craft
Erik and Martin Demaine are a father and son who collaborate on mathematically derived curved and folded paper sculptures. Their work pictured above reminds me of the image I recently posted of a sculpture produced by a student of Josef Albers during a class in the 50s.
Martin is a mathematician and artist and residence at MIT where his son Erik is a professor of Computer Science and wrote his thesis on “computational origami”. More info on there work can be found on Erik’s website.
A Korean bronze seal, Koryo dynasty (918-1392) from the collection of the V&A
Pencil vases by Studio Markunpoika via BoingBoing
These Sliotars above are from a new exhibit Hair hurling balls: Earliest artefacts of our national game, at National Museum of Ireland – Country Life in Castlebar. The earliest was made in the second half of the twelfth century.
The balls are made from matted cow hair with a plaited horsehair covering. The National Museum of Ireland claim there is a link between the name 'sliotar' and the Irish word ‘liotar’, meaning ‘hair’.
Via Meath Chronicle and Nótaí Imill
Typeface is a documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, focusing on a rural Midwestern museum (the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin) and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.
Clay artifacts from ancient Egypt photographed in the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street.
I've posted before about Hilary Berseth's sculptures which he makes by placing armatures into bee hives but the 3B Printing Project takes this a step further by using 3B printed moulds. It's an ad for honey but worth a look anyway. The first minute of the video is about beekeeping, the sculpture part starts after that. via Make
Artist Jeremy LeClair, of Various Artists Records, had these beautiful glass resonating phonograph horns made for him by glass artist Joe Forestall and now he can acoustically play to two different parts of a record at the same time!
Via Make
There are three separate strands of silver, each composed of between 15 and 18 wires. Yet, Halpin says, it is very hard to find where all these wires end. The visual effect is that of a single thread turning endlessly around itself. There are traces of some kind of organic material inside the cone, probably a wax shape around which the wires were woven. The visual imagination and the physical deftness required to do so are of the highest order.
This artefact is housed in the National Museum of Ireland and the text and image above come from the Irish Times' History of Ireland in 100 objects
A retrospective of Boetti's work will be held at Tate Modern in early 2012.
Graham Caldwell, Untitled (Lens Constellation), 2010, Glass, steel, epoxy
More of his work can be seen here
"Temari balls are a traditional Japanese craft in which colored thread is applied to a sphere in a geometric pattern. This is a modern example, given to me by the Japanese master Kiyoko Urata."
Taken from a post by George Hart via Make
Treasure from the Bog is an RTE documentary about the Faddan More Psalter. The book is described as:
a fragmented illuminated vellum manuscript encased in an unusual leather binding, a book of psalms dating back to the late eighth century. This unprecedented find, the first manuscript to be found in a water-logged state in a bog, posed unique and profound difficulties for the Conservation Department at the National Museum.
The image above is a screen grab from the documentary showing scraps of words recovered form the book. Larger sections of the book were also recovered including full pages and the cover which was lined with the only piece of papyrus ever discovered in Ireland.
The Jellyfish theatre is constructed entirely from recycled materials including pallets and water cooler containers.Its a project by artist and architect Martin Kaltwasse and Folke Kobberling in collaboration with the Red Room film and theatre company.
There's more info at Oikosproject.com and an article on the Guardian's website here.
Four Top Coil Pot by Matt Durham
The chemical component in PVC that does not decompose in the consumer society's throw-away goods, as well as a deep fascination with rubbish, led Gerd Rohling to refine things he found on the beach and create precious imitation glasses.
There's a big collection of these currently on show at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Here is a sculpture called Grub by Aaron Kramer. It is made of used coffee stirrers (top) and used bristles from street sweeping brushes (bottom) woven on a steel armature. I was particularly interested in this work because I have been collecting bristles from street sweeping brushes that have come loose and scattered on the street. Aaron gets his bristles from a company who replace the bristles on worn out brushes.
Here is some of his work on the Packer Schopf Gallery website.
Here is his own website.
Here are two sculptures by a British Sculptor named Chris Dunseath. There is more to see on this webiste:
