dancer yeah so and i'm introducing some colors that i normally don't put into my paintings are actually some fluorescent colors in there so i have a feeling that at night i'm just certain lighting is going to be some  and many of the new pieces that are coming up they're going to have some shimmer to and i'm going to add some metallics to them more so and i'm excited about it in the i know everyone else will be to a lot of that but this particular piece goes back to a lot of my travels i travel and i'm inspired by what i see that they're doing they do a lot of beautiful art they have a beautiful spirit their resilience their strength in spite of diversity they're very strong i mean i watched a child carrying a huge brick you know to help build a house and i mean i mean the brick was about like that how would he want to carry a brick that large i've seen him pick up buckets of water those five gallon buckets i would carry that make her and from the river to their huts so i'm encouraged by them because they have the kind of resilience and strength and i love to see the children do that that they're doing so encourages me to see children being creative making things out of nothing out of bottles cans whatever they find i'm really inspired by that and so in my work i want to capture that child likeness you know that child joy of course is a little sophisticated because of the lines but still i wanted to get the essence of life that a child has because we still have a little bit of a child in all of us i always say that there's a child in me looking in the mirror saying what happened to the body so i can capture that child likeness in my paintings and its colors and its movement i want people to feel happy when they see the to feel joy i want them to forget about all the problems and woes of society and the world i want them to have that moment of heaven when they see the world it's not i just want to capture that child likeness that you know the colors of pure  don't orange in this piece some of his that red and green i can make up whatever kind of hairstyle or hat or whatever i want to do i have total freedom you know so i'm not confined by anything i can borrow from all the different cultures all the different things i've been exposed to in life is comic food and put all kinds of food in you don't know what's going to come out but you know it's going to come out i was in i was in ethiopia i was in uganda i was in several trips to see i think the most colorful place i've been to was probably in brazil as far as art goes brazilian artists they have murals on the walls and i did one when i was there and just their color is so vibrant and everything is so there and i have a mural in also in brazil i have a mural in the u k and the islamic community in it was funded by a christian organisation and so we did something for the olympics beautiful beautiful piece i said was an opportunity for artists to show their work and i'm thinking well we can't pass up that opportunity so i decided to go ahead and cure rate the show believe me it's a lot more work and i thought i could handle but i got a lot of support a lot of help and that's what made it happen for me the weather for that i don't think it would have happened so i'm glad it happened and knowing that there's doors open for another show to happen yeah i love mourning the art of ethiopia and i love ethiopian people they're very dear to my heart  and the art if they do fantastic work and i like a showcase the odd to actually help one artist you know at em awful yeah i know he's got his own gallery yeah so you know i'm glad to see that he's growing in these hi my name is rob law and i work at the city of seattle i am the new you think ajman strategic adviser and i'm here to talk about how  can be more involved in decision making at the city of seattle i run two programs one is the seattle youth commission which is a body of thirteen to nineteen year olds that just focus on different issues affecting young people and they work on the issues and they helped advise the mayor and the advise the seattle city council on policies related to young people in the city of seattle that commission is going to be having monthly meetings in each seattle council district and i hope that if you are a young person between the ages of thirteen and nineteen years old when you hear about those meetings happening in your district that you come so that you can help to impact decisions made about you yourself and your counterparts and other young people in the city of seattle i'm also running something called participatory budgeting which is male full that's a long name and doesn't really explain exactly how amazing this program is what participatory budgeting is basically it's a demo credit process where young people get to decide how to spend part of the city's budget right now we have a budget of five hundred thousand dollars that's half a million dollars that you use get to decide how to spend you want everyone that's a young person and anyone that works with young people to be involved in deciding how we spend that money right now when you can do if you are in a youth organization or our person that works with young people is applied to be on the steering committee for this the steering committee and the youth commission will help to guide the entire participatory budgeting process so where we have meetings how we have meetings who gets you know like how voting is going to happen but it's the only process that exists where young people literally get to vote on how to spend a lot of the city's money and what projects are really important to them or important to you and what issues are be involved in decisions that happen especially decisions that happen that impact your life so encourage you to call me to e mail me i'm here to listen i'm here to take input and i'm here to plug you in so that you do have a voice and you do have some decision making power over projects issues policies and you've got decisions that affect you  five two zero zero eight if you want to know more about the use commission about this new participatory budgeting program or any thing you want to know about the city of seattle about the mayor and about any decisions any issues that you care deeply about thank hi everybody i'm melissa edwards like you heard i'm the director for washing aerospace scholars which is based out of museum of flight so how many of you have been to the museum of flight before excellent if you guys go to school group how many have you been on