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!
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― 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
http://gawker.com/5961169/unionmade-retailer-of-expensive-fashions-that-are-not-union-made
relevant
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:35 (6 months ago) Permalink
http://www.bitlaw.com/source/15usc/1125.html
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:41 (6 months ago) Permalink
I'm not a hunter-gatherer. I buy my food in the shops. I have a rucksack with everything I need for a camp in it: tarpaulin, bivvy bag, sleeping bag, mat, metal cup, coal tar soap and a little nail brush for cleaning. Each day I cut wood, carve spoons, then head into town and sell them in the street for £5-£30 each. You meet so many people: smack addicts heading for their daily fix, other street sellers, beautiful girls who talk to you for ages and buy lots of spoons. The end of the day comes and I feel brilliant.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2012/mar/16/weekender-barnaby-carder
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:41 (6 months ago) Permalink
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:42 (6 months ago) Permalink
For November only I'm taking online orders for cooking/serving spoons (minimum order - 10 spoons).
£100 plus £10 postage get's you a mixture of 5 octagonal handled and 5 Roma style spoons. I carve initials on the Roma Spoons (maximum 3 initials). If you make payment before 11th November i will carve the initials for free otherwise they are £1/ character.
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:44 (6 months ago) Permalink
2 hr workshop (Friday only): “The ten most important knifegrasps in carving. How to use the knife and your body and sharp soul to make functional and beautiful spoons.”
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:49 (6 months ago) Permalink
that's seems like a lot of waste. I'd rather have a wooden spoon that was carved by a CNC machine and designed to get the maximum number of spoons out of a piece of wood.
― wk, Friday, 16 November 2012 18:58 (6 months ago) Permalink
although I guess at night he probably unpacks his rucksack and nests into that pile of shavings.
― wk, Friday, 16 November 2012 18:59 (6 months ago) Permalink
haha true
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:01 (6 months ago) Permalink
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:02 (6 months ago) Permalink
lol, 3 days!?
― wk, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:03 (6 months ago) Permalink
I'm picturing an army of Barnabys rambling across the english countryside, doing their best to finish off the deforestation of the UK.
― wk, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:07 (6 months ago) Permalink
SPOONSMITHS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:07 (6 months ago) Permalink
I'd just roll up with my lathe and kick those dudes asses
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:08 (6 months ago) Permalink
or just start up HANDMADE SPOONS INC., sourced from chinese factories
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:15 (6 months ago) Permalink
You don't understand. Handmade is the name of my computer-operated lathe.
― Aimless, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:18 (6 months ago) Permalink
You don't understand, I mean handmade of death. My english is how you say inelegant.
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:26 (6 months ago) Permalink