Used car part sculptures
James Corbett, from Ningi, Queensland, Australia, started making art from old car parts in 1999 while running an auto-recycling business. I especially like the frog. [Thanks, Alan Dove!]
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Art from cut leaves
Rachel @ CRAFT points us to these amazingly detailed cut leaves by Nature’s Art, complete with a step-by-step (PDF): Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface […]
IT’S TEA TIME! Porcelain Pistol
Porcelain Pistol by … The Porcelain Pistols are replicas of James Bond’s Walther PPK and its contemporary sister, the P99,with friendly permission of Carl Walther Inc.The fragile weapon, hand-painted in the style of classic tableware motifs, liesnext to your coffee and cake, asking to be picked up. Its coolness andcomfortable grip increase the qualms of […]
Tilt-Shift Van Gogh
Tilt-Shift Van Gogh via Waxy. The visually stunning field of tilt-shift photography became a fairly big thing in the Web a couple of years ago. It uses a special lens that gives a real-world scene the illusion of being a miniature model. You’ve probably seen examples by now, but if not then see the “Credits” […]
Carved Box of Baseball Cards
New York sculptor Randall Rosenthal was probably tired of people not believing that his hyperrealistic carvings–which include such unlikely subjects as stacks of newspapers, open books, and folded maps–were actually made of wood. So he took photos along the way to prove it.
Color-layered table decorated by sanding
By product designer Ed Swan, the Mark Makers table is currently on display at an ongoing London design show, where visitors are invited to participate in decorating it by abrading the layered paint with sandpaper. Cool idea. I just hope there’s a big stack of free dust masks next to it.
Repurposing old toys as bird songs
Ranjit Bhatnagar made these City Bird bird call sculptures by reverse-engineering some old children’s toys and producing new records for them on a laser cutter.
