Tag: sugar

Kids’ Cereals In Museum-Quality Displays

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If you take your sugar-coated kiddie crack seriously, you might consider putting it on display. CerealBoxes is a neat project that takes a few popular kids’ cereals and displays them meticulously in museum-quality specimen boxes.

Available in three different displays, the series includes Froot Loops, Lucky Charms, Fruity Pebbles and the dates in which each was founded. Available for sale here.

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[link, via Laughing Squid]

Turn Any Food Into Pop Rocks With Popping Sugar

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Food that doesn’t crackle in your mouth like Pop Rocks is kind of boring. Pop Sugar by Molecule-R is here to help.

Made from a carbon-dioxide infused sugar — the same found in Pop Rocks — sprinkle a little on anything that you’d like to make sweet and disturbingly crackly.

[link, via technabob]

A Functioning Greenhouse Made of Sugar

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This fully-functional greenhouse, officially-titled Solarium, was created by artist William Lamson at Storm King Art Center in New York. It consists of 162 panels of varying hues of caramelized sugar, creating a stained-glass look. But please… Do not lick the greenhouse.

Find out more about the process of creating an all-sugar greenhouse here.

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[link, via Colossal]

Record Packaging Made From Sugar

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What artists have to do to sell an album these days. Well, making the album out of a giant block of sugar is a good start. For Beacon’s first LP The Ways We Separate, Brooklyn-based sculptor Fernando Mastrangelo created a 13″x13″ cast sugar housing for the vinyl record.

And everyone loves sugar… You’ll just have to explain to your friends what vinyl is. The limited edition is available for pre-order here.

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[link, via The Fox Is Black]

Sugar Pills, Placebo Capsules Filled with Candy Beads

For the hypochondriac with a sweet tooth, or a test subject for a major candy company, there’s Popping Placebo Pills by Animal Vegetable Mineral. Created for Eat Your Heart Out, the clear pill capsules are filled with various candy beads to help cure what ails you. Or, at least the sugar pills will help make you think they’re working.

[link, via BoingBoing]