I received an e-mail the other day from a friend of mine and I found the following photos to be not only crazy, but very crafty! Who thinks up these things? Are they all done by the same person? Is he, or she, a chef perhaps who happens to be a frustrated sculptor? Where does he find the time? Will this food artist have an exhibit in their kitchen? Do they eat their art afterwards?As you can see, I was left with more questions, than answers! Enjoy!
Maya Muses: Thank you Sandy for sharing these with me! My favorite is the watermelon swimmer!
Photo Credit: I wish I knew!
25 responses so far ↓
1 Mia // Oct 9, 2008 at 11:01 am
Wow!
I like them!Ulf liked them too!
I like the watermelon swimmer too!
They should have had text too!
I would have put them up in my kitchen!
It is amazing to see what we can create…if we are open to see the potential in everything!
It doesn’t always have to be useful!
Le Clezio got the Nobel prize!
2 Mia // Oct 9, 2008 at 11:04 am
In literature!He is French!
Ulf’s comment was:well,an author you at least can read!
3 Lynn // Oct 9, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Glad you liked them, I did too!
Yes, I heard! I’ll have to read “de la rupture”. I love to read a book in the original language of the author, unfortunately I can only do that with French, English and Spanish.
I understand about 80% of Portuguese. Brazilian Portuguese that is, I understand less if the person is from Portugal. I’ve never tried to read Portuguese, however, but I would probably be able to since it’s harder to understand a language than to read one.
I started learning Japanese a number of years ago, but I gave up on it! Too complicated….with the Kanji, the hiragana, and the katakana; the three written languages. LOL!!!
4 Tina // Oct 9, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Oooh I love these pics…. especially the one of the man eating apple and the egg buggy…..
I realized that I understand a bit of Portuguese too. It surprised the hell out of me….
5 Lynn // Oct 10, 2008 at 5:23 am
LOL! Well you speak some Spanish, so that helps!
6 Mia // Oct 10, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Oh…I can only read in Swedish and English!
Just as well,go hide somewhere….LOL!
But I’m good at body language and “reading” people! And in these pics you can “read” a lot too!
7 Lynn // Oct 10, 2008 at 5:05 pm
That’s a big plus, being able to read people and body language! I’m sure it’s helped you quite a bit in life!
8 Mia // Oct 10, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Sometimes….
But then again not everyone want to be read!
That puts me in trouble now and then!
Because what you say and what you express with your body is not always the same!
So what do I respond to?
What someone says or what I “read”?
But it is the same when you don’t speak another language that well,you miss the nuances…So there are misunderstandings…
And by the way…
I do like to read books in the original language,because sometimes the translation are so bad!
9 Lynn // Oct 11, 2008 at 7:02 am
It’s the same with films, I like to watch a film in its original version, or if the dubbing is done very well. The French are very good at dubbing, Americans….just the opposite. They would rather remake the film completely in English than dub.
10 Tina // Oct 11, 2008 at 1:00 pm
it’s the same with me.. I like to watch films in their original language.. because somethings dubbed just don’t make sense. especially the jokes.
I’m teaching David Italian, I Suggested English but he said he’s more interested in learning Italian.
11 Lynn // Oct 11, 2008 at 10:22 pm
So true! There are some films that are difficult to dub or even using sub-titles; the nuances of a language, the argot, etc. makes it hard to translate. Woody Allen films are a good example of that.
Italian would be a lot easier for David to learn since both Spanish and Italian are Latin languages. A lot of people like listening to French being spoken, I love to listen to Italian. It sounds like they’re singing even when people are arguing! LOL!!!
12 Mia // Oct 12, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Yeah…I love to listen to Italian too…Spanish and French are not that bad either!
But come to think of it,,some one said that when I talked Swedish it sounded like I was singing… It is difficult to hear this yourself….you are so used to hearing it!
13 Lynn // Oct 12, 2008 at 6:13 pm
You’re right, we don’t hear how we speak, but, believe me, no one would tell me I sound like I’m singing when I talk! LOL!
14 Tina // Oct 12, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I’ve been told that I sound like I’m singing when I speak Italian..
I’m also talking to my cat in Italian as well… we’re going to have a multilingual kitty here….
