Links: kickass furniture, sculpture, etc.
I've had these windows open in my browser for ages, and so I will dump them here.
Les oeuvres de Michel Haillard. This is the most amazing furniture I have ever seen. It's like 17th-century French furniture done with animal hides and horns. No description I can give could ever be adequate, so just go look at his gallery.
I can't pick a favorite, but Farnia and Christopher and Albathor stand out in my mind.
There's a little Art Nouveau in there, a little Brian Froud/Dark Crystal. It's barbaric and splendid and utterly sublime. NOTE that the page for each piece often contains detail shots! Don't neglect clicking on those! This guy . . . I would furnish my entire house with his stuff. can you imagine the curio cabinet he could build? When I rule the world, he is building my throne.
Next, Artist Yong Ho Ji makes amazing taxidermy-mount like fantasy animal sculptures out of . . . old tires. Whatever you are thinking it looks like, it looks cooler than that. Not junky at all, but dangerous-looking, creepy, both primitive and futuristic. I love the way the medium mimics the lay of muscle. These animals have a solidity, a reality, that very little animal sculpture does. They look like they have bones inside them.
Moving on, next we have a seriously cool prop: The Radhost Complector!
"The Radhost Complector shows its bearer the way to other world realms and planes of existence."
Take a moment to appreciate the amazing detail, the way the whole thing opens up and comes apart, so that you can see inside of it, the way that it looks like a real thing, something that you could pick up and use. Something that has a purpose.
Great prop art goes sorely unrecognized, so I think we should appreciate it when we find it. I am in love with this object. In love with the way it looks, with its backstory, with what it is meant to do.
Time for our next awesome item. I don't know for how much longer these pictures will be up, since the listing has ended, but check out this eBay auction for a first-rate sideshow gaff of a "mermaid" skeleton. Superb work, almost seamless. Articulating skeletons is harder than you think, however hard you think that is. Concocting a believable gaff is not easy.
Here's a link with pictures of some Green Man architectural ornaments made by James Gurney out of air-drying Crayola Model Magic modeling foam. It's very light, which is a huge advantage when hanging stuff from your walls. I haven't tried this, but I likely will, since I have some Model Magic just laying around. I link for the sake of the idea itself, not because it's a DIY link -- there's actually not any really DIY information there. You can find all sorts of information about faux wood finishing on the internets, though, and sculpting is pretty self-explanatory (note I didn't say easy).
Now I can close out all these windows and go and get some writing done! Thank goodness.
Les oeuvres de Michel Haillard. This is the most amazing furniture I have ever seen. It's like 17th-century French furniture done with animal hides and horns. No description I can give could ever be adequate, so just go look at his gallery.
I can't pick a favorite, but Farnia and Christopher and Albathor stand out in my mind.
There's a little Art Nouveau in there, a little Brian Froud/Dark Crystal. It's barbaric and splendid and utterly sublime. NOTE that the page for each piece often contains detail shots! Don't neglect clicking on those! This guy . . . I would furnish my entire house with his stuff. can you imagine the curio cabinet he could build? When I rule the world, he is building my throne.
Next, Artist Yong Ho Ji makes amazing taxidermy-mount like fantasy animal sculptures out of . . . old tires. Whatever you are thinking it looks like, it looks cooler than that. Not junky at all, but dangerous-looking, creepy, both primitive and futuristic. I love the way the medium mimics the lay of muscle. These animals have a solidity, a reality, that very little animal sculpture does. They look like they have bones inside them.
Moving on, next we have a seriously cool prop: The Radhost Complector!
"The Radhost Complector shows its bearer the way to other world realms and planes of existence."
Take a moment to appreciate the amazing detail, the way the whole thing opens up and comes apart, so that you can see inside of it, the way that it looks like a real thing, something that you could pick up and use. Something that has a purpose.
Great prop art goes sorely unrecognized, so I think we should appreciate it when we find it. I am in love with this object. In love with the way it looks, with its backstory, with what it is meant to do.
Time for our next awesome item. I don't know for how much longer these pictures will be up, since the listing has ended, but check out this eBay auction for a first-rate sideshow gaff of a "mermaid" skeleton. Superb work, almost seamless. Articulating skeletons is harder than you think, however hard you think that is. Concocting a believable gaff is not easy.
Here's a link with pictures of some Green Man architectural ornaments made by James Gurney out of air-drying Crayola Model Magic modeling foam. It's very light, which is a huge advantage when hanging stuff from your walls. I haven't tried this, but I likely will, since I have some Model Magic just laying around. I link for the sake of the idea itself, not because it's a DIY link -- there's actually not any really DIY information there. You can find all sorts of information about faux wood finishing on the internets, though, and sculpting is pretty self-explanatory (note I didn't say easy).
Now I can close out all these windows and go and get some writing done! Thank goodness.