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May. 19th, 2012 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anteros_lmcIs it April the 1st again? I think it must be because the bbc have just reported that as part of the Museums at Night cultural festival the SS Great Britain is going to be floated on a sea of 55,000 litres of lime green jelly. WTF?!
According to the bbc:
Wonder what Brunel would make of it?!! I think the thing that amuses me most about this is the fact that the artists describe themselves as jellymongers XD
According to the bbc:
A spokesman for the tourist attraction said the jellymongers' work would make a "stunning" piece of modern art.
Artist Harry Parr, from jellymongers Bompas and Parr, said the mixture used sodium alginate derived from seaweed, industrial dye and a lime flavouring.
"It smells incredible, we're setting the ship afloat on a sea of lime green jelly," he said.
"I've never done anything like this before... the team's going to push the jelly around the boat which will take about six hours.
"It will look beautiful during the day with its fluorescent green glow but as the light falls later it will be lit from below and will be really spectacular."
Wonder what Brunel would make of it?!! I think the thing that amuses me most about this is the fact that the artists describe themselves as jellymongers XD
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Date: 2012-05-19 09:57 am (UTC)It would be pretty at night, with lights underneath.
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Date: 2012-05-19 02:25 pm (UTC)I was a little confuzzled by the whole jelly/jello thing. That is Jello. Jelly is clear fruit spread for toast. (At least to me.) And I am not quite sure what gets thrown in the rivers of Illinois.
Floating a ship in jelly would be-- well it would be really sticky!
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Date: 2012-05-20 09:47 am (UTC)What ever the case, the one thing we an be sure of is that Hornblower does not like blackcurrent jam!
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Date: 2012-05-20 09:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-19 01:36 pm (UTC)I saw a tiny clip of this on tv earlier but couldn't hear what they were saying. Thanks for easing my curiosity.
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Date: 2012-05-20 09:49 am (UTC)I wonder if there is a Worshipful Guild of Jellymongers?
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Date: 2012-05-20 10:13 am (UTC)The honour is yours ma'am!
Do you think we could devise a small detonation in one quarter of the arms, flames and icing shrapnel proper, of course?
Definitely! Get your crayons out! :)
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Date: 2012-05-19 06:00 pm (UTC)Eee... nice colour? Not that I ever expected to see it under a ship... *g* Now I'm waiting for the first seagull stucked in it, and the heroic rescue action. Is it supposed to have something to do with Limeys, or what?
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Date: 2012-05-20 09:36 am (UTC)Yeah, that was pretty much my response!
Now I'm waiting for the first seagull stucked in it
Eeew! Sticky!
Is it supposed to have something to do with Limeys, or what?
I suspect that is far too intelligent a response to this particular "artwork" XD
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Date: 2012-05-19 06:26 pm (UTC)Does this mean we now have to be on the watch for shark-infested jelly as well as shark-infested custard?
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Date: 2012-05-20 09:32 am (UTC)I'd definitely be wary of sharks in that jelly! Wonder if there's a great white whale lurking in there too?
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Date: 2012-05-19 08:09 pm (UTC)That's a relief. *grin*
Do you think there will be Swedish fish and gummy sharks swimming around the ship?
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Date: 2012-05-20 09:31 am (UTC)Do you think there will be Swedish fish and gummy sharks swimming around the ship?
Hehe! I had to google Swedish fish! We don't get them here.
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Date: 2012-05-20 05:57 am (UTC)Well, at least the ship lovely.
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Date: 2012-05-20 08:23 am (UTC)Would love to see, definately. I love those old steam vessels that are still fully functionable sailing ships as well, whatever they're properly called.
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Date: 2012-05-20 09:54 am (UTC)I've been to Bristol many times but I've never seen the Great Britain. I don't know if she's seaworthy. She's normally preserved in drydock, or I suppose jellydock at the moment! XD
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Date: 2012-05-20 11:25 am (UTC)http://www.jellymongers.co.uk/
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Date: 2012-05-20 12:10 pm (UTC)this does look fun but I did imagine trying to explain its purpose to g-g- g-grandad William and - well, beyond
Um - er- um
I could not get very far !
She is not seaworthy alas - she was rescued from the Falklands where she had ended up as a hulk which was then towed the length of the Atlantic on a raft and then restored painstakingly. She sits in her own permanent dry dock in Bristol and, just outside normally, in the dock basin sits her companion the sea- going Matthew the replica of Cabot's ship which sailed to Newfoundland in 1497 and whose pilot was 12 generations back from William [and 16 from me ]James George Ray. He is commemorated by a memorial which one of these days I will post about properly !
The little Matthew is often away filming or starring in sail feativals but they make a lovely contrasting pair when they are together.
jellymongers - wonders will never cease
next the Victory in Red white adn blue fondant icing ?
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Date: 2012-05-22 09:38 pm (UTC)Why? Did he not like jelly? ;)
next the Victory in Red white adn blue fondant icing ?
I bet it's already been done! Nothing would surprise me...