Fossils From The Future
04-Jun-10
via geekologie.com
Posted via web from crasch’s posterous
via homesoftherich.net
Posted via web from crasch’s posterous
Parabolic Stress Skin construction
09-Aug-08
The Cement Boat
01-Aug-08
The Cement Boat by Stu Reininger.
“…The strangest thing about the Larinda may not be that she’s made of cement. Belowdecks, in the boat’s main salon, you’ll find a rare, 100-horsepower (1,400 foot pounds of torque) Wolverine diesel that was built in 1928. Mahan was obsessed with Wolverine motors (he eventually bought rights to the defunct company), and searched Panamanian jungles fruitlessly for an 1895 Wolverine locomotive engine that had long been abandoned at the end of the tracks. When he finally found the 1928 power plant in a marine salvage yard, he had it restored, trimmed in brass and painted bright green. After his massive search, Mahan couldn’t bear the thought of hiding his bounty in the engine room, so now it sits in the salon, gleaming, and reminding you that this boat is extraordinary in many different ways…”
Institute of Mosaic Art
23-Jul-08
The Institute of Mosaic Art has lots of cool classes. Here’s one I would’ve loved to take:
VISITING ARTIST SERIES: SHERRI WARNER HUNTER
Concrete Institute
Instructor: Sherri Warner Hunter
Sessions: 5
Times: Saturday – Wednesday: 9a.m. – 4p.m.
Level: Beginning/Intermediate
Cost: $650
Materials:$95
Institute of Mosaic art is proud to host Sherri Warner Hunter for this week long intensive. Hunter is the author of “Making Concrete Garden Ornaments” and “Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden.” This is a rare opportunity to learn from a concrete master.
Make your dreams concrete! This intensive course will cover a variety of concrete forming techniques including armature building, carving, modeling, and polymer fortified concrete systems. Participants will create three projects; a foam and polymer fortified concrete sculpture, a faux rock and a carved hypertufa planter. Each project utilizes a different concrete recipe and forming techniques. A variety of surface treatments will be demponstrated and discussed with plenty of opportunity for experimentation Bring sketches of concrete projects you’d like to realize for discussion. No previous experience with concrete is necessary.
Visual presentations, demonstrations and handouts will provide inspiration and information to take with you to utilize in your own studio.
PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BRING:
* Sketch or notebook
* Apron or wear work clothes
* Ruler, yardstick, carpenter’s square
* Sharpie Markers
* Scissors
* Angle cutters, lineman pliers, and needle nose pliers*
* Straight cut aviator shears*
(* These are good basic tools for participants to have for future sculpture and metal working projects. Instructor will bring some tools for student use if participants don’t have their own.)
* Small pointing trowel
* Steel trowel (flat rectangle)
* Plastic spray bottle
* Yellow (cleaning type) latex gloves
* Leather work gloves
(These items will be available for sale on site at Mosaic Studio Supply.)
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Edward James: Builder of Dreams
08-Apr-08
Via madammayo
Las Pozas (the pools), was once home to the eccentric, English aristocrat, Edward James, poet, patron, collector, and architect of this spectacular mountainside monument to surrealist art. A veritable enchanted garden, where some thirty-six enormous, brightly coloured concrete structures vie for space with the lush jungle vegetation that surrounds and threatens to absorb them, located on the outskirts of the town of Xilitla, in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi.
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A frustrated artist and poet, although he did publish some very passable verse and a bizarre novel, Edward James was finally able to realise his artistic desires by creating Las Pozas — a work twenty years in the making and still unfinished.
Documentary about his life: Edward James, Builder of Dreams by Avery Danziger
Youtube video. Song is “Witness” by Sarah McLachlan, from her album Surfacing.
Nautilus house
05-Apr-08
Nautilus-shaped house built by Senosiain Arquitectos in Mexico City:
