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Friday Morning Diversion: Making A Tim Burton Caketrope

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on May 25, 2012 4:20PM

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We love most of Tim Burton's films and the video below makes for one of the coolest tributes to the man who gave us Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Michael Keaton as Batman. This is a chocolate cake that, when spun a la zoetrope, becomes an animated tribute to Burton's oeuvre.