Posts Tagged ‘sculpture’
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Wooden waterwheel in front of Huanglong Cave (Yellow Dragon Cave) is a karst cave located near the Wulingyuan District of Zhangjiajie City, Hunan, China.
“Turns out the area that these wheels were traditionally in was flooded as part of the 3 gorges dam, so this is a reconstruction for people to see what they would have looked like.” -comment on Reddit
Everything ancient in China is almost always a reproduction, including this. It’s an elaborate kinetic sculpture – the water mill doesn’t appear to mill anything. China lets you look around the cave a bit on Google Maps street view: 29°22’1.62″N 110°36’47.79″E
[Video found here; a longer version without music here.]
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Tags:art, awesome, China, engineering, Huanglong, Hunan, karst, reproduction, sculpture, video, water mill, WIN, WTF, Yellow Dragon Cave, Zhangjiajie City
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Monday, 29 June 2020
[Images found here.]
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Tags:art, awesome, cakes, FAIL, Food, Gift Ideas, hedgehog cakes, sculpture, WIN, WTF
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Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Giant busts of 43 US Presidents are stored in a Virginia field awaiting their next assignment. Each is approximately 20 feet tall and weighs 11 tons.
[Photo & story here (via).]
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Tags:art, awesome, girl, handstand, presidents, sculpture, Virginia, WIN, WTF
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Tuesday, 21 January 2020
1st impression: Clever photoshop.
2nd impression: Clever use of a programmable snow-blowing Roomba.
3rd impression: HOLY CRAP. THIS GUY DID IT WITH HIS FEET.
[Found here, story here.]
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Tags:art, feet, fractals, geometric, Mandelbrot, sculpture, Simon Beck, snow, WIN, WTF
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Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Michael E. Long makes and sells shadow boxes of curious/derelict building exteriors and interiors.
[Found here.]
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Tags:art, awesome, dive bar, Elsie's Tavern, Gift Ideas, Michael E. Long, miniatures, sculpture, WIN
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Friday, 22 November 2019
[Found here, here and here.]
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Tags:.gif animation, Animated, awesome, beer, Charles Young, display, FAIL, grocery store, janitor, Paper, roller coaster, sculpture, WIN, WTF
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Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Something just doesn’t look quite right. Oh wait. (more…)
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Tags:art, awesome, building, derelict, miniature, model, scale, scale model, sculpture, Tokyo, WIN
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Monday, 14 October 2019
Pretty cool paper sculpture kit for under $10. If I was 14 I’d want it, but I’m not 14, and I still want it. [Found here.]
Pair it up with this, and you’ll be your nephew’s Favorite Uncle (or your niece’s Favorite Aunt) forever.
Don’t forget the paint.
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Tags:art, awesome, crafts, Dire Wolf, Gift Ideas, head, kit, Paper, sculpture, WIN, wolf
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Thursday, 13 June 2019
[Awesome woodwork found here.]
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Tags:art, awesome, sculpture, tree stump, WIN, wood, WTF
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