Welcome back everyone - today Im talking about SCP First Contact by Dylan Royalty.
Right now, there are 3 kinds of people watching and youre all welcome.
If youve seen First Contact then youll love all the behind the scenes info Ive gathered,
if you love the SCP Foundation but havent seen First Contact yet - watch it, its on
YouTube, and then watch this - and if you don't recognise any of the words I just said,
well, sit tight, because Im about to bring you into the terrifying and captivating world
of the SCP Foundation.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary SCP First Contact Facts.
Starting off at number 10 now we have The Recap.
For those of you that havent seen First Contact - heres a little recap of the story.
A field agent for the Foundation codenamed -Eugene Smith- requested the Foundation conduct
an armed examination of an unnamed mine in the Yukon territory of Canada.
The foundation sent Mobile Task Force: Omega Orange to investigate.
Through the teams headcams and CCTV cameras, we see the team enter the dark mine and then
discover an abandoned government facility.
They find terrifying audio logs from the scientists who used to work there.
No sooner do they discover this new SCP, when the SCP discovers them.
The hunters become the hunted - who will make it out alive?
Other than that - Im not gonna give you any spoilers - make sure you watch the full video
on Evan Royaltys channel!
Moving on to number 9 we have Omega Orange.
Task Force Omega Orange may look like a bunch of normal special ops soldiers - but theyre
not.
Each and every member has been sentenced for a War Crime.
They now serve the Foundation in special operations such as the one show in the film.
They do this because they have the promise of eventually being released.
They have a service contract negotiated between the Foundation and the US government whereby
they are allowed to take part in missions to earn their freedom.
One caveat is that they must always be microchipped for the duration of their service.
Of course, this raises the question: is it a good idea to give hardened, convicted war
criminals some guns and set them loose in desolate areas?
Well, the story assures us that most unit members behave professionally and follow their
contracts to the letter in hopes of one day being free citizens.
So - Im sure that puts everyone at ease.
Next up at number 8 we have Creating The SCP.
The SCP that Evan created for this isnt actually an official SCP - as far as Im aware its not
even on the Foundations wiki page.
He said that writing the story was easy but he had no real idea about how the SCP would
turn out.
One of the things he wanted to explore was the idea of -investigative horror- … basically,
some characters immediately discover something scary - there is no long build up to that.
Then, with every new scary thing discovered about the scary thing, the stakes are ramped
up - if that makes sense.
With this is mine, its easy to see how he wove this concept into the story.
At first - all you know is that an anomaly has been found an that Omega Orange are sent
to investigate.
Its not until many layers are slowly revealed that we see the full horrific picture …
At number 7 now we have Time.
One thing that is difficult to asertain is when events in the story take place.
Its fair to assume that its present day when the team explore the complex - but when was
the building abandoned?
When McMann first started analysing the computers in the bosses offices - he mentions the date
and the windows operating system - both of these were expunged.
Not much help.
Later on though, he's seen listening to an audio log from a Dr Fields.
The date given is from November 7th 2005.
This would explain why Omega Orange thought the technology looked outdated but not ancient.
This date is somewhat backed up by the look of certain things - the laptops and PC monitors
on the table look like its from around 2005.
The facility may have been set up earlier than this date though and the technology updated
over the years.
Next up at number 6 we have The Easter Egg[a].
At 11 minutes into the video, just after we see McMann listening to an audio log, the
screen glitches and for a split second we see a message on the screen.
Its an angry message from a man called Evan Muir.
He claims he edited this video for the foundation and has been editing videos for them for over
7 years.
He complains that he's sick of the late night, he's sick of having to transfer the footage
to VHS because the Foundation cant stop SCPs from destroying other forms of media, and
he's sick that he cant even get a decent raise.
And so, he says, if they freeze the video at this exact moment and see this letter of
complaint - they can take that as his -retirement letter-, I think he means his resignation.
He finishes off the letter by wanting an employee called Ted to know that he's always disliked
his taste in music, his wife is a 6/10 and that he doesnt like the way he pronounces
the word -again- … its a great little easter egg and Evan confirmed that Evan Muir is actually
his real name.
So he's both the real editor and the fictional one!
And at number 5 now we have The Producer[b].
I figured it would be a good transition here to quickly talk about who made the video - on
YouTube their name is Evan Royalty.
It was uploaded to YouTube on October 26th 2018 - right before Halloween - and that was
no accident.
When sharing the video to Reddit[c] soon after, he said -I make a horror movie every Halloween
for my channel, decided to do one for the SCP universe.
It was a nightmare to make, but now its finally done- … sure enough, Evan has made a number
of other Halloween videos using video games for both the setting and characters.
2017s was called Katabasis[d] while 2016s was called Sacrifice[e].
He also has a soundcloud[f] where he's posted a few remixes and one original track.
He also has a patreon where he recently posted an apology to his donators saying that he
had become disheartened this year when videos he's spent months working on werent getting
any views.
Now that SCP is at 700,000 views and climbing, Evans decided to double down and give his
channel another chance!
Good news!
Next up at the number 4 spot we have The Post Credits.
After the climatic ending of the video, we are given some scrolling texts - almost like
a mission debrief.
It says that 7 months after the events seen in First Contact, the Foundation find out
from the Canadian government that the on site director had not told them the full extent
of the problems they had encountered, by the time the government arrived on site, they
were forced to simply seal the mine.
Thats why the Foundation had no idea what they were up against.
As punishment for this, the sites director was given amnesiacs and served prison time
for a falsified crime that he is unaware that he didnt commit.
Thats pretty shady stuff but its either that or he tells the world whats lurking down in
the mines …
Moving on to number 3 we have Harakiri[g].
In the lore Evan wrote for First Contact, he refers to Omega Orange in brackets as Hara
Kiri.
It turns out that this is a Japanese term, sometimes called Seppuku, that means cutting
the belly.
Its a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment and mainly used by samurai who chose to die
that way with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies and be tortured.
Its interesting that this name is attached the the Omega Orange team.
Is it simply a badass samurai term slapped onto a military unit?
I don't think so.
I think perhaps its a reference to the fact that the team is made up of these convicts
who are seeking to restore their freedom and honor.
