10 reasons below why you really need to check out the Vintage Gal Tumblr by Cat:
Name’s Cat. I’m an L.A. gal who loves everything from classic movie queens to pinups to classic horror. My likes vary a lot. Having said that, I refuse to fit in a box or apologize for being me.
This fucked up Silent Hill, with a great pair of cake tits on her, is 100% edible and from the uber talented Mamma Jamma Cakes. This cake was created in response to the Silent Hill brief I issued for a desert table commission (see press release at the end of this post which also shares a little more information about how this cake was made). This cake will be getting eaten at the Alice Cooper freak show installation this coming Monday. As I have said a LOT this is one of the best cakes I have ever seen in terms of a perfect response to a brief – eat your heart out Ace of Cakes! Read more about our other cake projects here, see more of the Silent Hill cake installation on Flickr, or visit us on Facebook.
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An Edible Horror Show in Hyde Park
Delicious ‘shattered glass’, ‘barbed wire’ and ‘pus covered bloody bandages’ to be consumed at the Alice Cooper freak show audition.Curator of cake & chaos, Miss Cakehead, is set to create one of her scariest edible experiences to date with an installation based on the Silent Hill video game that also inspired a 2006 horror film of the same name.
Following the hit of the ‘Morning After’ table at the Kerrang Awards, Cakehead Loves was asked to produce a ‘disturbing’ edible experience at the Alice Cooper Freak Show auditions at Hyde Park this Monday 27th June. The backdrop to her piece referencing lyrics of the Alice Cooper Hit ‘No More Mr Nice Guy’ with the lyrics “I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing ‘Til they got a hold of me” written on newspaper in blood, referencing a similar scene in the Silent Hill video game.
Surgical cloth, shattered edible ‘glass’, gruesome cakes & an amazing 100% edible sculpture of the Silent Hill ‘Nurse’ are amongst the goodies which will feature nestled amongst edible barbed wire and anatomical heart cakes displayed on cake stands covered with blood stained bandages.
The centre piece Silent Hill Nurse cake is made form a total of 6 stacked chocolate cakes and 100% edible apart from a wooden pole used for support. The head was wrapped in individually rolled and textured bandages which were then pressed and molded into it to give an appearance of decaying, rotting bandages and flesh.
Laura Edwards of Mamma Jamma Cakes who made the cake commented:
“With Silent Hill being the theme, and the nurse being such an iconic figure from the game and film, she really had to be the centre piece really should be the nurse which I wanted to create as a 100% edible bust.
Other Gruesome edibles include Gash Wound Cupcakes from The Butcher of Caker Street (delicious vanilla cupcakes topped with open flesh wounds, ripped stitches and clotting blood) & a solid chocolate skull cast from a real human example by Canadian food artist Marina Maldava.
Devon based caked maker Kiss & Bake up has provided jumbo badass sculpted chocolate cake pops featuring some of Silent Hill’s most prominent characters such as Pyramid Head & the Mannequin. Cupcake obsessed Anne Murphy of I Heart Cupcakes has provided red velvet cupcakes with white icing splashed with blood cupcakes whilst artist ‘Thefty’, AKA Helena Maratheftis acted as an art director for the project. Guerilla Science have also contributed some of their infamous panacotta brains.
Paradoxically the next event from Miss Cakehead – Cakey Perry (www.cakeyperry.com) – could not be further away from this concept. A selection of cakes and other treats being served at a Katy Perry inspired high tea.
For more information please contact Emmylou Cakehead
emmylou.cakehead@gmail.com / @miss_cakeheadTo find out more about previous Cakehead Loves installations please visit; http://www.cakeheadloves.wordpress.com
The Mad Artists Tea was formed in 2010 by “Miss Cakehead” with the aim of continuing to support creativity in cake making, and to campaign for the skill of cake decorating to become increasingly recognized as an important field of art. It aims to work with both professional & amateur cake makers finding and nuturing new baking talent, whist continuing to push the limits of creativity with cake. It undertakes a variety of different projects for clients, whilst Miss Cakehead also creates and curates home baked projects such as Eat Your Heart Out the world’s first 18+ cake shop.
Laura Edwards from Mamma Jamma Cakes is available for interview about her amazing cake creation
http://www.mammajammacakes.co.uk
The Butcher of Caker Street creates incredible and award winning cake sculptures for all occasions. Having previously worked in Special Makeup and Creature Effects for film and Television, she has a talent for all things gruesome.
I Heart Cupcakes
http://i-heart-cupcakes.blogspot.com/
Kiss & Bake Up
http://www.facebook.com/kissandbakeup
Thefty
Brutal Knitting consists of creepy sci fi and horror inspired custom knitting by Tracy Widdes – I have been informed that the knitting is not all that but I love the concept (thanks to Waldo for the link – mwah x)…
Yes you really can buy a house with a horrifying history, in this case for $1.15 million you can get the Amityville Horror House. It is where Ronald DeFeo Jr. brutally killed six family members as they slept in 1974. Hauntings reported by later owners led to the bestselling 1977 book The Amityville Horror. Features include a finished basement, large deck with views of the Amityville River, a renovated boat house, a central stereo system, and the chance for some supernatural houseguests. Well if it’s got a central stereo system…
Source (thanks Matt you ROCK)
GREAT piece of branding here – Stationery of Horror was a corporate design project for a German crime & horror channel from agency Jung von Matt AG, Germany. It does remind me that I have to sort out the branding for Cakehead Loves / Chance Collective but I have no ideas at the moment about how to come up with something that ROCKS as much as this (via Who Killed Bambi).
I think I am in love… …find out more about Joshua Hoffine here. To be fair to you I did write this up a year or so ago on Trendhunter but it is always worth a re-visit.
Most certainly around Halloween which I totally adore the whole dressing up fiasco around…
Oooooo this is good – am loving this gore filled calendar from Nerdcore. Most of all it means you can have a little touch of horror / Halloween in your house all year round. How great would this look hanging next to your spice rack… …mace, nutmeg, some mulled wine sachets that are at least three years and old (everyone has them) and sexy women covered in fake blood. All I have to say on the matter is; “It’s not fucking pornography, its fucking art”. Art featuring erotic interpretations of classic scary movies at that. Good work all round.
I will of course be instantly drawn to an artist who writes blog posts such as
“It’s true, I am an Ass man….and necks. Love them necks.”
Is this is the Digital Apocolypse then bring it on!
It may seem a bit dark (but cakehead does love evil) however I find the notion of skulls romantic in a messed up way. The organisation police set up camp in my brain today so I started looking for suitable skull related VD (Valentines Day) goodies.
All they do is make awesome chocolate skulls – weighing in at 2.5 kilos of chocolate. The fucked up bit is that they are life sized and an solid cast of an ACTUAL HUMAN SKULL. Brilliantly morbid. They have even perfected bone chocolate – a blend of dark, milk and white chocolate that looks like bone (yummy). Organic & free trade options also available.
Weighing in at a mere 1kg these solid milk chocolate skulls come from Choccywoccydoodah – which means they will be great. They come in white or milk chocolate, decorated or undecorated.
These are from food artist Prudence and are affordable little treats. Glitter versions also available.
Anyone who calls themselves modern alchemists and purveyors of curious goods is ok with me, and these skulls from D.L & Co are super stylish.
For uber cool budget retro option there is always the original skull crushers to fall back onto.
Hate chocolate – you can also always glam it up with Mexican Sugar Skulls.
Cakehead over and out.
