What I have here is some data for the Converging Lens Lab. We're going to analyze this data, we're going to look at the values of distance to the object and distance to the image, and from that information we're going to see if we can find focal length. I've got data from three trials and I've converted everything into meters. Although if you wanted to do everything in centimeters, that's fine, it doesn't make a huge difference. Here's what our graph is going to look like. We're going to make a graph of distance of the image, dI to the power of negative one, versus distance to the object to the power of negative one. That means, based on the title of that graph, dI to the negative one has to be on the y-axis, and dO to the negative one has to be on the x-axis. The units will become meters to the negative one for both of those x- and y-axes, or if you're using centimeters, that's fine, you'd put centimeters to the negative one. Now it might seem like a totally crazy idea to graph one over dI and one over dO, until you realize that the formula which relates these variables together actually has in it one over dI and one over dO. Another way of writing one over is to write power of negative one, like that. The start of the graph is going to be taking those variables that we got in the lab, dI and dO, and graphing their reciprocals, not the actual values themselves. If you graph the actual values themselves, you'll get a curved graph, but if you graph the reciprocals, you'll get a straight line graph, and we can use that straight line to help us find the focal length of the lens, which is the object of the lab. So let's take out our graphing calculator, and let's make a graph of this data. Right now, I have not put it to the power of negative one, so I need to do that, and I'll do it as I put it into my calculator. Steps here is I'm going to push the stat button. I'm going to hit enter on edit. I had some data in there from before, so I'll just hit delete a bunch of times to get rid of that. Now I always want to make sure that I'm careful about which variables in the X and Y. So DO to the negative one is going to be on the X, and DI to the negative one is going to be on the Y. So L1 are all my X values, so I'm going to put in these three numbers as my values of X, but I'm going to make sure to put them to the power of negative one. So 0.05 to the negative one, 0.045 to the negative one, 0.04 to the negative one. So those are my values on the X-axis, Y-axis, same sort of idea, 0.25 to the negative one, 0.355 to the negative one, 0.56 to the negative one. So my data has been curve straightened, we call this curve straightening, when we take data and manipulate it so that it'll make a straight line graph. We first saw curve straightening when we did the Coulomb's Law Lab back in unit B, and we did some curve straightening last week when we did our Snell's Law Lab, when we were doing refraction and shooting the laser into the little glass blocks that were like a half circle. Okay, now I'm going to go and pick some good window settings and I'll see what the data looks like as a graph. So for my X's, I can probably go between like 0 and maybe 30, since my biggest X value was 25. So that seems pretty good. Of course you can have different values based on what your data looks like. For my Y's, I'll go between 0 and maybe, I don't know, 5, because my largest Y value is 4. So I'm going to put that into my window settings. Maybe I'll go up by 5's on the X axis and I'll go up by 1's on the Y axis. Last thing I want to do before I get my data out there is I'll go into the Y equals menu, make sure there's no function there that's going to show up on the graph and make sure my plot 1 is shaded in. So here's my data. It's looking pretty linear and I'm going to just make a little sketch of it on my graph like so. Just to make kind of a line a best fit. It would look a bit like that. Now I want to get the equation of that line. So I go back to the main menu and I press stat again and over to calculate and down to linear regression. Hit enter on linear regression. I just have to hit enter one more time. And here's the equation. I'm going to write down the whole equation here. It's Y equals negative 0.44X plus 12.73. That's the equation of the line of best fit. On a diploma exam, on a unit exam, you're given the graph usually to start off with. You can be asked how to manipulate the data in order to get the straight line graph. Quite often a diploma exam will say, what should you do to the values of D, I, and D, O? Should you square them, put the power of negative 1? Should you divide them by 7? That's a really common diploma question. You don't need to be able to make the graph on the calculator on your diploma exam, but I can make you do that in a unit exam because I know you all know how to do that. So we now have our equation of our line of best fit. Yes, a question. That's my y-intercept, very good question. So I also recorded down the y-intercept here, which was B in the y equals ax plus b formula. This particular calculator company uses ax plus b. We're more familiar with y equals mx plus b. So that was the y-intercept I wrote down as well. Isn't it weird that I put down the y-intercept? I never deal with a y-intercept. Okay, let's flip the page. Let's do an analysis. The first analysis question asks us to figure out the focal length of the lens using the y-intercept of the graph. Okay, so this is sort of weird. I'll write down that equation again just so I don't have to flop back and forth. The equation was y equals negative 0.44x plus 12.73. For some reason, we're gonna use the y-intercept of this graph, and I'd like to show you why we're gonna look at the y-intercept here. On the previous page, I had a graph of di to the negative one versus do to the negative one. That means that the y part of the graph was di to the negative one, and the x part of the graph was do to the negative one. Then what I have here is an equation that's y equals mx plus b. That's the general form for this equation that I just wrote out, where m is negative 0.44 and b, the y-intercept, is 12.73. But when I look at what I have here on my graph, what I was actually calling y was di to the negative one. That's what I made y, and what I made x was do to the negative one. Then there was an addition sign, and then there was this y-intercept. Well, here's something kind of strange. I mean, when I look at the equation y equals mx plus b, it seems like a few of the things are matching up with what I had in my graph. I have y being di to the negative one, I have x being do to the negative one. They're on either side of an equal sign, and now b has to be equivalent to something as well. I'm wondering if anyone can take a guess as to what maybe b is the same as. What do you think that would be? It's not slope, good guess, the slope is over here. What do we think b is equivalent to? If y is di to the negative one and x is do to the negative one, yeah, maybe it's focal length, but I think there's, it's not quite focal length, it's not quite f, good, it's f to the negative one.  Well, think about the formula we're dealing with here today. One over focal length equals one over di plus one over do. If I take this formula, I can rewrite it as f to the negative one equals di to the negative one plus do to the negative one and then I can rearrange it. If I rearrange it, here's what I would get. I would get di to the negative one on one side and negative do to the negative one plus focal length to the negative one on the other side. Check it out. Just like we have in every other lab, we were able to take the formula that we were learning about and make it look like the line on the graph. Question. Good question. What does the M do? Well, the first thing I want you to notice is that the M had a negative slope. It was negative 0.44. And you might be thinking, well, where is that in the formula here? It has something to do with the magnification factor of the lens, which we're not gonna look at right now. We're just gonna focus on the focal length. But yeah, that's where it would go. But all the other variables match up just perfectly here with the formula we're looking at. So okay, what does this actually mean? How do we figure out the focal length? Well, the focal length to the power of negative one is exactly the same as the y-intercept. The y-intercept that I got from my data was 12.73. And in fact, if I think about the units for the y-intercepts, and I can't quite see it on my graph because 12 would be way up here. But I know it would have units of meters to the power of negative one. So I would write in here for showing my work that the y-intercept is 12.73 to the power, meters to the power of negative one is the unit. That equals focal length than negative one. So to get focal length by itself, I'm gonna type in 12.73 and I'm gonna reciprocate it one more time. I'm gonna put it at the power of negative one. And that gives me a focal length of 0.079 regular old meters, or like 7.9 centimeters if you're using centimeters or your unit. What you should get from the reciprocal of your focal length is the focal length or the reciprocal of your y-intercept is the focal length of the lens you used. So by looking at the graph and matching up each of the variables on the x and y-axis of the graph with a variable from our formula on the formula sheet, we could kind of determine through process of elimination that the other variable on this line, the y-intercept, had to be the reciprocal of the focal length. And once we knew that, we could go through and use that idea to find the focal length of this lens.


