Extraordinarily realistic food sculptures by Seiji Kawasaki, hand carved from blocks of wood, painted, detailed and occasionally imbued with quirky functionality, as with the chilli pepper chopstick rests.
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Tiny worlds, like frozen snow globes, encapsulated within handmade wood, resin and beeswax rings by Canadian jeweller Secret Wood.
No two the same.
The incredibly detailed wood sculptures of New York based artist Stephanie Rocknak.
Above: details of two recent pieces, ‘The Swimmer’ and ‘The Queen’.
Artist Janusz Grünspek’s extraordinary real-world wireframe sculptures of everyday objects created by cutting, bending and glueing thin wooden dowels.
Dublin this evening.
They’re not looking for pumpkins.
Jack Ascinine writes:
Swarm of about 25 kids on the tear through city centre looking for anything that burns. Around Grafton Street area now.
More as they get it.
God speed, wood hungry tykes.
You’ll like John.
For the last fifty four years, the amateur woodcarver has kicked back and whittled some, to say the least. He can carve anything out of a single piece of wood, from a block to a toothpick.
Here, he casually introduces some of his extraordinary carvings – each one more impressive than the last.
Wooden Vespa
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Carpenter and contender for best-dad-in-the-world Carlos Alberto created this rather wonderful road-legal 50cc laminated hardwood Vespa for his daughter Daniella, and named it after her.
Melanie Hoff, a student at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, connected cables to a large sheet of wood and passed 15,000 volts through it, resulting in some rather unexpected fractal-esque patterns, like slow motion lightning.
We have no idea what this means but we’re pretty sure things will never be the same again.
A woodturner on a street in Marrakech uses a bow lathe, a chisel, both hands and both feet to carve chess pieces.
Mesmeric.