Oh Shopping Cart, Where Art Thou?

My current favorite periodical is Gastronomica - a lovely quarterly journal of food and culture, with very few ads. In the current issue, I came across an interesting article about The Stray Shopping Cart Project by artist Julian Montague- he photographs stray shopping carts as they are found, and classifies them as scientists would:


Makes you view shopping carts in a slightly different light, no?

On a similar note...I just discovered another periodical similar to Gastronomica, called Meatpaper.
As the title suggests, it discusses meat and the culture that surrounds it. I haven't read the actual magazine yet but I am totally intrigued by the cover art alone (yes, that is a suit made of meat!!):


I did take a peek at this one article available on their site about MEATY COCKTAILS! Yes folks...like "The Beefytini (on offer at the Circle Bar in New Orleans) is a combination of Beefeater gin, vermouth, and jerky juice (a brine and jerky mixture), a meaty twist on the dirty martini. The Seattle-based Jones Soda Co. sells a “Turkey and Gravy” flavored soda, as well as a holiday season ham variety".

Hmmm ..jerky juice and ham soda!! I think I will have to hunt down this mag and take a peruse...

Make Your Own Fabric!

I came across this cool company, Spoonflower, where you can design and make your very own fabric! I learned how to sew earlier this year, so I already have a stockpile of fabric that will *one day* be a nifty dress or top....check out some of the designs the crafty inclined have created:

Hope everyone had a great holiday...and the super thing is, the weekend has just barely started! :)

Covet, covet....

I saw the cutest cat food bowls by Alessi in this shop today:

We haven't gotten our cats holiday gifts, so perhaps this is in order...(but really would just be something cool for us to look at)...meow!

Alessi does have some pretty cool stuff...these juicers are pretty funny:

Marzipan

So for Christmas dinner this year, I wanted to make a Buche de Noel cake (a roll cake in the shape of a Yule Log) and decorate it with marzipan mushrooms, acorns, and the like. After going to several stores and not finding ANY marzipan, I found a recipe and made some from scratch- which was suprisingly pretty easy. So I thought I'd post some lovely marzipan finds today...first- check out Red Cake artist Elide Endreson's SUPER AWESOME marzipan TEETH! (Sweet tooth...get it??)



The Hungarian parliament, in marzipan...

Super cute marzipan fruit- and love the little fish..

Ok- so these super creepy babies were part of a hoax that claimed they were made from marzipan- but turns out they are not tasty baby candies, but just hella creepy polymer clay sculptures by Camille Allen. Shudder.

On that note....happy holidays and stay healthy and warm!!!

Gifts for Your Pussy...and More!

OMG...what cat owner wouldn't want this Cat Play House for their little pussy?

The fighter jet is also pretty sweet:

I just discovered Ponoko - a pretty neat site where you can shop as well as make and design all sorts of goodies that are made on demand, like this cool, very affordable light:

I wish I'd known about this site earlier this year, when we were shopping for a new light fixture for our dining room! I found that it was hard to find a unique, cool, non-Ikea but not crazy expensive light fixture....this is the Viso pendant light we ended up in case you're wondering:

And here is one gift that I can't imagine anyone wanting...really...edgy elf??? WTF??

Makes me wonder what an edgy Santa would wear.....?

Shiny Brite - Photos

Hi everyone- just wanted to share a few photos from last night's event...
Daniel Ross, with his fabulous new works from the series, The Magically Disappearing Landscape.

Lissa Ivy Tiegel's new work, from the Instructional Photograph series.

Sharise, with Nathan- Red Cake's youngest art patron!
Hope everyone had a great weekend :)

New Work by LissaIvy Tiegel + Daniel Ross/Red Cake's 1st Birthday

Red Cake is hosting another live event this Saturday, December 6th, featuring new work by Lissa Ivy Tiegel and Daniel Ross. We're super excited and hope you can come by to see the show! And it also happens to be Red Cake's very first birthday - yup, we launched one year ago and time has just flown by - I'll be baking up a birthday cake if that's any motivation to swing by :)

Hope to see ya'll on Saturday!

Sherry

Handmade Holiday Shopping

Just wanted to pass along info on a very cool event, Bazarre Bizarre, taking place this Sunday, Nov. 30th at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. A bunch of independent crafters, artists, and the like will be hawking their wares just in time for the holidays. Red Cake happens to be one of the sponsors of this event- and if you are one of the lucky first 300 folks to get there, you will receive a free goody bag with lots of cool stuff, including this super cool Red Cake limited edition button!!!:

(The tiny plastic baby figurine is something my friends Alex & Scott gave me, vintage baby shower cake decorations, I think?)
Hope you will check it out and find some unique, non-mass produced goodies :)

Totally Random

Happy Thanksgiving Eve everyone! One of my favorite blogs is http://failblog.org/ - they have some pretty funny and I thought I'd share a some recent faves...:

And coming soon to the frozen food section of your favorite grocery store:

And I've no idea where this illustration came from, but it's great:

Hope everyone has a great long holiday!! More posts to come this weekend.

Tasty!

I am a huge fan of food- eating as well as cooking and baking- and so today, I wanted to share some food related art and art related food with ya'll...Check out the work of artist Kuniko Maeda...the tablecloth is made of slices of bread, ham, and cheese sewn together...fabulous! And I LOVE the table, which made entirely of cake!!

Check out her work at:
http://www.minale-maeda.com/


Some very meticulous, Japanese anime inspired bento boxes,
complete with carefully carved cleavage...

Again from Japan, these tasty tidbits of sushi are almost too cute to eat:

And to finish, I wanted to share a pic of some Obama cookies I baked for election day..while they pale in comparison to the sushi and bento boxes, they were fun to bake! Have a great weekend everyone :) - Sherry

Sarah Palin + Pancakes = Art?

Welcome to Red Cake's inaugural blog post! It took us awhile to come up with an appropriate topic to start off with- and well, the election came to mind, since that's all we've been hearing about lately. And being that Red Cake sells art, I scoured the web for some of the interesting, weird, and just plain bad election inspired art. I was surprised to find very few Palin inspired artwork- perhaps there are some masterpieces still in the works?

Not feeling patriotic enough? Hang this in your house to show you're a proud American. The fiery orange background kind of reminds me of hell, no?:





McCain pancake portrait (is it just me, or does he always look constipated?) The white auras emanating from his head provide a somewhat holy sensibility to this piece:



Sarah again, but this time au naturel- unfortunately we can't get a real good close up shot of this one, but perhaps we are just better off that way:




There was a wealth of Obama art from a contest sponsored by Moveon.org, most of it pedestrian, but a couple standouts:
Barack in a box...odd, but well executed:





A very eco-friendly rock and mulch Barack:




Obama on a Unicorn (enough said):




If you have any election inspired art to share with us, please do by sending an email to: info (at) redcakegallery.com... We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions! Thanks for checking us out come back soon for arty tidbits :)