Saturday, April 17, 2010

Financial Accounting Solutions Chapter 4

Japanisch inspirierte Handwerksarbeiten

has just sent me the organizer of the Kesurokai, Hannes Fast , a few photos that I should install it on the German website . They are so beautiful that I would like to publish here.

Hannes has taught both in Japan, Shoji to produce the traditional Japanese sliding doors, as well as timber frame constructions. His current work shows influences of both cultures, how wonderful to see this camp is firewood, which is affectionately called by its owners' Temple of the tribes ".

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Here are some more traditional Shoji used as closet doors:

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

How To Clean Fuzzy Mocasins

Fertiges Modell vom Pavillon

Completed pavilion model

So, now is the scale model finished and it looks very nice. It serves as a plan when building the carpenters in the Japan Pavilion in original size. I have a number of very nice details have noticed:

stone foundations: The model is on small stones, and I suspect it will be later constructed, as this is the same design as in our small barn . Much of the framework construction will remain dry through the roof and wall panels, but the lower ends are prone to rotting when, on the damp earth stand. Therefore, they are traditionally placed on small stone foundations, with a lead sheet between the stone and the wood is laid. Below left you can see the foundations of our barn. The stones come from the river just below Robin's workshop and the lead was donated by our neighbor, the pastor, who still had something left over from repair work on the church roof

Pavilion stone piers

oak pegs: The The model of wooden stakes (wooden pegs) held together, because it is made later in the final building. Each compound is carefully prepared so that the drawn together by pegs, if you hit into the holes. The wood nails are made of very dry wood, so they do not shrink later. It needed some wood nails and I suspect this will not give a strenuous, but a lengthy work to produce them locally.

numbering of the compounds: Every link is marked with a series of symbols, one can also see on the screen where Hannah is working on our small barn. If you understand it, the icons show clearly belongs in the barn where each end of each bar ines. Such buildings are not built piece by piece, but first, all parts are individually tailored and every connection checked before the entire timber is then placed at one time. I think there are a number of different regional systems of marking in Europe, and the Japanese is different again, so it will be interesting to see which method they use to be!

Pavilion wooden pegs and joint labelling

more pictures of the model can be found in Photo Album .

Friday, April 9, 2010

Bluefilm Mysor Mallige

Werkzeug (und die Wunder von Skype)

The carpenters have created an extensive list tool that demonstrates what is needed for the construction of the European pavilion. The tools must be taken because many of them are typical for the European carpentry.

This morning Hannah and Robin discussed some time via Skype derüber what tools are needed, somehow, it is much easier to talk when you can see opposite, especially if you do not talk in their native language. Using the "Split Screen" function you can also look at common sites, where they discuss about axes:

Robin and Hannes discussing axes on Skype

The tool now needs to be organized under time pressure, since it shipped because of the large weight advance to Japan must be removed, the transport is going on early in May Hannes has negotiated a discounted rate with a forwarding and builds Now a big box (3m x 1m x 1m), where everything fits into it.

Since many of the tools are very expensive, they are also working to get discounts or sponsors it. After Kesurokai the tools to stay in Japan as a gift to the Japanese carpenters who will be our hosts.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

What Color Curtain Rod With Green Walls

削ろう会

I have searched the Internet for more information about the great Kesurokai meeting in Japan and now I made a breakthrough. First, the Japanese word 削ろう 会 and the most widely used translation is with "z" is written (American spelling) and also often separated so that kezuro-kai, or sometimes kezurou-kai ergibt.

Nun liefert Google allerlei interessante Sachen, zum Beispiel folgendes:

Fixing Toxic Cookware

Profil: Ulrik Hjort Lassen

Ulrik Lassen

Ulrik stammt aus Dänemark, lebt aber zur Zeit in Schweden, während er an seiner PhD über praktische Zimmerei arbeitet, wofür er Arbeitsmethoden zur fertigung von Fachwerk-Konstruktionen untersucht. Sein besonderes Interesse gilt den unterschiedlichen Methoden des “Afbinding, Opsnøring and Tilridsning,”, Dänischer Brgriffe, die (unzureichend) mit Tearing and Marking can be translated.

