[HN Gopher] The Futurist Cookbook was the first lifestyle blog (...
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The Futurist Cookbook was the first lifestyle blog (2016)
Author : bale
Score : 31 points
Date : 2021-08-15 20:17 UTC (1 days ago)
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| masona wrote:
| Coming up with food photos for the Futurist Cookbook was one of
| the most fun projects I've ever done:
| https://annawilliams.com/VORACITY/CONTROPASTASCIUTTA/1/thumb...
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| It's amazing that Marinetti made a cookbook like this almost 100
| years ago. It still feels experimental compared to the recipe
| junk that gets churned out these days. If he were alive today I
| bet he would make a new Futurist Cookbook of SEO-optimized AI-
| generated recipes that could never exist, designed to be eaten in
| a banquet served on an autonomous bus.
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| "For the extremist banquet, where no one eats, and the only
| satiety comes from online outrage, the guest may stay at the
| table only long enough to tweet."
| borroka wrote:
| The Futurists were among the most influential movements of the
| 21st century. The movement proper was rather short-lived, some
| might argue that the peak of the movement was between 1909--the
| year the Futurist Manifesto was published in the French Le Figaro
| (but the movement was entirely Italian)--and 1915, when Italy
| entered World War I, most of the die-hard Futurists enlisted and
| some (too many!) of them were killed (Boccioni, Sant'Elia). The
| movement had a long tail that ended with the death of Marinetti
| in the 1930s and probably of Depero (the illustrator of some of
| the most popular advertising posters of the 21st century, see
| Campari for example) later on. I recommend reading Giordano Bruno
| Guerri's biography of Marinetti (along with his latest book on
| the "Fiume adventure," which can certainly be considered among
| the Futurist campaigns).
|
| A few weeks ago I had the idea of writing on my blog about what
| futurism is today and who--people, movements or ideas--has the
| vivacity, quick thinking and flair for grasping and directing the
| historical times that the futurists had. One could say, and it
| would be easy and predictable, that some in the tech world
| (perhaps the Musks, the Bezos, with their afflatus toward space
| among other enterprises) are the new futurists, but I disagree,
| although there is something Futurist in them (but they are way
| too nerdy!). The futurist movement was not simply a proto-
| technological "out with the old, in with the new" group, but was
| a collection of people often violent, if not in means certainly
| in desires and inspiration, demands and proposals in the arts,
| writing, sports, politics. The scorn for danger was one of the
| most distinctive features of the movement, along with continuous
| verbal, literary, and physical provocations. They used to
| interrupt theater performances and create massive fights with
| people in attendance!
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| Futurists were often very young and very energetic, unfortunately
| often victims of their "all-or-nothing" vision. Was it inevitable
| for many futurists to become fascists after the end of World War
| I and the "impresa fiumana"? I would say highly probable (read
| for example, if a translation is available, "La mia vita fra i
| reticolati", written by the futurist Ardito and then fascist
| Mario Carli)
| PaulHoule wrote:
| The futurists were the avant-garde of the avant-garde, I love
| 'em!
| apocalypstyx wrote:
| Dada would like to have a noise like sheet-metal asparagus.
| Torwald wrote:
| Ada is better then Dada
| apocalypstyx wrote:
| Only if you spell cabbage with a b.
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