{"id":12405,"date":"2007-06-25T20:21:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T20:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/06\/unusual-sculptures-pt-ii.html"},"modified":"2007-06-25T20:21:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T20:21:53","slug":"unusual_sculptures_pt_ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/unusual_sculptures_pt_ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual sculptures (Pt. II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2007\/06\/11\/arts\/11bien1.ready.html\">Dusasa I<\/a>&quot; shines with the light of a thousand discarded soda cans.&#160; It was crafted by Ghanan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.octobergallery.co.uk\/microsites\/anatsui\/\">El Anatsui<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Suellen Parker builds clay sculptures, then uses Photoshop to project her digital photos onto their surfaces.&#160;The NYT hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/video.on.nytimes.com\/?fr_story=4c2fdeaec38db3287aebc1707afa859c61cc0e58\">a video showing her process<\/a>, and you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/suellenparker.com\/portfolio.php\">more pieces<\/a> on her site. [Via Erma Noxley] <\/li>\n<li>Nathan Sawaya is a master Lego  sculptor.&#160; CNN tells his story (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/05\/31\/lego.artist\/index.html\">print<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/player\/player.html?url=\/video\/showbiz\/2007\/05\/30\/cook.lego.art.cnn.cnn\">video<\/a>) &amp; features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/entertainment\/0705\/gallery.lego.art\/frameset.exclude.html\">gallery<\/a> of his pieces. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mycardmywork.com\/?p=150\">Via<\/a>]&#160; (Speaking of Lego art, peep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brillig.com\/lego\/starry_night\/\">Lego Starry Night<\/a>. [Via Maria Brenny]) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underwatersculpture.com\/index.html\">The Underwater Sculpture Garden<\/a> is Jason Taylor&#8217;s project to &quot;create a unique space which highlights environmental processes and celebrates local culture.&quot;&#160; Some of the forms remind me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/graduation_weekend\/cabezas.jpg\">crazy heads<\/a> I recently encountered in my rural Illinois hometown. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/122036841\/underwater_sculpture.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Joe Pogan builds <a href=\"http:\/\/joepogan.com\/gallery\/index.htm\"> metal sculptures<\/a> from found objects.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/05\/29\/joe-pogans-scrap-metal-sculptures\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Martin Klimas captures <a href=\"http:\/\/foleygallery.com\/artists\/artist_ins.php3?artist=32&amp;painting=4&amp;ex=cur\"> sculptures as they shatter<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\">Via<\/a>]&#160; (This is the kind of thing we&#8217;re often tempted to re-create with truck stop schlock purchased en route to Death Valley.)&#160; [In a semi-related vein, see the previous previously <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/01\/burning_bulbs.html\">Burning Bulbs<\/a>.]<\/li>\n<li>Oliver Herring <a href=\"http:\/\/hyaku.pair.com\/~maxpro\/main.html?id=8&amp;show=14\">turns photos  into sculptures.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\">Via<\/a>]&#160;<\/li>\n<li>Damien Hirst has sculpted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/03\/magazine\/03Style-skull-t.html?ex=1338523200&amp;en=069a2e4fd4650c46&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">$100mm diamond skull<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/06\/02\/damien_hirsts_diamon.html\">Via<\/a>] &quot;&#8217;That\u2019s when you stop laughing,&#8217; Hirst says. &#8216;You might have created something that people might die because of. I guess I felt like Oppenheimer or something. What have I done? Because it\u2019s going to need high security all its life.&#8217;&quot;&#160; If only there were a pomposity assassin, this dude would be the one needing high security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Dusasa I&quot; shines with the light of a thousand discarded soda cans.&#160; It was crafted by Ghanan El Anatsui. Suellen Parker builds clay sculptures, then uses Photoshop to project her digital photos onto their surfaces.&#160;The NYT hosts a video showing her process, and you can find more pieces on her site. [Via Erma Noxley] Nathan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}