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"elsa" Discussed on Revision Path
"On the different social media platforms to sounds good. We'll also amri wanna thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you for sharing your journey as a designer. How you really kind of came into your own and able to use the experiences around you from you know going to school in the uk teaching japan and really bringing that to your work I really hope that this interview will help. More people not just learn about you and about tanzanian designers but also just you know about the the ways that they can put themselves out there and really be seen and be recognized for the work that they do. Because i think what you've done certainly just from what you've described. What i've seen has been like something that i would love to see. More designers do to try to make a name for themselves. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you translating. Superfund never done something like this before. So it's kinda nervous going into it but it was really fun to just kinda talk about my experiences and for anyone who does listen. They do something from my own experience. So for that's awesome. That's really all i could ask for. But yeah it's been super fun as big thanks to elsa amri and of course thanks to you for listening you can find out more about elsa and her work links and the show notes at revision path dot com and of course thanks to our wonderful sponsor. For this episode brevity and wit wit is a strategy designed from committed to designing a more inclusive and equitable world. They accomplished this. Do graphic design presentations workshops around. Ide a inclusion diversity equity and accessibility. If you're curious to learn how to combine a passion for id with design check them out at brevity dot com brevity and with creative excellence without the grind on the weekend of october eighth to the tenth joined the harvard graduate school of design virtually for the blackened design twenty twenty one conference. This year's theme black matter is a celebration of black space and creativity from the magical to the mundane there speakers performers and panelists will bring nuance to the trope of black excellence and acknowledged that urgent political spatial and ecological crises facing black communities across the diaspora. You don't wanna miss out on this weekend of learning community. An connection visit them online at black matter dot tv to learn more and be a part of the event support for revision. path. Also comes from adobe max adobe. Max is the annual global creativity conference. And it's going online this year up over twenty six th through the twenty eighth. This is sure to be a creative experience like no other. Plus it's all free yet. One hundred percent free with over twenty five hours of keynotes. Luminary speakers breakout sessions workshops musical performances and even a few celebrity appearances. It's going to be one. Stop shopping for your inspiration. Goals and creative tune-ups did i. Mention it's free explore over three hundred sessions across eleven tracks here from amazing speakers and learn new creative skills all totally free online this october to register heads. Amac's dot adobe dot com. Revision path is brought to you by lunch a multidisciplinary creative studio in atlanta georgia. This podcast is created hosted and produced by me. Maurice cherry with engineering and editing by rj. Brasilia our intro voiceovers by music man dray with music by yellow speaker. What did you think of the interview better yet. What do you think about the podcast overall. Please don't be a stranger belykh atom box. Who saved us. This wonderful review on apple podcasts. Love to reviews but anyway you can also hit up on social media on twitter. We're on instagram. Destroyed for revision path. Or like i said. Lisa rating and review on apple podcasts. If you let everyone you know know about the show it really helps us grow and reach more people all around the world as always thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next time..
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"elsa" Discussed on Revision Path
"Aside from the antidote that you just mentioned but like is there like a food or a piece of culture or art or anything they really sticks out to you when you think back to that time i would say trace my memories of the very many things that stick out i would say a couple couple so for one just to how much you could do which sounds weird but okay where i live now so cheesy the specific city i live in. It's great. there's a lot to do but in comparison to japan obviously not in any way comparable though living in japan. Just really situation where you can be like. Oh this weekend. I'm going to go to kyoto. And i'm gonna do xyz. I remember. i went to cuba to renew years. Like on my own for just a couple of days exploring different temples and stuff like that to celebrate new year's or next week and you can be like. Oh i wanna go to all sokha. And i wanna go to. Us jay and go on all these roller coasters. So it was such a new experience in terms of being able to do anything and everything whenever you wanted and that really allowed you to have a wealth of experience in such a short amount of time so that's one thing that i remember having the opportunity to have different experiences and the second i would say the food. I loved the japanese food a lot. I would say my favorite sushi. Those number one i had sushi japan and it amazing and then a couple of others that i really grew to love takasaki. Oh octopus it is. Yeah think i'd like it at first. But i i absolutely loved it also economic with my stu. I ate that a lot. So i really grew to like the food as well. It didn't pick up any recipes. Sadly i wish i could. I would have been making them here but yeah so the food and also just the opportunity to have different experiences. Where the two things that stat out for me very cool so you finish up teaching english in japan. Did you then go back to leeds or did you go back to tanzania. After done in japan. I finished end of twenty nineteen and actually came back to tc so the plan was to go back to school. Did my masters at the time. It was because as much as they liked teaching in japan teaching. Something i wanted to do as a career forever. I always knew that. I wanted to go back to design so i thought the best way of doing that would be to go back to school at the time. That's kind of my thought process. Go back to school get another degree. And then you'll become a designer. That was kind of my plan coming home. So that's kind of what. I immediately worked towards applying for different schools. Eventually i went to humber college. Okay and you mention just now that you just finished up there. Can you tell me about you. Know what you're studying and kind of how the program was yeah. It was a short program so technically year more under a year. And i was studying user experience design so it was a pretty comprehensive course in the sense that we got to learn by research methods which is great but also practice actual visual design skills and visual design processes so it was good combination of both aspects. The i the part of it and i would say that the professors we had and the projects that we did really helped me kind of grow and refine my skills as a designer. So when i came from japan i was applying to school. But in the meantime also working. So i had these jobs as a graphic designer and as a junior art director at different companies. So even before i started my course had designed experience from these different jobs that i have but actually taking the course helped me really develop the research aspect of my skills. So how do you conduct you research. How you become an empathetic designer. Which is something that people talk about a lot so it was a really good course in terms of developing those kinds of skills and the great thing is that we also had an internship that we're supposed to do after you're done with your studies so right now. I'm completing my internship. I'm done with my classes. But i'm finishing up. The actual design internship that doing. And then i'll technically be completely done with school but overall it was really great course not that long anais to learn logs. Everyone i studied with. I think helped me learn and grow in some way as well or some really dope projects one of which i'm working to add to my portfolio right now but yeah. It was overall really great experience. How do you think your prior experiences. Like both teaching and japan as well as studying in the uk. How do you think those things helped you out as you were studying at humber. I think they kind of helped me become quick to adapt in terms of working with different people so our course had a lot of group. Assignments most Assignments group assignments. We're working on projects with different people. And that was really easy for me because i during my time at leeds and in japan to certain extent i was working as a lot of different people from a lot of backgrounds. And i would say for anyone in that kind of environment. You have to be patient and you have to be flexible and a lot of different ways. And i felt like doing this course. It was a lot easier for me. Because i did have that experience like even terms of times on so a lot of the people that i was working with. The other students on my chorus lived in canada. Canada is seven hours behind my time. I think so even in terms of adopting to working in the evening or late at night my time which was easier for them because that was early in the day for them was just something. I adapted to as well so i think it just made me a lot. Flexible like in terms of just working with leverage. That was working with and bring out each other's strengths and just kinda working collaboratively to achieve the same outcome just made it a lot easier for me. Nice overall. what appeals to you about. Us design really appeals. To you. i think for me. It's about of creating a solution that benefits people in some way except it's like of tangible solution or a solution driven by technology so i always had an interest in technology but when it came to your ex it was kind of helped me look at it in a new kind of light so we're not just building products for the sake of building products like designing website. Just because you want to or building up just because you think oh it'll be fun you know. It's kind of building these products in order to address a problem from an innovative point of view. And i thought that was always really cool. And after i started my course in humber it was more about learning okay. How is this process driven by looking at users looking what promising experiencing from an empathetic point of view and really trying to put yourself in their shoes and understand what it is. They need whether they expect from solution from this from disservice and really trying to frame your mindset frame your thinking as a designer that kind of way so i always thought that was really interesting. That's kind of the designer. i wanna be own. It'd be someone that can take on these issues like working team to address these issues in ways that helps a specific user base in some manner. And that's something that i'm also still working towards but ultimately that kind of became a goal of mine and realize what solidified interested you xs. I know throughout your your both educational as well as professional journey. Who are some of the like mentors or people that have really helped you out along the way. Yeah well i always say my first mentors are my parents not from a technical perspective obviously are not designers but more from a motion supporter perspective. So i think. I mentioned a bit earlier. Always been very supportive in terms of whatever i wanted to do and there have been times when things have not been going well or i felt that this wasn't a career path that i would be good at and they've really been domain people kind of holding me up and pushing me forwards so i was kind of label them as My first mentor so to speak in terms of like life lessons in general in terms of this design industry. I have a few mentors. That tab really guided me in my pass up to where i am now so the first is a designer based here. her name is lillian. And she's kind of head of design at a company agency here called aim group and she was my first official design mentor. She actually ended up becoming my mentor. Because i applied for a role at her company. And i didn't get it. But it's i guess here's another tip. I didn't kind of let that be. I reached out a couple of weeks. Later now's dyke. I know. I didn't get the role but i kind of love your feedback on my portfolio or on a specific case. Study and see what i could improve. And she was completely for it. So that was kind of my first experience getting insightful feedback from someone in the industry and she kind of became a mentor. Me and still is so just somebody that i always go to for advice. Whenever kind of different things in my life happened in terms of my career so she would be my first mentoring mentor. The i still have managed to acquire a couple more mentors. So there's a platform could adp list. That i recently became an ambassador. Often that i use often and that's really made it a lot easier to find mentors in different companies all over the world so through adp list. I branch to connect with mentors like riana who is a designer in the states. And she's been helping me a lot in terms of really refining my portfolio and adapting it to improve and is just kind of been a really great way to talk to people in a lot of different companies and learn more about what they expect from designers getting their feedback and getting their insights in terms of people that maybe i haven't spoken to us much directly such a one on one basis. But i still credit as inspiring me. When i was younger one. I've already mentioned howard pinski who is a designer adobe. I would always watch his videos and kind of inspired by his design work andras well used to be a creative resident at adobe was also somebody that inspired me a lot others brandon coup is. I think what is his exact role. There's so many different roles. But i think he kind of works in collaboration with adobe and has his own community. I remember when i joined his community. Really motivated my desire to design not just from a professional perspective but also just for fun as well so those are a couple of people that i've learned from in different ways over time when he said brandon brandon gross. Yes all while we brandon on this show a couple of months ago. Actually look at the small world yeah. Joining immunity was just so awesome. I'd never experienced something like that before by his great now. People here in the states may not know a lot about tanzania just as a country like when i think tanzania and i know it's and honestly this is mostly coming from like grade. School education from watching wearing the world is carmen sandiego. But like i know. It's a country near the equator. I know it's between kenya and mozambique and it's like very like the seren- getty is there and mount kilimanjaro. And the island of zanzibar. Like if you were to sell. Or i guess you know just speak. You know a few simply about tanzania like how would you describe it to folks. I would say it's a place brimming with culture and experiences that are probably unlike anything you've experienced if you okay for example if you live in the states and had had a chance to visit from a cultural perspective. It's really a place where you can really kind of learn a lot different things in terms of different cultures and different practices and traditions. I know sometimes people. That's kind of one thing that they really look foreign. Visiting new places learning more about the culture and there are a lot of ways that you can do that here. So obviously there's one aspect in terms of the wildlife which is great. Sarah getty all that stuff that you can definitely do. You can also kind of immerse yourself warrant like specific local cultures or something. A lot of people do is kind of racer souls or other risk themselves. Likely messiah cultures actually living