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Money Flow for August Week 5

Further to my last weekly market update, this week's update can be summed up in three words...more profit-taking.

The following Weekly charts and graphs (for the past week) of the 6 Major Indices and 9 Major Sectors show that these markets have not advanced for a second week as they struggle at major resistance.

The following two charts and graphs depict money flow for the month of August. You can see that the majority of interest/buying occurred in the riskier growth-oriented Technology and Small Cap Indices and Sectors versus a virtual non-interest in the value-oriented defensive Indices and Sectors.

In summary, whether we'll see a rotation of Sector preference in September remains to be seen. I suspect that market action will, generally, be news-driven as we await important decisions by the Fed, ECB, Germany's Constitutional Court ruling on the legality of the ESM, Eurogroup meetings, further economic data, the Dutch election, and any fall-out from the U.S. election campaigning, etc.

Since this tends to produce volatility, I'll continue to monitor it as depicted by the following Daily ratio charts of the SPX:VIX and RUT:RVX. As of Friday's close, both the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 Indices are sitting near the apex of trendline/channel resistance/support. Volatility has been rising the past two weeks and a break of the apex one way or the other is inevitable soon. We may see a build in volumes as price tries to establish a trend away from the apex...something else I'll be monitoring in order to assess the viability/sustainability of such a move. Perhaps we'll see a rotation into the more defensive Sectors and Large Cap Indices in preparation for volatility.

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  1. Omgosh every page like a cliffhanger damn them!

    1. I’m not sure if I want to see the next page…….
      even though I know that I want to know what happens next.
      Ooooooh, I can’t stand the wait!!!!
      Must see more… O.O

      1. So my theory is that Feral cursed Meela with his demon form when he killed the parents, right? Or, if it’s a thing that’s passed down from father to child, then Feral would have known about the demon thing anyway, right?

  2. Sure, he’d murder a lonely old man in a cabin but he won’t hurt a child. Thats why I love Feral.

    1. Weeelll, the “old man” had a gun, had taken potshots at all those who tried to get near himself or his home, and wasn’t all that old and tottery on his feet. Also, old men are rarely as innocent as children, given their age ;)

    3. You need to remember he was accused fo murdering his wife so your little moment won’t work XP

      1. For all Feral knew, Meela’s dad would have been the nicest demon on the planet and Feral STILL would have killed him if he didn’t have children.

  3. ;-; Feral was afraid- look at the first panel. Tail down/between his legs(or that’s how it looks anyway). He didn’t want to hurt children. God these feels- Meela’s dad tried so hard to protect them. And ended up dying. ;-;
    It makes me wonder of Feral recognized Meela from the very start?
    (With my luck this has already been addressed and i now look like an idiot)

    1. I don’t know I didn’t notice if he recognized her either so you wouldn’t be alone in feeling dumb……
      : P

  4. I love how one of her brothers pulls Meela back. I mean, that’s so adorable! And then one of them dies.

    1. You had to go there.

    2. Maybe that was Tannor?

  5. If he didn’t recognize Meela from the start then at least he would have had suspicions after being at her cave (old home). But it isn’t as if he can just ask her about it.

    1. I believe celesse said a couple of pages ago that Feral doesn’t remember a lot after ‘demon mode’ ;) She said something among the lines off ‘he only feels bad, he knows something bad happened, but not what it is. Like waking up from a nightmare and forgetting what it was about. (correct me if i’m wrong)

      1. no your right. couldn’t have put it better myself.

      2. I read that too, but Mal came out after he had seen Meela and after he had been in the cave already. I think he still remembers the area and at some point will link Meela with the little girl he saw in the cave. That is just what I think.

  6. ACF meeting!
    (Sets up pillow fort and food.)

    1. *crawls into fort* I brought s’mores :)

      1. This time I’m bringing tripple chocolate chunk brownies! And chocolate midnight truffle blizzards! *heads into corner*

        1. i’ll bring soda and key lime pie! :3

        2. Snowtail the Khajiit

          I’ll bring the tissues.

    2. ACF will soon be an official alliance of the Strays comic. They’ll make a Facebook page of us and everything. I have tons of glass bottle sodas for us! *pops the top off a vanilla coke*

      1. I has the ice cream and the soda :D Yep, we’ll all just camp out in here until next week.

        1. i want to join. chocolate fondue anyone? i have it all.

        2. I’ll bring the strawberries and pound cake for dunking!

      2. glass bottle sodas? is root beet among them? if so i’m so in!

