Umm. I am at a Lost for words. #1. Nori artistry. Superb. #2. Makes me more inclined to be less inclined to be lazy when it comes to making bentos. AIBM really outdid herself this time and I bet Sawyer and Juliette and Jun (especially after being lost at sea for so long) would be happy campers munching on this bento.
Every time a festive occasion looms on our calendars, Jen Musty of Batter Bakery makes the appropriate confection connection…and I eat with my camera. This time, the theme is love…sickeningly sweet. Sickening when people recklessly french in public — sweet when you’re eating delicous cookies and cupcakes from Batter Bakery.
I hold a somewhat sore spot in my heart for Valentine’s Day, for the sole reason that it steals my birthday’s thunder. Even the best of friends can’t help choosing a make-out session/crying-and-eating-ice cream-alone session over hanging out with da birfday chick. Damn you Hallmark. But it’s really not so bad since those heart-shaped boxes of chocolates are half-price the day after. 
Lame beverage alert : 7-UP Cherry Antioxidant. So it seems 7-UP has joined the rat race to trick stupid Americans into thinking soda can actually be healthy. In the same vein as diet Coke + Vitamins (they do own Vitamin Water, I suppose) this a heaping load of crap. You drink soda because it tastes good, not because it contains an insignificant amount of Vitamin E. Also note that this drink contains zero fruit juice.
Ingredients :
CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP AND CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVORS, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), VITAMIN E ACETATE, RED 40. **Contains Antioxidant Vitamin E
I’d like to point out the second ingredient, high fructose corn syrup, but the Corn Refiners Association has already set in place their deceptive ploy to suggest that corn syrup is “totally fine”….”within moderation.” Next up: alpha hydroxy cigarettes and prenatal vitamin beer.
Funny how call-outs can make you see what you’d usually glaze over, like a magic eye puzzle without the headache. I am McLuvin NYT blogger Christoph Neimann’s I LEGO N.Y. piece, replete with staple New York-ities from scallion cream cheese (my fave when i was there — most bagels taste like shit here) to the Gowanus Canal (that i could smell from the window one of my old apartments).
It kind of makes me nostalgic about the best city in the world, but then I look outside and am reminded that it’s 70 and sunny here in SF.
Yes! QuadCamera = iPhone app that basically turns your phone into a Lomo Supersampler or 8&8.
Only in Paris…okay, or probably Milan, New York, and LA too. Nevertheless, this is perfectly adorable and reprehensible at the same time.
The proportion shown below is true of any company, organization or community.
-Art Lebedev
Bruce Nussbaum is an all-around nice guy but there’s no mistake that he’s guilty of muttering “Innovation” a few (million) times. Now he’s telling us that as of ‘09, “Innovation” is dead and now is the dawn of “Transformation.” Barf! Come on people–enough already. Check it:
“We need a deeper, more robust concept. ‘Transformation’ captures the key changes already underway and can help guide us into the future. It implies that our lives will increasingly be organized around digital platforms and networks that will replace edifices and big organizations.”
What the…Listen. There’s no apparent need to replace “Innovation” and furthermore, “Transformation” doesn’t even serve the same descriptive purpose as “Innovation” so it doesn’t work, any way you slice it. While “Innovation” is vague (which is why it worked), “Transformation” is beyond vague. It is an obvious observation of human existence. As long as we exist, we are always in the midst of a transformation. Bah!
It’ll be interesting to see if this forecast pans out…and if it does, I’ll know hell hath frozen overeth.
Batter Bakery is Jen Musty’s foray into the culinary dimension by way of…accounting! I find it so inspiring that she ditched number crunching for baking. I shot a beautiful spread of her creations, including some special treats for the holiday season. I’ll be back over there next year to shoot some Valentine’s Day sweets.
If you work a knife like this lady, then you really do need the Chop Wizard…or actually, maybe you don’t belong in the kitchen at all! And who wants all their food to be cube shaped?? Boooring. I’m sure her fingertip added an extra layer of flavor the potatoes…