| 235. Eco-Bulbs | 12:00 pm, August 23rd, 2011
Should really thank tumblr for this inspiration, if you’re following me you’ll know why. I really need to find a way of drawing fluffy realistic clouds somehow. If only you could do that with vectors…
In other news, I bought this book last week and I’m hopefully getting it next week! SO EXCITED.
| 219. Uninspired | 12:00 pm, August 7th, 2011
Inspired by my uninspiredness!
| [Insert motivational title here] | 11:10 am, August 2nd, 2011
In all seriousness, I think I can totally relate to this. 
| If there’s any style that inspires me more… | 5:18 pm, December 30th, 2010
…it’s the illustrations of Nick La.
Known by many and always popular, because he undoubtedly deserves it for the stunning detail and colour that goes into his drawings!
The thing I love about his drawings is that you can see exactly what he’s done to complete it. And yet people (and I) can never get as much detail or perfection in a drawing much like he can (and I’m sure I’d need 1000x the patience anyway!).
I’ve never really been a fan of huge, random, “abstract” illustrations featuring generic twirls and decals and whatnot- but he just does it right.
His style is just absolutely gorgeous- I’m sure getting one drawing right must take quite some time- especially with getting the colours right!
| Most nom-able post of 2010 | 8:06 pm, December 27th, 2010
I LOVE admiring cake/pastry art. The amount of work and control that goes into it is just…amazing. So amazing you don’t even want to eat it! And I’m not even talking about those elaborately decorated wedding cakes or anything either…even a simple croissant or palmier can look absolutely DIVINE if they’re made right.
I just stumbled upon this gallery courtesy of one of my facebook friends- and don’t the cakes look amazing?!?:
Imperial Chocolat
It is a cake of chocolate mousse and dark chocolate.
Pumpkin Mont Blanc
Mild flavor of carefully pureed steamed pumpkin.
This seasonal cake using flowers of Izu cherry blossom and young leaves of Oshima cherry blossom is available during March and April.
And that’s only THE START!! The Fluffy Roll and Green Tea Chiffon cake look so utterly nom-able. The cakes look so perfect! So square! And the icing so delicious. The Cacoa Mint is my personal favourite.
AND THEN there’s the pies and cookies!!!
Using mountain milk from Tohoku area, it is a masterpiece of the West.
Fresh butter and flour are folded into 256 layers each by hand,it is shaped as a leaf. The crispiness of the pie and the texture of the sugar is the distinct characteristic of this pie.
Once baking the tart cookie with cake dough filling, it is baked again with frilled cookie dough with a specially arranged strawberry jam (using domestic strawberries). You can enjoy the combination of cookie pastry and cake pastry.It is the bestseller among the dry cake series.
Holy shit! HOW INTENSE DOES THE POLON SOUND??!?! I’d love to try and make some! The food photography is just amazing. I love Japanese pastries. I had some when I went to Malaysia last time and it was so so good. They have a way of making really delicious custard and pudding!
Anyway…as you can tell, food is really exciting to me. I’m actually meeting a Greek granny tomorrow for a new food show I’m doing with one of my friends. I hope it works out- even just one episode would be really cool!!
I’ve had way too much crap to eat these past few days though……..been feeling sick to my stomach the past two days! Hopefully it goes away soon.
I hope you had/are having some lovely time off stuffing yourselves silly too!!! Its nearly the end of year. Might as well go all out right? 
| It seems strange how we used to wait for letters to arrive | 10:12 pm, December 26th, 2010
I used to write
I used to write letters
I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain
But by the time we met
The times had already changed
So I never wrote a letter
I never took my true heart
I never wrote it down
So when the lights cut out
I was left standing in the wilderness downtownNow our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can lastIt seems strange
How we used to wait for letters to arrive
But what’s stranger still
Is how something so small can keep you alive
We used to wait
We used to waste hours just walkin around
We used to wait
All those wasted lives in the wilderness downtownOoooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Still moving through the painI’m gonna write a letter to my true love
I’m gonna sign my name
Like a patient on a table
I Wanna walk again
Gonna move through the painNow our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can lastOoooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Still moving through the painWe used to wait for it
Now we’re screaming
Sing the chorus againI used to wait for it
Hear my voice screaming
Sing the chorus againWait for it
So beautiful I could cry.
| “For some reason, human beings can’t get enough of imagining our own destruction.” | 9:07 am, December 17th, 2010
Just stumbed on this incredible project by Lori Nix:
In case you haven’t realized, they are photos of miniature dioramas Lori’s made of a post apocalyptic world. Aren’t they FREAKIN AMAZING!?!?!??!?!!? Seriously, I don’t want to look away. They’re so detailed! They’re so perfect!
The library is just stunning.
