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Explore the balance between, and the extreme ends, of private and

public gluttony.

CONCEPT

RESEARCH

Delightful, Delicious, DisgustingCarolyn Korsmeyer

An examination of food and how we perceive it, the sepa-ration between sacrifice and a meal never spread thinner than now. A formal examination of a stance on food deal-ing with ideals behind the mortality of our food, highlight-ing examples of haute cuisine and paralleling them with eating to survive. And a wonderful section on President Francois Mitterand and his overindulgent meal for 30 of Ortolan (small game bird, now the French national bird) a now sinful (banned in France) delicacy that is normally eaten with a cloth hanging over ones head, both to save the aroma and experience as well as hide the act from god.

Favorite Quote:“The great paradox of eating namely that to preserve their life and form living forms necessarily destroy life and form”-Leon Kass

COMFORT FOOD HAS A DARKER SIDE:A GLUTTONY OF SINMaureen Hayden

From poets to Christians and Buddhists included Maureen evaluates her own personal views on gluttony and com-pares them to some of the greatest expressions of this overly delectable sin. Featuring comments from Edmund Spencer to Orson Wells and snippets from multiple others she argues for the de-sinification of gluttony, a virtual rejoice in indulgence of one self with food.

Favorite Quote:"Life is complicated and fraught with compromises, unmet desires and nettling disappointments. We cannot make other people do right. Friends, neighbors, spouse, chil-dren all may resist our will, but, darn it, that chocolate cream pie is going to know who's boss."-Frederica Matthewes-Greene

RESEARCH

GluttonyFrancine Prose

Gluttony and its ideal, ow it affects every modern day person, an insight at how this came to be. Somewhat of a religious tone yet with a 4th chapter “Great Moments in Gluttony” in which she goes over some of the most exaggerated recounts Of personal debaucher with food throughout history, and not a single one will leave you with anything more than desire to eat.

Favorite Quote:“I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to the bursting point, on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beast like satisfaction of his belly.”-Intro Ch.4

How Fat Went Out Of FashionFelipe Fernandez-Armesto

A reaction to the cultural change of the desirability of girth, highlighting some of the greatest gluttons of all time: Maxi-minus the Thracian, Clodius Albinus and even Charlem-agne. And a socioeconomic explanation of how the increase in availability of food has expanded the girth of middle and lower classes, causing the higher classes to desire the exact oposite. Distinction is a desire the rich tend to cater to.

Favorite Quote:"In a little over 100 years, we've discarded the standards of Rubens and Renoir, and substituted those of Barbie and Twiggy. Most artists of the past would now be classed as fat-fetishist weirdos.”

RESEARCH

Benny Hill: a darker side, his world of gluttony, junk-food and brothels.Mark Lewisohn

A peer into the life of time old comedian Benny Hill, and his adventurous ramps as a thieving comic, interlaced with an ever darkening glutton and sex addict while of-screen and their eventual lead in his demise. This excerpt from Lewisohns book the life of Benny Hill comes with detailed description of how the comics peculiarities especially his inability to control himself with food are truly highlighted. A man who would finish the tables drinks if left unattended and with a particular joy for chinese food as everything was served on individual dishes, this man wasted not a single scrap of food.

Favorite Quote:“He walked fast - 'shooting along like a loony', according to one of his TV assistants - but the calorific benefits were debatable, since he was liable to congratulate himself on finishing the journey by buying a handful of Mars bars.”

The Secret Fat of the LandCatherine Jones

In a modern day UK they are faced by a 10 million man strong “drain” on the healthcare system as obesity becomes more and more of a problem, and in a land divided by avid gym goers and hyper calorie counters passing judgment on the rest she has somewhat of a witty call to action asking to out those hiding behind a healthy facade in what she calls outing closet fatties who pass judgment on the larger folk. Referring largely to a fat suit experiment she conducted in which even the slightly out of shape thought it was ok to openly mock.

