Daran sent me a strange link in comments: this very disturbing television tower, located in Prague. The tower is swarmed by ten enormous, faceless babies; they’re crawling up and down it. What the hell?
Mark Jenkins meets… Encephalitic Goya? According the afore linked post, the sculptor responsible is one David Černý.
* Presumably.
Via Jeff Koons, fest your eyes upon some strange, yet somehow hilarious, creations.
My personal favorites are, of course, the giant balloon animals and the Kama Sutra positions. All these and more can be viewed here, at Jeff Koons’ official website (the balloon sculptures are under the heading Celebration, while the glass renderings of the Kama Sutra can be found under Made in Heaven).
And for those of you with a more philosophical bent, in his book on postmodernism, author Glenn Ward defines Koons’ work as “neo-geo-postmodernist visual art”. And no, I don’t actually know what that means. But hooray for animal balloons!
Take a look at these beautiful knitted organ models by Sarah Illenberger (via Boing Boing). They’re really amazing — gauzy and intricate, especially that heart. Illenberger has made a bunch of other cool stuff, too, like these kitchen appliance robot sculptures (I think?). See also these terrifying food faces.
Two wonderful things, which happen to illustrate the complementary natures of MAKE and CRAFT.
Item one: this has got to be the most beautiful bike the world (from MAKE).
Item two: make your own adorable mushroom friend from felt scraps (via CRAFT). Like Toad from Mario, but tangible!
Mr. Ranjit Bhatnagar has created this really awesome banjo-sounding mobile…thing. It’s nice to listen to, and a wonderful idea.
Via Make.
The other day I spent quite a long time perusing the work of Cristy C. Road, whose stuff I recognized from some book covers and other things. I’m still thinking about her drawings now. They remind me of the best parts of my adolescence–punky haircuts, loud music, rage, sex…and if my initial encounters with feminism and politics more generally had been illustrated, I imagine they would look like one of hers. Check ‘em out.
Take a look at this cool installation (via) — enormous, inflated tentacles emerge from a building’s terraces, suggesting a huge cephalopod living inside. Excellent.
Recently, we linked to this photo essay about the process of making glass eyes, by Marc Steinmetz. Today, another photo essay of his–on plastination. Not for those sensitive to images of dead bodies or the easily grossed out!
Via Make.
Just a few neat things I’ve seen around the ’sphere lately.
An apparently tried and true process for reducing a green leaf down to its web of veins: how to “skeletonize” leaves (via MAKE). I’ll have to try this one sometime.
Handmade glass raygun scultptures! (Via Boing Boing.) Really cool.
And a Soviet gas mask that looks just like something out of The City of Lost Children.
Joshua Allen Harris makes large and looming trash bag sculptures that are animated over NYC subway grates. Head on over to Boing Boing and watch the video posted there about their creation. I love the giraffe and the loch ness monster, but the more humanoid shapes give me the creeps.