within communities for certain amount of time and just kinda experiencing their different traditions and customs. Or even if you were kind of just visiting more of the mainland area so for example the city i live in dar-es-salaam. There are a lot of different ways. You can really kind of just have different experience than what you're used to walking along the street. Kind of looking at different artistic products that people have created sculptures paintings hanson objects. All kind of stuff and really just getting to learn more about what it is that they've created taking the initiative to kind of take those products for yourself as well as mementos terms of food as well just kind of getting to walk around and experience the culture in some way. I think for me the one thing that i really do like about missed when i was abroad is how chill it is and i think that's something that a lot of people will say that it's just very laid back place. Some might say too laid back at times but Times when you compare it to other places that are extremely high paced stressful. When you come back to dr or comeback too easy. Everything's closed down a bit. People aren't in in so much of a rush. You know there isn't that feely that's around you all the time. So that's something that. I do appreciate a lot that it does back and it does feel a lot more relaxed. And that's something that i growing up became used to it when i'm away from tv. That i missed a lot just very relaxed accommodating welcoming place whenever anyone would like to visit before we started recording a had sort of incorrectly said that. Oh you live in the capital. Like doris llamas. Not the capital. Tanzania is a lot of things that is the largest city though the dome. Yeah what would you say is like are there like specific elements to tanzanian design. If you had to to sell the masking you to sell the country. But i have to sell like when you think of tanzanian design what jumps out to you. I would say a. Maybe the uniqueness to it might be something. guts may be applicable or a lot of different countries. But when you do purchase a product from here made by people local to here. There's a certain uniqueness to the design so whether it's a sculpture or painting leg there's essence to it that feels very tanzania or feels very at least for me feels very home and so that's something that i think stands out for me. It can be something as simple as a small sculpture of a man but a lot of times tells the story from whatever is that the is taking inspiration from and i think that a lot of artists here are able to convey those stories and convey those emotions within whatever it is that they create. So there's a lot of calmness to what's created here which i guess maybe perspective unique to me or unique to people who are from here that maybe people not from here might not get to experience but i do think that a lot of the stories in a lot of those emotions and feelings are conveyed. The art that people make. I was doing a little bit of research earlier and i saw this unique kind of like painting style to tanzania call tingo tingo. Yeah can you talk about that a little bit as much as you might know about it. Yeah we actually have. I think there's an art museum as well close to where i live on. Ticketing arts museum. But that's kind of an example of the kind of work that i think people make that 'cause convey store your convey some kind of idea in colorful and unique way and for me to tikka products. Aren't something that. I bought a lot growing up. Just because you know. I feel like when you live someplace you kind of tend to neglect embracing art of where you live as much as you should. In comparison to where you travel elsewhere for making always kind of just been an arcade style that is unique that is able to kind of convey those different stories in really dynamic and colorful ways. So yeah are there any like tanzanian designers that you know of that like maybe we should know about or we should be on the lookout for aside from you. Of course are there. Are there any that you know of mea. There are a couple that i do typically follow it too. I guess you could say quote. Uncle admire or they're designed to work inspires me in some way. Most of them are if not product designers graphic designers. Because that's more of the area that i'm involved in but a couple of name. I guess i'm there's one cold rafael. He is a brand identity designer. He designed a lower brand identities in locals for clients. And he's someone who's worked that. I've seen a lot even before actually started working as a designer. I would see his work often. And i still find myself being inspired by his work every day. Even i don't typically want to become a brand identity are but what i admire is how he's able to kinda take what the client is asking for. Expected are expecting a really great these unique identities for these clients so i think his logo worry kids. Identity designed work is awesome. He somebody. I found that i learned from a lot another design arizona female designer names edna. She's actually animator but we connected on linked in and occasionally. I see her work on my feet and i. I'm always a big fan of coming across other funeral designers or female creatives. Who are from where. I'm from 'cause it isn't something that's super popular or that you come across often hear. Unfortunately you know. Hopefully that changes over time. So an example. Somebody who's worked. I genuinely do appreciate whenever i come across it. I'm not super great animation motion graphics so just always really great to see somebody who is and see some of the great concepts that they're able to come up with terms of another person. I guess i would see. Jackson is one. He used our director at a company. Quite remember the name of. But i'm inspired by some other work. You recently shared. It's more of creative work. Created for A specific company located here. But i kind of just thought it was really creative. Interpretation of the idea they had so was kind of this connection between a telecom company here but branding it from the perspective of something ecological or it was more of like a sustainable type of project. And i found that the creative products he was able to create where really unique and somebody who has worked environment before so drina Director at an agency. I know how hard it is sometimes. Really come up with creative executions on concept at the client actually likes and wants to move forward with so i kinda just thought that his work was really dope at something that i should learn from us. Well so those are just a couple of names. But they're definitely a lot of designers out there within the industry with different roles that i've got into a lot this year particular so yeah i'm super grateful to always be learning from them. What advice would you give to to any designers that are listening. That like wanna get more into you ex design. In general i would say so a couple of tips. The first one being saw i kind of really talked about this but putting yourself out there. I know in the beginning and particular. You are so much more self conscious about your work and what you're putting out there because you think it's not good enough and we live in a day and age. Where are always sharing their work on lie you know we have so many different platforms dedicated for that kind of thing especially from a creative point of view is behind his dribble. There's instagram there's so many different platforms where people are sharing awesome work and it's easy to feel intimidated by that. Feel like what you've made is not good enough. But i always say regardless of what stage you are at in terms of your career or your progress towards becoming a designer. Don't be afraid to put your work out. There and share it and people are more than likely going to provide positive feedback in some way or form like. I think they're very few people out there. That are going to see something. You've made and judge it. Harshly people tend to be very accommodating very welcoming especially for newer designers. i'd say twitter is one of the best platforms for that kind of thing. So precip is to put your work out there. Second tip would-be to always find ways to learn so my ways of learning was to take post grad courses. You exercise but you don't have to do that. You can learn a lot of different ways. I think with online platforms these days or so many different ways that you can really pick up new skills so you know there to you to their skill. Share this udom either a lot of different platforms you can take actual courses that will teach you specific skills or alternatively you can learn by involving yourself in different communities. There's designed buddies. There's the adobe creative community brands community there's so many different design communities out there that you can really become involved in and they. That's a great way of really learning a learning to become a designer but also building friendships and building relationships with these different people. That can help you on your path and then my last tip would be I guess to kind of find what your motivation is. I think especially when you are transitioning from a different field that something that a lot of people have been doing lately which is awesome. But sometimes it's really easy to lose sight of what's motivating youtube pursue this past the designer for me. My motivation was. I wanted to build solutions. That would help people in a community level. That was kind of the main thing. That kept me focused on my goal up until this point so i think for anyone at the start of their career. That's something that you need to identify. So that when things get tough and when they do get hard especially when you are applying for full time roles. It's not easy at all for most of us. You do need to have that source of motivation. That keeps you going regardless you can hold onto even during those tough times. But as a kind of three main tips. I give to people. What would you say. You are obsessed with lately. Assessments net flicks. No not not six. I think my obsessions haven't changed in the past few years. My main obsession is anime and manga. That's kind of if i'm not deciding. That's typically what. I'm consuming in some way shoes. Titles are you checking out a lot of. I guess mainstream ones that most people are like my hero could date mia or the slime one whose title. I can't remember it's way too long. Haiku volleyball one so i typically. I've been watching and reading manga. Since i was in high school quite a few years now and it's just something that i always go back to because there's never a shortage of good content lake ever. There's always some things that'll pique your interest in a lot of different genres like really any kind of content. So up until this point. I kind of have kept going with that. That's typically what. I what i use for entertainment. I guess Okay have you seen cowboy bebop. I've seen episode a cowboy people. Okay i i was gonna ask if you had heard about the live action. I think it's a movie or a show. That's come into netflix. i have heard of it. Yes i have heard. It looks good. It's what i think people are saying. I'm interested to see what it is. I'm always a little weary about live action. Adaptations of anime. Because it's one thing to convert from animations alive action but you're also there's so many cultural things about animated that are like intrinsically japanese that when you are converting it to english and english speaking audiences in cultures. It just doesn't mesh well for some reason. Yeah i'm thinking specifically about the ace attorney series from from capcom they have. It's this. This lawyer phoenix right. That's what the the american title is. But the the japanese title is not hajo something. I forget his last name but anyway there's certain very japanese things that they try to convert over to american like instead of them eating rahman they eat hamburgers and like the fan community calls the city that they live in japan journalists. Because it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be in tokyo but they're actually in los angeles in the. Us err whatever but the cowboys. I'm interested to see what that's gonna look like in live action. The cast looks great. I wonder how they're gonna really capture that feeling. I remember reading an interview with john show and he was saying that he wasn't going to sign on unless yoko connor who is the composer of theme and much of the music throughout the series. He's like unless she if she's not on board. I'm not on board so that gives me hope that it's going to be good but we'll see we'll see live action. Dacians do not have a good route at all like. I don't know what the good ones are a lot of them. People typically say suck like the most common example. Okay so i don't think avatars necessarily adamy but people always trash live action of avatar off old. So i personally haven't seen any live action adaptations yet but if The cowboys viewpoint is good. I might just have to. I hope so. I think anime fans everywhere wants. I think they wanted to be good. You know. I mean no one wants to go into seeing these things and they hope that fails because there's such a rabid fan base behind it so they want it to be successful but you know what the fans want and what hollywood gives you two different things two entirely different things so yeah where do you see yourself in the next five years. What kind of work do you want to be doing. I hope i am working in a company as a full-time product designer. Just because that's something. I haven't gotten experience of doing so yet. So i've been working as a freelancer for quite a while. And that's great. and has its merits. There's also a lot of value in what you can learn working in a company environment even working in an agency so right now i do work with an agency but more of a part time basis so i definitely see myself kinda working fulltime product designer hopefully vin in a senior role as well like in terms of i think i have high expectations for myself in terms of kind of how i want to improve and progress career wise so i don't want to be stuck in the same position. I'm in right now like a year down the line. We'll look back and see. Oh okay. I went up this many levels figurative levels so i kind of see myself. Yes workings product designer but hopefully a more senior role to. I want to kind of be at that point. But i also want to be able to look back in really feel like. I've made an impact in some way. So i talked about this a bit before but i'm really interested in kind of how you can create solutions for the communities you belong to and there are a couple of projects that i have in mind for my own community just kind of based on my experience being back. Tc since twenty. Nineteen and what. I've experienced here so far and you know they're couple things that i really look at and i feel we could have a solution for this but we don't yet. Why is that you know. And how do you approach those problems. Create solutions for those problems. So i hope several years down the line that i have participated in creating solutions for some of those problems as well on a community level. I think that's something that i really strive towards creating a designer as well like yes you are designer and you have successfully worked on this many global projects but also what impact have you had a niran committee. I think that's something important for me to. We'll just wrap things up here. Where can our audience find out more about you and about your work on line. Yeah i'm on a lot of platform. So the main ones. I use twitter asks elsa a ameri says a bit confusing elsa and then another a and then amri three as in the middle. I'm also instagram. At elsa entered armory lincoln. A lot to you can find me there. My name is l. family so same as always my and when be hands as well i was love following other creatives and be hands checking the coup work that they do an in. There's also elsa edward armory so you can find all those different platforms. I also have a fully website. Elsa ameri dot com that you can check out all my social media contacts sara's well that makes it a lot easier if you find me.
