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Blog: French la Vie
(Memory 2010) My friend Annie talked about a salad she had as if it were her new best friend. She described it in detail: the crunch of its voice, its tangy personality, its unexpected freshness and with curiosity, like one has when one is first in love. The next afternoon while we drank our sparkling water with Pulco, Annie jumped up with more energy than a five year old, "Corey I made the Orange Onion Salad, you gotta taste it!" Now, that might not sound unusual...offering a taste of an Orange Onion Salad at five in the afternoon.... But let me tell you in France that is as rare as Martians coming over to visit. I knew at that moment that this salad had to have real pull on Annie's French heart strings. Annie brought out the Orange Salad, handed me a spoon, not bothering to give me a plate. Love does that, it makes you do things you would never think to do. I hesitated, doubting briefly the goodness of oranges with onions. The thought of it made me pucker my lips, though Annie's enthusiasm reassured me, I scooped a mouthful. The moment the Orange/Onion combo hit my taste buds I was smitten. "Who knew!" I exclaimed. Orange Onion Salad: One large sweet white onion, thinly sliced. Marinate it with two or three tablespoons of olive oil, one or two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar, Pepper with a hint of nutmeg. While this sets aside doing its thing, Peel and skin, three large oranges peeled, then cut in thirds, Mix the two together. Serve as is, or over rice or on an avocado. Have you had Orange Onion Salad or a variation of it?
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Blog: GAMESCENES
LOOPS is an ongoing series of brief animated loops with social commentary about politics, religion, ecology. Click on each animation to unravel the next. Born in San Francisco in 1971, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga is an American new media artist who approaches art as a social practice that establishes dialogue in public spaces. LINK: Ricardo Miranda Zuniga
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Blog: GAMESCENES
A geography of being is an installation that reflects upon the dynamics of the undocumented immigrant youths in the United States. The installation consists of wooden kinetic sculptures with animated displays titled “Undocumented Drones” and a video game that places the player in the role of an undocumented youth that must face several challenges in the search for self-determination. The Undocumented Drones are networked to the game and help the player through the game. The project was developed by Zuniga in collaboration with Anthony Gonzalez (programmer), Olov Sundström (Communication protocol and microcontroller programming) and Ben Lerchin. The game was inspired...
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Blog: Poezibao
« Ce que j’appelle "justesse", c’est entendre au bout du poème une sorte de continu sonore sans heurt ni pause ni variation. Que je sois le seul à l’entendre ne change rien à l’affaire : il me faut cette "haute note jaune", stridente faible mais continue. Qu’ensuite le poème soit droit ou cassé, bancal ou équilibré, construit ou ruiné… c’est égal. Je veux ce son. Ces moments étranges où le poème frôle ; on le sent non pas sous la main, mais à portée de main. Pourtant, si l’on essaie de le saisir, la main ne prend que du vide....
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Blog: Poezibao
Les Juliau de Nicolas Pesquès se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas : les quatre « tomes » rassemblés dans ce volume, La face nord de Juliau, treize à seize, le prouvent à nouveau. Rappel de la démarche : Pesquès écrit la colline ardéchoise du mont Juliau un peu comme Cézanne dessinait et peignait la montagne Sainte-Victoire(1). Cette entreprise qui a démarré en 1980 et dont les deux derniers tomes (2) étaient attachés à la figure de la mère et de sa disparition, témoigne dans cette nouvelle publication d’une liberté de forme et de structure : on n’est pas dans...
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Blog: GAMESCENES
Beverly Mayeri, Video Game Man, 2012, ceramics, 14 × 9 × 7 in (c) Berverly Maeri "Beverly Mayeri is a studio artist living in the Bay Area. She earned a BA from UCBerkeley and her MA in sculpture at SFState. She had early exposure to watercolor painting watching her mother paint landscapes and her father who painted vignettes with a humorous cast of characters. She has had solo shows in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, St. Louis and is currently represented by Perimeter Gallery in Chicago. She has received 2 NEA Visual Artist Individual Fellowships, a Virginia A. Groot Foundation...
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Blog: Vinyl Pulse
Sean Chao will open his Two Together solo this evening—Saturday, April 16th—at Giant Robot 2. The heartfelt new collection features signature dioramas set within the abstracted shape of his longtime canine companion’s face, Nunu. Each of these pieces features a whimsical dog ship—piloted by a curious crew—built out of and...
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Blog: Vinyl Pulse
Love the new DC XXRay figures from Jason Freeny and Mighty Jaxx but haven’t picked them up yet? You’re in luck! Mindzai has you covered with their XXRay contest for a chance to win the Batman, Superman and Wonderman XXRay toys ($60 value). To enter hit the jump for the...
