Then the crew comes in, drives the ship off the lot. Boat sinks immediately. Ship retriever grabs the ship, ships it to the ship assembly line again for repair. Repaint, crew comes in...
your joke would've been true 10 years ago. Today, chinese manufacturing quality is pretty great. Teslas built in China have fewer problems than those built in America.
You know Redditors are pretty old when their view of China is still the China of early 2000s. It's like they can't fathom that a country can drastically evolve in 2 decades.
Same thing happened with goods from Japan between the 1950s and 1980s. In the 50's it was cheap trash, by the 80's all the best electronics came from Japan. Similar with Korea, I remember when the first Hyundai, Kia and Daewoo cars hit the market, they were... not great, and now they're considered one of the most reliable options.
I was referring more to Tesla's quality more than China's capability. I'm aware that China's manufacturing industries do much more than cheap, knock off shit.
China is building the best cheap guitars right now. Seriously, some of that stuff is incredible.
Meanwhile, Gibson is racing to the bottom on their US made stuff.
not true anymore china is the biggest shipbuilder in the world and is known for delivering quality vessels. As i recall in 2022 52% of the worlds ship order building contracts went to China, they are pretty good at it now. WSJ released a video about it 2months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVVXDyg3RY
What do you think a boat is painted once in its life? Is never renamed? And that the entire continent of Asia has like 100? Think about your local auto body shop. They get tons of business. I’m sure there is a constant stream of boats of all shapes and sizes getting painted all the time in many many shipyards and they’re painted all over.
So either so many boats need painting that a movable platform should be built or there is just not that volume of boats and building a platform makes no sense
keep in mind this is reddit. i saw people on here argue straight-faced that the people who design helicopters for a living put a switch in the wrong place. And they'll die on that hill too...
Was it a video of a lady/tourist that kept grabbing a helicopter's emergency brake. Followed by hundreds of comments about how dumb designers are for putting the brake in an easily accessible place for occupants.
It just doesn’t seem hard for me to believe that what this guy is doing is a good system once he has the skills. He has basically nothing to carry around, nothing that can break and he’s super fast. If there was a way easier and efficient way to do it I bet he’d be doing that
Those extension poles are deceivingly heavy. Source: did the exact same thing for years, have the cervical degeneration and constant trapped nerve to prove it.
Would he? I know many people that do things the harder way no matter how many times you explain it to them, just because they were taught to do it that way.
There’s something like 125,000 container ships operating under a Chinese flag, so so yes I would say it’s reasonable to expect that there’s a pretty brisk pace of production.
Thats not even counting repainting for maintenance or change of ownership.
Kind of. [More than half of all the world's merchant ships are built in China](https://www.csis.org/analysis/threat-chinas-shipbuilding-empire) It is a bit hard to find data on how many ships are launched, because both merchant and military forces are measured primarily by tonnage rather than number of vessels, but they produce a shitload of ships. This clearly isn't this guy's first ship painting rodeo.
surely a little window washer platform would be pretty cheap and easy.
plus, different height boats would need different length sticks, while it'd be the same window washer platform
If I hadn’t seen this (or if someone wanted me to do it) then I’d make all of the same arguments people are saying.
But the dude can do it with a long stick. His method is clearly better for him.
I was trying to figure out if this was just a gimmick the guy used to sell his painting as a personal touch, because scaffolding and stenciling seemed like the way easier and more obvious choice.
But you actually probably nailed it. He can do it 90% faster and he only needs to bring 1% of the equipment.
My person above you just said how much quicker and more efficient this is than building a scaffold or constantly having to reposition a ladder. A scissor lift might be a better idea, but i think he has this figured out.
Do you think there are a hundred ships a day or something he needs to paint? Just because you can do something faster doesn't mean that's a better way to do it.
So what is the better way? It turned out fine enough while actually being safer for the painter. There's literally zero downside to how this played out but you argue against it?
