Christoph Niemann's coffee-on-napkin drawings
Daniel Carter, creative director of MAKE and CRAFT magazines, told me about illustrator Christoph Niemann's remarkable coffee-on-napkin drawings.
When I was 21 I worked as an intern at a magazine. The art director and I would brew a gigantic pot of coffee around 9 a.m. to help us get through the day. The pot would simmer in the coffeemaker, and through evaporation the coffee strengthened noticeably at lunchtime. In the evening hours, the remaining coffee had turned to a black concoction with a stinging smell and tar-like taste. We endured it without flinching.Christoph Niemann's coffee-on-napkin drawings
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surely by now someone has conclusively proved really old coffee is a carcinogen?
there's something about a picture of a tongue on a paper napkin that gives me the creeps. in fact i can feel my tongue drying out now.
bwablehwahblahethethetheth.
The masochism of old habits.
How hard would it be to make a new pot of coffee?
(Ahhh... Baby... that sour, burnt taste of this morning's coffee this afternoon.)
This image reminds me of an incident I had with coffee in bed, just this morning. Puckering my mouth at the taste of the coffee-crystal-coffee I’m enduring until I get around to fixing my real-coffee maker, I inadvertently splashed the offending liquid over my pajamas and sheets. I hastily placed the mug on my bedside table as I made an effort to spare my mattress from the rapidly leeching liquid. Said mattress was ill protected with only a sheet, drying out from my cat’s recent piddle and resultant over-exuberant washing. As I sat, relieved that my quick response had spared my mattress from yet another ambiguous stain, I leisurely picked up my coffee to find a stained ring on a vital envelope which I could only assume had spread to the business papers inside. I calmed my initial self reproach and considered the blurry circle stain as the start of some coffee watercolor project...only to have these thoughts interrupted by sight of a fresh cat vomit deposit, apparently expelled from the bedside table to a pile of books below. Derrida was up top and absorbed most of the liquid (happily so). As I considered copying and throwing out the liquid-y pages and somehow rebinding them into the book with a new back cover, I abandoned myself to the comfort of sleep.
Great artist in general. Well done.
I really like his simple expressive (espressive?) style, and eye for perspective.
But then in that medium? Dayam! *claps*
Great drawings!
I was enjoying looking at them, when my computer notifies me that I have a Java update waiting. Hahaha!
Wait, we all know that a tiny amount of salt stirred into day-old coffee will reverse the chemical process that makes it bitter, right?
Right?
Taste test that ancient cuppa on your desk right now, before and after a few grains of salt. Poke your finger into salt and use just as many grains as stick to your fingertip.
While you're praising the Somali pirate efforts, thank them also for this trick.
Ah, as a coffee addict, I'm well aware of the mud you sometimes end up drinking at the end of the day (everyone's left the office, so why bother making a new pot? plus, the sheer laziness of cleaning out the old one...). @KIB, I'll have to try the salt trick next time.
I've found that with my current coffee maker (a carafeless hamilton beach model) this doesn't happen so quickly, because the coffee is enclosed and doesn't seem to evaporate, so I can have 1 or even 2 day old coffee and it still tastes good (granted, not fresh, but still good).
Christoph Niemann is a great illustrator and incredibly funny...I saw him speak at a student AGI event in Chicago recently.
i thought everyone did this?