Japanese artist and jeweller Shinji Nakaba creates all manner of what he calls ‘wearable sculpture’ including these necklaces, brooches and bracelets featuring tiny, characterful noggin-bones carved from oyster pearls.
Now for yeh.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
In the age of Google Earth, the once artful oeuvre of globe-making has been largely replaced by poor quality mass produced products.
Not so the elegant watercoloured earthballs emanating from the open plan workshop of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers of Stoke Newington, London – as documented in this short by Cabnine Films.
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Mark Gonyea’s minimalist posters (currently funding on Kickstarter) for each episode of the three seasons of the original Star Trek TV series.
Reppy writes:
A Baleosaurus spotted outside Ballyragget, country Kilkenny.
Dismaland – Banksy’s new theme park project – live events, gallery space and morosely uplifting amusement for all the family – open for the next five weeks at the Tropicana – a former leisure centre (closed since 2000) on the Weston-super-Mare seafront.
Banksy’s Dismaland show revealed at Weston’s Tropicana (BBC News)
Till all are one.
Dublin City public transport robots in disguise by model maker and digital effects whizz David Lynham.
Needs more underground Metrobot possibly.
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In 2011, Denver based artist and calligrapher Jake Weidmann was named a master penman and admitted as the youngest ever member of the impressively titled International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting (IAMPETH) – a group of 14 uberskilled pencil-squeeezers.
Fair play in fairness.
His handwriting is just lovely.