I Suppose Italian would be easier for David, he asked me how come I didn’t speak Swedish, seeing as Mia and I are always talking to each other….
now there’s an Idea…
15 Lynn // Oct 13, 2008 at 5:11 am
Hey Tina, I’ve already started my Swedish lessons over at Quote For Today!
16 Mia // Oct 13, 2008 at 2:26 pm
LOL!
Okay…I can teach you Swedish…
If you two teach me how to speak..Spanish!
I bought Berlitz “Spanish for beginners” at the book fair,haven’t open it yet!
Hehe…I’m a lazy cat!But I will!I Promise!
Tomorrow!LOL…
17 Lynn // Oct 13, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Mia, my Spanish is a little rusty. I only get to practice when I’m in Mexico or Spain. I would be able to help you with your French, that’s what we speak at home.
When France and I speak on the phone, we speak in French, not Spanish, although we could, but we’re both more comfortable speaking French. I will call her this week, I promise!
18 Mia // Oct 14, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Okay…. Then I have to learn both Spanish and French!hehe…
I remember when Ulf and I were in Majorca and met this German woman,we were invited to her birthday party….
Around her table we talked:German;English;
Spanish;French and Swedish…someone could always act as a translator!
It was great fun!Our love for music,art,books and the wonder of life….cut through all language difficulties!I love those kind of meetings!
When you call France tell her I said Hello and I’m sending her my love and this goes for her daughter and son in law as well!
Will go out NOW…
19 Lynn // Oct 15, 2008 at 12:00 am
Me too! I love occasions when you have a bunch of people together and there are five or six different languages going on and yet everyone is able to understand because there’s always two or three people who speak several languages.
One time in Madrid I was in a bar with friends and I was simultaneously speaking to a number of people in French, English and Spanish. The more we drank the more I was mixing up the three languages and speaking in Spanish to the ones who spoke French and in French to the ones who spoke English, etc.
Then I started mixing up the words where one word would be in French, two more would be in English and then another word in Spanish, all in one sentence where no one understood me! LOL. Everyone just stopped and looked at me. I said, “what, what?” Then everyone started laughing, it was so funny! I didn’t even realize I was doing it! Lol.
20 Mia // Oct 15, 2008 at 8:43 am
Yeah..LOL…
Was it only you who got “that” drunk?(Teasing!)
Everyone had great fun though…I can picture it!
21 Lynn // Oct 15, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Oh believe me! Everyone was drinking! Just a “feel good” drunk, I don’t like to drink until I wish I hadn’t had anything to drink! There’s no fun in that!
22 Mia // Oct 15, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Agree with you!
I talked with a young guy about drinking…
And he said that he often drank so much that he didn’t remembered the next day what he had done!
He could sometimes wake up beside a girl and wonder how he got there..How fun is that?
23 Lynn // Oct 16, 2008 at 7:33 am
What I don’t understand is people getting drunk until they’re sick! Yuck! No thanks! I prefer once in awhile to have a nice little feel good sensation and that’s it.
Patrick and I have a bottle of wine with dinner every evening, and we don’t feel a thing! Lol. I have one or two glasses and Patrick has 2 or 3. I guess we’re just use to it.
24 Mia // Oct 16, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I guess you are…
But this is strange too…When we are in Spain, for example,we can drink more and not feel a thing!
But when home here in Sweden,it is a different thing?
Is it the mentality or what?Because here drinking is such a “hot potato”…In Spain everyone does it!
Going to a Vegetarian restaurant in Spain you get a glass of wine with the food!Not so here…
25 Lynn // Oct 16, 2008 at 9:00 pm
It could be that the alcohol level in a bottle of wine in Sweden is higher than it is in a bottle in Spain, that could explain it.
A good friend of mine, Isabel, and I use to go have a late lunch everyday in Madrid, we would take “the menu” which included a bottle of wine! Every afternoon when we would leave the restaurants, we would be feeling great. The flamenco bars and taverns would be opening for the early evening crowd and the dancers would stop us and start dancing with us. We would dance and make fools of ourselves, but we loved it! Great memories! (I’ll have to call Isabel soon, as well!)
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