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Tag Archives: fruit

Link Buffet: Fashionable Tastes

October 31, 2019by Sara Davis Leave a comment

At Colossal: “Artist Kathleen Ryan creates a conversation between the beautiful and the grotesque in her oversized sculptures of mold-covered fruit.” You know the New Yorker–this article is sort of about […]

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Fruit, Link Buffet

Quick hit: Produce/Producer

February 19, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

This video features Brooklyn-based musician J. Viewz playing Massive Attack’s hauntingly lovely “Teardrop”. . . using fruits and vegetables. And mushrooms. In the first part of the video, J. Viewz explains […]

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Fruit, Music, Performance, Playing with Food, Vegetable

A palette to appeal to the palate

January 30, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

Colossal had some fun fruits-and-vegetables images up last week. These are by Florent Tanet. The linear arrangement of green tints and tones reminded me a little bit of those swatch […]

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Advertising, Fruit, Photography, Playing with Food, Visual appeal and presentation

Andrew Marvell’s Vegetable Love

October 7, 2012by Sara Davis 3 Comments

Let me begin by declaiming that I am no expert in early modern literature. I did teach-assist one gargantuan class in British Literature, Beginnings-1600; there were about one hundred students […]

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Fruit, Literature, Poetry, Vegetable

Promotional Lip Balm

July 6, 2011by Sara Davis Leave a comment

This morning I realized my tube of coconut-shea butter-whatever lip balm had run low, so I grabbed another tube from the jumbled assortment of flavored, moisturizing, sun-screening lip balms I […]

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Advertising, Aromas and Odors, Artificial Flavors, Flavors, Merchandise

The grisly murder of fruit

May 22, 2011by Sara Davis Leave a comment

While waiting for my bus in the morning, I noticed a number of city buses were wearing this advertisement on their sides: My websearch turned up a great many more variations of […]

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Advertising, Anthropomorphism, Fruit, Television, Violence

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