Waching daily Sep 28 2017

As an architecture student, I had a professor that said I

didn't have the pedigree or ideas or skill set to sort

of work in any sort of important context.

So every no is perfect for me.

I thrive off a no.

Off-White is sort of my resume and mood board for an actual

idea that I have for like the modern luxury brand.

It's almost like a laboratory.

For me, it's like my teenage years is the foundation

for everything that I've sort of done afterward.

I was like an average, sort of, suburban kid that was

skateboarding, listening to Nirvana, Beastie Boys, rap,

Wu-Tang.

Like you say the music, you can think of a look.

And so as I started thinking about clothing,

I was always like drawn to what my initial interest was,

and that was T-shirts.

For Off-White, my contribution was I would take a young idea

of streetwear, this idea that T-shirts and hoodies are

important, but making that in the same factories as luxury

houses.

So that's why we're in Italy.

This is men's team working on pre-collection next season.

Shoes are happening in the back.

This is the women's room.

I just moved to this newer space because the concept is growing.

How's it going?

New office, it's nice in here.

But I have no desk in the world.

[LAUGHS] I travel probably, like, 320 days a year,

eight flights a week--

Chicago, Frankfurt, Milan, London, Berlin, Stockholm,

Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Vegas, and LA.

It's a lot.

I work on the street literally, like phone in hand.

I feel like Off-White be one of the truly first, sort of, like,

a luxury brand that's been just built from social media.

It behaves in this sort of hybrid,

in between a traditional system and a new system less than

streetwear, that clothes just come out at different times.

They're posted on Instagram, and consumers can buy them.

And I'm interested in that hybrid in between them both.

I'm directly pointed at this generation that hasn't been

messaged luxury to yet.

As an Off-White sort of look, I'm looking to put this with

like a T-shirt and jeans perhaps.

This Millennial young person, they love to covet things.

They're sort of waiting for a designer that sort of faced

to them.

I want to make a modern version of her wedding dress.

I like this.

I like seeing the shoulder.

I love this idea that Off-White can go from like a study

graphic T-shirts all the way to a wedding dress under this sort

of muse that I've dictated for the season.

This current collection that I'm developing,

choosing Princess Diana, the muse,

is sort of this resonance.

It's super like young Diana.

Yeah, I couldn't be happier.

It looks like the sketch.

Can you walk?

This is always what I wanted to do.

And no one does it, haute couture meets street.

But people say it all the time.

I've had the fortunate ability to sort of craft my own path.

People ask me all the time, do you feel some sense of like

achievement or fulfillment?

And the answer's zero.

I have no-- there's no feedback loop that's like, yes.

I'm only interested in my making new things,

like getting to this place of the next idea.

I think bell bottoms are going to come back because everyone

has in their closet skinny jeans, boyfriend jeans.

I also like for women, let's buy dickies,

girls in dickies pants, cropped.

For more infomation >> Virgil Abloh is Saving Luxury With T-Shirts | In the Studio - Duration: 4:24.

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World War 3: Time is running out to prevent military conflict exploding in Korea - Duration: 7:44.

World War 3: Time is running out to prevent military conflict exploding in Korea

And the conflict would cause as many casualties as the Vietnam or Iraq Wars - even without nuclear weapons – said the Royal United Services Institute. The pressure for US action is growing because North Korea's nuclear threat is developing every day.

The report, by Professor Malcolm Chalmers, said: "Some of Trump's key advisers may believe … that it is now or never for the US to take military action." He said the UK must urge the US to reject plans for a pre-emptive strike and instead push for a solution through sanctions and diplomacy.

But he said that if the US did decide to attack North Korea, the UK would have to decide almost instantly where it stood.

Prof Chalmers, who advised the Blair Governments on foreign affairs, wrote: "The UK government would have, at most, only a few hours to make clear how it stood on what would be one of the most momentous strategic shocks of the post-Cold War era.

"Its decision would have as profound an impact on the UKs international standing, and on its domestic politics, as the fateful decision to stand shoulder to shoulder with the US in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "But there would be no time for multiple consultations and deliberations before positions had to be taken.

The die would be cast on Day One."  . The report was issued with the war of words between North Korea and President Trump getting ever more ominous and lurid.

North Korea has defied the UN by developing a nuclear weapons programme, setting off its sixth and biggest nuclear bomb earlier this month.

The rogue state's leader Kim Jong Un claims to have Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles which can hit the mainland US with nuclear warheads.

In recent weeks it has test fired missiles over Japan and threatened to target the US island of Guam in the western Pacific.

On Monday North Korea's Foreign minister Ri Yong Ho accused America of having already declared war on his homeland. President Trump has mocked Kim as "Little Rocket Man" and vowed to respond to any threat with "fire and fury".

And on Tuesday he said the US is "totally prepared" for military action, adding: If we take that option it will be devastating -- devastating -- for North Korea.

Its called the military option.  Prof Chalmers, the RUSI Deputy Director General wrote: "War is now a real possibility. With North Korea making rapid progress in its missile and nuclear programmes, time is not on diplomacy's side."  .

He said: "The US is prepared to maintain the option of preventive strikes against North Korean nuclear facilities despite the knowledge that these could result in a new Korean war, perhaps comparable in scale and loss of life with the conflicts in Iraq or even Vietnam.  "The war could start in a variety of ways: North Korea could strike first if it believed that the US were moving towards a surprise attack; or a US attack might be triggered by North Korean test missiles hitting the ocean near Guam or California." He said that if war is launched "it will not be surgical or short".

Casualties would rise if North Korea was able to unleash a nuclear attack on South Korea or Japan before its forces were overrun, or if the pariah state's only real ally, China, became directly involved in the fighting.   .

Prof Chalmers said war would be likely to involve an early large-scale US-led air and cyber offensive, followed by retaliation by Pyongyang against South Korea - where around 8,000 Britons live – and American bases in the region using conventional, chemical or nuclear weapons.

That would mean a full-scale invasion of the state would be highly likely.

Prof Chalmers continued: "While the broader political and economic effects of such a conflict are highly unpredictable, they are likely to be global in nature, dwarfing the effects of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath in Afghanistan and Iraq.  "For the two Koreas, casualties could run into the hundreds of thousands.

China and Japan, the world's second- and third-largest economies, could face severe disruption to their societies, especially if nuclear weapons were used or if a conventional war were to last for several months.  "US leaders also know that a war could put 60,000 American troops based in the region at risk, along with many tens of thousands of American civilians."  .

Given that any attack on Pyongyang would be likely to trigger North Koran retaliation against South Korea, Prof Chalmers a US preventive strike without South Koreas agreement would show that Washington was willing "to sacrifice Seoul to protect New York.

But military analyst, Major Charles Heyman, played down the risk of war. He said: "I do not think there's a huge risk of war breaking out.

A good indicator is that the markets are pretty stable, especially in south east Asia. "There's a lot of posturing going on but it does look like the protagonists are stepping back from the brink.

"Some reasonably wise heads in Washington are pulling Trump back and some reasonably wise heads in China are having a quiet word with Kim Jong Un.

"If there was a war, North Korea would be destroyed and a huge number of American lives would be lost, and both sides know that." British sources said the UK's focus is to work with its allies to pressure Pyongyang to enter into negotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.   .

For more infomation >> World War 3: Time is running out to prevent military conflict exploding in Korea - Duration: 7:44.

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THE BAD QUEEN IS BAD ("The Bad Queen" Book Review) - Duration: 8:05.

Hey there!

You look like the kind of person that would be interested in a slow-paced historical fiction

novel that is only marginally better than a textbook!

Well you're in luck, partner, because I got the perfect deal for you.

BAM!

The Bad Queen by Carolyn Meyer.

The Bad Queen: It's pretty bad.

*laughs* So this is The Bad Queen by Carolyn Meyer.

It's a novel.

For sure.

It's big.

This lovely watered down textbook is about Marie Antoinette, the infamous French queen

that never actually said let them eat cake but that's how everyone remembers her.

It's part of a series called Young Royals.

It follows the bad queen Marie Antoinette from the moment where she finds out she's

betrothed to the future king of France to the moment she dies and frankly it's, oh,

it's a bore.

It's awful.

I love history!

I love royal history.

I find it all very fascinating and this was a slug.

I only finished this book because I had nothing better to do.

It's like the author can't commit to whether or not she wants to write a historical fiction

novel or if she wants to write a textbook and as a result, it doesn't fulfill either

satisfaction.

There's no satisfaction to reading this at all.

Nothing, there's nothing satisfying about reading this Bad Queen book at all.

I mean there are constantly storylines that are introduced and there's so much build-up

to it.

I would say this portion of the book is dedicated to the fact that her husband won't sleep with

her and make her a true wife.

So you spend like this much of the novel going oh when are they going to get laid?

When are they going to get laid?

I hope she gets laid soon.

And you know how it happens?

You know how it happens?

It's literally a sentence.

Let me find the sentence for you.

"What a triumph that I can finally write to my mother and announce that I was -at last-

a real wife and a real dauphine."

That's it!

And then we move on!

It's not satisfying!

I get it.

That's the historically accurate version.

But it doesn't make it interesting.

Textbooks would make that interesting.

Textbooks would be like "Oh the king suffered from this problem that we know about now because

we're in the future and we know about these things and we're not just sexist and assume

that it's the woman's fault any more.

No!

We know this fact.

Here's a fact.

There's a fact!

It's interesting."

And that, basically, is how the whole novel goes.

We're introduced to a new problem in Marie Antoinette's life, we are treated to five

chapters dwelling on that problem, and then low and behold it's all solved in like one

sentence or like a paragraph at the very most.

It's not satisfying!

If you're going to make us suffer for a solid portion of the book on one of her little minuscule

problems, at least make the conclusion to it satisfying.

