Eggs, flour and sugar – Oh my!!! (NSFW?)

I love cake – not in the traditional yummy way, but as an artistic medium.  They are colorful edible sand sculptures – beautiful yet temporary, a testimony to how fulfilling and fleeting is our life.  We spend all our time creating something beautiful and emotionally powerful, just to have someone come along and devour it.

Occasionally the shape of the cake and the frosting blobs will look like something familiar – maybe a pony or more often Walter Cronkite.   What you see in the cake reflects your personality, like in clouds or Rorschach inkblot.   What you see in the cake depends on your own mind – if you see something kind and happy, you are a pleasant happy person.  If you see impending death in a cake, you need either a therapist or a blank canvas.  If you think you may have a disturbed mind that sees gross things everywhere (even in flour and water), stop reading now.  This post is about extreme cakes.

After I saw a cake that looked like kitty litter, I had to search to see how far dessert chefs will go to shock.  Pretty far, it turns out. Here, for your own amusement, are some photos of cakes in which I saw something.  Remember, these are all just flour, eggs, sugar, and other standard cake items.  If you see something disturbing, it is only because you have an evil depraved anti-God mind.

This first one looks like American icon, Porky Pig smiling – if you look closely enough (anyway, that is what I see.  What do you see?)

mystery cake #1. Mmm pumpkin sauce

I hope Disney doesn’t sue over this cake that looks a little like Mickey Mouse.

Mickey Mouse Cake

Looking around I see many cakes that look like Richard Nixon, our beloved President who illegally invaded Cambodia to put Pol Pot back in charge.

Big Dick Nixon

This is cool, a cake made to look like rats eating a dead arm.  This one may be intentional.

Eat the rats eating the arm, and the arm

Now this cake is really gross, I think they use apples, which I do not like in my cake.  Only click on the thumbnail if you have a very strong stomach and are over age 85!  Seriously, don’t do it, I beg of you.

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Baby cake!  This is perfect for a party for people on a diet – nobody dares eat the first slice!

baby cake

Only kids will eat this next cake.  Well, kids and dogs.

kitty litter cake

Here is a cake of some political figure.  I love romantic wedding cakes.

bed and breakfast

Occasionally women will share a dessert, like a cupcake, to reduce calories.  Wanting a photo of this to show my point, I did a search for ’2 girls, 1 cup cake’.  Boy was I surprised!

two girls one cup cake

The combination of med students and Halloween can produce quite a treat, as seen here with a thoracic cavity cake and obligatory brain cake.

thoracic cavity cake

brain cake, right out of the cook/text-book

Can’t wait?  Yep, dessert is coming!

can't wait until cake is out of the box?

However, the most questionable cake I could find – the one I couldn’t imagine the reason to create (even after it was explained) is the Chinese Lotus (bound) foot cake.  Apparently this was created for a podiatrist.

Chinese Lotus foot bound cake

Well, that’s it for now.  I hope curbed your appetite for cake, and quenched your appetite for art.  Get cooking!

pics via:

RadioactiveLiberty

Flikr

Kopps Bakery - these do look good.

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A Welsh View

Yum Sugar

It’s not all Mary Poppins

GashedZine Forum

BoingBoing

Craftzine

Flikr, again

and again, Flikr

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Rafał Olbiński’s beautiful surreal art

I like my art like I like my women, surreal and Polish.   I have been looking at some of Rafel OIlbinski‘s art, and I wanted to share it with those of my readers who do not know him.  He is an excellent Polish surreal artist.

Technological advances have rendered many past art forms obsolete.  Realism, for example.  To paint or sketch realisticly, faces, people, or fruit used to be very popular – for good reason.  It requires tremendous talent and patience – but now with the advent of digital photography, who needs it?  Haven’t we seen the machines in shopping malls that pencil sketch your image in a few minutes?  Nobody uses it, but it only cost – how much?  a quarter?  dollar? If you paint a bowl of fruit and want more than a quarter for it, you will be in the mall for a long time, my friend.

I went to an exhibit in a New York Museum of Andy Warhol’s work.  You know, Campbell’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe ‘pop art’.  At the time, this work was special – turning the art establishment on its head by changing the definition of what is art.  But now, I can find better stuff in a split second with a search engine.

If you want to see galleries of Rafel Olbinski’s work, check here,  here and here.  I can get lost in good art, and I just threw away my compass.

Ad Art, beautiful inspired creative artistic ads

With so much of new world advertisement trying to surreptitiously alter people’s way of thinking both consciously and subconsciously, it is refreshing to see ads that use beautiful artistic creative means of drawing our attention to their products.   Here are a few adverts that I found to be quite stunning.  Hope you enjoy!