You're live. We're on my phone and Jeff's gimbal so there's gonna be smooth sailing and y'all, check out our new stuff, surface area. So much room for activities. Thank you, Miss Laura Taylor. Hi y'all. So tonight we're gonna try some these colors. Reef blue. What's up Amanda? Linda? Nope, can't see there. Black truffle. And Neptune blue. Yeah, it can be pulled straight out, but you can't like. Yes, do have a new table. It does look extra clean. This is our new workspace. Miss Laura Taylor was nice enough to send us a new rolly table. Will our class be on that awesome table? If I could fit 10 y'all on it, totally would. It could probably fit. It's probably wide enough to fit four people, 10 poor people. Hey Karen, hey tiger mouse. Now I need to like get you guys higher and move closer to the situation. You did Pam, you made it just in time. Well, first of all, you have pro-marine and art resin. So go ahead and hang that one up. I'm just gonna see if you wanna roll out. You have two boxes. I'm gonna do one of these. I'm gonna grab this and leave it here, go. Longer, there you go. Thanks. Thanks. You should do that at the end of this thing. We should do one more piece. That's it, that's all of it. That's all of it. Why are they're hiding? Too high. No, it's fine. Just sitting in massage chair, ready. I know we could pour at the same time on this table. Thing is, I don't have a moderator, like in house. Before I forget, when you spray paint in canvas before the pour, is it part of your prep coats? How many coats do you put to prep the canvas? When we use house paint to prep our canvases, we will do like two coats, typically, and that does not include the spray paint coat. That's more decorative than anything else. Love the new name, Cherry. Mary Jane, I would need a moderator if I was going to try to pour at the same time Jeff does. The big Jeff piece from last night, let me find it. See how this, is it on? Yeah. All right, you guys, you're on the gimbal, so we're going to see how smooth this bad boy is tonight. Sink here, up, pull the light up. Never noticed that. Look at how that separated. Oh, what separated over here? Yeah, it's like cheetah. It does look like cheetah print. Is that just working hard? Look at that, that's what blows my mind, that right there. I hate this lighting in here. I hope, sorry, I think that's enough. I'm behind on reading, and you got to pull that, because it'll run the motor out. I gotcha. Okay. You did this to help, too? Yeah, I think I wrote the name on the back of it. One of them is Khaleesi's, I think. Kisha, another one is, sorry.  She is definitely a smart cookie. All right, I missed a lot of comments. What's up, all the fam? Diane, you can get sticks at the class. So if I missed anybody, thank you hanging with Tony. I, if I missed anybody's comment, just say it again. Hi, Sarah.  Sharon, which piece are you talking about, the big one that Jeff just had up? Thank you so much, Sarah.  Edward loves your shirt, B. Thanks. Judy does not do lures. She does color obsession and Artisou. Thank you, Nina. I know, Diane, more room for bigger pieces for sure. What are your two most favorite brands of pigment to work with? Our two favorite brands right now, we have three favorite brands, color obsession, Artisou and lures, for sure. Thank you, Shannon. B, did you price that, this piece yet? Is that a 250 size? Yeah. Sharon, that is 250. It is 10 by 20. Hi, Jenny and Bitsy. Billy Phil says, blessings to all is Jeff getting dirty, most likely. Adult! Diane, yes, powder. Well, powders and pastes are good for a lures. I've used more of their paste than powders to be completely frank. And yes, Sarah, I would recommend all of those brands over just regular acrylics. Big. Yes, love. I'll be frank. I know, lures is on its way, y'all. Hi, Mariah, good morning. All right, kids. Barbara, I don't think that Judy is on yet. I haven't seen her pop up, but I think she's doing one on something. Saturday or Sunday? Nope. Yeah, nope. Yes, that's a good point. If you don't want many cells and you just want a solid color, that's when acrylic does best. Thin it out. Thin it out. When you thin it, that's when it starts to get cells. Safe trip, Denise. Yes, Libby. Lures does ship from Australia. Yes, I do have a moderator, Karen, is here, but the thing is some people have questions specifically for Jeff and I that maybe Karen or Judy don't know the answer to. So I have to be here. Maybe get drunk with you. I don't think she drinks anymore. I was like, oh. Jackson here. So when you do, you can use this so that it drips all the way down. But then when you put it in a rack, it still separates it. Or if you end up unwanted waterfall, that might be kind of cool though. If you did want a waterfall, that would be nice, gradual waterfall. Janna, the last one that I did was, well, I don't know that I've ever done a 36 by 48. I can't help you with composition. Sherry, I don't know if Laura is here. She usually doesn't comment. She'll like ghost watch and she'll send me messages on the side. I'll let you know if she does pop up. But if not, she's Laura Brown Usher on Facebook. Amy, you didn't miss anything yet. Ideas, you should totally do that. What's up, ideas? Difficult to hear Jeff.  I'm a lot further away. I can see the face in that piece. What was that? What were they talking about? Oh, this one? Yeah, it looks like an Easter Island face. Yeah, it does. Can we use this powder? Okay. Is it powder? I know, I'm glad Happy Owl's here.  Melinda wants to know, when you prep your canvas, can you still see the texture of the canvas or do you put enough coats to cover the texture? Like, you would have to put so many. You do still slightly see it. I just give up. Like, just use more, just do India. Excuse me. I'm gonna have to take an allergy pill in my sippy. How about sippy? I got some eye color products. Have you used anything from them? I have not. Keisha wants to see hers from last night. What are you gonna do? Keisha. Keisha, I gotta tell you, this is one of my favorite all-time pieces. Like, for real, for real, I'm gonna get a like. After this, we all go grab you a drink. Like, I don't even know if you can see the depth in this piece, but I'm so happy with how it turned out. And like, the depth of cells in it is just bananas. Super happy with this. First. On Victoria? Imperial. No, I don't want to go. Give me, give me a little yellow. We're gonna have some of the yellow tonight, kids. Look at that. We have room for all the things. So much room for activity. There's so much room for more activities on this table. Y'all be clean. It's not need to be after dark yet. Yeah, the sun's still up over here, guys. Watch yourself. For three colors, two italics, two non-metallic. Y'all, we got our power bill today and we realized we could turn our EC on. That's pretty cool. Our power bill was $42? Yeah. And I don't like to brag, but my mom always said it's not bragging that you can back it up. And basically, we're bragging that we didn't use any power last month. So I don't know if that's a braggy thing. We haven't used like most of the color of sessions. They're like fresh. Y'all, color of sessions came out with, it's my ring pour. It kept some of the lines. I don't remember what I was saying. Scratch that. I think you just lost one now for when I had to brag my notes to myself. So I don't forget. While I look about soup. I know. I love that little piece. Give me some spines over there. We're getting some photos from other laser cutters. Yeah, but I don't think that it's gonna be better than what we're doing with Jason. Maybe you're allergic to fireball. I haven't even taken any fireball today. Oh, thank you, Mary Jane. That's the truffle. I know it's completely enough from first side by side showdown. And it is super clean space. It's brand new, freshly tarped table. Because this is maple underneath here. And it's a good 150 pounds. Probably more. Electricity must be cheap over there. It's really not, but are you loft? It doesn't get any direct sunlight and it's all cement. So. Direct sunlight from like sun up. We could watch the sunrise, which is amazing. Tell about noon, maybe. Maybe it starts to get hot and then. Did you just add alcohol? The alcohol that we use is just to put on a rag next to where he works so that we can like wipe off our hands and. Oh, Colour Obsession just came out with like this luxe line. And I don't even know if I'm supposed to talk about it yet, but I'm gonna let y'all know. It's got like crushed pearls and like gemstones in this new paint. And I don't even think it's posted anywhere yet, but I'm gonna try to get my hands on some just for y'all. Angela, it's, it's a thing. Like you gotta be careful. And make sure to keep your finished pieces in an area where there's no dust and no like pet hair. Tiger Mouse and Mayeron is a powder. Hold on, I'll grab some of that. You got the right thing. Mix it in the resin as regular. I know the trolls are in full force tonight, but Karen's like shooting them down as soon as they join. It's very much peon peon. Pam, I will show a close up on the geo just one second. Eva, I have seen people use oil paints in resin. The one time I did it, it leaked out. I know, right? The paint leaked out of the front of my painting and the only thing I did different was use oil paints. So I don't know if I just used too much oil paint and it just didn't allow it to set because as you know, oil paints basically never dry because they're oil based. So I don't know. I don't know what's up, but some people use it with success. I haven't done it again, but. Success? Amy, what color did you want info on how to get? Linda, did we hit 9,500? Yeah. I was a screenshot of that 94,99. Who even has time to troll? I know. I can show. I wish we had a super geek, like super awesome like. I am on the Crispin tonight. Troll. They're computers to put the word out not to mess with the poor people. So Jeff is using black truffle by color obsession. He is using Neptune blue by color obsession. He is using La Mer metallic silver. This is not a powder. It's a, it's a pace, not a paste. It's liquid. It's very liquid for sure. And then he is using reef blue powder by color obsession. We ordered them. We've ordered these and the little things that we'll put color in. We got the same day. Right. How awesome is that? Zachy, good to know. Thank you so much. What's up, Bri? I wonder if troll patrol will become an official job title for people to apply to in the near future. I accept all troll patrol people if they want to be a mod. Between Art Resin and Envirotex, which has a thicker viscosity. I would say Art Resin's probably thicker than Envirotex, would you say? Which is thicker between Art Resin and Envirotex? You think Envirotex is thicker? Very similar. I don't think it's enough to make a big difference. I know we are almost 10K. Thank you, Debra. Judy! People were asking where you were earlier. She's here. Wondering Art, you definitely do need some of these cups. I added it. If you look under this video in the description box, I added a link to my Amazon storefront that they give people now. And I have those listed along with the heat gun, the tarps, all the things that I can find that I use regularly is in there. So just click on my Amazon link and it should... These cups, these one pint, quart pint, I don't know what that is. What does it say? These graduated one pint measuring cups that have the one-to-one ratios. So for example, since this, our resin is a one-to-one ratio, so it says one-to-one right here. So if I was gonna wanna make six ounces of resin, I would measure one part resin and one part hardener. And there you go. Mosaic table, natural white stones in background, teals, blues, and butterfly. What do you, what to do with spears of mayron and background, gold or silver? I would say silver. Libby countertop resin is not too thick for canvas pours. But if you do find it is too thick, just put the bottles in warm water for like 10 minutes before you pour and it'll thin it out. This is not pretty fast, too. G, we're gonna come up and help you finish organizing your pour room. Angels said I've noticed that resin sets better on canvas than wood. Is there a reason for that? I like the canvas look. That could be because the wood isn't sealed and it's absorbing a little bit of the resin. Even there's a lot of people in the room that are from Canada, but I don't know that there's a Canadian distributor. Do you want some of that Resi? It's very, almost. Yeah, that's your card. Put it in it. You should like to do that. You know it's gonna spread. Hi, Christy. Do I know what I'm gonna use for spray paint? I do not use flowtrol and resin. I don't find a need to. We've used it in acrylic pours, but we don't do many of those anymore. Kathy, I will show you guys Kudo in a little bit. I think he's in his regular nappy spot. Hi, Christy. Sugar swank, you can use a different resin for the flood coat than the actual pour. It doesn't give you any problems at all. I do that with countertops all the time. That's what we thought, Christy. Less waste for sure. Zach Hizou says, you guys made me spend over $100 in my local art store because I wanted to do some color obsession, but it was over $50 just to get two of them. I stocked up on inks instead. Inks are really good. We'll be up there to help you, Judy. No worries. Keisha will definitely do a virtual tour of her studio once we're done setting it up. Chandra, I've never done a string pull in resin, but maybe if we have enough resin left over, tonight we can get one done because we have all the materials to do it. Can you use countertop FX on a floor? I am not sure. Here's the thing about that. I would, you might as well just use floor epoxy because it's kind of made for it. And you have to seal your concrete floors with a special sealant because floors will sweat. And if you don't use the proper materials, it will, you'll get mold under your resin. So narrow down what floor you're gonna do, what project you're gonna work on, and then go from there to find out the exact materials you're gonna need. I have tried black diamond. The pigments are awesome. I've only tried the powders. I don't know if they do other, like I don't know if they do pigments or anything like that, but how did you guys get started in doing resin pours? I've seen a lot of different artists on YouTube that love your work more than any other. Thank you, Libby. I actually started watching Melly D and Anne-Marie Ritterhoff and Rick S. And they inspired me to do acrylic pours. And then I just kind of evolved after a couple months to resin and have just been doing resin pours ever since. Over a tile floor is different. You'll need to seal in your grout lines with like a special filler. And a countertop epoxy may be a little bit thick for a floor. Usually flooring epoxy is a lot thinner and it's like a two to one, rather than a one to one for like art and countertops. Andrea, I agree. And that's why I'm trying to work. Actually, I'm talking to Artisou, Judy and I are talking to Artisou and something color obsession about distributing both of their full lines in the States. Because there really is no... Yeah, I'm reading comments and answering questions at the same time. I like to tell my acrylic pours and resin but wasn't sure about it going together. Yeah, you can coat your acrylic pours and resin but if you use silicone or anything like that, you're gonna need to clean off your canvas or else you're gonna get fish eyes and it's weird. Sherry, I have no idea why your comments are disappearing. I'm not seeing... If your comment disappears, if a moderator deletes it, then I'll get a notice saying that your comment was deleted and it wasn't us, so I have no idea. Buddy, thanks for joining us tonight. No shots because we accidentally went out for Thai food and then got home at two o'clock. All right, Keisha. Andrea, I know it's just silly that, I mean, we have a lot of people in the States that want to do resin art but I mean, without proper materials, I feel like we'd be behind the curve. So that is why we are super interested in supplying.  Try to get more light on your feet. Is that too much for you? Sorry, Mo. Oh, I know it, I'm sorry. Moos in the house. I don't get that. It's so, I mean, that's like... Do you want a popsicle stick into there? What about making your own line of colors? That's expensive and I don't have the funding for that. So in the meantime, I'm just going to supply other people's colors. The color palette tonight, Judy is, Color Obsession Reef Blue, Color Obsession Paste Neptune Blue, Color Obsession Paste, Black Truffle and Lumiere Silver Budget Card. Is this considered a peacock for? It's considered a puddle for, but it could be a peacock for. Black is just taking over. Hi, Mary Jane. Sorry, Karen, I hope you feel better. Have you obtained any sponsorships from any companies? Yeah, it seems like you should since you share their products that you use. We have affiliations with some companies, but no official sponsorships. And we do appreciate you guys that throw our name out there when we do order stuff because they tell us, they let us know that we've had quite a few people order from our YouTube and our website. We completely 100% appreciate that. It's our name out there. I'm not liking these, like it's not anything special. No, it's not like you're good. You need a bounce color. Yeah, I think I should just waste it. Do you want to make them a bright color? What should I do? Like a really bright teal, like an ink teal? Yeah, give me an ink teal. Hi, Lisa. Thanks, Amanda. Yes, that will have sticks at the class. Also want to take time to say thanks for all the donors, anybody that sent us anything. I'm keeping a running thing for our giveaway on May 31st for the donors. So just wanted to say thank you to you guys while he's mixing that up. He just added an aqua colored ink. Barbara, my current favorite silver is this Resi Tint by Eli Kim. It's shimmery and very nice. Thank you, Tammy, very much. What's the best way and medium to use to get the white-lacing effect? We'll have to do a tutorial on that, but you can use System 3 or Cast and Craft pigment paste or any pigment paste from like L'orese or color possession or Artisou. Kurt, Judy does color possession and Artisou. Trace of color, $30 for a 10 by 20, barely will cover your cost. You need to up that a little bit. Libby, to monetize with YouTube, you have to have, we looked up because when we first monetized it was different, but now it's, you have to have 1,000 subscribers and like 4,000 or 10,000, I can't remember, hours watched. But then you have to apply.  Thank you, Amanda Coleman. I know, Marcy, I do have a tutorial on lacing, but we need to update some of our old tutorials. That silver is gonna turn in like a, literally all I did was put just a little bit of resin with a lot of spray paint. Yeah. Tracey, I'll find a link and I'll add it in the description box. Kelly Green really loves this one. No passion, you're not gonna get lacing with Liquitex inks that I know of. Hi, Toni. Marcy is correct. Flat white spray paint works as well. Fashion Lotus loves that piece. Thanks, you guys. Clara, Sippy Sippy Fun. Sherry's Poor Creation also donated to the, to the cause. Thank you very much, everybody. And we have the best poor family. Like, I don't care. You never know we were all poor. Like, I don't care what other channels say about their subscribers, but I'm pretty positive 100% that ours are the best. No one can convince me otherwise. Have you tried to spray with micropotor mix with alcohol? We have. There's a video on it. Have you ever poured on pressed wood letters? Not on pressed wood letters, but we have on pressed paper coasters and it works. So I feel like it would work at least as well on pressed wood. Sugar Swing says ATD has more catchphrases than an 80s sitcom. I would find that to be accurate. Beautifully orchestrated, Jeff. Look at this silver though, good lord. Idea says all I can say is that my videos have, or ATD videos have brought out my best art since meeting you two. What ink did he use?  Thank you so much. This is Bombay Aqua. I'm gonna take you guys down so you can get a better view of this piece. One second, but he's not done yet, so. Very different. I'm gonna say this is not lacing, this is webbing. I'm gonna change the name of this because that looks more webby than lacy. The fact that it's metallic is kind of bananas as well. If I use Perlex powder, how do I get cells? The way we have gotten cells with Perlex is to just dust it over the top of the piece and then heat it and slightly tilt it. Yeah, I'm liking this silver too. The Mayeron in silver is not as good as the gold, 100% agree. Bananas, thanks. Bananas! Sherry is a good point. See how fast she can go from unhappy to loving it. Sometimes it just takes slowing down, recognizing what you don't like about a piece and then making the appropriate adjustments. He noticed that there was something color-wise missing, so he added this teal and so that's what it is. Hey, Lynn, my sisters in here, y'all. Is there a difference in outcome between alcohol inks and India inks? Melinda, alcohol inks are not light fast, which means they will fade over time. And by over time, I mean like a year or less. And India inks are color-fast, they will be there forever. Also, the fact that there's alcohol in the alcohol inks, it will disperse and can... Andrea gave us an donation and it says, donation is for research and development into the legitimacy of eScience. That's funny. I accept. Also, eScience is legitimate, it's a thing. This is what I dropped a second ago. All of these. This is the one of the... Okay, you ended up using spray paint and the other kinds, right? Rustilium metallic silver. He started with this Lumiere, but it wasn't... It was more pearly than shimmery, so that's why he switched it up. He did not put a white, the colors that look white is just the metallic... I guess the metallic nature of the spray paint. So this silver is the jacquard, and then this, what looks white, is actually the spray paint mixed in the resin. That's true, at least it is not the tiny small glitter. Megan agreed. It's not junk science, except for it is, but it's not, it's eScience. Completely different, except for exactly the same. All right, the... Sorry, y'all, we have boxes everywhere. The geode is in here. Let me get a light. This is how a geode turned out. I wish I had better lighting in here, but that's how a geode turned out. I still need to finish the edges. They're not polished, but I just had to put her somewhere while we were working on everything else. Hi, Moo. What are you doing? You're being adorable. Good job, you nailed it. Put you guys back in this thing, secure. Could turn it into a geode for sure. I don't know if he's gonna let me. How do you get the silver to float on the top? Mine always sinks to the bottom and looks very dull. Here's the trick. Use just enough resin to make it flowy. You have to use, I would say it's almost like, the thing is you don't have to make a lot of silver because silver will take over like gold. I would say it's almost equal. If you want it to be a real gnarly silver like that, mix in equal amount of silver and equal amount of resin, I mean, the cup, it's not even, there's hardly even any in there. I mean, it still looks, you can tell the difference. It's metallic versus like a iridescent. Yes, you put spray paint in a cup and then add it to the resin. Be sure to use paper cup because if you use plastic, you're gonna get an awesome design all over your floor. Thanks, Lynn. Oh, I know, Danielle. I know, I know. I appreciate all the jokes. I have these for you, but they're not. This is a different pattern. Yeah, that's fun. Hi, Cheryl. Can we get in now? Oh, he's rapping. Rapping, I was just singing rapping. Oh, no, no, no, there was a distinction. Lynn, you are absolutely included in the ATD fam. And you don't have to, I wouldn't stir in the spray, the raw spray paint into the resin. I wouldn't stir it all the way in. You can kind of see it on top. That's how you know this, you know, throw it on top when you pour it. I just don't know if I'm gonna use these colors though. I'm switching up, Bluff. It was blues. Jeff, bless some rhymes. I hope everything's okay, Dee. Tammy, you are not an ATD pest. Hilde said I had a sippy sippy earlier and messed up a piece. Yeah, give me like a purple powder and see what that looks like. What about some? I probably have to be a, give me like that, because it's gonna turn teal probably, or maybe just a dark purple. This one's blue-purple. I would do like a, you want some purple rain? Do you want? Yeah, I do purple rain. Hilde said that underpainting could be a finished piece. Night, Clara. Harry Winkle. Kenneth says awesome shirt. That's just like a terrible, there's another pillow here. So pour that out on there or make more colors and then mix a new batch. I just don't want to use that black. Tammy makes you up another batch? I don't know. I'm gonna see what this will do. I completely went outside of what I had planned to do because I don't like these colors. Happy, all his gloves do not go up that far. Those are like the, he just cut the feet out of some socks. I know. You cut the feet off and you put the tube on your arm. You can't have that attitude before you even pour it. Then don't use a color if you've got one then. What can I help with? Where are we gonna make? Do you have any pulse-mutter colors? I'm just gonna do this. That blue almost looks like Maui. Ron, I think that it may not work the same with hoes. Judy says it's so hard to type on an iPad Pro 12.9 inch. The struggle, Judy. Mercy says these colors make my brain happy. Roxanne says whatever you come up with will be great. I'm sorry, Linda. Bye, beyond. Have a good night. You can look on your home art. True ideas. Sherry says I get resin rash out of the blue. Wonder if it's a cumulative thing. It might, I wish I had actual info on it. Alcohol inks and resin can change color in as little time as it takes to cure. Some are worse than others. I knew it could change colors, but I don't know, is that excessive? By Denise, have a great flight. Sherry got it. France, Jeff has had a resin rash on his eye before too, like on his eyelid. It was weird. I think alcohol inks just fade, no matter if it's mixed in resin or if it's on top of resin, or you coat it in resin. I think you can get it like a UV sealer, I don't know. B, what did you use to help your eyes resin rash? Like, I honestly think I still kind of get it because it, like when I rub my eyes, sometimes I'll scratch my eyelid, just rubbing my eyelid, like, not, not fun. Yeah, it was definitely not fun when he had it on his eyes, but when he had him on his arms, he just washed him off with D, nope, not D nature. What is it? It's what, does it call him? Distilled. No. Distilled water. Exactly, I just got done doing it. I use a Benadryl spray on my arms. I didn't even know that was a thing. I feel a spray coming on. Whenever you just do just a solid dull color, it's terrible and I don't know why I keep doing that. I've done a dirty pour with clear in between each color and it didn't really do much different than it would have without. Well, let's text about it when we get off of this, off the feed. I definitely always look forward to visiting with you. It's like once it goes south, it just gets so irritating. It seems like a good one if you try to splice not the spray, but the way I'll go with the spray. Yeah, so, it's just like one of those nightmare pictures that little kids draw in movies. I don't think so. One of those night's kids. I know, France, he always hates it and then it ends up turning into something bananas. It's just this ugly-ass color, it's just no, it's just so blah, it's just not enough brightness and the spray ain't over it. Oh yeah. Y'all, we got some stuff that we wanted to test and basically it's an aerosol, nope, a Spritz. A aerosol. I know, I don't know why I love an aerosol. What's it? It's very, okay, art spray, mixed media, acrylic spray. A acrylic spray. Just got a dancer on it, it's time for a party. I love it. Look at all the pits, and those aren't cells, guys, those are pit cells. That is crazy. Well, we wanted to experiment with it, so. Looks like we're gonna do another movie. Judy says, I think that's Resy Blast in a different bottle, pit party, starry sky, surface of the moon, what did he just spray? Lesson learned. There are some gems in it and call it done. The smiling zombie hunter, I'd buy that. Well, if you really wanted it, you'd have to let me know before he decides to spritz it off. The paint is art spray, mixed media. You really need to do anything to it. Like the color didn't even go.  It's like misting, kind of like that. Right, I wonder if you just let this dry, and then you. How much though? I would sell this for $2.50 plus shipping, look at that. That's fun. We're definitely a zombie fight. Call it acid. It's like it's just separating all the colors.   Definitely be awesome, because it'll fill in all these. Look at that, you can see, I wonder if it looks like that in the light though. If you waited like two hours, you could totally put that in a flood coat over it. It does look like souls now. Like the souls on Ghost, the movie Ghost? Yeah. The sky's falling. I think it's great, looks like outer space. Great if you want the underpainting to show through. Cheryl said, when you guys become really, really, really famous, that piece is gonna be worth a lot of money. They're not famous now. Wait for it to dry out a top coat. Looks like a spooky forest. High area, 222. Heaven's waiting room. You stick with colors that I know. What size is the canvas? It's a 12 by 36? Yeah, I'm out for $600. Yeah, normally that piece is the size of $600 piece, but he's going super sale. If you get it, that's what you get. No top coat, no other stuff. I ain't putting any more into that. I'm just about to be in a bad mood. This is 12 by 36. We've been doing resin art since September last year. Thank you, area 222. That's gonna come off there. Call that piece Diverticulitis. Rod says, the only thing better than watching ATD is watching him with y'all. Robert said, do another one, Jeff. It'll put you in a good mood again. What was the spray? The spray is art spray, and it apparently is not just acrylic spray, but acrylic spray with alcohol, clearly. If Jeff said top coat in two hours, then would he do it with outstanding and alcohol wipe down and it would still work? You couldn't say on that. You have to wait when it's completely dry, when it goes into all the little nips and crannies, and it'll definitely be nice and smooth. Yeah, you could do it when it's tacky set and you don't have to sand it down and do all that, because the tackiness is the tooth that you would need for both layers to stick together. We started doing resin art after I watched some acrylic pour artists. I wanted to give it a try. Jeff, that's what I was trying to describe. Happened to my painting, now I happen to yours.  Thank you. Flooding it will work. My favorite still, Jeff's Woman's Airbrush Art, C-A-T-D website. Yeah, we do a lot of different kinds of artwork. It's not just pouring. Check out our website to see all the other stuff that we do. Setting up. ArtistTillDot.com, two T's, two L's. This is our Texas State coaster, you guys are wondering. I never really put these out, but I wanted to do a couple different pours on them. Do a red, white, and blue with a star and put some Texas stuff. Hey, Angel Heart, we did two pours. Tried some new stuff. Tried some stuff that didn't work out exactly like we'd hoped. It was a learning type of night. Ooh, glitter. Thank you, Keisha. Can you do Dallas Stars colors on a Texas coaster? We can. I'd love to do that. That's great, it's like purple, it mixes in with the glitter. That is so fun. Looks good, it makes you want a cookie. He's already. Kelly said, I'll pick it up in June at the class. Can you make two for me? Sure can. Let me write that down before I forget, cause I will. That purple is taking over the teal. I would. I'm just like. People are asking from my life. Pours. What color was that? That was purple rain, violet, reds, mix. And then Bombay Aqua with silver, extra fine glitter in it. That's what we do, we do like an instructional. People are asking about cells. Do you want to do like ocean? Like a blue, a white, and an aqua. Bree says, I feel Jeff's pain. I literally went through this a couple days ago on a commission piece. That's the worst. Tandy, I'm going to do another geode. It's a little bit late to start one tonight. I don't have any references up. So I'll do another one. Melissa, we do not toss our alcohol rags after each pour, but we do toss them once they like, well, all right, once they stiffen up. But okay, hit me with, that's what she said. Babe, you can't. I can't preface it. I have to just let it go. Jeff's about to do an ocean pour for you guys and show you some celly, cell cell action. Let me grab some light for you. Tag your mouse, I hope this storm is not too bad. There's always someone dealing with a storm. Be safe. Nicole, I think the PVO paints do have oil or at least an epoxy element in them. Yes, Jeff's about to do an ocean pour for you guys. He's just prepping the canvas. Who is the TWSS person? TWSS is, that's what she said, just abbreviated down. Because we say a lot of things that apparently she would say. Sherry, that's awesome. I watch TV in the tub too, but I just have a mount for my iPad. No, I think there are some without the oil in it. Pretty sure that the fantasy line, the moon and prism and all that is what has the oil texture in it. Oil texture, that's not right, but you know what I mean. France, we're, how far are we from Houston? Four, three and a half hours? Five hours. Night, Lisa. E is good at throwing out double entendre, this is true. Lisa said, RK, y'all, I'm gonna head into the furniture store, I've been sitting in the parking lot watching for 40 minutes. Sorry for wasting your time. It's not a waste, B. People watching it, they're sticking to it. It's either greatness or a learning experience. I didn't learn anything from that. You learn that these paints don't do what we thought it would, and what colors you don't want together. Nicole, you can use the Prism Collection in resin. You just have to watch how much you use so it doesn't pit on you. What would you recommend for a starter resin that has a good working time? In terms of working time, art resin is the way to go. Altered cast by Eli Kim also has a long working time. And Viretex has about 40 minutes working time. Sapphire's not Sapphire. Midnight blue? No, Sapphire blue is a good dark one. I will try to set it up. All right, what did I miss? Sherry, let me tell you about reds. I got some good ones for you. Sassy Red by LaRez, brilliant. Lipstick Red by Artisu, brilliant. There's another red that we use that I like, but I can't remember the name of it. Here to share your sun signs. I'm a Sagittarius, and then Jeff is... Virgo Leo. Virgo Leo Cusp. That's what I say. He's difficult. I've never heard of Clement Kite resin. Does chalk or pastel work in resin? I know it won't mix that well, but does it do anything cool? We've never tried it. We have some chalk spray paint that might mix well. Mud 5, never wasted any of my time watching either one of you, so thank you so much. Clear coat resin, never tried it. Karen, his favorite resin is Art Resin. I like Art Resin and Art Glow. Yeah, Art and Glow and Art Resin are two top favorite resins. You guys say I'm trying to learn all I can about resin before I try. I'm retired and on a fixed income. I'm an acrylic pourer, but want to try resin. Well, what we always say is that acrylic pouring is the gateway drug to resin pouring. He is August 24th. Did Shy pop in tonight? I haven't seen Shy. Do you guys need to make your shirt? I'd buy it. We're working on some designs for shirts. We're working on some stickers right now. Yep. I skipped the gateway drug and went right into the hard stuff. That's funny. Andrea, we did a Texas coaster and now Jeff's gonna do an ocean pour because we had a few questions about cells. Yeah, ideas I haven't seen Shy. Hey, Bruce, what's up? Thanks for coming by the studio the other day with the winter. He's using Grease Monkey disposable nitrile gloves. What cost more acrylic pours or resin pours? That's hard to say because we wasted a lot of paint with acrylic pouring. And because we sell more resin work than we ever sold acrylic pours, I would say that we... I think we sold, we only did the ABCD thing. Yeah, that's true. I think we sold way more resin now that we did okay. It's just that we wasted it. I mean, we got to a point where we were just wasting paint and it just wouldn't give you... Even if it looked bad, with resin it still looks kind of good. Mm-hmm. Which one? I want it next to the black and the feather. The square? Good God about that. Last night before you. You're gonna try something like water pour in between. You're too much, Andrea. Miss Alphair, I am all about knowing my rising sign and all that. Sha was gonna do some like time of birth stuff, but I haven't sent her the stuff yet, so. So if alcohol ink fades, does some of the colors stay when mixed with epoxy paste? Epoxy paste colors stay. This color. What color? I just put the one right there. The ink? So the colors for this pour are Turquoise by Bombay. Sapphire blue by LaRose. White by Artisthew. Teal by Artisthew. Tracy Hall, I'm in December 2nd. Be there a couple of your cusp situations. Ellen, we don't add it. We don't add alcohol ink to the epoxy paste. We may add Bombay ink, but this is India ink. It's different than alcohol ink. It is light-fast and it's a lot more deep of a color. We add it to our epoxy paste sometimes if we just wanna amend the color depth just a little bit. That's awesome, Rusty. Yeah, I have alcohol ink, but I don't put it in our resin because I don't wanna sell something and then hear back from them in a couple months that the colors have moved around or turned into something that it wasn't supposed to. That's awesome, Michelle. We're gonna do a pour on Plexi. We have a piece we just haven't done it yet. Sherry, did I miss your question? I'm not sure if you buy your canvases in bulk, but if you do, could you recommend a place? Blick is usually pretty good, but we don't like to buy our canvases over the internet because we wanna inspect them. There's a lot of times that you buy a canvas and it's got a puncture wound or a dent or just something in it that shouldn't be there. So we definitely like to check the quality. It may turn out to be something amazing. Well, I'm just picturing how the ocean is. I saw the Instagram no-po, I will check it out. Hi, Kim. Andrew says, Jeff, that's gonna be good. I have a gut feeling. Marcy, just send him an email and be like, yo, I don't need any more paperwork. I need samples, so I filled up the sample form. If you do it on glass, I would suggest trying to scuff it. Is there like sandpaper for glass? Maybe there's a clear bonding primer. I just haven't found it. I haven't looked. Sherry said, I wonder how many of us are older, like as in remember Woodstock. Jeff was a year late for Woodstock. Now that white's gonna sell better if you do it over clear. It's like I'm just abandoning everything that I'm doing. That is cell liquidity? Tell your mom we said happy birthday, Kelly. Good night, kids. Not too night. Cell thing. Hi, Paulina. Like this white, there's zero cells in it. That was RSU. That's so weird. I don't know cells. Not even stretch time. And now this pace should sell on its own. He's gonna super tilt. You called it. Love those colors. Cheryl says that's beautiful. What was the white Larez color obsession? The white was color obsession. The deep blue is Larez and the medium teal is Bombay. And I think there's a medium teal that's color obsession as well. I'm gonna do like in the beginning, embarrassing. Night, Keisha. Should've used like a, it's this, whatever these gold like, the black colors without something that accentuates it. Yeah, we should've put a metallic in it. But that's a fun base. Sorry, guys, gals. Pat loves it, Angel Heart loves it. Hey, Greg. Possibly.  We are doing a class next month. We're doing it June 30th, July 1st. Does look like an acrylic pour. So, didn't have a million amazing pours, but. I'm not sure if it's just about questions. Melba, he has an Etsy that I'll link in the description box below this video. I need to just go ahead and add it for a future. Night, Kenny. Andrea said, listen, last night, you guys both nailed every canvas you touched. Tonight, there's no fireball. Just connecting the dots. Jenny, it all depends on what kind of festival it is. Thank you, Linda. Night, CJ. But you can't use a black color like that next to similar black colors. Yeah. Make it bounce. Ellen said, I would get really down on myself if all I saw was the perfection in what you guys do. Well, not all art is perfect. And I mean, we're real people and it is what it is. We don't mind showing the imperfection that resin art is. You can only control it so much. Sometimes all you can control is the color.  You keep it real. Samantha says, I really want that big one Jeff did tonight, but it's not in my budget, pal. We take payments. The dark blue is Sapphire by Le Rez. I just keep forgetting. Andrea asked Ron, where do we send the Russian brides? And is there a specific number that we should cap that order at? I'm confused. I missed something. Greg, you can bring the class boards tomorrow. That'd be just fine. Thank you. Those are fun. Oh, Ron's birthday in July. Got it. Andrea said, coaster on the right. First coaster he did. Please add to my pile. Andrea, number one, number two. Let me know. Right? I'm over it guys. I'm sorry I wasted so much time and resin. Oh my God, and I have more resin left. Number two. We'll do some more of these, because they're liking them. Oh, you forgot. I have no paint and zero. Andrea, number two, I'll add to your pile. Robin, you're asking about number one. People are saying don't be sorry. We love the show tonight. We saw the coasters that we make at the end of the videos for just $5 each plus shipping. Hi, JoJo. Easy ideas. Shall we have the paintings one more time? Can do. This was the first one. These spots are still growing. We'll see how it comes out tomorrow and then we'll either pour over it or just do a clear coat. Nope, that was yesterday. Starting to sell up a little bit, but Jeff's right, it does look like an acrylic pour. That was yesterday too. Blue Eyed Mom Shell says, I was in a bad mood and I enjoyed the show, so you guys, it's a win for me. We love you, Jeff and Erica. Y'all are so sweet. I appreciate it. Thank you. Ron says, I just watched to see cooch joe anyways. This spotting one is the first one we did and we sprayed it with some spritz that apparently had some alcohol in it or something, so I don't know what the deal was. It was just. Yeah, maybe. Yes, you can rewatch this as soon as we're done, we'll post it to our page and it'll, as soon as it uploads. Thank you, Diane. You're too sweet, Ms. Anne. GD wants everyone to know that anyone waiting a long time for color obsession order, tracking says it's in the U.S., but weather delayed. Night, Chris. Night, me, Sapphire. 333. I know that rack is great. I have it linked in the description box. Well, I have my Amazon page linked and it's in there. Jan says, Texas coasters and burnt orange, please. We can do them. Sam, I think we're about at the end of the course tonight when he's done with these because. I can't turn out like that. I didn't make enough ink and it didn't make enough and it's just not on the agenda when you come to bigger stuff. You have to make a lot of paint. Texas coaster looks fun. These coasters look fun. This one is now sold, but this one is still available. That's from last night. Hey, Moopup, what are you doing? You being cute? Nailed it. All right, you guys. I think this concludes our show for today. We'll be on tomorrow as usual. Is Dallas close to San Antonio? No. How far away are we from San Antonio? Few hours, few hours or more. Anyways, I'll be pouring tomorrow for you guys. Thank you so, so much to everybody that tuned in to see what we created today. If you would like for us to see your artwork, please hashtag us at hashtag ATDART on your social media. If you want to follow us on Instagram, our page is artisttilldeathstudios. Our Facebook is Thorntonartistilldeath. If you would like to send us an email, have any questions about anything, it is Thorntonartistilldeath.com, two T's, two L's. Thank you to everybody that donated. I will have this list updated tomorrow with everybody that will be included on our May 31st giveaway. We are also still gonna do a giveaway for the Lupus pour. Just pour something with purple predominantly and leave us the hashtag ATDART so that we can make sure to see it. Bye. I said bye. It almost sounded sad.


Hello, I'm Cheryl Tayuska, the Director of Victim Services at the National Organization for Victim Assistance. Criminal victimization of people with disabilities is a very difficult topic and one that is very rarely discussed, but it's very important because there are so many people with disabilities in this country and many, many people with disabilities become victims of crime. What you're about to hear are people with disabilities talking in their own words about their victimization and how the victimization has affected their lives. Living in an institution, I was abused, you know, being hit by staff, I was, you know, I got hit by everybody in my family really.  I was in a abusive relationship, which I got real quick because, I mean, he just beat me up and pushed me all around and I said, I don't want that.   This is really, really difficult to even think about. It's difficult to think that anyone with a disability would be the victim of a crime. We don't want to think about that, but I think we have to start addressing it. People see us as being weak and vulnerable and so we become those perfect targets. If someone without a disability is victimized, well, they can probably find a shelter maybe or they can maybe go move in with a friend, well, a person with mental retardation just doesn't have access to that as easily and sometimes not at all. There is such a huge amount of underreporting or not even underreporting, not telling people that we have been victimized by crime. A lot of people with disabilities are not aware of the services that are out there and what can happen. In order to empower an individual, a person has to know their rights, they have to know what services are available to them and that's the first, it's the key thing is information. I am the founder and director of abused deaf women's advocacy services, ADWAS, in Seattle, Washington. In the past deaf women would go into hearing agencies and the focus would be on her deafness and communication issues. The rape or the violence that she's experienced is forgotten. We provide the same services as hearing agencies provide except that our focus is on deaf women.  I had no interpreters for my interviews, I had to rely completely on written communication. Basically the mentality was, what did you do to make this happen? And I remember feeling scared, angry and embarrassed. The police just took the report and left. I was alone in my home crying and grieving asking myself why this person abused me. I felt all shaky and emotional and at the same time wondering why there wasn't an interpreter. We felt that the philosophy of deaf people helping deaf people is ideal. I called ADWAS because I was overwhelmed with so much paperwork. Making police reports, contacting detectives, making appointments, writing statements, collecting evidence and talking to investigators, speaking with lawyers and on and on there is a lot of work for victims. Trying to get through the legal system on your own is, it's almost like being a victim all over again, having to go through that experience. They have helped with these frustrating situations. They provided everything that I needed. The burden felt lighter as if a burden had been removed. Now we have 16 programs including ADWAS, our program, across the country. People now talk about the issues and basically know that it's not acceptable. They know that domestic violence and sexual assault are not acceptable behaviors. When I was driving home one evening I was shot by an individual in a passing car kidnapped by the same individual, stabbed or raped and left for dead. One of the bullets went directly through both of my eyes. I had no time in the midst of the crisis to focus on the fact that I'm going to be blind. What do I do? How do I adjust? And I had a lot of questions but I had virtually no answers. The Division of Blind Services was very good at telling me what they thought I should be doing as a blind person. I think they would have benefited more if they would have understood victimization and maybe had a victim advocate attached to the Division of Blind Services to work with an individual who is newly blinded as a result of violent crime. When you have a disability that is caused by a violent crime you think there is nothing left. My life used to be good. It was full. It was wonderful. And now I am left as damaged goods. That's not the case. That is definitely not the case. There is always hope. The Attorney General has been absolutely fantastic in accommodating my disability. They have provided me with a professional position to actually not have to be the victim but to be the victim service professional who can now go on and assist other victims. It took me a long time to really understand mental counseling, just to really understand the situation that I was in. Speaking for yourself is a self-help organization of handicapped adults giving them a hand about if they are going to fall down and try to help them get up and be a good listener. Sometimes words can educate people. I started writing my own story. I kind of put my own story together and started thinking about my childhood and I started writing things down. I started handing them out to people and I got people's attention faster than me telling it. Speaking for myself, it helps me understand what services that I could use, like if I need a lawyer or something, and to be able to call somebody that understands disability. The way to say no, how do we say no when everybody say, how do you say no? No! I care about the people being hurt. I don't want people to go through the things that I want to and I like the other consumers know too they got the right to speak up. Use your voice. Now I'm constantly out on the road helping other people distort their own self-advocacy group. Bad things do happen to good people and we don't live in a personal world. You know, it gives me a good feeling inside to be able to help other people. If someone with a disability does not come forward or does not disclose, they're never going to get beyond it. But I think when you tell someone and you talk to someone that's part of the starting of the healing process, victims often feel that they are the only ones going through this. And I think that it's a very powerful thing for them to see other victims and to realize that they're not alone, that there's a connection. At the present time we have like two parallel universes. You have the disability service providers on one side, you have the victim service providers on the other side. We can start cross-connecting, we can start building bridges and then we can both provide more effective services to both of our categories. You'll say there's crimes compensation, I have the application right here. People in the disability advocacy field need to be more proactive and ask, just point blank, ask what is going on and if victimization is happening. Just to be open to listening to people who've been victimized. But I can guarantee you there are a lot of people out there with disabilities who are suffering in silence and it's needless and the disability service providers need to know this. Victim advocates and disability advocates would be surprised once they started talking to each other because I know I was, how much they have in common in terms of their goals in looking at how do we make safer lives for people with disabilities. Bringing both of our resources together is going to provide much more of a bedrock in really providing effective services for people. Why is it so important to speak up, to have confidence in myself and to be strong. It's important to get the help you need. When you do, you'll become stronger and become whole. You just had an opportunity to hear from victims of crime as they described for you in their own words what happened to them and how the experience changed their lives. The important thing for you to remember is, if you should ever become a victim of crime or if anybody you know becomes a victim of crime, there is help available for you and you do have rights as a crime victim. You don't have to go through this experience alone.


