On the PVC-Innovations site, Adam Withrow walks you through how to heat and bend PVC end pieces into abstract sculptures. I can see other practical applications to this process as well, though it should be stressed that proper safety precautions be taken as PVC can get pretty noxious. I’d love to see someone attempt a piece like this and then dye it afterwards.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, from user Christine Prusha, AKA FeltedChicken. The base, simulating water, is made from poured resin, with felted cherry blossoms sprinkled on top.
“Biological processes and structures have inspired artists for centuries, but it’s only in the last two decades that artists have started to collaborate with biologists to create works that use live human and animal tissues, bacteria and living organisms as materials”
I try to avoid superlatives in my headlines, and have been for awhile now. But it’s been a long time since I had such a hard time resisting that urge. Here’s a few that came to mind while I was composing this one about the work of Dallas artist Gabriel Dawe: stunning, magnificent, celestial, gorgeous, beautiful, amazing, transcendent. “Awesome,” if it could still be used literally, might also have been in that list.
LA Photographer Eric Curry’s series “American Pride and Passion” is just beautiful. Each piece is achieved using a very simple technique: The scene is staged in darkness, a camera positioned to record it, and different parts individually illuminated—say, with a flashlight—while a long exposure is recorded. The many resulting images are composited in appropriate software, and with considerable artistry, to create the glowing, ethereally-lit finished pieces.
Make contributor Jason Torchinsky describes how he built his gigantic Space Invader sculptures for the IndieCade Festival.
Sixteen feet long, five feet wide, and four feet tall, this 1/72 replica of the US Navy’s “Big E” represents nineteen years of builder Gabriel Suryani’s hobby, and has been called “something that is close to the limits a single modeler can achieve.”
