- foodscapes -

(picture: Peinture fraîche)

Akiko Ida & Pierre Javelle, a pair of pastry chef/photography duo, has created these amazingly clever landscapes out of food: spinach, pasta, watermelons, raspberries...you name it.























(picture: Sauveur de crème)

























(picture: Coupure)
The Lane Cove tunnel!














(picture: La mine)
























(picture: Week-end)
























(picture: Serial killer)













(picture: Le intrus)

Don't you just love'em?
More at their website.

(via BLDG BLOG)

- nylon, silk and toy soldiers -

Fond of the notion of 'home', Do-Ho Suh has created these sets of nylon and silk installations based on his home in Seoul and various other places he's made his 'home'.





























































He worked with this type of material for their lightness and thus portability, so he can take the image of home with him as he goes away on his "five horses".

The red nylon piece staircase is based on his landlord's apartment stairs and comments on placelessness of such a common item.




















And I'm sure some of you may have seen these toy soldiers at work, I remember seeing it somewhere at uni, either from someone's research or from a lecture (possibly History and Theory). It stems from Do-Ho Suh's view on Korea's mandatory military service that is very deeply rooted into every Korean man's life.

More on his work can be found at PBS. Read the interview, it's very honest and he divulges very rich personal narratives. :D

(seen on BLDG BLOG)

- to be busted! -

Justin Hawkins from The Darkness had to buy his album back from ebay. I just find it admirable how he has paid GBP325 (AUD 770) just to get his yet-to-be-released album off the net and avenge the perpetrator.

He said a small number of advance copies had been sent to music reviewers and recording industry officials, and because the CD had been encoded, would lead them straight to the original recipient. Once he had tracked them down, "that person is going to go down," Hawkins told the BBC

-smh article

Way to go Jus!

- my children -

Awwww. Just look at my children. All grown up and killing people. What you see here is the H5N1 virus. The blue bits are eating up the healthy red bits. The final pic almost looks like an axe-sporting wabbit.

-from Dagens Nyheter
(photographer: Lennart Nilsson)

- MediterrAsian -

Oh wow. I just had to share.
MediterrAsian.com has the most handsome looking recipe site I've ever seen online :D And it even has lessons in the essential skills of chopping onions, julienne-ing carrots, and chopping broccoli into florets (if you don't know what those mean you need to check it out!)

I'm making Japanese style chicken curry rice tonight :D

- 2 faced -

- Eats, Shoots and Leaves -

Here's another book I wouldn't mind getting for Christmas.
Somewhat related to my previous entry on The Meaning of Tingo (for which I have on order), this is a book for our fellow punctuation sticklers.

Let me just transcribe some quotes from the Introduction:

Either this will ring bells for you, or it won't. A printed banner has appeared on the concourse of a petrol station near to where I live. "Come inside," it says, "for CD's, VIDEO's, DVD's, and BOOK's."

If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quicken of the pulse, you should probably put down this book at once. By all means congratulate yourself that you are not a pedant or even a stickler; that you are happily equipped to live in a world of plummetting punctuation standards; but just don't bother to go any further. For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word "Book's" with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.

...Meanwhile a newspaper placard announces "FAN's FURY AT STADIUM INQUIRY" which sounds quite interesting until you look inside the paper and discover that the story concerns a quite large mob of fans, actually -- not just the lone hopping-mad fan so promisingly indicated by the punctuation.

...Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While we look in horror at a badly punctuated sign, the world carries on around us, blind to our plight. We are like the little boy in The Sixth Sense who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation.

...On the other hand, I'm well aware there is little profit in asking for sympathy for sticklers. We are not the easiest people to feel sorry for. We refuse to patronise any shop with checkouts for "eight items or less" (because it should be "fewer")...

...and when words such as "phenomena", "media" or "cherubim" are treated as singular ("The media says it was quite a phenomena looking at those cherubims"), some of us cannot suppress actual screams.

And you say I'm anal.

- words to think about 7 -

Alright.
Have another lot of these!

terse - using few words, sometimes in a rude or unfriendly way
dysentery - disease of bowels, frequent watery excretion
dyslexia - difficulty in reading and writing caused by the brain's inability to distinguish between letter shapes
pre-nup; prenuptial agreement - an official document signed by two people before they get married that says what will happen to their possessions and/or children if they divorce
unrequited - ~love - love not felt in same way by other person

I'm quiet dyslexic sometimes...

- interpreting dreams -

Whilst we are on the topic of ads I might as well post this up as well. It's a tad old, but I used to use this to put myself into my sleep mode. For some this is a fantastic way of interpreting the randomness and selectiveness of dreams; for others, it's simply wacko! Adidas-1. Enjoy.

P.S. Can someone please kindly tell me who the singer of this soundtrack is? I caught it once on my ipod but I've forgotten it since. The music is quite sporadically dreamy....

- bouncy crazy neat -

Now you know Stevie here likes his ads, music videos and basically any pixelated things that move around. And not to mention my penchant for explosions of colours. And bouncy balls.

Sony Bravia, coupled with Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig, has come up with this brilliantly sublime advertisement. Closing off this entire street in San Francisco and sending 250,000 bouncy balls down it via compressed air cannons and earth movers, this was a dramatic two-day, one-shot event.

Check it out here.