How-To: Carve Bone
Continuing our Natural Materials theme month coverage today with a pair interesting, entertaining, well-produced YouTube tutorials from a lifetime craftsman in bone. Check ’em out.
sculpture
Falcon Sculpted From CD Fragments
It’s just one of many striking and beautiful works in this medium—shards of what appear to be CD-Rs secured to wire mesh frames with hot glue—from Chicago artist Sean E. Avery. [via adafruit]
Cycle: Mechanized Virtual Bike Ride
Eric Hagan of ITP demonstrates “Cycle”, a stationary bike that’s mechanically connected to giant wheel with scenery sculpted upon it’s circumference.
If You Want to Destroy My Credit…
…hold this thread as I walk away. Artist Dimitri Tsykalov has four more of these giant knit credit cards on display over at Galerie Rabouan Moussion. Just don’t click past image 5/20 unless you want to see naked people covered in raw meat. [via adafruit]
Speedy PVC Sculptures
Just two of several very clever works from Korean Kang Duck-Bong that use lengths of PVC pipe cut, bundled, and painted to suggest fast-moving objects blurred by speed. [via Boing Boing]
Life Size Junk Mammoth
Junk artist extraordinaire Jud Turner is an old favorite here at MAKE. He’s just moved into a bigger studio and completed his largest piece, ever—a life-size Columbian Mammoth skeleton made from “95% recycled materilas, mostly old farm equipment and agricultural tools.” He’s also posted some cool work-in-progress shots here. [Thanks, Jud!]
The Power of Making at the V&A
A remarkable exhibit on the maker movement had been running since September at London’s Victoria and Albert museum, having just closed in January. A visit over the holidays to London gave me a chance to see the exhibit for myself. The show collects the products, processes, and tools from dozens of makers throughout the world, […]