And you're alive. Yeah, you're alive. I'm alive? Yeah, you're alive and also live. Everest cleaned out? What's up y'all? Y'all. Who was it that said they liked our y'all, Sweden? No, came from Scotland. A Scotland. Apparently that is their favorite U.S.A. Y'all? Y'all. Not a bad term to like, I suppose. What's up Sheila? Robin, Eddie, Sam, Kim. Everybody's tuning in. Michelle, Linda, Kenneth, Kelly. So, hey Nancy, Hey PJ, Misty, Tanya. Sheila sold three pieces today. Sheila. Sheila J. That's awesome. No better feeling than selling your artwork. Except for maybe a sippy sippy and selling your artwork. Alright, so while Jeff is doing this, I'm going to show you what's up with yesterday's pieces. So, this piece from yesterday, The Ocean. It's not bad. It's set perfectly. This is Paula Walls. My attempt at the elements. Let me get on this side. I'm in the way of my lighting. It's supposed to be elements turned into everything patriotic ever made. So, MIRP. And one of my main reasons for doing this piece was to test out Resi Blast in MasterCast Resin. They're made by Eli Kim. So, I wanted to see what's up. And I'm really growing on this MasterCast because let me show you. Today, I was practicing some geodes and I did this core at like, let's say, what time did you get on today? So, I did this at like 12.30, 1 o'clock. And it's done. Like it's set up. So, I'm sold on MasterCast 1-2-1 in terms of geoding because it's a thicker resin. I can pour it. It has an air bubble expeller in it. I can't remember the actual technical real life terms. But it's a thicker resin so I can make better lines defined. And it sets up in like five hours. It's bananas. So, I'm sold on that. Now let's talk about Resi Blast. This did exactly what I thought it would do. It's still got stuff. And I don't think I used that much in it, but it's still like a soul food cook. It's like I was eating fried chicken around this and it just got... I would have to wash it with like Dawn dish soap because it's a degreaser. And then I would take alcohol and wipe it down. And then I'd sand it and I'd have to wipe it down again. And then do a flood coat and hope that I got all the silicone Resi Blast residue off of the piece. I don't know. Let's see if you guys can see this. Let's see. Can you see these dimples right here and right here and right here and right here? The residue. It's still something I can control which I'm not a control freak, but I just want to control it impossible. So that's what Resi Blast does to everybody that's like, if you try Resi Blast, what do you think about Resi Blast? That's that. But I'll try it again. I'm going to try it in another brand of resin. We'll see if it works differently there. So we'll see. I'll do it again. What's up Resi? Glad you made it, Greg. Beyond I, when I contacted them, I just, when you go to the sample page, I just clicked on every sample that they offer. And I've heard recently that people have gotten the same issue that I had. They'll send you like a pamphlet of all the samples and not actual samples. So you have to just email them again and be like, yo, where's my samples? I don't want to read about it. I want to use them. Do you think they do that on purpose? So just in case it's, you know, somebody that isn't serious or... I don't know. You know, somebody that's not going to follow up. I don't know.  I'm going to use my Texas close to my, my brother is sending me 12 of these blanks. So if you guys want a Texas state coaster, put your sippy sippy on. Ideas. I don't know if just the 91% alcohol will break down the silicone, but give it a shot. You may have to hit it with Dawn. Elena got her giveaway piece yesterday. Amazing. Debbie got her sticks today. I'm not sure what the deal is with Resi Blast. I read the instructions on the bottle and I'm pretty sure I use it exactly per how it said. So I don't know what the deal is. I'm going to try to use less of it and do another pour just to see if it was maybe operator error or just maybe a bad batch. We'll see. That's awesome. Anita. Hey, Leah. What's up Tiger Mouse. Wondering art. Welcome. Look at that. Those burns come right off of there. Now we got some sticks to use. What's your favorite pearlescent white? I think our favorite so far has been Jakard, honestly. Jakard pearlescent is a really good pearlescent white. Mary Jane, I know the Blake stuff is pretty awesome. I think yours went out today. I'll check when I get off of here and send you an email with confirmation numbers. We usually like to let our paintings set for at least at least a week. So Sharon, just so you know, they'll be out. We're for the people that ordered sticks. We're getting more in tomorrow. I went through and packaged everything. We'll be sending out all the things tomorrow as well. Jenny wants to know how your commission piece turned out. So I took it to the restaurant. It's a place called Cretias here in Dallas. Over there in Bishop Arts District. Really nice place. Roll the dessert, the cupcakes. Like I want to use the F word. They're amazing. But anyways, they weren't there. The mother wasn't there. The girl that purchased it from me wasn't there. But their aunt was there. And I told her the story about it. She wanted to know what the title was and what I showed to you guys. That's not how emotional you guys got. So I left and I get a text message from Celeste, the girl that bought it from me. And she said that her aunt was crying when she got there. I felt bad. It's one of those bitter sweet things like, oh my gosh, I feel bad. But at the same time, your artwork makes somebody emotional. And then her mom saw it and loved it. And then I told her that was actually us. We had to take the photograph to get that actual pose. And she loved it. Does Jacquard White sell good? It depends on how you use it. If you mix it into the resin, it does not sell.  So it's all how you work it. But in terms of sparkly, pearlescent white, just in terms of the color, Jacquard is our favorite so far. That's so funny, like this paint is so like, there's really not a lot of pigment in this. Like it doesn't even change the color. Can you try the Villejo? I've already put it. I mean, I guess you could see. But this looks transparent as well, too. I mean, that's what that means. You can see through. But we'll see. I just want to make it really bright. This looks like a lighter. Barbara said, don't feel bad. That's what the painting was supposed to do. What's up, D? Lisa, your Lupus pour was really great. You should be very proud of it. What's up, Jeff? And we look forward to seeing that. John, what's up? What's up? You didn't miss anything yet? Jeff's just mixing colors. All that I did so far was go over what happened yesterday and how the pieces turned out. What's up, Megan? What are you thinking, B? I love this teal. I haven't used this teal yet. It's hard to zoom. It's real bright. It is a really bright, blue, amazing teal.  But I'll just repeat what you say so they can hear. I'm almost done. Sorry, guys. Do my best soap pigments work like any other pigment? We used this one yesterday, and Bramble Berry is mainly for soaps. It says Bramble Berry soap making supplies right on the label. And it is pretty amazing. We've used this mermaid blue in a few different pieces. I'm trying to look over my shoulder at which one may be up there. I'm pretty sure I used this in the geode. It's great. It works just like any other mica. John, I will definitely follow you on Instagram. Annie said, hey, what is the red I used the other day? I also love the sucker. The red I used the other day was Sassy Red by LaRez. What's up, Elaine? Denise said, I'm on here as long as I can keep my eyes open. Today was a son of a nutcracker day at work. And I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure that means rough day. Deborah said, opinion on the Viva Decor you got from Sherry the other day. Are you talking about that Maya Gold Viva that had the teal with all the flex in it? Deb, because if you're talking about that, love it. Yes, Deb, love that stuff. Jeff has used it a few times. Since we got it, it's pretty amazing. I'm going to try to list the colors that he's using tonight in the description box, but everything's, he mixed almost. This is what I'm using. This is raw. I think I'm going to use raw tonight. Ron asked what the LaRez website name is. I can't think of it offhand, but I'm sure somebody in this feed can link the LaRez website. Also, Dia says, Jeff, thanks for the suggestion on photographing your pieces outside work like a charm. Yes, you're welcome. Megan said my son, Wes, loves you guys. He wants to know what kind of lollipop. Blow pop. I think it was just a great blow pop. Yeah, kind of become in the middle. Yeah, John, there, I haven't used that many of their Micas, but their pigment paste are bananas. Nancy, you may have to send them an email because sometimes they like to just send you an info packet instead of the samples. What's up, Judy Blaze? Any plans on trying OOPS paints as an experiment? What's up, Laura Taylor? How are you? I don't understand why OOPS paints are mainly like, it's just like a really off weird color that people didn't like when they made it, or it wasn't the right color that they had made for them. So it's normally like an off tan or a really weird colonial blue or some weird brown, like, I mean you could use it as a base, but I wouldn't necessarily use it to put in resin unless you just, you know, want to do a solid color with it. I think the idea is most that, can you use like an interior wall house paint? I don't see why not, I mean acrylic paint, right? Yeah, Deborah Cox wanted to know, so I told her we would give it a shot. We will definitely do it this week, Deb. I think we actually have a couple of those cans. That color, no, no, we made that color. Yeah. I mean, you'd still be the same. Teal, that purple is OOPS on that wall. Oh yeah, it is. SusannaDinks.com. Edward says you should make your own yellow called bananas. Bananas! Actually, we're talking to Color Obsession about doing a yellow called bananas. Bananas. They couldn't see my hands, but it was a very exciting hand gesture. Thank you, Toby. Like I'm losing my room. Yep. Let me just wrap these up. You don't want to get it dirty, do you? No, it's fine. It still might be a little wet. It's all there for me. Although that's what she said. It's Peoples. Find out who sent these. Yeah, we got a mystery package today. I didn't have any names on it. So thank you to whoever sent us these painting triangles. I'll be using them for my poor, because Jeff already has pushpins in his. Ideas that I might as well hustle you guys display. I don't know that you can really be an artist, a living artist without some level of hustle. I feel like you kind of have to have hustle to get your name out, to get your artwork out. Probably the game. What's up, Jenny? You can send us an email with Dolly and try to waterfowl poor. So you can send us an email at thorntonatartisttilldebt.com 2T's, 2L's, so that we can see it. I don't think you can post a video on this thread, unfortunately. Use a different bottle. I think that's a little mystery. I want to know, when you first started selling your work, did you price it lower? I mean, of course. You really don't know what to sell for. You don't know what somebody's going to buy it for you for. That's the hardest thing for artists to do, is price a room work. It's tough. It's very tough. You know, you think about how much time you put into it. You think about how much time it took you to learn how to do it. So I would just start it, whatever the supplies are, and double that. Possibly add $50 on to that, just to see what the price looks like. That's a big deal, too. What it would look like. Let's say you put $50 into it. So you double that. It's $100, and then you add $25. $50. What looks better? $150, $125. There's a 2 in there. Before the 5, so that looks a lot prettier than $150. $125 looks awesome. Basically, have as many low numbers on your price as possible. Yeah, kind of trick the mind. John said he had to call 911 today, because he's almost at art resin. Edward says that he doesn't want to work his normal job anymore. He just wants to make art and sell it. It can be done. You have to eat a lot of ramen in the beginning, but it can be done. Jenny, you're really going to like those Doc Martens. The ear decimals are really nice. Keep in mind, though, that they're really pastel. Deb says maybe you guys can make a Facebook page for everyone to share their work. That is not a bad idea, and I will get started on that for you guys. Beyond says how do you get past the small things? Like for me, there are things I notice that I want to mark down for, but there are things that people would probably never notice. That's what you just keep to yourself. That's the worst thing arts can do is point something out, or if you feel that's a funny thing, because it feels like it's a piece of wood sticking out of your artwork, because you see it. It's such a mental thing, but I guarantee nobody else sees it. Maybe another artist that does that kind of work, but you don't worry about that person. Just leave it alone, and if it bothers you that much, fix it or just fire sell it. Just put it cheap and sell it.  