Food as Art
 

Nice and simple.

(as opposed to my other topics that always come attached wth a long diatribe of exposition, boundaries, and aims,
I've learned better this time. I now know no one cares.)

The topic to display (keyword) edible treats as visual feats.

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http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...ub73o1_500.jpg

do you mean feats or feets?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ood-art-06.jpg

...just checkin' or is it chicken?

you make a nice opening contribution, BadNick, and one in which the point, I will expound:

http://i39.tinypic.com/2yk0r60.jpg

Both your intial share above, and these next pieces, were created by a Hungarian artisan known as Balla Tamás (but perhaps you knew this already), and mainly...
using an X-acto knife, he transforms regular food into emotive faces and amusing creatures enhanced with eyes, mouths, and teeth.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2csi1za.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/15wju3p.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/1zn53fd.jpg http://i43.tinypic.com/mki4yc.jpg

[toxel.] + ballatamas.]

Bento Art is awesome.

http://www.trendhunter.com/images/ph...617_1_468.jpeg

http://www.google.com.sg/imglanding?...OPw5M&start=16

http://grahamten.files.wordpress.com.../bento-box.jpg

Man, this topic is going to be the death of my free time if I need to look up the author for each contribution made. (/end nervous sigh)
Gripes aside... I do appreciate a good bento box construction, and if it is made to resemble something else, all the better, right?

The rice kitty reclines contentedly on a bed of seafood and veggies, her whiskers tiger stripes rendered in nori (seaweed), her paws and ears in what appears to be lunch meat.

[cuteoverload.]


[I'm not sure what you were going for with your middle image, Charlatan, but just doing a google image search (GIS) and plucking images out that you like isn't the best way to ensure that your shared images last, or even if they can be actually be seen by us, considering you're swiping an image, maybe unaware that the particular site doesn't allow hotlinking.]

There's also this image to add to the one you found:


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"After Christmas, I wanted to make one more bento before the year was over, but my boyfriend and I
were already on holiday vacation. I was thinking of making a bento to eat at home, but my boyfriend
had to go see his family for a couple of days, so I decided to make a bento for him to eat on the bus.
Since I didn’t have work, I wanted to make this last bento of the year something very special." —Anna


[koikoikoi.] + [annathered.]

Bento Box Art... (continued)

http://i41.tinypic.com/2z5qbzr.jpg
Super Mario bento boxes by yukiko { more of this gallery can be found HERE }


http://i42.tinypic.com/vzd6pl.jpg
Bento of Super Smash Bros. by Anna the Red


[qbn.] + [technabob.] + [bombchu.]

These few samples of his works are thanks to Carl Warner, food artist extraordinaire CARL WARNER - PHOTOGRAPHER

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner3.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner6.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner7.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner1.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner2.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner4.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...arlwarner5.jpg

Very nice BadNick, very very nice (meaty villa!).

I don't have the time to think and edit a post right now, so I'll just take the 30 seconds I do have and scrummage something up...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

http://www.artinthepicture.com/artis...vertumnus.jpeg

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:V0zEHPQniS_vWM

speaking of melons
 

When I originally came across that gallery of Balla Tamás's work, I wanted to display the above image at first (instead of the 'apple butterfly', or 'hand of bread'), because I thought it was really nicely cut up, if not a bit creepy. Now that I look at it more, it seems less like a mummy rising from a pit of mud and/or cobwebs, but something more like Michael Phelps coming up to take a breath.

There's also this piece, created by the very same artisan:
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/1810/foodart17.jpg

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additionally, there were these two ripe, juicy, and oh-so-succulent mounds... found elsewhere:


[SWCC.]

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...appleheads.jpg
Hand-carved Apple Head dolls by Sharon Hays

http://9gag.com/photo/8346_540.jpg
the 10th anniversary issue of a French "urban fashion and culture" magazine called WAD.


[jezebel.]

When I found these I thought they were interesting but then I got suspicious about whether the carvings are really from the veggie or fruit or something else. I tried to confirm it but was not able to. So here they are for better or worse, true or false:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ple-728789.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...rry-729144.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lon-729925.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ion-730277.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...oot-727284.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...rot-727849.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...bit-728438.jpg

Well, I never did state whether or not the protrayals had to be 'real' artworks, in that they were, at one point, edible (and I, too, myself, have things in my queue that are just drawings of food), so the above, while I am leaning towards them being photoshopped (if only because of the strawberry) is alright nevertheless, BadNick.

