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20 Oct 20:45
This is the $150 computer I built with my daughter
by Ben Kuchera
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20 Oct 20:45
FKA twigs made using Google Glass look like stepping into the Matrix
by Kwame Opam
Up-and-coming singer FKA twigs is using Google Glass to inspired, if somewhat unsettling, effect. For her latest conceptual video #ThroughGlass, twigs dons the headset and suddenly bursts into dance, seemingly inspired by the video streaming directly into her eyes. And then things get trippy. After showing off her own well-renowned skills, we see her toggle through other dance styles, which summons twigs doppelgängers who all perform and mug for the camera while twigs herself is left overwhelmed. The choreography here is set to a remixed and completely appropriate track off her debut release LP1, "Video Girl," with elements from the unreleased track "Glass & Patron." All in all, the video is really a look into a technologically-enhanced...
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20 Oct 15:04
Surreal Collages by Eugenia Loli
by Christopher Jobson
Collage artist Eugenia Loli uses photography scanned from vintage magazines and science publications to create bizarre visual narratives that borrow from aspects of pop art, dada, and traditional surrealism. Loli’s background is almost as diverse as the imagery she employs, having been born in Greece and living in Germany and the UK before settling in California. She previously worked as a nurse, a computer programmer, and as a technology journalist, but has only recently found a calling in collage work with publication in numerous magazines since 2013.
Loli gives much of her work away as high-resolution files which you can download and print directly from hrt Flickr account for personal usage. She also has a collection of official, signed art prints available here. (via Asylum Art, iGNANT)
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17 Oct 13:40
'The Tale of the Princess Kaguya' is the most gorgeous film you'll see all year
by Sam Byford
Much was made of animation legend Hayao Miyazaki’s decision to retire last year, but a new movie out today from his Studio Ghibli comes from the mind of no less great a talent. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya was directed by 78-year-old Isao Takahata, a co-founder of the studio, and you won’t see a lusher, more gorgeous movie in 2014.
Princess Kaguya is based on a 10th-century Japanese folk story called The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, which tells of a poor couple that discover a mystical girl...
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15 Oct 13:29
15 Best Easy Weeknight Mexican Recipes
by Chungah
The best quick-and-easy Mexican weeknight meals that the whole family will love!
It’s no surprise that Mexican food is a favorite around here. After all, we grew up in Los Angeles our entire childhood! So here it is: my top 15 Mexican favorites – dishes that I make at least once a month!
1. One Pan Mexican Quinoa – Wonderfully light, healthy and nutritious. And it is so easy to make – even the quinoa is cooked right in the pan. [GET THE RECIPE.]
2. Enchilada Pasta – All the flavors of cheesy enchiladas are tossed together in this quick and easy pasta dish. [GET THE RECIPE.]
3. Southwestern Chopped Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing – A tex-mex style salad with an incredibly creamy Greek yogurt cilantro dressing. [GET THE RECIPE.]
4. Quinoa Stuffed Bell Peppers – These stuffed bell peppers will provide the nutrition that you need for a healthy, balanced meal. [GET THE RECIPE.]
5. Beef Enchiladas – Loaded with a simple and hearty crumbled beef filling, these cheesy enchiladas will be on your dinner table in no time. [GET THE RECIPE.]
6. Mexican Rice – Restaurant-style Mexican rice can easily be made right at home, and it tastes a million times better too. [GET THE RECIPE.]
7. Cheesy Enchilada Rice Skillet – The easiest enchiladas you will ever make. No rolling, no folding. Just throw everything into a skillet and you’re set. [GET THE RECIPE.]
8. Taco Salad – All the flavors of a taco in a healthy salad with a refreshing, tangy lime vinaigrette. [GET THE RECIPE.]
9. Easy Taco Pie – The easiest, cheesiest pie you will ever make in a single skillet in just 30 min – perfect for those busy weeknights and picky eaters. [GET THE RECIPE.]
10. One Pot Mexican Skillet Pasta – This Mexican-inspired pasta dish can be made in 30 minutes or less in a single pan. You can’t beat that. [GET THE RECIPE.]
11. Chicken Enchilada Skillet – An inside-out enchilada skillet made in less than 30 minutes. [GET THE RECIPE.]
12. Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas – The easiest carnitas you will ever make in the crockpot, cooked low and slow for the most amazing fall-apart tender goodness. [GET THE RECIPE.]
13. Easy Burrito Bowls – Skip Chipotle and try these burrito bowls right at home. It’s easier, healthier and 10000x tastier. [GET THE RECIPE.]