To do this, they join Mobile Task Forces like this knowing of the dangerous SCPs they may
come into contact with, they also know that in some cases its practically suicide - just
like Harakiri.
Perhaps Im reading too much into it but I just thought it might be noteworthy - what
do you guys think?
At number 2 we have The Setbacks[h].
Evan talks a lot of the Directors Commentary about all the many setbacks he encountered
while making First Contact.
For starters, he was operating under a strict time limit as he wanted to get the whole thing
released before Halloween - as has become a tradition for his channel over the past
few years.
When it came to producing the video, he had a hard time filming it from the perspective
of the headcams.
A lot of the characters would start stutter stepping and he actually had to fix a rat
on top of peoples heads and then view it through the rats eyes to create the illusion of the
1st person headcam.
He's not even sure why this worked but it did.
There were issues with sound too.
Evan found that one of his voice actors recorded their lines with a very slight amount of reverb
- when he went to add on the radio effects to that voice, the reverb was amplified to
the point where the audio was unusable.
And finally at number 1 we have The Sequel.
For a lot of SCP fans, the first question they ask when they finish watching First Contact
is: how do I watch more?
Well Evan hasnt promised that he will continue to do SCPs - it wasnt something he was known
for before so theres no guarantee he will want to keep going.
However, I suspect that due to the overwhelming success and positive feedback, he may very
well decide to explore the SCP world once more.
In the comments section of his directors commentary, people were suggesting that he covers some
famous SCP mysteries that havent been fleshed out yet.
These include the failed exploration of the caves of SCP 610.
Then theres the containment breach of 096, the question about what happened to site 13
and many, many others.
What SCP would you like to see Evan make next?
And I think thats a great question to end the video on!
Im going to go ask Evan if I can do some voice acting for his next SCP video - why not - it
looks really fun.
What did you guys think of First Contact?
Do you think thats where SCP content should be moving into - more short films than long
wiki articles?
So many questions - cant wait to hear your answers - thanks for watching as always guys,
my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next video!
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Wouldn't be a beauty be on your tutorial without a couple mistakes, right? Hey guys, welcome back. Thank so much for stopping by today
I'm super excited because I'm gonna be reviewing the Natasha de Nona Safari palettes. It looks like
This this is an all matte palette
this is actually the only all matte palette I only so I'm dying to figure out how it works the pigmentation of these colors how
They blend and just basically is this palette worth the money
So if you want to see all about this palette and figure out if it's worth your change keep on watching
If you haven't already done so please don't forget to hit that subscribe button and definitely definitely have the notification belt very very important
So you notified when I upload videos?
Let's just jump right into it. Okay, so this palette has 15 shades and the name Safari is very appropriate for this palette
They are very much earth tone colors
They look super super rich when I did it swatch one of them and you guys are going to see
Me swatch the whole entire palette if you're interested in that
But when I just watch them, they definitely felt very very creamy very pigmented. So I was
Encouraged because mats, I find are a little bit harder to
Make super pigmented and blendable
I find that
I have a lot better luck with shimmers just on a general basis no matter what the brand what the company
Shimmers, just tend to perform a little bit better
So I'm super curious to see how this matte palette
Shapes up and how it works
especially for the price is not a cheap palette of all I bought this with the VIP discount that I think happens like
Twice a year something like that. So when I do have that 20% off discount, that's a pretty big discount
So I like to use it on one like relatively big purchase
Something that I would not normally pick up. I absolutely love the packaging. I love this like a khaki green shade
There are little holes in the back
Which I'm not entirely sure why that is I don't know if you can pop the pants out
It doesn't seem like it from looking at the pans that you can pop them out
it seems like there's
some sort of barrier in between
But maybe you can so I'll try and look into what those little holes are for and let you guys know
It did not come with a mirror protector
which was a little bit of a bummer to me because I really like peeling them off and I feel like it keeps all the
Shadow from getting on the mirror when you first open the palette, but that's just a small detail
And has a snap closure which I really really like and I feel like this size. It's very very manageable
it's thin so you could easily travel with it and
Yeah, I'm kind of just excited to see
How this palette works. So without further ado. Let's actually apply these shades
Okay, so I did prep my eyelids with this piya Louise base
If you guys want to see a one-minute review on this definitely let me know
I know that this is a cult favorite in the industry so far. I really like it
Typically, I will use my Mac Paint Pot as an eyeshadow base, but I've been using this instead and I like it
I wouldn't say it significantly better than the Paint Pot
They pretty much serve the same purpose in my opinion, but there was a ton that comes in this tube
I will be able to use this probably for the rest of my life and about two colors. So
Anyways, if you guys want to see a more in-depth review on the peel beats bass, let me know in the comment section
So I think I kind of want to do something a little bit fun for this look
I'm thinking of like a multicolored cut crease sort of thing. Let's just pray and cross our fingers that it works because
You guys know sometimes things work out on my channel. Sometimes I don't
Yeah
So basically, I think we should start by setting the stage. I'm gonna take desert date
Luckily for me the names of the colors are directly underneath the palette
So there's no room for me to screw it up by looking back on the back of the palette in the front
This is just super annoying for reviews. So there's definitely some kick up in the pan
If you can see that there with that middle shade
You guys know this isn't something that entirely X meet it does some people a lot
So keep that in mind I've yet to find to be honest a super super pigmented
Matte shade that did not have kick up in the pan. So I
Would say ace beauty is a pretty good one if you really really hate kick up
they
Tend to pack their shades
Very firmly and they're also super pigmented and super blendable. So if mess and
powdery
Pans are not your thing. I suggest checking out that brand. I did a whole big huge
Review on their paradise collection. So you guys can check that out if you're interested
awesome awesome idea for Christmas gifts for
The spouse I apologize if you guys know does any dryness on my lids
since the weather has changed my skin has upped its
dryness, so
So that color so far is performing great I'm just doing a really really light layer
This is an m5 1/3 you guys will notice I pretty much use the exact same brushes in all my videos
I'm just doing a very light layer but is applying beautifully. I really like the color. It's like an orange II
based brown
And I think I'm gonna go a little bit out of my comfort zone and dip into these blues and greens as opposed to sticking