Ah, I believe I have finally found the source to the works... they are advertisment posters for 'WMF Knives'.
(basically, it means they were photoshopped, in all likelihood).

See them HERE.

Jet, you are a true hunter-gatherer. I looked high and low for the source of those and couldn't find it. Maybe they were right in the middle the whole time.

I just used this, a now-everyday little web application I use. I weeded out the unlikely, looked for the "kind-of" looks legit, clicked, backtracked, and then found what I went there for, and did a bit of post-research, just to be sure.

In all, it took me just as long as it did to write this post: about 3-4 minutes.

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http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Derpy Subasaurus by painteddog


[reddit.]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/EvsTxdLEm...bQRRo1_500.jpg
Translated: Cafe "trunk" is a popular dish, using Hokkaido milk, waffle chips ears,
decorated with original soft chocolate chip eyes, "Zounohanasofutokurimu."


[hamakei.] + [flickr.]

Food from the best restaurant in the world... Noma

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fmzJd7725h...a,+Denmark.jpg

http://verygoodfood.dk/wp-content/no...mall_trine.jpg

http://www.townandcountrytravelmag.c...enhagen-fb.jpg

http://verygoodfood.dk/wp-content/uploads/img_3255.jpg

Noma.

"...is a two Michelin star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The name is a concatenation of the two Nordic words "nordisk" (Nordic) and "mad" (food),
and the restaurant is known for its reinvention and interpretation of the Nordic Cuisine.
In 2010, it was ranked as the Best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine,
having achieved third place the previous year."


[nationalpost.] + [luxist.]

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http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...63d20430_m.jpg
cakes & cakes by electricbiscuit

(which might seemlessly transition to my next post, though I doubt it... someone will post before I check back in again.)

A fried egg...

http://208.106.181.133/_media/imgs/articles/a211_f1.jpg

This 'eggscellent' yin and yang, titled "Eggregation" is made by DPChallenge user scalvert:

"It took me a few tries to make this happen: I cut the white shape (and the hole) out of thick paperboard to make a mold. The board wasn’t thick enough, so I pressed white paper tape along the edges. Then I covered the shapes with nonstick cooking spray and held them down on a flat griddle. I poured several egg whites into the mold and turned the griddle on to cook it. Carefully removed the mold using an X-acto knife to help separate the edges and then transferred the white shape to the pan with a spatula. Cooked yolks aren’t particularly attractive, so I cooked the bottom just enough to be able to transfer it (I went through several because they kept breaking). Once arranged in the pan, I hit everything with cooking spray to make it shiny, then used a butane lighter to lightly scorch the top of the egg white in spots so it would really look cooked."

[neatorama.]

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I have many more examples of "eggs as art", but I don't know if I should post them here, or create a new theme entitled, "food with faces".
I certainly have plenty of those. (as exemplified below)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/...4c76d40d25.jpg
What's all the eggcitement about? by Ariel Bo Bariel

I couldn't find an actual "ketchup art" site but these pics caught my fancy. I thought that by now a creative artist would have used green ketchup to enhance his/her portfolio, but alas, no green ketchup art was found:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...etchup-art.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...hup-art-11.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...etchupart2.jpg

In response to your post, BadNick (it seems all I ever do in this thread is follow-up responses)... I managed to find this video of the process, most probably produced by the very same artists you've portrayed above.


(sorry about any possible advertisements, and the music, too)

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Additionally, I happened upon this contest, currntly being held by the Heinz Co.

Heinz Ketchup Creativity 2010

"Since 2006, aspiring young artists have delighted America with delectable Ketchup packet designs.
The program promises more excitement in year four with bigger and better rewards for students and schools.

Through the Heinz Ketchup CreativityTM Contest, students from schools across the U.S. in grades K-1 through 12
are invited to show their creativity for a chance to have their artwork appear on millions of Heinz® Ketchup packets!

For the first time in Ketchup Creativity history, one of the top 12 winners will be chosen as the grand prize winner and
his or her artwork will appear on approximately 2.5 million Heinz® Ketchup bottles, in addition to the single-serve packets.
To top it off, that student will receive a $5,700 cash prize for the distinction as Heinz's first Ketchup Creativity bottle artist and grand prize winner."

