05-15-2018, 01:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-15-2018, 02:12 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
(05-11-2018, 06:21 AM)kenney Wrote: ... Dekalb_Blues that video was great I live by that guy I should go visit him.
A neighbor of yours, kenney?! It is indeed a small world & a merry one. Or scary one, depending on just what it is you're close to.
My typical juxtaposition
Me, I live only six separations away from Mr. Kevin Bacon, who plays his guitar too loudly when I'm trying to get zero separation
from the sleep-state. But his wife is easy on the eyes, & knows how to press your buttons, so there's that.
Kevin B.'s a mere half-year older than myself, so we're like early settlers now, compared to many of
the young'n's assembled at this august forum, peering so confidently & unquestioningly & perhaps
even a tad cyborgically into their various little Dick-Tracy-2-way-wristwatch/radio/TV-like gadgets.
Why, by cracky, back in my day, TVs were black-&-white and steam-powered, and you had to get up before
dawn and walk miles through wolf-infested forests just to get your hands on an actual book ( also
steam-powered back then) like the original 1984 edition of The Ra Material: An Ancient Astronaut Speaks
at one of those now-understood-as-merely-mythical places primitives of the time used to call. . .
"New Age Bookstores."
If I lived by Wally Wallington I'd pester him to let me apprentice to him (today, little Stonehengey Wally-Worlds in Michigan,
tomorrow -- bwa-ha-haaa!)
Now those are some PGDBRs (technical stone-masonese for Pretty God Damn Big Rocks), or Pigs for short.
It's a fantastic feeling of primal power to successfully exert your will on really obdurate materiality. . .
. . . successfully, if at all possible, of course.
I've worked with old-time stonemasons who had a nearly magical touch with hulking great bits of rock, jauntily chivvying them
around using Wally's kind of clever tricks, & lifting them aloft step-wise & via block-&-tackle to fit each piece into the 3-dimensional
jigsaw puzzle that is a stone wall (making all the necessary calculations in their minds beforehand of what will fit where in the real
world, so as to minimize the need for trial-&-error fitting ["cahootzing" -- horsing the rock around this way & that] & additional
hand-shaping. This kind of thing requires a (now-rare) ability to think very abstractly and act very concretely at the same time and
in a highly balanced and incredibly patient way -- this balance being fractally & literally reflected in the actual task being done.
This futuristic stone cathedral (designed by the Antoni Gaudi and Joan Martorell) has been under construction in Barcelona since
1882 (!) and is expected to be completed circa 2030. Working with stone minus any supernormal monkey-business indeed takes patience.
Voilà, -- the thing, she is done!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2963MHzP-IE
https://www.archdaily.com/877599/10-must...-barcelona