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"elsa" Discussed on Revision Path
"Have anyone especially in a small town way out. In japan super far from tanzania but the community in particular were just. They went out of the way to really make you feel like you were at home with people that cared about you. That was something that i really grew to appreciate during a year. They're just getting to know different people and learn more about them and feel accepted by them. And that's something. I miss as well for my time there. We're cool. i'm curious what's one thing that you really kind of like. Remember that sticks out aside from the antidote that you just mentioned but like is there like a food or a piece of culture or art or anything they really sticks out to you when you think back to that time i would say trace my memories of the very many things that stick out i would say a couple couple so for one just to how much you could do which sounds weird but okay where i live now so cheesy the specific city i live in. It's great. there's a lot to do but in comparison to japan obviously not in any way comparable though living in japan. Just really situation where you can be like. Oh this weekend. I'm going to go to kyoto. And i'm gonna do xyz. I remember. i went to cuba to renew years. Like on my own for just a couple of days exploring different temples and stuff like that to celebrate new year's or next week and you can be like. Oh i wanna go to all sokha. And i wanna go to. Us jay and go on all these roller coasters. So it was such a new experience in terms of being able to do anything and everything whenever you wanted and that really allowed you to have a wealth of experience in such a short amount of time so that's one thing that i remember having the opportunity to have different experiences and the second i would say the food. I loved the japanese food a lot. I would say my favorite sushi. Those number one i had sushi japan and it amazing and then a couple of others that i really grew to love takasaki. Oh octopus it is. Yeah think i'd like it at first. But i i absolutely loved it also economic with my stu. I ate that a lot. So i really grew to like the food as well. It didn't pick up any recipes. Sadly i wish i could. I would have been making them here but yeah so the food and also just the opportunity to have different experiences. Where the two things that stat out for me very cool so you finish up teaching english in japan. Did you then go back to leeds or did you go back to tanzania. After done in japan. I finished end of twenty nineteen and actually came back to tc so the plan was to go back to school. Did my masters at the time. It was because as much as they liked teaching in japan teaching. Something i wanted to do as a career forever. I always knew that. I wanted to go back to design so i thought the best way of doing that would be to go back to school at the time. That's kind of my thought process. Go back to school get another degree. And then you'll become a designer. That was kind of my plan coming home. So that's kind of what. I immediately worked towards applying for different schools. Eventually i went to humber college. Okay and you mention just now that you just finished up there. Can you tell me about you. Know what you're studying and kind of how the program was yeah. It was a short program so technically year more under a year. And i was studying user experience design so it was a pretty comprehensive course in the sense that we got to learn by research methods which is great but also practice actual visual design skills and visual design processes so it was good combination of both aspects. The i the part of it and i would say that the professors we had and the projects that we did really helped me kind of grow and refine my skills as a designer. So when i came from japan i was applying to school. But in the meantime also working. So i had these jobs as a graphic designer and as a junior art director at different companies. So even before i started my course had designed experience from these different jobs that i have but actually taking the course helped me really develop the research aspect of my skills. So how do you conduct you research. How you become an empathetic designer. Which is something that people talk about a lot so it was a really good course in terms of developing those kinds of skills and the great thing is that we also had an internship that we're supposed to do after you're done with your studies so right now. I'm completing my internship. I'm done with my classes. But i'm finishing up. The actual design internship that doing. And then i'll technically be completely done with school but overall it was really great course not that long anais to learn logs. Everyone i studied with. I think helped me learn and grow in some way as well or some really dope projects one of which i'm working to add to my portfolio right now but yeah. It was overall really great experience. How do you think your prior experiences. Like both teaching and japan as well as studying in the uk. How do you think those things helped you out as you were studying at humber. I think they kind of helped me become quick to adapt in terms of working with different people so our course had a lot of group. Assignments most Assignments group assignments. We're working on projects with different people. And that was really easy for me because i during my time at leeds and in japan to certain extent i was working as a lot of different people from a lot of backgrounds. And i would say for anyone in that kind of environment. You have to be patient and you have to be flexible and a lot of different ways. And i felt like doing this course. It was a lot easier for me. Because i did have that experience like even terms of times on so a lot of the people that i was working with. The other students on my chorus lived in canada. Canada is seven hours behind my time. I think so even in terms of adopting to working in the evening or late at night my time which was easier for them because that was early in the day for them was just something. I adapted to as well so i think it just made me a lot. Flexible like in terms of just working with leverage. That was working with and bring out each other's strengths and just kinda working collaboratively to achieve the same outcome just made it a lot easier for me. Nice overall. what appeals to you about. Us design really appeals. To you. i think for me. It's about of creating a solution that benefits people in some way except it's like of tangible solution or a solution driven by technology so i always had an interest in technology but when it came to your ex it was kind of helped me look at it in a new kind of light so we're not just building products for the sake of building products like designing website. Just because you want to or building up just because you think oh it'll be fun you know. It's kind of building these products in order to address a problem from an innovative point of view. And i thought that was always really cool. And after i started my course in humber it was more about learning okay. How is this process driven by looking at users looking what promising experiencing from an empathetic point of view and really trying to put yourself in their shoes and understand what it is. They need whether they expect from solution from this from disservice and really trying to frame your mindset frame your thinking as a designer that kind of way so i always thought that was really interesting. That's kind of the designer. i wanna be own. It'd be someone that can take on these issues like working team to address these issues in ways that helps a specific user base in some manner. And that's something that i'm also still working towards but ultimately that kind of became a goal of mine and realize what solidified interested you xs. I know throughout your your both educational as well as professional journey. Who are some of the like mentors or people that have really helped.
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"People were just really nice and accommodating one thing. I'll always say that the japanese people actually wouldn't be right to generalize. But everyone. I met while i was there was very accommodating and berry polite very helpful in a way that was so different from anything else. I'd experienced like people would go out of their way to help you in any way possible. So it was just so surprising to kind of be met with that politeness and be met with that type of sincerety and people's actions and the communities i lived in i lived in a small town that was kind of near kyoto soccer and it was a really small town but community wise. The people i met there were just so like. They brought me into their community in ways that i initially wasn't expecting so i'm christian so i went to church even while i was there and the church community in particular i guess because even adopted me like they were just so accommodating and so helpful and so nice and really went out of the way to include me because it is easy to feel alone into feel like. You don't really have anyone especially in a small town way out. In japan super far from tanzania but the community in particular were just. They went out of the way to really make you feel like you were at home with people that cared about you. That was something that i really grew to appreciate during a year. They're just getting to know different people and learn more about them and feel accepted by them. And that's something. I miss as well for my time there. We're cool. i'm curious what's one thing that you really kind of like. Remember that sticks out aside from the antidote that you just mentioned but like is there like a food or a piece of culture or art or anything they really sticks out to you when you think back to that time i would say trace my memories of the very many things that stick out i would say a couple couple so for one just to how much you could do which sounds weird but okay where i live now so cheesy the specific city i live in. It's great. there's a lot to do but in comparison to japan obviously not in any way comparable though living in japan. Just really situation where you can be like. Oh this weekend. I'm going to go to kyoto. And i'm gonna do xyz. I remember. i went to cuba to renew years. Like on my own for just a couple of days exploring different temples and stuff like that to celebrate new year's or next week and you can be like. Oh i wanna go to all sokha. And i wanna go to. Us jay and go on all these roller coasters. So it was such a new experience in terms of being able to do anything and everything whenever you wanted and that really allowed you to have a wealth of experience in such a short amount of time so that's one thing that i remember having the opportunity to have different experiences and the second i would say the food. I loved the japanese food a lot. I would say my favorite sushi. Those number one i had sushi japan and it amazing and then a couple of others that i really grew to love takasaki. Oh octopus it is. Yeah think i'd like it at first. But i i absolutely loved it also economic with my stu. I ate that a lot. So i really grew to like the food as well. It didn't pick up any recipes. Sadly i wish i could. I would have been making them here but yeah so the food and also just the opportunity to have different experiences. Where the two things that stat out for me very cool so you finish up teaching english in japan. Did you then go back to leeds or did you go back to tanzania. After done in japan. I finished end of twenty nineteen and actually came back to tc so the plan was to go back to school. Did my masters at the time. It was because as much as they liked teaching in japan teaching. Something i wanted to do as a career forever. I always knew that. I wanted to go back to design so i thought the best way of doing that would be to go back to school at the time. That's kind of my thought process. Go back to school get another degree. And then you'll become a designer. That was kind of my plan coming home. So that's kind of what. I immediately worked towards applying for different schools. Eventually i went to humber college. Okay and you mention just now that you just finished up there. Can you tell me about you. Know what you're studying and kind of how the program was yeah. It was a short program so technically year more under a year. And i was studying user experience design so it was a pretty comprehensive course in the sense that we got to learn by research methods which is great but also practice actual visual design skills and visual design processes so it was good combination of both aspects. The i the part of it and i would say that the professors we had and the projects that we did really helped me kind of grow and refine my skills as a designer. So when i came from japan i was applying to school. But in the meantime also working. So i had these jobs as a graphic designer and as a junior art director at different companies. So even before i started my course had designed experience from these different jobs that i have but actually taking the course helped me really develop the research aspect of my skills. So how do you conduct you research. How you become an empathetic designer. Which is something that people talk about a lot so it was a really good course in terms of developing those kinds of skills and the great thing is that we also had an internship that we're supposed to do after you're done with your studies so right now. I'm completing my internship. I'm done with my classes. But i'm finishing up. The actual design internship that doing. And then i'll technically be completely done with school but overall it was really great course not that long anais to learn logs. Everyone i studied with. I think helped me learn and grow in some way as well or some really dope projects one of which i'm working to add to my portfolio right now but yeah. It was overall really great experience. How do you think your prior experiences. Like both teaching and japan as well as studying in the uk. How do you think those things helped you out as you were studying at humber. I think they kind of helped me become quick to adapt in terms of working with different people so our course had a lot of group. Assignments most Assignments group assignments. We're working on projects with different people. And that was really easy for me because i during my time at leeds and in japan to certain extent i was working as a lot of different people from a lot of backgrounds. And i would say for anyone in that kind of environment. You have to be patient and you have to be flexible and a lot of different ways. And i felt like doing this course. It was a lot easier for me. Because i did have that experience like even terms of times on so a lot of the people that i was working with. The other students on my chorus lived in canada. Canada is seven hours behind my time. I think so even in terms of adopting to working in the evening or late at night my time which was easier for them because that was early in the day for them was just something. I adapted to as well so i think it just made me a lot. Flexible like in terms of just working with leverage. That was working with and bring out each other's strengths and just kinda working collaboratively to achieve the same outcome just made it a lot easier for me. Nice overall. what appeals to you about. Us.
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"elsa" Discussed on Revision Path
"I was there initially. I knew it would be very new and very different from anything else. I'd before so putting aside the language barrier just adapting to a whole different culture. But it wasn't as hard as i thought it would be. I wouldn't even say it was hard as all like right from. When i first arrived i stayed with a friend for a couple of days and then eventually kind of started organization for my job and everything but it felt so smooth and easy and everyone. I'd met both like international on my program but also local people were just really nice and accommodating one thing. I'll always say that the japanese people actually wouldn't be right to generalize. But everyone. I met while i was there was very accommodating and berry polite very helpful in a way that was so different from anything else. I'd experienced like people would go out of their way to help you in any way possible. So it was just so surprising to kind of be met with that politeness and be met with that type of sincerety and people's actions and the communities i lived in i lived in a small town that was kind of near kyoto soccer and it was a really small town but community wise. The people i met there were just so like. They brought me into their community in ways that i initially wasn't expecting so i'm christian so i went to church even while i was there and the church community in particular i guess because even adopted me like they were just so accommodating and so helpful and so nice and really went out of the way to include me because it is easy to feel alone into feel like. You don't really have anyone especially in a small town way out. In japan super far from tanzania but the community in particular were just. They went out of the way to really make you feel like you were at home with people that cared about you. That was something that i really grew to appreciate during a year. They're just getting to know different people and learn more about them and feel accepted by them. And that's something. I miss as well for my time there. We're cool. i'm curious what's one thing that you really kind of like. Remember that sticks out aside from the antidote that you just mentioned but like is there like a food or a piece of culture or art or anything they really sticks out to you when you think back to that time i would say trace my memories of the very many things that stick out i would say a couple couple so for one just to how much you could do which sounds weird but okay where i live now so cheesy the specific city i live in. It's great. there's a lot to do but in comparison to japan obviously not in any way comparable though living in japan. Just really situation where you can be like. Oh this weekend. I'm going to go to kyoto. And i'm gonna do xyz. I remember. i went to cuba to renew years. Like on my own for just a couple of days exploring different temples and stuff like that to celebrate new year's or next week and you can be like. Oh i wanna go to all sokha. And i wanna go to. Us jay and go on all these roller coasters. So it was such a new experience in terms of being able to do anything and everything whenever you wanted and that really allowed you to have a wealth of experience in such a short amount of time so that's one thing that i remember having the opportunity to have different experiences and the second i would say the food. I loved the japanese food a lot. I would say my favorite sushi. Those number one i had sushi japan and it amazing and then a couple of others that i really grew to love takasaki. Oh octopus it is. Yeah think i'd like it at first. But i i absolutely loved it also economic with my stu. I ate that a lot. So i really grew to like the food as well. It didn't pick up any recipes. Sadly i wish i could. I would have been making them here but yeah so the food and also just the opportunity to have different experiences. Where the two things that stat out for me very cool so you finish up teaching english in japan. Did you then go back to leeds or did you go back to tanzania. After done in japan. I finished end of twenty nineteen and actually came back to tc so the plan was to go back to school. Did my masters at the time. It was because as much as they liked teaching in japan teaching. Something i wanted to do as a career forever. I always knew that. I wanted to go back to design so i thought the best way of doing that would be to go back to school at the time. That's kind of my thought process. Go back to school get another degree. And then you'll become a designer. That was kind of my plan coming home. So that's kind of what. I immediately worked towards applying for different schools. Eventually i went to humber college. Okay and you mention just now that you just finished up there. Can you tell me about you. Know what you're studying and kind of how the program was yeah. It was a short program so technically year more under a year. And i was studying user experience design so it was a pretty comprehensive course in the sense that we got to learn by research methods which is great but also practice actual visual design skills and visual design processes so it was good combination of both aspects. The i the part of it and i would say that the professors we had and the projects that we did really helped me kind of grow and refine my skills as a designer. So when i came from japan i was applying to school. But in the meantime also working. So i had these jobs as a graphic designer and as a junior art director at different companies. So even before i started my course had designed experience from these different jobs that i have but actually taking the course helped me really develop the research aspect of my skills. So how do you conduct you research. How you become an empathetic designer. Which is something that people talk about a lot so it was a really good course in terms of developing those kinds of skills and the great thing is that we also had an internship that we're supposed to do after you're done with your studies so right now. I'm completing my internship. I'm done with my classes. But i'm finishing up. The actual design internship that doing. And then i'll technically be completely done with school but overall it was really great course not that long anais to learn logs. Everyone i studied with. I think helped me learn and grow in some way as well or some really dope projects one of which i'm working to add to my portfolio right now but yeah. It was overall really great experience. How do you think your prior experiences. Like both teaching and japan as well as studying in the uk. How do you think those things helped you out as you were studying at humber. I think they kind of helped me become quick to adapt in terms of working with different people so our course had a lot of group. Assignments most Assignments group assignments. We're working on projects with different people. And that was really easy for me because i during my time at leeds and in japan to certain extent i was working as a lot of different people from a lot of backgrounds. And i would say for anyone in that kind of environment. You have to be patient and you have to be flexible and a lot of different ways. And i felt like doing this course. It was a lot easier for me. Because i did have that experience like even terms of times on so a lot of the people that i was working with. The other students on my chorus lived in canada. Canada is seven hours behind my time. I think so even in terms of adopting to working in the evening or late at night my time which was easier for them because that was early in the day for them was just something. I adapted to as well so i think it just made me a lot. Flexible like in terms of just working with leverage. That was working with and bring out each other's strengths and just kinda working collaboratively to achieve the same outcome just made it a lot easier for me. Nice overall. what appeals to you about. Us.
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"elsa" Discussed on Revision Path
"To most japan number one and probably will remain number one forever. It was just such a different experience before going. Japan wasn't my list of places i wanted to visit. I met a couple of japanese students all leads so exchange students and gotten to know them really well and become good friends so the whole experience for me was okay for one thing. I could reconnect those people in link up with them again but oh psych would explore this country that i've been wanting to visit for such a long time and for me for the entire year. I was there initially. I knew it would be very new and very different from anything else. I'd before so putting aside the language barrier just adapting to a whole different culture. But it wasn't as hard as i thought it would be. I wouldn't even say it was hard as all like right from. When i first arrived i stayed with a friend for a couple of days and then eventually kind of started organization for my job and everything but it felt so smooth and easy and everyone. I'd met both like international on my program but also local people were just really nice and accommodating one thing. I'll always say that the japanese people actually wouldn't be right to generalize. But everyone. I met while i was there was very accommodating and berry polite very helpful in a way that was so different from anything else. I'd experienced like people would go out of their way to help you in any way possible. So it was just so surprising to kind of be met with that politeness and be met with that type of sincerety and people's actions and the communities i lived in i lived in a small town that was kind of near kyoto soccer and it was a really small town but community wise. The people i met there were just so like. They brought me into their community in ways that i initially wasn't expecting so i'm christian so i went to church even while i was there and the church community in particular i guess because even adopted me like they were just so accommodating and so helpful and so nice and really went out of the way to include me because it is easy to feel alone into feel like. You don't really have anyone especially in a small town way out. In japan super far from tanzania but the community in particular were just. They went out of the way to really make you feel like you were at home with people that cared about you. That was something that i really grew to appreciate during a year. They're just getting to know different people and learn more about them and feel accepted by them. And that's something. I miss as well for my time there. We're cool. i'm curious what's one thing that you really kind of like. Remember that sticks out aside from the antidote that you just mentioned but like is there like a food or a piece of culture or art or anything they really sticks out to you when you think back to that time i would say trace my memories of the very many things that stick out i would say a couple couple so for one just to how much you could do which sounds weird but okay where i live now so cheesy the specific city i live in. It's great. there's a lot to do but in comparison to japan obviously not in any way comparable though living in japan. Just really situation where you can be like. Oh this weekend. I'm going to go to kyoto. And i'm gonna do xyz. I remember. i went to cuba to renew years. Like on my own for just a couple of days exploring different temples and stuff like that to celebrate new year's or next week and you can be like. Oh i wanna go to all sokha. And i wanna go to. Us jay and go on all these roller coasters. So it was such a new experience in terms of being able to do anything and everything whenever you wanted and that really allowed you to have a wealth of experience in such a short amount of time so that's one thing that i remember having the opportunity to have different experiences and the second i would say the food. I loved the japanese food a lot. I would say my favorite sushi. Those number one i had sushi japan and it amazing and then a couple of others that i really grew to love takasaki. Oh octopus it is. Yeah think i'd like it at first. But i i absolutely loved it also economic with my stu. I ate that a lot. So i really grew to like the food as well. It didn't pick up any recipes. Sadly i wish i could. I would have been making them here but yeah so the food and also just the opportunity to have different experiences. Where the two things that stat out for me very cool so you finish up teaching english in japan. Did you then go back to leeds or did you go back to tanzania. After done in japan. I finished end of twenty nineteen and actually came back to tc so the plan was to go back to school. Did my masters at the time. It was because as much as they liked teaching in japan teaching. Something i wanted to do as a career forever. I always knew that. I wanted to go back to design so i thought the best way of doing that would be to go back to school at the time. That's kind of my thought process. Go back to school get another degree. And then you'll become a designer. That was kind of my plan coming home. So that's kind of what. I immediately worked towards applying for different schools. Eventually i went to humber college. Okay and you mention just now that you just finished up there. Can you tell me about you. Know what you're studying and kind of how the program was yeah. It was a short program so technically year more under a year. And i was studying user experience design so it was a pretty comprehensive course in the sense that we got to learn by research methods which is great but also practice actual visual design skills and visual design processes so it was good combination of both aspects. The i the part of it and i would say that the professors we had and the projects that we did really helped me kind of grow and refine my skills as a designer. So when i came from japan i was applying to school. But in the meantime also working. So i had these jobs as a graphic designer and as a junior art director at different companies. So even before i started my course had designed experience from these different jobs that i have but actually taking the course helped me really develop the research aspect of my skills. So how do you conduct you research. How you become an empathetic designer. Which is something that people talk about a lot so it was a really good course in terms of developing those kinds of skills and the great thing is that we also had an internship that we're supposed to do after you're done with your studies so right now. I'm completing my internship. I'm done with my classes. But i'm finishing up. The actual design internship that doing. And then i'll technically be completely done with school but overall it was really great course not that long anais to learn logs. Everyone i studied with. I think helped me learn and grow in some way as well or some really dope projects one of which i'm working to add to my portfolio right now but yeah. It was overall really great experience. How do you think your prior experiences. Like both teaching and japan as well as studying in the uk. How do you think those things helped you out as you were studying at humber. I think they kind of helped me become quick to adapt in terms of working with different people so our course had a lot of group. Assignments most Assignments group assignments. We're working on projects with different people. And that was really easy for me because i during my time at leeds and in japan to certain extent i was working as a lot of different people from a lot of backgrounds. And i would say for anyone in that kind of environment. You have to be patient and you have to be flexible and a lot of different ways. And i felt like doing this course. It was a lot easier for me. Because i did have that experience like even terms of times on so a lot of the people that i was working with. The other students on my chorus lived in canada. Canada is seven hours behind my time. I think so even in terms of adopting to working in the evening or late at night my time which was easier for them because that was early in the day for them was just something. I adapted to as well so i think it just made me a lot. Flexible like in terms of just working with leverage. That was working with and bring out each other's strengths and just kinda working collaboratively to achieve the same outcome just made it a lot easier for me. Nice overall. what appeals to you about. Us.
