Giant sculpture of woman made from peaches

"Ella" is a 12-meter-long sculpture made from peaches, as part of a promotional campaign for an Australian skin care product company. The site has a video about its design and construction. Link

[#1 posted by BWJones , February 8, 2008 9:47 AM]

Ain't that a peach? ;-)

[#2 posted by Jai , February 8, 2008 9:51 AM]

Holy peaches, Batman!

[#3 posted by sonny p fontaine , February 8, 2008 10:02 AM]

peach bottom

[#4 posted by mr_josh , February 8, 2008 10:05 AM]

Really love your peaches, wanna' shake your tree?

But seriously, art for corporations' sake seems even worse when it's a waste of perfectly good food.

[#5 posted by RyanH , February 8, 2008 10:18 AM]

I don't know. I kind of have to applaud anyone, corporate or not, who sits down at a meeting and says "you know what would be a really keen idea? Let's make a giant woman out of peaches".

[#6 posted by Hans , February 8, 2008 10:25 AM]

I, for one, welcome our new peach overlords.

[#7 posted by arkizzle , February 8, 2008 10:33 AM]

hmm, i saw the picture and immediately imagined a sculptor commissioned to actually build this thing, peach by peach, with some rebar and chicken-wire. "interesting to see the making of" i thought.

then on the website they describe it as a "Major Artistic Endeavour", so it sounded promising.

i was kind of disappointed when i watched it and saw they 3d-modelled the woman and sent the mesh to a foam-fab and just stuck a ton of peaches to the resulting structure..

so its not really "made" of peaches, is it?

meh, maybe i expect too much.

[#8 posted by StyleSwag , February 8, 2008 10:33 AM]

This is one of those strangely repulsive yet I can't look away moments. I also agree with Mr. Josh about wasting food. It would have worked fine with a zillion Spalding balls.

[#9 posted by tallpat , February 8, 2008 10:48 AM]

"Skin good enough to eat"? What are they promoting cannibalism?

[#10 posted by Antinous , February 8, 2008 10:49 AM]

I also agree with Mr. Josh about wasting food. It would have worked fine with a zillion Spalding balls.

So three tons of non-biodegradable, neon colored, fur covered, plastic balls are better than three tons of compostable peaches?

[#11 posted by dagfooyo , February 8, 2008 10:50 AM]

I hope they preserved the peaches somehow -- otherwise this is going to be the world's most disgusting sculpture in about a week.

[#12 posted by Anonymous , February 8, 2008 11:30 AM]

Reminds me of the the movie "Altered States" when john hurt goes through the the ceremony and sees his wife turn to dust before him, to close in my book

Laurence

[#13 posted by BSUWG , February 8, 2008 11:45 AM]

Ironically, that picture makes me feel all soft, warm, & fuzzy.

[#14 posted by temp , February 8, 2008 11:46 AM]

oddly reminiscent of this adicolor thing from a year ago: "pink"

[#15 posted by Jamie Sue , February 8, 2008 1:14 PM]

Antinous:
I agree. More peaches are wasted on the floors of caneries and in the fields than are in that sculpture... at least it is partly biodegradable.

[#16 posted by Jinglefritz , February 8, 2008 1:48 PM]

"It would have worked fine with a zillion Spalding balls."

Of course if you were promoting a skin care product for women that let's just say smelled like Oh I dunno, peaches?...

"Ella Bache - Smells like Balls!" - Not really the message they were looking to send, I guess.

[#17 posted by mr_josh , February 8, 2008 1:48 PM]

So three tons of non-biodegradable, neon colored, fur covered, plastic balls are better than three tons of compostable peaches?

Well, you can put those back in cans and use them later, for making wannabe art installations for other companies.

[#18 posted by arkizzle , February 8, 2008 3:00 PM]

#15 "Smells like Balls"

quality.

[#19 posted by Vitor Freitas , February 18, 2008 3:46 AM]

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http://vitorfreitas.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/mulher-de-pessego/