MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
A street animation painted on public walls in Buenos Aires. He comes from the wall. He eats himself. Then he births himself. Then he eats again, himself and paper.
If Colonel Sanders and Bruce Lee took each other on, I would think that Bruce would have the upper hand in all things Kung Fu. However, in fast food, the man in the white suit still reigns supreme, even in China. This might be Kung Fu versus Kentucky Fried.
It’s the simple concept that a particularly enlightened being could exist on nourishment from air and sunlight. Another term for it is Inedia. The idea is not new, having been the forte of Eastern Mystics and Catholic Saints, but the concept held a new sway in the latter half of the twentieth century. All science and nutrition aside, this is one of the accounts of Peter Leslie’s brush with Breatharianism.
Before the interview begins, I think it best to let you know that Pete has the capacity to tell stories that get told by other people. That can sound very simple but it’s complex in that Pete unknowingly perpetuates a sort of folk lore of his own stories. True, half-true, or completely false, it never seems to matter. As the stories unfold, I always get the feeling that whether they’re true or not, I don’t care. I’m far more fascinated with what’s happening in the story and usually tears of laughter have gathered.
I met with Pete over a few drinks where we discussed his encounters with Breatharianism. The interview follows.
Visionaries rarely get their due and supermarkets are fascinating.
Whenever making it to a new country, it seems the sightseeing I find myself engaging in wanes from the epic and grand, instead turning to the mundane and ordinary. Enter the supermarket. Through a tumultuous past and half way across the world, the supermarket stands firm in China. A photo gallery is located at the end of the article.
It’s simple to end up in a place in Mumbai that is insipidly chic, ambiguously pulsating, and completely full of itself. I will find myself at parties or bars and inevitably things will drone on and wit in conversation will seem like something from a dream. When that happens, stepping away to have a cigarette, there’s another inevitable moment. Eye contact, head nod, a half formed hindi “Do you mind?” question, and I am off to hang out with the help.
That being, I end up again at a kitchen that perfectly personifies the people using it. Like an earlier article, Norman’s Kitchen is a Cabinet, Friday Night Rush is part of an ongoing collection of kitchens. Here, the space and the individual using it become inseparable, and when that happens they become more than function or form, they come to be about everything else.
I spent Friday night in the middle of a dinner rush at the popular local, the Yacht Club.
When Eating A Wolf has moved from Mumbai to just outside of Shanghai. There will be a few more posts concerning food and culture in India, but for the most part, the local food content of this website will shift to Chinese.
It is no doubt that new techniques and even new paradigms concerning food will be encountered over the coming months in China and I look forward to being able to pass those along.
For now, inside are some photos from a simple meal in the Bund in Shanghai.
Consumption. That everything is consumed is not the newest of concepts. We all consume food, products, experiences, relationships, and as the title of this magazine mildly implies, ourselves. You are consuming this right now. However, the concept of the consumer usually gets relegated to the realm of mass consumption and the varied hairy effects it has on our global situation.
Though this is important both in its own right and its relation to everything else, due to the grand scale of the subject, the finer points of being a person that consumes things can get lost. They are lost under the grandeur of mass consumption, but perhaps it is because the finer points are inherently grey. For that reason alone they need a closer look.
The Rotterdam based design couple Minale-Maeda, Mario Minale and Kuniko Maeda, have been delving into the world of values and consumption using food as a point to begin the conversation. Their projects Table Manners and Tasteful are full of objects that bring subtle and powerful statements to the veritable everything that goes along with eating. And here we are again at the ubiquitous power of food as it relates to everything else.
TASTEFUL is a project about the relation between consumption and daily life. It analyzes the change in the quality of daily life by research of the three exemplary fields of food, clothing, shelter… the result is a concept to create quality in daily life crossing over the surprising beauty and qualities found in the essential basics…
This is just a beginning to the hopefully growing arena of discourse on the relationship between food and design. When Eating A Wolf caught up with Minale-Maeda to cover where they came from, what they’re doing, and where they’re headed.
The interview follows.