Yes, so Welcome Yeah, so a little bit about me so I've been a computational researcher for 15 years in many different fields about five years ago I joined my current team and Now basically my focus is on usability and teaching of the computing So basically making it where people can actually use all the resources we provide So I'm part of auto scientific computing which is The name of our team within Alta University. We're a small team like nine people We don't really operate on a large scale But we are very close to the researchers Basically, we're distributed and we share coffee rooms with the people that use our services and it should note if you know Finland you probably know CSC we are not part of CSC and We don't even have as much interaction with them as we would like Basically, they're big and well We're not large enough to be to have a strong role there Okay, so what's the big picture? So I've phrased phrase this term crisis of computing. So basically The idea is that well people need almost anyone needs computing and researchers arrived They tend to arrive to our courses and our infrastructure unprepared for the work So an easy solution that some people can use to say well, you know, where the HPC cluster if you don't do real HPC This isn't what you need But that doesn't work for us. So we need to focus on everyone doing their work So we've got different things here. We have a training series, which you can read about more yourself We have a online course, which is more like a roadmap of all the different things You might need to know to build yourself up from what you might learn in academic courses to using the cluster So as I've said before Using a cluster is not that difficult when you know how to use the shell really well If you don't know how to use the show well, then well, it's almost impossible and So on and so on. So basically it's all about the basics here Lately we have a research software engineer service, which I think takes a complementary role here So not everyone needs to do everything themselves. So we can sort of export some of the problems to professionals who can work with the researchers so in Well a few years ago we started this kickstart course a few being maybe 2014 or so I'm not entirely sure and it's been continually refined over time So it's sort of a starting point of new users for a cluster. We recommend everyone to take it and These days it's not really focused on the high performance so much but on the computing part So most people if you need to use Large MPI programs or even write large MPI programs, but you can probably figure that out Yourself or use any many of the other good training courses that are available But the biggest problem is that people come and they start to use the cluster and you don't know Linux or shell or Whatever like that and you just can't get started So our typical contents these days is the first day is sort of general lecture-ish kind of things like a crash course about what does HPC and computing even mean About the Linux shell like what are the different workflows that are even available to do your computing Cluster or otherwise or guest talks from other people like CSC and then days two and three is how to actually use the cluster okay, um so When we got to a year ago and everyone everything went remote I immediately realized that this is a great thing because we're closer to everyone else in the world So it's easier to share things so for our summer kickstart course. We said well Why not open it to everyone else in Finland? so we did and There's different advantages and disadvantages here the Disadvantage is that the examples don't necessarily work out of the box everywhere else But we sort of worked on that by trying to standardize our clusters a little bit So it's not at the level of different courses for every different site But we tried to make one course that reasonably work between all of the finish sites excluding CSC For the reason stated above so the advantage is that even if we didn't have the effort to Generalize this to all the courses and make it seamless. It's still a resource that the other places just didn't have and realistically wouldn't have the staff to have in the near term and Most of the what I think important messages of the course are sort of independent of the cluster Like if you see how to run a array job somewhere It's not that hard to understand the concept and use it somewhere else If you know the Linux shell and other things to do the scripting So yeah, so last summer we did a joint with other Communities then in February of this year We took this a bit further and made it with the MOOC strategy, which I'll explain next and then in July oh Yeah, and then in July this year We continued that and really showed that it was seamless and scaled quite well So you can see our pipeline here. We had many people registered and quite high retention overall Okay, um So what's our current teaching strategy? So a lot like code refinery with the online courses Which is not a like small 10 or 20 person workshop like carbon trees, but we've managed to scale this to 100 people pretty well by distributing things into breakout rooms And then we have lectures, which is where we show demos and explain what to do and then breakout rooms for people work So in the Kickstarter course, we don't actually have this here So in the Kickstarter course, it's actually Like sort of the lectures and demos and typologs and then people working themselves with Mentoring and help when people ask for it And that's mainly because we can't get enough helpers like we can in code refinery So I think there's different levels of people we're talking to so some people are new and they're fine with just watching passively So you sort of need to like watch and see the course and see the whole thing And then maybe next time you can dive in a little bit more So expecting everyone to be hands-on is too much Some people are about ready and want to do all the examples and the courses about on target for them Some are quite advanced and want to move forward quickly Another important thing is co-teaching so we basically say you should never teach alone So in the small courses the idea is that you have the teacher and the learners and the teacher should have a discussion with the learners but that doesn't really work in the giant courses so in code refinery we have a hundred people and You can't like basically the audience didn't talk with you So instead we have two teachers and the teachers are talking with each other And you can read here if you would like to know how it works in practice And this basically makes it seem interactive and work very well Then we have hack and D for questions, which I forgot to introduce but I guess I can introduce now So here which I will put in the zoom chat is The hack and D and you can ask a question such as like this and then you will get answers like this and And this is basically better than voice because multiple people can talk at the same time And you don't have to try to speak over each other in order to like get a time to ask the question and it's better than the zoom chat because Well, it's sort of asynchronous and you can go back and answer in different orders So this basically lets any course scale and become super interactive Okay, so the tech setup this is where it gets interesting So when we're teaching to 200 people We don't do that in one zoom meeting first off. There's no need to and it doesn't really work so The basic idea is this there's one instructor zoom meeting here Which you have the instructors and some certain helpers and the production crew and so on and learners are not there Instead it's captured with open broadcasting software Which is what I'm doing now and then it's live streamed to the whole world via twitch so basically anyone who once can sign up for it and Watch and see and there's no risk of it affecting anyone else I mean, isn't it sort of interesting that as soon as we go to remote work We have the possibility for anyone in the world to attend our events and we immediately learn Okay, we should never ever share a zoom link because something bad might happen Why not have both this provides that? so and then there's a learner zoom and the learners independently watch the twitch stream or it can be shared within the zoom meeting and then there the learners work and Like do the examples and talk with the helpers and mentors and then give us feedback via this HackMD and then we see that in respond and Comment back on the stream and so on so the general flow goes We'll talk a little bit will give an example and say okay now it's your turn and then we say okay you'll have 15 minutes and then we announce it we mute the stream and then the stream goes off and Can work alone in this? learner room and then We since the stream is muted we have our instructor space to talk and plan out the next strategy without interfering with all of the other Learners, which is really great. It hides the back channel talk some So as you notice here, I'm sharing zoom with a portrait screen share. I think this is a very important thing so It basically means that we have half the screen for us and our examples and half the screen for people to work along and Do their own thing?  You're listening to me So why not make it easier for you to do that? So it's easy to give the attention to me instead of minimizing this Landscape screen where everything's too small and you have to make it full screen to fit anything This is really great So a typical learner layout would look like this here Where half the screen is the share and half the screen is available and Well, we mix in the Instructors talking via the OBS open broadcaster software. So what are some advantages of the setup? so Well, you can see one of the feedbacks we got from some users here and basically Well, I like it a lot and it seems that some other people like it a lot too I see little reason to try to go back to another kind of strategy and I even think it's so Good that I don't really see how we can get something. That's as useful within the When we go back to in-person courses Let's see and Yes, I will publish the questions and answers later if there's anything useful there Okay, so what are the advantages so HackMD is a much better tool for answering questions and Oh, yes, so Yeah, so the HackMD since there's no personal data there can be shared and we put it on the course website Or make it available also since the learners are not in the Not in the same zoom meeting there's zero chance of privacy risk here, so we can immediately release the videos We can allow anyone to watch without giving out this zoom link publicly Let's see The videos are available for an instant replay So twitch records it for 14 days and then it gets on YouTube soon Which I mean when you have a course like this everything you do in the course I mean that's not really enough like do we really expect someone to learn what we're teaching in the three hours we have in one day, so No, I don't think that's really possible. So we need to mix these different strategies There's a live thing where we talk. There's the written