Thanks to everyone who sent this in. The amazing piece of sushi below was recently featured on in an article called “すし業界の常識を「CHANGE！」した職人” which many found via Boing Boing: “Obama’s skin is Amis (small shrimp)… Hair is black sesame, fish paste teeth.” See the full dish inside.
Time to step away from the unicorns for a little while. Perhaps we should all focus on more important things, thing like coffee: ” Hi! We had a coffee at Bonanza Coffee Heroes, well known Barista in Berlin, Germany, and we discovered Obama on the milk froth… Have fun! Best wishes, Claudia”
On this festive day, a food related post seems fitting. Layron DeJarnette sends this in: “…a photo of some Obama logo cupcakes that my wife made for an Obama victory party on Nov 4th. They’re red velvet cupcakes with food coloring sprayed on to create the logo.” Yum!
Ayumi of AyumiHorie.com wrote in to let us know about an interesting action that will start soon: “I’ve curated a ceramics show of 28 ceramic artists to make Obama/Biden themed work, with 50% of proceeds going to Obama… This is the only ceramic specific show I know of, plus we’ll have an essay up about this show in relation to historical political pottery.”
The site was down due to heavy traffic, but it looks like it is back up now. They may have to move the auction to ebay – to better meet the strain. Stay tuned for details. Also, it looks like the artist number has dropped from 28 (kiln disaster) to 27. I just hope that by “disaster”, Ayumi means that the work was destroyed (not the artist!)
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