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"elsa" Discussed on Revision Path
"What was your time like. Their leads was awesome. It was observed for three years three years and it was such a great experience. Whenever i think back to it. I'm always like. I'm definitely glad i went to leeds because it's interesting when i apply to go there. I didn't know what i wanted to do like. I'm assuming moved high school graduates. Don't really of what you wanna do as a career for the rest of your life. It's a lot of pressure to kind of figure that out at such a young age. So when i did apply to lead in a couple of other schools i didn't have a solid idea but i thought okay i like media and at the time i liked studying media representations. I thought those interesting as i. Okay let's apply for communication media the risk of leads. And that's what. I ended up going to do in terms of actual experience at the university. The course itself was very theoretical Not what i wanted exactly. Or what i learned. I didn't wanna do. They wanna be writing essays and doing research for the rest of my life but everything else. Outside of it was an experience. I think really helped me grow as a person so the city itself i fell in love with i think leads an awesome city. Not i guess you could say not super busy if you compare it to places like london but also not boring. There's like a ton of stuff to do. So i found that i became a lot more outgoing and a lot more open and social during my time there because it was such a new experience very different from the city. I grew up in. And i was able to kind of do a lot more stuff that i never had the chance to do. The university was huge. There were so many like societies as they were called. I guess maybe in the state you might call them clubs like after school activity type things that you could gaijin and participate in and i did so much so i felt like during my time. My three years they are. I picked up all these new skills and met all these great people and it just helped me grow and develop as a person. So i kind of always look back on it as okay. It was an awesome experience. Like maybe in terms of the course i took. It wasn't the best but everything else. Outside of that was awesome. Kind of helped me grow and leads is is kind of a i mean here. In the states we call it a college. Sal but it's a town that has like several universities so you always have kind of this vibrant throng of students in culture and everything that comes through. I think every year yeah there were still like the you would always run into young people. Are you said students. There were quite a few universities there so exactly always felt vibrant like there was always something going on something that you could do so in that sense it was just such a great city to really kind of branch out in and so while you were at least this is when you kinda. I like saw and looked at design. Something that you wanted to do is that right. Yeah i guess you could say kind of so my final year. I took an optional course where it was called mobile design and it was mostly theory with studying concept about mobile design but we had like an option on assignment where you could actually design mobile product. And i remember. I took the option of doing that assignment. Because i thought it might be interesting to kind of do more of a practical concept piece that i would say is the first time to really designed anything at all and that whole experience was new to me but also exciting because he was the first time i was doing a school assignment and i wasn't board. You know what it was creating like. I didn't mind spending hours and hours and hours of my time building this product even remember back then. I was using sketch i believe. That was the first design software. That i came across and i downloaded and used it to build that out looking back on it now. It was not a very well designed app. But at the time i thought. Wow this is amazing. I'm really good at this. But like the whole point was really ignited. Something in me for the first time and really made me think. Oh okay this is interesting. I kind of really liked doing this. Maybe i should look into what kind of career might involve this type of work more. Let's go a little bit deeper into that. Like when you describe that feeling like how did it fulfil you like ways that you feel like doing that. Project sort of made design really like click for you and your brain. I think it was because i enjoyed every single moment of it so we had a problem that was presented to us and had to come up with solution so obviously involving brainstorming and then actually creating solutions aiding building a prototype or design or sketch and then having your final product that you didn't presented and it was the first time i kind of i enjoyed each and every single step involved in the whole process. I think with previous days. I had done. It was more about the final product like. Let's just do this. Get all this out the way and create something that we can then submit and be done with it but there wasn't any sense of attachment to what i've actually created. That was the first time that i did feel touch to what made. And i felt proud of what i've made and there was a feeling that i wanted again. I wanted to be able to create and design products at the time. I just want more apps. Because i thought the process was fun and also i was proud of what i kind of was able to come up with in the end. That kind of pride. I don't know how you describe it. Maybe i've described it. Will i kind of understand what i mean but it was that feeling that i had you. I think prides a good way to describe it as you alluded to earlier. You know when you're in those young ages say seventeen eighteen nineteen etc going off to school and there. Is this really strong expectation. I would say particularly among black folks. There's a strong expectation that really kind of figure out what it is that you're going to do and that you know especially if your family. Is it really supportive of the arts. That it's something that will make money. They want to make sure that you're going to be doing something that will provide for you and that you're not necessarily just kinda like chasing a hobby i would say i don't know maybe it's different in in different cultures throughout the diaspora. But yeah. I think you know when you find that thing that like you get really excited about and you feel proud about. That's a feeling that you continue chasing because that is what will fuel you and kind of you know guides you through your career and no. I agree completely a growing up. My parents have always been supportive. Like regardless of what i wanted to. They just kind of wanted me to figure out what i wanted to do for a long time. I didn't know but like you said there. Is that pressure that whatever it is that you decide to. Do you want it to be something that you can use to support yourself in the future. You don't wanna be completely reliant on your parents forever. So there is a pressure and that expectation and at the time. When i was building that project for the class assignment and i had that feeling i wasn't even thinking about. Oh i can earn a lot of money from this. I didn't know how much designers earned from designing products. At the time. It was just more of this. Is something that i think i love doing. And that's the first time i felt that way. So.
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"Get noticed insane. So that's that's really cool. I agree 'cause you might be surprised. How many brands do appreciate that and will respond in some way. So there's like another brand has welcomed voice flowed i i. I don't know how many people have heard of. But it's kind of a platform where you can implement voice features in whatever product signed. And i made something that included that products with one of my class projects and i posted it and i tag them and they were so grateful is the right word but they responded so positively like they shared what i said. They followed me like they promoted post that i published so a lot of brands. Do respond positively to you tagging them or sharing your content with them telling people oh i made. This was this particular program. It's typically seen in a positive light so people should always kind of before and during that kind of stuff you other really should. And i'm telling you from the company and that's worked in those marketing departments. It makes our job so much easier. We we can see the community talking back to us and letting us know because we don't have to try to hunt and find down like or who are the people that we should focus on a spotlight on especially especially people of color especially women. It makes all the difference if you're like reaching out to the company letting them know about this kind of stuff that you're doing because it just it makes our job easier edit. It helps us help you because a lot of these companies are really especially software companies. And i'm kind of giving a bit of inside baseball here. But a lot of software companies have zero idea how to approach community like zero. The most that they will do is put up a twitter account. Maybe a discord account or discord about something. Like that's about it there really depending on people to talk to them because these are generally and i'm generalizing here. These are software developers that do not have social skills. I'm being completely. I'll be a completely honest here. It is so so so good official to just reach out to us and let us know what you're doing because you know there's a saying my close mouth don't get fed. These companies that have community efforts are like struggling to find ways to do things better for their use because they want their users to be rabid fans. They want this tool that they've spent hours weeks months years building to like take off and be really profitable and the way that happens is if they have a community of people behind them that love the tool in the product so reach out talk to them. Trust me they want it. They want to hear from you because otherwise they really don't have much to go off of. I'm just being totally honest there. I agree completely. We check sight from you. So i see on instagram. You've been doing this. Little personal series. Called introverts talk tell me about also a good reminder that i need to kind of create a new post to that series initially because i do describe self as an introvert tip because i do like my own space in my own me time. Which is i guess. You know your typical introverts. And i thought okay so i'm an introvert and i work in design which typically is a collaborative kind of environment. You're working with other people other designers sometimes people in different roles engineers etcetera. So you do kind of have to know how to work with people in different ways and accommodates yourself to their situation or vice versa. And i thought okay. This is interesting. I'm industry. I'm working as a designer but most introvert. So what are some things about. Both those of my profession or aspects of my personality would be interesting to talk about. 'cause i knew other introverted designers i had never really come across content from the perspective of an introvert designer. So i was like okay. Why not share my perspective mice stories. Kind of what. I'm experiencing on a day to day basis. Maybe other people will relate to it and some way so initially. That's kinda weist did. It was more like a personal thing. I wanted to take a bit of a break from just like typical design stuff and put out more personal content and a lot of people did resonate with it which was extremely surprising. More than i thought would it was reassuring to kind of see that all these people were somewhat similar situations at related to some of the points that i mentioned it was like okay. There are a lot of us and a lot of us kind of have those similar experiences and we should definitely talk about it more. I feel like that's not talked about enough except occasionally but it should be a point of discussion a lot. More often in the design industry I agree with that. I mean one of the interesting things about sort of what this past. Gosh i'd say two years now has done even with this. This pandemic is it's a lot of ways. Kinda flattened communication across different parts of the design industry. Like i know prior to all of this the people that really were out there that we're getting seen and doing stuff where the folks that were always at conferences and doing podcast and they were like outs being visual being visual they were out really like in a very big way in the community he could see who they were and now that everything is kind been condensed to online. It's made people that maybe aren't Social whatever reason have an avenue to also now be seen and talk about their work in a way that may be prior to this. They wouldn't have because it would involve you know stepping outside their comfort zone in that way. Yeah exactly now. you are in tanzania which. I don't know how much of our audience really knows a ton of bouts tanzania. Is that where you grew up yet. That is where i grew up. I moved right before i started need. So essentially like ninety nine percent life has been hearing tv. And that's kind of where i am now as well. Yeah totally our. I grew up. Yeah were you exposed a lot to like art and design growing up like your family. Anything no actually wasn't the only exposure i had to. Let's say arts was learning art in school and that kind of art was either music so growing up. I did play the piano or it was like drawing so the typical painting classes that you have at school. Those kind of what. I did but neither of those stuff that i thought i was great at. I goes bethan at the piano. But it wasn't something that i wanted to do full-time or anything like that. And when he came to a liberal arts like drawing and that kind of thing. I never thought i was good at it so growing up eventually going through high school i kind of lost interest in both those things when it actually came to the type of design. I do today. So like graphic design website design app design. We didn't do that at school at all. Something growing up. I was like oh yeah this is interesting i wanna do this by also think back then it was just not popular or like a thing yet. Graphic design maybe a certain extent but definitely not user experience user interfaces. I ain't at all so yeah. My past to actually becoming a designer started way later so towards the end of university. Because i didn't really have that exposure to art or a similar kind of growing up okay. Well let's let's talk about university. You went to the university of leeds and you majored in communication and media studies..
