Wednesday, October 07, 2009

butterflies

based on Michael la Fosse's butterfly for Alice Gray, the big red one and small 1" ones (starting from 2"x2" square) are made from tissue paper - the others are made from receipts, etc.
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Monday, October 05, 2009

the brain looking at the brain ...

The fall 09 issue of Spectrum: http://spectrum.mit.edu/issue/2009-fall/mit-brainpower/

read all about it.

Sunday, October 04, 2009

food, wonderful food

http://gesine.com points to http://confectionsofamasterbaker.blogspot.com/
This is a quick, entertaining read. I recommend it.
What a nice convergence of food, book, and happiness.
Scroll down and look on the right side for a list of recipes (keep scrolling past the junk).

Gesine talks about her one-way (mirrored on the store side) window through which it was originally planned to have a view from the kitchen, to the front. Didn't work out as expected because the viewer from the back room has to be "in the dark". Like detectives looking into a brightly lit interrogation room, viewing from the dark side. But "in the dark" really means "lacking information" / "not knowing what is going on". I guess you have to read the book, I didn't understand it.