Philly Roll / Crispy Ebi Roll
Image by Cola21
Stacked Food Boxes (Jubako) with designed of Boats, Waves, and Plovers by Shibata Zeshin
Image by peterjr1961
Stacked Food Boxes (Jubako) with designed of Boats, Waves, and Plovers by Shibata Zeshin
Japan, late Edo or early Meiji period, second half of the 19th century
The bold wave pattern that runs around the box is created by the seigaiha0nuri (blue-sea waves lacquer) technique. Zeshin spent three years reviving theis technique, which had been lost since the seventeenth century. Lacquer thickened with white pigment is placed on a surface and then combed into a pattern with a wooden comb before it dries. Seigaiha-nuri usually appears in black lacquer against a black background, probably because this color best exploits the technique's potential for visual interest. Here, light reflecting off the glossy black sheen of the surface shows different expressions of the waves according to the viewing angle. The gold sheaves of rice on the boats, indicates the rich fruit of autumn, are applied with gold maki-e (sprinkled picture), and small pieces of pearl shell form the plovers flying over the scene.
Don't Blink, Don't Miss A Thing (Photoshopped For Art)
Image by My Silent Side
The photoshopped version i used for art. I painted it out! :D I shall post a painted version when i got the time to get a shot of it. This one is a blend of 4 pictures.
Explanation of Don't Blink, Don't Miss A Thing:
I got this idea from a picture which i took in the car using my handphone. It was a shot of the side view mirror as the car was speeding down the road. It is interesting how the surroundings would be blurred out and the image in the mirror would still be clear and still. Somehow is reminds me of how we tend to go so fast in life, aiming for the quickest possible way, the most convenient yet effective and the most efficient, without stopping for a break. As such we rush through everything we do, with our eyes focused on that goal and our bodies rushing against time. Tunnel vision doesn't help. In the end we miss out everything around us for that certain goal and in a way achieving this sort of goals become more of a mundane task rather than an adventure, and in the end we miss out on so many things along the way. The surroundings in this painting (in this case, picture) represent the things around us in a blur because of our constant aim for efficiency and just taking on whatever comes our way with whatever we have without a break. It reflects our culture of going instant (e.g instant food, instant downloads, faster connection speeds etc.) and missing out on many things along the way (e.g experiences with someone, time with your family, enjoying God's creation around you, moments that take your breath away etc.) And then when we look back at those experiences, we realise that it is like looking back at the image in the side view mirror; once it has passed you, it gets harder and harder to appreciate it like how we did the first time as it fades away further, becomes smaller, before ending as a tiny speck in the mirror. And as we dwell on that fact, we miss out the other new things that come our way too. Sometimes, it's best that we hit the brakes and slow down our pace, for life doesn't give us pause buttons or rewinds, and neither does it stop. So it's best sometimes we slow down and stop to smell the roses (take pictures of it, pluck some to give someone or make pressed flowers, eat them, oh, whatever makes you sleep tonight, up to you) and take our goals and aims as what it should be, an adventure not a monotonous job.
lunch
Image by Noel A. Tanner
I went to Yum! in St. Louis Park the food looked so good I had to take a picture of it.
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