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Videos by Primitive Technology are so weirdly fascinating. It seems unlikely that a video with no dialog of a guy making bricks from scratch would be compelling viewing, but it is.

Not to mention that the hut he's making the bricks in was also made from just clay and wood, as was the kiln he's using to make the bricks...

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Don't forget to turn on closed caption as he explains things during the video

He has another channel? Can you link? I found nothing:

https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/about/

https://www.patreon.com/user/about?u=2945881

Weird, I was sure that there was another channel - maybe the logo changed and that fooled me, or it was some beautiful dream. Sorry about that.

edit: Argh, I have a horrible feeling that I used to watch some copycat channel that re-uploaded his videos, which is why I thought he had several :(

There are impostor channels using similar logos and fake builds using cheap labor and concrete. They do this mostly in India in order to gain views and make ad revenue from it. Maybe you were talking about such a channel?

No, pretty sure it was the same guy - I've seen one or two of the knock-off videos, and it's not as interesting (and as you say, fake). There's mention on the wiki page for Primitive Technology that he had problems with re-uploaders.

I agree. Maybe it is fascinating because it has zero bullshit, skips no details and brings us back to our human nature? A state where most of humanity were in, very different from the current life. Spiritual home?

Could be, yes. It's nice to see stuff that is not sponsored by some VPN, and has no "like, subscribe, etc" in it (although I understand why people do that).

Also, for me, there is a real-life Minecraft feel to it all. I guess it is 'experimental archaeology', in a sense?

But also, it brings me back to childhood, dicking around on the beach or in forest streams, building dams and other such things. It all looks like the kind of thing anyone here would or could do if they were out in the sticks like that.

You'd probably like 'red hot nickel ball' on a channel called 'cars and water'. Short, 2-5 minute videos sans dialog where this person just heats a nickel ball until its red hot and puts it on top of something. He just answers a question you didnt know you had and then the video ends. It is genius.

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