Better than a storm in a teacup...

[vilakins]

... is a galaxy in a coffee cup! (And don't you like the Greek play on words?)

I got one when I stirred my weekend morning cappuccino a few weeks ago and I've been hoping to get another one ever since. And today I did.


It's rather a dark picture because the cup was sitting on my graphics tablet and I was too lazy to move it.

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Pretty. :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think it actually looked better in RL.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Cool! I googled 'cappuchino art' and found *stencils* for people to use on their cappuchino. :^)

http://www.u4coffee.co.uk/access.htm

And more neat links!
Cappuchino foam artist
http://www.vancouvercoffee.ca/archives/2006/11/sammy-lin-coffee-art.html

Art with Coffee as the medium!
http://www.nosuchanimal.net/coffee.htm

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I love the second link as I prefer mine without cinnamon or cocoa or whatever on top. I do know how to make a fern leaf which is common here in cafes: move the cup from side to side so you have zigzags, then run a knife or spoon through the middle.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I think it's great that people who play with their food are now called artists. :^)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-D I used to form my mashed potato into a volcano with beetroot juice lava and fleeing peas. My parents didn't consider it terribly artistic though.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Mashed potato has never been just food for me either, since watching "Close Encounters"

I've also done the classic smiley face with burger, a chip and peas or beans. The funniest bit was making it scream as it got ate!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the Mork and Mindy scene where Mork makes the burger beg not to be eaten as he eats it.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

You mean, not everyone makes their mashed potatoes into volcanoes??? What else are they FOR?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Hey, I love mashed spud! You can colour it interestingly too: pink with beetroot juice, or any colour with food dye. Not many people will eat blue food though.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

You need a blue holiday in order to serve blue food.

[kerravonsen]

That sounds like fun! I think the next time I have mashed potato and gravy I will do that.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You can make a cool volcano at the beach too. Form a cone with sand, make a hole in the top joining up with a smaller one to the side, put some paper in, and light it. I used to do that as a kid, but I doubt they'd let you now.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

We always had sausages with mash in my young days, I used to make hedgehogs with very thick spines.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

See, we were all budding artists!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Until the grown ups moved the goalposts and art became something we saw in museums not the lovely things we created. The world has turned full circle some of my art way back then could have won the Turner prize today%D.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

... is a galaxy in a coffee cup!
Love it!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was a huge space monster and drank it all. :-P

[san-valentine.livejournal.com]

Ooo, pretty spiral galaxy - my favourite.

Hey, maybe I should write to Nestle (or whoever it is), and suggest they make their Galaxy chocolate bars in the form of a spiral galaxy. They could do one marbled with white chocolate, perhaps.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's my favourite kind too. That's why I live in one.

Do it! Swirly galactic goodness!

[jecono.livejournal.com]

Very pretty! I love milk foam. Unfortunately I don't like coffee... but hot chocolate comes close! :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've served hot chocolate with foamed milk on top like that for people who don't drink coffee. :-)

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised they never used that as a special effect on Blake's 7.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

You mean they didn't do that and shoot it through a red filter to get "Swirly space anomaly"?

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Heeee it looks great! I don't take milk in my coffee, but I might have to try this next time I have tea! XD

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

!!! You'd put hot foamed milk in your tea?

And I'm the other way round: I drink my tea black.

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, no. I just use regular soy milk. I guess it wouldn't work?

I am a coffee drinker by nature. I only recently started drinking tea. Ahahaaa.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I foam soy milk! You could try it in hot chocolate. [shudders at the ides of it in tea though]

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

I rarely drink hot chocolate, but we'll see. XDXD

NO GALAXIES FOR ME

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

I like the galaxy effect but coffee doesn't like me!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Foamed milk on hot chocolate? I've served that to visitors who don't like coffee. :-)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Hot chocolate MAKES me thirsty. No sorry, I have to be quintessentially British and insist on tea.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I drink more tea than coffee. Black tea is the best thirst-quencher and healthy too. :-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Cosmic!

When I was a kid, we had a big round swimming pool that always had leaves in it, and I used to swim around setting up circular currents so the leaves would make swirly galaxy patterns in the water.

[kerravonsen]

Oh yes. I remember times when we swam in a round swimming pool, and we would make a concerted effort to set a spinning current going by all walk-wading in the same direction. We got it quite strong sometimes. That was cool.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I wonder whose coffee cup we are all microscopic specks in.