I think the tornado ended up nice because it looks like a whirlpool and a cool transition to an underwater scene...with lightning ;D

I think this would be a good time to stop writing 'cause I read too much into things and you probably won't read this, but....

Tiling seems to be a balancing act between comformity and individuality. I think the best tiles take the ideas of existing tiles and help push the good ones into new tiles, while adding something unique. I'm fairly comfortable with blending from many tiles, but I still kinda fear one sided tiles because then there's pressure to add interesting things to blend from.

That being said, I can relate to the stuff on the bottom edge. When you do a one sider, you have the extra pressure of keeping some cohesion while pushing your new, interesting ideas into joining tiles. Objects that are small enough to fit in the borders are easy to blend to so you're transplanting relatively clear ideas. However, if you add too many, they might break up the continuity of the quilt. If a bad texture blend on a border is a physical break, halting the ideas from old tiles and forcing lots of new and different ideas to future tiles is a break in ideas. That's not necessarily bad, but I think it should be kept to a minimum, assuming that people like seeing some continuity between tiles.

However, if you subscribe to the balancing act thing, and this tile reflects your personality, then I would guess you felt more individualistic while doing this tile because you're adding several new and different things into the mix and not continuing the water/sky motif from above. It's good not just to vary ideas, but the method of trasmitting your ideas.

So, overall, I've said a lot without saying anything at all...Nice! Sorry and thanks to anyone who bothered to read this, I don't wanna type anymore though :D

I forgot to say a good example was your fire..ice..water..log tile, I gave that a 5.

I'm really impressed and amazed at how the nuclear green ghost turned out when it covered a total of five tiles. It all started right here with part of its head poking in at the corner. Granted, kogetts did this tile and the one to the upper left, so he knew exactly what that green stuff in the corner of his tile was and what the ghost was doing in his tile. On the otherhand, I think that there was enough information in the border for another tiler to have figured out that he was looking at the head of a ghost... maybe. Anyway, great job on the ghost to everyone that was involved!