A Mixed Bag (8.27.09)

Hugh Pocock, Day 63, 2009. Paper and ink. Courtesy of the artist.

My Food My Poop: To explore energy production and consumption, artist Hugh Pocock weighed all of his food, drink, urine and poop for 63 days. This multimedia project was recently installed at The Contemporary Art Center, Baltimore.

Bioart: A blogger's musings.

Oil Change: In response to consumer complaints, Cadbury has stopped using palm oil in its milk chocolate products.

Double Disgusting: KFC has taken the no-carb diet too far.

Street Eats: Browse over 800 images in the 7x7 Street Food Photo Contest Flickr pool.

B-Day in the Bay: To honor 60 years of Candy Land, a 575-foot version of the board game was created along Lombard Street in San Francisco.

Naturally Sweet: Ponderosa Pines smell like baking cookies.

Culinary Delights: Photographs by David Halliday: An exhibition of the acclaimed photographer's still life food compositions; Halliday began his career as a chef. Opens Sept. 5 at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

New Peeps: Radhika Subramaniam has been named director and chief curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons.

Where the Wild Ones Werq: My boss shows off the new Astor Place digs (and his abs) for New York Magazine.

T.M.I.: Social media could make you a target for burglars.

Cast Your Vote: Would you rather be healthy, trendy, wealthy, powerful, beautiful, or sexy? (Apparently, "healthy" means "you're a fat hog.")

Chocolate Hearts: A new study finds that men and women who had one heart attack, but ate chocolate were three times less likely to die from a second heart attack.

Blueberry Buckle: A dense cake filled with fresh blueberries.

Quite a Twist: Are the lemon and lime characters on the Maoam candy wrapper gettin' freaky?

Cover to Cover: More and more book covers feature provocative images of beat up books.

Pop Art: Coagula Art Journal is giving away 24 limited edition t-shirts featuring Michael Jackson's 2003 mug shot. Download the Sept. issue to read the contest rules.

Best Title Ever: Who You Callin' Conceptual?

Slant/Light/Volume: Robert Irwin's 1971 piece is on view at the Walker Art Center for the first time in 20 years. Continues through Nov. 21.

Beam Your Breakfast: A Teleport Fridge is one of many futuristic food appliances entered into the 2009 Electrolux Design Lab Competition.

Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto: Fein tackles the symbiotic relationship between rock music and consumerism in his first solo museum exhibition. Opens Sept. 12 at the New Orleans Museum of Art with a concert featuring local bands and DJs.

Cupcake Competition: At least six cupcake bakeries have opened around Washington, D.C. in the past 20 months, and there are more to come.

Cookin' Soon: Check out Eat Me Daily's fall cookbook preview.

The Girl Effect: This Lombard-Freid exhibition links social change to the power of young girls. Opens Sept. 10 with a performance by Yara El-Sherbini at the Manhattan pub/eatery Fiddlesticks.

Nuns No More: The Convent of St. Cecilia in Greenpoint, Brooklyn housed nuns until last year, but this week it becomes an art space.

Drunken Chocolate Pecan Cake.