Done with text to voice.
Though this is about filmmakers its pretty universal of clients of creative professionals.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Alice?! Alice?! Where are you???
A labyrinth in a cornfield!
From the website:
"The Labyrinth Arctic Gardens is a new theme park concept in Quebec. It’s a giant corn maze where the whole family can explore twists and turns, meeting intriguing and roguish characters along the way, each of whom has a story to tell and invites you to take part. Performances, puzzles and plenty of laughs await you just around the next corner… as long as you know how to get to them!"
From the website:
"The Labyrinth Arctic Gardens is a new theme park concept in Quebec. It’s a giant corn maze where the whole family can explore twists and turns, meeting intriguing and roguish characters along the way, each of whom has a story to tell and invites you to take part. Performances, puzzles and plenty of laughs await you just around the next corner… as long as you know how to get to them!"
Monday, August 30, 2010
Lou - Concert
Well last night I went to see Lou Barlow, one of my alltime, if not my alltime favorite songwriters.
Was the small venue of Il Motore, on Jean-Talon. Intimate place. I would have never found the show if I hadn't been perusing the Horseshoe Tavern shows coming up. Opening was Wye Oak. Both groups have this interesting intimate, romantic and raw relationship.
Lou was/is several key 90's lo-fi bands, true "indie", not the modern marketing term....Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr.
Lou has a way of just finding the right notes to bury into my heart.
His songs are almost all at core acoustic and melodic. But in concerts and sometimes in recordings they are played almost punkishly. (lover your earphones volume or the feedback might get you).
Paper Girls Most Favorite Song Ever.(period)
From Sebadoh.
(feels oddly revealing)
Was the small venue of Il Motore, on Jean-Talon. Intimate place. I would have never found the show if I hadn't been perusing the Horseshoe Tavern shows coming up. Opening was Wye Oak. Both groups have this interesting intimate, romantic and raw relationship.
Lou was/is several key 90's lo-fi bands, true "indie", not the modern marketing term....Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr.
Lou has a way of just finding the right notes to bury into my heart.
His songs are almost all at core acoustic and melodic. But in concerts and sometimes in recordings they are played almost punkishly. (lover your earphones volume or the feedback might get you).
Paper Girls Most Favorite Song Ever.(period)
From Sebadoh.
(feels oddly revealing)
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Restaurant Trailer
2 Chefs in Chicago are treating the dining experience almost like a show, you buy tickets not items off a menu. I believe they currently have a cocktail bar and now are opening a restaurant, check out the trailer
"What is Next Restaurant?
Next Restaurant will explore world cuisine. It is being developed by chef Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, and the creative team that built Alinea, including Crucial Detail designer Martin Kastner, Architect Steve Rugo, and Interior Designer Tom Stringer.
Next Restaurant will serve four menus per year from great moments in culinary history – or the future. Our team of chefs will investigate, test, refine, and present authentic menu interpretations from cultures, places and times. Depending on the cuisine, meals will be 5 to 6 courses and will include food, beverage pairings, and service.
Our goal each season is to present the best possible menu from each culinary inspiration. We want to take diners on a journey to the foods we find exciting, delicious, and important."
They also work on food pairings at the bar. Here is bubble tea gin and tonic which you might like Jet Set.
"What is Next Restaurant?
Next Restaurant will explore world cuisine. It is being developed by chef Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, and the creative team that built Alinea, including Crucial Detail designer Martin Kastner, Architect Steve Rugo, and Interior Designer Tom Stringer.
Next Restaurant will serve four menus per year from great moments in culinary history – or the future. Our team of chefs will investigate, test, refine, and present authentic menu interpretations from cultures, places and times. Depending on the cuisine, meals will be 5 to 6 courses and will include food, beverage pairings, and service.
Our goal each season is to present the best possible menu from each culinary inspiration. We want to take diners on a journey to the foods we find exciting, delicious, and important."
They also work on food pairings at the bar. Here is bubble tea gin and tonic which you might like Jet Set.
Modernist Cuisine
"Modernist Cuisine is a six-volume, 2,400-page set that is destined to reinvent cooking. The lavishly illustrated books use thousands of original images to make the science and technology clear and engaging."
Oh ... its also 500$
via kottke
Oh ... its also 500$
via kottke
Friday, August 27, 2010
Dinner at L.A.B.
