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Tue, 14 May 2013 17:44:17 -0700

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Tom & I Are the Worst People to Come Across Money

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:25:14 -0700

Me: i think i'll just get enough to have all my school loans paid off, which is perfectly fine by me
Me: then with whatever is left over i'ma buy a paddle boat, ribs for days, and a new computer
Tom: AND A BOUNCE HOUSE
Me: AND LASERS
Tom: AND A LIFESIZE REPLICA OF A NINJA TURTLE
Me: AND A REAL FALCOR TO FLY AROUND ON
Tom: AND A MOVIE-REALISTIC MASK RESEMBLING LOUIS GOSSET JR FROM ENEMY MINE

JUNGLE GUTS: IF I MADE A RAP VIDEO

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:54:20 -0700

JUNGLE GUTS: IF I MADE A RAP VIDEO:

jungleguts:

If I made a rap video

It would be filmed while camping.

Someone would be talking on a rectangular rock like it was a cell phone

Someone would be counting leaves like they were money

Someone would be motor-boating two big rocks

Someone would be planking on a really big rock near a waterfall.

someone would be drinking water from a waterfall and when they drank water from the waterfall they could see rainbows and everyone watching them drink could see rainbows in their hair and their hair would look like Cyndi Lauper.

Excerpt from Comics Therapy that I made for the Eagle Rock Mini...

Thu, 31 May 2012 00:11:00 -0700

Excerpt from Comics Therapy that I made for the Eagle Rock Mini Comic-Con earlier this month. Also an accurate example of what kind of food is eaten at my house.

Crispy Eggplant Parmesan BUT! instead of battering the eggplant...

Sun, 20 May 2012 00:04:00 -0700

Crispy Eggplant Parmesan BUT! instead of battering the eggplant slices in egg, flour and bread crumbs, use a dry Falafel mix and lightly fry slices in olive oil till outside gets to a light crisp. Follow the rest of the recipe that says to transfer pieces to baking dish and bury them in freshly grated parmesan cheese with a sprinkle of anise seed to complement the chili pepper and sun dried tomato.

Falafel mixes usually have coriander in it which give falafel the aromatic smell despite being fried. Parmesan cheese is complemented by the tart sweetness of cooked tomatoes and basil, so I figured the coriander and whole anise would work themselves into the taste somehow. It’s worth experimenting if you want to take a familiar Italian dish down a SEEDY alleyway.

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Sometimes I feel as if I have surgically implanted lenses in my...

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:04:00 -0700

Sometimes I feel as if I have surgically implanted lenses in my eyes that only point out how much something differs from me economically and ethnically (see also: total prejudice) when watching films that predominantly feature rich, white people.

Example: Melancholia. It was a visually interesting film, but despite all the praise Dunst got for her totally absorbing role as someone suffering from depression— to me, she just came off as privileged and self-aggrandizing. Watching her slog around being a bitch to her concerned sister, ride horses with a constipated face, and drag ass around a huge mansion tucked away in an idillic Swedish countryside— was something I bafflingly could not connect with. Her depiction of someone severely depressed felt patronizing and self-motivated— unconvincing and miles away from Sylvia Plath’s classic depiction of a girl stuck in a bell jar. If you haven’t seen Melancholia, it’s basically about a huge rogue planet crashing into Earth and as a result, the degrading relationship between two sisters— and maybe #whitepeopleproblems. Dunst’s character unconvincingly believes that the world is an evil place and deserves to die, even though all that’s been revealed to us on how evil the world is to her, only amounts to her amazing incapacity to enjoy anything (aka WET BLANKET.)

Maybe my bias was also due to the fact that I had not completely cleansed my brain pallet before watching the film. I had just been reading articles about Du’a Khalil Aswad, a 17 year old girl who was stoned for 30 minutes despite desperately pleading for her life. Her body was tied to a car and dragged down the street to be later buried in a shallow grave next to a dog. No one was prosecuted for the crime because her village unanimously agreed that she deserved to be stoned as punishment for converting to Islam and falling in love with someone outside their tribe.

So— science fiction drama about the world ending, versus reality and maybe some reasons why we should get blow’d up by another planet. I guess the lesson learned here is that I just watched these things in the wrong order?

So after having my brain explode over watching El Bulli -...

Tue, 01 May 2012 22:16:00 -0700

So after having my brain explode over watching El Bulli - Cooking in Progress last night, I’ve basically committed myself to taste-testing everything I cook in my kitchen, scientifically cataloguing my flavor findings, and then looking for random-ass shit to pair said findings with. This culinary practice is also known as, “Making Food No One Else Will Eat, Except Myself Out of Total Embarassment” which dovetails nicely with my already questionable cooking experience.El Bulli and it’s world famous chef Ferran Adrià go above and beyond creating nothing short of edible laboratory experiments with food, but it wasn’t so much his mastery of making foam meat that sparked my interest to find different flavor combinations, it was more of his scientific and pragmatic approach to understanding flavor that impressed me. Basically all you have to do is:

Use one vegetable and/or fruit and experiment with different ways of cutting and preparing it. Record your results and take pictures to build your own reference catalogue.
Do the same practice with a meat or legume.
Download Niki Segnit’s The Flavor Thesaurus to help you avoid totally disastrous combinations. Like if you decide combining Mentos and soda is worth a try. IT IS NOT.

Surprising yourself and others with new flavor combinations has always been the pursuit of a good cook. Though I feel that anyone who has been stoned out of their mind has already inadvertently stumbled into this realm of pairing unlikely foods together— and on some rare occasions, a little inhibition/total lack of judgement pays off. I once while totally squinty-eyed, combined sweet mayonnaise (Kewpie brand), whole wheat spaghetti, and herring roe in a salad bowl and it was AMAZING! I later discovered that this is somewhat of a popular snack in Japan and not just a testament to how awesome of a cook I can be when my brain is sitting in a sauna of weed.

Anyhow, point of this story was to highlight my first successful attempt at flippantly throwing shit together in a pan based on my knowledge of individual flavors and possible relevant combinations.

Tonight’s accident: Caramelized chicken marinated in light soy sauce, anise seed, ginger, garlic, mango chutney, in a sweet sake reduction. And just because I was curious and had a bunch left over from last night: Fennel seed and cinnamon fried brown rice. The fennel and anise have light licorice flavors that pair with sugar and seem to work well with chicken and the sour/salt of soy sauce. This is what I did:

Marinate one cut up chicken breast in soy sauce, powdered ginger, powdered garlic, and whole anise seed. Mix together till well coated, cover in plastic wrap, and set in fridge for about 30 mins.
In a pan melt about a teaspoon of butter under medium heat and add whole fennel seed and cinnamon until fragrant. The amount is to your taste but when you add the cooked brown rice the intensity of the fennel and cinnamon will mellow out a little, so if at first it all smells really strong, don’t worry because the rice sponges most of it up. Move around in pan till the rice is crispy. Adding salt will bring out more fennel flavor, and if you add sugar it compliments the cinnamon more. I haven’t tried adding both because there’s already enough crap as is in this thing.
Remove cooked rice from pan. Add 2-3 teaspoons of white sugar and stir around until it melts/caramelizes. Add chicken and stir fry till the color of the meat turns into a golden honey brown. Reduce heat to a simmer and mix in about half a cup of the sweet sake and a tablespoon of mango chutney (or any sweet jelly that has a slight acidic taste.) If you don’t have sweet cooking sake, adding a tablespoon of white vinegar diluted with some water works too.

This is probably the longest post I’ve written on this blog and will be the first of many. Originally I started this thing as more of a complaint jar when I worked at the most soul-crushing gallery in the country but times have happily changed now and this thing has evolved into more of a random thought bin as I now work from home, take care of an old jewish lady, and think about things to eat 95% of the time.

So here’s to more cooking like Mr. Magoo.

