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― controversial but fabulous (I DIED), Saturday, 14 February 2015 06:07 (nine years ago) link
amazing
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 14 February 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link
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― anvil, Saturday, 14 February 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
I initially didn't notice that the NYT article wasn't actually on the NYT website and I was reading through getting more and more confused
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 14 February 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
I thought this was interesting, even if it seems like an inevitable result:http://www.wired.com/2015/02/etsy-not-good-for-crafters
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
http://thebrotique.co.uk/collections/manhampers
Designed for the man who needs everything, our exclusive range of manhampers are designed to make gift giving easier than ever before. Build your own or choose from one of our carefully designed Manhampers, with something for every kind of gent.
― cgi bubka (NickB), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:58 (nine years ago) link
#manhamper
― cgi bubka (NickB), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:59 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0296/4057/products/Bicycle-Wine-Rack-angle-front.jpg
oopsmark Bicycle Wine Rack
£27.00
Perfect for that boozy bike ride (don't drink and drive)
If you like wine and you like biking, you're going to love this. The handmade leather bicycle wine rack is perfect for taking wine with you on the go. It easily attaches to most bike frames with antique brass fasteners, while the hidden clamps hold the bottle securely. Best of all, the vegetable-tanned leather will only look better as it ages.
― cgi bubka (NickB), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 11:01 (nine years ago) link
"the vegetable-tanned leather will only look better as it ages" is one of those things that jumps out at me as sort of an arriviste shibboleth. Like, leather looks better as it ages, that's a thing about leather, right? It wears in. Nobody with decades of history of selling things made of leather would bother to point that out, their customer knows that about leather.
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
jfc sooooo tired of "man____" manbags manbun manhamper mancave i will vomit next time i hear this
― marcos, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
manvom
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
seriously we're just passing over "brotique" or is that on another thread
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
I was gonna comment, but I can't believe they're not also in on the joke, so...
― nickn, Sunday, 29 March 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Was "mantiques" already taken?
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Monday, 30 March 2015 12:39 (nine years ago) link
chapcessories
― yeovil knievel (NickB), Monday, 30 March 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link
http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/introducing-new-level-of-customization-moto-selfie-stick.html
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 12:06 (nine years ago) link
The 21st century riding crop
― jmm, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 12:51 (nine years ago) link
Gee, I hope that is an April fool.
― in an awkward manor (doo dah), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
Might as well throw this in here, too:
http://carles.buzz/the-contemporary-conformist/
― Doktor Van Peebles (kingfish), Thursday, 23 April 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
and this! http://carles.buzz/artisan-meaning-contemporary-conformist/
― marcos, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
A Contemporary Conformist is a ‘jack of all trades’ when it comes to art/design, therefor they view everything they create as artisanal. If they made dinner and microplaned some parmesan on top of it, it was an artisanal event. If they put something in the over, it was artisanal. Everything that Contemporary Conformists make at home is artisanal, even if they just put something away in a baggie.
Make.Everything.Look.Artisan.As.Fuck.
Contemporary Conformists see everything they do as artisanal, and want everything they consume/buy/ingest/style their homes with/talk about with every one to seem ‘artisanal.’
― marcos, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
A Contemporary Conformist wants to walk over from their factory-converted lots/newly renovated home-apartment in a historical section of town to get artisanal coffee. They want an artisanal egg from an artisanal farm with a side of artisanal avocado toast served on artisanal Ezekiel bread for breakfast. They want an artisanal small plate lunch from an artisanal food truck while taking a break from their Contemporary Conformist job that allows them/office-pressure-forces them to wear artisanal Business_Contemporary-Conformist-Casual to work.
― marcos, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
We are just trying to validate our 3rd-5th tier American cities.
