avengers

The current challenge on the Monday Artday illustration website is "avengers", with inspiration coming from the movie. That big-screen bomb with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman that didn't come close to capturing the quirky coolness of the classic 60s TV show?

 

They're the only Avengers I  know.

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strange food

To break up the monotony between shots of sun-tanned tourists on cruise ships and Anthony Bourdain’s smoke-filled excursions to out-of-the-way gourmet eateries, the Travel Channel debuted Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern in 2007. Andrew is a chef, a food critic and, most important, a daring gourmand. He’s a likable and entertaining guy and, for a time, I enjoyed watching the show.

The premise of the show is simple. Andrew travels to a specific country, meets some locals, gets them to cook up a batch of native specialties and Andrew eats ‘em — no questions asked. And let me tell you, Andrew has eaten some pretty weird stuff in the show’s five seasons. In early episodes of the show, Andrew happily scarfed down balut (a fertilized duck egg with a duck embryo inside), a still-beating frog’s heart, fermented whale blubber, lamb’s tongue and eye, assorted insects and various internal and external parts of chickens that are usually dropped down a garbage disposal.

twist

I am planning to do my "heaven" drawing tonight. In the mean time, here is my take on "twist", this week's challenge word on another illustration blog.

The quintessential twist-ending Twilight Zone is "To Serve Man". This episode has been parodied and referenced in countless movies and TV shows. It is so typical of Twilight Zone, that I thought it fitting to honor it as the subject of this week's drawing for Illustration Friday.

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