...being this is a Wooden Sniper Rifle, the most powerful handmade gun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Is that foot odor I smell?

The thing that gets me is that the mechanisms are beautiful... but most of the time you don't get to see it.

Ultimately, I fail to believe that a handmade watch is so much better than a machine made watch. 20 years ago, maybe, but we live in an age of 3d printing and CNC machines that can produce exponentially more accurate results than a human ever could.

Don't get me wrong, there's incredible talent and skill gone into making this, but the "handmade" thing is just an excuse to charge more.

That's a very interesting video. He's making lovely, handmade electronics, something you just don't see at all any more.

It's at times an almost painfully inefficient process. Robots are taking a lot of jobs from people, but I think there will always be a market for such hand made, hand crafted goods. Each one is different. They're a little wonky, a little taller, shorter, whatever. A machine would make them much better in every objective way. Faster, more consistent and more reliable. But it could never give them the charm they so obviously have.

Handmade by One of the Original Nablus Families from a 10th Century Recipe
Only 3 Ingredents: Olive Oil, Water, & Mineral Salts
Made on the West Bank in Nablus
Made with Olive Oil from the Holy Land

Available on Amazon

Here's the artist's website :
https://peterdahmen.de/

It seems like he has an interesting process, starting with handmade designs then moving on to vector graphics and a router. Also you can download some of the designs with instructions.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-best-handmade-ornament-ever-celebrates-the-best-chr-1790274271
Yes, it is.

You may not have words, but the youtube link has PLU-ENTY:

www.snuffpuppets.com

Everybody’s born

Everybody cries

Everybody shits

Everybody dies

Conceived in 2012, Everybody is a giant 26.5m human puppet with articulated, detachable and interactive body parts and organs. Ambitious in scope and subject, it is the largest human puppet on the planet and represents the essential humanness of everybody.

Everybody‘s build is experimental; it’s kind of unimaginable, so big and complex but without high-tech design. Its creation is brute, rough, handmade. Everybody is all genders and multi-racial.

Everybody lies down indoors in theatres, outdoors in parks and in open public spaces. In repose, Everybody sleeps, breaths and stirs. Everybody is not just one puppet but a multitude of independent, roaming human body parts and organs; they are characters in their own epic tale of human existence.

Everybody is an immersive experience. Audiences can walk around, sit on, lie against, get inside, and cuddle up to Everybody and all its beautiful body parts. The giant human puppet is viewed in 360 degrees. Everybody, the experience, is a six-hour interactive art installation, or a 90-minute stage show.

The piece begins with the death of the giant human puppet via a brick thrown at Everybody’s head. The head cracks and its brain oozes out. Everybody watches its life flash before its eyes, from birth through life and ultimately death. Everybody’s now independent body parts and organs perform the journey of its life stages. Everybody is in 4 Acts: Everybody’s Born, Everybody Cries, Everybody Shits, Everybody Dies.

Human performers play audience members or passers-by who find themselves transported into, then flung out of, the brain of Everybody. Everybody is made up of: Mouth, Eye, Poo, Foot, Ear, Nose, Brain, Lungs, Baby, Penis, Vagina, Bum, Skin, Heart, Hand, Guts, Breast and Hair. And with guests, Pig and Brick.

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A lot of times I watch these videos of people building handmade exotic cars, and it seems like a very pleasant job, but for some reason this just looks awful. Rather than one person, say, bolting the engine together piece by piece, this is just an assembly line with people doing the work instead of robots. Very little of what they show would even remotely qualify as skilled labor.

That's pretty wicked cool.

I had no idea it was made out of plain old cooked rice. Really neat.

I also like the handmade method where 3 guys hammer it round robin where each hammer just narrowly misses the previous one.

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*skillful. Would love to taste fresh handmade noodles like that..