Tortoise & Chicago Architecture
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Stick it in your ear.
The new Tortoise video “Prepare Your Coffin” highlights a bunch of still and moving images of Chicago architecture. The most noticeable from my knowledge of this city include O’Hare International Airport (the terminal, the underground area, the parking lot with circular driveway), The Hancock building, and the double semicircle sculpture in Grant Park. I wonder if they’re saying we’re all gonna die in this concrete jungle. Yikes.
Tags: architecture, chicago, Grant Park, Hancock Building, O'Hare, ORD, prepare your coffin, tortoise
“Cheerios is a Drug.” -The FDA
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events, Food Glorious Food
In a letter sent by the Food & Drug Administration to General Mills stating “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed the label and labeling of your Cheerios® Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal. FDA’s review found serious violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,” Cheerios is apparently a DRUG on the factual claims it lowers cholesterol in just 4 weeks. A full article from the Denver Post may also be found here.
You better watch out Michael Phelps. That’s gotta be at least two drugs in your system now.
Tags: cheerios, drugs, FDA, general mills, michael phelps
“Still Run” by BrotherSister
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design, Stick it in your ear.
Short film direction company Shilo (shout out to Mitch who works for them occassionally!) just released this video for group BrotherSister. Some pretty sick paralax goin on here, but be sure to check out Shilo and BrotherSister’s site. Amazing work.
Still Run from DANTE NOU on Vimeo.
Tags: BrotherSister, motion, music, paralax, Shilo, Still Run, video
Home Made Baconnaise
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Food Glorious Food
I know that combining bacon and mayonnaise is pretty much the best thing ever. If you are going to take some of your time adding bacon to hellman’s, why not take a few minutes and make your own mayo from scratch. It is tastier, and contains nothing that you can’t pronounce.
Ingredients:
- 1 egg yolk (spend the extra $$ on good quality eggs)
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- salt
- pepper
- 150 mill neutral oil (vegetable, conala, etc)
- spoonful of dijon mustard
-1 piece of rendered bacon, drained of fat on a paper towel.
Producedure
1. combine egg yolk, salt, and 1/2 your lemon juice, and mustard in a metal bowl, and whisk (with a large balloon whisk) until you start to see a froth and elements are combined.
2. Very slowly drizzle olive oil in a slow steady stream while whisking. You will create an emulsion as you whisk in the oil.
3. Once all of the oil is combined and your mayo looks like mayo, taste and see if you need to add more lemon juice, or salt, or pepper.
4. Fold in Bacon with a spatula
5. Eat Mayo
Tags: bacon, baconnaise, home-made, mayo
Playgrounds for Grown Ups
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Off the beaten path, Yachts, Gadgets, & Bling
1. Dig This
“Dig This” is a full day or half-day adventure you can pay for up in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and use giant Caterpillar machines to just dig. Dig This adventurers can doze and excavate dams and ponds. Move and remove sand, gravel, rock, and other materials from your own individual work area. Props to Megan for the tip on this one.
2. Männerspielplatz (”men’s playground”)
Jackhammers, ATVs, Backhoes, & Crossbows are just some of the activities you partake in at Männerspielplatz (click on some of the buttons on the left of their site, eventhough it’s in German) located in Kassel, Germany for about $280.
3. UZIs & AK-47s in Las Vegas
Available at a few locations (Clark County Shooting Park, The Gun Store, American Shooters Supply and Gun Club, and a few others), just outside Las Vegas proper, you can pay to shoot bin Laden targets with an Uzi, AK-47, Al Capone Tommy Gun, World War II-era Grease Gun, and a 9 mm submachine gun called the Swedish K that was favored by the U.S. Army Green Berets in the Vietnam War. For an extra $15, a customer can fire holes into a novelty T-shirt and wear it home, ballistically ventilated.
Tags: ATVs, Caterpillars, Crossbows, Dig This, digging, driving, Germany, guns, Kassel, Las Vegas, machine guns, Männerspielplatz, shooting, Steamboat Springs
Dixie & Jerry’s Safety Threat Video (Exclusive w/ Harmonic 313)
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Off the beaten path
Tags: Dixie, harmonic 313, jerry, safety, threat
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