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Firstly, thanks for including the Chet Atkins clip. That's a great piece that I hadn't seen before. You are correct in understanding my comment to be specifically about the tapping technique that Hedges, and others began to use. Certainly (and thankfully) fingerstyle has been around for much longer. I'd say that the invention of electric guitars (more specifically, pickups and microphones) made this particular "Hedge" style possible. The clarity with which we can hear the hammer-ons and body taps just would not be possible without those technologies. I believe that Hedges primarily used a Martin guitar that was rigged with unique arrangements of microphones (in the body of the guitar) and pickups under the saddle). He also played a harp guitar, which was just wild in and of itself.

For those interested, I once bought a book of Hedges' transcriptions/tablature called Michael Hedges; Rhythm, Sonority, Silence which was fascinating, and near impossible for me to play. I marveled at some of the symbols he needed to create to represent the techniques he innovated. One unique thing, I recall, is that in the notated tablature, he would follow the indicated note (number) to be played with a long red line that was to signify how long the note should sound before you should stop that strings sound by touching it with a free finger. Said another way, not only did he notate when to pluck a string to make it sound, he also indicated exactly when to dampen that string to stop its sound. The analogy used was that you would not want to treat a guitar like a piano that had its sustain pedal pushed down all the time....letting the notes just ring out continuously. I had never thought about that, in regards to guitar. Made it a lot more complicated to play, but a lot cleaner sound emerging from the instrument as well.

Hope that above paragraph made sense!

Wikipedia, the source of truth. hahaha
Splatter paint, a urinal, ancient cave painting, and the art of a tumbler selfie.
The art of war. Make art not war.
Go read A Picture of Dorian Grey and learn about art. It is considered to be one of the greatest books about art, written by one of the great art definers.
''All art is quite useless'' -O. Wilde
Your beloved wiki saves the day.
You can then move on to the Duchamp biography here
Then you can look into Roy Neuberger and his revolutionizing of the business of modern art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Neuberger
Most people who act like they know about 20th century art have never heard of him.
Another 20th century milestone revolves around Jean Dubuffet and his advocacy of ''art-brut'' or primitive art, especially the art of obsessives and the mentally ill.
He built a whole museum, and revolutionized the attention that outsider art gathers today.
Does the Museum of Modern Art in NYC understand what I'm talking about?
Art Brut- Term used from the mid-1940s to designate a type of art outside the fine art tradition. The commonest English-language equivalent for art brut is ‘Outsider art’. In North America, the same phenomenon tends to attract the label ‘Grass-roots art’. The French term was coined by Jean Dubuffet, who posited an inventive, non-conformist art that should be perfectly brut, unprocessed and spontaneous, and emphatically distinct from what he saw as the derivative stereotypes of official culture. In July 1945 Dubuffet initiated his searches for art brut, attracted particularly by the drawings of mental patients that he saw in Switzerland. In 1948 the non-profit-making Compagnie de l’Art Brut was founded, among whose partners were André Breton and the art critic Michel Tapié. The Collection de l’Art Brut was supported for a while by the company but was essentially a personal hobby horse of Dubuffet and remained for three decades an almost entirely private concern, inviting public attention only at exhibitions in 1949 -Paris, Gal. René Drouin- and 1967 -Paris, Mus. A. Déc.-. In 1971 Dubuffet bequeathed the whole collection to the City of Lausanne, where it was put on permanent display to the public at the Château de Beaulieu. At the time of opening , the collection comprised 5000 works by c. 200 artists, but it grew thereafter.
Art is impossiblke to define, just like virtue. Which art works have virtue?
There is no consensus, beyond elitism and ignorance.

When I was doing it I had a big studio at my college. We had a big wide but shallow bath of water with a small amount of sizing dissolved into it, and could repeatedly ‘rinse’ it in there to add more sizing.

I always printed with wetted paper because I like the deep impressions it would leave. Might not work well with the banana leaf style brayer. But it’s so nice using a heavy paper IMO.

I have this book and it’s amazing- goes over papermaking techniques and properties and has samples of paper inside! Highly recommended. The Book of Fine Paper https://www.amazon.com/dp/0500018715/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_P87UBbMY2YATY

The closest I could find on a cursory google search with the parameters of 'whagon wheel' and 'reading rainbow' show that there was an episode (season 2, episode 3) called Ox-Cart Man, in which:
> Levar visits Old Sturbridge Village in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The synopsis of the episode seems to deal more with day-to-day life in the colonial era / 1800's than to wagon/buggy wheels specifically, but there is a brief period where Levar works with a blacksmith.


TV.com jumps from season 1 to season 4. Amazon has many episodes from various seasons available through Amazon Prime, but season 2, episode 3 is not among them.

Needless to say, I tried, /u/Kaneshadow . I hate getting the fleeting itch of a half-remembered thought in my head, as well.


