let me borrow that top
You don’t see too many animated Furcadia portraits around and even fewer that do more than just mechanically blink and smile, so this is pretty fuckin’ rad. If you’re unfamiliar with Furcadia, custom character icons are limited to a size of 95x95 pixels. Someone commissioned Aitsena for this and it is NOT for free use, but I encourage you to go see the rest of her work!
Believe it or not, these are bread.
And no, it is NOT promoting cannibalism.
Why?
Answers these questions: Is eating super hero fruit snacks promoting cannibalism? Is eating Spongebob poptarts promoting sponge eating?
If you answers it with a “No” and follows it with a big “BUT…”
I must say that you people are seriously naive
and are missing the point of the bread in the first place.
Anyway,
This bread is made by Thai artist, Kittiwat Unarrom.
Uses dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts. The results are unnervingly realistic with eyes, lips and other details constructed out of cashews, and raisins. (everything is totally edible)
The bakery is located in Ratchaburi province. Ratchaburi is located about 50 miles west of Bangkok on the bank of the Mae Klong River. If you are in the area there are daily tours you can take, here is one site that gives tours.
So why does a bakery of human body parts exist? Personally, I think all bakeries should be like this but this is what Kittiwat Unarrom says why he does it,
I wanted to reflect the universal fact of life – birth, existence and decay – that everything is subject to change… Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy.
So what is the idea behind the madness?
Unarrom replies,
…talking about consumption at this stage, about people grabbing the food that has the most colourful and well designed packaging, not for its healthiness. When people see the bread, they don’t want to eat it. But when they taste it, it’s just normal bread. The lesson is ‘don’t judge just by outer appearances.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, comformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
-CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS
Guh, thank you everyone ;~; ♥ I don’t like talking about *~*~FEELS*~* and probably would’ve deleted that post if I hadn’t gone to bed right afterward, but you’ve all confirmed my thoughts about e-friends being a hell of a lot better than my IRL ones. I can’t even call them friends.
People on dA and Tumblr and Furcadia have pulled me through the hardest parts of this year, honestly. I don’t think the term ‘In Real Life’ friends is accurate with ‘internet’ friends, because the friendships I’ve made online have been more substantial and deep and real than with any fuckhead I’ve met in my own country. I’m not socially awkward or shy, I’m not incapable of meeting new people in my area, I just don’t want to meet them at this rate.
