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Random thoughts and scraps that don't have a better place to go.

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Tonight for #funaday I played with the shapes of cauliflower and broccoli. It's sort of a satire on naturally-occurring vegetable fractals.

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Lately I've been making paper buildings. Here's what I have so far. #paperart #papercraft #cricut

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It's been awhile since I last reviewed a cheese. This is Trader Joe's Potted Blue Stilton, a seasonal cheese available during the holidays. It came in a ceramic container with a lid and cost $9.99. We aged it for 3 weeks, which was perhaps too long. But it says "Use by Feb. 11, 2017," so we could have aged it another month if we wanted to. It was the sharpest Stilton I have ever tasted. To me, eating it felt as unpleasant as taking a shot of whiskey. After a moment it made me queasy, then it hit me in the stomach like whiskey again. The flavor was all untamed sharpness, without the complexity of stilton that I remember from trying it at cheese shops before. I tried it again from the middle of the cheese, and it was slightly better. Maybe I would have liked it as a younger cheese. But @pydanny loved it and said the sharpness was just right. We had it with Breton 7-grain crackers. #everycheese #stilton #cheese #traderjoes

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@pydanny and I made crispy wings tonight with buffalo, chili, pesto, garlic, and garlic parmesan sauces. The garlic parmesan sauce wasn't blending at first, but after trying a molecular gastronomy emulsification trick we learned on #chefsteps, we got it to work well. (To family: don't worry, they were oven-baked with just a little olive oil.) #wings #chickenwings #chicken

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At the Top of Topanga Overlook with @pydanny. (at Top Of Topanga Outlook)

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January is a time when trees and holiday decorations get stuffed into bins in the garage, but paper snowflakes are still permitted in the living room. So here is a January snowflake that I made, along with a strawberry and chocolate scoop to keep it cold. Photo in collaboration with @pydanny. #papercraft #snowflake #paperart

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Fishbowl of chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla Platonic icosahedra #papercraft

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Simple two-layer snowflake

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Succulents x fireworks

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Flowers, leaves and icosahedron berry. Happy new year, everyone!

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Under the Table by Robert Therrien. Felt like being a toddler again. (at The Broad Museum At Downtown Los Angeles)

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Goldfish Bowl by Roy Lichtenstein. Painted and patinated bronze. (at The Broad)

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Combine by Robert Rauschenberg. The 2 spinning bulbs at the bottom of the sculpture are radiometers. (at The Broad)

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Kraftwerk 3D concert with @pydanny tonight at the #hollywoodbowl! (at Hollywood Bowl)

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This is Sottocenere al tartufo, a Venetian cheese filled with tiny black truffle flecks and covered in a rind made of ash. I started out eating it with olive oil toasts, but then I realized it tasted better on its own. It has a heavy truffle flavor and scent, but since truffles are so delicate, their flavor can be overpowered easily. The cheese itself is mild. It melts in your mouth, leaving a lingering truffle speck or two that make you want to have another bite. Purchased at @monsieurmarcelfm in the 3rd Street Farmers Market in LA. I also bought a 1 oz. jar of black truffle shavings on sale there for $12, but the cheese was 200% more truffly tasting. #sottocenere #truffles #everycheese

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On Sunday I painted this from a park bench in the gardens of the Getty Center. #watercolor #penandink (at Getty Museum)

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August flowers. Watercolor + pen and ink.