math does come in handy if you’re either Allen Ruppersburg or Alan McCullum doing a collaboration. you have to figure out how many of Alan’s pieces (he makes them by the gross, and they are shown in sets of a certain number) fit on one of Allen’s uniquely sized stations using a spreadsheet comparing number of frames to square footage. add gallery square footage to that calculation and you get a nice pivot table.
Category Archives: why artists need math
toilet rolls
out in the hills of Los Angeles is a bathroom with a sign which says: “Please! Only two turns of toilet paper allowed.”
what’s important to know is that two turns of a FULL roll gets you a lot more TP footage than two turns of a close-to-empty roll.
one dozen eggs
it started with the italian meatballs. two eggs into the mix. then we had salt and herb encrusted onaga fish. recipe calls for 5 eggs whites. the next day with our five egg yolks we made soft yolk and lemon ricotta ravioli, using another egg to seal the dough. next morning with leftover ricotta we made lemon ricotta pancakes, which required 4 eggs and lasted two breakfasts.
dedicated to l. poilâne
there’s a reason they call it Poilâne-“style” miche.
