I'm Christian Taylor on the Mustang Sports Network Jordan with head coach Dominic Dawes coach 5-2 loss tonight thoughts on your team's performance I just thought we ran we just no energy I thought they worked harder than us all over the ace and wore us down and we just couldn't get anything going I mean I just that we completely I mean you could even see it in the first period I put ourselves in a hole dug back but even at that point I just felt like we were we didn't have the energy that we needed so you did fight back after you went down to zero but again just weren't able to pull it out it does seem though time and time again your team does get knocked down but they come back what does that say about the fight in this team I mean they've shown some resiliency at times I mean I thought we showed some resilience in the first period I don't think we showed resiliency the second part of the game I don't think we gave ourselves a chance to come back I we had ample opportunity there with that with the five on threes but you could just see there in our body language our mindset we were we were worn down and you know we just we need we need to expect expect more out of each other every every day and be prepared for those moments to take advantage of those situations finally coach Austin Swingle your captain what does he meant to this team in this program I mean he's been a later leader since the day he stepped on this campus and then it's helped us you know establish this program establish what we want and student athletes I mean he's foreplay I mean he's gonna leave here in three years with his master's degree so I don't know if you can really say anything more about about a student athlete coach thank you very much thank you


There's a medium security prison. Retired medium security prison.  They got found, cops came and were like, well, cops probably made a joke like more of a transportation than a, whatever the term is when you put someone in jail. What was that joke that they made when they rolled out? More of a transfer than a, yeah, what's it called when you transfer prisoners? All of our officer friends comment the joke you would have made. Usually I don't do prison, usually cops don't do prisoner transfers, something like that, because they're transferring from one jail to the next jail. You get the joke? Do you guys get the joke yet? Has anyone figured it out? What I'm trying to say here? We usually do arrests, not transfers. Bam! That's what they should have said. That's what I should have said!


Sanrio are kinda shady in that they don't like to publicly share who actually designed the character but rather just say it's a character by Sanrio. However a quick google search will show that Gudetama was created by a 26 year old designer in a company called Amy or Emi Nagashima, simply inspired by an egg she saw whilst cooking dinner after a long day of work. This was part of a company-wide design competition to create a character based on food and the egg lost to a piece of salmon called Kirimi-


Because I'm professionally engaged with 360 video, just an amateur. I like taking 360 photos on vacation. And during COVID, I was thinking about how the experience of remote video conferencing could be improved. And that's how I got involved. So the stream is running right now. So if you want to make sure you're not on camera, consider sitting on that side. Yeah, so live streaming 360 video is normally pretty much a no-brainer.  I want to stream to Facebook. And most of the time it works. But I think it's important to do it with your own infrastructure for the usual reasons. No one is tracking who's watching what. And also by using free software, you're making sure that there are no backdoors, no surveillance. And by using, if everyone hosts their own stream, it's decentralized. And if one stream fails, then it's not everything is down as we've seen with the large outages of AWS and so on. Well, using free software is unfortunately not possible end to end because the cameras themselves, of course, are running some proprietary firmware, at least all those that I'm aware of. And then some of them can stream directly. And some of them rely on an app on your phone or on some software running on a PC, which is often also proprietary. But from that step on in the chain, we can put our own stuff in. So I will cover them during this talk. And the end device is often also proprietary. So if you have like a VR headset or a phone, not everything running on your phone may be open source. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But we'll see how much we can do. OK, for those of you who are not familiar with 360 cameras, basically the idea is that you have a camera with multiple lenses. So it can see everything around it at once. So on the left, you have a DIY early camera basically consists of six GoPro cameras formed shaped in a cube. So every lens is looking in a different direction. And on the right, we have also somewhat dated Samsung cameras with two fisheye lenses. And the one lens on the front sees the one half of the image and the other one sees the other half. And actually, they're a bit more than 180 degrees. So you may think that's not even possible, but there are lenses that can, I've seen up to 220 degrees. So basically, the camera is kind of looking behind itself a bit. And this is important because if you only have two lenses, you need some overlap between the two lenses. There will be a stitching involved in this overlap area. And ideally, it's completely invisible. But if you look at the Samsung camera on the right, obviously, there are two sensors, one looking this way and one looking the other way. And there is some space in between. So this causes a parallax error. And this has to be hidden by clever stitching. And also it means the larger the parallax, the further away you have to be from the camera in order to avoid stitching errors. So for this type of camera, the stitching error is pretty small. And here, for example, we have some on the left, there's a camera of Google Jump with 16 GoPros. And it has a pretty large parallax error. But it has a different approach. So it uses some advanced computer vision to create a 3D video out of it. So it may not be such a huge problem with that type of camera. And on the right, you have another pro camera with eight lenses. And it can also generate a 3D video out of the individual lenses. And today, for the live stream, I'm using the camera on the left. And yes, you can see it has eight lenses, four times two, looking in all four directions. And they are wide angle lenses, so they can look up and down also. Obviously, the camera cannot see what's directly above or below it, just a bit further away. That's a common feature of these cameras. For example, if you have the camera on the left, you can put it on the monopod. And then if you're wondering, how can I illuminate my scene? If you don't want the camera light to be in the picture, everything is in the picture, right? But by putting maybe an LED strip on your monopod, you can illuminate the scene, and it will be invisible. Yeah. OK, so