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When I walk into the room, this is what I see — visually alluring creations all filling me with glee. ZZZZZZZpppp. Sorry, I seem to have a serious LMFAO earworm going on this morning. So yeah, like a lot of people, I love a good gallery crawl. I especially loved them when I was a recent graduate with a very limited budget. Find out why after the jump.
Five years ago Brent Christensen thought it might be fun to build his kids an ice fort on his front lawn. Building such a fort wasn’t exactly a cinch, however, and he spent several winters perfecting the process for constructing what his kids came to call “the ice castle.”
Soon, locals were cruising by his house to gawk the icy mass …
Here’s the story: In 1992, an artist named Frederic Baron decided to collect “I love yous” from non-French-speaking strangers on the streets of Paris.
The rules were this: The paper always measured 8.2 by 11.6 inches (21 by 29 centimeters). The strangers could write “I love you” in one of four colors …
I’m one of those fortunate people who are surrounded by creative (think imaginative, artistic, inspired and inspiring) people in both my work and personal life. They’re all amazing — some are talented artists, some are impeccable storytellers, some are gifted craftsmen (and women), some make robots and some simply have incredibly creative minds; they seem to approach everything in life with creativity. And then there are a few people I know who aren’t so creative … yet. You see, I think anyone can be creative — it’s just a matter of finding your inspirational niche.
“Giant Mermaid” Surfaces in German Lake
by Amanda Arnold | August 3, 2011
I spy a giant-lady-sculpture trend.
First “Forever Marilyn”, and now “Giant Mermaid,” who’s sitting in Alster Lake in Hamburg, Germany. Not sure why she’s called a mermaid because she clearly has knees. Also, why isn’t her mascara running? You can’t wear eye makeup under-the-sea.
A rich guy in Abu Dhabi has been dabbling in geoglyphs.
Billionaire oil sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan employed A LOT of people to dig the shape of his first name out of the sand on Al Futaisi Island, which he owns. There are two long miles between ‘H’ and ‘D,’ and the letters are a half a mile from bottom to top.
You’ll also notice that the Caps Lock was on.
Step right up and behold a marvel of 18th century robotics! See the Jacques de Vaucanson’s fabulous digesting duck, the clockwork miracle capable of reproducing the biological miracles of ingestion, digestion and defecation! In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I dive into the history books for more on how the pooping duck may have worked and just what it’s creator was thinking. Plus, you’ll learn about the nightmarish cloaca bot.
On Friday, Chicago’s newest tourist attraction was unveiled on the Magnificent Mile — a 26-foot-tall, aluminum and steel sculpture of Marilyn Monroe. The sculpture, created by artist Seward Johnson, captures a familiar Marilyn moment: She stands over a subway grate, and a gust of wind from the speeding train below whips up her pearly-white skirt, revealing her legs.
Only this sculpture reveals a whole lot more.
I really never get tired of blogging about this place.
Behold the latest addition to the Museo Subacuatico de Arte (MUSA) off the coast of Cancun. Not far from the underwater crowd of people and man sitting on his couch watching TV parks this Beetle — with a sleepy person on the hood.
Between 1981 and 2005, AIDS killed more than 28 million people. As of June 5th, it’s been 30 years since the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first identified a group of anomalous infections in LA. Over the decades AIDS spread across the planet, infecting people from all walks of life. Due in large part to a lack [...]
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