Machete eats again! Making off #design101 - Part 2

Here are pics from the night with 3 friends over 20th November.

The Menu for the Friends (2 French and 1 German) was following:

# 1st Filled paprica with cherry tomatoes, pepper and olive oil in the owen.

# 2nd Guacamole with nachos and also some popcorn for the movie. 

# We went all together to pick up a Mexican movie from a nearby videorental. We watched Oliver Stone movie "The Savages"

# Music for the evening was as usual in our house: Studio Brussel.

One of my guests Amber, happened to be French chef and she helped me to cut the chili for the guacamole

next day a totally different athmosphere with my Spanish friend.

and here is how guacamole with chips looks like in a Mexican restaurant Ta´Cambron

Making off Machete Eats! #design101 -Part 1

Here is my crazy making off pics of "Machete eats" and extra cool Rodriques stuff read on...

setting up my lemon squeezer, kinky

I started my #design101 Kitchen Stories week by planning the Wednesday 20th November around a movie night theme. When I usually have friends over we look some movies together with our beamer. We have a Asterix puzzle painting on the wall and we just remove it and its like an opening for the movie night.

We had seen Machete with some friends during the first #design101 week. But I really love Robert Rodriquez movies and I am also waiting to see soon the 2nd edition of Machete kills.

So I made the Machete movie poster  for the tool assignment. The name of the main character is Machete (knife) and so the name of the other actors become as well the other tools I need to make Guacamole. Its a concept design. Machete character is known that he always kills. I thought eating is the same thing, happening again and again.

All tools are showing in the pic except the lemon squeezer that happens to be under my shirt. Very hot guacamole indeed. You can see finally the lemon squeezer in my last pics when I even tried a black&white version with the tools. There you can as well see my design101 shirt in practice with knifes hanging on my shoulder. The rest of material of that shirt project became my new sexy machete shirt. When I made my shirt for the Friday 8th of November challenge the idea was that I could hang artistic tools on my shoulders and longer sleeves. Knifes are a bit more dangerous. Don´t try these things at home!!!

I will recommend you to see all of Robert Rodriquez movies and also the DVD extra specials. I learned last week from Robert Rodriquez how he makes the Puerco Pibil. Here is his 10 min cooking  school! He says: "You have to eat rest of your life, mind as well know how." Also in this tutor he gives a nice advice: Just practice your 3 favorite dish and learn to make them well. Cook them once a week or every other week and experiment and you get better at it.

Here are some of his movies:
Machete
Machete kills
Once upon a time in Mexico
Sin City
From Dusk Till Dawn

This is art!

Making my kind of shirt #design101 / 012 Part 1

2 shirts that I didnt use got a new life. I love long sleeves so I made those but so that I can also wear the black shirt without them, and then I could hang some other stuff on that shirt if I want to, maybe even pens and tools from my shoulders. and also the sleeves can work as a artistic scarf!

 

Blue Riding Hood/ Sage Gnocchi #design101 /011

Moose is back again:) this time with Blue Riding Hood, the vegetarian sister of Red Riding Hood.

I got this receipt from my CS guests and it was written on the back side of this nice Blue Riding Hood card.

(John Bauer)Here is my other inspiration image for the task.

and this is a little story of a Blue Riding Hood visiting her little blue friend in the sage forest.

Who´s there?

hmm? What´s happening?!

Blue Riding Hood loves belgian beer and it fits perfectly with cheesy ricotta gnocchi.

Food is ready!

Bon Appetit!

Clown mama #design101/005

Design assignment for today was following: Make a mask representing yourself.
And then, make a second one for a friend of yours.

hmm what to do?

I made a "nose job" because I knew I would not have time to other things and this work should be  3D.

It was fun to cut one of my kitchen sponge for it and it was just enough for 2 noses..1 big and 1 small.

I was going to Mexican Toten Fest in Berlin and that is why I didint have time first.
After I finished the noses I found out my friend cancelled our date so this saddened me a bit. But then I realised I could take immediately also the pics and post my work in time to Iversity.

 (Party of the death will be still going until this Sunday: 1. - 3. November 2013, Fr/Sa 20.00 Uhr, So 15.00 Uhr
TAK-Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, Prinzenstraße 85 F, 10969 Berlin)

And so me and my friends set up a photo studio..I guess that took the most of the 1 hour time for the exercise. The hardest part was to take the pic with Romulus, the cat..he was really annoyed for a reason:) Lights were designed by djBlume and David Aguilera, Photos were made by David Aguilera

 Here is more about my messy nose job:

I needed following tools: 1kitchen sponge,  scissors, red pens, knife and a bit of duck tape for the smaller nose to keep it on.

cut in the back to keep it on the nose

final design

Here are many pics from todays photosession:

strike a pose - irony of modelling

and so my faithful  friend Romulus and me:

kukkuu

noo, don´t touch my paw

I want out of here now! crazy shit!whats happening

baby talk

angry baby

there there kiss kiss

baby calmed down

ah what a clown mama I am, 35 year old and I have just this cat

but he is so cool cat

Always Ready and in Focus:#design101/002

Here is my design process for the assignment I had on Tuesday in #design102 MOOC.

A friend of mine had to take a good potrait of me and after that I had to make a good potrait of myself.

There was a little mistake in the daily brief saying that we should draw a potrait from a picture that our friends took of us. So when I found a friend to take picture of me, sun was already setting and I thought is ok as I can always draw something when its darker. I also gave him free hands to make a picture of me. It was a good moment to let the other person express their feeling and impression about you so I let David freely choose where, when and how he took my picture. Its really nice to give that kind of control away sometimes as I usually love to plan my pictures and think about the details.

Here is the final picture he chose and I think its good that its expressive and not just pretty. The bridge is also nice symbolic background and that creative factory space behind and ofcourse autumn leaves against blue sky.

I also wanted to take pictures of David and this is my choice: He is artist so I wanted to give him a graffiti frame. You can see his work here:

David

Then it was time for my self potrait and as I noticed that the assignment was to take another picture and not make a drawing so I got a little panic.

The Sun had set and the one peace to hold the camera was missing from my tripod. So what to do. Don´t panic!, I thought and immediately start thinking my options. no light, camera no good when shaking, web camera stupid, photo automat costs and take time and last time even my picture got lost there even those are cool in Berlin. I could have run to that bar to complain about my last missing photo but most likely loose time and not get it anyway back. And then it hit me. I have a scanner! And after that I was like a child playing and experimenting as long there was time left as this assigment was just 1 hour. So I was pretty fast then scanning myself. It felt like victorian times photographer as I reached my hand to click the mouse and covered then my head with a big flanel shirt for the scan to start.

 

I also found some strange cameras like the concealed vest camera and love this slogan. "No Tourist Artist or Student, Amateur or Professional, should be without this Camera" .

here is one picture of the process with my cloth cover:

It was quite steamy under the cloth and you can see my breath in the picture!

and here is my final self potrait: