FYI; the cake is probably a reference as to us dutch people always serving this type of cake, albeit smaller and in a different form, at funerals. Knowing this gives the short a nice touch :)
You are right. Interesting, yet somehow it diminishes the piece a little in my mind, as obviously they composited the final image, whereas I imagined standing over the piece as if it were on display.
> Interesting, yet somehow it diminishes the piece a little in my mind, as obviously they composited the final image, whereas I imagined standing over the piece as if it were on display.
This. There is something akin to cheating, when each block can be carefully cut, arranged and photographed (potentially multiple times to get a perfect image) and then photoshopped into a final image, as oppossed to getting them all cut and arrangd and taking a photo before the inevitable drooping and leaking.
It is still an incredible image and a brilliant idea.
It actually increases my interest. I spent some time looking for other images that might be from the same cube, and concluded that there may also be duplicates in the red cabbage, two of the white button mushroom images, red grapefruit, the broccoflower (adjacent, even!), carrot, Napa cabbage, lime, apple, pear, red onion, watermelon (rind), yellow squash, and several of the meats.
It reminds me very much of something that might have appeared on a GAMES Magazine cover.
Massively interested but I've been unable to see it after looking at it for 5 minutes with 3 people. Would you mind posting a screenshot or something where you show it??
@nekopa Thanks, I see the resemblance! The redit key says one is kingfish and the other swordfish, though for me it would be massively difficult to distinguish between it.
File under posts from the reddit front page 2 days ago.
Anyway these foods have been processed. What many people don't realise is that your "natural" fruits have been artificially ripened. There are food safety processes too such as washing and spraying with fungicide. There's also labelling and sorting that goes on.
The "artificial" ripening with Ethylene isn't really as evil as it sounds, fruit emits it anyway as it becomes ripe. If you have for example some avocados that you want to ripen more quickly, putting them in a paper bag with ripe bananas or lemons will hasten the process significantly. Fruit on its own like bananas will ripen much more slowly than if they are surrounded by a bunch of peers.
Actually I take back my comment about the photoshopping diminishing the piece. After reading a comment on the reddit thread complaining about the perspective being off, I can see that by 'shopping it they've given it a somewhat unreal feeling, almost a little Escher-like. Probably why I like it.
that near orthographic perspective had me going "Am I looking at the CG artwork of some incredibly talented artist?"
It almost compelled me to try making a grid of objects and giving them different materials as an art piece. Not the only one apparently: http://i.imgur.com/UqmpoNh.jpg
The description says "We transformed unprocessed food into perfect cubes of 2,5 x 2,5 x 2,5 cm." None of the people involved seem to be in a non-metric country, so I doubt they were approximating from inches.
The 2.5 cm is mentioned in the description of the piece, but the hoisting it into the title and somewhat sloppy addition of 'unprocessed' (slaughter, bleed and butcher an animal and it is still raw, I think unprocessed is a bit off the mark) are from the HN submission.
