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Best of the Nation – 11.4.12
Jonathan Willis
November 04 2012 09:15AM
After the jump: 20-ish articles covering a range of subjects. Which player overseas has had the most impressive performance so far? Why is the CHLPA imploding? Who were the best free agent signings of the last CBA? Zack Kassian or Cody Hodgson? Perhaps most importantly: who is Roberto Luongo mocking with his new Twitter avater?
NHLE Scoring Leaderboard. Who would be this season's leading scorer so far if the NHL were in session? Using NHL equivalencies and players' work in other league's we learn that it's… [NHL Numbers]
On picking fourth liners. I found this piece extremely interesting – when does it make sense to employ the prototypical "energy" fourth-liner versus a more talented player who isn't a fit stylistically? [NHL Numbers]
Randy Gumbley and the implosion of the CHLPA. The CHLPA is coming apart at the seams, and it is in no small part thanks to the reputation of Randy Gumbley, who appears to have been operating with the group under an alias. [Canucks Army]
The Reference Library. Eric T. of NHL Numbers has started a massive project: collecting the most influential pieces on stats-based hockey thinking into one place. [NHL Numbers]
I think the lingo is "book it." Oilers president Kevin Lowe is invited on to Oilers Now, and given an opportunity to throw cold water on a rumour the Oilers have a massive trade in the works opts instead to pour gasoline on the fire. [Oilers Nation]
Roberto Luongo mocks HockeyyInsiderr with his new Twitter avatar. Fun stuff. [Canucks Army]
The best free agent signings between 2005 and 2012. The title's pretty self-explanatory. [NHL Numbers]
A completely true and not made up interview with Barry Brust. And weirdly, the AHL goalie with a 0.979 SV% through two games apparently liked it! [Flames Nation]
Devan Dubnyk talks about CBA negotiations and the Roberto Luongo rumours. Dubnyk is the Oilers' NHLPA player representative, and he's also the guy who would be supplanted in a Luongo trade. [Oilers Nation]
Tyler Bozak's blackface costume: racist or no? This happens every single year. Every year. If it's not Raffi Torres dressing up as Jay-Z it's Tyler Bozak dressing up as Michael Jackson. [Leafs Nation]
Unrelated to the above: apparently, Bozak has trade value. I'll sum up the post, written on the Leafs website: 'Trade him. Trade him now. PLEASE TRADE HIM NOW.' [Leafs Nation]
Zack Kassian or Cody Hodgson? An interesting turn of events for both fans of the Canucks and people who think Mike Gillis made a terrible, terrible mistake – prospects guru Corey Pronman moves Kassian ahead of Hodgson for the first time on his young player rankings. [Canucks Army]
Random Thoughts. Kent Wilson talks about the lockout's impact on Calgary, looks at Linus Omark and Patrick Thoresen, and discusses the various people losing jobs and or money (including paid writers here at the Nation) because of the NHL work stoppage. [Flames Nation]
Explode through the check. 2010 first overall pick Taylor Hall slams into Jonas Brodin, doing terrible damage to the top Wild prospect. Was the hit cvlean or dirty? [Oilers Nation]
This year in the NHL a trick would be a treat. Graphic Comments! Need I say more? [Canucks Army]
Five ways the Flames can win the Cup this year. Given that the first way involves a flux capacitor… yeah. [Flames Nation]
Potlatch. The NHL and NHLPA find themselves in an ugly battle over a new CBA, and Rex Libris takes us through the pressure points for both sides. [Oilers Nation]
Marlies allow two shorthanded goals in three seconds. Though, as Cam Charron tells us, "counting the time it takes for the Abbotsford Heat players to celebrate and get back to the face-off circle, and then score again, it really takes about 40 or 50 seconds." [Leafs Nation]
FIST!! i'll take Kassian's size over Hodgson's talent. and i think Kassian has some actual scoring talent.
@HardBoiledOil 1.0
Their AHL numbers are in the range in the early going - through nine games Kassian has seven points (four goals) and Hodgson has 10 points (one goal).
I've always felt that the trade made sense for Vancouver - with Sedin and Kesler up the middle, organizational need makes Kassian a lot more interesting than Hodgson. That, plus the fact that Kassian's scoring at the same age as Hodgson has been comparable of late, and I liked the trade from a Canucks perspective.
and that's just it isn't it Jonathan? sometimes you have to sacrifice a little talent for a little size...that said, are the Flames REALLY interested in Omark? and for say Nemisz? i'd take a flier on Nemisz. why not? at roughly 6'3" 200, great size and might fit in on the 3rd or 4th line? Omark just isn't going to ever play here as a scorer. he's behind too many better players.
@HardBoiledOil 1.0
Well, as Kent points out, the Flames have a fairly full roster right now.
With that said - Omark's looking like the kind of guy it would be worth gambling on. The Oilers are abundant in talent on the wings, so he has less value to them than he would to a team starving for offence.
I think Calgary makes less sense than a team like Nashville or even Detroit (he's played on a line with Brunner and Zetterberg this season), though.


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The Kansas City Chiefs have lost center Rodney Hudson for the season with a broken leg, according to the Kansas City Star.
Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel has had to deal with plenty of injuries already, as Peyton Hillis and Dexter McCluster could miss Sunday's game against San Diego.
"In this job, there are going to be three things you don't expect to happen every day,'' Crennel said. "Not just every week but every day. You have to deal with it. Having had the experience before, you understand things are going to happen that really are out of your control.''
The Chiefs signed offensive linemen Bryan Mattison and Russ Hochstein.
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By Abhijit Banare
In what was a must-win match for the Indians very few could predict the eventual result of the game. In the first two One-Day Internationals, India had fought hard to chase the New Zealand score. Below are few key moments of the game which was only the seventh tied ODI match played by India.
Martin Guptill shrugs off tentative start
Since the first match of the series, Martin Guptill has appeared like a man under pressure. His tentativeness ended up giving shaky starts too New Zealand. With Jesse Ryder going for his aggressive strokes and perishing even before the innings had found its momentum, Guptill was supposed to anchor the innings. He finally managed to do the task after surviving yet another scratchy start. Unlike the previous two matches, the pacers were not consistent enough to keep up the pressure on Guptill. Once he was out of the first ten overs, along with Kane Williamson, he started playing his strokes and gave stability to the innings. It was not a flashy century, but an innings that showcased how responsible a batsman he can be. His 153-run second wicket stand with Williamson set the platform for New Zealand.
Kane Williamson strokes yet another fluent half-century
If Quinton de Kock had been the tormentor for India in the previous series against South Africa, it seems to be Kane Williamson here. His calm and composed attitude was tough to be disrupted by the Indians, and his nimble feet ensured that the spinners where hardly going to be of any notable threat for him. It is to be noted that India had three tough chances to run-out and break the partnership between Guptill and Williamson but squandered it each of the time.
Rohit Sharma-Shikhar Dhawan strike temporary form
India's openers were left embarrassed by the short deliveries from the Kiwi pacers and most of the time, they fell for the trap. If Shikhar adopted the careless approach, Rohit adopted a contrasting one by seeing off the early swing and ended up consuming far too many deliveries. This time around in the chase of 315, both Dhawan and Rohit seemed to have been reinforced with the thought of clearing the fence at ease and went after the pacers.
