Thornhill Jewellery of London produces pendants made from old British coins with whimsical/stoner designs hand-carved out of them.
They sell for between £30 and £50, depending on the complexity of the cut.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Anchored – The culmination of UK sculptor Thomas Wrightman’s interpretation of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Sez he:
For my major project I wanted to create a campaign in the form of an installation for young people who suffer from OCD. A theme that became a prominent facet of my work was that of being lost at sea – drowning from obsession. The final graphic sculpture draws on this notion of being helpless against the elements, unable to regain control over the mental disorders. My sculpture Anchored, aims to do as my title suggests: providing a lifeline that helps OCD sufferers stopping the tide and disruption that is associated with the obsessions and anxiety related with the illness.
The acrylic waves themselves represent the episodes that occur during obsessive compupulsive disorder where they each have the title of a specific element of OCD which disrupts the boats journey. It also shows that the boat has become splinched and broken apart due to the battle with these anxious and troublesome periods. The bitmap typographic style chosen to again shows type being distressed and disrupted to again reflect this theme.
The use of the flies was to convey one of the most common forms of OCD, the fear of the spread of germs and contamination. Inside the hull of the boat shows a web of type to convey the hidden aspect of the illness where these worries usually remain secret.
Previously: Derailling My Train Of Thought
You’ll recall the shape-conjouring witchcraft of the 3Doodler pen, released a few months ago.
Well, here’s the industrial scale next generation: Mataerial – a large robot that can ‘draw’ three dimensional sculptures from the ground up, or outwards from a vertical wall, seemingly immune to the force of gravity.
Developed by a team of researchers including Petr Novikov, Saša Jokić from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and Joris Laarman Studio, the machine extrudes a fast thermo-setting polymer which solidifies on contact with air in a process they refer to as ‘anti-gravity object modeling.’
And that’s just for starters. The device can also execute precise colour changes in the extruded polymer to create gradients and hue-shifts in real time.
Next: large scale sculptures, world domination and the enslavement of mankind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7lizCJbc9Q
Two different groups of visitors to the Phillip Island Chocolate Factory near Melbourne equally gobsmacked by the nomtastic witchcraft of strobe lights playing on this rotating chocolate diorama.
This 1:1 scale rebel fighter, built from 5,335,200 bricks, is 42 times larger than the LEGO 9493 X-Wing model it’s based on.
13m long and 3.5m tall with a 13.5 meter wingspan, it weighs nearly 21 tonnes and requires the support of an internal steel skeleton.
Built at the LEGO model shop in Kladno in the Czech Republic and shipped to New York, the model (a promo for Cartoon Networks upcoming LEGO Star Wars animated series The Yoda Chronicles) is currently on display in the middle of Times Square.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAFw5ZZvdQE
Orla Smith writes:
An excellent Irish version of Jack Nicholson’s speech [as Col. Nathan R. Jessup] from A Few Good Men, courtesy of students at DkIT
Tongue in cheek.
We liked it.
Australian sculptor and former puppeteer (on Jim Henson’s Labyrinth) Ron Mueck spends hundreds of hours perfecting the fine details of his hyper realistic pieces, rendering them identical in appearance to the human form in virtually all respects but one – scale.
Mueck’s disconcertingly intimate figures are either oversized (as in Couple Under an Umbrella, above) or miniaturised.
In April, Mueck unveiled three new works at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. The exhibition runs until the end of September.
(Photos: Thomas Salva courtesy Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.)
Sullied
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The latest of artist Dan LuVisi’s ‘Popped Culture’ noir portraits of popculture figures: a vagrant Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc.: blind and booze-addicted after a terrible twist of fortune:
Mike was tired of it. Tired of lowering himself to telling jokes, only to hurt himself in the process over, and over again. Mike decided to have a talk with Sully about it, but was continuously avoided. Angered, Mike followed Sully one day, only to realize he was headed for the home of Mike’s girlfriend, Celia. Mike rushed home, shocked to find the two talking. His anger got the best of him and he attacked Sully. Out of defense, Sully struck Mike, catching his one-eye. Out of confusion and anger, Mike launched his nimble body into Sully, piercing him with his horns, killing him. [more]
Below, previous childhood ruinations: Donald The Duck, Yoshi – Maxed Out, Bert and Ernie – My Brother’s Keeper, Eve and The Cook.
Hypno-GIFs
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Turkish artist and photographer Erdal Inci:
…has created a hypnotic series of GIFs that takes the concept of cloned motion to a truly eerie level. Often using images of himself in mundane situations, Inci transforms simple snapshots into entrancing video loops.
Many more here.