I am compiling a list of foods with logos built right in, when you eat the food, you eat the logo.
There seems to be no shortage of candy and sweet treats in this category, but I am at a loss for edible logos that would go great with a glass of wine.
Please share your ideas…
Sweet Foods
Not sweet Foods
Hooray! I finally finished this piece; not including design time (roughly 20 hours) the stitching in this piece took 134 hours, 24 minutes and 29 seconds.
21 x 19 inches. Tea dyed linen; cotton, silk, linen, velvet, wool, metal, and synthetic floss; rhinestones, crystal and glass beads.
The pictures don’t do justice, you will just have to come to the show and see the piece in person. I found the quote in “No Logo” by Naomi Klein, although it originally appeared in an article in the Wall Street Journal. The layout is loosely based on a 200 year old Quaker sampler.
I could go on and on about the brilliance of this piece, about the simplicity and the energy and the motion and the tension and the balance. But I would so much rather look at it.
By Alice McGrory of London, England, this piece joined our collection as a birthday card from the artist to her Uncle William and will soon be framed and on the wall. Unfortunately, this scan does not do justice to the sunny orange and intrepid blue.
This is for AJ, who is looking for Friday fish recipes. This recipe makes enough for two, but is easily doubled with no extra effort. If you are not used to cooking fish, this is easy, healthy, and won’t make your house all fishy smelly.
In a small food processor, pulse to a paste:
Scoop into a shallow glass dish, add, and stir together:
Using one pound of a nice fleshy fish–I just made this with Mahi mahi, which was on sale–score the piece(s) diagonally in each direction. Place the fish in the glass dish and cover with yogurt sauce, making sure to squish it in the slits. Cover with plastic wrap, let sit at room temp for one hour. If you are using salmon, reduce sitting time to 30 mins. In the meantime, pre-heat oven to 450*.
Scrape most of the yogurt off, leaving between 1/4 and 1/2 inch on top. Place on a foiled, rimmed baking sheet. Cook anywhere between 15-30 minutes, depending on thickness of fish.
Not-so-spicy Oven Fries
I used Yukon Golds for these and they came out so nice and sweet, again, recipe for two, but easily doubled. They cook at same temp as fish.
Peel 5 or 6 medium potatoes. Slice in half lengthwise, and then again in quarters for nice fry shapes. Rinse, pat dry. Toss with:
Spread in a single layer on a cookie sheet ( I line with parchment for easy clean up).
Cook in 450* oven (same as fish) for 25-30 minutes, until nicely browned.
Roasted Broccoli
Yay, this one cooks at the same temp, too. I know you like your broccoli stalks, and this roasting makes them sweet and tender. Use one crown (usually two or three come in a bunch).
Separate the broccoli into florets and cut the stalks long (drag a peeler across if the skin seems too thick).
Toss with
Spread on baking sheet (parchment!) and roast for 5-10 minutes.
Yum, dinner is ready, healthy and cleanup should be pretty easy.
Age, next week I will post a more Italian style recipe.
I would like to introduce my two new friends to you. They don’t have names, but handsome husband thinks I should name them after royalty.
What do you think? Best idea(s) will receive Wacky Packages and other fun in the mail…
(drumroll, please)
Why I have been spending all of my time stitching and not posting:
March 19-31, 2010
Oglethorpe Gallery
406 East Oglethorpe (at Habersham)
Savannah, GA
open Monday- Saturday 10 am to 6pm
reception March 26, 6-9 pm
This is a solo show of my MFA thesis work, 4 years and thousands (millions?) of stitches in the making.
This is the back side of a valentine gift I made for my handsome husband. Wool on linen.
I think it looks beautiful, in its own quiet way.
Logorama, an animated short film by the French collective H5, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Animated Shorts category.
Logorama is set in a clean Utopian LA, a branded landscape, where even the people are logos: AOL men, Bic men, the cops are Michelin men. Ronald McDonald is a badass with an automatic weapon, Big Boy is a snarky truant. Logorama supplies a dose of popular movie mechanisms: car chases, shoot outs, Tarantino-esque conversations, and curvy models. Cataclysm ensues, that can only be inspired by absurd apocalypse plots rampant in Hollywood today.
Here it is in two parts:
I am hoping this will be the last piece I have to make for my thesis show (March 19-March 31), it is a bit different, a quote sampler based loosely on this old sampler:
For our edification, yours and mine, I am keeping time on my progress. This pictures is at 0:00 hours (not including 12-14 hours of design time. I have laid out some basic colors.
After 5 hours and 28 minutes this is what you get:
The white mesh is a waste canvas, which provides the structure of a cross stitch fabric, for even stitches. When I am done with the extremely challenging lettering, I will be able to remove the waste canvas.
One of these I hate, the other I love. One of them feels like it will never be finished.