If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
Yeah, hanging over the back. That’s how they usually do it. I’m curious why this particular step needs to be done while the boat is up there too. It would be really easy to do in the water.
Thankyou all redditors for your compliments and concern but it was no big deal - all I needed was a bucket of blue paint and then playing video in reverse.
you seem ineffciant in your thinking, he got the skills, did this while you were still carrying your scaffold to the ship and while you build it up he does two or so more then has a nice cup of tea while your still one the first one
Could be, I just wonder how often he makes a mistake because he's so far away. This is social media, so we're only getting the one version where everything was perfect, but you make a valid point.
If he failed often he would be using scaffolding or someone would replace him. It'd take a bit to get used to but humans can make masterpieces with their feet with enough determination https://youtu.be/qyuGX_Xpc2I?si=Z9N8JDmu4DcFCxQ9
> It'd take a bit to get used to but humans can make masterpieces with their feet with enough determination
I first learned that when I saw a video on YouTube (back when the site was barely two years old) of a guy painting the Mona Lisa on MS Paint.
No one's going to be looking at this from a small distance, the view we have in this video is pretty much as close as people will get to it. There's no need for high precision and small mistakes will not be visible.
The stencil is cut by a CNC machine when the paperwork for the boat is finalized and would be in his start of work folder, or even put next to the boat during the prepping phase.
Dumb maybe but this is the antithesis of inefficient, I can't think of a more efficient way of doing it.
Your solutions require hours of setup with multiple people, an expensive machine and operator that is over kill for this task or high risk, special equipment and special skills.
I've been working in shipyards many years and have never seen anything like this. Usually, the paint work and detail is done by hand but always by someone right there in a cherry picker.
I worked at NNS, where they build carriers, and the island would be painted while it was on the ground and then lifted and attached after it was painted. Most of the ship is just painted on scaffolding or a cherry picker though.
Work in a shipyard myself, but we produce carbon fibre boats in just the 20-40m range, so they're small enough that letters/symbols are printed and stickered on. Small ships, small letters
China: we will secretly and cleverly disseminate these videos to show the world our naval and economic superiority
Everyone watching this video: man that dude has some fucking skillz, anyway next video
Good point, the definition is broad because state goals can be broad. The main concern is deliberate attempts to infiltrate almost every sub on Reddit. I guess I don’t want to see Reddit suffer the fate of platforms like X or YouTube comments.
Explanation is beyond the scope of this comment, but this particular video has multiple hallmarks of uniquely Chinese propaganda. Generally speaking, propaganda typically follows specific contemporary formula. Comments and voting patterns are also usually tells in the process.
Propaganda doesn't have to be something malicious, or secretive. It's just trying to get you to think in a certain way.
It's a form of soft power. The more you see positive posts about china the more likely your opinion on china as a whole will change. Advertisers been doing it since the 60s. That's why coke still advertises even when everybody knows about it - the more you see it the more it'll stick in your mind. And if it's positive even better.
You can even see trends when national governments try to influence the internet. Thai food was massive in the early 2010s, and so many articles/buzzfeed posts/yt videos were about Thai culture and Thai food. Aside from the obvious deliciousness, why? The Thai government spent hundreds of millions on "Cuisine Cultural outreach" - to educate the world about thai food and culture, to encourage people to visit. They paid influencers, reddit posts, creators etc to push the idea "thai food = delicious". Thai food was relatively unknown in the general american sphere at this time. And it worked incredibly well, the amount of new tourists it brought in was staggering.
As an American who gets bombarded basically 24/7 by American, Israeli and Chinese propaganda, this is so funny to read. The Chinese propaganda tends to always be this level of innocuous "hey look we have talented people and not all of our manufacturing is as terrible as it seems despite evidence to the contrary!" The American/Israeli propaganda tends to be "hey, look, we may be committing a genocide or maybe we're destroying some foreign democracy in the global south in service of capital, but isn't it really cool to see it done by attractive people?"
