Remember Carl Werner’s wonderful Foodscapes? Well, he’s only gone and done it again! Except this time, he’s made landscapes out of human bodies…
You can see more of these on Carl’s website HERE.
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Yep. The inside of my fridge these days is still very much tragic…
…Even more tragic than the last time…
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This story is called: “The Ginger-Snap Cream” and it’s completely true.
When I was 8 years old, I tried a biscuit called ‘The Ginger-Snap Cream’ for the first time and I LOVED THEM and later on that same night, when my Mum and Dad were sleeping, I tip-toed down into the kitchen and I stole the ENTIRE packet of biscuits because I wanted them all to be mine.
I crept back up the stairs in the dark and hid the stolen ginger-snap creams under my pilow and over the next couple of days, I was pleased that nobody had noticed the missing biscuits.
One day, I came home from school to be confronted by my Mum and Dad who were holding up the now almost empty packet of ginger-snap creams and straight away, I broke and confessed EVERYTHING!
They told me that I was greedy and that I should be ashamed of myself. And friends, they were quite right.
When Sunday came, I went into the ‘confessional box’ at chapel and confessed my secret thieveing greedy shame to the local priest who told me that Jesus and God were very disappointed in me and that the only way out of it was for me to say 25 ‘Hail Mary’ prayers, an ‘Our Father’ AND a ‘Glory Be’.
I thought the sentence was a bit harsh but I said every last one of those prayers anyway.
TO THIS VERY DAY, I feel greedy whenever I eat even the smallest amount of food and I also have a problem eating infront of people.
THE END.
Alan Cook. (Age 30).
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I’ve pretty much been obsessed with Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film “The Shining” ever since I first saw it.
I’m interested in everything about it.
Yesterday by sheer chance,
I found out that someone has made a Shining CAKE!
Or to be more exact,
The doors of “The Shining” cake.
Take a look at this beauty:
Amazing eh?
From Charmaine’s Pastry Blog:
In Grade 4, I watched Poltergeist at a birthday party and could not sleep for three nights, convinced that trees and clowns would attack me. What followed was a solid avoidance of scary movies (as well as TV commercials for scary movies) for many years, until it became my spousal obligation to view The Shining, the 1980 classic directed by Stanley Kubrick.
As a result, I was actually quite prepared when asked to create a cake for a major fan of The Shining. I even do a great imitation of Shelley Duvall waving her knife around in a deadly panic. Thankfully, I was essentially given carte blanche in the design and after some reflection, I realized that there were many doors of significance throughout the movie. And what better way to feature doors than on a “cube”-like cake (get it, KUBRICK?)?
One of the most memorable scenes is when Jack violently axes his way through the bathroom door. This is actually the same door on which Danny wrote REDRUM in lipstick. I can still hear that freaky growly voice echoing in my head. Behind the doors of Room 237, some of the most disturbing scenes of the movie occurred, reminding us all to never approach strange naked women in bathtubs. Finally, the most vivid image of the movie for me was the torrent of blood rushing out of the distinctive red elevator. I gave the birthday boy a bag of bloody piping gel to squeeze onto the cake right before serving so unfortunately, none is shown in my photos.
This proved to be a project where the beauty was in the details. Much time was spent reviewing images in order to perfectly match each door knob, door molding, and wall pattern. Serendipitously, the movie was actually on TV the night before the cake was to be ready, and I realized that the apartment wall was actually pink, not white. My favourite item was the top of the cake, representing the memorable bold pattern of the hotel hallway carpet, which was made by piping and flooding royal icing onto a dried fondant square.
Here are the technical details: the cake was 4″ x 4″ x 6″, layers of espresso chocolate cake, dark chocolate mousse, and hazelnut crunch. Every panel was made of dried fondant, later decorated with tiny fondant bits and royal icing details. It was intentionally constructed like this in hopes that the “box” created by the five panels would be lifted off the cake intact and potentially saved for future admiration! I have no clue if this happened but I certainly know that this cake was much loved by both its creator and its recipient.
See this?:
Well that’s no ordinary picture or photo.
That is an actual scene made entirely from food!
– Red cabbage mostly.
The talent behind that is artist & photographer Carl Warner and he didn’t just make one.
* Coconut haystacks:
* Hot air balloons made of a variety of fruit and veg soar over fields of asparagus, courgettes, beans and corn :
* A pea pod boat sails on a sea of salmon away from a land made from bread and potatoes:
* He cites the films “The Wizard Of Oz” and “Charlie & The Chocolate Factory” among his influences:
I think my favourite one is the salmon sea.
Here’s a photo of the man himself at work:
Carl says:
“Although I’m very hands-on, I do use model makers and food stylists to help me create the sets.
I tend to start with a drawing which I sketch out in order to get the composition worked out”
His website can be found right HERE.
Buy prints of Carl’s Foodscapes HERE.
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