Hello everyone welcome to Wednesday at 1 o'clock Toronto time Live in the art studio. I'm Dave behind the camera is Jeff. What's up? We're gonna be just making some things and Usually it ends with the I'm getting coated in resin. So that's what we're doing here Thanks for watching. Hello mom my strongest supporter I Hope you're having a great day So very nice, why don't we walk around look at stuff? This will be our table of contents and then we'll actually make some stuff So if you have any questions, just ask Jeff All right, so I'm good. Why don't we start here boom. So when you buy butterflies on the internet Then butterflies they come with their wings closed. So you have to Rehydrate them so get them a bit moist and then you can slowly open them Now that they've been sitting like this it should stay in position. See oh nice yeah, so Why? Why are we doing butterflies? We're trying to cast them inside resin then our next phase is playing with the laminator So we're gonna do a test today Why don't we go look at the butterflies and show what the problems were? All right You've been following along we've been trying to cast we have all these butterfly samples sup John's Hi, everyone, Janice Thanks for watching everyone so a Couple things we're trying to do it all on one poor. Hi, Rebecca. Hi summer. Hey, there's summer and Rebecca. Hey summer Hey, Dale. Hey, Rebecca Hey, Wanda. Hi everyone Dale from Grimsby Grimsby We're just around the corner. Yeah water down and we live in Dundas Dianne from Minnesota Minnesota Miriam we're just talking about troubleshooting Casting butterflies and huge blocks and red Ed and Andrea Zach say hi mom or she's just coming on. Okay. Hi So from the user feedback that we've got from you guys. Thank you very much Multiple people have said you want to eliminate your butterflies first so We've been doing that. We're buying a better laminator We got a cheap one off of Amazon and couldn't take the thickness of the body So what we'll do today is we're gonna cut this out and cast just this winging resin Mm-hmm just to see if that's all all the problems of discoloring and bubbles All right, hey Debbie This is one thing we're gonna do today is If this test works, then we'll do some big blocks. I don't know bigger than that like four inch blocks of oh, yeah Butterflies suspended and I think that we have troubleshooted everything. Yeah, what about suspending? What are you thinking? Well someone one of the users here on a good name for Suspending things in space before you apply resin they call this string and box Mm-hmm technique, and I guess that's an action This is all new to me though. So you use you have a box a frame Some whatever you're gonna pour into and then you have string basically And and that's what you just suspended in space. So We'll cross that road when we get there. All right. Look at that the laminator kept the colors super vibrant Now if I wasn't in a rush because of this live video, I would have been a bit tidier But this is enough to give us an experience. So that was laminated. So you did eliminate that previously. Yeah, I laminated this one Okay, so I went through okay. Yeah, just a new one or is this an old one? This is just I think it's 39 bucks just on Amazon and The body kept getting stuck So we're flattening the butterflies with a brick Debbie we are an hour west of Toronto, Canada and in water down water down Ontario, Canada Mm-hmm So these are kind of scratched up just to give it some sort of effect We were trying to put the resin only on this bubble So we're gonna try that again and the key is to let your resin get really thick first and then pour it We were having some issues, but we'll do this today too Okay So These are rough because they've been sanded, but these are So they were originally four by four blocks of wood and then it rotted away and we filled in the rest with resin This is a pink resin We're gonna resin these again today for the final coat of resin like look at that. It's so cool I've always been excited to do this these ones aren't perfect as you'll see we still have some bubbles But we know what to do to get rid of those now Nice. Yeah, so there's still a bit too many bubbles, but Just troubleshooting trying to get it all worked out. Someone is actually I think was Omar is Deaf and is wondering if I could turn on the closed captioning. Do you know how to do that? Oh Omar Is deaf and much closed captioning. I'll try and speak really clearly so that all the text is No, but I don't have I don't have the closed captioning on Trying to see if I can sorry Omar. I'm trying it. Well, sorry Omar. He can't he doesn't know Oh, maybe oh, I think you have to put it on afterwards. Maybe or maybe Omar has to do it Yeah, de-sing on his own. Oh, yeah, I wish I could help out Omar. Sorry buddy. So mom and dad We would go to I think it was called red rose at the time in the craft store Yeah, now it's Michael's or Joanne And I would always get in that store and rush over to the balsa wood section If you don't know what balsa wood is It is a very soft almost spongy wood This is and so anyways this point of the story is I go into the craft section and just touch the balsa wood Just want the balsa wood and you cut it and glue it. You can cut it with just like a knife So you don't need any fancy tools and then and usually they're used to make like model houses Or you can make some amazing stuff. So I just got a kit I'm gonna make these bases out of balsa wood and you might say that this isn't strong enough to make a base But I'm gonna resin it nice. Yeah, and then that's the idea. Anyways, we'll see if it works So I'm coming up with some sort of design. I'm gonna make it a balsa wood make a base I'm gonna paint it black I think and then Call it a day. Okay. That's cool. Yeah. Hey Alexis welcome back D. Did you want to say anything to D? Oh Yeah, yeah, thank you D Oh She sent us a Tim Hortons gift card if you don't know Tim Hortons is the pot like the Starbucks of Canada to the cheap Starbucks Okay, but look at it. It's like a homemade card. We sent her some resin and she said she looks forward to it buy some coffee and donuts So, thank you D and I wanted to say if anyone wants to send us anything Here's the address Nice and close Dave's act non-grivance free water down on to our two H. Oh, but thank you D. That's amazing Thanks for making the card and making the effort so you can send gift cards to that Welcome Rose and everybody and speaking of Nice transition look at how perfect this is It's not perfect. It's pretty close. So we're like yeah We're get we're mastering this technique and we'll teach you how to do it, but you're not a dirty mold That's why there's a little scarring on the sides, but you need a nice clean mold, but we've really been learning about flowers a Lot and then filming process and documenting it.  We talked about butterflies. We looked at the lamps. Oh, why don't we do electrical for the lamp? I'm so distracted all the time this compression chamber. We're gonna use today, too Yes, it's a terrifying looking machine And so we have so we have someone at our resident Scott Who is going to be trying to find like user-friendly? Compression chambers look at this thing. Oh, no way. You got him on that. That's awesome Yeah, exactly, but this thing if you're ever gonna get into casting casting resin and Then you want to make things the compression chamber is best friend. I don't like admitting that Because I want to try and have stuff everyone can do Yeah Okay, here's what we're gonna do We're gonna make a cable for the lamp and these are all parts you can get at any hardware store or just on Or just on Google. Mm-hmm. So step one So there's I'm gonna draw a diagram of how to make a lamp wire Okay, where'd you learn all this? Like how to do wiring and stuff? Yeah Why are things up so you have you have a plug-in, right? and Then you have your wire and Then here we're gonna have an on-off switch, right?  Yeah, it's so fun and it's pretty difficult when you're and so there's so There's actually a circle that's happening Through here. See the electricity is coming in here Mm-hmm and going like that and then going back in a circle. So as long as that's the basics of Any electrical thing you just made me a circle. Hmm And if at any time you make a mistake, and it's not a circle, that's called short circuiting and Then your fuse will blow so I got these switches off of Amazon Hey season the witch is back. Hey season of the witch. I really like that name You know, it's a great store name. Okay, let's just do this store name. Yeah, it's a store, right? Or it's her online. It's her we got the name last week, and I forget it already. I apologize. Yeah Okay, can you give us a sports update like what's going on in the world of sports? What's going on in the world of sports? Let's see. We're winding down to the conference finals in basketball where it's now going to be Lakers and He know heat heat and Celtics are playing already And Lakers are playing surprisingly the nuggets the Clippers blew it last Okay In football the biggest my favorite is football is back. It just had their first full week Looked like it went off without any problems. It was so nice to have it back If anybody else is a football fan, let me know who you're a fan of because I love it all and I love fantasy football Dave totally as you see Dave's reactions here. Oh Totally just Pieces me and allows me to talk sports because he knows I love it so much So what about hockey hockey? No, I love hockey So hockey is also in down to its finals where we got Dallas and we got Tampa Bay and Yeah, we're looking I'm thinking Tampa Bay is gonna take it this year because they kind of blew it out last year So I think it should be Tampa's year, but you never know Oh, no, Rose doesn't like football rose. You're breaking my heart Cowboys from creative Pegasus red wings from Red Wing Detroit. Okay Um Cowboys, yeah, they kind of blew it last week started to hear that but maybe next week though It was Atlanta and Dallas week of game. Hi Dave and Jeff and who are I am so happy. I finally see the live stream So I disappeared But saying hi to whoever said hi. Thank you Jen Green Bay Packers. Yeah, love. Oh, they had a great game Nice to have Rogers back Make this lamp wire. So this is just called lamp wire lamp wire. Okay It's called lamp wire.  