Awesome!

[fabfemmeboy]

Just got back from the National Portrait Gallery, where Zilly Rosen (the woman who made the cupcake mosaic of Obama) made a mosaic of Obama and Lincoln from 5,600 cupcakes! It her crew of about 7 right around 4 hours to assemble.

Comments

[loseagain]

Oh man, I saw that was going on and I should have gone! This is way better than the original Obama-cake portrait. Burning question: After putting it together, did spectators get to take it apart by, you know, eating the cupcakes?!?

[nikolche]

Tomorrow at around 5. I totally asked the same question...

[tko_ak]

Presumptuous and kind of disgusting was my reaction.

Now, I can value the artistic value of it, of course. But the Obama-Lincoln comparisons are such bullshit that it mkes my blood boil. Maybe Obama will be a great, historically revered president, but at this point it's asinine to make such suggestions.

[fabfemmeboy]

Personally I think he's a lot more akin to Kennedy, who is also a revered figure in American politics, so I don't know why the obsession with comparing him to Lincoln (...has Obama freed anybody yet? Been tasked with holding together a country when someone secedes every week? Not so much), but either way...it's 5,600 cupcakes!

[optimus_life]

That's cool, given it's just your standard cupcakes used and frosting.

[nikolche]

Mini-cupcakes and fondant, actually. Still cool.