Comments on: The achievements of the Jellymongers of England http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: wasii http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138717 wasii Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138717 Haystacks seem like a good guess for NE and IA. Funny, I suppose that didn't occur to me because I don't think I've ever seen a haystack. I actually grew up in the American Midwest - part of that in Nebraska. Mechanized balers were introduced generations ago, and in the fields the cut hay is mogrified into the brick or jumbo toilet-paper roll shapes. (I'm sure that wouldn't occur to most non-farm-state Americans, either, and I certainly am not faulting the creators here.) Kansas: Wizard of Oz makes sense. Also, did not mean to exclude the women-farmers of that state with my cross-dressing remark. Regardless, pumps are not really part of the work uniform in agriculture. I do like that it depicts the topography of the Rocky Mtns, Sierra Nevadas, and Cascades. And that the Grand Canyon has been etched into Arizona. Haystacks seem like a good guess for NE and IA. Funny, I suppose that didn’t occur to me because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a haystack. I actually grew up in the American Midwest – part of that in Nebraska. Mechanized balers were introduced generations ago, and in the fields the cut hay is mogrified into the brick or jumbo toilet-paper roll shapes. (I’m sure that wouldn’t occur to most non-farm-state Americans, either, and I certainly am not faulting the creators here.)

Kansas: Wizard of Oz makes sense. Also, did not mean to exclude the women-farmers of that state with my cross-dressing remark. Regardless, pumps are not really part of the work uniform in agriculture.

I do like that it depicts the topography of the Rocky Mtns, Sierra Nevadas, and Cascades. And that the Grand Canyon has been etched into Arizona.

]]> By: Gulliver http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138992 Gulliver Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138992 This piece is your piece, that piece is my piece From Orangefornia to the Cherry Island From the Lemon Desert to the Sugared waters This land was baked for you and me. This piece is your piece, that piece is my piece
From Orangefornia to the Cherry Island
From the Lemon Desert to the Sugared waters
This land was baked for you and me.

]]> By: rewhu http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138502 rewhu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138502 Tiny, tiny Rhode Island. Did it even get its own custom mold or is it just a trimming from New Mexico? Tiny, tiny Rhode Island. Did it even get its own custom mold or is it just a trimming from New Mexico?

]]> By: wasii http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138512 wasii Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138512 Granted, it's dessert-art, and the creators are novelty Jello-men from another land - but still, some of the regionally-symbolic-Monopoly-piece-like additions to the map are just too obscure for me to figure out. There are some easy ones. Texas: cowboy hat. Ok. Florida: space shuttle. Check. (etc...) But then we have: Nebraska & Iowa: Thimbles? Daleks? Corn ingots? The Maginot Line? Jello molds? (that seems too meta) Kansas: High-heeled shoe? Is KS known for cross-dressing farmers in Britain? (Wait - I'm guessing T-storm & tornado) Have Cleveland's rulers erected a pyramid lately? What's dangling from Connecticut? Whatever it is, I notice that Los Angeles is much better endowed in that category. And Georgia? I'm not trying to mock. (How could you mock Jello America?) But I'd bet molding/sculpting those things took as much time as the map itself so presumably they're symbolic of something. And I guess I'm curious as to what mental associations two young English guys have with various US states. Granted, it’s dessert-art, and the creators are novelty Jello-men from another land – but still, some of the regionally-symbolic-Monopoly-piece-like additions to the map are just too obscure for me to figure out.

There are some easy ones. Texas: cowboy hat. Ok. Florida: space shuttle. Check. (etc…)

But then we have:
Nebraska & Iowa: Thimbles? Daleks? Corn ingots? The Maginot Line? Jello molds? (that seems too meta)
Kansas: High-heeled shoe? Is KS known for cross-dressing farmers in Britain? (Wait – I’m guessing T-storm & tornado)
Have Cleveland’s rulers erected a pyramid lately? What’s dangling from Connecticut? Whatever it is, I notice that Los Angeles is much better endowed in that category. And Georgia?

I’m not trying to mock. (How could you mock Jello America?) But I’d bet molding/sculpting those things took as much time as the map itself so presumably they’re symbolic of something. And I guess I’m curious as to what mental associations two young English guys have with various US states.

]]> By: Cefeida http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138527 Cefeida Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138527 When Europeans hear Kansas, they think Dorothy and ruby slippers. Don't know about the rest. When Europeans hear Kansas, they think Dorothy and ruby slippers. Don’t know about the rest.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138547 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138547 Haystacks in NE and IA? I couldn't figure it out either, but nothing says farms like haystacks. I guess. Haystacks in NE and IA? I couldn’t figure it out either, but nothing says farms like haystacks. I guess.

]]> By: knoxblox http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138296 knoxblox Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138296 Mmmm...gelatin desserts! BTW, those who are at least my age should recognize the significance of my handle. Mmmm…gelatin desserts!

BTW, those who are at least my age should recognize the significance of my handle.

]]> By: Gemma http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138554 Gemma Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138554 As Cefeida says, Kansas has to be to do with the Wizard of Oz. I was about to say it was a shoe from the Wicked Witch of the West, but Dorothy makes even more sense. Nebraska & Iowa: haystacks? Georgia: peach? No decent suggestions for the others. As Cefeida says, Kansas has to be to do with the Wizard of Oz. I was about to say it was a shoe from the Wicked Witch of the West, but Dorothy makes even more sense.

Nebraska & Iowa: haystacks?

Georgia: peach?

No decent suggestions for the others.

]]> By: Rich Keller http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138308 Rich Keller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138308 There's some aspic about this that just doesn't gel with me. But it looks like they left some wiggle room for interpretation. There’s some aspic about this that just doesn’t gel with me. But it looks like they left some wiggle room for interpretation.

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138345 EH Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138345 "...crafted by artisans who work exCLUsively in ze medium off Gummi." “…crafted by artisans who work exCLUsively in ze medium off Gummi.”

]]> By: jungletek http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1139655 jungletek Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1139655 Did Long Island crash into CT? Did Long Island crash into CT?

]]> By: sukaton http://boingboing.net/2011/06/14/the-achievements-of.html#comment-1138421 sukaton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1138421 Awesome work! Looks like they're really having fun & taking their medium to the extremes. A long, long time ago (2002?), in a galaxy not so far away (Hamburg, Germany), I worked as assistant for visual artist Michael Dörner, who made plenty of jelly-art back then. Have a look at the older works on http://michaeldoerner.de/installation.html Awesome work! Looks like they’re really having fun & taking their medium to the extremes.

A long, long time ago (2002?), in a galaxy not so far away (Hamburg, Germany), I worked as assistant for visual artist Michael Dörner, who made plenty of jelly-art back then. Have a look at the older works on http://michaeldoerner.de/installation.html

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