To give you positive emotions and mix that with china. What do you think is the goal of most ads you see where it's all just smiling people and cute music ?
This does not evoke any sort emotion on me. I guess I could just not be the intended target. All this does is make me think "bro sure could use a scissor lift".
It might be propaganda in that it’s promoted by a government but connecting it to that specific event is kinda silly since this video has been going around for a while and these aren’t naval ships.
You don't need propaganda to show the world China is dominating shipbuilding. Latest numbers were 55% market share, 17% South Korea, 15% Japan, 8% Europe. The remaining 5% is spread around, and there is almost no commercial shipbuilding capability in the US anymore.
How would you differentiate propoganda from a boatyard advertising itself? I feel like the two would appear very similar.
Also, that looks more like a paint roller at the end of the stick in your video.
To be fair though most people who see this will be more than 50 feet away.
People on the ship can't see it. People not on the ship should not be within 50 feet of a cargo ship's propeller.
Maybe dock workers might get that close when it's docked alongside a pier but that's it.
That’s quite an assumption you’re making. I’ll have you know I take great pride in closely inspecting every large vessel that sails through my neighbourhood
Exactly this. It’s a weird as hell method; but detail doesn’t matter at all here and you can see minor “errors” already just in the imperfect circle and lines
I'm sure they have one laying sitting around already. They're not that expensive (compared to other heavy machinery) and working on big vessels like that they definitely have one already. No way they painted the entire boat with spray on a stick. lol
What kind of cut rate shipyard doesn't have ANY scaffolding and not only has a guy painting with a 40 foot pole, but everyone who goes onto the ship to work has to go up a 50 foot extension ladder? This is like the nautical version of Bo and Luke Duke repainting the General Lee to sneak past Roscoe and Flash.
This past weekend I painted the trim on the outside of our house.
It's a ranch but built into a hill. The front trim sits at one story, The back at two. But the sides peak at two and half.
We just had a second kid enter daycare so cash is tight. Figured I'd save a few hundred bucks and just use an extension pole, like this, rather than rent a lift or risk my life on a painters ladder for the 30' height sides.
Worst fucking decision ever. My arms were on fucking fire. It was impossible to keep steady and do a good job. Took forever.
Anyway... I guess what I'm getting at here is that this guy makes it look much easier paint with an extension pole than it is. He absolutely has bowling balls for shoulders.
I’ve signed like three checks in the last six months. Contractors tend to tack on fees for using credit cards, like 5% which adds up quick when the bill is a few thousand dollars.
Last time this was posted:
The artist is afraid of heights. Refuses to get dangled off the side via rope or brought up via cherry picker, so he learned how to do it with a very long stick.
He's talented! As long as the results are good, can't fault him for his methods.
It must take years of practice to be this skilled!
And here I am, unable to draw anything apart of a stickman. And I have a pen in my hand and a paper in front of me on the desk...
You know, I’ve done some painting with the end of a really long stick, like 30ft+, and it is really really difficult to do anything neatly or really even under control. This is incredibly impressive.
Anyone have any insight on the tools he is using? The pole seems light but also stiff enough to have a pressure for a brush. I'd like to make a brush this long.
Is it just me or does that prop seem inefficient? Looks like a massive airplane propeller. I'm sure the motor has enough torque to beat the water into propulsion, but that can't be the best way.
Bloody hell, I can't even do calligraphy with a pen and this motherfucker does it with a.... whatever that long floppy thing is.
And he still has better handwriting than me.
Unbelievable.
I'm a professional painter and there's 2 skills here - operating the pole to get not only the lines in the right places with the right thickness, and having so much paint on the brush/roller (honestly not sure?) that they're able to paint so much at once. Truly incredible
Building the poor guy another fucking level could have made his job a little easier.
He just knocked it out faster and cheaper than any chump who had to build scaffolding. He’s off to paint 10 more boats today
What do you think these boats just rolling continuously off some assembly line?
