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Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by selimthegrim » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 2:10 AM UTC

MrRiddle wrote: post #22

I watched Mark Weins when he was in Pakistan. Interestingly, during multiple half an hour videos, filmed on obviously very busy streets, there was absolutely no female in sight. Such a disgusting country.

You realize there’s more than one part of the country?

Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by techsin101 » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 2:12 AM UTC

MrRiddle wrote: post #22

I watched Mark Weins when he was in Pakistan. Interestingly, during multiple half an hour videos, filmed on obviously very busy streets, there was absolutely no female in sight. Such a disgusting country.

common attitude there is if i'm marrying a man why should i be out working, perhaps you saw a commercial market

Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by amerkhalid » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 2:33 AM UTC

asadlionpk wrote: post #37

asadlionpk wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would recommend going down that rabbit hole (specially Coke Studio videos with CC) sometime. There are many more magical ones in there.

Some of my favs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra5nTlty6CM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgmqIpIbBVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDkCEFmYfE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzdMLhGOIhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzb6uI7xRA8 (Enable CC and read along)

Thanks for sharing this. Coke Studio is amazing. I have introduced many friends to Pakistani music with Coke Studio. Almost everyone loves it. Got friends who keep asking me for links to same videos, lol.

Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by barry-cotter » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 2:38 AM UTC

the_arun wrote: post #7

I respect & appreciate talent of Pakistanis in art & music. They have some legendary singers. Not sure it is the language (Urdu) giving them that skill or they are natively talented.

Urdu is the native language of a very small number of Pakistanis, mostly the 3% of the population that descend from families that moved from India at independence, the Mojahirs. Punjabi and Sindhi are mother tongue to far more people.

Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by throwaway0a5e » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 2:43 AM UTC

tsomctl wrote: post #8

Somewhat related, the Youtube channel Pakistani truck ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64FbxoHfUWd5hykYk5_BvQ/vid... ). Here's a good example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E3TnJX61Oo It's absolutely amazing how good of work they do using ridiculously crude tools. Extremely skilled people. I strongly recommend you don't watch if you're a manager or OSHA inspector, though.

They have a pretty well set up shop. Big (enough for what they need) lathe, mill, welders a multitude of presses and typical power tools. What they don't have is ubiquitous power tools for each and every job. Those are characteristic of high labor cost environments. All the "crude" stuff is just job specific tooling that you amass over they years.

Someone needs to teach them how to properly install rivets (they would be substantially stronger with no additional work if they heated the whole body) and the one guy who actually welds properly needs to teach the rest of them to do so too.

Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by mayankgoel28 » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 2:47 AM UTC

> drivers can easily spend up to $2,500 for a basic paint job, which is two years' salary

The two years' salary is for drivers, and drivers usually don't own their trucks. It is probably not the drivers spending on the paint job, but the owners.

Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by 55555 » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 3:00 AM UTC

This looks terrible for wind resistance and fuel efficiency, no?

Also, Pakistan is home to a wealth of consistently great tech talent. I always call out Pakistan, Vietnam, and Ukraine when sourcing software developers on upwork. Just a tip. (I'm partial to Vietnam as well but tbh they have a very low English proficiency level.)

Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by bombcar » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 3:34 AM UTC

55555 wrote: post #47

This looks terrible for wind resistance and fuel efficiency, no? Also, Pakistan is home to a wealth of consistently great tech talent. I always call out Pakistan, Vietnam, and Ukraine when sourcing software developers on upwork. Just a tip. (I'm partial to Vietnam as well but tbh they have a very low English proficiency level.)

Depending on the speeds it may not make much of a difference - wind resistance is the square or cube of speed and those dirt roads don’t look too fast.

Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by bombcar » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 3:36 AM UTC

mustntmumble wrote: post #3

Here is another article about the painted trucks. https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200502/masterpieces.to... I was trying to find out why people started building wooden crowns on top of the Bedford trucks in the first place, but no luck... Did the crowns come first, and then get painted, or did the art come first, and then people added the crowns in order to create more surface area for the art?

I would suspect the crowns were originally to hold more of a load - especially if it is something bulky but relatively light.

Re: Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

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Post by smusamashah » Thu, Jan 07, 2021, 3:36 AM UTC

MrRiddle wrote: post #22

I watched Mark Weins when he was in Pakistan. Interestingly, during multiple half an hour videos, filmed on obviously very busy streets, there was absolutely no female in sight. Such a disgusting country.

How you being unable to see a women in a video make a whole country disgusting?