Same old batting collapse and short balls
With 64 posted in less than ten overs, the anticipation was there whether these two openers had found their old shine back. But it was not to be when Dhawan once again fell for a short delivery. Rohit's dismissal only brought back the expectations to ground reality. If there was one thing that everyone was sure about was Virat Kohli's performance. After being tested for over three overs leaving outside off-stump, Kohli finally lost his patience and edged one behind the wickets. Since then the wickets kept tumbling until the responsibility was back on MS Dhoni. But with Dhoni's dismissal, the series was all but over for India just waiting for the proceedings to finish.
Corey Anderson — The Man with the Midas touch
Ahead of the IPL auctions, anything Anderson is touching is turning in to gold. There was no swing or threatening pace from the all-rounder, yet in the quest for quick runs, the Indians made some basic errors; it was hara-kiri of such an order that one can almost conclude that Anderson's aura forced them to play rash shots and gift their wicket away. While he flopped with the bat, Anderson kept the game alive with a wicket every time he came on to bowl.
Sir takes us home after that miraculous partnership
If Ravichandran Ashwin can run a three, there are many more summits which could be easily achievable. Along with Jadeja he played one of the finest innings of his life. Jadeja has been underperforming with his bat for some time now, and there have been questions over his ability to play a responsible innings.
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It was only a matter of an innings. It may still be too early to call Jadeja finally can be called a saviour, but today's innings has definitely changed a lot. It was interesting to see his approach during the innings: while the rest of the batsmen (especially Raina) were struggling against short balls, Jadeja confidently went after the balls and tried his best to convert them in to scoring opportunities. If Jadeja hadn't been in that mindset, he would never have dragged the short ball outside off and hit the six which he did in the final over. It's just a matter of hunger to remove the weakness.
Rod Tucker overawed by 'Sir'
The fairytale finish would have been charred to death had Rod Tucker raised his finger to a short ball edged by Jadeja to wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi in the 48th over. Hamish Bennett then floored a simple catch at third-man.
In the end, however, there was pandemonium. With a brace to be scored off the final ball Jadeja hit it through the off, but the stroke was not timed as sweetly as the previous one. The batsmen scrambled for a single and the match ended in a tie.
(Abhijit Banare is a reporter at CricketCountry. He is an avid quizzer and loves to analyse and dig out interesting facts which allows him to learn something new every day. Apart from cricket he also likes to keep a sharp eye on Indian politics, and can be followed on Twitter and blog)


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If you spoke with 26-year-old Sam Levinson about how his debut feature "Another Happy Day" came together, you'd never know he's the offspring of a Hollywood legend. (For the unaware: Son of director Barry "Men In Black" Levinson.) On the strength of his Sundance award-winning original screenplay alone, he managed to pull together a cast of acting greats and assemble an expansive and intimate ensemble dramedy on a shoestring budget.
Phase 4 Films releases "Another Happy Day" this Friday, November 18.
Let's start with the most obvious question. How did you put together this cast?
I didn't write the screenplay with anybody in mind for any of the characters. Then, when it was finished, I started to ask myself who would be good as Lynn [the film's central character] and the only name that came to mind was Ellen Barkin. She's so fucking enormously talented and she's got a tough exterior with a well of rawness and anger and vulnerability as soon as you get one crack in her. I sent the script out to a friend in Los Angeles and he said, "Yeah, the script is good, but I'm doing this other genre film that needs a rewrite." I needed to buy a new computer at the time, so I signed on to do a five-day rewrite. When it was done, they asked me to come out to the set and Ellen Barkin happened to be on the set. I got to know her and eventually I handed her the script and she called me a few hours later and said, "I'm in." She took on the role of producer because I didn't have an agent or a manager at the time. The first thing she asked was who I wanted to cast next. I wanted to cast the role of the family's matriarch because I knew everything would fall into place after that. In a dream world, I wanted Ellen Burstyn. She said, "We'll get it to her" and I didn't even know that was possible. Eventually, I drove up to meet Ellen Burstyn in Nyack and she signed on.
When we go to the cinema, we bring all of our preconceptions of actors with us. You think Ellen Barkin, you think tough. You think of a tough New York girl, but if the film is good and the acting is good, slowly the preconceptions fly by the wayside and you believe the characters as they are. So in order to combat that, I tried to think of someone who could be a formidable opponent to Ellen Barkin who can deal with the emotional inner life of the character of Patty. Of course I thought of Demi Moore, who luckily signed on as soon as she read the script.
I felt like we could look for funding at that point. We continued the casting process with Cindy Tolan, and everything fell into place. We had the cast pretty much set for two years. Ezra Miller was one of the last people to come in. I thought he was too young when I met him, but by the time we started shooting, he was the perfect age. He turned 18 on the set.
The film is built with a really free-styled, improvised structure. Was the eventual form of the narrative present in the original script? Did it have any particular inspirations?
I think that there's not enough theater in cinema and vice versa. For me, there's far too many close-ups in film. They're a television technique. Of course, there are examples to the contrary, but I wanted this film to unfold in a way that wasn't necessarily subjective to any character's point of view. It had to be non-judgmental, so you wouldn't know who to sympathize with. If I'm going to the theater to see "The Seagull," maybe I'm more interested in what the maid is doing than what Nina is saying, so if I want to look at her, I can look at her. Having that wide canvas was important to me. It provides a sense of freedom for the audience and it's also unsettling, because you don't know where you stand or where you're headed.
The examples that I looked to were films like "The Best Years of our Lives" and films that had a wide depth of field, and also films that were shot in Cinemascope. I wanted that particular golden sheen over everything. I didn't want to cue the audience and tell them which scenes are funny or upsetting. They had to figure it out for themselves.
It's packed with naturalistic performances. What kind of experience did you have with directing previously?
I studied method acting for four years. I was never interested in being an actor. I just liked the process of discovering characters and thinking about characters and it benefitted me greatly in the way I could communicate with each actor individually, regarding their specific needs. Sometimes you can just have a dialogue with an actor beforehand and shape the performance then, but other actors need more guidance on the set.
We closed down the set for the entire shoot, which I think formed a very protective environment, and I think when actors feel protected and respected by the whole cast and crew, they feel like they can be open and go places that would normally make them uncomfortable. It's something I set forth to do to set the tone for the film. With 11 actors, you never know if personalities are going to clash or anything. We had a really egalitarian set. No one had a bigger trailer, no one had their own chair. Almost every actor stayed on set for the duration of shooting. They would come to set whether they were working or not and run lines. There was a feeling of camaraderie. We were there to help one another through the process.
What was the biggest obstacle that you encountered during production?
Oh, definitely the budgetary concerns. It was a very, very low budget. It was difficult. It just got cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. No one wanted to invest in a film starring primarily older actresses that didn't have an ending that was going to make audiences comfortable or happy. We successfully worked around it. I'm not someone who does many takes. We only shot 75% of the film allotted to us. We just did two or three takes and moved on. We shot 10 pages a day, so everything was planned meticulously. We had different versions of the script that made everyone's jobs easer and a 3-D model of the house so we knew exactly what we could do photographically.