material. There's the recordings later And this also makes it really great easy for someone to catch up if they get behind The instructor back channel doesn't interfere with the learners So in the original code refinery courses when we're going in breaks or exercises and then instructors are discussing Oh, what do we do next now? It's great We can sort of just mute it and then we plan ourselves and the instructor workload is much less People say that the team teaching is much more engaging than trying to get these overloaded learners to Get Get engaged in it and I think the course is just overall a lot more fun to give So what are the disadvantages? So well when you try to scale too much for something like HBC, there's problems with incompatible sites So we got a lot of feedback about this but when discussing it then other people come up and say yeah like and maybe it doesn't work but This is still much better than anything we had so just keep going at it So the tech takes some getting used to both for the other instructors and for the learners Yeah, but I mean everyone got used to it pretty well after you saw a few examples so I think that this is not really a big concern and When we went to remote work, I took some time to upgrade my home desktop computer and made it where it was able to Like prepared it for these kinds of things and as you can see here, it's slowly grown into this massive setup with the Let's see So with the this is the code refinery setup and it was a bit more complicated with the current setup You need one less screen to do it. Well, but I think you could even do it with two screens or something like that And really this is to the point where when we go back to the office. I don't think I could run this from work I have to have my home setup in order to do this. So what are some future prospects here? We'll probably keep going with this strategy for our large courses at least the really biggest ones And there's really no reason not to invite the whole world to attend Other people want to take part they can simply provide the Twitch link and they can say okay, you know, you can watch this course it may be useful It may not be you'll probably learn something you'll have to go and use our docs to fill in missing gaps But at least you get the big picture You can make your own zoom meeting with for your own breakout rooms So basically as one of my colleagues said it's like a TV production So we have the studio we produce it for the world and then there's all the different people that are earned at different theaters or classrooms or audiences and then they watch it separately and then You know during the commercial breaks then say okay, now let's talk among ourselves, okay now Let's go back and so on and so on also, I think rather than making the courses different or Customizing the courses different things why not try to standardize clusters more of course this is a almost impossible task because of the independence of Sis admins of different sites, but you know, maybe we can make a generic course which has the basics and Say okay, we expect that Your cluster can work with this course Let's see other Things in the future so Yeah, it's the course generic or localized um Do we Continue sort of like we had where we had some generic days and then some Days where each site has their own program running on Can we combine more internationally is code refinery platform for this? These are all good possibilities here So let's look at these questions here while I had some other last-minute things they wrote down So yeah, I think that the usability is as important as the training if something is hard to teach then maybe we need to make it more usable Let's see So this is a part of the big training courses and also I think that the courses are not the end all Strategy here. So I really like I said above I think I really don't think that a single course is enough to have everyone learn things So instead of forcing a whole course into a few days and expecting this is enough I think we have to have a course which is reasonably good enough and scaled enough Like sort of what we're doing here and then good local support. So the person is really going to learn HPC by By asking their colleagues or their local support for mentoring in these like Small little things that they're working on as you're working it on Okay, let's see What's the backup plan so well so our backup plan so far has been if the Streaming setup breaks then the instructors joined the published zoo meeting for the learners with the breakout rooms and then teach there Let's see Let's see Yeah, so I think that we need to Make this where other people can use the setup pretty easily So we're not quite there yet in part because I'm still refining it But I think we're slowly getting there and when someone has time they'll be able to do it without too much effort Yeah, Sima had a point here about Like it really does sort of centralize most of the tech setup to one person And that actually means that we can take a lot more instructors in so specialization is okay Yeah, how does course evaluation work so by having hack MD which is continually having questions like this then The instructors can get a continual pulse of how people are asking questions and how it's going We can have feedback We can say okay, how would you like how does this feedback work? Like how's this going and we ask people to give the feedback in the hack MD and everyone can we have polls via hack MD and so on and My time is running a bit low here But Yeah, I think that's the general point. So I guess in summary I sort of see that The goal with the teaching should not be to take the training courses We would do in person and make them online But sort of have a new strategy like we have to have a whole new concept of running the courses online and then we can reach far more people and fill in a gap and then we redesign how we learn and Mentor in person and small So what's the instructor participant ratio? so in the Kickstarter course we had 200 learners or so and then maybe Maybe five to ten helpers on a typical day during the course within the Learner room So these were answering questions from learners and we would have a few from our site a few from the other sites within Finland And then for instructors there was basically me and then one or two other instructors for most of the time So the scaling is just amazing here Yeah, but well the downside is it's not a One-on-one thing like the Carpentries does So okay with that being said I will stop my Screen share here and go back to zoom so Yeah for anyone that's watching the recording later. Thanks for listening


All right, well thank you, all right. So let's just get right into it here. I'll begin with an outline of what I'm going to talk about. So I'll begin with some background information about exotica and come up with a definition and connect the concept of exotica to valuation and social value and help me recognize value in the archeological record. I'll talk about city and sourcing studies and use a case study from the Neolithic Central Mediterranean to explore the idea of exotica. So I've selected a couple of sites here where the criteria might be met. Orscas on France, Iberia, and Apulia in Italy. And then hopefully we'll end off a discussion about the idea of obsidianized exotica and hopefully end up with some conclusions from all of that. So we'll start with the definition here. I'll take a definition from TICOP 2011. Exotica, something non-native or foreign which has been imported and appreciated by the receiving culture. So we have a couple of parts here, right? It's imported, being part of the definition and appreciated as well. We'll kind of explore what that means. I'll take some work from Jiro of 1989, defining value and what makes artifacts valuable. Rarity is one tenet. Something that's rare, tenets mean more valuable. Artifact size, things that are larger than usual tend to be valued. Artifact longevity, so something that is in circulation for long periods of time, has more opportunity for value to be embedded within. And the last two are all about how difficult something is to produce. So something more difficult to produce is valued more because people appreciate its craftsmanship. Obsidian, a volcanic glass, an envious rock that's found throughout the world. It's an ideal raw material for stone tool creation. But of course it also serves other ritual and symbolic functions as well. Due to the distinct physical properties, obsidian can be sourced to the geological outcrops in which they originate, obsidian sourcing. And from there, a number of questions can be addressed. A whole range of questions. Obsidian sourcing studies are found worldwide. There's a brief list of some from the past decade or so. Well over 100 from every context around the world. So some of the issues that are addressed through obsidian sourcing. Questions about procurement, identity, social identity, movement of people, colonization events and so forth. And lastly, cultural contact. This is where this concept of exoticate comes in. Cultural contact, interaction between different groups of people. Particularly in situations where there's exchange going on. And that's really where exotica fits in. It's about social interaction and contact. So some studies around the world where they come from. Lots of studies in Oceania exploring the concept of exotica as a proxy for interaction. In the central Mediterranean, when we talk about obsidian as exotica, it's usually exploring things at the tail end of exchange networks. So at the very ends of the distribution of various obsidian sources. So lots of obsidian sources in the Mediterranean, in the Carpathian, a little farther north, sources in the Aegean, central Turkey. There is evidence of a couple of sites in northern Italy where a Carpathian source material makes their way over there. One possible piece of million obsidian in northern Italy, a site of Bruno de Leone. But in general, most of the obsidian that we find in the central Mediterranean comes from these four West Mediterranean sources. So we have Montearchi, Sardinia, Calderola, Leapery, and Pantilleria. They're the four sources that were utilized in central Mediterranean prehistory. The beginnings of obsidian use corresponds with the spread of agriculture. And Neolithic societies from the Near East, around the 620 of BC. We'd be first to see obsidian use and long distance exchange coming about. Here's a diagram here of Neolithic sites where obsidian has been reported. More than 500 sites here found throughout Sardinia, Corsica, throughout Italy, France, North Africa, Sicily, all over the place. Likely being exchanged for models of down the line exchange redistribution along the maritime and coastal routes. When I'm talking about Neolithic society here, I'm talking about small scale farming societies, very little evidence of formal social hierarchies. And importantly here, obsidian is typically found in residential contexts. It's most often found in the villager context themselves. Some artistic renderings. When obsidian is used, it's used to create flake-based tools, an