14. White Chicken Enchiladas with Green Chile Sour Cream Sauce – These enchiladas have the easiest cream sauce you could ever make. It’s so good, you’ll want to guzzle it down. [GET THE RECIPE.]
15. Quinoa Enchilada Casserole – A lightened-up, healthy enchilada bake chockfull of quinoa, black beans and cheesy goodness. [GET THE RECIPE.]
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09 Oct 03:47
Great Job, Internet!: This adorable animated EarthBound tribute was four years in the making
by Matt Gerardi
Mother 2, known outside Japan as EarthBound, is the only entry in Nintendo’s surrealist Mother role-playing series to have made it overseas, but it alone was enough to cultivate a legion of fans whose passion and tenacity know no bounds (sorry). Those fans responsible for what might be the most famous amateur translation ever (of Mother 3 for the Game Boy Advance) and are even developing a full-on sequel in Mother 4.
There’s something about this series that gets its adherents’ creative juices flowing. Take “Project PK Flash.” According to the about page on the project’s Tumblr, animator Sagan Yee began working on this EarthBound tribute in 2010 while she was still a student. She let it fall by the wayside after graduating, but she picked it back up last year and has finished in time for Mother 2’s 20-year anniversary.
Yee says she envisioned “Project ...
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06 Oct 00:50
While you discovered his latest piece in Kentucky a few days ago, ROA is now in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Life Is Beautiful Festival curated by Charlotte Dutoit from JustKids.
The legendary Belgian artist started working his magic through a giant lizard which is commonly called a horny toad. If you are in the area, the piece is located on Steward and N 6th st.
Hit the jump for a bunch of extra images on this artwork and keep your eyes peeled on Street Art News to discover the final piece.
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Work in progress by ROA for Life Is Beautiful 2014 & JustKids in Las Vegas
by Street Art News
While you discovered his latest piece in Kentucky a few days ago, ROA is now in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Life Is Beautiful Festival curated by Charlotte Dutoit from JustKids.
The legendary Belgian artist started working his magic through a giant lizard which is commonly called a horny toad. If you are in the area, the piece is located on Steward and N 6th st.
Hit the jump for a bunch of extra images on this artwork and keep your eyes peeled on Street Art News to discover the final piece.
Read The Full Story »
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05 Oct 00:56
Meredith Woolnough’s Embroideries Mimic Delicate Forms of Nature
by Johnny Strategy
Australian artist Meredith Woolnough creates elaborate embroideries that mimic delicate forms of nature like leaves and coral. “I have been collecting skeletonized leaves for as long as I can remember,” says the artist, whose “traceries” capture the beauty and fragility of nature. Woolnough uses a special embroidery technique that involves a domestic sewing machine and a base cloth that dissolves in water after the piece is complete leaving just the skeleton. In a way, her process also mimics the natural process of leaves dying and drying up which, in turn, become the subject of her work.
You can follow Woolnough on Instagram or see more of her work on Facebook. She also had an exhibition earlier this year at the Milk Factory Gallery. (via My Modern Met, This Isn’t Happiness)
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05 Oct 00:51
Intel issues apology regarding its advertising and 'GamerGate'
by Owen S. Good
Microprocessor-maker Intel issued a statement late Friday regarding its decision to pull advertising from the industry journal Gamasutra, a decision made under pressure from the movement calling itself GamerGate.
Intel removed advertising from Gamasutra on Wednesday, a decision that attracted a great deal of attention, including from mainstream non-gaming media. The chip-maker had been targeted by an campaign against Gamasutra and its editor-at-large Leigh Alexander, who has been critical of the treatment of women both in video games and in the industry developing them.
GamerGate arose this summer out of a series of controversies involving members of the games media and abuse directed at some independent games developers. Though it...
02 Oct 15:38
Slow Cooker Sticky Chicken Wings
by Chungah
The easiest wings you will ever make. Just throw everything into the crockpot and you’re set for the most tender, fall-off-the-bone chicken wings!
I’ve made quite a few wings recipes in my day, mainly because Jason is pretty much obsessed with any kind of wings – hot, buffalo, asian-style. You name it.
I’ve also tried deep-frying and baking them, but I’ve never made wings in the slow cooker until I tried this. And boy was I in for a treat for the easiest, most effortless wings ever.
There’s absolutely no hot oil, no deep frying, no dreading, nothing. Just throw everything into a slow cooker, press the high or low button and that’s it. Really. It’s just that easy.
And the results are unbelievably amazing. These babies are cooked absolutely perfectly, soaked in all that flavor for hours on end. And the meat literally falls off the bone!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 7 hours
Total Time 7 hours, 10 minutes
Yield 6 servings
The easiest wings you will ever make. Just throw everything into the crockpot and you're set for the most tender, fall-off-the-bone chicken wings!
