xp re "handmade" btw: i wasn't crazy about mike daisey's new show about steve jobs/apple/apple's business practices in china but he makes one great point which is that with labor as cheap as it is overseas, nobody invests in machinery when you can get a fourteen year old girl to lay the same circuitry a zillion times a year so, in fact, nearly everything we own IS handmadewe just don't want to think about that
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
the first thing i thought was that i should post to this thread and the second thing i thought was too much time on ilx
Sentences that effortlessly define ilx or whatever that thread is called.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
I think really what it comes down to with the article is:
- This woman bought too much shit because she thought it worked with her aesthetic and little of it actually meant anything to her - She is actually becoming more authentic in rejecting some of her surroundings as things that no longer have an appeal
― mh, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Who is Artis and how is he sharpening pencils with his asshole?
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
ha I was joking. "how much authenticity is too much" is like the most nyt style section question of all time
― max, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
oh. true, that.
― mh, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
the artisinal pencil sharpening is David Rees from Get Your War On and it's an elaborate and brilliant joke.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to open a boutique that just sells one handmade table. I mean not a single model of table, but just a single table.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
"Do you have anything else in the store?""No sir, we just have this table.""I would like to purchase the table.""I'm sorry sir, it's been sold."
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
not NYT but holy hell
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204394804577010351275810044.html?mod=WSJ_NY_MIDDLELEADNewsCollection
Some New York City children take after-school classes in dance, pottery or softball. Once a week, Gillian and Hunter Randall add an unusual activity to the list: lessons on how to shake hands.
It's a class taught by SocialSklz:-), a company founded in 2009 to address deteriorating social skills in the age of iPhones, Twitter and Facebook friends.
Faye Rogaski, the founder of socialsklz:-), is attempting to wean children off junk words like "um," "ya know" and "like." WSJ visits the modern-day manners class.
"It's hard to have a real conversation anymore. And you know what? I'm guilty of it too," said the Randalls' mother, Lisa LaBarbera, noting that her 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son both have iPod touches and handheld videogame devices. "You get carpal tunnel, but you're not building those communication skills."
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Ms. Rogaski now offers classes that range from $150 for a one-day workshop to $540 for a 12-week after-school program, with sections for children as young as 4. The classes cover skills as varied as how to host play dates, talk on the phone and hold a conversation.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
SocialSklz:-) looks like a name that was created by a 60 year old soccer mom
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
SocialSkullz(:-[])
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
even though that class is patently ridiculous, i gotta say that having social skillz drilled into me at a young age has served me well in life. my mom was p aggro about her children being as well-mannered as possible. not like weird cotillion stuff, but general "how to talk to adults and not be a little twerp" stuff. seeing horrible children acting rudely in public is one of the few things that makes me feel like a big ol grouch. also sort of one of the few things that makes me feel "conservative"; i generally assume that kids behaving terribly (not just "kids being kids" cuz everyone is a lil monster at some point) have SOMEthing up at home. i understand that this isn't entirely a fair thing to think.
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
i think the point is not that those things are unimportant, but that only the ruling class would desire to or be able to afford to have someone teach their kids manners in a class
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
I was always good at talking with adults as a kid but not really very good at talking with other kids
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
now that I'm an adult I'm no longer good at talking with other adults :[
OTM
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
Someone asked me the oth day if I was "gifted" at anything as a child, and I said, Yeah, talking to adults and ordering them around since I was 3. o_O Feel like this is going to be true for a lot of us, tbh.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, just ran here to post that.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
is such a crock of shit - kids have always been rude. but yeah, learning manners (and teaching that "manners") are a social code that can be used TO YOUR ADVANTAGE in pretty much any situation is def. valuable, and if the parents can't be bothered to do it on their own, and decide to pay off a third party to do it, everybody benefits from the transaction
― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
eh feel like kids learn things like this more by observing them than via being taught, these parents are prob too rude, kids gonna be rude too
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
same/same
― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
seeing horrible children acting rudely in public is one of the few things that makes me feel like a big ol grouch.
this, oh god, this. every impudent word uttered by a child fans a small flame of hatred in my heart.
― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
worst instance this year: stuck across aisle from a shrieky little bad seed for a transcontinental flight/strangle
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
I am pretty sure my parents didn't take me out in public until I was nearly 3 years of age and took me behind the woodshed if I were to speak a sideways word
― mh, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
It's why I know I'd suck as a parent.
"I can't shout at you as you are a child. Worse, you're my child. ARGH."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
i have a pretty high tolerance for "kids being kids" but i also LOVE kids \(o_O)/
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
times were you could punish your child for misbehaving in a store by locking them in the car but those days are gone
― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
*puffs pipe*
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
those days, you could smack someone else's kid for sassmouth, good times they were
― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 1, 2011 2:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
dude this is totally how i feel, fwiw, lest anyone get the wrong idea. i used to work with kids, it was great. but i still feel like there are times when it's ok/justifiable to think "ok buddy there's a line between puckish little imp and actual inconsiderate person and you just crossed it"
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
moreover, when i feel like a grouch, i'm actually thinking to myself "you are being a grouch, cut it out," but...i can't help it. i def had the "that's not the way it works around here" chat with several of the kids i taught, who were seemingly devoid of any social graces whatsoever (children of the 1% in entitled-attitudes shocker)
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Manners are so middle-class.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
one time on a plane this kid threw a non stop tantrum the whole way taking time out only to blow some milk on me through a straw
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
milk all over me
― dayo, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
the new mixtape
― google sluething so hard right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'll be glad when we move past the archaic practice of meeting/conversing with people in person. Then we won't need handshaking classes.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
I like this comment, at least the first half. I think I've seen that jug band.
Reality BasedBrooklynOctober 27th, 201111:54 amLast evening whilst walking on my urban Brooklyn block I was bemoaning the apogee of faux or "vintage" life-styling seeing another group of suspender and tweed clad hipsters pretend to be a jug band. They were performing a horrendously unmusical, "rootsy" version of the spiritual "When I Die" inside a new bar built to mimic some half baked idea of "vintage authenticity". This impulse to deny the truth of the cultural and political moment and instead seek refuge in an imagined virtualized "cozy" past seems to me the apogee of indulgent sentimentalist decadence.
Esty represents he triumph of mediocrity in design and creativity. The "designs" on the site are almost exclusively copies of copies, derivations of ideas that were done to death a decade ago. Esty is however a very clever and modern business model; a trope, seeming to help artisans market their "wares" but actually about monetizing clicks and an easy source for "trend spotters" and retailers to collate mediocre ideas to knock off.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
can you really pretend to be a jug band
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
IDK but I hear music like that all the time in the L and it's starting to make me want to go animal house.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Demonic kids on plane needs fabled response of Paul Lynde: "Lady, if you don't control that kid... I'm gonna fuck her!"
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Worst is the little kids that sit behind you on the plane and kick the back of your seat the entire flight.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
flying is such a horrible experience i cant really stay mad at the sobbing kids, im just thinking, "man i want to be doing that too"
― max, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/garden/sheep-lawn-mowers-and-other-go-getters.html
― s.clover, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
not very quiddy imho
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
Uh, tell them to stop?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
xpost, Oh it picks up: "Richard Charles, a Wall Street technology manager, decided to become an urban farmer after he was laid off twice, first by Citigroup, in 2008, and then by Goldman Sachs, in 2009. He and a former colleague from Citigroup, David Lowe, started EcoVeggies, a company that uses aeroponic technology to grow plants without soil. Their plan is to convert abandoned buildings in Newark into high-tech urban farms that will supply produce to local restaurants and schools."
― s.clover, Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really understand the Stockbox shipping container grocery store thing. Isn't it just, like, opening a grocery store?
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Thursday, 3 November 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link