You don't want that. You should present that piece of artwork to a friend of yours and be like, what do you think? And if they don't notice within the next like two minutes of looking at it, then it's not going to be notice. Janice, if I have dimples in my epoxy, could I stand it and do an acrylic core on it? You can. You can stand it and do a resin pour on it. It's going to be enough. Lost him. North Portland said in school, I was told supplies plus 400%. I've heard that too, but that's for an established artist, I think. I think once you're starting out and you just want your name out there, you want to make just something back for your time and the cost that you put in it. I think that... Just get an idea first of what people's reactions is. You know, if you quote a prize and they come back with, man, that's not really in my range, then you say, well, tell me, what is your budget and let's work with that and maybe I can get you something a little smaller or less detailed. If they don't answer you at all, then obviously it's way out of their budget. And really? And then if they answer you right back, like, sold, just know that you probably could have added $50 to $100 to that. For next time. For next time, yeah. Nancy, I understand losing health insurance is not good, but welcome, Jackie. Natalie says, my mom sold my first and only. It was a coaster. They live in a retirement home now. A sale's a sale. Thank you so much, John. Somebody somewhere is going to like your artwork. The expression, a never-man's garbage is a never-man's treasure is 110% true. Where is it? John is 100% right. It goes for men and women. Somebody somewhere, no matter how hot that person is, somebody is sick of them. Or somebody loves them. Just saying. Ideas that never tell people it's easy or anyone can do it. That's true except for on our this. We're here to tell you guys that you can do it. On this channel. John gave us $10 and said, sippy sippy on me today. And you know what's crazy? Is that liquor store down the street from us delivers. You can tell they close. I never knew that until probably like two weeks ago when I went in there and they were like, you know, we deliver right down the street. We deliver to the south side. I'm like, what? So I've learned not to make all the colors at once. I'm sorry that Environment Tech set up on me so fast. It's completed her first commission today. Awesome, congrats. Hi, Jess, Jody. What should we have? A green tiger mouth. Hey, Clara, the colors that Jeff is using today are I have no idea. He decided to go rose and mix up his own colors earlier and it's a combination of those just the stack of colors. But I will go through and let you guys know what he ended up working with. Did you use any regular colors? You're using teal, right? No, I'm not using teal. Yeah, I think it is mostly acrylics and high clothes. Thank you so much, Nancy. Hey, Pam. You're not too late. We just showed what we did yesterday, how the pieces turned out and Jeff just started this piece. So you're good. I'd say poor people in the house. John, the mixing cut brand is HDX. Nancy, you can use plexiglass just sand the plexiglass a little bit with like a 220 or 400 grit sandpaper. It should work out just fine. Hey, Christy. Khaleesi, we do sign our artwork. For pours, we sign on the side. Sometimes. Sometimes if it's if it's a large enough piece and there's a nice spot where it looked nice being signed, we'll definitely sign it lower right-hand corner just because it'll look nice. It looks a little more professional and kind of artsy more like that. I think we made it. The one thing I do not like about having these tacks in the bottom is it's so slippery. Debra, yeah, definitely if you're thinking about getting into art full-time a website is a good thing to look into getting and so you have to check into web domains, name availability there's a whole lot of stuff that goes into it, so it's definitely up there on the priority list. Fun fact, I've been doing this how long? I don't know, a long time. And I just got my first website after I met her. I never had a website. I hardly even had business cards half the time. This is too much to keep up with. Ron, that master cast is pretty thick. I would say it's thicker than Art and Glow. Megan, we've done a fire piece. Jeff's gonna do another one. I'm not even thinking about that. I might do that tonight. Maybe tonight. I might throw an extra pour in there. Because I have this I have this little starburst thing that I could probably just fill in a little bit more black and use that after you get done doing yours. You can tell the resin art that you're putting out right now you never know, especially with resin since it's art, it's subjective, it's interpretive. You'll never know what someone may like until you just put it out there. I've had pieces that we put up for sale that I'm like, this is gonna sale yesterday. It's gonna be gone. Money in the bank. And we still have it. These are the colors that I made. But we put pieces up for sale that I was like, we're just gonna take this because I have a little bit of room left. It's gonna be a space filler and it's the first to go. So I would just make everything available. Nancy, that's a little bit more expensive for the coasters than what we have. It cost us probably $20 for the coasters including shipping. $44 double probably what we paid. That's so weird how this smells when you mix paint in through it. Amy, you can resin over pretty much anything. Was her ocean painting and oil painting? Yeah, I would definitely have some pieces ready to put up on a website before starting a website. You have to have content. Or these are just because these are all about the business. Well, one of my degrees is in the business. That's awesome, Margo. Laura wants to know how they like your beautiful pieces. They loved it. They truly, truly loved it. That's a good idea, Sheila. Chrissy said I'm in a lot of trouble holding back and not creating mud and suggestions. Are you doing acrylic pours or resin pours?   Very much magnets. Congratulations, Nancy. That's a lot of work. I'm sure they turned out lovely. Oh, ideas. That's what I wanted to tell you. I love the idea of your daughter making magnets for the school lockers. Brilliant idea. Something that little kids would love and they would totally do it. Go to Michael's and go in the cooking section. And sometimes they have them on the end caps like the end aisles.   It'll be all her own color picking and it'll turn out perfect. Or she can do the little canvases. That's all her thing too. But a perfect shape and a perfect outcome, she'll sell them all day long. Just stick a little magnet on the back of it, super glue. It'll be perfect. There you go. Happy Owl. I use GoDaddy for my domain and web hosting. They're not that expensive but they're not cheap either. However, they have like a storefront building program that helps you to like post all of your for sale stuff as well as have a gallery and a blog if you want. It's great. In my opinion. A lava pour would be bananas. Absolutely. I have even screen shot. I watch videos. When I go to bed, I watch, I've been watching a lot of the videos that people post from Hawaii. And I screen shot like two of an up view of the lava and I'm going to do a lava pour. What's up Amber? No, we haven't figured out what we're going to do on the triangles or the hexagons. Oh, the hexagons are I said want to waste them. I think I might do a routine on that. I might have to do some artwork on that. Thank you, L.A.T.J. How much was GoDaddy? Um, it probably cost me about maybe $3.50 a year. But that includes the website, the hosting, the storefront, the email addresses, calendar syncing, the domain name. This is that brown eye light because it's just almost red. What is a bubble pour? I have no idea, Barbara. A bubble wrap? A bubble wrap pour? I don't know. Alright, so what am I going to do here? Hi, Rockset. What's up, Tasty? Some trash up in there. One girl's hair up in here. Oh, the bottle bottom pour.  They're amazing. Feel better, Tammy? I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. I wish ShellShack delivered and it was as good as when it's in there.  I'm not sure. Is he like a redneck? Is he a redneck?  What's up, Ann? She said all gets quiet when Jeff starts to pour. You all are crazy. Pool party art sale. Come on over, Denise. John said how do you know when you're at a redneck picnic? I don't know yet. It's a sheet, I'll send the link to you. Perfect. She said thanks Jeff for this style. The one I created using the black and white is the one that's sold today. That's awesome, Kicha. I'm afraid this is going to be too heat gun for a clean torch hairdryer all the above. Maybe and it depends on what you're trying to do. The heat gun will pop the bubbles and give some movement whereas a torch just pops the bubbles and doesn't create movement. So it's up to you. I don't understand that. I don't know if I'm going to like these these paints. No, I haven't seen that. Erica Lee said have you seen the video of the lady taking dirt from the other side of the fence? We haven't, but I feel like that would be an amazing video. What is that for me? It's made up. Thank you, Lisa. The teal color of silicone in it. Kora, I've temporarily given up on all things siliconey until I figure out how to work with Resi Blast without creating a mess for myself when I'm using silicone. All these colors are way too transparent. Like way too transparent. They do not bleed like alcohol inks. Alcohol with resin creates that dispersion that makes it bloom out a little bit. If you drop just a regular India ink into resin it won't do that. It'll just sit there. It was just acrylic paint. It's all sitting right there. I shouldn't know that. That's a good idea, Laura. That's awesome, Sheila. I bet Judy could plan out a pour. I mean, plan out a vacation. She has a couple of rental properties in Belize. She's going soon. I wish I could make it a less. To pour on tile, you could have people having like peeling problems with tiles, so I would just prep it with a bonding primer. Should be good to go. Kelly, I have not poured yet. One day you should do that and just leave it. I'm not saying on this one, but turn the heat up, kids. Rod says if you get cells like Jeff and Erica, there's no reason to use silicone. Judy is apparently a Mac. Judy is Queen B. Ken says she loves this piece. That's awesome, and we will Skype together super soon. How smooth making those curlies, wow. He's really good at that. It just goes right over that. Right over that clear. I was just about to say you should do the dark color on the other side. But you are already now. Laura said I'm peeling my sticks while I watch. The new batches that are coming out have less of that paper on the sticks. So hopefully it will be easier for everybody. Lori said she loves the sticks. They look great. I'm so glad. Wine in hand. Way to go, Margo. Rod said Jeff makes it look so easy. This is definitely a lot of color combination. Happy all of you are chosen in the mail. I know that yours out. These colors are just terrible. Like, never use when there's this multi surface by full art. Gold into that. I wish you put that purple in there. With this. I know, I just don't know what. That's an awesome idea. Now I'm going to have to try that. Rod said the one you're working on is very glowy and lyrical. Deb says, okay, people, how many would be interested in an E&J class mid-Atlantic area if I can figure out logistics. Just some honest numbers for now. Thank you, Judy. Well, a couple people are interested. So that's amazing. Look at that. What was in there? Just, that was crazy. And I only did it on this side. Look how big that is. That is just nuts. I filled up. D, D, D. Like, this is just terrible.  