artifact form in Sardinia, Corsica. Pressure flake blades are also very common, being found throughout mainland Italy, southern France, all over the place. These are the two most common artifact forms. So it's just a background to study the context or everything. So let's explore a couple of examples. This figure here shows the distribution of leapery obsidian. So leapery is the source here. You can see it has a very large distribution, the largest of any of the four sources, being found thousands of kilometers away from the source itself. And one of the sites that's kind of at the tail end, I guess, of this network is the site of Atencibi Gona. There are only two sites where obsidian from leapery has been reported on Corsica. And of course, this site is the farthest away. And again, it's this concept of the tail end of these networks are most likely to find Exotica. So we're quite on the board of that at all, studying obsidian from this site. It's a piece of the final helific. And this is what was found here. A block of leapery obsidian, very poor napping quality, running roughly two and a half kilograms. Most of the obsidian we find of leapery origin is of final products of pressure flake blades. Finding any kind of primary material outside of leapery is highly useful, particularly of this size. In this context, rates and its importance may have been unrelated to stone tool production. This is not gonna be an ideal raw material for producing pressure flake blades of the style that's being produced. So questions emerge from that. Why and how did it get there? And who was the one, I guess, appreciating it? The authors argue that provides evidence to the occasional contact between members of different socioeconomic systems. And this is a theme that we're gonna see here is that when Exotica is in vote, it's all about cultural contact between different groups of people. Here's the Pantilleria Distribution, the island of Pantilleria here. Has a pretty limited distribution to Sicily and North Africa, a couple of examinal anomalies. And particularly, one anomaly is the site of San Sebastian in southern France, a real outlier where you're gonna find Pantilleria obsidian. It's not neolithic, but I had to include it. It's a copper-raised burial site, ordered by William Sturpinall in 1984, two arrowheads of Pantilleria obsidian, whose greenish hue may have been a factor in its appeal. Pantilleria is unique in that it's porcelain and green as a greenish hue to it. Highly unusual to find arrowheads as well, very unusual to find arrowheads anywhere in mainland Italy or mainland France as well. The authors argue that one of the questions raised by this work is that of the routes by which obsidian reached southern France from the island sources. Montaerci, a Sardinian sources, I'll focus on two here at the tail ends. We have the site of Puglidia Moffetta and a number of sites in Iberia, actually very near where we are right now. And very different things going on in these two contexts. In Iberia, this is work by Tiratus et al. 2014, we did the study of these materials and collated them. We have middle-nuclear burial sites at La Saretta, Bobilla Maderelle, Bobilla Padro, and the verisite mine of Gava. In total, there are five pressure flake blades and a pressure flake core, all from the SA subsource of Montaerci. So on Montaerci, there are multiple subsources, all from one singular one, which is in keeping with the pattern in southern France. SA materials are distinguished by their transparency compared with any other source. And I would argue that the presence of finely crafted pressure flake blades in multiple burials within a restricted territory suggests a shared cultural understanding of their value. The presence of an associated core even may suggest that the production of these objects was part of a funerary ritual, performance similar to what was occurring in early Cycladic Greece, a term that's been called necrolithic, where we have funerary ritual directly connected to the production of pressure flake blades and maybe what is occurring here in Iberia. A very different story comes from cool demolveta in southeastern Italy, where we have middle and late Neolithic site worked by Alfred Fredin and Tony. What was found here is a single platelet, weighing 0.5 grams, and attributed to the SC subsource of Montaerci. Black Sardinian obsidian is not always visually distinguishable from leapery raw materials, which are very common in this area. So I would argue that objects like this may not even recognize as something exotic. There's nothing about their visual properties makes that readily apparent, and there's really nothing exceptional about this artifact itself. The authors argue though, that it highlights trans-Apanine exchange network to the Mediterranean and Adriatic coasts. So what can we get from all of this here? Obviously some patterns here and how the literature discusses obsidian as exotica, they mostly focus around its role as a marker of social interaction, and as a means of reconstructing exchange networks. Interesting questions nevertheless emerge when focus is placed on how value was constructed in the prehistoric past, and on how that may have differed through time and space. So I think this is something we can work on a little more. The construction of value can occur at the individual level, based on a person's lived experience. So I think the example, the Corsica example, is an example of this where that big block may have been appreciated that maybe as a token from someone's journeys and travels around, as opposed to something that a village or something rallied around or we're aware of. But of course at a broader level, you can have shared cultural understandings of something value, which I think comes from Iberia where we see the same pattern emerging from multiple sites. Well it may seem that long-distance exchange items would have an inherent social value. Archeologists must appreciate that neolithic groups, due to their sedentary nature, would have a much more localized geographic knowledge, to the point at which an object from 100 kilometers or 1,000 kilometers away might have been equally exotic. It would take a real knowledge of the territory to understand distance in the same way. We're talking about sedentary groups of agro-pastoralists. Some conclusions, sitting in the highly adaptable raw material, it serves important functions that extend beyond just the utilitarian. The concept of exotic is useful in this context because it necessitates an engagement with the questions about why objects were transported to vast distances in the prehistoric past and how they were integrated and reimagined in societies on the outer bounds of long-distance exchange networks. In this discussion, examples that I've discussed come from sites where obsidian's value is connected to its size and eccentricity, such as Corsica and southern France. And from contexts where finely-made artifacts are associated with human internments and possibly performative ritual. However, just because something is rare does not necessarily mean it was appreciated as such. And I think that's something important here when we tie in that definition of exonica itself. Thank you.


We are live Apparently I can pin Messages the top of my chat for viewers to read Beginning message to these options. Sweet. Well, I am mostly excited that my orientation is Horizontal today Well, a lot of people watch it vertical I Mean on a they don't watch it vertical they watch on their TVs and so They're just like this butter okay, so Tudor on top of doing the giveaways. I'm going to be doing a Distressed Tumbler and this is a tumbler. We did the other day Because we love it at least I do do you guys love it? I feel like I super love it This is the oceanic glitter from Color passion. Yep color passion and Yeah, I Love it, but today we're gonna make it into a distressed piece. So first thing we have to do is Tape up parts of it. So I have some handy dandy this tape. Do we have any wider tape than this? Okay with Who knows What's up cat? Hello Jerry Heidi I'm glad to see you. I haven't seen you here for a life in a long time so Never mind this we were taking tallies as a shirt What's today There's still a sale on our website for the restock so 15% off If you want to try out this glitter the code is three Stock I just sold out that calm. Do I need to write that out? I feel like you guys know Where we are. Okay, so first things first. Um, we Went ahead and glittered this tumbler. So it's got already a top coat of resin on it and I prepped the cup by taping up the clean Rim and I gave myself a little tail so I can pull the tape later easier And so the first thing we okay. This is an optional part. You don't have to do this part. This is just what I do I tape up the areas that I'm gonna want to distress because I Try to work smarter not harder and And Just trust me. It's easier if you just leave voids instead of try to Remove that much spray paint, which essentially is what we're going to be doing so I just take a piece of tape and I Will rip it and tear it In order to give it kind of an uneven edge And I'll take the little bits that I tear off and create the points on some of these just You don't have to take my word on it, but also maybe Because I would argue that The most difficult part about this style of tumbler is Trying to remove all of the spray paint that you're gonna add because we're gonna add a lot of spray paint So we're good. We like that one and I like to do them some that are coming up from the bottom and then Some that come down from the top as well So BAM Are any specific alcoholings that go into resin or should I stick with guys? I would stick to tints and dyes that are made for resin just because Those alcohol in just not they're not trying to stay around for a long time BAM, you're supposed to be taking a nap Ma'am. Yes, she is headache today I'm migraine really and then I take these little ones that I have trimmed off and then I also Will use them You're just trying to make a little bit of tear away areas Areas where you don't have to work so hard to remove All of the spray paint that you're gonna end up putting on this piece I'm not putting too many of these because I'm gonna geode One or two of them I'm gonna geode them That one just decided to rip on its own. That's convenient So yeah, I always rip them in just funky shapes Because it just makes my job easier later All right Wrong The host on our last cruise. That's what her voice was But she was really nice and then what should we do with the ball tin? I think I'm gonna Just make this come to a point on the bottom as well Or try to You can do it. I Promise the fun part will happen in a minute. This is definitely a little bit boring In comparison And I think I'm just gonna rip this one So we have one that comes down and then the rest not so much cool Now we're gonna do the extra part so The next part involves layers I'm gonna need a heat Situation Check So whatever color you're gonna spray We're gonna do it in layers and you need to do the darkest color first because that leaves a great Like a shadow, so I'm gonna