Yeah, you did, okay This is this was one of my favorite tools growing up. What's that? So it's so the bottom part cuts and then these are the different holes for stripping the plastic And it always has a nice little lock It's such a great tool and then you can grab things with the end of it and pull it in I don't know what the thing's called Stripper, is it a cable stripper? No, I don't know. Yeah cable wire strippers. There you go, John John's always on call. Thanks, John Thanks, John. So I want to make it very tight so that I don't want to cut back beyond that I don't want to go beyond that part, right? So it'll look nice and tidy so I'll use this wire stripper to just get started. Mm-hmm. You can split them see The wire is perfect The wire is perforated so that you can pull it quite easily. So what are the two sides? Well, you're always making a circuit, right? So there's two wires Oh, so is it the same so it's the same power same cable essentially, but it has to return making a circle. Yeah That's what electricity is So I'm gonna use The second smallest one or second largest one on this thing Yeah, do you help happy to have you come by you can purchase here. Yeah, come on over deep Or actually I got in trouble because of the global pandemic The guys in Texas, they're like, don't invite people over during a pandemic I was like, sorry, it was really nice, but we can be um You know, it's safe. Yeah Wear masks and stuff It's a new world, eh? Yeah I went to the gym for the first time today. Yeah And they want you to wear a mask the whole time you're working out the whole time you're working out That's kind of crazy. I don't know like, yeah, it's hard to breathe. But yeah, what do you do? Well, you got to get rid of that Belly you got cooking there. I know a dad bod Okay Thousand islands. Ooh, that sounds like a good idea That's solid dressing. See someone's saying one it's like other side one side is neutral and one side is One side is neutral hot And neutral is just the line that's going back again So you can almost Attach anything to that. All right This is all safe, right? We're gonna survive this. Yeah, I mean how it's not attached to power yet. Very true Okay, you just got screwed in Yeah, and the screw just pinches it And then of course the screw is made of a metal so it's Solid dressing. Yeah So we're done with Thousand Island Whatever happened to that it Still exists that's isn't that kind of McDonald's secret Big Mac sauce too is kind of like a just a spin on Thousand Island dressing Really? I think so. Are you sure about that? No, don't quote me on it. But now it's recorded. Yeah So McDonald's secret sauce is just Thousand Islands dressing. Yeah, that's my theory Really? Yeah I know right try it Boom see Ed and Andrews say it's right. See there you go Okay, they just put mayonnaise out in the sun. That's Rebecca says Oh, hi wife. Yeah so Um, I want the the plug to be pretty close to the lamp. So I'm just gonna cut about that much Right. Yeah We'll do the other end and this is our led light That I took from this package. So it is uh one of those What do they call them pot light a square pot light? And I okay, and I just took it apart and just took out the light part That was very easy to do I just unscrewed those things and it just pops up when you just took off the circuit here Yeah, I want and so I'm gonna make a contraption of balsa wood that this can go into and the lamp can just sit on top And then resin everything and actually you can resin over top of circuit boards That's actually another use for very clear resin And the circuit board gets a coat of it on top just to hold everything in place And it's not conductive. So it's totally fine. It's like your final quote of circuit boards The exact same stuff that is used in art resin Is used for coating circuit boards? Um, okay, so a few things. Yes, this Thousand Island has become a big Yeah thing where yes, I guess it's uh possibly Thousand Island with relish and mayonnaise. That's what we're thinking Uh, and yeah, but we did uh, yeah, okay Everybody's talking about it right now because someone was asking about uh, can you make a resin scented our resin scented and we played with that We did and we tested Essential oils and we tested fragrance oils. I don't know what the difference is But the essential oil didn't work at all. There's no smell. It just gets cured within the resin and just stays there so there's no no smell and Fragrance oil smelled a little bit But we're not big fans of Of it. It wasn't that it wasn't that strong enough to be really impressive Yeah So no, we haven't figured out how to make epoxy resin smell with by mixing it into the resin Unfortunately, okay So I mean it's really long So oops In this end So this is just okay soon Do you have to make sure that there Does it matter which side goes into which? No, it doesn't really well I've never noticed it to matter and I I've survived Okay, but I could be I mean when you get into more complex wiring you start Doing that. Um, I wanted to go back to something. Yeah Arby's sauce Oh I I mean catalina dressing and ketchup mixed I'm not buying it. I tried it. I tried it a lot. What is it ketchup and what? Catalina dressing. Oh, yeah. Yeah one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what No, there's no way because there's no real kick to it. Like Arby's got has a little bit of kick, doesn't it like I know right. I've never been able to figure it out. That doesn't sound right. Oh, yeah Interesting So if anyone out there knows the answer to that Arby Arby sauce putting it out there, Dave needs to know how to do a homemade version Rebecca says it's not real food. She's like hey, they just take the meat out of a bag Like a bag is a perfectly reasonable way to transport Great roast beef your mom is saying there's a dressing called russian that's similar Russian is that similar now to the big mac sauce? Are we talking here or are we talking about the arby sauce? Yeah, creative pegasus is throwing up to the Arby's. Really? You are awesome says Cindy. That's very nice Cindy. Cindy S Y N D I E beautiful Cindy. That's nice Look at this thing. This is so difficult. Yeah, why do we try?  I went to the gym today and I said that and it's so hard But you know, it's good for you. Yeah I heard a good quote something like You need to do the things that you hate to do As if you actually love doing them Makes sense I tuned you out about five minutes ago This is really hard. I just give up. Thanks Kelly. You're awesome. She's loving you Kelly I I have man hands I'm rushing. I drank too much coffee. I'm shaking a bit. I'm doing this delicate fine work We got it. We had turtle jacks for lunch today. Everybody just we recommend that that is Yeah turtle jacks Turtle jacks How much they're a chain? I think they have like eight locations here in Southern Ontario Kind of got a muscoka Flavor field to them, I guess right and if you don't know muscoca is it's where toronto escapes In the summer to their cottages about two hours north of toronto. It's called muscoca Yeah, so lots of like celebrities and stuff A lot of big places there Okay, look I didn't give up and I I succeeded doughnuts and deep fried pickles for your shakes What do you mean? I think that's what everybody's offering you for solutions to help with you What do you mean? Just eat those and Eat those and you'll be good and go to copper kettle. Someone already knows the area. Oh copper kettle. Cool What's at that? Uh, was it sandy? I forget copper kettle just right behind us. Yep. Yeah, that's good. Good And they make homemade apple fritters on the spot. Oh Yeah, it's not good Like not good as in very good. Yeah, not good to They're so good, but you feel so gross. Oh, yeah, you get lost in those. Oh, yeah Look how much fun that is Yeah, you like doing that. It is fun So, how do you know what you just kind of figure out what size of the cable is you just slide it into Yeah, I mean if usually start big like if I did this one It wouldn't go all the way through and doesn't pull off so you kind of just keep going until you find Okay, the size that seems to work Well, it's so much easier doing it that way whenever I try to cut it with like an exacto. It's I worry about Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and you end up cutting a couple of the pieces exactly. Yeah, everyone needs this tool Uh, sorry to hear all your problems. D. I'm glad you're feeling better. Do you have any problems? Yeah, she's having she's having nutrition problems. I don't know, but it looks like she's all good Every single female that I know is having a like digested issues. Oh, no every single female I know their stomach hurts They're having a hard time sleeping like How's your wife Jeff? Uh, doing okay. I mean, is there's belly hurt? Is it tummy hurt? Sometimes all the time something's going on with females. Yeah, but you know, we just need uh Consistent sleep a better sleep pattern would be good. Yeah, so I'm just roughly twisting these together and I just put a bit of Electrical tape just to keep everything as small and compact as possible. Okay, but we'll be hiding this part inside So again, we are doing the backtrack for anybody that may have joined late We are doing wiring as opposed to normal kind of art resin stuff. What are we doing wiring for? For these lamps and and we're gonna pour resin over top of this and then And then we'll just watch it for a couple minutes. It'll be very like meditative and beautiful You'll see what I'm talking about All right. Okay. Let me just finish this up. Then let's mix some resin All right. So yeah, just some electrical so that we can Yeah, and I'm really rushing and again. I drink too much coffee. That's all right Thanks, Steve for the Tim Horton's curve That was so nice Okay, okay I'm gonna finish later because I'm just rushing and doing a terrible job But you get it, right? Oh no, we want to test this at least. Yeah You know, I'm just gonna do this right so these things They have a coil on the inside and then just twist everything together in there Perfect Or you could tape it doesn't matter either way. You could intertwine it with tape, but But these things are better Okay, now let's plug into the wall and see if we die Okay, great. If I die, uh, Jeff, you can have my dog Uh, okay. I'll take summer. Sure. I think Rebecca will probably have a problem with that How to plug into a wall. There we go. Okay moment of truth Oh We have light. Yeah And then you can add things like Dimmer switches if you want to. Oh, yeah dimmer. Okay, but this is just a regular on and off switch Yeah, that's all we wanted for our lamps. Cool. Speaking of lamps, let's set up these ones Why don't we see if my balsa would like to have any Merit at all first before we go too far so balsa wood D's excited to see the lamps. Yeah, me too. These three aren't perfect. So I'm but I'm redoing them Absolutely perfect. So what are you doing? So you're cutting? Wow, this is just really easy to cut and strip down I'm just trying to remember There are tricks and That seems like crescent it Fuji's excited Fuji's craft studio. Oh good Jeff, what are you excited about these days? Yeah, I'm actually going to see tenet tonight I'm excited for that. Just going to the movies. Just going. I'm just going for it. I mean a buddy and we're gonna go and Check out the movie social distance. They got it. It's an iMac. So everything is really spaced out and So but I'm I'm happy to uh, just get out there. I love the movies and I want to see this movie on the big screen. So I'm gonna get a popcorn and a coke