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VIDEO: Artists Use 1980s Aerobics to Make Butter, and It Works!
The new spin on a classic workout is part of an afternoon program at the nonprofit gallery Machine Project. It also features bread-baking in Dutch ovens set up on Alvarado Street.
It was a sold-out Sunday, Oct. 28 at nationally-recognized artists' space Machine Project in Echo Park.
Pomona College art professor Michael O'Malley was outside on the sidewalk all afternoon baking bread in two Dutch ovens set on a grill.
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Inside, Pop Soda's Jimmy Fusil (a moonlighting digital artist) led the lucky few through a 45-minute aerobic workout where glass jars full of cream substituted for free weights.
That cream became butter that eventually got spread on to Michael O'Malley's bread.
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The afternoon was called Aerobic Butter/Anaerobic Bread and, boy, was it good!
Watch the video above to see the aerobic workout.
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