― jennifer islam (silby), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
i think there's a kernel of insight buried in there but i think it's more interesting to think of 'contemporary conformist' as an design aesthetic or a mode of production & consumption than a type of person, since that's where it comes across as a bit strawmannish for me.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
patron sailor might I invite you to at some point update this thread on what you've been learning on your fiber journey? (A yarn store employee once told me "good luck on your fiber journey" and that has stuck with me)
― jennifer islam (silby), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
my fiber journey is currently involves an exploration of an iron age weaving technique, namely tablet weaving (also known as card weaving). from what i understand, most people who tablet weave these days are into creative anachronism and/or reenacting viking battles. i don't do those things but the weaving is fun.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
tablet weaving is mainly used for making patterned bands and braids, which can be used as straps, belts, or garment trim. it's an interesting technique to learn because it doesn't require a loom at all (though it can be done on many types of conventional looms). all you need is a set of cards (square, with a hole in each corner) and yarn (threaded through the holes); as you weave, you turn the cards forward or backwards, changing the position of the warp yarns. depending on how the cards are threaded and the sequence of card turns, you can make make extremely elaborate patterns. it's pretty neat.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
anyway, here's the latest thing i did. about 2 yards in an advancing wave pattern
http://i.imgur.com/ChpnSFA.jpg
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
I probably have more to say about my handicrafts and how i think of them in relation to the titular focus of this thread, if anyone cares -- but just for right now I'm thinking about how (typically white) people will describe or market certain handmade goods with fucked up quasi-racist terms. pinterest & etsy are truly minefields of suspect language.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 29 May 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link
"ethnic" "tribal" "gypsy" "primitive"
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 29 May 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
okay, maybe those are just straight-out unqualified racist.
whenever someone describes something as "tribal" or "ethnic" it's like -- what tribe? which ethnicity? rhetorical questions, of course, since they all seem to indicate an undifferentiated kind of "exotic" non-whiteness.
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Friday, 29 May 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
a nice little wage
― imago, Monday, 7 September 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
I guess this is as good a thread as any for this, but one category I find really head-scratchy is artisanal junk food. E.g. I just tried Doughnut Plant for the first time (and I've had Dough a few times), and honestly, it's really delicious, but it came to almost $9 for an iced coffee and a big donut square. They seem to be doing well - they've expanded, but what is the market for eating stuff like that on a regular basis? It's expensive enough to only be for the affluent, but unhealthy enough to not seem like something most affluent urbanites would eat often.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
otm, and really, hasn't this been par for the course since, like, Marco Polo? How much worse was understanding of Chinese culture to a 13th century European than to a 21st century American? 10%? less?
― Dominique, Friday, 11 September 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
http://www.typeeast.com/collections/typewriters/products/hand-typed-letter
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:44 (eight years ago) link
I don't want to get too down on these people ^ because they seem like an OK bunch but still
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:45 (eight years ago) link
Using a typewriter would still be my favoured writing tool, at least for initial composition. In fact, god, I might have to go along there, having lost my olivetti portable a few years ago. Maybe I will set up a hand-typed letter service. Thanks TH!
― Fizzles, Thursday, 29 October 2015 11:35 (eight years ago) link
"hand-typed" oh ffs
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
keys lovingly pressed in sequence manually by Mavis Beacon herself
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
or Jack Webbhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Mark_VII_logo_1953(1).jpg
― phở intellectual (WilliamC), Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
So glad I have prehensile toes with which to type at my computer.
― Aimless, Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
35 pounds for up to 200 words holy fucking shit
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
Couldn't you buy a typewriter for like two letters at that price?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 29 October 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
seems an appropriate place to discuss bogus chocolate hipster liars
http://qz.com/571151/the-mast-brothers-fooled-the-world-into-buying-crappy-hipster-chocolate-for-10-a-bar/
http://dallasfood.org/2015/12/mast-brothers-what-lies-behind-the-beards-confessions
― big WHOIS aka the nameserver (s.clover), Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
BOGUS HIPSTER CHOCOLATE LIARSBOGUS HIPSTER CHOCOLATE LIARSBOGUS HIPSTER CHOCOLATE LIARSBOGUS HIPSTER CHOCOLATE LIARS
― goole, Thursday, 17 December 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
hmm. It sounds like a lot of the supposed "fraud" was early? I've tried a bunch of kinds of mast brothers chocolate and I mostly thought they were delicious, and I didn't find the flavor/texture at all like what they say in the article. $10 is a lot to pay for any kind of chocolate, no matter how good.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 17 December 2015 23:09 (eight years ago) link
http://dallasfood.org/wp-content/uploads/blame-it-on-the-rain1.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 17 December 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/vyl7u.jpg
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 December 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
Rebuttal:
https://twitter.com/JaredLeto/status/677619136407724032
But this does feel like the Stephen Glass of the artisan movement.
― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Friday, 18 December 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link
lol regular things "made 'the right way' by guys with beards and tatoos"
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 18 December 2015 01:58 (eight years ago) link