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Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 20:33:48 No.865527 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>865532 >>865550 >>865821 >>866038

Have any of you guys tried replicating some of his work? I'm itching to do it myself, but I have yet to get access to a piece of land that I can elope on.

>tfw watching his videos to fall asleep

Why is quiet manlet James Franco so mesmerising?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 20:44:19 No.865532 Report

Quoted By: >>865544 >>866001

>>865527
I've been doing metal working and pottery for a few years now, so I've build a lot of kilns and furnaces from clay and stones.

>Why is quiet manlet James Franco so mesmerising?

Good, to-the-point editing. No frills, no talking, everything is very straight forward. That's very rare in every form of media especially youtube. the only thing slightly comparable is a movie called The Bear (1988).

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 21:02:55 No.865544 Report

Quoted By: >>865561

>>865532
guess that explains why hes got over a million views per videio

people just want to see stuff get done

also over on other sites his videos have well over 10 million views

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 21:12:54 No.865550 Report

Quoted By: >>865821

>>865527
Working with your hands has become a lost art. It's mesmerizing the same way space travel was to the boomers, it's just something you don't see everyday.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 21:41:56 No.865561 Report

Quoted By: >>865564

>>865544
I like his vids but they're too short. I watch hours of this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 21:50:03 No.865564 Report

Quoted By: >>865910

>>865561
I agree. Maybe not the grass huts but I feel like I could watch a 2 hour project with no time editing and enjoy it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 28 Sep 2016 22:40:48 No.865588 Report

Quoted By: >>866490

I've spent the last week or so trying to figure out how to optimize his forge design so that he can get more iron done.

So far all I've got is

>refractory material
>some kind of regenerative heating

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 06:28:31 No.865818 Report

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I really want to build a tiled hut like his in some remote location. One only I know that I can escape to and get comfy in.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 06:38:34 No.865821 Report

Quoted By: >>865839 >>866354 >>866392

>>865527
>>865550
if you like watching people silently build things with their hands, you might want to watch this 3-part series the BBC put together called Handmade. There's no narration or dialogue, just half-an-hour of people who make these things as a living doing one for the camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxHihLslS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6lXoPcCGY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ice3crrwtqo

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 07:36:46 No.865839 Report

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>>865821
It's more of a fascination with building stuff from rocks, twigs, and mud. The presentation is the cherry on top.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 11:47:22 No.865889 Report

Quoted By: >>865898

His huts look like the slightest wind would blow them apart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 12:14:31 No.865898 Report

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>>865889
>wood skeleton with stakes half a meter into the ground
>thatch frame
>mud and stone reinforced walls

lol

Even his grass hut lasted for a year.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 12:47:43 No.865910 Report

Quoted By: >>865919

>>865564
i'm pretty sure that's not true for 90% of his projects, not only the grass huts

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 13:11:16 No.865919 Report

Quoted By: >>865964

>>865910
I could have that weaving video running unedited in the background no problem, especially with the sounds of nature.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 15:25:15 No.865964 Report

Quoted By: >>866145

>>865919
that doesn't appeal to a lot of people, but i sympathize. netflix has this thing called slowtv, it's worth checking out if you haven't already

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 17:29:50 No.866001 Report

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>>865532
The Bear was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theater and I'm still emotionally distraught by it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 18:41:07 No.866038 Report

Quoted By: >>866042 >>866059

>>865527

The only nitpick I have with his videos, is that the soil in his environment has alot of clay.

Most of the things he builds, would never work here in Alpine Europe.

Furthermore, here survival includes creating clothing and especially surviving the elements.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 18:43:27 No.866042 Report

Quoted By: >>866440

>>866038
I've been presuming that in Europe, you build log cabins, because insulation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 19:08:48 No.866059 Report

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>>866038
That's not a nitpick, it is an observation. Things that work in one location, don't work in another location that is different is pretty obvious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 29 Sep 2016 21:16:06 No.866145 Report

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>>865964
>slowtv
Will check out. Thanks!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 02:06:47 No.866354 Report

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>>865821
Well I just watched all those too. Any more recommendations like similar to those would be great!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 03:13:14 No.866392 Report

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>>865821
There used to be a series like this on a network that was called uen. I don't recall the name, but it had an episode where a bowl was hand turned on a lathe similar to that old man's foot lathe, gliders made out of balsa wood, rice paper and rubber bands and then another where a man made a coracle. I was wondering if you'd ever heard of those.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 04:08:41 No.866440 Report

Quoted By: >>866724

>>866042
Not just that but it's a lot easier to build with wood than stone. Most men and even a lot of women could build a house with minimal skill. Building a house or shelter from stone requires a lot more skill and resources.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 05:41:30 No.866490 Report

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>>865588
Honestly, all he needs to do is make it taller, and keep charging it for hours.

He could feed it straight ore powder, or make little briquettes, think grape sized. The whole point of bloomery smelting is to get the right amount of surface area between the air, charcoal, and ore, the clay lump he used isn't a bad idea, but it blocks a lot of interaction which prevents the chemical reaction necessary to make iron take place.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Sep 2016 18:46:21 No.866724 Report

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>>866440
If it's stone in mud brick, that's not that demanding.

Stone and mortar or just pure stone requires a proper tradesman.

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