Isaac Cordal places different miniature statues into his local landscape of Chiapas, Mexico to create an entirely new sense of place once the objects inhabit their chosen situation. Stories develop organically from the objects and, especially with these skeletal versions, take on a metaphorical prowess to the pleasing street art. See more below!
Isaac Cordal: Tumblr
All photos by Chuck Choi courtesy Studio KCA
If you visited Governor’s Island in New York last summer you most certainly saw the billowing, cloud-like structure that sits in the middle of the lawn. And if you’re anything like my kids you probably dashed up to it to see exactly what thing was. But it’s not until you get up close that you realize it’s made from many, many plastic bottles stringed together. “53,780 used plastic bottles,” says designer Jason Klimoski, “the number thrown away in NYC in just 1 hour.” Klimoski and his team at STUDIO KCA collected the bottles – a combination of milk jugs and water bottles – and lashed them together to create “Head in the Clouds,” a pavilion people can walk into, sit inside, and contemplate just how much plastic is thrown away every day.
The structure, however, was temporary and the team is now looking for its next home. If you’re interested in having this in your back yard get in touch with the designers.
Within reason, I think if you’re craving something, you should go for it, although this theory is mostly born of my own poor logic. I’ve all too many times craved, say, a brownie but thought I shouldn’t eat a brownie and so instead snacked on (just for a completely random example) 12 almonds, 1 slice of cheese, half an apple, 1 banana and then, oops, a handful of chocolate chips, amounting roughly 3x the calories of a brownie, a brownie that I craved exactly as much as I did 500 calories ago. And so, when I really want a brownie, I make my favorite brownies and we each eat one and then I stash the rest in the freezer, so they are not out on the counter, calling to me that we haven’t been cut in a straight line and you should really even us out or we’re going to go bad soon and you don’t want us to go to waste or any of those things that brownies tell me when we’re alone together.
[Hm, here I should probably interject some sort of "sure, okay, brownies talk to me but I'm not like crazy or anything; it's not weird. Brownies talk to everyone, right? Haha?" reassurance but I'm not going to. I'm going to make this as awkward as possible.]
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We're lucky to have access to so many excellent free online courses for just about anything you want to study, including computer science. Here's a curriculum list that strings various free computing courses into the equivalent of a college bachelor's degree.
This week’s #TwitterTuesday was all about the burning flame. You shared a lot of great photos with the theme #Fire, and showed us scenes from rituals, plays, warm rooms, and disasters. It’s great to see so many pictures from all of your Twitter submissions.
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Here at Food52, we love recipes -- but do we always use them? Of course not. Because once you realize you don't always need a recipe, you'll make your favorite dishes a lot more often.
Today: Homemade salsa shouldn't be constrained to tomato season -- Food52's Assistant Editor Marian Bull shows us how to make it with year-round staples.
So you'd like to DIY your salsa on Cinco de Mayo but you're staunchly opposed to the purchase or consumption of out-of-season tomatoes? Fear not -- these two things are not mutually exclusive. There is a happy medium here, and it relies on a can.
Good salsa does not necessarily depend on perfect, fresh tomatoes, the kind you want to eat like an apple on a hot day in July. It depends instead on the right bells and whistles that will spruce up a party-sized can of diced tomatoes like baubles and bulbs on a Christmas tree. (In fact, you could serve this at Christmas! It's red and green! But I digress.)
Pulsed together with alliums, spice, heat, acid, and a forceful amount of herbs, canned tomatoes transform into the kind of salsa you might find at not-fancy Mexican restaurants. Keep it as chunky as you can handle, or take it further down the food processor rabbit hole for an almost-purée. It's your salsa; you make the rules.
A few notes about ingredients here: I like fire-roasted tomatoes for their depth of flavor. Yes, you can omit the cilantro if you hate it. And don't be afraid of the raw alliums -- they will mellow from the acid of the tomatoes, and add a necessary bite of freshness.
Grab the nearest margarita. Here's how to make out-of-season salsa without a recipe:
1. In the bowl of a food processor, combine one large (28-ounce) or two small (14-ounce) cans of diced tomatoes. Add half an onion, chopped, a minced garlic clove or two, and a few pinches of ground cumin and chili powder. Add a lime's worth of juice -- or two, if your margarita has already begun to kick in and you're feeling daring. Chop a jalapeño and add it in there -- or just use half, if you like things mild. I like to add a big handful of cilantro leaves as well.
2. Blend until the salsa is just on the brink of your desired consistency.
3. Taste for seasoning -- I suggest using a tortilla chip for this. (Consider it method acting.) If it needs anything, add it now, then pulse a few more times. Once it's as chunky or as thin as you like it, dump it into a bowl, empty out a bag of chips onto the nearest platter. Bring out a six-pack, or shake up a few margaritas, and you've got a fiesta -- with no white-bellied tomatoes in sight.
Photos by James Ransom
You need butter but you forgot to take it out of the fridge. Microwave? Not without a melted mess. But Josef Spalenka has cracked how to soften butter in the microwave without it melting. He calls it the "Toothpick Tripod Method."
Si eres un amante del cine y la buena música, no puedes perderte estos cuatro himnos cinematográficos.
El cine y la música siempre se han llevado bien. De hecho, desde antes de que el cine fuera sonoro, la música ya estaba condenada a entenderse con este nuevo arte, sirviendo de transfondo para todas aquellas escenas en movimiento que la gente miraba perpleja y escéptica al principio. Tanto es así que muchas veces ha sido la música el principal motivo para rodar una película, que no entendamos algunas películas sin sus respectivas bandas sonoras o que, simplemente, la película haya sido un musical. Pero el cine además, ha servido en ocasiones para saciar las inquietudes de muchos amantes de la música: ya sea contando la historia de grupos (y generaciones enteras) o sirviendo como una extensión de la creatividad de algunos músicos. Prueba de ello, estas cuatro películas sobre música perfectas para los amantes de las buenas bandas sonoras.
La década de los 80 cambió para siempre la historia de la música británica y 24 Hours Party People es, quizás, la mejor película para documentar todo lo que se gestó en el Manchester de los 80. Siguiendo la estela de Tony Wilson, este falso documental nos muestra de la historia de grupos como Joy Division o los Happy Mondays, además de centrarse en una de las discotecas más míticas de aquellos años (Hacienda). Una de las mejores películas sobre música del Reino Unido y clave para entender la importancia de aquel Manchester y su música.
Todos hemos visto a niños pijos tomando droga y adhiriéndose de manera ferviente a alguna corriente de música electrónica pero Part Of The Weekend es mucho más. Además de contar con la aparición de algunos de los grandes de la electrónica, es el acompañamiento de 2manydjs (miembros de Soulwax) por una gira mundial. ¿Qué la convierte en una pieza digna de visionar? Su impecable montaje, que lleva los mashups de los djs al terreno fotográfico. Impresionante.
Como mencionaba anteriormente, la historia de la música británica está ligada al Manchester de los 80 y el grupo de referencia, el que lo empezó todo, fue Joy Division. Control recorre la historia del grupo, centrándose especialmente en la figura del líder de la banda -Ian Curtis- y su dramático final. Para mí, la mejor película de música que se ha hecho en la historia del cine, una joya que debe ser visionada para comprender la importancia del grupo de Curtis y su imprenta en la música británica.
Si bien Trainspotting no es una película sobre música, la banda sonora que acompaña cada uno de los planos de esta película es el himno constante de una generación perdida, atrapada y afectada por el drama del SIDA y la sobredosis. Una joya imprescindible para todo aquel que quiera ver algunas de las mejores canciones que ha dado el Reino Unido y quiera descubrir una Escocia muy diferente a la de las guías turísticas.
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