Jello Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
June 28, 2010 at 11:22 pm | Posted in JelloArtWork, Raspberry, Vanilla | 13 CommentsTags: Cooking, Dessert, Food, Gowanus Studio Space, Jell-O Mold Competition, Jello, Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, Photography
For my entry in the year’s Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition I made this jello and plastic replica of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. A striking piece of engineering and architecture located a mere 500 yards from my apartment. The facility has been a point of interest for me since moving in to my neighborhood and a frequent photographic subject. I used 1 liter bottles to mold the gelatin “digester eggs” flavored with raspberry and french vanilla and used food die to mimic the color of the eggs lit at night. Super bright LED lights were used to illuminate the jello from behind. I competed against many wonderful and creative entries and sadly did not win. However, since being inspired by the architectural jellos of Liz Hickock and Bompas and Parr, this is a project I’ve wanted to take on for a while and am very happy with the finished product. Congratulation to all the winners of the competition! 
Photos of the event will be posted on the GSS website this week, but in the meantime Eater covered the event and Gothamist gave me some love. I wasn’t able to be at the actual competition since I was out-of-town so a very special thank you to Starr and Art for representing me! And thank you to Marie for helping me construct the catwalks for the model.
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You will be pleased to know a woman who is on the Newtown Creek Monitoring Committee, the community group which (to some degree) oversees the Shit Tits, is very fond of your creation!
Comment by Miss Heather— June 28, 2010 #
Excellent!
Comment by Victoria Belanger— June 28, 2010 #
[...] image of our very own waste treatment plant comes courtesy of entropymedia and is dedicated to Victoria Belanger: the woman who should have been the grand prize winner of this year’s Jell-O Springs Eternal [...]
Pingback by From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Shit Tit « newyorkshitty.com— June 29, 2010 #
Like politics, all Jello is local, and the failure to acknowledge your wonderfully crafted tribute to the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant stains the credibility of the competition. All the same, I applaud the way you’ve graciously accepted the results and extended congratulations in the post above,
and I’m sure that future competitions will not be able to ignore your masterpieces much longer without losing the confidence of the Jello enthusiast masses. And we are legion. Stay gold, Jello Mold Mistress
Comment by Handel— June 29, 2010 #
Thank you Handel!
Comment by Victoria Belanger— June 29, 2010 #
You’ll also be pleased to know that Jello was invented (by Peter Cooper) at Newtown Creek. This forms a sort of virtuous circle.
- Mitch from newtownpentacle.com
Comment by Mitch Waxman— June 29, 2010 #
An attendee of last nights Newtown Creek Monitoring Committee meeting brought a printout of your fine work of art. The NCMC members and consultants were delighted. The NCMC liasion has already requested on NCMC’s behalf, that fine works of art, such as this jello mold creation of the digesters, take their place in the Newtown Creek Waterpollution Contol Plant visitors center. Let’s see what DEP says.
Your work get two thumbs up from this commmittee member.
Comment by Laura Hofmann— June 29, 2010 #
That would be amazing! Better than winning the competition. Thank you Laura!
Comment by Victoria Belanger— June 29, 2010 #
[...] am not going to lie to you: when I learned via Gothamist that Greenpoint’s (and Brooklyn’s) Jell-O Mistress, Victoria Belanger, did not win the grand prize at Gowanus Studio’s Space’s second annual Jell-O [...]
Pingback by New York Shitty Day Ender: Closure? « newyorkshitty.com— June 29, 2010 #
Amazing creation here! I love your blog.
Comment by Lori— July 19, 2010 #
Thanks Lori!
Comment by Victoria Belanger— July 20, 2010 #
Very Great Work
Thanks,
Albert.
Comment by albert vincent— October 29, 2010 #
[...] there are very few things which please yours truly more than seeing a fellow Greenpointer (and lover of the Shit Tits, as seen at left rendered in the aforementioned rubbery stuff) get recognition for his/her work. [...]
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