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Between attempts at a plot, The Paint Show made for an excellent pre-party event featuring a dance party of wordless techno music and audience members in white coveralls dancing with characters out of a Children’s Television Workshop special...
...these craftsmen is Saverio Pastor, who makes both oars and forcole in his workshop near the old Arsenal. Pastor learned his craft from the last maestro in Venice. "What I like is grabbing those huge trunks and bringing the forcola out of them," he says...
...assistants in the past, but one left to open his own workshop and another to become a gondolier, which has become a very lucrative business. The official price for a ride is $60 for 50 minutes, but usually ends up closer to $75 for half an hour. "An artisan like myself gets paid with the satisfaction of doing something he likes, and doing it also in the way he likes," Pastor notes philosophically. "But at least in Italy, this comes at a heavy price...
...watch business in the landscape of Le Locle. In this remote village of 11,000 just 2 km from the French frontier, watchmaking and its attendant industries were the sole employers for generations. It was here - in the early 1700s - that Daniel Jeanrichard opened the region's first watchmaking workshop, sharing his skills with his seven children and a handful of apprentices. Jeanrichard is a legendary figure, a self-taught watchmaker who invented the first specialized watchmaking machinery. He farmed out part of his production to local peasants, who were only too pleased to have an extra source of income...
...original state," Lindwerlin explains, "which means they're tackling the problem of missing components." His students are trained to research where a timepiece was made and what sort of tools were used there at that time. They use computer-assisted design programs to reconceptualize missing parts and a separate workshop with lathes and machine tools to produce them. The ultimate goal is a lofty one. "When they leave here, they should be able to do anything a professional watchmaker is ever called upon to do," says Lindwerlin...