Bust of Dierdre Candle via Twitter. “Like an echo from the caves of coccamaura, i came forth whilst Dierdre wept cool tears†– from a celtic fairy tale. The bust, “Deirdre” was a true collaboration between the two of us.  Mr. Little presented Mr. Sellers with the concept of crafting a weeping bust that cried […]
Um, wow. Geometric death frequency-141, as its called, was created by Czech artist Federico DÃaz. It consists of 420,000 plastic spheres, each of which appears to be about 1.5″ in diameter, glued together by industrial robot arms. The subject is a simulated liquid splashing inside an imaginary 50x20x20 foot box. Reportedly, DÃaz wrote the software to perform the simulation himself, and the software to drive the assembly process, as well. More details over at designboom. [via Gizmodo]
Flickr user vamapaull lent his digital camera to a friend, who managed to loose it’s control knob.
Susan Collis recreates mundane objects with extreme attention to material detail. She forces you to reconsider small things you would otherwise pass by, especially with this piece, Made Good, in white gold, diamond, silver, and coral.
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!]
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 […]
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 […]
