Car with giant fork by Royal de Luxe

Car with giant fork by Royal de Luxe - - apparently an advertising campaign for kitchens or kitchen items.

The Minotaur

The Minotaur:

After a resounding success with 2010's Hell's Half Acre and over 10,000 visitors, Lazarides Gallery are delighted to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with Kofler & Kompanie, pioneers of PRET A DINER (Europe's most celebrated pop up restaurant), who will be redefining the dining experience in the form of a Michelin Star pop-up restaurant, during their two-week residence at The Old Vic Tunnels. During Frieze and London Restaurant Festival, from 10 October until 25 October, the underground venue will transform into an alternative cultural space featuring a labyrinth gallery of cutting-edge artwork and film, offering a world-class restaurant and lounge-bar. PRET A DINER is the official "pop-up" restaurant partner of the London Restaurant Festival.

Within the maze of artwork, KP Kofler, Founder and CEO of Germany's most well known caterers, will bring together some of the best chefs in the world to demonstrate their technical expertise and unique form of creative cuisine. By refashioning one of the Tunnels, KP Kofler will introduce PRET A DINER to the London stage for the very first time, with top Michelin-starred chefs Nuno Mendes (Viajante, London), Matthias Schmidt (Villa Merton, Frankfurt) and Juan Amador, (Amador, Mannheim).

Lazarides' return to the Tunnels this year takes inspiration from the ancient Greek legend of The Minotaur. Steve Lazarides will commission artists from his international stable to each create their own interpretation of the classical myth within a stunning Labyrinth installation. Artists so far confirmed to contribute include: Stanley Donwood, Jonathan Yeo, Antony Micallef, Conor Harrington, Doug Foster, 3D, Ian Francis, ATMA, Michael Najjar and Lucy McLauchlan .

Simon Davis, London Restaurant Festival Director, commented, "Having visited Berlin earlier this year to experience PRET A DINER I thought it would be a fantastic addition to the London Restaurant Festival's growing schedule of events. With the irrepressible Lazarides curating an exhibition and the fabulous Old Vic Tunnels as a backdrop to some of the world's most inventive chefs this is just the sort of ingenious event that the capital should be hosting during the country's leading food and restaurant festival."

A three course meal at PRET A DINER including entrance to the exhibition will be priced at £75. Bookings will be available from 7pm and 9pm. Tickets will be on sale from 10 September 2011.

Tickets to The Minotaur: £5. A portion of the fee will be donated to The Old Vic Theatre Trust. Free entry to under 16s. For future revelations follow @Lazarides_Art on Twitter for real-time updates or check the official Minotaur website.

Rooftop lake of slime

Truvia® Voyage of Discovery with Bompas & Parr:

Selfridges 21-24 July 2011

Bompas & Parr is flooding part of Selfridges roof to create a crystal island and boating lake in celebration of the impending UK arrival of Truvia® calorie-free sweetener, from the stevia leaf.

The Truvia® Voyage of Discovery invites visitors to enjoy their first experience of the Truvia® brand and their first introduction to the stevia plant, astonishingly 200 times sweeter than sugar.

The project encompasses an emerald green boating lake, thousands of stevia plants, 12 rowing boats, a gushing waterfall, a life guard, cocktails by ECC, design by Studio Toogood, uniforms by Tour de Force, tropical soundscapes by Dom James, teas by Rare Tea Company, coffee's by Caravan, and a Crystal Island - all six storeys above Londons busiest shopping street.

You can read a description of the event here and here.

*Previously: Bompas & Parr is building a five tonne Chocolate Waterfall in London; Truvia's target audience.

Someone has been leaving mysterious miniature paper sculptures in various locations in Scotland

Someone has been leaving mysterious miniature paper sculptures in various locations in Scotland.

Link roundup

1. "The highest-paid state employee in California last year, a prison surgeon who took home $777,423, has a history of mental illness, was fired once for alleged incompetence and has not been allowed to treat an inmate for six years because medical supervisors don't trust his clinical skills." Via.

2. At Laughing Squid: Pranksters Dump Paint on Berlin Intersection, Cars Create Street Art; The Soft City, A Bouncy Street Installation.

3. Tilt shift traffic jam wallpaper. Via.

Holes to China

The Big Dig by Topoteki1 in Xian, China (as the description explains, it's more than a hole):





Via.