{"id":7,"date":"2011-01-08T23:39:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T23:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2011-01-08T23:39:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T23:39:30","slug":"ceramic-sushi-and-saturday-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/7\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceramic Sushi and Saturday Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll start off with the Ceramic Sushi. Saturday Lunch wasn\u2019t very exciting so it is at the end. Be sure to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/sets\/72157625653036301\/with\/5336667527\/\">Flickr set for more photos.<\/a> You can also click on the photos below for larger versions on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p>I bought this cute little ceramic koi for my wife in Japantown, San Francisco during our last trip there. She was busy at a conference while I explored the city.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Bamboo with Ceramic Koi by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5336667527\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5282\/5336667527_5c1d23b7c0.jpg\" alt=\"Bamboo with Ceramic Koi\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCeramic Koi<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I picked our bamboo cutting board as the base. We also have some bamboo chopsticks. Hmm, fish, bamboo, chopsticks. Anyone for some Ceramic Sushi?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Ceramic Koi in Chopsticks by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5337333386\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5124\/5337333386_5aeb7af7f3.jpg\" alt=\"Ceramic Koi in Chopsticks\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCeramic Sushi can\u2019t swim away, but it isn\u2019t very tasty either<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>There is wonderful detail on this hand painted piece. Here\u2019s a close up.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Ceramic Koi Close Up by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5336715881\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5283\/5336715881_8a6cc4c2aa.jpg\" alt=\"Ceramic Koi Close Up\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKoi Klose-up<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In these last couple of Koi photos, I used Gimp to try to simulate a grainy photo texture which you could get on film cameras by \u201cpushing\u201d the film exposure. I think they turned out pretty good. You will need to click through to Flickr to appreciate the effect.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Grainy Ceramic Koi on Bamboo by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5337298044\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5209\/5337298044_2cc51efdd7.jpg\" alt=\"Grainy Ceramic Koi on Bamboo\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDon\u2019t push me too much<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Ceramic Sushi Now With Grain by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5336685079\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5001\/5336685079_c70d6f2ff8.jpg\" alt=\"Ceramic Sushi Now With Grain\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPushing with color<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And now, What\u2019s For Lunch? Chicken nuggets and barbecue sauce, of course!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"What is for lunch today by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5337259552\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5289\/5337259552_36b9d64c1c.jpg\" alt=\"What is for lunch today\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMmmm, chicken nuggets<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget desert. Home made Chocolate Cake!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"After Lunch Cake by Kenneth Ristau, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kristau\/5336655543\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5127\/5336655543_50b57e07d9.jpg\" alt=\"After Lunch Cake\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLori made this. Once she makes her blog public, maybe I can link to it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Like I said, lunch wasn\u2019t terribly exciting. Hopefully by now you\u2019ve gotten bored and have clicked on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenfry.com\/\">better things<\/a> than my little blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll start off with the Ceramic Sushi. Saturday Lunch wasn\u2019t very exciting so it is at the end. Be sure to visit the Flickr set for more photos. You can also click on the photos below for larger versions on Flickr. I bought this cute little ceramic koi for my wife in Japantown, San Francisco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,47,84,117,122,146,190],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-bamboo","tag-ceramic","tag-food","tag-koi","tag-macro","tag-photos-2","tag-sushi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}