How to Have a High-Tech Holiday Meal: Lasers, Cocktails, and a Tattooed Turkey

Michael Cirino brings together a series of multimedia interventions to turn Thanksgiving dinner into a fanciful work of collaborative art.

From Per La Mente November 26, 2017

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Per La Mente is a publication that focuses on spotlighting creators. That’s why, this season, they worked with creative culinary experience designer Michael Cirino of A Razor / A Shiny Knife — whom you may recognize from his delightful dalliance with drones — to make a whole new kind of high-tech yet harmonious holiday dinner.

It was a joyful celebratory evening, a convergence of interdisciplinary creators using food as a canvas, leveraging technology, music, and art to interplay with some of the traditional food associated with the season.

From Alejandra Sacasa’s laser-etched rolls and pies to Justin Bolognino’s cocktail overlay app to Jessica Mascitti’s terrific tattooed turkey, the meal was filled with a potluck sense of creativity: talented artists sharing their tricks, their triumphs, and of course their delicious treats. It was a delightful dinner and a warm, wonderful experience that was much more visceral than a simple meal.

Scroll on for more pictures of the feast, and may your days be full of creativity, collaboration, and plenty of lasers.

A bird with more ink than a Brooklyn dinner party Alyssa Laurel Ringler

Alejandra Sacasa’s laser-etched rolls. Alyssa Laurel Ringler

What's dinner without a little theater? — What’s dinner without a little theater? Alyssa Laurel Ringler

Michael Cirino of A Razor / A Shiny Knife. Alyssa Laurel Ringler

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