Saturday, March 10, 2012

Homemade pizza

Homemade Pizza!


2 T Yeast
3 T Sugar
2 Cups Warm Water
3 T oil
1 t salt
6 cups flour

mix first 3 ingredients. (let sit for 5 min to activate yeast) 
Add oil and salt, then mix in flour one cup at a time.
Knead the dough to make sure it is thoroughly mixed, but careful not to knead too much.
Cover and let rise.
Turn on oven to 425 with pizza stone in the oven for at least 20 min before cooking pizza.
Dough should have doubled in size. Separate into 2-3 balls. 
2 balls = thick crust 3 balls = thin crust.
Roll pizza out onto parchment paper and add whatever toppings you desire! Place on pizza stone and cook for 18 minutes or until golden brown on the edges of the dough.

My favorite toppings are artichoke hearts, basil, tomatoes and wingers amazing sauce (not in that triple combination, but they are just amazing flavors) 


Friday, March 2, 2012

Landscape Art SUCKS

People that live in big cities go to their fancy quaint little art museums to stare at paintings of mountains and waterfalls and trees and plateaus and canyons and flowers and rocks and baby animals and birds and clouds and blah blah blah crap!
If they would just step outside the city limits for a moment to see the real deal, they would realize landscape art is a disgrace. God is the true artist, and no one else measures up.

Freak man.

What is so exciting about a painted mountain scene or some flowers anyway?
A.b.s.o.l.u.t.e.l.y. n.o.t.h.i.n.g.

If I wanted to see a *depiction* of something that already exists, I would go see it in real life.
That's where the true beauty exists.
Besides, its a shame to try and capture the magnificence of moving and changing subjects. Part of the glory of nature is that it is always changing; to force nature to reside in a frozen, unchangeable state simply to be hung on the walls of a gallery and gawked at, that's practically a sin. No, it is a sin.
Landscape painters can burn for all I care.

When I go to an art museum I want to see genius. creativity. ingenuity. exploration. discovery. not some stupid flower that was "oh so pretty you just had to waste several hours of your life painting it."
dude, I see the exact same flower in the exact same way and I can see it in a couple seconds.
I want to see things through new eyes.
Feel anger. jealousy. envy. love. passion. grief. stress.
I want to be offended.

and no one has ever been offended by a landscape.

Art should change people. End of story.