How does Bob Dylan taste? Like aged beef, soy and seaweed. “The beef represents Dylan’s leathery exterior — the man is 70, after all — and the seaweed and soy provide heavy notes that pair well with his raspy voice”.
This sounds like fun.
Month: July 2011
Miracle Fruit
CARRIE DASHOW dropped a large dollop of lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness, stirred, drank and proclaimed that it tasted like a “chocolate shake.” Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her boyfriend, Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!” They were among 40 or so people who were tasting under the influence of a small red berry called miracle fruit at a rooftop party. The berry rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors for 1 hour or so, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.
dinner party!
English Retreads
fashion made from recycled tires
Yong Ho Ji
art made from recycled tires.
HDR
behold.. i am now an HDR dabbler too. this is my first try from the office at 15th / 9th, looking out over the hudson.
Cafe Sabarski
Holographic fashion
and here is kate moss as a hologram. the whole show was her as a hologram if i understand correctly.
Alexander McQueen
alexander mcqueen’s fashion shows are the stuff of legend. here is one with robots.
2011-10-12: if you liked Alexander McQueen at the MET, you have to see this exhibit. the exhibit is 60% McQueen and it has the following advantages:
- no crowds
- free entry
- more time with the fashion pieces
Umami bomb
“The bloody mary has been called the world’s most complex cocktail. The drink covers much of the taste spectrum: sweet, salty, sour and umami — the savory taste of glutamic acid. And the order of these sensations is appealing: first cool and refreshing, then spicy, and finally a sinus-clearing horseradish kick.”
molecular gastronomy comes to drinks. i approve!
Bayes History
a historical account of the bayes theorem and how it changed the world. haven’t read it yet but it sounds worthwhile.
Bayes’ rule appears to be a straightforward, 1-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok.
In the first-ever account of Bayes’ rule for general readers, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it. She traces its discovery by an amateur mathematician in the 1740s through its development into its modern form. She reveals why respected statisticians rendered it professionally taboo for 150 years—at the same time that practitioners relied on it to solve crises involving great uncertainty and scanty information, even breaking Germany’s Enigma code during World War II, and explains how the advent of off-the-shelf computer technology in the 1980s proved to be a game-changer. Today, Bayes’ rule is used everywhere from DNA de-coding to Homeland Security.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 