these cameras deliver the lenses, are usually fisheye lenses. And we have to turn it into one coherent picture. And you're probably familiar with this view of the globe. It's called an equirectangular projection. And basically, it projects a sphere onto a plane. And some people believe the Earth is flat, but I can assure you, it's not. And this projection has an error. Oh, yeah, first something else. So you can also do a 360 camera broadcast and just transmit a normal video by choosing a small part of the image. And it's called reframing. For example, you can have a camera on your table, and you can, some cameras offer tracking features. So if there's a person in the image, you can select it in your app, and then it will track the person across the room. And it's like a virtual camera movement, but it's all done digitally. And the result is just a normal image. So this is not what this talk is about. Yeah, we want the viewer to be able to do the reframing himself or herself. So coming back to this projection, here you can see the distortion. The closer you get to the zenith and to the nadir, the larger the distortion is. And it's basically infinite at this point because the poles would be like only a point. And in this projection, they go across the whole image. And then it's the task of the video viewer, you need a special video viewer for 360 video to undo this distortion. I will show you later a little live demo. If you haven't seen, there was also the URL on the first slide. If you want to check it on your phone, maybe I can go back to it real quick. For what? Yeah, you need some certain amount of bandwidth. So if you all check it, it might break, actually. So it's t1pe.de-mch2020. Okay. Yeah. Okay, so let's talk about cameras some more about cameras that you can actually use for live streaming. I mean, there are quite a few cameras on the market these days, but many of them have some severe restrictions. So, for example, all Insta360 cameras that are non-pro cameras, they cannot really stream in 4K, and 4K is considered the minimum, I would say. I will talk a bit later about why 4K is the minimum requirement. Also, the GoPro Max, which is quite popular, can only do full HD, and the Samsung Gear 360 that I showed you, which is quite a few years old, it can do 2K basically. Yeah, so there are like three that I'm aware of or four if you count the VOOS and the VOOS Plus that cost less than 1,000 euros and can do it. The VOOS can also do 3D, and then if you go to 2,000 euros, you can, those two cameras, the LabPano and the QCAM, they can also do 8K streaming, which obviously requires a lot of bandwidth. Yeah, so some practical advice. If you have a 360 camera, don't hold it directly in your hand because your hand will be so close to the camera, it will look really creepy. Oh, something, I have to check. I think something went wrong with the stream. It's okay because it was beeping. Okay, so don't hold it directly in your hand.  If you want to hold it in your hand, use a gimbal and make sure you observe the minimum distance. This camera also has a quite large minimum distance, but if you make sure that you are not on top of one of the stitching lines between the lenses, then you can get away with being closer than the minimum distance without being cut off. Yeah, so we want a resolution of 4K. Why 4K? Because the 4,000 horizontal pixels or 3,840 or whatever, they are spread out across 360 degrees and normally we are used to maybe 90 degrees or even less depending on the kind of lens you have. So if you compare a 360 camera with 4K to a regular camera, then you quickly see that it's after reframing, it will be much, much lower resolution. Maybe it will look like 720p, which is not so great, but it's acceptable. Yeah, so 4K is quite important. We use RTMP because that's what most cameras support and the bit rate, yeah, mostly depends on what band with you have available. If you are somewhere on the go, yeah, I managed to get an Ethernet cable, so with Wi-Fi it's quite bad. So here's a screenshot of the VOOS software running on a PC. It's quite nice, it has a lot of features, but basically what you always have is you can enter your RTMP server address. Sometimes you, yeah, most of the time you can choose your resolution, sometimes the bit rate and FPS if your camera allows that. And in this case, we can also toggle between 2D and 3D. And for those of you who are doing the token challenge, there's also a token on this slide. Okay, so let's talk about RTMP. RTMP is the real-time messaging protocol. It's a proprietary protocol developed by MacroMedia back in the days of Flash to communicate between the streaming server and the Flash running on the PC. And so it's proprietary, so why is everyone using it? Well, after Adobe bought MacroMedia, they published an incomplete spec for public use. It uses TCP port 1935. And which is sometimes blocked in firewalls these days. But for the first mile delivery, which is from the camera to the streaming server, it's a protocol of choice for sure. The last mile delivery, which used to be your browser running Flash, browsers can no longer play RTMP. I mean, you could use something like VLC to view an RTMP stream, but VLC has some particular issues that it often doesn't recognize the video as being 360 and it offers no manual override. So you cannot say, this is a 360 video, please distort it, I mean, undistorted. So that's really a bummer. And yeah, there are also some proprietary apps on different platforms that can do RTMP. But today I want to talk about how to do the streaming without proprietary plugins. So we're using HLS, which is HTTP live streaming, which was pretty much invented to fill the gap that the disappearance of Flash left behind. And which it's funny because HLS was actually invented by Apple. So they killed Flash. So I guess they had to come up with something else. So HLS has chops up the video in smaller files and they are just downloaded normally using HTTP or HTTPS. So there is a problem with latency. So it can be between 10, 20, 30 seconds, sometimes as much as one minute. There's also a newer variant called low latency HLS. And some browsers have some restrictions with HLS in terms of requiring HTTPS. So to avoid it all, just get a certificate right away and don't bother setting it up without HTTPS. Yeah, okay. So what we want to do is we want to stream the camera image via RTMP to an RTMP server and the RTMP server will provide HLS to which can then be streamed to the browser. And in terms of free software, there are four that I'm aware of. There's Nginx with the RTMP module, which is by far the most popular option and it's also easy to set up. It's what I'm using today. It has some drawbacks. There hasn't been any development really since 2017. And so that means there's no low latency HLS support. And media server, they have a dual license server so they have a lot of enterprise features which are only available in the expensive version. Something I don't really like that much because usually sooner or later, the free version ends up being useless with this kind of setup. Yeah, often media looks really interesting but I kind of ran out of time otherwise I would have tried setting up that one because it also supports low latency HLS. Okay, so Nginx, super easy to set up. Basically install Nginx, then install the mod with you. You have a Debian-based Linux that's the command to install it. Then make sure you have SSI running with third bot, for example, and then this is basically your minimum Nginx configuration file. So you have a block inside the file for the RTMP module and then you can define an application and the name of the application is actually the URL. So it will be slash app something. Then you turn on live. You can also record using Nginx if you want to have a recording of your stream which is quite nice, I think.  