Design by hand and eye
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2015
- A stop motion animation about how artisans carried out design from antiquity to the dawn of the industrial age (when, in a nutshell, arithmetic trumped the simple geometric relationships of natural (i.e. rational (able to ratio) numbers). The hardcover book I wrote with George Walker, "By Hand and Eye", tells the story and teaches the methodologies and is available through lostartpress.com/. I also teach a class on this subject at the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. Go to www.ptwoodschool.org for more information. You can learn more about the animator, Andrea Love at www.andreaanimates.com/ And finally, you can watch an interview with me about this subject at • The Highland Woodworke... .
Jim,
This is the best marketing in woodworking I've seen in a long time. Just awesome.
Thanks for suggesting this!
This video just made my day. As a musician this really spoke to me, love the music references.
Happy to have stumbled upon your channel, nice work!
It's incredible to think of these relationships in terms of harmonic/musical relationships, you just blew my mind.
Jim, thanks for sharing your world in the unusual way you have. I would love to see more videos, It seems you have a lot to teach the younger generation (including myself at 41). I think most of us have forgotten much of the old ways.
Thanks for explaining the ratio system for design!
This is mind-blowing.
Great fun video with a good explanation of designing to fit the person. I see this all the time in the old (1928) farm house
Absolutely lovely.
Thoroughly enjoyed the book. The video is a perfect compliment to it.
Thanks.
St.John
Wish he was still producing videos! What great lessons.
I found this on your website after seeing you on offcenterharbor. It is the best thing I have seen in a long time, very clever. Well done to the animator and yourself.
As a teacher I give this very high marks. I was absorbed from the first. The animation both illustrated and entertained while keeping the main points right on the surface in a very clear way. I hope you do more of these. I would definitely watch them. Loved it.
Tom Possin Thanks Tom. We appreciate your feedback and like you, we hope to do more of these in the future.
Sharing with my 13 year old son who is frustrated with math at the moment--"what do i need this for" syndrome! thanks! you should do more!!
***** We will/are doing more! A workbook is on the way. Math/geometry from a builder's/designer's point of view in a form that should be appealing to kids. Will be out this year from Lost Art Press.
This is fantastic, I hope to explore stop motion even further( I'm a beginner) o feel very motivated by seeing this, thanks!
Love it, great way of explaining proportion.
Great video, I will check out your book.
Great video. I plan to share with my daughter.
Came in from the Lost Art Press blog. Loved the video. Nice work :)
Great explanation - I didnt know any of that. Thanks.
This is super. My only quibble is that William Blake was post-Renaissance BUT BUT BUT he is the PERFECT example to use because of his extensive traditional craft training in engraving for illustration, a very similar training to that of the Renaissance greats. My hat is off! Please come east to Highland Hardware and teach us.
I wondered if someone would catch that! Blake's painting was just so dramatic we couldn't resist!
This vidio is just great.but the book "BY HAND AND EYE" is invaluable.highly recomend it to everyone!
absolutely tektonic
That's an interesting video Jim; it's focus, like your Toolbox box book (one of my favorite), is Western centric.You may consider looking at the origin of algebra if only to credit it's importance, this would give your books and woodworking more dynamic range.
The Nomadic Polywright Show Appreciate your comments and you are right: Algebra was crucial to the development of science and industry in the western and near eastern world for sure...but it wasn't used as far as we can tell, by western artisans pre-industrially (i.e. 1600's and earlier). I'm more interested in discovering what they did use. Which it turns out was simple Euclidean geometry based on whole numbers--the same system nature uses to build everything from atoms to molecules to leaves on trees to people, which is the reason natural numbers are also called real numbers and rational (able to ratio) numbers. For the ancient artisans with a stick and a compass, it isn't useful, not to mention possible, that an element divided into three parts results in a non-real .333333333333333 to infinity. What he does come up with is three ones, accurate to however sharp he made the point of his dividers.
Jim, if I can only buy either By Hand to Eye or Hound to Eye at this time, which would you recommend as a first purchase in order to design and build a stool, a workbench, or other furniture?
By hand and eye gives the big picture of pre- industrial design process. I suggest reading before hound
Just purchased the pdf version.
"They certainly didnt have good measuring tools", this is untrue, they had tons of measuring tools, rulers, stringlines , dividers, sticks etc.
People still build furniture to fit their bodies, they did then and still do, good woodworkers use the function of where its going into the design of the object, whether using a tape measure or their kids height.
"Just as they believed God made order out of the chaos of the cosmos" ,
What chaos? Chaos with the the tree you felled or lumber that is stacked up?
SO, comparing chaos of cosmos to chaos or measurement and design?
What" ancients " are you referring to"? Egyptians? Mesopotamians? Romans, africans? Aboriginies? Hawaians? Europeans? native americans?
"So like the ancient artisans, we are not only creating order out of chaos, we are also playing with the music of the spheres"
Again, what is the chaos you are referring to? so, you are connecting the geometry of woodworking ( physical measurment) to the beat kept in music? Remember, western music is the only music that keeps the beat your describing, albiet a loose example, there are so many other cultures out there that do not keep this beat.
Seems like a lot of repetition and exaggeration and sweeping conclusions to convey your desired belief. IMHO, the answer is, there is no answer.
+Benhur Benhur I would be willing to bet that while you may not always be right, you're NEVER wrong. There's usually one in every crowd......