Nutella Lady
Youtube Direktnutella, via Nerdalicious
Vor zwei Jahren hatte ich meinen Spaß mit Peanutbutter Man, heute macht Nutella Lady komische Sachen. She really enjoys her Chocolate-Thing going on there.
Tasty Tweets mixes Drinks via Twitter Trends
Konstantinos Frantzis, Kat Zorina und Ruben van der Vleuten haben einen Smoothie-Mixer auf Twitter-Trend-Basis gebaut. Kann man natürlich auch mit richtigen Zutaten wie Wodka oder Whiskey basteln und daraus wiederum ein Drinking Game für’s Social Web. Aber als Prototyp nehm’ auch den Smoothie-Mixer.
Tasty Tweets is a data visualization experiment that allows users to explore current twitter trends through taste with a press of a button.
Using the Twitter API, it collects tweets containing mentions of specific fruits such as blueberry, pineapple, apple and carrot and creates a smoothie that represents the blend. The smoothie is created based on the same proportions of fruits collected from the tweets. Because twitter trends change quickly, each smoothie has a unique palette of flavors.
Tasty Tweets (via Cool Hunting)
$666 Douche Burger from Heavy Metal-themed 666 Burger-Truck
Als Antwort auf den Le Burger Extravagant aus dem Serendipity 3 Restaurant in New York verkauft dort jetzt der 666 Burger-Truck den Douche Burger für sechshundertsechsundsechzig Dollar. Ein Kaviar-Hummer-Trüffelburger, eingewickelt in drei Hundertdollarnoten mit einer BBQ-Sauce aus Kopi Lowak, dem Katzenkaffee aus Indonesien. Gefilterte Katzenscheiße. Oder wie der Truck auf Facebook sagt: “Fuck You and your shitty $295 burger for poor people, Serendipity. $666. That’s a number the 1% can get behind.”
the Douche Burger, a $666 edible fiscal disaster that piles caviar, lobster & truffles on top of a foie-stuffed, gold-leaf-wrapped Kobe patty, smothers it with Gruyere melted with Champagne steam, and finishes it off with BBQ sauce made using Kopi Luwak coffee that’s passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet, explaining why it “may not taste good, but will make you feel rich as f*ck”.
The $666 Douche Burger from Food Truck 666 Burger (via Laughing Squid)
Chicken-deboning Robot
Am Georgia Tech Research Institute arbeitet man an einem Roboter, der Hühnchen entbeint. Das ist so der erste Schritt zur vollautomatisierten Hühnchenfleischfarm, wie zum Beispiel die von Andre Ford vorgeschlagene Vertical Headless Chicken Farm, nur war das damals ein Kunstprojekt. Ich finde Roboter, die mit meinem Fleisch hantieren, sehr, sehr gruselig, noch gruseliger als es die Fliesbandfleischverarbeitung ohnehin schon ist – wahrscheinlich weil wir hier das Uncanny Valley of Meat betreten. Brrrr. Und aus irgendeinem Grund wollte ich dreimal zunächst Robot-deboning Chicken in die Headline schreiben.
Poultry is Georgia’s top agricultural product, with an estimated annual economic impact of nearly $20 billion statewide. Helping the poultry industry maximize its return on every flock can translate to important dividends. The research is funded by the state of Georgia through the Agricultural Technology Research Program at GTRI.
Under the Intelligent Cutting and Deboning System, a bird is positioned in front of the vision system prior to making a cut, explained GTRI research engineer Michael Matthews. The vision system works by making 3-D measurements of various location points on the outside of the bird. Then, using these points as inputs, custom algorithms define a proper cut by estimating the positions of internal structures such as bones and ligaments.
A Cut Above: Innovative Robot Uses 3-D Imaging and Sensor-based Cutting Technology to Debone Poultry (via The Verge)
Phone Hacking Scandal as Cake-Pops
Miss Cakehead hat bei Miss Insomnia Tulip die Protagonisten des englischen Phone Hacking Skandals als Kuchen am Stiel bestellt. Inklusive LOLPhone (David Cameron beendete seine SMS immer mit “LOL” und dachte, es hieße “Lots of Love”) und Gott. (via Boing Boing)
Tokyo Transsexual serves his cooked Penis and two literal Meatballs
Im April hat ein transsexueller Illustrator aus Tokyo seine Genitalien auf einem Banquet serviert. Bild oben: Literal Meatballs. Yummy!
On Sunday, April 13, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama (who goes by the nickname “HC”), publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to five eager diners who each paid about $250 for the meal (a sixth was a no-show). The genitals had been returned to the asexual Sugiyama, frozen and double-bagged in plastic, following elective genital removal surgery on his 22nd birthday in early April.
After initially considering eating them himself, Sugiyama offered the meal on Twitter in mid-April to the first person willing to pay 100,000 yen (about $1,250). But after the notoriety that his tweet caused, he organized a public banquet, dubbed “Ham Cybele – Century Banquet,” at the “Asagaya Loft A” event space in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo. “Century” in Japanese is a homophone for the Japanese word for “genitals”; “Ham Cybele” refers to the Anatolian mother goddess, prefixed with an appropriate word for tough meat to create a phrase whose initials match Sugiyama’s artist name of HC.
