Allen Hemberger

@dhemberg

I like to make stuff.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2009.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. 28. sij

    The music playing over the opening credits of The New Pope sent me down a rabbit hole learning about Sofi Tukker, which landed me on this song that I can't stop playing today:

  2. 24. sij

    Oh, also, we're working on something else that we'll be releasing around the same time. Have a great weekend!

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  3. 24. sij

    Anyway, we aim to have it ready to ship within the next few months, and are very excited to share it.

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  4. 24. sij

    Sarah just finished up the end sheets (the two pages that secure the main book block to the cover itself). I generated the linework in Houdini – a combination of Tessendorf waves and a fluid simulation – and she hand-painted the ice cubes and the water textures)

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  5. 24. sij

    ...and a few interesting cover treatments (we're working on a textured cover that has sort of a glassy "varnish" over the hero drink, so that the whole thing is fun to touch).

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  6. 24. sij

    Anyway, I'm excited today because we've gotten a big box of proofs from our printer and are putting the finishing touches on things before pushing "go" on our big print run. We're debating a few different cloth-cover slipcase options...

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  7. 24. sij

    In doing this back-and-forth, we ended up expanding the scope of things dramatically; what started as a book with about 30 recipes grew into one with over 120 or so. There's some pretty fun stuff we developed just for the book (things that were never served in the restaurants).

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  8. 24. sij

    I ended up making most drinks several times before getting them to a point where we all agreed they were delicious.

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  9. 24. sij

    The recipes themselves were super-fun to make, and scaling them all down myself forced me to learn how to taste and evaluate them. I brought each version of each drink in to the chefs to let them taste a couple times per week.

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  10. 24. sij

    (...and here's what it looked like after Sarah gently asked me to please clean my shit up or she was going to send the previous photo to Chef.)

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  11. 24. sij

    I felt the same about ingredient sourcing; when I could, I would try to use ingredients we could find online or in our local supermarkets, rather than doing special-order stuff through The Aviary itself. Here's what that looked like a few months in.

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  12. 24. sij

    We did the entire thing the same way we'd made our prototype; I did all the scaling and testing in our small apartment kitchen. I felt working this way was important: I want these recipes to be easy to make at home, and what better way than to make all of them in a home kitchen?

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  13. 24. sij

    (I made the cover in Houdini, using a couple fluid emitters pointed at one another with a bit of color diffusion to make a nice, tasty-looking splash).

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  14. 24. sij

    Further, I photographed everything in our apartment as well (on my kid's 1.5-foot-tall coloring table). After about a month of work, Sarah and I had a prototype that we brought in to present to Nick and Chef.

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  15. 24. sij

    Also, EACH of the Alinea Group's restaurants develops their own battery of n/a's...not just The Aviary. The collection of recipes from each restaurant differs wildly from that of the others...there's a flabbergasting variety amongst them all.

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  16. 24. sij

    Something that I was particularly-fascinated by when we were making the Aviary book were the "N/As" – non-alcoholic drinks. These recipes were SO cool to me; they require exponentially more care and thought than actual cocktails, because every bit of them is made from scratch.

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  17. 24. sij

    Hello! I am incredibly excited about a project Sarah and I have been working on for a bit under a year now. May I share it with you? Swell!

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  18. 24. lis 2019.

    The one on the right is particularly funky.

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  19. 24. lis 2019.

    4 different binding treatments...some experiments Sarah and I are playing with.

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  20. 30. ruj 2019.

    When we began work on The Aviary: Holiday Cocktails, I asked Chefs Micah and Ingi if I could try to apply what they'd taught me while we were making The Aviary Cocktail Book to contribute a recipe to this project.

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