JS: How did you get these people to help with the piece and who are they?
KB: Um, this is a girl who lives on my floor and this is my boyfriend. I think I just set up a time where, ah, they were both free. Brian helped me with it because I asked him to and Lindsay just didn’t have anything to do. Like I said, at that point I didn’t really have a script written but I knew how I wanted the story to play out as a parody about the cream cheese snowman.
JS: So they come over? Or do you tell them about the concept over the phone or something?
KB: Well, no. Brian was already over and I had told Brian before that I thought I was going to make the snowman with mashed potatoes. And so I was like, “This is what I’m going to do and if I’m going to take pictures of this little mashed potato snowman I guess I need mashed potatoes!” And so I remember one night at dinner we took a whole bunch of mashed potatoes—we found one night that they were serving them at the dorm. And we put them into our dining cups cause that’s the only thing we’re allowed to take out of the dining hall. And so (laughs), I felt really dumb but Brian was just like, “Okay!” And he had the dining cups and he had this huge plate of mashed potatoes and he was just like scooping them into there and people were like, “What is he doing?!” And I was almost like, “I don’t know what he’s doing!” I was just kind of sitting there. In the end, we ended up using cream cheese for the snowman cause I had a whole bunch of cream cheese in my fridge and I was like, “Duh!? Why didn’t I use cream cheese to begin with?”
JS: So it was that the mashed potatoes didn’t work or was it just that the cream cheese was plentiful?
KB: The cream cheese, um, I looked at it and I’m like this would work better cause the mashed potatoes would fall apart but the cream cheese, since it was in the fridge and it’s cold and it’s more like clay than mashed potatoes are. So I told Brian to come over again to help me with it. I think at that point I wasn’t even thinking about putting staged photographs of people in the book. I was just going to take this little mashed potato creation and take pictures of it.
JS: So you hadn’t thought about this storyline before getting the photo essay assignment? I mean, was this—had you been thinking about working with mashed potatoes and cream cheese prior to this?
KB: No. When we first had the assignment I thought to do a parody of a children’s book because when I was younger there was a book, um, something, something and the Stinky Cheese Man. And it was a parody of the gingerbread man but it was made out of cheese and, um, it was just a parody of all these fairy tales. So I was thinking about that book and how I could make a parody of a children’s story. And I, I don’t know why but I thought of Frosty the Snowman. I guess it had to do a lot with this other book—the parody of the gingerbread man but he was made out of cheese and—that’s probably what I was thinking about and I thought, “Well, what could I make him out of that wasn’t snow and that’s white?” Mashed potatoes. That’s where I got my idea.
JS: So they come over? Or do you tell them about the concept over the phone or something?
KB: Well, no. Brian was already over and I had told Brian before that I thought I was going to make the snowman with mashed potatoes. And so I was like, “This is what I’m going to do and if I’m going to take pictures of this little mashed potato snowman I guess I need mashed potatoes!” And so I remember one night at dinner we took a whole bunch of mashed potatoes—we found one night that they were serving them at the dorm. And we put them into our dining cups cause that’s the only thing we’re allowed to take out of the dining hall. And so (laughs), I felt really dumb but Brian was just like, “Okay!” And he had the dining cups and he had this huge plate of mashed potatoes and he was just like scooping them into there and people were like, “What is he doing?!” And I was almost like, “I don’t know what he’s doing!” I was just kind of sitting there. In the end, we ended up using cream cheese for the snowman cause I had a whole bunch of cream cheese in my fridge and I was like, “Duh!? Why didn’t I use cream cheese to begin with?”
JS: So it was that the mashed potatoes didn’t work or was it just that the cream cheese was plentiful?
KB: The cream cheese, um, I looked at it and I’m like this would work better cause the mashed potatoes would fall apart but the cream cheese, since it was in the fridge and it’s cold and it’s more like clay than mashed potatoes are. So I told Brian to come over again to help me with it. I think at that point I wasn’t even thinking about putting staged photographs of people in the book. I was just going to take this little mashed potato creation and take pictures of it.
JS: So you hadn’t thought about this storyline before getting the photo essay assignment? I mean, was this—had you been thinking about working with mashed potatoes and cream cheese prior to this?
KB: No. When we first had the assignment I thought to do a parody of a children’s book because when I was younger there was a book, um, something, something and the Stinky Cheese Man. And it was a parody of the gingerbread man but it was made out of cheese and, um, it was just a parody of all these fairy tales. So I was thinking about that book and how I could make a parody of a children’s story. And I, I don’t know why but I thought of Frosty the Snowman. I guess it had to do a lot with this other book—the parody of the gingerbread man but he was made out of cheese and—that’s probably what I was thinking about and I thought, “Well, what could I make him out of that wasn’t snow and that’s white?” Mashed potatoes. That’s where I got my idea.
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