the Stars. I'd put Paladin's quest near the same level as something like 7th Saga. It's not for everyone and it's a far cry from the classics but if you've played all those to death and you're looking for something truly different and unique then it's worth checking out.


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Hi and welcome to the session. Let's discuss the following question. It says convert each of the complex number given in exercises 3 to 8 in polar form. So we have to convert this complex number into polar form and we are going to discuss the third part of the question. So let us first understand the basic approach to the problem. If we have complex number z is equal to x plus iota y then the polar form of z is equal to r cos theta plus iota r sin theta where r is the modulus given by root of x square plus y square and theta is the argument of z. So to convert a complex number into polar form we need to find theta and modulus of the complex number. So this becomes the key idea for the problem. Let's now move on to the solution z is equal to 1 minus iota. Now x is equal to 1 and y is equal to minus 1 because the real part is 1 and the imaginary part is minus 1. Now the polar form of z is r cos theta plus iota r sin theta and r is given by root of x square plus y square and it is equal to 1 square plus minus 1 square and it is equal to root 2. Now we have obtained r and to convert z into polar form we need to obtain the value of theta right. So let us first plot the point x is equal to 1 and y is equal to minus 1 on the argon plane. So this is the argon plane so we have to plot point x is equal to 1 and y is equal to minus 1 since x is positive and y is negative. So this point lies in the fourth quadrant right and its distance from origin is root 2. So we have to obtain the value of theta right. Now z is equal to 1 minus iota and in the polar form it is equal to root 2 cos theta plus iota root 2 sin theta because r is root 2. Now on comparing we get 1 is equal to root 2 cos theta and minus 1 is equal to root 2 sin theta and this implies cos theta is equal to 1 by root 2 and the second equation implies sin theta is equal to minus 1 by root 2. Now we know that cos pi by 4 is equal to 1 by root 2 and sin pi by 4 is equal to 1 by root 2 but we want to have the value of theta for which sin theta is equal to minus 1 by root 2. But the given point is in fourth quadrant so cos of minus pi by 4 is equal to 1 by root 2 and sin of minus pi by 4 is equal to minus 1 by root 2. So this implies theta is equal to minus pi by 4 and we obtained r as root 2. So z in polar form is given by root 2 cos minus pi by 4 plus iota root 2 sin minus pi by 4. Hence our answer is root 2 into cos minus pi by 4 plus iota sin minus pi by 4 by taking root 2 common we get this answer. So this completes the question. Bye for now. Take care. Hope you enjoyed the session.


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Yeah eight out of ten on the James Harden six six That's on one of the teams from the giveaway By the pistons get four teams for free the six has been one of the James Harden eight out of ten It's a really cool. It's a pregame Devin Booker moody rookie card in there. Oh, it's a Rodman This is a legendary picture GT Thor rookie card Franz Wagner Alonno Banton rookie That's a really cool one. Chuck and Bill Russell have to randomize this one for the heat and the Celtics Respect Celtics with gin and the heat for Cody, so we'll do a randomizer at the end there Braun and the auto Joshua primo for the spurs spurs and Jesse Joshua primo rookie auto First night ant-man T-vals and a surney and last box here. Thanks again. Y'all it's been Really good break actually Kate Cunningham, Scotty Barnes, Franz Wagner Oh See if we can get one more nice one to end it on here is box number seven y'all. Thank you again Good luck one more banger down. 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Hey y'all welcome to what Chelsea eats. Happy Happy New Year. I am going to take you all with me on a couple of errands that I'm gonna run today. I've got to run the Target and then I'm going to get my breakfast at juice keys. So I wanted to bring you along. First stop is Target. I will be picking up a calendar that I can use to plan out the videos that I will be sharing with you all in the next couple of months. In the month of January the primary videos that I'm going to be sharing are recipe videos because the biggest questions I get are what do I eat, how do I eat it, how do I make it. So I'm going to provide as many recipe videos in the month of January as I can. So let's head into Target. I am looking for a planner that has a monthly format. We're gonna walk back to the stationery section. I like things written when I'm trying to plan my videos so I have to find something that is big enough so that it can handle my big flowery handwriting as well as it can sit on my desk and it can not take up too much space. Now that we're in Target it is dead. I thought that January 1st people would be in there shopping and it would be busy because of all the sales but I guess I'm wrong so I'm gonna get into Target and get out as quickly as I possibly can. So here we are in this section. It doesn't look like they have too much to choose from but I'm just gonna pick something and it looks like this will work. This flowery one. I'm gonna get it and go. So now I am headed over to Jewskies to get my breakfast because I am hungry. I've been digging this candy cane smoothie that they've had for the Christmas season and they're gonna have it till the end of January so I said I was gonna have it one more time and then I'm gonna stop spending money on smoothies for a while outside of my home.  So we haven't had a stove or anything like that so I have been making using my juicer, my instant pot, my blender, the local salad bars, anything that we could do to sustain living without having a kitchen. It was hard but it wasn't impossible. There were times when I chose to eat things that I shouldn't have eaten and I paid for it and then you know we had a lot of times where you know we were just fine with what we chose to eat out because a salad bar can be your friend but I am so happy now that we're almost finished. As you can see we've got the countertop in. We're putting things back together and so no more eating out for a good long time. I'm ready to be back in my kitchen. But one last stop at Juice Keys, my favorite juice bar here in Raleigh, North Carolina. They have this candy cane smoothie that I absolutely love and my husband wanted a mo mocha. I think that's what it's called. So I'll show you a little bit of the menu. There's the candy cane, the hot drinks they have, let's see, there's all the smoothies, the boosters. They really do have some healthy options in this juice bar. I'm very impressed with this place. All clean ingredients and I wish all areas of the country had these types of shops and Raleigh is just now coming up to the swing of juice bars and things of that nature in the last few years because we were lacking. Well I got my breakfast now. I have my candy cane smoothie and my husband got the mo mocha. I am gonna do my best to figure out how to make this smoothie because I'm telling you you absolutely will love this smoothie recipe. So hopefully I can master it. But thanks so much for coming along with me you guys. I've missed you so much and thank you for all the love and I am hoping to really bless you with lots of recipes in January. So thanks a lot and I hope to talk to you all soon. Take care.


