Hey everyone, Johnny here from Tabletop Troubadour, so the announcements out for
the Dark Crystal board game which of course is to follow up to the Labyrinth
board game. I've been brought on again by River Horse and the Jim Henson Company
to create the sculptural assets and the illustration assets for this game again
and we thought it was a great time to show you some of the things that have
been going on to bring their game to life.
So the first thing I had to figure out with the three-ups was scale. As much as
the Dark Crystal is the only single perfect film that's ever had no humans
in it and is all creating a completely different world, so scale is subjective
in the sense that who's to say how big a skekis is or how big Gelfling is
I also wanted to incorporate the fact that there is a human inside
the suit and there's also a Jim Henson sized human who has a Kermit the Frog
sized hand puppet doing a Jen and then you've got Karen Prell doing Kira. It's also
a nice scale for me to push the plasticine round and sculpt in, so the
Gelflings seem a little small because a lot of the time you've got these... they are in
the foreground they've got this these close-ups a lot of the time they're
actually sized up for suit performers so I wanted to find a middle ground there.
Of course that's completely irrelevant to what you're gonna give him the board
game as you can see here these are some 3d print outs that I did just for me
because I personally couldn't wait for the board game to come out so I
printed these so I could paint them and get an idea of scale and you can see
River Horse have decided to make the Gelflings a lot bigger than they
would have been in the film which is understandable considering it's a four
player game, everybody chooses their own character. All of this information has
come from scans of these sculptures here and as I said you know so like Jen is
around the same size as Hoggle so in a lot of ways these Gelflings you should
should actually be smaller the skeskis is here but they were already
feeling a little too small so you can see the reasoning behind making them
bigger by the time they get this big. They are sculpted it in a way that once shrunk
down you're going to be able to get already great looking miniature and to
do that, all of these... a lot of the details on is already wonderfully
detailed characters have been heightened and you know the wrinkles are deeper the
proportions are played with a little bit. Brian Froud and the team that created
the skeksis and the Gelflings, everything in that movie,
everything is just covered and saturated and drenched with these amazing details
especially in the skeksis carapises, carapie, carapises... I don't
know if that's a word but however that said, the ornate coverings that these
guys wear are so detailed and so covered a little objects and pieces that I've
had to simplify a lot of that because again I'm sculpting these basically
for mold-ability, for scan-ability and also ultimately for your paintbrush.
So I started with this guy who is the Chamberlain who after Hoggle is my
second favorite creature and cinema history. All of the shapes and designs
the performance, the voice, the sculpture of the face, everything about this guy
Frank Oz originally performed this in the movie and you watch him to this day
he's not a puppet he is a character. Sadly the actor that voiced has just
passed away about a week ago but everything, every shape, every silhouette,
everything about this pompous buildup of costume that is hiding this really sad
pathetic creature underneath which is like the powdered wigs of times not so
long ago. Every skeksis us is like their own crooked politician and there's
so much character and I've always loved them. I've also been fortunate enough to
have seen this sculpture and this costume straight from the film
physically in person when Peter Brook took me around the LA Jim Henson
creature shop. You can see how big this is going to be in person you know... I don't have
very big hands either if you want to measure that into your equations.
They're already so detailed and so elaborate I'm often having to
simplify a lot of shapes because I know that they're not going to read when
they're this small but I'm also trying to sculpt something that is going to be
a treat for you to paint and this is going to work with washes and dry
brushes so even people that aren't crazy about miniatures like I am and have a
lot of painting will be able to paint these for their board game and they're
going to come out fine. This is Jen obviously the hero of the films the
challenge I set myself with on this sculpture was to do something that all
of the previous toy companies and collectibles of Jen have avoided for
good reason which is all of the the loose strings and drapery that come off
his wrist that primarily were part of the costume to hide the rods of the
rod puppet operating Jen which was Jim Henson himself.
For me overall his character is "I'm not really for this quest but I'm gonna take it on" and I
wanted to capture that in a sculpture while positioning his arms in a pose
where I could push and play around with negative space for all of these loose
strings and capture exactly what's in the film while still being able to pull
this guy out of a mold considering that he's gonna be this big in the end.
