Autor: CCAA Pelotas | Publicado: 2011-08-03T16:17:00-03:00

Supermarket Super Mario
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(images via: ChinaSMACK and Oddity Central)

As many supermarket employees are school-age teens working part time  for video game money, constructions like this awesome Super Mario  display isn’t much of a surprise – the care and craftsmanship IS,  however. The builders have obviously noted how the use of colorful,  blocky soda cases adds a distinct 8-bit vibe to their Mario masterpiece.  Considering the subject, this is definitely a plus.

Here’s a short tribute video highlighting one of the many Super Mario soda can montages:
Super Pepsi Mario, via Raiian
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(image via: Lost At E Minor)
As mentioned, building a Super Mario themed soda can display is  something that’s been done more than a few times in more than a few  supermarkets. One assumes the builders of these 8-bit wonders of the  world got the boss’s approval beforehand… if not, it could be Game Over.
Haibao’s Got Sole&nbsp;
(image via: ChinaSMACK)
Meet Haibao, the Gumby-esque cartoon mascot for the 2010 Shanghai  World Expo. Haibao isn’t all that complex of a character but you still  have to give the anonymous employees of a Chinese supermarket mad props for constructing this larger than life homage… from plastic sandals!

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(image via: Premalanay)
The trio of creations above also come from China where such open and  obvious creativity is somewhat unexpected – unless the subjects espoused  socialist revolutionary themes. We’re not sure what the local communist  party bigwigs think but WE think we’ll call them “can-droids”.
Under Canstruction&nbsp;
(images via: Arts World Financial Center and Gothamist)
Bring together 25 teams of architects and around 100,000 full cans of  food at the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York City, and  you’ve got the recipe for the 18th annual Canstruction© competition that ran from November 11th through 22nd.

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(image via: Oddity Central)
Not to worry, none of the cans (nor the food within them) is wasted.  After the show closed November 22nd, food cans used in the displays are  donated to City Harvest and distributed to city food banks and other  programs providing meals for down &amp; out New Yorkers.
Too Early To Can The Coach?&nbsp;
(image via: Wikipedia)
Fans of the Fighting Irish have some unusual ways of supporting their team; new coach Brian Kelly  in this case. Actually in a few dozen cases… of Pepsi! The display at  Martin’s Supermarket in Granger, Indiana, was set up in August of 2010,  shortly before Kelly’s first appearance coaching Notre Dame on their  home turf.
Makin’ The Scene&nbsp;
(images via: Societus Technica – KCC)
Scene Magazine and the Food Bank of South Central Michigan sponsor an  annual competition for the best canned and packaged food sculptures,  with all funds raised (plus all food used) going to the local Food Bank.  Perennial competitors Kellogg Community College – appropriate name,  that – have been topping themselves since 1997. Their most recent effort  was a a scale replica of the Willis/Sears Tower measuring 30.5 square  inches at its base and standing 17 feet tall.

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(image via: Societus Technica – KCC)
Not only does KCC’s Tech Club  have a knack for playing with their food, they also skilfully mix  different types of packaging to best advantage, such as the Peanuts  composition above that uses cookie boxes to form the sloping roof of  Snoopy’s doghouse. Good grief!
The Pre-Fab Four&nbsp;
(images via: Office Newswire)
Architectural and Interior Design firm Ted Moudis Associates won the  Best Use of Labels category at the 2009 Canstruction competition by  portraying The Beatles. It took 5,000 cans of 4 different types of tuna  to create a zigzag wall with images of The Beatles on all 4 sides.

(image via: Woman’s Day)
The John Lennon creation is especially poignant as we mark the 30th  anniversary of his tragic death. You’ve heard the phrase “canned  laughter”? If there was such a thing as canned sadness, this would be  it.
Pop Top Culture&nbsp;
(images via: Big Map, Montana Food Bank Network and Cranium)
Some of the best-liked can constructions are those that reference pop  culture, which these days extends back to the 1950s and the advent of  mass communication media in audio (rock music) and video (home  television). Get your kicks on Route 66? Step right up!

And, step into the third dimension of creative can construction via this video:
Canstruction LA 2009, via Canstructionla

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(images via: Big Map and Inhabitat)
Pop culture just keeps on a’popping, as the (above, top) can collage  of Kang (or is it Kodos?) from The Simpsons so creatively illustrates.  The artist(s) obviously are big fans of the show, taking care to select  and position white-labeled cans to represent the tentacled terrors’  ever-present flow of saliva. Just below, appropriately, are Homer &amp;  Marge themselves in a scene of modern-day Ameri-CAN-a.
Sea What They Did There?
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(images via: Of Mice and Men and Inhabitat)
Browse your local supermarket’s canned seafood aisle and witness  Neptune’s bounty, conveniently cleaned, cooked, and sealed in tiny tin  prisons. Seems to be a cruel fate for nature’s most majestic creatures…  if they ever wanted revenge, how would they go about it?
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(image via: Of Mice and Men)
If you knew sushi, like I know sushi… but we bet you’ve never known  sushi like this! The gorgeous tableau above comes complete with can  chopsticks and a classic Japanese tokkuri bottle &amp; cup to hold a LOT  of sake. Banzai… or in this instance, Canzai.
Food Represented By Food

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(images via: Inhabitat, My Interesting Files and AIA Chicago)
As art apes art, food follows food… or something like that. The above can constructions  twist the concept of the Food Pyramid far beyond the FDA’s wildest  dreams – or nightmares. Then there’s the ultimate homage: a Campbell’s  Soup can made from Campbell’s Soup cans. Andy Warhol would approve.
Un-Kanny&nbsp;
(image via: UEBA)
“Oh my God, they canned Kenny!… You b*!” Yes indeed, South Park’s most unintelligible yet endlessly endearing star has been immortalized in cans by Texas architects PageSoutherlandPage – and using the words “immortal” and “Kenny” in the same paragraph is perfectly OK.

&nbsp;Posted at Web Urbanist