At this point you can also restrict the RTMP stream if you want to force your users to use the HLS stream for some reason. And you can try fiddling with the fragment size to reduce latency but usually if you get it too small then you get stuttering or quality suffers. Okay, now we have the RTMP stream going into the server and we have HLS from the server available. So how can we get it to play in the browser? As I said, HLS is, in theory, it's supported by a browser, recent browsers, but in practice, only Safari supports it directly in a video tag. But there are some various JavaScript libraries available that will make sure it works by using all kinds of different technologies under the hood. There's some multimedia extension which is available on most browsers and HLS uses it. But for example, on iOS, that's missing again. So if you just use HLS JS by itself, it will not work on iOS.  So you also need to reframe the video to the 360 video and let the users pick what they're looking at. Usually this is done with, if you're looking on a desktop, you can click on the video and drag with your mouse to look around in the sphere basically or if you have a touchscreen device, you can just drag with your finger. And if you have a device that has an IMU like a phone, a positional sensor, you can also hold in front of you and look around in your image which is kind of nice. And the VR goggles also use IMU so it's like standing inside, standing where the camera is standing and you're looking around in the image. So Kaleidoscope is one of those 360 video viewers. It's quite simple and it lacking a few features in particular, yeah, it doesn't support VR goggles and so on. So another one I found was EGEJS and that's what I ended up using. EGEJS is a Java component group and one of the components is called View360 and it has a subcomponent called PanoViewer which is a panoramic media viewer and it supports tons of projections, acrylic, rectangular, cube maps which is what you have if you have like, remember the GoPro camera I showed you in the beginning with six cameras, shaped like a cube and so basically you have six videos and this viewer can arrange it so it works seamlessly. And it also supports stereoscopy rectangular, equirectangular images which is just saying so you have an equirectangular image and in the case of this camera you have actually two of them and one is always the left eye, the left camera of the two and the other one is always the right and then this viewer supports it so if you watch it, it will actually be stereo. It runs on browsers with stable WebGL which means it runs on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, even Internet Explorer 11 and on mobile it works on mobile Safari, not just on iPadOS but also on iOS. It works with Chrome on Android and it works with Samsung Internet browser which is what's running on Oculus Go for example. Yeah and it uses, under the hood it uses HLSJS to play the stream. Yeah, so some more features that can run full screen. You can change orientation with the mouse and one particular feature which I think is really cool if you have a phone, maybe you remember the old Google Cardboard so basically Cardboard is having two lenses in front of your phone display and then having the phone display divided into two halves and you have two lenses and every eye sees something else and which means it's stereo. And the panel viewer supports this so yeah, that's quite nice. So let's check it out. I'm switching hopefully to the browser here. Let's see if the stream is still running. Looks good. So now I can look around here. Maybe I can show you some things. You will see for example here this line, this is the stitching line which is very obvious because the table is too close to the camera. Ideally we would have a higher tripod and the stitching line is also apparent here somewhat in the MCH logo. Yeah, and you can also zoom out a bit and zoom in and supports full screen. So this is a really nice viewer and if you're running it on a phone you will get an extra icon in the top right corner for the Cardboard mode and if you're running it on a virtual reality device such an Oculus Go it will also work. So pretty neat. I'm totally... Something is wrong with the stream obviously because this hasn't happened in a while. I mean this person is not on the stage. I have to check. Anyway... What? Yeah, I will restart it later. Anyway, let's go back to the presentation. So some possible improvements besides the fact that the stream stopped is to switch the RTMP server to get low latency HLS. And there's also... Depending on your audience if you have a small audience you can also use WebRTC instead of HLS which means a lot lower latency less than one second mostly but it doesn't really scale but if you have a small number of clients maybe like tens of clients then WebRTC is definitely a very interesting option and I saw that the OvenMedia server also supports WebRTC. Yeah, and you can also do some interesting stuff on your RTMP server switching between multiple cameras. You can add an overlay using FFmpeg into the 360 image and... Yeah, those are the two main improvements I would say. Okay, that's it for the talk. Do you have any questions? Okay, if not, I will be around here so you can just get in touch afterwards. If you do have any questions you can line up in the microphones in the middle and I'm not sure yet. Do we have any questions from the internet? Also not? Okay. So if no one wants to ask a question he will be around. Please give him a round of applause. Oh no, there is a question maybe. You have one. Then just come to the microphone please. Close, close, close. Hello, can you hear me well? I was very curious for this presentation. Thank you so much for preparing this material and presenting. I have kind of like a hobby project which is just like it's about like showing outdoor adventures. And so I'm very curious to use these tech EGS and so on. To stream like a 360 video but to stream multiple multiple video streams into one and enabling people that are remote to have multiple views into what is happening. So I don't know, maybe an analogy is think of like those multiple screens on a NASA launch of the rocket. What is the best way to bring multiple streams of video into 360 not 360 and give people the opportunity to participate as they want? Yeah, so the EGJS is