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"Tied was changed Podcasts for best running podcast. What are we at five years. I think more they couldn't goodness developer. Podcast that's not from. New york's last san francisco. That's not just one kind of guest and that's not just writing back. In code revisions pathos from atlanta and about half of the developers went to art school. Mit the vibe. Here's gentler and a bit more humble than some of the too much coffee sounded tech podcasts. Maris cherry lowers my blood pressure. As soon as i hear his voice. Well thank you so much box. It's good to know that my voice has such a such a calming and soporific effects. I should put that on my tinder profile. No no but seriously thank you so much for the review. It really means a lot. Now for this week's interview i'm talking with elsa omri a visual designer and dr es salaam tanzania. Let's start the show all right so tell us who you are what you do. Yes my name is elsa amri. I am a visual designer from tanzania and currently i work as a junior visual brand identity designer with an agency in canada actually so more of a remote rural but i also do freelance work because a visual designer with clients here in dc and also few outside of tv so more international clients. I was until recently a student at humber college a school in canada studying user experience design. But i graduated technically a completed my gorgeous so up until recently. That's what i've been doing education wise and now primarily. I kinda just as a freelancer and is either with the company in canada. It's a bit about me. And what i'm doing right now. Or congratulations on your recent graduation. Thank you i'm curious. What's been on your mind lately. Like how are things going in general. It's definitely been a bit of a switch up. I was doing the course since january so kind of get used to the whole schedule of okay learning a couple of hours kind of working a group assignments and now it's like i have all this free time. I technically still have work. But it's a lot more free time than i was used to for several months so i think i'm still in the process of trying to adapt to all this extra time. I have and trying to use it more productively building myself up more as a designer but yeah it's kind of a limbo period for me right now that i guess we'll go away soon but that's kind of how feeling i'd say maybe aside from you just graduating like how have things like changed over the past year. Have you grown and improved in any ways. Like what's been what's been a big change from this year to last year from last year to this year i should say i definitely would say that. I have grown and improved because at the start of the year. I told myself. I wanted to really push myself in terms of promoting my work creating works actually creating content that i can promote and just really putting myself out there and wasted. I didn't do last year. And i've seen kind of the outcome of actually doing that in taking on that challenge so there have been like opportunities and roles. I've got an that. I would have never thought. I'd get to do at this point in my career. But i have been able to do simply because i was a lot more open and a lot more like a lot. More forward really reaching out to people connecting with people and just sharing my content and not being afraid to do that. So i'd say this year have been a lot bolder in that sense and i've seen that it's paid off in a lot of different ways which has been pretty awesome and yeah just hoping to keep that up and do even more as the year goes on as well. That is awesome. One of my favorite sayings as fortune favors the bold. And like you have to you have to shoot. You have to shoot those shots. You have to be bold and forward because it's like the worst thing that anybody's gonna say is no so you kind of have to especially if you're just starting out as a designer or you're starting to get your footing as a freelancer like you have to take those big wild shots in order to even like growing progress. No one's going to hold your hand and like you know. Tell you which were which way to go or anything like that exactly. I agree with that. You have to kind of put yourself outside of your comfort zone which can be scary but likely you're going to benefit from it in some way you just kind of have to take that first step and speaking of those big opportunities and we talked about this before we started recording. You've been doing some presentations with adobe over the past few months or so how'd you first get involved with them. A oh gosh. Let me try to think back. I think it'd be because i use the main designed program i use for like interfaces upside. Up design is a dubious. And that's kind of been my go-to for awhile. While so i was always using the product and over time. I guess you could say around last year or maybe even end up turning nineteen. I became more involved in the actual community. So like on discordance stuff. They have challenges and they have different channels that you can participate in so i started coming a lot more active within the community and even though that it helps directly i think kinda put me on a pass towards like you said doing the adobe stuff that i've been able to this year so around the start of this year like i mentioned previously decided to kind of put my content out there more and i made a twitter specifically where my design stuff which was kind of an interesting decision because i didn't think twitter would be effective at all personal twitter. I didn't tweet at all. So i even have any followers or anything kind of just used it to catch up with what other people are saying but somebody recommended to create a design twitter. Okay cool try this out. Apparently the design community is pretty awesome which it is. I ended up discovering. But i would share a lot of my content on twitter and i would follow all these other. Count- also adobe be as well and particular designers was in adobe that i admired look up to and in terms of like the adobe live opportunity that really came by chance. I can't even say that was directly me. It was more. Like i posted something cool or what other people thought was cool and it got a lot of region engagement and then somebody tagged one of the senior designers in adobe names to pinski to check my content out and he did and he liked it and then that same person said recommended that i should be an adobe live and for some reason that was more than enough because howard asked me. I wanted to be an adobe live. After that. And i said yes. I definitely want to be able to live. So that's kind of how that happened so kind of by chance. But i think it would have happened at all if i did. It obviously created twitter put more by content out there. I mean it sounds like you know. Initially you found a way to kind of get on dobies radar by doing things that are in the like community properties that they manage and things of that nature but then also you had the separate twitter. So you're really doing a lot of brand marketing with getting your name. They're getting your work out there. Which i think is a is a really. That's a really smart thing to do. I've worked for some sas companies that they try to community not in the best way. But it's interesting like the way that people get on our radar the way that we know like who are. Our fans are other people that really liked. The work is through the community stuff. You know. I mean especially if you're using something where like all your users are just user names and they don't have profiles or anything like that. It's hard to really kinda noble. Who are these people. You just sort of see them as like this aggregate set but if you're participating in our support forms if you're on a discord like you said or even twitter or something like that that's how we end up finding like. Oh these are the people that really like the work that we do their tagging us. They're talking to us. So i would for designers are listening that one sort of you know i would say get in the good graces or get on the radar companies that they admire reach out to them through their community efforts platforms. Like that's really the best way to do it and not just complain a lot of people complain adobe of course but i think if you're if you're doing work with that platform and you want them to just kind of know about it like that's the best and easiest way to kind of.
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Costume Designer and Emmy Nominee Jeriana San Juan Talks HALSTON
"Are the first costume designer. That i am speaking to on this podcast which i realized i usually talk to make up and hair and that was my first season. Because that's my world and you know so. This is super exciting for my listeners. Because we're diving into the epitome of fashion right now and so i can't think of a better place to begin in our costume. Design exploration with halston. None other than halston so just. I don't know where to begin. Tell me everything. How did this beautiful project come into your life. And how did it begin. I know killer films is The genesis of it correct correct miller films daniel manahan our director who has been trying to make this movie for twenty years so it was sort of this wonderful marriage between killer films and ryan murphy to finally sort of give birth to it and bring it to life on net flicks and mandy same. Really feel like it. I mean so. I'm so grateful that that this show was even thought of to be made. Truly i mean before even when it came into my lap. I just thought while this is the kind of show. I wanna watch right. So that's what really drew me to it. I mean at sides. In fact that it was halston and i am a halston fan. You know i love his work. Love elsa peretti's work. I love this particular time in session history and i felt like it really offered so much in would be such a feast. You know for me to be able to design and gift. So i really am was like a moth to a flame. Actress really wanted to be a part of ed's so i'm very grateful to have been invited to the
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Government Forecasters: Hurricane Season to Be Busier Than First Thought
"Forecasters say the Atlantic hurricane season it's looking slightly busier. And they first thought forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now expect 15 to 21 named storms with 7 to 10 of them developing into hurricanes. Season got off to a busy start, with also forming in July, the earliest named fifth Storm on record. The lead forecaster at Noaa's Climate Prediction. Center Matthew Rosenkranz says windstorms developed in the eastern Caribbean in June or July, as Elsa did. It tends to be a busy season. Since Elsa. However, the tropics have been mostly silent. Still, we're not yet at the peak of the season. That's mid August to mid October. I'm
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Forecasters: Hurricane Season to Be Busier Than 1st Thought
"Government forecasters say the Atlantic hurricane season is looking a bit busier than first thought forecasters at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration now expect fifteen to twenty one named storms with seven to ten of them developing into hurricanes this season got off to a busy start with Elsa forming in July the earliest name to fifth storm on record though the forecaster at NOAA's climate prediction center Matthew Rosencrantz says when storms develop in the eastern carribean in June or July as Elsa did it tends to be a busy season since also however the tropics have been mostly silent still we're not yet at the peak of the season that's mid August to mid October I'm Ben Thomas
AP News Radio
Tropical Storm Pounds East Coast After Killing 1 in Florida
"Tropical storm Elsa has killed at least one person in Florida and now it's moving north authorities in Jacksonville Florida say one person was killed when a tree fell and hit two cars in Georgia at a navy base the storm flipped over some are vis a blue one of them into a lake torrential rains fell over the Carolinas as Elsa moved through South Carolina early this morning the storm is moving north and should be near or over the northeast by tomorrow the national hurricane center's Jack Bevan says some areas Elsa is targeting could see a lot of rain there is the likelihood of rain three to five inches of rain along the line of a storm tracker possibly up to eight inches in some areas hurricane centers Jack Bevan I'm ready to fall lay
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"At least one person is dead and others are injured. Yes. Got some lose power during the storm. All sudden, big, old, bright light. As a power pole came down hit that fence right there that power but you have to do it. Then Lights went out. 10 injuries are reported as a suspected tornadoes spawned by Elsa. It's an RV park at the Kings Bay Naval Base in southeast Georgia. Those recreational vehicles have been turned on their side. And I'm pretty significant damage as you can imagine, Uh, what happened to an RV park with the tornado based spokesman Scott Bassett says it appears none of the injuries is life threatening. One person was killed when a tree falls on a car in Jacksonville, Florida, Channel two action news reporter Tony Thomas rides out the storm on ST Simon's Island, the emergency management officials Report a few down trees and power lines, but admit this could have been a lot worse. Over 60. Million Americans remain under flood and storm watches or warnings as the storm creeps up the East Coast this morning live in the storm center Bill Chi Accio 95.5 WSB. Governor Breastfeed your oldest Kirk Miller's called it from Day one. The medical impact from Tropical Storm Elsa and correct what's coming at us next. Well, Elsa, let's Northeast up the East Coast from South Carolina to Main Scott. We remain entrenched in an ocean of humidity for the next five days. Keeping a shower thunderstorm in the outlook through the period possible any time of the day. But with peak coverage in the afternoon and early evening temperatures below the normal high of 90 right through the next five days live in the storm center. I'm WSB meteorologist Kirk Polish. Shaking out the delays on I 20 on both sides of the city veteran the cab counties in Cobb County west about I 20 leaving canola road. Much improved, not the same stories, leaving six Flags crash on the left shoulder at the six, Blanco reported Industrial of our another one working the right shoulder on 20 He spouted at 25 Live in the sky Copters family. Mark McKay 95.5 w SP Nobody recipe News Time is 8 32. This is Atlanta's morning news. Here's Marcy Williams Jet hang about and new this morning in the murder of a Kennesaw golf. The third victim in the Triple murder investigation at Pine Tree Country Club has identified 46 year old Henry Valdez from California was one of two men found dead in the bed of the pickup.
