Inspiration - Penny De Los Santos

It's funny how things sometimes come together... I'm currently reading "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan and I'm really interested in this idea of food as a chiefly cultural and social affair as opposed to a means of losing or gaining weight. {This book is making me realize that I define food almost entirely by it's calorie/carb content and not it's many other components.}

Anyway, today I stumbled upon the work of Penny De Los Santos - a photojournalist and food photographer. I love her work and the way she reveals so much about her subjects in the foods present in different cultures.

Take a look at a video here on the blog cannell et vanille.

Her website is worth some time going through photos - Penny De Los Santos.

Buying a Zebra: Inspired by Toto

The zebra was inspired by Toto's song Africa, which came on my Pandora station at work. Toto is apparently the voice of my muse...

Everybody sing! "It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you; There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do; I bless the rains down in Africa; Gonna take some time to do the things we never had."

Can anyone tell me what that song's about? Not that it matters; it's still awesome. Anyway, do we really always need to know what it's all about??

Article: The iPad Revolution

Photoshop will now be available on tablets/iPads and there's a pretty good article about how the next phase of computer interaction is the moving away from desktop and to tablets. Here's a great quote:

"The fact is that computers and digital photography empowered us to create amazing things that weren't possible in the analog world. But by doing so, they took away the natural connection with the medium. It added a necessary-but-completely- alien layer of complexity to the creative process. They democratized access, but at the same time created new elites."

To read the rest, click for the Gizmodo article here.