Nerd of the Week: Lord of The Rings Chainmail Saves Energy IRL
147Kaynemail, the specially designed chainmail for the Lord of the Rings movies made by weapons designer Kayne Horsham is helping save energy, build buildings, and even serving as art in the real world. Kayne invented a fantasy material thats helping reality, so he's the Nerd of the Week!
"On the set of The Lord of the Rings, actor Viggo Mortensen had a nickname for the chainmail he and his costars wore: Kaynemail.
It was a reference to Kayne Horsham, the film’s creature, armor, and weapons art director. Though you might only see it on screen for a millisecond, each chainmail shirt that Horsham and his crew created contained 80,000 rings–which had to be linked and woven by hand. Over the course of three years, they interlocked millions of rings for chainmail suits worn by Mortensen’s Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and crew–not to mention hundreds of Orcs–in the series of films’ epic battle sequences."*
* Read more: https://www.fastcodesign.com/90126136/the-lord-of-the-rings-weapons-designer-invented-this-cool-new-building-material
Who should be the next NOTW?
►Nerd Alert needs YOU! Please subscribe for more! http://dft.ba/-5yMt
****************************************************
On FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/NerdAlertTYT
ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NerdAlertTYT
KIM:
https://twitter.com/kimscorcher
https://instagram.com/kimhorcher/
BONNIE:
https://twitter.com/BonnieBellG
http://www.bonnieballgordon.net/
Nerd Alert: Bringing you tech news, gaming, geek culture and more every day of the week with host Kim Horcher and friends. Part of the TYT Network of shows.
http://youtube.com/user/nerdalert