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Monzter by German street artist Kim Kwacz is an interactive picture book app that sends users on a gorgeously illustrated adventure in search of friendly monsters hiding inside abandoned Berlin buildings, where users are invited to move through the plot at their own pace, asking questions along the way.

How high is the sky? Why do I need to sleep? Are thunders dangerous and are there white ravens?
Go ahead and look for answers to thrilling and inspiring questions. On your way, you’ll come across funny monsters waiting for you to find them. Visit an abandoned Factory, engage with the questions, move on by painting your way through the world of ‘Monzter’. …The pictures arise from a symbiosis of reality and fiction. The monsters have been painted by the Artist Kim Kwacz and photographed in real locations. In order to connect the single pictures to one another, they have been linked into a consistent plot by beautiful pencil drawings. In this way, the graphic style creates a unique journey into the depths of the user’s imagination.

images via Monzter

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Catbus may very well be the ultimate feline party train – a flying fat cat faced furry magical bus that flies through the air, splaying eight fluffy spider-like legs, transporting sad children to catch a glimpse of their ill mother who is recovering in hospital. Continuing my celebratory snack attack EDIBLE TOTORO WEEK with I Am A Food Blog, I present to you: CATBUS CAKE!

You Will Need:

• 1 recipe for a cake of your choice baked in a  loaf pan (I used a 9 x 5 x 3 inch) and cooled completely.
• 2 cups of vanilla buttercream, tinted a slight yellow/orange
• 2 cups of chocolate buttercream
• An offset spatula
• 2 piping bags fitted with a multi opening tip 
• wooden BBQ skewers
• 1 inch ball of yellow fondant
• 1/2 inch ball of orange fondant
• 4 inch ball of white fondant
• 1 inch ball of black fondant
• Rolling pin
• Small amount of cornstarch
• A paring knife or pizza cutter
• Piping tips in two sizes to use as small circle cutters
• A cake board or large plate. I used a 10 inch round cake board.

Step One

Carefully remove your loaf shaped cake from the pan. Begin spreading it generously with buttercream.

Step Two

Cover the entire cake with buttercream – don’t worry if it doesn’t look perfectly frosted because you’ll be piping on top of it.

Step Three

Make your fondant details. Using the white fondant, make two triangles for the catbus ears. Cut a wooden skewer in two and place a triangle on each skewer. Roll out a log-like piece for the catbus tail. Using your rolling pin, roll out the remaining white fondant. Using the pizza cutter, slice rectangular “windows” in even sizes. Finally, Cut out a banana-like shape for the smiley teeth – indent teeth marks by gently pressing down with a paring knife (without cutting through). Make an upside down triangle catbus nose using the orange fondant. Roll out the yellow fondant and punch out two large eyes and a “slit” like shape for the cat’s pupil. Roll out the black fondant and punch out black circles for the irises. Adhere it all together with a tiny amount of water. Roll the remaining black fondant into cat whiskers!

Step Four

Place the eyes and teeth on the designated front of the loaf cake by gently pressing into the buttercream. Insert the ears.

Press the windows into the sides of the cake.

Place the “tail” on the cake board. Get your piping bags ready!

Step Five

Pipe an inverted triangle shape of chocolate buttercream onto the face of the catbus.

Step Six

Continue piping the entire top of the catbus with the chocolate buttercream.

Pipe a line of chocolate buttercream across the side, underneath the windows!

Pipe around the edges of the ears!

Step Seven

Using the tinted buttercream, fill in the rest of CATBUS! Give him fur, people! Let him live!!

Pipe the tail, too! Finally, place the nose and the whiskers on his face!

I made a few speech bubbly hand stamped signs for my Catbus Cake! GET ON MY BUS! (no presh). I also hand drew a fat and funny Totoro! You can also make a Totoro out of fondant, too!

CATBUS!

STUNNED TOTORO!

Slice in before CATBUS cruises off!

More Totoro-ness: 

Steph’s black sesame Totoro donuts!

The green tea catbus cake I made for my nephew years ago!

Totoro Macarons! this is a sweet and easy-to-follow video via Nerdy Nummies, just found this gal! Awesome stuff!

How To Make A Totoro Cake - my post earlier this week!

Steph’s SUPER KAWAII Totoro jalapeno grilled cheesies!

Way back in 2009 when I made a million felt Totoros and my first fondant cake for my nephew’s 1st Totoro birthday!

Totoro SPAM MUSUBI!

The original catbus cake that inspired this tutorial!

