Idle Nutt

Sean Avery uses broken CDs to create animal sculptures.

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(via Colossal and The Daily What)

It’s a neat interactive sculpture in Times Square, special for Valentine’s Day.

Core77:

A BIG red heart pulses with glowing light in a grove of glass rods. A single person can activate the beating heart, but joining hands with others will make the heart beat even faster to create a brightly burning heart. 

Hosted by New York City’s Times Square Alliance.

Designed and in built in collaboration between Bjarke Ingels’ BIG, fabricators FLATCUT and media design firm Local Projects.

(via Core77)

Anatomical cross sections, made of paper, from the Tissue Series by Lisa Nilsson.

Boing Boing:

The Great Wall and Biblios are projects by Guy Laramee, in which books are delicately carved and illustrated to create transfixing sculptures and scenes.

(via Guy Laramee’s books - Boing Boing)

Quipsologies:

Yuki Matsueda creates some fantastic 3D sculptures. Worth checking them all.

(via Quipsologies: Vol. 58 | No. 74)

“Pine Man” by Joseph Wheelwright

photo credit: Margaret Fox

NYTimes.com:

The monumental works in “Joseph Wheelwright: Tree Figures,” from 16 ½ to 27 feet tall, began life upside down as live trees rooted in the soil on the artist’s 40-acre property in East Corinth, Vt.

(via Joseph Wheelwright’s Humanoid Flora on Display in Katonah | NYTimes.com)

‘wolf man 1’ (hybrid human) by yong ho ji

image courtesy of gana art

designboom:

korean artist yong ho ji has expanded his ‘mutant mythos’ series, continuing to create sculptures with layers of used tire strips bound together by synthetic resins on supporting frames of steel, wood, or styrofoam. examining genetically modified organisms and darwin’s evolutionary theory, this body of work depicts eight stages of transformation in the tradition of classical sculpture: carnivorous, herbivorous and omnivorous animals, anthropods, fish, hybrid animals, hybrid humans, and finally humans. having grown up at the base of a large mountain in korea, ji adopted tires as his signature material based on a childhood memory of the spare wheel on his family’s jeep, vital in the rural landscape where his grandmother raised cattle and other livestock. this early exposure to both domesticated and wild animals informed his desire to make art about humanity’s responsibility to nature, via subject matter as well as recycled materials.

photo credit: Armando Franca—AP

August 1, 2011.  A young girl walks the inside of Miracoco, an air-filled sculpture by British artist Alan Parkinson, on display in downtown Lisbon.

(via The Best Pictures of the Week| TIME LightBox)

A Sea of Glass – The Chihuly Exhibit at the Bellagio in Vegas by Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs

The video shows all the crazy work it took for them to set up one of his pieces - a furnished room.

devincastro:

Check out these stunning paint drop sculptures by Chris Dorosz. Watch this, too.

“Out of material discovery I began to regard the primacy of the paint drop, a form that takes shape not from a brush or any human-made implement or gesture, but purely from its own viscosity and the air it falls through, as analogous to the building blocks that make up the human body (DNA) or even its mimetic representation (the pixel).”

Maya Lin’s “Storm King Wavefield” covers four acres at the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY. There’s a 5-minute video in which she talks about her work. Really interesting.

I’m a big fan of her work. I especially like the movable map she made (it’s in the video) and why she made it that way.

Driftwood by AA unit 2 (via Kenn Munk)

Driftwood was 2009’s Architectural Association School Summer Pavilion.  It is made of plywood and was designed by students from Unit 2 after a concept by 3rd year student Danecia Sibingo.  The piece opened in Bedford Square, London on July 3rd.

Apparently, there was a lot of debate about whether the piece was really architecture, or if it was sculpture, or maybe something else.

I think it looks cool and it seems like it was technically difficult to build.  To me it seems more like a sculpture, but I can see how it uses a lot of principles from architecture.

You can read more about Driftwood from Dezeen.

A selection of ice sculptures I saw at the 2009 World Ice Art Championships when I was in Alaska.  I was actually lucky to see this.  Normally the exhibit would’ve been over before I arrived, but it was so cold at the time that they extended the showing. :)

I didn’t get a chance to see the ice sculptures at night, but if you ever get a chance to go, it’s nice to see them during the day and night.  At night the sculptures are lit up with colored lights, so they look really cool.  H.E. Pherson took photos of them during both times, so check it out.

More info about the sculptures:

1. Spring by Aaron Costic and Martin King
2. Wild Ride by Chan Kitburi and Dean Murray
3. Guardian Angel of Mischief by Heather Brice, Kevin Gregory, Jeffery Stahl, and Steve Cox (The photo only shows one part of the sculpture. There was also an angel and a child in the piece.)
4. White Fang by Junichi Nakamura, Shinichi Sawamura, Fukumi Furukawa, and Takao Waki (The photo is a close-up of one of the wolves. The entire sculpture depicted a showdown between 3 wolves and a moose. It was very dynamic and really impressive.)
5. Invitation by Qi Feng An and Di An
6. Swimming Lessons by Dorjsuren Lkhagvadorj, Tsagaan Munkh-erdene, Mark Davis, and Ed Winslow
7. Preserved by Ronald Daanen and Ina Timling

There was another DNA sculpture I really liked called Beautiful Chemistry by Dawson List and David Fong.  They made a DNA molecule look like a dancer.  Super cool!  But it was partially broken/melted by the time I saw it.

Photo: Driftwood by AA unit 2 by Kenn Munk:

in Bedford Square, London. designed by 3rd year student Danecia Sibingo.