5,000 Gummy Bears in Chandelier
Photo: Kevin Champeny
Artist Kevin Champeny has created a chandelier made of 5,000 hand-cast gummy bears. It is called the Candelier and was designed for a home furnishing company called Jellio. It can be yours for a mere $6,5000. Not too bad, right? Just look at all the yummy gummy bears! If you could have a [...]
Dress Made Out of 50,000 Gummy Bears
For its debut, Twelv Magazine commissioned
this Alexander McQueen-inspired dress made out of 50,000 gummy bears:
To build the design, stylists Hissa Igarashi and Sayuri Marakumi
twisted steel wire into the shape of a dress and covered it with vinyl.
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Gladiator Helmet Made from Gummy Bears
Life in the arena is fast, bloody and short. Protect yourself with this helmet made by gummy bear artist Crummy Gummy. Also, be sure to check his other work at his website, much of which consists of funny scenes acted out by gummy bears.
Link -via Walyou | Artist’s Website
Frank Herbert’s Dune in Candy
When you take your stand along the gummy worm’s path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of yellow sprinkles.
Crafted from a 2-foot-long gummy worm, Haribo gummy bears, black licorice string, yellow sprinkles, and rock candy crystals! A scene from the great science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Here we [...]
Gummy Bearskin Rug
Get it? It’s a gummy bear shaped into a bearskin rug by Brock Davis.
Well, I thought it was funny.
Link via Colossal
The Very Definition of “Sweetheart”
As the man who invented Jelly Belly jelly beans, David Klein is a pioneer in the candy industry. After selling the now-famous flavored beans to a partner, Klein has spent the last three decades dreaming up new sweet creations.
As AOL Weird News explains, his latest attempt at a return to the sugary spotlight is [...]
Gummy Bear + Potassium Chlorate = Fiery Candy Death
So the St. Albans Science Department put up a video showing what happens when a gummy bear is dropped into a test tube containing molten potassium chlorate (KClO3). The “Science Department” (quite possibly a “Mad Science Department,” if you ask me) explains the result like so:
Molten potassium chlorate is a strong oxidizing agent that reacts [...]
A Brief History of Swedish Fish
The friendly Swedish Fish are a staple of the US candy scene, a denizen of nearly every movie theater counter and convenience store. But where did they come from? And why fish? Why not Swedish Reindeer? Or Geese? There isn’t a lot of research on Swedish Fish out there, but here’s what we got:
In the [...]
A Brief History of Gummy Bears
Ever since I can remember, I have been a confirmed gummy bear addict. I love gummy bears, particularly Haribo’s Gold Bears and Happy Cola (it does make me happy), but I’ll even deal in Trolli in a pinch. Of course, that the little, fruit-flavored gelatin bears are addictive shouldn’t be surprising—after all, in 1997, tobacco [...]
