Spiral-cut fried whole potato: Korean junk-food

Tornado Potatoes — new street-food from South Korea. It’s a spiral-cut potato, deep fried and dusted with tangy cheezy powder. Yes, it’s unhealthy, but the Koreans have a long way to go if they’re going to bridge the US-Korean junk-food gap — hello, deep-fried Coca-Cola! Get that potato some whipped mayo and maybe some rat-poison (or plutonium) and we’ll be in business. Link (via Neatorama)via: http://boingboing.net/ 

Metal Shutter Houses

Adding to an already impressive couple of blocks in West Chelsea, Manhattan, is Shigeru Ban’s new design for The Metal Shutter Houses. That’s the name for a condo with nine duplex apartments with jaw-dropping exterior features. Simply amazing, and surely to rate high on thetwo-dozen list, whenever we get around to updating it with Nouvel’s second apartment building, Herzog & DeMeuron’s 40 Bond Street, and the like.

 via: http://www.tropolism.com 

gta with anime

Koen Hauser

BiographyKoen Hauser (1972)Works and lives in Amsterdam 

Education2000-2002 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam1998-2000 Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag 1992-1996 Sociale psychology, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

Stipendia / prizes2005, grant AFK, Amsterdam Foundation for Arts2004 Startstipendium, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture2003 Startstipendium, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture2003 nominated for Paul Huf Junior Award2002 nominated for Shell Young Art Award