Easter Crime

"Which one stole your corn feed? Take your time. Be sure."

Pantone Food

Really fun images by illustrator and visual designer David Schwen.

http://www.pantonepairings.com/
http://www.dschwen.com/

BEAUTY: Ceramic--Johnson Tsang

Ceramicist Johnson Tsang creates lovely, whimsical pieces that look like liquid, not ceramic! In fact, he was awarded Grand Prize at the 2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale for his humorous and unexpected piece Splash of Wonder seen below in the final four images.

The liquid in the piece above is actually stainless steel as Tsang wanted a material that would look even more like liquid!

Top to bottom:Yuanyang; three views of Yuanyang 2; four views of Splash of Wonder

http://johnsontsang.wordpress.com/#

Parfum de Dead Writers

Seattle's Sweet Tea Apothecary, owned and operated by J.T.Siems, has formulated Dead Writers Perfume, a unisex blend that “evokes the feeling of sitting in an old library chair paging through yellowed copies of Hemingway, Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Poe, and more.” It sounds fascinating with a nice blend of top and bottom notes of heliotrope, vetiver, black tea, clove, tobacco, musk, and vanilla. More bottom than top, but the very sweet heliotrope and vanilla should balance nicely...

Buy it on Etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/SweetTeaApothecary

"Tidying Up Art"

Swiss comedian and cabaret/ performance artist Ursus Wehrli must have a serious case of OCD. He takes iconic works of art and imposes a strict sense of order to the elements present. Watch his TED Talk... it is pretty amusing.

He also imposes order on the world around himself.

http://www.kunstaufraeumen.ch/en

I'll Say It Again

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
--André Gide

Still here...

So, here we all are...still.
The world did not end yesterday.

We should have been so lucky...

Holiday Color Wheel

Mixed Message

http://www.marcjohns.com/blog/

Horror Film

Well, if you put it that way...

...I suppose it does sound fairly horrible.

The Top Five

Yup, I think I got 'em all covered...

Number six is probably Literature and Poetry!

Hotel Amenities

Some useful, some not so much, a few new to me...

By Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber.

http://personalmessageblog.blogspot.com/

BEAUTY: Art--David Fullarton

The art of San Francisco resident David Fullarton looks like collage doodles or graffiti but upon closer inspection, it is easy to see that a lot of thought goes into what the piece is going to say and exactly how it will be said. There is a lot of humor and a lot of bald truth as well.

Top to bottom: And I Say To Myself, What A Wonderful World; Apology #22; Character Flaw; Consider Yourself Warned; The End Of Civilization; Too Much Is Never Enough; We're Up We're Down; When Only The Best Will Do

http://www.davidfullarton.com/

Julia Remixed

"This is what good cooking is all about."

In honor of Julia Child's 100th birthday, August 15th, 2012.

http://www.pbs.org/food/julia-child-100-birthday/
http://americanhistory.si.edu/juliachild/
http://melodysheep.bandcamp.com/

The New Normal