Like, right when I took this I'm a gentleman in there. You guys know what that means. Is that the sound of a super tilt? Super tilt. Do a swipe. Might be cool. Let's try a swipe. Happy owl. She just meant a class that Jeff and I would come and teach. It is not puff paint. That is Vallejo. Khaleesi said it's a Franken piece. It's even worse now, guys. These colors are terrible. That's, all right. An aggressive swipe. Do you want a bucket to pour that in? What are we going to do with it? It looks like I'm making fudge at the mall. What's up, Tammy? All right. Here. She's kind of hardened. V! What if it gets hot and melts and trashed in? This is the first time I've ever done this. That's how bad those colors were, guys. Khaleesi said I kind of liked it. I did say you're killing the smalls. Tammy, he just, it just wasn't working. You should have seen it in person. It was terrible. Like it was a, just like the last guy I say. This looks better than what it was. At least it's art resin and you can I know. Put something on. Put something on over it. Won't this like smooth it out? What are you saying? Staying crazy. That's your favorite color to make magic. It's just, man. Just don't, don't use those, those colors, man. That's just, and I've used this before. This watercolor. Let's just smooth this out so that you don't dry, flush. Christy, there is no curse. Curse. She said, I think I cursed you. Moose down there, just hanging out. I don't believe in stuff like that. Just being mooly. I mean, all you gotta do is just make sure that all the high spots are they're taking care of and everything is covering and you can reuse this bad boy. Not a problem. With art resin, you can reuse it. What blue is that? Multi-surface. That's terrible. It was a full-cart crafting. So that's just the beginner. Alright, so that was the warm-up. Brux has 98% of my pores end up just like that. I got to see that first timer right there. Right. This is a learning experience. If you don't like it and you have leftover resin, just start over. You're not going to pour on that? No, because it's all dirty. What's going to go over that? Nothing. I'm just going to let it dry. The posters. That's awesome, Darlene. I'm sure it is easier to look at not on the phone. Rub it on the TV. You need more. Such teamwork. That's what we do. You have some of that teal left? No. I do. How much do you pay for your alcohol? It's like $3 for the bottle where we use. Hi, Janine. Kelly, they are supposed to go live at midnight tonight. So, I guess tomorrow they'll be live for international stick shipping. What? The international stick. The stick. Why don't you pour it late to do this? Jeff didn't like it, so he reset the whole piece. Hi, Karen. Hope you had a good day. Mary Jane makes me a girl who is pretty amazing. Are you just going to do some gold member coasters? No. I'm sorry, Kelly. I've got Oreo, Darlene. Margot just gave us a tip to make the pain go away. Hate wasting resin. So, sweet of you. Thank you. We don't like wasting resin either, but it is what it is what it is. Tag a mouse. Experience. That's awesome, Greg. Kelly, I can't show you what he poured because he scraped it all off. It turned into mud. Samantha said, I don't know how you people do it in the south. It's 80 degrees here today and I'm melting. It gets up to like 110 here in Texas in the summer. I'd die. Well, there's pool parties. There's stuff to get you by. They look fun. Yeah, the humidity gets just out of control here. The humidity is so bad you walk outside and you're like, I feel like I just gained 15 pounds just walking outside just because it's just so the air is heavy. I like them. They're fun. They're real nice and classy looking. Real nice. And what was our lesson learned yesterday? Not really one here because it stayed forever. I've accidentally dropped a little bit of a straw onto a pour before and it wasn't that much. It didn't really do anything. It wasn't noticeable after the piece set. It's nothing I was stressed out about. You are blocking my view. The view of what? Well, it was your shoulder. Hey Sarah, we axed a piece and now Jeff is finishing up the coasters and I'm about to do a pour. They're real nice. Yeah. You're in there. Trey, elegant. They're real classy. You can get them in Target. Alright. What do you call those? The paintless triangles? Well, I'm going to use them. It just makes it like I sweat because of these soft things. These will be perfect as long as I can stay where I'm supposed to. If you guys are interested in the coasters, they are only five dollars each and you can email us if you're interested in them or if you would like some in a different color. You're more than welcome to holler at us and let us know. Let's get your camera ready. There you go, guys. She's ready. I haven't said that in so long. I need to get out and take pictures. Say hi to the people. Hello. He looked like he was waving his fly. He lifted his hand up. Moo. Such a good day there. Love Kujo. Hi, Moo. I'm going to turn the AC on. You get it from your mama. This PBO paint that about a thousand people asked me about and I'm just now getting around to trying them. I'm using a PBO fantasy moon and a PBO fantasy prism along with some this and some this. Hopefully it will be amazing. I have yet to use them. I'm going to have to sit into a resin instead of just using them out of this. I'm not using a PBO resin. I'm using art resin. We will have an adventure together and see how that goes. Because who doesn't love adventure time? Nobody. Also, I hope you can hear me. Y'all, I'm only two paintings left from being caught up on my commissions. Commissions are great but then you have to make it look like something so you can't just sit down and be like, I feel like painting this and then just do it. And then I always have like commission remorse where if I'm not painting what I'm supposed to be painting like what somebody already put a deposit on I feel really bad that I'm not working on someone's paid for artwork. This struggle is real is what I'm saying. Do you have 20 bucks? Yes. I think I need a cup. Can we get me a cup? A cup? Like just a cup cup? A little tiny bit of a cup. Do you want paper or plastic? You sound like a grocery bagger. Sorry guys, I had to get sippy sippy.  Excuse me. Coffee is like... It does the rest of yours. Oh. Well, that's going to set up like super fast. This is art resin. Hey, don't get caught up.  I'm not. I'm just saying. She's cute when she's caught up. That's what B said. I got all that really just stuff that's going to stick to the side. So I got this Prism paint by PBO like four months ago and I just haven't done anything with it. So right now, right here today I'm going to test it together and see... Hi, Christina. Welcome. 190 people. 190 people? We only got 72 thumbs up. Come on, people. Let's get some of those thumbs up. It costs money? Here you go. They want to see the art wall. There's not too much up there. Let's see here. This one sometimes offends people. But it is it's a piece that I did and Erika finished it for me with all the stones and the dragon dip-dick dip-dip What is done and done? Y'all deserve it. What is that? What smells, babe? This... Thanks, Janet. Anytime you want. Get your chat on. Everybody in here is super nice, super friendly and very informative and if we miss a question or a comment and somebody can answer it, they will and we totally appreciate that with our followers. Thank you, Christina. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. We have 126 thumbs up now. That's what I'm talking about. Are you just eating? I can't eat with this hand. I want you guys to see this dog. He's holding it with his... His little treat. Oh, there he goes. Erika may get a headache. Smell those fumes. They are strong. She should put a respirator on. Oh, hold on. Somebody wants to... This is one of our first negative pores with resin. You don't have to move, baby. It's close up. It's on two heavy-duty canvases. It's super nice in person. Her phone doesn't do it justice. Very wavy. Very flowy. If you're interested in it, shoot us an email right there. Let us know. We'll definitely sell it to you. Package it up and ship it to you. Thank you to get us a decent camera here. Negative space pores are fun. That's what I was going for tonight. The colors... I should have used what I normally use. I was trying to make a color and you really can't with poor quality colors. Is that the kind of Nikon? Is that the one that I... It's... If you ever look at your pets for anything that would be beautiful resin painting. Megan the colors. Yeah, he's got some crazy-looking colors. Thanks, Sarah. Is that how you say that? Sarah? Sarah? Nikon is the best. You got that? Just hold your arms out as far as you can and then they can see it. What is that? Is that Nikon? Huh? Are you in there? I'm in it. No, you can't see anything doing anything. It's too dark. We'll bring your face over here. Do you have bubbles? No. I might close up on you. I have a lot of base clear on here. Can you see the moon doing stuff? Yeah, I can. I got it right up on it. I think if you want an effect like this I would use this over... Mary Jane, I'm the same way. My glasses should be here any time. Any time this week. Just keep it where it's at. Maybe bring it in towards me. There you go. I can pan out. The blue is kind of getting lost. Megan, just... Just... You know, just run the heat gun over it. It says any tricks for preventing the heat gun from getting... Oh, getting gunky. Well, she doesn't... She's the one that makes the heat gun stick so that I have to hit it with a hammer to turn on the next day because she doesn't wipe her hands off. But I always have a rag soaked in alcohol. 91% alcohol.  Ooh, yeah. Heat up and blow it. Hmm? Did the cat in the hat painting sell? The long one did sell. This one is still available. Let's see here. That's my light. The original one is still there. It's hard to see. Hers doesn't... Her phone doesn't focus when you... What'd you do? Oh, look at that. Sorry, guys. I missed her going little prints on us tonight. Ooh, it does. I would just leave that. I would heat it and then blow it right down the center so that it's golden and it kind of would marble out. There you go. That's fine. Did you guys see that? What is that other color in there? Is that gold as well? Where? All that.  