Is piemaking an art form? If you have any doubt, then peruse the Instagram feed of Karin Pfeiff-Boschek, in whose body of work that art has reached its zenith. By masterful control of pastry dough and sliced fruits, she creates superlative sculptures that belong in a museum and my belly.

We've all got to stay busy and creative, right? For some of us, that means baking bread and assembling jigsaw puzzles. For Farvardin Daliri of Townsville, Australia, that's not ambitious enough. His crafting project is a giant singing kookaburra bird model. It's 28 feet long and 15 feet tall.

Recently, Daliri has hauled the loud, singing bird around town to amuse his neighbors. They're no strangers to his work, as it's not his first giant animal sculpture project. ABC News reports:

"I started in Tasmania and then worked my way up to Townsville for the past 30 years, where I founded the Townsville Cultural Festival," he said.

He has created other sculptures over the years, including a giant koala.

"We've also made the Jolly Swagman, Slim Dusty and other icons ,but we decided as we need tourism after COVID-19 that I might as well build it in Brisbane and drive it up the coast," Dr Daliri said.

-via Marilyn Terrell | Photo: Farvardin Daliri

So my Dad made good use of his time in lockdown and built a huge laughing Kookaburra. pic.twitter.com/UGVC4dZsCL

— Rafaan (@RafaanDaliri) May 26, 2020

Since Father's Day is coming up very soon, it's worth mentioning that this fine piece of 1970s fashion is going up for bids. The Daily Record says that it's offered by the Elvis Presley Museum (I'm guessing that's Graceland). A fan made it for the King, who wore it until he "died" in 1977.

Slip it on and it's like soaking up the ambiance, masculinity, and aroma of Elvis. Ladies will be impressed with it, provided that it is visible. So be sure wear it on the outside of your clothes before heading out on the prowl.

-via Dave Barry | Photo: Paul Fraser Collectibles

Business Insider reports that the fast food chain Burger King has found a new purpose for its iconic paper crowns given to kids. By massively expanding their size, the crowns enforce social distancing rules. These are available at selected outlets in Germany.

The Italian division of Burger King is taking a very different but possibly more effective approach. Its "Social Distancing Whoppers" come with three times the normal amount of onions, thereby encouraging people to avoid the diner's toxic odor.

-via Design Boom | Photo: Burger King Germany

Isabel Green began her artistic journey by taking a class at the McDermott Glass Studio in Massachusetts. Now she's working there, studying and developing a traditional Scottish style of glass blowing. She makes little sculptures of sea animals, many of which she fills with miniature beach scenes, complete with sand and shells.

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Did you accidentally slosh coffee onto your desk? Don't worry about your important documents. Stefan Kuhnigk will spice up that brown splash mark with appropriate body parts for a mysterious creature. He calls the results Coffee Monsters.

Just pump the handle to mechanically open and close the seam in the center. Asaf Gitelis, a vice president in the Israeli company that invented it, told Reuters that this will change the mask-wearing experience in restaurants:

“Then you can eat, enjoy, drink and you take out the fork and it will be closed, and you’re protected against the virus and other people sitting with you.”

The company said it plans to start manufacturing the mask within months and had already submitted a patent. It said it would likely sell at a 3 to 10 shekel ($0.85 to $2.85) premium above the price of the simple pale blue medical masks many Israelis wear.

Restaurants in Israel are, at the moment, open only for takeout and delivery. This mask could change that limitation.

-via Design You Trust | Photo: Reuters

Try sitting in this chair without falling over. It's not that hard. Rasmus B. Rex designed it to look tilted, but it's quite stable. Appropriately, it's called 9.5°.

He explains that it makes the chair more stable, as the angle removes the need for a stabilizing rod. I'm not sure of the physics of that argument.

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Get it? It's a potato carved into the shape of a couch!

Eh, I guess my humor is more sophisticated that yours. I found it funny. So did Michael Barros when his fiance made the couch. It's cool as a cucumber:

Puns are the highest form of comedy.

Go ahead and take the stairs. The lights will guide you to your destination. Skurk, a street artist, used a pair of streetlights and a staircase to depict a huge anglerfish on the hunt in Bergen, Norway. She waits patiently for you to come to her.

By the way: I use the pronoun "her" for a reason. Only female anglerfish have the natural lure. Males of the species have a, um, flexible relationship. National Geographic explains:

When a young, free-swimming male angler encounters a female, he latches onto her with his sharp teeth. Over time, the male physically fuses with the female, connecting to her skin and bloodstream and losing his eyes and all his internal organs except the testes. A female will carry six or more males on her body.

We've all known guys like that.

-via TYWKWIDBI

Yes, this was a response to COVID-19, but it's a pretty good idea anyway, right? In addition to keeping bar patrons at least 6 feet apart, it also provides a measure of safety to intoxicated people moving around. The New York Post reports that, Fish Tales, a bar in Ocean City, Maryland, thinks that these tables will allow it to open to more than just takeout customers.

-via Dave Barry

Search Google Shopping for office chair. The first search result is for Wayfair's Seat of Death Grim Reaper Throne Armchair. It's perfect for modern office design, especially for cubicle drones who aspire to rise into management.

It's plastic, so not an actual throne of skulls. That's what you get once you're actually in management, not before. And you have to build it yourself.

If this style doesn't match your own, then continue browsing Google Shopping until you get to this object. I can well imagine the snickering designer trying to sell the design to a furniture company as a practical joke.

-via Super Punch

Art show producer Svetlana Dvoretsky had planned to make her immersive Van Gogh exhibit a walk-through experience through massive digital projections. Then the pandemic came. Now she and her colleagues making it available to the people of Toronto from the safety of their cars. The project is called "Gogh by Car." The CBC describes it:

Art lovers will drive into the 4,000 square foot downtown industrial space and will stay inside their vehicles. It's quite a change from the original concept, which permitted 700 people to walk inside the space at a time.

The drive-in, the first of its kind in a post-pandemic era, will allow 14 vehicles per time slot. Visitors will park, turn off their engines and watch a 35-minute show while remaining inside their cars.

The exhibit opens on June 18.

-via Marginal Revolution | Image: Gogh by Car

Last week Filipino journalist Doris Bigornia tried to conduct a live TV interview from her home. She was distracted when her two kitties began brawling in the background. She appears to say in Tagalog, "Children! There are rules in the studio!" They don't care. They want to become internet famous.

-via Althouse

Looking at Yatzil Elizalde's tattoos can be disorienting. This Mexican artist layers duplicate images on each other, creating a dizzying result. She tells My Modern Met that she sometimes feels that way when she inks them:

I go crazy just thinking that when starting to follow a line, it is almost impossible to get to the end without ending up dizzy along the way.

Only a portion of Elizalde's work uses this visual effect, but almost all of it uses precise, black and white dots and lines, which you can view on her Instagram page.