The real challenges came in editing. We had to cut the film, color time it, do the final mix and have it scored in a two-month period to get it ready for Sundance. That was a crazy time. The original cut of the film was two hours and 50 minutes. It was hard, because so much of material that I loved had to be cut.
What was your Sundance experience like?
I can't wake up every day and not thank Sundance. They're a great beacon of light for any independent film. Just to have a film that you made shown on a screen for an audience in a theater is beyond me, so I owe them everything in the world. It was a beautiful experience. After the first few days it was just Ellen and me, trekking through the snow like Lewis and Clark. We felt a real sense of community. I was in Deauville with Andrew MacLean, who did "On the Ice," and someone asked us, "Aren't you guys in competition together?" Andrew replied so beautifully: "We're not in competition with each other. We're in competition with the 16th 'Transformers' movie." And that's how I really feel about independent film festivals. It's our only way of fighting back and getting these films that people would never see shown on a screen for an audience in a theater.
How are you going to follow this project?
Something completely different. It's a strange, strange piece. I wrote "Another Happy Day" and it was a visceral experience. It just poured out of me. This one has taken nine months. It's very plot-driven. I would call it a psychological, philosophical thriller-drama with a comedic undertone. If it turns out the way I hope, it would be a mix of "One From The Heart," "The Tenant" and "Persona. If it succeeds. It's a fucking weird combination. I don't know if that clarifies anything or just makes it more confusing.


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America Movil Weighs Options in Mexico After Legal Change
Crayton Harrison and Patricia LayaAmerica Movil SAB, the mobile-phone company controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, created a committee to study strategic options in the wake of regulatory changes in Mexico, where it gets almost half its profits.
The group will evaluate "various structural, commercial, technological and other options available to it, as well as the opportunities offered by the new Mexican regulatory framework," the company said today in a filing.
The eight-member committee includes America Movil Chief Executive Officer Daniel Hajj and Hector Slim, head of the company's Telmex landline unit, according to an e-mailed statement from a press official.
America Movil shares have dropped 15 percent this year, the second-worst on Mexico's benchmark IPC index, on speculation that the government's plan to boost competition in the phone industry will hurt the company's profits. President Enrique Pena Nieto won approval last year for a law with tougher penalties for dominant companies, and his new proposal this year would block America Movil from offering TV service for at least two more years.
"We now know the initial impact of the regulation, and I think this committee will try to set a strategy to mitigate these effects," said Julio Zetina, an analyst at Vector Casa de Bolsa SA in Mexico City. "The important part is: What are they doing to defend themselves? What new businesses could they enter?" He has a hold rating on America Movil shares.
Network Sharing
Slim's company has about 70 percent of the nation's mobile-phone subscribers and 80 percent of its landlines. The Federal Telecommunications Institute, created by the law passed last year, found the company dominant in the industry in a March ruling and ordered it to share network infrastructure with rivals and reduce the fees it charges them. America Movil, based in Mexico City, has challenged the ruling in court.
The rest of the new committee comprises board members Alejandro Soberon, CEO of entertainment company Corporacion Interamericana de Entretenimiento SAB, Pablo Gonzalez Guajardo, CEO of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB, America Movil's Director of Operations Oscar Von Hauske, and Ernesto Vega Velasco.
America Movil's Chief Financial Officer Carlos Garcia-Moreno and General Counsel Alejandro Cantu are also in the group.
Morphing Company
America Movil has gone through various configurations since Slim acquired Telefonos de Mexico, the state phone monopoly, in a 1990 privatization sale. Telmex, as the landline carrier is known, spun off its wireless unit a decade later to create America Movil. Both companies grew internationally with acquisitions throughout Latin America, and America Movil acquired full control of Telmex, its former parent, in 2012.
A Telmex reorganization announced in 2011 may provide a clue to the changes America Movil's committee is now considering. At the time, Telmex said it planned to create a separate unit, Telmex Social, for its customers in rural and marginalized communities.
With the new division, representing about 10 percent of its subscribers, Telmex sought for regulators to view it as two companies -- a utility for customers who have no other phone provider, and an urban telecommunications provider engaged in fierce competition against cable and fiber-optic operators, analysts at Banco Santander SA said at the time. The creation of Telmex Social required regulatory approval, which was never granted.
Last year, Telmex announced plans to split off its non-telecommunications divisions, which handled real estate and equipment logistics, into a new company. In January, the company denied a report by newspaper El Financiero that the transaction was designed to circumvent the new telecommunications law.
America Movil rose less than 1 percent to 12.92 pesos at the close in Mexico City, before the committee's formation was announced. Slim's holdings of the company represent almost half of his $69.4 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.


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By now most of us are familiar with shibori, a type of dyeing that's having its moment in the trend spotlight. But did you know that shibori is surprisingly easy (and very fun) to DIY? Here at Brooklyn Craft Company, we've been doing a ton of shibori dyeing lately, preparing for the shibori workshop that will be part of our upcoming Summer Craft Camp event… and it's been so addictive and fascinating that I thought we'd share a little how-to with you today. Let's get started! —Brett Bara
About Shibori
Shibori is a Japanese dyeing technique that typically involves folding, twisting or bunching cloth and binding it, then dyeing it in indigo. Whatever is used to bind the fabric will resist the dye, resulting in areas of the cloth that take the distinctive blue dye in patterns created by the resistance, and other areas of the cloth that remain white. Shibori is a very vast technique and there are tons of ways to do it (and a truly infinite number of patterns you can create), but in this post we're going to look at two methods: using wood blocks and rubber bands to bind and resist the dye.
What You'll Need
-We really like this indigo dyeing kit, which contains everything you need to do a shibori project. If you don't go the kit route, you'll need indigo dye, wood blocks, rubber bands and rubber gloves.
-Items to dye: Only natural fibers will accept dye, so be sure to steer away from synthetics. You can choose to dye simple fabric yardage which you can then make into anything at all, or you can dye ready-made fabric items like clothing, curtains, duvets – the sky's the limit! For the most traditional shibori look, go with solid white fabric. Cotton responds really well to indigo dye, so cotton is a great choice for your first attempts. Be sure to wash and fully dry before using.
-You'll also need a large container to mix the dye in (one with an air-tight lid is ideal if you want to keep the dye longer than a day, as oxygen will kill the indigo dye), and if you're working indoors, you'll want some plastic drop cloths to protect your surfaces from the dye. If you're lucky enough to have outdoor space in which to dye, that's the way to go!
The Shibori Dyeing Process
Start by mixing your indigo dye according to the package directions. Be aware that indigo dye is affected by exposure to oxygen, so try to keep the container covered as much as possible, and avoid stirring it aggressively or splashing it, which will introduce oxygen to the liquid.
You'll need to fold and bind your fabric before proceeding with the dye; see below for several folding options.
Once you've folded your fabric, it's time to dye! First, soak your folded and bound fabric in water, then squeeze it out.
