An experimental gustatory VR helmet.

Thu Tran is a mixed media artist who has a show on IFC called Food Party. Aside from The Mighty Boosh, this is my favourite show on TV right now. Visually this show is what I only dream of being able to one day do with my photo shoots. Call it ‘advanced DIY’ (*cough*- read:budget). I have been living in Thu’s fantasy world of slightly horrifying cardboard friends and living inanimate objects since about 1979 when I became entranced with Sid & Marty Krofft.

Artisan status aside, Thu is also naturally hilarious. Her delivery, cadence, and choice of words are being siphoned directly from the marrow of my funny bone. Some highlights of the show consist of a baguette having sex with a hamburger bun (complete with climax), a carnal representation of peanut butter and jelly finding each other to be soul mates, and crazy recipes like the noodle and ham pancake made in the video above.

It’s the first Thursday of the month, and for cities with a thriving art scene that means crowding into galleries for gratis, eating all the free snacks you can lay your grubby mitts on, elbowing your way through crowds of booze-boldened hipsters, perusing the works of local artists, and, of course, leaving without buying a god damn thing.

If you’re in the Seattle area this evening, stop on by Starfish Studios to take a gander at the latest series from local artists Libby Bulloff and Angel Ceballos. Eroticized edibles is this month’s theme, and while all the work on display is well worth the walk to the waterfront, the added prospect of seeing one fourth of Ectomo’s writing staff perpetuate the apocryphal sexual origins of porcine influenza should practically guarantee your attendance.

As an added bonus, the first few Ectomites to introduce themselves will receive an Octobee sticker from yours truly (while meager supplies last).

Trader Joe’s cephalopodal chef shows you his favorite recipes.

Trader Joe’s Culinary Compendium [Trader Joe's] : NOTCOT

Unbread Ed [Flickr]

My love for LEGO has been documented in these pages before so I shall spare you a breathless ode to the plastic building blocks of the gods. Instead I will simply allow this marvelous guide speak for itself. It shows you how to make a mold in order to make your own Gummi-LEGO. Like Gummi Bears, but in the shape of LEGO blocks. I’ll let that sink in. I can easily imagine building a mighty, saccharine city in miniature which upon completion I can run riot through, a sugar-crazed Godzilla, leaving a sticky, half eaten trail of destruction in my wake.

LeGummies brick shaped gummy candies [Instructables] : Thanks, Mable!