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Looking into Chicken McNuggets…
I’m considering how best to portray performance in food as a gallery installation piece. I think the subject must be quite striking and also accessible to anyone. We have all heard myths about how McNuggets are made but I think participating in making them would be a very different experience. I’m considering building an installation…
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Andy Warhol Eating a Whopper
“My name is Andy Warhol and I just finished eating uh, a hamburger.” [break] [break] and on a related note…. [break]
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Cowabunga Pizzaiolo: An introduction to design through pizza
On Sunday, Dan Somen and I taught local high school students attending Stanford Splash about design through making pizza. We taught students about how to approach making pizza from deciding how thick to make the crust to deciding what combination of toppings to add. Our goal was to get them to consider how the various…
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Project 2: Performance Tools
As I set out to put together various items to act as my mise-en-place, I realized the task was a bit more involved than just foraging for materials. It’s actually quite difficult to search for materials to create art piece with, without an idea for what that piece will be. With food, gathering ingredients is…
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3rd Place at Pizzafest
Some buddies and I competed in the first annual Berkeley Pizza Fest on Saturday as Team Doughmance and took home 3rd Place! Our pies included: Delicata Squash, Tomato Sauce, Red Onions, Mozzarella, Asiago, Sage Mashed Potato, Spicy Copa, Asiago, Chili Oil (and sometimes Ground Cherries) Standard Margarita: Tomato Sauce, Fresh Mozz and a…
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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life
Fluxus is a project organized by George Maciunas exploring and redefining the meaning of art in society. A group of artists created a series of kits that are especially interesting to me. What is art good for? This was a central question for Fluxus organizer George Maciunas, who devoted his life to analyzing the…
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Conveyer Sushi
This could be an interesting concept to play with
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Project Plan Updates
Reflecting on my first project and cooking a lot of other meals recently, I’ve realized a few things and updated my project outline. The following ideas motivate these changes: [info_box size=”500″] [one_third] Seasonality in cooking is incredibly important to me and dictates what I cook and how I prepare it. Ingredients in season…
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Looking deeper into Project 1
This is how I feel throughout a day of cooking. I also realized that this project has given me permission to think about food, plan and cook guilt-free all day.
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Food Raves: DJ Donpasta’s revolution in food
I LOVE THIS making pajata on stage while djing! WHAT! more here