That's a lot of fun. Life goals. Jeff, you... Samantha T said, I did two pores of memory of my mom. I sent you guys photos yesterday through Messenger. I will check that. Sorry, guys. Back in the holder. Babe. She's... She's pulling a knee right now. Tilted? Tilted towards me a little. Look at that gold. That looks great. Look at that. I love it when it... when it grabs onto something and then it stretches like that. Look at that, guys. How amazing is that? Babe, don't heat it. That looks... Alright, do what you got to do, babe. This is what I love right here. Look at that. Oh, my God. It's a really weird blue. What blue is that, babe? Fantasy? I don't think they could... You have to hold it up close, babe. Babe, you got to turn it so they can see it. Closer? Can you guys read that? It's real subtle. I like it. What about the gold? It's Artisu Gold. That looks great, babe. Is that plum? 207 people. We broke 200, y'all! I know. This one looks great, though. That looks great. Just leave that. Good day, kids. We got 200 poor people in the house. The house of poor people. Yeah, it's the first time in probably a year that we've had the AC on. Let me see if I can get closer to that dragon for you if you wanted to see it up close. There's, like, so much going on in here. That is wicked. One of our first negative spaces. Ellen, Mac, I'm sorry for talking to yourself. What did you say? What happened? I'm sorry. I don't know if you guys have seen this one, but this is one of my favorites, too. It always gets passed over. Like a little step kid. It's so much fun. This one's fun, too. We sign our artwork with a gold or silver paint pen. Sometimes we sign it on the front. Sometimes we'll sign it on the side, depending on, you know, what the... what it looks like. This is one of our acrylic pours with resin over it. That's old piece. You want to have a light over here? Got some Dallas Cowboys fans in that house tonight, or what? What, man? Oh, God, there's the acrylic pour that we did. There's resin over it. Cowboys all day! There's my... That is not 225, by the way. I had a question about are you even ready? Ellen's feeling a little ignored tonight, I think. And I can't see when I'm, like, walking around, so... Ellen, I'm here just for you right now. I've learned not to even ask when Jeff's running around. When he's back, then put it in all caps. New York Giants, come on, Edward. Get out of here. Get on out. It's cute. Answer Bain's question. Beyond, what did... What did you say? Ellen said, never mind. I'm sorry. When I'm in, like, show art mode, it's hard for me to... I didn't see anybody's question, so... The Bears. Kenneth, that's cute. Look at those. Those are fun. We'll see how they turn out. I am blind behind the camera. Just wait until I get my glasses this week. Sorry, Ellen. You can ask all day if you want. I'm sure I'll see it. I apologize. Laura, I bet that is a fun day. How about boys? They use their stuff in there. Easy there, Edward. Des was talking much game, but he wasn't backing it up, that's for sure. All right, I'm sorry, Ellen. She's got to go. Have a nice night.  Packers, girl. Jana, I wiped it completely off the canvas. Erica is better at answering. She's a lot better than I can as well. There you go, Jan. Erica doesn't seem happy. What was wrong with them? What didn't you like about them? No magic in the sky. Lucy in the sky with diamonds. That looks a lot better. Did she use Bear Trial first? Bear Trial. No. No, she didn't, Lori. Is that required? I don't know you had to use them to question with each other. Do you have to let Hebelo set for it to PBO to do more work less? To do more work less? PBO set for it to do? No idea what that means. I have it set and we'll see how it works out. Tomorrow I'm going to start a geode. It's going to take three days to film and show you guys how to do it. I hope you guys can tune in for all three days. Tomorrow we'll go over how to prep and paint and do the first layer. Then we'll do a second layer and on the last day we'll go over adding How much are your geode and stepchild paintings? How much is that geode? The geode is three and the stepchild painting is 100. Which one is the stepchild painting? I love that one. I don't know why those colors came out good. I think it's because I put it under white. I think I did white, then the color. I don't know. Okay, these questions are all this is all geode and PBO and that's all. Alright you guys, I'm here. It's all jargon to me. Alright, puddle pour. I can do puddle pours with you guys. PBO will change as it sits. I had no idea. I think Jeff's about to do a fire.  PBO's just a brand of paint that does different effects. This is one that I used tonight. It's supposed to do some stuff. I guess maybe I added too much resin to it. I don't know. It makes its own resin so I don't know if that's necessary for it to do what it's supposed to do. I'm going to do it in the evening so at our regularly scheduled time 8 p.m. central so the same time we started today is when I'll get on to do that. Good to know, Jenny, thank you. Yeah, Edward, he's about to do a pour. It needs to sit. Thank you everyone. First vitro. I'll try it again with that other stuff. Effects only if you don't move it. Oh, I thought you could tilt it. Who knew? If anybody's interested in getting some artist help desks to do that now for the shipping, we're going to start shipping to everywhere around the world so it might take a little longer than normal. To get your sticks. Well, I mean they're cut to order we are about to start doing like if you want something engraved on the sticks. Yeah, personalize your sticks. I'm sorry, Ellen. Don't care for them too expensive. Yeah, they are a bit expensive. What? The p.v. paints. Thanks, Deb. That's awesome, Janet. I hope you can tune in. We've been putting them out every day since hmm we started getting them in. So the next batch goes out tomorrow. Candy, I will I have your order printed so I can look up and see when I take them and ship everything I have like a CVS length receipt of shipping confirmation so I'll just go through and I'll look for yours. Glad you're still here. Thanks for watching, April. Thank you, Lisa. I'm going to use a spray paint for the yellow. Did you like the yellow? Because I thought it got like cloudy on you. Not one of us. Okay, good. So if we missed any questions just post away. Thank you so much. Alright, redemption time. I shouldn't say that when I'm about to do fire. Not very smart. Awesome, Sheila. Enough, Kujo. So Jeff did a fire piece not too long ago and he's going to try to do another one. The way I did it was just kind of backwards. Yeah, Vanessa, I can ship to Australia. You have had such an awful day and I love watching you both. It's my nighttime relaxing. You know what? Awesome, Sheila. Thank you. Will said, Erica, I think the dragon is upside down and the small canvas should be on the left. I bet you'll sell it if you turn it. What? The canvas on the left. Just saying put that one and flip it and put it over here but I don't know since that deep blue continues right here and it's just a faint green over here. So, I don't know. Sheila, it is, I believe our address is on our website. You can shoot me an email and I will send that, send you our address. It's Thornton at artisttilldebt.com. Two T's, two L's. Rustillian is 30% off at Hobby Lobby. That's awesome. That's early Nancy. Yeah, April, you gotta be careful. Some residents will yell out super quick. Do you remember what kind it was? Ashley, thank you so much for tuning in and having such sweet comments. Anna Maria, we would love to see your flower in resin. And just clarify. Kelly Green, it is our pleasure. We're here to help you guys out. I hope you're safe, Linda. Be careful on those storms. Welcome, Snooki Boo. The FW Velvet is gonna be a good color to use. I would definitely add gold to it. That's awesome, Asia. Is A.C. Moore in Dallas? Do you have an A.C. Moore? Thank you, Sam. Kelly Green just said, I just spent milk out of my mouth, your flower. Sorry! I just sent myself up for like, T-L-B-S-S. Yeah, Super Glaze is known to yellow, but it's actually not even the cheapest resin you can get. You can go to Hobby Lobby or Michaels and get used there like 40%, 50% off coupons and get resin from there. A.C. Moore is like a Michaels. I don't think we have one of those. I think she went to go turn off the A.C. We're so lucky in this building, our studio faces the sunrise and then it goes away. The sun goes away probably around 11 or 12-ish. So we never have to turn our A.C. on. And it's always cooler, like towards the living room and in the bedroom. Completely amazing. Our electric bill is like, I think the highest was like $96 one time. And that's like no exaggeration. The lowest was like 60 something. And we have like 1,800 square feet. And we're on the eighth floor. Did you turn it off or did you turn it down or up? I don't even see if I had any extra space to turn it back. I think I'm out. Is there nothing left? I think we're just gonna do a clear coat. All right, y'all, I'm back. I'm gonna scroll up and see what questions I missed. Thank you, Kenneth. I will try. Got a lot of canvases today on sale, 70% off. We haven't, we missed it. Michaels. But I think those are just the back stapled like level ones maybe. I don't know. Just wait, just, hopefully just wait when Aaron Brothers really has their crazy sale when they close. We are located in Dallas, Texas. Hi, Terry from Perth. Vanessa, we don't have a lot of our resin art posted on our website. I find that as soon as I post it, it sells. And so it's just a lot. I need to do it. I need to be better about that. So as soon as I get caught up on all these sticks orders, what's up, Laura? I'm going to update the website. My daughter, Summer wants to know your Instagram user is right there. Artist till death studios. Kelly, that sounds a lot like my mom's power bill. Nancy, I've noticed that too. She does paint in his mind before he pours. I'm more of an impulse pourer. Oh, guess here, Laura is like, are we in the threes right now? Diesel's in the threes, Laura, I like 268, I think. Beyond, it definitely depends on what size canvas you're going to pour on. Personally, I think that no more than four colors works best. Especially on a smaller canvas, like anything smaller than like, probably a 16 by 20. I would not do four colors, like if you're just starting, I wouldn't do, I would do two colors. Night-Jan, Denise still making it with us, that's awesome. What's everybody sipping on tonight, on a Monday night? April pouring outside is not the most ideal, but at least you get to pour. Some people can't even find space or time to do it, so not the worst, not ideal. What do you guys use to put prices on your paintings for art shows, looking for something that won't ruin the surface? Lisa, usually we'll print a card that's about the size of a business card, and we'll post it just next to the bottom right of the canvas, and we make sure to list title, medium, size, and price, and artist. So, this is what I was trying to think of today when we were talking about it. We do have Facebook, it is right there as well. H-W-P-W. Thornton artist till death, what, what? H-W-P-W. What is that? Husbands with poor wives. It's a, it's a counseling and, what do we say in? It's a self-help for husbands of poor wives. Yes. Counseling for husbands, especially in the beginning.  We're just gonna start doing a commercial spoof spot. This is how it's gonna go, fade in. It's gonna be on probably a husband that's like sullen and downtrodden and looking way confused. And it'll just be like the regular late night infomercial type voice and questions. Are you sad? Does your wife take up everything available on the credit card for pouring supplies? Have you run out of room in your garage because it's now a studio? The kitchen, has the kitchen turned into... Packed, shipping and receiving. Shipping and receiving. Anyways, it's a work in progress, it's just an idea. Sipping on chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side. I love soup. Soup is my favorite. I love soup.  Don't even play Edward. We look like hoarders, straight up. Soup. Jen said, just got here in time to tell Jeff, Austin East Cider's blood orange. That is a good cider. All right, let's see if I can do this. That's how I did this, I did it. That's true, April. I hope you feel better, Megan.  Well, I don't know personally. I can't say that I know what you feel, but my heart goes out to you. How long does it usually take for acrylic to dry? Phil, are you talking about in a pour?  Some of y'all blog is very good. Way to go, Kelly. Wondering Art said, my husband hated it when I started pouring. He was mad. Then I sold one and he was like, mm, okay.  Day night. Thank you so much, Nancy. I really appreciate it. I'm serious. We're gonna put a commercial together for spouses of poor people. Cause we got some mail porers so we can't just like exclude people. It's gonna be the funniest thing ever. Like I'm super pumped. We woke up this morning and that's all we talked about for the first hour of our day. That's awesome. Mary Jane Glider's still here. Karen said, I no longer have a kitchen table. Denise, I got most of the resin out of my hair. I was brushing it this morning and I'm just gonna say that I got rid of some of my own split ends for myself. Everything happens for a reason, I suppose. I haven't told my stylist that I messed up my haircut yet. Sheila said, oh my God, I don't even wanna talk about my startup expenses. It is not a joke. Art is my therapy, try and stop me. Art is therapy, it's for real. Thank you, Clara. Clara gave us a tip, said for the poor wife fund, he did say wife. They're tipping because you said wife. Robin, I am a hoarder. I am too, don't even like, I collect canvases. Jenny said, I'm pretty sure my boyfriend broke up with me because I paid more attention to my crafts than him. Meeting mother's gratcher. What's Jeff listening to? He's listening to EDM. I have very limited space, but I have too much stuff. Any tips on organizing?  