In honor of Halloween, some culinary artists are corrupting the sweetness of cake, fondant, and molding chocolate by transforming them into horrifying, ghoulish sculptures. Wounded zombies dripping with blood, grim pumpkins, eyeball-filled cauldrons, and eerie sugar skulls are just some of the All Hallows’ Eve staples that have been re-imagined with the aid of piping bags, buttercream spatulas, and layers upon layers of cake that have been carved down to form seriously creepy creations. In honor of the spooky holiday’s imminent arrival, we’ve rounded-up a batch of exquisitely detailed cakes that’ll give you a fright after the jump.
Anyone who reads Flavorwire regularly will know that we’re big fans of anything related to creative typography, so we’d hankering to get our hands on a copy of Frankenfont, a new edition of Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus that uses a variety of fonts found in PDFs across the internet. In keeping with the gestalt nature of Frankenstein’s monster, the book renders each word in the book in a variety of typefaces, with strange and obscure fonts appearing more frequently as the novel progresses. The first few chapters use mostly Times New Roman, Arial and Helvetica; but as the story unfolds and the monster grows more uncontrollable, the typography devolves into weird and grotesque shapes. It’s a fascinating idea; you can see some excerpts from the book after the jump, which show how the fonts become more and more twisted toward the story’s end. There’s more details about the process used to realise the idea, along with ordering info, at the project website.
Your dog doesn’t enjoy being compared to an Ewok. Your pug would like to have you on a leash. And your cat? Sorry, buddy, but she isn’t a nervous wreck like you. These are only a few of the revelations in Christopher Rozzi’s Tiny Confessions, a delightful series that expose the little secret your pets — along with Shakespeare, Frankenstein, fortune cookies, etc. — are keeping from you. Click through after the jump for a selection of our favorites, and visit Rozzi’s Etsy shop to see more images and pick up an affordable print or 20. Seriously, snap yours up before we buy him out.
Most of us are familiar with the inevitable anxiety that comes with seeing a beloved book turned into a movie, but some stories can actually benefit from a little cross-media reinterpretation. Amid the medium’s own rapid ascension toward highbrow acceptance, the graphic novel has proved a flexible format for literary adaptation, transforming texts into improved visual narratives without eliminating the reading process.
In the last 10 years, only two romantic comedies debuted at number over Valentine’s Day weekend: 2004′s 50 First Dates and 2005′s Hitch. Meanwhile Scream 3 (2000), Hannibal (2001), and Friday the 13th (2009) all opened at number one. We think it’s safe to predict that this weekend The Wolfman will dominate Valentine’s Day in spite of its all-star ensemble cast. At least, we hope it does.
So to celebrate those films that feature blood and gore instead of hugs and kisses, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite horror film couples. Who’d we forget?
Is it possible to cram the 100 best movie lines of all time into just 200 seconds? The video below, which we came across on Cinematical, comes pretty close, but we’d like to argue that they left out some classics. (That said, we’re amazed by how much they managed to cram in.) Watch it, and then click through for our list of the biggest omissions; feel free to add your own favorites that didn’t make the cut in the comments!
FRANKENSTEIN is one of the most mythologized stories in modern history. Whether the name evokes the bumbling monster played by BORIS KARLOFF, or the overzealous doctor of the novel version, Frankenstein is a patched together mish-mash of cultural references and horror touchstones.
Including the strange and persistent rumor that MARY SHELLEY didn’t even write it.
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— we recommend ten classic works that have been effectively translated into comic books.
