so ..our 2nd sudio assignment was to create a "Happening". if you remember the box hanging above from the atrium last year at around this time. yep, that is from the same assignment, to create a "happening".
this year, we decide to bake 1500 cupcakes to cover 11 tables in the atrium in Colleg of design. oh obviously, 1500 is estimated thru calculation. It is not the hardest project, but i value it a lot. it's one of those projects that has to get the community involves, and reach out to more audienc. at least, i dont think i have done any project like this...
so to achieve the 1500 cupcakes. We thought of ...baking them at someone's place. but thinking that we need to keep it really confidential, but most of us living with a design student anyways...so there's lots of inconvenience in what time we can bake. ... and seriously??with a normal kitchen oven....how long will that take!? and ofcourse, we need to make sure all the cakes are tasty and fresh. so, yep, we went around for sponsorship. we asked...west hyvee, east hyvee, dutch oven...and some other bakery place on main street...our back up plans are wal-mart, churches...etc. we should be able to get something from them, might not be straight cupcakes..or money...but can be cheaper ingredience....hmmmm their facilities......blah blah blah etc.
so ....the result is that...west hyvee offer us to use their kitchen to bake 1100 cupcakes for $150. goood deal~ and the rest of cupcakes are given from dutch oven, east hyvee, and that unknown bakery. we achieved 1500 cupcakes easily. AND IT WAS SO MUCH FUN BAKING!!!i have never seriouslly baked anything before, but when those vanilla cupcakes came out straight from the oven, they are just sooooooooo tempting!!! smells soooo good!!! so i ate some too.....and we put frosting on, and sprinkles on. sexy sexy!~wahahahwe had those carts/fridge kinda thing from ISU dinning. so took these cupcakes into the fridge...and took them secretly to studio.
we gathered again at 5:45 am in the studio again. to set things up. and 1500 cupcakes covered perfectly on 11 tables. They look awesome!!!! <3 <3 <3 and we set up cameras. and left as nothing has happened. :)
when i came back again on 10 am for class. everybody was so excited about the cupcakes!!!!! cameron said he had never seen so many smiling faces around. :) a secretary from archtiecture office followed mitchell to the elevator, and said...those cupcakes made my days! some faculty asked if she can take some cupcakes back for her kid. and Cal Lewis..actually went to the architecture office to ask if he can have a cupcake...LOL that's so Cal. Lots of fun things happens. and apparently people like sitting around cupcakes!!!!! Making your day, thru which i made mine!!! :)
oh and obviously we had hint...and posters spreading around before and after the event.
the event is a social experiment that get everybody involved. almost unconciously. we observe how they react when seeing those cupcakes, who are the first ones to take them, what did they do when they cant use the tables anymore. blah blah blah.
so yep, that is a success. KCCI and isu daily came to report. i should have a video later from studio. and yep! pictures.
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/article_7f17eeda-3bfa-11e0-b382-001cc4c002e0.html
http://www.kcci.com/r/26918150/detail.html
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