As you can see also I've heightened a lot of the design patterns on his
tunic so when thats scanned and when that's shrunk down to this level a bit of dry
brushing and a wash are going to completely sort out your painting job so
anybody can paint that and everything registers and you don't have to go on
and after the fact and highlight some of these details. Kira and Fizzgig, once
again River horse and the Jim Henson Company were really great by letting
me come up with the poses and how I wanted to express these characters
physically. The thing with Kira is she's an amazing
character she's beautiful, she's such a huge part of the film and she's a
fan favorite but from the back if she's wearing a hood, which I chose to
sculpt her in because I wanted another layer of darker color and drapery what I
wanted to do since a lot of people playing the game are going to see here
from the back just depending on me she's on the board I decided to put her wings
sticking out a little bit because there's the scene where she finally
jumped off the cliff and a winged spring up which means there's got to be some
kind of slit in her cloak anyway for them to be able to be active so they hinted at
there at the back and I love the same way with Jen meets her and she
walks in and she pulls down her hood so I wanted to capture that a film moment
and we also had to include Fizzgig, so rather than having Fizzgig as a
little fluffy tumbleweed lump at her feet I thought she could be carrying him
as she does often in the film and that also helped me take care of a lot of
negative spaces that were created in the drapery of her long cloak and more
importantly I had to come come up with a pose where I could include the long
tassels of her cuffs then again like Jen were there to hide the rod puppets
movements when Karen Prell was operating here and so both sides of how she's
using your arms we're thought about in advance of how I could keep everything
that's happening in the costume and how you could get that out of one mold.
That's it from us at Tabletop Troubadour. We hope you've enjoyed the video the
game itself is up for pre-order currently on the River Horse website so
get on that. For me personally it's been a real
thrill working on what I consider the second greatest fantasy film of all time
it's been a lot of fun. it's been very rewarding. Any questions or comments,
we love hearing from you on the Tabletop Troubadour Facebook page or under these
videos so let us know and until then we'll catch you at the great conjunction.
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Why Are We Afraid of the Dark? - Duration: 5:12.
[♩ INTRO]
Were you scared of the dark growing up?
Or maybe you still are!
It's not too uncommon for adults either.
When you're young, being afraid of the dark
goes hand in hand with some other fears, like of ghosts, monsters, or other spooky things.
And as you get older, you might not use that sort of explanation anymore.
But these irrational fears still stick around, because there are a lot of ways we learn to
be afraid.
The good news is: research has found out that there are ways to fight those fears, too.
The way we usually develop fears is a well-understood part of psychology.
Most of the time, it's through classical conditioning.
This is when you pair a neutral stimulus — something that doesn't make you feel anything — with
something that you have an automatic reaction to.
Like, imagine a person who's generally cool with dogs.
But then, a dog bites her and she has to go to the hospital.
That'd make anybody freak out a bit.
Then, the neutral stimulus can become a conditioned stimulus, which gives you the same automatic
reaction.
In other words, after that experience, this person is more likely to be afraid when she
sees a dog.
Some phobias, which are extreme or irrational fears, can be caused by classical conditioning,
including a fear of the dark.
Research in animals and humans has found that conditioned responses are probably linked
with the amygdala.
That's a brain region that becomes active when people are afraid, or have a lot of high-arousal
emotions, like excitement and anger.
So conditioned fears kind of make sense: they're based on something that happened to you.
And some surveys have found that most children have had a bad experience with the thing they're
scared of, like spiders or the dark.
But other phobias are of things that you've never actually experienced.
Like, arachnophobia is one of the top fears in the world, but most people haven't actually
been attacked by spiders.
Some survey results, including one sample of over 1,000 children and teenagers, suggest
that we might learn these fears because of modeling.
Like, when your older brother sees a spider and freaks out, so you do too.
Or, where shark attacks are a huge threat, or a horror movie where the killer lurks in
the darkness.
Even more common in that survey was learning through instructional fear acquisition — when
someone tells you to be afraid of something.
