I had them for my “PARTY MONSTER” gallery installation opening – just add vodka to a regular “blue” or “red” flavored snow cone – OR – make a martini and pour it over a snow cone topped with an olive! Watch Santino and I illustrate their deliciousness below  – see all the pics from the opening night photo-booth here.

Because I insist on the best for my guests – and I having a unified theme – I arranged sponsorship with Prairie Vodka, an organic kosher vodka made in a very small town in Minnesota not far from where my “PARTY MONSTER” photos were taken. How much do we love their design and promo-packaging? – not to mention it won the Gold Medal Spirit Award at the 2008 Los Angeles International Wine & Spirit Awards. (Image from Notcot.com)

Photos by WILLIAMS + HIRAKAWA

I’d gone to several supermarket bakeries looking for the right pillow-like cake to sleep on. I stood and stared and got down and looked at the cakes from the side, in the case, trying to imagine how they would photograph with my head on them. One bakery woman with bad teeth said I could sample any of them.

I said no I wouldn’t be eating it.

She said, “Oh, for someone else?”

I said, “No. I’m going to be sleeping on it, like a pillow.”

She said, “Why don’t you just use a pillow.”

I said, “Because a pillow is not a cake.”