Latte Prototyping

Latte art meets rapid prototyping [found via communicadores.info]. My passion for food leaves me excited about the possibilities this opens up. Of course there is no practical application... yet! I'm going to put all my day dreaming hours to come up with a good use. I imagine Molecular Gastronomists would love to play with this.

It would also be interesting to take a note at where Latte Art started, and now how it has ended up in the hands of machines. 

[image via krassy can do it blog.]

What other food arts are currently performed by people that might be enhanced by machines? Maybe someone could rapid prototype a cake by sifting all the dry ingredients in layers, then adding liquid, then cooking each individual section with a laser. You could have nine different cakes right next to each other! You could have pink polka dot cakes, where the white was vanilla flavored and polka dots were strawberry!

Or maybe some intricate chocolate sculpture that was prototyped...

[image via barrels and bottles, the first google image link at the time]

Free! Art Night

On Art Night, the city of Pasadena opens the doors of many of its cultural institutions, for free. Even better, there are free shuttles running from each place. It is a great way to sample what this community has to offer. Art Night is part of Pasadena Art Weekend.

image via art night.

Honey Comb Vase

The honeycomb vase, by Studio Libertiny, is an amazing concept of alternative prototyping. It looks good enough to be a final product for me. Someone please throw some LEDs inside that thing, I think it would be a fantastic lamp. Or maybe a more chemically inclined person could duplicate firefly bioluminescence in there!

Studio Libertiny has some amazing projects with paper on their site too. A paper vase that has the properties of wood! And a paper table that they describe as feeling like "erotic suede." Check out all of their projects, quite inspiring.

Electronic Nose

"An electronic nose approaching the cability of the human sniffer, remains a dream despite twenty-five years of research" say German Scientist at Thuringia International School Weimar. Electronic noses are great at picking up non-odorous chemicals. Deciphering smells such as fruity, grassy and sweet are just beyond the nose. Information via Science Elements Podcast #51 March 10, 2008

This follows along the concept used in Japan about Pollen Sniffing Robots. Though it doesn't explain to me how this little guy thinks "people taste like bacon." I guess there in lies the difference between olfactory and gastronomic senses. I still think robots will rise up against us in revolution, tracking us down like pigs so they can eat our flesh.

assignment #11

While sitting where you are, draw your kitchen, don't go look at it yet. After you've drawn your kitchen from your seat, get up, go look at your kitchen, and draw it again, this time while you're looking at it. Now, sometime during the week, when you're at work or school, on the bus or in a waiting room, draw your kitchen a third time.

Post you're drawings here, I'd love to see them.

[final note: I'm unofficially continuing from where they left off]

Scruffs Hardware

After doing a little searching, I found another clothing commercial, though I don't know if it follows the same trend as the one's below [and its at least a year old]. Wait, is Scruff's Hardware a real company?

Charlotte Ronson

So I feel a little taken, in two ways, one because this is actually an advertisement. Yeah, I can't believe it! This person, Charlotte Ronson has a self titled clothing line. And with each new clothing line release, she also makes a video. This somewhere on the line of the Louis Vuitton Commercial. I'd say Charlotte Ronson's video is better though, because she does it without so many words, using the film medium on its own. Is this a new trend for such things?