"Food Art 1105 The B.B"

When i was little my mom used to make me this for breakfast all the time for me and my brother. We used to smother it in syrup and we with our hands so by the time we were finished our hands were completely sticky and covered with syrup. Its very quick and easy to make. Its fun for kids and also adults to make and eat together. Its fulled with all your breakfast favorites in the form of a burger so mom used to call it "bb" which stood for the breakfast burger. Hope you like it cause i sure did.

Ingredients:
For Pancakes:

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• Pinch salt
• 2 cups milk
• 2 eggs
• Butter for skillet
• 1/4 cup oil

For Scrambled Eggs

• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp. of butter
• House Seasoning; pinch of salt, pepper and parsley mixture

Directions:

 

Heat a nonstick griddle to medium heat while you prepare the pancake batter. Combine flour and salt then mix milk, eggs, oil together and add to flour mixture. Butter your skillet and then add 2 tsp of oil to keep butter from burning . Ladle about 1/4 cup of the batter, for each pancake, onto the skillet. The bottoms of the pancakes should brown in roughly 2 to 4 minutes. Flip to finish cooking the other side. Cook until lightly golden brown.

Place finished pancakes in a preheated 200 degree F oven until ready to serve. Preheat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat for 1 minute. Crack eggs into a large mixing bowl and whisk them until the whites and the yolks are combined. Season with House Seasoning then add butter to the skillet and allow the butter to melt. Add the eggs and reduce heat to medium-low so u do not over cook eggs.  Stir frequently until soft small curds have developed. The more you stir the more the creamier the eggs will be. Remove from heat as soon as you see the consistency you like.Then pour 4 tbsp. of oil to a non-stick skillet over a medium high heat and brown sausages to taste. For additional flavoring add a slice of American cheese on top of pancake, top with scrambled eggs and sausage. Top scrambled eggs with another slice of cheese and place another pancake on top. Add a dab of butter and smother with maple syrup.

 

 

"Design In our Life"

a great place to reside

The Sea Shelter was very captivating to me because one of my mothers favorite movies is titanic and the I did some research on this raft that was set up and it proved to be quite the helpful tool during, lets say an event like, the titanic because it takes less energy to climb aboard the raft opposed to lets say a regular canoe. After the body is weary from finally reaching the raft it would be very inconvenient not to be able to board the raft because it keeps flipping over or you cant get your foot in or for any other reason. With the Sea Shelter Raft it allows you space to plant your feet and hand inside while balancing your weight and also gives you handles that you are able to support yourself coming out of the water. I deemed this invention to be highly functional in the case that someone was ever in a position as such. Another invention I saw to be very intriguing was the Water cone that basically consumes evaporated water and transforms it into drinking water. In parts of the world, third world countries and places of drought, I think that the water cone can be very useful and because of the evaporation process most of the germs have been filtered so the water is freshly prepped to drink. I think this is a highly functional design that if it works can provide aid to a lot of people.  In the Plywood: Material, Process and Form exhibit I found that most of the designs proved to be highly unusable. They had this table that could not have been more than 6 inches tall and as amazing as the design was, I highly doubt that it could be used for the purpose that tables are invented for. Another was the butterfly stool which was made from plywood. The design, I must admit, does capture the eye but for example if a person of my size wanted to use it for its purpose of creation, it would prove to be inadequate. It doesn’t seem to be able to with stand any weight and considering the cheap material of plywood, which is glue and lumber, I think that the chair needs much added support but on a scale of design it was quite a looker.  The final exhibit that I wasn’t so much interested in but found to be very creative in design was Fore Closed: Rehousing the American Dream. It was basically teams set out to explore different possibilities of architecture for mostly suburban areas. The building models seemed very unstable because of the predicted material and balance of some of the buildings. They seemed nice in design and able to hold quite an amount of people but I don’t think that those building would be left standing for very long because of this reason. In the design aspect if I had to choose a favorite it would be the complex, fully made in glass I think if better materials that have proven to be withstanding to natural weather changes it would be a great place to reside

