(incli)NATION

Una Noche en La Chiva

I can't look away! If you need any explanation, head over to: http://lachivany.com/site/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBY-Yfm2Z4

Holiday Cheer: Iowa Eggnog circa 1977

We're on a little break till next year, but in the spirit of the holidays, I thought I'd share this with y'all.

My parents say they made this recipe for a party back in the day and had to cut it with 3 gallons of store-bought nog. I'll be making it this week! Happy Holidays!

Art Newspaper TV launches

Just heard about this today, The Art Newspaper is launching a webTV channel. Hopefully we'll be seeing more of this on the net, but until then, good luck to Art Newspaper TV

From the press release:

The Art Newspaper is proud to announce the launch of a web TV channel for the art world. It features interviews with key collectors, curators, dealers, artists, and art world luminaries.

The Art Newspaper TV aims to further the success of The Art Newspaper and continue to provide breaking news, art market analysis and insight for the art world, online.

Art Basel Miami: Let the Games Begin!

Kim Joon, Bird Land-Armani (detail), 2008

Just got this great summary from Artkrush who will be on the scene again this year bringing you all the goodness to be found. Be sure to keep checking back as the month develops...

"Talk of bursting bubbles and crashing markets has bled through the front page and into the art sections of today's news. And so, as crates of canvas arrive in Miami postmarked from around the world, the most coveted position available in today's art world is that of the spectator."

Glow, All Night Art-mania on Santa Monica Pier

So you couldn't make Coachella because you got the flu. You couldn't use your comped tickets to WMC because of a business trip to Birmingham. And you completely flaked on SXSW. Well now is your chance to make up for it: Glow, this weekend on Santa Monica Pier...

Here are some highlights via Thrillist:

Primal Source: Surreal images projected on this beach-based 40-foot wall of mist'll move based on the sounds of voices around the installation, allowing you to see what "Dude, that's totally a 40-foot wall of mist!" looks like.

The Amazing Mental Scope: Get hooked up with an EEG, then climb on the ferris wheel, and your brainwaves will be displayed via flashing lights on a cylindrical LED display. Onlookers will enjoy the soft glow of your Pleasure Center as you enjoy top-of-the-wheel "special alone time".

Poetry Boat: Use the provided phone to call the three poets on this off-shore boat, and they'll compose and read back to you on-the-spot custom poetry. Why are they out on a boat? Because that's where they put people with leprosy.

All the while, there'll be a kickin' soundtrack from Djs like KCRW's Garth Trinidad and Postal Service member Jimmy Tamborello, aka Dntel -- himself so accustomed to late-night shenanigans he once took his own E.

Check out all the craziness at GLOW

Giant Toasted Leafcutter Ants from Edible.com

So we're having a BBQ here in the burbs for Memorial Day and I'm thinking these little guys should be a big hit. Giant toasted leafcutter ants from Colombia, the largest species of ant in the world.

From Edible:
"Hormigas Culonas are harvested in the Colombian Amazon by the Guane Indians, during the short rainy season between March and June. They are then toasted in a mud pot over an open fire by the Indians.

The Guane Indians believe that these Ants have youth giving and Aphrodisiac properties and they are often served as fertility giving marriage food during nuptial ceremonies. Hormigas Culonas taste similar to crisply fried bacon with an earthy taste, and make the perfect alternative party snack instead of nuts or olives!"
YUM!

Get yours here.

Beer, Babes and Butoh:The Bridge Motel Blowout, Seattle 9/15/07

      

...For those of you who don't already know, the Bridge Motel has been a Seattle icon of sorts for the last 50 years; needles in the sheets and no questions asked. A year ago DK Pan took over as manager with an eye to holding this event just before the motel was to be razed [I thought that was Pan in the picture on the left, holding the red umbrella on the roof of the motel, but it was probably either Sheri Brown or Diana Garcia-Snyder performing "Praying Walk", I think...]. The only stipulation for artists was to avoid the subject of drugs, prostitution, or other obvious cheap motel clichés.

We showed up around 7:30 and jumped right in, though we didn't have the courage to open the door to 'The Van'--Mike Min's contribution to the festivities--at least not at first.

The event drew around 1200 people (according to the people who should know), though the small footprint of the motel and parking lot made it seem like twice that number. We found a place in the line and settled in.

      

Standing in the phenomenally long line, I thought I heard the sound of howling, and as the crowd parted, there it was, a perfectly preserved, young coyote--stuffed, mind you--sitting in a Red Flyer wagon, flanked by the curious and the confused...

read the rest HERE

...For those of you who don't already know, the Bridge Motel has been a Seattle icon of sorts for the last 50 years; needles in the sheets and no questions asked. A year ago DK Pan took over as manager with an eye to holding this event just before the motel was to be razed [I thought that was Pan in the picture on the left, holding the red umbrella on the roof of the motel, but it was probably either Sheri Brown or Diana Garcia-Snyder performing "Praying Walk", I think...]. The only stipulation for artists was to avoid the subject of drugs, prostitution, or other obvious cheap motel clichés.

We showed up around 7:30 and jumped right in, though we didn't have the courage to open the door to 'The Van'--Mike Min's contribution to the festivities--at least not at first.

The event drew around 1200 people (according to the people who should know), though the small footprint of the motel and parking lot made it seem like twice that number. We found a place in the line and settled in.