So this instrument in a sense is a tool because it aids us overall in our understanding of Beethoven. It's not to say that what we understood about Beethoven before was not correct, of course not. It's just another one of those elements that add to or enhance our appreciation of him by being able to contextualise more what he was writing and how it would have sounded at the time. I'm Dr Scott Davy. I'm the deputy head of the School of Music and we're here in Llewellyn Hall today. And you can see behind me on the stage a number of instruments that are set up. I'm also the director of the Keyboard Institute and the Keyboard Institute is our collection of historical keyboard instruments. What's interesting about this collection is we have these instruments so that people can play music so that we can hear how they are intended at the time. Going back to the time of Johann Sebastian Bach, for example, it was more typical that a harpsichord was used even though the piano was in its very early days. So I'm sitting at an instrument which is a copy of something that was made by Anton Volta in 1796 and we know that this is fairly much exactly the type of instrument, a forte piano, the Beethoven would have had at the beginning part of his career when he was in Vienna. And compared to a modern piano, it's quite light and two people can lift this instrument easily and so in terms of its sound, it's also light and there's not as much resonance.  This instrument doesn't have foot pedals. It has underneath the keyboard where I'm sitting here, there's two levers and one of those, the one on the right, operates the same as the pedal does on a modern piano. Now what's interesting for us is when we look at Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, so this is something that many people know, it has an instruction at the beginning that the dampers have to be off the strings for the whole piece. Now on a modern piano, if we put the pedal down for the whole piece, it would sound horrible, it would sound muddy. But when we look at an instrument like this, we think, okay, well, maybe it was workable on this sort of instrument. And as a musician, it's interesting for me personally when I play this because I could play it in a certain way and it would actually sound a little bit clashy. You know, some of the resonance would be a little bit too strong. But then I can play it in a slightly different way, bring out certain notes more than others. And it actually sounds really beautiful. And the thing that's interesting is it says to us, Beethoven might have been more of a modernist than we're given credit for being. Yeah, and so that enhancement of our knowledge is added to through playing these instruments.  And so, and Schubert as well. And to be able to play that music on those instruments, again, adds to our understanding. So it's deeply useful to have these instruments.