The Scandinavians take traditional craft much more seriously than here in the UK, and there are many good training programs. Ulrik began his training as a carpenter at the Dacapo Craft School in Sweden, which was originally a vocational school for carpenters, which deal with traditional building techniques, but later was incorporated into the University of Gothenburg . He has now earned a bachelor's degree and is now working on a five-year research project for his PhD .

While I admire the attitude of Scandinavians to the traditional crafts, it seems as if practically oriented PhDs are not yet established in this area, so he is always looking for ways, "a practical investigation into an academic world to carry out, without losing the performance of the craft out of sight. I own a practice-oriented PhD made and have guided later other people with similar projects, is perhaps something that can assist in me. I'm looking forward to spending in Japan some time with Ulrik and discuss these issues.

Lina Lo Gillefalk

a large of their time with Ulrik practical construction projects, both in their own yard as well as other projects that spread across Europe are, because in Sweden there are mainly log construction designs and a few half-timbered buildings. The Japanese Kesurokai offers the opportunity to expand his knowledge!

Ulrik will travel to Lina Lo Gille Falk, his fiancee, to Japan, which just makes their conclusion as a monument conservationist, and has specialized in cultural heritage buildings in the area ("bebyggelsesantikvarie") specialized. It will monitor the project and together they want to write about the importance of practical workshops on the preservation of practical skills and the intangible, cultural heritage of the construction work.

learn more Ulrik, even some videos can be found on this French Website of truss structures .

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

South Park Online With Eng Sub

Die ursprüngliche Japanische Kesurokai

The Kesurokai began meeting in san Japan in 1995, organized by the prestigious architect Temple Sugimura. His goal was to bring together artisans who work individually usually to allow an exchange of traditional craft techniques and knowledge.

These meetings serve not only the conservation old skills, but also to a sense of community among the artisans to donate and to help in the maintenance of their companies. Kesurokai The movement has about 1,500 members in Japan and holds meetings twice a year throughout the country.

A friend recently pointed me to this site , with some pictures from a Kesurokai Meeting 2006 - are here, you can see how big and well-attended the meeting.

'Planing together' - paper thin wood shavings.

The scale of the event.

Across the generations too!

On this website there are some really great videos, is shown in which, as various woodworking tools are made.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Dragon Age Origins Getting To The Wolf

Lernen auf Entfernung

Imaru san at his lathe and some of his bowls and plates

Two years ago Robin for the first time over email contact with a Japanese Drechsler, Tomio Imaru . Inspired by my videos on YouTube and Robins book "The Wooden Bowl ', he had a lathe built for shells, forged some tools and teach their use. The two remain in contact over the Internet; Imaru san has proven to be a good student and makes very nice bowls!

Now they will also meet in real life, because Robin is a visit from Imaru san on the Chisana organize Kesurokai construction site, while we are in August in Japan. You want to build a lathe, forge a few tools and lathe some bowls and plates, the barbecue in the European Pavilion may be used. It is certainly a great experience for both, because there's nothing like working together with trade colleagues in order to enhance the abilities.

Here is a video I did of Robin and other artisans, whom he cared for range, Mikhail Schütte - he is German, so we are looking at a little more often!


Sunday, April 4, 2010

Opisy Na Gg O Hardstyl

Traditionelle Handwerksausbildung

think As a big admirer trditioneller craftsmanship I always sad when workmen arrive at the end of their working lives without have given their abilities to dish as unique. The more I read, however, about the nature of trditionellen training, the better I understand why this happened and I do not wish to return to the old teaching methods.

Now I've read the book " Edo Craftsmen, master artisans of old Tokyo " and of the twelve featured artisans snows only two long-term ongoing operations performed well and passed their knowledge to have. Part of the problem is the growing availability of cheaper, mass produced alternatives to the things they produce. However, many craftsmen still make it to market their products by making small amounts of sell at higher prices to discerning clients. The problem is rather that always get fewer young people in the trades, the dream to serve this market.

The descriptions of the experiences of these craftsmen with traditional training reveal both the hardness of this system and the current disadvantages. The program begins at a very young age and performed during the first years of apprenticeship only menial tasks, as he watches the range of techniques only. The complexity of the tasks, then increases slowly, while the apprentice is getting older and more experienced. The emphasis is on learning rather than to observe lessons and to imitate rather than to get an explanation of how to do it.

with a good master and an apprentice motivated this system works well. In its observation of Japanese potter Shoji Hamada describes Susan Peterson, the relationship between deshi (apprentice) and masters as follows: ". Perfect to take this" "When Deshi means to learn to surrender to the master, leaving himself and in subjection "does not blind imitation, but is the spiritual discipline and the ability to include a skill in itself."

Be that as it may, it is a system which relies heavily on trust and non-verbal communication between master and apprentice, and not always will work well. While a very strict master shall ensure that the high level of craft skills passed on from one generation to the next, this is possibly derKreativität the expense and the ability of young people to recognize opportunities and erchließen new markets. As young people nowadays go to school also much longer, I think the traditional handicraft training is not an attractive option for them to be.

But the future is not entirely bleak, and I think there are craftsmen who adapt to new ways of teaching and multimedia has great potential to document and communicate complex skills. On my recent research project I have worked with the traditional Sheffield knifemakers and creates a online service that has already been successfully used by different learners. Through the wonders of the Internet to disseminate information quickly and whoever wants to learn something, just use those resources and make educated in the way that it is close to his best.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Free Sample Letters For Internet Disconnect

Barfuß-Holzbearbeitung

Barefoot hewing

people often talk about the preference of Japanese carpenters to work barefoot ... and ensure the safety of this procedure in question. Obviously, the made in Japan always so, and even photos from the Winter of Amemiya sans website shows the workers with flexible light shoes, so I guess that a good stand is on the trunk is very important.

What if the ax slips? Well, the axes are as sharp and heavy that you definitely would need a very solid steel cap to stop it (which would probably damage the valuable edge!). I assume that is the background art, the feet out of the way, in the event that the ax swings further than they should. Barefoot gives one the right incentive to be safe at this point.

As part of our carving courses we were often asked whether new students should wear a glove that protects against slips of the knife. We decided that it is a better approach to teach techniques that prevent slipping. With bare hands one has the best "grip" on the tools, and the student is focused on safety. We have very few injuries so far this seems to be paying off.

more barefoot craftsmen

Monday, March 29, 2010

Asin Molested On Train

Gemeinsam Hobeln

Planing together Kesurokai 2007

"Kesurokai" in Japanese means "Together planing" and the focus of the Japanese Kesurokai meeting are planing contests. In this case, connect the craftsmen are traded against each other for as long as possible to plane, smooth, paper-thin shavings from a block of wood. This is not only a test of skills with this tool, but also sharpening their skills.

Japanese planes and sharpening Kesurokai 2007

The Japanese craftsmen are very proud of your sharpening art and they invest many hours to keep the tools in perfect condition. This effort is not wasted, as the surface that a well-sharpened plane leaves need not be further processed. You therefore save the time people would spend the next room with the grinding of the surface.

Japanese water stones are famous for its good grinding performance and we use them to raise the many tools we use in our carving courses . Notice, however, are cheaper, synthetic stones, and we were amazed at the difference when Hannes gave us a stone, which he brought from Japan. The removal of this stone is truly remarkable.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Congratulations Birth Verses

Mehr als Fähigkeiten teilen...

Eating together Kesurokai 2007

An important aspect of Kesurokai is that the craftsmen spend their free time together, talking, sharing the accommodation and food together. Thus, a much deeper insight into the possible respective different culture than would be possible to work with.

food (and drink!) Is very important given the heavy manual labor to perform these craftsmen. While Hannah and Mikhail have built our small barn , I had the feeling of being permanently only in shopping and cooking, but fortunately they were good with the dishes!

