Photographer Allison Michael Orenstein captured baker/blogger Michael Martin in the buff. Martin is a contributor to East Village Boys, a blog dedicated to up-and-coming artistic talent. In this article, Martin strips down to just an apron for 'EVB Goes Domestic.'
Michael Martin is wonderfully self-depricating about his involvement in the hipster food scene. His super-cheeky remarks make his art references bearable, not pretentious. One of the instructions on the EVB site reads, "Most people make terrible pies that look good from a distance - like a Seurat painting, or Hillary Clinton. Don't do that. Make your friends jealous of your fantastic life by serving them something gorgeous." Ha! Hilarious. Who doesn't love a man who can bake?
Why This Trend Is Growing
- Food Photography
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: develop a tasteful approach to capturing food that can make it more appealing and exciting to customers.
- Nude Photography
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: explore the taboo of nudity in advertising and humanize your brand through a more relatable and authentic approach to marketing.
- Online Communities
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: build and leverage online communities to showcase up-and-coming artistic talent and foster a sense of belonging among customers and brand ambassadors.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Food Industry
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: appeal to customers' emotions, senses, and aspirations by turning food and baking into an art form that can express creativity, innovation, and self-expression.
- Photography Industry
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: challenge the norms of traditional photography and explore new ways of capturing beauty, humor, and authenticity that can transform conventional marketing into a more engaging and memorable experience.
- Fashion Industry
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: partner with photographers and artists to create fashion-forward aprons, uniforms, accessories, and merchandise that can turn the mundane into the trendy, chic, and desirable.