To the super warm Browns, which I feel like I always do
So why don't we start with I think I'm gonna start with stone
Then stone is a very very light
Color, so I'm not sure how it's going to show up in this capacity
But I'm just going to
Buff it right in there and
Happily surprised it actually shows up which is always good a light shade
I would say that pigmentation is really nice and it's kind of effortlessly blending
In with the brown I was a little nervous that that Brown wasn't going to mesh with these shades
But this color is easily going right over top the brown
with no issues, so
It is awesome. She can do the same thing on the side. And again, I'm concentrating this
Right on the inner corner because I am going to put some different shades next door, but that's a really unique shade
It's like a cool toned
aqua gray color
Okay, so I'm going to stick with the same brush and I'm going to grab Rhine out
Which is a cool tone very unique color. It's like a cool tone
bluish green kind of
And I'm going to pop the right next to
stone
Again that pigmentation is absolutely gorgeous
And I'm not getting like any follow on my face, which is kind of
Crazy, but that did remind me
I do want to pop on these shadow shields just in case cuz I did already do my base. So
These things are actually pretty cool you can get these inexpensively on Amazon and
They are a little bit more comfortable to wear them tape
and the reason I like these is because they actually catch the fall out on this little flap which
Is super helpful that is
Definitely not a disappointment at all
Just make sure to tap off your brush before you put it on your eye and that's just going to reduce fallout even more
Especially when you're dealing with these kind of
intensely pigmented mattes
You just want to be a little aware of fallout if you've already done your base. If not,
Does not matter because you can just remove all of it with a makeup away. I'm gonna take a slightly tapered brush
This is the morphe e17 and a little bit of aya, which is like a cream tone
And I'm just gonna softly buff that top edge. I like to use a light shade
to help the blending process of
The maths sometimes I just find that it
helps them blend a little better as opposed to taking a brush that doesn't have any eyeshadow on which is a
stunning like teal blue and
I'm going to pop that
Directly next to the green
And just pull it outward
These colors all seem to have a very similar formula so far. So that's really good. I really like a palette with consistent
With a consistent formula like you don't get one shade that's a total bust and you
Know three shades that are great. These have been super consistent
so far the way the shades are packed up and the same so they all have about the same fallout in the pan and
On the eye
So now I'm just gonna gently kind of buff out this blue
Towards the shadow shield so it kind of fades out. Okay, so I think I am going to
Carve out some space on the crease
underneath that I
Think that'll look cool with the different colors
So we're going to go ahead and do that and I'll be right back because I used to that Pete Louise base again
Just to carve out some space underneath those colors, and I think I'm going to set the entire
lid with aya, which is that
cream shade
Now color has a surprising amount of pigmentation for being such a light
Color I mean I am putting it over a white base which definitely helps but
All right, so I'm going to quickly just touch up all those shades right along the border of the cut crease just to
Sort of redefine that and then I'll blend a little bit more above
Okay, so this is what we have so far and I'm trying to figure out
What to do I think I'm gonna use some sort of gradient on the lash line as well and kind of wing it out
I'm just trying to figure out the colors that would best complement what we have going on and ready
Actually, you know, I'm gonna take Savannah
Which is kind of the same color as the pallet itself. It's like a khaki shade like I need a
push to the e20
So, I like that color it's really again
it's really unique matte shade and I feel like it's got really nice pigmentation when I just kind of
Hack it along the lash line
And then I think I'm going to take a different color brown
So I'm gonna grab Shea it's like a really deep brown shade in the same brush and just wing it outward
And pull it back in
These shades have definitely not disappointed so far every single one has been
Super pigmented and like I said to have that much consistency in a fully matte palette is pretty impressive
And I think for that inner part, I'm gonna grab mallya which is a really really light like baby pink and
Just pop it, right
In there
One's a little bit harder to see but
You should feel like it adds a little brightness. I'm gonna go back and clean up under there where we had some fallout
Hopefully I'll be able to definitely really happy with all those shades burnt the lower lash line
Hmm I
Don't want that what to be too disjointed as much as I really want to use some of these like
Kind of pinky mob shades or maybe try which is like a bright brick red
Maybe I'll tie it all together with that Savannah color
Connect it
And blend out Savannah a little bit I do want Savannah to be like
Pretty smoky
And then right on the edge, I'm gonna grab Shay, so I'm kind of mirroring what we did for the liner
And just connect it
This is an e36, I
Think I'm gonna take that same a36 and a little bit of tamarind
Just coming like an oatmeal color. I'm just gonna gently
Go all along those colors right below
Just warm it up ever so slightly that one did not turn into ever so slightly
Wouldn't be a beauty Beyonce tutorial without a couple mistakes, right
Well, I'm not really mad at how this look turned out. I think it's definitely
Unique like you guys know, I'm not the most talented makeup artists on YouTube
But I think that's did a good job of showing all of the different shades
And how they perform not all of them but a lot of them and I think from the consistency of the shades we saw
It boats pretty well for any of the shapes
we didn't use so I am going to tap into a mix of mallya and i--i those two latest shades and just hit I
Really love a matte highlight sometimes
So I'm just gonna hit right under the brow bone. Hey guys, so that completes the look
I'm gonna pop on some lashes zoom you guys in close and then I'll give you at my final thoughts on the palette
Okay guys so that is the totally done I look
Final thoughts on this palette. I'm super super super happy with it. I think it definitely lives up to the price tag
I love the packaging and every single eyeshadow formula
I used it was super super consistent across the whole palette some matte palettes
I find some of the mattes work beautifully in some of the mattes are like chalky or patchy
they don't blend well and
I can definitely say that all the colors across this whole palette were very very consistent the ones that I use
They all were really really pigmented but they also blended really really well, which is so so so important
So I'm really really happy with this palette. They're buttery
They're creamy
And I think the color palette itself like the color scheme is so beautiful and so versatile, so, I'm very very happy
I definitely give this palette a thumbs up and if you are looking to spend your VIP discount
20% off or if you're looking for an awesome Christmas gift for a makeup. Junkie
I highly recommend this palette and that completes the review
Please don't forget to give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and comment down below and I'll see my next one. Bye
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Welcome back everyone - today Im talking about SCP First Contact by Dylan Royalty.