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Tropical Storm Elsa Makes Landfall on North Florida's Gulf Coast
"Tropical Storm Elsa is making landfall now in Florida. The National Hurricane Center says the center of the storm is coming to shore along the North Florida Gulf coast in Taylor County that's southeast of Tallahassee. Elsa has winds of up to 65 miles
Brian Mudd
Elsa Takes Aim at Florida
"31 Tropical Storm Elsa, making landfall here in Florida. The National Hurricane Center says the center of the storm came ashore along the North Florida Gulf coast in Taylor County, just southeast of Tallahassee. The storm is still packing up to 65 mile per
Brian Kilmeade
Elsa, Downgraded to a Tropical Storm, Lashes Florida's Gulf Coast
"At Wdbo. Our top story Elsa has weakened back to a tropical storm still picking up speed as it approaches cedar Key here in Central Florida, we could still see to wrench some rain and the possibility of isolated tornadoes. But in Tallahassee officials are breathing a small sign of relief. All things considered where we looked at 72 hours ago. Be reasonable. So we're fortunate we saw a little bit of a wobble to the West when it was approaching Tampa Bay, which potentially minimized impacts their governor, Rhonda Santa says there haven't been any reports of
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"Sea due to Elsa. In Broward County, Florida, Evan Brown Fox News. Some restaurants continue to struggle to rebound from the pandemic. While the July 4th weekend definitely saw some very full dining rooms at local restaurants bar too many were still unable to seize on the resurgence of customers. Emily Williams night with the Texas Restaurant Association, says the supply chain interruptions continue to be major headaches. For many, maybe had their favorite item or saw increased prices because the supply chain that, of course, sources. Restaurants globally is still challenge. And she says worker shortages have also been in Ongoing challenges. Not enough staff is around to handle the customer load. But Nitya since the federal pandemic unemployment benefits expired, there has been a slight increase in applications. Patrick Osborne News Radio K LBJ Trading APP, made popular by rogue traders is facing millions in fines. Online trading platform Robin Hood expects its crypto unit to be fined at least $10 million. The Wall Street Journal says the penalty was revealed in paperwork Robin Hood filed with regulators to launch its stock. The trading firm says it has reached a settlement in principle with New York State for allegedly violating state rules on cyber security and anti money laundering practices. Robin Hood also recently agreed to pay nearly $70 million to the financial industry Regulatory Authority to settle allegations, including failing to supervise technology that locked millions out of trading. GeneCo's LDA Fox News A Travis County grand jury clears a Pflueger Ville police officer in a shooting from last November. Sergeant Anthony Campana shot Calvin Scott following a standoff at an apartment. It ended with Scott allegedly charging at police with a weapon. Scott was hit with one round and later recovered. The grand jury says the officer's actions were lawful and they were necessary. 8 33, Here's Austin's on time traffic.
KTLA Morning News
Tropical Storm Elsa Roars up Florida Coast
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Tropical Storm Elsa Slows Miami Condo Rescue Efforts
Mark Levin
Florida Readies as Tropical Storm Elsa Approaches
"That Elsa could push a dangerous storm surge of water into Tampa Bay neighborhoods, Tampa Bay International and other airports in the region are suspending operations until the worst of the storm passes. Severe weather
AP 24 Hour News
Florida Readies as Tropical Storm Elsa Approaches
"Elsa is moving through South Florida John Cangelosi is at the National Hurricane Center. We're gonna get really squali weather. So just bands of heavy rain and tropical storm force winds seemed very likely in key West Cangelosi is warning of life threatening storm surges, flooding and isolated tornadoes.
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Elsa Bears Down on Florida With Dangerous Storm Surge
"Storm Elsa is moving through South Florida John Cangelosi is at the National Hurricane Center. They're gonna get really squali weather. So just bands of heavy rain and tropical storm force winds seemed very likely in key West Cangelosi is warning of life threatening storm surges, flooding and isolated tornadoes. I'm Ed
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Tropical Storm Elsa Nears Hurricane Strength as It Lashes Florida
"Grand jury investigation. Tropical Storm Elsa is moving through South Florida John Cangelosi is at the National Hurricane Center. We're gonna get really squali weather. So just bands of heavy rain and tropical storm force winds seemed very likely in key West Cangelosi is warning of life threatening storm surges,
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Tropical Storm Elsa Could Bring Flooding to Florida
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Miami-Dade Mayor Provides Updates on Search and Rescue Efforts
"Living Kaba, Holding a press conference to provide updates to the search and rescue efforts for the condo building that collapsed the bill. Was brought down in the wake of Tropical Storm Elsa for safety of the community around the collapse site mayor Living Cava providing UPDATES on an expanded search radius Following the demolition of the remainder of the building, the search and rescue team has been able to search all sections of the grid. On the collapse following the building demolition death toll is now 28 people with 191 people unaccounted for. I'm sorry 191 people accounted for and 117 people still unaccounted for. Meanwhile, the Sunshine
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Tropical Storm Elsa Heads Toward South Florida
"Tropical Storm Elsa is moving off the coast of Cuba and could bring heavy rain later to South Florida. John Cangelosi is at the National Hurricane Center. We do think that will actually make an official landfall somewhere in either somewhere near the Tampa Bay area, or a little further north near the Big Bend region of
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Surfside Collapse Death Toll Rises to 28, as Elsa Threatens Search Efforts
"In the South Florida condo collapsed. At a news conference. Miami Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava confirmed the new count and praised the efforts of first responders working to find the 117 people still unaccounted for. They've worked under this great difficulty, and they have Hold shifts to rotate because that's how much they want to be out there. Searching the discovery of the 28th victim was made after demolition crews brought down the remaining section of the building last night. Teams had been unable to access the site because of its instability. Search efforts continue as tropical Storm Elsa approaches The Florida Keys today is an off day
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"Shapiro and I'm Elsa Chang. For Americans, with family living in Israel and Gaza. The recent fighting their hit close to home. Many stayed in constant touch with their loved ones as Hamas fired rockets into Israel and as Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes on Gaza. And with an uneasy ceasefire holding after 11 days of hostilities, their fears and feelings about a conflict thousands of miles away are still quite wrong. NPR's Connor Donovan spoke to some of those Americans. Never Libby Lynn Kinski its attacks to a call from her sister or parents. She's the same reaction. I'm like, Wow, I was just thinking of them, but that's because there is never a moment that I'm not thinking of them. When Kinski lives in Brooklyn. Her immediate family lives in Tel Aviv, which was a target of Hamas rocket barrages. When she checked in with her sister. Hi. Hi. How are you? The Rockets were a constant topic of conversation on a call late last week just before the ceasefire. Sister worried about a last burst of attacks. Everyone's expecting the finale will be tonight. So I'm a little bit more edgy was in the last couple of days so far, any sirens or anything today? Nothing. Then Kinski says her sister had panic attacks. Worried about leaving the house and having to sprint to a bomb shelter with her two girls, she says, the conflict even intrudes on her niece's play dates. The first thing that they talk about these eight year olds is what did you do when you heard the sirens? Were you scared? I wasn't scared of my mom was crying. Oh, my mom wasn't quite you know, just that's what's on their minds and That is really devastating and awful when Kinski works for the New Israel Fund, the left leaning group that she says is staunchly anti occupation and is working to build Arab Jewish partnerships. He's worried as she is for her own family, She knows the danger is much greater for Palestinians living in Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza don't have any protection from the bombs that are being dropped by by Israel on their homes. They don't have anywhere to run. Israel's Iron Dome defense system prevented most Tomas rockets from reaching their targets. Indian 12 people were killed in Israel. More than 240 were killed in Gaza and hundreds of businesses and homes were destroyed. Their video clips on social media captured the damage. No. How no one of what And no more than 70.
