Pawns Are the First to Go… In My Gullet: Super Mario Bros. Chess Cake [Geeky Cake]
Monday, June 28th, 2010I’ll tell you what. These bakers of Super Mario Bros. cakes are a surprisingly-spiteful bunch. Whenever a spectacular Super Mario cake finds its way onto the nets, a confectionery artist like deviantART user Ana invariably has to be all, “Oh, nuh-uh! My chocolate Super Mario chess cake with 100%-edible fondant figures is going to smack [...]
Angry Mario Is Angry: Custom Super Mario Figure
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010So, I was totally going to craft a joke for this custom Mario figure, which went for $152.50 on Ebay as a part of a custom Donkey Kong toy set, but I was preempted by the creator’s description. Donkey Kong is at it again! He infiltrated Mario’s pad and nabbed Pauline while she and her [...]
Tastes Like Sweaty Discipline: Super Mario Bros Bowser Cake [Geeky Cake]
Monday, June 14th, 2010Uh, before seeing this cake from Sweet Cake O’Mine, had anyone else noticed that Bowser is apparently into the kinky, rough stuff? I’ve seen role-playing dungeons in red-light districts* with fewer leather straps and spikes than his arms. Photo Credit: Sweet Cake O’Mine on Flickr Anyway, happy 7th birthday to James. Enjoy your naughty, naughty dragon. [...]
Super-Impressive: Super Mario Bros Stop-Motion Animation with Post-Its
Thursday, June 10th, 2010This one time I was totally going to do a crazy-imaginative and time-intensive stop-motion Super Mario animation project, but then I realized I had used up all my Post-It Notes leaving myself reminders to do something productive with my time. Thankfully, Japanese children have no such constraints. Via The Daily What, who frequently considers employing [...]
Twitter Link Sampler – Week Ending May 29, 2010
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010You like ninjas, right? Well, that seems pointless. Why spend your attention on something that doesn’t want to be found? Follow my Twitter profile or the GWS Facebook Page, instead. See? They’re right there. Right in front of you. So easy. Don’t bring a plumber to a ninja fight. http://bit.ly/drX2o3 So… many… LOST cakes…. http://bit.ly/b08AsO Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” [...]
Secrets Revealed!: Time-Lapse Creation of a Super Mario Cake
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010Thanks to this time-lapse video of Michelle Wibowo of the UK’s Michelle Sugar Art creating a sculpted Super Mario cake, we finally know what goes into these fancy 3D cakes: cake, frosting, and plenty of disappointment and betrayal. Which happen to taste like carved styrofoam. Via Technabob, who is never disappointed by the discovery of free packing [...]
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