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]]><![CDATA[Capture a garagator]]>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:42:40 -0500http://www.tejalrao.com/3/post/2012/04/capture-a-garagator.html

It is the Gourmet Era. The era in which one will search for undiscovered tastes.

Toriko is a popular manga and cartoon about a VERY MUSCULAR FORAGER with a huge appetite who is basically a gun for hire, hunting down exotic ingredients for wealthy gourmands. His sidekick is a little hotel chef.

The fictional Toriko world is in its "Gourmet Era," a time when food culture has become an empty obsession and the global food supply is in danger of being controlled by corporations. So it's basically like real life with bolder hair colors and fancier animals?

"This is a gourmet hunter. One who searches out never before seen ingredients and eats them."

There are 49 episodes on Hulu. I got through one.

via metafilter

]]><![CDATA[Lady archers]]>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:06:35 -0500http://www.tejalrao.com/3/post/2012/03/lady-archers.html

Carol Lombard

Now that I've read and seen The Hunger Games I mostly want to take up archery, grill over open flames and play MASH.

Clara Bow (!)

Dorothy Flood

Women Archers - Austin Texas - 1928 - National Geographic

via drunkcle, who has quite the nsfw collection

]]><![CDATA[Have one on us]]>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:51:52 -0500http://www.tejalrao.com/3/post/2012/03/have-one-on-us.html

Have one on us a'ight?

Watched Tupac Resurrection last night and noticed a suckling pig at the table in Gangsta Party. I mean, no one's eating it (or anything else) but the pig's still making its point with Champagne, candlelight and cash: Success/extravagance is having a whole animal at the table.

Break out the champagne glasses and the motherfuckin condoms

]]><![CDATA[Clown sandwich]]>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:05:05 -0500http://www.tejalrao.com/3/post/2012/03/clown-sandwich.html

With the exception of this creepy clown in a dress, I really love these elaborate menu postcards. Is it the same three women in different costumes, having the best day ever? I can't tell.

]]><![CDATA[Devourer of time]]>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:14:59 -0500http://www.tejalrao.com/3/post/2012/03/devourer-of-time.html

Doing a little research for a comic project with L. Basically, Google image and the goddess Kali are both massive devourers of time.

]]><![CDATA[East African Railway]]>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:47:13 -0500http://www.tejalrao.com/3/post/2012/02/east-africa.htmlReally cool photos of the East African Railway via my Nairobi grandfather (usually he forwards me jokes I don't understand).

Kampala

East African Railway, black and white photo

Kibera, last station before Nairobi

59 class cab

]]><![CDATA[Stereograph]]>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:07:15 -0500http://www.tejalrao.com/3/post/2012/02/stereograph.html

[Studio portrait of a dog in a chair wearing a hat.] (1862?-1885?)

"We see something with the second eye which we did not see with the first; in other words, the two eyes see different pictures of the same thing, for the obvious reason that they look from points two or three inches apart." Oliver Wendell Holmes

GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator - view more at http://stereo.nypl.org/gallery/index

From the NYPL, Stereogranimator shares the library's archive of 19th-century stereoscopic views and lets users turn them into animated GIFs, "mashing up an important early genre of internet folk art with a nearly forgotten species of folk photography."

This is fun (it's also a bit challenging to find that giffy sweet spot that creates a sense of depth but avoids seizure-inducing jumpiness).

A Straight Flush and Cards to Spare

]]><![CDATA[Hey Jube]]>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:34:40 -0500http://www.tejalrao.com/3/post/2012/01/hey-jube.html

A jaunt to Los Angeles to hang with Julian--he's the coolest--and to cook bastardized Indian food with my brother and sister in law. Such fun!

]]><![CDATA[Pierre Bonnard's tables]]>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:22:31 -0500http://www.tejalrao.com/3/post/2012/01/pierre-bonnards-tables.htmlJust thinking about them.

More here.

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