Now, if we're stuck solely on PBS, and not Reading Rainbow, I can almost guarantee you that during the period the initial Reading Rainbow (I love the fact that it's back, and I can say 'initial') aired, 1983-2006, there was a show called The Woodwright's Shop created by Roy Underhill that displayed wagon wheel construction. In episode 88 (season 5, episode 510 (5(10))), the description reads:

>We head back to Colonial Williamsburg where Roy visits with master wheelwright Dan Stebbins to discover the mysteries and realities of making wheels for early American wagons and carts.

This episode aired in 1985. The Woodwright's Shop still airs, and has a Webpage for season-by-season viewing, but sadly the earliest season available is 2006-2007. I can find no other FREE available means to watch the 1985 episodes. Amazon has the 'classic episodes' 1985 dvd available available on DVD, although you may be able to find it via DVD on shop.pbs.org if your ability to search is more refined than mine was.


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10 minutes later, and a google search for 'Dan Stebbins wheelwright'

HAH! Just kidding; I totally found a good chunk of the 510 episode located HERE on a popularwoodworking website. Does this jog your memory?

One of my favorite textbooks from my engineering degree is Fundamentals of Machine Component Design. I think the stuff in it would be super relevant to the kind of work you do as well, especially chapter 2 (Load Analysis). That's the kind of stuff that would allow you to calculate what size of steel box tubing you needed to make the fertilizer buggy's front fork, or what size cross section you would want for the front frame to minimize bending while in use (while conserving materials and weight).

I'm sure you could find a PDF of the book online (yarr harr) if you were interested. I'm not sure how hard it would be to jump into on your own, but you seem to already have a good intuitive sense of how materials and machine elements behave.

Once you get to the point of being able to whip out a quick +-20% engineering calculation for things you'll find yourself using it everywhere; it saves you from overbuilding all the time and lets you focus on the areas that will see the highest stresses. It's also awesome because you'll never have to guess what size bearings or chain and sprockets to buy for a given project, you can whip out a pen and paper and figure it out in two minutes.

This style of canoe was the origin of the more durable wood and canvas canoe. In his [book] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Wood-Canvas-Canoe-Construction/dp/0884480461) Rollin Thurlow details the construction and history of the wood and canvas version and relates it to these old bark canoes.

I know this is only semi-relevant, but I really like wood and canvas canoes, and if anyone is interested in making their own canoe, I highly recommend this book

This video has some great info: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/comments/4kn880/david_bull_remembering_a_carver_ito_susumu_2835/

And there's also a documentary about him: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Game-Ukiyo-David-Bull/dp/B078PKZ413/ref=tmm_aiv_swatch_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

He also has a series on his channel called "Beginnings" that talks a lot about his getting started. He is such a wonderful calm person.

Tempering Chocolate is a pain in the patoot! My boyfriend and I have a really great book on it that describes the process super well. I recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Chocolates-Confections-Formula-Technique-Confectioner/dp/0764588443/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348948782&sr=8-1&keywords=chocolates+confections

His last couple of PBS series are available as whole episodes for streaming online. Highly recommended.

http://www.kqed.org/w/morefastfoodmyway/episodes.html

http://blogs.kqed.org/essentialpepin/category/episodes

His autobiography is also completely fascinating:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Apprentice-My-Life-Kitchen/dp/0618444114/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1343838606&sr=8-4&keywords=jacques+pepin

His name is Dan Reeder. He has several books available on making "Screamers" - 1, 2, 3, and a couple more. His website can be found here. He's even a redditor and has popped up in a few threads. I posted something about how much of an impact his books had on me growing up and he replied to my post. Nice guy.

It is very dry and info-dense, but I highly recommend reading We The Navigators.

It details a wide range of navigation and landfall techniques used by pre-western contact Pacific Islanders.

For anyone interested in trying: The bowyer's bibles are a great reference. I've read all four and they made my bows go from shitty to meh.

Here's another one. Not about food, but another tip-to-tip exploration of Japan. If I ever plan a trip I'm going to re-read this and mark up a map.

The book is also on Amazon

Even if it's a joke he took it very far and he's making money out of it.

It's not very useful, as it's too heavy to use in a model aircraft.

A small and lightweight gas turbine could be built using the tools and ability this guy has, the full plans and instructions are in this book

You can start with this: http://www.amazon.com/Watchmaking-George-Daniels/dp/0856677043

He has a cookbook: Essential Pepin that I got my boyfriend last Christmas. The recipes are mostly straightforward and I've eaten gourmet French food every eek for nearly a year now.

Warning: I may sound like a crazy person trying to sell something but
YOU DON'T NEED DISK SURGERY, BUY THIS BOOK IT, IT LITERALLY CHANGED MY DAD'S LIFE. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446675156/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p14_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0339YWWDVJP9RJSDN98W&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1389517282&pf_rd_i=507846

there is a section in this book that discusses some of them. You can find it in the front, it goes through many different pigment types and whether or not they are in production anymore and if not, why and what replaced it. It's not all the pigments of course. Most go out of production because that mineral can't be found anymore, that insect or plant has died out, the practices to make it are unethical or too costly, or it aged poorly.

The book is about a lot more than that. If you are looking to grow as a painter and want to understand it's nature, it's a good book to pick up.