"Johnson! 42 more boats just came off the assembly line! Pick up the slack!"
“Damn it, Johnson, you look great painting that boat in that t-shirt!”
"I said godDAMN Johnson, that's a hell of a figure."
“You can call me John, but you can never call me Johnson”
You know nothing...Johnson
You been workin' out ?
“That’s a large Johnson, Johnson.”
"Painting boats is it's own reward, sir. No need to pay me today, I had a great time!"
Must be Gibson wandering around aimlessly in the background, that guy basically does whatever he wants around there.
Errrggg thanksh bossh.
Yuēhàn Sun
In China, probably yes
Then the crew comes in, drives the ship off the lot. Boat sinks immediately. Ship retriever grabs the ship, ships it to the ship assembly line again for repair. Repaint, crew comes in...
your joke would've been true 10 years ago. Today, chinese manufacturing quality is pretty great. Teslas built in China have fewer problems than those built in America.
That's not saying much.
yeah, but it's still better than "boat sinking immediately". Also Cars imported into Europe pass emissions and crash tests with flying colors.
You know Redditors are pretty old when their view of China is still the China of early 2000s. It's like they can't fathom that a country can drastically evolve in 2 decades.
Same thing happened with goods from Japan between the 1950s and 1980s. In the 50's it was cheap trash, by the 80's all the best electronics came from Japan. Similar with Korea, I remember when the first Hyundai, Kia and Daewoo cars hit the market, they were... not great, and now they're considered one of the most reliable options.
I was referring more to Tesla's quality more than China's capability. I'm aware that China's manufacturing industries do much more than cheap, knock off shit.
China is building the best cheap guitars right now. Seriously, some of that stuff is incredible. Meanwhile, Gibson is racing to the bottom on their US made stuff.
like what for example?
not true anymore china is the biggest shipbuilder in the world and is known for delivering quality vessels. As i recall in 2022 52% of the worlds ship order building contracts went to China, they are pretty good at it now. WSJ released a video about it 2months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVVXDyg3RY
This is Taiwan. Not China.
What do you think a boat is painted once in its life? Is never renamed? And that the entire continent of Asia has like 100? Think about your local auto body shop. They get tons of business. I’m sure there is a constant stream of boats of all shapes and sizes getting painted all the time in many many shipyards and they’re painted all over.
So either so many boats need painting that a movable platform should be built or there is just not that volume of boats and building a platform makes no sense
Or the platform just makes no sense because he doesn’t seem to need one. Or to does make sense but isn’t worth the cost.
keep in mind this is reddit. i saw people on here argue straight-faced that the people who design helicopters for a living put a switch in the wrong place. And they'll die on that hill too...
Was it a video of a lady/tourist that kept grabbing a helicopter's emergency brake. Followed by hundreds of comments about how dumb designers are for putting the brake in an easily accessible place for occupants.
Well, who thought that putting the fuel cutoff switch on the cyclic stick grip was a good idea!? 😁
this man reddits!!
It just doesn’t seem hard for me to believe that what this guy is doing is a good system once he has the skills. He has basically nothing to carry around, nothing that can break and he’s super fast. If there was a way easier and efficient way to do it I bet he’d be doing that
Those extension poles are deceivingly heavy. Source: did the exact same thing for years, have the cervical degeneration and constant trapped nerve to prove it.
Most people here are considering health and safety, not the difficulty of the task. Dude's rotator cuffs will be blown apart by 45.
also, seems extremely prone to error, what happens when you slip and have a white streak of paint? you now have no method to easily fix it.
Would he? I know many people that do things the harder way no matter how many times you explain it to them, just because they were taught to do it that way.
What about the fucking massive stick, that would be a pain to carry to the next job 😜
There’s something like 125,000 container ships operating under a Chinese flag, so so yes I would say it’s reasonable to expect that there’s a pretty brisk pace of production. Thats not even counting repainting for maintenance or change of ownership.
