For her project titled “Cut Food”, New York-based still life and food photographer Beth Galton, in collaboration with food stylist Charlotte Omnès, created a series of still-lifes showcasing dynamic cross sections of packaged food. “This series was inspired by an assignment in which we were asked to cut a burrito in half for a client.” [...]
Screened at the TEDxSydney conference on Saturday The First Taste captures in delightfully slow motion the unfettered reactions of a group of children trying foods such as anchovy, Vegemite and olives for the first time. Matt Gilmour, creative director at marketing agency Saatchi & Saatchi, says the inspiration for the film came from his two-year-old [...]
Photographer Nolan Conway has created a fantastic series of portraits of McDonalds diners, which were recently posted on the New York Times. What Nolan found, after visiting hundreds of their restaurants across America, was the diversity in the customers, how it’s one of the only places where the poor dine alongside the rich, which you [...]
What the World Eat is an exciting photographic series on consumption habits across the world. Put together by artist Peter Menzel, he travelled across the globe visiting different countries to photograph families and what they eat for a week. The snapshots have all gone into a book called “Hungry Planet”. Fubiz has lots more.
Photographer Henry Hargreaves created this amazing series, called Band Riders. In it he explores the requests made by the film and music world’s elite on how to organize their dressing room, and what kinds of food and drink to provide backstage during a show. In the case of Frank Sinatra – the image on this [...]
McDonald’s started out as McDonald’s Bar-B-Q in San Bernardino, CA in 1940. Here’s a copy of the menu from that time. The original McDonald’s served potato chips and pie, which were swapped out for french fries and milkshakes after the first year; that photo must have been taken sometime after the switch. Ray Kroc got [...]
For his “Colourful Shit” project, copywriter Gabriel Morais ate several types of the same food (like Froot Loops cereal) for 30-36 hour timeframes. To show how much the food we ingest affects our body, he artfully documented his coloured feces. His images were not manipulated and there are more examples at his website. To achieve [...]
This is a clip from Samsara, a 2011 film directed by Ron Fricke, who was the director of photography for Koyaanisqatsi. The chicken picker machine hoovering up chickens and depositing them into drawers is one of the most dystopian things I’ve ever seen. It’s a rare, beautiful, but equally disturbing look into the world of [...]
We all know some foods have a much higher Calorie content than others, but how many of us know what that difference actually looks like? Information website wiseGEEK sought to answer this question way back on January 3, 2007. The result was a fascinating article that compares over 71 foods! Click the pic to see [...]
The Space Food Systems Laboratory (SFSL), which is the sector of NASA responsible for preparing and concocting the food for astronauts, has a very clear mission: provide high-quality flight food systems that are convenient, compatible with each crew member’s physiological and psychological requirements, meet spacecraft stowage and galley interface requirements, and are easy to prepare [...]
