Entries tagged with 'art'
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[Illustration: Rebecca Dart] I love this wonderfully whimsical comic—featuring creatures such as Monkiwis, Cockatubers, and Bananacondas—by comic book artist and animator Rebecca Dart. It's also worth checking out the inspiration behind the comic, the Terror of the Tiny Tads series by early 1900s illustrator Gustave Verbeek. Related Captain Yaar, a Doughnut-Loving Pirate Comic Pickle Recipe Comic Existential Food Comics Comic Strip is Skeptical About Sous-Vide...
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[Photograph: phildesignart] File under "Great Moments in Peanut-Related Art": Graphic designer Phil Jones hand painted these peanuts to look like the Peanuts gang (I quite like Woodstock). If you want this on a T-shirt, vote for it at Threadless. [via swissmiss]...
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Or just stare at and admire. Remember that kid in grade school who was secretly eating Play-Doh in the corner? Well, he would freak if arts and crafts time involved these crayons from food and fashion site Luxirare. Each color was made from a medley of food bits including nuts, seeds, dried veggies, and fruits. For the yellow: freeze-dried corn, peanuts, bee pollen, and dried bananas. And the green: peas, green beans, dried kiwi, and green Fruity Pebbles. So if you happen to have a crayon mold lying around, clearly you should make these. Related: Potato Crisps from Luxirare...
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The Rotating Kitchen by Dutch artist Zeger Reyers is a model of a kitchen—complete with appliances, kitchenware, and food—that slowly turns on its horizontal axis and lets gravity do its thing. Result: lots of clanking, and a big mess. The kitchen can be viewed at art museum Kunsthalle Düsseldorf as part of their Eating the Universe. Food in Art exhibit, and will continue rotating until February 28, 2010. Watch the video after the jump....
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[Images: Visual Aid Shop] Decorate your walls with some of the colorful infographics from the Visual Aid Shop. Many of the over 250 posters are food-related: cuts of beef, glasses, coffee drinks, breakfasts from around the world, cheeses, pastas, ingredients in a Christmas pudding, stomachs (eh, that's where the food goes), and more. (Unfortunately, there's no direct linking to the products, but you can search by name and it's worth taking a look at the whole list.) Related Sources of Food Poisoning Infographic Worldwide Meat Consumption Infographic Caffeine and Calories Chart...
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[Photographs: Leftover Art] Play with the dregs of turkey and mashed potato on your plate and submit a photo of the results to Leftover Art, a website dedicated to artfully arranged leftovers. Users can vote on where they think the art belongs: in the trash or the fridge. I'm rooting for "Root McGoot." Related What to Make with Leftover Bread What Are World-Famous Chefs Doing with Your Leftovers? A Guide to Leftover Thanksgiving Recipes...
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[Photograph: national Palace Museum] That's not a glistening chunk of pork—that's a stone carved to look like a glistening chunk of pork. The "Meat-shaped Stone," along with the "Jadeite Cabbage," made during the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644–1911) are some of the most famous pieces at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan....
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See it bigger here » [Photographs: gregnog.com] Captain Yaar is a comic about a pirate who doesn't do much pirating. Instead he dreams up fanciful doughnut sandwich concoctions, only to have his little bird sidekick smack some sense into him. [via janelle] Related Pickle Recipe Comic Snake 'N' Bacon Existential Food Comics...
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[Photograph: Dan Jackson] In his photograph Builders Breakfast, Dan Jackson shows how really, really, really tiny people might eat a fried egg on toast. This photograph is part of a series called "Little Folk," available as prints in Jackon's Etsy shop. (If the concept looks familiar, you have probably seen Minimiam by Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle.)...
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[Original art: Kevin Van Aelt] Have you ever looked at gummy worms and thought, wow those sure resemble DNA coils? Well, artist Kevin Van Aelt did and made this chromosome chart out of the candy slugs. Check out his portfolio here. Related Photo of the Day: Jellybean Children How to Make Candy Corn Collection of Stuck Tic Tacs...
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