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Visit to MoMa Ps1

I visited MoMa Ps1 and I was very intrigued by some of the art that was created and displayed. Some of it I found to be very confusing. Frances Stark I believed had me the most confused as to her inspiration for her piece. She had these two animated characters and their privates where covered by a leaf for each of the exposed parts. The two characters where speaking about sex. I was confused about where her idea came from with this video and i found that her inspiration came from someone she met anonymously on a website and formed from their conversation. She then found this site xtranormal and began to create her characters and dialogue. I felt that the green screen represented the whole idea of being in "no place and coming from nothing and out of this nothing they created a dialogue so the viewers can create their own projections. It also made me understand why she used a video versus a painting or expressing this in words. As I analyzed this piece, I came to the realization that she left it open to the viewers imagination to create their own characters as well as well as voices and their own scenery which then made it an individual experience for everyone. Clifford Owens exhibit of anthology is very difficult to define and the fact that it cannot be defined is the part that really is intriguing to me as well as most of his viewers whom i spoke with at the exhibit. He depicts this kind of sexual vibe of dominance. He then had this three part video playing at the same time on different screens where he showed interactions between human and an animal, human and human. He always gives the sense of me the subject, the foundation and his interactions with either the camera or another person and even if he repeats the same action with another person the "subject" always receives different responses which was very comical and kind of really difficult to understand. From Henry Taylor, I got this sense of black power. He had an exhibit of this black fist and directly behind it was a display of Huey Newton. In the display Huey was dressed in all black which reminded me of the black panthers era and this fight for justice was executed with showing a staff in one hand and a gun in the other and her sat upright on this pedestal which depicted power and strength. There were also some "African artifacts" that surrounded him in the display to reflect on heritage. I loved the piece.

bridge of hope and promise

On the left side of my bridge there is a heart and its black. Black often symbolizes darkness and "evil" but it can also represent ideas of sophistication and elegance, mystery and fear are also contributing factors when you think about the color black. But my true definition of black is mourning. Suffering major losses of loved one in the past who represented elegance and sophistication, allowed me to be who i am today, and there is also a silver lining around the heart to show that their can always be happiness outside of your sadness so i thought this would be the most appropriate thing to honor them. The Marine Corps. seal is also on the left hand corner and represents a major part of my life that was also very sad and unpleasant memories which brings me to my next symbol of a cross. The cross is gold and also represent royalty but my experience in the pentecostal church that's exactly what i thought of them, as royals, too good to look down on people like me so it mad me become very resistant to forms of religion so that is also on the left hand side of my bridge. East New York Transit Tech High school is on the bottom left of the collage because it was the absolute lowest point in my life. To be blunt, I HATED IT. Music is the first on the top right corner which are one of my passions but not a pursuit. Whitney Houston photo at the GMA concert at central park honestly was one of the best memories ever and right next to her is balloons to represent celebration of life and enjoyment which is what I am trying to do now. Popeye was always one of my favorite characters and he represented strength and laughter. The balance scale is what i hope to become in the future, a lawyer, and it also represents what i am maintaining in my life now...Its all about balancing my social life with school and work and internships and family and friends and  my sanity. The chef hat as well as the nice piece of lasagna  represents my love for food and different cultures of food more specifically Italian and Sicilian food. The alien represents the feeling of isolation and the need to set myself apart from everyone and analyze who i am as an individual and having accepting the fact that I am different sometimes mean accepting that you might have to stand alone.

Good Art vs. Bad Art

Good Art to me is an artist that creates a feeling or a scene that lets you see through the artist eyes his emotions or his thoughts behind the actual art. Its a visual and obvious representation that shows a person is aesthetic and can use medium to create a vision that relays a message to the audience. Bad Art to me could be described as mediocre or a piece that lacks details, specifications, tones, feelings and does not give the audience a clear message. A piece that sometimes is distorted and hard to grasp the ambiance of such art.