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Unprocessed Foods Cut into Precise 2.5cm Cubes

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A reddit commenter compiled a key: http://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/35qtqy/food_cubes/cr73...

Some of their art is really quite cool.

This one I particularly liked: http://lernertandsander.com/aux-raus/

and this scared me a little: http://lernertandsander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/every...

It's a shame the cake at the end is CGI ;(

Yes it is :(

FYI; the cake is probably a reference as to us dutch people always serving this type of cake, albeit smaller and in a different form, at funerals. Knowing this gives the short a nice touch :)

The cake is a lie, after all.

What an evil thing to do to embed a video without volume control or a way to go directly to vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/6624352

Do anyone know the song in this video?

A music video by Lernert & Sander

We created a music video for Aux Raus. Coffin Poser is the 2nd single of their album The Brick is in the Air (TopNotch/Universal).

As written on the page.

I failed to see the Read More. Thanks.

And in the lower left part you have two pieces of fish, which are actually the same piece, rotated.

Somehow I doubt that.

Find the high-res file, look very carefully. The piece of fish has enough fine features to reliably distinguish it from a different piece of fish.

You are right. Interesting, yet somehow it diminishes the piece a little in my mind, as obviously they composited the final image, whereas I imagined standing over the piece as if it were on display.

Love the piece still though.

> Interesting, yet somehow it diminishes the piece a little in my mind, as obviously they composited the final image, whereas I imagined standing over the piece as if it were on display.

This. There is something akin to cheating, when each block can be carefully cut, arranged and photographed (potentially multiple times to get a perfect image) and then photoshopped into a final image, as oppossed to getting them all cut and arrangd and taking a photo before the inevitable drooping and leaking.

It is still an incredible image and a brilliant idea.

And the fish is what tipped you off?

It actually increases my interest. I spent some time looking for other images that might be from the same cube, and concluded that there may also be duplicates in the red cabbage, two of the white button mushroom images, red grapefruit, the broccoflower (adjacent, even!), carrot, Napa cabbage, lime, apple, pear, red onion, watermelon (rind), yellow squash, and several of the meats.

It reminds me very much of something that might have appeared on a GAMES Magazine cover.

Massively interested but I've been unable to see it after looking at it for 5 minutes with 3 people. Would you mind posting a screenshot or something where you show it??

here you go:

http://i.imgur.com/CpSpgZI.jpg

I've tried (quite badly I must say) to highlight the 2 features that seem to be more prominent

@nekopa Thanks, I see the resemblance! The redit key says one is kingfish and the other swordfish, though for me it would be massively difficult to distinguish between it.

No problem, this finally made me sign up for an imgur account.

I've rotated the second one by 120 degrees so it's easier to see: http://imgur.com/j97HCPU

They are still different in some places due to lightning.

Ha, I did the same and applied my horrible photoshop skills to it...

http://i.imgur.com/V6MvYMM.jpg

You might be right. The pieces in question are on the third row from the bottom, second and fourth from the left. They really have similar details.

You delightful pedant!

Even pictures of 'unprocessed' food have some sort of artificial processing done to them

ironic metaphor for the modern food industry imo.

File under posts from the reddit front page 2 days ago.

Anyway these foods have been processed. What many people don't realise is that your "natural" fruits have been artificially ripened. There are food safety processes too such as washing and spraying with fungicide. There's also labelling and sorting that goes on.

The "artificial" ripening with Ethylene isn't really as evil as it sounds, fruit emits it anyway as it becomes ripe. If you have for example some avocados that you want to ripen more quickly, putting them in a paper bag with ripe bananas or lemons will hasten the process significantly. Fruit on its own like bananas will ripen much more slowly than if they are surrounded by a bunch of peers.

Oh I'm not trying to make it sound evil.

The faster ripening is also true if they are surrounded by a bunch of pears.

Actually I take back my comment about the photoshopping diminishing the piece. After reading a comment on the reddit thread complaining about the perspective being off, I can see that by 'shopping it they've given it a somewhat unreal feeling, almost a little Escher-like. Probably why I like it.

that near orthographic perspective had me going "Am I looking at the CG artwork of some incredibly talented artist?"

It almost compelled me to try making a grid of objects and giving them different materials as an art piece. Not the only one apparently: http://i.imgur.com/UqmpoNh.jpg

It would be funny if they snuck a cubed Twinkie in there.

It is beautiful, the complexity and and variance of what grows is stunning from aesthetic perspective.

unfortunately, it is annoyingly orthographic, no perspective.. :)

They would serve as gorgeous iPhone app icons. At least before apple move away from skeuomorphism.

Completely off-topic, but are they precisely 2.5cm, or 1 inch cubes?

The description says "We transformed unprocessed food into perfect cubes of 2,5 x 2,5 x 2,5 cm." None of the people involved seem to be in a non-metric country, so I doubt they were approximating from inches.

I'd definitely say that's on topic, just not a very important detail

This comment is much more off topic

Minecraft chef!

Aaaaand it's down.

This picture satisfy my OCD

Interesting that the choice was to cut these an inch square but title it 2.5cm. Okay, I take it back. That isn't particularly interesting. Still.

The actual title is "Cubes".

The 2.5 cm is mentioned in the description of the piece, but the hoisting it into the title and somewhat sloppy addition of 'unprocessed' (slaughter, bleed and butcher an animal and it is still raw, I think unprocessed is a bit off the mark) are from the HN submission.

They are in the Netherlands, after all. They don't use inches for anything.

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