FIRE and ICING Cakes, Cookies, Confections
©James and The Giant...Octopus? by FIRE and ICING Cakes, Cookies, Confections
Walt Disney Family Museum
Sept. 28, 2012
Celebrating Stop Motion Animation in America
James and The Giant...Octopus?
I was invited by the Walt Disney Museum in San Francisco to create a display piece for the celebration of their newest exhibit opening, Stop Motion Animation in America. One of the first stop motion films that I remember as a child, and one of the most memorable, was a movie made in 1955 called "It Came From Beneath The Sea", a film about a giant radioactive octopus that wreaks havoc on San Francisco and demolishes the famous Ferry Building with its giant, monster-like tentacles. But Gumby and Pokey were two of my all-time favorite characters as a little boy, as well as James and The Giant Peach.
The question was, "how to combine a giant radioactive octopus with Gumby and Pokey and an oversized peach?" Simple! Build an enormous cake in the shape of a peach being attacked by said octopus with Gumby, Pokey and James standing by as gleeful participants!
These animated films have been an enormous influence on me since I was a kid, and to be asked to create something for the exhibit was an absolute honor. Tom Hanks and George Lucas got to see the cake but didn't get to taste it. Maybe next time, boys!
Wishing you much tentacled peachiness,
F&I
©James and The Giant...Octopus? by FIRE and ICING Cakes, Cookies, Confections
Walt Disney Family Museum
Sept. 28, 2012
Celebrating Stop Motion Animation in America
James and The Giant...Octopus?
I was invited by the Walt Disney Museum in San Francisco to create a display piece for the celebration of their newest exhibit opening, Stop Motion Animation in America. One of the first stop motion films that I remember as a child, and one of the most memorable, was a movie made in 1955 called "It Came From Beneath The Sea", a film about a giant radioactive octopus that wreaks havoc on San Francisco and demolishes the famous Ferry Building with its giant, monster-like tentacles. But Gumby and Pokey were two of my all-time favorite characters as a little boy, as well as James and The Giant Peach.
The question was, "how to combine a giant radioactive octopus with Gumby and Pokey and an oversized peach?" Simple! Build an enormous cake in the shape of a peach being attacked by said octopus with Gumby, Pokey and James standing by as gleeful participants!
These animated films have been an enormous influence on me since I was a kid, and to be asked to create something for the exhibit was an absolute honor. Tom Hanks and George Lucas got to see the cake but didn't get to taste it. Maybe next time, boys!
Wishing you much tentacled peachiness,
F&I