The “Where It’s Art” series, until now, have focused mainly on visual art. Today, I’m branching out into another area of fine arts – music. I’d like to introduce you to some artists that I feel have an extremely high talent:exposure ratio. Perhaps we can decrease it a little bit. I’d like to start by…
Today I have a bit of a hint as to what the next “Where It’s Art” series will focus on. Feel free to try to guess what it is as you gaze at these vegetable masterpieces. Ju Duoqi’s current art began in 2006 with several kilograms of peas. She now uses all sorts of vegetables…
The Japanese may have bento boxes, but make no mistake, the mainstay of North American lunches, the oft-overlooked sandwich, can look pretty neat too – it may even <—————– mimic asian cuisine. Check these out! Some interesting characters, including a “beet”-nik with bloodshot eyes (or pureed beets, whichever): Some toys, such as a “Monterey Jack-in-the-box”: Some slightly more…
Japan has an overabundance of cute things. Their cartoons are cute, their clothing is cute, even their tissues are cute. And this excess of cute-ness has gone so far as to spill over into their bento box lunches. I had an extremely difficult time choosing which bento boxes to feature in this post because all…
Alright, frankly, I find the following pieces of art to be a bit disgusting. They definitely don’t meat my tastes artwise anyway. Regardless, I must admit that these could have a meateor-like impact on the food-art scene. Puns aside, take a look. If you’d like to celebrate your love of meat without hanging raw meat…
The life cycle of chewing gum is generally as follows: processing -> packaging -> sale -> consumption -> spitting out into the garbage -> life in the landfill. On rare occasions, in the hands of the right people, such as Jason Kroenwald of Ancaster, Ontario (he now resides in Toronto) this life cycle is changed.…
Don’t touch that dial! There’s more bread art coming up. Well actually, since this bread art is two-dimensional, perhaps you will have to change the dial to do some shading… The Bread Art Project was created when the Grain Foods Foundation and Ted Allen, host on the Food Network, partnered up with Feeding…
The last time I had a nightmare, it wasn’t about bread. I wouldn’t think that it was so strange if meat appeared murderous, but gruesome grains? Be warned: the following bread may give you nightmares. And now that you have sufficient reason to think twice about heading to the kitchen alone for a midnight…
Does anyone remember those salad dressing commercials where a landscape was speedily assembled out of vegetables and then salad dressing was poured on as the “water” in the scene? I loved those commercials and thought that they were so creative. Imagine my delight when I stumbled across these fantastic vegetarian landscapes. For those of you…
Part 2 of “Please Do Not Taste the Artwork” is here! Fast food is a sign of the commercialism of society! Of loss of creativity! Of conformity and lack of imagination! If I’m wrong I’ll eat my hat! Well, maybe it’s not… I’m not actually wearing a hat – that shoe might…
I don’t know about everyone else, but I love carving pumpkins for halloween. The problem is, these often beautiful (or terrifying) creations are only truely festive during October. They bring connotations of fall, shortening days, spooks. Spring is just around the corner, and frankly, I wouldn’t mind if some type of carved fruit brought to…
Choose the best answer: Tires are for __________________. a) Driving on b) Swinging on c) Climbing on d) Sculpting with I don’t know what you chose, but the artists behind the following would clearly choose d). It looks as though animals are well-represented by an item that would never have occurred in…
I brought you the first part of the series, which showed you how people make lint into art and if you thought that was strange, check out part 2: When you finish a roll of toilet paper, you may immediately wonder if there’s more under your sink or pray that someone else goes into the stall…
It seems like everyone today wants to get on the eco-friendly, save-the-world, stop-killing-our-planet bandwagon. As someone who loves nature and believes that we should respect it, I have no problem with this. Some artists have decided to support the cause (intentionally or not) through the use of recycled materials to create their masterpieces. Now, the first…