Happy Totoro cake making, everyone! xo Lyndsay 

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Each image in Lydia Goldblatt‘s series, “Still Here,” is a detail or piece of a larger narrative on the passing of time. The carefully composed images play with shapes, shadows and light. With a gentle touch, Goldblatt documented her mother and father, and elements at home. “While the work is about my family, it is also a means to contemplate the nature of life and the invisible bonds of love,” Goldblatt says in her artist’s statement. The series was published as a hardcover book in 2013, and is currently on display at Rick Wester Fine Art in New York City through November 1, 2014.

In “High Five New York”, Brooklyn-based filmmaker Meir Kalmanson takes to the streets of Manhattan and turns taxi-hailing gestures into unexpected high fives.

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Inadvertently, this has become Festivus week on Smitten Kitchen, wherein I air my grievances at past recipes and exhibit what I hope can be passed off as “feats of strength” in reformulating them for modern times. Still, nobody could more surprised than I am that of all the recipes in the archives, it’s Martha Stewart’s decadent chocolate babkas from seven years ago that have ended up in this queue, because at the time we found them beyond reproach: rich, buttery, crumbly and intensely chocolaty. They were precisely what we’d remembered getting from the store growing up, but better, I mean, I’d hope they’d be. Clocking in at 3/4 pound of semisweet chocolate and almost a cup of butter per loaf, the recipe in fact uses triple this (2.25 pounds of chocolate! 1.25 pounds of butter!) for three loaves. And not unlike the chicken pot pies, this, along with the messy, complicated prep, became the problem. Despite repeated requests from our families every holiday, I’ve probably only made it once since, if that. It’s all too much.

This high holiday season, however, I decided to audition a different chocolate babka — the stunning, twisty, glossy chocolate krantz cakes that I imagine have tempted anyone that’s opened Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem cookbook. Although I was curious, I knew there was no way they could be as good. How could they be, what with only 2 1/4 ounces of dark chocolate and just over 1/2 cup of butter per loaf? It was going to taste abstemious, and wrong. Abstemious chocolate babka is wrong, wrong on a moral-ethical level, as far as I’m concerned.

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Photographer Emily Blincoe (see previously) has created a wonderful photo series of colorful tomatoes, flowers, leaves, and other natural and edible objects arranged neatly by color. Prints are available for purchase online. Blincoe has more work on her Instagram account.

photos by Emily Blincoe

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“Lumberjacked” is a musical animated short by Canadian artist Joel Mackenzie that features a retired hipster lumberjack tasked with saving his friends from a rampaging 8-bit mutant wasp monster.

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Photos by Christopher Rodriguez. Brooklyn, New York. More below.

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Since 2012 artist James Kerr (aka Scorpion Dagger) has been creating hilariously bizarre animated GIFs based on Northern and Early Renaissance paintings. Kerr can also be found on Instagram.

GIFs by James Kerr

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St. Mark’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in New York City’s East Village, recently moved into a new retail location that features a dramatic bookcase that flows around nearly the entire perimeter of the space. New York City-based Clouds Architecture Office created the unusual bookcase design to keep the center of the store uncluttered, allowing the space to double as an event venue.

photos via Clouds Architecture Office

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For the past four years, Japanese artist Tanaka Tatsuya has been creating charming dioramas every day of the year for his “Miniature Calendar” project. He creates the often humorous dioramas out of miniature figurines and everyday objects. The series is available as a photo book and on his Facebook page and Instagram account.

photos by Tanaka Tatsuya

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Danish architecture studio Bjarke Ingels Group unveiled plans in July for Zootopia, an intriguing zoo where animals would be permitted to roam free and humans would be confined to enclosures. The zoo will feature a central plaza for visitors that will be encircled by open areas for animals. Visitors will be able to enter the habitats through underground passageways and aboveground aerial trams. Viewing areas will be carefully concealed by natural cover, and trams will be covered in a reflective material, all to allow the animals to be observed undisturbed. The Zootopia project is part of a redesign and expansion of the Givskud Zoo in Denmark.

photos via Bjarke Ingels Group

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sculptures by sophie kahn

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Icheon Ceramics Village in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, is home to over 300 ceramics studios where artists use traditional techniques to produce a wide range of functional pottery and artwork. Nearly 40 of the studios still use wood-fired kilns. This video filmed by the American Museum of Ceramic Art shows five ceramic masters from Icheon at work in their studios. The process of creating is almost more beautiful than the finished pieces. (via Huffington Post)

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