Alone in the Wilderness Part Two (trailer)
“Learn to use an axe and respect it, and you can’t help but love it.”- Dick Proenneke
All these years and we never knew there’d ever be a sequel to the movie that played such a huge role around Best Made. We’d argue that part one of Alone in the Wilderness was one of the bigger catalysts for starting our company: Dick Proenneke’s uncanny blend of craft combined with his sheer courage and fortitude for being able to live alone in northern Alaska (alone) for 30 years make for a truly Best Made man, a Best Made movie. Lucky for everyone and thanks to Bob Swerer, Dick is back — better than ever — in the sequel and we just got our hands on some of the first copies which were released this week.
Proenneke lived a life that many of us dream of, and we encourage everyone to keep dreaming but more importantly we encourage you to act. You don’t have to move alone to the wilds of Alaska for thirty years to be as free as Proenneke. You don’t have to build your own log cabin either. Just get outside, and without even thinking you’ll soon enough find yourself on your own amazing path to exploration, documentation, and creation.
My Buddies EDC. Note the survival bracelet is made by yours truly!
submitted by patricktulskie
I commute by foot and by train every day. I need to travel light so in my EDC you’ll find only what I use every day. The only duplication you’ll notice is the Wenger and the Leatherman. I rarely use the Wenger’s blade but I always find use for the bottle opener and scissors. Also, for those of you that are frequently underground without cellular service, one can never underestimate the value of an accurate time piece. I’ve been toying with the idea of pocketing a flashlight but my iPhone always seems to rise to the challenge.
Editor’s Note: Nice simple carry. You bring up a good point about having an accurate timepiece, knowing what time it is and being on time can save a lot of hassle sometimes. There are other benefits to keeping time with a watch, in some settings it’s just more polite to check the time discreetly on your watch than to pull out your phone. For students, taking out your phone to check the time during an exam is grounds for failure, and knowing/managing your time is crucial. As for a light, if you need to carry minimally and your phone does a good job, then there’s no pressure to upgrade. I could only imagine you’d find it handy if your commute runs late at night and if you’re underground a lot, but also realize that in case of an emergency, having a bright flashlight might attract unwanted attention from desperate people left in the dark. Kind of strange, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s better to use a cheapy light or your phone… Anyway, thanks for sharing!
A little push for those just starting out in the creative field from Ira Glass via Put This On.
Hobo Nickels: So apparently you can actually carve nickels and people do this? I love this! There’s even an entire society dedicated to it. I don’t know about you all, but I do hope I happen upon one of these one day. More info and via This Colossal
Crazy, you’d think with all that space, there’d be enough space…
A poster I whipped up to inspire some coworkers. Might make t-shirts of it as well.
My buddy sent me this and thought it was funny. I’ve been there before, and this would have helped :)
(Second) Type of the Week: My second type of the week makes up for the week I missed. I love type and this video gives us an overdose of characters from the Unicode Consortium. Jörg Piringer took it upon himself to make this type experiment featuring all of the Unicode characters at 25 frames per second. Be careful it can be quite hypnotizing. Overall, I’m not sure what’s more impressive – that I can stare at this and be entertained, or that it actually takes 33 minutes to watch the whole thing. I highly recommend at least 2 minutes of it! For more info on this, visit Jörg’s write up here.
Holy Hand Crafted
My good friend, John (BBBarn), introduced me to EDC. This site resonates with me because I carry a Leatherman with me every day. Now sometimes people make fun of me. Yet most of those folks wind up coming to me when they need something knifed, sawed, screw driven, or plied, so I’m okay with it.
Anyway, EDC showed me a bunch of things but one of them was so bizarre yet amazing, I had to have one: a paracord survival bracelet. I mean, I doubt I’ll ever need it, but fuck, I just wanted one. So I’ll spare you the UPS fuckups and the walk I made my 8 month pregnant wife take with me to the Army Navy store, and the 6.45 mile run I took to UPS pickup spot in Manhattan, and just show you the shit I wound up making a few days after I saw this.
I am a nerd in so many ways… I am proud it.
Stunning video. 24 Hours of Flight Data makes for a beautiful visual and “map” of the US. Via: Aaron Koblin
Github has hired 26 talented fucking people in the past 543 fucking days
UPDATE: As of today, 4/6/11, it’s 27
Every time I go to the Github blog, I see that they hired another fucking talented person. So, I asked myself, “How many fucking people have they hired?” Well, luckily they announce it ever time, and they use the same damn title. So, like any good developer, I wrote a little script to find out how many people they fucking hired.
Well, the answer is:
Github has hired 26 talented fucking people in the past 543 fucking days
(in case the gist doesn’t show up: https://gist.github.com/898650
(EDIT: this is not a scientific or 100% accurate accounting of Github’s HR history)
