Wesley Fleming glass sculpture
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
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Mark Applebaum’s musical sculptures
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, […]
Warmth, Giant Black Toobs no.3
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.
Lawrence Argent’s big blue bear
How’d you like to come into the office some morning and open your blinds to see this guy peering in at you? Artist Lawrence Argent made this huge blue bear for the Denver Convention Center. There are links to a short video of the installation at the bottom of this article. (There was a longer […]
Ukiyo-e kinetic sculpture
This wind-driven sculpture is by Jeffery Laudenslager – I love the shapes it makes and how it plays with perspective. The sound of the ocean is really peaceful, too.
Bruce Gray kinetic musical sculpture
Tyler over at Oddstrument Collection did a wonderful interview with sculptor Bruce Gray. I really love this piece of his, it’s all jangly and clashy. BG: I think that any sculpture that is designed to produce at least one musical tone can be considered a musical sculpture. Many of my sculptures could also have multiple […]
The automata of Tom Haney
Mister Jalopy of Dinosaurs and Robots points us to the amazing automata and kinetic sculptures of Tom Haney (Atlanta, GA).