Right now, there are 3 kinds of people watching and youre all welcome.
If youve seen First Contact then youll love all the behind the scenes info Ive gathered,
if you love the SCP Foundation but havent seen First Contact yet - watch it, its on
YouTube, and then watch this - and if you don't recognise any of the words I just said,
well, sit tight, because Im about to bring you into the terrifying and captivating world
of the SCP Foundation.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary SCP First Contact Facts.
Starting off at number 10 now we have The Recap.
For those of you that havent seen First Contact - heres a little recap of the story.
A field agent for the Foundation codenamed -Eugene Smith- requested the Foundation conduct
an armed examination of an unnamed mine in the Yukon territory of Canada.
The foundation sent Mobile Task Force: Omega Orange to investigate.
Through the teams headcams and CCTV cameras, we see the team enter the dark mine and then
discover an abandoned government facility.
They find terrifying audio logs from the scientists who used to work there.
No sooner do they discover this new SCP, when the SCP discovers them.
The hunters become the hunted - who will make it out alive?
Other than that - Im not gonna give you any spoilers - make sure you watch the full video
on Evan Royaltys channel!
Moving on to number 9 we have Omega Orange.
Task Force Omega Orange may look like a bunch of normal special ops soldiers - but theyre
not.
Each and every member has been sentenced for a War Crime.
They now serve the Foundation in special operations such as the one show in the film.
They do this because they have the promise of eventually being released.
They have a service contract negotiated between the Foundation and the US government whereby
they are allowed to take part in missions to earn their freedom.
One caveat is that they must always be microchipped for the duration of their service.
Of course, this raises the question: is it a good idea to give hardened, convicted war
criminals some guns and set them loose in desolate areas?
Well, the story assures us that most unit members behave professionally and follow their
contracts to the letter in hopes of one day being free citizens.
So - Im sure that puts everyone at ease.
Next up at number 8 we have Creating The SCP.
The SCP that Evan created for this isnt actually an official SCP - as far as Im aware its not
even on the Foundations wiki page.
He said that writing the story was easy but he had no real idea about how the SCP would
turn out.
One of the things he wanted to explore was the idea of -investigative horror- … basically,
some characters immediately discover something scary - there is no long build up to that.
Then, with every new scary thing discovered about the scary thing, the stakes are ramped
up - if that makes sense.
With this is mine, its easy to see how he wove this concept into the story.
At first - all you know is that an anomaly has been found an that Omega Orange are sent
to investigate.
Its not until many layers are slowly revealed that we see the full horrific picture …
At number 7 now we have Time.
One thing that is difficult to asertain is when events in the story take place.
Its fair to assume that its present day when the team explore the complex - but when was
the building abandoned?
When McMann first started analysing the computers in the bosses offices - he mentions the date
and the windows operating system - both of these were expunged.
Not much help.
Later on though, he's seen listening to an audio log from a Dr Fields.
The date given is from November 7th 2005.
This would explain why Omega Orange thought the technology looked outdated but not ancient.
This date is somewhat backed up by the look of certain things - the laptops and PC monitors
on the table look like its from around 2005.
The facility may have been set up earlier than this date though and the technology updated
over the years.
Next up at number 6 we have The Easter Egg[a].
At 11 minutes into the video, just after we see McMann listening to an audio log, the
screen glitches and for a split second we see a message on the screen.
Its an angry message from a man called Evan Muir.
He claims he edited this video for the foundation and has been editing videos for them for over
7 years.
He complains that he's sick of the late night, he's sick of having to transfer the footage
to VHS because the Foundation cant stop SCPs from destroying other forms of media, and
he's sick that he cant even get a decent raise.
And so, he says, if they freeze the video at this exact moment and see this letter of
complaint - they can take that as his -retirement letter-, I think he means his resignation.
He finishes off the letter by wanting an employee called Ted to know that he's always disliked
his taste in music, his wife is a 6/10 and that he doesnt like the way he pronounces
the word -again- … its a great little easter egg and Evan confirmed that Evan Muir is actually
his real name.
So he's both the real editor and the fictional one!
And at number 5 now we have The Producer[b].
I figured it would be a good transition here to quickly talk about who made the video - on
YouTube their name is Evan Royalty.
It was uploaded to YouTube on October 26th 2018 - right before Halloween - and that was
no accident.
When sharing the video to Reddit[c] soon after, he said -I make a horror movie every Halloween
for my channel, decided to do one for the SCP universe.
It was a nightmare to make, but now its finally done- … sure enough, Evan has made a number
of other Halloween videos using video games for both the setting and characters.
2017s was called Katabasis[d] while 2016s was called Sacrifice[e].
He also has a soundcloud[f] where he's posted a few remixes and one original track.
He also has a patreon where he recently posted an apology to his donators saying that he
had become disheartened this year when videos he's spent months working on werent getting
any views.
Now that SCP is at 700,000 views and climbing, Evans decided to double down and give his
channel another chance!
Good news!
Next up at the number 4 spot we have The Post Credits.
After the climatic ending of the video, we are given some scrolling texts - almost like
a mission debrief.
It says that 7 months after the events seen in First Contact, the Foundation find out
from the Canadian government that the on site director had not told them the full extent
of the problems they had encountered, by the time the government arrived on site, they
were forced to simply seal the mine.
Thats why the Foundation had no idea what they were up against.
As punishment for this, the sites director was given amnesiacs and served prison time
for a falsified crime that he is unaware that he didnt commit.
Thats pretty shady stuff but its either that or he tells the world whats lurking down in
the mines …
Moving on to number 3 we have Harakiri[g].
In the lore Evan wrote for First Contact, he refers to Omega Orange in brackets as Hara
Kiri.
It turns out that this is a Japanese term, sometimes called Seppuku, that means cutting
the belly.
Its a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment and mainly used by samurai who chose to die
that way with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies and be tortured.
Its interesting that this name is attached the the Omega Orange team.
Is it simply a badass samurai term slapped onto a military unit?
I don't think so.
I think perhaps its a reference to the fact that the team is made up of these convicts
who are seeking to restore their freedom and honor.
To do this, they join Mobile Task Forces like this knowing of the dangerous SCPs they may
come into contact with, they also know that in some cases its practically suicide - just
like Harakiri.
Perhaps Im reading too much into it but I just thought it might be noteworthy - what
do you guys think?
At number 2 we have The Setbacks[h].
Evan talks a lot of the Directors Commentary about all the many setbacks he encountered
while making First Contact.
For starters, he was operating under a strict time limit as he wanted to get the whole thing
released before Halloween - as has become a tradition for his channel over the past
few years.
When it came to producing the video, he had a hard time filming it from the perspective
of the headcams.
A lot of the characters would start stutter stepping and he actually had to fix a rat
on top of peoples heads and then view it through the rats eyes to create the illusion of the
1st person headcam.
He's not even sure why this worked but it did.
There were issues with sound too.
Evan found that one of his voice actors recorded their lines with a very slight amount of reverb
- when he went to add on the radio effects to that voice, the reverb was amplified to
the point where the audio was unusable.
And finally at number 1 we have The Sequel.
For a lot of SCP fans, the first question they ask when they finish watching First Contact
is: how do I watch more?
Well Evan hasnt promised that he will continue to do SCPs - it wasnt something he was known
for before so theres no guarantee he will want to keep going.
However, I suspect that due to the overwhelming success and positive feedback, he may very
well decide to explore the SCP world once more.
In the comments section of his directors commentary, people were suggesting that he covers some
famous SCP mysteries that havent been fleshed out yet.
These include the failed exploration of the caves of SCP 610.
Then theres the containment breach of 096, the question about what happened to site 13
and many, many others.
What SCP would you like to see Evan make next?
And I think thats a great question to end the video on!
Im going to go ask Evan if I can do some voice acting for his next SCP video - why not - it
looks really fun.
What did you guys think of First Contact?
Do you think thats where SCP content should be moving into - more short films than long
wiki articles?
So many questions - cant wait to hear your answers - thanks for watching as always guys,
my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next video!
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>> From the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
>> Betsy Peterson: Hello, everyone.
If I could ask you all to take a seat
at this time, that would be great.
My name is Betsy Peterson.
I'm the director of the American Folk Life Center here
at the Library of Congress.
And on behalf of the staff, indeed everyone in the library,
I want to welcome you today to the latest presentation
in our Benjamin A. Botkin lecture series.
The series allows us at the center to highlight the work
of scholars in a range of areas in the disciplines of folklore,
ethnomusicology, oral history and cultural heritage,
while also enhancing the collections here
at the America Folk Life Center.
Every lecture is videotaped and becomes part
of the permanent archive.
And also each lecture is later posted as a webcast
so that people throughout the world and for generations
to come can hear the lecture
that you are going to be hearing today.
So with all of that said now,
if you do have any electronic devices, cell phones, et cetera,
on, please turn them off at this point.
We are very proud to be the American Folk Life Center,
but sometimes I know the name gives people the wrong
impression or that our interests
and our archival holdings are only limited
to American materials.
And that is not the case at all.
Of course, we're an outstanding collection,
I would dare say the outstanding repository for American music,
dance and traditional culture.
But among the more than 3,000 collections in our archive,
our materials from hundreds of other cultures,
countries throughout the world and in fact virtually all
of the reading rooms here at the library contain collections
in multiple languages from cultures
and countries throughout the world.
In the Asian reading room, for instance,
you can access the library's South Asian collection
which relates directly to our lecture today.
And I would just like to acknowledge our colleagues
from the Asian reading room today.
Welcome and thanks for coming.
The South Asian collection
in the Asian reading room contains materials
from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The collection currently has 332,000 monograph volumes,
more than 1,000 active journals and over 68,000 titles
on microfesh and provides broad general research coverage
in most fields and disciplines,
but especially vernacular languages in literature,
religion and philosophy, politics, history and sociology.
And so today we will hear about an ancient cultural tradition
that is practiced both in India and the United States.
This afternoon, I have the pleasure
of introducing the distinguished ethnomusicologist
and performer Joseph J. Palackal.
Dr. Palackal who is originally from the Indian state
of Karela grew up in the musical traditions
of the Siro Malabar Church and is an Indic musicology singer
and composer, as well as one of the foremost experts
on the musical traditions of the Indian Christians.
The founder and president of the Christian Musicological Society
of India, Dr. Palackal received his PhD in ethnomusicology
from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
in 2005 for his research on the Syriac
or Aramaic chant traditions in south India.
His dissertation compared the contemporary melodic practices
of the East Syriac, Chaldean rite of the Siro Malabar Church
and the West Syriac rite
of the Oriental Orthodox churches of south India.
In addition to his work as a scholar,
Dr. Palackal is a noted performer, writer,
composer and CD producer.
He made his New York debut in 1990
with a guest appearance singing a Christian devotional song
in Hindi in the off-Broadway show Nonsense.
And he has also performed at Lincoln Center
and Princeton University.
We are delighted that he is able to come to the library today,
and I ask you to join me in welcoming Dr. Palackal
for this presentation on Syriac chants
and Aramaic Christianity in India.
Dr. Palackal.
[ Applause ]
>> Joseph J. Palackal: Thank you for that wonderful introduction.
Let me begin by chanting the Lord's prayer using almost the
exact words that Jesus taught his disciples.
[ Chanting ]
With your permission, I would like to dedicate this event
to the saintly Palackal Toman Apan, my collateral
and sister who died in 1841.
He was a great teacher of the Aramaic language,
and founder of the seminary in his native town
and the first seminary of the Sindar Christians.
And who founded the first Lis congregation for men in India
to which I belong, the Caramelites of Mary Immaculate.
It is a great honor to be here to talk about the language
that he was so passionate and he taught his disciples.
Almost for 1,000 years the biggest export item
from India was religion.
And that religion was not Hinduism.
It was Buddhism.
Ever since Emperor Ahsoka accepted Buddhism,
he became the biggest promotor,
just like Constantine did to Christianity.
And he sent missionaries to the different parts of the world,
including Palestine and the Middle East.
Emperor Ahsoka not only accepted Buddhism but he also laid
out foundations for respectful dialogue
and respectful other religious traditions.
