I mean, you see them lying around and looking cute, but they've got to earn a living, too. One career path that many sock monkeys choose in Vancouver is to work at Fletchers Fabricare dry cleaners.
The reason is pretty obvious.
This is one of my favourite buildings in Vancouver. It makes me happy just to see it.
Western Spaghetti is a new (and utterly adorable) stop-motion film made by the fine folks at PES. Rubix cubes, tin foil, rubber bands, post-it notes and candy corns all go into making this delicious meal/movie.
Also check out their other films, most of which also employ household objects and toys. My faves are Game Over (where cupcakes are used in old-school arcade games like Space Invaders, Frogger and Pac-Man), Moth (where a tape dispenser is a frog that eats bulldog-clip moths), and KaBoom! (where war is a mixture of toys, popcorn and circuit boards).
This summer I'm going to try get something new at the farmer's market every weekend. Last week, I got some Manchego cheese stuffed olives that I didn't like at first... but then after the first three became highly addictive.
This week I bought garlic scapes.
I had no idea what they were - nor even what the word "scape" meant - but the farmer was talking them up, plus they're so darn pretty, I couldn't resist.
So, I found out three things: 1. The word "scape" refers to "flowering stems, usually leafless, rising from the crown or roots of a plant." 2. Garlic scapes sure are garlicky. 3. They are delicious.
I ended up making garlic scape pesto, using a mixture of a recipe from The Washington Post and one from What Geeks Eat (what a great name!).
The results were bright green and delicious. I smeared the garlic scape pesto on a baguette, threw some tomatoes on top and broiled the whole lot to make bruschetta. Mmmm.
Apparently, garlic scapes will only be in season for another week or two, so I better stock up next weekend.
Do you have any garlic scape recipes to share? (Or invent?)
I think we could all use something nice these days.
The tear-offs say things like "good job", "wish you were here" and "you have nice eyes". You can download a copy to print right here. I'm going to put one up in my neighbourhood.
Embroidery rocks. For proof, witness Architecture in Helsinki's video for "Like It Or Not".
According to the credits page, the video was made by Mathematics, but the artwork looks to me to be the fine stitchin' of Megan Whitmarsh (aka Tiny Industries), who is well-known for her mini embroideries of such natural wonders as yeti and rockstars.
Fecal Face has posted a nice interview with Megan, along with lots more great images of her work.
I am inspired by a desire to be optimistic about the future of humanity. I like to combine the everyday and the junky parts of modern life with the iconography of the supernatural and fantastic and thus transform the mundane into something magical feeling
My favourite part of the video is probably the head-boppin' guy in an orange jumpsuit in the floating pirate ship... who seems to be the pyrotechnician from this other Architecture In Helsinki video!
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Magpie & Cake is a Canadian blog about crafting, music, and other wonders. It's written by Siobhan and Lindsay, two crafty girls with three provinces between them.