PAST WINNERS' GALLERY

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...od/meatart.jpg

Quoting a report I found online:

The above is a piece by Victoria Reynolds called Down the Primrose Path, and it's essentially a trompe l'oeil painting of raw steak. It's part of a series of meat-inspired works by Reynolds, which also includes more playful takes on more whimsical types of meat.

Reynolds is at least the third female contemporary artist I've heard of to use meat as a running motif in her work; in art school I remember seeing a lot of meat-themed work by Jana Sterbak, including Chair Apollinaire (1996), a club chair upholstered with flank steak. I remember walking into a Sterbak mid-career retrospective at MCA in Chicago, and the smell of the work just completely taking over the space – well-meaning but clueless tourists drifted into the gallery smiling, and then marched right out again with contorted faces. And also very recently a Chilean artist named Gabriela Rivera caused a controversy with this video piece, in which she documents the act of covering her naked body with raw meat. I also want to say that Janine Antoni dabbled in the meat art game, but she might have just stuck to chocolate and lard.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...pollinaire.jpg
Jana Sterbak
Chair Apollinaire, 1996
Flank steak and black button thread
on polyester resin structure

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ielaRivera.jpg

Gabriela Rivera's video forms part of a controversial exhibition at Santiago's Sala Juan Egenau gallery. She said: "My work is a metaphor for the relationship that people have with themselves every day when they look in the mirror." The exhibition also includes videos of women urinating in the street and smashing boiled eggs with their hands.

Las Ultimas Notician reports that many visitors have complained that they found it disgusting.

Again, another very replete, and appreciated, share of artistic endeavors BadNick.

I, too, also have mounting examples of exclusively "meaty" art, but I'll go ahead make this the one that follows:


Quoted from The Bacon Thread

http://colombianart.files.wordpress....carne-4web.jpg

http://colombianart.files.wordpress....pg?w=500&h=350

http://colombianart.files.wordpress....rne1.jpg?w=500

On the other side of the scale...

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International Vegetarian Union: Anatomy Model Woman

"Vegetables are all your body needs"

Advertising Agency: JWT Kuwait
Creative Directors: Alessandro Antonini, Mark Makhoul
Photographer: Tommy Morris
Retoucher: Nabil Kamara
Published: August 2009

http://www.woostercollective.com/eggshof1-thumb.jpg

http://www.woostercollective.com/eggshof2.jpg

http://www.woostercollective.com/eggshoff3.jpg

The above project looks like it fit right into the "Street Art" scrolling gallery.

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http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...pwi0o1_500.jpg
“Mondrian Cake” — featured at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Rooftop Coffee Bar.


[laughingsquid.]

I want to eat that cake.

Would anybody mind explaining to me what a 'Mondrian' really is, and what it is meant to represent? All I've ever known about was the artist, but is the above configuration his "calling card", so to speak?

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http://i40.tinypic.com/244pdw3.jpg

http://food.truth.travel/media/image...dge_091116.jpg

In my quest to find out whether or not the above snail is supposed to be served live ('cause in the image above, it certainly looks quite 'lively'), I looked it up, and was rather delighted to find that the first searched query was just the thing to answer it: the recipe.




[BBC.]

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To honor the Annecy International Animated Film Festival's anniversary, on the occasion of its 50th celebration, French artist/photographer Alexandre Dubosc engineered and baked a commemoratory chocolate cake in an unconvential oven of his own idea, and displayed it as a stop-motion vignette.


Food about you - Annecy festival 2010 by Alexandre DUBOSC.

The making-of gallery.


[vimeo.] + [seriouseats.]

I love this film. I remember seeing it an animation festival when if first came out.

BREAKFAST


LUNCH


DINNER

at the centerpiece of this "piece", food not only becomes art, but also, a statistic
 

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Hafsteinn Juliusson, Rui Pereira and Joana Pais’s “Wheel of Nutrition” plate set
is a dead-simple color-coded diet-management system. Each color slice illustrates
the recommended daily dose for different food types based on a the diet of your choice.


[swissmiss.]

http://i.imgur.com/qdYgm.jpg



[urlesque.] + [strangemaps.]