Jenny took over her husband's office at work because he didn't use it. It's now a mini studio for pouring. Laura said, all good artists live in an environment of chaos in their home. This true Laura, but now I have a rack that I can keep my paintings in. So it's a little bit more organized, still chaotic. Philly filled depending on what kind of acrylics you use. Like if you're just painting acrylics on something, shouldn't take more than a few minutes, but you can get long open time acrylics as well. Beyonce's Michael says a gift card that says something like crafting is cheaper than therapy and I'm like, LOL, really? Are you sure? I would say they're similarly priced. Anna Maria, I appreciate you showing up and showing the love. You don't have to have PayPal just to show up and show support. So I'm glad you're here. And I will definitely check out your flower on Facebook. Your resin flower. Laura also true. Kenneth, we've done countertops. Oh no, Candy. I have resin in my hair. I should have known not to just have a regular ponytail. Bee, Ms. Erika Lee wants to know how you got started selling your artwork. I think it was in high school. He sold like... I guess you would say that I just started painting t-shirts. I had my little airbrush t-shirt booth in a flea market and just kind of started in on bigger stuff, more detail. I moved here, got a job at the West End from Kansas. Just started selling my artwork in... I started copying Olivia. A lot of women stuff, a lot of women portraits. Boris, Frasetta, just copying their stuff and then putting my own spin on it. And in a comic book store, I used to sell my artwork for like $100. Like 30 by 40s. That's bananas. Night, Karen. Well said, Sam. April, I just got some resin in my hair from doing what he's doing, but my ponytail like flipped over my shoulder and I just, I did a string pull with my hair. Leslie, thank you for that information. Bee, next time I get resin in my hair, remind me that I can use foaming hand sanitizer. Night, CJ. Edward, my sister is active duty, what? I just, I flipped it and a piece of resin rolled across itself. Like a little ball of resin rolled across. Actually, we've been doing resin art for probably like seven, eight months. Trusa says as long as my husband, my husband says as long as I buy him some fishy stuff with my first sale, he's cool. Sounds like a deal. Hanging with Tony says my resin art has made me seek therapy. No bueno. Love the yellow. Sorry, Philly Phil, I'll get on my Facebook soon. Today, it was all responding to emails and I had to finish a commission piece, the commission lit piece of the butterflies. I had to finish that one today, so I didn't really get into Facebook or Instagram today. And what is up with this? I guarantee it's the paint that I'm using, the spray paint. Jackie said, does anyone remember the Avena poster shops used to save my pocket money in the 70s for them and copy them? Jeff used to copy comic book stuff. Janine, yes. It's everywhere in this. That's a good idea, Deb. Vanessa said, Erica, will you do a res, or would you do a resin with artists who plum, jade, and bright gold? I definitely would. I'm also thinking of adding white. I would also do that. I wouldn't add any more than those four. Love the glitter, but it always sinks in my resin. Yeah, this is just getting like, what do you say? That's a lot different than your last one. No. Andrew said, looks good. Do what? I need to do it. Layered pour would be amazing. You could definitely use this as a back glow. Agreed, happy owl. But I think we're gonna use this as a background for a pour. Pour or pour, not every day can be a perfect art day. And all you can do is turn the lights off in the studio, get some rest, and then come back the next day and pick up where you left off. No sense in getting upset over spilled resin. Ellen, not really. We don't ever really just take a day off. Right now we really can't, but we will once we get caught up, we'll take a day off. I've got some videos I've time lapsed to post so that we can have a day of just being brain of vegetable. Yeah, you have a lot of paste in that one, right? And it's with me. That's awesome, Edward. That looks neat, because that dark that's in there makes that depthy shadow. Laura, yeah, a layered pour. So we're gonna leave this one, sand it down, and then do a lot of clear and another layer over it so that you can still see this layer and add depth and dimension by putting another layer on it. Ellen says I love it. It looks like fire smoke. We still have those other candy paint colors that we need to, yeah. That's true, Judy. We do need to pick up on Outlander again. I don't think we've watched TV in like four days. Laura, you made it. I had some people in the beginning of this feed asking about Lerez, but I think we sent them to the right place. Sheila says give us a heads up when you take time off so we can make other plans. For the days that we're gonna take off, I will definitely post on all the feeds and also I will post just a time lapse video on those days. We're gonna post every day for 365 days at least. So I'll at least post a time lapse video of a painting that we've done and I haven't posted it yet. And in that video, I will let you guys know that that's the post for the day. Hope you enjoy it. We'll not see you at 8 p.m. central. Check you tomorrow. So I'll give heads up. I will give proper notice. Kelly said it looks like a firecracker after it explodes in the sky. I dig it. Sheila said that looks awesome. Tanya says totally the look I'm trying to get. Faith says it's a ghost writer kind of vibe. It is. Jackie started a tiger skin for today. I wanna see. Edward says it looks like all of Hawaii. Happy all says. I love it now. Now it looks cool. Tiger mouse. Tiger mouse. Edward says this is really the only TV I watch. That's funny. I'm listening to the dead mouse right now. Are you gonna blend that bread in there? I figured. Laura says it looks like looking down into a volcano. It's cool. Denise you're really gonna like lures. It's a great, great pigments. Jenny, I have spilled my fair share of paint and resins. Okay, Laura, I can message you. Basically I was just saying that people are asking about how to order lures earlier. You guys, Laura Usher's in the house. She is the United States rep for lures if you're interested in any of those pigments. The red that's in this and the white are both from Lures. Rod, I've seen the resin fish guy. He's bananas. Karen, that is so awesome. Candy, I'm in love with what Jeff has going on there. Barbara said that's hot. Kelly said we'll be happy to come with you guys on the cruise view YouTube live. Y'all, if I can get my resin on this ship and if the internet service is good enough, I'm gonna still post YouTube lives from our vacation in September. No joke. Sheila said I'm about to cancel cable because it's the only thing I watch anymore. Rusty said it looks too hot to handle. Hanging with Tony said, okay, when Erica and Jeff go on vacation I humbly offer my videos to cover the time. You do good work, Tony. Denise, you're gonna be happy with all of those colors. Those are some of my favorites. You should have gotten a white as well next time. I think Simone is doing LeRez in the UK if I'm not mistaken. Judy says talking about Michaels in therapy and my therapist never gives me a 70% off coupon. Judy's in the house. We could do a poor cruise. I know. I'm down, Sheila. Let's just all plan it. I have a booking agent, travel. What is it? Planner? I don't know the words. I'm not wording well right now, but Laura, Barbara wants to know how she gets in touch with you. In September, we're going on our anniversary vacation. We're gonna take a cruise to Mexico, Montego Bay and, ooh, good catch. I don't even know how that slipped out of your hands. It was my hand with the headphone. Oh. And Cosmome, that sharp cruising with ATD. We're still gonna post. Even when we go on our cruise, I'm gonna have a lineup of videos to post every day during while we're gone, but I'm also gonna try to post live as well. Ann says, I think this is the first time I've ever seen so much depth on video slash photos. Agreed. Phil, Mix Media Girl does have some really good acrylic pours. Well, we enjoy posting videos, so it's not like a thing. We're not getting put out by posting these. It's what we do. It's what we do. We love sharing our lives with you guys. It's part of the ATD fam. Erica Lee said, when you're on vacation, it'll just be a 24-hour Kujo camp, and that would be fine. I'll see if his sitter will do that. Claire said, my husband sat down to watch Law & Order, and I asked if he wanted, oh, and I asked if he wanted me to hang. He asked if I was watching my show. I said, yes, so the big grin, done, done. Resin pour from the love boat. Oh, cast and craft white is good too. Anne said, that's realistic, looking from that angle. Mariette, welcome. It's not too, it's just too busy. I think you should use that as a first layer. It doesn't look bad at all. I just think it would benefit from a second. Like, I love this, like this stuff up here, they got covered up, like underneath. It's that orange, it's that orange ink that's transparent that makes it look like fire. Idea said, have you had, oh, sorry, B. I am, this, this. Idea said, have you noticed a spike in sales since going live? A little bit, yeah. Well, welcome, green eyes.  I don't know that Simone is here tonight. Oh, Denise is a travel agent, awesome. When are you leaving for the cruise? It's in September. I think if you get your order into Judy tonight, you can order Artisiu. Just make sure you send it, you order it tonight and put Judy's name in the code and to ship on this coming shipment. I think it's going out like tomorrow. Judy is in the state, she lives in Texas. Paula Wall says, Jeff, that was fantastic. That was just an experiment. Erica, could you please post exactly what Jeff used for paint and the ratio in each cup when the live feed is done? I missed it momentarily, much appreciated. I sure can, Diane. I can tell you right now, Kim, I will check that out. He used FW acrylic ink, sassy red, angel white, and that sugar spray paint yellow. How much is Jeff selling that pour for?  It looks like it, but it's kind of like as you can see the black underneath, because I did half black and half white. Oh, look at those cells. Laura wants to know how much you're selling the fire painting for. Oh, what is that? I think it's 125. Yeah, it was on canvas, right? Laura, I think it's 125. Janine, she is in the US and she does, right now, I think she has one more order going out to Artisew. Well, one more order coming in from Artisew. Philly Phil said, I have a challenge for Jeff, a galaxy black hole. He was trying to do that the other day, but it turned into a flower. Rusty said, we love you guys. I tuned into you while we were on vacation this past week. That's awesome. Thank you, we love that. We love that we can turn somebody's vacation into an art vacation. Good job, calm down. Resi Blas did leave Residue. Kelly, I'll show you guys that when he's done with his pours. Deb, I'm not sure. Janine, I think it depends on what color you want because some pigments cost more to make. All right, I'm ready for this. We're gonna do a swipe. Artisew does have pigment paste and they are really good quality as are L'orese. Laura said, sold. Can I have a fire coaster with it? Of course you can. Natalie Judy doesn't place orders. She just distributes orders that come in. You still have to go to the website and place your order there. But once it comes to the states, she repackages and sends them out. Deb, I wish I knew about the conversion, but I have no idea. Laura, since you bought the fire painting tonight, which one of these would you like included? All right, this one goes up to Judy. I don't know what I'm gonna do on it, but she was wanting us to use coral at one point. So I got a coral, we'll do a half and a half, yeah. Oh yeah, you got the coral just because Judy said she likes coral. Absolutely well, Diane. It may be in the morning when I post all that, but I will post it. Laura wants the round one. It's yours, Laura. That looks so soft and beachy. Jeff, for the space background, would it be best to go with black metallic or cobalt blue metallic? I guess it depends on what color you're using. The other colors. You said it depends on what colors you're using, but I feel like if we're going for space, I would do mostly black with just some clouding of the blue. That looks like it's gonna sell up. You can use the coaster. She's gonna have all the cultures that can make them. I have left, so we just like. You have a pit in that peach, in that coral one? Is there? It's really tiny. Yeah, that one's doing some amazingness, fun. Also doing amazingness. Bye, Leanne. Janine, you can absolutely get it just shipped to your address, but then you'll have to pay international shipping and I'm not sure how much that is, but it's more than if you get put into the bulk order that gets shipped to Judy, and then Judy just charges domestic shipping, so you can totally just ship from Artisu to your house.  Janine, shoot me an email and I will clarify thorentinaartistilldeath.com to tease to else. Janine, if you shoot me or just send me a Facebook message, I'll clarify with Judy and I will let you know what she says, because I get confused on the whole situation, but I'll ask her and I don't wanna tell you the wrong thing, so once I get on the right page with it, I'll send you that information. Night Laura, my pleasure, Janine. You're getting another pit in the coral one. Natalie, I have no idea why the request came in in Spanish in pesos. Was that with LeRez or Artisu? Night Margo, Kathy, I agree, Judy is a super nice lady, super intelligent, super sweet LeRez. I'll have to ask Laura about that, Natalie. Make sure it's not a setting in your, something in your PayPal, but I will ask Laura what she may think what happened. Janine LeRez is not in the States, it is from Australia, and Laura does the same thing Judy does, but with LeRez. So it gets shipped in bulk to Laura and Laura ships it domestically from her place in the States. Alan, your piece is packaged up and ready to go out tomorrow morning. It's already downstairs for, set for delivery. Nope, set for pickup. I'll ask Laura about that, Natalie. Jackie, you have no idea. Night Misty, I don't know if I told you, but your shipping thing came through, so you're all good. Your order should go out tomorrow as well. This is a very good point, Candy, thank you. Laura, I got your payment. Thank you very, very much for everything. Are you making a rose? Have a good night, Tony. Look at that, it looks like peach. I know it does, doesn't it? Which is right up Judy's alley. Alan says, is it bad that I'm playing to hang it where I can't see it all day? It's my happy view. You're gonna hang it in the nail salon? Night Cherry. Shy, you are so late for the party, but I'm glad you're here. Yeah, Natalie, if you get sent a request, you can't change it from like a business transaction to a friends and family, but I hope you had a great day, Shy. Are you still taking tests and stuff? Oh yeah, your dog's sitting. Are you still doing that, or? This is just like, it looks like taffy. Not that lack of epic, lack of epic boo. That's awesome, Alan. Sweet Pea, he's using Art Resin right now. That's why I can do all this for so damn long. It has the longest open time of the resin that we have in-house currently. The brand is Art Resin. Tiffany, Art Resin is a really good brand. Apparently MasterCast has some resin that is an hour and a half listed working time, night Denise, and it's called UltraCast. Hopefully I can give my hands on some of that soon to show you guys. I think because this, I put the clear down, and this is a gold. I forgot there was gold under there. There's gold under it, so there's nothing to stick, so it's just like sliding all around. It's all slippery when wet. B, that's what they said. So Judy brings up a good point. I forgot to mention to you guys that Laura, nor Judy make any money off of packaging and shipping stuff out. They do it out of the goodness of their hearts so that people don't have to worry about international shipping. The money that they charge is only going to the cost to ship, which I can tell you firsthand, is more expensive than you would think. They are great people for taking their time out of their days to receive packages and repackage everything to go to individual houses. It's amazing. Very selfless of them kudos to those ladies for taking their time to do that. Deb says, be careful when you de-glove since you have no socks on. Tiffany, let me know what they say about UltraCast. Apparently just resin sells MasterCast, but I don't know if they carry UltraCast. I will find out, happy owl, where in the States UltraCast is available and I'll let you know. That's very kind of you, Kandy. Oh, they don't carry it yet. I'm gonna see if Erin will send me some of that stuff to check out. Jenny, I'm not exactly sure. I think you just include in the notes or maybe there's a code that says Judy. Let me check on that. Be move your head. Shoot me an email, Thorntonartistilldeath.com, two T's, two L's, and I will respond with what I find out from them. I was asking about the piece from yesterday that I can't find out. The Resi Blast piece turned out, yes, from yesterday. Order from susanartistilldeath.com.au. And I think just, so go to the website, look at what you want, send an email to that email address and tell her to add it to the group order and it will be included in the next shipment. But I think it's going out tomorrow, so do hurry if you wanna be included on that shipment. This is what happens to my Resi Blast test. There's craters and pits and waterfalls. I don't know if you guys can see this. There's still Resi do. This is what I love about these. See that? This is not a good look. So in order to go on with this piece, okay, so I mixed the Resi Blast in and put it and it went bananas, it went everywhere. But then after I just dotted it into some areas and it turned out really good, I'm picking up Resi Blast as I describe all this. I like this look, it makes me wanna do an octopus. But that Resi do, I'm gonna have to wash it off with like a Dawn dish soap and some alcohol. You can see the pits right here. I did it exactly as it said on the bottle and it's still that weird, sorry, slimy Resi do. So it does really good effects. I'm gonna have to do some more research on how to better control it. And so at this point, you just have to like take some Dawn dish soap since it's a degreaser and wash the painting off and then sand it and then wipe it down with alcohol. And hopefully that will get every bit of Resi do off. Thank you, Shai, so that it can. Did you show Judy her? I showed Judy her coral reef. Laura said, thanks, Jeff, for doing the fire pour. It will be going to a nurse I work with who is from the area where the volcano is going off. She will be thrilled with it. That's amazing, Laura, it's awesome. Not tomorrow, I'll give everyone a week. Okay, you have one week to order from artist Sue. Like these are our stir sticks. So when some of the, like the resin will get into the lettering and you'd get like different colored lettering, how fun is that? Is it too dark in here for them to see that? No, they can see it. Tiffany, I thought you had to order the artist Sue by tonight, but Laura said that, nope. Judy said that you have a week, so disregard the order by tonight warning, you have a week. Bye, Clara, thank you so much for everything tonight. Bye, Jenny, it does look volcano, it doesn't. Night, Alan, all right, y'all. We are about to call it a night. Thank you so much for tuning in, checking out what we have going on. Shai, I'm sorry that we had already done all the pours for tonight, but honestly, all you missed was some learning experiences, the fails, and how to come back from them. We appreciate everything that you guys do for us. There's no words for all the love that we appreciate from you guys.  Kujo says hi to everybody. Did you say hi? Did you hear something? Oh, you did. Was the ATD fam? What's that? What's the ATD fam? It was, I know it. Such a good boy. I will be back tomorrow. If you send me an email, I will answer it. I'm gonna get caught up on my hashtag ATDART on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and all the things. So I will respond to those tomorrow. The G.O. will be going up in the morning, that piece. I have that video done. It will be going up tomorrow morning. What else? What yields? I guess that's all. Jeff is still arting. No, in fact, you can, if it's still kind of setting, you can breathe on it, just kind of hot breath. And it'll activate it and it'll flush out. Do you say hot breath makes it melt? Hot breath. It's another T-shirt. Makes a lot of stuff melt. B, that's true. Look at that, Judy. You got your beach front property right in your front room. Bam, bam, bam. So yeah, if you have any questions, do just an email, thordnetartistilldebt.com, two T's, two L's. I'm all cut up on emails, so amazing. Your stir stick should be out and by tomorrow, I'll have another round of stir stick orders going out because we get our next batch in. So awesome. Yeah, we'll see all y'all tomorrow. Stay bananas, y'all. Bye.


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For those of you who are not physicists and don't know the details of his work, let me perhaps just quickly list a few of the things that he's played a role in. His work spans large areas of theoretical physics, quantum field theory, string theory, quantum gravity, and particle physics in particular, and a general feature of his achievements is his mastery of what's called the Feynman path integral that defines quantum mechanical systems in a quite general way, and this led him to develop mathematical ideas which also have importance in physics such as topological field theory as a tool for understanding the vacuum structure of quantum field theory and string theory. His ideas on Churn-Simon's theory have many physical implications but also profound impact on knot theory in particular for which he was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990. I think he's probably the only theoretical physicist who's been given this Premier Mathematics Award. Of course I call him a theoretical physicist, mathematicians would call him a mathematician, so it's a matter of point of view. He's been a pioneer in so many things, I can't possibly list them all, however overarching ideas are based on the use of supersymmetry in physics as a way perhaps of unifying the observed particles and their forces and also as a tool for understanding subtle properties of quantum field theories, so for example this led him and Natty Cyborg to develop what is called Cyborg-Widden theory as an extension of Donaldson's theory which is of great importance in topology. Despite these many contributions at the frontier between mathematics and theoretical physics, I think of him, and we can ask him what he thinks of himself as, but he's spiritually I think he's a physicist, and he's certainly contributed to many very concrete ideas in physics, in various areas of physics such as in particle physics, cosmonogy, and in fact his roots are way back in the mid-70s in important work on high energy scattering of photons for example. It's obvious that he's received many awards and I tried to make a list of these awards before this talk and I decided that, I mean you can all look him up on Wikipedia and you'll all find the same list, and it's such a long list that it's hardly worth repeating it. In addition to the Fields Medal, he's been awarded the direct medal of the International Centre of Vertical Physics, Danny Heinemann Prize, a National Medal of Science, the Hponcho Prize, and many, many others. So I won't repeat them all, but from what I've just said it's sort of obvious that it's appropriate that Edward should be awarded the Newton Prize because it's a prize in the name of a great physicist who was also somebody who had made huge contributions to mathematics and that makes it very appropriate that Edward should give this