Details: made from a BIC ballpoint pens these little vases are hand blow-molded. As the plastic becomes flexible it stretches allowing the vase to sit naturally.
Created by designers Jess Giffin and Jim Termeer and available at DesignBoom.com
This isn’t a very practical way of transport but I love the way Theo Jansen has engineered this beast and I look forward to seeing what he does next with his creations.
Meet Animaris Rhinoceros, a new species created by Dutch scientist turned artist Theo Jansen. This amazing-looking being is a wind-powered walking sculpture, one of several that the artist/engineer has brought to life.
Jansen is dedicated to creating wind-powered artificial life, and believes there is a very fine line between art and engineering. Usually he can be found on the beaches of the Netherlands with huge skeletal plastic creatures called strandbeests, but the Rhinoceros is a 2-ton transporter intended for crossing the tundra. Someone has to pull it to set it in motion, then it’s up to the wind to carry it along. There’s also room inside it to sleep.
The strandbeests that Jansen is more famous for have an unsettlingly spider-like quality, but they’re also delicately beautiful. He talks about them as if they are alive, and perhaps in the future they will be.
The artist wants to leave these an assortment of these creatures on the beach to fend for themselves. Since they live on wind, they don’t need any food, and could in theory live forever.
These drawings are hand drawn by a very Talented lady…her name is Linda Huber.
I can’t get over how real and to depth they are, she is a truly talented artist.
I started out drawing from life, then as the years passed my drawings became more detailed. Today most all of my work takes anywhere from 20-80 hours so I work primarily from reference photos. I’m self taught and strive for realism in each piece using only graphite pencils. Details are key to realism so patience is significant, working a small area to near finish before moving on is a personal technique of mine. Portraiture is one favorite due to the vast features also capturing a unique personality is always a rewarding challenge. Drawing inanimate objects has become another favorite, textures such as metal and glass are extremely interesting and fun to draw. I’ve been taking commissions since 1998 from people across the US and all over the world. My artwork has been used in advertisement, books, has been featured on many internet sites, Ovation TV, and in a local art gallery ~Linda.
I think the comment from Mum to be of Victoria within the blog post sums it up nicely.
“I am certainly planning to breastfeed and I think this is one of the most beautiful photos of Angelina I’ve seen. A nursing mother may be sexy but the act of breastfeeding is not a form of foreplay that will turn on “every man”.
Jolie may make breast-feeding more popular.
By Jill Serjeant in Los Angeles | October 11, 2008 11:45am
A MAGAZINE cover photo of Angelina Jolie breast-feeding one of her newborn twins may have turned the superstar actress into a role model for new mothers.
The photo, taken by Jolie’s partner Brad Pitt, will adorn the November issue ofW magazine.
Other family pictures taken by Pitt in the weeks after the birth in July of twins Vivienne Marcheline and Leon Knox will appear inside.
“I think it is fabulous. Seeing a celebrity like Angelina Jolie breast-feed can be a role model to encourage women to make a choice that is wonderful for their baby,” said Andi Silverman, mom of two and author of Mama Knows Breast.
“Breasts are used to sell all sorts of products, so to see them used the way nature intended can only be a great thing,” Silverman said.
But while breast-feeding support groups and moms celebrated Jolie’s public statement, one expert said the picture felt like voyeurism, especially given Jolie’s sex symbol status in movies like Wanted and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
About 70 per cent of American mothers breast-feed their newborns but the rate falls dramatically after six months, according to official figures.
Jolie, 33, is not the first celebrity to be photographed nursing her baby. Model Jerry Hall appeared on the pages of Vanity Fair in 1991 breast-feeding Gabriel, her son with Mick Jagger.
But that was a generation ago, and Jolie’s global influence as a style-setter and through her humanitarian travels and support of kids in third world countries, ensured the impact of the photo of her special moments with her baby.
“The response from moms we have seen is that if someone as popular, beautiful and together as Angelina is breast-feeding her children, it inspires other women to do so themselves,” said Dr Shannon Fox, a psychotherapist with the Momlogic website.
Little is seen in the picture of the act of breast-feeding. It shows Jolie smiling, while a tiny hand is just visible at bottom of the frame.
But Dr Fox said the cover photo sends a second message.”The problem is that she is also an international sex symbol. So whether or not she says ‘This is a beautiful way of nurturing my baby’, every man who sees that photo will see those breasts as sexual,” Dr Fox said.
La Leche League International, the world’s oldest breast-feeding support organisation, said the photo was particularly welcome as Jolie has twins.
“Mothers of twins report it takes a lot of time, effort and physical energy to breast-feed. I think the picture is beautiful,” said La Leche League International spokeswoman Jane Krouse.
Great youtube.com clip I found while on google earth in tokyo. What an incredibly talent man. I didn’t realize google had added youtube videos to google earth ” that’s great”. Maybe mitkinsprojects.com could do a youtube.com video about lilydale lake.hhmmm
A human has many features but to create something like this is truly amazing.
Jamie Salmonis a British born, Vancouver resident, contemporary sculptor. He specialises in photorealistic sculpture, utilizing materials such as silicone rubber, fibre glass, acrylic and human hair.
Jackie K. Seo is a Korean born, Vancouver resident, contemporary, sculptor. She says “In each work I like to capture those reflective moments,where we can have so many mixed emotions. Nowadays, we are feeling more and more isolated from each other, although we have more ways to communicate than we ever had before”
Every piece of work that is created in the studio is the result of a painstaking, multi-stage process, that is both artistic and technical. It can take anywhere from several weeks to sometimes months to create a piece, depending on its complexity and scale.