This can happen if your mom warns you to watch out for snakes, or when news broadcasters
talk about terrorist attacks, even though the actual statistics say you're much more
likely to die of something like a heart attack.
This is because people tend to use an availability heuristic in their reasoning, meaning they
use what's readily available to their mind.
It's hard to remember the exact statistics about terrorism and heart disease, but boy,
that last story you saw on the news sticks with you.
And it probably wasn't about a heart attack.
In fact, when researchers run studies and try to condition people to fear something
neutral — like associating a certain tone with a mild shock — they're more successful
if they tell people what to be afraid of beforehand.
Now, across all these studies, some psychologists noticed a weird pattern: some phobias are
easier to create than others in certain species.
For example, scientists have observed that it's easier for primates to develop a fear
of snakes or spiders — but not of something like rabbits.
They call this phenomenon biological preparedness.
We can't say for sure why it happens, but one idea is that these fears are somehow ingrained
from our ancestors' behaviors.
Like, all mammals might be more wary around snakes and lizards, because the first mammals
could've been eaten by ancient reptiles.
Some ecologists looked into an evolutionary reason for fearing the dark, based on a risk
from predators, by studying some regions of Tanzania where lion attacks are a threat to
humans.
Using data from over two decades and over a thousand lion attacks, they found that most
attacks occurred right after sunset, when it's dark but people are still wandering
around.
But they also found that attacks were up to four times more common in the ten days after
a full moon than the period before, which is when the darkest part of the night is also
right after sunset.
So if that pattern of lions attacking humans in the dark was also true millennia ago, it's
possible that some early humans became conditioned to fear the dark or the full moon.
Scientists have guessed that people might be predisposed to be afraid of the dark because
we adapted to a risk of predator attacks.
But this is one of the first studies suggesting that darkness actually increased that risk.
But it's worth taking these evolutionary hypotheses with a grain of salt.
It's not like anyone's run a study where they assigned some people to a lion-risk condition
and others to a no-lion condition, and then waited for generations to see what fears develop.
So we've got a couple good ideas about where phobias come from.
And if you have a phobia, psychologists have found ways to treat them.
Many randomized trials show that one of the most effective treatments is called exposure
therapy, which is essentially just conditioning in reverse.
You slowly expose yourself to what you're afraid in small doses — like turning off
the light for five seconds, being in the same room as a spider, or meeting groups of strangers
— until you don't have a bad reaction anymore.
Then you move the spider a little closer, leave the lights out longer, or meet more
people — until the phobia has less power over you.
Now, fear is a really complicated thing.
So if you love being scared by things like horror movies, check out our video about why
psychologists think that happens.
And if you want to keep learning about other brain things, you can go to youtube.com/scishowpsych
and subscribe.
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Megatron's Plan - Sentinel's Betrayal | Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) CLIP - Duration: 7:01.
My master! Such a brilliant scheme!
So when Sentinel left Cybertron, it was to defect?
He was meant to rendezvous with me here on Earth
before fate waylaid us both.
The only way to revive him,
we needed Prime and his Matrix.
Excellent strategy.
Mine, mine!
So he is now your partner, master?
He is my greatest triumph.
So impressive.
Commencing transport.
Stop! No! No, Sentinel!
Forgive me.
Here we are.
Fight us now.
Contact!
Watch out! Move it! Move it!
Autobots, retreat!
Why, Sentinel, why?
For Cybertron! For our home!
What war destroyed, we can rebuild! But only if we join with the Decepticons.
No, it's not the only way. This is our home! We must defend the humans!
So lost you are, Optimus.
On Cybertron, we were gods.
And here, they call us machines.
Let the humans serve us, or perish.
You're lucky I didn't kill you. In time you'll see.
It's not over.
Now, if I were him, I wouldn't let you out of my sight for one second.
It's funny. I was just thinking on the way over here,
I could really use some advice from Dylan, and there he is.
- Can I speak to you, Carly? - Welcome. Please, sit down.
Have a drink.
You know what, I don't need a drink. Or a car, or a job.
