Expect to see a post tomorrow morning as we open up the next round of orders. As of first thing tomorrow, all in house orders should be shipped or be ready to be picked up by the post office. We are getting faster!
2021-10-04 18:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Ny public library collections including original Winnie the Pooh dolls that inspired the stories and the umbrella that inspired marry Poppins. The sheet music is the first printing of the nation anthem, but the music has changed a bit since then. Also the hidden bar in grand central station.
2021-10-03 14:41:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Water and food from Tomi jazz Club. Check their menu with the qr code. St. Patrick's cathedral. Gregorys coffee (no relation) serendipity 3 and their frozen hot chocolate and a dealer in central park.
2021-10-03 14:40:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of this you can hear about on the latest podcast (#101)
An engraved knife in an upscale steak shop called quality Italian. One of the waterfalls in midtown we were only able to see one. I find it fascinating that there are art choking posters. Hanging a choking posters required in a restaurant in New York City so a lot of places have commissioned very attractive ones. The globe is from the lobby of the daily News building. It was also used in one of the early Superman films. I tho...
Visiting the Lexington avenue candy store, and having a night cream there with the owner. Cleopatra's needle, an obelisk that has it's made in Paris we saw that in 2019. The castle in central park. A poster from the auto mania show at the museum of modern art. Some colder items from the same show. A camera hound from the lobby of a building in midtown across from Rockefeller center. And art skateboards from the museum of modern art gift shop
2021-10-03 14:37:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Thought you'd like to see the trip.
Art from Rockefeller center, photos from the Russian tea room. And a foubtain that I like. Some folks showing off there lowrider motorcycles one night, and an egg cream on the front of the Lexington avenue candy store.
You are in a Museum and you realize you have a print of the painting you are looking at in your pocket.
2021-10-03 00:10:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Greg sets up at about 7:30 and watches the city wake up on his trip to NYC. He tells about what he's done so far.
The photo by the way, is of our waiter at the Jazz Club "Tomi Jazz"
2021-10-02 12:11:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Well I'm going on vacation this week and I ran out of time to finish this video, so I thought I'd make a teaser ... and show off our new (or old) candy maker. Trick or Treat eveyrone.
-GReg
Don't forget to use coupon code UDS for a free unicorn sticker or PODSTICK for a podcast sticker.
Sorry you do get to chose one or the other (hint, we have lots of podcast stickers, but only a limited amount of unicorn stickers). The unicorn code is only for Patreon Subscribers of $5 or over.
2021-09-28 12:08:12 +0000 UTC View PostPlease limit yourself to 10 tins. The computer won't limit you so please help by not ordering more than this.
We are a bit behind, this really won't ship for two weeks, unless we get faster (and I hope we will.)
Secret Link (please don't share Patreons Only) https://www.pd.net/tsours
And it will go down at about 6pm EST or when if we sell more than we can handle.
2021-09-28 12:05:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Greg rambles a bit today, with sour updates and his travel plans. He is joined by Vanya the podcat and talks about new projects, about things breaking in the store, gives you a code for a free sticker, and reads your letters. He also updates you on new Patreon Levels.
2021-09-27 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I started this Patreon I thought I could do a monthly podcast for members, and it would be cool. Well that turned into a weekly one and I made it public.
I've been re-hashing what we are doing for members.
So here are my approaches. Everyone gets access to early releases of candy. Since when we put something up we can get backed up for almost a month on orders, the theory is if you have access to order early, you can get to the front of the line. We may not be abl...
2021-09-26 19:55:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome new Patreon Members, and there are a lot of you. I know you joined here to get your hands on the Tangerine Sours first. Well congratulations, you are achieving that, just not today, buy you will have access to them before anyone else.
My goal here is to convince you to stay a Patreon support, like all of these other folks have. This gives me the freedom to take risks with projects and videos like this series.
You want to know when you can get the candy. Well th...
2021-09-26 19:48:34 +0000 UTC View Post
As you may (or may not) know, at Lofty Pursuits we sell the Unicorn Droppings, the left over pieces from logs of candy in our store. They are impractical to ship, so they are all sold here.
We just made some new stickers to stick on the backs so we can denote the flavors (hence the white space) I thought it would be cool to get you guys one of thee stickers with your next order with us. Just key in coupon code "UDS" and you will get one of these stickers tossed in your order (while supp...
2021-09-25 20:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I know this is not candy related but the projects I'm doing right now are store front related. You saw a previous draft of this. I cleaned up the text, bent the logo better, made it black for better contrast, changed some of the text to include city and web address, made the egg more egg like, and added a hole to the record with a light shadow on it. I positioned that reflection to the perspective would be correct if you were looking down on the art as you would for a shirt. I also added my s...
2021-09-25 15:04:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought I shout out for feedback on this. I had to simply the label because this will be 1.5" to 2" on the top to bottom access. much smaller than this image that is larger that life size on my laptop.
The grey will be the metal of the pin, colors enamel.
The world "Sour" will be added, but I was too tired to do it tonight. And yes, I did re-draw it in vector format after dinner. Thank you for asking :)
I may have too much detail for them to deal with, but in many wa...
2021-09-24 04:05:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the link to it before it goes live.
At a certain point I will schedule it's public release. When that time is set, YouTube turns off this link until it becomes public, but until then, you get to see it first. It will probably go up live for real about 3pm EST today.
-GReg
We sold a truly amazing amount of candy over the last 24 hours. Late tonight or early tomorrow morning I plan to take the link down until we catch up with orders.
When it goes back off you guys here will get a head start if you want me more, and then we'll open it up to other people.
Thanks so much for being a part of this and letting us do what we love to do.
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2021-09-23 01:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Well the breaker bars are bent. I dropped it off with a machinists to have them rebuilt this afternoon and I'm hoping to have them back by noon tomorrow. Sadly we lost today a production on the tangerine sours.
:-(
-GReg
2021-09-23 01:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Greg goes down a deep dive into the Scissors he uses for candy making, he talks about Tangerine Sours yet again, and he talks about his Trip to Atlanta and seeing the Calder/Picasso exhibit and the Bansky Exhibit.
2021-09-21 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the secret URL https://www.pd.net/sour
Please don't share it. It will go down when about 500-600 tins are sold. It will be open for Podcast folks at 3pm ish EST.
If you get a dead link, it means that we've sold out of the next batch, but don;t worry, you will get first dibs on the batch after that too.
We thought we could ship batch #1 in 7 days. We are on day 8 now and not everything is shipped (S...
2021-09-21 12:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostThere should be no reason to rush tomorrow. That's somewhere between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. eastern standard time I'm going to post the secret URL again so that you, our patreon subscribers can place your orders. Most of you have already ordered. Some of you may want to order again but we should have plenty of candy to ship within a week for everyone who wants it here. I do ask you to limit yourself to know more than 10 tins.
So no reason to hit refresh again and again. I will post an anno...
2021-09-20 22:01:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Third time in two months. Neat.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/pqp3sg/a_florida_candy_maker_is_recreating_the/
First of all an amazing show, I think I'll talk about it on Tuesdays podcast. Underground Atlanta where it was is a covered area with restored store fronts that were abandoned in the 1940's. These are now used for some stores, and for exhibit space. The gallery the Bansky exhibit was in, had a bunch of these store fronts that they used for show space. First of all an amazing venue. But they had markers that showed what were in this space (They doubled as benches) Block candy apparently was in...
2021-09-19 19:21:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm being driven back from Atlanta to Tallahassee by my lovely daughter who decided she wanted to do some more high speed driving, so I've been working to tightening up the design on this shirt. Spoon is the other way around, some tweaking of the text. Worked the web address into the spoon handle.
Is this cool?
The reference is from the podcast by the way.
2021-09-19 18:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Come on, shout out if we did it right? What about the packaging? Good and bad, we want to hear it!
Remember to take candy photos and post hashtag #LoftyPursuits so we can see.
2021-09-18 22:51:02 +0000 UTC View Post
But I'm on a t-shirt kick here clearly, any feedback?
I'm thinking of making the spoon go up, so if you have it tucked in, the spoon will just be coming out of your pants.
-GReg
Today is a milestone that marks the 28th anniversary of Lofty Pursuits serving Tallahassee. Thanks for all the years of letting us serve you and thanks for all the support this past year. We feel loved. Lofty Pursuits since 1993. #LoftyPursuits #IHeartTally
2021-09-17 16:42:28 +0000 UTC View Post