Culture Buzz Imagine walking around the corner and seeing one of these. American artist Mark Jenkins is fond of installing sculptures in public that hurtle you screaming into the uncanny valley.
David Mach uses thousands of metal coat hangers to create these eye-catching sculptures. (via laboiteverte.fr)
Using only PVC pipes, superglue, and urethane paint, artist Kang Duck-Bong creates these whimsical figures. (via thisiscolossal.com)
Culture Buzz Several concerned observers have called the police to report a dead body lying on the floor of a German art gallery, only to discover it's a sculpture of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. That's called art serving its intended purpose!
Bike chains and industrial steel chains are tightly knit and welded together to form these amazing figurative sculptures by Korean artist Yeong-Deok Seo. Visit his blog to see more of his amazing sculptures.
Carl Lyon, the artist responsible for this piece of work, likely has it on display next to his molds, spores, and fungus.
Food Buzz There is absolutely no sexual subtext for this toy. None. Next up, a cheeseburger sit-n-spin.
Culture Buzz As awesome as these are, they might give me nightmares. Click the images to learn more about the artists and see more of their works. (via thesuiteworld.com)
Culture Buzz Inspired by Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and '40s serials, Sillof's Workshop designed this series it calls 'Serial Wars'. See their other customized styles here.
Culture Buzz Artist Jason Freeny is back with more dissected toys that show what our favorite childhood icons look like on the inside. (Via)
Culture Buzz Korean Artist Yong Ho Ji creates these complicated layered sculptures using pieces of recycled tires. (via The Uniblog)
Culture Buzz But The Seven-Year Itch was filmed in midtown Manhattan!? Ah, whatever. (via.)
Kim Hyun takes casts of her subjects and then transforms those casts into sculptures using hundreds of dice. They are pretty geeky considering she uses role playing game style dice to round out her creations. (via The Uniblog)
Culture Buzz Andrea Petrachi, “Himatic,” creates sculptures based on the assembly of everyday items, discarded electronics, gadgets and toys. Both disturbing and attractive.
Culture Buzz MakerBot Industries, with their handy-dandy Thing-O-Matic, allows you to easily scan and print 3D models of whatsoever your heart desires. Including my bulbous melon. I visited MakerBot founder Bre Pettis at the Botcave in Brooklyn for a heads-on demonstration. They had lasers and corn starch and beer. Pretty cool. Find out more about this brave new world of asexual reproduction at MakerBot! (via makerbot.com)
Culture Buzz Like the Terracotta Soldiers, only with less sub-par Brenden Fraser movies made about it. It has to be a cultural difference that hundreds of people can mingle with these clay sculptures without defacing them.
Culture Buzz Remember kids, blood and gore are fine but boobs will make you blind. Damn hippies of the past, slapping the words “Venus” or “Nymph” on everything to slide past the censors.
Culture Buzz Obligatory Facebook joke goes here. For the annual Dutch Book Week, artist Souverein crafted the faces behind famous biographies. Each bust was created using actual pages from the book about their subject.
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Sculpture party, U.S.A. (and elsewhere).
Culture Buzz Herb Williams uses Crayola crayons to make art. But he doesn't use the Crayolas to color! Instead, he uses them as materials for sculpture. Amazing things can happen with 50,000 crayons!