I just need to speak to my girlfriend alone.
Is that okay with you, Mr. Inappropriate?
Excuse me.
- What's going on? - I'll tell you outside.
I really think I can help you, Sam.
I remember a talk I had with my dad once about tough choices.
Yeah, now's not the time. We'll set something up, though.
Of course, it was way back, when my dad's firm was in charge
of budget review and accounting for NASA.
You see, the thing that he taught me was,
when it's not your war, you join the side that's going to win.
Move.
Too direct? Or is it just me?
Certainly not you, sir.
You're mine!
No!
- Get help! - Sam, I can't get out!
- Someone get help! - Good night!
Good night, Mr. Dylan.
Get me out of here!
Help! Get help!
- He's young. He will learn. Good night. - Get me out!
It was a fun night.
You really think you're the first man ever asked to join the noble alien cause?
Who are you?
Do you know why we've not been back to the moon since 1972?
Because these two,
they came to my dad and they told him to do some creative accounting.
Make it way too expensive to ever go back. So, he and the others
shut down the American and Russian space programs.
And they've been our clients ever since.
- You helped them kill people? - You think they'd give you a choice?
Besides, it's not like I personally participated.
I am a liaison. I liaise.
It's hostile takeover time, Sam.
Sam!
- Sam! - Let her go!
Sam!
I've had my eye on you for years, Sam.
You're the one spy I've never been able to provide
as someone close to the Autobots.
Sam! Don't do what he wants!
Yes, he will.
They all do.
They will slaughter her, you understand me?
In the time it takes you to blink, they'll do it to her and they'll do it to me.
So you show a little respect
when someone offers you a job!
Wrist.
You are to track down Optimus Prime,
because you're the one human he trusts,
and you will ask one question.
How does he intend to fight back? Strategies, tactics, everything!
Has a nasty little bite, doesn't it? It's very high-tech.
It lets us see what you see, hear what you hear
and it taps your nervous system.
So, if you so much as try and signal...
I don't know what to tell you, Sam.
Relationships have consequences. I am here because of my father.
She is here because of you.
Stop, stop! Stop! Stop!
Soundwave, would you please?
Sam, do your job.
She'll be safe. I give you my word.
I'll kill you. You have my word.
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Autobots Exiled 'There is No Plan' Scene | Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) CLIP - Duration: 9:46.
Combatant Commands are now at DEFCON 1.
Approximately 200 Decepticons are now in hiding.
Energon detectors have been triggered
as far away as South America and China.
The U.N. just received an encrypted audio file.
They say it's from the leader of the Autobots.
Defenders of Earth.
We have come for your natural resources
to rebuild our damaged planet.
When we have transported all we need,
we will leave your world in peace.
For such peace to exist,
you must immediately exile the Autobot rebels you have harbored.
Nonnegotiable.
Renounce the rebels.
We await your reply.
We'll debrief you in transit.
Yeah, I really don't see how I can be of any help.
I mean, you guys seem pretty busy.
We could just do this another time, I think.
I have underestimated you at every turn.
What?
You warned us that they were using humans.
And you knew that Sentinel was the key.
Director!
Who am I? Hey, you're the expert. I'm just a walking security risk.
Are you all right?
Yes.
- No, you're not. You're sweating. - I'm fine. I'm fine.
I'm sweating because I'm nervous.
I'm nervous because you got me in here with this information.
Okay, I'm a Twitter junkie. I blog everything.
- I can't keep a secret to save my life. - You wouldn't dare.
- That's the truth. I'm telling you. - Director, the Pentagon's calling in 15.
- What are you doing? - Nothing. What are you doing?
Get away from me.
It's been a remarkable series of events today at the Capitol.
Just moments ago, legislation was passed
to exile the Autobots from American shores.
The U-S. Military alliance with them is officially overt.
In the words of the House Majority Leader;
The sponsor of today's resolution,
- ""We cannot in good conscience..." - Okay.
What? They can't do this.
- You gotta tell them. They can't do that. - Okay. It's official. It's a go, people.
These are our allies. The Autobots fought for us. They fought with us.
