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Design and Innovation

Delightful Edible Sugar Flowers for Cakes: The Ultimate Guide

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The Art of Creating Stunning Edible Sugar Flowers

Mastering the Basics: Essential Tools for Sugar Flower Crafting

Creating edible sugar flowers requires specific tools that facilitate the intricate designs and delicate formations essential for these edible masterpieces. At the heart of sugar flower crafting are basic yet vital tools, starting with rolling pins, which allow you to achieve varied thicknesses necessary for different petal types. A set of flower cutters is crucial, as they come in various shapes and sizes, providing versatility to recreate real-life flowers accurately.
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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Scented 3D Printed Cotton Candy Dishes

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3D Printed Cotton Candy Dishes
All Photos By Gail

Inside this glass dome are vessels printed from sugar. The dome has an indented opening, inviting museum visitors to take a whiff of the objects inside; and yes, they smelled like Cotton Candy. Continue reading Eye On Design: Scented 3D Printed Cotton Candy Dishes →

Arts and Culture

Video Clip of The Week: Islands, “No Milk, No Sugar”

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If a band records two different-sounding albums simultaneously, for impending back-to-back release, does that make them an exceptionally ambitious band? I think so, and that is the case with the band Islands, who have two brand new records due out any day now:  Taste and Should I Remain Here At Sea?, which  both have really catchy titles!
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Arts and Culture

Jerry Kearns and Nora York Present Diva’s Song at Mike Weiss Gallery

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Diva's Song Signage
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You have just one more week to visit the Mike Weiss Gallery in time to check out Diva’s Song, the second show by Jerry Kearns at the gallery, and the first in collaboration with singer/performer Nora York. The exhibition features eight acrylic wall paintings of larger-than-life size characters as high as eight feet, seemingly out of a comic book, with thought bubbles that form a coherent yet ambiguous narrative.
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Music, Pop Culture

Video Clip of The Week: Dinosaur Pile Up, “Peninsula”

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Ever since The Beatles crossed the pond in the early ’60s, the UK has been a fertile breeding ground for innovative rock music. Dinosaur Pile Up is Rock/Pop UK-based band I just heard about and they impress me as being pretty groovy. While their press compares DPU’s music to “an early New Found Glory,” I can’t really speak to that, since New Found Glory is one of those bands that’s completely flown under my radar. So, you be the judge on that score.

This frenetically edited, performance clip-based video (shot in luxurious black and white) is for the song, “Peninsula”— the first single from the band’s just-released EP of that same name. Drawing from my deep well of classic influences, I’d say Dinosaur Pile Up capture the short and sweet, hit-and-run songcraft of The Buzzcocks or Husker Du while harnessing those adhesive, razor sharp guitar riffs that the early ’90s wave of Grunge bands took to the bank. And that’s a winning combination any way you look at it.

Dinosaur Pile Up’s full length album, Nature Nurture will hit the US in early 2014. Enjoy!

Dinosaur Pile Up
Dinosaur Pile Up