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The chocolate room is 17-square-metres in size Hotel
Lithuanian shoppers on Monday had a sweet Valentine's Day visual treat in the form of an entire chocolate room, but will have to wait to actually taste a piece of the walls and decor, organisers said.
"We wanted to create something special for Valentine's Day. The chocolate room looks just like a traditional Lithuanian sitting-room," Frederikas Jansonas, spokesman for the Akropolis shopping mall in the capital Vilnius, told AFP.
The 17-square-metre (183-square-foot) room is made of chocolate from floor to ceiling, and also contains chocolate furniture and interior decorations such as candlesticks, pictures and books.
Seven artists used 300 kilogrammes (661 pounds) of chocolate to create it.
"Everybody who sees a full-size chocolate room will have no doubt. It's the best place for a romantic Valentine's Day dinner," sculptor Mindaugas Tendziagolskis said in a statement.
For now, however, the curious can only look, not touch or taste.
The room will be on view until March 8 -- International Women's Day -- when it will be broken up and the chocolate distributed to visitors, Jansonas said.
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Patrick Roger, one of the most talented chocolatiers in France, has created a ten-meter-high chocolate Christmas Tree, to raise money for charity.
Roger and his team have worked on the giant chocolate Christmas tree for an entire month, in the Patrick Roger chocolate factory, on the outskirts of Paris. According to the chocolate artist, building something like this is quite a challenge, and they had to come up with a sort of interior cavity, to make the tree strong enough against the significant vertical pressure.
The chocolate Christmas tree is made out of one ton of chocolate, which is the equivalent of around 800,000 regular-sized chocolate bars. And while it acts as proof of Patrick Roger’s talent as a chocolatier, there is some real Christmas spirit behind this tasty work of art. The chocolate Christmas tree will be showcased during France’s Telethon, a charity event that aims to raise money for the treatment of neuromuscular diseases. People who call and make donations will receive a piece of Patrick Roger’s Christmas tree.
A Chocolate Train made of chocolate bars and teatime biscuits hurtling along tracks of Kit Kats.
This is the Chocolate Express, a 1.8m (6ft) sculpture being unveiled today at St Pancras International by artist Carl Warner to launch his book, Carl Warner’s Food Landscapes (Abrams, £15.99).
The 47-year-old, based in London, took ten days to build the train, which also involved chocolate rolls, Crunchies, Dime Bars and Wagon Wheels.
Worlds Tallest Sand Sculpture Officials from the Guinness World Records can be seen measuring the height of a sand sculptures in Zhoushan city in east China’s Zhejiang featuring a Nigerian tale on how a hummingbird become the king of all animals.
The 22.43-meter-tall sculpture was recognized to be the world’s tallest sand sculpture. Over 20 artists spent 75 days building it.
The former record holding sculpture was 20.91 meters tall.
The sand sculpture festival has attracted talents from home and abroad to create scenes on the theme of a trip to Africa.
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Nathan Wyburn A Welsh artist has created a series of portrait of celebrities using jam and marmite with toast as canvas.
Nathan Wyburn from Ebbw Vale created his tasty collection based on celebrities Britain's would most like to have breakfast with.
The unique works of art, which include X Factor host Cheryl Cole and football hero David Beckham, are on show at Costa Coffee's new store in Towcester.
The toast was applied to boards and from a crib sheet for each celebrity Nathan used Marmite to create the artwork.
In the end celebrities included David Beckham, Cheryl Cole and Stephen Fry on the right hand side with Alan Carr and Rowan Atkinson featuring on the left.
The artwork marked not only the opening of the new Towcester store but also the nationwide launch of the new breakfast menu.
Nathan worked away one slice at a time and seemed quite happy with all the press attention that he was getting.
The artwork will no doubt further confound people on how to pronounce Towcester, or perhaps it will help. Toaster.
The new Costa Coffee opened last week and is open 7 am to 6 pm Monday to Saturday and 10 am to 5 pm on Sundays.
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True Love Stories Disabled Couple - She has no legs, he has no arms. But they are happy together and live a usual life of people who love each other. The man does everything around the house using his legs.
Amazing Desk Made From Recycled Books at Delft University - The new architecture library at Delft University of Technology just opened featuring a spectacular front desk built out of recycled books. After the devastating fire in the Architecture building that took a portion of the library's reserve, the school set out to establish a new collection that would consist of the salvaged books that went unburned and a bounty of others newly purchased to replace the destroyed volumes. Opened less than a year after the engulfing inferno, the new library is a bright, cheery space of architecturally inspired elements and stacked to the brim with an endless amount of books!
The colorful and carefully arranged desk is a testament to the school’s love for design and books. The strong, solid corners give the desk a solid foundation and the pattern has been arranged so that in some instances the spines of the books are turned out to reveal the title. Recycled books, journals and magazines were used to construct the desk, which was then topped with glass to provide durability and stability.
After such a devastating loss with the destruction of the original Bowkunde building, for the Faculty of Architecture and their students, the opening of this modern, bright and fun space to study and convene was a much needed breath of fresh air. The new library includes collaborative study areas, computer stations, cozy seating, and above all, an entire collection of architecture books making it the ideal haven for architecture students and staff to escape.
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An artist has recreated scenes from some of his favourite movies in stunning detail - using nothing more than brown parcel tape.
At first glance it appears they could've been made using state-of-the art computer software but this 'Tape Art' is created by layering strips of ordinary brown tape on to a light box.
The box is then illuminated to reveal the picture in all its splendour.
Scenes from classic films including Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers '39 Steps' and 'Spellbound' have been recreated in such detail they almost look as if they could be the original film strip.
Artist Mark Khaisman said using tape in this way was just another way of painting.
The 51-year-old said: "The work is made from layer upon layer of translucent packing tape, applied to clear Plexiglas and placed in front of a light box to give the image shadow and depth.
'I see my tape art as a form of painting.' says Ukrainian born Mark Khaisman. He studied art and architecture in Moscow, and now lives and works in Philadelphia USA where he creates his striking Tapeworks canvases
He previously worked on stained-glass windows before taking up the more unusual medium of parcel tape.
But, despite seeming to be very different types of art, Mr Khaisman said they were both examples of what he calls 'painting with light'.
The idea for tape art actually came from his 51 year old wife Elena, an art teacher, who had been teaching her pupils how to create pictures with masking tape.
He said: 'About five to six years ago I was thinking about other ways of painting with light.''My wife was doing an art project with kids using colour masking tape and that gave me an idea.'
'I tried to use translucent packing tape on backlit material assuming that it might work, and it did.'
'My art is a conversation with light, I started it like a traditional stained-glass artist, but with tape.' Mr Khaisman uses around three rolls of 100 metre packing tape and takes up to a week to create just one extraordinary picture.
Different shades are created by building up the thickness of the tape, the darkest sections of the pictures can require up to 10 layers of tape.
Incredibly, Mr Khaisman doesn't sketch out the image first but, instead, works directly onto the light boxes, using photos and film stills as a reference.
He said: "I chose scenes from my favourite films, I particularly enjoy Hitchcock's work.
'I use photographs, I start by blowing them up to actual size to get proportions right and then I simply build the image.'
Mark's original tape works, which are about four feet in height, are being snapped up for as much as £6,000.
Mr Khaisman said he had been inundated with emails from all sorts of people intrigued by his work.
He said: 'I get a lot of of "wows" from people and even once got an email which simply read 'You sir are one hell of an artist...thanks for doing what you do.'