Do you like buffalo sauce and blue cheese? Check out this creation I just made. We're gonna start out with one pound of pee-wee potatoes and one pound of Brussels sprouts into some boiling water. After about 10 minutes, we'll go on and start fishing out our Brussels sprouts. Set those to the side. And another five minutes later, we're gonna strain our tater. Add them to our cast iron. Go in with some avocado oil. Now it's time for the dano's cheesening. That's the cream top. We're gonna add a bunch of that. Then we're also gonna throw in some of the black top. That's the crunchy. A little shake. Now we got everything nice and coated. Let's go into our 425 degree oven. All right, so it's been 20 minutes in the oven. Look at that, all the cheesening and the crunchy. Now we got it in our little serving dish. That's good by itself, but we're not done yet.  And we're just gonna go right over the top. Now we're gonna use four ounces of blue cheese. We're using Saint Agar. Take this blue cheese, break it up with our hands. It doesn't really crumble. This is more of a creamy blue cheese. It's an intense blue cheese. And there you have it, folks. Now it's time to get a bite.  So I was totally winging this. And it totally works. The blue cheese is an intense blue cheese. But with the buffalo sauce in there, you got your potatoes and Brussels sprouts and the cheesening and the crunchy. It all works together. That's me, just freestyling in the kitchen. If you wanna see more videos like this, let us know in the comments. Hit the follow button and we'll see you next time. You guys, you know I love you. Keep sprinkling and yum yum, get yourself.


Pope Francis has denounced Russia's repugnant war against Ukraine as cruel and sacrilegious inhumanity. In some of his strongest words since Russia's invasion began February 24, Francis told thousands of people in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on Sunday that every day brings more atrocities in waters senseless and massacre. There is no justification for this, Francis said, in an apparent reference to Russia, which sought to justify its invasion as fertile for of its own defense. But Francis again stood short of the naming Russia as the aggressor. Pontives typically have decried wars and the devastating toll on civilians without citing warmongers by name. Francis also called on all actors and international community to work towards ending the war. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Alright, so International Firefighters Day is observed on May 4th. It was instituted after a proposal was emailed out around the world on January 14, 1999, due to the death of five firefighters in a tragic circumstance in a bushfire in Australia. On December 2, 1998, a tragic event shook the LinkedIn community of Australia and the world. Firefighters in LinkedIn, Australia, a populated region in Victoria were fighting a large bushfire and called for Mutual Aid. This urgent Mutual Aid call brought the Glyn Long West fire brigade to the scene, not knowing the despair and tragedy that was in store. Gary Vett, Chris Evans, thoughts Davison, Jason, Thomas and Matthew Armstrong all looted into the company's truck. They were part of the strike team and were being sent to help extinguish the flames. As the five headed into the hot zone, the winds suddenly switched direction and golfing the truck in flames and killing all five members. Now this unfortunate incident is what inspired JJ Edmondson to bring about an international holiday called International Firefighters Day to support the lives lost and dedicated firefighters who risk their lives every single day to save life and property. So happy International Firefighters Day. I didn't know this history up until today. Is Niger Firefighters Day out of this celebration? Of course, now it's all over the world. It's all over the world. She just cuts up people's lives. No, I'm just asking. You know when you watch movies, are you seeing firefighters? Are you seeing their drills? Yes, no. When they climb on ladders in ten minutes? They hear the bell ring. Is it the same drill here too? We don't know. Well, it's supposed to be the same. Drop everything and just head out. Although I was attending one firefighter class when we were training us how to control fire, especially kitchen fire. So it was quite interesting. Like if your pot, like your bleaching oil and it gets up in flames, what are you supposed to do? You're supposed to pour water. Then you can take a wet blanket, just cover it.  Or you cover the pot, you know. I suppose what people used to do there. Yeah, pour water. I saw a video on Instagram, I think yesterday, when a boy was saying that, ah, thank God for women. You know, that was really scary because he was taking the pot with the flame, very close to the gas tank. A lot of people are not educated when it comes to handling, especially kitchen fire. God help us. God help us. All right, so let me start with you, Al. So what I found is good and bad news at the same time. Pastor gets life imprisonment for repain 12-year-olds. So of course it's bad because rape is not good news in any way, shape, or form. Whether you are recapping it or reporting it. But I like that he's getting life imprisonment for this offense. So an Ikeja domestic violence and sexual offenses caught on Wednesday sentenced a 54-year-old pastor, Michael Ulisse, to life imprisonment for raping his friends 12-year-old twin daughters. Delivering judgement, Abhiola Sholadoyi described Mr. Ulisse, the assistant pastor of the anointed chosen vessel ministry in Okota Lagos, as a serial rapist who took turns raping his friends' daughters. She held that the prosecution had convincingly proved the charges of defilement against Mr. Ulisse beyond any reasonable doubts. The judge sentenced him to life imprisonment on two-count charge, but during on defilement. She said, and I quote, the testimony of the defendant portrayed him as a serial rapist who took turns to defy the survivors.  His conduct is unbecoming of a pastor. Having been found guilty as charged with the two offenses, the defendant is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment. So yeah, that's my what's in the news. That's really crazy. Yes, it's crazy. It's a good and bad news at some time. I have a friend, Timmy, she's grown now to become a very big counsellor in the space of getting people out of abuse and all of that. She said it several times that repeatedly her pastors, when they would take her to certain churches and all of that, repeatedly different pastors at some point had cannot knowledge of her.  I don't know why we keep trusting because we feel like there's a pastor. How did he even get to the point where these twins were in a close proximity with him? Because it's just this thing that we look at people at face value and say, oh, because he's a man of God. Because he's a man of God does not stop. That man of God, that's because he's a man of God, has allowed so many men to get away with all of these things. I remember when I was working, I don't want to mention the company that was in 2018, we had a story sharing session and that session basically is just about individuals who want to share their story, tell their stories and we're going to say, you know what, whatever is happening right here ends here. So this lady was telling us what happened to her when she was young, her pastor raped her. She went back home to tell her mom and her dad because they were the ones that sent her to the pastor for deliverance service before counseling. Then the guy raped her. She came back home to tell her mom and her dad this is what this guy did to me. They said they lied. That would have been lying. They dragged her to his house, made her kneel down to beg him. She was like that day she moved out, she was a teenager. She said she moved out of that house. She ran away from home and told everybody that asked this was what happened and this was what my parents did. A lot of parents are enablers and I don't know why they glorified or they put the whole godly, like they say pastors are God now, that's any little thing, good to pastor.  As flawed as any other human being. Absolutely. My news. Yeah, let's take your story. Okay, so my story basically is regarding the three-month-long strike, the three-month-long assault strike. So the University of Benin students actually protested today over the three-month strike and this is really insane because I remember in February we were talking about this thing just right before the strike was announced and this is three months already. Children have been in school for this long and I mean there's a comment that really struck me that meanwhile, the minister has said to have paid 100 million Naira nomination form for election of 2020 because their children are not studying Nigeria. Their children have no business with our educational system and they feel comfortable to allow hundreds and thousands of Nigerians, not even millions, actually just sit at home doing nothing.  What are we really going to do about this? Because the people that we've trusted with all of these things are not really helping out and I mean a lot of students have actually come out to protest and they're even urging more people to come out if it's possible for them to even match too. Aboujan do this protest. It would really help. Hopefully the government listens. Hopefully the minister does something about it but I mean something needs to be done before we start to count one year because it has happened before. Like a long time ago, it happened before. I think it would be nice if the students even now gather at the leki-toe kids at this point because I guess that's it. That's where they listen. That bothers them the most because I mean they don't have work, right? They are home. So if you want them to leave the toll then you... I mean, let's not get into that point. But remember when we had Dr. Digweson on the show when he was talking about because you mentioned you said something about when are we going to get out of this point and how they are able to cough out 100 million for their forms. And he said something around the fact that for them education is not an immediate gratification, right? So if any government decide to spend money in education we will not begin to see the impact until say, 15 years down the line, right? And of course you would have left the office at then. Nobody is going to remember that oh, you are the one who initiated this thing. So when it comes to any government that is going to take education seriously, it has to be a government that sees the future, that is not looking at, like you said, no handgift to it. And he's also looking beyond... Thank you. This is even becoming really ridiculous. Until we get to that point nothing is going to be done because to fix education is a long-term business group. Game, yeah, it's a long-term game. It's not a short-term thing. So I'm really afraid because the people that have gotten good education in Nigeria are getting better offers abroad and a lot of them are relocating, right? So what is the faith of Nigeria? If the young ones that we are expecting to go to school are not being given an opportunity to be in school, then the people that have actually graduated do not have jobs and then the ones that are now have goods that have been able to train themselves with other things are getting good offers outside Nigeria which means that in the next 10, 20 years talking about this really gets me emotional because yes, so many people will relocate. What happens to the people that can't afford it? We go empty together. Not sentencing. I'm sorry, date fixed for August 22nd. This is... remember the special aid to the governor of open state Abidemi Rufai you know, says, I mean they can expect his jail sentence and there are speculations that he might be going to be... he might be there for a very long time after he pled guilty for the COVID-19 fraud in the US. So let's keep an eye on that. On that note, we take a break. Now when we come back from the break we will be discussing the Twitter under the new government in new ownership. Stay with us, we'll be right back.


