Via wnyc:
On weekends, jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel makes healthful, artistic breakfasts for his wife, reports the Times. He has not yet responded to an email request for deliveries.
Today in things I love.
Via unconsumption:
It’s an idea that sounds … well, bananas.
Del Monte has come up with individual plastic packaging for bananas, a fruit that already comes in its own natural, biodegradable wrapper.
Paradoxically, Del Monte says the packaged bananas, which will be marketed [in a trial] as a “natural energy snack on the go” in Britain and the United States, are intended as a green initiative.
The clear pouches are said to contain “controlled ripening technology,” purported to extend the shelf-life of the fruit by several days.
Del Monte’s U.K. managing director James Harvey [told the Fresh Produce Journal] … “Del Monte’s new CRT packaging is designed to provide significant carbon footprint savings by reducing the frequency of deliveries and the amount of waste going to landfill. The packaging is also recyclable.”
Can extra packaging really be more environmentally friendly?
(Story via The Globe and Mail; photo via The Daily Mail Online.)
(hat tip to our friends at Green Thing, @Dothegreenthing)
Related: Earlier Unconsumption post about banana stickers.
Via wnyc:
Dan Tague folds dollar bills up to make them say stuff. There’s an exhibit of his work in NYC this week.
— Jody Avirgan
Via kateoplis:
Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House has finally opened in China (video)
Beautifully shot video, with overwhelmingly positive remarks about the opera house from The Guardian’s architecture critic, Jonathan Glancey, including this gem: “It’s one of the most remarkable buildings not just in China, but in the whole world.”
“The genius behind @MayorEmanuel is Dan Sinker, who has a heart made out of Chicago and balls of punk rock.”
Alexis Madrigal reveals the man behind the the notorious, lovable, f-bomb spewing @MayorEmanuel. (via theatlantic)
A great story – and great coverage of it.
If you haven’t watched the Organizing the Bookcase stop-motion video, or, like me, you have but need a visual and/or mental break from whatever you’re working on right now, take one minute and 29 seconds out of your day to watch it.
[Bonus: Rhythmic guitar music by Rodrigo y Gabriela!]
Interior of Craft & Commerce restaurant in San Diego.