basically also an API so you would have to write a little bit of JavaScript to add maybe a button or something to switch between different sources but it will also be not live, right? So can't it be live? No, no, I mean it could be live but I'm saying you can, so you will have maybe you will have multiple live cameras or you will have pre-recorded videos and you can allow your viewers to switch between them. But you would have to do a little bit of programming for sure, yes. Out of the box, alright. No, but it's not, I mean I think it would be pretty easy actually, yeah. Awesome, alright, thank you. You're welcome. Next question please. More of a remark, the NGINX RTMP module was kind of discontinued and another group forked it and I think they renamed it to NGINX TS and it has a few more features and also the current replacement for RTMP is SRT. Are there 360 cameras supporting SRT yet or NDI for local streaming? Well, NDI for sure, but those are usually pro cameras in the 5000 plus Euro range. SRT, I don't know. I'm not familiar with. But of course you can usually also use RTMPS if you want to encrypt your stream to the RTMP server. That should be supported by most cameras already. Firefox is required and Facebook is requiring it by now. Okay, so you have one more question. Perfect, then come to the microphone please. I'm always a bit a queer thinker. You have devices with multiple cameras on it to get it. Have you ever done or built a room with the cameras around and then put the 360 software on? Yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah, actually EGGS supports that also. Basically, it's reversing the direction. You're no longer looking outside from a sphere, but you're looking onto something. Yes, you can do that, but I haven't played around with it, but I saw that it supported, yes. Then I now know that it's supported. So if you want to play around. Yeah, yeah. And one more question. Have you seen front ends for the end user to do the reframing thing? So actually allowing the viewer to select a part of the image or a moving target and keep following that? No, automatic tracking in the front end. I haven't seen that now. I mean, I've seen it in the Insta360 cameras. Basically, it's built into the app and it works pretty well. But no, that's actually would be a nice feature. But I also think some cameras support it in camera. So if you want to do automatic retracking anyway, why don't you do it on the camera side and then you're no longer dealing with a 360 video which needs more bandwidth. Yeah, the use case would be, for instance, for sports events. If you have your favorite player say, I want to see this basketball player all game long and not the rest. But I can provide one 360 video to everyone and they just pick whatever person they want to follow. Yeah, that would be a nice, I don't know, premium feature or something. And I see we have one question from the internet. Yes, exactly. The question was if you could go a little bit more into detail on bandwidth requirements. Yeah, so basically the resolution and the frame rate are the most important factors. And also you have on the one hand H264 as a codec and or H265 which is almost twice as efficient and the same as the normal bandwidth estimates apply. So if you have a 4K video stream at 30fps maybe ideally you want to have as much bandwidth as you can. So this camera supports 40 megabits for stitched or 120 megabits for unstitched images. So if you want to get the best quality you would probably stitch it on the server. But you can also get away with 20 megabits. I think that's what I'm using right now and it's for 3D. I mean it doesn't look really great. I was testing it during the camp the whole time with Wi-Fi and it dropped out a lot of the time and then now I have Ethernet here so I can crank it up a bit. Thanks a lot. And if there are no more questions thank you very much for your talk. Thanks.


Sure, I'm a CB3 Ryan Christopher Schwendt. I'm a unit IP and Bravo 168 here with the Washington National Guard. So we're conducting a water bucket training and validation with the Forest Service today. We're conducting it with one Washington Chinook, an Oregon Chinook, and an Oregon Blackhawk. So this is annually, we do it every spring. It's part of our training to get ready for the summer fire season. Yeah, it can be challenging this spring. We are in a wet environment here in the Northwest. Today we've got lower cloud ceilings than usual, but safety always comes first. So if whether safety is a question we just don't don't launch or we'll delay, we'll find another day to train. We always try to keep the mission importance in perspective. We can do this another day if we need to. From all we're hearing from meteorologists with the DNR, this will be an intense fire season. So we've prepared to fight those fires this year. We've got crews laid out for the summer. People are prepared to adjust their civilian work schedules and come get on state active duty to fly these water bucket missions to put out fires. No, we love doing this job and we appreciate all the support we get from the citizens of Washington. Plug in the top receptacle to the northeast ramp for the uh sister ship link of advice and ready for departure. Alright guys, brakes are released. Left for left.


Do you like to eat fish? What about vegetables? What if I told you you could grow both at the same time in your own backyard using an innovative type of agriculture called aquaponics? Hi, my name is David Klein and I'm an aquaculture specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. Today I'd like to invite you to take a fresh look at an old form of agriculture. While aquaponics has been around for more than a thousand years, there's been a renewed interest in using this technique for home food production. This is the combination of aquaculture, or the farming of aquatic plants and animals, and hydroponics, the practice of growing plants without soil. It's a three-part system that includes fish, bacteria, and plants. It starts with feeding the fish. Some nutrients in the food help the fish to grow. Other nutrients pass through the fish's waste and could become toxic. But helpful bacteria convert this potentially harmful waste into a nutrient-rich fertilizer for the plants and creates a filter to clean the water. Incorporating pea gravel, or another inert substrate, provides an anchor for the plant roots and lots of surface area for the beneficial bacteria to grow. This can improve your chances of success. Aquaponics is an organic process that saves water and increases production. In fact, you can grow up to ten times the amount of vegetables in the same space using just ten percent of the water compared to traditional agriculture. This small system, with a footprint about the size of your kitchen table, produced more than 160 pounds of food in just one year, including more than 5,000 cherry tomatoes. Other crops you might grow are leafy greens like lettuce and basil, or even peppers and cucumbers. Setting up a small system is easy using items from your local hardware store, and it makes a great hobby.


Hey guys, what is that? Well, welcome to my channel. For today's video, I'm going to be doing a full face of new products at Sephora. That is the look that I'm wearing today. Really great, sophisticated makeup look, if I do say so myself. I'm always really excited to test out new products, especially with the Sephora VIP event coming up. So I'm definitely preparing that and testing out as many products as I can to prepare you for that. So let's just get into it. Hey guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a product knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all of the new makeup on the market, which is why these types of videos are my absolute favorite to film all about new makeup and telling you what is worth spending your money on. Now, before we get into it, a little bit of a self promo. This video was sponsored by Morgan Turner Makeup. I did apply to be a part of Sephora Squad. So I had a few of you ask me what that was. Basically, it's an ambassador program for Sephora. So they'll send you new launches. You get to go to certain, I guess, virtual events. And yeah, it's just a partnership with Sephora and obviously it's a very long shot. There are so many amazing applicants, but I really do feel like obviously from this video, I'm such a good fit to be a part of Sephora Squad. So if you would like to support me and obviously at no pressure, I'm going to put the link down for you to leave me a testimonial. When you leave me a testimonial, basically saying why you think I would be a good fit for Sephora Squad, it does help to hopefully move me on to the next stage in this. But anyways, a lot of you guys have already sent me very, very kind words. I love it when you guys send me screenshots of what you sent. It really means the world to me, like makes me want to cry. Okay, I can't talk about it too much because I'm just so thankful for you guys, for those of you who have taken time out of your day to support me. It really means the world to me and I am so thankful for the community that I've built. Okay, I know I've talked too much. Let's just get into the new makeup. Hey, hey, hey, we're super close to my face, but I want you to really see how all of the products work. So for primer, I'm not using anything new. I'm going to be using the Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Hydrating Primer. This is currently one of my absolute favorites recently. So I tried it because I did a sponsorship with Armani Beauty, which OMG, slight flex, right? No, but this is one of the products that I tried out for that sponsorship and I have fallen in love. It really smooths the skin and hydrates. It leaves your skin feeling so plump and ready for makeup. It's an older product, but I don't know why people still don't talk about it because it is incredible. I've been loving it so much. So that's not a new product. The rest from here on out are pretty new products. If you miss it, I did upload a Sephora haul. A lot of these items are from that haul. Some are not, but a lot of them are and these are items that I didn't get to try out. So Westman of Tillier came to Sephora about a month ago and you guys have been asking, I always open this the wrong way, always. But anyways, you guys have been asking me about their products. So I haven't tried them yet. I've only tried the cream contour. So we're going to try this foundation stick. I got it in the shade of Tillie A2. This is called the Vital Stick Foundation Stick. And I wasn't sure if this would be the right color, but it's a bit yellow, but it's actually really nice. I'm going to start off with less, even though that probably was not less. Okay, let's just blend it out. That's actually a really good match for me. What was I talking about? Maybe like a hint to yellow. Ooh, I'm liking this. I like how it blends really nice and easy. It's giving a very nice, light coverage, working out pretty easily. Let's get this dry to nose area here. She's looking a little crusty on the nose though. Not going to lie, and I had some breakouts down here and it's not going over texture well.  I'm such a sponge girl. Like I don't know how people prefer brushes. I feel like it takes away the coverage, which I know is counterintuitive, but for me, using a sponge just works better. And it's very, very creamy. I'm surprised. You know how sometimes foundation stakes can be super thick and hard to move around? This is super creamy. So here's what the first layer is looking like. I've got to admit, I'm not super in love with how it's working over the textured pimply areas on my skin. It's looking a little bit dry in those areas. I did read that there was a certain way to work with these products and finesse with these products. Did I read into that? No, and now I wish I did, but I don't know. I just feel like if there's a certain way that you need to apply it, then it's not that good of a product. You know, I'm just applying a little bit of extra in the areas that need the extra coverage. I always break out on my cheeks. It's quite rude. No packaging is really, really nice on these products. Okay, so here is with like one and a half layers and it has a slight glow to it. But as somebody who gets breakouts a lot, so there's lots of like dry patches and ickiness on my skin, it really doesn't agree with those and this foundation is quite pricey. Obviously, this is a first impressions if you know of a better way to apply it or how you are able to make this work for you. Please don't hesitate to comment down below. But as far as my first impressions for the price, I'm not in love with it. It does have a nice glow to it. And I think if I apply super light layer, it will look quite nice. But if the product kicks up around my zits like I just I have a lot of zits. So yeah, I don't know if you have perfectly smooth skin. I think it's nice. Okay, we're going to move on to eyebrows. Now this is just the order that I typically do things. I picked up the hood of beauty hashtag bomb brows and I got mine in the shade medium brown. These are made in Japan and I've used this once before and I really like it. I do. It gives off the perfect amount of pigmentation. It's not too dry, not too cakey and it really, really allows you to get very specific with your brow hairs because look how fine this is. I have never come across an eyebrow pencil with such a fine tip. So if you really like getting those hair strokes, this is perfect for you. I feel like you run out of this so quickly though. So it's not a product that's going to make your brows look great in no time. You have to take your time with this because the product is so fine. Oh my goodness. Another thing that I don't like about this is I think the actual body of the pencil is too thick for how thin the product is because I feel like I'm going to break it. I feel like the Hulk and that this tip is going to just break off. Now that hasn't happened to me yet, but I just think with how small and thin it is, I would have liked a thinner component in my hand. Obviously minor things, but I really do think that that would make a big difference on the feeling when applying. I just would like it to be a bit thinner. But anyways, the actual pencil itself is a really nice quality. I really like this and I just love how fine it is. I think it's perfect for feather brows or if you really have thin brows and need to make it look like you're drawing in hairs instead of having completely filled in brows. Really great for a natural brow. So I give this a thumbs up for sure. I think they did a really nice job with this. I'm filling my brows out really wonky today, but I don't know why. I did show this in my haul and try it out as you can see. But I picked up the ABH clear brow gel. It feels like a glue. It's a brow styling wax and I'm going to take my spoolie. I'm just going to run it through my brows. If you like feather brows, you are in luck. This product is awesome for feather brows. I personally, not a big fan of feather brows, but you can see it makes getting a feather brow very, very easy. I feel like I look crazy.   