December 29, 2010
June 24, 2010
June 19, 2010
June 8, 2010
Still life photography
Jay-Z album cover by Dan Tobin Smith. Image: onsmash.com
A closer examination of the picture will reveal that the three bars are not artificially added but painted on the actual objects.
Image: onsmash.com
June 2, 2010
Recycling from another perspective
Motorbike fuel in recycled bottles on the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
May 29, 2010
May 27, 2010
May 25, 2010
May 23, 2010
May 13, 2010
Pop Life
Warhol's "Good business is the best art" is a statement that with all rights summarizes the exhibition Pop Life featuring artists like Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Keith Haring and of course Warhol himself. Navigating through the exhibition felt like walking through a comic book with a mixture of commercialism, individualism and controversy. It triggered thoughts and affection. As a result I walked out of the building with materialized pieces of Keith Haring.
Keith Haring inspired room
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Takashi Murakami collaboration with Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton
Takashi Murakami
May 8, 2010
May 4, 2010
Chai Tea
Chai tea is a heavily spiced tea. It's flavoured to the degree that it's more about spices than tea in my opinion. Nevertheless it's nice to have a cold day with milk and honey.
The mix I bought shown in the photo contains: black tea, cinnamon, aniseed, ginger pieces, black pepper grains, cloves, cardamom seeds and whole cardamom.
May 3, 2010
May 1, 2010
April 28, 2010
April 22, 2010
Japan's oldest tea caddy maker - Kaikado
Kaikado [開化堂] has been making quality Japanese tea caddies since 1875. The first tea caddies were made in tin and today they are offered in copper and brass as well. As they age the metal will change colour which makes them a nice item to keep. Combined with the timeless design the tea caddies will probably be one of the longest lasting items in the kitchen.
Image: kaikado.jp
Aging stages of the three materials. Image: kaikado.jp
Image: kaikado.jp
Image: kaikado.jp
April 19, 2010
Steamed egg with blue mussels
For this dinner we planned to serve blue mussels raw. They didn't look very appetizing after taking them out of the shells. What we came up with was to steam it with egg. I have once before steamed egg with dried shrimps which was a nice combination, so a different seafood ingredient like blue mussel couldn't be too wrong. Other than blue mussels, chives and dashi stock was added to the egg before putting it into the steamer. The result was far better than imagined. More water or stock could have been added for more tender texture though.
Finished, steamed egg with blue mussels
April 16, 2010
Patrick Demarchelier
The French photographer Patrick Demarchelier is primarily working within advertising and fashion. Some of his interesting pieces however are less commercial. It is true that many good photographs are created without any large budget supporting it but I believe that the extra lighting and equipment brings a picture closer to what's in the photographer's mind, especially when it comes to art/studio photography. Here are some photos by Demarchelier I like.
Christy Turlington, Vogue UK 1992. Image: toutpourlesfemmes.com
Nadja & Cecelia. Miami 1993. Image: demarchelier.net
Elephant. New York 1991. Image: demarchelier.net
Nadja. New York 1995. Image: demarchelier.net
Erin O'Connor 1998. Image: demarchelier.net
Robert Altman. New York 1994. Image: demarchelier.net
April 14, 2010
Furniture designer Bae Se-Hwa
The international furniture fair in Milan, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, just launched today. Being the largest furniture fair in the world most furniture designers worth knowing of are probably present. 1000 some exhibitors from last year were Italian while only 290 foreign were represented. With that said I found an interesting South Korean furniture designer Bae Se-Hwa last week. Most of his products are made of wood with soft lines and curves. It's always fun to see things from countries that are not often mentioned, in this case South Korea.
Image: sehwabae.com
Image: sehwabae.com
Image: sehwabae.com
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