use I was thinking about using black, but I've Deviated from that and I don't have a Spray cap gotcha my love so when you use spray paints being a well ventilated area away from open flames and All that sort of Yeah, all the all the things I'm supposed to say so that I don't get in trouble if someone does something silly Okay, so this is a purple gloss. I don't know if gloss is necessary or just most of people that I saw do this had gloss And the first time I did this I was like There goes all of my pretty everything. I'm covering everything that I love up, but it will look amazing in the end I'm doing light bursts of sprays that you don't fully drench everything in spray paint and then We dry Gloss spray paint takes longer to dry than any other kind of spray paint in my opinion And I think it's more than an opinion. I think it's actual science doesn't it Like it's actual science that it and if you put too much spray paint down it'll start to dribble and move and shift and like that Then for my mistakes, that's a Shift in paint because I put too much and as you can see I didn't even put that much As you can see, but I'm not really that worried about it because this is not the final coat Another thing. I'm not the biggest fan about using gloss spray paint is With matt spray paint you can tell when it's dry because it goes from Shiny to not shiny shiny it's wet and the one that it's not shiny anymore is dry with gloss It just looks like this all the time and it takes forever to dry Especially if it's rainy or really humid out So if you're not on a live feed you can just spray it and forget it until later But you want to make sure each layer is dry before moving on to the next It's dry enough because it didn't come off on my finger, but It's still not you can hear it come you need my finger come off And whoever ends up with this cup has a couple of my fingerprints, but that's next I'm gonna put some gold in Make sure you shake your paints really well and do a couple test sprays to make sure that it's not just propellant I wouldn't do my top layer in gold because For some reason It just doesn't look as vibrant under resin however metallics dry faster than Gloss spray paint so this won't take very long And what I'm doing is layering up the colors so that when I start to do the relief of taking the spray paint off it will kind of remove itself in layers because you have to you know kind of work down through them and It looks really really cool Also, you can see There's some errors in the original finish and if I was paying attention I would put my My geoid voids in those areas because you'll be able to see them under Solid paint whereas if it was just glitter showing you wouldn't be able to see it as prominently Especially since you're going to put another coat of resin on it Hope you guys are excited about the giveaway at the end of this video I know I am And in addition to what the winners are getting Jeff is also giving away Uh keychain and custom stir sticks it is custom. It's unique. It's one of a kindish. Well, it's one of a kind times However many made I'm also going to put a magenta satin on there I don't know what's going to happen with it, but ooh Those colors look good together I would almost be okay with the top color being this. Okay. I was going to top color at white But should I leave it magenta? I mean, maybe it would still look better the white, but But what do you guys think most people when they do tumblers Do a time lapse because this part is rather boring, but We do live around here Satin is also a color that when it dries You can notice it a little bit more than the gloss Also, I feel like the ucc gloss if you guys do countertop stuff. I feel like the ucc gloss should actually be called You guessed it I'm a paint gal and bathing glitter kind of gal. Listen glitter is always an option It even has a shirt that does that I think I'm going to put them on my site Glitter is always an option Or not when all else fails like that is a quote my husband Said many many moons ago Yes, I have to go take a driver's test today. I feel like I'm an actual child because I have to go take a drive Like I have to get in a car with another grown adult that probably is younger than me Probably DJs on the weekend And let this person great no shade to people that Do that sort of thing, but you know what I mean like I I All right, I'm gonna top coat it with a flat white just because We'll be able to see the paint coming through promise There's resin on it I resin did after I did the glitter Yeah Well, if I did resin between the layers and it won't come off And I'm wanting it to come off in kind of layers So this is the final layer of spray paint. So you want it to be complete and No gaps. You want it to be a solid color Which it looks like it is Do you guys remember that?  I remember that Yeah, parallel parking is one of the things I'm like Oh I have to do that for real with you. Like with you watching how many tries do I get? You're gonna have to do over already So as you're probably noticing the Paper that I put down. Nope. That's not paper. That is Actually tape ooh That is not that is not dry I prefer matte spray paint. I don't know if I told you that but it's true Okay, so when you hit uh tape with heat it starts to Melt the adhesive so a lot of my tape is coming off which is fine because we're about to pull it anyways I'm just gonna go ahead and pull it You know already see some of the layers showing This is gonna look so good. Oops I don't know how I did that, but we'll make it work Ooh that left some adhesive on if you run into an issue where some of the adhesive is left Don't worry about it because we're about to use some acetone to remove the paint and that will Absolutely remove any sticky left behind because we hit the Tape with so much Heat Okay, I'm gonna have to redo the base of this, but I'm gonna still I didn't let it dry completely enough. So it's Kind of peely a little bit And that can happen when you don't let the layers dry completely so learn from my Attempt to be in a hurry and don't be in a hurry We're gonna roll on with it because it's still gonna be a cool-looking tumblr and I just Won't uh resonant with you guys today so I can clean it up after the live feed And not exactly after the live feed So if your tumblr was fully dry, you wouldn't have to put it onto the turner like this You can just set it down regular But since I'm in a hurry Apparently We got problems I'm gonna get you guys a little bit closer Sorry problem of that all right Here we go So I went ahead and took all my rings off because I don't want um, I don't know if acetone hurts it, but I am using 100% acetone if you have nail polish remover, then you have acetone and for this also I'm just going to be using paper towel. You can use a rag if you wish We're gonna just put a little bit of your acetone on your And just start pressing down And it'll start removing some of the spray paint it's gonna look real sketchy for a little bit But it's one of those trust the process things and if you push your nail down a little bit it'll extra remove some of the paint so you can Remove it in kind of a point like that and we'll clean up that Um, all the paint that's on the outside you can just also just wipe it off without that much pressure I never took drivers that in school So as you start to rub everything away your uh, little center druzy area is going to get kind of clouded with some of the spray paint that we're wiping away, but you can always go back in and rub that off after you Um, complete your shape Uh Conversely, you can also just if you have a cricket or some kind of special cutter You can just Cut these shapes Instead of using the tape I'm trying to wear away some of the area so it pulls up A couple of the first layers like the gold But it's just not showing so we may have to kind of just Hand a doctor some gold into the piece so that it's still there But i'm okay with some of the kind of purple thing around the outside of our little cutouts because I feel like it just Further makes it look geody And i'm going to just say that geody is the word all right, so i'm going to clean up all of the remnants of spray paint and any adhesive that was in there Now i'm going to show you just right here what it would look like if you didn't want to do the tape deal I'm just going to use a little bit of my nail to push down and just open another one Right there And so as you can see the color that's directly under the white will be what's most prominent When you start to remove the color Well the spray paint Now this one is quite a bit larger and i'm actually gonna do a little bit of hand painting. I think around this one As soon as I get my main shape going I'm gonna add some more glitter because what glitter is always an option and I'll say it till my last breath because glitter is awesome granted not a fan of you know plastics that get into the ocean and all that as a mermaid very into protecting oceans I'm still into glitter and i'm going to start getting a little bit more into the eco glitters They're supposed to be safer for the environment. So but I just I don't know enough about them yet to like fully get into it Doing this will also bring back the shine of your little glitter druzy So just use really good tape so you don't have to worry about adhesive coming off Jeff told me when I picked up that tape that it was kind of trash tape But you know We're gonna test it and see what we can find out on our own right ladies You know i'm right Okay, let's start removing some of the paint around our shape Yes I like it magenta really plays well with Aquas and if you are interested in learning more about color theory and why colors work well with each other I'm going to be teaching a class in suguin, texas the first weekend of november It won't be my last one. So if you can't make this one no stress But i'm going to teach how to do ocean pours hands on and Give a little lesson on color theory and why it's important In your artwork or on your countertops. What have you? I see so the under color kind of yeah, it comes out So it kind of just highlights whatever your little pocket is But I didn't let the gloss spray paint dry enough in between the layers. So I'm having some issues but Listen, we do everything live on this channel. So people can learn from our mistakes We do the test so you don't have to and we make the mistakes. So you don't have to It does kind of look like a druzy stone Which was pretty much what I was going for But I wanted to jazz this one up a little bit. So I brought out some of my pbio kbio pb Listen, I don't know how to say it. So don't judge me um agitation relief I'm not exactly a hundred percent sure what this is meant for originally, but it says geode on it what I like to do is Little lines and this is going to give a little bit of a texture Because it's sitting up Apparently we're going to have a little bit of a fat part in our line right there. It's cool. It's fine. Whatever We're not ashamed of How line weight can Change a piece I am Outline it just like that and I'm going to let um The piece itself dry a little bit more because it's still a little bit