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craft
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Showing posts with label
craft
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Dec 8, 2015
brick and mortar
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Give a mason bricks and mortar and tell him to cover a space and let in light, and the results are astounding. The mason, within his limita...
Mar 28, 2015
on the street
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bolsover street, W1W.
Feb 7, 2015
responsible for lemons
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- that lemon—it's nice. - it's good, isn't it? - how often do you replace it? - every week, in fact. it's an important ...
Nov 25, 2014
questions
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I find it very precarious for a culture only to be able to measure performance and never to be able to credit the questions themselves ... ...
Nov 13, 2013
in the bag
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this is a completely disinterested public service announcement. my black medium deluxe courierware bag is now 12 years old. i have use...
Sep 23, 2013
hail champagne
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Hail, of course, is the great enemy of outdoor exposed neon tubing. Hailstorms often caused sign shops to break out champagne. rudi st...
Jun 18, 2013
tacit, inexplicable knowledge
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There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is lifeless. It...
Jun 4, 2013
the german tradition
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Volkmar Arnulf stresses that to him bespoke tailoring is about the customer’s need, not imposing a style on the customer ... As a tailor you...
May 9, 2013
katsuhira's tiger
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this long but worthwhile video documents ford hallam 's meticulous reconstruction of the lost half of a pair of tsuba by hagiya katsuhir...
Apr 30, 2013
observation
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In short, men will find out that the men of our days were wrong in first multiplying their needs, and then trying, each man of them, to eva...
Feb 22, 2013
the entire staff
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it continues to be my privilege to be acquainted with the entire staff of kat ran press . this week, i paid a too-short visit to its taste...
Dec 14, 2012
resincloth hull
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just lying around the media lab.
Nov 26, 2012
happiness comes from good coffee
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i have been buried beneath a pile of paper for days, but emerged briefly for a cup of coffee last friday morning. on the table for show and...
Nov 9, 2012
pithy
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this summarises most of my feelings about cars and bicycles, though it leaves out the grim frustrations of parking in crowded cities, moto...
Oct 29, 2012
salem
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though the streets were overrun with orange, kettle korn, people in bad costumes, and fake cobwebs, jaho on the waterfront was empty and ...
Oct 25, 2012
nearly there
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[from the archive] R&D in high-end cuisine looks a lot like R&D anywhere else, but some of its frustrations are domain-specifi...
Aug 3, 2012
mind, hands, tools
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Science originated from the fusion of two old traditions, the tradition of philosophical thinking that began in ancient Greece and the trad...
Jul 3, 2012
the nature and art of workmanship
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People are beginning to believe you cannot make even toothpicks without ten thousand pounds of capital. We forget the prodigies one man and...
May 29, 2012
the essence of origami
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I'm not trying to make a photograph, I'm trying to capture the essence, the impression of something. Some subjects I come back to o...
Apr 20, 2012
gestural engineering
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i'm reading, as i do every year, seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees , which is both a biography of robert irwin and an...
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