I kinda suck at making meringue but it worked out okay. Looks pretty at least!
I stuck it in the freezer and turned it into a kinda… ice cream stuff.
Here’s where I got the recipe: http://www.instructables.com/id/4-minute-Chocolate-Mousse/
(Pretty much where I get all my recipes)
Made my contest entry for engadget’s kindle contest and submitted it!
The inspiration for it was obviously escher’s neverending staircase, and also the idea that a kindle is a storage, or a box of organized words and are lifted out of the box when you access them. Using the swiftish arrow that is from the amazon logo itself, i made a movement toward the top, ‘amazonkindle’ to create a little flow between my artwork and what is already there.
Hopefully i win! That would be great.
I don’t necessarily love the idea of a kindle, and e-paper books, but in the long run, I guess it will be saving a hell of a lot of trees and though it will never replace the feeling of a real book… it’ll be nice to have… especially if it’s free ;D
See ya when I see ya.
feeling comfortable.
just realized the beauty of eating an orange is being able to take a silent step in between carefully separated portions, or slices – just enough time in between for your tounge to forget the taste and then again be surprised by another tangy, sweet encore.
just slowly appreciating this perfect nature
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hmmmmm… i just ate something… funny.
I have a weird feeling in my stomach right now. This ‘steak’ was… interesting to say the least, and made for an… interesting dinner. check it out:
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Well, it looks good enough right?
Mint, and Balsamic Reduction, Salt and Pepper, Cassis liquor to steam with…
and it was a pretty good smell too! But the taste, well… lets just say it tasted like candy… with balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and a hint of wine. The texture… if you blindfolded me, I probably wouldn’t have guessed it was watermelon.
My mom and my final note: due to the time it took to bake the whole thing, we’d probably think WOW, IF it was in some really expensive restaurant and that was an appetizer, but it wasn’t all that filling for dinner, and it was kind of a disappointment after all that time. So final word: no.
Here’s the recipe if you still want to try it:
http://ravenouscouple.blogspot.com/2009/07/watermelon-steak-or-seared-ahi-tuna.html
(and it looks good there too! what a disappointment!)
how you ask to trim the back of your hair may say much
or very little about your personality, i think.
for instance, some people might go to the barbershoppen and actually consciously ask for something to be done specifically to the back of their hair. Perhaps they note: ‘I want it cut straight horizontally, and kept at a long length’ or ‘I want it layered, and with streaks.’
But think about it. This is the only time when most people will actually consider their appearance of something so close to their body (a part of it) and yet, we see none of it… ever (well, really… when’s the last time you took two mirrors just to see if the back of your hair looked okay?) and yet, at that instant when you cut your hair, you may treat it as the same importance of how… say… your house or your room and how it looks to other people, when otherwise, you could care less… because you can’t really do much about it, and otherwise would be at the back of your mind (heh… heh)
So I was riding the train today, and I noticed certain people’s hairs as they sat in front of me (yeah, that’s a little creepy i admit) and i couldn’t help but think: ‘did these people actually think, or ask for, that specific back-of-the-head haircut, or did they just let the hair cutter decide?
if either, are they a person of forward appearances, or could they care less? I wonder sometimes what characteristics of a persons visual appearance affects what characteristics of that same persons personalities.
In any case… I finished reading Siddhartha, which was an unexpressably amazing book, and I would recommend to anyone. Hesse in his book, talks about the oneness of things, and explains of how everything at an instant is perfect, and because of such, continuous meddling of words, and the complication of words like… ‘love’ and ‘perfect’ are already boundries in theirselves (this is what i think). By using words to separate the world into meanings, we deconstruct the world into a thousand ‘lessons’ and more, which leaves us yearning for more: more knowledge, more ability, more thoughts, more actions, more creation, more destruction… when if we remove words, and remove the need to express and separate the oneness of the world and its own peculiar ‘perfectness,’ at every instant, where time never exists, and the separation of words is here all at the same time– we experience the ability to listen, the ability to absorb, and connect, and draw positive energies, and what metaphorically exists as ‘happiness’ and ‘love.’
That’s what I got from that book, and much more. It connected this child part of me: from when I used the notion of ‘time’ to help visualize the motion of things, and the cycles of the earth– connected it to my current wont to love the earth, and love its people without judgement, and live among people without being a ‘higher’ being or acting pompous, as if I have more ‘right’ than anyone ‘know better’ or any sort of condition that proves me better than anyone else: because im not and that’s okay. Siddhartha in his own reaction to the world: that everyone, despite appearances or actions that could be thought of as ‘rude’ or ‘greedy’ or negative in any way only proves that each and every person strives toward a goal –their struggles and actions in living is simply what makes them perfect, and I can love everything and everyone at the same time for that.
That’s all for the ‘ego’ side of me.
Yet, for the other side of me that knows human reality, and knows the separation with words, and knows the brutalities of what can exist as a ‘perfect’ world in my mind, I know that it is not so for most others. It makes clear though, what I strive for in life: an ability and knowledge that allows me to make other peoples lives better. I want to create, and provide for others. Even through my art and graphic communications, I can create a virtual ‘happiness’ and perhaps through my environmental efforts and social work efforts I can provide that same virtual ‘happiness.’ Yet I cannot provide true happiness, because that comes from within. That comes from their experiences, and struggles that gives them the strength for happiness, yet as a person that can affect others virtual ‘happinesses,’ I can make that passageway easier, and help them, as well as me, reach both virtual and internal happiness.
What is happiness to me? It is love and hate both at the same time, and accepting that it is so