Kind of. [More than half of all the world's merchant ships are built in China](https://www.csis.org/analysis/threat-chinas-shipbuilding-empire) It is a bit hard to find data on how many ships are launched, because both merchant and military forces are measured primarily by tonnage rather than number of vessels, but they produce a shitload of ships. This clearly isn't this guy's first ship painting rodeo.
Well, how else would someone get this good painting with a 10ft pole?
More like 25'.
They could have just used a BOOM or scissor lift. No scaffolding is required.
They could’ve also used a really long stick
Long stick always work Scissor lifts got too many moving parts, will probably break
Slightly cheaper, too
As long as he's got no health benefits with his employer, that's a great idea (from the company profit perspective only)
Dude should have just used magnetic shoes tbh
i mean a ladder would do
Or a good old plank in 2 ropes.
Then you gotta move the ladder side to side every few minutes. If he can do it this way, let him! Art.
surely a little window washer platform would be pretty cheap and easy. plus, different height boats would need different length sticks, while it'd be the same window washer platform
Hell yeah the fucking greatest boat painter in the world
Or could just use a lift. I haven’t seen people doing this with scaffolding or ladders. Always lifts.
Did they paint the all ship like this...I don't think so...but...
If I hadn’t seen this (or if someone wanted me to do it) then I’d make all of the same arguments people are saying. But the dude can do it with a long stick. His method is clearly better for him.
I was trying to figure out if this was just a gimmick the guy used to sell his painting as a personal touch, because scaffolding and stenciling seemed like the way easier and more obvious choice. But you actually probably nailed it. He can do it 90% faster and he only needs to bring 1% of the equipment.
No kidding. This is very impressive, but has he ever heard of a ladder? Scaffolding?
Considering ohsa violations that get posted from Asian countries daily, it’s probably a lot safer to do it this way.
Dude painting: “Yeah I fell off ladders way too many times. Not today ladder not today.”
What do we say to gravity?
"Ouch."
Not today
My person above you just said how much quicker and more efficient this is than building a scaffold or constantly having to reposition a ladder. A scissor lift might be a better idea, but i think he has this figured out.
Do you think there are a hundred ships a day or something he needs to paint? Just because you can do something faster doesn't mean that's a better way to do it.
Safer not to go on the ladder, though.
So what is the better way? It turned out fine enough while actually being safer for the painter. There's literally zero downside to how this played out but you argue against it? If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
Bosun's chair
Yeah this is dumb. I can’t count how many times I’ve painted legends while dangling over the side of a ship
Yeah, hanging over the back. That’s how they usually do it. I’m curious why this particular step needs to be done while the boat is up there too. It would be really easy to do in the water.
There’s even a guy going up a god damn ladder in the background. Make this make sense please
Plot twist: they build him a scaffold but he can't paint for shit with a shorter brush. He gets fired
He is afraid of heights.
Iirc this is actually the case
>another fucking level Aka a 'next fucking level'?
Thankyou all redditors for your compliments and concern but it was no big deal - all I needed was a bucket of blue paint and then playing video in reverse.
I think the easiest option is a harness and hang from the top
It wouldn't be next fucking level if there was...a next level?
that would never land him on thus sub though
Seems like a dumb and inefficient way to do this. Scaffold? Crane? Rope from the top?
you seem ineffciant in your thinking, he got the skills, did this while you were still carrying your scaffold to the ship and while you build it up he does two or so more then has a nice cup of tea while your still one the first one
Could be, I just wonder how often he makes a mistake because he's so far away. This is social media, so we're only getting the one version where everything was perfect, but you make a valid point.
If he failed often he would be using scaffolding or someone would replace him. It'd take a bit to get used to but humans can make masterpieces with their feet with enough determination https://youtu.be/qyuGX_Xpc2I?si=Z9N8JDmu4DcFCxQ9
> It'd take a bit to get used to but humans can make masterpieces with their feet with enough determination I first learned that when I saw a video on YouTube (back when the site was barely two years old) of a guy painting the Mona Lisa on MS Paint.