Now, gently submerge your fabric in the dye. Most fabric will float, so you have to hold in under the surface with your hands or possibly weigh it down (but be aware that if your dye has been sitting for any length of time there may be sediment on the bottom of the container, and it's a good idea to avoid resting your fabric in the sediment. So it's often best to just hold the fabric under the surface of the liquid with your hands).
You can soak your fabric for almost any length of time; we found that 10 minutes is usually a good bet. You would think that in 10 minutes, the dye would completely soak through all layers of fabric and dye the whole piece solid blue, but it doesn't! The layers of folded fabric, along with the wood, rubber bands, or whatever binding method you're using, will prevent the dye from thoroughly soaking the fabric. Outer edges will take on the dye, but inner areas will not – and that's what creates the pattern.
The best thing to do when you're just starting is to dye a bunch of test swatches of fabric to get a feel for the results you'll get from different types of folds and various dyeing times. You can try soaking a piece for one, ten, and twenty minutes to see the results that will produce. Short soaks result in thin lines of blue with lots of distinct white space, and longer soaks result in more blue and more bleeding of the blue onto the white.
Here's the cool part – when you remove your fabric from the indigo dye, your fabric will be yellow-green, not blue! That's normal. Just let the fabric sit out in the air for a few minutes, and as it oxidizes, it will turn from green to the distinctive indigo blue. You can let it oxidize while it's still folded, or you can unfold it now before it oxidizes. If you leave it folded while it oxidizes, the dye will continue to soak into the fabric, and you'll have more bleeding in your finished piece. If you unfold it now, you'll see less bleeding in the finished piece.
It can take anywhere from a couple of minutes to 20 minutes for your piece to fully oxidize, so just hang out and watch your design emerge! During this time, the dye will continue to bleed a tiny bit, and the color will deepen – so you can never fully know exactly what result you'll get, which is part of the fun.
Once your piece has oxidized, all that's left to do is rinse your fabric in water, squeeze it out, and let it dry.
Now let's take a look at four different folding methods you can try:
Square Accordion Fold
Fold the fabric lengthwise, accordion-style, to make a long strip. Then fold this strip again, accordion-style, to make a square or rectangle. (Tip: if you plan your folds so that you have 1-2" of fabric overhang beyond the wood blocks you'll get lots of chunky blue sections in your finished piece. If you plan your folds so that the folded piece is the same size or smaller than your wood blocks, you'll only get thin lines of blue and lots of white space.)
Place one wood block on either side of the folded fabric, and secure with two rubber bands per side. You don't have to worry about securing the wood blocks very heavily or compressing the fabric a lot – even a light rubber band hold will be plenty to block out the dye.
Triangle Accordion Fold
Fold the fabric lengthwise into a long strip (for this pattern, starting with a wide strip results in larger, more distinct triangles). Then, fold the strip again in triangles, accordion-style.
Lightly secure one rubber band on each corner, trying not to scrunch the fabric too much. Then just place it in the dye as is – no wood pieces are necessary for this one. Believe it or not, even without wood blocks, the folded fabric will resist the dye, and the triangle pattern will emerge. (Magic, right?!)
Fan Fold
To create a diagonal fan pattern, fold the fabric accordion-style, with all folds originating from one corner of the fabric. Once this fan shape has been created, fold the fabric again accordion-style, creating a messy-square type shape. Place the square wood blocks over the messy folded shape and secure with rubber bands, then proceed to dye.
To make an abstract ring pattern, simply bunch up a small wad of fabric anywhere on your larger fabric piece, and place a rubber band around it. The areas covered by the rubber bands will create small, abstract rings of white.
I'm so excited to try this! How do you recommend disposing of the dye once you're finished? Will it stain a ceramic or porcelain sink?
How do you dispose of the dye when finished?
You can just use what is left to water your garden. You may want to be aware of pH levels but I have not had any troubles :)
Great DIY, I will definitely try this one! Thanks!
Super tutorial! I LOVE Shibori. This actually looks like it could be fun to do with kids.
This is awesome! If you totally fall in love with this beautiful technique and want to go further, check out Modern Color by Kim Eichler. Kim uses this method to create custom fabric for quilts.
If you are using your own indigo, you will need a reducing agent (i.e. thiourea dioxide) to get rid of the oxygen in the vat. You'll know the indigo is ready when the vat is a yellow-green color.
Any particular kind of wood block? The kit does not have them that i can see.
Does it matter what size your piece of fabric is? If your fabric is longer in width and length does that mean that your pattern eg. squares will be larger. If so how do you get smaller squares etc. on large pieces of fabric. Hope that makes sense.
I would imagine that you could achieve the same sized squares with a larger piece of fabric simply by folding it more times. The dye usually seeps through lots of layers to colour the middle. If you are worried about this, keep the fabric in the dye overnight so the colour can fully transfer. Good luck x
Great tutorial! The photos are really helpful.
Thank you for sharing this. I can't wait to try it out. I may dye a white skirt that I already have.
To Answer Christy- I think if you make more folds( making your rectangle as small as possible) you should have a smaller square pattern. -
To find if your vat has reached the right shade of green/yellow use a small syringe to take a sample. This does not disturb the vat and is very easy to view (Taught me by Roy Russell)
I love this! Especially the Indigo color. It's like a tidier form of tie dye :)
No salt necessary as in regular dyeing to "set" colour?? Thnx
So coooool!!!!! Thanks for going to the trouble of making animated GIFS…I have been trying to get that block binding technique in my head for a while…just never mad eit until now. Thanks for spelling it out!
Is Shibori traditionally indigo, or can it be made from other fabric dyes the same way?
Another way to do Shibori that allows you to be stingy (economical with dye) is to first wrap fabric around a tin can. Wrap twine tightly around the fabric all the way down the can (space it however you like to create different proportions of blue to white, the twine acts as a mask, so the twine covered parts will be white). Then scrunch the fabric and twine up and down the can so it is bunched up. Then simply paint your dye on or even use textile paint if that's what you have. You can also layer the depths of blue with this by retting he twine after it dries initially. This gives a beautiful striated pattern, and gives you a lot of control over the pattern (and saves supplies which is friendly to your craft budget). :)
Love your techniques here — especially the folded one, so nice! I just dyed a curtain shibori-style last week to use in my booth at the stationery show. (I have a shibori-inspired paper collection launching, so I wanted to coordinate…) I don't think I'll ever get tired of blue and white. Always so fresh.
As a true Shibori artist for over 25 years, this makes me want to smash my head into a desk. This is Tie Dye, NOT Shibori and especially not Arashii Shibori which is the description that you gave.
I love this! I've noticed that DIY is one of the new trends now, and I'm eager to have that for summer outfit. I'm gonna try these designs at home.
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As a hot trend right now, I'm sure the current usage of the term "shibori" has evolved a bit from what you may have seen over 25 years, but I see tie dye as being different than what this post covers, and different than what the design world currently refers to as shibori. In my experience, tie dye typically includes using many colors of dye and methods of tying or bunching the fabric that produce that distinctive starburst look, whereas what we're doing here is inspired more specifically by shibori in that it only uses indigo dye and the fabric is folded and bound with wood (which is not a typical tie dye technique).
