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We created this blog as a way of sharing resources and information with our fellow impractical laborers — consider it a supplement to the print publications of the ILSSA Research Institute. Please check back soon for posts on obsolete technology, the nature of work, independent production, conceptual handicraft, American-made manufacturing, art-as-service, and so much more. And if you have made or found something you think might be of interest to impractical laborers, please send it our way! We’d love to hear about it.
Yours in the labor of love,
the ILSSA Organizers, operator@impractical-labor.org
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Rev Andy Little // February 6, 2009 at 11:57 am
Good Morning. I’m not quite sure how I got here, but I’ll call it serendipity. I don’t qualify as far as using the obsolete technology but, nonetheless, this statement hit right home: “Impractical Labor seeks to restore the relationship between a maker and her tools; a maker and her time; a maker and what she makes. The process is the end, not the product. Impractical Labor is idealized labor: the labor of love.”
I have been a cabinet maker for love for over 20 years and, when I did do it for a short while for money, it felt wrong. So, even if I can’t join your parade, I can certainly applaud from the side of the street.
Oh, yes! I love you, too.