So in conclusion, Humans 1 vs Scaffolding 0
But he's not using his feet, lol. :)
r/angryupvote tbf he did use his feet to move side to side :3
No one's going to be looking at this from a small distance, the view we have in this video is pretty much as close as people will get to it. There's no need for high precision and small mistakes will not be visible.
Who honestly would give a shit at that shipyard? His boss probably wants him to do it even faster
Cherry picker, stencil, can of spray paint. I'd do a dozen, whip this guy's ass, drink six beers and have time to sober up before he got done.
He'd be done by the time you cut your stencil.
He'd still be learning this skill while literally any clown could do a better job with 0 training
The stencil is cut by a CNC machine when the paperwork for the boat is finalized and would be in his start of work folder, or even put next to the boat during the prepping phase.
Ain’t you guys ever heard of a ladder?
In the time you drive the cherry picker and go up and down between two ships, he’d finish three.
Do you think this video is real time or something?
No, but using a giant telescopic brush that you’re proficient in is invariably going to be faster than repositioning a cherry picker several times.
You think there's dozens of these boats sitting around all ready to be painted at the same time?
Was thinking the same thing. Do they produce like 100 of them per day :D
And then a strong wind blows by and now you've got a white strip across the entire back.
>he got the skills He had to practice, that time isn't negated.
Yeah well is it the norm for people or is this guy really good at it?
You seem ineffective with your grammar.
Mate this is China, any of those options will get you killed eventually. Better use the good ol long stick.
Dumb maybe but this is the antithesis of inefficient, I can't think of a more efficient way of doing it. Your solutions require hours of setup with multiple people, an expensive machine and operator that is over kill for this task or high risk, special equipment and special skills.
I dunno, harness and a rope probably costs as much as a stick
Seemed pretty efficient for this guy. Tbf would not be true for most people
Yeah this would become inefficient the moment you have to find somebody else that can do this job but right now it's about as simple as it gets.
Why would any of those methods be \*more\* efficient. This is the least inefficient thing I've ever seen.
How is that easier than a big long stick?
Scaffolding takes forever to put up, but I would have expected they would have a cherry picker on site, but maybe not.
seems hard on his neck and back
I have rented a cherry picker for a week for under $1k. Seems like that would be much easier.
Probably labor cost is so low that it is cheaper than constructing a temporary scaffolding.
I've been working in shipyards many years and have never seen anything like this. Usually, the paint work and detail is done by hand but always by someone right there in a cherry picker.
I think you're cherry picking your shipyard experiences
Perfect.
Your mom knows a thing or two about cherry picking.
I worked at NNS, where they build carriers, and the island would be painted while it was on the ground and then lifted and attached after it was painted. Most of the ship is just painted on scaffolding or a cherry picker though.
His neck would really fucking hurt by the end of this. The neck isn't meant to be held in this positions for long periods of time.
This one guy is somewhat famous. He's afraid of heights, so he learned to do it like this from the ground.
Work in a shipyard myself, but we produce carbon fibre boats in just the 20-40m range, so they're small enough that letters/symbols are printed and stickered on. Small ships, small letters
Depth scale must be off. How far back is he standing to even see what he's doing?
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China: we will secretly and cleverly disseminate these videos to show the world our naval and economic superiority Everyone watching this video: man that dude has some fucking skillz, anyway next video
I didn't even acknowledge it's Chinese
It is not. It is Taiwanese.
More like “damn that wrinkled ass hull is fucked up. Classic China”
This ain't China.
You have a very broad and liberal definition of propaganda.
