Nov 3, 2009: Coffee Art

xoxoxoBruce · 11-03-2009, 12:03 AM

I think there's a Mona Koa coffee, now there's a Mona Lisa (in) coffee.
3,604 cups of coffee, and 564 pints of milk.

Aliantha sent me these pictures of Aussies with too much time on their hands.

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The different colours were created by adding no, little or lots of milk to each cup of black coffee.
It measures an impressive 20 feet high and 13 feet wide and took a team of eight people three hours to complete.
It was created for The Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia, and seen by 130,000 people who attended the one-day coffee-lovers event.
Elaine Kelly, from event organisers the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, was delighted with the result.
She said: "Each coffee cup was filled with varying amounts of milk to create the different sepia shades of the painting.
"We wanted to create an element of surprise and a sense of fun in the way we engaged with the public.
"Once we had the idea of creating an image out of coffee cups we searched for something iconic to reproduce - and opted for the most iconic painting in history. "The Mona Lisa has been reproduced so many times in so many different mediums but, as far as we know, never out of coffee. "The result was fantastic.
"After much planning it was great to see if coming together so well and the 130,000 people who attended the event certainly enjoyed it."

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newtimer · 11-03-2009, 08:44 AM

Neat, but why an image of Mona Lisa? Kofi Annan would have been more appropriate.

Shawnee123 · 11-03-2009, 09:39 AM

Mona Lisa loved her some maxwell house.

birdclaw · 11-03-2009, 09:59 AM

Well now we know the reason for Mona Lisa's smile...a good cup of joe.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-03-2009, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by newtimer

Neat, but why an image of Mona Lisa? Kofi Annan would have been more appropriate.

#1-Most people wouldn't recognize Annan, so they wouldn't know how well the artists did. Mona Lisa is the best known therefore everyone can compare.
#2-It's my coffee, and I'll paint who I want to.

capnhowdy · 11-03-2009, 12:20 PM

That work of art will stay up for years.

Sperlock · 11-03-2009, 10:25 PM

That's a latte coffee.

ZenGum · 11-03-2009, 10:46 PM

They're making a mocchary of great art.

Shawnee123 · 11-04-2009, 08:28 AM

I always thought Mona Lisa had a nice mug.

newtimer · 11-04-2009, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

#1-Most people wouldn't recognize Annan, so they wouldn't know how well the artists did.

True, but Coffee Mona doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Coffee Kofi.

chrisinhouston · 11-04-2009, 10:15 AM

Good thing they didn't do one of the Prophet Mohamed! There would be a war on by now.

Glinda · 11-04-2009, 12:36 PM

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"Once we had the idea of creating an image out of coffee cups we searched for something iconic to reproduce

Let me get this straight...

This is a huge "one-day coffee-lovers event," and these dorks actually had to search for something iconic to reproduce?

capnhowdy · 11-04-2009, 12:54 PM

But he was unable to pose as a result of being 60 gazillion miles up a Colombian mountain picking beans one at a fucking time. Between lines of coke.

monster · 11-04-2009, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Glinda

Let me get this straight...

This is a huge "one-day coffee-lovers event," and these dorks actually had to search for something iconic to reproduce?

Well I have no idea where that picture is from. It's not iconic to me. I assume it's some sort of coffee brand, but maybe it's only iconic in the Americas?

classicman · 11-04-2009, 07:43 PM

Juan! Where you been man? Did INS finally catch up to you?

11-03-2009, 09:39 AM	#3
Shawnee123 aaaaachoooo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: OH Posts: 15,923	Mona Lisa loved her some maxwell house. __________________ The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman US poet (1819 - 1892)

11-03-2009, 09:59 AM	#4
birdclaw putting the "g" in flight Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 137	Well now we know the reason for Mona Lisa's smile...a good cup of joe. __________________ “If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say”

11-03-2009, 12:20 PM	#6
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 5,415	That work of art will stay up for years. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

11-03-2009, 10:25 PM	#7
Sperlock Super Intendent Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 245	That's a latte coffee. __________________ Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. - Anonymous http://informationthreshold.blogspot.com, http://spiritualthreshold.blogspot.com

11-03-2009, 10:46 PM	#8
ZenGum Putting the fist in pacifist. Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 5,326	They're making a mocchary of great art. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-03-2009, 08:44 AM	#2
newtimer Vice-President of Resentment Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 196	Neat, but why an image of Mona Lisa? Kofi Annan would have been more appropriate.

11-04-2009, 08:28 AM	#9
Shawnee123 aaaaachoooo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: OH Posts: 15,923	I always thought Mona Lisa had a nice mug. __________________ The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman US poet (1819 - 1892)

11-04-2009, 10:15 AM	#11
chrisinhouston Lecturer Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 854	Good thing they didn't do one of the Prophet Mohamed! There would be a war on by now. __________________ "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well I have others!" Groucho Marx

11-04-2009, 12:54 PM	#13
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 5,415	But he was unable to pose as a result of being 60 gazillion miles up a Colombian mountain picking beans one at a fucking time. Between lines of coke. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

11-04-2009, 07:43 PM	#15
classicman Banished from the land of usertitleage Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 9,904	Juan! Where you been man? Did INS finally catch up to you? __________________ "No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power." Jacob Bronowski Most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson "My views aren't popular, they're just mine."

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