The Counter Kitchen (TCK) is hosting back-to-back demos in June led by two of NY’s most creative entrepreneurs. They will make you want to breathe in deeply and smile, because we’re talking fragrance + chocolate.
Don’t miss out, sign up early and join us in The Counter Kitchen to re-school your senses! Each demo costs $10 per person, which includes admission, tastes, take-aways, and recipes.
For full info: Reschool Your Senses
We just uploaded our first video from the Baby Lotion Demo. More to come. And 2 new demos in June!! Hurrah! (Info will be posted here tomorrow…).
I was interviewed yesterday on CT NPR’s “Where We Live.” I have never done live radio before so was not sure what to expect but had a great time. The topic was “design thinking” and “data visualization.” I am introduced at 39:00 in the segment.
With Food in Mind
April 15, 2011 – June 25, 2011
Organized by Nicole Caruth, Independent Curator and Critic
The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
With Food in Mind looks at artists’ use of food as subject matter or medium in book arts, print, and digital media. The exhibition is inspired by the current food climate (i.e. how food is cultivated, distributed, consumed, and discussed today) and includes over 40 works that span the last twenty years.
Featuring work by Nava Atlas, Carissa Carman, Atom Cianfarani, Conflict Kitchen (Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski, with Brett Yasko), The Counter Kitchen (Stefani Bardin and Brooke Singer), Critical Art Ensemble, Mindell Dubansky (with Miriam Schaer and Toby Dubansky), EIDIA (Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf), Joy Garnett, Marti Guixe, Heather Hart, Barbara Henry (with John DePol), Gretchen Hooker, Marisa Jahn (with Noa Treister), Susan Johanknecht, K Yoland, Robin Kahn, Isabelle Lumpkin, Emily Martin, Katharine Meynell, Scott McCarney, Aleksandra Mir, Elaine Tin Nyo, Hugh Pocock, Susan Roma, Leah Rosenberg, John Ross (with Sam Joffee), Mara Scrupe, Steve Shada, Maya Suess, Tattfoo Tan, Robert The, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
still from TCK Market Research, 2011
oh yeah, we are getting the content up and excited to share it with YOU.
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This should be interesting and with a great group. Come out if you are in the area!
URL: http://www.brownfields2011.org/en/Session/1897?returnurl=%2fen%2fsessions
Panelists: Michael Heimbinder, HabitatMap; Brooke Singer, Eyebeam Art + Technology; Douglas Paulson and Valeria Mogilevich, Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
About the Panel: The French sociologist Henri LeFebvre wrote that urban space has a structure like that of a “flaky pastry,” wherein social spaces interpenetrate and superimpose themselves upon one another. Community mapping embraces the flaky pastry metaphor by representing spaces not as singularly defined locations but as places that are multiply reconstructed through the activities and personal narratives of the people who live in an area. During this panel, practitioners will discuss how community mapping projects can inform the brownfield redevelopment process by providing rich contextual information about particular sites and their relationship to the evolving sociality of the neighborhood.
One of my photographs is on view at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (540 W. 21 St. betw 10-11 Aves., NYC) through April 16. Come visit! More info is here.
We had loads of fun on Saturday in The Counter Kitchen for the second demo, I-Scream, with Mike Lee. He took us step-by-step through the ingredients in Bryer’s ice cream. When someone asked what’s up with the polysorbate80, Mike simply responded: “The ingredients in Bryer’s ice cream exist to make the shareholders happy.” Ah, huh? He then took us through an easy recipe for making ice cream at home that was all about making our tummies happy. And he finished things off with a popcorn ice cream (!) using the magic of liquid nitrogen.
We just wrapped up the Devotion to Lotion workshop at Eyebeam with Rachel Winard of Soapwalla. It was awesome! She took apart the 23 ingredients in Johnson & Johnson baby lotion and rebuilt the pink potion way better and with way less ingredients. It’s so good you can eat it. More info will be up on our new The Counter Kitchen site (www.thecounterkitchen.org) within a week or so. Next weekend (Sat March 19 at 12:00) we are hitting the ice cream.
The Counter Kitchen hosts two new workshops in March which promise to be fun, tasty, informative and messy. In the first one on March 12 we will reverse engineer (think: break down and rebuild) J&J Baby Lotion with the help of Soapwalla chef, Rachel Winard. The second one on March 19 will be all about ice cream with the maestro supper club chef, Mike Lee.
Each workshop costs $10 per person, which includes admission, tastes, take-aways, and recipes.
