Wedding Speeches
Now that you know what is expected of you, you’ll be able to prepare that little talk for your friend’s upcoming wedding. Another gem from The Doghouse Diaries. Link -via Blame It On The Voices
A Toast to The Beatles
We’ve featured a lot of burnt toast art here on Neatorama, and more than a few posts about The Beatles–but now the twain shall meet, in mixed media artist Henry Hargreaves’ series, Toasted, large-scale portraits made entirely of bread. See the rest of the fearsome foursome in all their crunchy, buttery glory on Flavorwire. Link
A Toaster Made of 2,500 Pieces of Bread
Your eyes don’t deceive you – that is a giant toaster made of toast. Artists Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre, AKA FA+, created a huge mural using 2,500 pieces of bread heated at various lengths of time in the toaster to produce the color variation needed to represent the appliance. It took them two days and the help of a bunch of their toaster-owning friends.
The Buttered Cat Paradox
We know that a piece of toast, if dropped, will fall butter-side down. We also know that a cat, if dropped, will land on its feet. What happens when you strap a piece of buttered toast to a cat’s back and drop them both is called the Buttered Cat Paradox, and there’s an extensive amount of research on the internet devoted to just this conundrum. Find out more about it at mental_floss, including possible uses for the energy produced from such a venture, and ways it could go wrong. Link
OK Go’s Toast Animation
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The band OK Go is known for its innovative music videos. The group’s latest video for the song “Last Leaf” consists of stop-motion animation on pieces of toast. It was directed by Geoff Mcfetridge and sponsored by Samsung, which provided the camera.
Link via Geekosystem | Director’s Website
World’s Largest Toast Portrait
I’m sure many people have wished that their mother-in-law was toast. Laura Hadland turned a photo of her mother-in-law, Sandra Whitfield, into the world’s largest toast mosaic – comprising 9,852 slices.
The toast mosaic – 128 square metres of browned and scorched bread – was officially named the world’s largest at 5pm on October 17 at Warrington’s Parr Hall by Guinness World Records adjudicator Claire Burgess. The previous record holder measured 121.93 square metres and was created by staff and students at a school in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in February.
Toast Defibrillator
If you’ve got to revive old bread, stat, you’ll need the right tool: the Toast/E/R toaster defibrillator from designer Shay Carmon: Link | Shay’s website – via Nerd Approved
Mapping Your Broiler
Cook’s Illustrated magazine advises you to find out where your broiler’s “hot spots” are by positioning bread slices all across the oven and studying the results after they are toasted. Link -via Nag on the Lake
Jesus Toast
What with hazy images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary appearing on toast, potato chips, and other assorted food items, artist Adam Sheldon felt the inspiration to create a mosaic of the crucifixion out of 153 pieces of burnt toast. It’s on display at the Church of St. Peter in Great Limber, Lincolnshire, UK. More (and larger) images at the link.
Link via DudeCraft | Video about the Project | Photo: This Is Grimsby
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