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Ron Pippin creates sculptures of animals with mechanical augmentations.
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A sculpture on Pentagram Design's office, via 1010Wins
That Antony Gormley public art installation, that will most definitely up the 911 call count, is now being installed on rooftops around the city. All in all 31 statues of bodies will be placed on top of buildings near Madison Square Park, including the Flatiron and the Empire State Building. There will also be a few placed on the ground, but the ones that look like jumpers have authorities a little concerned.
A spokesperson for the NYPD told WCBS, "we were notified because of concerns the public might misperceive what they see and call police. We will respond no matter what because you can have an actual jumper at the same building." However, the Madison Square Park Conservancy, sponsoring the installation (called Event Horizon), says they do not believe the statues will confuse the New Yorkers.
Gormley, the man behind the madness, says while he's installing the sculptures he'll be trying to get them "as close to the edge of the buildings as possible." So the next big wind storm should be interesting. The bodies will all be installed by the 26th of this month, and on view through August 15th.
Makers Market seller Kevin of kaitrees has a bunch of great videos on his market blog. They range from details of the pieces themselves, to "slap tests", and works in progress. It's a neat look at the process that goes into making these pieces.
My sculptures are an effort to distill what real trees inspire in people into something one can have inside their living or working space.
This tree in the video above will require about 500 hours to complete, stand over 7 feet tall, and will use about 1000 strands of aluminum wire. It's his largest piece to date, and looks Amazing! I wonder how much it will weigh?
Artist Ron Pippin creates sculptures of animals with mechanical augmentations, such as the above work entitled “Solar Deer”. In an interview, Pippin said:
My work is often related to ideas about the relationship of Science, Art, and Nature. My scientific aesthetic is primarily drawn from the 19th Century, when, I feel, science still had a relationship to beautiful forms.
Content warning: Pippin uses actual animal parts in many of his works.
Link via Make | Official Website | Interview | Photo: Ron Pippin
"Ife remembered" - @britishmuseum - curator H. Arero of "Kingdom of Ife -Sculptures of West Africa" with G. Abeshin http://bit.ly/d1xHrX
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In this series titled Heroes: The Route of Exposure, sculptor Adrian Tranquilli shows us the rarely seen, vulnerable side of our favorite superheroes.
More pics at My Modern Metropolis.
Stephane Halleux was born in 1972 in Belgium. For a long time worked as an illustrator and painted in his spare time comics.
Sculptures by Stephane Halleux
Here's one to share with the kids.
Mike Rivamonte, an artist from Miami, FL, created this cool UFO sculpture based on sketches for a story about two aliens. He said it was his "first DIY-inspired build."
He tells the story behind the sculpture in this video, based on his sketches.
Mike says that "Marty & Otto's Joyride" is "my first narrated anything so there is plenty of room for improvement, but I am pleased." You can find more of Mike's work, including some cool robot sculptures at: mrivamonte.com.
Mike had help from Garrett Mace of Macetech with some of the programming of the sculpture.
Carl sez, "A petition to make Hella- the official SI prefix for 10^27, for measuring things bigger than Yotta- (the prefix for (US) billion trillion).
For instance: 'the sun (mass of 2.2 hellatons) would release energy at 0.3 hellawatts.'
It would also come in handy for eventually measuring Internet traffic and US national debt."
The Official Petition to Establish "Hella-" as the SI Prefix for 10^27
(Thanks, Carl!)
Petition to make "Hella" the prefix for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
- BrentHella! Petition to make "Hella" the prefix for 10^27 http://bit.ly/aptLUW
- Tac Anderson
Writing about NYT architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, a former aspiring architecture critic calls him maybe the last one ever. That would make him kind of a big deal, though we don't know what that says about writers at other papers, like the LA Times's, or the Chron's John King. Buildings aren't just sculptures that hold people, she writes, which means criticism needs social context: "To know where critics are coming from, particularly on urban matters, it helps to know what they personally prefer: high-rises or brownstones, big parks or small. Does Ouroussoff jog? Have a dog? Ride the subway? ... I’m not asking for personal revelation ... but for a sense that he dwells in our reality and not Airworld. Even after all this time, he rarely writes as if his feet touch the ground." [Design Observer]
Original sculptures of silicone and fiberglass by Colin Christian.
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Robosteel is a Dublin-based art studio that builds frightening-looking sculptures out of scrap metal. Pictured above is one in the image of the alien queen from the movie Alien, made from 1,200 pounds of Yamaha motorcycle parts. The artists assert that their inspiration is a simple Picasso sculpture:
Picasso’s sculpture of the bicycle saddle and a handlebar was the first example of a work made from everyday things, using junk or scrap. Like other of Picasso’s firsts this work opened up new possibilities for artists. In this instance – sculptors, who for centuries had employed traditional materials such as stone or wood now instead, many of them began to incorporate junk materials into their work (known as assemblages) or fashion new objects from them. The works are a great example of the inventive genius of Picasso and the ultimate inspiration for RoboSteel.