tacky From all the heat we put on it. It's still very warm and This takes a little bit to dry anyways, but I'm going to go ahead and do another little bit Probably this one because I it's made a little boo boo and Give the rest of the piece a little time to dry because if you were to try to put glitter on this piece now It's going to stick everywhere including places where you may not have wanted it. So It's going to let it rest. I'm not going to rush through that bit Uh, yes at rk3 I still wear glitter spray and I'll never stop living glitter Damn, that's going to look so good When I grow up and have my own house, it's going to have glitter grow without julie So if you don't add any pressure you can wipe off that some of that color that came out But I like to leave a little bit of it because it really Gives them more to that relief Distressed look, you know, I'm just going to clean the center of this one out You think I should put another geode over here geoid Glitter is a necessity seconded Fully agree to that. Yeah, the November 5th is going to be at rk3 All of this is kind of little particulates of my little alcohol Paper towel here. And so if you want to use out like a rag Or an old shirt, you don't have to worry about Your paper towel paper towel words are hard like pilling like this If you use something that's made of a cloth instead of you know Paper I wish some of the gold came out, but it's fine I'll put gold glitter. I'm actually going to use burnt caramel glitter from just resin I had to rejart it because I had so much of it because I was using a lot at one point for my lip series You can make one you got that one right there Why do you have to use gloss? I don't know I I've seen people use satin and I feel like that's a better call because gloss just takes too long to dry We don't have that much satin in the house. We only have gloss and matte I feel like I read somewhere That it just works better like it Does the things better, but I don't know That's just what I have read somewhere How's clear doing she's doing okay. She's um got her Chemo dialed in finally so it's not I mean it's still making her sick, but it It was not fun for her. I mean obviously it's not fun for anybody including claire, but for a minute there They had heard I guess the dose off a little bit or Something wasn't right and had To go in So we found a tape I wanted to use It was blending in I mean I can see why they call this distressed because that looks pretty Distressed You can hand paint that raised with gold. Uh, you can I'm not going to be painting it with gold.  She's got some amazing sons to help her and She knows you can call me if I need to drop what I'm doing and come down there because Do it you can for your friends, you know All right, so everything around this is pretty not sticky anymore Where I just hit the other side um With something The acetone it is still techy So I'm gonna try to do this vertically So that it doesn't fall around It just falls Will waste not want not All right, it's a real thing I'm just going to Not do that again And I just use a rough bristled brush to kind of just clean this up a little bit I kind of don't mind having that glitter on the outside of it, but for the sake of This tutorial try to keep it clean But I really like it Outside of the lines that I had assigned it to be in any clean rough bristled brush We'll do the trick for that And then the back of it is glitter free sweet. All right, let's close this and get it out of the way I agree. I think it brings it to life as well. And actually I think I'm going to I think let's let's just see on this one if we like it with just a gold paint then I'm sure you charge it I'm trying to give it a regular kind of flow You know as geodes do Which do you guys like better the gold paint then? Or the gold glitter Thank you, Jerry. Have a great day Like should I add a gold line on this one and should I add a glitter line on this one? Glitter duck, I mean, I don't know why I should have known Who even am I? What if I just did a magnetic line of glitter? That's purple Have you ever been to my house? You've seen The absolute madness that is my glitter collection It's madness Absolute Okay, to add this glitter or tenon I know you guys are going to say add it. So I'm just going to go ahead and put the glue down I'm just going to follow this line that I already put down And yes, this will give this area a texture But that is That is okay Who says tumblers have to be just Flat You could use a glitter glue pen I don't I don't see why that would be an issue at all It should work just fine Now some of this is still tacky, but we're going to just do our north south glitter If you're interested in this glitter, it's candy pink by this resin Waste not want not I guess I could have done this first Brush away the excess It is not as easy to see on this one Where the excess is But we'll find it I thought that would work didn't accidentally I'll do a little bit too much away on that one So I'm just gonna Fix my little oops right here You know what a forgiving medium is glitter The downside about glitter is It's glitter And it's gonna get everywhere and you just better be cool with it because you can't stop it That is a love letter From glitter to you Yeah, you can definitely use glitter glues like there's I'm not problem with that at all Or any other mediums that you guys want to know about what you can use It doesn't have to be a resin question or glitter question Let me know your question I'm gonna add Gold line on this one. Yes. This is the cup I did the other day. It's looking awesome. I would have been too scared to do this well Listen anything you do really with resin can be intimidating because Resin has a little bit of a learning curve And you don't want to waste it. It's not exactly something cheap to work with This using an alcohol. Nope acetone rag to lightly wipe away some of this glitter It is going to take off some of your spray paint. So don't add any pressure unless you just want to add a whole bunch of more Um distress look But I don't mind the glitter being a little bit out of The realm but yeah, I'm glad I helped you Um with a little bit of Comfortability with this process with this Yeah, this process because it's a lot of fun to do and I think everybody should do it some juncture I'm gonna put I was gonna put this on the outside But I think I'm gonna put this line on the inside negative. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna be able to see it so if you Try to use a paint pen and it looks watered down Then Where's this light coming from And it looks kind of watered down like this I mean you didn't shake it and charge it enough to get the paint and What makes the paint fluid? Shake up and mix together Just make sure you shake up your paint pens and charge them, which means Pushing the nib into the body of the pen So again, I'm following the shape. I've already made But I may come out wider in some areas But always following the general shape of what we already put down And you can use other paint pens if you wanted to Let me pull Let's say this one Usually when we use a matte paint pen, we'll use a pasca. You can get them from amazon They need to be charged Just like the metallic paint pens But these are water based so if I don't like what I'm about to do I can just wipe it off You guys tell me if I should keep You do your first pour with under painting yesterday make a huge difference Well, that's awesome. So what do you guys think of this line? Should I leave it? Should I scrub it? I think so too So since we chose to leave it I'm going to put it on this one But it's a little bit hazy because apparently I did not get all the paint off of the inside I only noticed it when it hit natural light. So it's gonna Finish clearing that off Beautiful love it stunning linda vangelista Yes, her face is looking really good lately. She's like getting back into modeling Like the white line sweet Yes tomorrow is Our first crime and craft Super excited about that Now the only thing left to do is to let our glitter lines complete their drying And then Adding a layer of resin just like we did on the first layer of this piece Just mix up about an ounce and wipe it on So if you don't want to see any more of me just wiping away spray paint classes dismissed but I'm going to stick around answer any questions you have and I'm going to do just this one more and then we're going to do the giveaway But you don't have to stick around if you don't want to Don't forget there's a code on our website right now if you want to get 15% off the code is restock Looks like this And also make sure you use good tape so you don't have to worry about the adhesive sticking to your this when you Use any type of heat. So I would recommend the frog tape Also, we like to use this 3m blue tape Also, also if you don't want to deal with your Paper towel peeling and use an old shirt or a rag I would just go ahead and do the decorative work around these areas with you guys, but If I do that, I'm going to end up taking it off with All this aggressive wiping I'm going to switch to a rag Rags, yeah How long Do you let that dry? I would do layer of Okay, when you ask how long I let it dry you are you asking about the spray paint layers or the glue I should have let the spray paint layers dry for like I don't know using gloss maybe 30 minutes In between each layer You just let the glue lines dry until they're dry It depends on how thick of a line you put down on how long it's going to take for your adhesive to dry And also different adhesives have different dry times And since I put those Lines on pretty thick. I'm going to have to Address that when I get back from taking I feel like that's a child Which also I feel like gives me a little bit of license to whine a little bit I don't want to That just sounds like my regular No, you don't have to drive me I drove with my husband And he's across the street at Taco Bell We just got to prepare an answer it'll be fine Don't none of y'all call them and tell them I'm driving myself to my driver's test Galen, I'm so glad you love this. I really like this look too Let some of the red show a little bit more on this one I just put my whole finger in that line of glitter So I'll have to fix that now. Let's clean this one up Snitches get stitches see Fam You know we go clean that center area out Now we'll clean up a little bit of the purple on the outside Just by lightly Brushing and also make sure you brush in a good north south pattern style trajectory. I don't know so that your Lines of color that end up being smeared if you do decide to keep them stay Like cohesive with the piece And if you want to you can also Take off just a little bit of the color by Just rubbing ever so gently And so you can just make only the purple come out or you can work down Into some of the other colors that you put on I like to use my nail to Really get that color up And if you wanted to you could go all the way down to the substrate Which in our case is the glitter layer Just have a lot of acetone handy because it takes a little bit Yeah, a little peek-a-boo I think this is a really fun and unique