And where are we now?
Facing an enemy invasion
with an enemy that has the means to deploy countless more.
If there is any more you know,
anything at all about the enemy's intentions,
now is the time to tell.
Autobots have no way of leaving this planet.
And that is where you're wrong.
Its name is the Xanthium.
It brought the second wave of Autobots
and it's been under NASA's care and study ever since.
We linked it with a decommissioned shuttle
to maintain military control until they're gone.
Gonna be 10,000 pounds of torque on that itsy-bitsy bolt, not 19!
You're gonna risk the lives of all me mates! I'll ball you!
These guys are the Wreckers. They take care of the Xanthium.
We don't let them off the base much, 'cause they're assholes.
You gotta pull that, ya nancy wanker!
It's time to kill him!
I'm just trying to help, you know. Just doing my job.
Just calm down. Leave him alone. This is a human being.
- Epps! - You are ridiculous!
- Is that you? - What up, man?
What are you doing here?
I retired from the Air Force.
Can you let my hand go?
What the hell was that?
Now I just consult to run interference for them.
Well, you're not helping!
No more combat and aliens shooting at my ass. I got a dream job.
Time to get off this planet.
Kicking the Autobots out. Can you believe this is happening?
- Where do you think it's taking them? - Any planet but here.
I wanna talk to whoever's in charge here!
Well, well, well. Charlotte Mearing.
Agent Simmons. Former Agent Simmons.
So I see you survived Washington.
Washington, Egypt, heartbreak. I survive. I will survive.
They're bringing everybody in, kid. Putting all the intel on the table.
And if you think deporting nine Autobots is gonna solve a damn thing...
It's out of my hands.
Moving up in the world?
Your booty looks excellent.
If you ever say a word to anyone
about what happened that night in Quantico,
I'll cut your heart out.
You already did.
Sammy, listen to me. Don't let them exile us.
- Don't let them take us, Sam. - It's a Decepticon trap.
Check the nitrogen levels. We're booking out of here.
Optimus?
What your leaders say is true. This was all my fault.
I told them whom to trust. I was so wrong.
That doesn't make it your fault. It just makes you human for a change.
Remember this.
You may lose your faith in us,
but never in yourselves.
I need to know how you're gonna fight back.
I know this is strategy, I know you're coming back
with reinforcements, something. I know there's a plan.
You can tell me. No other human will ever know.
There is no plan.
If we just do what they want, how are we gonna live with ourselves?
You are my friend, Sam.
You always will be.
But your leaders have spoken.
From here,
the fight will be your own.
Make it short.
We're loading up.
All right, hustle up! We're launching at dawn.
We're gonna do whatever we can. Make it like it was.
You will always be my friend, Sam.
I gotta be going on.
Years from now, they're gonna ask us,
"Where were you when they took over the planet?"
We're gonna say,
"We just stood by and watched."
You should really look at this as a partnership.
You have to stand on the side of progress
if you wanna be a part of history.
Seven, six, five, four; Three, two,
One, zero.
Go ahead and throttle up.
You wanted an answer. You got one.
I always get what I want, Sam. We just needed to be sure.
Sure of what?
That they would go without a fight.
- Say again. - Tracking an incoming object.
We all work for the Decepticons now.
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THE DARK SIDE - Episode 066 - Duration: 15:34.
This is Millionaire Case Study Episode 66
Yo what's up guys! Today is July 12th 2017 and this is actually a rare take 2
for this episode episode 66. So I started shooting this episode actually super
super early this morning, I stayed up late overnight cleaning up
my office and just kind of resetting everything going through papers and
stuff like that and I was like well at the end I'm gonna shoot my entire case
study but then as I started doing it I was so tired I didn't know what to say.
So got some sleep it's now in the afternoon late afternoon or in the
evening here on Wednesday. So what did I want to talk about in this episode I
think where I want to start with this episode is is going into like the
emotional state that I'm in because that's what I want to be able to
document on this journey for other people to be able to see for me to be
able to go back and watch but so if you've watched all the episodes up to
now a lot has actually been going on with getting new clients and stuff like
that a lot of traveling and there's a lot of highs and lows in life in
business and entrepreneurship in general and certainly on this journey not just
highs and lows of what's happening in terms of sales coming to you or
opportunities or circumstances but also highs and lows in your emotional state.
