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‘kinda like a white russian on angeldust’

Alie & Georgia’s blog.

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21 Grams

“There’s this weird relationship that we as Americans have with fast food,’ says Feinstein, who titled each image with the given item’s fat content, in grams. ‘I made a project where the food mostly looks disgusting, yet some of it is still strangely enticing – probably because the branding is so embedded in our psyches.”

Jon Feinstein’s photographic series, Fast Food. Here.

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2.25 Grams

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From Japan.

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‘I met a Pakistani man who did his impression of Americans for me.

‘And then he fired finger guns into the air and shouted, ‘Texas, Texas!’’

–Chris Kelly, reporting from Dubai

Quote found via Synthetic Pubes
Image via Celebritypixx

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‘Ginger takes the time to infuse her ganache centers with a variety of aromatics and does not use any extracts’

Nuance. Fantastic flavors. INcredible.

Here’s the website, Ginger’s bio and (most important) online store (since Feb 14th is, like, so sooon).

Local store too, if you’re in or around Sacramento. Interiors designed by blankblank. Sign up for the mailing list, classes offered seasonally.

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The lettering on the label caught my eye. Russian chocolate bar found at a Korean market.

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Found via Boing Boing Gadgets

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‘Healthy snacks packaged to look like drugs and junk food’

The work of designer Daizi Zheng.

More images here.

Found via Dezeen

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‘You know what else sugar cane is really good for? Making soda. Look into it, Coke.’ –The Consumerist

Coca-Cola’s new ‘PlantBottle™’ is hitting the streets. The bottle is made partially from cane sugar.

So now the container contains cane sugar. It’d also be nice if they got the real sugar back in The Real Thing too.

Article here. My HFCS bitching is here.

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Recently, I featured a preview of the new collection I’m working on with Pretty Trashy. A few of these one of a kind pieces are now for sale thru the Bows and Arrows store at Etsy.

Click on the images for product info/jump.

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‘Still recovering from broken trust, neither wanted to be the first to try the eggs.’
(Dwell, November 2009)

Over at Tumblr, a blog with dark captions for photos from Dwell magazine.

More here. Twitter here.

‘In search of a less bleak playground, the toddler pedaled faster.’
(Dwell, June 2004)

‘Lying on his back, watching the passing clouds, he worried over the Nathaniel Hawthorne lookalike’s role in this grim threesome.’
(Dwell, November 2009)

‘He is sad because his house looks like an elementary school. And all the children have died.’
(Dwell, February 2008)

Found via Twitter.com/exspiro

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