If you prefer your meals with a side of adventure, consider National Geographic’s list of the world’s best picnic spots. They range from Rome’s romantic Villa Borghese gardens to a perch overlooking majestic Machu Picchu in Peru, and all have one quality in common: breathtaking views.
Via: National Geographic
Start with some botanicals, anise and fennel; add herbs and wormwood; distill, then dilute. Hemingway preferred it topped with champagne. Van Gogh used it as the subject in many of his paintings. What is it about this elixir that so inspired artists? Absinthe is a curious mixture indeed.
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Here’s a creative way to repurpose old kitchen appliances—a desk lamp built from a mixing bowl.
Via: Matt Johnson Designs
Members of the Seattle Tubing Society holding one of their group mixers, circa 1953.
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Who says trash isn’t art? Certainly not artist Terry Rosen. She has taken to creating collages out of the most mundane materials – gum wrappers, ticket stubs, receipts and more – to create satirical depictions of American consumption.
Via: Terry Rosen
Beets are to Pennsylvania as oranges are to Florida, and since they’re so widely available, my wife and I are always looking for ways to incorporate them into a recipe. Enter this take on beet cake by Tiger In A Jar. I loved this line from their description:
Baking is a gathering of interesting materials, a mixed medium art piece of sorts, that ends in a cake instead of a canvas.
“A mixed medium art piece”—exactly.
When designing The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, landscape architect and architectural historian Charles Jencks melded the symmetries of science and math with the chaos of nature. Located in Scotland and open to the public only one day a year, these otherworldly greens are a testament to Jencks’ duel passion for “landforming” and for wife Maggie, who inspired the garden before giving way to cancer in 1995. A “mix,” if you will, in the truest, most jaw-dropping sense.
Via: Kuriositas | Photo Credit: Paulus Maximus!
