Thursday
Apr162009
More Sponge Cake!
April 16, 2009 In our continuation of Spongebob Wreckage, let's take a look at some more "artistic" interpretations of good ol' Spo (aka "Uncle Blue?" If you say so, Rufus.):
There's the "Cheater's Cubist Movement":
Talk about trying to fit a square sponge into a round hole - er, I mean cake.
Two bits of flotsam and one thumbprint is all it takes!"Toyism":
Or is this "neoplasticism"? I'm always getting those two mixed up.And the more homespun "Folk Art":
"Shock Art" tends to live up to its name:
How rude.While "Fluxus" - so named because the sense of proportion is kept in a constant state of flux - is my personal favorite:
And lastly, there's the genre-spanning "Lowbrow Dali Deconstructivism":
Faboo.Thanks to Renee, Becca S., Kim S., Allie L., Diana D., Katie H., & Bridget F. for today's movements.
Note: No, I didn't make those art terms up; you can read the [ahem] "real" definitions here. And my apologies to artists everywhere. ;)
Reader Comments (121)
Great post! Are you going to post amazing-looking Sponge Bob Cakes? They exist! :)
The last one looks like the decorator was flashing back to 1967 while decorating. Man no illegal substances while in the bakery please!
that last one is frightening.
The homespun, while not the laziest, looks the worst IMO. Out of context, I wouldn't even be sure it was supposed to be SB. The last one is almost cool.
Had to look for a few seconds to see what was "rude."
that last one... i think it's kinda cool and well made, actually. i mean, not as it pertains to looking like SBSP or anything, but the general overall... cakiness of it.
or maybe it's the allergy meds i'm hopped up on.
I actually kind of like the last one, it has a groovy 1960-ish thing going on, Spo' Bob on acid maybe?? The rest are just horrible, & why are the feet backwards on the first one?
i just love the little paper lace doily around the one cake. is this cake for the retirement home?
I love the fact the feet are stuck in backwards on your "Cheater's Cubist" cake. Everyone knows Spongebob is duck-footed, NOT pigeon-toed. :)
Oh my goodness, that last one looks like spongebob has some kind of skin infection.
Jen, you are a riot! LOL
Lol! It's Hippy Spongebob! with uh, a very big tongue, either that or he's eating his tie... come to think of that I wondered where his tie went to...
What? no comments yet?
Probly because we've all been blinded by that hast Dali-esque cake.
And how the heck names their kid Lowia?
I thought Suntan Spongebob was disturbing until I saw the cold sores on Liam's Spongebob!! Yikes.
The third cake, close up, looks like it has blue boils, not bubbles, all over it.
And I guess in the last cake Spongebob is showing off his newly purchased assless pants? Classy.
That is a most unfortunately placed thumbprint on the first 'cubist' cake.
~Gwen
Since I know that SpongeBob SquarePants is evil, I have no problem with these cakes. Wreck on, evil little cartoon. Wreck on.
I sorta like that last one in a crazy, Lisa Frank type of way. Actually, I think Spongebob would be better if he looked like that.
Whoa! What color would your tongue be after eating that last cake?
I love it! Very nice... as a confirmed art lover AND Spongebob afficianado, this was right up my alley ;)
Is it wrong that I kind of love the last one?
As an art history major, I shouldn't admit to finding this post as funny as I do. (But then I'm not in contemporary art and consider this payback for those who make fun of my period. ;))
That last one looks like poor Spongebob has had one too many crabby patties. And they were laced with something.
I got my boss a Spongebob Easter candy dispenser as a gag last year!
I actually don't see any way that Spongebob on a cake could be other than wrong. lol
I dont think that a giant cookie should be considered a cake. at leas the ccc's are closer to cake than a cookie. just my 2-cents worth.
What is the deal with the lace surrounding cake #5? I mean, REALLY? And the last one - well, I really don't have any words for that weird brow and wriggly long odd legs....
DK
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That last one looks like ol' Spongebob dropped some acid.
Okay, so not only does the last Spongebob appear to have the chicken pox, but the cake seems to have some kind of disease as well. I'm afraid I'd have to pass on that cake, no matter how delicious it might be.
That "big head, little arms" Spongebob looks like they were trying to make Towlie from Southpark, and then changed him to Spongebob last-minute!
Towlie: http://files.blogter.hu/user_files/11479/towlie.jpg
Poor Liam.
regarding the first cake: It's already a total cop out by just sticking plastic pieces into a regular cake, but then it really sails over the top by having the legs on the wrong sides. The last I checked, SB wasn' pigeon toed and bowlegged. Sheesh.
The third cake employs the special technique: 'vicarious hypothermia'. Whereby the excessive use of blue in the icing will render all the persons 'cyanotic' upon ingestion - perhaps permanently.
This is just what would be observed if the revelers had been cavorting with our hero in bikini bottom. Kudos. Kudos. ;)
On the "TOYISM" cake...this is EXACTLY the way they advertise it at the bakeries for a birthday cake. My daughter had one of these a year ago for her birthday.
The Minimalist is absolutely creepy. All the others are just bad.
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S.B.S.P. flippin the bird.
I have now seen it all.
Whose 22nd birthday was the rainbow-chip cookie-looking one for? Loivia? Lowra?
mwahahahahaha!
I woke up to snowplows today (snowplows! in the middle of April!) so I needed the laugh.
The first one could be from the lesser-known show Spongebob Roundpants
The last one could be cute, you know, if it didn't completely disregard what Spongebob is supposed to look like.
Frankly, the most disturbing part of folk art cookie thing is that Loura (Lowia?)is 22 years old, and she is having a Spongbob themed birthday. And not even a good Spongebob themed birthday.
The most amusing part of this blog is when the cake designs my bakery/chain store uses show up here. This is like the third time I've been able to recognise the deco pack the designer used as something we carry. I recognise "Toyism"...and I even KIND of understand the random crap they did in the background.
...and knowing our chain's standards and the staffing conditions we usually have...this is why you don't ask the baker to fill in for the cake decorator.
Quite the collection today! The second one even sounds delicious--"white bar cake." Yum. Way to sell it.
Are you completely sure that the "Folk Art" one is supposed to be SpongeBob? It looks strikingly like some sort of Polynesian totem. Perhaps there's some culture fusion going on there.
The last one--??? Wow. It's for a four year old, which means that it's probably not some sophisticated reference to surrealism for an Art History major with a thing for SpongeBob. So that's really too bad. "Mommy? What happened to SpongeBob's FACE!?!?"
-kate
Also, it appears that the dreaded Teletubbie Poo has made another appearance on the last cake. Blobs of delightfulness, to be sure.
-kate
yiiiiikes, something is SERIOUSLY wrong with that last Spongebob...
The second one is terrifying D: D: D:
Word verification: sange. Sangebob Squarepants; not quite Spongebob, but close enough.
I really like the Toyism one... But it should be PATRICK!!!!!!!!
Where did the rest of his pants go in the last one?!?!
that last spongebob looks like his pants are unzipped...even creepier
Wow- who'd have thought I could get an art education on Cake Wrecks?? Fluxus? WOW, You go Girl!
and they don't go around his side...they're only on the front!
Hahahahaha!! The flotsam feet on that first masterpiece are on backwards, too!!!
it makes me sad that most of these cakes seem to come from one store. XD i enjoy going to said store and laughing at their disasters.
hopefully most of these cakes are going towards child birthday parties so they will be too wound up to care their cake sucks.
That last one looks like some kind of perverted spongebob, with the tongue all hanging out....and it looks like his zipper is undone and, well...just look at it!
The first one has the legs on backwards. Brilliant!