Trailer for the remade of A Nightmare on Elm Street, produced by MIchael Bey and staring Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger.
It is scheduled for release on April 30th, 2010 as a reboot of the series.
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It might sound a bit absurd to talk of a $1billion mega structure at a time when the housing industry is hurting and builders are more focused on survival. However, a model of the winning design for the new U.S. Embassy for London is a special case and is sure to receive considerable worldwide attention, both for the exceptional design as well as for the overall spending on the project. Designed by the Philadelphia-based firm KieranTimberlake, the embassy concept proposed to be constructed in 500,000 square feet, features lofted halls and beaming “light art” along with an energy-efficient, carbon-neutral, self-sufficient work of art in an urban park setup complete with ponds and pleasant sculptures. Appearing more like a crystal fortress, the new U.S. Embassy would be the most expensive embassy ever built, overshadowing the $700 million sprawling compound in Iraq and $850 million embassy projected for Pakistan. Set aside your anxiety because we will only see the groundbreaking new embassy somewhere between 2013 and 2017.
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Hollywood is not always larger than life. RoboSteel, an Ireland-based firm that creates sculptures from scrap metal, has created a real world piece inspired by the the character of the queen from the cult Hollywood franchise Alien.
The piece called ‘alien queen’ is 1200 pounds of recycled steel and has more than 4000 parts, polished and lacquered to create a replica that would make any tinsel town art director proud.
A science fiction horror film released in 1979, Alien featured a band of aggressive extraterrestrials that killed humans on a spaceship. In the movie, the alien queen is a 15 feet tall terrifying monster whose power comes from being the only fertile member of the predatory species.
In RoboSteel’s real world version, the queen is about half the size (2.5 meters or 8 feet) but still impressive in its details.
Nearly 90 percent of the parts for the sculpture came from Yamaha motorcycles collected from scrap yards, says RoboSteel. All the parts were hand welded.
The construction took about three months and three people worked full time to complete the project. Robostell made an alien king and queen pair. The king was sold last year and now lives in Trinidad.
If you want this sculpture next to the R2D2 in your living room, it will set you back by about $6000.
The sculpture will also be featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not later this year.
More photos of the alien queen sculpture
Photos: Alien queen/RoboSteel
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This amazing sculpture of horses emerging like ghosts from a wall is made entirely of junk plastic. In this gallery, you can see bits of dolls, wires, and discarded cooking utensils rescued from the trash and made into something alive.
Look at the figures that sculptor Sayaka Ganz has created from a distance - and then zoom in for a close-up reveal of what these creatures are really made of. It's amazing how the eye wants to see a unified creature given enough perspective; our brains smooth over the lines of junk and ignore each part to apprehend the whole. But when you look closer, you can see the batman dolls and other packaging culture debris that form these creatures' bodies. Aiding in the illusion is the fact that Ganz has an incredible ability to capture the way animals move and hold themselves.
Ganz says of her work:
I find discarded objects from peoples' houses and give them a second life, a new home. For my sculptures I use plastic utensils, toys and metal pieces among other things. I only select objects that have been used and discarded. The human history behind these objects gives them life in my eyes. My goal is for each object to transcend its origins by being integrated into an animal form that seems alive.
[spotted via @GreatDismal on Twitter]
"This amazing sculpture of horses emerging like ghosts from a wall is made entirely of junk plastic. In this gallery, you can see bits of dolls, wires, and discarded cooking utensils rescued from the trash and made into something alive."
- Steven Perez, FF BunnehFor junk sculpture, those aren't bad.
- Kamilah Gill
Ji Yong-Ho creates sculptures with materials such as tires, steel, wood, styrofoam, and synthetic resin.
My pal and bOING bOING illustrator Shawn Wolfe is having one of his first solo shows in a while. I love his work.
Ready Fire Aim: New Works by Shawn WolfeOpening Reception: Friday, February 26th, 6-10pm
SUBTEXT GALLERY : 2479 KETTNER BLVD. SAN DIEGO, CA 92101 : 619-546-8800
Subtext's second show in 2010 marks Shawn Wolfe's first solo exhibition in San Diego. Wolfe is a multi-talented artist, designer and illustrator from Seattle, Washington whose work has taken the form of paintings, sculptures, screen prints, t-shirts and everything in between. His works are self described as, "ponderous, playful, and pointless". The show will mark the "initial public offering" of Wolfe's "brand new new brand" GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCTS™ (pictured).
Sayaka Kajita Ganz makes his sculptures from used materials.
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"These see-through models of a fisherman, jelly fish and pregnant woman - all made from sticky tape - are entries in an art competition."
- Kol Tregaskes
Scotch is holding a contest featuring “free-form” sculptures made from sticky tape. The winner will receive a prize of 3,200 pounds, which is like, what, a million dollahz in America?
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