Friday
Feb132009
President's Day Cupcake Mosaic
February 13, 2009 For those of you who missed out, about 1,800 of us had fun watching Zilly Rosen and her team assemble a 5,900 cupcake mosaic of Presidents Obama and Lincoln at the Smithsonian in DC today (they had a live webcam set up). It was even cooler than it sounds, believe it or not.
(You may remember I featured Zilly's work last November; check out that post here.)
Below are some progress shots taken from the live webcam. They shut off the camera just as I was about to get the final shot, but fortunately Kasey D. was on the scene, and sent me a picture of the finished product. Thanks, Kasey!
Thanks also to Sara K. for the streaming link!
My fav Zilly quote: "Obama's on the left. Appropriate."
Progress shots: 2:50 EST:
3:18 EST:
3:44 EST:
4:10 EST:
4:38 EST:
Tada!
Note: I consider Zilly's creations more cupcake "mosaics" than the dreaded cupcake-cake abominations I usually heap disdain upon, so I'm not classifying this as a Wreck: more just an interesting bit of cake news.
Reader Comments (102)
the cup cake mosaic reminds me of a guy on youtube that does these things with all kinds of things, he calls it 'goodbye art', he made a virgin mary mosaic out of pbj sandwiches, and also made art out of french fries. he is worth looking up!
Why the blip would anyone do a mosaic of Lincoln and Obama? Cause Obama sure aint worthy enough to be compared to Abraham or put beside the man in any shape or form. Including a 'CCC' basically.
and I'll laugh if anyone calls me racist for this comment.