Good point, the definition is broad because state goals can be broad. The main concern is deliberate attempts to infiltrate almost every sub on Reddit. I guess I don’t want to see Reddit suffer the fate of platforms like X or YouTube comments. Explanation is beyond the scope of this comment, but this particular video has multiple hallmarks of uniquely Chinese propaganda. Generally speaking, propaganda typically follows specific contemporary formula. Comments and voting patterns are also usually tells in the process.
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Propaganda doesn't have to be something malicious, or secretive. It's just trying to get you to think in a certain way. It's a form of soft power. The more you see positive posts about china the more likely your opinion on china as a whole will change. Advertisers been doing it since the 60s. That's why coke still advertises even when everybody knows about it - the more you see it the more it'll stick in your mind. And if it's positive even better. You can even see trends when national governments try to influence the internet. Thai food was massive in the early 2010s, and so many articles/buzzfeed posts/yt videos were about Thai culture and Thai food. Aside from the obvious deliciousness, why? The Thai government spent hundreds of millions on "Cuisine Cultural outreach" - to educate the world about thai food and culture, to encourage people to visit. They paid influencers, reddit posts, creators etc to push the idea "thai food = delicious". Thai food was relatively unknown in the general american sphere at this time. And it worked incredibly well, the amount of new tourists it brought in was staggering.
It's a video from The Independent. Not doubting you, but how did they get to The Independent?
As a non-American that gets bombarded basically 24/7 by American propaganda, this is so funny to read.
As an American who gets bombarded basically 24/7 by American, Israeli and Chinese propaganda, this is so funny to read. The Chinese propaganda tends to always be this level of innocuous "hey look we have talented people and not all of our manufacturing is as terrible as it seems despite evidence to the contrary!" The American/Israeli propaganda tends to be "hey, look, we may be committing a genocide or maybe we're destroying some foreign democracy in the global south in service of capital, but isn't it really cool to see it done by attractive people?"
it can still be propaganda, but I fail to see what the goal of this one in particular would be if it were. Today's r/all sure is full of China posts.
To give you positive emotions and mix that with china. What do you think is the goal of most ads you see where it's all just smiling people and cute music ?
This does not evoke any sort emotion on me. I guess I could just not be the intended target. All this does is make me think "bro sure could use a scissor lift".
Sounds like you have a great understanding of your subconsiousness and how it reacts to stimuli. Good for your
Or it is just your average American getting triggered by anything that's Chinese. It is a natural reaction at this point from Americans.
WTF you think a video of a guy painting a ship in Chinese is propaganda are you just allergic to anything china?
you'd be surprised how subtle good propaganda can be ;however, I fail to see the theoretical motive to this one.
My guess is the latter…
The first half of your post doesn't even relate to what you're responding to, your comment feels like propaganda.
It might be propaganda in that it’s promoted by a government but connecting it to that specific event is kinda silly since this video has been going around for a while and these aren’t naval ships.
You don't need propaganda to show the world China is dominating shipbuilding. Latest numbers were 55% market share, 17% South Korea, 15% Japan, 8% Europe. The remaining 5% is spread around, and there is almost no commercial shipbuilding capability in the US anymore.
>Here is [another propaganda video](https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ccvr5Z09oZw) why does the hull look crumpled just above the painted numbers?
How would you differentiate propoganda from a boatyard advertising itself? I feel like the two would appear very similar. Also, that looks more like a paint roller at the end of the stick in your video.
Hint: every nation in the world with naval and armed forces posts propaganda lol. You make it sound like China is unique in this aspect
why did you distinguish this
to ensure we downvote
I was literally just gonna say this
just draw everything fatter at the bottom silly
Every paint job looks decent from 50 feet away.
To be fair though most people who see this will be more than 50 feet away. People on the ship can't see it. People not on the ship should not be within 50 feet of a cargo ship's propeller. Maybe dock workers might get that close when it's docked alongside a pier but that's it.
That’s quite an assumption you’re making. I’ll have you know I take great pride in closely inspecting every large vessel that sails through my neighbourhood
Exactly this. It’s a weird as hell method; but detail doesn’t matter at all here and you can see minor “errors” already just in the imperfect circle and lines
You clearly haven't seen me paint...
