[TheForge] ABANA cook-out

[schade at acegroup.cc]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Ries Niemi wrote:
> Tom Joyce gave a very interesting talk about the hard issues we all 
> usually try to ignore- the moral issues of our work, where the metal 
> comes from, the history of the craft as it relates to civilisation and 
> society, trying to do good work, art, and keep your sideburns too. 
> Most of us tend to keep our heads down and think about the piece of 
> hot iron in front of us, which is hard enough. But Tom was trying to 
> point out that as citizens of the world, we owe the world more, and as 
> thinking, living souls, we owe ourselves more, and he talked about it 
> in a very thoughtprovoking, elegant way.
> Plus he showed slides of his recent 3 month residency at Scott Forge, 
> using their men and equipment to make sculptures with multi-ton pieces 
> of steel and 20,000 ton presses.
>
>



Has Tom Joyce's talk been transcribed and posted anywhere? If not will 
it? No pressure,  just wondering.

Bob