How would you "cook" spaghetti with tomato sauce using nonfood ingredients? Amazing stop-motion artist Pes (Adam Pesapane) shows us how in his short film Western Spaghetti, which uses inedible items, including Rubik's cube "garlic," pick-up sticks "spaghetti," and Post-it note "butter." Watch the video after the jump.
Good morning, serious eaters! For your pixelated breakfast this morning, we bring you this batch of animated muffin films, which is truly bizarre and strangely compelling. From muffin-alien invaders to peer-pressure-wielding muffins, this even dozen of shorts makes for a nice diversion before you really get down to the day's work at hand.
Watching this short gumdrops-centric stop motion film by filmmaker/musician Skizz Cyzyk makes me want to eat a big bucket of candy. (And be sure your sound is on; the music is also great.)
Watch the choreographed candy, after the jump.
In his stop-animation film Food Fight, motion graphics designer Stefan Nadelman portrays major wars around the world by battling the foods of the conflicting countries against one another. Boing Boing tv edited the film to include the names of the wars being depicted, helpful for those of us who forgot what we learned in history class.
Watch the gory intercontinental food fight after the jump.
British DJ Mr. Scruff must really like pie. Why else would he have made a music video portraying a city of potato-shaped people making pies and carrying them around like the hottest new accessory? Even the animals and robots love pie.
Watch this animated world of pie excess after the jump.
The blockbuster movie Gladiator was, you know, not bad, but it was missing that special something: anthropomorphic produce. If watching fruits and vegetables getting sliced and quartered disturbs you, you may want to look away. But I have a feeling you've seen it before.
Watch all the carnage in three parts after the jump.
Moyashimon is a Japanese anime series about Tadayasu Sawaki, a first-year college student at an agricultural university who is blessed (or cursed) with the gift of being able to communicate with microbes. Naturally, these microbes are small, cuddly, bouncy, fat creatures with emotive faces and squeaky childlike voices.
At the end of every episode the microbes star in their own "Microbe Theater" segment. After the jump, check out Episode 5, which features the microbes that ferment alcohol. [Thanks to Gordon Mark for the heads up!]
The opening to Japanese anime series Honey and Clover has little to do with the plot of the series (a group of art students figuring out what to do with their lives), but it features food being arranged and animated in creative ways as a homage to stop-motion animator Jan Švankmajer. After watching the Honey and Clover intro, check out Švankmajer's surreal films. [Thanks to John for the heads up.]
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