• Cooking,  Good design

    Cake Walks

    April 6, 2011 / No Comments

    I spent some time advocating that we have a cake walk at our wedding in place of handing out plates of cake. Though I rarely encounter them outside of small Midwestern fairs, I love the idea of cake walks. Have you ever played one? Basically they are bingo + musical chairs + winning homemade cakes. You usually exchange a fair ticket for a chance to go around a circle a couple of times, hoping they call the number that you step on when they stop the music.

    We couldn’t figure out how to swing it in the fancy hotel reception (and ended up having delicious tiramisu anyway) but this album cover just reminded me.

    Yummy. The album cover was designed by Studio Aad for an album put together by Irish artists to raise money for Oxfam.

    I first saw it on the How Blog.

     

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    Fireworks!

    April 1, 2011 / No Comments

    Way lovely album cover for Son Lux’s new album. Made in under 28 hours.

    (I might like it so much because Lux is currently contender #1 for baby’s name.)

    You can watch the family-biz kids that concepted, designed, and created it, buying firework supplies, wandering around Home Depot and even stopping for a snack* right here. Don’t they seem like cool folks?

    *joe and I are total snacking-shoppers, are you guys? Every IKEA visit begins with an energizing visit to the snack bar. Then we have T-minus 45 minutes before the energy runs out and we wander listlessly from plywood corner to meaningless map.

    seen first on Amanda Antunes tumblr.

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    Portlandia: Trying to Buy a Cell Phone

    March 30, 2011 / No Comments

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLlOkKskBqU]

    I’ve never watched an entire Portlandia episode, but there are snack-size clips on Hulu that make for tasty afternoon bites. Most of the skits revolve around the ridiculousness of conscientious-hipster-culture, but sometimes they broaden it to consumer culture in general. I loved this riff on complicated cell phone plans.

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    Boob Jobs on the Up and Up

    March 23, 2011 / No Comments

    I liked Scott Alden’s disappointed “Breast Implants Are On the Rise (And It Makes Me Sad)” post over at How About We.  Responding to the news that breast augmentation is up 40% in the last decade he says,

    I always assumed that breast implants were just a phase we were going through. Fake boobs, to me, were like overalls with one strap off or oversized sweaters with tights. I thought that, at some point, we would all look back and laugh at ourselves. “Oh, breast augmentation,” we’d say, “that was silly.”

    I know this is totally obnoxious to say to girls who carry a lighter weight around than I do, but I’ve personally always liked the Kate Hudson look. How bland if we all start looking like Lara Stone.

    can’t decide if this visual is unrelated. But I liked it. By Chris Silas Neal, from the opinion pages of the NY Times.

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    Radish Snack

    March 21, 2011 / 1 Comment

    MAV posted a lovely little how-to for eating radishes with butter and salt. I associate this snack with summer, when their crunchy cool heat is more refreshing, but radishes are in stores these days too and their red is so cheerful.

    ps: Don’t forget to cut off the greens as soon as you get them home. The greens are water hogs (dehydrators), and grocery stores just leave them on to prove how fresh the vegetables are.

    photo by MAV

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    Sassy Models with Big Hair

    March 15, 2011 / 1 Comment

    Love these photos from the American Beauty Show by Ryan Marshall over at Pacing the Panic Room.

    I mostly read the PPR blog to lurk photos of his family, particularly his wife Cole, who is unstoppably adorable. But Ryan is the photographer behind it all, so credit goes to him for my addictive lurking.