Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

The JELL-O brand history goes back almost 100 years, and there is even a JELL-O Museum Gallery in LeRoy, NY.

JELL-O (hyphenated, not jello moron!) first entered computer graphics in 1987 when Paul Heckbert was looking to stretch the rendering R & D being done on ray tracing. Ten years later Paul put me in touch with an ambitious sculptor, Daniel Wurtzel, who was designing large scale gelatin objects. Daniel had me try 3D renderings of his JELL-O mold ideas, but 2D Photoshop sketches turned out to be better concept renderings. His entire Gelatin Sculpture Proposal is online here at Media Spin.

Daniel tried fabricating the gelatin objects and was confronted with many physical challenges such as temperature, dust, mass versus surface tension. Having outgrown JELL-O kid’s stuff, Daniel has moved on to the phallic and militaristic symbolism with Rubber Bullets. This QuickTime movie shows a young lady in the gallery playfully interacting with the tall, glowing dildo totems. The Sharper Image had better stock up on these babies!

But hold on… JELL-O is no longer kids stuff! Adults once again have perverted a nice innocent dessert, with JELL-O WRESTLING! Sweet green slime! Gory red goop! The new dessert treat is a singles dating ritual in which partiers return to the primordial gelatinous ooze. I guess it’s a fun way to lick your opponent. Make JELL-O, not war.