Seattle chef Tiberio Simone has a problem: he can’t find a publisher for his rather unusual book, La Figa: Visions of Food and Form. He and photographer Matt Freedman have spent the last 5 years decorating naked people with food, photographing them, and calling it art. The results ARE unique, to say the least. But publishers aren’t biting…yet.
So I offered to help by making this video. When my filmmaker friend Nassim saw it, she dubbed it a “book trailer,” which has a nice ring. But I call it my Eureka moment. Because as I was editing the footage, I realized that Tiberio is as much the man to have in front of my camera for this project as Isaiah Mustafa was for Old Spice. This is a participatory film involving lots of naked strangers. And I don’t know anyone who can navigate this dangerous ground as charismatically as Tiberio. I mean, how many guys do you know who could walk into Pike Place Market and literally have tourists eating out of his hand inside of 30 minutes? But can he convince four total strangers to get naked in front of half of Seattle? We’ll see.
Join Tiberio and I as we take a stroll into Pike Place Market… and start imagining the adventures we’ll have as we go Beyond Naked.
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