hot look: gym teacher at church
― goole, Friday, 20 April 2012 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
you've met my father, right? just toss on a pair of wranglers and a bugle boy polo and you've got the man
― fka snush (remy bean), Friday, 20 April 2012 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
the clothes encircle the man
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Friday, 20 April 2012 22:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
So, have we talked about this yet?http://nymag.com/nymag/toc/20120423/
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 April 2012 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow talk about threadbait. i'm gonna dig in with handmade fork and knife!
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
it is a lot of fun writing sentences like this:
"More than anyone else in the New Brooklyn artisan movement, they exemplify to an almost implausible degree the daguerreotype stereotype of the bristly hipster, in newsboy cap and tweed britches, pedaling his penny-farthing to a north Brooklyn industrial space to make handcrafted nano-batch sweetmeats."
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
not to be too confusing, but THESE Mast brothers are actually hipper. Singing ancient folk song while cleaning golf balls:
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
where IS christopher guest during all this? he has really dropped the ball. allowing indie rockers to steal his comic thunder via portlandia.
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Plutocrats of a certain stripe like their baubles to come with meaningful, brow-furrowing backstories, and the artisans, with their small-scale production and deliberate inefficiencies and expensive ingredients, need the postindustrial wealthy to buy their $14 pickles and $10 granola. The buyer of $9 jam, after all, isn’t another maker of $9 jam. It’s the guy whose multinational robotic assembly line spits out jars of $1 jam. Or it’s his trustafarian son, the Global Jam Logistics heir. Or it’s the private-equity guy who just offshored GJL to a sweatshop in Bangalore."
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
they put a bird on it
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
we did talk about it. itt I think. or another.
― iatee, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I bought my wife a Mast Brothers bar for Easter and now she's worried that there might be beard hairs in it.
― Moodles, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh right now i'm remembering that everyone in brooklyn hates the By Brooklyn thing. or people here do. or someone did. cuz you gotta hate yer own kind if you live there.
― scott seward, Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
I realized reading this article that as much as I sometimes get grumpy about all this stuff, I kind of can't really come up with any well-reasoned critique of it. I mean ok, it's niche luxury goods with a vague moral veneer. But it also represents, at its best, genuine dedication to craft and meaningful, enjoyable employment for a good number of people.
At the end of the day I just can't afford to stock my entire fridge with this sort of products. I can pay a few $ more per pound for the locally roasted coffee, drink the locally brewed beer from time to time and maybe enjoy the occasional treat at smorgasburg. I'm not going to stock my entire condiment shelf with $9 mayo, $14 pickles, $12 ketchup, etc. I guess the gimmickyness of all of it gets irritating at times, as does the false nostalgia (it's not like 19th century craft industries operated with any special attention to morality, fair trade, fair labor practices, etc.). But whatever, if the people who can afford this stuff want to pay for it, I don't really see the loss. If anything, it goes with my general belief in wealth recapture via overcharging the rich.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 April 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
p much
― iatee, Friday, 27 April 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
this country has never been very good at being european. but i guess ya gotta try. or move to quebec.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 April 2012 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Something very American and un-European about this movement's heavy reliance on novelty, actually.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
hurting consistently otm
― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
But whatever, if the people who can afford this stuff want to pay for it, I don't really see the loss. If anything, it goes with my general belief in wealth recapture via overcharging the rich.
especially this. back in the 80s, the yuppies had the brilliant insight that we could all live basically as wage slaves no matter how much we happened to make, so long as our sense of "the necessities" were properly calibrated to our income bracket.
― THE KITTEN TYPE (contenderizer), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's why i said this country has never been very good at it!
x-posts
― scott seward, Friday, 27 April 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
people can't just make their lovingly crafted stuff and be quiet about it. gotta have an angle and a little razamataz. hotchacha!
― scott seward, Friday, 27 April 2012 15:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
gotta hava gimmick!
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Friday, 27 April 2012 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jakehimself/flint-and-tinder-premium-mens-underwear
― raw feel vegan (silby), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
"flint and tinder"
would set fire to all this menswear
― the late great, Monday, 30 April 2012 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
which part is the flint and which is the tinder?
i'm guessing the penis is the tinder. and flint balls.
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Incidentally, can someone explain kickstarter projects to me? Like why do people "pledge" money for someone's for-profit venture?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well they often get products in return for one thing.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah but in this case it's like $5 or more for some matches.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Some projects make sense -- they take a certain amount of money to get off the ground, so you're basically paying for the first round of a product in advance for a discount, or you want the product to exist so you throw in a few bucks.
The ones where there's a ton of levels of funding but you don't get anything are... more nebulous
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2012 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
louis black on the daily show yesterday touched on this artisanal thing.
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty good routine: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-may-1-2012/back-in-black---artisanal-foods
― s.clover, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbf that's more about the "artisanal thing" being picked up on by industrial food than about the "artisanal thing" itself.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
A sour grapes review of Googa Mooga that doesn't really say very much:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2012/05/the_great_googamooga_and_elitism_what_brooklyn_s_food_festival_says_about_foodies_.html
Hmm, sour grapes...artisinal food light bulb!
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Friday, 25 May 2012 20:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://brooklynintegers.com/
― s.clover, Friday, 3 August 2012 02:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
spoon carver Barnaby Carder "sits in the window at 260 Hackney Road carving spoons for eight hours at a stretch.
http://remodelista.com/posts/a-spoon-carver-in-spitalfields
― jed_, Friday, 16 November 2012 12:15 (6 months ago) Permalink
Dude is making me nervous.
― Jeff, Friday, 16 November 2012 12:22 (6 months ago) Permalink
some of those are plainly spatulas
― koogs, Friday, 16 November 2012 13:05 (6 months ago) Permalink
does he use an entire tree for each spoon he makes? i'd like to think that he does.
― scott seward, Friday, 16 November 2012 13:41 (6 months ago) Permalink
"When I've made a good spoon I feel good within myself"
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:49 (6 months ago) Permalink
lol burnout
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:29 (6 months ago) Permalink
probably doesn't make forks and knives because they contain hostile energy
it's kind of remarkable how handcrafting have been come to be so revered, in part by disregarding the grinding physical labor that a lot of it consists of
in 30 or 40 years, will this generation of artisans display their arthritic hands, hunched backs, and ruined eyes as badges of authenticity?
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:36 (6 months ago) Permalink
has^
he's called Barnaby.
― jed_, Friday, 16 November 2012 16:22 (6 months ago) Permalink
sorry guys, i can't go out tonight, i'm making a spoon
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 November 2012 16:26 (6 months ago) Permalink
he's on his third set of hands this week
wooden leg fits real nice now, doesn't chafe at all.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 November 2012 17:54 (6 months ago) Permalink
I initially misread the post as saying that it takes him 8 hours to make a spoon, btw
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:09 (6 months ago) Permalink
I do kind of wonder how fast he can make them.
"On the other hand, when I make a lop-sided spoon full of hairline cracks that probably won't last a year, I feel kind of meh. But, what the hey; it's still a fucking handmade spoon."
― Aimless, Friday, 16 November 2012 18:19 (6 months ago) Permalink