Latte Art

I enjoy my cup of coffee as much as any other granola-crunching, latte-sipping bay area punk. But one site takes it quite to a different level. latteart.org takes a dive into the seedy underworld of forming elaborate hearts, rosettes, and other shapes with cappuccino foam. The video clips resemble a bizarre intertwining of coffee and Cinemax - all that's missing is slo-mo and a gauzy filter. And Shannon Tweed. But I digress. The site author doesn't help matters much here:

I have made therefore visible all these techniques creating, in collaboration with some local firms, a real tape . In this VHS or CD-ROM, (for PC), you can see the choices of the materials, the whipping of the different types of milk and the executions of DECORATED CAPPUCCINOS (latte art), with sequences, close sight and slow images. A voice explains all the passages and a sweet music makes the vision of it very pleasant.

Hmm. Well, I'm still waiting for it to reach the level of true art - by this, I mean of course Balki Lattes™.