And the last few days honestly if had I've been in kind of a low I'm pulling
on the other side of it right now the last time I did a Millionaire Case Study
episode was July 1st I think and so that shows I try to do one every week and
I've been trying to do this episode over and over it seems like not many takes
but just like oh I'm going to do that today and just didn't get to it didn't
feel like it and I'm finally shooting it. And it's I don't know why we go through
these lows but I just want to document that they happen and maybe give a little
sense of what I've done to pull through it. So it's what the low felt has
felt like is a lot of overwhelm and I don't know if it's overwhelmed because
I'm stepping into something they'll with like getting all these clients so
there's all these clients that I on on social media that I wanted that I had to
on board and so there's a little bit of stress there but then what it started to
make me do was is not fully doing much in fact it kicked me into this mode of
nostalgia in a really big way and I almost feel like that helped me process
a lot of this like a few days ago on Sunday I spent almost the entire day
looking through my journal and seeing where my life was like 10 years ago
and before like when I was 17 18 because I have a journal I've been journaling
ever since I was 17. I spent most of the day doing that and I don't know it's I
that seemed to feel good again I don't know what's cooking me into that another
thing that could be kicking me into it is Becca and I my wife are expecting
our new baby girl any day now and for some reason I think
that experiencing this like to the end of a pregnancy again is kind of
triggering to what it felt like three and a half four years ago when Archie
was coming so I put me in some weird funk but I'm still I'm still not where I
need to be like I need to make some shift because throughout all of this
there's thoughts of like what if I don't get enough business, like I said I want
to get in my last episode what if some people cancel and it's actually less
like there's those thoughts that are like repeating and I'm trying to combat
it. So what have I done to combat at it I think that's something worth talking
about so besides just being nostalgic and kind of processing it that way I've
done quite a bit of meditation that's something that I try to incorporate into
my life ever and so that's helped a bit and also
writing and this has been interesting because I know that writing helps and
writing and just putting out exactly what I'm feeling is a way of like
processing it but even that for whatever reason in
this stage that I've been in it's been so hard to get myself to actually sit
down and write and that's actually why I created a day like today. Today I have
turned off my cell phone so I don't have any distraction from either social media
or people calling me I'm not checking email to kind of give myself this this
space to get clear on what the frick I want to do and to go do it because it
this doesn't feel good being in this space. I want to be in the mode of like
yes I can do it like feel like I can do it and just take action on it and while
I've been in the funk I do feel like I'm on the other side of it. I'm turning the
corner I don't know exactly what put me there or exactly how I'm getting out but
I do feel that it is happening and these other things like meditation and writing
I think are a big part of that and after this episode is done after I'm done
shooting it something I'm gonna do is just sit down do something that I've
done before that I know helps do a brain dump where I just list out every single
thing that's on my mind get it out there pick the ones that are most important
that I need to be doing this week or this month and focus on that. Another
thing that helped too, I don't know if you can see but I used to have a big pile of
papers it's gonna be here to see I just have a big pile of papers in that thing
it's kind of my inbox up here in my office
and I just went through and cleared them all out and you might even notice that
my whatever that board is called that anyway that was covered with papers and
stuff some of there was even inspirational but I was like you know
what it's been there long enough I'm gonna put it away
so I stored most of it in there and I also went through my filing cabinet
and just got rid of a bunch of files that I just don't need and fill up like
a trash bag so trying to just reset myself and reset myself and give myself
space to do I need to do. So the rest of today that's my game that's my game plan
it's to get total clear total clarity on what it is that I need to do between now
the this week that I said this week and this month.
So speaking of this month I want to update on some things the first one is
my hair it's getting too freaking long so to document the ups and downs one of
my major goals for 2017 is to get down to 140 pounds well a month ago I got
down to a month ago I got down to 149 then through the month of June I ate
like shit did not stay true to what I committed to do and I end up gaining it
all the way back up to like 161 162 which pisses me off.
