craftsmanship, consumerism, virtue, privilege, and quality

i doubt i will be going to any place that serves 40 dollar bloody marys but they are a hoot to read about!

actually, the lunch menu described in the review is not out of my price range.

"... and served in a man's hat."

"hand-made, small batch" plaid shirts

https://www.jc-rt.com

please kill me

those are ugly

they don't look ugly to me.

The restaurant thing reminds me of the Vespertine review in the LA Times.

http://www.latimes.com/food/jonathan-gold/la-fo-gold-vespertine-review-20170902-story.html

can you get a Plaid plaid, do you think?

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/crafting-a-life

man those are some long paragraphs

Craft paragraphs.

Does it mention how white-collar workers CAN flee their desks to become artisanal picklers, but other workers can't?

I mean, I haven't yet seen the tenderly written article about the Wal-Mart cashier who bravely left it all behind to become a candle-dipper.

opening a business is a luxury pursuit now. like instead of buying a supercar you decide to dip pickles.

So plaid

oh thats totally my pet peeve. Reading about the guy who started the awesome food cart who used to be in finance. Of course.

Yeah, "Oh, so you retired at age 38, how nice for you."

tbh there are always the Bar Rescue episodes where some old guy is like “I retired and sunk all my savings into this place!” and the floor is about to cave in

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plaid shirts

i love the picture of the two tailors in plaid shirts, with beards, measuring the man wearing a plaid shirt, with the beginnings of a beard, presumably to fit him for a fourth plaid shirt (not pictured)

I come from a long line of tailors. My grandfather was a tailor. My great grandfather was a tailor. My great great grandfather was a tailor. My father was an investment banker, and, prior to 2015, I had never held a needle and thread, let alone sat in front of a sewing machine. But after graduating from an expensive private college with a degree in comp lit and moving to Brooklyn, I realized that, while there were already dozens of neophyte "high-end" tailoring houses already in the market, none seemed to possess my unique specialness. With my heritage, my trust fund, and a year of private lessons, I founded Brooklyn Cephalopod Fine Shirtemaekers, Maekers of Fienee Shierts.

I started that paragraph hoping you were going to tell us how you took up sewing :(

Lock thread

lol man alive

My grandfather actually was a tailor in Brooklyn. Sadly, my father was not an investment banker and I have no trust fund.

A propos of nothing really but I really want to move to the country and slowly restore a whole houseful of woodwork by hand with qtips. There's definitely an appeal as compared to city life. How will I afford to eat while I strip 100 years of paint off a banister, you may ask? Hmmph. Good question.

You won’t need to eat, you’ll get all the nourishment you need from inhaled solvents

from an article linked on another thread. here's how, in orbit:

“People talk all the time about what they dream of, and I decided to stop talking about it and just do it,” Ms. Shiver said. “I was looking for more meaning.”

She divorced her husband, packed her Yorkie Pomeranian, Stanford, in the car and drove west.

see? simple

What if my Yorkie Pomeranian isn’t named Stanford?????

I cried because I had no Yorkie, and then I met a man with no shih tzu

in orbit you'll need an apron, maybe something in gray. can you fold your arms and look serious? the q-tip will need to have a body of reinforced handcrafted steel and the tips should be hand-pulled lamb's wool. it should be about the size of a medieval weapon.

I would restore the wood with other wood not qtips I think qtips would look funny

q-tips are fine they just need to look big and forged

Actual me crossing arms seriously (from over 10 years ago but I was very skilled at a young age).

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lol sorry hueg

Call bs on srs that is imo a smirk

man alive

ha where is that from

It’s from the promotional materials for my new tailoring shop, Brooklyn Cephalopod

i remember that picture! best picture.

i was thinking of opening a restaurant where they serve food on wood planks

the twist will be that there will be an artisanal lumberjack in the front of the house who will hand-cut a bespoke wood plank for each meal

and you get to pick which kind of tree wood you want obviously.

"Hey have you ever been to that place Plank? You get your own plank."

xp yes scott and also there will be craft beer-istas who can help you pair your beer with your plank

chop down your own tree with our experienced lumberjacks -- beginners welcomed!

"Fuck you. I will destroy your business." pic.twitter.com/SwERjETSih

— For Exposure (@forexposure_txt) March 26, 2018

I've been spending almost all day reading this.

the shtick of weirdos demanding strangers make them things for little to no money has become widespread enough that I've seen a few people questioning whether some of the really blatant ones like this are fabricated viral content

I mean, people really are that weird and demanding, but...

Like, I quilt just for myself as a hobby. So many people tell me to sell them. Basically, I have no interest because of everything that this twitter documents. I would rather just give them away to people I like. But reading all the tweets is so fascinating.

I mean it's almost on par with reading tinder dms where dudes go from 0 to "f you, you whore, you're not even pretty" within the span of one screen.

I have a photographer friend who posts his own real forexposure-style requests that he receives pretty often. He is a guy who has done album covers for bands you know and his work has been in the NY Times and a bunch of major music mags.