Yep, nice every time you get thanks D So you get the uh, refillable popcorn I never want to get it. I never want to miss a single second of the movie. So I once I'm in my seat That's it locked in tenet the new Christopher Nolan Kind of inception like movie, but it's only like I do collect scene points It's only like three extra dollars For what iMacs To know I think oh, I'm going to popcorn size But I don't need to go back Huh, but it's only three dollars to just to know that you could So what am I doing it for when I'm just just Just to know that I could Right, but I know that I'm gonna stay there. So well, then when you leave you fill it up and you can have the next day for breakfast Oh, oh, well, there usually is leftovers. We'll see if I get time to have dinner before I go today We'll see we'll see. We'll see But uh, either way that is the biggest thing and then uh, I know well, it's still A lot of movies are still being bumped back. So oh really? Oh, yeah, there's a lot of it's not releasing them. No a lot of movies have been Like the james bond everything that there's a second top gun coming out all these things have been pushed pushed pushed They want to make the people can get in there. Yeah, because uh, new york I believe LA. I think they're still shut down They don't have theaters open in the big cities and those are major markets So they're they're shut down like completely shut down in new york. Yep leaders as far as I know Okay, so I I was gonna use super glue Okay, make this structure Actually resin leftover popcorn interesting. Oh making a pop me resonating a popcorn. Yeah, that's kind of cool interesting Um, sorry, so what you're doing?  That's not a good thing Oh I'm gonna play with this later. Sorry. I'm going I do. Yep And then I was gonna create like an inner square here for it to sit on top of out of this size We're So I'm just making a square out of these. Yeah, and then a ring on the inside And it's really just to house the circuit board for the for the light, right? Yeah, and I'll be painting it black It'll just be a base like that I'm gonna see I just wanted to play with balsa wood Hmm I'm gonna get some super glue Oh, like maybe I just glue this base on here like this And then it's pour resin over the whole thing and then it'll pour over this too What do you think? Hmm I just don't want it to be messy. You don't want to be messy. No All right on the wood the wood might like because it'll look good on the lamp, but I just don't know what it'll Look like on the wood. Okay. Well, I'm gonna resin. What one should I resin then? What should we do? Maybe the middle one just resin either the pink one or the pink one or the Medium size one. I just want you to see what happens. Yeah, it's just so cool to watch Actually, why don't I do these two? All right, everybody wants the pink one So I'm just setting up a little stance One of the pyramids your mom's concerned that the balsa wood is gonna be a little too weak I know I'm thinking of too, but that's why I was thinking if I if I resin the whole base Oh, I see whole base and resin that'll strengthen the big time. Yeah. Yeah, turn it into like plastic. So I'll see Those are some lovely stands Okay, oh All right Embellished Yeah, oh do you want to show your I think someone was actually asking about the marker tops Here it is. John. You ready for it? If you're here last week Turned out really nice like that's wicked for a kid's room or a playroom or something like that. That's like awesome Nice People are people are giving some thumbs up and compliments. I believe they're liking that. Well done, dude. Yeah. Thanks, john Thanks season the witch. Thanks everybody Random thing just boom grab some stuff grab some leftovers. The one that we do with sand with a shell in it Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, where is that? Did you are you gonna do the sign right? Yes, yes, everybody liked that one too the shell and the sand that was really great Okay, so we're gonna do we're gonna put art resin on those. Let me get some new gloves. Okay And we're just gonna mix up a little bit and then we're gonna put something in the compression chamber. Oh I also want to Just float that butterfly wing in there Float like a butterfly Okay, so let's start with I'm gonna get a smaller No brought to you by Okay, that's right Sting like a bee. There's been a lot of bees. I don't know about you I've been swarmed by bees this summer Okay, so I put a lot in there That was the hardener So I got one and a half I have to go almost all the way to three These buckets with the measurements on the side are just fantastic. Yeah Wow, I love the 10 gallon jugs of resin. I know right? Monsters Can you have the lamp when it's done come on actually But a little oh, they're so nice Dave always Um, we have been thinking about and what do you guys think everybody who kind of comes back? We're thinking next week We're gonna do a giveaway. Maybe Dave Yeah, sure like we'll do like One of the pieces that we've done here. I don't know whether it's the if Dave finishes the marker or the whether sand in the shell or the I don't know the spray paint stuff, whatever we'll give kind of an option out there And it will be a competition between all of you guys, but you have to watch the show You got to pay attention. This is what I'm thinking. Anyways, and then we have A questionnaire at the end of the show and based off of like a quiz like maybe three or four questions at the end And whoever can say the correct answers the quickest We'll win that The painting of their choice Something like that. I mean we make so many things here and you guys join us along with the journey all the experimentation We appreciate it. So we want to give back. So if you guys are Interesting or interested we will we'll do that up and hopefully put up something that you guys would be interested in having So let's do that and Dave said yes to sandy you you're oh sandy sandy. I believe is the one who asked for a lamp Don't worry. We'll we'll come up with something creative pegasus. We'll come up with something to make it fair for everybody So we'll see we'll come up with some plan, but uh Stay tuned for that. Hopefully we'll do it next week. It'll be either next week or the week after for sure Fairness, eh? We've done contests in the past and we Not many people complain, but people complain. I know they want to be fair We try we always try to be fair for sure All right, I just started pretty crazy. Sorry. I got lots of bubbles here right now Let's let that sit and I'm going to mix up some casting resin. Thanks John So why don't you do casting today? We're just going to be casting uh So we're going to use this compression. Yeah, and this is to make sure that you have zero bubbles and it works absolutely amazing But if you're so intimidating to look at Look at all this stuff cables and metal like big holes It looks like it's from like Like this from like the 80s or 60 or something like it's so poorly designed Of course suji will make it open for you in india Why can't someone make a compression chamber that doesn't look like you're You're long, you know launching into space. I think I've seen videos where at least it's just this like it's just I haven't seen this with it. Oh, is it always like maybe it's off camera then when I don't see it? Yeah, because once you're fully you can get rid of that Okay, so what are we going to do today? We're going to just pour clear in this Jeff. Yes, please clear the cast and throw it in the compression chamber And then I want to put something in here. Okay Do you want to mount something in there? Oh, I want to put this but I want to test to see if we'll have no bubbles On this wing since it spins. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Do you want to suspend it then? Yeah, I'm going to suspend it How should I suspend it? This will float, right? We all float down here. I mean you got a super glue to the bottom basically So how we don't want to do that though. I don't want to let's not do anything to the mold Can we suspend from the air like above like we'll try let's pour some resin in these two and see what's happening And put them in a tank so at the bottom of your pressure pot if you ever get one of these You just put something to keep it clean That would be plastic. Use a safety pin held by a clipper to make the butterfly float A safety pin held by what? Safety pin held by a clipper like a clip But you also want to do it all in one pour. Yeah, it's the hard part Yes, yeah, because you don't want it. Yeah, exactly Um Yeah, because this is a slope here Hmm How have we been spending while we did the The fishing wire which didn't work The fishing wire kind of worked, didn't it? Kind of You can still see the fishing wire though. You can. Yeah Maybe we need to try different types of fishing wire. I still think I mean not in this case It's just a wing, but I still think if we put it on like a twig or something Obviously, I make that part of the artwork. I make that part of the artwork exactly So it's like I know it's be nice if it was just completely suspended, but we just have to do more research into Suspending stuff for resin casting. Mm-hmm. We've got to do more research. Okay Okay I stir this too Yeah We've talked we've done the whole letting it set for a little while once it hard and then we pour another coating But the problem is it does create still a faint line. Yeah between the layers. So I don't know if there's a sweet spot or not Sorry, Dave. Well, that's further what you're saying. We've tried to do two coats We do one coat and then you wait just a certain time frame to do the next and It seems like no matter what you do, you always see a line in between it And I still want to accept that that's what you have to do Interesting, but he's saying not our code code trainer code code trainer. Let us know what your name is So I can try and call you by your name Um If we use a compression chamber or the pressure pot potentially it won't have a line Miriam, sorry. That's right Miriam. Okay. Yeah, I remember now It won't have a line anything if you use the pressure pot. Maybe So that's the thing creative Pegasus when you do a if you do a fully fully let it cure and do a next layer For sure you will see a line you'll see a difference between where it was for the first pour was in the second pour Yeah, so Now we'll figure it out We're gonna do something Okay, I'm gonna let this sit for a bit and I don't know if you can see how watery this is. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's very Liquidy. Yeah, very liquidy. It's great. And that's what casting resin is so that All the bubbles can escape really easily. Yes. Nice and clear too. It looks good. Yeah So we're gonna say that's good Oh, and I wanted to know another cast. I mean so many people Have been asking can you mix kale oil into your art resin? What? It's been non-stop people asking So we're gonna find out right now Let's make a mold I was talking to a woodworker about Final coats on wood because for example, this is resin. This is wood And I want this to be high gloss. I want this to be high gloss. So I was saying, how do you get your wood high high gloss And you sent me a product of oil It was oil and resin kind of mixed and you mixed two parts together, but it's oil So I'm very confused by it. Hmm But I'm just curious to see what will happen if I mix it in. So it's just a rub on or you put it in with? Yeah, yeah, it's a rub on onto wood. Actually, I'm gonna get some wood This is our wood vane We've been coating pavers in resin Yeah, um because the pair is inside silicone Yeah, we're gonna create a mold for the pair so we can create A bowl of fruit What really? Okay So we're gonna put we're gonna just rub oil and resin onto wood for some reason There's no apparent reason Okay, this is a look at that that called purple heart tree. It's purple heart. It's beautiful wood and this is uh, I don't know Jeff, uh, that's uh brown Kidney, I don't know There you go. Oh, sure So we're gonna take a little bit of the Yeah, we're gonna have to do some experimenting on the mic. I apologize Uh, we we just went with the phone mic today just because we found that we've been gearing me up and it hasn't been working So here's watch out. Oh, okay. Hold on. Let me get this. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on Because I get light reflection. I want to make sure this is a good Shot so everybody can appreciate this Coming around. Okay. I think this is okay. This is it. Yeah, see the wood see how it now really pops now Really takes yeah accentuates the wood And I can see into it Now you can start to see no into the yeah into the resin. Yeah, it was all cloudy before now You can actually see through it. There you go. Look at that. Oh, dude. That looks good. I wanted to pull out these Oh, see you just went from completely cloudy to now I can see through I mean we wasted a lot of resin there, but it was worth it for Yeah, it was just for the shot. Yeah, exactly. Sorry guys, don't do that at home in the center You know, definitely measure your resin, but we can Indulge a bit here just because it looks nice I have so much resin left over. Good. We'll do something with it Okay, I gotta take off these gloves We've got to rub a bit of the back here too. We've got some exposed in the back here This is great just on the back I'll use some balsa wood A spreader a balsa spreader a balsa spreader Does anyone else remember red rose the store? Red rose the store? The store called red rose I know the tea Oh, white rose. I remember the flower store. Yeah The flower store? Yeah, I thought of it as a like that fake flowers, right? Uh, I remember it as a What what do you remember it as? Like a mic was like arts and crafts place. Oh, is it?  I just remember. Yeah for some reason. Well, maybe because the symbol was it was like a white rose with a red background, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah Wow, that's that's taking me back. But that's where I would go to look at their balsa wood. Oh, okay. Okay Your mom would drive you Yeah, that's like my favorite start Okay, so that looks good. Look, this is great, man. I need to wear gloves, but my hands are so sticky That's funny, Laura She's soaked flowers from crafting there was a deal. She couldn't refuse or or use apparently All right, so we're just gonna poor cat. That's that's what it is. Rebecca They had an outdoor gardening center for sure. That's that's what I remember because that's where I think my mom would go there for that So that's what's in my head. I don't remember being crafts, but I guess it was Really no way and then what michaels took over. I don't know what happened like those It just disappeared and I remember being so sad when they closed I was the same when we had olive garden up here So good with the breadsticks and everything but then they just were gone. I guess because he said mario's Took over or just didn't I heard that there was some law was changed. Oh with the food Yeah, and they had to source the food from canada right they were shipping it from the states and then like they couldn't match the costs And then went out of business in canada Interesting. Oh, I love all the bird actually mean you went there for a birthday. That's right for our twin brother birthday Okay, so finally put this to rest. Can you mix kale oil in art ready? Finally the over abundance of Here we go First I'm just gonna put in this little one So kale oil is naturally slightly yellow, so it's gonna yellow this but this is for coating wood And again, this is based on seeing Products that would work for the buying that is like a resin and oil mixture for your final And I was like really So I don't know why I guess oil does oil soaks into the wood and then the resin locks it in place I'm discussing, you know, okay That's always I mean, so it's like doing a two for one deal on one and I think it's like a permanent coat of oil if you if it's mixed in resin Again, I'm just learning this so how you and it would be more of a rub on so I'm just gonna do half of each of them We'll just see how this cures and what it does but I mean that's Probably grab it on rub it off and it's a permanent a permanent Oil coat because there's it's called cutting board oil you can buy You oil your wood if you're using it for So an art resin is food safe, too So I think this is a great way to finish wood Yep, sandy sand kale oil kaleoil.com It's uh It's something it's a business I'm starting Okay, look at that beautiful. So that's Oh, look at the beautiful sheen like And anyways interesting use of resin I'm gonna put the rest of this into a more silicone wall So I can just look at it and see what See what happens. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, cuz you yeah, cuz if it's like Yeah, oily on the top then it's you want it to be solid Okay, so these lamps look awesome When they're done, I'll just have to sand the bottom and then build the bottom tray I'm just gonna take a torch to the top of it. This one's gonna look good man. This one we gotta do Okay, we're doing great So we're gonna move over to the compression chamber And this is what we've been using to get our flowers Nearly perfect and we're almost gonna get our butterflies perfect In here. So it's been Exciting. Let me grab that cask in here This is all stirred up Beautiful And this one we're just this is just for experimentation purposes. Yeah, we're just filling this up To the top. Whoa, and then this one I really don't know what I'm doing I'm just gonna put this in it might float it might sink I'm gonna find out but Mainly what we're looking for is to see if laminating Um stops the bubbles from coming out of the butterfly leaf and if laminating Keeps the color vibrant when you put it in the resin. Oh, okay. That's what this test is for very cool in the casting resin in the pressure pot pressure pot I guess pressure pot pot and compression chamber are the same thing. Oh, they are I think so Okay, what do you think? Oh, and there's a vacuum chamber here. Yeah, and that the vacuum chamber is down there And that's different. That's different to create the vacuum versus compressing Whoa A little spillage, but that's okay All right, I have a bit left. So I'm gonna do another something else in here Okay, stay tuned. We'll see how these turn out What else should we do in here? What else can we put in the compression? I always got room still We have a dry flower do you want to just do another flower? Okay Why don't we do this for or Yeah, you probably don't have room for all that dude for that one Laminate we just got a lamination machine. So you just got the the sheet and you put the butterfly within the sheets and then you pass it through the machine And then once it's laminated you cut it out and And then we're submerged it in the resin. So oh nice. It's turned over. That's great So hopefully it'll stay like that. So don't touch it. Oh, it's cool. That would be awesome. And that's just luck of the drop It's things like that. No, that's pure skill. We saw it here first Why don't we do uh, uh, flower and just show people what we've done so far. Okay. So we have little roses Some say love, you know, I'm just gonna try to just lay this in All right I think it's gonna put some tape on there or something. Yeah, I'll put some tuck tape and Superglue actually works really well. Tuck tape Yes, thanks D There's a thing of superglue and I'll put a piece of tape on it just to be safe. All right So we're gonna do a bit of baby's breath And a rose Some say Is that a rose? That's a is it's a rose, right? Baby rose? Is it? Yeah Yeah, bro, baby rose. Okay, so let's ask rose who's on with us Rose Rose I gave you this quote from a movie. Here's here's a question for everybody. Mm-hmm What line is this from roads where we're going? We don't need roads Uh, what's faster? No It's like I think it's like the literally the last line in the movie too It's a classic one of the greatest movies Known if you google it people will say it's one of the only perfect movies really But we're going we don't need roads roads where we're boom john nailed it and season of the witch What back to the future back to the future. He's got it. There we go. John. Everybody's nailing it. Well done. See classic classic One of the best movies ever So we have some superglue and some tape to make sure that nothing escapes. Well done Um, I'm going to trim this tiny bit. Okay, so underneath this silica sand. We have a whole bunch of flowers drying Because we want to try and get Perfect results like these two bigger. Yeah, those are so good. They turn out really well, man. Yeah We're there. We're there. I've always wondered how people do this and then you got it too. Nice I'm gonna cut that even more. Okay, you cut that I'm gonna go and I show Laura Laura wants to see if things are dropping off See, yeah, there is some drips coming down But as far as the resin stays on there nicely and looks really good just brings out the wood and brings out the clarity in the casting resin nice I'm good. We'll show it to you next week the final results and maybe we'll get the lamp Oh, that that'll be fun for everybody. We'll show you a lamp that we can light up Next week we go dark Oh, really that next week. We'll see No, if we go dark, doesn't that mean you're actually for a play that means you're not On so no, we'll be live Okay, let's do that. Okay. I don't know if this will float or sink. I'm not sure But we're just gonna put in the compression tank and see where it comes out later. D ID Just see what happens To make matt resin. Oh, we have matt resin. There is a video actually Look it up. Laura on on our youtube page. There is our youtube channel There is a video on how to make matt versus shiny resin It's two o'clock. Okay. I don't know. So let's put this on Um, okay Bye, Rebecca saying bye. There's a meeting going Unfortunately, we got to stop the fun. Yeah, we'll get this going. Okay It's not terrifying if you know what you're doing You saw an owl image in the larger wood lamp really I don't know. Maybe one of our wood lamps someone saw like a I'm sort of a Owl kind of I guess In one of our lamps. I think someone saw it. Oh cool See you Miriam. Bye. Okay. Oh, yeah, I know it does that Mickey Mouse ears. I know That wasn't really good. Oh, thanks. Okay. So we turn this on Boom that open this close this boom And now we'll see this pressure start to go up Or not And now we'll see this pressure start to go up Right Am I crazy We're all a little crazy. Boom. There you go. See look at that Dave grace under pressure Okay, I gotta go. Okay. Bye everyone. Thanks for watching. That's always fun, and we always get to make stuff So thank you very much. Have a great and safe and happy game See you


