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Sharing the Joy of Cooking with @chinamisakamoto
For more photos and videos of Chinami’s homemade Japanese dishes, follow @chinamisakamoto on Instagram.
On New Year’s Eve, Osaka Instagrammer Chinami Sakamoto (@chinamisakamoto) was busy preparing osechi-ryori, traditional Japanese dishes featuring ingredients that have symbolic meanings to bring good luck for the new year. “There are so many things about Japanese food culture that I’m proud to share with the world,” says Chinami. “Like the seasonal and regional diversity, the way we use the ingredients to the fullest and the gentle cooking of food that sinks deeply into every fiber of your being.”
Chinami says that for her, cooking is a form of self-expression that evolved naturally into her pursuit of food photography. From colorful kaleidoscopic vegetable soup to sushi that looks as if it were plucked from a flower field, Chinami decorates her tabletop with homemade dishes that feature seasonal organic food grown in her garden and shares them on Instagram. “Through my food photos, I hope to tell the joy of cooking,” she says.
Transforming School Lunch Into an Incredible Art Project with @dailynapkins
For more cartoon napkin creations from Nina, follow @dailynapkins.
Nina Levy (@dailynapkins) estimates that she has made over 2,000 different drawings on the napkins she packs with her children’s lunches. These days, the New York-based artist and professor makes elaborately whimsical color sketches, but she says the saga began much more simply.
“I began doing napkins in the fall of 2006, drawing simple pictures in black Sharpie on napkins for my son when he started staying at nursery school for lunch,” Levy explains. “I was just including a caring message from home and hoping to get him a little extra attention from the teachers supervising his lunch.”
In the beginning, Levy’s two sons would actually use the napkins for their originally intended purpose. Now, they serve a more decorative function. Levy says that even though she doesn’t always make napkins for both boys, they are still usually involved in selecting the subject matter for each drawing.
“If I don’t have a request, I usually try to draw something that I know they have been thinking about recently,” she says. “I am, however, often wrong about what is cool or even acceptable in the minds of seven- and 11-year-old boys.”
For Levy, the drawings are more than just a product of motherly love. They’re also an extension of her craft.
“I view them as a sort of compulsory nightly drawing practice, an enforced pop culture update, and, in my most pretentious moments, a form of sustained performance art,” she says.
Forging New Frontiers in Electronic Music with @__shigeto
For a look at what inspires Zach, and for sneak peeks at his live performances, follow @__shigeto on Instagram.
For Detroit, Michigan musician Zach Saginaw, more commonly known as Shigeto (@__shigeto), electronic music provides new frontiers for experimentation and growth. “Jazz was my passion for my entire teenage life,” he explains. “But the competitive nature of school and putting an art form I found so free and limitless into the box of academia took away a lot of what I originally loved about it.”
“I wanted to be a part of something still changing and growing,” says Zach. Indeed Shigeto, Zach’s middle name and the name of his grandfather, translates from Japanese to: “to grow bigger.” “My peers come from all different musical backgrounds. The transition was natural and calling me,” he says. “It was calling a lot of us.“
While Zach’s photos reflect his interests and inspiration, he uses video to tease his live performances. “I post songs people know, but show how different they are live, show how they translate and give people something to look forward to.”