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Blog: MetaGrrrl
category: tweets I loooooove @zappos. Great site to shop on w/ smart reviews & demos & fantastic, fast friendly support incl. by chat https://t.co/5VG3WQWj8Q @MetaGrrrl
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Blog: The Perfect Pantry®
First published in 2012, this updated collection of great asparagus recipes now includes recipes from the past four years that are more than worthy of a place on any "best of" list. Once upon a time, I had a friend named Mary who ate only the tips of asparagus. I've always been more of a stem gal, so we were the perfect dinner companions. I thought our friendship might last forever, but as things turned out, asparagus preferences weren't enough to keep us together. Just as well, actually, as I've come to love every bit of the asparagus, and now I'd be reluctant to behead all of my spears for the sake of friendship. Asparagus season here in New England lasts for only six or...
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Blog: MetaGrrrl
category: tweets Because of their anti-free-electronic-filing lobbying I decided this year not to give @turbotax my money. https://t.co/hyCfY8iYqU was fine. @MetaGrrrl
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Canvased back map. Touring club of France with Paris center in detail. More or less a yard long. 1900s 48 Euros ($54) includes postage and tax.
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Rare one of kind Antique Procession Banner/Candle Holder Handle. 1600s hand carved wood Polychrome 265 Euros ($299) includes postage and tax.
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jeu de jonchet http://www.guichetdusavoir.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=57047 SOLD
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Blog: GAMESCENES
Kent Sheely continues his ethnographic investigation of weak social ties, mundane non-life, and daily rituals in videogames. Granted, waiting for public transportation in The Division does not seem particularly enticing. But what are the alternatives? The neoliberal exploitation of that anti-union monstrosity on wheels otherwise known as Uber? Calling your Tesla with an Apple Smartwatch to come and fetch you, autopilot-style? So many questions, one certainty: Ready for Action is not a machinima series. It's a meditation on the contemporary moment. Kent Sheely's Ready for Action series is currently on display at GAME VIDEO/ART. A SURVEY in Milan, Italy. LINK:...
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Blog: SouleMama
One of the greatest pleasures of this trip has been jumping ahead in time, so to speak, on the spring season. At home, we had just barely watched the last of the snow in the woods melt. Garden season seemed...
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CHAPTERS ONE THROUGH THIRTEEN OF THE BLOG BOOK - TITLED THE CRYSTAL PATH - QUEST FOR A POSITIVE, PERSONAL AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY AVAILABLE ON THE RIGHTHAND SIDEBAR OF THE BLOG OFFERED FREE AT www.FindingGodOnTheTrain.com transfigure – verb – 1. to change in outward form or appearance; transform. 2. to change as to glorify or exalt. As you may know, my guidance often has suggested that the pursuit of a divinely inspired, positive, personal spirituality arrives with a not so subtle expectation: an expectation that points to a responsibility to use our gifts to transfigure the universal consciousness of our world....
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Blog: Everything Typepad
We've added a new feature to Link Typelists that we think everyone will find exciting - the ability to open links in a new window with just one click! If you want to have all...
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Blog: sunset gun
You can still see the terrific episode, the "TruInside" story of The Jerk, showing online. The show covers the history, absurdist innovations and legacy of the Carl Reiner-directed, Steve Martin-starring comedy classic. I'm in this, discussing the film, along with Carl Reiner, Jackie Mason, Renn Woods, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias, Matt Zoller Seitz, Mark Harris, Judd Apatow, Peter Farrelly, Maya Rudolph, M. Emmet Walsh and...
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Blog: French la Vie
When you walk up the narrow stairwell you enter the kitchen. Opposite this view there is a window that looks to the port and onward to the sea. The kitchen will be an alley style along the left side, at the far end there will be a sitting room/bedroom (behind the French doors). Last week I found a set of four French doors that I bought at the salvage yard (cost 130 Euros), they will be transformed into sliding doors for the purpose of saving space, doors take space to open. The oar, that Renee found renovating the house, was under the floor in this sitting room. Renee's father, Francois is also an artisan, his trade is plastering the traditional way and creating crown moulding. The entire fisherman's house will be plastered the traditional way. As the walls are stone they are by nature not straight nor even. If we had used sheet rock we would have had perfectly straight walls at the price of losing valuable footage. Two of the French doors are in place, they will be "fixed" and other two (in the middle) will slide. As you can see we raised the back floor, partly to give it a separate room feel, and because it was like that before except two steps higher instead on one. But mainly we raised the floor because the building as a whole has leaned towards the sea (no it is not unsafe, or falling, or sinking...) but has "set" in over the years. The floor slated towards the sea from back wall to window about 15 cm. The stairs to the second floor, or middle floor as we call it, are on the outside of the sitting room, next to the kitchen (which will be on the left hand side of this photo), the stairs will be in metal on the right hand side. I am unsure about the ceiling in the sitting room: Hopefully it can be stripped and look good, or it can be left as is, or painted. In this photo the entrance is on the right hand, I took the photo standing in front of the window. We opted for metal stairs as the metal thickness will be thinner than wooden stairs. The sense of volume will have a lighter impact. The stairs will take several weeks to make by Joel a friend of Francois. I will...
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