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Skycraper designed to collect rainwater

Stephanie — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:18:45 +0000

Let’s plug this baby into plans for urban vertical farming.

Via Design Boom

Food colouring: eat it up

Stephanie — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:24:27 +0000

Inspired.

The work of Luxirare [the complete breakdown of these "health bars" here] via TheCoolist.

A bit too fussy and delux for me, but unmistakably beautiful, so props for that.

All the pretty fishes early this morning

Stephanie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:22:57 +0000

Colombo, Sri Lanka, early this morning, shadowy fisherman waiting for customers at the city’s main fish market.

(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Reuters)

Via Wall Street Journal

Galette or coquette?

Stephanie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:53:45 +0000

Rustic trumps neatness for elegance, every time.

via Lotti + Doof

The Cocoon

Stephanie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:20:33 +0000

God is in the details

– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

This Swiss building is called the Cocoon, and it took my breath away the minute I came across it today. I’ve been working from home for nearly five years and really love it, but I’d get professionally suited-up and ride public transit during rush hour [both of which I hate] if I could work here.

Based on the visceral and emotional buzz I got just looking at pictures of it, I’m convinced that I’d be more creative and productive in this space, that my abilities would soar, that my mood would be mostly positive and that my general health would improve.

See more photos of this building here and be moved, too.

The cakemaker loves art

Stephanie — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:59:51 +0000

Thanks Design Sponge for showcasing the art-inspired work of Caitlin Williams, who nods to Mondrian here. What does that cobalt blue taste like, I wonder?

Taken on the journey

Stephanie — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:08:20 +0000

The picnic that took the ride to see the shipwreck, and swim and lunch in the cove:

octupus salad, grilled sardines, cold roast chicken, feta, olives, figs, grapes, crusty bread, watermelon, beer, white wine, pistachios in the shell.

via

Holy Macro Escargot

Stephanie — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:11:25 +0000

snail impact from Massimiliano Rigano’s on Vimeo.

The AGO has a culinary muse

Stephanie — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:00:00 +0000

“I don’t dig very fussy, highly manipulated plates.”

– Anne Yarymowich

Ask Anne Yarymowich for the most memorable meals she’s ever eaten, and the Executive Chef of the Art Gallery of Ontario will take you first to the Mediterranean and then to an unglamorous quarter in a world culinary capital.

At a Turkish outdoor, seaside café, she orders a striped bass plate that comes cured, like graavlax, to which she matches a glass of rosé. “The flavours,” reminisces Yarymowich, “the ambience, stopping there by chance — it blew my mind.”

In Paris she comes across a working-class cantina called Le Roi de Pot au Feu, the “king” of the humblest of everyday French meals. “They plop a bottle of wine on the table, a gamay, whether you want it or not,” says Yarymowich, and then came the specialty of the house. If you want something else, surmises Yarymowich, the message is clear, “Piss off! … Brilliant!” she laughs….more