Evidently the people of New Mexico have seen it all. Even robolegs gone wild! Carlos is a robotic everyman. He’s not one of those fancy deep sea dwelling, swimming pool competing, publicity hogging, multiple kill, or planet exploring robots, just a regular robot doing his thing like us humans. Carlos was a college kinetic sculpture […]
Writer/puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal has an excellent piece on papier-mache. Papier-mache is one of the oldest forms for creating puppets and so a lot of people think that there must be something better out there. Actually, there are very few contenders. Done well, papier-mache is light, strong, fast, and non-toxic. I know, we’ve all had […]
Casper’s brother made him this totally sweet bronze sculpture using Styrofoam and a LEGO minifig. Via Brothers Brick
Artist David Rogers makes these wonderful ginormous sculptures of bugs. He started constructing things and learned to weld when he was only 13! His bugs are well-traveled; looks like they’re currently at the New England Wild Flower Society’s Garden in the Woods in Massachusetts.
Glass wants to be round, glass wants to be warm all through or it breaks; it’s very hard to work with – which makes all these delicate pointy bits even more impressive. Wesley Fleming glass sculpture, via peacay
Mark Applebaum is a musician (and professor at Stanford) who makes incredibly complex sound sculptures from found objects. (Via DeepFun) The instruments consist of threaded rods, nails, wire strings stretched through a series of pulleys and turnbuckles, plastic combs, bronze braising rod blow-torched and twisted, doorstops, shoehorns, ratchets, steel wheels, springs, lead and PVC pipe, […]
Artist Susan Robb installs this wonderful sculpture in Seattle’s Volunteer Park periodically, just for a few hours. Made from trash-bag liners, they’re filled with air and sun-powered.
