I am seriously considering it!
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
and they aren't even really hippies. or new age-y either. its just when people are positive and talk about fairness i instinctively put up my misanthropic hippie shield. i'm trying to be nicer though.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
they sound more like commies than hippies
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
its a fine line
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
People are weird about who they trust their kids with these days.
Remember when it was just like, "Well, you're school age, let's go to the school and register you" in like August or whatever and you went to the school nearest your house (or second nearest, if the districts were drawn oddly) and you were assigned a teacher and ate the crappy cafeteria food and kicked overused balls around on the playground over recess?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
are Country Day schools rich-kid schools elsewhere in the country?
There's one in a rich part of Detroit suburbs (Grosse Pointe??) that was my high school's tennis nemesis, iirc.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
"tennis nemesis" is a wonderful turn of phrase
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
reminds me of the store in LA called 'the merchant of tennis'
If kids grow up knowing it is important to treat others well, are willing to work and know how to solve problems, then they've been "raised right".
― Cosy Moments (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
'right' into the hands of stalin
― iatee, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
exeter and philips academy & c. def give you a leg up in applying to elite schools, I mean who wouldn't turn down an exeter kid, can you even imagine
lol
― (_()_) (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol I need to proofread :\
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/7/all_brooklynbabycinnos_2012_02_17_bk.html
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/VRKKs.jpg
not nyt but give em a few days I guess
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
lol some stylebeat reporter is getting an earful for missing the scoop I'm guessing
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
hey thats the coffee shop that i live next door to
― max, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
you should order one
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
good opportunity for original reporting
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
As an aside, I am beginning to wonder if there is some "Ye Olde Rustic Style Distressed Ceiling Company" somewhere in brooklyn catering to all of these shops to give them that same romantic rehabbed look.
― happiness is the new productivity (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
dudes is this really new in NYC? london's been all about "babycinos" for like 5 years already. $2 is ridiculous though, here they're 50p. (not that i let my kids get them, they eat broth made from rusty nails and carrot leaves. and LIKE IT.)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
NYC is incredibly behind on coffee stuff in general.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
xp At least you know they're getting plenty of iron.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Contrary to popular belief, the revival of craft manufacturing isn’t just a fad for Brooklyn hipsters. (Woehrle resists the term. His beard is too short, he says.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/adam-davidson-craft-business.html
― I DIED, Thursday, 16 February 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Jk1I5.jpg
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
I've had their jerky. It had szechuan peppercorns in it! good stuff.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
i've trimmed their beards. they arent that short
― (_()_) (Lamp), Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
guy is kicking himself obver that beard is too short joke right now
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 February 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
that article really bothers me cause every other sentence is either 'wtf' or 'otm' and its very unpleasant to read something like that
― iatee, Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
Instead, they have scrutinized the market and created customized products for less price-sensitive customers. Facebook and Apple, Starbucks and the Boston Beer Company (which makes Sam Adams lager) show that people who identify and meet untapped needs can create thousands of jobs and billions in wealth.
otm
As our economy recovers, there will be nearly infinite ways to meet custom needs at premium prices.
wtf
Meanwhile, the idea (or at least the hope) is that as China and other emerging nations develop, the United States can stay on the profitable forefront, delivering specific high-tech parts to their factories and the latest upmarket foods to their middle class.
According to this view, the fracturing of industrial manufacturing, however painful, has helped prepare parts of the economy for this new course.
― iatee, Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
it's like, yeah it's def good that people can sell gourmet beef jerky to each other and I am 100% behind that happening even, but it's prob not something you can build the american economy on, also why are you talking about adam smith
― iatee, Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
Definitely not something you can build the economy on when the article says the jerky company is in the red!
I think there are also some really key differences between handmade jerky sold at retail and precision machined aerospace components sold to multibillion dollar companies that renders the term "craft manufacturing" pretty meaningless.
― I DIED, Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:33 (twelve years ago) link
time was when americans actually made things
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
"You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make artisanal pickles in this country, build longboards with fair-trade lumber. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket."
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 16 February 2012 08:36 (twelve years ago) link
Everyone should become yoga instructors, and that way everyone could give everyone else yoga lessons
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 February 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
Chris Woehrle (...) decided to become an artisanal food craftsman — any kind of artisanal food craftsman.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
are there any 'artisanal craftsmen' who specialize in antisanal handcrafted redundancies?
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
I am an artisanal time waster and procrastinator. I am the goddamn Nobel Prize winner of perfected nothing.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
can we just agree that the article was poorly written?
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
it was a bad article
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
on the bright side you can find some kickstarter projects where people are making fine artisinal products out of machine-sculpted aluminum or stuff using homegrown 3d printers
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 16 February 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
well my problem w/ these articles is that they always conflate 'this thing in brooklyn is not a bad thing for the economy, u kno'(people will pay more $$ for gourmet jerky, dude has job) with 'this can save the economy' I guess this dicussion should go in its proper thread tho.
― iatee, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
these are like a dime a dozen the last few years, but w/e:
http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/from-print-edition-informer/2012/02/15/almost-rich/
― s.clover, Thursday, 16 February 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
omg! These people are just this close to being rich, but damn if they really feel like they're quite living the correct rich person lifestyle.
― Aimless, Thursday, 16 February 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
when you run out of artisinal craftsman opportunities you can become a curator of same
― the fading ghost of schadenfreude whiplash (Hunt3r), Thursday, 16 February 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
I like the bit where the author says that pre-industrial revolution humans had a profoundly inefficient economy
― badg, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
in the nyt article
― badg, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ that almost rich article
kinda wish everyone profiled in it was murdered
― (_()_) (Lamp), Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
feel bad for them because they r so close to being rich but not rich must be horrible
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
can't remember if this has been posted here, but it can't be posted enough:
http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/
― dan selzer, Friday, 17 February 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
was posted in the craftsmanship &c thread
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Friday, 17 February 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link