Ingredients
- 3 pounds chicken wings
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- 1/3 cup reduced sodium soy sauce
- 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup honey
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon Sriracha, or more, to taste
- 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- 1 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
For the sauce
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, brown sugar, honey, garlic, Sriracha, ginger powder, pepper and onion powder.
- Place wings into a slow cooker. Stir in soy sauce mixture and gently toss to combine. Cover and cook on low heat for 6-7 hours or high heat for 3-4 hours.
- In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and 2 tablespoons water. Stir in mixture into the slow cooker. Cover and cook on high heat for an additional 10-15 minutes, or until the sauce has thickened.
- Serve immediately, garnished with sesame seeds and cilantro, if desired.
Notes
Adapted from Six Sisters' Stuff
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01 Oct 12:22
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From Kale To Pale Ale, A Love Of Bitter May Be In Your Genes
by Allison Aubrey
From Kale To Pale Ale, A Love Of Bitter May Be In Your Genes
The roots of your hankering for hoppy beers and cruciferous vegetables may be genetic.
The word bitter can make some of us wince. In conversation, we talk of "a bitter pill to swallow" or "bittersweet" memories.
But if you're puzzled by the bad emotional rap on bitter — perhaps you even like the taste of bitter greens or bitter beer — it may say something about your genes.
Scientists have been studying a particular taste receptor gene to understand why some of us may be more predisposed to liking bitter foods and hoppy beers. And a new study sheds new light on the bitter gene connection.
"What we're really looking at is that people differ in how intense bitterness might be to them," says researcher John Hayes, a food scientist at Penn State.
Several years back, Hayes and researcher Valerie Duffy of the University of Connecticut set out to do an experiment.
They already knew that some people (about a quarter of the population) have a version of one taste receptor gene, known as TAS2R38, that makes them more sensitive to the perception of bitter.
"The idea of how bitter you taste something is [tied to] how strongly the bitter [compounds] in food bind with a receptor," explains Duffy. Then, the receptor sends a signal to the brain that says, "Oh, this is bitter."
Duffy says she herself must not have a version of the gene that enables bitter compounds to bind tightly. She describes herself as a "nontaster." So when she eat greens or Brussels sprouts, she experiences them as sweet.
"To me, they're naturally sweet," Duffy says. And she enjoys them.
Compare this with people who have a version of the receptor gene that makes them very sensitive to bitter. For these individuals, the strong perception of bitterness overwhelms the natural sweetness in greens.
Duffy's hunch was that this may lead them to avoid greens. So she decided to test the theory.
"We recruited young adults and asked them to come into the lab and did taste tests with them," Duffy explains.
They sampled asparagus, Brussels sprouts and kale, and Duffy's team assessed their sensitivities. The young adult volunteers were also tested for the gene, and they filled out questionnaires and kept food diaries to document what they were eating.
"We found that individuals who are least sensitive to these bitter compounds consumed significantly more vegetables" compared with those who are most sensitive, Duffy says.
In fact, over the course of a year, the difference was about 200 more servings of vegetables.
Duffy's study was not the first to find this association. Another study, conducted in 2007 at the Centre for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in Turin, Italy, with about 600 volunteers, pointed to the same link between the bitter gene and the consumption of vegetables.
Duffy says what surprised her about her findings is that the people who were sensitive to bitter ate fewer of all kinds of vegetables, not just bitter, cruciferous ones.
"What we think [is that] if somebody finds some vegetables too bitter, they sort of generalize to all green vegetables," Duffy explains.
The same study also found a connection with papillae, those little dots on your tongue that we've reported on in the past. People with more papillae reported eating more vegetables, compared with those with fewer papillae.
This suggests that there are multiple factors, both biological and environmental, influencing our food and beverage choices, including — as Duffy is quick to point out — how our parents raise us.
People can learn to like vegetables, Duffy says, even if they carry the version of the taste receptor gene that makes them more sensitive to bitter. A big piece of the puzzle is figuring out ways to make them taste good.
For instance, "roasting brings out the sweetness," she says. Adding salt is also an effective way to cut the intensity of bitter. A study she published previously demonstrates that it's possible to mask the bitterness in vegetables with salt and sweeteners to make them more palatable.
So, does an aversion to bitter tend to be lifelong? Not necessarily.
Duffy points to studies that suggest there are changes over a lifetime. For instance, she says, we know that during pregnancy, many women become more sensitive to bitter.