Durchsehen, Exp. 01 (augmented perspective) is an installation...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:05:24 -0700

Durchsehen, Exp. 01 (augmented perspective) is an installation by Daniel Franke ( daniel-franke.com ) and Markus Kison ( markuskison.de ) which includes a camera fixed onto the concrete cube sculpture that recognizes the presence of human faces within its scope. By random selection, the c++ application focuses on the bystanders and adjust its rotation; tracking the eye movements of the viewer. The software computes the corresponding angle of view projecting onto the cube the very section of the space the sculpture is blocking from the viewers eye; thus making the cube appear transparent.

Set-Up:
D-2010. Concrete cube, PC, 2 projectors, webcam, servo motors, microcontrollers, C++ applications, tripods. 4 x 4 x 2 m.

"Go peddle your facts somewhere else, Learny McBookerton."

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:58:46 -0700

“Go peddle your facts somewhere else, Learny McBookerton.”

- - a comment in response to possible scientific theories on how the moon may have been formed.

hehe, Learny McBookerton. #LIKEABOSS

Putting the ASS in CLASSY!

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:57:56 -0700

Putting the ASS in CLASSY!

For those of you who’ve never had a urinary tract...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:54:09 -0700

For those of you who’ve never had a urinary tract infection, it basically feels like you are constantly filled with piss and have the urge to go every five minutes. The problem is though, is that whenever you do try to empty yourself— only a couple of insignificant drops come out.

My creative mind exhibits the same symptoms of a UTI: always filled to the brim with stuff, but when it’s time to unload onto a medium like paper or a painting— only small bits come out. This problem is no longer as hilarious as it used to be, mostly because I have a table at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts Mini Comic-Con this May, and have not made a single thing for it.

With exceptions to this worry post.

Photo

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:17:54 -0800

"You may not think of a page filled with drunk photos and shameless self-promotion as an accurate..."

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:06:22 -0800

“You may not think of a page filled with drunk photos and shameless self-promotion as an accurate reflection of your full self, but the fact remains that when we die, our social networks live on. Sometimes, that’s tragic. I had a college friend who died unexpectedly and, years later, continued to receive New Year’s and birthday wishes on his Facebook page from acquaintances who presumably did not realize he was gone. On this bizarre, living Facebook page, his memory was degraded into a shell of a social construct, an ongoing feed of meaningless pleasantries that did not even require a pulse.”

- Amanda Hess, “Death in the Twitter Era.”

Pretty much a play by play of my life.

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:47:32 -0800

Pretty much a play by play of my life.

terrodrome: After this que runs out, this blog will be less...

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:38:21 -0800

terrodrome:

After this que runs out, this blog will be less about reblogs of asian girls with sparklers in their butts and more about my actual life.

wait… i thought asian girls with sparklers in their butts was your actual life? #realtalk

Starry Night (Interactive Animation) by Petros...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:03:00 -0800

Starry Night (Interactive Animation) by Petros Vrellis

Mind-boggingly amazing as this is— it all can be seen while on shrooms. This is why they are my favorite. #FACT

Not really into Kimbra, but this was a pretty solid...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:40:00 -0800

Not really into Kimbra, but this was a pretty solid mash-up/interpretation of two great songs. Been listening to it all day as a back drop to all the work I’m currently avoiding…

Bolaji Badejo was a Nigerian graphic design student who was...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:35:00 -0800

Bolaji Badejo was a Nigerian graphic design student who was discovered in a bar by a member of the “Alien” casting team. Badejo measured at 7 feet 2 inches (218 cm) with a very slender frame and upright frame, which director Ridley Scott felt could portray the Alien and look as if his arms and legs were too long to be real.

Really want a poster-sized version of this to hang in my non-existent house…

On the night of Jack Nicholson’s birthday, Hunter S....

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:49:23 -0800

On the night of Jack Nicholson’s birthday, Hunter S. Thompson appeared outside of Nicholson’s home, having set off a high-powered spotlight and gunfire, playing a tape of animal cries through an amplifier to awaken him. He then left a freshly-cut elk’s heart on his door as a joke before leaving when it appeared that nobody would exit the house. ¹

This was Thompson’s birthday gift to Nicholson— also known as the best birthday gift EVER.

Apparently, if you don’t vote for Newt in the...

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:42:12 -0800

Apparently, if you don’t vote for Newt in the primaries— his wife will rip your soul out. #FACT