Cricket Bitters are meant to be the gateway drug to insect cuisine.
Edible insects are widely touted as a way for the world to get more protein without the environmental problems that come with raising cows or pigs. The problem, of course, is that most people in the West aren’t quite ready to embrace the idea of eating bugs.
Who curates those TED talks? Juliet Blake is fascinated by people, a passion that informs both her work and her portrait collection.
When I ask TED’s Juliet Blake how she came to have a wall full of portraits in her Brooklyn home, she responds wonderfully, with asides embedded in digressions: “I grew up in the north of England, and my sister was 17 years older (she’s an Academy Award-winning costume designer)—and I was convinced for the longest time she was my mother, which really screwed me up, but it turned out I just had very old parents and was a late mistake. But anyway, my sister was a really good painter, and I now have a lot of her work in my house, and so I sort of grew up in a quite artistic environment, and my earliest memories are of her painting, or of her work on the walls.” Following an early family trip to the National Portrait Gallery in London, a special love of portraiture was born.
A look at the jam-packed creative calendar of America’s most famous redhead—and what she prioritizes in the rare moments of downtime.
Having just wrapped up a packed morning taping talk show The Chew, Molly Ringwald attempts to answer a question about what she’s currently working on. “I’m promoting the film Jem, which was out on October 23, and also doing a television series in Toronto, a single-camera family sitcom called The Wonderful Wayneys where Jason Priestley plays my husband. And I just did a part in a movie with James Franco and Christian Slater called King Cobra. Then the singing, performing at [New York jazz mecca] Birdland with my band in March.” Ringwald has failed to mention that she’s writing a book (another one, that is) . . . her third. Or that she is a married mother of three.
Orr Shtuhl of design agency Blenderbox teaches classes on pairing cheese and beer. Company morale: Meet your master.
Only ask Orr Shtuhl about cheese, beer, and cocktails if you have a few minutes to spare.
Menstruating girls skip school, leading to high dropout rates. But what if all they need is better supplies?
There’s a simple reason girls in sub-Saharan Africa—and many other parts of the developing world—miss school more often than boys. When they have their period, and they can’t afford (or find) a pad or tampon, they often stay home rather than risk making a mess.
All Black Cats Are Not Alike chronicles the strange habits, peculiarities and tastes of 50 fabulous felines.
If there’s one thing cat owners can agree on, it’s that their cat is absolutely, utterly unlike any other cat on the planet. You could chalk that up to pet-owner fanaticism, but most cats actually are little weirdos—each has their own strange habits, distinct peculiarities and rarified tastes. For proof, look no further than the 50 felines profiled in Amy Goldwasser and Peter Arkle‘s delightful new illustration book All Black Cats Are Not Alike.
Whitechapel was designed to look like an abandoned London Underground station turned secret clubhouse.
A little over a year ago, Martin Cate—the restauranteur and cocktail expert best known for his San Francisco rum bar Smuggler’s Cove—decided to expand into new territory. His business partner, Alex Smith, wanted to take on gin, but they didn’t want to open up just another gin bar. As Cate puts it, they wanted to “smuggle-ize” it: design an immersive experience that makes their customers feel like they’ve stepped out of San Francisco and into a Victorian Steampunk fantasyland.
Middle Eastern governments can’t stop pumping the oil that is going to destroy their own countries.
When the heat index went over 160 degrees in parts of Iraq this July, the government was forced to call a mandatory four-day vacation for everyone. It was too hot to go outside.
For Dubai Design Week, Loci Architecture + Design constructed six pavilions that showcase the beauty of sand.
Sand is an inherently playful material—just ask any kids building castles at the beach. To create pavilions for a Dubai Design Week exhibition themed “Games: The Element of Play in Culture,” local firm Loci Architecture + Design naturally turned their attention to the material. The challenge became about how to create a modern form that wouldn’t interfere with the works exhibited within.
Transforming Fashion explores eight years of groundbreaking collections that merge science, technology, and high fashion.
When people talk about Iris van Herpen, they often talk about unlikely intersections: of fashion and technology; technology and craftsmanship; otherwordly creations and those inspired by nature. Sarah Schleuning, the curator of Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion, opening next week at the High Museum in Atlanta, throws another one into the ring: a blend of singular focus and big, expansive ideas.
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