I know that there is already, and probably could be another, topic devoted solely devoted to fanciful cakes and their consturction, but for the sake of it, and because I don't have that many, I'll feature the ones that I do come across here (until the time comes I find too many, and then I'll move them elsewhere).

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Liz Marek, of Artisan Cake Company, in honor of her “super nerdy husband's 26th birthday”,
portrays Andrew Zubko’s epic “Batman vs. Shark with Lightsaber”.


[greatwhitesnark.] + [TFP.]

follow-up cake that is cool to the culture that inhabits...
 

http://i49.tinypic.com/65dheo.jpg
Pacman cupcake level, by hello naomi.

"Love Injections"
 

Brusse knows some “Extraordinary ways to surprise the one you love: Love Injections”.
He also made a book of this project with 100’s of ideas how to say “I love you” in a creative way.
You can buy your copy here.

http://i50.tinypic.com/16isj1c.jpg
'Fridge Love'



http://i49.tinypic.com/2mcvvpk.jpg
'Sweetest Girl'


[todayandtomorrow.]

accessories to accentuate your palate and plates.
 

The Green Space Travel Case (a How-to)

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...ac00dacb_m.gif
If you have a loved one who works in a concrete jungle and doesn’t have the
opportunity to go eat with nature, this is just the thing for you to make as a
surprise lunch kit. Not super practical for everyday use, but great as a pick
me up for a day known to be full of tough meetings. And then once you’ve had
your fun, just put it in a window to see if you can keep the grass growing for
a little patch of park inside.

Read more HERE.


-- courtesy of design*sponge.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2...hwvho1_500.jpg
ネットゲリラ: スパム丼 (translated: Japan-fried 'Don Spam')

http://i47.tinypic.com/inwj0p.jpg
by Alexandre DUBOSC

They're not Sabrett's dogs, but I do like the cabbage leaves

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...t-Dog-Day_.jpg

'MEAT' by Dimitri Tsykalov.
 

Not that I'm not a veggie lover, nor am I solely a carnivore,
but ths is the equal and opposite post reaction:

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...8fd4b21d_m.jpg
Photography by Dimitri Tsykalov ; born in 1963 in Moscow, now lives and works in Paris.



[pristina.] + [acidolatte.]

(^^ above link has one topless female, so if you consider that 'NSFW' and would rather not be subjected to it, I am forewarning thee here.)

Music is art, and I love Kate Bush

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...e-music-ls.jpg

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Art Chef Inc. (Fruit & Vegetable Carving Training Classes)

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...artchefbio.jpg

'Food as Art' ... or the reverse of which, being Art displayed and integrated as food(stuff).

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3377/...ab5d436df6.jpg
(Banksy stencils as cupcakes) by Buttercream Bakery

Some culinary trend watchers say the current appetite for whimsical produce art may have started with Saxton Freymann's work in the 1997 book, "Play With Your Food." His brussels sprouts pigs, broccoli poodles and bok choy fish have been featured on greeting cards, calendars and in several subsequent books. Photo: Saxton Freymann

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...d/23148599.jpg

[For The Love of Video Games.]

http://9gag.com/photo/4455_540.jpg
created by luiza p. ; view the gallery, see the 'makings-of'.

Doce Ballet on Vimeo

Dancing Food.

http://i46.tinypic.com/1180ql1.jpg http://i49.tinypic.com/28gyzhs.jpg
Baked in custom made molds and decorated with special techniques … these ‘bread’ are the work of artist baker Kittiwat Unarrom.

http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/a...readbodies.jpg http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/a...facemaking.jpg

Since 2006 Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom (whose family also runs a bakery) has used
dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and
other body parts. The results are unnervingly realistic with eyes, lips & other details
constructed out of cashews, raisins and the like. A lack of hair and blood-like glazes
make the work all the more creepy. Sold at his family's bakery in the Thai province
of Ratchaburi (100 km east of Bangkok), he displays the parts wrapped like food
in plastic and hung from meat hooks. The almost real looking deceased body parts
are an example of the Buddhist principle – 'you shouldn’t believe what you see'.

http://i47.tinypic.com/34zdtgw.jpg

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+ bonus

http://i48.tinypic.com/2uhvnus.jpg

Watch the video below to see Unarrom at work and some visitors' reactions.


