Posts tagged history
the "Standard" the Story & the Sticking to It
10June 18, 2011
But . . . and beginning with the presentation “the Luxury Landscape and Design Trends” from Carter Thomas – Am Stand's Senior Director of Design and Brand Management ... some themes quickly emerged . . . and as always, these themes seem to help me decipher it all. Partially due to subject matter alone, but more from general vibe on EVERYONE involved -- we met and we talked intimacy (not like that), personality, and transition (among other social habits and trends). [ . . . ]
Paul Lesieur :: Its the Heart of the Matter and the Soul of It All
4September 8, 2010
The world was my oyster.
Little did I care what people thought, busy as I was wandering over the soiled and urban backyards I called home. It was my time to begin what would be a lifetime of making things. A journey of thoughts put to hammer and nail. And an abstract eye was being developed that never saw an object alone, things made more as a piece to a puzzle that I could master.
Wood, nails, and a motley assortment of hammers, saws and pliers scrounged from the basement workshop of my father, and grandfather, gave me the instruments of destruction that I called my tools. [ . . . ]
John Poole :: Yes, Virginia, They Really Do Still Make Those Old Square Nails
22July 23, 2010
Most of us are familiar with the old square nails used centuries ago. We've seen them on display at museum homes, or historical society exhibits, or perhaps being hammered out by blacksmiths in places like Plimoth Plantation or Colonial Williamsburg.
What many of us are unaware of, however, is that those old nails were actually superior in design to modern wire nails, with several times the holding power, and being less likely to cause wood to split. And perhaps even less well known is the fact that square nails are still manufactured today, and are even available in bulk quantities. [ . . . ]
What do you know? or Minding our Matters
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Before the age of google, some of my friends and I had a thing called History Club. History Club, often accompanied by cocktails, was basically four or five people sitting around who would pick a random historical event or figure and then discuss the things we knew about it or them. Someone would say Napoleon and someone might add he was the guy who began the tradition of putting ornamental buttons on dress jackets to keep his soldiers from wiping their noses on their sleeves.