(As an aside, we didn't refer to our technique as Arashii at all; isn't Arashii typically done by wrapping the fabric around a pole?)
I've definitely seen over my career that there are no rights and wrongs with hand crafts but rather quite a spectrum as to how different techniques are defined or categorized. Thank you for your comment, I'm sure you're right that there is MUCH more to true shibori than what we covered here, but I also think we gave a fair beginner-level look at how to achieve a shibori look at home. :)
Actually, we had a Shibori indigo workshop at my quilt shop last weekend and this is the exact same process the instructor followed. And she spent weeks in Japan learning the technique.
This is not "tie dye" in the traditional sense.
Great tutorial and use of gifs! I just wrote a similar post on my craft blog showcasing different techniques and their corresponding traditional shibori name.
In my experience though, simply tying the elastic bands around the fabric was not strong enough to resist the dye. I used industrial strength clips and rope to get the effect I wanted or else the dye would bleed through and look like a great big blob!
You are so right! Sometimes techniques need to be altered to achieve the Shibori look. I spent a lot of time hand-stitching half-circles on my white folded cotton fabric with embroidery thread, and after dying, the design could barely be seen in the dark blue fabric. I probably need a thicker thread for sewing.
I tried it, and it turned out great! If you're curious, you can see the results here: http://redhousewest.com/2014/06/02/i-tried-it-shibori-dyeing/ Thank you for inspiring me D*S!
try this: Pound nails into a board in a pattern you wish to make in small tight circles – an example would be a geometric pattern like a diamond repeat or a zig zag (there are infinite possibilities). Ideally create a pattern that is a repeat (where the pattern ends on one side it can continue on the next)… if the cloth is folded such that it is the same size as the pattern block, you can get a nice closely spaced repeat.. Then lay the folded cloth over the nails (folded into several accordion-ed sections) and tie the pattern into the cloth using waxed thread, wrapping it round the nails just under the nail heads to keep the cloth in place. Wrap tightly! You can achieve a very nice imitation of the original Japanese shibori technique this way. You get a mirrored repeat of the pattern down the length of the fabric this way. The effect of the tiny circles is very nice. In Japan, shibori cloth is not ironed, so that the bumpy texture of the original process is clearly evident.
gosh I guess im being thick but i'm not getting what you mean!
nails in a circle? Diamond repeat – on one side? I even asked my husband to explain in case i was missing something really simple – but no – he was none the wiser! If you have time and/or the inclination, would you please add some simple diagrams to explain the process? I would like to be able to practice this before working with a group of seniors, thanks!
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My interpretation of the directions is to imagine a square board. Circle nails in a perfect circle. Place fabric over the nail head side and wrap floss around each individual nail head to create a circle with white rings at each circle head once dyed. The double diamond…same theory but it would be a rectangle, one diamond stacked on top of another…I could be wrong,
Diane, I love your idea, but I'm having a hard time visualizing the process. do you have any photos?
I was thinking of shibori on a plain white cotton duvet cover. how do you go about dying something so large? is it even possible? thanks, beautiful work.
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in the process of trying this diy!!
for all who have wondered- it DOES in fact stain your porcelain sink.. counter top.. floors..! even the indigo in powder form stains instantly.
so– be careful, lay down some protective covering, and if you get the dye anywhere, a magic eraser will do the trick!!!
Is this dye toxic to skin or the environment? How should it be disposed of? Thanks.
Just to add to this as a professional dyer working with Japanese shibori techniques for the last 10 years and natural dyes.
DO NOT USE THIS KIT AT HOME!! it calls for the use of a reducing agent called thiox that it comes with and what they don't tell you is that it is extremely toxic as there are no laws yet in this area that you can not sell this to the general public.
Indigo does not break down in water. To do this you need to reduce it. There are natural organic ways to do this, however many places and people who don't know or are not required do not disclose how toxic the reducing agent if a chemical is used is, there are no laws as of yet – they will hopefully come into place with DIY movements in this area.
Indigo comes from a plant yes! It is a beautiful and magical dye and there are completely organic, natural ways of using it to reduce it. Please do diligence and make sure you are not buying the indigo that comes with chemical additives like this kit above. Take a class with a professional to learn natural and organic ways that are safe.
Things are getting green-washed similar to food and cleaning products as things get popular.It's great that more people are aware of shibori and stories like these and as someone who is well educated and worked with many thought leaders in this field around the world, there are arguments for terms, shibori/tie dye etc. these sometimes yes are interchangeable, the historical context and geographic location is important in determining.
Traditionally indigo is used quite a bit in shibori, but it is definitely not the end all determining factor. Shibori is the technique, the type of dye is not a factor. Safflower dye for instance was used in shibori just as much and many other dyes.
This has been what the general public will associate shibori with and is very much a great pair and common for traditional Japanese practices for sure, especially in places like Arimatsu.
Shibori you are correct is a Japanese technique of resist dyeing and has very specific designs and techniques that are similar but not like others. It would be like calling an oil painting a digital print for example.
The best way to refer to types of techniques if you are unsure in what term specifically to use is resist-dyeing that encompasses all of the terms basically.
Depending on the style of the design/technique and area in the world, there are different languages and terminology and is important that we pass along the proper info for sure to help keep these traditions thriving globally.
But this is fantastic that more people are getting interested anyway and glad to see people are loving resist dyeing.
I would suggest The world shibori network for correct reputable further information.
Dye your stuff with Onion skins at home instead! Google. Learn indigo from a professional for safety first is my suggestion, but definitely try the techniques at home. Be safe :)
Definitely try out the posted techniques though! Those are great, just make sure you don't use the indigo recipe that calls for Thiox :) Happy dyeing.
Should the fabric be washed before dyeing?
I just took this class at Brooklyn Craft Company and it was great. Everything I could have hoped for. Everyone in the class really had some amazing pieces.
I wonder if i could dye a cotton rug….
Thank you. I am very excited and cannot wait to try it.
very informative and step step of preparing the fabric is excellent.
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Great article. While I can twist, tie, and dye, this technique would be new to me. Thanks for sharing.


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Steamboat Springs The story of two Rainbow Family gatherers sentenced to six months in jail for stealing produce from a Steamboat Springs store's garbage can continues to grab attention - and headlines.
Media outlets across the country are picking up the story, and many e-mailers and bloggers are threatening to boycott Steamboat and other Colorado towns and businesses because of what they are calling an abuse of the justice system.
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Giles Charle, 24, of Somersworth, N.H., and David Siller, 27, of Wayne, Pa., were sentenced to six months in jail last week after they pleaded guilty to misdemeanor trespass. The men admitted to taking $15 worth of rotting produce from a garbage can at Sweet Pea Produce on Yampa Street in June. The men were on their way to the Rainbow Family gathering in North Routt County.
The plea agreement was reached with Assistant District Attorney Kerry St. James. The men were facing a felony charge of second-degree burglary and accepted the plea to keep the felony off their records. Neither has a criminal history.
Charle and Siller said from Routt County Jail on Monday that they were excited to hear of the national attention their story is getting.
