Chris Jordan’s art tells the true story of our wasteful habits. You think you see it, but definitely need to take a closer look.
This:
is an early post I did on Chris’ work.
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Art: How Many Ways Can You Make It?
The Giant Whale Creator himself, Richard Ellis, tossed this one into the Schnozze Pool and we dig it!
Proof yet again that there is no end to creativity. How many different ways are there to make something totally unique and beautiful and stunning? The list continues to grow. What we like about this is how it is solid but it is not, how it is a line but it is not.
Now if we can only figure out why they have the same number of balls as homeruns that Hank Aaron hit, we can go to sleep happy tonight.
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Monsters In NYC
Groovy beasts in the East Village! Yeah, so what else is new, eh? Still this Travis Louie cat is splendid with the pencil. You can see his monsters here, or go see them live at the Fuse Gallery on 93 Second Avenue.
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Rube Goldberg’s Spawns!
Why is watching something do lots of stuff for no reason other than to keep moving so entertaining? Is there a section of the brain that loves useless complexity? Was it really Rube Goldberg that really got this glorious contraption ball rolling.
We’ve sniffed out a bowlful of such wonderfully organized chaos to place in The Bowl today.
It’s hard to find a well shot video of the Goldbergian devices that call themselves art. But this one qualifies:
George Rhoads seems to be the most recognized complicated-marble-run-as-art maker out there but unfortunately I have not been able to locate any quality videos of his machines in action. You can see a lot of what he’s made right here though.
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Wacky Houses From Kitchen Utensils
Enviromental Graffiti showed us a variation on yesterday’s Hi-End Junkbots post, with a series of fantasy habitats made from discarded kitchen appliances and utensils. As my son said quite sometime ago “Everything is Art”.
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Staying Wacky Forever
You know those drawings you do that the grownups say “that’s so silly!” about? What is it that they are saying then? Do they want you to keep on doing those drawings forever — or do they want you to stop drawing those creatures right then and now? Did you ever notice how kids’ drawings are soooo much fun, but when the drawers get older they forget about monsters and monkeys and start drawing bowls of fruit? It happens. The why is one of those many unanswerable questions.
Dave Pressler never caught that dread fruit bowl disease. He not only draws really great and silly monsters, but he makes sculptures and all kinds of stuff. Check out his website. It’s a BOWL of fun.
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Rope Giant
I don’t know where this guy lives but I wish he’d come over to play. (tipped by Offbeatearth)
