The Other Day Job

This is an example of my other day job 

I am in here holding the hot heavy thing that we make lovely art objects out of. You don't see the hours of mould preparation and back breaking work involved in getting the cast iron ready to be re-melted. You just see the slight chaos and beautiful molten iron being carried around and poured into the sand moulds.

As part of the process of making sculptural art that is taught to students we use technology, but it is not ICT.  We use welders and Cupolletes (the name for the apparatus from which we get the molten iron at around 1400C) using this industrial age technology and processes to produce art objects in the modern day.
This is one of the limits to ICT, because  after watching the video you would have very little idea about what was done. Even if we made a step by step instructional DVD, you cannot be prepared for the weight of the ladle, the sheer hard work, sweat and heat that is the process of making art from molten iron.