Holy Crap!!! Alton Brown has a new show starting on September 7th called Feasting on Waves which follows his trip around the Caribbean investigating island foods.
I know what I’ll be watching on Sunday nights (10pm!) for four weeks
Michael Ruhlman recounts, in entertaining style, a day of cooking and eating with his former cooking instructor Michael Pardus. The dual sense of serendipity and devotion to a craft make me want to spend a day like theirs…perhaps with some slightly less daring cuts of meat
Smithsonian Magazine has a fascinating (if not slightly morbid) article about a 1924 kidnap and murder of a 14-year-old boy in Chicago by two young, wealthy, and deranged men. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb botched a scheme to kidnap and murder one of Loeb’s cousins while extorting ransom money from the boy’s father, and [...]
Who needs burritos when you have magic pants?
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we used to call people late at night from eran hilleli on Vimeo.
Eran Hilleli is a student at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and each one of his shorts on Vimeo is a joy to watch, whether it’s stop-motion, traditional animation, or a blend of motion graphics generated by a computer.
“we used [...]
Looks like Ted “Bridge-to-Nowhere” or “The-Internet-is-a-series-of-tubes” Stevens won’t be in the Senate much longer.
The NY Times reports that investigations have led to an indictment and corruption charges for the senior senator from Alaska. Even if he survives the legal proceedings, I have a feeling there will be calls to step down to prevent further [...]
In tonight’s penultimate class we replayed, for the most part, the last several weeks. There were two major differences, however.
First, I had the negatives from my medium format test roll, and as such, I could make prints of my new square delights. I had to swap out the 50 mm condenser lens for [...]
If you, like me, live in a part of the City of Richmond (or anywhere, really) that has yet to see fiber optic internet connectivity in your neighborhood, there’s a simple way to check if it’s coming soon:
Verizon’s Virginia Community Page contains a link to a PDF-format schedule of their construction plans for FiOS. [...]
When I hear Simple Minds‘ iconic 80’s anthem, “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” I’m filled with a semi-false nostalgia that tricks me into reminiscing about my mostly crappy high school years…
It was December of my senior year at Central Senior High School in the depressed rural county of Lunenburg, Virginia, and I was preparing for [...]
I’ve uploaded my entire test roll of medium format film to my Flickr page. Being a test roll, the shots are, consequently, not that interesting. But I think the detail and clarity of the film format is evident.