Banana Panic

Andrea Bricco creates art from the food on her plate

Andrea Bricco gives the expression playing with food on your dinner plate a whole new meaning. Her new series looks far better than my childhood attempts at making masterpieces out of mash potato and other vibrant vegies. Read more

British Food painting series by Joël Penkman

It’s no secret that we at The Urban Grocer have a soft spot for any marriage of food and art. And so upon learning about UK-based graphic designer and painter Joël Penkman, it was love at first site. Penkman’s delightful paintings take as their subject everything from an open can of Spam, to Stilton on a digestive, to black forest cake. Read more

Shocking truth about peanut butter manufacturing

The food manufacturing industry in general has often been accused of reverting to dubious methods in their industrialized food production processes. But this image proves that the truth is a lot worse than all the rumors could have led us to believe. While half of Central Europe is investigating the origins of the EHEC coli bacteria in vegetable and salad, this picture gives a good reason to extend the investigation to further branches of the food production industry.

Envelope Drawings by Mark Powell

Mark Powell from London uses a standard big biro pen to draw amazing portraits of elderly people on the backs of old envelopes. His works are as evocative as his canvas is unusual. Regardless, the results of his creative efforts are amazing. Read more

Hockern: the new German sport of Extreme Sitting

Breakdance and skateboarding are from yesteryear: Hockern is the new trend sport on the streets these days. The origins of Hockern can be traced back to the German coast city of Kiel, where people with too much time on their hands and not much interest in breaking their bones invented a few tricks that have since spread around the world. Hockern loosely translates into ‘stooling’, although the more appropriate expression for it would be ‘extreme sitting’. The actual activitiy can be described as simply as this: ‘Just grab a stool and rock it like a hockstar!’

Typewriter art by Keira Rathbone

Keira Rathbone is a London-based artist with a particular prediliction for typewriters. She enjoys traveling the world, collecting different typerwiters, and ‘typing pictures’ of people and places along the way. The result is as unique as it is marvelous. Read more