Just had dinner at L.A.B. with my friend Joe.
L.A.B. stands for "Living and Breathing"... It presents a fun twist on molecular cuisine. Great service and fun food with a sense of humour. Located on College Street, near Grace Street in Toronto.
Here is what we had tonight:
Entrée: Tilapia Crudo with Grapefruit (Shared)
Main (Myself): Asparagus Risotto
Main (Joe): Lamb Ribs served with isralian couscous and ochra
Desert (shared) = Soft Chocolate Bar that consisted of Semi-Soft Chocolate/ Cap’n Crunch/ Chartreuse Gel/ Mint Powder
All of it was delicious and beautiful presentation!
Wearable Architecture
Posted for Jet Set
"dutch design team studio roosegaarde recently teamed up with fashion designers maartje dijkstra and
anouk wipprecht to create the variable transparency intimacy dresses. these two dresses are made from
white and black e-foil, reacting to the presence of people by becoming transparent. the white intimacy
dress was made with dijkstra, while the black version was a collaboration with wipprecht. the dresses
are both made from a single flat sheet of material, cut into a pattern and fastened to give it volume.
the dresses intend to allow the wearer’s social interactions to determine the level of transparency.
the designers are also working on a bag to go with the dress and a pavilion."
via Designboom
"dutch design team studio roosegaarde recently teamed up with fashion designers maartje dijkstra and
anouk wipprecht to create the variable transparency intimacy dresses. these two dresses are made from
white and black e-foil, reacting to the presence of people by becoming transparent. the white intimacy
dress was made with dijkstra, while the black version was a collaboration with wipprecht. the dresses
are both made from a single flat sheet of material, cut into a pattern and fastened to give it volume.
the dresses intend to allow the wearer’s social interactions to determine the level of transparency.
the designers are also working on a bag to go with the dress and a pavilion."
via Designboom
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Woman and Facial Hair?!
From the Guardian:
"Over the past two months, a feminist activist in Bristol called Jessica Burton has been running a campaign called Hairy Awarey, asking women all over the land to go natural. "I've been hairy for so long that it just seems normal to me," says Burton, "but I do feel that at the moment women do not have a choice about hair . . . I suppose the excitement about Hairy Awarey was that the simplest of actions (leaving the razor on the side of the bath tub) can have life-changing effects for the women brave enough to try it.""
"Over the past two months, a feminist activist in Bristol called Jessica Burton has been running a campaign called Hairy Awarey, asking women all over the land to go natural. "I've been hairy for so long that it just seems normal to me," says Burton, "but I do feel that at the moment women do not have a choice about hair . . . I suppose the excitement about Hairy Awarey was that the simplest of actions (leaving the razor on the side of the bath tub) can have life-changing effects for the women brave enough to try it.""
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Death of a Building
Usually we witness the birth of buidings, or at the very least a slow and steady decline to death.
Here a photographer, Christoph Gielen, discusses witnessing a sudden death (ie blowup demolition) of a failed housing complex.
"What compels me most in the resulting images is the sudden absence of the Whitfield tower and the way the cloud’s shape describes an impact of a large mass hitting the earth. The idea that something so large, so present in the landscape could disappear almost instantly is more interesting to me than documenting its fall frame by frame. I prefer to let the image of the apparently vanished structure conjure up speculation over its former shape, its history and the reasons for its demolition."
more at the NYT
Here a photographer, Christoph Gielen, discusses witnessing a sudden death (ie blowup demolition) of a failed housing complex.
"What compels me most in the resulting images is the sudden absence of the Whitfield tower and the way the cloud’s shape describes an impact of a large mass hitting the earth. The idea that something so large, so present in the landscape could disappear almost instantly is more interesting to me than documenting its fall frame by frame. I prefer to let the image of the apparently vanished structure conjure up speculation over its former shape, its history and the reasons for its demolition."
more at the NYT
Squished by a Car?
If you lived in NYC there's a 80% chance it was by a male driver turning left!
more at NYT
more at NYT
New Concept: Code-switching
Was listening to the c'est la vie radio show on cbc today and they mentioned the term code-switching. Apparently we are a hotbed of it/for it.