And then, in older age, as smell and taste perceptions begin to fade, the taste of bitter foods can seem much less intense.
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26 Sep 19:26
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26 Sep 19:26
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26 Sep 13:57
Baked Pumpkin Cream Cheese French Toast
by Chungah
The easiest french toast ever with the most amazing cream cheese filling. Prep the night before and bake right before serving. Easy easy!
I finally opened my first can of pumpkin this season! Now it definitely doesn’t feel like fall just yet as it is hitting close to 100 degrees F outside here in Southern California but still – this french toast should be made all year long.
It’s pretty much pumpkin pie in french toast form. Except it’s unbelievably easy to make.
You can even prep everything the night before, toss it in the fridge, and throw it in the oven before serving the next morning.
It’s actually better that you make it ahead of time so those little pieces of bread can soak up all that pumpkin goodness.
And those bread cubes up there – those are King’s Hawaiian rolls. AKA – the best rolls in the world. And the only rolls to use when it comes to baked french toast.
Oh and you can’t forget that oozing cream cheese filling right in the middle layer. Imagine it to be a mini cheesecake filling in the middle of your french toast.
Amazing, right? And there’s no need for syrup here. From the sweet, fluffy King Hawaiian rolls to the cream cheese filling and crumbly crumb topping, you’re set.
Just pop this baby out of the oven and serve. It’s even better when eaten right out of the baking dish too. Why waste time plating?
Prep Time 2 hours, 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 3 hours
Yield 8 servings
The easiest french toast ever with the most amazing cream cheese filling. Prep the night before and bake right before serving. Easy easy!
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (12-count) package KING'S HAWAIIAN Original Hawaiian Sweet Dinner Rolls, cubed
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, cut into cubes
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
For the crumb topping
For the cream cheese filling
Instructions
- In bowl of an electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment, beat cream cheese, sugar and cinnamon on medium speed until light and fluffy, approximately 2-3 minutes; set aside.
- In a large glass measuring cup or another bowl, whisk together milk, pumpkin puree, eggs, pumpkin pie spice and vanilla.
- Lightly coat an 9x13 baking dish with nonstick spray. Place a layer of bread cubes evenly into the baking dish. Pour half of the pumpkin puree mixture evenly over the top. Spread cream cheese filling in an even layer. Top with remaining bread cubes and pumpkin puree mixture to completely cover the filling.
- Cover and place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- To make the crumb topping, combine flour, sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Add cold butter and toss to coat, using your fingers to work the butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle the crumb topping evenly over the bread cubes.
- Place into oven and bake for 35-45 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Serve immediately, sprinkled with pecans and confectioners' sugar, if desired.
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http://damndelicious.net/2014/09/15/baked-pumpkin-cream-cheese-french-toast/
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by King’s Hawaiian. All opinions expressed are my own.
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26 Sep 13:49
Great Job, Internet!: A bunch of freerunners performed a live homage to video games’ 8-bit era
by Christopher Curley
This one goes out to anyone who spent their pre-teen afternoons watching hapless Nick Arcade contestants contend with the rigors of The Video Zone. German freerunner Jason Paul and members of Team Farang—along with the assuredly considerable help of a Red Bull sponsorship—have crafted a spot-on homage to the side-scrolling games of the 8- and 16-bit era. Paul battles through ancient temples, tussles with ninjas, and brawls through the city all while on an actual moving train, which for a freerunner is presumably the only sensible way to recreate Parallax scrolling in real life.
[via Laughing Squid]
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26 Sep 13:48
Miniature Window Silhouettes Painted by ‘Pejac’ Interact with the Outside World
by Christopher Jobson
Early last month, Spanish artist Pejac (previously) created a fun silhouette artwork commemorating the 40th anniversary of French high-wire walker Philippe Petit’s daring walk between the Twin Towers in New York. In Pejac’s version, a tightrope walker painted in black acrylic on an interior window is shown walking along an airplane contrail several miles away in the sky. The fun optical illusion caught the attention of Sasha Bogojev over at Hi-Fructose who discovered the artist has been creating similar silhouette artworks since 2011. Seen here are a few of our favorites. Photos by Paco Esteve and Silvia Guinovart courtesy the artist. (via Hi-Fructose)
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26 Sep 13:46
Reclaimed Paper Insects by ‘Soon’
by Christopher Jobson
This fantastic set of paper insects was created from reclaimed paper by Belgium-based ad agency Soon for paper company IGEPA Benelux. The critters are part of a visual language used in a brochure advertising a new line of recycled paper. You can watch the entire Soon team toiling away on the project in this making of video. (via Lustik)
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