Acrylic on wood by Javier Mayoral.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
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The interconnected, interlocking scaffolded book sculptures of New York based artist and graphic designer Stephen Doyle, who describes them as:
“miniature monuments, testaments to the power of language and metaphors of imagination….I conjured sculptures in which the lines of text shook off the shackles of the page, leapt up, out of the book, and started conferring with their neighboring lines of text, creating an aerial network of language, turning text into synapse, circulation… I soon realized that these three-dimensional diagrams seemed to have a poetic power of their own, recontextualizing language and ideas into sculptural forms, inspired by the books themselves.”
Now.
Spoonbills
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The elegant wildlife assemblages of Matt Wilson, formed from found silverware, flatware and other metal items.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the ‘Amadeus’ – a one-off alloy-clad take on the 1963 BMW 60/2 commissioned by the Haas Moto Museum, blurring the line between art and custom motorcycles and created by master builder Jay Donovan.
Housed on a unique x-frame setup, the handmade bike has steel fenders, inverted hand-levers with internally routed lines, a pair of megaphone-style exhausts and a tall seat, rear-sets, and clip-ons that force the rider into a full tuck
Or you could just look at it.
A pleasing sequence wherein magnetic rod and ball builder Magnetic Games creates a complex polyhedron with eight triangular faces and six square faces, then lights it from within before destroying it with a catapult.
A cuboctahedron is the only radially equilateral convex polyhedron.
But you knew that.
Buck Me
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Pigbangs
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Kokeshi – arguably, the ancestors of post-WW2 kawaii or ‘cuteness’ culture – are traditional Japanese wooden dolls that were first made by craftsmen during the end of the Edo period in the late 1800s. To wit:
The skills needed to craft kokeshi is traditionally passed down through the family line. The sons of kokeshi masters typically become apprentices and learn the craft from their father in their own homes or workshops. However, now that more focus is being put on keeping this ancient art alive, more and more women are learning how to make kokeshi too. This new generation of artists learn everything they need to know under the guidance of a kokeshi master.