Cupcake Cutthroats: muffin-shaped electric art cars gone wild.

Posted on March 28, 2008 12:24 AM |


Boing Boing tv presents CUPCAKE CUTTHROATS, a cakesploitation epic exploring the dark side of electric art-cars shaped like baked goods. These homemade vehicles are crafted by Silicon Valley nerds (including one engineer from Tesla Motors) and Burning Man enthusiasts in a Berkeley, California, warehouse. In today's episode, Xeni joins the marauding muffineers for a 15-mph thrillride down mean, sugar-sprinkled streets.

CBS News almost blew our cover! The muffineers say, "We dedicate our efforts in memory of Keith Taft." A full list of cupcake art car bakers designers and drivers, after the jump.

MUFFINEERS: Molly Conn, Keith Johnson, William Keller, Sheila Masson, Claudine Ozzello, Paul Ozzello, Lisa Pongrace, Merrilee Proffitt, Amy Robinson, Chris Schaefer, Coy Solar, Greg Solberg, Marty Taft, Keith Taft, Mari Tamburo, Evan Walpert, Marianne Walpert, Toby Walpert, and Rick Washburn. Special thanks to Wayne Correia!

Update: Scott Beale at Laughing Squid has some photos of the mobile muffins, too.

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#1 posted by fbrusca , March 28, 2008 7:47 AM

Sweet! I know it's not her but I thought the "hostess" was cupcake goddess Amy Sedaris. BTW, can she share where she obtained her cupcake bra?

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#2 posted by Elysianartist , March 28, 2008 8:35 AM

Must be nice to have enough time and money for this sort of nonsense.

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#3 posted by Takuan , March 28, 2008 8:54 AM

I hereby judge this to be "art".

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#4 posted by bobdog , March 28, 2008 9:23 AM

In your face Jesse James! For your sake I hope that Sandra Bullock doesn't like cupcakes.

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#5 posted by franko , March 28, 2008 12:32 PM

i've looked forward to seeing the cupcake cavalcade on the playa every year since they first appeared. this video was one of your best -- the cupcake biker gang connection is fantastic.
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#7 posted by Gesh , March 28, 2008 12:52 PM

Whoever edited and pieced that video together deserves honorable mention!

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#8 posted by Xeni Jardin Author Profile Page, March 28, 2008 1:23 PM

@Gesh, that would be Jyrki, Russ, and Dana, BBtv's editor, segment producer, and series producer, respectively (they're credited at the end). A lot of love went into this piece. Not to mention sugar, egg whites, and shortening! XJ

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#9 posted by Anonymous , March 30, 2008 1:23 AM

Was that a Tesla electric sports car in the driveway near the end?

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#10 posted by djam , March 31, 2008 3:19 PM

for a minute i thought they were edible!

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#11 posted by 4beers , June 5, 2008 2:40 PM

Hey what is the link to the open source for the cupcake plans????

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