Top tips for teaching English one-on-one It's quite common for English language teachers to come across a variety of teaching settings during their career and most will have to teach both one-on-one and group lessons at some point. However, these two types of lessons are both very different and challenging in various ways. There are many advantages of teaching English one-on-one. For example, you will be able to plan your own lessons and use your own distinct materials. However, it is commonly believed that one-on-one classes are difficult to keep interesting. The following tips will help you in teaching fun and interactive one-on-one lessons. Classroom and learning environment Less time for classroom management is required by the teacher since there will be only a teacher and one student. The only thing that needs to be focused on is to find a calm and peaceful place to teach, if the class is held outside a school setting. Most one-on-one classes take place in public spaces, such as libraries, study rooms, or even cafes. Suitable materials Since you only have one student to teach, it's quite easy to find or create effective learning materials. Find out what the goals and aims of the student are and plan your lesson accordingly. You can find a lot of great teaching materials for one-on-one lessons online and you can also create your own material specifically tailored to your students' needs. Flexible schedule and timing Teaching English one-on-one allows you to plan your lessons in a very flexible way. Communicate with your student to find out the best time and day for the lesson. If you don't teach at a school, make sure you find a place for the lesson that suits you both and is convenient to reach for both the teacher and student. Teacher-student relationship Teaching one-on-one allows you to get to know your student very well and to build rapport very easily. Once you get to know your student better, you will be able to plan your lessons around their interests, creating a personalized and interesting curriculum for your student. However, don't forget, you're still a teacher and your student should still see you as such. Energy level Since you're only teaching one student, your energy level and that of your student highly affect the lesson you are teaching. Therefore, a teacher always needs to focus on keeping the energy level at a high pace allowing a comfortable motivating environment at the same time. Giving instructions When teaching English to a whole class, giving instructions can often be a struggle as some students will understand them immediately and others won't. When teaching one-on-one, you should have an easy time figuring out if your student understands your instructions or not. If they don't understand, you can take your time in explaining the exercise again, but remember not to spoon-feed them the answers. Giving feedback It's important to give your student constant feedback. In a one-on-one setting, you can do this at the end of every class by summarizing what has been learned and by evaluating your student's understanding and skill level. Now you can rock any one-on-one lesson. In conclusion, teaching a one-on-one lesson is not as difficult as you might imagine in the beginning. Have fun with it and consider your student's goals to have an effective learning experience. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll-free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with jaspys seven box optoprism basketball mixer random team break number four You can see Nick jaspy in the shadows right here. It's kind of a cool look on the camera. Look at that The jaspys logo right behind you and you can see on the Nick cam above his head We've got some socially distance pack stacking here In accordance with the CDC so he'll be packing everything stacking everything right there He's just gonna wheel the cart over and then I can just no contact as well There's an yeah, there's enough that Fauci is gonna be like these group breakers. This is the way to do it. Yeah, thanks doc We got an early bird special here. So big thanks to the first 20 who got spots You have a chance at being the early bird that catches the worm after Snake eyes two times one and two Easy Chris Erickson, there you go Chris. I Know you've been waiting patiently for this break Finally got done. You were an early bird and now you've caught the worm Appreciate that so now let's assign you a random team Which we'll put in that team list right there. So all 30 teams are in and Let's roll it and randomize it one and a five six times one two three four five and Sixth and final time after six We've got Chris Erickson on top again and down to another Chris Erickson. All right one out of five six times For the teams two three four Five and six after six times. We've got the Minnesota T Wolves down to the Hornets Yeah, look at that it then looks like like video backer at it at the poms Oh Right, right, right you're doing live blackjack All right Chris Erickson T Wolves Paul Nixon sons Derek with the Celtics bill with the nets Chris with the thunder your early bird spot trailblazers TJ price I think this we have a record number of TJ's in our stream in our community Pacers Ryan with the heat Rick with the Bucks Derek with the Bulls David with the Knicks calling with the Cavs Kenton you got my Lakers Paul with the Jazz Liam or the Raptors Marco with the Pistons Brett Foy with the Kings and Neil with the Spurs Rick with the Grizz Steven with the Wizards Liam with the Rock It's Jason with the Magic Joel you have the 76ers James with the Pelicans warriors for Brett Barack with the Mavs John Last Von Mojo star next to your name Clippers Jesse with the Hawks Nick L with the Nuggets and Chris with the Hornets Our Lakers can All right, let's sort by column B by team and since Nick's pack stacking I'm not gonna pause the video but Jazz are for trade Is Nick doing this because he's scared to get too close or Joe wants him to stay away? No, we're just following the rules according to Dr. Fauci and the recommendations from the CDC We are social this things all around the store. Yeah That two arm lengths away probably further than we even need to be Yeah We've we lice all the cart. Everything's clean. We have hand sanitizer hand sanitizer everywhere We're just we're just trying to be trying to be safe We're staggering people's hours and everything Clippers up for trade warriors your Kings up for trade Pacers up for trade Clippers for Jazz maybe Now trade out your own wrist. Just keep in mind the different years that we have here There's one box of 1617 one box of 1718 one box of 1819 and then most of it's 1920 the current Right people would freak out Yeah People wear gloves all the time you gotta be like what you don't wash your hands all the time even before all this happened And like the gloves can have coronavirus on right so it's not like are they washing their glove hands. No, I don't think so Of course not ridiculous pass on the jazz okc for warriors, maybe Otherwise, we'll just break. I think we've had enough trade window here Pass on that. All right wait, yeah Maybe Brett no trade window going once trade window going twice trade window closed All right, so let's print and rip What am I doing for this deck? Yeah, 1617. Is this the same thing? 1617 1718 Right here. So that's the Simmons year All right, so here's the official printout right there Good luck. This will this will this will be at the end. What's this blaster blasters blaster Blaster blaster All right. Good luck everybody Here we go we've got Deandre Hunter Two-color relic for the Hawks.  It's cuz we have this first year of optic. Oh, right There's a Luca Donchets silver. I think the second year Luca Donchets. Yeah, that's for the Mavs Brock Berman with the Dallas Mavericks Luca Donchets Yeah More of like a you're gonna see more high you're gonna see more highlights from Zion, but I think Donchets I Mean it's just so versatile. Yeah, he's probably gonna win MVPs bigger team. Yeah I mean if they if both are like perennial all-stars, they're gonna be like Both of them are gonna sell for a lot forever their entire careers But if I had to pick like gun to head of B Yes, I can see that although Trey young passes the ball more than I thought I can actually see Steph Curry for Trey young Yeah, I mean not sure if Ant-Len is the that's that right spot for him, but Your box mega box nice. All right, and we'll do choice last. That's the most expensive one. I think Yeah, Trey young. I think his his rookie year. I think I Think was a little surprising because he actually was more of it all around player than people thought I played a little more defense and people originally thought I think he I mean he always he's not shooters gonna shoot He's gonna shoot all the time, but it's to 49 But like I think I think he got some a say I think he passed more than people thought I feel like this year was a weird year for the For the Hawks though. I thought I thought they were gonna. I thought they were just gonna do a lot better just out of the gate Which didn't really something didn't really click this year, but I think I think it could I think it will maybe in a week or east You know they can they can make some noise and we've got Jeff withy signature series Going to the coach Paul Nixon tried to trade couldn't trade mojo Yeah, absolutely. Luca takes the team to the finals John Durant saying yeah cards will the cards will definitely skyrocket I think team-wise. I mean Mavs have probably demonstrated they can they can build a Championship team more so than the Pellet can still question mark for the Pells There's rookie Kings hollow Brandon Ingram Although I like Brandon Ingram Brandon Ingram Zion A couple other players put them all together. That's still Lakers edition that'll go to Kenton. All right, so this is 1718 Donis optic basketball Bam out of bio. That's pretty nice rated rookie And Harry Giles pink velocity to 79 I mean if they could get a if they can get a healthy Porzingis With the Luca donches. I mean that's a that's a big one-two punch Just add a couple other nice Donovan Mitchell rated rookie hollow and a Caleb Swanigan orange And that's Paul Nixon tried to trade couldn't trade mojo strikes again There's Caleb to 199 There's Louie Dampier Spurs Dominator autograph Neil with the Spurs. That's 18 out of 49 on that one Frank Mason third rated rookie to 99 Paul Milsap Oceano OB rated rookie Andrey Drummond Lyme green to 175 And oh that's number two DeMar DeRose. It would have shipped anyway DeMar DeRose and all clear for takeoff to 99 So one of these Is a mega box, I think this is the mega box that should be the or vice versa Where's my? My list here. Yeah, the prism was from the hanger. Yeah me a ony rookie silver for the jazz Wilson Chandler, and we got Dion.  