Amazing food landscapes by Carl Warner
3 FebCarl Warner is a British photographer who takes the art of food decorations to a new level. Carl isn’t content with carving fruits and vegetables to make birds and butterflies, he creates entire worlds out of food. Every piece of item in his unbelievably deceptive landscapes are made of nothing but food. You have to see it, to believe it.
In the picture above, a pea pod becomes a boat, bread and potatoes are turned into land and the sea is salmon.
The rocks are bread and the cloud peeping between the hills is cauliflower.
A farmland with coconut haystacks.
Often scenes are photographed in layers from foreground to background and combined later. Here, hot air balloons made of a variety of fruit and vegetables soar over fields of asparagus, courgettes, beans and corn.
Parmesan cliffs with sweet potato boulders and cress and savoy cabbage foliage under a red cabbage sky
Broccoli trees and flowing granulated sugar for the waterfall.
This landscape features rocks made of oyster shells and crab claws, boats made of marrows and asparagus, and a shining, silvery, slippery sea of fish.
A market scene
A kitchen. The houses seen through the window are bread.
A stormy red cabbage sea.
An underwater cave scene, complete with carrot stalactites, a pea pod boat, and sea life made of exotic fruits, cauliflower and broccoli.
Often these photos need retouching, like the floating clouds.
Salami trees inspired by movies like The Wizard of Oz and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Carl Warner’s personal website
[via Telegraph]
Cake Disasters
3 FebThis is what happens when there is a failure in communication …. or the cake decorators are just plain stupid.
“Best wishes Suzanne” and underneath that “We will miss you”. Yes, you got it!
The customer wanted the lettering to be done in green. Another one next..
Any guesses what the customer wanted?
Wonder what happened here? Well, the customer ordered “Phillip dot dot dot WOOHOO!!!”
What is a pen drive doing on a cake? This is the phone conversation that led to it.
[Bakery answering phone]: “Cakey Cake Bakery, Jill speaking! How can I help you?”
Customer: “Hi, I need to order a cake for my boss. We have a photo of him playing golf that we’d like to put on it, though – can you do that?”
“Of course! Just bring the photo in on a USB drive and we’ll print it out here.”
“Great, I’ll bring it by this afternoon.”
Later…
“Hey, Jill, what am I putting on this cake?”
“Oh, check the counter; I left the jump drive out for you there.”
[calling from the back room] “Really? This is what they want on the cake?”
“Yeah, the customer just brought it in.”
“Okey dokey!”
A high black heel was all she wanted.
This isn’t a geeky cake. It’s a machine error. Apparently the store in question had an online ordering form, which then linked directly to the edible-ink printer. So much for automation.
These are supposed to be ghosts.
And now, some misspellings.
It’s a Fail cake! Oh, the irony.
Huh, what was that?
Thanks Cake Wrecks for those wonderful cakes
Camper Van Hangs On Cliff Edge As Italian Job Gone To Colorado
3 FebIt must have been a long and sweaty wait inside the van for a tow truck.
But Daniel Lyons didn’t really have the option of popping out to stretch his legs.
The 34-year-old was discovered by rescuers sitting in his swaying Dodge camper van, 170ft from the ground. The van had plunged down the rock face at the Colorado National Monument in the U.S. in a scene reminiscent of the film The Italian Job.
Terrified Daniel had desperately tried to balance the weight of the van to prevent him from plunging to certain death.
But in his confusion he climbed on to the back seat – which was already hanging off the cliff.
Rescue crews who raced to the scene of the accident found Daniel cowering in the swaying vehicle.
They managed to manoeuvre him from the van and up the cliff face before he was airlifted to hospital.
Mr Lyons was treated for minor injuries.
Park superintendent Joan Anzelmo said: ‘It’s truly a miracle. Another few inches or a foot and that car would have continued on to the base of the canyon. No one survives those types of accidents.’
The Motorcycle Without Spoke Wheels
3 FebEngineers of Amen Design and Engineering have created a motorcycle whose wheels have neither spokes nor discs. Such type of hubless designs were seen earlier only on concept bikes, but this could be the first hubless bike to hit the road.