[extragoodshit.] + [coolhunting.]

Jim's Pancakes Are Delicious
 

http://i48.tinypic.com/vh4ze1.jpg

Jim is a dad whose 3-year-old daughter, Allison, likes pancakes.
Jim, like his own dad, sees making the breakfast favorite a fun and
delicious challenge, so he's taken to turning the pillowy flapjacks into
creatures, structures and even bling on his blog, Jim's Pancakes!

http://i45.tinypic.com/2h5p9u1.jpg

http://i48.tinypic.com/2u9pr7o.jpg


[laughingsquid.]

(Nearly a year late for this, but who amongst you cares...)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Max and Moishe snickerdoodle cupcakes by Clarissa Avila.
Made and presented as a farewell present for a departing roommate.

author's comments:
For frosting and decorations I used chocolate ganache (Moishe), canned vanilla frosting
(Max), sprinkles, store-bought gumpaste eyes, and fondant colored tinted by hand.


[neatorama.]

(Not an advertisement!)

The "Free App of the Day" website today is giving away a face-making iPhone app that uses vegetables to make faces. So, make your own food art.

FACE IMAKE - CREATIVE CRAZINESS !!!
faad
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1153/193shot.jpg

The Huber Experiments - Vol. 1 by The Upthink Lab

credits: Filmed on the Phantom HD @ 960fps.

Visuals by Matthew & Erik Huber.
Audio by Brian Slusher.


[vimeo.]

^ cool, Jet. Did you see anything about how it was done? It looked like the camera might have been attached to the table which was dropped and then finally landed again.

The fruity cereal reminded me of this cute babe from Australia that I posted a picture of previously. There was some kind of commotion associated with her bath but she gives me a tickle.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...fruitloops.jpg

Regarding your question, Badnick, it's answered in the top two replies of the video's "splash" page, as hosted/seen on vimeo:

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*context

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http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...uff/warhol.jpg
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Erwin Bauer of Bauer Concept and Design created a series of smart, conceptual and functional placemats, shot by photographers Janto Lenherr and Michael Stobl for Vienna's Mumok Museum of Modern Art Restaurant and hotels. Each design interpreted a famous modern artist's work as food on a plate, which was then photographed.

The series of placemats won the 2009 Gold from the European Design Awards in the Miscellaneous Print category.

Seems quite fitting to feature this now, what with the World Tournament
 

Flags Made From Native Foods - My Modern Metropolis

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...60de5177_m.jpg
South Korea

Whoever came up this idea should be given some sort of creative award.
In this set, 12 different countries are represented by their respective flags.
The kicker is, all the flags are made up of different foods from their native countries.

Australian ad agency Whybin TBWA created this brilliant set to promote the Sydney
International Food Festival coming up next month [October of 2009]. A job well done,
executing on both form and function.


continued...

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Brazil

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...b96b8475_m.jpg
Spain

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...1f213528_m.jpg
Italy

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...8d4a4963_m.jpg
Greece

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...d323f5b7_m.jpg
Switzerland

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...14c9ffd0_m.jpg
France

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...e3018f03_m.jpg
Lebanon

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...b3056e30_m.jpg
India

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...ef43f6db_m.jpg
Vietnam

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...2615c014_m.jpg
Japan

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...8e0ac117_m.jpg
Australia


-- courtesy of My Modern Metropolis

Gorgeous Victuals. My salivaries salute your thread.

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...my-potato.html

http://i45.tinypic.com/xfngyd.jpg
Here are some cool & very inspiring advertising created by Swedish
Food Stylist Linda Lundgren for Scandinavian supermarkets Hemköp.



[acidolatte.] + [trendland.]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...pwi0o1_500.jpg
To generate buzz for its latest line of food-storage products, VitaFresh, Bosch
installed a number of off-kilter meat selections — dino legs, mammoth steaks,
and sabre-tooth filets — at various supermarkets throughout Germany.
The pitch: Bosch keeps food fresh for longer.

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+ bonus



[notcot.] + [adsoftheworld.]

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/...7e315cbf_m.jpg
Illustration by Sergey Nikolaev ; for "Gazeta" Newspaper. [June 23, 2008.]

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+ bonus(es)

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[behance.]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3536/...df57214843.jpg
Muffins by Bakerella.

