Fluid Sculpture by Charlie Bucket
Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.
This sculpture is a prototype for one that Charlie Bucket will demonstrate at Maker’s Faire 2009, San Mateo later this month.
Charlie Bucket used a small loom to knit a tube from plastic tubing and then he set it up with a system that allowed him to push colorful fluids through the tubing.
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Pigeon Feather Art by Kate MccGwire
The London-based artist graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 used thousands of discarded pigeon feathers to create amazing works of art.
Corner Forest by Yuken Teruya
Yuken Teruya creates enchanting dioramas within products made from paper such as a take-out bag or the cardboard tube inside a toilet paper role. Carving detailed, miniature trees in each, Teruya makes fragile, magical sculptures about nature, craft, and consumerism.
Yuken Teruya is adept at transforming objects using very modest, intimately-scaled gestures. In Notice Forest, the artist subtly draws our attention to the effects of consumerism and globalism — alluding to the depletion of fragile natural resources, the disappearance of cultural traditions and identities, and the distribution of wealth in the new world order. Working with discarded paper bags from takeout joints such as McDonald’s and Krispy Kreme, commercial gift bags and post office packages, Teruya creates delicately rendered shadowboxes in which the sculptural form cut out from the container is shaped by the container itself. Using photography as the starting point, Teruya photographs trees he encounters in his daily life and then painstakingly recreates the form of the individual trees as paper cutouts that are suspended inside the bags. Light filters down through the holes to illuminate the tiny tree within each bag’s miniature interior landscape in what the Teruya describes as his attempt to return a spent consumer product back to the forest.
Clouds by Ronan and Erwin Bouroullec for Kvadrat
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed for textile manufacturers Kvadrat a modular room-dividing system.
It consists of textile pieces held together with elastic bands to make free-standing or hanging structures, which can be used to divide space and absorb sound. The project is a continuation of North Tiles, designed in 2006 by the Bouroullec brothers for Kvadrat’s Stockholm showroom.
Green Void by LAVA
Architects LAVA have created an installation called Green Void in the central atrium of Customs House in Sydney, Australia.
The lightweight Lycra sculpture hovers within the Customs House atrium, taking in Café Sydney’s top floor position stretching to the model of Sydney incased in the glass floor at ground level. The translucent fabric allows ample amounts of sunlight through from the atrium some 5 floors above creating a surreal experience as the surroundings take on a lime green glow. At night the structure is illuminated to take on the look of lava bubbling up from a volcano.
Colorful Crayon Sculptures by Herb Williams
Herb Williams use crayons in a different way: he creates whimsical sculptures out of crayon sticks!
He describes his process on his website, says that he is the” only individual in the world with an account with Crayola.” Williams cuts his colors packed 3000 to a case. He cuts down the sticks and then bonda the paper, not the wax, to a form he has either carved or cast.
The colorful Yellow Lab shown above is made of cut yellow and blue crayons, wood and two-part epoxy resin. It measures 42″ x 19″ x 28″ and is for sale for $18,000 through Vivre where you can also find several other of his playful pop pieces.
Leocadia Jurado
Leocadia Jurado’s nickname could be “fairy fingers”. Educated in Plastic arts, former teacher of drawing and ceramic for children in Sevilla, this Spanish artist lives in Brussels since 17 years, where the passion for fashion led her to work as manager and visual merchandiser in various boutiques, notably Chine Collection.
Given her eagerness for creation, she decides at the same time to go in for painting using a mixed technique based on the art of collage. Her talent will not remain unnoticed and she is asked to decorate with collage and graffiti works a clothing boutique in Sitges, Spain.
After having designed several hats for a theater show “The wizard of Oz”, played in her native city, Leocadia starts to create a very unique and stylish collection of handbags made with crochet-work. Totally handmade, combination of pure geometric shapes and flaming colours, these handbags have a great success in Sitges.
Eager for new challenges, Leocadia chooses to apply this home-made technique to the upholstery of furniture. She makes her first try on a seventies armchair and recovers it using a plenty of wool balls of different colours.
The result is a complete rebirth. Her remarkable skill of creating a “patchwork”, where every color supports and emphasizes the others, gives to this object a fresh contemporary touch.
Her work really deserve to be noticed so if you want to help her to distribute her art, you may contact her at +32 473 80 28 13.
Today and Tomorrow by Joshua Callaghan
These urban camouflage sculptures by LA-based artist Joshua Callaghan are brilliant ways to hide the typically undesirable city objects such as utility boxes and power sources. The L.A.-based artist uses his education in cultural anthropology and fine arts to create clever installations that serve as both art and a way to disguise undesirable city objects such as utility boxes.
Clockwork Ecoflower, the London’s Oasis
Called the London Oasis, this eco-sculpture is a 12-metre interactive structure which will serve Londoners as a getaway from noise and pollution. It is also an eye-catching demonstration of sustainable technologies, with its photovoltaic ‘petals,’ vertical-axis wind turbine and hydrogen fuel cell powering the air-filtering and cooling mechanisms as well as an evening light show.The clockwork flower even collects rainwater, used to irrigate a garden at its base. Transparent casing and information posters provide an insight into the plant’s inner workings.
Jelly Fish By Janet Echelman
Two days ago, I saw this really lovely sculpture floating and moving with the wind in the city of Porto, Portugal. I never imagined that a representation of a jelly fish manufactured with fishing nets could be so nice. This project was developed by Janet Echelman, an artist who builds sculptural interventions which respond to environmental forces like wind and water. I recommend you to go see it by night, when it’s illuminated.
