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Design, arrange, construct, and experiment with Cool Engineering Projects! Kids can learn how to build a colorful working catapult, assemble a simple-machine maze, and more! Each workshop project includes easy-to-read, step-by-step instructions paired with photographs. Budding craftspeople and engineers will love learning how to use the tools of the trade to make one-of-a-kind creations. --Amazon.
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Wire, power, connect, and create with Cool Battery & Electricity Projects! Kids can learn how to wire a working lamp, build a buzzing electric game, and more! Each workshop project includes easy-to-read, step-by-step instructions paired with photographs. Budding craftspeople and engineers will love learning how to use the tools of the trade to make one-of-a-kind creations. --Amazon.
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Assemble, build, and put power in motion with Cool Engine & Motor Projects! Create a mini buzzing robot with a battery-powered engine, move a small ship with steam, and more! Each project includes easy-to-read, step-by step instructions paired with photographs. Learn to use tools of the trade to make one-of-a-kind creations! -- Publisher description.
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The fundamental difference between a green approach to building and remodeling and a conventional approach is the thinking that guides the project. This video explores the thought process at the core of green architectural design and construction as it takes viewers behind the scenes of an architectural firm specializing in sustainable design, a remodeler who has built a green construction business, a supplier of eco-friendly building materials, and...
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Glass and ceramic are some of the oldest man-made materials. This program demonstrates two traditional glass-making techniques: glass blowing and the art of stained glass windows. It also follows the production of industrial ceramics, explaining that this material is constantly being used in new applications. Finally, we are shown the expanded use of glass in architecture, where it is increasingly replacing wood and stone.
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The 400-acre Storm King Art Center is America's premier outdoor museum of post-1945 sculpture-and home to the works of more than a hundred of the world's top talents. Through interviews, archival footage, and film clips of sculptors in action, this program offers a glimpse into the creative process of some of the century's most influential artists while presenting a magnificent visual survey of the encyclopedic Storm King collection. Featured sculptors...
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Produced in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's exhibition of the same name, this lively program explores the evolution of late-20th-century ceramics. Using interviews and myriad examples of their works, leading figures in the field, including Ruth Duckworth, Wayne Higby, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Otto Natzler, Richard Shaw, and Peter Voulkos, discuss such major themes as Abstract Expressionism, Funk, vessels, form and function, and...
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A sculpture comes alive in clay, dies in plaster, and is reborn in marble. This intense process has rarely been documented. The program takes viewers inside the Malibu studios of master sculptor Emmanuel Fillion as he creates a new piece-from a figurative clay model to a life-size marble sculpture. Educated as a restoration artist, Fillion worked on many important historical monuments in France including Notre Dame cathedral and the Louvre. In a program...
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Beginning with Thomas Brock's Queen Victoria Memorial and ending with Marc Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant, this program spotlights 100 public sculptures in Britain created over the course of 100 years. Stories of patronage, controversy, and celebration contextualize the images on screen, while quotations and commentary from important sculptors offer valuable insights. Henry Moore, Joseph Beuys, Richard Serra, Andy Goldsworthy, Barbara Hepworth, Anish...
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"...Readers learn classic, tried-and-true techniques from the shop class of yore--how to use a metal lathe, or pick the perfect drill bit or saw--and get introduced to a whole new world of modern manufacturing technologies, like using CAD software, printing circuits, and more. Step-by-step illustrations, helpful diagrams, and exceptional photography make this book an easy-to-follow and easy-on-the-eyes guide to getting your project done."--Amazon.com....
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Over the course of this video, viewers will learn how a green approach to landscaping can reduce the amount of energy needed to heat and cool a house. The role of landscaping as a system, the connection between the outdoor habitat and the home as a living space, the proper management of rainwater and runoff, the value of native plants, and the benefits of green roofs are also explored. Visits to residential project sites with the landscape architects...
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Describes careers in construction or skilled trades. Focuses on nine careers, offering a short questionnaire to see if each job is right for you, and describing each one's job duties, locations, typical day, training, lingo, tips for success, considerations, related jobs, and advancement. Includes color photographs, interviews with those in the field, ideas for research projects, text-dependent questions, and further resources.
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Examine any phase of our nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there: from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's "maker movement." Adamson shows that craft has long been implicated in debates around equality, education, and class. Artisanship has often been a site of resistance for oppressed people, such as enslaved African-Americans whose skilled labor...
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In this program, The History Channel, Lowe's home improvement store, and This Old House's Steve Thomas team up to restore the 1891 McCubbins-McCanless House of Salisbury, North Carolina. Documenting the revival of the once-magnificent Queen Anne Victorian mansion, the video covers repairs and renovations to every facet of the home, from the foundation on up to the four chimneys.