{"id":6695,"date":"2014-09-25T17:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T07:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2014-09-25T17:09:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T07:09:21","slug":"medieval-vs-modern-the-making-of-a-gargoyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/09\/25\/medieval-vs-modern-the-making-of-a-gargoyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval vs Modern: The Making of a Gargoyle."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that always fascinates me is how much (or indeed how little) technology can change some processes. Technology almost always makes things better, faster and cheaper but you&#8217;d think there&#8217;s a few areas where technology simply couldn&#8217;t put a dent in good old fashioned human processes. I don&#8217;t know why but when I saw the following video I thought there would be no way that modern processes could be better suited to the task than simply giving it over to a stone mason. By the end of the video however I was stunned at just how fast, and accurate, we could mill out a giant block of sandstone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Gargoyle from Kronborg Castle Denmark\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JievYqSbUHg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Honestly I probably should have expected it as I&#8217;ve seen numerous demonstrations of similar technology producing wildly intricate show pieces using all sorts of material. However I figured something like this, a craft that many would have thought was now in the domain of only a handful of dedicated practitioners, would be better suited to human hands. I have to say though that I doubt anyone today could carve out something like that in the space of 10 hours, even if you counted in all the preparation time they did before hand. It&#8217;s surprisingly hard to find out just how long it took to carve your average stone gargoyle unfortunately so I&#8217;m not sure how this compares to times when stone carving a s a profession was more common.<\/p>\n<p>Realistically though that&#8217;s all a flimsy premise for me to post yet another large engineering demonstration video. I can&#8217;t help it though, they tickle me in all the right ways \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that always fascinates me is how much (or indeed how little) technology can change some processes. Technology almost always makes things better, faster&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5128,5127,5126],"class_list":["post-6695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-carving","tag-gargoyle","tag-sandstone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-1JZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}