I have been expanding on the edible phone work that was initially exhibited as part of Alchemy for a Global Economy. Seeing as we consume electronics at such a rapid pace in the developed world, my suggestion for a solution to e-waste and the global food crisis is that we make them edible.
Toasted Cheese [...]
My last post from corpuseclectica.net/blog. boodoodle has moved to my new website residualsoup.org - residualsoup.org/blog/
I listen to the internal dialogue as I prepare dinner:
“Butter or olive oil? Heated vegetable oils are carcinogenic, but the butter is high fat and probably full of hormones.”
“Go with the butter, at least most cattle are free range in Australia…”
“No don’t put that hot food out in a plastic bowl, heated plastics release toxins [...]
Apparently two Google searches emit approximately as much carbon dioxide as boiling an electric kettle. Now every time that I boil the kettle, forget about it while I wander off to google something, and then have to boil it again, I feel triply guilty. I’m wondering if instead it might be possible to boil the [...]
There is nothing quite like spending time with your family to inspire reflection on the origin of your own quirky personal traits. My mum is a certified eccentric, who in many respects is entirely unconcerned about social convention (although she does hide the jars of urine in the toilet when she has guests for fear [...]
Some text from my new website:
“Artists’ fame is the most monstrous of all, for it implies the idea of immortality. And that is a diabolical snare, because the grostesquely megalomaniac ambition to survive one’s death is inseparably bound to the artist’s probity. Every novel created with real passion aspires quite naturally to a lasting aesthetic [...]
I have been reading Milan Kundera The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts. At one point he describes the difference between his parents life and his own:
“When in the past my parents went on vacation, they would buy their tickets at the railroad station ten minutes before the train was due to leave; they would [...]
When you spend to much time in digital editing land the boundaries become a little blurry. I have often found myself trying to ‘Control Z’ undo things in the linear time world after spending a lot of time on the computer. Its rather frustrating when you start operating like everything is a non-linear edit and [...]
Long time between posts again - I have been putting in applications, editing video and redesigning my website. The last thing I wanted to do was spend more time in front of the computer!
Soon, I am going to be moving this blog to my new website http://residualsoup.org/blog/.