Posts from — November 2007

A monkey licks a block of ice embedded with fruits and vegetables during the annual Monkey Buffet Festival, in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 94 miles north of Bangkok, Thailand, on November 25, 2007.

The festival provides various types of food and drink to the local monkey population, which numbers more than 2,000.

Via Activate.us

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Merrell Publishers are delighted to announce the publication of China Art Book: Chinese Art-Now, the first Who’s Who of contemporary Chinese art.

International exhibitions around the country have awoken our curiosity and fuelled a rapidly growing market for contemporary Chinese art. Presenting the most important and influential artists, this book is the first comprehensive overview of China’s current art scene and predicts the stars of the future.

China Art Book is flexibound, contains 544 pages, 800 colour illustrations and is in English, German and Chinese.

Buy “China Art Book: Chinese Art - Now” from Amazon!

Merrell Publishers website

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Visitors toast with their glass filled with Beaujolais nouveau as they soak inside a “Beaujolais nouveau bath” at a hot-springs spa resort in Hakone, west of Tokyo, on November 15, 2007.

Visitors will be able to enjoy the bath, which incorporates real wine along with bathwater additives, until November 25, the resort said.

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Hello all - One Inch Punch is taking a weeks break from posting to go on holiday. Hopefully, you won’t be missing your fix too much, but please do come back when posting resumes on the 28th November!

Carlos Ramon, an accomplished Illustrator based in Kansas City, Missouri, has a superb illustration style, which he states is inspired by “Pin up, anime, graffiti, art novau, fashion, “low brow” art, and fine art“.

I particularly like these eastern-flavoured examples from his gallery, with this “ninja printer” and “samurai girls” below.

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Whenever I think of congee, I just think of being ill and having only plain congee to eat, kind of like a Chinese equivalent to chicken soup.

It’s obvious I didn’t grow up with congee as deliciously looking as Jaden’s! Check out her latest post, which includes her recipe on this dish.

Beef Congee on SteamyKitchen

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Children attend class at the Dongzhong (literally meaning “in cave“) primary school at a Miao village in Ziyun county, southwest China’s Guizhou province, November 14, 2007.

The school is built in a huge, aircraft hanger-sized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts. 

This looks like an excellent school to do an exchange with a school from the west!

More photos below…

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Er, if you ever wanted to dress up as sushi, here’s one way you can do it..

Melinda of Mookie Moo made herself a last minute costume and transformed herself into a Tuna Nigiri Sushi, complete with a wasabi hat, pickled ginger scarf, and nori cummerbund.

Via Craftzine

Technorati Tags: cuisine, fancy dress, fashion, human sushi, sushi, Tuna Nigiri Sushi