Code-switching is a linguistics term denoting the concurrent use of more than one language, or language variety, in conversation. Multilinguals - people who speak more than one language - sometimes use elements of multiple languages in conversing with each other. Thus, code-switching is the syntactically and phonologically appropriate use of more than one linguistic variety.
Code-switching is distinct from other language contact phenomena, such as borrowing, pidgins and creoles, loan translation (calques), and language transfer (language interference). Speakers form and establish a pidgin language when two or more speakers who do not speak a common language form an intermediate, third language. On the other hand, speakers practice code-switching when they are each fluent in both languages. Code mixing is a thematically related term, but the usage of the terms code-switching and code-mixing varies. Some scholars use either term to denote the same practice, while others apply code-mixing to denote the formal linguistic properties of said language-contact phenomena, and code-switching to denote the actual, spoken usages by multilingual persons
From Wikipedia
Code-switching is a linguistics term denoting the concurrent use of more than one language, or language variety, in conversation. Multilinguals - people who speak more than one language - sometimes use elements of multiple languages in conversing with each other. Thus, code-switching is the syntactically and phonologically appropriate use of more than one linguistic variety.
Code-switching is distinct from other language contact phenomena, such as borrowing, pidgins and creoles, loan translation (calques), and language transfer (language interference). Speakers form and establish a pidgin language when two or more speakers who do not speak a common language form an intermediate, third language. On the other hand, speakers practice code-switching when they are each fluent in both languages. Code mixing is a thematically related term, but the usage of the terms code-switching and code-mixing varies. Some scholars use either term to denote the same practice, while others apply code-mixing to denote the formal linguistic properties of said language-contact phenomena, and code-switching to denote the actual, spoken usages by multilingual persons
From Wikipedia
Monday, August 16, 2010
Random Historic Royal Gossip
This book came out in 2008 but upon reading a review for it in the Telegraph I found this entry amusing.
"How fat was Henry VIII?
Studies of suits of armour belonging to Henry VIII – and now at the Tower of London – show how the Tudor monarch went from being a tall, handsome and decidedly thin young man to someone who would now be considered clinically obese.
The king, who ruled from 1509, ballooned from a 32in waist in 1512, aged 21, to a 54in waist just 33 years later. It is calculated that shortly before his death in 1547 – aged 55 – Henry VIII was nearly 30 stone.
In his final years, the king could barely walk. Instead, he had to be carried around on specially constructed sedan chairs. After he died, he was placed in a vast elm coffin which took 16 Yeomen of the Guard, “of exceptional heights and strength”, to manoeuvre.
Historic records show perhaps why Henry VIII was quite so large. At Hampton Court, the royal home that he “acquired” from his doomed Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey, archaeologists discovered 55 kitchen rooms, requiring a staff of around 200, who made twice-daily meals for a court of 600.
In one year alone, the king and his court devoured 1,240 oxen, 8,200 sheep, 2,330 deer, 760 calves, 1,870 pigs, 53 wild boar and a multitude of fish and sea life, ranging from cod to a whale. This food, plus an unknown quantity of fowl, swans and peacocks, was washed down with 600,000 gallons of ale."
"How fat was Henry VIII?
Studies of suits of armour belonging to Henry VIII – and now at the Tower of London – show how the Tudor monarch went from being a tall, handsome and decidedly thin young man to someone who would now be considered clinically obese.
The king, who ruled from 1509, ballooned from a 32in waist in 1512, aged 21, to a 54in waist just 33 years later. It is calculated that shortly before his death in 1547 – aged 55 – Henry VIII was nearly 30 stone.
In his final years, the king could barely walk. Instead, he had to be carried around on specially constructed sedan chairs. After he died, he was placed in a vast elm coffin which took 16 Yeomen of the Guard, “of exceptional heights and strength”, to manoeuvre.
Historic records show perhaps why Henry VIII was quite so large. At Hampton Court, the royal home that he “acquired” from his doomed Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey, archaeologists discovered 55 kitchen rooms, requiring a staff of around 200, who made twice-daily meals for a court of 600.
In one year alone, the king and his court devoured 1,240 oxen, 8,200 sheep, 2,330 deer, 760 calves, 1,870 pigs, 53 wild boar and a multitude of fish and sea life, ranging from cod to a whale. This food, plus an unknown quantity of fowl, swans and peacocks, was washed down with 600,000 gallons of ale."
Iker, Becks and more delicious assortments
A blog I came across recently. Football (or soccer rather) hotties and some other info too @ Kickette
Here is a video off the latest post. Showing French striker Oliver Giroud.
Gros Plan L2 : Olivier Giroud (Tours FC)
envoyé par MaChaineSport. - Plus de vidéos de sport professionnelle et amateur.
Here is a video off the latest post. Showing French striker Oliver Giroud.
Gros Plan L2 : Olivier Giroud (Tours FC)
envoyé par MaChaineSport. - Plus de vidéos de sport professionnelle et amateur.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Turf Dancing
These guys are great to watch, could do it for hours.
This one, the dancing is less ... tight? But I like the way they shot it.
This one, the dancing is less ... tight? But I like the way they shot it.
Model Diet
So not only do we feel bad about ourselves (exageration here) because models in every single catalogue and runway are thin. Apparently they aren't thin enough. This is nothing new of course airbrushing and the like. But what is good is that they are being caught.
Ralph Lauren was notorious.
Here is the latest article about Ann Taylor.
And there is always the gem Photoshop disasters, which always have a few goodies.
Ralph Lauren was notorious.
Here is the latest article about Ann Taylor.
And there is always the gem Photoshop disasters, which always have a few goodies.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Serpentine Gallery by Jean Nouvel
From the Serpentine Gallery Website:
"This year—the Serpentine's 40th Anniversary—the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel. This 2010 Pavilion is the 10th commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind. It will be the architect’s first completed building in the UK.
The Pavilion commission has become an international site for architectural experimentation and follows a long tradition of Pavilions by some of the world’s greatest architects. The immediacy of the commission – a maximum of six months from invitation to completion – provides a unique model worldwide.
The design for the 2010 Pavilion is a contrast of lightweight materials and dramatic metal cantilevered structures. The entire design is rendered in a vivid red that, in a play of opposites, contrasts with the green of its park setting. In London, the colour reflects the iconic British images of traditional telephone boxes, post boxes and London buses.
The building consists of bold geometric forms, large retractable awnings and a sloped freestanding wall that stands 12m above the lawn. Striking glass, polycarbonate and fabric structures create a versatile system of interior and exterior spaces, while the flexible auditorium will accommodate the Serpentine Gallery Park Nights and Marathon and the changing summer weather.
Nouvel’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion will operate as a public space, a café and as a venue for Park Nights, the Gallery’s acclaimed programme of public talks and events, which attracts up to 250,000 visitors each summer. The pavilion design highlights the idea of play with its incorporation of traditional French outdoor table-tennis tables."
Fresh Music Inspiration from London
For you, papergirl!
I have been listening to the podcast from Fabric in London. Beautiful sounds and beats to keep me awake while I makes list of how things could go wrong on a construction site (got to love risk management).
Enjoy!
I have been listening to the podcast from Fabric in London. Beautiful sounds and beats to keep me awake while I makes list of how things could go wrong on a construction site (got to love risk management).
Enjoy!
Friday, August 6, 2010
Here Kitty Kitty - CHOMP
Cat-Crocodile discovery
"The newfound, cat-size crocodile Pakasuchus kapilimai (illustrated) had mammal-like teeth that helped give the fossil crocodile a power previously unknown among reptiles: the ability to chew.
One key to that ability is that the 105-million-year-old crocodile's lower jaw could slide back and forth (inset).
"Crocodiles alive today don't have a major sliding component to their jaw," said lead study author Patrick O'Connor, an Ohio University paleontologist. "It's just a hinged joint that allows the jaw to move up and down.""
via National Geographic
New Friend
This little guy was just found off the coast of Newfoundland.
"An unidentified purple octopus (pictured) is one of 11 potentially new species found this month during a deep-sea expedition off Canada's Atlantic coast, scientists say.
(Related pictures: "Surprising Creatures Found Deep off Australia.")
Still at sea, a team of Canadian and Spanish researchers is using a remotely operated vehicle called ROPOS for dives off Newfoundland with a maximum depth of about 9,800 feet (3,000 meters).
The 20-day expedition aims to uncover relationships between cold-water coral and other bottom-dwelling creatures in a pristine yet "alien" environment, according to the researchers' blog.
"It's been really spectacular," Ellen Kenchington, research scientist with the Fisheries Department of Canada—one of the organizations involved in the project—told Canada's CTV News website.
"It's really changing our perception of the diversity that's out there. ... We're seeing new species in deeper waters.""
via The National Geographic
"An unidentified purple octopus (pictured) is one of 11 potentially new species found this month during a deep-sea expedition off Canada's Atlantic coast, scientists say.
(Related pictures: "Surprising Creatures Found Deep off Australia.")
Still at sea, a team of Canadian and Spanish researchers is using a remotely operated vehicle called ROPOS for dives off Newfoundland with a maximum depth of about 9,800 feet (3,000 meters).
The 20-day expedition aims to uncover relationships between cold-water coral and other bottom-dwelling creatures in a pristine yet "alien" environment, according to the researchers' blog.
"It's been really spectacular," Ellen Kenchington, research scientist with the Fisheries Department of Canada—one of the organizations involved in the project—told Canada's CTV News website.
"It's really changing our perception of the diversity that's out there. ... We're seeing new species in deeper waters.""
via The National Geographic
Art from Lost Hopes
"Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom, as Ghost of a Dream, create artstructuresculptures out of scratch tickets to show "unfulfilled dreams as well as money that could have been saved and possibly spent on the item itself". "Dream Car" uses $39K worth of discarded tickets, and "Dream Home" uses $70K. That one's really nice.
For what it's worth, Was and Eckstrom aren't the first to see art in scratch tickets. Rebecca Simering has explored the medium, as has the "I Love My Life The Way It Is" project. ILMLTWII is a project I want to believe in, but before sending scratch tickets to strangers in England, you should be aware of the risks."
via Kottke
artists website
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Baking Day 3 - Wednesday August 4th - Lemon Blueberry Cookies
These are eggless and delish!!!
Might become a new favorite.
From the eggless baking site
Might become a new favorite.
From the eggless baking site
Blueberry Drop Cookies
- 1 cup fresh, canned or frozen blueberries
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon rind/zest
- 4 tablespoons sour cream
- 2 cups sifted plain/all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup milk
Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas mark 5
Rinse the blueberries, (defrost first if frozen), and spread on paper towels to dry thoroughly. Cream the butter, sugar, and lemon peel. Add the sour cream. Beat well.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the flour mixture alternately with milk to the creamed mixture, beating until smooth after each addition. Lightly fold in the blueberries.
Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased cookie sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Baking Day 2 - Tuesday August 3rd - Peach Crumble
From the mayo clinic recipes
Peach Crumble
Ingredients
8 ripe peaches, peeled, pitted and sliced
Juice from 1 lemon
1/3 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup whole-wheat (whole-meal) flour
1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons trans-free margarine, cut into thin slices
1/4 cup quick cooking oats
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 F. Lightly coat a 9-inch pie pan with cooking spray.
Arrange peach slices in the prepared pie plate. Sprinkle with lemon juice, cinnamon and nutmeg.
In a small bowl, whisk together flour and brown sugar. With your fingers, crumble the margarine into the flour-sugar mixture. Add the oats and stir to mix evenly. Sprinkle the flour mixture on top of the peaches.
Bake until peaches are soft and the topping is browned, about 30 minutes. Cut into 8 even slices and serve warm.
NOTES: Our ripe Ontario peaches are too juicy for this recipe. The peaches needed some sugar mixed in, they also probably needed some corn starch. Also my top didn't really crisp. It was still pretty yummy though.
Peach Crumble
Ingredients
8 ripe peaches, peeled, pitted and sliced
Juice from 1 lemon
1/3 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 cup whole-wheat (whole-meal) flour
1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons trans-free margarine, cut into thin slices
1/4 cup quick cooking oats
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 F. Lightly coat a 9-inch pie pan with cooking spray.
Arrange peach slices in the prepared pie plate. Sprinkle with lemon juice, cinnamon and nutmeg.
In a small bowl, whisk together flour and brown sugar. With your fingers, crumble the margarine into the flour-sugar mixture. Add the oats and stir to mix evenly. Sprinkle the flour mixture on top of the peaches.
Bake until peaches are soft and the topping is browned, about 30 minutes. Cut into 8 even slices and serve warm.
NOTES: Our ripe Ontario peaches are too juicy for this recipe. The peaches needed some sugar mixed in, they also probably needed some corn starch. Also my top didn't really crisp. It was still pretty yummy though.
Baking Day 1 - Sunday August 1st - White Chocolate Berry Pie
Sunday I made one of my fruit pies. Since its a combo of other recipes, i'll post mine.
August might be baking month. ;-)
1 - prepared graham pie crust
1/2 cup - creamed cream cheese
2 tbsps - sour cream
1/3 cup - white chocolate chips (melted)
1 - 1 pint strawberries
2 tbps - corn starch (about)
1/4 cup - icing sugar
1/4 cup blueberries
1/4 cup raspberries
Instructions
-Toast the graham pie crust in the oven under a broiler
-Cream the cream cheese (whipped is already cream and a great option). Add the sour cream and melted chocolate. Mix together.
-Spread over the pie crust evenly, it should layer evenly at about 1/2"
-Place in the fridge.
-Put most of the strawberries save for 5 or so in a pot with a little water and mash them. Cook for 20 minues until they are soft and smooth (boiling lightly). Mix the corn starch and icing sugar. Take the berry mixture off the store once it has boiled lightly for a few minutes. The mixture should start to thicken.
-This is the trickiest part, depending on how juicy the strawberries are more cornstarch might be needed. The strawberry mixture should be sticky, when you pull it up with a spoon it should not run but plop! lol...
-Leave it cool until its just warm. Spread all on the cream cheese layer in the pie except for 2 tbsps of it.
-Cut up a the remainder of the strawberries into bite size pieces. Wash and dry the raspberries and blueberries.
-Arrange the 3 fruit on the top of the strawberry filling, pressing it in just a bit.
-Take the 2 tbsps, the last of the strawberry mixture and add in a good teaspoon of icing sugar and some lemon juice to form a glaze. Spoon a few teaspoons worth of the glaze over the top of the pie.
-Refrigerate for at least an hour.
August might be baking month. ;-)
1 - prepared graham pie crust
1/2 cup - creamed cream cheese
2 tbsps - sour cream
1/3 cup - white chocolate chips (melted)
1 - 1 pint strawberries
2 tbps - corn starch (about)
1/4 cup - icing sugar
1/4 cup blueberries
1/4 cup raspberries
Instructions
-Toast the graham pie crust in the oven under a broiler
-Cream the cream cheese (whipped is already cream and a great option). Add the sour cream and melted chocolate. Mix together.
-Spread over the pie crust evenly, it should layer evenly at about 1/2"
-Place in the fridge.
-Put most of the strawberries save for 5 or so in a pot with a little water and mash them. Cook for 20 minues until they are soft and smooth (boiling lightly). Mix the corn starch and icing sugar. Take the berry mixture off the store once it has boiled lightly for a few minutes. The mixture should start to thicken.
-This is the trickiest part, depending on how juicy the strawberries are more cornstarch might be needed. The strawberry mixture should be sticky, when you pull it up with a spoon it should not run but plop! lol...
-Leave it cool until its just warm. Spread all on the cream cheese layer in the pie except for 2 tbsps of it.
-Cut up a the remainder of the strawberries into bite size pieces. Wash and dry the raspberries and blueberries.
-Arrange the 3 fruit on the top of the strawberry filling, pressing it in just a bit.
-Take the 2 tbsps, the last of the strawberry mixture and add in a good teaspoon of icing sugar and some lemon juice to form a glaze. Spoon a few teaspoons worth of the glaze over the top of the pie.
-Refrigerate for at least an hour.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Contraband
"These images are from a set of 1,075 photographs — shot over five days last year for the book and exhibition, ‘‘Contraband’’ — of items detained or seized from passengers or express mail entering the United States from abroad at the New York airport. The miscellany of prohibited objects — from the everyday to the illegal to the just plain odd — attests to a growing worldwide traffic in counterfeit goods and natural exotica and offers a snapshot of the United States as seen through its illicit material needs and desires."
more here
(from NYT via Kottke)
Pitcher of Salami and pigeon medicine are my favorites.
more here
(from NYT via Kottke)
Pitcher of Salami and pigeon medicine are my favorites.
Kanye and NYT
By now you must have heard about the Kanye tweets. Everyone is loving them. While I don't really/can't really get into twitter. These pairing of his tweets and new york times cartoons are pretty funny.
more here
Monday, August 2, 2010
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