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Consider The Lobster Motorcycle
What do you get when you cross a crustacean with a crotch-rocket? No, this isn't the set up for a bad joke. It's actually a thing, thanks to Taiwanese artist Huang Mingbo, who created this amazing mini-motorcycle out of lobster shells. The sculpture came into being after Mingbo finished polishing off lobster at a seminar on cooking in Fuzhou, China. He wondered what he could do with the brightly colored shell, and thus, the lobster motorcycle was born.
It's too small to take for a ride, but we love the idea of turning food trash into art. In a way, it's kind of like what the bottom-dwelling creatures do—except instead of art, they turn seafloor garbage into delicious, delicious flesh.
Just don't show this to Sebastian.
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Tags: What We're Reading, Food Republic, Food as Art, Edible Art, Lobsters, Seafood
Katy K
I'm a writer/editor based out of Somerville, Massachusetts. In addition to blogging for Food 52, I also work as the community manager of MSN's Postbox Boston and as the editor of Milkshake.com. I'm obsessed with food, art and anything that combines the two. My favorite recipes are simple and fresh (like beet salad with arugula and goat cheese). When I'm not working or cooking, I can be found on my hands and knees in the backyard, trying to coax carrots out of the dirt.
Comments (2)
11 months ago Katy K
It's one of my favorite collections, too! I adore David Foster Wallace—especially his sharp, witty, fascinating essays
11 months ago kenzi
Kenzi is an Assistant Editor of Food52.
Great title - if it is, indeed, a riff on one of my favorite collections of essays, ever.