So by the time Christianity came on the scene,
India had already prepared that mindset to welcome anything
and everything without contradicting but respecting.
So it is in this context we talk about the movement
of the eastern religion which became Christianity
to other parts of Asia, to south India in Karela.
It is amazing that Christianity we believe,
that Christianity moved to south India.
Before the preaching of Jesus, the charisma
of Jesus became a religion.
Jesus did not promote a religion;
he lived a Jew, died a Jew.
He changed the perception of his own mother faith
but eventually it became a religion.
Before Christianity became a doctrine religion,
the faith reached Karela.
We believe it came through St. Thomas the Apostle,
one of the 12 apostles.
Because of the trade relationship, spice trade,
the region was known to the Middle East, so probably he came
in one of those ships.
In any case, they will receive the simple faith,
and interestingly, this is the man
who made the biggest profession of faith
in just two words in Aramaic language.
[Aramaic phrase], my Lord and my God.
This was an exuberant outburst when Jesus appeared especially
for him and asked him to touch his hands and touch his side.
He came out with this profession of faith [Aramaic phrase],
simple words, my Lord and my God.
While the disciples were doubtful, he said,
"You are man and God."
And it took 325 years and the rise of a Roman emperor
to arrive at a simple consensus on the exegesis
of these two words which we have in the Nicaean Creed.
If you look at that creed, how verbose, how difficult,
how much they have been struggling to pin
down what St. Thomas the Apostle said in two words.
So this faith in its simplest form came to India.
And it survived there and in due course they created poetry,
meaning they have connection with the Middle East
in the Syriac Aramaic language.
The poetry that they were singing celebrated the faith,
the simple faith.
I'm going to sing two lines
which expresses deep Christological theology.
So this is part of a canonical prayer literally the hours.
This is a couplet from a long chant sung during Advent
and Christmas seasons.
But this particular couplet when it comes to that couplet,
the liturgical book says sing twice three times
because of the significance of the text
which I will explain soon.
And the Siro Malabar Christians began to take it
as a separate chant and sing it
in three ascending pitch registers
and proclaim the faith.
[ Foreign language ]
We worship you, Lord.
[Foreign name] is God, [foreign name] is divinity.
[Foreign name], you are divinity.
[Foreign language] and you are human.
[Foreign word] is man.
[Foreign word] humanity.
[Foreign phrase] you're humanity.
The next phrase is the crucial.
[Foreign phrase] is doubt or division.
Very clever play on the word.
[Foreign phrase] without division, or without doubt.
While Christianity was struggling,
in several ecumenical councils to define how did humanity
and divinity in Christ come together,
they were breaking their heads,
they were expounding on the stories.
So you can imagine so many things were happening.
St. Thomas Christians in India were singing this couplet
which proclaimed everything was resolved.
There was no problem.
Let me sing first and then we will talk a little more.
[ Singing ]
There is another song that again dissolves the cloud
of historianism that is hanging
over the St. Thomas Christians ever
since the Portuguese encountered them.
And that song is another Grecian melody [foreign name].
Son of Mary, Son of Mary.
Mary gave birth to the son of God.
So there was no problem.
There is no problem.
There is no need to fight and kill each other.
It was already certain.
So they sang, "Son of Mary, son of Mary."
Mary forgave for the son of God.
There was no confusion.
[ Singing ]
And they will sing those two stanzas
and this will be the refrain.
The other stanzas go, "Son of Mary did this.
Son of Mary promised a pardon.
Son of Mary sanctified the waters of Jordan."
So everything is son of Mary, son of Mary.
But that son of Mary is the son of God.
So there was no confusion.
This was how they celebrated faith, through chants.
There was no doctrinal imposition.
It was part of their faith.
And at this moment I'd like to bring in one Malayalam word,
how the word [foreign word]
which we translate to English as faith.
The Karela people translated it into Malayalam or maybe
into Tamur before Malayalam became a language.
[Foreign word].
[Foreign word] is breath, breath.
[Foreign word], that means it is beautiful breath.
This is how they translated faith in Malayalam.
It is part of the breath of the people.
It is not just something that you believe in.
It is not something that you discuss.
It is not that something that you arrive at the conclusion,
but it is your breath, your own breath.
That idea of breath comes from another word in Aramaic,
the meaning of which is breath, which is [foreign word].
Which we translate awkwardly in English as Holy Spirit.
[Foreign word] the very breath of God.
The personification is the third person of the trinity.
So let us leave that aside.
So this faith in India, among the Christians in India,
St. Thomas Christians celebrate it through their songs
and dances, and then it continues.
And then every love story has a villain,
like the Hindi movies you have seen.
That villain came from Portugal.
So the missionaries came,
they encountered St. Thomas Christians and they saw
that they were worshiping in Syriac.
What kind of -- their idea of Catholicism was different
from what they saw in the land.
So that came into conflict.
They said, "We have to change this.
We have to change it to Latin."
But the St. Thomas Christians said, "No.
This is the way of Thomas.
You follow the way of Peter.
And this is the language of Jesus,
so we want to retain this language."
So what happened?
They introduced Latin elements,
but they translated them into Syriac.
So in the video we will see examples of that.
Well, the villain went away but then you know, it is amazing.
They went away, but a little bit
of that villain resurfaced in the 1960s.
The people, St. Thomas Christians,
the Siro Malabar Christians we are talking about, they thought
that the language has lost its credibility,
nobody knows Syriac.
So they changed, as it happened, the Latin rite,
they changed everything into Malayalam in the 1960s, 1962.
So this was before the Vatican too.
It had nothing to do with the Vatican too.
So the generation that was born
after that transition did not know the language.
Slowly the language is on death bed right now.
So it is in this context that I come on the scene.
So when I came to New York to do my PhD, I wanted a new topic.
And I grew up in the tradition.
I was an officer reading Syriac in Malayalam script.
So when it came to the choice of doctoral dissertation,
I chose Syriac chants in south India
at City University of New York.
I had a great eminent director, Dr. Steven Blount.
And then after doing that, I also worked on a CD
of Syriac chants, and interest came in and it continued.
So after PhD I continued research on.
Because if someone didn't do anything, this could die out.
