Sparklers

We’re rolling out a new feature for our Brooklyn Torch Journal: Sparklers

photo credit: paulholloway’s flickr
It’s a series of internet links that we’ve found and hope that you’ll enjoy perusing. Imagine yourself dancing around a spring BBQ with a few of these in your hands. (safer than the real thing inside city limits)
Banking Local is really… »

Design for Print

Our design meeting tonight was really great! Thanks to everyone who attended. We looked at sketches for texture which included really great urban motifs. We also talked quite a bit about printing and paper quality. If there’s anyone out there with experience with large print runs for durability and cost, please let us know. We… »

Walking the Pathway of Making Money

Tonight was another great graphic design meeting. It’s hard to describe the nature of building a local currency and all the labyrinthian and intricate pathways we have had to (and can anticipate having to) explore together. Sometimes it feels like we’re not making progress, but rather talking in circles to ever widening networks. But tonight,… »

Studying Marx in Greenpoint

I recently started sitting in on David Harvey’s class on Karl Marx’s Capital. Before the first day of class, I really didn’t know that Marx wrote three volumes of Capital. So, when I went to get my copy at Greenpoint’s Word bookstore last Sunday, I wasn’t terribly specific about asking them to order Volume One… »