Saturday
May262012
Pastry in Motion: Bonus Saturday Cool Stuff
May 26, 2012 Check out this amazing Tim Burton-inspired cake zoetrope by French food artist and filmmaker Alexandre DUBOSC:
(See the fun behind-the-scenes photos here.)
Love it. Thanks to all you wrecky minions who sent me the link!
Oh, and this is actually DUBOSC's second cake zoetrope that I know of. Here's the first:
I once saw someone describe zoetropes as "ticking for the eyeballs." Pretty accurate, don't you think? :)
Reader Comments (28)
Those are wonderful! And they look yummy, too... nom nom nom!
What could be more fun
than chocolate Batman eyeballs?
Fresh raspberry flames.
That is the coolest thing ever!!!
That is awesome! Coolest thing I have ever seen when it comes to cakes. Thanks for sharing. Have a happy Memorial Day weekend. :)
That was awe-inspiring! Thanks!
I am very impressed, and slightly dizzy.
(re: "ticking for the eyeballs": Do you mean, like, clock ticking or mattress ticking or...? Help me out here, I'm afraid I don't get it.)
That is so intense! Coolest thing ever, especially when i noticed the whole cake was made of matchsticks!
That. was. incredible!
What a treat- a bonus Saturday blog - and so beautiful. Thank you, Jen.
My goodness! This is like getting "Sunday Sweets" a day early! Or is this instead of Sunday Sweets? 'Cause this is good enough to equal two "Sunday Sweets", so I'm not complaining...
This is the coolest thing. The coolest one. WHERE DO YOU FIND THIS INCREDIBLE STUFF?!
Tickling the eyeballs? Tickle?
Love the videos!
That was super cool!
This is mind blowing! I LOVE it!!
Holy whatever! Those videos are Amazing - I love the chocolate bunny with the eggs spinning off the edge and cracking and turning into baby bunnies - how does one preplan how that will look? AMAZING.. Also loved the spiral of colored candies - just for the color of it all ...
But then that's not to say I disliked anything I saw here...
WOW WOW WOW!!
That was pretty mindblowing. O_o I'm still not 100% sure how it works, though I kind of have an idea how it does.
Pretty cool. I just didn't know what I was about to look at. Glad it didn't cause a seizure. lol
Those are SO COOL! Thank you for sharing them!
Just make a regular zoetrope (we all know how to do that, right?), then plot it onto a cake. Easy as subatomic physics.
Under no circumstances shall anyone, at any time, take these stills or videos to any place where cake isn't the ONLY thing sold and ask, "Can you make this?" That would take wreckery to a whole new level. Give it a spin and marvel at the patterns created on the walls, that sort of thing.
Beautiful
Unbelievable - the spacing has to be **perfect** to get the various motions going in different directions.
Some clever points on the language:
Alimation -- from the French "alimentation" (food) plus animation.
Flamboisier -- a raspberry shortcake (not exactly, but close enough) is called a "framboisier" - so a clever wordplay there, too.
But my favorite part? The top view of the Burton cake. BEST.
Cool stuff indeed. Thanks for sharing this.
that "popping" sound you just heard? all my synapses misfiring at once. O.M.G. (and Skellington F.T.W.)
Ummm. . .wow. Just. . .wow.
I hear if you spin these backwards they whisper, "Send me to Jen, send me to Jen..."
Very cool! :-)
These are amazing. My only thought, however, is that I got the distinct impression from the making-of pictures that no actual cake is involved, just fondant over styrofoam forms. It makes sense because I think a real cake wouldn't hold up to the speed at which the 'caketropes' have to be spun to get the proper effect but it feels a little like cheating or embellishing the facts a bit.
I like those videos! They were relaxing, I need a nap now. :)