Tokyo Transsexual Cooks and Serves His Own Genitals at Public “Ham Cybele” Banquet, Police Shrug, “It’s Not Illegal” (via I heart Chaos, danke Daniel!)
Tim Burton Zoetrope-Cake
Vimeo Direkttim, via io9
This is awesome. It’s a cake, made with chocolate. It has Monsters and Batman. Animated. Made from Chocolate. And it’s a Cake. A Tim Burton Zoetrope-Cake. Made from animated Monster-Batman-Chocolate. This is awesome.
Avengers Cocktails
Hulk go raaaaaarrr! Then get smashed again! More drinks here.
(Gastbeitrag von Doktor Katze via Macelodeon)
Chocolate Brains from 3D-printed MRI-Data
Andy Millns hat aus den Daten eines MRI-Scans seines Brains eine Gussform für Schoki drucken lassen und sein eigenes Gehirn gegessen. Das Hirn hätten sie zwar auch direkt mit Schokolade drucken können (gibt’s, hatte ich hier schonmal vor einer Weile), aber wer will bei ‘nem Schoki-Brain aus MRI-Daten schon rummeckern!
Andy Millns had his brain MRI scanned as part of a research project and we managed to sneak a copy.
The main steps involved are:
- Converting sliced DICOM data into the STL file format (a 3D geometry format widely used for 3D printing)
- Editing that model to clean up
- 3D printing a solid model
- Producing a latex mould
- Finally casting the chocolate and eating
Fractal Pancakes
Fraktale Pfannkuchen von Saipancakes, wo’s noch mehr von dem Quatsch gibt. (via JWZ)
Black Grapes of Wrath
Ludo verkauft ab Montag lasergeschnitzte Skull-Trauben. 50% aller Einnahmen gehen an Skateistan, die Skate-Schule in Afghanistan, über die ich hier schon ein paar mal gebloggt hatte. (via Who killed Bambi)
Chili Gummy Bears
Firebox verkauft demnächst Gummibärchen mit Stückchen der extrem scharfen Habanero-Chili. Yummy!
Whitney Houstons last Meal for Art
Ein Fotograf hat Whitney Houstons letztes Mahl nachgestellt und ein Stilleben davon geknippst. Ich hätte mir ja eher ein Stilleben aus Kurt Cobains letztem Schuss Heroin oder einen Nachbau von Amy Whinehouse’ Hotelbar gewünscht, aber ich bin ja auch sick.
First he checked into the Beverly Hilton, in a room with the exact layout of Houston’s. Then he ordered the same food, he assumed from news reports, that she had ordered.
The shot could be seen as an intimate glimpse of the circumstances surrounding Houston’s death, but to Mr. Demand it was more than that. It was also an impersonal setting: a hotel room that could have been anywhere, a meal that could have been ordered by anyone. His own version of the scene, called “Junior Suite,” is part of an exhibition opening on May 5 at the Matthew Marks Gallery on West 22nd Street in Chelsea.
Review of Pizza Huts Cheeseburger Crust
Ihr habt möglicherweise bereits Bilder von Pizza Huts Crown Crust Carnival-Ding gesehen, während dem sie Pizza mit Cheeseburger-Rand in Dubai verkaufen. Ihr habt aber sehr wahrscheinlich noch nicht den superamüsanten Verriss dieses Geschmacksverbrechens auf Serious Eats gelesen:
The first bite of the medium Cheeseburger Crown Crust Pizza (the ads feature the large size) instantly sent a train of goosebumps popping down my spine. This was a pizza experiment that had clearly gone completely, and horribly, wrong. While remotely resembling a pizza, it lacked the harmoniously cheesy and saucy spirit that any self-respecting pizza would have. What lay before me was…a Mutant Pizza.
As I drew close to the tip of my first slice, which in most normal cases, would be the cheesy, gooey pinnacle of a pizza, my mouth was suddenly assaulted with the merciless crunch of tasteless iceberg lettuce shreds. There may have been onions involved too, but when you’re fumbling through a patch of vegetables that have had the tasty life sucked out of them, you’d be hard-pressed to notice. Pizza Hut had gone so far as to even throw a token burger pickle on select slices, which in my bland-lettuce-inflicted opinion, was the only small voice of flavor crying out in a sea of insipidity. [...]
When severed from the rest of the pie, every slice became cheeseburger and pizza anarchy; tomato, lettuce and beef meteorites lay scattered like dismembered parts of a burger in a fast food wasteland. And no, there is no civilized way in which you can taste all elements of this cheeseburger pizza in one bite to have the ultimate all-encompassing fast food experience—unless you roll up each slice, from the tip to the crown patty crust, smack it down, and then hurl it into your mouth before the lettuce shreds and tomatoes fly away.
…I didn’t test the hypothesis.
A Taste of the Cheeseburger Crown Crust Pizza from Pizza Hut in the Middle East
