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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Like You Have Anything Better to Do Than Watch Someone Spend 66 Hours Assembling a Chainmail Shirt
sploid.gizmodo.com: No one’s pretending that life in the middle ages didn’t suck. There was the plague, unceasing catapult attacks, and beheading after beheading. But watching Evan Snider painstakingly make a chainmail shirt by hand once again reminds us to be extra thankful to live in this century.
Wow. That's totally crazy! Sometimes, I think that it can be easy to romanticize iconic clothing and armor pieces like chain mail. But like, wearing a 25 pound shirt is insanity! I'm glad I don't have to wear armor that protects me from swords and such. Further, I can't imagine how long it would take to outfit a whole army if this one piece took around 60 hours to complete. Obviously, blacksmiths in those times must have been more proficient, and it wasn't just one guy outfitting a whole army, but still. That would be so time intensive! It really makes me thankful that such armor is obsolete nowadays. I'm also really grateful that I just don't live in a period without the internet, plumbing, and modern medicine. Those three are absolutely awesome, and I can't imagine survivng without them. Also, air conditioning is great. I wouldn't want to live without that, either.
This is something straight out a renaissance fair, and I love it. I think it is so great to see people be unabashedly nerdy. Passion like this is hard to come by in the world, and it is such a shame when people let other's opinions get in the way of what they love, which this guy clearly does. This type of utterly meticulous work is pain staking to watch let alone do yourself, which I think is why it is so impressive. To be so dedicated to something as arcane and old fashioned as making chain mail is something that is really wild to me. I love when people can create things like this. It is like when an idea gets in your head and you can not do anything until it is out. I remember having a substitute teacher one time who would do this while we read and I thought it was the dorkiest thing ever, but I was still really impressed that he could take the time and had the patience to actually do this kind of work for something seemingly unnecessary. I wonder if it could stop an arrow?
The sheer patience and commitment to creating this shirt is definitely commendable. You can really tell that the maker of the video is passionate about his work, and it shows. People like this who are so dedicated to what they do, and are willing to intertwine every link of a chain mail shirt, for example, really inspire me to find that same passion in my own work. I think we all need to find something that we are willing to work on for 66 hours, because that's how you know what you really want to spend the rest of your life doing. This guy really has my respect for the work he put into this, and it looks pretty great for it! I'll think about this when I'm working on my next project, and try to bring some of that passion into my own work!
So I agree with the title of the article that was oddly satisfying and pretty relaxing to watch. That said I'm not sure I could ever make a chain mail anything, the patience that this process obviously take to do it honestly astounding. I don't mind repetitive task but oh my god I would probably go mad after the first two hours through my small scrap of chain mail at the wall tell myself I'll come back to it and never return. But seeing someone else make chain mail really is cool and makes me think of how much time it would take in the Middle Ages to make and outfit events a small force with chain mail armor. The fact that Evan Snider and others have the patience and dedication to make chain mail as it was made in the past really is inspiring and pretty damn cool. Now I want to go to a Ren Faire.
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Wow. That's totally crazy! Sometimes, I think that it can be easy to romanticize iconic clothing and armor pieces like chain mail. But like, wearing a 25 pound shirt is insanity! I'm glad I don't have to wear armor that protects me from swords and such. Further, I can't imagine how long it would take to outfit a whole army if this one piece took around 60 hours to complete. Obviously, blacksmiths in those times must have been more proficient, and it wasn't just one guy outfitting a whole army, but still. That would be so time intensive! It really makes me thankful that such armor is obsolete nowadays. I'm also really grateful that I just don't live in a period without the internet, plumbing, and modern medicine. Those three are absolutely awesome, and I can't imagine survivng without them. Also, air conditioning is great. I wouldn't want to live without that, either.
This is something straight out a renaissance fair, and I love it. I think it is so great to see people be unabashedly nerdy. Passion like this is hard to come by in the world, and it is such a shame when people let other's opinions get in the way of what they love, which this guy clearly does. This type of utterly meticulous work is pain staking to watch let alone do yourself, which I think is why it is so impressive. To be so dedicated to something as arcane and old fashioned as making chain mail is something that is really wild to me. I love when people can create things like this. It is like when an idea gets in your head and you can not do anything until it is out. I remember having a substitute teacher one time who would do this while we read and I thought it was the dorkiest thing ever, but I was still really impressed that he could take the time and had the patience to actually do this kind of work for something seemingly unnecessary. I wonder if it could stop an arrow?
The sheer patience and commitment to creating this shirt is definitely commendable. You can really tell that the maker of the video is passionate about his work, and it shows. People like this who are so dedicated to what they do, and are willing to intertwine every link of a chain mail shirt, for example, really inspire me to find that same passion in my own work. I think we all need to find something that we are willing to work on for 66 hours, because that's how you know what you really want to spend the rest of your life doing. This guy really has my respect for the work he put into this, and it looks pretty great for it! I'll think about this when I'm working on my next project, and try to bring some of that passion into my own work!
So I agree with the title of the article that was oddly satisfying and pretty relaxing to watch. That said I'm not sure I could ever make a chain mail anything, the patience that this process obviously take to do it honestly astounding. I don't mind repetitive task but oh my god I would probably go mad after the first two hours through my small scrap of chain mail at the wall tell myself I'll come back to it and never return. But seeing someone else make chain mail really is cool and makes me think of how much time it would take in the Middle Ages to make and outfit events a small force with chain mail armor. The fact that Evan Snider and others have the patience and dedication to make chain mail as it was made in the past really is inspiring and pretty damn cool. Now I want to go to a Ren Faire.
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