Favorite Quote:"'The worst were couples in their 20s and 30s, who openly laughed,' she said. 'They were strutting about in their neat little clothes, waltzing around arm in arm, with him thinking, 'Look at my lovely bird on my arm' and her, a little scarf tied round her neck and tight jeans, thinking, 'I've only got him because I'm slim and attractive'.'”

FAMOUS FOOD AND DRINKSFREDERICO MAURO

25 Amazing Food Infographics, Drawn From 49,733 RecipesWIRED & FOOD NETWORK

Taking advantage of the WIRED team skills and the Food Network database comes a project wonderfully embodied in infographi-cal form as they look at recipes, popular ingredients, even the statistical magic of bacon on any meal.

Diner en BlancFRANÇOIS AND AYMERIC PASQUIER

Beginning humbly in 1988, what started as a simple gathering of friends has converted itself into popular citywide events that number in the thousands. Two this year alone in Paris, another in Montreal (since 2009) and for the first time one in New York (held at Bryant park). These pop up events spearheaded by the Pasquiers and volunteers have people converge at a variety of locations with three simple things a table, a picnic, and a white dress code, the rest is out of their hands as the location is not revealed to the last moment when all of the groups converge at once and set up a meal for thousands in under 30 minutes.

PRECEDENTS

Epic Meal Time

Sadly not the best designed or perhaps even the most overly thought out opera-tions this group of benevolent gluttoniers take things to a new extreme gorging themselves at any means possible. I do admire what they can do with a bacon weave though.

A Night of GluttonyAlan Fierer

An annual celebration that Alan passes with some of his best friends, the tuesday before thanksgiving becomes a rant around their city, visiting all of they favorite bars and restaurants, snacking drinking and all out gorging, and how it has brought him some of his happiest times. Allways ending with plenty of water and a 3 mile run the next morning to bring them back to solid ground.

Gojee

A NYC based app startup which markets themselves as the home of great taste. Focusing not so much as a recipie search app and more as a delighful way to stum-ble upon your next meal by letting the food visually stimulate more than words could ever comunicate.

PRECEDENTS

THE GLUTTON

Development of an animated character that expresses the ideals of a true glutton, drawing direction from the seven deadly sins an ideal self involved object devouring everything in excess.

FOOD EXPRESSIONS :

Write about what i am going to eat, compare how i see it before tasting it, what stands out to me, what will i think is the best part. And go over the same process after eating (have 3 other people do this) describe in the best detail what was the most enjoyable, were my eyes deceiving or was I (or anyone) spot on?

SECRET SECRETS:

Using a simple very small external speaker create a temporary installation using recordings of peoples per-sonal narratives. Ideally people will unknowingly be taking part in this experiment, somewhat of a setup imag-ined around the space in front of 13th st building, using the protruded edge that people commonly sit on, to my advantage, hiding the apparatus under the over-hang and playing the files whilst maintaining a unobtru-sive distance.

POST NO BILLS:

Post no bills, a comedic reaction to the phrasing of this command that we see on an everyday basis. Post no bills is painted on any tempo-rary surface used in most construction work is there so these surfaces remain free of common clutter that we tend to attach to every available surface as our free form of advertising. The response will the the random posting of questions next to these signs (example: what about bob?) playing with phrasing while aiming at a comedic relieve, this will be a very short inter-action and acknowledgement is the goal, not communica-tion.

10x10’s

ACCESSIBILITY OF INFORMATION

Accessibility of information, when something is compiled is it used more. Make a page where all the blogs are visible, or at least accessible see if this increases communication between students, or if it even just increases awareness of each others blogs.

BEETLUSIONI fool your eyes but not your taste buds. Visually manipulate an ingredient until it looks like a delectable dish, in this case beet! And measure the reaction when those who eat it find that the flavor doesn't really live up to expectations.

FOOD JOURNEY: Experience a day entirely planned around meals, varying from 3 main courses to snacks, but changing the usual dynamic of my life instead of the food complementing the activity, the food becomes the activity.

**NOT DONE YEEEET

RED MEALYou should be experiencing this right now..No more need be said but here are some wonder-ful prep pictures:

10x10’s

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