Good morning, Chairwoman Cantwell, Ranking Member Wicker, and members of the committee. Before I start, I want to send wishes for a full and fast recovery to Sandra Lujan. It's been an honor getting to know him during this process, and I look forward to seeing him on this dais again. I'd like to reintroduce myself before I address two matters that have been raised in recent weeks. I've been a public interest lawyer for over 30 years, working towards one goal, ensuring that all Americans have access to affordable, open, and robust communications networks, be they broadcasting, cable, or broadband. During that time, I've lined up on the same side and other times in opposition to every regulated industry. I'm an advocate for the public, that's what I do. If I'm confirmed, I would be the first public interest advocate to sit on the FCC. Yet unlike the numerous nominees for FCC seats that have worked for commission regularities, represented them as clients, or served on their boards, I've been subject to unrelenting, unfair, and outright false criticism and scrutiny. This is despite the fact that I've had over 250 organizations and policy experts, and 350,000 citizens voice their support, including in letters to this committee and in op-eds. Many are Republicans, and people you'd never think in a million years would support me. My parents' television counsel just supported me this morning. For a fifth FCC commissioner seat, not the chair who controls the agenda, that's probably a record. At the same time, I realize this isn't all about me. It's about someone wanting to stop the FCC from doing its important work, ensuring that everyone in America has robust broadband, regardless of who they are, what their income is, or where they live, as mandated by the bipartisan infrastructure law. It's about stopping the FCC from ensuring that the media is diverse and serves the needs of local communities. It's about stopping the FCC from ensuring that our networks are resilient when the next disaster hits, so that the public stays connected and safe. And it's about stopping the work Congress, including all of you and your predecessors, have charged this important agency with doing.  But most importantly, it hurts the American people who need the FCC to make hard decisions. Now I'll address some of the questions that have been raised around the confidential low-cast settlement agreement and my voluntary and temporary recusal from some matters involving retransmission consent and TV broadcast copyright. First the low-cast settlement. As press reports have made clear, I have no financial liability stemming from the lawsuit. Indeed, I never did from the day I joined the Sports Fans Coalition Board. This wasn't a settlement agreement that I negotiated, SFCNY negotiated, and with the full and eager consent of the network plaintiffs set the amount to be paid as $700,000 plus SFCNY agreeing to turn over low-cast used equipment to them. Why didn't I mention this number in my response to Senator Wicker's question for the record? Because the confidential settlement agreement barred me, as well as the network plaintiffs and SFCNY from mentioning the terms of the agreement in writing. This was a fact that whoever leaked the agreement to the oppress conveniently omitted. Also omitted was the fact that the enforceable term sheet setting forth the particulars of the settlement was signed on October 12th, two weeks before I was nominated for this position. That term sheet is expressly referred to in the settlement agreement. On October 12th, when the settlement between the networks and SFCNY was signed by the representatives, I had no idea whether or not I was going to be nominated or if I was going to be nominated at all. And the parties didn't know either. I took very seriously my duty to keep the terms of the settlement agreement confidential, but others did not, and exploited my inability to defend myself. Now freed from the public disclosure of this information, despite a court order confirming all the terms of the settlement agreement, including the duty not to discuss them with the press.  Second, I'll address my voluntary recusal, which I undertook because of concerns raised at December 1 hearing and QFRs by members of this committee about my involvement with low cast. The recusal is narrowly tailored and tied to my personal participation in a 12-year-old petition for rulemaking the organization I'm representative filed seeking changes to the retransmission consent regime, a docket that remains open. There's precedent for such a voluntary recusal. In 1998, then-Chairman Canard recused himself from a fairness doctrine-related docket when he discovered that he had signed a pleading in that docket as an NAB intern. So this is not unprecedented. I know that industry is saying that, but that's not true. As experts have noticed, my recusal is voluntary, temporary, extremely narrow, and concerns business unlikely to come before the full FCC. But in no way does it open the door to every other industry seeking a recusal for every position I in public knowledge have ever advocated. Such a result would be perverse and would prohibit anyone, probably prohibit anyone, not just public interest advocates and academics, who has taken any public position on telecommunications and media policy from serving on the FCC. A federal district court judge recently rejected a similar wide-ranging request in a case involving an effort to accuse a senior government official. He said, it's natural that the president would select a candidate based on her past experiences and views, including on topics that are likely to come before the commission during her tenure and how the administrator will implement the administration's priorities. Courts must tread carefully when reviewing cases in this area, lest we eviscerate the proper evolution of policymaking, were we to disqualify every administrator who has opinions on the correct course of his agency's future action. I have and will continue to answer each and every one of your questions with complete honesty and to the best of my knowledge. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Son. And again, thanks for being here. I do think that the timing of the recusal after the hearing made it something that we should talk about and certainly support, again, you being here and your willingness to do that. Let's just dive into some of this specific. You were on the board of this company, correct? But you didn't negotiate the settlement. No, I did not. It was a nonprofit corporation. And I did not negotiate the settlement. It was negotiated by Sports Fan Coalition New York. I was never a party to the litigation. And from the very day I joined that board, because there was something called a case narrowing agreement, which I'm happy to talk about, I was never financially on the hook for a dime. OK. And as far as the timing of how and when they negotiated, you also had no knowledge about that. And was that driven by a court process where the court had outlined? This was now in a negotiated settlement. And so the court had said, we want a timing of this negotiated settlement by a certain date. Right. So the court entered an injunction on September 15. And we had 30 days to decide whether to appeal or to settle. And obviously, I was involved as a board member in the decision to settle as opposed to appeal. And I was the first to low-caste settlement, 12-year-old petitioner, and I did not negotiate that I've ever advocated. So in an effort to accuse a senior government official, he said, it's natural that the president will implement the administration's priorities. Courts must tread carefully when reviewing cases in this area lest we eviscerate the proper evolution of policymaking, were we to disqualify every administrator who has opinions on the correct course of his agency's future action. I have and will continue to answer each and every one of your questions with complete honesty and to the best of my knowledge. Thank you.