        1. Did someone say ROOT BEER?

      3. We’ve started something here. ACF is gonna become a widespread internet acronym and we’ll have boasting rights of being there at its beginning. XD

    3. *brings fluffy blankets and pillows*
      I’m here for the meeting.
      *rolls into corner *

      1. *Brings more pillow pets*

    4. Looks like I’ll be hanging out here until next weekend…*munches cookies*

    5. *walks in with oreos, goldfish, and lots of cute puppies and kittens* I hope I am not too late!

      1. ::never left::

    6. I’m here, too! *brings beef jerky and Jones soda* *squeezes self into a side space* Darn cliffies! And poor Feral… T^T

      1. Oh my…that’s a lot of food…
        No such thing as too much!
        (Brings 50 pounds of Pocky)

        1. *brings laptop with cute animal videos* Just to ease the pain a bit, I also have candy and chips

        2. *Brings blankets with Meela’s adorable wolf face embroidered on them* can I join?

        3. I come bearing chocolates and pudding cups! -snuggles down into the pillows-

        4. Sorry I’m late for the meeting guys but I brought the cookies from last time. God the feels hurt so much. Pretty sure its gonna be worse next week to, we’re gonna need more snacks.

        5. Hey! I brought RAAAAAAAAMMMMEEEEEN!!! :D

    7. Can I join? :P

      1. All can join!

        1. Woo!

        2. I come with gifts of fluffy stuffed animals and blankets! Also, help me out here. AFC?

    8. Omg…*snuggles into the corner with eyedrops and a platter of from scratch cookies of various flavors* The feels! :C

      I really feel bad for loving it, but that tail! So freaking cute even though the situation sucks.

    9. That’s it, I thought I could take it, but I’m joining the corner. *dives on a pillow and curls up* too…many…feels… *twitches*

      1. SO many people!!! *uses magic to make the corner a base* Oh gawd why am I using my magic for this!?

        1. It’s for a worthy cause.

    10. I’ll join, even though I’m late… But I brought my cats Kittens to snuggle with!

  7. an unfortunate set of circumstances. he would have left but he was spotted. not the kids fault.

  8. :(

  9. Like someone already pointed out, his tail is down in the first panel and in the fourth panel look at his hand not holding the sharp thingy, its splayed out and away from his body in a “Sorry Sorry Sorry” gesture. Feral is not a bad guy at all.

    1. D: A series of unfortunate events

  10. Wait wait wait are there THREE KIDS? Did Meela have two brothers? DID WE KNOW THIS ALREADY OR DID I JUST MISS IT?

    1. we have known. She had twin brothers. :)

      1. I don’t remember this. Does anyone know what page this was on?

        1. well, this memory was the dream on page 7-9, Conner name is revealed on page 203

        2. Page 250 shows the family story.

  11. Oh d’em feels…. T-T

    Conner, we hardly knew ye’

  12. Woahwoahwoah GREAT framing with the hand and the wall hanging in panel 3, gotta say!

  13. I brought a fox fails,cat tail and wolf tails plus rabbit stew :P

    I’m sure I’m qualified to join

  14. god these pages cause me physical pain

  15. I’m crying because Tannor and his brother TT.TT !!!

  16. I am kinda confused though, which one is tannor and which one is connor .-.

    1. Tannor’s probably the one pulling Meela back. Connor’s the one with his tail poofed. I get the feeling he’ll jump in to help daddy on the next page and get killed. :'(

    2. Conner is the one with the bangs going in opposite directions (and wearing the darker shirt.)

    3. You’ll know for sure in a few pages, since Tannor will be the one who lives… :-(

  17. wait wait wait!!!! I thought that tannor was the only brother!!!! goddangit, i missed something didn’t i….

    please someone explain what I missed? Who’s connor?

    1. Meela’s dead older brother. I believe he was the twin of Tannor.

    2. Meela had twin brothers, see page 250

  18. I love how Meela’s father was just like ‘Waaait what!’ and then, ‘Oh! I. Do. Not. Think. So’

  19. Oh no! Dad and Tannor’s twin DIE here, don’t they??? D:

  20. yup from bad to worse… but still we wait another week for more info. also daddy looks bad-ass in the last panel.

    Questions, are we going to get answers to the demon blood in Meela’s family??? Plus while we were never given an actual answer to what happened to Meela’s mom we assume she is dead will we get an actual confirmation of this by the end of the story?