we're going what we've done and how you can get excited about going into space now when you thought about human spaceflight anybody thought about being an astronaut or wanting to do anything like that know well one of the goals of my program is to let you know that yes spaceflight is still an option if you think that there's no more because nasa is shut down that's not true nasa i still continuing to send people into space in fact right now there are six people in orbit around the earth continually in orbit around the earth anyone know where they're at the name of where they're at what's called that's low earth orbit ok we did send humans to the moon several decades ago and we're trying to get them back there actually nasa has a plan to take humans back to the moon most likely to an asteroid and the goal is to go beyond to mars now there's actually a private company called mars twenty twenty or twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty there actually are planning on sending humans to mars but they're going to do it in a much more reality show format they're going to everything they're going to videotape the training they're going to videotape and show i'm assuming live all the process is that these people who want to go to mars goes through and guess what it's a one way trip they're not coming back so they're basically living on mars whenever and guess how many people have applied for this over two hundred thousand people have applied a one way trip to mars no chance no no plan to come back and over two hundred thousand people have already applied now is this really going to happen i don't know but they have a lot of very smart people working on this they have people who work for nasa they have people who work for the international european space agency and all  brains physicists and all these really are people working on it so that anybody can do it they can now what i want to watch people and their last day while i don't know hopefully they're going to be in a good place and they're going to have a happy rest of their life i'm assuming they're not sending a bunch of seventy year old people there so they're going to spend twenty to thirty years maybe more on mars they're going to have a plan for that but that isn't a group that's really working hard to get that going so now i want to send humans but they want to return them they don't want to be a one way mission they want to actually bring them back so that's kind of where we're at with the internet now did anyone i don't know if anyone heard yesterday actually the big news about mars yesterday was that india has launched a space probe to and what we do is provide information about the civics culture and community of seattle but that's not the only thing that cable channels provide and them or it provides a way for the community  all parents were born in italy that came over as teenagers they didn't meet in italy right over here and it was the first of two children ok so do you have an answer to yourself for yes i have one daughter ok that's a great channel it's a soap box it's free to any citizen or resident ok ok can go on there and you can make your own show you can talk to your people you can talk about issues that are important to you right you could put this show and that's what i think we're going to put i think we're going to put on this on the channel but what's interesting also is that now with the whole internet and we have you tube and you stream all these other places to go look at content but if you're a citizen of seattle you still have a place you can go and learn about how to get on the right and so now there's two options there's what's now become the old option cable television where you go to your cable box and you go to channel seventy seven but now and then r t has a new option coming up web streaming you don't need the cable privately you don't need to pay cable subscriptions what you do need is a computer and a browser to get to the internet and then you can watch a live call in show exactly right from this studio right and even on your phone or tablet i'm sure yeah so there's not be a computer i mean even those coming from a computer you can watch it on any kind of intelligent device computer device it could be tablet your p c or  see a good show via compression all the mathematics and the engineering behind that so mazing wow so any final words don well i just really thank r t i for this opportunity to talk about community until the vision and media thank you  today i know you've been really active in trying to get multimedia training map of seattle as far as being a provider for digital content your so again so and i thank you for the partnership is going to happen because it's not just with seattle channel and not just him or marciano but there are other professional organizations that are part of this so yes speaking to that there's also different departments in the city who are helping out in order to make this a viable place for youth  come and make to vision and to learn about media office of immigrant and refugee affairs ok is working closely with us to publicize and distribute information about this institution beautiful also comcast unwavered carrying the channel nor see other community colleges also providing help and support with their public access channel so there's lots of different departments and ways that we're trying to help to make sure that every community  in seattle has a voice right and a way to interact not only with government but with each other exactly so they are action of the government is key because as a citizen even if you're a migrant you can store immigrant migrant immigrant could still vote you know  your vote is definitely a way that you too can voice your opinion to have something you want happened voting is really important and your voice is really important and this is a way for no cost to get that voice out to other people actually that's a no cost in the asked that number one go to m m r t i his website find out about their programs their shows their training you can also go to the city of seattle seattle dot gov their website that will direct you to more hello this is john jim bear so general manager of the seattle channel i'm here working with and our media resource training institute that provides training video production editing and live web streaming for events and interests to the community please make sure to mark it on your calendar and to find it on the website so that you can participate in this great community endeavo