Ravin Agrawal: 10 young Indian artists to watch

I watched this video on TED about contemporary Indian Artists. This video was pretty interesting because I never really looked at Indian Art much before and I find that I enjoy it. The first artist that was talked about made a bunch of multicolored circles in honor of the dots that women wear on their foreheads in their culture. She then applied them to the fiberglass sculptures that she creates.

There is another artist towards the end where the artist uses porcupine quills to apply metallic industrial paints to create these super detailed paintings. The picture to the left is an example of this artist's work. I've never seen anyone work with a porcupine quill and I wonder if that's something that could be ordered online... hmm...

Adventure to Make Eggplant Parm at UARTS!

My friends Rachel and Kate agreed to come with me on this quest to Center City.

The first thing we did was get art supplies from Utrecht and Blick.

I have a friend Sam Reedy who attends UARTS. We agreed a while ago that we would make Eggplant Parmesan. Sam met us at Blick and from there we went on our way to the Reading Terminal Market.

On our way there we saw a hardcore, gourmet cupcake shop. All the cupcakes were behind glass cabinets and

there was a crazy mannequin in the window who wore an apron-like dress with a cupcake pattern.

The prices of the cupcakes weren't entirely ridiculous, you could get one for $3. We resisted the beautiful cupcakes

and continued on our way.

We then ran into the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. The building is amazing. It has a giant glass dome on the top

of it where there is a garden. We wandered in and ended up seeing the garden.

It was really nice being there, the lights were dim and the sun was just setting. When we looked down there were

kites hanging above the stairs and a bunch of statues on the second level.

We left the garden in time to finally make it to the Reading Terminal Market. There we found the ingredients we needed

to make the Eggplant Parm. Well everything but the Parmesan cheese! The first store we tried failed us but the second

store was a success! Back in Sam's apartment we cooked the eggplant and then later had Nutella and croissants.

I give this an A+ night, beats J&H or SAC food for dinner.