Thursday, December 24, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sesion 7 ~ Tutti Frutti
We sat at Tutti Frutti eating our much desired breakfast and while we were discussing the research marian had found from mindless eating, we realized we put urselves in a situation where we wanted to get out of our pattern and analyze the way we were eating and test ourselves at how intune we were with our bodies. It turns out, not much at all. We decided to drop our forkes and wait, just talk and see what happens… well the wait and diverting our attention to something else, helped make us realize that we did reach the “ I’m not hungry anymore” stage that I don’t think we rely on enough. The big test is how we would fell once we stood up, and I don’t believe I’ve ever felt able to stand up after a big meal except at that moment. When we sat back down we looked at what was left in our plates, and it was mostly the junk, and our glass of cocktail juice. Remembering the 20%less food and 20% more healthy choices, and well, we drank it. But while we looked at our plates, and the thought of having to not waste the leftovers, and the thought of having the carry the doggy bag all the way back to mili’s house and knowing we still had errands to run, made it easier for us to just finish the plate after all. Surely enough we were very full and standing up was gonna have to wait. Yes we did feel awful, but considering we were not planning on eating this kind of breakfast every day didn’t make us feel guilty, instead it helped us make acknowledgements of what it is in our plates that can change how much we eat. It isn’t just the size but the shape.
Session 6 ~ Meeting with Rhona
Rhona’s meeting led us to further research and understand how we could make our project advance to a level of detail that it could get. The two books we have to read are “ Mindless eating” and “…..”
Mindless eating explores the range of influences the environment has on us, and how much more we are in tune on visual perception than with our body.
Mindless eating explores the range of influences the environment has on us, and how much more we are in tune on visual perception than with our body.
Session 5 ~ Plate Space
While most plates and bowls have a hollow inside, this part is where food is piled and all you see is the surface, and there doesn’t seem to be a sense of quantity that is understood, so if we could replace the hollow ground which you can’t feel or see and filled it up as negative space then this alteration doesn’t cause the eater to feel like he’s been cheated or denied access to his/her comfort foods. If marian were to have her rice again, she would not see any difference to the shape the plate has from her old one, and if she were to refill her plate a second or third time, then it would altogether amount to the first plate she ate in her regular looking plate.
Session 4 ~ Meetings With Rhona
After mili met with Rhona, the new concept was to look at table wear and how we can try and influence change while in the middle of dining.
The first time around, we seemed to gravitate around using water and play as a link to the plate you were using to eat. And this was sort of a way to take your eyes away from food and to allow your mind to switch off from the obsessing over the food in front of you and at something less appetizing.
After looking at out sketches , One of the sketches mili made was to look and focus on how just the shape of the plate can alter or camouflage the weight of the food you ate. Such a simple thing really made us think even harder at how we can personalize this approach and it began to answer and solve our own issues.
We went from paper book, to conceptual to a real object that can be used to allow us to eat what looks to be a normal sized plate.
The first time around, we seemed to gravitate around using water and play as a link to the plate you were using to eat. And this was sort of a way to take your eyes away from food and to allow your mind to switch off from the obsessing over the food in front of you and at something less appetizing.
After looking at out sketches , One of the sketches mili made was to look and focus on how just the shape of the plate can alter or camouflage the weight of the food you ate. Such a simple thing really made us think even harder at how we can personalize this approach and it began to answer and solve our own issues.
We went from paper book, to conceptual to a real object that can be used to allow us to eat what looks to be a normal sized plate.
Session 3 ~ Prototypes and Play
A very brief prototype of the graphic novel was to illustrate, understand and imagine how we were going to visually approach the message of food and it’s influences.
I was trying to satire the emotional connection with food and how it affects the way we think about it and how we depend on it in nonsensical ways . The graphic novel illustrates how commercials would link sensuality to chips and so I projected the image of a man and woman interested in eachother until the girl uses the opportunity to take out her bag of chips as a conversation starter but the hidden message is that the product is supposed to encourage this kind of behavior.
This kind of direction seemed too loose and wasn’t covering the grounds in which we felt it was helping us in terms of therapy. Although it would have been a lot of fun to poke fun at commercials, it wouldn’t benefit us in the long run to solve any issues we clearly felt we could achieve.