The building site in Japan they have already prepared a great cooking / dining area with traditional means fire that is already being well used:

On-site kitchen

Cooking and eating together

I'm really looking forward to the traditional Japanese Eat, but I must again before a little practice with chopsticks.

Friday, March 26, 2010

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Modellbau für den Pavillon

I got some new photos that show how Hannah and Mark make a scale model of the pavilion, which is an important part of the construction process.

This is a first try of the drawn plan, an initial physical test of whether the vote in all dimensions and fit the puzzle together at the end. I assume that skilled craftsmen as they noticed this also which parts of the structure could pose potential problems when the real pavilion will be built.

Measuring from the plans

Hannes and Markus at work

The nearly-complete model

Now the model is not yet quite, but almost done - you'll find more pictures in the Photo Album .

the workflow of today's architects, the construction of physical models is increasingly displaced by CAD computer models, which seems to be faster and more accurate in some ways. However, I have been teaching regularly at the Sint Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels , and often argue that local teachers, I teach, to computer models. You believe that you learn through the physical model much more about the planned structure kann. Wenn man erst die nötige Erfahrung hat, kann man das Wissen auf CAD-Konstruktionen übertragen, aber wenn man mit dem Computer anfängt, sind Probleme vorprogrammiert.

Heute morgen habe ich in den Nachrichten gehört, daß Virgin ihr Formel-1-Auto umkonstruieren müssen, da der Benzintank zu klein ist, um das Fahrzeug bis zum Ende des Rennens zu bekommen. Das ist das erste F1-Auto, was ausschließlich am Computer entwickelt wurde, um Geld für den Bau und Test von Prototypen einzusparen.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Air Walker Calorie Burner

Japanische und Europäische Sägen

Ein weiterer, deutlicher Unterschied zwischen den Werkzeugen der Japaner und Europäer zeigt sich bei the big saws that are used to separate the strains, ie, to cut along the grain of the wood, rather than across it. In a previous post I have already shown some pictures of the popular Japanese saw, which is used for this purpose. It is an impressive tool: Use

Japanese rip saw

the saw, the European carpenters mostly for this purpose is a two-person saw like this, although size and detailed specification can be very different:

European rip sawing

In both cases, a long, thin wooden wedge used to keep the kerf open, so that the saw blade during the non-working jammed:

Using wedges whilst sawing

There is also a large number of different saws for cross Woodworking:

Cross cut sawing

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Letter For Overdue Patient

Video-Ethnografie

Nicola-filming If something goes wrong, the instinctive reaction is to run away, but this is rarely the best course of action. As we keep telling the people who cut themselves during our carving courses : You have to understand what happened so that it does not happen again.


I just had a bad Experience: a few people for whom I do occasional film shoots, wanted the complete recordings I had made, and our agreement was spinning really only a few sound bytes that I should provide for a site. Instinctively, I immediately said, "Forget it," but could not immediately explain why, which made for some discontent.

Anyway, now I have become smarter about what my kind regards to Mech recordings. They are created with the goal of a more research-based observation as they are intended for publication. I use unobtrusive (but high tech) equipment, I have developed discreet film techniques, and I work (with some success) hard for me to integrate among the people I film. This way I get them very close and can capture authentic scenes, rather than a kind of acting for the camera.

means that I should capture many things that really should not be included; stuff that may seem too personal or rude or unprofessional may be the persons admitted. So I am very cautious when it comes to dealing with the recordings, I never use something that I have a feeling it might jeopardize my position of trust. If it is borderline, I wonder maybe after, but only when I put the question Person know well, or I would not even risk the question. I do not think that I may delegate that responsibility to others, so I never give the raw material out of hand.

Although this incident was unpleasant, I now understand a little better what I do ... and I will ensure that others do, I film. Finally a video that I made in the course of research for my PhD: