http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:04:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/100-hammers-project-ms-initiative-for-unconsumption.html Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:19:45 +0000 A new charity has participants borrow a second-hand hammer for one month to create work that benefit local art projects.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/talking-trash-the-scavengers-manifesto.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:30:04 +0000 Salon recently spent a day with authors Anneli Lawson and Kristan Rufus who have taken the spirit of DIY culture and combined it with their unique perspective on consumerism in their book The Scavengers’ Manifesto, a guide for all those intrigued by notions of reduce, reuse and recycle, but don’t necessarily want to lose out on the best that life has to offer. For the two authors, this book represents a way of life and an opportunity to take their point of view into the mainstream. This guide isn’t just about extreme activities like dumpster diving either, instead it presents aRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/the-point-of-unconsumed.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:00:29 +0000 Rob Walker, author behind “Buying In” and the popular “Consumed” column for the NY Times Magazine, is best known for his work that examines the fluid relationships we have with the objects in our lives – much of it dealing with the ways our purchasing habits affect us emotionally and psychologically.  And though we may have all experienced the rush of buying a pair of designer shoes, what happens when they’ve lost their luster and the “thrill” is finally gone? Whether because they no longer work or simply because we no longer want them anymore, we are constantly faced withRead more...]]>