Ice Pillars

Japan’s Lake Shikotsu Ice festival Ice Pillars are illuminated with colored lights giving the ice a really cool and creative effect.  This festival occurred on February 3, 2009. As you can see in the images provided without the lights the ice pillars would just be plain and boring but with the colored lights the ice comes to life. There are even caves lighted by a since color, like the green one, which when walked through people can see the inside of the cave illuminated by a different color. Not only are the ice pillars illuminated with different colors but the colors used are bright and happy that any one that goes to visit this festival will probably walk out happier and more cheerful than when they came. Japan must be freezing at this time of year but these warm and happy colors help everyone get through the day.  I thought that the Ice festival was very creative and wonderful because it is a different kind of art that should also be appreciated.

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Upside down.

This house has been installed upside down in Trassenheide Germany. The house was opened to the public and it is fully furnished and designed from the inside. People that have visited the house have reported feeling dizzy or disoriented. I have seen other houses designed upside down but the inside is right side up so when I found this news I felt like putting it up on the blog because its not something you see everyday. It is an alternative view of your everyday house. In the pictures you can see the house being designed by the polish partners Khlaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk. It is interesting to see the people sitting on the roof of the house while everything else is on the floor. It was also interesting seeing the lady pretending to do a headstand on the couch. I would love to go see this house in person and see what it is really like in person. This house took a lot of time to built and a lot of creativeness and work came out of it too.

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Biggest cheesecake in world

Mexican chefs set the biggest cheesecake in the world record. It took 55 chefs and 5 student chefs to make the cheesecake. The cheesecake measured 2.5 meters in diameter, 55 centimeters and 2 tons in weight.  They used 800 kilograms of cheese and set the world record. They also used a shocking 551 pounds of sugar and 331 pounds of butter. The event was sponsored by Kraft, the maker of Philadelphia cream cheese. 20,000 people where fed by the worlds largest cheesecake. It also took them 60 hours to make the cheesecake. This really shocked me because 60 hours is a long time to bake something, I wonder where they cooled it and it also shocked me that it fed 20,000 people! Imagine how big the cheesecake had to be to make 20,000 slices. In the picture we can see thousands of strawberries and a lot of chefs around the cake, it shows how much time and dedications they took to serve this desert. It also had to take a lot of patience like all artwork in the world requires, but in this case it required extra attention and many people working as a team to finish this culinary artwork. I consider culinary work very artistic and skilled because it requires a lot of  practice, it is always timed and it needs to taste amazing at the end. So its not only about making it look good but making it taste good and under a certain amount of time with certain amounts of ingredients. In my opinion culinary art is one of the hardest arts there is because everything has to be timed, measured exact and tasteful.

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Papier mache pandas

Papier mache pandas invade Paris. Paris was filled with 1,600 papier mache pandas on a Thursday. The pandas were a part of the WWF campaign to inform people that there is an urgent need to protect the vanishing species. According to the environmentalist group, which uses pandas as their main logo, informed Paris that there are only 1,600 giant pandas left worldwide, making it one of the most shocking news we've heard from pandas. Biodiversity is in danger everyday, many species are affected by global warming and are being threatened by deforestation and pollution. The pandas were hand-painted and were 40 centimeters tall,are to travel around the capital's monuments in the coming weeks before setting off for sites across France. I really liked the idea of making 1600 pandas to represent the ones that are left on earth, it probably took them a really long time to make these pandas and it probably required took a lot of help and work. Looking at these pictures with so many paper pandas everywhere makes the message that the WWF is trying to spread very clear. Not only does it really help them get people's attention but it shows how much they care about the pandas left in our world and how much they care about saving the pandas. I would have loved to experience the site of this in person.

for more information visit: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3232784/Papier-mch-pandas-invade-Paris.html

3D Street art

This artwork was created by Edgar Mueller. It looks very real but it is a street artwork found in Ireland. I thought this artwork was very realistic and creatively done. He made the art work in Ireland at the festival of world culture. He worked on it for a long time, this artwork can be found in the Eastern Pier. Edgar turned the pier into an Ice age. The Ice looks like its falling into a deep hole, some people are shown to be walking over the painting and it even looks scary to walk on it, the painting is so realistic that i would probably be scared off putting a foot on it. It is a cool artwork to take pictures of because you can either pretend to be falling off the ice or be walking on air. The pictures also show Edgar Mueller working on the painting; its outlines,taping and different shades helps us see how it was that Edgar creater this beautiful piece of work. It would be amazing to see this painting in person. Some of the pictures showing us Edgar working on the painting even make it seem like he is at an ice age himself almost falling of the ice into the deep black hole but in reality he is just painting it. My favorite picture is the little girl walking on "air" and the two people pretending to fall off the ice. This is the best street art I have ever seen.

to see more works of Edgar Mueller visit: www.metanamorph.com/