Tuesday 1 May 2012

So who's the cheesiest candidate ? Boris Johnson or Ken Livingstone ?!

And the correct answer is ... both of them !! I have to admit, this made me chuckle !

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Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone have been created out of Mini Babybel cheese by miniature artist Aidan Campbell who has a rather unusual love for the cheese! Aidan contacted Babybel earlier this month to say he had carved the two into cheeses after he was inspired by the brand’s ‘Get Creative’ campaign launched earlier this year: http://www.babybel.co.uk/news.html
 
Aidan decided to create the two politicians in time for the Mayoral elections on Thursday!

Each cheese took approximately six hours to create. Aidan worked his way through over 50 cheeses to achieve the perfect likeness of Boris and Ken and he spent a total of 77 hours on the Boris and Ken (and rejected) cheeses until he felt he reached the final product !

Carving the cheese was more challenging than first thought – typing in boxing gloves comes to mind! The tools of the trade to create the Mini Babybel artworks are nothing more than a surgeon’s scalpel and an old needle in a bent bit of wood for a handle, heated in a candle flame if needed to melt, blend and re-adhere more small bits of wax to correct mistakes

Holding the Mini Babybel cheeses for more than about ten minutes generated enough heat to soften the wax, so it was repeated stints in and out of the fridge working on three cheeses at a time, one in hand and two in the fridge

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Go on, you know you're just dying to have a go yourself now ! I bet he has the most impressive pumpkins in his neighbourhood for Halloween !

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