feral trade

I saw a talk the other day by the founder of feral trade, a grocery and shipping business organized only through personal social networks, and with a completely open supply chain (which makes for a pretty fun website to explore). It's a bizarre, inspiring, and very interesting model for business and art!

From their about page:

Feral Trade is a grocery business and public experiment, trading goods over social networks. The word 'feral' describes a process which is willfully wild (as in pigeon) as opposed to romantically or nature-wild (wolf). The passage of goods can open up wormholes between diverse social settings, routes along which other information, techniques or individuals can potentially travel. [Goods are traded] over social, cultural and occupational networks; harnessing the surplus freight potential of existing travel (friends, colleagues, passing acquaintances) for the practical circulation of goods.


minchin animation


khan on regulation

A glossy 15 minute survey:


buck wild


dfw on travel

"My personal experience has not been that traveling around the country is broadening or relaxing, or that radical changes in place and context have a salutary effect, but rather that intranational tourism is radically constricting, and humbling in the hardest way--hostile to my fantasy of being a true individual, of living somehow outside and above it all." --David Foster Wallace


personality

"I have a Masters in history, a Masters in anthropology, and a PhD in education."
"What would you say has been your greatest accomplishment?"
"My personality."

From Humans of New York


joe szabo

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From his website:

"Joe Szabo is a teacher, photographer, and author who began his photographic studies at Pratt Institute where he received an MFA degree in 1968. He taught photography at Malverne High School in Long Island from 1972-1999 and at the International Center of Photography in New York since 1978. He has been photographing his teen-age students for the past twenty-five years."


dreamdecay

Merry Christmas!


cooties

Here is a great article about some Murray Bookchin-inspired rebels fighting ISIL in Syria. Also apparently ISIL believes that if they're killed by a kurdish woman they won't get into heaven? AKA cooties.


biel carpenter



Two from Biel Carpenter.


sick

“Sick of it whatever it's called, sick of the names.
I dedicate every pore to what's here”
Ikkyu


cho cho cola


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