Human News is a beautiful illustration series published by Edition Biografiktion. The small press is based in Berlin and made up of three illustrators (Ana Albero, Till Hafenbrak and Paul Paetzel) who met in 2008 at the University of Arts in Berlin.
Their latest project, Human News 3, is food-themed and includes 16 sweet pages of crazy-cool screen prints. See more here.
I was terrified of dolls and dollhouses when I was little, so I would have found these Victorian butcher dioramas to be incredibly fucked up, with their tiny, blood-stained aprons and inside-out, hanging carcasses. But they're actually quite cute, no?
One lot note indicates that the dioramas may have been for educational purposes, since the meat cuts are so accurate, but another suggests it was fashionable for Victorian shopkeepers to display a diorama of the shop itself when it was closed, so people knew what they could find there the next day. In either case it's not a toy, but it should be!
Liverpool-based artist Joȅl Penkman, whose British sweets projects I loved, has a great new series of teacup portraits. (And if you have a teacup you're particularly fond of, you can email her a photograph for consideration.) See more on Penkman's site.
Glitch is a well-written, free-to-play, super-social game developed by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield and his team at Tiny Speck (they have the best team page I've ever seen). The game was released in late September and there's a great story about Butterfield today in Wired:
"He wanted to build a game that was different from anything else he had played. He wanted to start a company to build that game and then make it available to everyone in the world for free. He wanted to push the boundaries of how people play games together."
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I've only played a few hours but I like Glitch because it isn't about killing baddies. Instead you level up by learning new things and exploring new territory. One big way to do this is by cooking and drink-making, which you can learn to do in steps, acquiring the right tools and recipes as you go along. Cocktails, for example, will boost your mood and energy, but you probably already know that. So, a few awesome cocktails from the game:
A fun, early-morning photo shoot with Dave Wondrich, who mixed a deliciously dark Halloween cocktail at his home in Brooklyn. Rye, port, nocino and a flaming lime boat float.
A documentary about 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, who works in the basement of a Tokyo office building at his tiny, three-Michelin-star restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro.
