- Today I'm gonna be melting 10 thousand Starbursts
into a giant pot and then pouring it
into a mold of my head.
Apparently like spirits, like that's like not good,
like you can lose a part of your soul
by putting it into food and have people eating it,
which is kind of scary.
But then also it's kind of cool
'cause then I get to live forever inside of people.
I literally am not entirely sure this is gonna work.
But what's the worst that could happen?
Also, don't try this at home.
Let's get to the Starbursts.
(upbeat electronic music)
We're going to put the Starbursts into the melting bowl
and then we're gonna turn on the hot plate,
and the hot plate steam is gonna melt the Starbursts.
Let's get to it!
This is what I'm gonna be known for.
I wanna live forever in Starburst form.
- Pharaohs used to do this?
- Yeah, Dan was saying that pharaohs
have death masks.
Like, I don't think they do it with Starbusts, obviously,
but they will make a mask of their face to live forever.
- I've had my face in one once, and not a mask,
but like a bust or something about it
where I really enjoyed it.
Is that weird? - Yeah, I know.
I meditated during it. - Yeah!
I literally was just like I just zoned out.
(ocean waves)
Wow, this is gonna take a lot of time.
("Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimksy-Korsakov)
- [Robot] Three hours later.
- We are going to boil water on our hot pot.
While that's happening, I feel like we should unwrap more.
("Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimksy-Korsakov)
- [Robot] Much, much, much later.
- I hear the sizzle.
- I know, it's sizzling.
("Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimksy-Korsakov)
Alexandria helped me microwave
and it is working way better than this pot.
So seems like microwaving is the way to go.
I feel like I've been melting Starbursts
for the past three hours.
Because I have.
Mmm, wow.
- Mmm.
- I feel like I need to pour it quicker next time.
- Yes! - Dude, his head looks nice.
(girl shrieks) - That should have been
the face.
- [Man] This one is very satisfying.
- This took a lot of time but a lot of care went into it
and so half of my head is done.
So we're going to go put it in the freezer
and then let it freeze, and then use these knives
to get it out.
This is heavy!
Ah!
- [Robot] The next day.
(upbeat funky music)
Wow.
- I feel like everything settled.
- So we're like sort of getting there
with the Starburst me.
It is taking an exorbitant amount of time.
I did not know that this was gonna turn
into a full-on art project.
But because of that I think I might make
an art gallery with this as a center piece.
So that will be fun.
Okay, look at that!
- Yeah.
- What do we have here?
Wow!
- This feels like about 35 pounds of Starburst head.
- We're gonna fuse the two halves together
using a heat gun.
- Heat gun.
- I was talking to Dan, and he was like,
we should put it on display.
And so that's what we did.
(upbeat music)
- [Dan] Eat it, I dare you!
- I'm simultaneously like really impressed
and really grossed out.
- Yeah, it straight up looks like he peeled off your skin.
- But you got a good lookin' bone structure though.
I mean, already knew, but like this really highlights it.
You got a good lookin' head.
- Looks like your brains.
I mean, look at it.
(slowed down) Look at it.
- I guess the beauty is that it's done
and it was made.
And people got to experience it.
- [Dan] They did!
(funky music)
We're not ready to say goodbye.
- [Ryan] I see.
I was gonna toss it.
- No. - I like how there's
just this Starburst stuck to the bottom of it too.
- I feel this is like how a mother feels.
- I put the head sculpture into the freezer
and then I'm gonna put resin on it
so I can save it as an art sculpture forever.
So that way, no food is wasted.
(kiss)
(camera shutter)
(upbeat electronic music)