Mona Lisa Made from 3,604 Cups of Coffee

By John Farrier in Art, Food & Drink on Feb 2, 2010 at 9:39 pm

Last year, organizers at the Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia, made an enormous image of the Mona Lisa using thousands of cups of coffee lightened with milk (to varying quantities) in order to create different shades:

The different colours were created by adding no, little or lots of milk to each cup of black coffee.

It measures an impressive 20 feet high and 13 feet wide and took a team of eight people three hours to complete.

Link via Digg | Photo: EpicFTW | Previously on Neatorama: Mona Lisa in Coffee (as a Paint)


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  1. Sarah Perez
    Feb 2nd, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    wow, what an epic waste of food. 564 pints of milk — I wonder how many starving children that would feed?

  2. Cola
    Feb 3rd, 2010 at 12:07 am

    Yeah! We should pretend that this could have reasonably been trucked to those starving kids and that there aren’t systemic solutions to things like hunger! Letting this spoil in the supermarket is vastly preferable to expressive applications!

    Art bad!

  3. Hublub
    Feb 3rd, 2010 at 3:58 am

    oh gee. another Mona. snixzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

  4. Necronomic Recovery
    Feb 3rd, 2010 at 7:26 am

    Cola FTW.

  5. Vic
    Feb 3rd, 2010 at 10:20 am

    8 people, 3 hours. Not impressed.

  6. Briannana
    Feb 3rd, 2010 at 10:30 am

    I love coffee! And I also love art! But I don’t like waste either. I would hope that the artist was smart enough to get the coffee from something that was already going to waste. While coffee joints try to be efficient, you’d be surprised by how much goes out the window.

  7. Folien
    Feb 3rd, 2010 at 11:02 am

    Wow, it´s fantastic. Ok, it´s waste on the other side. But if you imagine how many waste happens every day all over the world…

  8. John Farrier
    Feb 3rd, 2010 at 1:17 pm

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    Whoa — chill people. No cussing at people, no personal attacks. Keep it civil.

  9. ted
    Feb 6th, 2010 at 10:05 am

    It’s an excellent demonstration of how wasteful we are, not because of the coffee and milk, but the cups themselves. A brief pleasure, a lifetime of waste.


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