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs10/i/20...nocookie05.jpg
Tri-Colored Chocolate Mousse by Lisa Wilson

author's comments:
Dark, Milk, and Dirty White chocolate were used to create the layers of mousse which is topped off in a
dark chocolate ganache with white chocolate designs ontop.

It sits on top of a Chocolate Sablee disk.
Next to the disk is whipped cream piped into a shell design with fresh fruit covering it.

The plate is designed with Dark, Milk, and White chocolate swirls. Raspberry coulis, Hot fudge sauce, and
sour cream sauce fill some of the circles on the plate.

A chocolate ciggerate tops of the peice.

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オムカツ translated: Omukatsu ; as seen and sold at the Raku Bistro.

Omelet on top of huge, huge pork cutlet.
Hanging on the ketchup, green peas are also interspersed.
The beautiful contrast of red, green, brown and yellow.

(Continued...)

Inside visual:

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Fried rice and egg in Demigurasusosu entwined.
Oozing sweetness from the onions in plenty of demiglace
umami, sour horse radish in harmony with ketchup.

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rigatoni bolognese ; photo: aubrey rose.


-- courtesy of the craving project

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iphone app chocolates by iChocolates on Etsy

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"iChocolates are a 20-piece gourmet chocolates assortment
resembling iPhone and iPad app icons,
boxed in a luxury iPhone-like package.
Including 4 different flavours."

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Breeding out of battery (Elevage en batterie) by Alexandre DUBOSC

author's comments:
this photo is not compositing but a real studio photo with little Humour and little work too...

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"The Ghost (was) in the Shell", by Dragan Todorovic

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photo snap by DolceDanielle

author's comments:
Mickey-shaped cheese pizza, from Pizzeria Belle Note. [sic]

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Pizza In a Cone Rolls Out in Manhattan ; as sold by K! Pizzacone.

catch-line:
Hey old man! No longer will you have to fold over your pizza like a taco or eat your pizza with a knife and fork.
It's 2010 and the tyranny of the slice has at last come to an end in Manhattan, where K! Pizzacone opened in midtown today!
(by today, they mean some 18 weeks ago)

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Milkshake Recipe by Prentice Wongvibulsin.

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Photo by: domino4k / Shannon

as part of her Strawberries photo-series.

From The Longest Thread Ever! thread:

Other interesting Vik Muniz works of "food art":

Medusa Marinara (Pasta on Plate Shaped Into a Likeness of Caravaggio's Medusa Shield)
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From Sugar Children series:
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jelly & peanut butter Mona Lisa:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lymonalisa.jpg

black bean soup Che:
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ckbeansoup.jpg

more chocolate
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ocolateser.jpg

sugar children
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...drenseries.jpg

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translated: Carving fruit and vegetables, local craft of Thailand. Photo by: Freddy MORIS

As I've seen is popular in the Indian Isles, and in Western Europe, 'carved-flower-decaled melons'.

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Citrus ; Photo by: Takako Chiba

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sunday lunch. photo by: aixxx

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SWEETS FOR LOVERS ; Photo by: Nana Solana

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Pottery Barn Acrylic Drink Dispenser, $59

The Edible "Jelloware" Cup, designed by 'The Way We See The World'
 

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On June 26th, the Gowanus Studio Space hosted the 2nd annual Jell-O Mold competition in Brooklyn,
New York. The competition encouraged artists, designers, chefs, and lovers of Jell–O to use gelatin
in new and unexpected ways. A company called The Way We See The World won the prize for
sculptural/structural integrity with "Jelloware" – a set of delicious, squishy, colorful glasses.

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Jelloware re-imagines the concept of drinking, and imparts a new experience in the way it feels,
tastes, smells, moves, and is even disposed of. The cups are made entirely out of agar agar and
cast in different flavors, such as lemon-basil, ginger-mint, or rosemary-beet. All are specifically
designed to compliment a corresponding drink. Jelloware is meant to be thrown into the grass
after it is used, as agar agar is a seaweed extract and actually nurtures the growth of plants.

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[yankodesign.]

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“Melts in Your Mouth” by Phil Jones.

