Money
Often referred to and sought after and if you should become very wealthy… why is called filthy rich? hmmm?
New Release: The Best Made Ditty Bag
The Best Made Ditty Bag: designed by Best Made in our lower Manhattan workshop, manufactured in the USA. Reinforced waxed canvas and solid brass grommets, secured by a rope lanyard that has been hand-spliced and whipped with red technical control line. Our ditty is teeming with maritime tradition but built for our customer’s exacting demands today.
Below is a detailed list of specifications which we hope will help to inform you and empower you to use this bag to its utmost, with confidence and gusto.
Material:
- Constructed from 10.10 oz Waxed Canvas. Produced by the Martin Company for the better part of a century, this tightly-woven cotton fabric is impregnated with Martexin® wax which provides resistance to inclement weather and produces a handsome patina over time. The wax consists of food and pharmaceutical waxes, making it completely non-hazardous. The Martin family has been making American textiles since 1838, and their waxed fabrics have outfitted countless outdoorsmen, soldiers, and farmers for generations.Hardware:
- Solid bronze 3” corrosion-resistant snap hook (particularly good around seawater).
- #4 Brass Grommets, conforms to all US military specificationsSplicing:
-Each ditty bag is eye-spliced and finished by hand with traditional methods by seasoned New England rope workers. This labor-intensive step results in the strongest, most seamless finish available.Rope:
-Woven in Europe’s western lowlands by rope makers with four centuries of experience, this 3-strand polyester rope has a soft touch and good grip, while having a breaking load of 1,000 kg. It is pre-stretched to prevent elongation, and with high UV-resistance, was typically used as halyard and sheet ropes on classic fishing boats.Whipping:
-The classic 3-strand splice has been whipped by hand using a high-strength, low-stretch control line. Braided from Dyneema SK75 ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene, this is one of the strongest man-made fibers. Designed to maintain all properties, even when wet, this line also benefits from a high UV-resistance.Stitching:
-Our Ditty is double stitched along the main seam with heavy nylon size 92 thread and reinforced along the base for reliable durability.
Art is not so much defined but observed.
About as neat as it gets
Everyday Photography
We cannot make photos of the past or the future. What happens now in front of our camera is our canvas. We can only learn from the past. The great tragedy would be to miss now. Be ready to see, camera at hand and remember to think through the shot.
Why fall into the trap of making some macabre image to shock your audience. We see enough of that without going out of the way. Trying to shock on purpose is going to tire very quickly.
Looking in
Extending the Life of my G4 Mac mini — The Brooks Review
Mine too, is still singing along…
I purchased my Mac mini the day that Apple announced it — I mean the very first Mac mini Apple made — and I spent every last dollar I had on it at the time. I have used that Mac mini everyday since I purchased it and it’s only on its second hard drive. Suffice to say, I have gotten my value out of the machine.
What we believe in.
If you want to be a more interesting photographer, become a more interesting person.
Success brings the delusion that you must be right about your business strategy. It might only be momentum.
Email or Tree-mail
The rise of electronic communication has no doubt had a substantial effect on the mail system that many of us grew up with. Coupled with the fact that penmanship is on a steady decline among the younger population and one wonders if paper mail is not due for a major overhaul.
Despite claims of a paperless office, I doubt we will see a paperless society. There are intrinsic qualities of the printed or written page that cannot be reproduced electronically. It’s more than nostalgia. Electronic files are not necessarily more secure than paper, they are only smaller and don’t require the felling of tress. However, it takes resources to make computers and mass storage devices too.
Speed is also a consideration. An email or blog post can be made in seconds while the same paper communication might take days. If you type, the electronic method is faster and doesn’t require as much effort. There is no hunting for pen and paper or postage and a trip to the mail box. There are tradeoffs in the match up between pen and paper versus the digital equivalent.
Speed and compactness are desirable but lack the tangible qualities of ink on fine paper with artful stamps affixed to the corner of the envelope. In the old days, letters were precious for several reasons. It meant someone made the effort to sit down and use their time and resources to craft a message just for you. It might take an hour or so to write, maybe a trip the post office and then it would take days to reach its destination. Those hand written letters had both a tangible and intangible value.
Probably more important than whether we are using ink or pixels is what electronics has done to our ability to write and to think as well. Modern communications are clogged with garbled disjointed phrases and IM or text speak. Where complete thoughts, sentences and paragraphs are replaced by catch phrases and gestures.
Regardless of the medium the critical issue of writing is to communicate clearly. To write well and present our feelings or ideas we must be able to think. Our thinking is improved when we are able to read with comprehension. Reading skills and a good vocabulary are paramount to the art of writing well.
If we cannot write the vision and make it plain we will never achieve our goals. No one can follow a plan that is not clearly laid out.
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