So I started the Aramaic project.
The result of that project is what we are going to see now.
And the video has four sections.
It's a 22-and-a-half-minute video.
It has four sections.
One is, why should we take the Aramaic tradition
in India seriously?
So I talked to eminent people,
people who know better than I do.
And we listen to their answers.
The second part is how east meets west,
how St. Thomas Christians met the Portuguese missionaries.
And during the interaction,
finally the Portuguese missionaries succeeded
in convincing the St. Thomas Christians
to accept their rituals and practices
and translate the chants into Syriac.
So that gave birth to a new brand of Syriac music.
That is exclusively the patrimony
of these Siro Malabar Christians in Karela and nowhere else.
After watching the video, I would like to have your comments
if you now something similar elsewhere.
The third section of the video is the transmission
of this tradition from the older generation
to the younger generation, what we are doing
with the Aramaic project.
And the fourth is our attempt to reintroduce Syriac
into the vernacular liturgy.
Interestingly, I am so happy to stand here and talk about that,
because the first time we did that in America was not far
from here at the Catholic University campus
at the Natural Shrine.
We had a celebration India event and we celebrated mass
in the Siro Malabar tradition.
The cardinal came from India
and we introduced two Syriac chants in that liturgy.
You will see examples from that towards the end of the video.
You will see the chant from there.
But it caught on.
Young people are catching on, and I am so happy
that we have representatives from Forest Church,
Virginia who just last Saturday for their first communion,
they sang three Syriac chants including the one I sang
in the beginning, [foreign name].
I thought, "Wow."
For the first communion kids, what else can you say?
Three years of catechism, they compress into two lines.
[ Foreign language ]
We without doubt, we believe in your divinity and humanity.
It's not just a piece of bread.
You are both man and God.
What a beautiful -- what else do they need to say?
Looking at that piece of bread, "You are man and God,
and we believe without doubt."
So in other words, this is becoming part of America.
And that's how I'd like to conclude this presentation,
by talking about some good news.
Complimenting about two countries:
one my adopted country, America, second my native country, India.
Once I finished my doctoral dissertation, then I embarked
on this Aramaic project.
The first support came from my own parishioners
and the local bank Mass Preferred Savings Bank.
Even though they did not fully understand what exactly what I
was embarking on, they came forward and helped me
to launch the project.
And then to my surprise, it caught on.
First example, is Father Justin here?
Oh, thank you.
That is his parish, and I thank you
for encouraging your children to sing that.
We couldn't include that in the video,
because it just happened recently.
And at the priestly ordination that took place a week ago
in New Jersey, they sang Syriac chants.
Next week on June 3rd they are going
to sing Syriac chants during a priestly ordination.
So it is catching.
This is becoming the patrimony of this country.
It is becoming American.
That's a story of America.
It came from everywhere.
It found its own life here.
So that story is continuing.
That Aramaic language and music is getting an American
face lift.
So some day it will become part
of the Christian experience of the children here.
And finally, my native country, India.
India from the beginning welcomed ideas, ideologies
and even contradictory ideas into its shore.
When we think of India, it's a slightly different imagination
of a country from the contemporary forces that want
to reduce India into a Hindu country, a NATO perspective.
But India in my view is not a country.
It is a concept, a concept of coexistence.
India is like the river in Herman Hess's Siddhartha.
Everything that flows into it comes
into the shore and becomes Indian.
It is fascinating.
Open to everybody, welcoming everybody,
but converting it to Indian.
That nation, its philosophy, let noble thoughts come
from anywhere, served as a basis for the preservation
of this Aramaic tradition.
And it survived all this while,
and we are now making a historical intervention
to make it happen, to keep it going for the next generation
and the generation after.
So it is this great nation
with its open-mindedness, gave the impetus.
Therefore I would like to conclude this presentation
by saying [foreign phrase], thank you.
[ Applause ]
[ Music ]
>> We are in the [inaudible] church of the Syrian tradition.
And this tradition is [inaudible].
And also in our traditional piety.
There are celebrations in which even now the liturgy
of [inaudible] is used.
And in some places the use
of the Syriac language is become more and more prevalent.
So I believe that this tradition is to be kept up.
[ Inaudible ]
>> It's about the transformation that has happened
in the pronunciation of the incantation of words.
[ Inaudible ]
[ Inaudible ]
[ Music ]
[ Inaudible ]
[ Singing ]
[ Singing ]
[ Music ]
[ Singing ]
[ Singing ]
[ Singing ]
>> Can you say the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic?
>> Yeah.
>> Do it.
[ Foreign language ]
>> Can you say this prayer in Aramaic?
[ Inaudible ]
[ Chanting ]
[ Music ]
[ Singing ]
[ Chanting ]
[ Inaudible ]
[ Chanting ]
[ Music ]
[ Chanting ]
>> That was beautiful.
Very rarely do we listen to this chant in a female voice.
Traditionally this is always sung by the priest and singers
who used to be all men.
So it's wonderful to listen to this chant in a female voice.
And what do you think?
What do you feel about this chant when you sing it?
>> It's a very meditative and mournful song?
>> Do you like it?
>> I do like it.
>> Why?
>> It reminds me of the Gregorian chants which are some
of my favorite western music.
>> How do you compare it to the Gregorian chant.
What is your reason for that?
>> There's this kind of unstructured tempo to it.
Very natural flow of time.
>> Interesting.
Now given that opportunity, will you learn more songs in Syriac?
>> Yeah, it will be interesting.
>> And when the time comes,
will you teach your children these types of songs?
>> It's very hard to say,
but I would like to think that I would.
>> Excellent.
[ Chanting ]
>> We will sing in Syriac, brothers and sisters,
raise your voice to glorify the living God.
[ Chanting ]
[ Music ]
[ Chanting ]
[ Applause ]
>> Joseph J. Palackal: We have a few minutes for questions
and answers and comments.
Yes? Yes, please.
>> When the music is written down, is it written
in a trunk type thing?
Like chanting?
>> Joseph J. Palackal: This is an oral tradition.
This is an oral tradition.
>> Strictly oral?
>> Joseph J. Palackal: Strictly.
There were two attempts to make notations,
but that never picked up.
