Pancake Fanatic
If You Love Pancakes, You’ll Love This!
Cranberry and Corn Pancakes (makes about 8)
- 1 Cup all-purpose flour
- 1 Egg
- 1 Cup whole milk
- 1 Tablespoon light brown sugar (or substitute white sugar)
- 1 Teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 Teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 Teaspoon salt
- 1 Cup fresh cranberries (give or take)
- 3/4 Cup frozen corn
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- Beat the milk and egg in a bowl. Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a medium-large bowl and make a well in the center. Add all the milk/egg mixture at once and gently whisk, turning the bowl as you go so that the sides spill a little more of the dry mixture into the wet. Once mixture is completely blended, and there are no lumps (about 4 minutes), add the corn and cranberries.
- Heat a large frying pan. Once hot, turn heat to medium and lightly brush a stick of butter in a circle in the center of the pan. Pour one ladleful of the batter into that center. Let cook without turning or touching for about 2 minutes, or until air bubbles have just begun to form in the center of the batter. Check underneath to see how golden the bottom of the pancake is, and if desired color, flip. Cook on opposite side about 2 minutes longer, and transfer to a plate. Repeat with the rest of the batter, and serve immediately (with optional toppings like maple syrup, butter, whipped cream, etc.).
Yum! Enjoy National Pancake Day with style.
Celebrating Pancake Week
Despite its no-nonsense name, Pancake Week inspires its share of eccentric behavior.
- The small town of Olney, England has been holding its Pancake Race every year since 1445. According to the lore, it began when an Olney housewife was cooking the family’s traditional Shrove Tuesday pancakes. The church bell began to ring, summoning the townspeople to service, and the woman was so anxious to get there on time that she ran outside still holding her skillet–pancakes and all. This moment is reenacted in the town’s annual Pancake Race: contestants line up, skillets in hand, waiting for the “pancake bell” to ring. Then they toss pancakes in the air, catch them in their skillets and race 400 yards to the church. When they reach the finish line, they must toss their pancakes one more time. After the race, everyone attends church services and then enjoys a community pancake party.
- Determined not to leave all the fun to the Brits, the town of Liberal, Kansas has been competing with Olney in a good-natured transatlantic Pancake Race rivalry since 1950.
- In Russia, the pre-Lenten pancake feast is known as Maslenitsa, and is celebrated by eating thin buckwheat crepes called blini, accompanied by caviar, honey, jam, sour cream or butter. These little symbols of the sun–golden, round and warm–signify the end of winter and the coming of spring. Bonfires, fireworks and snow games round out the festivities.
Via allrecipes.com
Banana Pancakes
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 ripe bananas, mashed
- Combine flour, white sugar, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, mix together egg, milk, vegetable oil and bananas.
- Stir flour mixture into banana mixture; batter will be slightly lumpy.
- Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Cook until pancakes are golden brown on both sides; serve hot.
YUMMY!
Post Inspired by @TomFelton on Twitter, because I wanted pancakes after he posted… “happy pancake day! i feel like i have happy pancake day far too often! send me photos if you make some :)” So here you go, Tom!!
ART through and through
Much of Haiti’s cultural legacy is lost in the rubble. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour reports.
Via CNN.com
This goes to show that even a large scale catastrophe cannot stop art. The people in the worst conditions need somewhere to turn to take there minds off the turmoil and strife. Art is the best possible medium to escape to, whether it be digital or not. Therefore Art comes out through Loss.
On the otherhand CNN.com’s John Sutter demos two test products at the Googleplex, including “Liquid Galaxy.” which is a 3D immersive universe that lets you enjoy the Earth as if it was a virtual game. Some may call this a huge advancement in Google, but I see this as Art. You can use this new technology to a whole new level of seeing the World. Therefore art comes through technology.
Via CNN.com
PARSONS DANCE is committed to building new audiences for contemporary dance by creating American works of extraordinary artistry that are engaging and uplifting to audiences throughout the world. The company tours regionally, nationally and internationally.
In addition to choreography and performance, Parsons Dance positively impacts children, students, and communities through student performances, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, post-show discussions and more.
Parsons Dance has a company of ten full-time dancers and maintains a repertory of more than 70 works choreographed by David Parsons, twenty of which feature originally commissioned scores by leading composers and musicians, including Dave Matthews, Michael Gordon and Milton Nascimento. Parsons Dance has collaborated with many other leading artists, including Julie Taymor, William Ivey Long, Annie Leibovitz, Donna Karan and Alex Katz.
Via ParsonsDance.org
We experience new forms of art everyday, whether it be through the television, radio, or even your own body. Dance, however, is the icing of the cake. Dance brings many forms of art together, visually and emotionally, and it touches the strings inside our soul that makes us want to move our bodies in dance. It truly is extraordinary. Therefore art comes through dance.
DataMoshing
It’s called datamoshing, as experimented by paperrad, explored by Takeshi Murata, and theorised by Sven König. (Yeah, teraflop and Pronoiac, it’s basically about key- and delta-frames.
Via: MetaFilter
Two is a trend: Kanye West’s video for Welcome to Heartbreak uses the same video compression technique used in Chairlift’s Evident Utensil. The videos were done by two different directors at around the same time, which probably means that neither originated it. Does anyone know what the Patient Zero is for this technique? This Radiohead video for Videotape comes close but doesn’t use the compression artifacts to cleverly cut between scenes…which is the real artful moment here. (thx, andrew & demetrice)
Update: Here are a few candidates: Takeshi Murata, paperrad, and Mark Brown. (thx, matthew, simon & justin)
Update: Aha, the technique is called datamoshing. (thx, daniel)
Update: There’s a bit of datamoshing in this 2005 David O’Reilly clip and even more in a 2005 video made by Kris Moyes (Moyes briefly uses the same technique in this 2008 video for Beck). In 2004, Owi Mahn & Laura Baginski madea video called Pastell Kompressor in which they manipulated the compression keyframes in some timelapse videos. Sven König’s two projects, aPpRoPiRaTe!and Download Finished! originate around the same time (2004/2005). The technique itself seems pretty simple…just ignore the compression keyframes during playback. (thx, philip & sven)
Via: Kottke.org
For more examples check out : http://jdcommtech2.blogspot.com/
All and all, I find datamoshing a new way to create art out of a regular video or an image. On the other hand, it is starting to be used along the lines for entertainment purposes. I know of an artist that has been using datamoshing for about 4 months now, and it is truely a creative and unique way to move forward in the digital arts. Complex and Dynamic, yes, but a large step forward towards the art of tomorrow.
Best Excuses
A while back, I would say about two years ago, I was once 17 years old. My best friend, Brenna JoAnn, and I were on our way to Columbus, Nebraska, and we decided to write up an excuse book for the future, and possibly get it published in 30 or 40 years from now. I came across the list and decided to make it public for those who are in a dire need of an excuse. These are quite comical in the end, but we never once regret any of them.
Not entirely finished, and not entirely appropriate for some, but you get the gist of it.
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