At least give us a reward for suffering through her insolent little problems.

So like maybe if it failed on the fiction side, maybe it'll make up for it in the historically

accurate side but it doesn't.

Because the author has chosen to use the first person perspective from Marie Antoinette we

miss a lot of those details that are imperative to a historically accurate re-telling.

For example, Marie Antoinette's not going to know why her husband cannot perform well

in bed.

I mean we probably know now because we're in the future and we probably had a lot of

records that we can examine.

But Marie Antoinette doesn't know that so therefore the reader doesn't know that because

Marie Antoinette's not going to tell the reader what she doesn't know.

And of course because it is from Marie Antoinette's perspective, she's not going to villainize

herself so we're not really going to understand the real political aspirations.

We're not really going to know the true reason why all of France started hating her.

We're just treated to her pity party instead of a historically accurate re-telling of why

all of France wanted to revolutionize against this bad queen.

Why is she The Bad Queen?

We don't know!

Marie Antoinette's not going to villainize herself.

In fact, the only satisfying part of this novel is when it switches perspectives and

I HATE when novels switch perspectives.

But it was like absolutely necessary for this book because you know if you don't know the

history of Marie Antoinette, very famously she got her head cut off by the guillotine.

It was a very popular trend in France at the time.

So in like the months and years leading up to her actual beheading, the perspective changes

to her daughter and it was nice to finally see Marie Antoinette from another person's

eyes because again having her through this much of the book just her whiny little spoiled

brat pity party was not interesting.

Finally being able to see some of her flaws and being able to sympathize with her through

another person's eyes, that was interesting.

I wish the rest of the book was just done in that kind of perspective, but it wasn't!

Maybe the author just isn't that very good at writing royals who do not have happy endings

and I get that.

I bet that'd be tough knowing that the readers know what happens at the end aka they die.

So no worries, Carolyn Meyer.

I forgive you.

SIKE!

I don't forgive you!

Do you know why, Carolyn Meyer?!

Because you wrote this!

This is Doomed Queen Anne.

It's again a book about royalty who don't make it at the end.

Like you know they're not going to make it.

It's about Anne Boleyn.

Anne Boleyn is one of the six wives of King Henry VIII had.

She's the mother of Queen Elizabeth, blah blah blah.

If you don't know who she is, google her.

She's great.

And who could've possibly written this book!?

OH!

It's Carolyn Meyer!

It's a Young Royals book!

These are sisters.

These are companions in the same series.

And you know what was a super excellent read that has stuck with me for years and years

and years.

This one!

Doomed Queen Anne.

This book was great.

It was phenomenal.

I enjoyed reading every page, every sentence.

This is another first person perspective.

This is Anne Boleyn's perspective that we are reading and it's still interesting.

It's still very historically accurate.

And she does die at the end!

Like that is a thing that happens.

Just like in this book!

But Carolyn Meyer made this book super super more interesting than this book.

She can write a good book where you know that it's not going to have a happy ending.

This, there's no excuse for this.

This is a watered down textbook that isn't even interesting to read.

I honestly wish I just picked up a textbook from Barnes and Noble about Marie Antoinette

because this posed a lot more questions to me than what it should have satisfied.

Which you know maybe that was the intention.

Maybe the author just wanted to get a lot of people interested in Marie Antoinette,

but she shouldn't have done it with this huge-what is this?!

This like a brick.

See this length!

This is great.

This gets you just interested enough in Anne Boleyn but still satisfies your fictional

wants and your historically accurate wants for a historical fiction novel.

So to recap!

If you want a good historical fiction novel about royalty without a happy ending, Doomed

Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer.

If you want a bad historical fiction about royalty without a happy ending that kind of

feels like a watered down textbook but it's not that interesting still, The Bad Queen

by Carolyn Meyer.

This just goes to show that authors aren't always perfect.

They're not always going to write bangers because if they did, I would've enjoyed The

Bad Queen a lot more.

The Bad Queen would not be bad.

But The Bad Queen is very bad.

Doomed Queen Anne is very good.

She's not doomed.

It should be doomed Marie Antoinette and good Queen Anne, except she didn't last that long.

She got beheaded as well.

Alright so thank you for watching my book review for The Bad Queen by Carolyn Meyer.

Don't read it.

It's bad.

I will probably be doing more of these book reviews.

I might move it over to my old BookTube channel that I kind of put on hiatus.

So if I do move these book reviews over to Maddbooks, it will probably be pretty sporadic

on that schedule.

It's not going to be like every Monday and sometimes Thursdays like on this channel.

It'll just be whenever I finish a book and feel compelled to make a review video about

it.

So if I do revive Maddbooks, the link to that channel will be down below and also on the

end screen because I can do that now.

Thanks, YouTube!

So on that note, what are some good or awful books that you want me to read or review or

etc?

I will read the bad books so you don't have to because I just want you to stay safe out

there, kids.

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