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  • Rolling Through the Bay : 35 Years & 100,000 Toothpicks

    • 18 Jan 2012
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    Scott Weaver has spent 35 years painstakingly constructing a replica of the city of San Francisco made of toothpicks! Not only that, but it is also a marble run, allowing ping-pong balls to take various tours through the city.
    via thisiscolossal.com

     

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  • Wursa, the Balancing Elephant...

    • 7 Jan 2012
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    • Elephants January 07 2012 Sculpture
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    "Strangely mesmerizing sculpture by French contemporary artist Daniel Firman. Exhibited back in 2008, this life-size piece was seen at the Fontainebleau Castle in Paris, France. Called Wursa, the sculpture is balancing on its trunk 18,000 km above the earth. Firman consulted with a professional taxidermist to construct this piece making it look as real as possible."
    via unnaturalist.tumblr.com

     

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  • Rosary [German] ca. 1500–1525

    • 28 Dec 2011
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    • 27December11 Antiques Death Life Religious Sculpture
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    Rosary, ca. 1500–1525 
    German 
    Ivory, silver, partially gilded mounts

    "Each bead of the rosary represents the bust of a well-fed burgher or maiden on one side, and a skeleton on the other. The terminals, even more graphically, show the head of a deceased man, with half the image eaten away from decay. Such images served as reminders that life is fleeting and that leading a virtuous life as a faithful Christian is key to salvation."
    via metmuseum.org

     

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  • Paper Sculpture by Calvin Nicholls

    • 23 Dec 2011
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    by Calvin Nicholls 
    via amolife.com

     

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  • Glass Masters at Work: Vittorio Costantini

    • 18 Dec 2011
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    • 17December11 Artwork Lampwork Sculpture glass
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    "Vittorio Costantini is a Venetian glass master known for his precisely rendered small flameworked sculptures. He is inspired by nature, and he works with a range of subjects, including multi-colored insects, butterflies, birds, fish, and flowers. Costantini's pieces are celebrated for their accuracy of form and truth to detail. The film, by Academy and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Lehman, was made at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass."
    via youtube.com


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  • Pedro Martín Ureta's Forest Guitar

    • 16 Dec 2011
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    • 15December11 Argentina Landforms Memorial Sculpture Trees
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    "Stretching for 2/3 of a mile, the multi-colored instrument was created by one Argentine farmer to memorialize his wife who tragically died at the age of 25."
    via atlasobscura.com

     

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  • Concentricity 96 (2011) by Joshua Kirsch

    • 6 Dec 2011
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    by Joshua Kirsch
    "Concentricity is an interactive light sculpture series. Each of the three works presents an illuminated white handle which the viewer is invited to move in any direction. Reed switches located within the sculpture’s circuitry sense the movements of a magnet contained in the handle and translate that information into LED light. For Concentricity 96, omnidirectional movement of the center handle is facilitated by twelve hinged pantagraph-type mechanisms. 96 red/white LED arrays as well as LED-lit acrylic circuit boards respond to the viewer's movements."
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  • Custos Cavum, Guardian of the Hole...

    • 3 Dec 2011
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    “Custos Cavum” (Guardian of the Hole) by South Korean artist U-Ram Choe is a beautiful kinetic metal sculpture of a skeletal seal that appears to be slowly breathing.

    "Once upon a time, there were two worlds. They were connected to each other through a number of small holes, as if the worlds were breathing through these holes. However, the holes had a tendency to close up, so there were guardians next to each one to keep them open. The guardians were called “Custos Cavum.” They took the form of seals and had large front teeth, which they used to gnaw the holes to prevent them from closing up."

    via laughingsquid.com

     

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  • There Once Was a Room of Chocolate...

    • 1 Dec 2011
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    • 30November11 Chocolate Food Furniture Lithuania Room Sculpture
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    "The idea of building a chocolate room inside Kaliningrad Plaza belonged to Lithuanian ad agency Ad Hunters, who commissioned experienced sculptor Elena Climent to carve it out of 420 kilograms of dark, milk and white chocolate. Measuring around 20 square meters, the delicious-looking room features furniture like a chocolate sofa, table and carpet, as well as chocolate cutlery, candle holders, and flowers. 40% of the room is made of dark chocolate, another 40% is milk chocolate, and the rest is white chocolate.  

    On November 18, this mouthwatering living space was broken into small pieces and handed to visitors of Kalinigrad Plaza."

    via odditycentral.com

     

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  • "Parmenides I"

    • 26 Nov 2011
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    by Dev Harlan

    "Dev Harlan is a multidisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice combines the physical and the virtual with the use of sculpture, light and projection. As a self educated Artist, Designer and CG Director, Dev's uniquely identifiable aesthetic language and reductionist approach place his work at the forefront of a new mode of media arts practice."

    via vimeo.com

     

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