way to Make something really yours You know At least in my opinion Definitely the biggest takeaway is going to be use quality tape You just had Taco Bell. I want Taco Bell What do you guys usually get from Taco Bell? I'm a Mexican pizza type of gal So Sarah you say you have a hard time keeping the resin Like mixing small amounts Trying to keep it at one to one all the graduated Measuring cups are for like I guess at least like four ounces and so what I do is I'll use medicine cups You can get these little medicine cups on Amazon I just fill up one to say four grams and the other two four grams And it always ends up being the right amount for This size I cannot speak on Like this super like the taller tumblers. I don't know why this looks so hazy. I'm gonna see if I can Clean you guys up some better Like I just woke everyone up. Okay quality tape quality pay pens or sure All right, I didn't mess up that one. I did hit this right here But now my sticky is outside of that Line that we had so I'm just gonna wait for this to cure and I'll go back in and fix that Should I geode these ones since I have you guys With me still You like where this is going? Well, thank you How do you come up with your ideas? They always seem to work out fantastically today is not one of those days. I didn't let my spray paint dry in between layers and you can see where it's cracking down here Do this crack in this crack It's just like crazing that happens with Um Like acrylic paints if you do acrylic pours and you have a pour that's too thick You'll get cracking or crazing where the top layer dries faster than the bottom layer And so when paint dries it shrinks but if the bottom is still fluid then it's going to shrink and shift instead of just Shrink and stay Because it's moving on the wet paint that hasn't dried yet because it hasn't Had exposure to air or heat like the top layer and so it's going to dry a different There's science and I can't tell you science terms. I can only tell you e science but yeah And I come up with my ideas um A lot of them I get inspired by other people uh when deaf and I take a break from our shop, which is Not that often but when we do We will um take inspiration trips where we just go out and Look around essentially Find new things to Be inspired by sometimes it's color sometimes it's a texture You kind of never know what it may be but We always try to find something to get inspired by When we're out and about Feel like there should be Not that but maybe bring it up in I think I like that So yeah Our our vacations are always like inspo getaways I'm medicine cats, but pouring from a jug of resin is tricky and I always end up So dumping too much and maybe I should pour the resin 100 smaller bottles if they aren't heavy One second So sometimes when we're working on a lot of smaller pieces or like smaller molds we'll put our resin into Something like this. This is just a really big Catch-up bottle that has a little lid on it. Make sure if you do this to label a and b because That could be a bad mistake to not know which one's which And then when you store them If this is a good seal you can store them upside down in a bucket Like an old resin mixing bucket that way when you go to use them You can take them out top to top and then just squeeze the amount you want out and you don't have to wait for it to come down or um If it doesn't have a good seal just leave it sitting straight up but That's a lot of times what we'll do if we have like a jug with just a little bit of resin in it and it's We need to go ahead and open the next one We'll just let it drain out into one of these for future smaller Projects a little fun fact for a tip for you guys But there's a whole bunch of Little smaller sized cups on Amazon Hope that helps When you have a bunch of different shapes like this, it's important to incorporate all the different ones as you go So when I come up on another one that's really close and I'm doing lines I just Bring it in and so if I do another line, I'll just do a little Something in there But I like these little outlying I guess I have to bring this one in now I'm not sure if I like how that flows going so I'm going to try to Change it It's just a little bit too smooth Okay, bowie try to just Fix what that looks like Also going over a gold paint pen when it's wet is a bad idea Let's let it dry if you have to add different kind of like layers Because it will get kind of like it's scratchy And I do geodes. I do a lot of different line weights because Nothing is fully perfect or cohesive in nature So I find that the little errors Tend to Bring your piece to life sometimes So thank you, David So I think I like how that looks so we need to bring up some gold into this little Split we have right here And then I'll color it in with a thicker one Smarter not harder they say And so I hear Love it Okay, that needs to dry real quick so we can add our glitter um, I think I'm gonna go with the burnt caramel colored glitter as opposed to the still beautiful But a little bit erratic Nope not doing that yet. Um Candy paint Also while that's drying and I'm waiting I'm going to go ahead and put the center white line on these It's coming out kind of Milky side to charge it and I'm going back over to Make sure the lines work Together Noice Coming too much in maybe I should pour the resin hardener in a smaller bottle than yeah, yeah, yeah Loving the fat gold same I think it brings out something really nice and so a lot of people may have like freaked out and had a bad time with the piece because of you know, we didn't go how I wanted it to initially but Honestly, I think the secret to having really nice Resin art is to let it kind of do what it's going to do and just help it to do that My most successful pieces of artwork are just when I let the materials kind of do what they Look like they're going to do and then just help them to do that I'm definitely not a portrait artist because that wouldn't be very conducive to that kind of Application but For what I do I think it works now. I feel like there's a big void Here I could leave it plain to let it balance or is it kind of is it seem out of place I'm just gonna let it rotate you guys tell me Kat says yesterday my pink turn like copper was weird but still looked great. I think it was quality issue could be Could definitely be quality issue Sometimes you just never know What will dilute a color but typically it's If it's too much heat it can dilute it and it can also be a quality issue also. It could be both of those issues So I think I like the balance of having a lot going on and then nothing going on Now my last question is should I tie in these little dudes Into kind of a geode look like I did this one or let those guys live Was a new mica not usual brand Leave them. I think so too, but I always like to get y'alls opinion That is still tacky. So we're gonna go ahead And glitter up That area I'm gonna take it off to do this one because I smudge some of the pink and I don't want it to get Into my pink and again, we're gonna pour the glitter downwards So that we don't have to worry about it getting into the other color lines I can blow glitter in my house like that because It's already everywhere Just make sure if you're blowing your glitter you don't do it Over your overflow glitter down here because I've done that and then it goes everywhere And then you're just sitting there with a face of glitter That is wasted It doesn't take a lot of pressure to knock glitter off that Isn't supposed to be somewhere unless it is tacky for some reason Which would mean your paint wasn't dry. You still like right here I don't know. I may have been too close right here this little line of glitter that's right there That's from the paint not being dry, but tell you what I'm into it Also, don't mind all my bug bites that I'm still dealing with What do you think about that? I really like that little Bit of glitter that stayed there and stayed here Okay, I think I'm gonna leave those I guess while I have this No, yes Okay, I'm gonna set this down and clean this up and we're gonna fix the pink part We'll see what we got Yes, it is just like the beginning of a fracture Okay, I'm gonna put a little bit of our glue down. I'm using this PBO or paybayo or however you say it words are hard Because it is the finest point glue Or adhesive applicator that I found I'm probably pushing it trying to get another little Mini fracture directly in the center of this, but We're gonna give it a go See if we can do it Okay, I'm scared and I'm just going to Sprinkle it on right over this You know what I didn't use that I should have is oak lawn Oak lawn if you don't know is an amazing glitter that Has some kind of magic power in it that makes it lay out In a perfect rainbow every time I don't know why I don't know what the sorcery in it is but It does and it's always amazing looking Now a lot of people after doing the glitter stage will go in and do Um a couple layers of mod podge to seal the glitter into where it is So it doesn't kind of float up into your resin, but me personally I'm cool with it resin's gonna resin and It never disappoints me so This color is actually candy pink from Just resin you can find it on my website or just to left comm use this code restock For 15 out today is the last day for that So yeah, I think I'm largely okay with where we're at with this. What do you guys think? Where should I add? Where should I take away? If this was your piece, what would you change about it at this point? Then tell me what you wouldn't have done Because I can't go back and change that now all I can do is handle it from here I'm not sure but I think so So when this dries, um by the time I get back from my driver's test Um, I'll be ready to do um a flood code on it And so I'll put a short up of how to do that I agree cat. Thank you for that So if you guys have any questions, let me know about that. Otherwise, let's do giveaways I'm just gonna put this over here and these are what Jeff has made to go into the Three grab bags we gave away yesterday and the two I'm gonna do today.  I just want to see Just Let it happen. Wait, okay I don't I don't know why I thought I needed to do this, but I definitely thought I needed to do this just now because this little applicator tip fits perfectly in the Little etched out void we've got here And so I'm gonna make one glittery But you guys tell me should I use The pink glitter since it's outlined in pink. I feel like I should Probably use either that burnt caramel glitter Oh, by the way, this color that we used is burnt caramel from just resin and this one is candy pink From just resin both of them are available on the website artist till that dot com If you're interested you can use the code that will expire tonight It is restocked and it is for 15 off of the entire website support my small business and Get yourself some materials On sale Who doesn't love a sale? All right. I also have a silver glitter and a white glitter that would look good in here But you guys let me know what you think They are not 3d printed. They are Cut just like our stir sticks are which is another thing. I wanted to show you guys these limited editions Have our little Artist till death a in it. I hope you can see that Maybe you can see it better on nope You see that Hope so I haven't done an ombre glitter in a long time, but I'm gonna do it for you guys We got the solid part down now. We just need to fade it upward a little Just a little okay, we got that one We're gonna do the other side So I'm trying to contaminate my colors Usia I guess it's candy pink sunshine And on this one. I'm just going all the way down with it I would I would do that Beacon look what I did to your thing. All right enough playing around I have to give you guys some stuff and also Probably study. I don't know just do people study for These now Okay I guess I'm just going to write whoever's name right next to For this so I have one more grab bag to give away of all of these awesome products that was Um gifted back to me because a subscriber of ours is downsizing. So she just had a bunch of resin arts And some artist who which is from way back in a day It was just one of the first products that I use and then some primary elements if you don't know This jar is 17 dollars. And so she Donated quite a bit for me to give away to you guys And so you have my handy dandy pencil Clear myself some space to write names Okay So what we're going to do is we're just going to pick a number because last time I feel like the new subscribers didn't know a lot of the things that I was asking because they're new so I have a handy dandy this So we're just going to Play pick a number And I think we have about 30 people in the chat. So I'm just gonna put it down to 30. So there aren't that many Is vamp still in here?  Yeah last time it was not awesome so All right vamp. I'm I'm going off of this to Watch the numbers So whoever guesses The number first Will win and so I'm going to take this off screen to hit it because I don't want you guys to know Um, and don't start guessing yet because it won't count. Um, what number it chooses until it's ready. And so The first person that picks the right number wins and the first one I'm going to give away is um this one and the Last grab bag and then the No This one is going to be the last grab bag. These are what I'm going to give away first and then um We'll give away this one in the last grab bag last So these first four are just for the stir sticks and the key chains and the last ones for the final grab bag okay, okay, so for This one And then whoever wins it can tell me if they want glitter added to it This one ready start guessing numbers I'm spinning It's spinning Nope, I can't show you Okay, I have a number and so first person to pick it Oh my goodness. Okay Diana, I think you won because the number was 17 as you can see right here So I'm not even gonna try to pronounce your last name T-i-g-h-e There's E-a-y-e-r-s If I don't have your Shipping address if you haven't ordered from me before Then shoot me an email At thornton at artist till death Whenever per person should have said that sooner But we're gonna do it again So that number is still in the running you can still choose 17 if you want to one number per person Ready go and that is for this one Okay, looks like gaolin won this one because the number was Is that the first one you saw too? Bamp is gaolins I should have it sweet Okay, now The next one Oh, that was for last picks. Okay, so We'll know when guests that I'll still send you this one gaolin, but We'll do another one for this one. Okay But sure No one really was guessing. Okay, so Maybe I'll just lower it down to 20 Let me see what the last comment is Okay, so after gaolins 26 I'm still gonna give this to in gaolin because that was my bad. So now I know Okay, so now we're going to guess again For this one And then the next one's going to be the ombre one and then the one after that is going to be the grab bag one Okay, I have a new number No one's guessed it yet still nobody still nobody Diane's got the right idea she posts it and then No, we're not doing closest. We're just letting people guess and then if No one guesses it then we're just going to open it up for multiple guesses And you can win more than one So don't hold off trying to just get the grab bag still nobody I feel like you guys have guessed every no, there you go cat The number was seven Okay, now for this one. Oh So Y'all start guessing a number No 44 no No One to 20 One to 20 No, cat you won another one nine Okay, this last one For the final grab bag And so I'm gonna put it Back to 30 All right, man. If you tell me when the reset is It's probably right after cat johnson's. Yay You guys start guessing Because here we go. This is for the final grab bag One through 30 Got a number Bambi are always reset Still no one's guessed it You know when it goes so long that no one's guessed it I always second guess myself and I'm like, oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Did I did I remember the wrong number? I wish it was number two because that's my favorite number still nobody. Oh cat. Are you? Bamb, do you see cat was number four first because it was number four?  I can't wait to show you guys that video, but it will be premiering tomorrow night at 6 central I will be if I can figure out how to do a premiere. I'll be in The chat feed as well. It will be pre-recorded But it'll be like alive and have like the little chat feature on the side. So you and I can talk about the case As it's going on and I hope you guys tune in for that. It's going to be so amazing Very excited with that. Definitely need to look that case up. Sounds awesome. Definitely do it is Dahlia DiPolito Annie Elise has a good one on it Stephanie Harlow is a good one on it. There's a lot of people that have good information so I hope you guys grab a beverage of your choice sit down and let me tell you the story of Dahlia DiPolito while I create a piece of artwork I'll tell you the story So anyways, if you are interested in 15 off my website use the code restock today is the last day for 15 off That is for if you want to get this awesome glitter That we use this is oceanic or any of the other ones or any of the pigment paste Whatever I have on there. It's 15 off through in the night tonight I hope you all have an awesome evening be kind to one another because you never know what someone's going through Give good juju for me going to take a 16 year old level driving test And yeah, I'll see you guys In the chat tomorrow, but till then be kind to one another Could you never know what someone's going through? And I always remember To leave me your thumbs and that we do the test so you don't have to we'll see you guys in the next video. Bye


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspeysCaseBreaks.com. Happy Tuesday. We finally got all of our stuff from the national back, including this final break for the final break for the national promo. That's 2022 Gold Rush at the Big Cajona Spaceball Edition. Five-Box Ram Team Break number six. Let's do the break first, and then in a separate video will be that giveaway part. Big thanks to everyone here for getting in on the break and being patient with it as this case came across the country from Atlantic City back to Los Angeles. So thanks everyone for making this happen. Let's make sure...right, so then perfect. I got everyone's names, all 30 baseball teams are in. Only one carper, there's only five cards in this repack product here. So when we do trades, trade at your own risk. But first let's randomize names and teams two and a five seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. Got Eugene down to Martin, two and a five seven times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time. Good luck. Got the Mariners down to the Cubs after seven. And there's the first half of the list right there. Actually, let's read all these off. It's a proper break. Eugene, Mariners. Jason with the Reds. Michael with the Rangers. Joshua with the Twins. Jason with the Angels. Joshua with the Pirates. Steve Birch. Padres. Eric with the Yankees. Yan, you got my Dodgers. Harry, Tigers. Jimmy, Guardian. Steve Birch. Braves. Blue Jays. Royals. Brian with the Orioles. Martin with the Mets. Juan with the Reys. Allen with the Rockies. Daniel with the White Sox. Peter with the Giants. Martin with the Brewers. Other Martin. Martin D. Brew Crew. Martin C. Phillies. Jimmy Astros. Harry with the Red Sox. Martin D. With the Diamondbacks. Yan with the... Could it be Jan? Or Yan? Jan? Jan? Jan with the Marlins. Michael with the Cardinals. Jason with the A. Steve Birch with the Nats. And Martin Doring with the Chicago Cubs. We're going to pause the video just for a wee bit. It's alphabetized by a team here. And when we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades. Then we'll have the break. So stick around. We'll see you on the other side. All right. Welcome back, everybody. No deals were done. So this list on Tuesday the 9th, 2022 remains the same. Thanks, everyone. Joshua with that last spot mojo star next to his name. 70% of the time. Last spot mojo hits 100% of the time. According to legend. There's the case right here. Jaspy return it says. Thanks. Thanks everyone for being patient with this break. Finally got it here. I look for one high end baseball card in every box. That's what we're looking for. Good luck, everyone. Pouches right yet. All right. First one out of the gate. A graded card. I see an autograph there as well. It's going to be a 9, 5, 10. Labor Torres. Wow. Cubs edition. Remember when he was a cub? Back in 2015. 2015 Bowman Chrome prospect autograph the Labor Day. Centering edges. Corners all a 9, 5. Surface a 9. His autograph a 10. That's pretty cool. Cubs. Martin. Martin Doring with the Cubs. Next one. Not graded but looks like a gold frame. It is the man of steel. It's a one of one. No, wait. No, that's outfield. Sorry. 10 out of 25. I was so excited. He is one of a kind though. The man of steel. 18 out of 25. Gold frame autograph. This must be from transcendent. Pretty nice. That's going to go to Jason Kersh and the Oakland A's. The man of steel. Next, an old school card here. It's rated rookie Ken Griffey Jr. This is autograph. Nice. An authentic autograph. That's awesome. That will be for the Mariners. Eugene with the M's. Ken Griffey Jr. Autograph. Nice. Another slab card here. Another autograph. Of... It's another Mariner. Wow. It's Ichiro. On his 2001 Daunress rookie. Diamond King card. That's his authentic auto. Nice. Another Mariner for Eugene. All right. And the last box. Fifth and final box. Good luck everybody. Fingers crossed. It's only five cards. So pretty hard to hit in this break. But if you do, it's usually pretty nice. Keep an eye out for more of this gold rush stuff on jaspyscasebreaks.com. You do a great job with this. All right. Who do we have here? We've got a rated prospect. Ronald Acuna Jr. Nice. That's from 2018 Daunress Optic Baseball. That's pretty strong. Steve Birch with the Braves. And there you go ladies and gentlemen. Another great big cojones break in the books. I was random team number six from jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Joe. And I'll see you next time for the next baseball break. Bye bye.