experimenting with mushrooms

I purchased materials such as green and red food colouring, royal icing, cocktail sticks, button mushrooms and writing icing for my initial experimentation. 

1st experiment! 

I used red and green food colouring and painted straight onto the mushrooms to try and keep it looking exactly like a mushroom, but to add a surreal, vibrancy to it. Sadly this experiment did now work out well, as the food colouring sucked the life out of the mushroom and they went very wrinkly within a few hours. so they would not be suitable to sit in an installation for a few days. 

Proposal!

Willy Wonka!

I have a strong idea in my head of what I would like to do for this project, and I decided to look at Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory for part of my film research. 
While watching this film I mainly picked up on the Inventions and products of Willy Wonka that make it so special. 


Inventions / Products

• Scrumdiddilyumptious chocolate bar
• Everlasting gobstopper
• Lickable wallpaper
• The chocolate room - everything is edible inside 
• Cup/flower/ drink... edible 
• Chocolate river and waterfall - mixes the chocolate 
• Exploding candy for your enemies
• 3 course meal chewing gum - tomato soup / roast beef and a baked potato / blueberry pie and cream
• fizzy lifting drinks - fills you full of gas so you can float
• Golden chocolate eggs - made my giant geese
• Wonka-Vision, can send a chocolate bar through television! 

JAFFACAKE LICKABLE WALLPAPER!!

Now, THIS would make Willy Wonka proud! Mischief PR agency and McVitie's have worked together to create the worlds first lickable wallpaper that is made of 1325 jaffacakes! 
It is currently installed in an office buildings elevator - but want to install it in more locations! (although, you might want to lick it first... no idea who would have licked it before you!)

'Joyville' comes to the BullRing!

'Joyville' visited the bullring in Birmingham, it was a giant chocolate fountain, and although it wasn't actually chocolate to eat, it still smelt like chocolate. So as soon as you entered the bullring you could smell it. people came flocking to see what it was. It was very Willy Wonka, such as occasionally the workers played the piano and danced with the general public, if you queued up you got a photo infront of the fountain and a free cup of melted chocolate! 

X-SCAPE - North Yorkshire

In X-SCAPE in North Yorkshire, from the outside it looks like a large shopping centre, but on the inside your in for an adventure. 

They have CLIMBZONE - a huge indoor climbing wall 

LASERZONE - a huge laser quest game

SKYRIDE - a vertical climb where you dangle 15m above the main entrance of the shopping centre

FLOWHOUSE - an indoor surfing room!

SNO!ZONE - 'home of UK snow' a 170m long main slope covered with over 1700 tonnes of fresh show, with 2 ski lifts. 

XSCAPE bars and clubs

An abundance of restaurants - nandos/chiquito/subway/TGI fridays/pizza express and many many more

Shops - all outdoorsy places that sell clothing and accessories for the more outgoing type. 

Beamish - 'The living museum of the North'

In Beamish museum most of the houses, shops and other buildings you see are not new houses made to look like victorian, edwardian and georgian buildings, no. they are buildings from their period, partly taken apart and and taken to the museum and rebuilt. 
Each area of the Museum tells the story of Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian living. You can see how life in North East England changed over 100 years, from a Georgian Agricultural lifestyle to the Industrial Revolution.

There are vintage trams and buses, there are volunteers at Beamish who walk around in clothes from the period. It's not called 'the living museum' for no reason!