All right. There's those those pink velocities right here or hypers. I think Velocities are the squares Cam Reddish. That's pretty nice all of those will ship.  We're done with this table right here You can see that it's Nothing so we're gonna end with this choice box, which should be pretty nice 1819 choice Good luck. All right, we've got Bruce Brown rated rookie Colin Sexton rated rookie and we've got Lonnie Walker the fourth signature series Neil with the spurs Not numbered but nice nothing mojo sort of design mojo refractor design in the background More rated rookies here. There's another Marvin Bagley. That's to 88 and Donovan Mitchell 24 out of 88 for the jazz and there you have it Thanks to Nick for for doing the social distancing pack stacking, which is I don't know why we didn't think of that earlier Do I have to give away anything? No, no giveaways at the end of this We gave away the early bird earlier There you go. That was your seven box opt a prison basketball mixture number four from jazby's case race calm I'm Joe. I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye


I was going to open here in Leta Kenny next week. It's at the Charlie's Cafe and it is from Tommy Halligan. And a lot of people around out of Kenny and beyond would know Tommy and Tommy Story, I suppose, as well because Tommy was a well-known in business circles, had his own shop called Portobello Road down at the market centre. Before that, worked actually at Sheamus McAteers shop, county seat when it was down Lower Main Street and did some DJ and worked on here for a time. And it was a communications consultant and dairy at the link in the foils side and also at his own furniture business in Leta Kenny. But it was around that time when he was just 36 years of age that he was diagnosed with MS and a lot has changed over the years for Tommy. And not for the better, obviously. But Tommy's now in his 50s, lives in Kilmahquennan and lives independently with the help of a PA is a proud father of three and a justice-proud grandfather of three and I'm delighted that Tommy joins me in the studio now, Tommy. How you doing, John? Good. It's been a while. Because we used to deal, going back a while, we used to deal in advertising and then you were raising money quite a bit then at the start of your diagnosis for MS and I haven't heard from you in ages. But I'm back. You're back. Yes. No, it's great. It's great having found this art. It's just amazing. I didn't realise. How did you find it? Well, I have a friend, Redmond Heritage. He's into sculpting and all that. He is. He's very talented. And we were running about together, whatever. And he had a couple of friends, Christy and Sarah Keeney, they're into art as well. And I was just surrounded by art with the carving and the painting and the clay making. So you thought you'd give it a go yourself? Well, sure. Why not? Why not? And then I started... We just had a chance in a bit of art. But I was doing a bit of oils and it's impossible to work with oils because some people can. But I found that... The abstract art? The acrylic paint dries really quick. So you can enjoy your painting once you do it. Look at it and it's lovely. Is that the main difference between oils and acrylic? To me. I'm not an artist. I'm saying I am. I am sort of an artist. But when I found...  Well, hold on a minute, John. Well, everybody's a different sort of an artist. I could take you up for that. No, the acrylic paint is just wonderful to work with. And... You can mix all different colours, come out with your own colours and you can express different emotions through different colours. Like red is anger and white and yellow is happiness to me. And it's just... When you put it on the paper, it just speaks back to you. It's just... I've... If you just see my paintings... Then you'll understand. Yeah, they do talk back to you. Believe it or not, I'm not mad. They do talk back to you. I'm going to take your word for that. And you just got... Are you started on this pathway, if you like, during the punt down? Yeah, yeah. I couldn't get out or do. Frustration, yeah. There was a lot going on. I'm in pain 24-7. I've got osteoporosis as well. So along with MS, I also have osteoporosis. So I've kind of been held back by a lot of things, but that gave me a way to just burst out and... Focus? Yeah, focus on something else and not being in four walls and locked in. I was able to express myself. Right. Something to think about and focus on other than the pain and managing it. People should pick up a paintbrush. It's amazing what it can do. It really is. Even if you haven't done it in years. If you've never done it. If you've never done it. And it gives you... I presume then it gives you great satisfaction when you've got a paint... How long would it take you to do a painting? I'm doing one at the moment. Three months at it, right? But it's normally... So you go back to it now and again and add a bit to it? Yeah, yeah. But you do one in 20 minutes. If you want it? Yeah. I remember Kevin Sharkey saying, I'll throw it up in a couple of minutes. But the average for you would be what? It'll be somewhere in between 20 minutes and three months? No, well, it's generally four or five hours for a painting. OK. And then when you did embrace painting, has it taken over your life or is it just another... Absolutely. You want to see my house, it's just covered with paintings. They're everywhere in there. It's like a workshop. It is a workshop. There was a picture in Jerry People and I was in shock when I saw it. I don't know why I asked and I couldn't figure it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just takes over your life. But it's a lovely way. You know, it's something to do. It's really nice. It's very relaxing. Because having MS and having to rely on a PA and having to, when you're out and about now, outside of the house, in a wheelchair... I can imagine. No, maybe not. But I'm guessing that it's incredibly isolating. Absolutely. And I'm not just chatting about the pandemic here. So to have something like painting that you can turn your attention to. That's just fabulous. And when people have seen your work now, they haven't seen it yet. But I'm sure like the likes of Edmund and people they're close to have seen it. At the start, I'd just done paintings and just give them to people and people say, you should be selling them. Not giving them away. And I say, well, you know, we have to start somewhere. So it's just... Well, that's just what I was going to ask. It must be reassuring when people are giving you painting a lot of compliments.  And I thought, well, are they? And they said, well, you have to try it. And then I was down with Giles and Giles, absolute gentleman. Giles McGee in Charlie's Cafe.  No problem. And so... Isn't that what every artist wants? They want a place where they can exhibit their work and let people see it, judge for themselves. See what they think. If they think it's rubbish, it's grand. They want to buy it. I won't stop them. Just going back to the MS, is it...  So there's pain involved in this about managing the pain on a daily basis. I'm on a drug now that is supposed to take away the pain. But they said it'll take about a month to get into your system. I'm taking it to see. I stayed away from drugs the whole start of the MS. I wouldn't touch the drugs at all. But at the start, you were a great advocate for cannabis oil as a way to ease your pain. Is that still the case? No. No, not really. I take it's a small capsule called LDN, low dose naltrexin. And it is fantastic. For the MS, not for the pain. It's like my MS is not getting a lot worse because of the LDN. I stopped taking it one time. My girlfriend says to me, you stop taking that LDN, haven't you? And I said, no, I haven't. I had stopped. So I started taking it again. This was years and years ago. I take it every day. It's slow, yeah. It's a fabulous thing. Okay, then. Back to the exhibition. It's opening on Monday. I can't read. To see you all down in Charlie's decorate with your art. People are going to be in and out and seeing it. It's unbelievable. As me, putting that up there and with help with Sarah and Sarah's with me now. She's hanging. Obviously, I can't do that. I can't actually physically put the paintings on the wall because I'm on a wheelchair. Sarah Keeney, my friend, she's hanging them for me. She's putting them up. And that's about it. So from Monday, we'll be able to see what you're chatting about. Your work. It's a bit like whether as an artist whether that's writing a song and putting it on an album and putting it up there in Spotify for people to hear. Or in the case of painting. I can't wait until people see them. In my own opinion, there is some good ones. I promise you, John. There are a few good ones. I'm sure Charles wouldn't have put them beforehand. He didn't think that there were good enough.  Right? I have gold and yellow and supposed to be baby Jesus and I have green. He laid us down in green pastures and then I've read the blood of our Lord. It means something. I'm not religious but I do say my rosary every day and that's helping me as well a lot with my prayers. Do help me a lot. This picture means a lot to me. You say you're not religious you say a rosary every day and prayers do help you a lot to me. That would be, that's religious. Okay, alright. Yeah, well, okay. Pull you up on anything but it's okay. It's alright to admit that you're religious. I don't go to Mass every day. I do go to Mass but not every day. Okay, anyhow. Thanks, John. People can see your heart from Monday down at Charles Cafe down at Pierce Road in Better Camp. It'll be running right to Christmas anyway. So, alright. No mad rush at the start? No, I didn't mean that. Come down, come down. No mad rush. Take your time, have a look and see. Whenever you're in. It's a five o'clock on Monday. Five o'clock to seven is the opening. Is the official launch? The official launch is five o'clock to seven o'clock. Everybody wants to go along. I said to a friend I was five to seven and he says, what has it finished at ten to seven? Very good, very good. Listen Tommy, good to catch up with you again. Yeah, brilliant, John. Nice to meet you again. And good to chat. Thanks. You too. Thank you.