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"I'm Ari Shapiro and I'm Elsa Chang, renowned actress Cicely Tyson has died at the age of 96. In a career that spanned more than 60 years, Taison was an elegant, dignified presence on stage and screen. Less than a week ago, she spoke with NPR's Michele Martin, looking back on her career. It's remarkable to me that I have arrived at where I am today because I had anticipated it. No matter what happened in my life, it did not. Ah did not deter break from reaching the goal that I had set for myself. Tyson commanded attention in such movies as Sounder and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. She won Emmys and at age 88. A Tony Award. She also inspired generations of African American actors who grew up watching her MPR's Elizabeth Blair has this appreciation Sicily, Tyson brought grace and gravitas to the roles she played, and boy did she have range in sounder? She was a wife and mother in a family of black sharecroppers in Louisiana in the 19 thirties. Apart called for Tyson to be tender with her family. Bits and a bacon caper. David later take your daddy this time. Make a chocolate cake. Mom, Daddy legs, things this chocolate and seethe when the town's white sheriff won't let her see her husband who's in jail. You got you a low life job, Mr Sheriff. Taison. It was her eyes that spoke, They could sparkle in one scene and then pierce the soul. In another critic, Roger Ebert wrote that it was a wonder to see the subtleties in her performance. 1972 sounder was one of the first movies to show the strong bonds of a loving black family. Tyson once told NPR. It was also the movie that made her realize she needed to look for roles that reflected her experience as an African American woman. During a press conference for Sounder Ah white journalist told her the movie made him aware of his own prejudice because he said he was surprised to hear African American Children call their father, Daddy, just like his kids called him. He could not equate the fact that this man was on the same level as he and I, really I I admired him for standing up in an audience and saying that and I thought to myself, Sicily You really can't afford the luxury of just being an actress Cicely Tyson was born in Harlem. Her parents were from the Caribbean. Her father was a carpenter and a painter. Her mother was a housekeeper who was deeply religious. In 2005. Tyson told NPR. Their lives revolved around the church. We did everything in the church. I mean, we had I played the organ. I played the piano. I taught Sunday school, I sang in the choir. And then on Monday, we had prayer meeting and Tuesday we had a young people's meeting Wednesday. We had old people's needing and we just Saturday between the church and Sunday, we were right back in the church. My entire social life was in and about the church. And so that is the basis. My foundation. Tyson was also gorgeous. She started modeling after high school. Soon she was acting in movies and on TV. It was the 19 sixties, the civil rights movement. New York was a place where black artists formed alliances Taison performed in shows with all black casts alongside artists like Maya Angelo and James Earl Jones. One of Tyson's first roles was in the socially conscious but short lived TV series East Side West Side. Dyson played a poised, intelligent secretary in an office of social workers. He found out that I like to read books, but I couldn't go to the library. Negro Children didn't go to the library. Tyson's short Afro hairstyle inspired other black women to also wear their hair natural. She was on magazine covers like Ebony and Miss. She married jazz star Miles Davis. Photographers swooned over the famous couple. Sicily. Tyson always looked for positive portrayals of black women in 1974. She took on one of her most famous characters, the lead in the autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. You 100 in 10 years old. Hmm. So did tell me. Far back. Can you remember? Off their back. You won't go with the help of a stunning makeup job. Tyson transformed herself to play Miss Jane Pittman. She made her body look withered and frail. It was a rare event for a TV network to broadcast a feature film about the brutal struggles of African Americans in prime time from the point of view of African Americans. Dyson played Ms Pittman at various stages in her life as a young adult. She's beaten up by Klansmen, friends and family members or murdered Taison captured her weariness as well as her resilience. You have a day. They thought girl jail. Trying to drink from the felt Today. He killed my Jimmy. And I've seen I'm going, Miss.
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"This is all things considered. I'm Elsa Chang in Los Angeles. And I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Washington, where on a Friday downtown streets are closed, the National Mall is closed. The National Guard is already everywhere. And up to 21,000 Guardsmen are authorized to be on hand in the run up to next Wednesday's presidential inauguration. Local authorities federal authorities they are announcing other security measures. You can already see them barricades and fences and so on as you move around the streets here. All those, of course, in the wake of the siege of the U. S capitol and concerns about more attacks by right wing extremists. Well, NPR's Greg My re is a block from the U. S capitol. He joins me now. Hey, Greg, I'm Mary Louise Hay. Where exactly are you? What can you see? Well, uh what? From where I'm standing a block or so from the capital. It looks like a military staging area because that's exactly what it is. There are thousands and thousands of National Guard personnel in camouflage with him, four rifles. Helmets, backpacks. There's a black metal fence that is being dragged as we speak here, uh, that goes around the capital up and down the mall. There's about 7000 National Guardsmen deployed at the moment. That number is expected to rise now to 25,000 by Inauguration Day. Once you get outside the perimeter, you know, outside the mall in the perimeter here, there's still some foot traffic in downtown. Some cars are still going filling the streets. But shops are are boarding up right now and one thing we should should know that the events of last week really concentrated the mind. There's no way you could have a large gathering on the Capitol grounds or near the Capitol grounds. S o. Because of all this security, we certainly won't see a repeat of last week, although there certainly Are there concerns well, and I don't know if that's when Dora helicopter we can hear behind you. But I know that helicopter's feel like they've become the soundtrack of my life. Living a mile or two from where you are now. I'm just thinking, you know, you and I have both spent time on assignment in war zones. We saw Washington after 9 11. I've never seen the capital of the United States as militarized as it is at this moment. What we actually know about the threat level right now. Well, there's a lot of concern is as early as this weekend. There were a lot of events planned around the country before the events of January 6. So there's a big concern about state capitals that some events could start taking place there as soon as this weekend, Uh, FBI and others who are monitoring online, shatter or concerned And I think there's a lot of concern about small groups are lone individuals as well. A lot of interagency meetings and the different security branches.
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"Elsa Chang. And I'm Mary Louise Kelly. This hour what the U. S. Could learn from the way the UK traced a new corona virus variant. It's very important to do as the UK did, because if you start to identify where the most concerning variants exist, you can move your public health effort to stop that one. Also, young voters in Uganda are turning out in force ahead of Thursday's election. I think that benchmark off democracy they cannot take an excuse of democracy, and that's why they're on the streets fighting and a promising new medical treatment for meth addiction. First, these news headlines Live from NPR news. I'm Jack Spear. The house has voted 232 to 1 97 to impeach President Donald Trump for second time. NPR's costly snow. Reports 10 Republicans voted with Democrats to impeach the president on a charge of incitement of insurrection. In a capital surrounded by fence, razor wire and armed guards. Members of the House voted for a second time to impeach President Trump. The historic moment comes one week after a violent mob attacked the U. S Capitol as Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says blamed for the attacks lies with President Trump. He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love. The house is expected to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate shortly. Senate Republicans do not plan to return to Washington to begin impeachment proceedings, meaning and eventual trial will almost certainly begin on Lee after Trump leaves office on January 20th. Kelsey Snell. NPR NEWS Washington Federal authorities now say they've arrested dozens of people in connection with last week's U. S. Capitol insurrection as their nationwide search for suspects continues. NPR's Kirk Siegler. Reports in Idaho Man seen jumping onto the floor of the U. S. Senate is now in custody. 34 year old Josiah Kal El to Boise has turned himself into custody here on his own videos posted to Facebook, he admits being part of the mob, according to authorities falsely boasting. He was the first to sit in Nancy Pelosi's chair. He refers to her as a derogatory expletive, and she's a traitor, she treasonous, according to a court filing. Federal authorities say cold actually jumped down into the Senate chamber and appears to have sat in the vice president's chair. This day been given to the local CBS News affiliate called appears to now regret his involvement in the insurrection, reportedly saying in the moment he thought he was doing the right thing. Kirk Siegler NPR news boys he never Covad 19 vaccine could be available for American soon as NPR's Joel Palka explains. It's a vaccine that appears to be effective after a.
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"I'm Elsa Chang in Los Angeles. And I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Atlanta, where it is Election Day. Finally, the day that Georgians and the country have been waiting for As these two Senate run offs come to a vote. Millions of people in Georgia have already voted. They are expecting hundreds of thousands. Maybe up to a million people voting in person today on Election Day. We have just pulled up to A church, which is a polling site, Mrs Cobb County, Georgia, So we're actually just a tiny bit outside the city limits. Watching people come and go about to walk up and try to talk to a few of them. And you just gotta go. There was a line early this morning at the life Church, Smyrna Assembly of God, we heard, But when we were there, just a steady stream of people heading in coming out earning stickers with I voted scrawled across a Georgia peach. One of them. Angie Carmichael, lifelong resident of Smyrna. Regular voter voted in November, but she was not sure she was going to vote in this runoff because I didn't want to read it all. That my husband's taking me to lunch and I told him I would vote like a number of people we've met here in Georgia. Carmichael has taken on board the president's claims of fraud and a stolen election claims that have no facts to support them. But that have raised doubts and voters minds about the integrity of the election system. I just don't like everything that's going on right now, and I feel like the first election was rigged, so I don't see my point and voting. We'll see what happens. At least I did my part. Also here today, Ken Jones holding the hand of his daughter, Addison. She's only five. But this is not the first time he's brought her along to watch him vote. Even me. I didn't vote early on in my younger days. I started to feel more empowered. In the process, probably over the last, maybe 20 years, and so, you know, just taking an active role in. I want that to instill that in my kids, so yeah. Ken Jones also has his concerns about election security. Jones, who is black, says part of that stems from the history of Georgia elections not being free and fair for all voters also the possibility of human error. I just hope that there are enough people that want to see a fair Election are standing by and fighting the fight to make sure that that doesn't happen. But I do feel like in this situation. Well, you know, hopefully we'll have enough of a turnout. That it leaves you? No, no doubt. Well from or on today's election. We turn now to Emma hurt political reporter with our member station W A. B here in Atlanta. Hi there, Emma. Hi, Mary Louise. So you just got will taste there of the the polling station where we were out reporting this morning. I'm told you're outside yourself. How's the voting going? There? I am. I'm at Chastain Park in Buckhead. And the voting here is really study. No line. I haven't told there was a line of the beginning of the day, but it quickly dissipated once they got through it and It's just been really study turn out. They said that the turnout they've had so far today is more than the general election. Uh huh. And are you hearing either there or from any other polling stations? Any reports of voting regularities problems with machines? Anything like that? Nothing major at all. Not in metro Atlanta. There were some isolated instances in Columbia County. But I'm told that was taking care of really quickly this morning. So beyond that, not much. Okay, um, this runoff election as you and I have been discussing as it has unfolded deeds you might have expected it would rally Republicans and Republican voters together in an effort to hold the Senate for the GOP. Instead, it appears to have fractured at the party of fractures that were on vivid display here in Georgia as you are out in about reporting. What are Republicans telling you about the party's future? After this election is finally over. Yeah, I mean, there's really two questions in that right. There is the short term Are they going to be able to win these run offs will turn out come through for Republicans today, and will they be able to pull out a win? Despite you know the drama and the fracture that we've seen as you said, And then there's the long term of what happens in 2022 beyond. Republicans in Georgia who have controlled this state when the president as we heard last night is is actively undermining Republican officials here, But I'm gonna be here in a year and a half..