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melting hot chocolate in the hearts

The Perfect Portions Digital Scale

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By Andrew Liszewski [product feature]

A big part of a healthy diet is eating sensible portions, but if you’re completely clueless when it comes to how much sugar, carbs, cholesterol or sodium is in a handful of your favorite snack, the Perfect Portions scale is like Nutrition 101. It’s a combination food scale & nutritional calculator that has a built-in database of 1,999 different foods, plus the ability to store an additional 99 custom entries. You just zero the scale, plunk down your food and then punch in the corresponding food code so the scale knows what it’s measuring. The nutritional stats, as well as the total weight, are then displayed on an LCD designed to look like the Nutrition Facts labels found on food packaging these days. As kitchen scales go the Perfect Portions goes above and beyond the call of duty, so the $59.99 price tag doesn’t seem that unreasonable.

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A blogger who goes by the moniker Grumpy Frenchman celebrated his birthday with a dinner party
that presented food from different science fiction franchises. He created dishes inspired by Firefly,
Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune, Futurama, Soylent Green, The Lord of the Rings, and Alien.
Pictured above is a roasted chestburster:

Voila! Roasted Chestburster ‘a la Coloniale’! Big hit with the crowd for the disgusting aspect,
the uber-nerdness of the idea, and the fact that it was basically a nice bit of roasted meat, when all’s said and done. Yum!

Bit of a close up on the jaw. Pictures aren’t perfect because Kim declined to photograph that one
(Her exact words were something like: “OhGodUrgh…”), and the man who stepped forward to do it
for her had already sampled the blue milk quite a bit!

[neatorama.]

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“March of the Popsicles” Photo by: Rayna

marzipan fruits:

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(I think I'm going to be one of those guys that goes through life never really ever going to be able to understand what 'marzipan' really is, despite all explanations / simplifications; sort of like 'zero-sum gravity', when you hear the word, it's just bad news if you think I'll comprehend where you are going with this)

- - -

making it "official" - eggs as art is the theme within the theme here.

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(click image directly to download wallpaper-sized screen)

[Miniaturize Yourself]

Recipe and instructions to creating your own "pizza pops" variation provided to you courtesy of Instructables member scoochmaroo.
[Miniaturize Yourself]

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Happyness

accessories to our aliments
 

(so much for coincidental ties... I forget so easily.)

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Pizza cutters as art by Frankie Flood -- boingboing

author's comments:

My work investigates one of a kind objects and their role in a world based on mechanical reproduction. Industry has removed the aura from objects and stripped them of their individuality. My pizza cutters seek to demolish the sterile conformity of mass produced objects and represent the stylistic and flamboyant embellishment of groups who live on the fringe of popular culture. The outlaw biker image is a break from the conformity that has taken over America since industrialization. My machined pizza cutters draw inspiration from chopper motorcycles and attempt to reclaim the mythology and economic usefulness of the American worker as patriarch; translating machine or functional object into flesh and blood. The outlaw as defiant nonconformist, as well as social outcast, parallels being an artist who makes functional objects and being an individual who takes pride in the power of invention and skill.

Lotus Leaf
Rendered in canned goods
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The structure above, created in 2005 by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects LLP, is made from 5,000 cans of sliced bamboo shoots and stuffed vine leaves.


President Barack Obama
Rendered in cereal
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This mosaic of President Barack Obama, created by Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev of CerealArt.com, showcases a slew of sugary cereals including Honeycomb, Life and Froot Loops.


“Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat”
Rendered in leeks
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The above artwork, inspired by one of Vincent van Gogh’s many self-portraits, was displayed at the Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery from November 23, 2008 to January 22, 2009 as part of Chinese artist Ju Duoqi’s exhibit titled The Vegetable Museum. In the series, Duoqi recreates Western masterpieces using common Chinese cuisine ingredients—including tofu, cabbage, ginger, lotus roots, coriander and sweet potato


“Gold Marilyn Monroe”
Rendered in Nestlé Smarties
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“Toaster"
Rendered in toasted bread
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This 14.5 x 16.5-inch mosaic by Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre was made entirely of toast—specifically, 3,053 slices with varying degrees of toastedness, including shades of white, beige, tan, ochre, rust and black. The two artists are known for using bread and food as a recurring theme in their artwork. This piece, which took several days of toasting—and the use of multiple friends’ toasters—to complete, was displayed at the Galleria Milano in Milan, Italy, in October and November 1999.

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