The lens is mounted at an angle for real “miniaturized” photos. It’s teeny-weeny (about the size of your mobile) so the power of tilt-shift can always be in your pocket.
Make buildings look tiny! Make people look small! Make beautiful blurry bokeh!
Lovely vignetting and a 5MP sensor put you squarely in lo-fi toy-camera territory, like shooting with a Lomo or Holga. Plus it’s got all the stuff you’d expect from a point & shoot: flash, zoom, exposure control, white balance, even video!
Microsoft introduces the XBOX 360 Kinect Star Wars Edition. The console and controller have been styled after the two iconic R2-D2 and C-3PO robots. The console comes with the Kinect system, Kinect Star Wars game and a 320 GB harddrive. Priced at 450 USD, the console will release on December 31st, 2011 on Amazon.
The Modernist Cuisine Cookbook spans six volumes, 1,500 recipes and 3,200 photographs, carefully documenting everything from basics like hamburger recipes to advanced concepts like sous vide.
Modernist Cuisine isn’t just a list of recipes for a budding cook to leaf through, but a vast resource about the history of food, cooking techniques and the science behind them. It’s one thing to know how to grill a steak, it’s another to understand how the types of charcoal, smoke, shape of the grill enclosure and its ventilation settings effect how the final flavor is produced. What makes Modernist Cuisine different is that it doesn’t just explain how to cook a dish, it explains how the process works.
Finally, the photography in Modernist Cuisine is worthy of a coffee table book on its own. The production team behind the book prepared dishes and then sliced through them at various stages so readers can see how the process effects the food. A kitchen’s worth of pans, dishes and grills were sliced in half by the Modernist Cuisine team to allow the reader to see the science within.
All six volumes and 2,438 pages of Modernist Cuisine will be available for roughly $500 at your favorite bookseller.
Number 6 is the Kitchen Manual : Beautiful and highly practical. A spiral-bound kitchen manual printed on waterproof, tear-resistant synthetic paper. The manual features easy-to-use, condensed versions of all of the parametric and example recipes in volumes 2, 3, and 4, as well as many component recipes from the plated dishes presented in volume 5.
The South Koreancapital Seoul is now home to the world’s largest artificial floating island, recently opened on the Han river. It is made up of three inter-connected centres for concerts, conventions, exhibitions, water sports and restaurants. The authorities hope the island will become a major attraction for South Koreans and foreign visitors alike.
The public and private-funded project has cost the equivalent of more than 60 million euros and is at the heart of a major river renaissance plan.
Mark Jenkins is a street artist currently living in Washington DC, he uses packing tape to create his base forms using a casting process in which the object is first encased in plastic wrap and then in tape.
Jenkins’ practice of art is to use the “street as a stage” where passersby become actors. Many of his installations have resulted in intervention by the authorities whom he also regards as actors. Check out some of his works and decide for yourself.
” I don’t know. I don’t think anybody likes having their music pinned down to a genre – but people need to know genres. I didn’t want to be associated with “chill out” lounge music. There is everything in (my music) from psychedelic jazz to hip hop, it’s really broad. I wouldn’t want to put it in a box with a name on it, I like to think it’s broader than that. It’s for people to decide.”
