Floating World🇯🇵Nigatsudō Hall, Nara(奈良二月堂)Artist :🇯🇵HasuiDate :1934Depicts the famous "Second Month Hall", a sub-temple of the Tōdai-ji complex perched on a hillside overlooking Nara. A solitary figure carries a glowing paper lantern near the illuminated wooden hall.
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A walk through of the longest mural in the UK from end to end. Hopefully it gives you an idea of the scale. I had to speed ul the video to get it down to 2 mins!160m long. #wildlife #nature #bootle #mural #animals @guinnessworldrecords.com @seftoncouncil.bsky.social @networkrail.bsky.social
Here’s an English translation of the on-screen Latvian instructions. Translation was worked out with Google Lens, Google Translate, and ChatGPT for a couple of the more confusing words. (The piece of wooden stick he used for the mouthpiece translated to ‘splinter’ and ‘dowel’. I just went with dowel.)
0:22 With a pencil, you need to mark the outline of the whistle, a square of 5×5 mm.
0:35 Mark the centers of 4 holes, with an interval of around 2.5 cm.
0:50 The walnut must be opened carefully, without damaging the shell.
1:20 The partitions should be cut out, the core of the nut should be removed and the inside of the shell should be cleaned.
1:45 A hole with a diameter of 4 mm should be drilled for the whistle.
1:55 Drill the side holes with a 1.5 mm drill bit.
2:20 The second hole can be enlarged to 2.5 mm, the fourth hole to 3.5 mm.
2:32 The whistle hole is widened with a file, grinding it into a square shape.
20 Jun 2026
Lothar Heim runs the last traditional clay pipe workshop in Hilgert and the entire Kannenbäckerland region of the Westerwald, where pipe making was once a major trade alongside the area’s well known salt glazed stoneware. This video follows the full process from start to finish, beginning with the preparation of pipe clay in the cellar, where raw clay is soaked, mixed by hand, and run through a clay mill to form thick rolls. These rolls are later extruded into thin clay rods on a press, then cut into portions and shaped using two part metal molds, tampers, and bore wires, the same methods used in the trade for generations.
The video also shows the more demanding hand rolling technique, still practiced by Heim’s 80 year old mother, used for pipes with stems too long for the press. You will see how pilgrimage pipes, Saint Nicholas pipes, socket pipes known as Jacob’s pipes, and clay cuckoo whistle figures were made, cleaned, and prepared for drying. Each step, from cutting and trimming to smoothing and boring, is done with tools and techniques that have changed little since the craft began in the region.