      

Standing in the phenomenally long line, I thought I heard the sound of howling, and as the crowd parted, there it was, a perfectly preserved, young coyote--stuffed, mind you--sitting in a Red Flyer wagon, flanked by the curious and the confused...

read the rest HERE

Abréger son souper, c'est allonger sa vie.

Abréger son souper, c'est allonger sa vie. [To shorten one's supper, is to lengthen one's life.]

The original quote, "To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals," is from Benjamin
Franklin's book "Poor Richard's Almanack" which by the way is a particularly useful little tome which sits on my bedside table but it is unfortunately usually buried beneath a pile of half-read books, magazines and crossword puzzles...

If your not successful simply walking away from the bounty, simply refuse to eat sugar or carbs and see how quickly your appetite dissapears. (worked for me anyway)

via French Word a Day

BENT Festival @ EYEBEAM, NYC 4/2007

If you're in NYC this week, be sure to check out the BENT Festival and all the crazy, circuit bending fun:

Eyebeam is pleased to present a three-day extravaganza of workshops, concerts and art installations as part of Bent 2007: The Fourth Annual Circuit Bending Festival, April 26-28.

The last leg of the festival, which will have traveled to Los Angeles and Minneapolis before closing at Eyebeam will feature performers, educators and visual artists - including several past and current Eyebeam artist residents and fellows - leading circuit-bending workshops for all ages and skill levels. For a complete schedule of events, or to buy tickets for concerts and select workshops, please visit: http://bentfestival.org

http://bentfestival.org

Join the NY Media Elite - FREE!

This is just so much dorky goodness that I have to post the full entry. From Kottke.com:

I might be shooting myself in the foot by posting this, but the table of contents for the newest issue of the New Yorker is usually available on Sunday on newyorker.com, the day before the issue hits the newsstands and arrives in subscriber mailboxes. All you need to do is hack the URL of the TOC from the previous Monday. Here's the URL for the April 23 TOC:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2007/04/23/toc_20070416

"2007/04/23" is the date of the issue and "toc_20070416" refers to the date of the posting. This then is the URL for the April 30 issue:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2007/04/30/toc_20070423

At right is the cover for tomorrow's issue, which includes Adam Gopnik's piece on the Virginia Tech shooting, a new piece by Atul Gawande, and Anthony Lane's review of Hot Fuzz. Monday's New Yorker on Sunday is usually only available to the select few of the Manhattan media elite who are sped their new issues hot off the presses. Now everyone can have a similar experience on the web.

Enjoy.

via kottke.org

Meat Cake Recipie for Easter: YUM!

Not sure what to serve the relatives for Easter dinner? Why not give this a try:

"Here's how to make a meat cake made from ground beef, mashed potatoes kechup or A1 steak sauce, and worchester sauce

- Link.

via MAKE Magazine

Warhol on Jasper Johns; YouTube Byte

Interviewer: "What do you think of Jasper Johns?"

Andy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gid5qVh1hQM

Happy Pi Day: 3.14_07

Happy Pi Day! Why? Today's date is 3/14. This one is too fabulous...Metafilter has lots of ways to celebrate Pi Day. Link

via Neatorama

Make Your Own BIODIESEL: DIY Recipies

Around here we are partial to hybrid technology, particularly the Prius. But this has us thinking about doing a little home-chemistry experiments...

"Biodiesel has better cold weather properties than straight vegetable oil, and it requires no modifications for your diesel engine or fuel system. It may take a little more processing time, but when you consider the impurity filtering that needs to be done with waste veggie oil, a lot of biodieselers will tell you that it's not really much more work. What's best is that the process is something anyone can do, and you can experiment with it easily on a small scale.

Anybody can make biodiesel. It's easy, you can make it in your kitchen -- and it's BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies sell you. Your diesel motor will run better and last longer on your home-made fuel, and it's much cleaner -- better for the environment and better for health.

If you decide that the 50-cent to $1 per gallon price tag still isn't worth the trouble, at least you'll be able to learn a few things from an afternoon chemistry experiment! -Link.

Related:

• Making Biodiesel - from MAKE:03 (read it online. lot's of biodiesel community links.)
• MAKE AUDIO SHOW: Biodiesel!
• Homebrew Biodiesel reactor plans

via Make Magazine

Ann's Snack Bar: WSJ's Beefy Prose

WSJ "... But the outstanding hamburger experience I found in an odyssey of several months and thousands of miles was at Ann's Snack Bar, a justifiably renowned little diner on a broken-down industrial stretch of highway. Miss Ann, as habitués call her, is a woman of commanding style and ready banter. She works alone at her grill, patting each ample patty lightly as she sets it down. Her masterpiece, the "ghetto burger," is a two-patty cheeseburger tricked out with bacon that she tends closely in a fryolator...Then Miss Ann dusts your almost-ready patties with "seasoned salt" tinged red from cayenne pepper. It looks like a mistake, too much, over the top. But when you get your ghetto burger in its handsomely toasted bun envelope, you regret doubting the lady for one second. The big burgers stand up fine to the spice. This is the next level in burgerhood. And it just barely fits in your mouth.

Gridskipper said: "Really, Ray, "and it just barely fits in your mouth," that's the way you're gonna end it? It looks like a mistake, too much, over the top."

But it sounds good to us here at (incli)NATION! (and thanks for the pic because really, that's what this post is all about...

The Best Burger [WSJ]
Ann's Snack Bar

via Gridskipper