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The Life & Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow MotionFebruary 22, 2021 at 11:00 AM Some YouTuber posted online a pretty nice clip of an espresso shot being pulled from a La Marzocco FB80 espresso machine at 120 frames per second. They recommend muting the sound, then putting on your own music. I gave it a quick shot with the famous soundtrack for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. And I’ll be damned, it syncs up pretty well. Have a better soundtrack to recommend? Feel free to let us know in the comments section below.
Would you like to support the mission of...Tags: Google, Facebook, London, College, Food & Drink, Volkswagen, Kubrick, Facebook Twitter, William S Burroughs, Le Corbusier, Renato Bialetti, Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted, Kant Voltaire Kierkegaard 143 people like this. Like An Espresso Maker Made in Le Corbusier’s Brutalist Architectural Style: Raw Concrete on the Outside, High-End Parts on the InsideNovember 30, 2017 at 1:35 PM From the 1950s through the 1970s, Brutalist architecture flourished in North America and Europe (both West and East) and many countries beyond. Made out of raw concrete, Brutalist buildings--usually municipal buildings, campuses, and housing projects--have an almost unfinished look to them. The first and most famous example of this architectural style is the Unité d'habitation, the housing complex built by Le Corbusier in Marseille between 1947 and 1952.
Though Brutalism has since fallen out of...Tags: Google, Europe, College, Architecture, Food & Drink, Marseille, Indiegogo, North America, Facebook Twitter, Facebook and Twitter, Le Corbusier, Renato Bialetti, Montaag Products 143 people like this. Like Coffee and ProvocationFebruary 24, 2016 at 8:38 AM Renato Bialetti, No Filter Renato Bialetti, who brought the Moka coffee maker to the world, has died at the age of 93, and his ashes have been entombed in a large Moka coffee maker. Roadkill Science At Virginia Tech, they're learning from the dead things found next to the white lines on the road. The Breaking Point of Trees It turns out there is a critical wind speed, of around 90 mph, at which almost all tree trunks break – regardless their size or species. Let's Kill a Hell of a Lot of Koal...Tags: UK, Chile, Moka, PBurns, Renato Bialetti, Roadkill Science At Virginia Tech 72 people like this. Like Coffee Entrepreneur Renato Bialetti Gets Buried in the Espresso Maker He Made FamousFebruary 22, 2016 at 11:40 PM Love your coffee? Renato Bialetti invented and was buried in the Moka coffee maker https://t.co/M0n9LJ5KSh pic.twitter.com/sle3s8zHdj
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At OC HQ you will find two Bialetti espresso makers on the stove–one small, the other large–and together they power us through the day. Invented by Alfonso Bialetti in 1933, the octagonal, Art Deco-designed coffee maker eventually became a staple in Italian homes (90% of them), thanks to his son Renato, who die...Tags: Google, Facebook, Life, Food & Drink, Paul Giamatti, Moka, Bialetti, Facebook Twitter, Renato, Facebook and Twitter, Renato Bialetti, Honoré de Balzac, Kant Voltaire Kierkegaard J S Bach, Alfonso Bialetti 140 people like this. Like Renato Bialetti, who brought the Moka coffee maker to the world, dies at 93February 22, 2016 at 8:02 AM These coffee makers last forever, which is one reason he had himself interred in it.Tags: Design, Moka, Renato Bialetti 45 people like this. Like Your funeral: thinking outside the box one last time | Rosie InmanFebruary 22, 2016 at 5:00 AM We’re lucky in Britain not to face the kind of restrictions over death ceremonies in place elsewhere, so it’s useful to know what some of the options are – to come up with your ownIt was good to see the Italian family of coffee impresario Renato Bialetti housing his ashes in a totally appropriate coffee pot urn last week. The freedom to be creative and to add personal touches to funerals is something that the British are getting really good at too. In fact, our ability to organise alternative fu...Tags: Life and style, UK News, Britain, Death and dying, David Bowie, Lemmy, Renato Bialetti, Rosie Inman 7 people like this. Like Italy Says Goodbye To Renato Moka, The Man Behind Its Iconic Coffee HardwareFebruary 20, 2016 at 5:15 PM The Bialetti Moka Express revolutionized home coffee preparation worldwide. After the death of the company's executive, Renato Bialetti, last week, here's a history of the iconic appliance.Tags: Italy, Renato Bialetti, Renato Moka, Bialetti Moka Express 37 people like this. Like Italian Industrialist Passes Away, Has His Ashes Interred in His Company's Most Famous DesignFebruary 19, 2016 at 2:38 PM You undoubtedly recognize this object: However, unless you got an "A" in History of Industrial Design 101, you may not know the story behind it. Here it is.If you wanted an espresso in early-20th-Century Italy, you put your hat on and tramped down to your local coffee bar. They had these fancy, expensive steam-driven machines that created the pressure required to make the delicious black stuff. Working-class people never had espresso in their own kitchens because there was no way to make one....Tags: Food, Abc, New York Times, Italy, Mussolini, Eureka, Designer Profiles, Bialetti, Moma, Object Culture, Quartz, Renato, Alfonso, Renato Bialetti, Alfonso Bialetti, William Lidwell 143 people like this. Like Coffee Legend’s Ashes Kept in Replica of Espresso MakerFebruary 19, 2016 at 11:22 AM Renato Bialetti is credited for making the Moka Pot famous worldwideTags: Uncategorized, Society, Renato Bialetti 39 people like this. Like Moka Pot Replica Holds Ashes Of Italy's Coffee KingFebruary 19, 2016 at 7:12 AM Seventy years ago, Renato Bialetti took the little 8-sided espresso pot his father invented and turned it into a worldwide hit. The Moka pot bears his image, a small Italian man with a big mustache.Tags: Italy, Renato Bialetti 64 people like this. Like Coffee Tycoon's Ashes Interred In The Iconic Pot He Made FamousFebruary 19, 2016 at 4:22 AM In life as in death, it was all about the coffee for Renato Bialetti.
When the 93-year-old Italian entrepreneur who brought the stove-top Moka coffee maker to the masses died on Feb. 11, his family decided there was only one way for him to be buried. They placed his ashes inside one of his iconic, octagonal aluminum pots.
Bialetti's remains were blessed by a priest in his hometown of Casale Corte Cerro, 60 miles northwest of Milan, on Tuesday before being interred in the family tomb in nea...Tags: Milan, Italy, Romania, Huffington Post, Moka, Bialetti, Lee Moran, Renato, Alfonso, Renato Bialetti, Casale Corte Cerro, Ari8zbLwMz Living Toronto, Paola Vojnovic 69 people like this. Like |