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Let Them Eat [Cup]cake!
February 21, 2009
Detail from Zilly Rosen’s duo cupcake portrait of Barack Obama and Abe Lincoln. The extreme close-up angle of this shot not only shows the cupcakes in detail but also makes for an interesting resemblance between our 44th President and Jay Leno (from our Flickr pool).
Last Saturday nearly 10,000 people visited American Art to witness sweet history in the making. Zilly Rosen's 5,600-cupcake presidential portrait wowed folks up on the balconies in the Luce Foundation Center, stretching over an 11' x 17' area of the concourse below. Perhaps most exciting of all was the mere 45 minutes it took the public to devour a portrait that took more than 5 hours to construct the day before! Missed it? We've thought of you and have posted some photos on our Flickr group as well as this cool time-lapse video of the whole process.
Posted by Mandy on February 21, 2009 in Post It
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This picture was indeed one of the most visited online especially on Flickr. Those 45 minutes were nothing compared to our enthusiasm...
Posted by: Inchirieri Alex | Feb 21, 2009
I missed it, thanks for posting it.
Posted by: Brian | Feb 22, 2009
I work at a museum in Saskatchewan (Canada) and watched the live feed Friday the 13th at work. By the end of the day all of the staff had seen it. It was good. I would have liked to seen video of the dismantling as well.
Posted by: gigi | Feb 23, 2009
Gigi, the live feed has been replaced with a time lapse that shows the installation and the de-installation of the cupcakes. Take a look.
Posted by: Jeff | Feb 25, 2009
What a beautiful job... USA, you finally have a great man now.
Posted by: mascali | Mar 2, 2009
Cool picture!
Posted by: Masini | Mar 15, 2009
Wow, what a nice portrait. Did president Obama give it a taste?
Posted by: buy wow gold | Mar 30, 2009
Nice form of art, did Obama saw the portrait? It is really nice and very detailed. aqnd it looks so delicious!
Posted by: Fedman | Jul 11, 2009
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