  21. I think what’s more heart-breaking is that Feral wanted to leave and Meela’s father was just protecting his babies :'( Malkar was the one who ruined everything ;A;

    Btw, Conner with his puffy tail xD so cute <3

  22. NOOnonononononononononononononononononononononononooooo!!! D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D:

  23. I know it is very serious right now but that face on panel one was funny xD

    1. Panel #3** not one

  24. no nonononono ononono nononononononono!

  25. This is just so sad I can’t take it!!!!!! T_T and what’s worse is in the next I’m guessing three pages we won’t discover any more ground breaking secrets but we shall probably just see half of meela’s family get slaughtered by stupid stupid malkar!!!!!! And then I guess maybe after those flash back pages we might learn why feral has da weird demon side but until the there shall be some painful waiting in the corner with chocolate fondu.

  26. It’s gonna take forever for next Friday to get here. ._. My heart can’t take much more of this.. Gahhh.. ;-; *huddles in corner*

  27. So Meela had TWO brothers? That was never mentioned before was it? Were they twins? That makes it all the more tragic that only one of the boys and Meela survived.

    1. Ok, started rereading from the beginning, and now I see two boys in the flashbacks. Well done. Even though he was not mentioned, he was there.

  28. Daddy to the rescue!

  29. If one of Meela’s brother didn’t alert the father they would’ve probably been alive.

    1. No good deed goes unpunished, as they say

  30. -brings bison sticks to ACF- Is it possible to hate and love this comic at the same time?

  31. This is utterly breaking my heart! ;~;

  32. Awesome; this comic just keeps getting better.

  33. Ohh, Feral!
    Stop being so mean to Meela! What’d she ever do to you?!

    1. What the heck are you talking about? O.o… He’s done nothing to Meela in this scene.

      1. Well, to me he looks like he’s about to mental murder her.

        1. Mentally*

        2. No, all he is showing is surprise and is either frozen in place or is slowly backing away. Look at the page before this, last panel. He is actually looking at her with an “Oh, hell… I was never informed about any kids! I gotta get out of here!”

  34. Well at least the Demon is telling Meela that Feral was not the one who intentionally killed her father and other brother. That Feral actually wouldn’t have went to kill her father when he heard there were kids involved.

  35. Ok those beads…they seem to be the latest fashion of those times…

  36. I went away for a month and came back to this… Its too much!! I don’t want to have to relive this part of the comic, it was heart breaking enough the first time!! Oh my gosh this comic is so good, but damn the feels!

  37. Came here from “Ode”, going to go back and read the rest now

    1. Well hello there, my friend!

  38. Doesn’t anyone notice the dad in panel 3. U can’t miss that XD he’s all like “WHO DA WHA” XDDDDDD

  39. Okay hold teh phone… This is super duper unlikely, but what if Meela’s papa was the one who gave Mal demon powers? xD Probly not, but that’d be kind of ironic in a way.

  40. Eeep!!!!!! (shivers) can i come to the Acf meeting i bring choc-mint iceceam and choc-chip cookies (sorry if i mis spelled anything)

  41. Is this the moment where his throat go all… well no more actually ?
    He got the scarf-like thing around his neck, I can’t tell.

    Well, let’s wait!

  42. Damnit NO! No no no!

  43. I know I’m a little late here, but whether Meela’s father had a huge bounty on his head remember? Meela’s mother was also a bounty hunter after him, but ended up falling for him. And another thing…how is Malcar in Feral? I hope it explains what happened after this…

  44. I love strays! Thanks for the opportunity for a great story with lovely art!!

  45. Woah I just noticed something! Feral doesn’t have the dangly beads on his ears, and Meela’s brothers are playing with beads…. Need I say more? :D

    1. O.O

    2. Oh my gosh :0 . Thank you for pointing it out!! :D

  46. All caught up, now time to wait (poor Meals :()

  47. Does this mean there are only 2 more chapters left after this one? :(

  48. *sits on the corner and preparing for feels* oh my gawd ive been waiting for 2 or 3 years to finally see what happened on that day D:i know others have waited 8 years or some other less but i still have some questions! i haven’t followed the series much other then read the comic pages and read some of the comments everyone makes(the theories that some people are make are quite interesting), is this series really gonna end soon? ive read that someone commented that it’s been confirmed yuen is feral on deviantArt? uhh…( i should re-read the series again) anyways malkar is mal right in feral’s body?

  49. This guy is just… creepy…
    How the heck did he get into poor Feral?! O.o

  50. Hmmm so Feral has already had his neck scar? Raised suspicion on WHEN it happened

  51. Their dad seems cross eyed in that picture

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On April 5, 2016, the Alliance for Open Media announced three new members; AMD, ARM, and NVIDIA, and that the AOMedia Video codec, also called AV1, would be developed as an open source project.

As you may recall, the Alliance formed in September 2015, with Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix as founding members. Its goal was creating an open-source codec for the internet and other markets, and the makeup of the membership presaged fast codec acceptance by hardware and software developers; fast deployment in Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox; and usage by at least two top tier premium content distributors.

Last week's announcement seemed liked a good opportunity to check the group’s progress, so I spoke with Gabe Frost, executive director of the Alliance for Open Media, whose day job is principal engineering manager on the Windows Devices Group. Also on the line was Matt Frost (no relation), head of strategy and partnerships for Chrome media.

We started by talking about the new members. According to Gabe Frost, all three either produce CPUs and/or graphics chips, or license IP that enables other companies to produce chips for computers, graphics cards, mobile devices, and set-top boxes. The benefits of involving these companies were ensuring that the codec was hardware-friendly, and facilitating and accelerating AV1 hardware support. This is especially true for mobile devices, where CPU-based video playback can shorten the battery life of devices without hardware support, and for STBs, where hardware acceleration is essential for compatibility.

“It’s crucial that hardware manufacturers are engaged in the designs so there are no barriers to transitioning hardware support into the hardware roadmap," Gabe Frost said. "Chip vendors have very fixed deadlines, and we want to ensure that codec development intersects our partner tape outs.”

What are the benefits of pursing codec development as an open source project?

“We’re driving engineering across multiple companies," Gabe Frost said. "Doing it behind closed doors with different company policies slows things down.” Note that unlike other open-source codec projects, AV1 users wouldn’t have to share their own source code. In this regard, Matt Frost said, “Developers can get access to the source codec, improve on it, integrate it, and never give anything back.” While the group is hoping that most users contribute to the project, that isn't a requirement.

Performance and Ship Date

What are the main goals for AV1 for both performance and timing? Roughly speaking, the group is targeting improvement of 50 percent over VP9/HEVC with reasonable increases in encoding and playback complexity. However, the major focus is on driving improvements with an eye towards producing a codec that member companies including Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube can quickly implement and use.

With Microsoft, Google, and Firefox in the group, the optimizations necessary to play 4K 60fps in a browser are a priority. One focus is clearly UHD video, including high bitrate, wider color gamut, and increased frame rates. The base version of the codec will support 10-bit and 12-bit encoding, as well as the BT.2020 color space. Another focus is providing a codec for WebRTC (Real-Time Communications), an initiative supported by Alliance members Google and Mozilla, and similar applications including Microsoft’s Skype.

When will the codec ship? The group is aiming to freeze the bitstream sometime between the end of the 2016 and March 2017. Expect to see browser-based support soon thereafter, with the first hardware support within 12 months after that.

Recounting YouTube’s experience with VP9, Matt Frost said, “With VP9, we froze the bitstream in June 2013, and were streaming VP9 from YouTube in August or September of that year.” Regarding AV1, Frost expects YouTube to transition to the codec as quickly as possible, particularly for video configurations such as UHD, HDR, and high frame rate videos where the codec is expected to deliver significant bandwidth savings over VP9. That said, Frost expects YouTube to encode videos to VP9 and H.264 formats for backwards compatibility for at least several years.

So how will contributions from Google’s VP10, Mozilla’s Daala, or Cisco’s Thor be represented in AV1? Gabe Frost explained, “The baseline code in the AV1 project represents where the lion’s share of investment came from before the investment,” essentially indicating that code from VP10, by far the most mature of the three, will dominate. Frost indicated that AV1 will contain some of the best ideas and features of both Daala and Thor.

GPU Acceleration From the Start

Speaking for Microsoft, Gabe Frost noted that the company is directing significant energy for next-generation experiences to AV1, and that the work done integrating VP9 into Edge will give them a great head start, particularly regarding GPU acceleration on Windows and Windows devices such as Xbox One. “We’re deploying significant resources to make sure the codec works well on PCs and Windows devices, which really means prioritizing GPU acceleration," he explained.

Having hardware vendors like NVIDIA in the Alliance means robust GPU acceleration out of the gate, Matt Frost noted. “Most codecs are released by small groups of developers that get the codec out first, then think about optimizations like GPU acceleration,” he said. “Working as the Alliance, we’re optimizing for power efficiency and GPU acceleration from the start, which should provide a real advantage with overall adoption.”

