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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Well they often get products in return for one thing.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
louis black on the daily show yesterday touched on this artisanal thing.
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
http://brooklynintegers.com/
― s.clover, Friday, 3 August 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://remodelista.com/img/sub/uimg//11-2012/barn-the-spoon-at-work.jpg
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 (eleven years ago) link
Dude is making me nervous.
― Jeff, Friday, 16 November 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
some of those are plainly spatulas
― koogs, Friday, 16 November 2012 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"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 (eleven years ago) link
lol burnout
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
has^
he's called Barnaby.
― jed_, Friday, 16 November 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
sorry guys, i can't go out tonight, i'm making a spoon
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 16 November 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bitlaw.com/source/15usc/1125.html
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gUTjdLuOz0Y/UDt7JnvN0lI/AAAAAAAAAWU/3bmM-STtV3w/s1600/IMGP2575.JPG
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 16 November 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
although I guess at night he probably unpacks his rucksack and nests into that pile of shavings.
― wk, Friday, 16 November 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
haha true
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/042Np.jpg
― Swole Miss (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
lol, 3 days!?
― wk, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
SPOONSMITHS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
or just start up HANDMADE SPOONS INC., sourced from chinese factories
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
You don't understand. Handmade is the name of my computer-operated lathe.
― Aimless, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
my spoon is lathed out of human hands. HANDMADE.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
I keep singing Soundgarden's "Spoonman" in my head but can't come up with an appropriately witty joke to go with that reference
so I'll just put it out there
― dmr, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
There are lots of craftsman skills that would probably be helpful if the modern world suddenly came crashing to a halt, but I'll be the one laughing when I see Barnaby trying to whittle a spoon in the Thunderdome.
― Moodles, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
but you'll be laughing on the other side of your face when you find a yoghurt and have no way to eat it.
― fun facts about human waste (Merdeyeux), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.the-rudy.com/images/spoon_can-tee_f.jpg
― wk, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
not sure what the deal is with that but it seemed relevant
― wk, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
yes, that does say spoon
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Friday, 16 November 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
well, it's the canned hands that we'll use to carve our handmade spoons from after the apocalypse
― wk, Friday, 16 November 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link