There are people that say that over the last 20 years no significant development in audio took place. I know of no better proof of the opposite than the subject of this review, the SOtM SMS 200 Ultra Network Audio Adapter. Almost a year ago I reviewed the SOtM SMS 200 Network Audio Adapter and was very enthusiastic about it. I bought one and never regretted it. When I visited the High End Munich 2017 show in May, the SOtM marketing lady, also called May, introduced me to a SOtM designer that showed me their new product, the SMS 200 Ultra. It is in the housing that is twice as deep as the normal SMS 200 and has a black front. It appeared that it housed a version of the SMS 200 Network Audio Adapter and a version of their SCLK EX reclocker and reshaper. This board is available separately for $950 USD. Both May and her colleague were very enthusiastic but somehow it didn't appeal to me enough to review it. How much better than the SMS 200 can it be? And it costs €850 more than the SMS 200, €1399 in euros, including VAT. Then I received a number of requests from you to do the review. Well, I don't do requests unless asked for so I requested a review sample and received one together with the matching SPS 500 power supply, costing about €500. Let's look at both, starting with the SMS 200 Ultra. The front has a green power indicator that doubles as a well-hidden standby switch and also indicates network activities. The rear holds the input for the included wallboard power supply so the SPS 500 power supply is not strictly needed. Below that the Audio USB port that is especially optimized for audio use. To the right of that, two USB ports to connect storage devices to. Further to the right the microSD slot, in it the microSD carded accessor boot drive. On the right the RJ45 network connector. A reset switch can be found somewhere higher in the middle. The SPS 500 power supply is an audiophile grade power supply that can be added as an upgrade. The front is identical to that of the SMS 200 Ultra and it has the same hidden power switch. I initially thought the unit was broken and yes, I normally do read the manual. But reading the manual of a power supply, come on. I was kindly corrected by SRTM. They even included a PDF or the manual that, of course, also was in the box. Enough about that, let's go to the rear. It has a power output, a voltage selector offering 7, 9, 12 and 19 volts and the IEC mains input, with above it the power switch. A short cable to connect the SPS 500 to the SMS 200 Ultra is included. Normally now the inside follows but to be honest I wouldn't know what to tell about it. This is technology I know little about so I'll better not try. What I did recognize was a switching power supply unit in the SPS 500 that was followed by a very crowded PCB, probably housing all kinds of measures to clean up the power. The SMS 200 Ultra of course is a kind of computer but one that is optimized for its task. Therefore there is no connection for a monitor, keyboard and mouse. You use a browser on a computer or tablet to set your preferences. Like the initial version of the SMS 200, you simply type UNASU.Local in the address field and this screen comes up visible. It shows all protocols that are supported. I activated Rune, of course, the Squeezebox mode emulates the Squeezebox player that is capable of high sampling rates provided you that can handle that. NPD and DLNA is a standard Linux music player daemon that can also do the DLNA protocol as used by the big consumer electronics companies and brands like Lin and Nain. HQ Player NAA is for the users of the HQ Player software. That software runs on a computer and uses the SMS 200 Ultra as a play-out station. SharePoint is the Apple Airplay compatible mode. LibreSpot is an open source Spotify client and MinimServer a very good DLNA server but it does need some study to set it up to your taste. Bubble UPMP server obviously is a UPMP server, it allegedly is easy in use and is mentioned often in combination with Gormcast. I did try the SqueezeLite and NPD and DLNA modes next to Rune and also SharePoint, although the airport protocol is of course limited to 48 kHz max. Please forgive me, I didn't try the other protocols that would have taken a lot of time while the unique product here is the hardware. Using the SMS 200 Ultra is a matter of plugging in a network cable and a power supply, switch on the unit by pressing the yellow light on the front and don't forget to switch on the power supply and wait until the unit has booted. It should now indicate network activities by flashing the yellow power switch. Then go to a computer or tablet, open the internet browser and type unasu.local followed by a return. The Unasu Music Player screen should show up. If not, you could try to type the IP address the SMS 200 Ultra has been given by your router. You could see this in the router menu that shows the users. The name here should also be Unasu. The first thing you should do is check for updates by clicking on the system setup icon, followed by clicking on the system upgrade icon, the around the corner arrow. If an update is available, have it installed first. After it has rebooted, you can walk through the system config where you can change the name it uses on the network, Unasu is a standard, change the background login to a wifi network and change from an automatically provided IP address to a fixed IP address. If you don't like the idea of tweaking digital stuff, just don't. The unit will work fine in normal situations as delivered. Then you have to select the service you want to use. Roon, SqueezeLight and SharePoint are very straightforward since the configuration is done in the server software and not in the SMS 200 Ultra. For NPD and DnL, some configuration must be done if you want to use a network share on a computer or NAS for music. This is done in the library setup in the system setup menu. MinimServer and Bubble UPnP Server need to be installed first and if you are brave enough to do that, you will find your way. You don't need to have a degree in computer science but some knowledge comes in handy. If you use Roon, SqueezeLight, HQ Player NNA or SharePoint, there no longer is a need to keep the web interface open. All music playing is done from the Roon interface, the LMS server, HQ Player or the application you use to stream music using AirPlay. In the other cases you do need a web-based interface or compatible app. Usually the web interface appears when you type the IP address, a colon and 9000, all without spaces. Since the SPS 500 power supply was broken, not hot, I started with the SBooster power supply leaving the supplied wall-ward power supply in the box. That already performed poorly with the standard SMS 200 so why spend time on it with this Ultra version. As always, when equipment arrives, it was directly connected and grouped together with the standard SMS 200. This way it gets burned in the fastest. Just to check if it worked, I switched on the sound on my setup 1. As you can see in my review of the standard SMS 200, I considered it the best networked audio adapter I had ever heard. Yep, head. Called out of the box, the Ultra sounded so subtle, so refined, so detailed that I thought my soda drink was doped with illegal substances. Well, I don't do drugs, most Dutchmen don't and I hardly ever drink alcohol. So something else must be going on. Give it a week or two, as of the MS said. I just couldn't. I have never heard this resolution, this clean and open sound and this kind of fast attack. Even more spectacular is the tonality of the low end. Rob Stewart of MQA described how timing could affect the tonality of low notes and so did Rob Watts who developed the Kordax. This is due to the fact that our hearing doesn't integrate a full waveform but uses the starting flanks of a signal and the smallest deviation in time will lead to less tonality. I have heard this phenomenon often but never so clear as now. Please do realize that only the networked audio adapter has been replaced. I still use the Mitech Brooklyn DAC over Siltek cable to the Audio Note Sorrow SE that is connected over AudioQuest Castle Rock speaker cables to the AudioPhysics Scorpios. A Qsum comes along. A Qsum comes along. I am going slightly mad and I decide to leave it for now. But I can't. I want more. This is highly unprofessional Bakehuisen. Cool it down. A friend calls if I want to help him set up a rune frontend for his very, very high end stereo. I tell him about my experience with the Ultra and that he probably wants to listen to it. The next day he calls me again. He has bought an Ultra and if I can set up a Roon Rock server. A few days later I visit his house to install it all and give instructions. Once again I get totally euphonic but kept my cool so I could use my friend as a second opinion. One day later he called me. He had been listening into the small hours and is so extremely pleased with the unit. Mind you, this man has had Mark Levinson's, Wadia's and other CD players of the same quality. One day later a WhatsApp message. The sound is still filling up the whole room. Time for me to do some serious listening. Now the unit must have been largely burned in. Since the sBooster wouldn't supply sufficient current when a hard disk would be connected to the sMS-200 Ultra, I had to listen to the SOTM SPS 500 power supply as well. I couldn't hear a difference which is a clear evidence that switching mode power supply can be good if the design is well thought out. This means that you could use the sBooster if you don't connect the hard disk to the sMS-200 Ultra. If you do, you do need the SOTM 500 that delivers 5 amps while the sBooster does 3 amps. The sBooster is 40% cheaper though while the SPS 500 looks nice in combination with the sMS-200 Ultra. Choices, choices. Back to the sound quality. When higher sampling rates became available, we all heard an improved sound. SACD also sounded better than CD, certainly at that time and MQA in general, although not with every album, gives an improvement. When we discovered jitter in the mid 80s, lower jitter already had given a large sound improvement and a year ago I was quite surprised that Sonore was able to lower the jitter further in their micro-rendu networked audio adapter. And when the cheaper and even a tad better sMS-200 came out, I thought further big improvements in jitter were highly unlikely. But with the Ultra, SOTM apparently has managed to further lower the jitter and ban out all kinds of nasties a normal USB port has. Furthermore, it appears that the DACs are not able to fully repair a less than optimal async USB channel. The difference between the normal sMS-200 and the Ultra was even bigger when using the Chord Hugo DAC. It appears that the USB input is a weak point of the Hugo. Back to the Ultra. After 12 days, the highs are as clean as possible. I don't believe I said that again. Let me rephrase this. The highs are as clean as I have ever heard. That's more accurate. I indeed have never heard this level of resolution, speedy attacks, stereo imaging, perfect sounding lows and clear open voices over my setup one. I know this quality from demos given by the highest of high end dealers that know their profession. Shatterland of The Hague, The Netherlands and Alpha High End of Antwerp Belgium. And for prices that are clearly higher than my setup one. Again, those that say that all digital equipment sounds good, that there have been no developments in the last 20 years and that bits are bits, should listen to a proper stereo that uses the SOTM sMS-200 Ultra as a digital source or hold their tongue forever. Don't buy it for a 1000 euro stereo. For a 2000 euro stereo buy the normal SMS-200 and spend the remaining amount on other improvements like the DAC. But if your stereo is in the higher regions, don't tease yourself by having it demoed if you currently can't afford the upgrade. But if you can, wait not another day for you to deprive yourself of the ultimate pleasure. It is very rare I am this outspoken, but it is also very rare I am flabbergasted to use this archaic word again by the equipment. It also makes me wonder what's next? For developments seem to speed up rather than to slow down. Do you know a better product or produce one yourself, just let me know. And if you want to stay informed, subscribe to this channel or to my newsletter or follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. See the show notes for the links. If you have a question, post it below this video but please don't ask me for buying advice. See my About Questions video to find out why. If you like this video, please consider supporting your channel through Patreon and see super exclusive videos too. Just one dollar a month will do. The link is in the show notes. And don't forget to tell your friends on the web about this channel. I am Hans Beekhuyzen, thank you for watching and see you in the next show or on theHBproject.com. And whatever you do, enjoy the music.