1/4 cup dry shredded (baking type) coconut for garnish
optional: Kaya (Coconut Jam – see below)
Whisk the eggs in a mixing bowl. Add the coconut milk and sugar, stirring until sugar has dissolved.
Add the flour, salt and coconut flavoring. Whisk until batter is smooth.
If you’d like different colors of pancakes, divide the batter into 3 separate bowls.
Add several drops of pandan essence (or green food coloring) to make one bowl green. Add several drops red coloring to make rose-colored pancakes, or other color of your choice. Leave one bowl plain (these are the colors that the recipe says to use…however feed your creative style [in addition to your appetite] and chose your own colors!)
Heat a small frying pan or crepe pan over medium-high heat for at least 1 minute (without oil), or until pan is very hot – this will help to keep the pancakes/crepes from sticking.
Add a little oil (about 1 tsp.) and swirl it around the pan. Use a spatula to ensure the oil covers all surfaces, plus a little up the sides of the pan.
Add about 1/4 – 1/3 cup batter (depending on how large or thick you want your pancakes/crepes), tilting the pan this way and that to distribute the batter evenly.
Allow to cook at least 1 minute per side before trying to flip or disturb. Tip: Pancakes/crepes are ready to be flipped when edges are crisp and the underside has a little golden-brown coloring when you lift up one side slightly with a fork.
Flip the pancake and cook the other side 1 minute. Keep pancakes/crepes warm by placing them on a plate in a warm oven until you’re finished cooking all the batter (or serve them up as you cook them).
Be sure to add a little oil to the pan before making each new pancake/crepe.
To serve, roll pancakes/crepes and place on a serving plate. If desired, before rolling, spread with Kaya (Coconut Jam). Sprinkle with shredded coconut.
These pancakes can be made for breakfast (served with syrup) or even as a dessert (served with ice cream). To treat your exotic side, serve then with slices of mango or papaya! ENJOY!
Blend all ingredients together (you can use a whisk, electric mixer, or blender).
Grease the muffin tins or the pan and evenly pour the batter into each part.
Bake them for 15 minutes, or until they are puffy and golden on top. Use a knife to pry them out (hopefully they were greased well enough and should pop right out).
Top with your favorites (choose from classics like butter and maple syrup or venture out and try things like jams or honey).
After years of subjection to the insecurities and entanglements of administrative officials, Melchers has at last witnessed nudity. Recently art student Molly Sheldon and two friends were thwarted mid-artistic expression when the police interrupted the filming of Molly’s individual study videos. Two videos, one detailing a male nude, the other a female nude, were filmed at 2:00 am in the hallways of Melchers. While the filmmakers took care to warn other students working at that late hour, campus police were still called, and the videos stopped. The artists were chided, and warnings of arrest for indecent exposure thrown about the stairwell. But while the police stopped the filming, they could not stop the statement that had already been made (with their help, no less). Finally students stepped out of the box, out of their clothing, and into the artistic community. A late start for Melchers, but at least students are realizing that their potential as artists is no longer confined to the encumbering weight of clothing–how refreshing.
This is not a call for Mary Washington to shed its clothing and parade itself in front of the police, but rather a recognition of an expression that is intensely important to all areas of art. From the basic female nude so revered throughout art history to the vivacity of the nude in contemporary art, naked bodies help show both society and artists in their rawest forms–nothing hidden, everything exposed. We are not afraid as students, as artists, and most importantly, as basic human beings. Bravo, Molly.
4 egg whites.
1 cup of all-purpose flour.
1 cup of milk.
1 tablespoon of powdered sugar.
1 teaspoon of baking powder.
Pinch of salt.
Directions:
In a bowl, sift together all of the dry ingredients, then make a well in the middle.
In a different bowl, beat the egg whites; then add the remaining liquid ingredients.
Mix the contents of the two bowls together throughly.
Lightly coat a frying pan or skillet with cooking oil. Heat the pan over medium-high.
Pour enough batter into the pan to make one crepe.
Cook, turning once when browned on the bottom.
Answer: Sure, Uncle Lumpy likes to dance. You could go as far to say that Uncle Lumpy loves to dance. But really you don’t have to “dance” around the question, I know what you’re getting at. I too used this pickup line back in my days. I’ll just go ahead and ask you since you’re so shy: may I have this dance?
On September 24, 2008 Tadashi Kawamata and his team set out to begin the construction of a site-specific installation in the center of Madison Square Park in New York City. The installation is entitled Tree Huts and it is something that can barely be expressed in words; it stretches the imagination in countless directions. Kawamata has created a series of wooden huts which he has nestled in to the limbs of the park’s trees. Walking into Madison Square Park and seeing the installations, you immediately seem to feel displaced into a world far beyond the reaches of existence. It is as if you have become a child again and the idea of a magical forest still lingers in the realm of possibility.
The frames of the huts are assembled on ground using raw lumber; with little to nothing predetermined in the rest of the process. Kawamata has designed the huts so that they take on a less uniform, predictable shape. Looking from down below, the wood is heavily layered on the floor, giving the huts a nest-like effect. The installation gives way to multiple extremes and ironies, which were undoubtedly very well thought out by the artist. The most effective contrast, for me, was the installations ability to transform a busy and public New York City park and it turn it into a homely backyard in a rural area. It is astonishing how effective a simple hut can be when placed in the correct setting.
Personally, I wish the huts would last forever to continue to grace New York with the presence of something so out of the ordinary, in a city where there rarely is anything out of the ordinary.
In 1958, Francesca Woodman was born from well-known artists George Woodman (ceramist, painter, and photographer) and Betty Woodman (ceramist). Francesca Woodman studied at Rhode Island School of Design and also completed a honors program in Rome, Italy. Woodman lived and worked as a photographer and experimental video artist in New York and Italy. After failed attempts of breaking into the fashion photography industry and suffering a lost relationship, Woodman committed suicide by jumping out her New York loft window in 1981 at age 22.
Woodman created over 10,000 negatives, of which, only about 120 have ever been exhibited. Her photographs are typically black and white of either herself or other female nude models. Purposely over exposing or creating movement while shooting, her works usually have small blurred portions that leave the figures nude, but not completely exposed.
At the Tate Modern in London, England I had the opportunity to watch a selection of her video art works. One of the works shown was Woodman emerging from a sheet of paper that she slowly tears away and emerges from to reveal her naked body.
Take some time and look her up especially if you are interested in photography. Her work is unbelievably mysterious and moving. Each frame taken is like getting caught in a private moment in her mind.
In the art world, drawing used to be seen as only a preliminary for other artistic mediums such as painting. In time drawing came into its own as an established and legitimate medium and now the real question is, which one is better?
Well, let’s face it. You just can’t do art without getting dirty. I know I sure can’t. Part of getting into your art is really getting into it… literally… which tends to lead to whatever medium you’re using ending up all over you. You leave from sculpture and your classmates all think you don’t wash your clothes because you have plaster all over your pants from sitting on the floor. In Drawing you’re washing your hands, make that arms, all the way up to your shoulders because the charcoal drawing you’re working on is slowly covering you in a grey fog. After painting you realize that despite how careful you were, you still managed to paint splotches all over your shirt.
Sure you can rush over to the sink and rub some soap on the oil paint stain to prevent it from drying until you throw it in the wash, but sometimes that doesn’t always work now does it? Most often the stain is at the very least still partially there and pretty soon you can’t find one piece of clothing in your closet with out a bothersome paint stain on it. What on earth is going on with these oil paints? Are they trying to be spiteful? Do they have a grudge against us? A grudge that makes them seek revenge by taking as long as possible to dry thus preventing our inevitable procrastination as college students? Unfortunately I doubt we will ever know their true intentions.
So if oils are a pain just switch to acrylic, you say? Yes! Brilliant! What a great idea! They will wash out of your clothes and they’ll even dry faster! Except wait, what is this? A brushstroke I did a minute ago and it’s ALREADY DRY?!! How did this happen? I know you wanted to beat oils in the drying time race, but now it’s impossible to blend you! Le sigh.
By now I think you can see where I’m going with this. So far it’s: Drawing: 2, Painting: 0.
However that score isn’t final, so let me know your thoughts and I’ll keep this tally going!
Jeff Koons is an American artist who works primarily in sculpture and painting, often in large scale. His work is inspired by the consumer world and has featured advertisements, collectibles and toys. Themes in his work include materialism and consumerism in the modern life. His early career as an artist involved creating works from plastic inflatable flowers and rabbits and mirrors. Koons latest exhibition, Jeff Koons on the Roof, is in New York City at The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden now through October 26. It features three works from his Celebration series, which depict childhood toys in huge proportions in sculpture and painting format.
This balloon dog is over 10 feet tall and is made of chromium stainless steel.
Here are just a few of the pieces from some of his 16 series. For more of his work and biography information check out his website http://www.jeffkoons.com/
So I came home from a late dinner with Andy and got to thinking about a conversation I had earlier with the Reverend. We were talking about Ed Kienholz, you know, the guy that did the State Hospital…
…a staple in all Art History: 1945 to present courses. Anyway, we were discussing a video about the guy and that led to us talking about his funeral. Ed died back in 1994 and his funeral became the most “ultimate act” of his large body of work (oeuvre). Well, I can’t recall the exact conversation, so I’ll just connect you to a few sites that might interest you. Here you go and let me know what you think.
