Re:How to build a house alone [video]
by gkya on Friday April 20, 2018 @05:14AM
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Primitive Technology is an awesome channel, one of the marvels of youtube. To anybody who decides to follow his videos: please do not skip reading the description of the videos. He's not just making some primitive-looking stuff with crap he finds about, he actually often tries to replicate what actual primitive peoples did, and explains the historical period and some other details. There are those other channels that copied the concept, but they are just bad copies, half naked men doing silly things for the views.
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And don't forget to turn on captions, as his commentary is there.
I've learned about this a while ago (also via a comment), but, I've never turned it on; I like just watching it silently and going "Aaaah he's making an <x>!".
I usually watch the video twice, first with no captions and second with them on. I also like trying to figure out what he's doing in each part, but he uses the captions to explain a lot of interesting things that I didn't catch/understand.
Oh crap I didn't know that now I have to watch them all again! Thanks!
This reminds me a little of the surprise it was when I found that xkcd has mouseover comments that can be ridiculously funny.
Re:How to build a house alone [video]
by Bromskloss on Friday April 20, 2018 @06:53AM
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It seems like some YouTube videos have captions on by default. Maybe he should turn that on.
Curiously I don't see any captions since some time, even though I haven't touched any settings anywhere.
And it's only "primitive" in some sense, his threaded leave baskets have some beautiful symmetry in the threading process. There's nothing crass about how it's done, on the contrary.
Re:How to build a house alone [video]
by saalweachter on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:14PM
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There was an interesting article on here last week about trying to replicate primitive carpentry for archaeological purposes. An illustrative example of the why was that in their first attempt they broke all their stone axeheads in the first hour; after they got some practice they were able to estimate the acreage they could clear with their techniques. Reconstructions both tell you what you got wrong and provide new information about the capabilities of our ancestors, as well as providing context on the archaeological remains.