Vinyl Record

This video walks you through the process of creating one of the most beautiful and qualitative sound support, the vinyl record .Basically a short documentary on how the Vinyl Record is made, from the master,the lacquer disc,  the silver process , the nickel process, to the produce, engraved copy . The second video shows a little bit more automatize process, this french factory closed in 2008 Thanks Ronan.

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Pod by Benjamin Hubert for De vorm

The chair’s ergonomics allow the user to work comfortably whilst feeling relaxed and separated from the hustle and bustle of daily life. It creates a room-in-room experience with the perimeter of the chair around the users head. The shell of the chair is the largest form ever produced utilizing pressed PET felt technology. This felt allows a distinctive aesthetic as well as offers sound dampening properties to increase the sensation of privacy with acoustic performance. thanks to core77 for the link

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soulcraft steel bike

Filmmaker Michael John Evans sets out to visually portray “the zone” which one enters when their craft is honed. Sean Walling, owner of Soulcraft, builds top notch custom steel bicycle frames. This short film documents Sean’s fabrication methods: a well choreographed dance of experience and muscle memory producing a seemingly effortless ode to process. From Steel: invites the viewer into Sean’s machine shop for an up close and personal look at the work that results in yet another awesome Soulcraft. Musical score provided by the internationally praised duo, Mattson 2.…

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Metal Casting at Home

A total of 21 videos  showing how to make aluminium castings with a home made foundry. Making a cylinder head for a single cylinder hit and miss engine.Core making moulding casting and machining operations.The engine is an Olds Gearless, a 4 srtoke with no gears.An eccentric on the crankshaft opreates a ratchet wheel to give the necessary timing. originally created by Myfordboy.   http://www.youtube.com/user/myfordboy

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Setu : Herman Miller

Studio 7.5 gives us a behind-the-scenes look on the making of the Setu chair. Design process.development started in 2003, one continuous contour , from 45 prototype to fully functional cinematic  comolded polypropylene evolutive structure, the beauty of this chair is the minimalism in term of material nature , less hinges, not treated aluminum only used in car design so far, less pieces, one main idea. The chinematic spine is one main assembly of easily recycled piece of 2 type of polypropylene to achieve structure and movement .no instructions, no control …genius

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