Category Archives: food and drink
Galleria Divinorum
1997 – Inspired by conscious dreaming, a series of paintings made over a 3 year period while working as a screenprinter. Mainly airbrushed acrylics on board. I buy a computer and stop painting, spending the next 6 years in videogames … more…
links for 2007-08-22: Dark Lego, roadkill
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – Book Review (and build!): Forbidden Lego Build the models your parents warned you against! (tags: lego hackers) MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Skin, clean and cook a dead snake (tags: food recipes roadkill snake)
links for 2007-08-10: fresh basil, Marcel Duchamp, talking points
Mental Masala: Save the basil! A tip to keep it fresh How to extend the life of fresh basil (via Rebecca Blood) (tags: food herbs basil hydroponics) Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp Pretty good (Flash-based) introduction to the work of … more…
links for 2007-08-01: roots music, sourdough
The Roots Music Listening Room Lots of early C20th folk and roots music. Debatable whether or not the low bit rate rendering of what is already low-res recordings is as much of a problem as it would be for modern … more…
links for 2007-07-28: gnocchi
There’s nothing like gnocchi (tags: recipes gnocchi food)
links for 2007-07-22: recipes
Open Source Food what it says on the tin (tags: Food recipes open_source) Group Recipes – Food Social Network more open source food (tags: food recipes web2.0)
Haute Lapsang: Organic Bohea Lapsang Supreme (Wuyi Bohea)
BBC Radio 4′s The Food Programme today about the vertiginous world of Chinese tea, in which my own childish fondness for Lapsang Souchong is held up as though it were ketchup, as a cartooonish mockery of the Real Stuff – … more…
links for 2006-12-20: natural nuclear reactors, ball lightning, cash crop, ISS, behavioural separation
Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors – Fact Sheet (tags: nuclear reactors waste Africa geology) Texas State professor probes ball lightning phenomenon (tags: ball_lightning AtD Dahlia_Rideout) All-time high for homegrown as pot becomes top cash crop in US | Special reports | … more…
The Yule Cat — Stakhanovite Prophylactic Knitting Song
Last night I attended a most enjoyable Folk Yule organised by Scott and Claire from SELFS at Tanners Hill, Deptford — in the course of which the assembled company were introduced to the Icelandic Jólakötturinn, or Yule Cat legend — … more…
links for 2006-12-14: treadmill fun, Polanski, James Clerk Maxwell, soda attack
YouTube – ok go fun with treadmills. Not that keen on the song, but the video is, as the current parlance is, teh awesome. (tags: music video youtube) YouTube – Polanski on Chinatown (tags: movies Roman_Polanski Chinatown) James Clerk Maxwell: … more…