"It's great to feel so supported, but at the same time, we're not getting our hopes up," Charle said. "In some ways, it's actually making our stay (at the jail) harder now."
The outrage caused by the jail sentence has spurred hundreds of reader comments on steamboatpilot.com, and one Colorado man has created a "Free Charle and Siller" page on his Colorado Freedom Group Web site. The page includes a link to a "Hunger is Not a Crime" petition urging residents and local officials to push for an overturn of the jail sentence. The page is at www.rebelgraphics.org/coloradofreedom.html.
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This past Monday, this nation celebrated the memory of one of our greatest minds, one of our tallest souls, one of our lost children. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebrates the memory of our American Gandhi, a man who dedicated his life - and, in Memphis, gave his life - to the idea that is America: all are created equal.
To be sure, the "Negro" was counted only as 3/5ths of a man in the document that first established the ridiculous experiment that became America, and women were counted not at all, but more than two hundred years have passed since that original ink was put to paper. Ours is a self-improving republic, thanks to the genius of those founding documents. A "Negro" now sits in the highest office of the land, and a woman (who lost the chance to sit in that exalted seat by only an eyelash or two) now commands the most important and influential position in the Federal government, save the one enjoyed by her immediate superior.
Ours is a nation of genius, and of assassins, in equal measure. We reached the moon, cracked the genome code, we feed millions, liberated Europe and Asia from horrific tyranny sixty years ago, and daily export the idea that one should be able to speak their mind without fear of the gulag or the work camp or the executioner's bullet...and yet we do this even as the souls of slaughtered Native Americans, enslaved Africans, and ten times ten thousand Iraqis shriek their condemnation from the blood this nation has spilled in its pursuit of "greatness."
I have been preaching this gospel, in word and deed, for almost twenty years: America is an idea. You can take our cities, our roads, whatever is left of our manufacturing base, our crops, our armies, our weapons, you can take the land itself from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon...you can take it all, and the idea that is America will still remain, as robust and vital as the day it was first conceived. It is the idea that sustains me, the brilliant simplicity of actual equality, and it is the offenses to the idea that I have pledged my life against.
Some will argue that I and those who believe as I do are doomed to failure. Perhaps this is true; the forces arrayed against what I and others of like mind hold true and dear are stupendous, overwhelming, and well-placed in money and in media. Even the "Hope and Change" president of the present maintains and extends the elaborate shame of our past, apparently deaf to the howls of those of us who would have him, and us, do right at long last.
It is what it is, as someone once said. You look for a toehold, a place to grab on to, a front - no matter how meager - from which to wage your own siege, against all that has gone so catastrophically wrong with this old experiment, in trying to do right.
We define ourselves through comparison to that which we oppose. In this, we are seldom lacking in inspiration. Take, for example, this report about the newest way the Powers That Be have chosen to crush and prosecute the Occupy movement. It isn't enough for a prosecutor to charge a protester who has been beaten and Maced by police with assault. No, we're going here:
Sergio Ballesteros, 30, has been involved in Occupy LA since the movement had its California launch in October. But this week, his activism took an abrupt turn when he was arrested on a felony charge - lynching.
Whether the police allegation in this case will be pursued by by California's courts is uncertain. But the felony charge - which carries a potential four-year prison sentence - is the kind of accusation that can change the landscape for would-be demonstrators.
"Felonies really heighten the stakes for the protesters," said Baher Azmy, legal director at Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. "I think in situations where there are mass demonstrations and a confrontation between protesters and police, one always has to be on the lookout for exaggerated interpretations of legal rules that attempt to punish or squelch the protesters."
Lynching: "For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 19th and 20th centuries, the threat of lynching was commonplace. The popular image of an angry white mob stringing a black man up to a tree is only half the story. Lynching, an act of terror meant to spread fear among blacks, served the broad social purpose of maintaining white supremacy in the economic, social and political spheres."
Once upon a time, the (lily-white) power structure used lynching as a means of maintaining control. Now, in the shadow of the holiday celebrating Dr. King's life and work, they are deploying this accusation in order to punish and prosecute people who have exercised the right gifted by this idea, this country, this place of alleged freedom: the right to speak your piece, "to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The idea remains intact, even after so prolonged an assault from so determined a foe.
It is, as ever, worth fighting for. As Dr. King said, "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
Dig in, people.
Dig in deep.
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Submitted this to a dictionary.com word game contest...Never done a word game before and this one came out more like a Brain-Trainer type game!
You're onto something with this game..
This does seem like a good game. I do actually enjoy games like this. I'm not too fond of clicking on a square set, typing a word and having it be wrong, when it was one of the right words, without the use of hints.. :/ You should be able to type in your answer, and if its right, have it go to that particular set of squares you clicked on.
I would like if I could choose between easy hard and medium... but it's a nice game, with a nice design, with a nice idea - but it could be more original :)
Bad rule logic
Maybe I'm not understanding how to play the game, but... I See the word "Fun" in my given letters. I click on a 3 letter word and type in "Fun". it marks it wrong and then reveals a different line as having the word "fun". As far as I understand the rules, I should have been scored for the word, not marked wrong.
Sweet. :)
I've always been a geek when it comes to word games, and this one is awesome.
A little hard to understand right off the bat, but fun once you get into it.
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I am a very amateur sailor. My boyfriend and I have been practicing sailing about one day per week on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers for the last year on our Newport 27. We have read a few books and watched some videos. Our plan is to sail from Portland, Oregon, to Cabo San Lucas and then up in to the Sea of Cortez. Neither of us have been on the ocean in a boat before. Our Newport is from 1972; we got it very cheap and have made some upgrades, but have pretty basic gear in general. We've often heard that you need at least a 30 foot boat to cruise the Pacific. Thoughts? Advice? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks!
Not familiar with your particular boat, but some things in general: Do a very thorough inspection of everything. If it has an inboard double check all the hose connections, wiring, fuel filters, belts, and so on. if possible, inspect the inside of the tank, especially if it is diesel. My biggest recommendation is to find and hire, if necessary, an experienced person and do some trial runs inside and then outside. If you haven't already done so take a navigation course and use all of the navigation tools you can afford. Generally the best weather along the coast is from about the first of July to about the last of September. Even going "downhill" it can be really rough at any time of year but especially so in the winter months. Watch the weather as the ports you may want to come in to can break when it is rough. Be carefully, not a trip to be taken lightly, at any time of the year.
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You couldn't pay me enough to be in a boat that small, especially in the Pacific, but that's just me. My personal line is drawn way before that point. I suggest that you read John Vigor's The Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat and anything by Bernard Moitessier but especially A Sea Vagabond's World. Also, Tania Aebi. She circumnavigated in a Contesa 26, documented in Maiden Voyage. Good luck! |
There's a list of blue water boats here on sailnet here
We spoke to an older cruising couple who cruised in a Fraser 30 back in the 70's. Before they left, they used to go out and sail when the wind was blowing hard and everyone else was staying in. They thought they were pretty well prepared. When they left Vancouver B.C. for San Francisco, they did it in one haul. She was sea sick for days. He was afraid that her feet were going to rot off, because she didn't take her boots off the entire trip. When they came in to San Francisco, the harbormaster asked where they were going next. She told him "I don't know where he's going, but I'm going home." She was ready to give it up, but changed her mind after a hot shower and some rest. They continued cruising for several years after that. |
I agree with all, and can empathize with DRFerron in the size thing. We sailing a bit in the Pacific in a 26 footer, and quickly decided that we wanted something bigger for our plans. I wouldn't do it in shorter than a 30, but personal preference plays a big role. If a 27 is big enough for your plans and you have properly modified her or you have a boat that is already blue water ready, go for it.
