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Lumberjacks at Work

Scott Campbell

Badu Badu Badu

Marshall Arisman

a bit of mythology and mysticism here

brutalism and tribal art there

in a raw Bacon-esque style -

Arisman's got a bit of

everything.

from the Black Elk series

From Sacred Monkeys series

From Buffaloes series

(via Marshall Arisman)

Creekstone Farms

Good-bye, cow!

Hello, beef!

(via NYTimes)

SpY

For Security Reasons

For Security Reasons

Beach Balls

Banana

Gardening

Basket

Caution

Balloons

(via SpY)

(via Deerhunter)

baby dictators

Potency, a series by Nina Maria Kleivan of her months old daughter

as infamous dictators of past and present.

Mao Zedong

Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler

"We all have evil within us. Even small children are evil toward each other."

-Kleivan

(via Times)

sunday blues

break down

A member of the celebrated generation of Young British Artists, Michael Landy distanced himself from the material success that came to define his counterparts when he systematically catalogued and destroyed each of his more than 7,000 personal possessions in 2001. Break Down saw the destruction of everything from childhood photographs to kitchen utensils and socks, leaving the artist with no material means of self-definition. Landy’s effects were placed into gaping plastic bins and left to circulate on a conveyor belt for two weeks before meeting their final end. The show’s onlookers witnessed the reversal of production line consumerism: a microcosmic experiment in which the capitalist model of logic was inverted and subsequently destroyed. Break Down was intended as an examination of consumer culture, but it was also an act of purification, both personal and philosophical, that severed Landy’s physical connection to the past. It was a sacrifice made to the possibility of something entirely new.

(via Adbusters)

He's also got the current Art Bin at South London Gallery

where there a monument for creative failure is exhibited.

Logorama

The film takes the viewer on an entertaining, violent, profane, action-packed caper set in a world comprised entirely of well-known corporate logos and iconic mascots. How familiar are the stars of this film? Well, an evil Ronald McDonald embarks upon a shooting spree on a street overflowing with 7-Elevens, U-Haul trucks, Wal-Marts and Pizza Huts. The Michelin Men are bumbling, foul-mouthed cops on his trail, and Bob’s Big Boy picks his nose and flings it on an unsuspecting victim.

-Current

(via GarageTV)

Choe: worksinprogress

detail done with one hair brush

from a ten foot painting

(via Dave Choe)

Shrigley

Shrigley for Pringle of Scotland

see also:

"My name is mushroom. My name is toadstool. My name is spore. My name is fungus. My name is mildew. My name is bog, fen, marsh and swamp. My name is truffle. My name is bacteria. My name is muck...but you can call me Pete."

Sapporo Beer

Sapporo beer - Japanese lager from

the city of Sapporo,

on the island of Hokkaido,

Japan.

Although,

not brewed there any more

but the Sapporo Beer museum

exists there.

The following:

a brief history of Sapporo beer design, bottles, cans and silliness.

Below: I recall the third one from the right

being the original traditional design of the Forty...

Surely, it doesn't taste like cock...

1.2 liters in a can?

Why the hell not?

Super-Bier-u-Man

99 cans of beer on the wall

(so baroque, as they say...)

Tasty breakfast - clean, crisp and easy...

I'm turning Japanese, I really think so...

O, Pops...

And finish the trip by chowing down on some lamb

with the family at the beer hall!

no, i did not take this photo

sue me!

obsession

Mighty Bourdain checks some out (un)healthy, yet appetizing obsessions.

Holy Moly Miracle Berry

"You can eat a berry and then bite into a lemon. It becomes not only sweeter, but it will be the best lemon you've tasted in your life."

Also known as "miracle fruit" or Synsepalum dulcificum

Grown in Africa, first documented in 18th Century

Acts on the sour receptors of the tongue, turning sour tastes sweet

Effect lasts 30 mins - two hours

Effect is destroyed in hot foods - eg coffee and baked foods

Renders an accompanying dry white wine sickly sweet

Sour/Bitter examples:

Lemon/Radish/Pickles/Hot Sauce/Beer

SO WHO WANTS TO FLAVOUR TRIP WITH ME?!

(via BBC)

"There is an infinity of senses which we lack." -Desnos

Headspace: On Scent As Design

Headspace is a one-day symposium on the conception, impact, and potential applications of scent. This event gathers leading thinkers, designers, scientists, artists, established perfumers as well as "accidental perfumers" (a selection of architects, designers, and chefs invited to experiment with scent) to acknowledge scent as a new territory for design and begin to draft the outline of this new practice.

Excerpts from the interview:

Language doesn’t really seem up to the task of expressing all that scent means to us, or triggers within us. Thus, we are still at the level of the “grunt,” limited to broad terms like good, bad, ugh, and sweet.

With the Enlightenment Era came a certain rationalization of our senses, where knowledge, culture, class, and intelligence were associated directly with our visual senses, whereas smell was associated with bodily fluids, dirt, and poverty. Social history has encouraged a discomfort with our beautifully functional nostrils. It is time to reclaim them!

Smells tend to be used to hide, not reveal. But there’s a lot of potential for use of scent that’s functionalized to reveal, signaling things like danger, sustainability, quality in food.

You can make an analogy between perfumers and typographers: Both are nearly invisible as designers; both create highly refined and nuanced products that are virtually unnoticed by the entire population; and both affect the texture and experience of our everyday lives in countless ways, despite their lack of recognition.

Scent can play a more emotional, expressive, and even functional role in our everyday lives. Since our associations with scent are incredibly strong and cognitively bonded with memory, scents might open up new ways to learn and remember. Becoming more alive to scents will also add texture, depth, and richness to our everyday experiences, ifwe can find ways to incorporate them that move beyond air fresheners and analogs of natural scents.

Moreover, scent can be used to “tag” objects and places and accordingly build associations and habits. It can facilitate a higher sense of symbolism and personalization of design, as in a more direct and human connection to meaning, symbols, and personal histories.

(via Seed)

Japanese Food Porn Pt. 2

announcing the fish of the day (?)

salmon roe on rice with egg (and pickles)

lush crab appetizer

assortment of sushi from Hokkaido Island

getting intimate with the roe

holy flamin' mackerel!

above: toro, scallop, kani miso (crab brain)

below: broiled eel

(anago, salt water eel as opposed to unagi, fresh water eel)

the following 3 dishes are from a Michelin star restaurant called

Morimoto XEX owned by Morimoto of Iron Chef!

They were all about the highest quality ingredients

and their essence through simple preparation...

Japanese steak = buttery heaven

(seared to medium on its own - I usually go for medium rare

but as far as Japanese meat goes, medium is the way to go!)

scallop & snapper & seaweed

shrimp simply grilled on teppanyaki

best beer snacks of salty grilled fish with eggs bursting in the seams!

okonomiyaki (Japanese savory pancakes)

made by the Shin bros.

grilled scallops

the most unphallic Tokyo bananas!