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Well, today was kind of special.

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And not only did

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a friend from New Zealand come over to The US, in the Bronx,

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and we created a mural for The Outlaw Ocean Project.

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What impacted me was that

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because we created art inside a park, where children played,

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the kids came in right away.

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As soon as I started setting up,

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this young man came in.

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He was standing around.

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I kind of felt like

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he's going to, at some point, he's going to ask me if he can paint.

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And that's what happened.

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I mean, if I had a camera out there to capture that whole thing,

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you would see this young man. He was ten years old.

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He wanted to get in there and start painting asap.

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So that was very impactful for me.

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My personal perception of the ocean

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is probably like most people who are landlubbers, like myself.

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You know, we just know very little

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and just working on this project and actually

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doing a little bit of my due diligence about the creatures of the deep,

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you learn that there's life

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beyond what you actually know.

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I wasn't really familiar with

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the deep sea habitat,

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so I had to do my due diligence  and find out about

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and learn about these creatures that live on this planet along with us.

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I learned some things, you learn things.

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The fact that we have murals out

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in the street and they're static,

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and they're in the public space where people can actually see them as they're

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going to and from day to day.

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So, it has an impact.