Wednesday 20 November 2013

Achtung - Meat, Mash, Veg.

Whilst talking about the tea towel today, the story of it's design, by Leo of BK and Dad, revisited me. The CND symbol was inspired by a dreadful food experience during our Butcher Of Common Sense Residency in Berlin. Inspired by a meal purchased from the Bonjour Garage, adjacent to the Nalepastrasse Funkhaus, in deepest Eastern Berlin. The 'food' sat in a plastic container, divided into three, like a CND symbol, separating, meat, mash and veg. When Jon plopped a little of the meat from one section into the mash section, he coined the phrase, 'Dog shit in sand'.It was too cold in the room to laugh and it wasn't funny because that was the food for the evening. Not really... we laughed til we forgot we were hungry and ate currywurst with the Tacheles rats a few hours later. You can own your very own Achtung tea towel, it specialises in drying crockery and cutlery and doubles up as an emergency liquid spill absorber, can be used on face.

Monday 11 November 2013

Butcher Resuscitation Miracle

In salute to the Butcher of Common Sense and the journey 9 of us took to Berlin, I am resuscitating images and sound files that lay buried, left out of the Butcher book, left off the album and vinyl, the left-overs... but oh how good they are to revisit... The Butcher's feast continues to feed our hunger.