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Potatoes are the dumbest vegetable.

Andy Simionato

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Chef Dinara Kasko Culinary Creations.

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Knifey-Spoony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcE0aAhbVFc

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Discussing Bruno Munari and shpoons. 

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Inspired by edible cutlery in today’s lecture. A couple in India with a history in the hospitality industry wanted to make an alternative to disposable cutlery. Bakeys are made of sorghum, rice and wheat flours baked together. They last 20 minutes in hot liquids, have a shelf life of two years and come in plain, sugared, or various spices. They’re now gaining commercial popularity in Indian cafes.

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‘During the conception of “Contemporary Pieces”, I became enamored with the eroticism, presentation and charisma of paintings from the Renaissance Period. In the Late Renaissance, Italian and Dutch painters dealt with the middle and lower classes. In my opinion, Fast Food Culture represents these two social classes in the United States today. To eat healthy is expensive. However, one can buy large amounts of food at a fast food restaurant for a comparatively low price. — It underlines the concept that they are ‘Children of the Modern Age,’ having been brought up in the changing America, often defined by the culture of Fast Food. It was significant that many of my friends try to avoid Fast Food. In their eyes, Fast Food in the United States is comprised of genetically modified items that are designed only for mass consumption. To them, the food becomes a non-edible object and loses its value as being considered Food.’

I like this appropriation of Renaissance paintings and this is something that I’d like to also recreate within my Metamorphosis cards. This will create a good link between cultures, I want to showcase various Indian ingredients surrounded by cultural artefacts (saris, packaging, bindis etc…) similar to the Renaissance imagery. Each card will be vibrant and focus on an ingredient that goes into a traditional masala, with the final card being very whitewashed and plain, containing a single box of Curry Powder, symbolising and showing a literal “white washing” and stripping of culture. I’m unsure whether to paint these images or photograph them, although I’m leaning towards photography as I think it’ll be more effective.  

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Nothing gets made or destroyed

Andy Simionato (via siegerjshauna)

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My suggestion is to steal from a lot of different sources - and be open about it.

Andy Simionato

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We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.

Sherrie Levine’s Artist Statement 1982

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A parallel I thought of in today’s lecture. Forget Lady Gaga’s meat dress. 10/10 would watch Marina Abramović and Tony Abbott in an onion eating contest.

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On the subject of FOOD, I wanted to share a couple of works I made in another course last year, exploring food and/or its relation to self.

The first was our very first piece created for the subject, introducing ourselves through infographic. (This was a data visualisation course.) I work evenings as a bartender and chose to show elements of my life and personality spilling out of a cocktail shaker like ingredients. I’m not in that particular studio, but thought it related back to Andy’s group, being a conceptual take on a “recipe” of sorts.

The second is an infographic about animal products commonly found in food and cosmetics, created during my transition to vegetarianism. I was inspired by children’s illustrated alphabet charts, and wanted to convey the information in as simple a way as possible, as I’d just felt the frustration of how overwhelming and (pardon the pun) hard to digest the information surrounding factory farming can be.

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Food and design are pretty much the same, they all end up as waste in the end

Andy (via baydoucet)

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More jelly. 

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A couple of videos I thought of, inspired by today’s lecture, on the subject of food as objects. A Japanese game show where they win prizes for finding the one object in the room made of chocolate.

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SOUPE OPERAAAAAA!!!