The second approach was taken more literally. We had just learned about time and patience when it came to eating and we thought to draw out a conceptual idea of a machine that could control cravings.
The first sketch was that of a fridge that would count the rounds of time it was opened and allowed for anybody to open it through games of puzzles and sudoku;s the more times it counted the fridge to open the harder the puzzle got because of the abnormal frequency of food use.
NB: Classmates did not agree to this approach and seemed to react as though it was causing abstinence which could create binge eating and that is what we are trying to avoid.
I was trying to satire the emotional connection with food and how it affects the way we think about it and how we depend on it in nonsensical ways . The graphic novel illustrates how commercials would link sensuality to chips and so I projected the image of a man and woman interested in eachother until the girl uses the opportunity to take out her bag of chips as a conversation starter but the hidden message is that the product is supposed to encourage this kind of behavior.
This kind of direction seemed too loose and wasn’t covering the grounds in which we felt it was helping us in terms of therapy. Although it would have been a lot of fun to poke fun at commercials, it wouldn’t benefit us in the long run to solve any issues we clearly felt we could achieve.
The second approach was taken more literally. We had just learned about time and patience when it came to eating and we thought to draw out a conceptual idea of a machine that could control cravings.
The first sketch was that of a fridge that would count the rounds of time it was opened and allowed for anybody to open it through games of puzzles and sudoku;s the more times it counted the fridge to open the harder the puzzle got because of the abnormal frequency of food use.
NB: Classmates did not agree to this approach and seemed to react as though it was causing abstinence which could create binge eating and that is what we are trying to avoid.
Session 2 ~ Marian's House
The message for the graphic novel was researched through a variety of food and drinks commercial, and relates to sensuality , sexuality as a seduction method into emotionally attaching yourself to a product..
Possible direction: Photoshoot and film shoot to understand how to emphasize healthy eating. Food of the day: cranberries.
Mili’s suggestion to follow on four different characters and 4 different ways a person can have have a relationship with food.
Possible direction: Photoshoot and film shoot to understand how to emphasize healthy eating. Food of the day: cranberries.
Mili’s suggestion to follow on four different characters and 4 different ways a person can have have a relationship with food.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Session 1 ~ Mili's House
The medium in which to play or role play the therapy session is through a graphic novel by which Drawn and Quarterly provide accessibility to the production.
The graphic novel’s stimulates visual context, perfect for describing the effect of food and stimuli. The content and message creates the activist tool kit that could allow to change the behaviors to food through our message.
The graphic novel’s stimulates visual context, perfect for describing the effect of food and stimuli. The content and message creates the activist tool kit that could allow to change the behaviors to food through our message.
Session 0 ~ Boustan Therapy
Boustan therapy session 1, complaining about emotional eating
( mindless eating suggests that emotional eating is an excuse as a cover up to ignoring the external cues that are the drive to our behavioral eating which results into our relationships with food and behaves as a pattern)
looking into food therapy to communicate our issues and to look for goal within them. Foodapy is the title
Confronted issue was the fact that marian had a reaction to her mom’s rice. The smell, look and quantity was all she saw and the motto was the more the merrier. This drover her to pour herself 3 big plates. Never thinking twice, she would come back to it a second time and a third time. The signs of fullness were present by the first round, by the second round, she knew she had to stop but the desire was still powerful in her head and by the end of the 3rd round she couldn’t move or find a comfortable position for her body and although very much in pain, satisfaction and comfort were still felt at the same time. Had it not been for the pain , she could have kept going.
( mindless eating suggests that emotional eating is an excuse as a cover up to ignoring the external cues that are the drive to our behavioral eating which results into our relationships with food and behaves as a pattern)
looking into food therapy to communicate our issues and to look for goal within them. Foodapy is the title
Confronted issue was the fact that marian had a reaction to her mom’s rice. The smell, look and quantity was all she saw and the motto was the more the merrier. This drover her to pour herself 3 big plates. Never thinking twice, she would come back to it a second time and a third time. The signs of fullness were present by the first round, by the second round, she knew she had to stop but the desire was still powerful in her head and by the end of the 3rd round she couldn’t move or find a comfortable position for her body and although very much in pain, satisfaction and comfort were still felt at the same time. Had it not been for the pain , she could have kept going.
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