Take the end of your spoolie and push them down, move them down. I try not to go too hard with my spoolie on my skin because I feel like it moves the foundation. So that's why you like to start off with the tip just to guide and then the spoolie to reinforce. And once you like where you're at, press your brows in. Listen, I'm not personally a huge fan of this product. I just don't like the way it makes my brows feel. It feels too much like glue to me. However, if you like the feather brow, it's like an amazing, an amazing product for that. I'm not really good at making feather brows and this product makes it so easy if I ever wanted to do a feather brow. Moving on to concealer. This is fairly new. I didn't have anything newer. This is the Marc Jacobs Extra Strat. It's a foundation and concealer. I've been using it as a foundation. I'm just going to use it as a concealer because I don't have anything else today. This is in the shade light 180 and you guys, I'm not a fan. I don't really recommend this. It's okay. It's good enough to make work and it's not anything I hate so much that I want to return, but I find it to be drying and it just looks gross on my skin. It doesn't wear the best, particularly as a foundation as a concealer. I can certainly get away with it, but it does nothing really to benefit my skin at the end of the day. You know, it covers so that's fine, but it's a concealer as far as like the texture of my skin and just hydration. It is nothing for that. So that's something that you look for. You're not going to like this or at least I don't like it. I don't know if you'll like it or not, but of all the new items on the market right now, I don't really recommend this concealer. The first time I tried it as a foundation, I thought it was okay. I was like, oh, this is nice, but the more I used it, the more I wore it and time went on. I just didn't like it. Okay, let's move on to the next product. Now this one I've tried before. This is from Westman Atelier again. I've been to the right way and this is the face trace contour stick in the shade Biscuit. So this is the cooler of the two shades that they have in the lighter one as well. I really like this. I use this in my home. I think it's super nice. I think it blends so easily into the skin. I normally don't like a cream contour with a brush because I feel like it moves the foundation, but you can see I just want to show you how easily it just blends into the skin with a little bit of a press and push and it's such a nice natural shade. Big fan over here. I definitely like this way more than the foundation and it's not too dark of a color for my skin tone. Just looks really good and really natural. Put a little bit closer because I have a giant forehead. So this, if you're interested, is definitely a thumbs up for me. Okay, we're going to go to powders now before we go on to blush and there has been a lot of powders to come out to the market lately that I still need to try, but I have two powders that I'm going to try today. One on one side, one on the other side. I love comparing. I feel like it's really easy to tell what product you prefer and what's better and what the differences are when you do a side by side comparison. So we have the Tatcha this silk powder and then I'm going to try the Dior backstage face and body powder. No powder. So they're two different styles of powders, but I just don't want to see how they compare. So we're going to start off with the Tatcha on this side. Haven't opened it yet. Haven't used this. This is what the packaging looks like. Okay. Interesting. I think you pull the silicone thing out. Yes. You pull that silicone thing out and the powder comes out. Do I like this? I don't think I do. I feel like I don't have control. I much prefer a sifter. Shake it. Did we get product? Yes, you shake it. You got a good amount of product. You can see it has a little bit of a light yellow color to it. I guess you can put the silicone thing back on to control the powder from coming out, but I don't think I don't see myself doing that personally. But anyways, I'm going to take a little bit from the cap. I'm using a refer number 19 brush. We're just going to put this underneath the eyes right here in this area and then right here and halfway on the nose. So these are the areas that I usually like to powder and right in this area as well. It definitely imatified my skin for sure, but there still is a light luminosity to my skin, but it's very, very faint, but I feel like as the time goes on, more of the shine is going to come through, but it has a very skin like finish to the skin, which is really nice. You'll see a little bit of dryness right here. I'm going to attribute that honestly to the foundation. The foundation is emphasizing things that I don't really like. That looks really nice. Let's compare it to the DR. Again, these are two very different powders. Now, I almost got the shade darker than this and thank goodness I didn't. This is shade 2N. It is a neutral shade, but it's not supposed to have much color to it. This is with a swipe and then it kind of blended in invisible to the skin.  So this is depositing a bit of color, which this is a bit too dark, so I don't love that, but it's nothing too visible, I suppose. This almost looks like I didn't said anything. I hardly see any mattifying going on. Honestly, this powder is really traceless. I don't know if you're able to tell the difference on camera. It took away a little bit of the mattification, but this side looks better than the Tatcha side. Like I can see the texture right here, which I did blame on the foundation, but I don't see that texture right here where the Dior powder is. So upon initial application, I think I prefer the Dior. I just think it looks better. It's just really traceless. You can't tell that there's any powder on my skin in the Tatcha. It's traceless as well, but there's something that's a little bit more blurring and smoothing to the skin about the Dior. Of course, wear time is going to be a huge factor in this product, but initial application, the side is looking better and better. This side on my under eyes looks a little bit more creepy and textured as opposed to the Dior side. So good to know. Good to know. Obviously, I will keep you updated and let you know. Okay, we're back to Westman Atelier. We have a baby cheek blush stick. I chose the shade pedal because I like a rosy pink blush.  I'm just going to put this on my cheeks. Oh, this is a beautiful color. It does have some pigmentation to it, which is why I like the sponge to kind of blot this color out. And I did put a little bit of powder underneath as you just saw. This does not seem to be disrupting or bothered by the powder at all. This is a beautiful color. It looks so natural, but just a touch on the bridge of the nose, maybe a little bit on the temples. And the reason why I'm bringing this blush everywhere is it makes the skin look a little bit more natural, just not having pink on the cheeks. If you bring it around to different areas of the face, it's going to look more like skin. And this is beautiful. I didn't disrupt the foundation at all. The powder didn't bother it at all and it's sitting stunning on the skin. I'm really liking this. I think it's a great product. So I didn't have a new highlighter that was on the Sephora's list. I did have the Pat McGrath Divine Rose Ultraco highlighter. You know, it's a newer highlighter. It's still on their new arrivals, but nothing new knew that I've never tried before. I'm very familiar with this formula. Lots of cream products on the just arrived list. And I just don't like cream highlight. So I haven't bothered buying any cream highlights recently. So I'm just going to use this beautiful Pat McGrath highlight. This formula, incredible. If you are thinking of picking this up for the VIB sale, it's totally worth it. It's beautiful. It blends in so nice with that blush. I do not have a new eyeshadow palette from Sephora either. There hasn't been many good palette releases recently. I know Natasha Denona finally launched a new palette, which I already pre-ordered the Circo de Whatever. I ordered that, but I don't have it yet. So, you know how the last two months, the makeup releases were bleh? Like seriously, I didn't buy anything. While there hasn't been anything crazy that's caught my eye, you know, things have been popping up like the Tatcha powder excited me, the Dior powder excited me, the Huda Beauty brow pencil excited me. So I've been picking things up one at a time to equate to this video where I'm excited about the new launches, but no eyeshadow palettes. Just a lot of skin products, complexion products that I've been enjoying. Okay, base is down. I needed to give my lower brows a bit more shape because I was looking fuzzy-wuzzy. No new eyeshadow palette, but I have this Tom Ford Seuss Le Sabol that I've never used before. I picked it up a few months ago. It's been sitting in my need to try a drawer, so I finally want to use it in case you're interested in Tom Ford. Now I have these new brushes from Ruffer that are coming out March 20th. I got these a while ago and I didn't know any details about them, so I didn't want to use them until I knew when they launched and stuff, but how awesome do these look? So the first one I'm going to try is number 27. This is a nice big but still long fluffy brush, but it's still going to allow you to have a little bit of precision. I'm going to start off with this shade right here. That pool is darker on the skin just like I suspected. Most Tom Ford products do that. So if you are excited about this new Ruffer launch, I love the Ruffer eye shapes. Their brushes are the best as far as shapes because they're so unique and they really are pinpointed to certain jobs that you didn't know you needed. I don't know.  It's like, why did a brand never think to come out with a shape like this? So I'm excited about this Ruffer launch just because eye brushes are superb. That's a nice natural color. Actually let me put that down here as well. I'm going to add in a little bit of depth. This look is going to be nothing crazy. That's not what Tom Ford is about. Just everyday ease. So these are going to be taupey colors with like a rosy undertone to them. Nothing too warm, which I like. More neutral. See, I'm using this brush to do everything. Okay, final depth. So I was able to really kind of layer these colors to get a very nice haze. It goes relatively deep. It's not the deepest palette from Tom Ford, but it's just enough for everyday for my skin tone. Next we're taking the 26 brush, which is this impressive size of a pencil brush. And this is going to be perfect for a lower lash line precision. Wow, what a good brush for this. Kudos to you, Ruffer. Love it. I don't have another brush shaped like this. And then finally, we have a number 28 brush, which is a smaller, not quite as dense packer brush. I'm going to take this shade right here. So this brush doesn't have a ton of density, so it's going to apply a nice light wash of whatever color you're using for the lid. So while this palette is not new to Sephora and it's new to me, it is very, very pretty for kind of work appropriate, but still sassy makeup looks. I like this one. It's still like a neutral look, but still has a little bit of uniqueness to it. The next product that I have is from Gucci. And this is the long lasting whole liner. Now, I did have plans. I don't know if I'll actually be able to go through with it because I've been picking up new Gucci products here and there and I want to do like a full face of Gucci or with what I have, you know? I was going to save this, but I want to try it out. Look how beautiful the packaging is. Ooh, I didn't realize that I was going to be sharpenable, but I guess not. Anyways, let's test it out. Is there anything on the other end? Yay, we have a sharpener though. So that's nice. This is a Shea Noir made in Germany. Germany makes really good pencils. White creamy. Okay, now let me show you something. Coal liners are meant to be blended out. And refer came out with this brush. It's called the number 29. I think it's a copy of my favorite, well, one of my favorite most unique brushes from Wingoss. I use the Wingoss brush in my makeup kit. I use it to get really precise eyeliner with my clients. It's so much harder doing liner on other people, but I'm going to use this to blend out this liner. This liner is not really agreeing with my blending. It's not the most smudgy, probably because I took too much time to let it set, but we're working it. I'll see you can bring it in. I don't like the look when I do that, but I just wanted to test it. But it was able to smudge my liner and kind of push it into the lash line a little bit more. So you see how it looks harsh? It's very nice and black. So let the smudginess do the magic. Gonna take whatever is left over on that brush and just slightly line it along my lower lash line. All right, cool. So I'm going to finish with some mascara and some lashes and we'll be back to finish the lips. Okay, lashes are on. They are Ardell 421. If you're wondering to make, they're just so natural and beautiful. Anyways, lips. So I picked up a couple of the new Gucci lip liners. I think I know what I'm going to use, but this one is nude. It runs a little bit warmer than I thought, but these are nice wooden pencils. These are also made in Germany, by the way, and this is shade number three. Oh, I pressed too hard. Okay, then, but I got number three because I wanted something a little bit more unique. So they feel pretty creamy. This is a cool orange lip liner. I definitely don't have a shade like this, but for the look today, nude is going to be the winner. Again, it's much warmer than I thought it