This fascination with process is something Don and I share. There are a bunch of YouTube channels where people take apart rusted, broken, dirty things down to the rivets. Piece by piece, they restore the thing not just to function but to beauty. Try "My Mechanics."
The simplest things they work on are always astonishingly complex. We started watching these restoration videos when the covid lockdown began. The world was crazy, and these people were making junk new and beautiful.
We watch the PBS shows you mention, but our new favorite thing is The Repair Shop, a British show also on YouTube.
One of my favorite shows on Netflix is Blown Away because I love glass artists. I even took a weekend glass beadmaking class because I wanted to know how it feels to work with molten glass!
His work is phenomenal. Some of the things he restores look completely hopeless, others are just brown with a century of tobacco smoke and plain dirt. Have fun!
Thank you for sharing about this show! I'll definitely check it out. I too love watching artists at their craft.
Wonderful, Ramona -- thank you!
This fascination with process is something Don and I share. There are a bunch of YouTube channels where people take apart rusted, broken, dirty things down to the rivets. Piece by piece, they restore the thing not just to function but to beauty. Try "My Mechanics."
https://youtu.be/tllAaDaGShg?si=oLmOai1KdFXf0AY2
Similar: https://youtu.be/qcQZb1bjju8?si=dqzTZyG8OifLpVzm
https://youtu.be/laUiwqLV4l8?si=8HnuB91rgD3UTH1G
Then there's Baumgartner Restoration. We like the ASMR ones where he's silent as he stores artwork.
https://youtu.be/8qhy5Kt4nhA?si=AdtybYzxh3TXkPUP
The simplest things they work on are always astonishingly complex. We started watching these restoration videos when the covid lockdown began. The world was crazy, and these people were making junk new and beautiful.
We watch the PBS shows you mention, but our new favorite thing is The Repair Shop, a British show also on YouTube.
One of my favorite shows on Netflix is Blown Away because I love glass artists. I even took a weekend glass beadmaking class because I wanted to know how it feels to work with molten glass!
His work is phenomenal. Some of the things he restores look completely hopeless, others are just brown with a century of tobacco smoke and plain dirt. Have fun!