29-10-2009 - 3604 coffees for the Mona Lisa
| More than 130,000 visitors to The Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, an annual coffee event, admired this spectacular reconstruction of the Mona Lisa made out of 3,604 coffee cups and 564 pints of milk (about 320 litres). The result is a Mona Lisa about 7 metres high and 4 and a half metres long, with different hues created by adding more or less milk to the cups. The event's organisers were happy with the result: “The idea was to create an image out of coffee cups, and we opted for the most famous image in history. The Mona Lisa has been reproduced so many times and in so many different ways, but never out of coffee, as far as we know.” |
 Picture: Gilles Gravier on Flickr |
Here is a video of the organisers’ process of creation, which took about three hours:
