Friday, September 09, 2005

Gonna need a lot of butter.

The other night we were watching a Thai tv show based on a magazine they have here. It's basically like the Enquirer, but focuses much more on the supernatural and the outrageous. Sow thinks the name translates to The Strange. We saw this wild segment about a guy who bakes bread to look like cadavers.

My first thought is, "Oh man, I gotta email Jerry about this! He's always sending me cool whacked out stuff like this. Here's my chance to send him something f'd up." So the next morning I run to the internet to tell him all about it. I turn on my laptop. There's an email from him already telling me all about it!? I can't top this guy on anything.

Anyhow, if you haven't already seen this it's pretty wild. This guy is an artist who grew up in a family of bakers (Kittiwat Unarrom, not Jerry). As a fine arts student, he began painting, then moved on to mixed media, and eventually sculpting with dough since it was a natural medium for him. He's putting a showing together for his final dissertation at the end of the year, but for now he's taking lots of orders. I looked for a place to order from, but all I could find were these associated press articles. Then my battery ran out.

Thai artist bakes edible 'body parts' - China Daily

Yahoo

Guess I'm going to have to make the drive out there. It's only about an hour outside of Bangkok. Bangkok's only about 6 hours outside of Chiang Mai. Maybe next time Sow tells me the baby's hungry...

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