from the Computer Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE covering OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015, brought to you by Morantis. Now your host, Jeff Frick. Hey, welcome back everybody. I'm Jeff Frick, you're watching theCUBE. We are live at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Really excited to be out here the second year of the event, second year of theCUBE's been here. We're going two days. Wall-to-wall coverage is a lot of vibe around OpenStack, a lot of vibe around cloud right now. We have VMworld happening next week. We were at OpenStack Seattle and Linux last week, so it's all about cloud right now. So we're really excited for our next guest, kind of a relatively new startup, Madura Meskoski, from Platform 9, BP of Product and Co-Founder. So welcome. Thanks. So for the people that aren't familiar with Platform 9, why don't you give kind of an overview of what you guys are up to? Absolutely. So Platform 9 is a startup that came out of VMware. So we're part of the V-Mafia that's happening in the Silicon Valley. It's a lot of V-Mafia. There's quite a few of them, and they're very helpful as well, so it's a good community. Good. But so what Platform 9 does is we are in a nutshell, our mission is to make private clouds at any scale for organizations of any size, extremely out of the box and intuitive and simple, right, and in order to do that, we have a very unique approach or model around OpenStack, so we package OpenStack and deliver it as a web service. So that's in somebody what Platform 9 does. So you're delivering OpenStack as a web service. So it's interesting. A lot of the early OpenStack players we've been talking over the day have been acquired by EMC and HP and IBM, et cetera. So now there's kind of this next gen of startups really approaching OpenStack in a new way, not necessarily kind of the fundamental core at the bottom, but new deployment methodologies, new ways to consume it. So that's a pretty interesting innovation and how are you finding the market uptake for that? You know, it's fantastic to be in this space at this time. We think the timing is perfect because if you look at the OpenStack mindshare in the small to medium to large enterprises, it's kind of reached at a point now where our buyers, right, our IT enterprise directors or administrators or end users understand the value proposition that OpenStack provides. So it's no longer a question about what is OpenStack and why should I care. They've gone way past that. It's more about, okay, I understand the value proposition and I know open source is the future. OpenStack is going to be powering clouds from now onwards and how do I align myself with it? What is my OpenStack strategy? And that's really where we come into picture and we can highlight what some of our unique differentiators and value ads are, right? And just coming from VMware, just having built vCloud director and having worked with enterprise customers, that gives us, I think, a little bit of an edge because we understand very well what some of the pain points of enterprise customers are in terms of building a private cloud and running it. Right, right, and how different is it working with an open source technology at the core and an open source framework at the core rather than building something on, something that was designed, inspected, built in-house? Yeah, it's a very interesting experience having come from a company that builds proprietary software but one that has been just phenomenally popular, right, and it has powered private clouds of the entire world for almost a decade. Coming from that wall to the open source wall, there's definitely a shift. There's a shift not only in terms of how you look at the technology, there is also a shift in terms of how, as a company, you want to market and present yourself. It's really all about community, right? Open source is all about community, OpenStack is about that, so it's about openness and that's a really important part of our culture as well. So you see that not only in the product we build but in terms of the blog posts we write, the support articles that we write and the culture we have within our team as well. Right, and clearly, VMware's got a huge, engaged community too, we'll be at VMworld next year, I don't even know how many tens of thousands of people will be there, but it's slightly different. Really, it's kind of an ecosystem built around it versus everybody really contributing to the core. And then like you say, so how do you manage being really active in open source versus building the stuff that makes platform nine, platform nine? And I always find that as kind of an interesting management challenge for somebody managing engineering, managing resources, how do you decide what that next unit of work needs to be for that engineer? Because clearly there's a lot of benefits to contributing back to the open source, people get a lot of personal kind of pride and recognition within the community which is very important in open source, so how do you kind of balance working for OpenStack versus working for platform nine? Yeah, no, that's a very good question and I think that's the key part of what a product person needs to play in terms of a role, right? Because you have to not lose track, not lose size of the fact that you are part of this open source community, right? OpenStack is part of our bread and butter right now, so and OpenStack is all about openness, right? So what's important to us is not necessarily that we create a proprietary modified version of OpenStack that we offer to our customers, we're not in business to do that. We're here to make all the goodness of OpenStack in its entirety and purity, so we're here to make the core open source OpenStack available to enterprises in a production ready way, right? So our focus is really on simplified consumption of OpenStack, that's been one of the biggest pain points with OpenStack, right? Which is, this wonderful powerful software which has so many knobs and different options that you can tweak to make it work for your environment, but you really need to know how to do it. And many times that manual is missing, right? Which tends to be the challenge. So we're here to provide those really simplified recipes to our end users and kind of hand hold them and say, think of us as an extension of your ops team. So let us do the hard work of getting your OpenStack cloud, getting it up and running, and then managing it on an ongoing basis. And you focus on just consuming it. And that's really the balance that we draw, and at the same time kind of going back to your point, we are really passionate about making OpenStack better, right, improving it. And so that community aspect is part of our team. We're part of OpenStack summits, the Vancouver one, the one in Japan. We're also taking initiatives and contributing back to the community on the VMware driver front, on the Docker front, et cetera. So lots of that is also happening simultaneously. Yeah, it's great. So let's shift gears a little bit back to the company. So you've raised some money, so I think you just raised a round, so congratulations. Thank you. Can you tell us who's leading that round? Who's your venture partners? Definitely. So we raised our series round with Redpoint Munchers. They've just been fantastic mentors and partners to have and to work with. They were the previous funders of CloudStack as well. And then for Series B. Who's your partner at the? Satish, Tamaraj, and Scott Rainey at Redpoint. And they've just both been a fantastic pair. We think of them as part of our team. So we love them. And then for Series B, we just recently made that announcement, and we were fortunate to have Menlo Ventures backing us, funding us. Mark Siegel is a partner there, who's part of our board now. And again, they're also familiar with the V-Mafia. We have our friends from Purnix Data and other companies. They're backing some of the same people. So really, really excited about the new team. It is exciting. Like I said, I think from here, sitting is kind of this next wave of startups that are kind of attacking the next wave of problems with the Opus Tech deployment. And you mentioned that often the manual is missing. Well, also the people are often missing too. I think every single person here at the end of their keynote gave a little plug, come work for us. Even the U and the AT&T Direct TV guys. So what's kind of your next challenge? What can we look forward to from Platform 9 next week at VMworld and over the next six months? Yeah, so while we announced our funding, we also made an announcement that we're officially in GA with our VMware vSphere support. And that was really a key announcement for us. We think it's a key enabler. Not only from the perspective that if you think of the virtualization market in total and the percentage that's covered by VMware customers, customers who run virtualization using VMware software, it's humongous, right? So it really gives us the opportunity to tap into that market. And we don't really see Opus Tech as an either or when it comes to VMware. Many times it's presented that way, but we don't see that at all. Partly also because we come from VMware, right? So we understand the power of that platform. And what we believe strongly is that Opus Tech only makes that platform a lot more easier to consume and automate in a more next generation cloud-centric way. So that's really what we're here to enable. So next week you'll see us talking a lot more about how do we natively integrate with VMware and really make that stack, you know, consumable as an Opus Tech cloud. So from a VMware end user's perspective, he doesn't have to change a thing. And that's a huge value proposition that we are making, which is take what you have today, including the workloads that you have and kind of magically transform them into an Opus Tech cloud. So in that instance, so customers are already running VMware, they want to deploy Opus Tech for a different application set for a particular reason. Is that kind of the use case? That's kind of, that's right. And then different use cases also come into picture. Right, because it's not really rip and replace. I mean, if you got a bunch of VMware infrastructure and things are running, you know, you're not necessarily looking to rip and replace that. Definitely not, yeah. And that strategy doesn't work well either, right? I mean, Diane Greene from VMware used to say, VMware's technology is the most disruptive, non-disruptive technology, right? Which is disruptive in what it does, but non-disruptive in how the customer gets to use it. And we have the exact same philosophy. Right, but to your point, there's different workloads that depending, it's really, it still goes back to this workload specific kind of driver based on the workload, what's the application, what are they trying to do, you know, then that should really drive the deployment. That's really from an operations perspective, from the actual app development perspective, I don't really care and don't necessarily want to care, right? It should just work. That's right, that's exactly right. And it's the use cases that really are the most important question, right? That the end users ask as well. Right. Which is we have this vSphere infrastructure which we really don't want to get rid of. At the same time, we as an IT team are tired of having to constantly respond to our developer's needs. We have tickets and, you know, the usual delays in process. So we really want something a lot more agile. And that's really what OpenStack enables, right? Through OpenStack heat orchestration, through just the simple self-service access. That's what we're here to enable. Awesome, well, Bandura, thanks for stopping by theCUBE. I wish you the best and we'll probably see you next week at Moscone Center. All right, well thanks for stopping by. I'm Jeff Frick, you're watching theCUBE. We are live at OpenStack Summit Silicon Valley 2015. We'll be back with our next segment after this short break.