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looks sweet! 100yd doesn't sound much for a scope though?

I saw a pussy once!

I liked the psycho love blog too. Vamping writers and shit

Norwegians are awesome. Here's the soundtrack to that video http://youtu.be/bK8xoD7COlo

David A Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass gilding circles, with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors. In this short documentary, we reveal behind the scenes work, techniques and visions that Dave uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser - One of the few remaining traditional UK glass artists. See David's Elaborate Victorian Style Mirror completed here: vimeo.com/25587369 Many thanks to Ada Cole for subtitling the film, Subtitles available here: goo.gl/9sORF David A Smith davidadriansmith.com A Film by Danny Cooke dannycooke.co.uk Soundtrack by Tony Higgins (Junior85) freemusicarchive.org/music/junior85/

Here's another nostalgic vid about letterpress Doesn't really touch the subject, but a damn good read: http://www.evesmag.com/oldgreylady.htm

I know it's supposed to be fucked up and be funny that way, but it's still pretty fucked up in an unfunny way

One of my regular favorites

Re: Any Pre-2006 members on anymore? been here since 2004

Why not, but perhaps not the common notion of craft as a pastime hobby, knitting socks etc. And it's not like this is supposed to be a picture only thread. With the title "Lettering and other crafts" I'm trying to view lettering from the point of a craft, instead of another form of static, visual imagery. Stuff that you accept and forget, like often happens with art, illustration and photographed graffiti. You see it and move on. You know, someone says "graffiti is art." That's it. The end. You put spray paintings in a gallery, they may be awesome but they're secluded from the original context and lose a lot of spirit. I like Espo a lot, but there's something authentic with sign painting in practice where the text is supposed to look good, pass information and be worn out by sunlight over decades. With or without praise and bravado. Another vimeo vid Then again many recent artists have been using long or difficult, tedious methods as means to give their work an impressive aspect...instead of complex theories or plain virtuosity. In olden days furniture designers were supposed to be able to design, build and fix furniture. They had to know everything about wood, joints, welding, upholstery etc. While respectable designers are still taught some of this stuff, it's not that obvious anymore. Big proportion of design is built around industrial aspects: You buy a cheap chair from ikea and throw it away if it breaks or you have to move. Wooden and metal type was designed size-specifically: 6pt size Helvetica regular had significantly different proportions compared to larger display sizes. This mattered back then, but much was lost in the transition as type went digital. These features are being revived by (underpaid) type enthusiasts today.

"We've been working on this logo for more than a year, and we've been talking about gilding the window for more than two years" In almost any ad agency, design school and art or business institute you will find one person if not whole consensus who laugh at this man. They think ––or better yet, "everyone can see" that he's crazy, simple, old-fashioned, slow. They argue that big companies wouldn't hire him, that he makes very little money compared to his efforts. They will probably die of old age without ever having a clue about what it's all about. Glass gilding by John Downer Skills are something even gifted people have to learn. There are others, post some if you know or discuss. Tattoos, furniture. Did your grandpa build a house with tools he could carry? All that stuff, art or not. I'll try to remember to post here every time I find something.

OUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS

I thought this was about white people getting paid picking cotton

This is something US should realize about Mexico when handing out weapons, money, supplies etc. If unstable Mexico actually is a problem for US. Rest assured if government supplies Mexico with ARs, it's not like Armalite gave those rifles for free.

The whole thing seems to boil down to basic supply and demand. There is so much money in the drug trade that conventional words like nation, state, government, police, law, war/peace, friend/enemy etc etc lose their meaning. It's not about ideas or moral anymore, it's logistics, production and opportunism. Perversion of the scenario probably lies somewhere between the idea of criminalization of drug trafficking and uncontrollable reality, on a logistical level. It's gold rush down there.

I'd gladly take any global conspiracy over the realization that everything is just a giant swarming clusterfuck spinning out of control

you all are gonna love this clip http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=51a_1325657650

you gon burn for this http://youtu.be/GxStJM3zNAQ

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/12/201112816424112535.html

Fox News uses Greek riot footage in context of Russian elections. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=617_1323355164

This year's Top 10 by TIME http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/07/time-picks-the-top-10-photos-of-the-year/#2 Yuri Kozyrev. Ras Lanuf, Libya. March 11, 2011 Adam Ferguson. Paktika Province, Afghanistan. September 10, 2011 I was patrolling with Charlie Company, 2-28 Infantry, 172nd Infantry Brigade 5 km from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border when we were ambushed. The Captain had just made the call to head back to base when bullets seared the still tree leaves around us. Sergeant Daniel Quintana was shot in the first minute of fighting and as the fighting intensified, then waned, the Army Medics worked tirelessly to stabilize him, but it was a losing battle. This was the first time Charlie Company had seen a one their own injured since being recently deployed to Afghanistan, and it felt like it. Soldiers on the periphery of where the Medics worked on Quintana had wired excited stares focused on the surrounding tree lines that provided cover for their enemy. Closer to the Medics soldiers crouched stunned, some cried, others talked to Quintana hoping to stimulate a fading life. Specialist Michael Miller, age 23 from Melbourne, Florida, sat at the feet of Sergeant Quintana, silent, with a glassy haunted stare. I saw Specialist Miller through the drama and crouched my way around to him. I tapped him on the shoulder and when he turned and gazed into my lens I not only saw an image from Afghanistan, but an image that could have been made in Vietnam. His expression wreaked of the same senselessness and confusion, the same futility of a life lost under equivocal circumstances. James Nachtwey. Kesennuma, Japan. March 15, 2011 Pete Souza. Situation Room, White House, Washington. May 1, 2011 (The Bin Laden mission) Wayne Tilcock. University of California, Davis, California. November 18, 2011 Chris Hondros. Misrata, Libya. April 20, 2011 Dominic Nahr. Mogadishu, Somalia. August 9, 2011 Pedro Pardo. Acapulco, Mexico. January 9, 2011 In this picture, we see the relatives of a person who was kidnapped at dawn from a disco in Acapulco and later killed by being thrown from a bridge in the town of La Cima at the entrance of this tourist destination. As a conflict photographer in the war of the drug cartels, I have learned how to be like a doctor when I look at a violent scene, separating my emotions and observing the deed in an objective way in order to come up with a good image that can inform without being morbid or sensational. Stefanie Gordon. Shuttle launch. May 16, 2011 Yuri Kozyrev. Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. February 1, 2011

World needs more photographs like that... Notice the lack of actual desensitizing gore

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