[TheForge] Re: Junkyard Wars

Wed May 21 04:31:02 2003

I think the seminal innovater here was/is Survival Research Labs....much 
funnier and closer to my style, anyway,than the light weight TV shows....
http://srl.org/
Pete

[email protected] wrote:

> The Nerds, an American team that appeared on the British version gave 
> a good write up on the experience and the practices 
> (http://www.the-nerds.org/on-seeding.html)  their home page is at  
> http://www.the-nerds.org/  
> I also want to make sure everyone understands that I was not attacking 
> "Junkyard Wars".    "Junkyard Wars" was the innovator here and still 
> stands out as the quality original.  I was simply pointing to it as an 
> example of how work and craft are becoming entertainment.    "Junkyard 
> Wars" takes the time and effort to make it an education vehicle, but 
> the fact that it is a vehicle, just highlights the fact that the 
> construction aspects are entertainment.    "Junkyard Wars" spends a 
> lot of time evidently in post production and brings in doers as 
> experts rather than and expert with nothing more than a magazine 
> article on the topic.   I am often dissapointed by innacuracies in the 
> shows, such as refering to a mig as an "semi automatic soldering gun" 
> as has garnered attention on the metalworking group.
> Charles
>
>
>
> Ralph E Douglass wrote:
>
>> Andrew Vida wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I always assumed that much of what was needed was planted in the yard.
>>> I really see no problem with this at all.  It's still junk.  Now, if
>>> by chance there was collusion between the teams and the producers in
>>> the form of deciding beforehand what they were going to make and how
>>> it was specifically to be designed so that the right materials for
>>> that particular work was planted, then I would say the show is bogus.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Actually I think that the American version of the show and perhaps the
>> original one as well, do sorta pre-plan and stock. The teams (the expert
>> at least) decides on the plan and then the show will seed the yard with
>> approriate gear. But then again, I could be wrong, especially as I can
>> not remember where I read this. Bummer.
>>
>> Ralph
>>  
>>
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