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If you know the artist let me know, I would love to credit him/her.
It’s like Thomas Kinkade meets The Brave Little Toaster (err, /robot).
ALSO: The hell is that duck doing?
Workers clearing the jungle at Fordlandia, June 18, 1934. (via The Henry Ford)
“The plantations of Fordlandia and Belterra were two attempts by the Ford Motor Company from 1928-1945 to establish a permanent rubber plantation presence in Brazil.”
Remembrance of Candy Bars Past
“How a wave of consolidation lay waste to regional treats like the Fig Pie and the Seven Up Bar”
"I have had an apocalypse plan for as long as I can remember. Early on, things were simple: maintain a supply of canned food and potable H2O; travel before dawn; avoid the dirtbike gangs. When I got married, I added something in there about building a small gyrocopter to transport beloved wife above roving dirtbike gangs if necessary. Now that I have kids, the apocalypse plan is so convoluted and filled with contingencies I’m afraid when the apocalypse actually comes, following the plan is going to be like a group reading of Choose Your Own Adventure: Portents of Nostradamus at gunpoint, with the guns held by a group of burly Visigoth rapists circling us on sputtering motorcycles. I hope, at least, our food stores will last long enough that the Visigoths will have finally run out of bullets and they will be forced to shoot flaming arrows when we make our escape."
"Organic online grocer, Cai Guan Jia is hoping to capitalize on the death of Chinese youth grocery shopping by introducing, convenient, healthy, and ready to deliver groceries. It offers 66 kinds of vegetables, 50+ kinds of meat, and 20 kinds of seafood."
Stocking Up On Groceries Not a Popular Option for Chinese Youth - PSFK
A crop of irrigated barley. Barley growing on the Camas Division. (via The U.S. National Archives)
Looking across rows of corn, cliff in background, “Corn Field, Indian Farm near Tuba City, Arizona, in Rain, 1941.” (via The U.S. National Archives)
"Foodprint is not your typical NYC food gathering. From Edible Geography: The free afternoon program will consist of four panel discussions: “Zoning Diet,” about the hidden corsetry of policy, access, and economics that gives shape to urban food distribution; “Culinary Cartography,” a look at the kinds of things we can learn about New York City when we map its food types and behaviours; “Edible Archaeology,” about the socio-economic forces, technical innovations, and events that have shaped New York food history, in the context of the present; and “Feast, Famine, and Other Scenarios,” an opportunity to collaboratively speculate on changes to the edible landscape of New York in both the near and distant future. The event takes place in NYC on Feb 27th; it’s free and the entire thing will be available online as well."