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My prosthetic leg got stuck on my body a couple of weeks ago. And I posted a video about it. I called my prosthetist to be like, how do I actually get this off my body? Because this button had broken off, so it wouldn't release. That video went out to like six million people. And one of the most common comments was like, where has common sense gone? Why would you need to call someone to figure out to put an Allen key into that hole to release it? So allow me to answer. Prostetic limbs are ridiculously expensive. Like this ankle, not even the socket, is like 34,000. And additionally, if I actually mess something up, I just don't have a leg until I can get an appointment with my prosthetist. I'm back on crutches, any plans I have are out the window. So when I come to solving prosthetic problems, I do like to lean on the expertise of the people who build them. Because yes, it does make sense that maybe I could insert something into that hole and release it, but it's also possible that I might break something by doing that. So while understandably, it might seem like a lax of common sense, there's actually a lot more financially and structurally that goes into these things.


Some of these people look at themselves in the mirror and tell themselves that they're good people doing the right thing. We're in the middle of a global pandemic here and all they seem interested in is doing damage to Trump. Much like past media blunders, they were all too excited to inflict pain onto Trump that none of them were interested in getting the actual facts. Besides getting the facts wrong, it's pretty absurd and you gotta do some serious mental gymnastics to blame Trump for some random guy drinking poison. An Arizona man has died after he took chloroquine phosphate because he believed that it would protect him from the coronavirus. Did you see the president's press conference? Where did you hear about? Yeah. Yeah. We saw his press conference. Arizona lot, actually. Please turn up the volume for this. An Arizona man has died after attempting to self-medicate chloroquine phosphate believing it would protect him and his wife from the coronavirus. The man's wife is currently in critical condition and she tells NBC News that she and her husband decided to take the additive after watching President Trump talk about the potential benefits of chloroquine during one of his televised White House briefings. Yeah. Trump talked about this malaria drug possibly being able to help corona patients. Just like many in the media have over the last couple months. But this guy didn't try to take the malaria drug. He took fish tank cleaner. The president talks a lot about hand sanitizer too. Is he to blame if someone decides to drink hand sanitizer? It's quite a stretch to blame Trump for this one man's bad decision. And of course that standard will never be applied to anybody but Trump. The guy's wife also took it and is currently in an ICU and just take a look at how NBC coerced her to say exactly what they wanted her to. Trump could say it was basically pretty much a cure. What would be your message to the American public? Oh my God, don't take anything, don't believe anything, don't believe anything the president says. And it's people because they don't know what they're talking about. I mean this is a heartache, I'll never get over it. Trump never said it was a cure for coronavirus. He said it was a possible treatment but not FDA approved. And as I showed you earlier, people in the media and in the scientific community have been talking about this for months. Trump never said to take the medication and he even said it wasn't FDA approved. Sorry to interrupt but I have an important message for all my viewers. We are facing a global pandemic. Numerous cities around the world are now under a state of emergency. Preppers Peak is offering a virus safety bundle that comes equipped with a mask, coveralls, gloves, and goggles for an affordable price. 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Axios also spread this misinformation in a tweet saying, A man has died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate, one of the anti-malaria drugs Trump has mentioned in recent days. Oh he mentioned it Diddy, that's some pretty scummy mental gymnastics you're doing there. And no he never mentioned anything about taking fish tank cleaner. Great reporting there, you sure are getting a smarterer with your fast mattering misinformation. They later responded to the mass criticism they were getting on Twitter saying, We have deleted this tweet and corrected our story because it did not reflect the full nature of the self-medication done with the additive commonly used to clean fish tanks. Wow it's like we've seen this happen before. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.  Even the Canadians are getting in on this fake news frenzy with the CBC tweeting out quote, Arizona man dead woman in critical condition after ingesting chemical touted by US President Donald Trump as a potential COVID-19 treatment. Don't believe anything that president says the woman tells NBC, call your doctor. Oh how convenient that what she says matches exactly what the media is saying. Such professionalism, you know why they're flailing about so wildly trying to attack Trump because currently he has a majority of the country's approval in his handling of this outbreak. But leave it to the media to even spend that negatively. 53% do approve of the way the president is handling it, although that is changing. The president now appears to be backing away from recommendations that people should stay home over a long period of time because of his concerns about the effects on the economy. They spent about 10 seconds on that poll, their own poll which showed a majority of Americans support Trump's handling of this outbreak. The media is supposed to be objective but clearly they're taking a position here and casting Trump as being on the wrong side of it. These people claim to be our betters and defenders of the truth but they're actually just political activists who aren't fooling anyone but themselves. That's all for this episode, please hit that like button, share and subscribe. If you want to support this channel you can do so on one of these platforms and you can find all the links in the description and pinned comment. Thanks for watching, keep coming back.