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hand perned in an authentic gyre

blind pele (darraghmac), Friday, 4 November 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link

and, likewise, current cultural obsession with american pickers/storage wars/pawn stars is a flexing of dormant scavenging muscles. people know, even if they don't know, that finding the good stuff will be increasingly more important when the storm has left town and you don't get a visit from FEMA or the Red Cross for months.

scott seward, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link

that's a good point

call all destroyer, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link

yer man yeats was a fellow for the arts and crafts, d'mac -- his sister worked with morris

mark s, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link

and, needless to say, the 400 popular shows about being dropped into the wild and eating bugs.

scott seward, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link

hand perned in an authentic gyre

W B LOL

Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Friday, 4 November 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link

i just got a great roycrofter book in at the store. i love their stuff. elbert hubbard's scrapbook. a memorial to the man made with loving detail.

scott seward, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link

I posted this link over on ILM but it also fits this thread I think. Basically you're paying $500 for a tape reel of music recorded directly from the studio master tapes. You'll need a decent reel-to-reel tape deck. So you'll be sepnding upwards of $1100 for one album and the tape player.

http://www.tapeproject.com/

brownie, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link

i like how a thread about consumerism can become a thread about a survivalism

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

sincerely!

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

I keep reading the thread title to the tune of Husker Du's "Charity, Chastity, Prudence and Hope."

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link

i would love nothing more than for my kids to learn a trade. find an apprenticeship somewhere. carpenters! the world will always need carpenters. screw college. i mean, what if they became librarians or something! *shudder*

scott seward, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link

tbh the world also needs librarians

whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link

http://hooniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Time-Enough.png

scott seward, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link

Oh the the noise board did this already. We're going to stockpile rope, cigarettes, bike parts, and weed and ride our bikes across the country to gbx's family home, or, barring that, possibly mine.

WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link

my gf's dad is a master carpenter. i feel that isn't fair, somehow. i can't be expected to impress a master carpenter ffs

blind pele (darraghmac), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link

Oh yeah, that sucks. Otoh, she seems to like you okay?

WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link

that hardly matters where i come from, i need two signatures on the form- paterfamilias and the bishop- then i own her iirc

blind pele (darraghmac), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link

I posted this link over on ILM but it also fits this thread I think. Basically you're paying $500 for a tape reel of music recorded directly from the studio master tapes. You'll need a decent reel-to-reel tape deck. So you'll be sepnding upwards of $1100 for one album and the tape player.

http://www.tapeproject.com/

― brownie, Friday, November 4, 2011 5:03 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

M4r1ss4 M4rch4nt to thread

Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link

oh hell no you didn't

blind pele (darraghmac), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link

her

blind pele (darraghmac), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

I wouldn't her

Y Kant Lou Reed (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link

Shasta already went there

D. Boon Pickens (WmC), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link

...the world will always need carpenters. screw college.

And they can go to Screw College to learn how.

nickn, Friday, 4 November 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

graduates of Screw College make 20% more than graduates of Nail College

ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Friday, 4 November 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link

Don't tell your kid to be a carpenter, get him or her into plumbing, electrical or HVAC if you want to encourage a trade. Or auto mechanic shit.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link

thread title makes me hear Rancid's "Cash, Culture and Violence" in my head, ugh

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 4 November 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

HVAC will be a growth industry when we all have to move into hermetically sealed dome cities

whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Friday, 4 November 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link

DR: It’s like we only have a hammer and it’s really hard to put in screws. Centralized currency is really, really good for competition, it’s really, really good for big companies. Wal-Mart and Citibank can get money more cheaply; the bigger you are, the closer you are to the storehouse. And the big guys don’t want local currencies, they don’t want bottom-up value creation, work-based money, money that is worked into existence instead of borrowed into existence, because that reduces their monopoly over the means of exchange.

http://hilobrow.com/2011/11/04/douglas-rushkoff/

scott seward, Friday, 4 November 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link

so much smdh in that piece

iatee, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link

Wait wait. I just read it and I thought it was like brain explosions, b/c I have never heard of any of the concepts under discussion. Iatee, what are you saying?

WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link

if you take everything he says to be true then I could see lots of brain explosions, but like, 30% of what he says is true, most of it is sloppy history and weirdo neo-feudalist econ

iatee, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link

Did anyone else read remy's story and initially expect that the apprentice figured out how to make it into an assembly line production and now has a factory in China? The anecdote really speaks to a fickle consumer base, or at least an undereducated one, a new good that has good marketing but unknown longevity, and a lack of understanding about what makes a good, maintainable product. Sometimes this stuff happens and there's a giant web forum full of people calling a product complete shit six months later, both killing the new business and the original since it's all migrated by the time the newcomer is found out.

Even if you haven't met face to face, buying a print from a hipster on Etsy is more of a personal link than getting a poster from Ikea.

There was a site I saw not long ago that was calling people out for selling mass-produced goods on etsy! People are pretty obviously just buying cheap shit and reselling it there, although with variable success. etsy and other sites have policies against that, but people slip through the cracks.

mh, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link

haha that's a good idea I want to get into that business

iatee, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link

Well this is definitely wrong:

"Fast-forward to the 1970s. After four or five centuries of people believing it, Nixon realized that people now do believe, so the currency can be taken off the central metal and just be based on belief. That’s when they started putting “In God We Trust” on paper money, when it was taken off the gold standard."

Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link

I lol'd at the thing about women in England being taller in the middle ages. oooookay

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link

like that's indicative of anything

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link

xxp Like I don't understand the timeline of US history at all wrong.

Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link

he's sort of right that the dark ages are misnamed and the renaissance is over-glorified, but that's because there's more continuity between them all.

goole, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link

"PN: It seems like the Dark Ages were not perhaps so “dark.”

DR: Yes, I think that’s disinformation. I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist about these things, but I think the reason why we celebrate the Renaissance as a high point of western culture is really a marketing campaign. It was a way for Renaissance monarchs and nation-states, and the industrial age powers that followed, to recast the end of one of the most vibrant human civilizations we’ve had, as a dark, plague-ridden, horrible time."

or shit like this

I mean ffs all he has to do is read the wikipedia page for 'dark ages' before he says something this stupid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

iatee, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link

the currency can be taken off the central metal

The value of the metal also based upon belief.

Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

The concept of a Dark Age originated with the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s, and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature.

awful Renaissance monarch Petrarch, what an asshole

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link

i dig that guy sometimes. i really just wanted to quote that quote. cuz that is something that can be really true. communities that become more self-sufficient or whatever are probably better off in the long run. course it helps if you live somewhere with lots of resources and smart people, but, uh, you know...

scott seward, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

The value of the metal also based upon belief.

yeah currency is a social contract, the weird implication that there is some sort of ACTUAL VALUE independent of people's implicit agreement that x = y is odd

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link

well the quote is bunk too. centralized currency is good for all of us, it's a big reason why our economy is a bazillion times bigger than in the periods he's romanticizing.

iatee, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link

There's a great This American Life (I think, or maybe it was a Fresh Air interview with an author?) about the history of money, and one of the examples given is a primative society which used GIANT IMMOBILE STATUES as currency, one of which was at the bottom of an ocean.

pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link

which is why we can afford computers, toilets, whatever.

citibank and walmart aren't pro 'centralized currency' cause of some conspiracy theory against 'value creation', they're pro 'centralized currency' cause that's a basic aspect of a modern economy

also see: every other country on the planet.

xp to myself

iatee, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link

hurting 2, this (planet money) must be what you're thinking of:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-island-of-stone-money

lxy, Friday, 4 November 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

LIXY IS THAT YOU

WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 4 November 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link

its not so much the centralized currency part. its the need for alternatives. local alternatives on a human scale and not on a big bank/walmart scale. because their scale has no end. they believe in infinite growth. no end to how big they can be. and most people don't have those same needs. people feel like there is only one way of doing something. and there should be at least, like, two ways.

scott seward, Friday, 4 November 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link


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