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2015 Seattle International Knife Show - A few videos of this weekends show.
My efforts here are to pay homage to Daniel OMalley of www.epicedge.com for a wonderful venue of events, and to all those who shared their knowledge with me this past weekend. Please do yourself a favor and start following Daniel as he has a passion and eye for The Art Of Knives #BladeGalley #EpicEdge and to these knife makers for their passion and work.
I found out about the show the day before and choose to drop everything to attend. I am pleased to say this was a good decision on my part. I arrived a little late and unprepared, but was able to capture a little bit about the event for those who were unfortunate to not attend. This last minute camera work is less than what I would have preferred to do, but hopefully you enjoy what I was able to capture here. For those I did not get video of, please understand either your table was too busy or I just did not have a premeditated plan (if you contact me in advance in the future, I will make a point of scheduling with you). For any regional makers, I would be pleased to meet with you and do a little filming for you to help increase exposure for the PacNW community.
Friday the show began at the www.DavidLisch.com forge in Seattle, and then to Bellevue for the maker show on Sat-Sun. For a 52 maker/vendor show the mix included some of the worlds best, bringing folks from across the globe to a venue of passionate meet. I had multiple 30+ minute conversations with some where we did not speak a word, as I do not speak Japanese and/or , but where we communicated through the language of The Art Of Knives. Cool does not begin to describe the feelings of patience and calm I witnessed, as these masters sometimes communicated with folks who knew not of this language previously. Truly heartwarming it was to see weapons & tools used as the intercommunal global bridge.
A special thanks to those that I sat with at dinner on Saturday, especially to Daniel Erickson for returning my sterling & gold wave-ring (after I left it sitting on his table after a little filming on Sunday), and to Chuck Richards for his patience to stand next to me during the Friday knife forging competition and answer all my questions as we watched four competitors share two forges as they each produced a knife in 30-minutes for judging against a 3-second preview look at what they were tasked to produce.
Special mention to Loki (God of Fire & Trickery) who masquerades as a bowlegged Wiener Dog (you know who you are, and you my friend are cool in your skin dog.
Thank you all for such a wonderful show; I say thank you by letting you see just a little bit of what I saw & felt.
Regards,
Christopher
Edit: Link to my video playlist<br>
[video]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKO2m4TQ_9r77frC2ksdSBzNB9KA0WPwU[/video]
2015 Seattle International Knife Show - A few videos of this weekends show.
My efforts here are to pay homage to Daniel OMalley of www.epicedge.com for a wonderful venue of events, and to all those who shared their knowledge with me this past weekend. Please do yourself a favor and start following Daniel as he has a passion and eye for The Art Of Knives #BladeGalley #EpicEdge and to these knife makers for their passion and work.
I found out about the show the day before and choose to drop everything to attend. I am pleased to say this was a good decision on my part. I arrived a little late and unprepared, but was able to capture a little bit about the event for those who were unfortunate to not attend. This last minute camera work is less than what I would have preferred to do, but hopefully you enjoy what I was able to capture here. For those I did not get video of, please understand either your table was too busy or I just did not have a premeditated plan (if you contact me in advance in the future, I will make a point of scheduling with you). For any regional makers, I would be pleased to meet with you and do a little filming for you to help increase exposure for the PacNW community.
Friday the show began at the www.DavidLisch.com forge in Seattle, and then to Bellevue for the maker show on Sat-Sun. For a 52 maker/vendor show the mix included some of the worlds best, bringing folks from across the globe to a venue of passionate meet. I had multiple 30+ minute conversations with some where we did not speak a word, as I do not speak Japanese and/or , but where we communicated through the language of The Art Of Knives. Cool does not begin to describe the feelings of patience and calm I witnessed, as these masters sometimes communicated with folks who knew not of this language previously. Truly heartwarming it was to see weapons & tools used as the intercommunal global bridge.
A special thanks to those that I sat with at dinner on Saturday, especially to Daniel Erickson for returning my sterling & gold wave-ring (after I left it sitting on his table after a little filming on Sunday), and to Chuck Richards for his patience to stand next to me during the Friday knife forging competition and answer all my questions as we watched four competitors share two forges as they each produced a knife in 30-minutes for judging against a 3-second preview look at what they were tasked to produce.
Special mention to Loki (God of Fire & Trickery) who masquerades as a bowlegged Wiener Dog (you know who you are, and you my friend are cool in your skin dog.
Thank you all for such a wonderful show; I say thank you by letting you see just a little bit of what I saw & felt.
Regards,
Christopher
Edit: Link to my video playlist<br>
[video]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKO2m4TQ_9r77frC2ksdSBzNB9KA0WPwU[/video]
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