Bubble Boy

My brother, in a bubble.
What will they think of next.

Baking Fiend

I've baked every day this week. I only have 2 pictures to prove it.
Granola and cookies!
The cookies tasted much better than they looked.

Horchata

While I was in Nevada last week we visited El Pollo Loco (Best. Food chain. Ever. After In 'N Out). They had this Horchata drink machine there (See Vampire Weekend song) and we stole some with our water cups. I don't know if it's because it was illegally taken or if it was just that yummy, but it tasted DELICIOUS.

Anyways. Point is i made some today:Muy excellente.

Lola's Horchata Recipe

Drive On Chairs

For Nissan's new zero emission car

Thanks Bou!

Lost at Sea

via Craftzine

part of a new exhibit in NYC
Cuddlicious.

Arizona in Crayola

via Buzzfeed

i feel like the more i study,
the less i know


so close.

Reasons to stop writing right now

via PostSecret

"Everyone is born, but not everyone is born the same. Some will grow to be butchers, or bakers, or candlestick makers. Some will only be really good at making Jell-O salad. One way or another, though, every human being is unique, for better or for worse"
-Matilda

Last food post, I promise

for a while anyways.
Sushi cupcakes

via Glue and Glitter

More midnight munchies

via steffilynn

I wanna make it

Cake-pops
Or maybe it's just the midnight munchies kicking in.
Instructions via Instructables

Avatar/Pocahontas Mashup

This is for Tori

CFV 426 - Avatar/Pocahontas Mashup FINAL VERSION from Randy Szuch on Vimeo.

Things that remind me of Australia

Fairy Bread

via iatebrisbane

Pretty simple, really pretty.
Directions: Take white bread, spread butter, dip in sprinkles, cut in 4.

Patt, lets do this when I get home

Chalk in

"Come join PB & The Counseling Center as they host the 30th Annual Arts Fest & Chalk-In! Drop by for some de-stressing arts and crafts activities (make a stress ball, do some spray painting, or decorate a frame), as well as free barbeque!"

What I don't understand is why people destress by chalking in the periodic table...

Alinea’s Tasting Menu Expressed In Jelly Beans

Using actual Jelly Belly flavors, Michele Humes crafted jelly bean recipes for dishes on the tasting menu at Alinea in Chicago.

Pork belly, cucumber, curry, lime

(1 Gravy + 1 Bacon + 1/2 Pickle + 1/2 Grass + 1/2 Chili Mango + 1/2 Black Pepper + 1 Sunkist Lime)

Via Serious Eats

via Dispatches from the Island

I found Harriet M. Welsch's garden

The Magic Gardens in Philadelphia was a project started by Isaiah Zagar in 1994. After traveling to Peru with the peace corp he felt a canvas was too confining, and sought to create a mosaic labyrinth to pay tribute to Peruvian folk art. This is what he created.
"In 2002, the Boston-based owner of the once-vacant lot located at 1022-1026 South Street decided to sell the land in response to rising South Street property values. Unwilling to witness the destruction of Zagar's neighborhood art environment, the community rushed to support the artist. His creation, newly titled Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, became incorporated as a nonprofit organization with the intention of preserving and promoting Zagar's works at the site of the Magic Gardens and throughout the South Street region."

Check out his site

Fail.

A guy got pulled over by a cop on a bike.
The technology these days.

More Philly to come.

Light bulb terrarium

How many people does it take to change a light bulb?
Check out Julie's tutorial or her Etsy shop

Sakura Matsuri Street Festival

This weekend Australia came to D.C. in time for the last day of the Cherry Blossom Festival to experience Japan. Some selections from the street festival:

Walk

Times Square, NYC

The Lincoln

Vampire Weekend

Tori and I saw Vampire Weekend at Constitution Hall this weekend. Highly delicious. Though a bit disappointed they didn't play Ottoman.

Loopdidoop

Check out our new tumblr: Life on Filmm
Courtesy of Patt, Leigh, and Me

Happy bunny day!

Peepshi

Easter means it's peeps season again! Serious Eats has a how to this week on how to make sushi from peeps. Cute!

Newbury Street, Boston
Photography midterm pic #1

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

the fear of long words

via omgfacts

Things that remind me of home

Yeah I bitch about traffic and tourists.
But really I'm lucky to live here.

I guess no one's getting out

Future Food

Eatable paper menus? Popcorn flavored packaging foam?
Together, renowned chefs and "molecular gastronomists" Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche are changing the way we think of food while tackling the pressing environmental issues. What's a better way to recycle paper than to eat it? Waste not want not.

Eatable menus at their restaurant Moto, each day a different flavor
Packaging peanuts, popcorn flavored
S'more bombs with dehydrated marshmallow fuses

Images via Wrrl

Their new show Future Food debuts March 30th on Planet Green

I am currently obsessed with

...my dad's old school canon A-1, 35 mm manual film camera
What a beaut.

Impact

The Cabs Are Brighter in NYC

Cookie Splash!

This is my motion stop photo for my black and white photography assignment.
Thanks, Patt, for the tutorial!

Check It Out

My plant died.

Cuddle class

Spooning is now allowed in New Zealand's "cuddle class" couches.
Forking, however, is still forbidden.

Via KiwiBlog

Thanks for the diagram guys.

Because dogs aren't allowed

I hope I don't kill it.

Baltimore

This weekend I went to Baltimore to see my Tori and to meet her Jay.
Here are some shots from when we poked around Campden Avenue.
HmmmThis junk store sold old photographs of people.Patt this phone is for you! Real turn dial, none of that button crap.

This Is Why You're Fat

Why have chocolate chip cookies when you can have POTATO chip cookies?!?
I thought these were strange too when I first heard of them, but they're the perfect marriage of sweet and salty and crispy and deliciousness? And how can you go wrong when you mix the two best junk foods together?
So you can have a diabetic coma and clog your arteries at the same time.
But trust me they're so worth it.
I got the recipe from Emeril, check it out.
Also while you're at it, why not:
Yum!

Walking on Water

Bou and I skated across the Reflecting Pool, it was surprisingly easier than walking on unshoveled D.C. walkways.
Happy Valentine's Day/Chinese New Year!

Made In China

More experiments with tilt-shift.
Tilt shift is a style of photography that manipulates real photographs look like miniature model photographs, thus giving everything a toy-like appearance. These are some of the photos from my summer trip to China:
Forbidden City
Temple of Heaven
Pingyao

No more snow :(