Too Far West is East

- video by Barbatuques

jamming in the studio -

Michael Ruhlman had something to say

Despite the cheesy music

great monologue on the significance of food and cooking

by Michael Ruhlman.

(note: references Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human)

Had Something to Say - Cooking from michael ruhlman on Vimeo.

Throat Singing

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HEY TYRA

FUCK YOU

(via nada tiene sentido)

Slave to the Rhythm

Everlasting Boy

by Jillian Tamaki

(via Jillian Tamaki)

REASSURING FACT

"87 percent of pork fat is predicted to have no effect or a positive effect on cholesterol."

(via The Beauty of the Beast)

This week, I am very excited for:

-bacon done curing in fridge

-bacon fat drawing

-bacon breakfasts

-bacon-chili nuts

-bacon infused granola

-bacon smelling house, clothes, friends etc.

Audible Shenanigans

Playing the Building

Battery Maritime Building, New York City, 2008

David Byrne

Playing the Building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.

(via David Byrne)

reminds me of David Ellis' Owl

and

it's dreaming

(i want)

thousands of me descend upon one of you

William Bouguereau (1825-1905)
Les Oreades
Oil on canvas, 1902

get a move on, yong

-_-

(via probin)

Eating Designer

After ten years of working on food projects, Dutch product designer-turned-eating designer Marije Vogelzang has developed a philosophy about food incorporating eight points: senses, nature, culture, society, technique, psychology, science, and action. She's published two books about food, and this summer opened a restaurant in Amsterdam called Proef. Learn more about Vogelzang in this interview by Gestalten.

Marije Vogelzang from Gestalten on Vimeo.

(via Serious Eats)

RSA: Changing Education Paradigm

(via Nathan Bond via RSA)

Malice in Wonderland

O, I had such a curious dream

excerpt from On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee

The everyday alchemy of creating food for the body and the mind. This 17th-century

woodcut compares the alchemical ("chymick") work of the bee and the scholar, who

transform nature's raw materials into honey and knowledge. Whenever we cook we

become practical chemists, drawing on the accumulated knowledge of generations,

and transforming what the Earth offers us into more concentrated forms of pleasure

and nourishment.

(The first Latin caption reads "Thus we bees make honey, not for ourselves"; the second,

"All things in books," the library being the scholar's hive. Woodcut from the collection of the

International Bee Research Association.)

Speaking of bees, military scientists and insect nerds have recently found the cause of the colony collapse of honey bees - a concoction of fungus and virus.

Wooden Joy avec Grass

The advantages of turf roofs (also called sod roofs) are many. They are very heavy, so they help to stabilize the house; they provide good insulation; and they are long-lasting.

Turf roofs in Norway are a tradition and you will see them everywhere. Roofs in Scandinavia have probably been covered with birch bark and sod since prehistory. During the Viking and Middle Ages most houses had sod roofs. In rural areas sod roofs were almost universal until the beginning of the 18th century. Tile roofs, which appeared much earlier in towns and on rural manors, gradually superseded sod roofs except in remote inland areas during the 19th century. Corrugated iron and other industrial materials also became a threat to ancient traditions. But just before extinction, the national romantics proclaimed a revival of vernacular traditions, including sod roofs. A new market was opened by the demand for mountain lodges and holiday homes. At the same time, open air museums and the preservation movement created a reservation for ancient building traditions. From these reservations, sod roofs have begun to reappear as an alternative to modern materials.

(via notcot)

Svenska Wooden Joy

one+ is a housing concept by the swedish company add-a-room that allows users to build their
home through prefabricated modules. the system was designed by danish architect lars frank
nielsen and uses 15m square rooms as building blocks for dwellings. the units are built off site
and assembled on location to streamline the process and keep costs down. users can use one module or combine multiple ones to create their own design. the system uses local swedish
materials and energy efficient windows and doors. basic units start at around 35,000 USD.

(via notcot)

The Indestructible Happy Meal

Holy McFuck!

The Biggie-Food Connection

A collection of Biggie's finest food rhymes (by Francis Lam)

Biggie was a funny man, and he mastered the silliness of sex and food. Back to "Juicy":

The Moet and Alizé keep me pissy
Girls used to diss me
Now they write letters 'cause they miss me
I never thought it could happen, this rappin' stuff
I was too used to packin' gats and stuff
Now honies play me close like butter played toast
From the Mississippi down to the East Coast

And he built a legacy in masterpieces of carnal seduction like "Big Poppa":

We can rendezvous at the bar around two.
Plans to leave, throw the keys to Lil' Cease.
Pull the truck up front and roll up the next blunt,
So we can steam on the way to the telly. Go fill my belly –
A T-bone steak, cheese eggs and Welch's grape.
Conversate for a few, 'cause in a few, we gon' do what we came to do.
Ain't that right, Boo? (True.)

I mean, if he can make your girl leave you for that level of romance, what couldn't he do? Outside of sex appeal (when "b**ches used to go, 'Ewww!'") Biggie also rapped often about his fabulous wealth, invoking culinary luxuries, like here, in "Hypnotize":

I can fill ya wit real millionaire shit: escargot.
My car go
160, swiftly. Wreck it, buy a new one –
Your crew run run run; your crew run run.

And just imagine him, all 300-plus pounds, lazy eye and top hat, rollin' through his English gardens, contemplating seafood as he does in "I Love the Dough":

Country house, tennis courts, and horseback
Ridin', decidin': cracked crab or lobster?
Who says mobsters don't prosper?

His language was his weapon against the world, and so he bragged with ferocious skill. No detail, no material, ever escaped his eye or its place in his quiver. He was a rapper who didn't have to rely on street slang because his eye for detail in the larger world was so acute. This is from a freestyle with DJ Mister Cee:

All it's taking, is some marijuana and I'm making
MCs break fast, like flapjacks and bacon.

But he was always clear on his relationship with hunger. This is from "Things Done Changed":

If I wasn't in the rap game
I'd probably have a key, knee deep in the crack game
Because the streets is a short stop
Either you're slingin' crack rock or you got a wicked jumpshot
Shit, it's hard being young from the slums
Eatin' five-cent gums not knowin' where your meal's comin' from.

(via Francis Lam)

BLUUU

cake mural in Grottaglie, Italy

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

(via blublu)

and his older animations

Fino from blu on Vimeo.

la quiete from blu on Vimeo.

ffwd from blu on Vimeo.

MmmHmm

MmmHmm by FlyLo

Boys and Girls & Fornication

Appropriated Brochure
(from Christians at Washington Square Park)
Sharpie on Paper
2010

© Yong Shin

Classy Food Porn

from Del Posto - with a 4* review.



I bet this ragu could melt the most rigid of hearts...



And their Pollock-esque chocolate tree,
which I'd like to sit under and catch the falling sweet joys
with my mouth...



(via NY Times)