People learn by listening and --
[ Chanting ]
Yeah, they just learn.
And it's amazing, now that you mention it.
When I was in the service, before that I have to mention,
acknowledge a very special person, my director.
When I was in the minor seminary, my father John Biyani,
for some reason, he is here, some miracle.
And I mentioned him because in the seminary work we did,
during prayers, canonical prayers, you learn the melody,
you sing with those who know
and then gradually pick up the memory.
In fact, our community sings a 17-verse melody,
a stroph which is 17 versus.
And it's a tremendous musical composition, but we learn it
by practice and it becomes natural.
>> So there's no symbol that suggests the up and down?
>> Joseph J. Palackal: No.
It just happens.
Yes?
>> This came from Syria of course.
What's the story of this language there now?
Does anybody have any [inaudible]
in the Syriac language?
>> Joseph J. Palackal: I'm glad you asked that question,
but the answer is a sad one.
The history of the language is sad.
Because in the seventh century, because of the Arabic invasion,
it was not like Karela.
There Arabic was imposed.
So the Syriac that you hear
from the Middle East now sounds very different.
Even the [chanting], it must have a different flavor there.
And the memory of the language is dying out there.
Whereas in India, there was no persecution either for the Jews
or for Christians, so it survived.
So probably the history of the language is redefined in India.
Some of the melodies may be more intact in India
than in the Middle East.
Now not all the melodies came from Syria or Middle East.
There are some melodies there,
especially the Portuguese melodies were composed
in Karela.
There are very few samples of that.
So Karela has its own contribution
to the music history of India.
Yeah.
>> One question.
>> Joseph J. Palackal: Yes.
[ Inaudible ]
Oh good. I am glad you asked that question.
Aramaic, Christian Aramaic, is known as Syriac.
The Aramaic language was a commercial language
for a long time.
Remember when Emperor Ahsoka published the edicts,
Aramaic was one of the languages.
Which means there are people
who knew only Aramaic in the kingdom.
Because if you didn't know the rules of the kingdom,
your head could be chopped off.
So just the way we do Chinese in Chinatown in New York,
there were Aramaic inscriptions.
So that was a story there.
And then -- so it was already in the history of the language.
And when Christianity came, literature in Aramaic came
to be known as Syriac.
Political situations changed.
One major reason is the translation
of the Septuagint in Greek.
So Syria Aram, Aramaic, became Syriac.
And then it stayed on.
Now there's a move among St. Thomas Christians
in many Syriac churches in Karela to take out the Syrian
and make it Syriac, because they don't want association
with Syria.
Rather, Syriac Christians.
Thank you for clarifying that, yes.
Yes?
>> How about the Portuguese?
When they came to India, did they try
to suppress and destroy history?
[Inaudible]
>> Joseph J. Palackal: There is an element,
because they challenged us.
Basically they thought, "This is not real."
So they wanted us to change the language in the Latin
and chant and all that.
But we resisted.
So in the process, one group broke away from that tradition
and said, "No, we don't have to do anything with this people."
So those are the Akarbites, the orthodox and all that.
But we, the Siro Malabar Christians,
stayed with the Portuguese but translated into Syriac
and kept the incantations.
So we adopted benediction of the blessed sacrament,
we adopted [inaudible] and we have songs for the --
the song that the children sang in [inaudible] is --
[ Chanting ]
It's a hymn to the blessed virgin.
Probably that was composed
when we started [inaudible] and all that.
So we cannot say they destroyed everything.
I wouldn't use that word destroy.
They challenged us.
The Siro Malabar Christians accepted the challenge
and translated it into Syriac and moved on.
So in the history of music, that became a bone
because we have a new branch of music in India.
And after the Portuguese left, we didn't do much
to revive the tradition, and then we left it.
We cannot blame anybody for what we are doing now.
I'm glad some of our priests are stepping forward
to reclaim the Siro Malabar Church.
Otherwise the next generation will have zero.
So that Siro B stands for Syriac language.
So I am glad for priests like Father Justin
and his assistant Felix Simon.
They are trying to bring it back.
And someday we will study the history
of the language in America.
Amazing. Yes?
>> Question between the history of the Catholic
versus the orthodox Jews.
Are there differences?
>> Joseph J. Palackal: Oh yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
The orthodox Christians used west Syriac.
The Catholics, the Siro Malabar, we use --
I cannot say Catholic because Siro Malingula also use
west Syriac.
So the Siro Malabar Church, these two churches --
there are eight churches among Sindon Christians.
Two churches use Chaldean Syriac.
So what I am singing, what you heard here, the whole story
of Chaldean Syriac, east Syriac.
West Syriac, the pronunciation is different.
The basic difference is
like British English and American English.
[ Inaudible ]
Yes. Completely different melodic repertoire.
They have a very complex system of music.
It is much more complex than this.
They have us practice this singing,
one chant in eight different melodies, octo arcos.
[Inaudible] Gregorian chant.
Same text for different seasons.
They sing in eight different tunes.
Whereas in the eastern Syriac tradition,
we sing same melody with different text.
What a beautiful complementarity.
That means we --
[ Chanting ]
We apply that to different texts in the same major
for different liturgical context.
So these are complementary traditions.
It enriches the world.
But for example, to be specific,
eastern Syriac will say [foreign phrase], Holy God.
[Foreign word] is God.
West Syriac will say [foreign phrase].
[ Foreign language ]
Glory be to the father and the son and the Holy Spirit.
[ Foreign language ]
Whereas we will say --
[ Foreign language ]
Such differences, yes.
This world of music,
Syriac music is more complex than we think.
Thank you for that question.
Yes, please.
>> This really isn't a musical question,
so I'm not sure I should ask it.
But I was struck by the fact that in the church there seemed
to be many statues, but I didn't see anything resembling the
icons that one sees in the eastern orthodox
and of course many oriental orthodoxies.
>> Joseph J. Palackal: Good observation.
Because these are from the Siro Malabar churches,
which was Latinized.
So most of the segments are from that tradition.
That's why you see that.
Good observation.
Thank you.
>> Betsy Peterson: I want
to thank Dr. Joseph J. Palackal again for coming.
[ Applause ]
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