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Assignment 52 -- Painting with light
Popular and widely consumed aperitif at the turn of the last century, particularly beloved of Parisian cafe society & bohemian artists & writers. Demonized by the temperance movement, with one of its botanical ingredients -- artemisia -- suspected of hallucinogenic effects. (It's actually considered an effective herbal treatment for parasites---) Banned for decades in most European countries & the U.S., it's been legalized in the past decade. I'd always been curious because of literary mentions & presence in post-impressionist art. (For instance, this Picasso sculpture I saw at MoMA this winter, with an absinthe spoon embedded -- said to have been unusual for Picasso to incorporate objects into his sculptures-- www.flickr.com/photos/58525789@N06/8411684921/)
(This was another 10 second exposure, with fixed flashlights on either side, & other flashlights moved briefly over the absinthe spoon & the bottle.)
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Strobist Info: VSD160 with softbox far camera left. VSD160 with shoot-through umbrella camera right. Both triggered with pocktwizards
Campaña Fall / Winter 09
Ph: Diego Toledo
Asistente de Fotografia: Carlos Frith
Styling: Paula Penise
Make up: Johana
Clothes: Ornela Sleepy - Natalia Queirolo
Model: Carla Virile
I'm reading The Dud Avocado, written in the late 50's about an american girl gone wild in Paris. Love it, love it! The perfect summer read with feminist overtones. She keeps drinking absinthe in the book (the green fairy, they nicknamed it!). Upon further research (Wikipedia) I found out they tried to ban absinthe in the 20's or 30's saying it caused mania. A greenish liquor that you mix with water, it appears to be as harmless, in reality, as any alcohol.... if alcohol can be called harmless. Before the summer is through I'm going to hunt down some Pernod or absinthe, mix up a glass and pretend I'm seated in a little cafe in Paris.
I had never had absinthe before, but heard it tasted like licorice, and I really dislike licorice. But I couldn't knock it before I tried it, so I did. And it wasn't terrible! It was surprisingly sweet for all of its herbiness. Not something I have to have again, but worth the $5 for the taste!
Saint George Spirits, Alameda, CA.
Génépi is very rare in cultivation. I got a start from a friend. It grows wild in the mountains of the Jura in France and Switzerland and is used to make eaux de vie and absinthe.
in my backyard
I received this instead of the plain Duplais. LDF was kind enough to fix the order and let me keep this.
Nose: bright anise and fennel with an almost transparent citrusy scent.
Taste: The citrus fruit is still there, but far in the background to bright anise and a nice helping of wormwood.
That's the absinthe diluted with 2 parts water.
It tastes very like Pernod, Pastis or Ricard i.e. aniseed but there's an underlying bitter flavour - which I'm presuming is the wormwood.
9 out of 10. Excellent
Absinthe Burlesque by Caterina in Canada
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Outside Webster Hall at 4am -- a fitting end to a night of much mayhem with Jess and Chris, visiting from LA. We had Thai food for dinner, experienced the moulin rouge-esque madness of Absinthe (as I like to call it, a perverted circus), had drinks at a French cafe, went to a hookah bar, ate pizza at 3am and walked through a semi-freak-show on the way home ... to spend time with Savannah. Taking photos throughout the night is just part of the fun. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Warm pear clafoutis
White chocolate sorbet
Again, white chocolate sorbet sounded like it would blow my brains away,it was very interesting, but nothing extraordinary. The Warm pear actually went perfectly with the white chocolate. good
Kubler absinthe with orange, lemon, lime, cucumber, mint, red grapes, homemade grenadine, topped with ginger ale.
Louche upon adding water to anise-flavored spirits forming a cloudy spontaneous emulsification of oily constituents such as anethole
Absente Absinthe Refined (55%) by Distillerie de Lure contains Artemisia abrotanum (L.) SOUTHERN WORMWOOD Asteraceae
Lucid Absinthe Supérieure (62%) by Combier Distillery contains Artemisia absinthium (L.) GRAND WORMWOOD Asteraceae
Technical data:
[ 30 mL sample + 20 mL water; flask atop light box containing 7-watt incandescent lamp; both images at same camera setting ]
I am a big fan of http://since78.briangossett.com/?page_id=1553 and when Pedro M. Cruz, http://mondeguinho.com/master/visual-experiments/revisiting-brownian-motion, released his source code for one of his projects I couldn't help but delve in. This is a screenshots of a music video that I made with Processing.org from the Positano mix on Brian Gossett's website. I chose Positano because Pedro's based in Italy, seemed like nice symmetry.
Unlike Pedro's code, this video is a recording of Processing analyzing the audio on the fly with me changing the colors and the size of the objects by dragging the mouse. Instead of the Minim library it uses Sonia.
For more information including source code and the video. Check out thoughts.jonobr1.com/?p=472