Friday, February 22, 2008

The City of Gelatine


For those who have been to San Francisco, and even for those who haven't, this will be a very interesting story.  Liz Hickok, an artist, made a scale model of San Francisco.  It is named The City and was made in 2005.  Seems normal, doesn't it?  Except that it is made out of Jell-O blocks.    She made the model by researching architectural plans of buildings there and building models of them.  Then she constructed molds for these models, and painted a backdrop.  She picked a color scheme and bought the correct types of Jell-O in bulk to make the blocks.  After the city was set up, she put in lights from beneath the city, and took photographs of it.  The Jell-O ended up rotting and decaying, as expected, and it was disposed of.  A link to her website is here  and you can see a photograph of it at the top of this post.  You can also purchase a copy at her website, and there are videos of it there.

2 comments:

scribbler said...

I want to live in Jello City! I like the way the lights shine through the gelatine blocks.

Edible model cities remind me of this obsessively geeky effort: http://missedmanners.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/battle-of-pelennor-fields/

scribbler said...

This should work better:

http://tinyurl.com/2spse2