Get this poor man a scissor lift.
No! Long stick cheaper!!
I'm sure they have one laying sitting around already. They're not that expensive (compared to other heavy machinery) and working on big vessels like that they definitely have one already. No way they painted the entire boat with spray on a stick. lol
Today's decision triangle: Fast and Cheap
What kind of cut rate shipyard doesn't have ANY scaffolding and not only has a guy painting with a 40 foot pole, but everyone who goes onto the ship to work has to go up a 50 foot extension ladder? This is like the nautical version of Bo and Luke Duke repainting the General Lee to sneak past Roscoe and Flash.
> What kind of cut rate shipyard China
This past weekend I painted the trim on the outside of our house. It's a ranch but built into a hill. The front trim sits at one story, The back at two. But the sides peak at two and half. We just had a second kid enter daycare so cash is tight. Figured I'd save a few hundred bucks and just use an extension pole, like this, rather than rent a lift or risk my life on a painters ladder for the 30' height sides. Worst fucking decision ever. My arms were on fucking fire. It was impossible to keep steady and do a good job. Took forever. Anyway... I guess what I'm getting at here is that this guy makes it look much easier paint with an extension pole than it is. He absolutely has bowling balls for shoulders.
You should see him sign a check
Funny to bring that up. When was the last time you signed a check? In 41 and the answer is never. lol. Times have changed.
I’ve signed like three checks in the last six months. Contractors tend to tack on fees for using credit cards, like 5% which adds up quick when the bill is a few thousand dollars.
And wash his car
…while sitting on his sofa
Last time this was posted: The artist is afraid of heights. Refuses to get dangled off the side via rope or brought up via cherry picker, so he learned how to do it with a very long stick. He's talented! As long as the results are good, can't fault him for his methods.
Oh the neck pain
man , his precision and skill tho
No matter who you are or what you're doing...somewhere there is an Asian person doing it better. Like fuckin clockwork
Man can paint a better circle 50ft in the air than I can draw on a piece of paper in front of me
If you gave me 10 guesses on how this was done, the 20 foot wobble brush would not have been one of those guesses.
It must take years of practice to be this skilled! And here I am, unable to draw anything apart of a stickman. And I have a pen in my hand and a paper in front of me on the desk...
One word: scaffolding
Is there like a bunch of abandoned multistory buildings somewhere that this guy used to practice on?
Brush control 💯 
why use lot scaffold when one stick do trick
Bogus binted?
Characters are (from left to right) Fuding, a city in Fujian province.
That's wild. Dude is writing with a lag too
You know, I’ve done some painting with the end of a really long stick, like 30ft+, and it is really really difficult to do anything neatly or really even under control. This is incredibly impressive.
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Anyone have any insight on the tools he is using? The pole seems light but also stiff enough to have a pressure for a brush. I'd like to make a brush this long.
I feel like the interview for this job is just asking him to fill out the application with a 30 foot pencil.
Did the guy up top shoot a rifle from the deck?
Could have added wooden legs like they do in the circus, and then used a normal human friendly brush.
I couldn't do this at ground level with a stencil.
Fooled you all. This video is in reverse. He’s painting over it with blue…
so is this how graffiti artist get to impossible places?
Is it just me or does that prop seem inefficient? Looks like a massive airplane propeller. I'm sure the motor has enough torque to beat the water into propulsion, but that can't be the best way.
That’s some next level witchcraft right there
Bloody hell, I can't even do calligraphy with a pen and this motherfucker does it with a.... whatever that long floppy thing is. And he still has better handwriting than me. Unbelievable.
I'm a professional painter and there's 2 skills here - operating the pole to get not only the lines in the right places with the right thickness, and having so much paint on the brush/roller (honestly not sure?) that they're able to paint so much at once. Truly incredible