WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Food Fakeouts
byVanderleunonJuly 9, 2019
Let me take you down,
Cause I’m going to
Strawberry Fields,
Nothing is real…
When I was the Fashion Editor for Penthouse I worked with one photographer who was a genius at figuring this sort of thing out. Result: He had a loft in Soho and a beach house in the Hamptons that he named “Marble Soup” in homage to putting marbles in bowls of soup so they’d look like they had a SOUPER LOT of stuff in the bowl. Nice guy.
Some of us put glue in our food to make it stretch. A trick I learned under the Obama Economy.
Auntie AnalogueJuly 9, 2019, 10:50 AM
Working, some decades ago, for a large household & food products firm acquainted me with the trickery of the ad biz’s food photographic trickery. Photography of phonily enhanced or completely substituted for the real thing “food” is why the Big Mac, or what have you, that you get never looks like the one you saw on TV spots or still ad photos.
RichardJuly 9, 2019, 11:04 AM
Don’t know why, but I’m reminded of the airport security screening scene in “Spinal Tap.” Something to do with a cucumber. Truth will out.
Only if you just gotta: https://tinyurl.com/ycadzy67
PatJuly 9, 2019, 2:22 PM
You were the fashion editor for Penthouse? I didn’t know that anyone wore clothes.
Rob De WittJuly 9, 2019, 8:46 PM
Unless this is way more meta even than usual, I suspect there’s some visual component to this post which I’m not seeing…..
PaulJuly 10, 2019, 1:29 AM
When I press the play icon, I get a popup that asks “Do you want to allow “facebook.com” to use cookies and website data while browsing “americandigest.org”?”
When I reply in the negative, the video stops.
I don’t think the video is worth allowing Facebook anything.
-Paul
any day nowJuly 10, 2019, 7:25 AM
This explains a lot. It is understandable that food photography needs “adjustments” for time under hot lights, but in cookbooks, few things are more frustrating than to put one’s best efforts into a recipe and fail at the visual outcome. No wonder.
Signed,
Real Food
Larry GeigerJuly 10, 2019, 9:24 AM
A while back there was a video of how they photograph hamburgers. I might be able to find it in my links (1,000s of them, some in unsorted folders…).
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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What are you? A moneyist?
Some of us put glue in our food to make it stretch. A trick I learned under the Obama Economy.
Working, some decades ago, for a large household & food products firm acquainted me with the trickery of the ad biz’s food photographic trickery. Photography of phonily enhanced or completely substituted for the real thing “food” is why the Big Mac, or what have you, that you get never looks like the one you saw on TV spots or still ad photos.
Don’t know why, but I’m reminded of the airport security screening scene in “Spinal Tap.” Something to do with a cucumber. Truth will out.
Only if you just gotta: https://tinyurl.com/ycadzy67
You were the fashion editor for Penthouse? I didn’t know that anyone wore clothes.
Unless this is way more meta even than usual, I suspect there’s some visual component to this post which I’m not seeing…..
When I press the play icon, I get a popup that asks “Do you want to allow “facebook.com” to use cookies and website data while browsing “americandigest.org”?”
When I reply in the negative, the video stops.
I don’t think the video is worth allowing Facebook anything.
-Paul
This explains a lot. It is understandable that food photography needs “adjustments” for time under hot lights, but in cookbooks, few things are more frustrating than to put one’s best efforts into a recipe and fail at the visual outcome. No wonder.
Signed,
Real Food
A while back there was a video of how they photograph hamburgers. I might be able to find it in my links (1,000s of them, some in unsorted folders…).