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Leaks That Crowd, thank you for watching my tutorials today. I've got these really dinky, sweet wrapper boxes. Now I've made something similar before but this is a completely enclosed box and it's a self-closing box as well. So the inspiration for this came from these tiny little chocolates which are gorgeous and they've got the little, you can see there all the little kind of markings all along the side there which I've recreated with the scoreboard just again to kind of give that more authentic sweet wrapper look. But basically you just kind of pop open the sides here and then out pop two of these chocolates. So these make lovely little gifts, they would look great as little party favors. I've made the bow as well, this bow I've done a separate tutorial for so I'm not going to show you how to make that today but I'll put a little link up here when I come to that bit just so you can see how it's made. This one is one and three-eighths of an inch on all four sides and length it comes in at five and a half inches when it's in its 3d form, when it's flat it's six inches. So it's just using one sheet of 6x6 card and then obviously just your pattern paper and this piece here but you may not even need to put the bow or this on you can just keep them all plain and have them in a big basket and they could be nice favors for people to take maybe at the end of a party that way. Now I've also done a whopper so this is the bigger version which I originally done first and I thought actually these look better I think like this I think they're really cute but if you do want to do one this is with one sheet of 12x12 and I'll put the dimensions for this one in my blog okay but once you see how it's done you can see as long as it's a square size then you'll be able to do this in any size you want so 10x10 8x8 yeah every other size in between that so put that one to one side leave all that there so you are going to need just a few simple bits and pieces so there's my little bow all ready to go. You need four pieces of one and one-eighth of an inch by three and that's to decorate your four sides and then you need your one sheet of six by six so first of all make sure I'm all in here so along your six inch side you want to score at half an inch so half an inch and then one and three eighths of an inch then four and five eighths of an inch and five and a half okay then you're going to rotate your card and then you'll need to bring in a ruler so grab my metal one here and you want to lie your ruler down so that it is against just coming up to the one and three eighth marker so pop your stylus in at one and three eighths and then pop the ruler just next to it you're going to miss the first section to that first score line and the second sketch section and you're just going to score so pop your stylus down and it will go in the little valley at one and three eighths of an inch and score that down to that score line and then you'll be left with this score line and this score line so if I just bring it up basically all you're doing is scoring within this section at each of those same so one I'm going to talk you through them all but you're just going to score each of those ones that I give you you're just scoring within this so you're missing this piece here because we're going to score that all in a minute but you're missing this section so pass that first score line here and then you're starting from the second score line from the top and then you're finishing here and then you'll have that bot which is the second the well we got one two is the third score line so you'll score into the third and then you're leaving to the fourth and then to the bottom so that one's at one and three eighths of an inch then come along pop your stylus at two and three quarters of an inch pop your ruler down your ruler is just a guide for you to be able to hover your stylus pass that first score line down to that second score line it will sit in the little well where it needs to okay and that's at two and three quarters and then just score within those two score lines then go along to four and one eighth of an inch again pop your stylus in hover it over until you get to that second score line and then score so that's the four and one eighth the last one then is five and a half so again pop your ruler in and your stylus make sure the stylus sits in then put the ruler in because the ruler is just a guide for you remember and then just bring it hover it over and then start again from that second score line and just score down to the next one okay so you're doing four score lines within this large area that you've got and the reason we're missing this section is because if you were to continue it you'd have a score line here and here and it would just ruin this front of that sweet wrapper style we want it completely plain so once you've done that rotate it back again I'm sorry keep it in the same orientation so you've just done those four score lines and then what you want to do is that every one eighth of an inch so every single score line you're going to score but just to the first score line so all the way along and this is what creates that little so this is purely decorative but it gives you I think a really nice effect to make it look like a sweet wrapper and I'm literally just scoring that first score line at every single score line that there is every one eighth all the way along okay now I've already done that side so then I'm going to rotate it round and I'm actually going to do this one here now when you've done them so I'm going to just do these ones for a minute okay so they're all done once you've done them rotate it back around and just go back over your half inch score line and your five and a half inch score line and basically it will just tidy up if you've gone over just a little bit but it will give you that nice crisp score line again because that's what that's what creates our closure so when that pops back into place that's what closes our box so just go back through those score lines again okay so that is what you should have so you'll have all those little score lines then you've got one score line another score line then you will have four score lines in the middle and then these ones again and then all the little ones there I will have a little template of how it should look on my blog okay hopefully I've explained that enough for you also what I must remember that last one so the one that you done it five and a half in the middle it doesn't have to be you can actually just score it right the way through okay so from five and a half just score all the way down on that one okay because that's our tap that's what's holding it all together okay so other than that so it's three actually that you have that are just within that middle bit the last one can go all the way through okay so now what you want to do is burnish all of your score lines you can obviously do these ones okay now the middle ones we're going to have to pinch those because we don't want to create the score line going all the way through but we do need to help it a little bit so just kind of just pinch or just bend it see what I'm doing there just so it's kind of got a shape that it wants to go into but we're not although you can kind of see it's very faint that you won't notice that when it's all down just kind of just fold them just a little bit there okay then I'm going to use some of my red tape here you can use your wet glue and double-sided tape it doesn't matter it's just this is what I've got at hand and I'm just running that along my tab and kind of hogging it against the score line okay and then just make sure all of the air bubbles are out of whatever tape it is even double-sided tape rub it over with your bone folder and it will create a much better seal and then because we haven't folded these you kind of need to like wrap it like that okay so it is a little bit fiddly but it's worth it because it gives you a really nice effect and then just very carefully line up your score lines is the best way to do this I'm just lining up that one and that one do that end first and then the rest you can then just kind of work it along as long as all your score lines meet there we go okay so at the minute we've kind of got this odd shape but that's completely fine now where we've done our join you want that to be at the back and then these two at the front and then what you're going to do is you're going to start to squash them down keeping this as straight up facing upwards as possible pinch it up to the score line don't worry about this now what you want to do is start popping this all in up to that score line so it is a you've got to kind of work it into its kind of place and then again on this side just kind of squeeze it like so now we could score this but it's not worth it it's so much easier just to do this and then just pinch so you're creating a triangle so it's just like a sour cream the bottom of a sour cream box okay so that's what we're doing there so you can see I've just pinched and now that stays closed all on its own so again I'll do it on this end make sure this is facing up right and then just go down and squeeze just squeezing the end bit between your finger and your thumb just the bit where we've done all those score lines and then just kind of work your way up and once it gets to that score line because you've burnished it it wouldn't actually just want to take that form anyway and then just pinch and again now that one's where the join is sort of be a little bit thicker because you've got two bits of card over each other there you go and you see what I mean now so we've not got those score lines you would have had them continue through there if you'd done that I mean try it if you think it'd be easy for you but it might just ruin the overall effect but I hope you agree that's not too difficult to do what I would maybe suggest is play around on a bit of scrap piece of six by six first just so you can get used to you know kind of that bit with your finger and your thumb it's the fiddliest part but yeah really love it so now you just want to stick down all of your pieces so grab that one where's my glue I'm just going to stick all of these on all four sides okay so I've just decorated those four sides there and then I've got my bow here and I'm just going to splodge a load of glue again I go through these so quickly I feel like every tutorial I'm always trying kind of shaking out all the bits okay and then just pop that one again make sure your seam is at the back and this will fit this is the second smallest one okay so when I when you go to the tutorial which will be up here now this is the second smallest of the bows I do five different sizes and they're really easy to make it's using some bunting or bannadise that I have however you can make them with just normal strips and I show you how to do that as well so there we go just hold that in place a little bit longer okay so that's now stuck down and then you just pop it open so it just pops at the back and then I can just pop two of those chocolates in and just literally just squeeze it back down it all just falls back into place so there you have it I think they are absolutely adorable my mini little sweet wrapper boxes so there you go give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed today I will pop everything else on those sizes for the bigger one in my blog as always and all the links to everything and yeah until next time I'll see you then thanks for watching bye