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If you're new to Primitive Technology then it's worth starting from the oldest videos and working forward. These aren't just random tasks he sets himself. He st
by mike_hearn 4y ago
If you're new to Primitive Technology then it's worth starting from the oldest videos and working forward. These aren't just random tasks he sets himself. He starts by going into the Australian jungle with absolutely nothing except cargo shorts (not even shoes) and then proceeds to build himself a series of shacks and houses, starting with nothing more than a sharp stone and various plants. Then he starts building kilns and firing clay he digs out of the river bank (with a stick) making pots, bricks and roof tiles. Then he starts making charcoal and building a forge, so he can turn the iron bacteria in the creek into actual forged iron objects. He's been at it for years initially as a hobby and now he earns enough to make it his "job". He doesn't attempt to recreate the paths taken by ancient people - he's willing to use modern scientific knowledge - but he does appear to live by his rule of not taking anything with him and just using only the natural resources around him.
- jiggawatts 4y agoHis videos are also blessedly free of unnecessary music and shouted all-caps voice overs like many similar productions, whether on TV or YouTube. They’re very relaxing to watch after a long frustrating day at work.
- albatrosstrophy 4y agoWell these days they call it ASMR. But you're right he's one of the first to strip away all unnecessary sounds. Makes for a very therapeutic video.
- nmz 4y agoNo audio effects != ASMR.
- constGard 4y agoTrue, though his videos often fit the criteria of including "tactile" or "natural" sounds and he seems careful not to add anything that would get in the way.
- kragen 4y agoi would be really surprised to hear that anyone had experienced the asmr from watching the videos on this channel
- i2ksbu2b 4y agoI wouldn't. One of the main asmr triggers is watching someone focus and work on something.
- nmz 4y agoIt doesn't fit the criteria, because being outside is not ASMR either.
- mda 4y agoWell, depends on the person I guess. Personally I can not stand all those Asmr videos, (restoration, bladesmithing stuff)
- mike_d 4y agoAlso be sure to stick to Primitive Technology and not any of the knock off channels produced in South East Asia and India where they do lots of work off camera with heavy machinery and modern tools.
- beardog 4y agoIt is also very helpful to enable captions. He does not speak in his videos but he adds detailed captioning to describe what he is doing.
- Baeocystin 4y agoI probably went six months in watching his videos before I realized that. It was a treat to re-watch with a deeper perspective!
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- inglor_cz 4y agoI am a huge fan of Primitive Technology. This guy would not surprise me if he built a PC XT out of mud, slime and wood one day.
- kbenson 4y agoIt would be kind of cool is for April fools day he found "redstone" and each successive year on that day he built on that to eventually make a CPU. It would take some clever (practical) special effects to do well though.
- philo23 4y agoAlso if you turn on subtitles you'll get a bit more information on what he's actually doing and why.
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- holoduke 4y agoA couple of years ago i tried to get some clay from a nearby creek, but i found it extremely difficult to replicate his way of making things from clay. Apparently the region he is doing his stuff got some perfect clay everywhere.
- jrumbut 4y agoI had that experience over and over as a kid reading about early human development, going out and trying to find my area's equivalent of some material and ending up with nothing but a mess.
- epicureanideal 4y agoIn Art History class they mentioned off hand that the people who knew where to find random rare stuff were very valued in early societies. No citation was given though. I imagine in a pre tech world people would develop a sharp eye for “that looks unusual, let’s take some of that and mess with it and see if it’s useful somehow”.
- MagicMoonlight 4y agoWell that and they were literally just the same as we are now. Imagine if you had 80 years to live and nothing but rocks to play with. You'd get pretty good with rocks and you would be pretty desperate to find something new and interesting to play with.
- hutzlibu 4y agoBut like you see in the videos, in nature there are a whole lot of other things to play with than rocks and combine it. Wood, soil, bacteria, fire ...
- kragen 4y agomost soils contain some clay; if the problem is that all your clay is impure, you can mix it into a slurry and 'decant' it (let it settle, then pour off the water) and let it mostly dry the clay is far finer than the sand and silt, so it will settle most slowly, and the topmost layer will be mostly clay some soils deflocculate the clay, so you may need to add a flocculant to get it to decant properly if your clay is very expansive you may need to add a lot of temper to keep your work from cracking while drying; the good news is that very expansive clays like bentonite are also highly plastic and so can tolerate a higher temper fraction. you probably want the shrinkage on drying (from the fully plastic state to the bone-dry state, though leather-hard is usually a good enough approximation) to be about ⅛. if you have a lot of kaolin you may be able to go lower than that but if it's much more than that you're going to have a really hard time with cracks during the final stage of drying (from leather hard to bone dry) making things from clay requires a lot of knowledge but fortunately the humans have been doing it for twelve thousand years and so have accumulated that knowledge already
- 29athrowaway 4y agoThere are many copycat channels now.
- deaddodo 4y ago> He doesn't attempt to recreate the paths taken by ancient people - he's willing to use modern scientific knowledge I would argue that he definitely does. Most of his developmental lineage follows a similar path the the most commonly understood ancient societies. He augments that with modern knowledge, certainly, but is doing most things in a manner “of the time”. He uses tools/technologies from previous videos to build upon the next versus bringing in outside/modern assistance, usually (there have been cases where it’s not completely feasible).
- Fatnino 4y agoHe obviously brings a camera too. I'm going to go out on a limb here with no real evidence to back me up and say that he probably has his shoes and clothes nearby as well as batteries / solar panels for his camera equipment, including tripod. Probably some modern survival gear (tent?) and food as well. All this is kept off camera and the actual work of going from scratching sticks on the ground to eventualy working iron seems to be 100% genuine.