Posts Tagged ‘Elmo’
Who you callin’ “Cupcake”?…
Cupcakes are, of course, all the vogue. And as their popularity has exploded, they’ve begun to speciate…
There are Periodic Table Cupcakes…
Elmo cupcakes…
Watchmen Cupcakes…
And oh so many others (for a nifty selection, starting with the ones above, poke around at Laughing Squid and at Friday Foodie)…
But cupcakes, in their mainstream “chocolate or vanilla” manifestations, or in these more elaborate guises, have remained… well, dainty.
No longer! Now the formidable folks at Butch Bakery (“Where butch meets buttercream”) offer cupcakes in 12 flavors and six “styles”: Woodland Camo, Wood Grain, Houndstooth, Plaid, Checkerboard or Marble.
Got beer?
As we bench press a baker’s dozen, we might recall that it was on this date in 1953 that James D. Watson and Francis Crick announced to friends that they had determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement took place on April 25 following publication in the April issue of Nature (published April 2). The not-yet-Nobel-laureates walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge and announced, “We have found the secret of Life.”
A matter of perspective…
From Darren Rouse‘s Digital Photography School, a 90-year-old example of forced perspective photography:
The picture is of 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge, in Iowa.
A few facts about the image:
* Length from base to Shoulder: 150 feet
* Right Arm: 340 feet
* Length of Torch and flame: 1000 feet
* Total Length: 1490 Feet
* Number of men in body and head of figure: 2,000
* Number of men in right arm: 1,200
* Number of men in torch: 2,800
* Number of men in the flame only: 12,000
* Total men: 18,000
(Thanks SC for the pointer)
As we adjust our focal lengths, we might pause to slip a celebratory tickle to Elmo– it was on this date in 1969 that Sesame Street first aired…
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