Posts Tagged sculpture

Art-Out Moment: Huntsville Provides Community Sculpture Tour ‘Spaces’

Posted by mistergroonk in Alabama, Art on November 22, 2010

Art is invading the town of our current residence. Sculptures from around the land have been commissioned and brought to the space town of Huntsville. The sculptures from the tour, dubbed SPACES, will be located all over the community.

Created by artists from as far away as upstate New York, the pieces will be located around the Courthouse Square, outside the Huntsville Museum of Art and Von Braun Center.

Others will be on the campuses of Alabama A&M University and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, as well as Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment on Seminole Drive.

We suppose firing up the old digital camera and wandering the streets for art sightings is in the future. Our Flickr account has been suffering for far too long now.

The following bit is obviously of interest to our tech savvy sensibilities but no set plan on how to access mobile phone or GPS information has presented itself to us. The last installation is said to be up by December 2nd and the tour will last until 2012.

We’re guessing an “app for that” will be available soon enough.

There will be docent-led walking tours, cell phone and GPS-guided tours and even a “People’s Choice Award” to see which sculpture resonates most with the public.

Beginning: Now

Ending: Fall 2012

Official site: Spaces

For more information on SPACES, contact The Arts Council at (256) 519-ARTS.

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Iron Week: The Iron Man of Crosby Beach

Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Photography on May 6, 2010

There is a reason we did not include a full body shot of this Antony Gormley sculpture found on Crosby beach, UK. And that reason is Iron Wang.

via digitalwallpapers

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Today in Star Wars: Samurai Wars, Let the Kurosawa Fan-Fiction Begin

Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Holiday, Just Freaking Neat, Only in Japan on May 4, 2010

Answering the question, ‘What if Akira Kurosawa directed Star Wars?’

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Dino Detritus*: Triceracopter, the War Dinosaur

Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Dinosaurs on February 16, 2009

triceracopter

The artist has marked the Triceracopter as the, “Hope for the Obsolescence of War.” If the artist was looking to point out how war should “go the way of the dinosaurs,” he seriously underestimated the mind of a 12 year old boy. Stay with me on this. A 12 year old sees the Triceracopter and falls in love with the technorganic melding of the two disparate philosophies. He grows into a young engineer, the fusion of two societies forever locked in his brain. He sees his obsession through to the bitter end. The military buys the tech and we are now fighting future wars in saurian shaped vehicles of destruction. It’s a Saturday morning action show gone real.

Plus, dinosaur war machines spitting metal, laser guided, eggs of fiery death. No kid could resist it. No young soldier will even try to resist.

We will mark the third age of man with one artist‘s persistent vision of peace.

(See another sculpture in the artist’s beautiful menagerie: Stegowagenvolkssaurus)

(via gizmodo, ten bandits, triceracopter on flickr, Don’t Panic interview)

(*By combining new obsessions with old, Dino Detritus is what you get. A section that combines this strange urge to remember the weird via my Shadow Brain(this website) with my lifelong fascination with saurian kind.)

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