Nope, that isn’t my noggin. I don’t have any nasty tumors (I don’t think so anyhow).. but I thought some people might actually find this entertaining/interesting though.

I got an email this week from a researcher at a University (that shall remain nameless..), asking me about my photography. I get emails from time to time from people asking if they can use my food shots for certain things, but never this..

The researchers I guess are doing some studies into how we react to apparently appetizing food. They want to use a photograph or two of mine, and show them to people that are in an MRI machine.. They then go ahead and measure brain responses to the images presented.

Sounds like pretty interesting stuff! The cool thing is that they are going to send me the results of the tests.

As a complete science geek, this made my week.

It seems like Brittany over at The Pie Lady has awarded me with another Meme. I should say that she runs one of my favorite food blogs out there. She is pastry chef at one of my favorite Seattle restaurants – Crow, and pastry chef at Crow’s sister, Betty. If that wasn’t enough to seal her blog into my hall of fame, he writing style is brilliant – witty and down to earth. Oh, and she has as bad a potty mouth as myself. And finally, her baking is awesome. To me, she is one of Seattle’s top pastry chefs, and very humble about it too.

So, this Meme is a little different. It has nothing to do with food. I apparently have to list 7 songs I am listening to at the moment. That is pretty interesting I thought, and it got me thinking. I have a really wide range in music tastes – I listen to a lot of old blues and jazz, modern trance (dance) music, and have a real passion for obscure lyrical indie too.

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OK.. so it isn’t like I don’t have a thousand other bloody things to do, but… I really wanted to put together a website that just had some of my better food photography on it – no odd stories or anything. Without further ado

Behold… drum roll…..

http://www.mattikaarts.com/photography

NOTE: I cannot code HTML to save my life.. Apparently this looked like junk in Firefox.. Who uses firefox anyhow?? Oh, turns out lots of people. A good friend of mine took pity on me, and recoded the thing in CSS, so it should look fine for everyone now. Even you Mac users.. LOL.

Nuff said really! This blog is now one year old.

The last year has been awesome. Lots of changes, lots of developments. I reckon the food on here as got a lot better, along with the photography. Thanks to everyone that leaves comments (both good and bad), this wouldn’t be the same without all of you.