‘Have you seen…’

‘surfing the net’, well spending time looking at what’s out there, I came across this site – I love the concept and the wire sculptures produced. In the past, during my teaching, I have used modelling wire as a material for students to create figures with (I will post an example in the not to distant future) and I think I will show these wire sculptures to inspire my students. Enjoy looking at the art work – I have posted an example of the wire sculptures and a link to the site.

  Please follow the link: Bent Objects

Just for fun – another blog site which artwork is produced based this time on the humble skull – what a great idea, simple as skulls are everywhere; especially in our house – JJ loves them on his clothing, all T shirts must have one somewhere and his love of the natural world usually results in some kind of skull finding itself into the garden. Again, I have posted some examples and the link to the site, enjoy, I’m intending to send in a few examples myself.

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Please follow link to view site: skull-a-day

following my trip to zimbabwe, its underatndable that little contact has been made

In the southern African nation of Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has enacted a law granting state security agents full authority to surveil landline and mobile phones, postal mail and what little internet is available anyway, according to a government notice published on Friday. Snip from wire service report: The law gives police and the departments of national security, defence intelligence and revenue powers to order the interception of communications and provides for the creation of a monitoring centre. Postal, telecommunications and internet service providers will be required to ensure that their “systems are technically capable of supporting lawful interceptions at all times”. Critics have said the law is a government ploy to keep tabs on the opposition at a time when political tensions are mounting and Mugabe is deflecting growing criticism from Western powers.

again, just looking about and came across this artist and his work – something different to see (no pun intended!)Â

Artist Cayetano Ferrer photographed the trees hidden by a 30-foot wide billboard in Daejeon, Korea and then pasted the image on the billboard. He purposely left part of the billboard white and put that missing piece of the image on another smaller billboard nearby

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then folowing links I found some more of his work – see through signs, what would health and safety say? well, actually, they are prints which he has photographed earlier and then placed in front of the original space… cool idea.Â

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……. and of course there is always one up manship, goes beyond ‘keeping up with the Jones’s!’

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Last month, artist Damien Hirst unveiled the most expensive contemporary artwork ever made, a skull bedazzled with more than 8,000 fine diamonds. It’s expected to sell for as much as $100 million.

In response to the skull’s exhibition at London’s White Cube Gallery in Mason’s Yard, an artist named Laura created a replica covered with 6,522 Swarovski crystals and dumped it outside the gallery in the middle of the night

There are those of us who use a knife to sharpen our pencils, there are those who use a sharpner. But when you’ve reached that point of not being able to draw with it what do you do? Well here’s an idea for all those pencils you have thrown away

for the smokers out there- fancy a fag under this, much better than standing outside in the rain. come on you pub landlords, see if you can match this!!!!