Oh cuz man it just doesn't feel good to to set that golf knowing I could have
been a lot farther and it didn't work so the last few weeks I've really gotten
more serious with this. What I'm doing right now is staying really dang
consistent with a few things first of all staying close to a program that I
know I can do and stick to something I like to stick to is something called
whole 30 just eating real food because that allows me to not have to overthink
it and off to measure and it's usually pretty good food so I'm sticking the
whole 30 pretty well that's the first thing I'm doing. The second thing is
intermittent fasting where I go at least 14 to 16 hours without eating so that I
eat my food within that window and then the third thing is I'm being consistent
with yoga and exercising but something I've barely incorporated this week that
I'm going to be doing more especially starting next week to
end the month is cardio. Insanity Max 30 with Beachbody workout program and then
the final thing that I don't know where I got this it's just an idea I had and
I'm gonna see if it works and that is every week until I hit my goal I'm gonna
do a 2-day fast where I don't eat any food just coffee tea or broth. And over
the past week I just stepped on the scale this morning I'm now down to like
155.8 or something like that I still have like 15 16 pounds to go to my goal
and I just want a freaky and hit it. Because another thing that happened
something that I've been documenting and really looking forward to over this
these last several episodes is getting more paid speaking gigs and a few
episodes back I talked about how some came in to me well I've been going
through the pipeline I got one agreed to I thought I lost it I got it back and I
have a paid speaking gig at the end of this month where I'll be
speaking on social media and I think what's important to know on this one is
besides almost losing it is is it's almost three grand which is awesome
because it's actually paid so that's the big thing is that it's actually paid so
it's happening and they're also gonna pay for my hotel room and stuff like
that but how this is gonna be this is something that's new for me in the sense
that I think I'm speaking longer than I've ever spoken I think it's gonna be
an hour and a half ish so that's a big deal. But two things that I negotiated
with this deal first one I'm gonna have a booth for the whole three-day event I
have not done that before to potentially sell my services.
The third thing or the other thing is I get to make an offer from stage all
right this will be the first time I've ever given an offer at a pitch from
stage. So I'm pretty excited to see how that goes and then I have another
speaking gig that's pretty much looks like it's gonna happen.
We're just finalizing some words on the agreement then it'll be signed and I'll
update you and that happens and then speaking of speaking the other thing
that happened just to update you is I've been wanting to get closer to doing a
TED talk. I submitted myself to a bunch of places and two nights ago I got an
email that says I'm being considered, it's not official or anything but I'm
being considered for a TED talk, a TEDx talk in Las Vegas and part of that
consideration is I can choose to go give a TEDx pitch August 4th and what that's
gonna be is it's basically if I'm selected even do that I replied that
email and said yes I'm interested and if I'm selected for that then I'll go give
a five minute pitch or a five minute talk around the idea that I want to talk
about and so I think if I get that which I'm hopeful for and they like that
five minutes then I'm more likely to get the bigger stage because I'm not
officially getting I'm not if I don't do this Ted X pitch then they're not going
to discount me for the regular TEDx stage but I want to take an advantage of
the opportunity to just give it a shot and then see if it increases my chances
of it happening on the main stage. So that's really what's happening in my
world right now again baby B as we call her actually when you see this we'll
probably already have her named so I'll just say little baby Bell is likely
gonna be born when I release this episode and so she's word aiming to have
her come any day now so that's kind of a big focus of mine
that's one of the reasons I'm staying here not traveling as much and I have a
few clients I'm launching still got one launch that took way too long like a
month to launch which is kind of a bummer because now we don't get paid for
the a second payment to like 30 days after
launch so we like wasted a month on that. But I guess just giving you details on
what's going on so that's my world looking on the other side of this funk.
I'm excited to see how to get back in full gear and just start crushing it to
make this journey, make the most of it make the most of this journey this
millionaire journey that I'm on right now. So I'm gonna wrap it up right there
thank you so much for watching I this isn't the most exciting of episodes I
know and it's kind of all over the place but I think that gives a sense of how
this journey has been at times and if you're watching this and I've already
made the million hopefully that can give you some confidence that as here I was
at this stage I have was dealing through the same stuff not knowing exactly I was
gonna do feeling overwhelmed but somehow breaking through a play shows that you
can do it too. So I'm Calvin Wayman documenting the
first story from somebody going from zero to a million as it's happening.
Thank you so much for watching.
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Wigdor Cycling Studio "The Dark Room" - Duration: 2:35.
So The Dark Room is what it sounds like.
You walk in, it's dark, we have black lights, the walls and the floors kind of react with
that black light.
It's the trend now that cycle is kind of going into these dark studios where it's you, your
bike and the instructor provides really high-energy, club-type music.
So it's not just being out on the road and riding.
It's really getting into the music, getting into beat of the song and kind of feeling
your way through that ride in the dark.
A few of our seniors from now a couple of years ago, Sara Meinecke and Grant Phillips
worked on concepting some ideas for this space under the direction of a faculty member, Chrissi
Cowhey, who teaches in Communication Design.
And then at the end of the project, the final production work was done by Susan Lee, who
has also now graduated.
Those are important projects for students.
They do, of course, a lot of classroom projects and then they also, most of the students in
Communication Design do a lot of internships and do a lot of things that help them if they
want to work in the industry.
So projects that are on campus are a really nice in-between space where they can test
out some ideas, but still see those ideas realized on campus in a relatively public
way, sort of before they move into a more professional job outside the University.
The Dark Room studio when we first came online in St. Louis, we were the one and only studio
that had and kind of looked like what we did.
Having that dark atmosphere, having the reactive lights, having the technology that we have.
Somebody who's seeking that type of cycle can find it here.
So our students and our faculty and staff have that opportunity now to have what is
the trendiest type of cycle here in their own back yard.
Performance IQ is the technology we use in the studio.
It's a leadership board.
It tracks everything from your heart rate to your RPMs.
It tracks your watts.
We're able to do a lot of really fun activities with that particular board.
The board also allows us to kind of track our members' progressions.
We do use the leadership board for our PE cycle classes so we can see are you resting,
are you working harder than you should be, are you working in the cardio zone in your
endurance zones.
So it gives us all of that information right in a BearFit class or long-term with a PE class.
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Buttercup tells Dark Bubbles to shut up - Duration: 0:23.
(Laughs)
SHUT UP!
(Laughs)
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How many times do I have to tell you SHUT UP?! --------
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Will you SHUT UP?!
Agh!
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My Review Monday: The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy - Duration: 1:58.
Hi, I'm Katie from the Seekonk Public Library.
It's almost Halloween, the perfect time to read a scary book.
I just finished this new book called "The Dark Net" by Benjamin Percy.
This story is about four characters; one of them is Hannah, she's 12 years old and her
blindness has recently been cured by wearing a prosthetic.
Unfortunately, she's also seeing things that no one else can see.
Her Aunt Lina, who is a journalist, is investigating the sale of a home that used to belong to
a serial killer.
When she gets there, she sees a group of people who are excavating the basement and they've
uncovered this mass grave, but the skeletons are not completely human-looking, there are some parts that the skeletons look like beasts.
Then there's Mike Juniper; he's the owner of a homeless shelter.
He used to be a evangelical because he had a near death experience where he saw God.
That was until he was visited by a demon that almost killed him.
He has kind of known the demons were coming back and he's been preparing for it by stocking
up with all sorts of weapons.Then there's Derek, who's a hacker, but he's a good hacker.
He goes after the bad guys on the Dark Net.
The Dark Net is a real thing, it's part of the Internet you get to on a tour browser, you
can search anonymously and a lot of criminal activity goes on there.
These characters converge when demons are going to try to use the Dark Net as a gateway
from Hell to enter this world.
It's a real fast-paced read and just the fact that it's written in present tense makes it
feel even more suspenseful and fast-paced.
It's a really good story to read this time of year, very spooky.
I highly recommend it.
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