You need to upgrade your sailing knowledge/experience/storm tactics. Need to find out if you or crew PANIC in bad weather or other critical situations ??
Many sailors will tell you that you need to "UPGRADE" the sailboat for offshore, BUT, don't tell you or don't know what to do.... I don't know anyone who can just tell you in one conversation what should be done to make a sailboat upgraded or just changed to make it safer and more seaworthy for Long Distance Offshore Sailing..... You will have to Read and DO physical items to the boat. i.e. "Upgrading the Cruising Sailboat". Many other books and many,many opinions on what to do. If a 25/27 ft Catalina can officially be upgraded for circumnavigaton (as seen on internet), then my money is on a Newport 27. *I don't pretend to remember or *know all the items that can be done to make the boat safer and more seaworthy. You can do some or none of the recommended items that you find (priorities or lazyness may guide you). .....Some things I would like additional forestay,babystay,backstay,lock down all lockers & items ,Batteries,inside & outside boat. Imagine you boat turning upside down and what happens ? Add strength to Hull with stringers or whatever is recommended. Make water tight compartments throughout boat, as in under v-birth,under any area you can. Review sails needed,,reefing, drogues,fuel tank management,spare parts. Worst case scenarios. Food ,water,medical, how much weight your boat can sail with. |
Some of the best ocean sailors have perished in very capable boats and Tinkerbelle, a 13 foot wooden makeshift boat, crossed the Atlantic with a skipper that had never been on the ocean before.
Luck has a bigger role in offshore sailing than many of us want to admit. That said, one must assess the boat's and crew's ability to deal with bad luck to make this decision. For me, I want a boat that I can crawl below, strap in and ride out bad luck, or I want to be absolutely sure there is none on the horizon. |
I'm not one of those people who thinks you absolutely must have a 50' ketch to go cruising, but the Newport 27 seems like a small, inefficient boat for what you want to do, even if it is tough and reliable.
I have a Coronado 25, and this boat looks a lot like that, only a little bigger. The cabin layout is inefficient, the sail area/displacement ratio is low, and the boat doesn't displace much. Like the Coronado, it appears that they pushed the cabin out to the hull, so you don't have a side deck which can be a real inconvenience. I submit to you that the Newport is a great training sailboat but that you shouldn't put another penny into her, and start looking for something at 30 feet. The boat market is pretty bad right now, and if you can unload your Newport, you'll be in the driver's seat when you purchase. On another forum I frequent, we were discussing the Columbia River, and what happens when you sail "outside the bar". From what I've been told, it's not for the faint of heart, and you want a solid boat that you can trust. In my opinion, 30 feet is the magic number. It'll have enough storage, enough wateline to go fast, enough displacement to sail comfortably, yet small enough to keep maintenance costs affordable, and small enough for either of you to handle alone. Of course, these are all generalizations, I'm sure that there are crappy 30 footers out there that don't meet these criteria. Do your research and figure out which boats are good for offshore, so that you don't have to do a lot of "beefing up". Look for a cabin layout that makes smart use of space. Where is the galley? Where is the storage? Is there a lot of wasted space? You'd be surprised what 3 extra feet will get you: Standing headroom throughout the boat, 3,000lbs more displacement, more tankage, 2 more feet of waterline, more sail area. While you're boat shopping, like others have said, learn "dead-reckoning" navigation (using paper charts), some engine repair, how to splice lines, basic damage control procedures, man-overboard recovery, etc, etc. Basic seamanship stuff. Face it- when you're out in the Pacifc, pulling over and calling AAA when things go sour isn't going to work.;) Good luck! |
It just occurred to me that the inventory of safety stuff that I have aboard is a limiter for the size boat I could comfortably cruise in.
Offshore capable life rafts are huge. My ditchbag must be 2x2x1. Tools, spare parts, EPIRB, spare radios, spare vhf antenna, rig cutter, spare lines, on and on. Sooner or later, one doesn't know where to put all this stuff. What you think is necessary will influence this, of course. Just another random thought. Be sure to secure every hatch, cover and floorboard and anything under the floorboard, such as batteries. If you get knocked over, you don't want the problem to be made worse by having no floor and heavy stuff becoming projectiles. Some just lock their drawers and doors and think they're good. |
I'd say side decks are a necessity. My boat has a cabin pushed out to the rail. Climbing up and on deck every time I need to go forward in anything but comfortable weather would be down right scary. That may be part of the magic 30 ft number because you've got decent size side decks and foredeck. |
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Nancy Cato's epic saga follows the life and loves of Philadelphia "Delie" Gordon. Considered an Australian classic, A River Not Yet Tamed uses the Murray River as a constant and apt analogy to Delie, allowing it to show both her tumultuousness and her beauty. Kate Hosking's down-to-earth style brings about a firm solidity to Cato's prose, as well as helping to underscore Delie is a remarkable and independent woman. It's a performance both resolute and respectful, making Delie as wild and remarkable as the Australian landscape that Cato describes with beautiful precision.
Philadelphia Gordon is an artist, a riverboat skipper, a beautiful and independent woman. Orphaned by a shipwreck, Philadelphia grows up on the banks of her beloved Murray River, seemingly destined for a conventional life. But tragedy leads her first to a successful career as a painter, then to marriage to the dashing captain of the paddle-steamer that bears her name. This epic novel, set against the panoramic countryside and winding rivers of Australia, is her story, as powerful and unforgettable as its heroine.
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- Pastry for single-crust pie (9 inches)
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 3/4 teaspoon dried thyme, divided
- 1 pound beef top sirloin steak or boneless beef top round steak, cut into thin strips
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 package (16 ounces) frozen mixed vegetables
- 1 jar (12 ounces) beef gravy
- 1 can (4 ounces) mushroom stems and pieces, drained
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- On a floured surface, roll pastry to 1/8-in. thickness. Brush with water. Sprinkle with cheese and 1/4 teaspoon thyme; press lightly. Using a 3-in. biscuit cutter, cut out four 3-in. circles. Place circles and remaining pastry on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 450° for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
- In a large skillet over medium-high heat, brown beef in oil for 5 minutes or until no longer pink; drain. Stir in the vegetables, gravy, mushrooms, garlic salt, pepper and remaining thyme; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
- Set pastry circles aside. Break remaining pastry into 2-in. pieces; place in soup bowls. Top with beef mixture and pastry circles. Yield: 4 servings.
