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.
[link, via Laughing Squid]
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.
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.
[link, via The Fox Is Black]
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]
