--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. Pasteles en hoja is another-- Pasteles en hoja is another-- yeah, so-- yes, of course, I have cheat codes.
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I'm like, . So how long would you say, if you had to boil, how long would you say a typical video takes you from start to finish? I'm obsessed with pastel colors.
Kaveri Subrahmanyam: Right. Peggy Orenstein: and they were pink and blue and then when they were assigned a sex, pink was assigned to boys and blue was assigned to girls because pink was considered to be the more pastel version of red which connoted masculinity and the God Mars and strength. And blue was associated with faithfulness, constancy, and the Virgin Mary.
5:00 rolls around and I call our friend and she says I'm waiting for y'all so we show up and she's wearing these nice little jeans with this pastel top and she has cookies and lemonade waiting and this woman I write a lot about her in the book she was such a character she would talk for a good 10 minutes so fast
--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. And I love pasteles en hoja.
This is cured meat-- kind of a beef jerky. And something they call pasteli, which is a ground sesame seed honey paste. I also only drink water, no electrolyte replenish or sports beverages to try to reproduce what he might have gone through.
And I smudge everything with my fingers and palms. I tend to break the pastel into these sharp shards. Oh, I work with soft pastel .
that I've already put down. And typical paper used for soft pastel has a lot of tooth, meaning a very textured surface so that it's able to absorb as much pigment as possible. I actually prefer to work on a much smoother paper than what most pastel artists would want because it allows me to get those finer details without the texture
--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. Sancocho-- sorry. Pasteles en hoja take a long time.
I'm like, . So how long would you say, if you had to boil, how long would you say a typical video takes you from start to finish? In sync. So pastels , do you have any-- I think it's hard, because trends always seem to circulate back around.
I tend to break the pastel into these sharp shards. Oh, I work with soft pastel . I should have told you that first.
And typical paper used for soft pastel has a lot of tooth, meaning a very textured surface so that it's able to absorb as much pigment as possible. I actually prefer to work on a much smoother paper than what most pastel artists would want because it allows me to get those finer details without the texture of the paper getting in the way.
--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. Yeah? So my question is about pasteles en hoja.
would signal as to what was inside. So everything from the chocolate-brown wrapper, which felt more elegant than those pastel wrappers of the time, to the frosting, which was hand-frosted with an offset spatula as opposed to the piping bag aesthetic of the time that felt a little bit more factory production line.
I'm like, . So how long would you say, if you had to boil, how long would you say a typical video takes you from start to finish? I've seen it in stores, but I love pastel colors.
I'm like, . So how long would you say, if you had to boil, how long would you say a typical video takes you from start to finish? They're soft . You have a nice palette of pastel on today.
Exactly. Bush lost the popular vote, as you'll recall. And Patagonia was making all its coats in bright, vivid pastel colors, et cetera, et cetera.
estates hide flood-lit manicured gardens, terraces and Olympic-sized pools behind ten-foot walls alarmed and topped with razor wire. Looking east beyond them he can see the tall seaside hotels, their pastel walls splashed with warm light. Neon signs chum the names of the hotels against the purple eastern sky and blot out the stars. Conquistador. Casa Calusa. Monteview. Mirador. The cars, buses and trucks on the Causeway
--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. So I just question, does your book share cheat codes also for making pasteles en hoja?
--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. Like before, like I mentioned before, pasteles en hoja is a mix of plantains and yautia which is another root
--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. So yeah. For those that don't know what Pasteles en hoja are, it's similar to tamales from Mexico.
I don't if you're familiar with the Foucauldian sort of mantra that visibility is a trap, that even marching out with trans flags and Pride flags, rainbows, and those pastely colors together is never going to protect us from the structural inequities that are kind of breathing down our necks.
Me fui al día siguiente, me compré el traje de cocinero, el gorro bajo y aparecía en Horcher, en una cocina profesional. En mi casa siempre se había cocinado, tartas, pasteles . Mi madre es francesa, siempre cuento esto, que Pepe, Jordi y Eva González se meten todo el día conmigo, por eso, pero la influencia de una madre francesa hace que todo el tema
It's really inspiring not only to see some of the context behind what you're doing, but also how you do it. So I like that you touched on both pieces of actually how you work with the pastels and what the reasoning behind is. And to touch on your last point of kind of accessibility of the message-- so I think the data is out there,
really like Jacco Oliviers work. He does really large animated paintings which he then projects onto a wall and The Sperm Whale is a collective that Jason and I are members of which mixes traditional and digital art. For example, in this image the drawings were made in pastel on paper, scanned in, and then animated digitally using Orco, which is an Open Source program written by members of The Sperm Whale. And as we were discussing how we, this was gonna be displayed, like what kind of screens we'd mount it on, how we were going to show it,
is a drawing that he did on a menu. So this is like a paper menu from a Schraff's coffee shop. This is one of his first fully rendered images of the Hollywood sign; it's a drawing, pastel with ink and pencil on paper. And he usually shows the Hollywood sign against the sunset, sort of at an iconic, LA, smoggy, orange-red sunset. And he always did that so you think
And then as I mentioned, he was always interested in language. He plays around with language, you saw it in the SPAM and the an-, in the images, so beginning in the mid 70s, he started doing literally drawings with words in them, talking about Hollywood. So, this is a pastel called Properties in Hollywood, and he kind of makes you stop and think, "What do you mean by 'properties in hollywood'?" Is he calling on the language of real estate brochures?
--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. is that people grate all of those ingredients, and then they season it and make it into the pasteles .
--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. And I don't really think about that as too much effort because it's really-- if you think about it, pasteles en hoja is like a holiday dish.
--because I could not believe that I was able to do that. I think that tamales are with corn, like the corn leaf that they're wrapped, where pasteles en hoja is with a plantain leaf.
Just go grab some stuff. Bow ties, sweaters. Colors, pastels . The whole nine. So we bought this stuff.
We talk about one child who wakes up in the night and celebrate the quantum leap another little girl made with her drawing skills after discovering chalk pastels .