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Posts from October 2008

Introductory paragraph, Muriel Spark’s “A Far Cry from Kensington”

“So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to the silence.  Eventually I fell asleep contented, filled with soundlessness, but while I was awake I enjoyed the experience of darkness, though, memory, sweet anticipations.  I heard the silence.  It was in those days of the early [...]


Jon Huck, Breakfast series

Portraits of people by Jon Huck featuring their chosen breakfasts (I highly recommend checking out the entire series).  The other project on his site, Couples looks great too.  I am so curious about how this shoot was done.  Did he ask them to pick a breakfast in advance?  Did they choose the framing?  Or did [...]


Meta-YouTube

Great post over at i heart photograph about art by Constant Dullaart and others using Youtube videos to talk about Youtube itself.  Especially interesting is the idea that as Youtube continues to change its design for users, these artworks will be representing aspects of the technology that are obsolete - drawing attention to the design [...]


things that make me go mmm: vegan food porn finds

Maybe a new series?  So fun to look at vegan food porn on Flickr - makes me miss my camera but always inspirational for recipe experiments.
Vegan ravioli from thevegucator:

Vanilla bean with peach mousse cupcakes from theurbanhousewife.com:

Pasta puttanesca from veganjay92:

And.. bonus: a super cute tattoo portrait from one of my favourite flickr contacts:


art that inspires imagination

 
this is art, a collection of paintings by Irina Block.
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Oh, and:  upcoming is a lengthy post about our fabulous vegan canadian thanksgiving (made for 14 people!) two weekends ago… but despite the fact that I am missing my beautiful camera to death, since I am a poor student it looks like I will be waiting [...]


Art… or un-called for cruelty?

Sorry, won’t be posting too often in the next little while.  SO much reading to do.  Reading that I should have done yesterday.  Before I was even born!  Fantastic books exist that tantalize me with their awesomeness.  Just finished Too Loud a Solitude by Hrabal, which was one of the best books I have read [...]