would be. It's creamy, but it's just waxy enough. Like it's not super creamy, like a Charlotte Tilbury color pop kind of thing. It has a little bit more wax, more so like Mac, but it's still easy to work with. So I like it. I like the way that this feels. And then I don't have any other new lip products. So I'm just going to pick up Pat McGrath color. We're going to go with something more pinky to kind of counteract the warmness. So this is Belladonna lip gloss. Again, nothing new. Cute. All right, I'm going to get myself together. And then we are going to do the final lineup of all the products that I tried today. Here is the final look. As you can see, it's pretty natural, pretty wearable. So let's go over the products in order that I used. So I started off with the Westman Atelier foundation. Not too big of a fan of it. It's just so pricey. So I don't really think it's worth the money from what I've tried on this first wear. It gives a very natural skin like finish. But if you have any sort of dryness or acne, dying acne, like I do, I really emphasize those areas of my face. So I have to continue playing with this, but so far I'm not into it. The Hooded Beauty hashtag brow pencil I think is really nice. There's not any pencil quite as fine as this on the market. So it really does allow for those natural hair like strokes, especially if you have thin brows or you love feather brows. This is going to be perfect. So I really do like this a lot. I definitely think it's worth the pick up. ABH brow freeze is not going to be for everybody, but it does what it's supposed to do. It definitely freezes your brows. If you are into foolproof, easy feather brows, this is going to be great for you. If you're like me and you're not so into feather brows, I just stick with your normal eyebrow job. I've talked about this a lot on my channel. I'm not into it. The Westman Atelier face trace contour stick. Mine is in the shade of biscuit. Really love this. Blends easily into the skin. It's great if you're into natural makeup. It's not going to be something very intimidating. It's not going to require you to blend too much. So this is fantastic if you're into Westman Atelier. Tatcha silk powder versus the Dior face and body powder. So far, I'm still into the Dior side more, but they've kind of evened out, but I do think that the Tatcha side does look a bit more textured than the Dior side. So the Dior is a bit more blurring from what I can tell. But of course, I definitely need to continue wearing these first impressions. Don't tell you much. By the way, I am planning on doing a powder video because there's been the Gucci powder. There's been the Fenty powder, Kosas, Tatcha and Dior. So I'm going to do a video on all of those powders in one. But I'm in the very beginning stages of testing all those powders. So it's going to be a couple of weeks. The Westman Atelier cream blush is amazing. I love it. I love it just as much as that contour. This color in particular is just so natural. It blends into the skin so nice and it worked so seamlessly over all of the other products that I used, including the powders that I put down. So it's so easy to work with. Definitely great for a beginner and if you're into natural everyday makeup. Again, not a new product, but new to me. I tried out the Tom Ford Soussable eyeshadow palette. Again, if you're into anything that's like really bold or different or unique, this isn't going to be for you. It's not a unique palette by any means. But if you're into the Tom Ford formula, absolutely beautiful. It gives you that simple everyday Tom Ford eye with a rose gold kind of twist to it. So I do like it a lot. But if you're not into the Tom Ford magic, then this isn't going to be for you. But I think it's definitely a nice palette. The Gucci Eye Coal. I didn't notice anything really superb about it. I'm going to have to continue using it. So nothing really stood out to me, but nothing was particularly bad about it either. It just kind of seemed the middle of the road. Wear time is really where the truth is going to speak. So I will update you guys on that. Finishing off with the Gucci lip liners. I can't speak on wear time right now, but of course I'm going to have to update you guys. But I like them. If you're into a more waxy formula, I'm happy to see this because the really creamy lip liner formulas are what is trending right now. And I've always kind of preferred the waxy side of lip pencils because you do have a bit more control when applying and just a little bit more precision. So I'm happy to see that Gucci did come out with a more waxy formula. And this shade number three is so unique. I cannot wait to put this all over my lips, but the new shade is very nice. Just be aware it does run a little bit warm. Hello. So I actually decided to do a quick wear time update because I've been wearing the products now for about seven hours. So I figured I'd hop on camera. Hold on. Let me turn the lights down. It's so light. I think you can see my skin better this way. So I haven't done any touch ups. The only thing I've done is I've wiped my smile lines, but I'm surprised the foundation didn't get all over my mask today because I was wearing a mask. I will say, though, based on my first wear, I'm not as big of a fan of the foundation. It wore away pretty gracefully, honestly, but you can see it just making my skin look really textured. And you can see my under eyes look a hot mess. It's because of that Marc Jacobs concealer. I do not like that concealer. powders consistently throughout the day. The Dior side looked better than the Tatra side. So I think I like the Dior better. It just looked smoother overall. I don't know if you can see the difference in texture from the Tata side to the Dior side. The blush stayed on very nicely. I really love the blush. Lip liner lasted pretty well and I like that it didn't smudge. I took my lipstick off to eat and everything, but I like the lipstick. So overall, everything was pretty nice except for the foundation. I didn't like the foundation and I'm not sure about this Tata powder. I need to continue playing with it, but the Dior performed better. In my opinion, love the eyebrow pencil. The eyebrow gel worked out really nicely. Lip pencils good, not the longest wearing that I've had because if I had them pat my graft, it would still be on my lips right now. I like the eyeliner too. It didn't fade. It didn't transfer. So the eyeliner is really nice as well. Let me know your thoughts on all of the new makeup on the markets. And if you agree with me, if you disagree, if you have any tips, I'd love to hear it. Don't forget to fill out my Sephora Squad testimonial if you would like to help me out. 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DEVCON DECISIONS by Clay Mackle, Episode 1, Stakehouse Choices. I grew up on the southeast side of town, so I often went to the Little Red Barn where the menus were on the walls and the waitresses all wore short skirts. Downtown and on the Riverwalk is the Little Rhine Stakehouse, which also is a location of my wedding reception in 1987. Though my favorite is the barn door, and it happens to be the closest to the Marriott, it no longer has that smoky feel of the 70s, but great food for a great valley. Thank you for watching!