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Q4: What is the most technological part of your making and what is the most "low-tech"?
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@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe most of it is very high tech really, #3dprinting, modelling, coding, microprocessors and neopixels, all that jazz. But low tech is probably the hammer and paints! #makersHour
@wokstation @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe I wouldn't qualify paint as «lowtech» given the chemical complexity of modern compound.
@webshinra @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe the concept of slapping something that stains a material onto something for decorative purposes is truly ancient, though
@zoelocke@toot.wales@wokstation @webshinra @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe yup, painting stuff goes all the way back. Heck, Greek statuary used to be painted.
@zoelocke @wokstation @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe Yes, putting color on stuff is very ancient (cave painting).
But: it's far from what we today call paint either in durability (renaissance belive greek statuary where white because the color disappear completely, and we practically don't have any painting remaining form those times) or aviable color.
I would also add that steel nails require blast furnace, which are not really «low tech».
@zoelocke @wokstation @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe To answer the original question, I think in my practice, ceramics and charcoal drawing are the most «low tech» stuff I do. Even if as I mostly draw on modern paper, which is not as simple to make as we would thought.