Considering that VP9 had strong browser support and broad GPU acceleration, but few large users other than YouTube, why will the broader market embrace the new codec? While third-party adoption has been slow, the amount of VP9 encoded content was orders of magnitude larger than that encoded with HEVC, Matt Frost was quick to point out. While HEVC is used primarily for specialty applications such as 4K or HDR—places where H.264 doesn’t perform well—VP9 is replacing H.264 in YouTube’s entire encoding ladder, from 240p to 4K.

Several trends will contribute to a much faster acceptance rate for AV1 than VP9, Matt Frost said. First, VP9 launched while Flash still dominated as a playback platform, and Adobe never added VP9 or VP8 playback to Flash. This meant video producers couldn’t use VP9 without converting to HTML5, which clearly wasn’t ready. With the market rapidly shifting to HTML5, more developers will have access to VP9 and AV1. The trend toward UHD and HDR video will also push premium producers towards a new codec.

Playback in the Browser

H.264 has enjoyed a long life, initially because Flash made playback ubiquitous, and ultimately because it turned out to be a highly effective codec. H.264’s longevity is also related to the fact that most producers still shoot and distribute in HD and smaller resolutions. For those considering UHD, HEVC playback is still essentially nowhere outside of connected TVs and the latest Android devices.

While many analysts, myself included, predicted that HEVC playback would be available in Chrome and IE/Edge by now, Google and Microsoft are clearly prioritizing work on VP9 and AV1 over HEVC. Though Microsoft initially pledged to include HEVC playback in Windows 10, it later removed support, opting only to support HEVC-enabled hardware implementations. The bottom line is no software-based HEVC decode in Windows or Edge.

What about Chrome? While software-based HEVC support is available in Android 5.0, Google will only pay that royalty on hardware devices that it ships directly to customers. This means Android shipments might not be sufficient to reach the caps set by MPEG LA and HEVC Advance, so including HEVC playback in Chrome would incur a charge. Beyond these two patent pools, there’s also Technicolor’s license to deal with, plus the risk of other HEVC IP owners attempting to impose their own licenses. All these, plus Google’s obvious focus on VP9/AV1, seem like negative indicators for HEVC playback in Chrome anytime soon.

It seems unlikely that Mozilla, which never licensed H.264, will ever license HEVC. Apple, a member of the MPEG LA HEVC licensing group, is seemingly backing away from HEVC support, removing a mention of the technology from iPhone spec sheets. Between its desktop, mobile, and OTT business lines, Apple would pay far more in HEVC royalties than it would ever earn, which might make the Alliance and AV1 more attractive than it would seem at first glance.

While Apple and Microsoft might seem like strange bedfellows, the two companies recently coauthored a requirements document for a new Common Media Application Format (CMAF) as MPEG-A, Part 20. According to Gabe Frost (speaking for Microsoft and not the Alliance), “CMAF defines the encoding and decoding of segmented media. CMAF segments can be used in environments that support adaptive bitrate streaming of the media segments using HTTP(S) and any presentation description, such as DASH MPD, Smooth Streaming Manifest, and Apple HTTP Live Streaming Manifest (m3u8).”

While this collaboration falls far short of Apple joining the Alliance for Open Media, it does signal that the two companies can work together effectively. It also indicates that Apple, long and publicly intransigent on MPEG DASH, is willing to contribute to new standards that benefit the common good. Will Apple join the Alliance? “We’ve been talking to a lot of companies, and recruiting definitely isn’t our challenge," Gabe Frost said. "The hard part is the engineering effort, taking the next step, and driving contributions through the open source project.”

The bottom line is that HEVC playback within the browser is nowhere, and has little visible momentum, which makes VP9 and AV1 the only games in town for browser-based, UHD playback.

What About Broadcast?

Ten years ago, broadcast was broadcast and streaming was streaming. TVs and cable boxes supported the codecs pumped through cable and satellite, and little video from the internet was watched in the living room. A relatively small number of large cable and satellite operators chose the codec or codecs for their systems.

Today, that situation is reversing. Companies such as Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube are pumping billions of hours of content into living rooms as consumers unplug, and more and more content producers are going direct via IP video. YouTube has indicated that it will stop distributing UHD content in H.264, relying solely on VP9 and then AV1. This, plus anticipated AV1 use by Netflix and Amazon, should make AV1 support a checklist item for future connected TVs and set-top boxes. Once this happens, other publishers are free to choose any codec they would like, and why not choose the one that delivers browser-based playback, as well as TV? Certainly HEVC will dominate in the short term as the infrastructure codec for large cable and satellite systems, but its hold over IP delivery to the living room is clearly in doubt.

What This Means for Producers

How does this impact those producing at 1080p and smaller resolutions? YouTube distributes VP9 rather than H.264 when possible because it translates to lower bitrates at the same quality level, or HD video at the same data rates as SD. Depending on your goals, deploying VP9 or AV1 could mean reduced bandwidth costs, improved quality of service, or both. Someday soon, H.264-encoded video will look as bad as Windows Media or VP6 encoded video looks today, and even HD and SD producers will be compelled to switch.

Fortunately, when you do, industry support for VP9 and AV1 should be significantly improved. As an example, JW Player has announced that it will add VP9 as a supported format for its OVP service, and there have been rumors about several prominent encoding vendors supporting VP9 as well, perhaps as soon as this year's NAB. Don’t expect a clean cutover to VP9 or AV1, however, as the need for mobile and backwards compatibility means that we’ll all be encoding in H.264 for many years to come.

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July 25, 2014

Monoprinting with Ink and Freezer Paper Tutorial

Last week I posted about some ink printing I had done. It's really fun and easy so today I thought I would post a tutorial of the process I used.
It's really a fun and easy process and a great way to make pages for journals, collage, cards, etc., etc.

Ink  - I used Dr. Ph. Martins Bombay India Ink
Freezer paper  - to be the printing plate
Masking Tape - to secure the freezer paper
Paper to print on  - I used card stock from the office supply store.
Paper towel roll
Container for some water
A paint brush or stick

Spray bottle

Tear a piece of freezer paper larger than the paper you are printing on, and tape it to your work surface.

Next, use your fingers to sprinkle some water drops on the freezer paper.  Then use the dropper in the ink to drop some ink on the page.

Using the handle end of the paint brush drag the ink around on the freezer paper.  The ink will blend with the water droplets in places.

Place a piece of your paper down onto the freezer paper and rub the back of the paper with your hand. or you could use a brayer

Then carefully peel the paper up off the freezer paper.

Below is what my first print looked like.  You can see how the ink blended with the water in places to make a pastel color, and you can see the lines from dragging the tip of the paintbrush handle through the ink.

If there is lots of wet ink left on your page you can just roll the paper towel roll across the paper to blot it.

This next one is done in the same manner but with two colors of ink dripped onto the freezer paper and I dragged the paintbrush in vertical and horizontal lines.  Be sure to wipe the freezer paper off between prints if you don't want the lingering ink to color your next print. But that may give a nice effect depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Now let's try a different technique.  This time put a good amount of water on the freezer paper and rub it all over the surface. Kind of like when you finger painted as a kid.  Then, drip drops of ink onto the wet surface.  The ink will spread and "bloom."

You can do two (or more) colors of ink at once.

Here's the print I got from the above ink.

You may notice that your freezer paper is becoming stained by the ink.  That's a bonus - another texture of paper for you to use in your mixed media art!

Now it's time for another technique.  Lets drip paint onto the dry freezer paper and use a brayer to roll it around over the freezer paper.  Below: Left - the print I got; Right - the plate before printing.

Next, some of the first papers you printed are probably getting dry now. So keep going and start printing another layer on them.

Get creative and try some new techniques - like drawing with the dropper. Or put some diluted ink in a spray bottle and spray onto the paper.

Soon you'll have your own stack of papers to use however you like.

  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and will give it a try!  Let me know if you do. I'd love to see what you create.

  1. Beautiful pages Laney!! Thanks for sharing your process!

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  2. These are fantastic, I must do this soon! Valerie

  3. Hello Laney! It's great to meet a fellow Artstonaut, thanks for commenting on my blog. Thanks too for this tutorial, I have some of those inks so I'll be trying this soon. :-) Wow your fibre art is fantastic too. I'll be back. Have a great day. Big love from me :-)

  4. This looks like fun! Thanks for the informative post. It is always fun to have new ideas to try. Thanks!

  5. THAT was wonderful! Thank you so much--I feel so inspired to try something new and different. (grin)

  6. oohhh these are amazing. Thank you for showing this technique.