lecture. Thank you. Well, thanks Michael for the very kind remarks and thanks for the Institute of Physics for selecting me for this honour as well as for the invitation today. I'm very pleased to be here to have a chance to give this lecture and I'm also looking forward to changing the page because it contains a small misprint that's been pointed out. Now what I'll really be explaining in this talk is how over the last 40 years string theory has repeatedly forced physicists developing it into directions that they didn't anticipate and frequently didn't want. So as I've written here I'll be describing how string theory has grown beyond anything that anyone conceived at any step along the way and broadly speaking I'll be talking about three episodes. I've tried to distill it into three episodes where this has happened. My purpose isn't mainly a historical retrospective. The main point is that rather that I believe that this process in which a theory that physicists have stumbled on but only understand to a limited extent forces us into directions which we don't anticipate or really fully appreciate going in is far from finished. And we still can't really conceive of the end of the journey. I'm actually at best only semi-qualified for a historical account for at least one obvious reason and it is simply that there are a lot of the developments I didn't participate in. So a lot of the important stages which I'll tell you about are things that happened in some cases before I was even a graduate student but certainly before I was involved in developing the ideas. As a partial excuse I'll observe that few people have participated in all stages of this process as by now it's gone on for more than 40 years. In my case I wasn't directly involved until the early 80s or if you were generous a few years earlier and a lot of things had happened by then. And since I wasn't involved then I can't say what I'd have thought at the time of the idea of inventing a whole new theory by concocting a scattering amplitude out of whole cloth. So this scattering amplitude was the Veneziano amplitude and the details of the formula don't matter that much. S and T are basically relativistic versions of energy and scattering angle and Veneziano guessed a formula that was supposed to be an approximate formula for the scattering of two pions, elastic scattering, which had magical properties. It proved to be the starting point of a completely new theory although that was certainly hard to imagine at the time. I can't say what I'd have thought about it at the time. I can only say that looking at it in hindsight it seems like an utterly astonishing starting point for getting something significant. This is a rather complicated formula after all gamma is the Euler gamma function which is, I mean it's been known for centuries but it's still a rather esoteric function. And such a complicated formula as on the right hand side is usually the output of a calculation where you start with some simple equations and solve them and you get a complicated answer. You don't usually guess a complicated answer and get anything useful out of it. So I think it's surprising that that was useful. Now there's a reason that this formula was invented. It had to do with hadron physics. In other words the hadrons are the strongly interacting particles, the familiar ones like the proton and neutron and slightly less familiar ones like the pion, the kion, the delta and so on. So by the time this work was done in 1968 the hadron resonances had proliferated at particle accelerators. And this had actually made some physicists despair of describing the nuclear force that is the strong interactions within the known framework of local quantum field theory. But you can't get anywhere with only a negative assumption that there aren't going to be local fields. You need some kind of positive idea about what there is instead of local fields. And there was a positive idea that led to the Veneziano amplitude. But it's again a rather mysterious idea. The idea was that since there were so many hadron resonances when you scatter for example two pions or for example a pion and a proton to mention something which is more practical experimentally, there are many possible resonances contributing to the scattering process where you create an unstable state and then decays. There were so many resonances that it was at least imaginable that resonance scattering, the creation and decay of resonance was most or in the extreme case all of the scattering amplitude. So the following question was asked. Can a scattering amplitude that's given by a sum of resonant contributions only be the whole answer? So again this is a formula whose details don't matter that much. But A is the scattering amplitude that depends on the energy and the scattering angle. When you have a resonance you've got an energy denominator like in non-relativistic quantum mechanics where the scattering amplitude has a pole when the center of mass energy equals the mass of the resonance. And then the numerator is a Legendre polynomial. That's what pn is in the numerator. But anyway you can write a formula for scattering due to resonances and in normal physics it's important but it's never the whole story. In fact with only finally many resonances it can't be the whole story because that would contradict general principles of scattering theory. If you only have finally many resonances then the amplitude would actually be a polynomial in T but it's not a polynomial in S, it has poles. And that would contradict principles of relativistic quantum theory. But experiment showed that there were so many had-on resonances that people imagined there could be infinitely many which is more or less the still-the-view point today. And with infinitely many resonances you could at least imagine that resonance scattering might be the whole answer. So again since I wasn't there I can't say how well motivated the question was at the time. I'm curious about that but I really can't judge it. And it's, although certainly I know participants it's kind of hard to... It's hard to know from what people say well I would have thought at the time about how well motivated the question is. However in hindsight it certainly proved to be a fruitful one. So first of all the answer is yes. I didn't state all the technical details about the question but properly interpreted the answer is yes. That's what Finesiano showed with his formula. With infinitely many resonances, resonance scattering can essentially be the whole answer. And the theory that had that property turned out to be much more than just a funny formula that was written down out of thin air. For one thing it led to a physical picture. Trying to understand that formula led to a physical picture where a meson was understood as a little string with charges at its ends. So in this picture the meson resonances which are the poles in the Veneziano's formula are vibrational states of the string. Just like a violin string, this kind of string has got many states of excitation, many states of vibration. For a violin string those are the fundamental note and the higher overtones which fit together to give it the richness and beauty of music. Here the many hadron resonances, the many meson resonances which motivated Veneziano in the first place were ultimately understood as vibrational states of a string. So that physical picture that I just stated that a meson is a little string with charges at its end is now believed to be qualitatively correct as a description of strongly interacting particles. The charges are what we now understand as quarks. Or at least it's qualitatively correct as a description of the mesons. The story is a little bit difficult for the barions like the proton. But at least in its simple versions it's only qualitatively correct. Now about five years after the Veneziano amplitude a competing theory of the strong interactions emerged which was far more successful it overcome many problems that were not tractable from the point of view of the Veneziano amplitude. So much so that for some years string theory went into eclipse. Now later developments showed that what appeared to be the failure of string theory as a theory of strong interactions wasn't the last word. Ultimately string theory has taught us a lot about QCD most recently by shedding light on heavy ion collisions at the rick accelerator at Brookhaven and there's probably a lot more still to come. The modern view is actually that QCD may be equivalent to a not yet discovered string theory. But even though that's true it's not the main reason that string theory survived from this period when it appeared to go into eclipse as a theory of strong interactions. The main reason that string theory survived was not that it has some relevance to strong interactions it's that the idea that led to it was actually wrong for the strong interactions but it was right for something else. The physicists who started string theory had disparate of the applicability of conventional local field theory to the strong interactions but they were wrong with that despair. The success of quantum chromodynamics showed that the strong interactions can be described in the already standard framework of local relativistic field theory but there's another problem in physics perhaps a bigger problem for which this idea is right. That's the problem of quantum gravity. Both gravity and quantum mechanics are part of nature so there should be some way of making them work together but the nonlinear structure of Einstein's theory of gravity makes that very difficult. Quantum mechanics and gravity both exist but it's hard to make sense of quantum gravity by the usual algorithm of quantizing classical fields because if you take the classical field to be the gravitational field in the form described by Einstein you'll find out that you run into a maze of infinities when you try to do the quantization. That's a result of the nonlinear mathematics that Einstein's theory was based on. Now, in the context of gravity there can't be a gauge invariant local field 5x where phi is the field and x is the spacetime point for a reason that's so basic in elementary that it's actually easy to miss. The reason is that x itself isn't gauge invariant. Einstein's gauge symmetry, the principle of general covariance, invariance of the theory under diffiumorphisms of spacetime, the gauge symmetry exactly acts on x and therefore it's impossible for a local field 5 that depends on x to be a gauge invariant concept in general relativity. So a theory of quantum gravity is actually not going to have local fields that are functions of spacetime as we have in other branches of physics in electrodynamics or in the strong interactions. This was, as far as I know, first pointed out by Breistowit in 1968, which coincidentally was the same year that Financiano wrote down his amplitudes. Though again, as far as I know, it was decades before the two facts were related. In view of Breistowit's observation, a theory that has gauge invariant local fields cannot describe quantum gravity. Of course, there's no immediate converse to this statement. Just because you don't have gauge invariant local fields doesn't mean you're going to have quantum gravity. So the inventors of string theory wanted a theory without gauge invariant local fields because they mistakenly thought that that's what the Hadron residences were saying. But the fact that they did without gauge invariant local fields certainly didn't ensure that they were going to get quantum gravity, which in fact they didn't want to get because that wasn't part of the world of strong interactions. But it's what happened. So from rather early days, it was found that string theory generated massless being one particles from open strings, which had properties, I called them gauge-like properties, properties similar to what we have in the standard model of particle physics, and that for closed strings, it generated massless been two particles with graviton-like properties. This was considered bad. Well, the graviton-like aspect wasn't completely formulated in the days when this was considered bad, but it was considered bad because string theory was seen as a theory of mesons, and they're scattering, and in the