Playing With Wires Can Be Pretty Awesome!

Its not just the ability to create and play with wires, or the knowledge of putting the lights at the right angle - ITS THE SENSE OF HUMOUR that counts

Via notelay.com

With some well-placed wire, creative lighting and a provocative sense of visual puns, sculptor and photographer Terry Border has given life to everything from peanuts to pill bottles. His cleverly cartoonish scenes are often viral hits on the internet and they’ve brought his blog, Bent Objects, a global audience.

“I don’t mean for everything to be funny,” says Border, who lives in Indianapolis. “We all have different perspectives and my perspective happens to be kind of strange and twisted.”

Originally, Border says, his bent-object sculptures and photo scenes came about almost by accident. He studied photography in school and initially made his living as a commercial photographer. When that grew old he tried cartooning, then landed in sculpture.

The first Bent Object photos were taken on a Canon PowerShot camera with a simple backdrop setup in his kitchen and lit by flashlights. He’s since graduated to a Canon 5D and more elaborate lighting system that is set up in a spare bedroom of his house.

While a lot of his scenes rely on word play to complete the loop, Border actually tries to stay away from being too clever with his titles because he wants it to appeal to a broader audience. His more R-rated images are usually get published on a different blog called Really Bent.

“Some people think I’m silly for segregating it, especially the Europeans,” he says. “But there are some people in this state who are very conservative and it makes me a little nervous.”