  7. You created some beautiful papers! I love playing with colours like you do in your presentation! I think I need a brayer!
    Happy PPF

  8. This is such an unique technique with beautiful results. I can think of so many uses for the papers you created. Thank you so much for sharing your tutorial. I'd love to try this one day with my kids.

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Livedo reticularis - when skin appears mottled

Some people, when cold, can experience a mottled effect on their skin of varying degrees of red, blue or purple colour. The appearance is that of a net-like pattern with distinct edges, occurring particularly on the legs and resolving when the area becomes warm. This anomaly is usually benign, but it can also be a symptom of more serious health concerns - such as vascular disease, autoimmune disease or a reaction to medication.

Blotchy skin with a net-like pattern coloured in a purple/reddish-blue is a characteristic of a condition known as Livedo reticularis (LR). Its appearance is mainly seen on the legs and is often worse in colder temperatures. This condition occurs due to spasms or an abnormality in venous blood circulation.

Primary and Secondary Livedo reticularis

Livedo reticularis

The skin discoloration pattern of LR is a result from veins in the skin that are filled with more blood than normal causing enlarged veins or blocked blood flow leaving the veins.

The diagnosis of LR can be based on the duration, livedo pattern and temperature association.

Physiological LR, also known as cutis marmorata, occurs commonly on the legs of young women on exposure to cold temperature and resolves on warming. The mottling effect is considered an impairment of blood flow in the vessels of otherwise normal skin.

Idiopathic LR is persistent and non-resolving with diagnosis reached when no other pathological signs are found.

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Livedo reticularis can be seen as primary (livedo reticularis) or secondary disorder known as livedo racemosa (LRC).

Livedo racemosa

Livedo racemosa (LRC) appearance is similar to that of LR but differential diagnosis is obtained by its location (generalized and wide-spread – found on limbs, trunk and buttocks), and its shape (irregular, broken pattern with circular segments) and through biopsy.

When it's not just the cold

The occurrence of livedo reticularis may be due to many other reasons. These might include:

  • Congenital - present at birth
  • Reaction to medication
  • Associated with other blood vessel disorders such as - Raynaud phenomenon or polyarteritis nodosa
  • Paralysis
  • Infections - such as hepatitis C
  • Autoimmune associated – Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) an autoimmune disorder where the body's immune system makes antibodies which attack phospholipids; Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) - a chronic autoimmune disease characterised by multi-system manifestations; Connective tissue disease collection of diseases that affect the parts of your body that hold internal structures together
  • Sneddon’s syndrome - a rare, progressive condition that affects blood vessels
  • Endocrine disorders – hypothyroidism
  • Erythema ab igne - also known as hot water bottle rash, is a heat-induced skin disorder that begins as a reversible LR but can become fixed reticulated hyperpigmentation of the same pattern
  • Viruses exanthems - such as erythema infectiosum
  • Mechanical obstruction of blood flow

What can be done

In most cases this condition will resolve without the need for intervention. But if the skin appearance does not resolve when skin is warmed, or other signs or symptoms appear (nodules, ulcers for example), if you suffer from peripheral vascular diseases or autoimmune disease is suspected, or you are on medication, a doctor should be consulted.

In most cases of primary Livedo reticularis, it is self-resolving, but there are some lifestyle changes which may help avoidance and resolution. These include avoiding tobacco, cold temperature and minimising stress.

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Tobacco smokingSmoking affects the body in so many ways – none of them good. Smokers will often use tobacco to alleviate perceived stress, but on the contrary, tobacco can actually increase anxiety levels. It does this due nicotine has stimulating the release of adrenaline - which causes the heart to pump blood faster. Adrenaline is the hormone that is necessary during emergency situations.
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Supporting circulation

Blood is transported throughout the body via blood vessels delivering oxygen and nutrition, transporting hormones, protecting from external harmful substances and removing the waste products of cellular metabolism. The circulation is also important for proper temperature control.

  • Ginseng berry extract improves blood circulation
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  • Turmeric (curcumin) improves vascular function
  • Ginger acts as a vasodilator widening blood vessels and supporting blood flow
  • Garlic contains a compound called allicin which helps blood vessels relax promoting blood flow
  • Exercise promotes circulation

Supporting circulationEat foods high in antioxidants support blood vessels and circulation. These include: red grapes, berries, pomegranate, kiwi fruit and citrus fruits (high in bioflavonoids to strengthen blood vessels).

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Co-creative leadership is about harnessing the brainpower and knowledge of the people around you in order to create highly motivated and engaged teams.

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Over the last few years of working with clients, it’s become clear to me that many leaders have difficulty co-creating with their teams.

According to the annual Gallup poll, over 70% of the American workplace is disengaged. That is both sad and outrageous, but it also says a lot about the management teams we have in organizations and the leadership they bring.

In this article, I will introduce you to some of the key ideas behind co-creative leadership. In my consulting and training engagements, this is the leadership approach I introduce my clients to.

The Cycle That Perpetuates

In many organizations, there is a cycle going on that seems to feed itself and have a life of its own. Leaders confuse being strong, pushy and directive with "bringing leadership," but by doing this, they stifle those who would become future leaders.

Their leadership style actually creates compliance around them instead of employee engagement. I see many teams (and managers) that do not dare or want to take any initiative because they are afraid their boss will override or chastise them. Instead, they prefer just doing exactly as they are told in order to stay out of trouble.

The sad thing is, leaders do not even realize they are creating this culture. Often, they are just repeating the leadership patterns they learned from their boss, who picked up these patterns from the boss they had, when they first started at the company.

The cycle began a long time ago and perpetuates itself from leader to leader, from generation to generation. People are so used to it that no one sees it occurring, and no one even bothers to question the pattern anymore.

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More and more in the workplace, leaders are dealing with a generation of employees that needs to know why they are doing something. This generation also needs to be able to express their ideas and be heard. This conflicts with leaders for whom hierarchy is important, or for leaders who have a strong god complex and believe they have the perfect answers to everything. Many senior leaders in organizations are from a different generation than the millennials they are leading and do not understand what to do to meet this younger generation's needs. At times, in conversations with these leaders, I am reminded of the movie "A league of their own" where an exasperated baseball manager tells his team "but there's no crying in baseball!"

Co-creative leadership is about bringing forward a leadership style that allows all voices and all perspectives to be heard. It is not a new way of acting, but a new way of being.

Co-creative leaders are intentional in their conversations as well as their actions. They understand that learning to collaborate as a group often takes a bit of time, and they work through this learning curve with their employees.

Co-creative leaders work toward finding solutions with their teams while also being an active voice in the conversation. It does not matter if they speak first or speak last, as they are a voice among many. They help their team converge toward the best solution, even if it is not their own idea.

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We do not learn about collaboration in school. Actually, there are many soft skills we do not learn until we are in the workplace. Many of us are also very logical or rational, and the people side — you know, like dealing with people’s feelings and emotions — does not come naturally to us.

Sometimes our fears hold us back. We avoid having conversations because we feel ill-equipped to have them, or we feel the need to avoid certain situations that would make anyone uncomfortable. What could be different if we just trusted ourselves a little bit more, faced our fears and limiting beliefs and did something different?

Other times, we are in cultures driven by results and become stuck in this eternal firefighting mode. We then forget about the importance of taking time to learn to play as a team. We forget that being a team is not as simple as throwing a bunch of people together in a room. What could be different if we accepted that becoming a team can be a messy process sometimes?

I also see a lot of headstrong leaders who need to have their idea be the final solution. They will fight, they will push, and they will continually argue. What could be different if these people actually took the time to listen to what is being said and build on top of it?

In all these cases, my suggestion to leaders is to simply just dare to try something different. Even better, have the courage to tell your employees you are trying something new and will probably be awkward at it; you will make mistakes doing it and need their support. Vulnerability creates space for mistakes and invites compassion and support from others.

Co-creative leadership is a mindset to adopt. It is about harnessing the brainpower and knowledge of the people around you in order to create highly motivated and engaged teams.

It is also about engaging people in the change you are trying to create. What is the perspective of your employees? What ideas do they have to support this change? How do they feel they can contribute?

What could be different in your organization if you mindfully took the time to build collaborative teams instead of being caught in the constant loop of delivering results?

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If you have ever traveled at all, you know that even the best laid plans are apt to go awry. I know many people who just despise traveling. They are always the ones who get stuck on “well it was supposed to happen like this” instead of just rolling with it and making the best of a unplanned situation.

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QUESTION: I am being offerd a sword that is said to be wavy all the way up and 2 handed and it was used to cut peoples heads off. Well the orginal ones anyways... I was wondering if you know the name of this type of sword. Thanks it would help a ton.

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It's either a Flamberge or a Kris (Flamberge being a large European sword and a Kris being a sword of Indonesia).

Neither of these were, to the best of my knowledge, strictly speaking executioners swords.

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