strongly interacting world, there aren't any massless spin one or spin two particles. So, since the theory was supposed to describe the strong interactions in which all the particles are massive, the fact that calculations forced massless particles of spin one and spin two into the theory seemed like a drawback. So, if people tried hard to get rid of these massless particles, dozens or perhaps hundreds of papers were written, tried to get rid of them, and that effort failed. That's how we generated, developed eventually confidence that they really are a part of the theory. People who didn't want them tried very hard to get rid of them and failed. But eventually in the mid-70s, some physicists became daring enough to propose that string theory had been misinterpreted, that the strings were much smaller than had been assumed. Not just a little bit, but many, many orders of magnitude are smaller. And that the theory should be used to describe quantum gravity and other fundamental forces. Again, I'm only giving a second-hand summary since all this happened before I was in the field. So, and not for the first or last time, the theory veered in a direction that wasn't foreseen by those who had gotten the ball rolling. Now, there actually is a simple picture that helps explain why string theory has a mind of its own. It has to do with what happens to Feynman diagrams in going to string theory. Feynman diagrams are the pictures of spacetime processes that Feynman used to describe elementary interactions originally of photons and electrons in quantum electrodynamics. So textbooks will tell you how to technically get a number out of a Feynman diagram by a calculation in momentum space. But Feynman actually visualized it more intuitively as a spacetime history. Here, space runs from left to right and time runs vertically. A line here is an orbit in spacetime that represents the trajectory of a point particle. So at each time, the particle is somewhere. Later on, it's somewhere else. Classically, the particle would travel if it's a free particle in a straight line, according to Newton's laws. But quantum mechanically, according to Feynman, we have to sum over all possible histories. A completely generic history with the too messy to illustrate, but the fact that the lines in that picture are slightly wiggly just gives us a hint of quantum mechanical fluctuations. Then according to Feynman, there are spacetime events that here are labeled x, y, z and w, where one particle breaks into two or two recombine into one. And in this example, I've shown two particles coming into the past that interact in a certain way. It's called a one-loop diagram. And two go back out in the future. So assuming the particles are all of the same kind, I haven't labeled the diagram in enough detail to make clear if that's true or not, the diagram on the left is a Feynman diagram that contributes to elastic scattering. Just the same process that Veneziano had been trying to describe when he introduced his famous amplitude. On the right, I've indicated the corresponding picture in string theory. So for definiteness, I've indicated a closed string. So at a given point in time instead of a particle at a definite space, a point in space, there's a loop. Again, these loops are undergoing all kinds of quantum fluctuations, although I've drawn a relatively regular picture so that we can see it. But at one moment in time, the loop is here. At a later moment in time, it's here. The loops branch out and recombine just like the particles do. But there's a fundamental difference. Here's the string picture, and it has the property that what's called the world shade of the string, which I've drawn here. It's mathematically, it's completely smooth, two-dimensional surface.  If you look at the whole picture, you can see that globally two strings came out in the past, branched and rejoined, and went out into the future. So that some kind of interaction happens. But if you look at any small piece, it looks like any other small piece. And locally, you can't say whether any branching or rejoining was happening. By contrast, in the traditional Feynman picture, there are definite spacetime events labeled x, y, z, w, where something definitely happened.  So those branching events are called the Feynman vertices. And those are the spacetime moments where something actually happens in conventional quantum field theory. While when we go to string theory, there's no definite spacetime moment at which anything happens. Globally, something happens, but you can't make any sense of the question of when and where anything happens. So this has a lot of consequences of which I'll give you a first list of three. The first is that the infinities of Feynman diagrams disappear. So Feynman diagrams undergo infinities, which arise when these distinguished spacetime events coincide. So for quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, Schwinger, Tomanaga, and Dyson, and so on, showed how to overcome the infinities by a process of renormalisation. One always wondered if one could get rid of the infinities a priori instead of renormalising them away. But anyway, pragmatically, renormalising them away gave a theory that worked well. It made sense and agreed with experiment. But it didn't work for gravity. If you take the Feynman vertices of general relativity, you find that the infinities that arise when x, y, z and w coincide are not renormalisable. They can't be removed by the procedure of Feynman and his contemporaries. So the first good thing that happens in going to string theory is that because we've got rid of x, y, z and w, we get rid of the infinities that arise when they coincide. So the infinities of Feynman diagrams disappear, and whatever it's going to be, the theory is not just renormalisable, but actually finite. The second important fact is that what the interactions are is not up to us. They're fixed once we pick the string. In other words, in this picture, well, in quantum field theory, you first pick the particles. For example, Feynman had electrons and photons since he was doing quantum electrodynamics. Then we pick a Lagrangian which determines the interaction vertices. So Feynman had a particular vertex, but if he believed that the electron had had a different magnetic moment, he would have used a more complicated vertex. Specifying the vertex as well as the particles is what it takes in this language to describe what the theory is. But for the string, since there's no vertex, once we know the law of what the string is, what a little piece in the picture means, the interactions are determined. The interactions occur globally when we put together a lot of little pieces which under the microscope look like they just describe locally propagation of a single string. So once we know what the string is, the interactions are up to us.  So that's on my initial list of three consequences of that picture. The second one is that we don't get to pick the interactions. Once we've picked the string, the interactions are fixed. And the third point is that there's no definite notion of a space-time event. Well, what I'm telling you is really the beginning of that fact. So the prototype of a space-time event in the conventional picture is the interaction event of elementary particles. And that disappears when we go to the string picture. And that's a first hint of what turns out to be the situation that in conventional quantum field theory, you can make sense of a point in space-time, a space-time event in Einstein's sense. But in string theory, when you look closely, that concept isn't really there. So the last statement means what I've given you is only a hint of this fact, but deeper investigations from this starting point show that somehow the notion of what space and time is at short distances is quite different in string theory from what it is in familiar physics. So physicists, without originally having any intention of trying to get there, arrived at a theory that, first of all, is completely finite since the interaction vertices are missing. Secondly, it's got a massless spin two particle since no one could quantize the string without getting one, even though they wanted to and tried hard. And three, has its own mind concerning what the interactions will be. The interactions turned out to be the interactions the theory chooses are those of general relativity, plus corrections at short distances that are irrelevant for astronomy and impractical to measure in practice, but and preserve the general structure of Einstein's theory. They're needed for the quantum consistency and they're generated by the theory. So you get not literally general relativity, but you get a theory that looks like general relativity where general relativity is accessible, and it preserves the general structure of Einstein's theory. So that was a first set of consequences of replacing the Feynman diagram by a string picture, but there are many other consequences. I think I'll just mention two more, or three more, sorry. So the first one is that there are far fewer theories than in standard quantum field theory.  In string theory, you only get to decide what the string is. And that's subject to very delicate consistency conditions that actually look impossible at first, but very delicately, they're obeyed, and when one learns how to do it, one finds that there are five ways to do it as counted in the mid-80s, but only one is understood today. Another thing that happens to you is that the theory picks the spacetime dimension. So Feynman took from experiment the fact that he wanted a four-dimensional theory. We see three dimensions of space, but since Einstein, we also count time. But a theory like Feynman's could have been developed in a different dimension. It works better in some dimensions than others. Going up in dimension causes trouble, going down makes it easier. But different dimensions are imaginable. Instead, in string theory, the spacetime dimension is picked. And I'll get to that more in a second, but I'll just say as a teaser that the answer didn't turn out to be anything that anybody wanted going in. And a third fact is that the theory picks its own symmetries. We don't pick them. Once we get going, one of these five-string theories, or only one is later understood, what the symmetries are going to be is out of our hands. We have to calculate one off to determine them. Well, the spacetime dimension turned out to be 10, which nobody wanted going in.  So I'm not describing that firsthand. But the joke turned out to be a blessing in disguise when the theory was reinterpreted as a candidate unified theory of all particles, the extra dimensions gave room to derive the complexity of the real world from a simple starting point. You see, a violin string has higher harmonics. They're labeled by a single integer, the number of half wavelengths that fit between the two ends of the string. That's interesting, but the real world of elementary particles is way more complicated. Electrons, muons, neutrinos of three kinds, teleparticles, many different flavors of quarks, W bosons and photons and so on. To get the real world of elementary particles by the vibrations of the string is actually only possible because the extra dimensions give room for more complicated forms of vibration of the string. So, I mean, nobody ever sat down in an ivory tower and said we're going to solve the problems of field theory by introducing strings and we'll have extra dimensions which will give us room to get the complexity of the real world. It just was forced upon people who didn't anticipate where they were going in the context of trying to make sense of the trail that was started with the Veneziano amplitude. Well, as for the symmetries in elusiating them, first of all, physicists rediscovered general covariance and gauge symmetry. General covariance is the fundamental concept in Einstein's theory of gravity and gauge symmetry is the bread and butter of the standard model of conventional particle physics. So, these are symmetries that were already known, although gauge symmetry in the sense of non-milion gauge symmetry was a comparatively new concept at the time. But in elusiating the symmetries, physicists also discovered a new type of symmetry, supersymmetry.