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May/June 1998, p53
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After answering her uncle's call, Eva Witheby winds up far from home and amidst strangers in Jewel Quest Mysteries Trail of the Midnight Heart. It's hard to know who to trust when treacherous trails and veiled secrets abound. Alongside Eva, uncover relics in eye catching hidden object screens. Unearth tools that will help you reveal shards of the precious jewel boards and discover all new scrolling search screens that put you in the front seat of whizzing planes and a whirlwind adventure. Jewel Quest Mysteries 2 is a hidden object adventure like no other!
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Joshua Marston's "The Forgiveness of Blood" is about a long-running dispute that turns a young Albanian man into a virtual prisoner. However, the film's producer, Paul Mezey, said he never expected life to imitate art — especially not over something as benign as location scouting.
"If you decide to go to property A instead of property B, you've insulted the person's house you didn't go into. It was a very delicate situation," said Mezey. "It was like a loaded gun that could go off at any moment."
There's plenty of reasons to shoot an indie movie overseas. Foreign governments often provide "soft money" in the form of tax subsidies, production costs can be lower and then there's the irreplaceable foreign setting itself.
However, because foreign co-productions are still relatively uncommon for low-budget films, shooting in a far-flung country introduces issues that can leave even the most experienced indie producer slack-jawed.
If you'd like to make films with foreign tax subsidies but without blood feuds, here's eight tips for how to shoot in foreign countries.
Presume nothing. Some challenges are self evident — language barriers, currency conversions. However, the biggest issues may stem from scenarios that you'd never see coming.
Mezey found that scouting locations in Albania required negotiations usually reserved for high-level peace treaties. "Every action had a negative consequence," he said. "There was a lot of distrust and insecurity. And the immediate reaction was to defend your honor. And this is where blood feuds come into play."
So then you decide not to use someone's house — and that's when the trouble really begins.
"From renting a car to casting somebody to not being able to fire someone, it was an extreme cultural mindset," said Mezey. "Think of how humiliating it would be to fire someone and everyone in the community knew you were fired. It could lead to suicide."
Find local guides. Producer Lisa Muskat shot "Look, Stranger" in Serbia with the help of USAID, which helped her locate Belgrade producer Snezana Penev and co-producers Branislav Brana Srdic and Andjelija Vlaisavljevic. They not only knew the territory, but they also understood the American approach to film production.
"I think the initial people you bring on is what's going to set the tone," said Muskat. Their oversight included helping the production integrate into the community, secure locations and find crew (including Serbian sound mixer Nenad Sciban, who initiated what Muskat describes as their "essential and crew-bonding weekly poker tournament").
Take pains to use local crew. Finding a crew that works well together is key whether shooting in Brooklyn or Timbuktu. However, when crews are comprised of people from different countries and speak different languages, it can get much more complicated.
Producer Karin Chien, who made Iranian drama "Circumstance" in Lebanon, and has also shot features in Haiti and the Philippines, acknowledges the risks but says its essential to the process.
"My philosophy is always to hire locally," she says. "We're not there to just make a movie, we're a presence in a foreign land and we want to be respectful, and we have a responsibility to work within their parameters and form a mutual, true co-production."
However, that can also mean relying on untested professionals — or even on amateurs. Albania has virtually no filmmaking infrastructure, so while "The Forgiveness of Blood" had British cinematographer Rob Hardy and Italian production designer Tommaso Ortino, Mezey turned to local film schools and the neighborhood to find the wardrobe department, third assistant cameraperson "Rocky" Elezaj and many other positions, training people for six months.
Adapting isn't just polite. Crew positions aren't universal; for example, some countries don't have positions like assistant camera or script supervisor. Shooting in Lebanon and the Philippines, where they don't often record location sound, Chien had to train her crews to understand "quiet on set."
"My advice," she said, "figure out how the locals do it and either prepare your team to adapt to those ways or bring what you need from the States to compensate."
The personal is professional. In America, it's the film industry and show business; in other countries, Mezey said, "the social relationships are often more important than the film."
When shooting David Riker's upcoming film "The Girl" in Mexico, Mezey said there was a sense that "we're a family and we're going to have fun doing this." He built a social component into the schedule, whether in communal meals or getting together after wrapping a day's shoot.
Transparency is good for business. In America, budgets tend to be treated as secrets, with knowledge limited to a select few. However, taking that approach in a foreign country can lead to suspicion, acrimony and a crew that makes your life very difficult.
Mezey advocates making sure that everyone knows what everyone else is getting paid on a local crew, and at a fair rate. "You're in a powerful position," he said. "And if they know you're being cheap, it'll be discussed and you'll build a resentment. So not only is it unethical, it's counterproductive."
The same kind of parity and fairness is also necessary when dealing with more experienced foreign co-producers.
"We're talking about films that are well below what most European co-producers are used to," says Parts & Labor's Jay Van Hoy who, with partner Lars Knudsen, most recently shot Julia Loktev's "The Loneliest Planet" in the former Russian state of Georgia with a German subsidy. "They're not going to be motivated by budgets around $1 million."
Hire an accountant. Van Hoy and Knudsen's Parts & Labor knew what it meant to shoot overseas; they made So Young Kim's "Treeless Mountain" in Korea and Braden King's "Here" in Armenia.However, Julia Loktev's "The Loneliest Planet" was its first genuine co-production, partnering with Helge Albers of Germany's Flying Moon Prods. and receiving 28% of its budget through a subsidy program from the German region of Hessen.
The subsidy required using German crew and equipment, which then had to to be transported to Georgia. While shipping costs added a significant line item to the budget, those expenses were recouped since they went toward the tax credit's spending requirement (Unfortunately, Van Hoy notes, their planet tickets did not qualify.)
An accountant also would have failed to qualify — but with all the elaborate expenses and multiple currencies, Van Hoy says he wishes he'd paid for one. It might have helped him avoid the cash flow gap he encountered in post-production as a result of the tax subsidy's fee schedule.
"We were put in a position where we needed the money to deliver the film," he said, "but you don't get the last of the money until delivery is confirmed."
It's worth the trouble. While Van Hoy admits there are challenges in foreign productions, he says the process is worth it. Parts & Labor is currently setting up an office in Knudsen's home country of Denmark. In doing so, and setting a precedent with "Loneliest Planet," Van Hoy hopes that foreign coproductions will "become less rare" for $1 million indies.
For Mezey, there's something inherently fulfilling about shooting overseas that transcends tax credits. "Whether making a film about baseball in the Dominican Republic or blood feuds in Albania, the community is so emotionally connected to the topic. It becomes a significant moment in their lives, and there's something so rewarding in doing that.
"It's easy to get jaded in this business," Mezey continues, "but the real joy of film is connecting human beings. And I can't think of a better way of doing that than taking challenging projects where that's the essential component to the project from day one."
Trans Atlantic Partners gives producers the necessary tools and knowledge to maneuver through the complex arena of international co-productions/co-ventures and to overcome the legal and financial barriers.
Cine-Regio is a network of regional film funds in Europe. The network is continuously expanding and today represents 34 regional film funds from 12 EU Member States, in addition to Norway and Switzerland.
European Film Commissions Network has a listing of all European Film Commissions, with links to individual websites and all of the countries film commissions.
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