Yes, most food photography is boring. But most food photography doesn’t involve meat, flames, and char. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want you to photograph food in flaming action. Photograph food on the grill.
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There is something so fabulous about this idea. Even though it’s overpriced and probably aesthetically overwrought or something, the idea of wrapping gifts to look like raw meat is just beautiful. It brings the whole joke gift genre to a new level. Or makes people extra excited when their gift turns out to be awesome or even passable. If you’re someone who never wraps gifts this could be the turning point.
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Fashion comes in many forms and styles. Sometimes you can see yourself wearing or using it, while other times it’ll just leave you wondering why the designer created it in the first place. When it comes to the pieces in “Burden of Excess” created by artist Andrea Hasler, I find myself gravitating towards the latter. What about you?
It’s basically a set of handbags, footwear, and accessories that look like they were crafted from raw meat.
For obvious reasons, they remind me of Lady Gaga.
The big difference is that Andrea didn’t use real meat with her creations. She used a special wax instead that resembles the appearance of meat, although the texture would most likely be different. This makes sense, since everything would spoil in a matter of hours had she used actual meat.
You might be wondering why such an unusual series is dubbed as “Burdens of Excess.” That can be easily explained by Andrea’s goal and motivation behind the collection, which was supposedly about making a statement against consumerism. I personally don’t see the connection, but maybe you can.
Would you wear this stuff? Nah, I didn’t think so, either.
[via Incredible Things]
When your starship is overrun with a plague of furry fur-balls, you can work up a hunger fighting them off. But instead of poisoning them, why not get out your forks and start eating them? That’ll show ‘em who’s boss.
Our friends over at Kitchen Overlord came up with this recipe for edible roasted Tribbles, which are basically furry meatballs.
Ok, so they’re not really furry – that’s toasted coconut on the outside. And chances are, you’re not going to be able to find any Tribble meat around here, so you’ll need to go with chicken. Though I’ve been told that Tribble tastes like chicken anyhow.
Speaking of Tribbles, I wonder if J.J. Abrams will ever make Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles.
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Stories about people having to eat other people in times of crises are pretty common. A mountain climber eating his fallen companion so he wouldn’t starve to death. Trapped miners eating a dead friend while they waited for help. Gory, but unfortunately true in some cases.
So how would you feel about eating fresh ‘human’ meat, not because you’re starving or anything, but just for the heck of it?
Fake ‘human’ meat, that is. To promote Resident Evil 6, Capcom set up a temporary butcher shop in the Smithfield meat market East London. While the meat was actual meat, it’s not really from humans (obviously.)
They served up a selection of parts, from human hands and entire arms to offal which included fingertips and weiner tips (and when I say weiner, I don’t mean sausages.) Check out the gallery and you’ll see what I mean.
The campaign obviously relied a lot on shock value. To be honest, though, the whole thing just kind of grossed me out. But I’m thinking that was their point.
[via BuzzFeed]
On April 21, Daniel Delaney took to the Internet to introduce BrisketLab, “A BBQ recipe development series taking place at various pop-up locations all throughout NYC during the summer of 2012.” More »
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