Japanese crafts
I've stumbled upon a YouTube channel which is all about traditional Japanese crafts and it's a real treasure trove. No English subtitles, but most of the time you don't need them. Fountain pens, spectacle frames, rice steamers, kimonos, spinning tops, cabinet making - all sorts of stuff.
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Varmint, Mon 11 Sep 2017, 22:17,
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A good choice sir, but sadly not in that channel.
Could I direct you to the second illustration in this excellent piece on Japanese erotic art?
www.thewhoresofyore.com/shunga-art.html
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Varmint, Mon 11 Sep 2017, 22:55,
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Bravo TACFC
You even managed to gutter ancient Japanese craftwork
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Mon 11 Sep 2017, 22:56,
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Holy fuck
And you can join him in the gutter, Varmint
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The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Mon 11 Sep 2017, 22:57,
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Hey, don't get all high and mighty about it.
An octopus is as entitled to bit of sexeh time just as much as the next cephalopod.
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Varmint, Mon 11 Sep 2017, 23:18,
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Both the octo and the painter are craftsmen
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 12 Sep 2017, 8:05,
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Lovely stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoOyr11tUnw
Jeezer balances a spinning top on the edge of a samurai sword at the end of this one.
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I saw that one too. Balancing them was interesting to see.
I got a rough idea of how he marked the spindle to find the off-balance, but couldn't work out how he then fine tuned it.
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Varmint, Mon 11 Sep 2017, 23:36,
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That was one part of it
but he was making marks on the spinning shaft to note roughly the imbalance, but then somehow he was tuning it more finely. I suppose it boils down to skill and experience.
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Varmint, Tue 12 Sep 2017, 9:44,
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Well that's a bit lovely isn't it!
Highly recommend finding vids on Japanese woodwork joints.
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It's kind of the opposite of China
Arts and crafts in China are more about how cheap and crappy you can make it. If it nearly falls apart under its own weight, you got it just right.
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jagwap, Tue 12 Sep 2017, 8:34,
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Not dissimilar to Colin Chapman's approach to car building then.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 12 Sep 2017, 9:43,
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Well, his double chassis concept would have made racing much safer...
...but, yeah, drivers were expandable in those days so it was banned.
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'Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere'
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They all seem to be men...
..and predominantly working out of sheds. Traditional Japanese craft skills being kept alive by men avoiding their wives.
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transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 12 Sep 2017, 10:28,
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