So many good ones! I love - why do we have to build special boxes/brackets to hold all our tools.
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So many good ones! I love - why do we have to build special boxes/brackets to hold all our tools.
Eshmiel
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Is it a Crocs advert in disguise?
Vids like these always seem a little desperate to me. If "content generation" is now a major means of making a living for many, I suppose they have to try anything/everything, including ironic vids about the fashions and fads - a sort of new fashion & fad (ironic commentary) on existing fashions & fads.
Having sculled about YouBoob rather too much in the past year, looking for good info on green woodworking and relief carving, I've got a bit vid-shocked, twitching and ducking whenever yet another lookatme "personality" comes a twittering, gurning and arm-waving out of the screen whilst babbling rapidly about nothing in particular or saying the same silly thing 50 times - with 34 embedded adverts for gizmo.
When the vid-shock gets me like this I turn to a Chris Pye or David Charlesworth vid, in which there's a calm, ordered, intelligent and meaningful dialogue and demo of how to do something, without any histrionics and leaden "humour" at all. Mr Charlesworth may have a glacial pace of delivery but ....... Aahhhhhhh - that's nice.
Vids like these always seem a little desperate to me. If "content generation" is now a major means of making a living for many, I suppose they have to try anything/everything, including ironic vids about the fashions and fads - a sort of new fashion & fad (ironic commentary) on existing fashions & fads.
Having sculled about YouBoob rather too much in the past year, looking for good info on green woodworking and relief carving, I've got a bit vid-shocked, twitching and ducking whenever yet another lookatme "personality" comes a twittering, gurning and arm-waving out of the screen whilst babbling rapidly about nothing in particular or saying the same silly thing 50 times - with 34 embedded adverts for gizmo.
When the vid-shock gets me like this I turn to a Chris Pye or David Charlesworth vid, in which there's a calm, ordered, intelligent and meaningful dialogue and demo of how to do something, without any histrionics and leaden "humour" at all. Mr Charlesworth may have a glacial pace of delivery but ....... Aahhhhhhh - that's nice.
I have some sympathy for that reaction. There are too many videos by people who seem to know more about making videos than woodworking. There are definitely not enough video of craftsman demonstrating lessons learnt from years of producing fine furniture. It is getting harder to find stuff like the few videos there are of Jim Kingshott.
But the other side of that is .... it's good to have someone ask "how many wood colours can people get into a chopping board".
But the other side of that is .... it's good to have someone ask "how many wood colours can people get into a chopping board".
Eshmiel
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There are a lot of colour-questions about modern woodwork. It amazes me how US woodworkers in particular have been convinced that they need 13 different gels, goos, liquids, stains and so forth to clag on their wood for it to be "finished". Why do so many feel that natural wood colours are somehow inadequate? How is a thing made to look like a cartoon of itself a desirable object?
The stripey chopping boards also seem to be about making a decoration rather than something that functions to chop, slice or otherwise cut on.
But perhaps its just the human yen for image over substance? We do like "pretty" things, even if the notions of "pretty" are wide, various and full of contentions. Many live in a wholly unnatural environment and presumably lose their potential to appreciate places like forests or other spots lacking colour-glares, super-smooth surfaces and geometric perfections.
