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It took me a while to get this juggling image by urban artist ABOVE, who wrote:
He found that wire setup in Madrid, Spain: Link - Thanks ABOVE!it might sound weird to most people but similar to a burglar
waiting and observing a spot for a future hit,
i had been searching the streets for over 9-months for this type of wire setup.kinda strange how such a simple wire can bring so much excitement to a person.
this "hit" had the foundation laid and with the correct timing
i climbed up a ladder repeatedly a total of 11-times
each with a new layer to make this piece complete.
Hosanna Houser takes the cap and wire cage that comes on a champagne bottle and makes cute little chairs out of them! Since each is from a special occasion, she marks the date underneath the “seat.” What’s more, she posted a picture gallery that shows you how you can make your own. Link -via Nag on the Lake
Gavin Worth sure knows how to bend a line, and design, and construct beautiful works of art. It’s amazing how he uses a thin strand of wire to portray the human form so elegantly, and yet faithfully retains the integrity of the original sketch.
Head over to his website at the link below to see more works of all kind by Gavin, or hit the Colossal link for a small gallery of wire works.
According to redditor Wylde_Guitarist, his boss found a way to keep the wire cutters from being stolen. Attach them to something heavy -with a wire. Link -via Boing Boing
Virginia art student Ryan Lytle created Nautilus, the awesome 3D sculpture shown above, from bottle caps, lots of wire, some keys, a gas mask lens and other recycled materials. Lytle calls the process of wrapping and weaving wire into art “cathartic” and says the changeable nature of the medium, added to the aging process of exposed metal, reminds him “of the progression of life.” More photos of Nautilus are available on his Flickr. Link
via Laughing Squid
Artist Nikki Rosato creates amazing sculptures of human figures by using old street maps people have tossed. She started out by cutting flat silhouettes out of maps, then progressed to this stunning 3D work that she creates by eliminating all of the landmasses from the maps. She then uses wire to guide the remaining roads and waterways into the shape she wants. The result is “ambiguous and hauntingly ghost-like,” as she says in her artist’s statement.
Link via Flavorwire
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Neatoramabot, the Bent Object version by Terry Border - ain't he awesome?
When I came across Terry Border's blog, Bent Objects, way back in 2007, I knew that my days of making funny, amateurish little sculptures out of paperclips were over. There was no point in it anymore - I've met the master. Heck, Terry is to wires as Michelangelo is to marble.
Today, Terry has an excellent new book, Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things
Terry has kindly agreed to provide a copy of a signed and doodled Bent Objects book, as well as an 18-pack of the Bent Object holiday card as prizes to two lucky Neatorama readers (see below on how to win).
It's a pleasure to have him as a guest on today's Neatorama Interview series.
Neatorama: Hi Terry - the book is awesome. Congratulations!
Sorry it took so
long to get back to you, but I had to pry it from my toddlers who have
surprisingly strong grips. I was wondering if you could tell us how
Bent Object started?
Terry Border: First of all, I'm glad you like the book. The fact that people are liking it is a relief. After I was finished with my part, my publisher had to carry it through to the end and make it look good. I'm happy to say that they did.
I started a blog so that I could show off some of my wire creations, hoping that I could sell of them. (Plain and simple profit-driven beginnings! ha!) People were liking what I was doing, but much to my surprise they wanted photos of what I was making, and not so much the wire things themselves. I also started adding my screwy humor to the pieces, and again, much to my surprise, people really connected with it. In person, I'm not that entertaining (to put it mildly), but give me some wire and time to think and people like what I do.
Neatorama: These are absolutely hilarious. Where do
you get all those ideas?
Or are you just naturally twisted that way?
Terry: I watched too many cartoons as a kid. Also, I've always been the happiest living in my own head, thinking about things.
I'll tell you a secret - a lot of times I'm not trying to be funny at all. I'm just creating the saddest situation I can think of while using a certain object. Sometimes, while I'm photographing a scene, I'm like "Oh man. I've gone too far here. People are gonna see how sick I am, and make me get psychological help." Know what though? Those are always my most popular images. People see them as funny. There are a lot of sick people out there, just like me. Hello out there, all of you sickos!
Neatorama: Please walk us through the process of making
one, from idea to the
final photograph. What's the toughest part of making one of these?
Terry: I do this thing at the blog every once and a while when I'll ask people to mention an object for me to work with, then I'll let them vote on which object gets used. A couple of weeks ago, the winner of the polling was Autumn Leaves.
Leaving
Luckily, it was Autumn, so no problem finding leaves. Then, I tried to think of a situation using leaves that we as people can relate too. I'm scared of heights, so falling was a natural for me. If I was a leaf, I would think that life is pretty good until you fall off the tree. You've had a good year, and now you've developed a beautiful color; you've never looked better. But now your hold on the tree is becoming weaker and weaker. After you're on the ground, you're pretty much mulch, so you really don't want to fall do you?
I then doodle the situation to figure the best poses to show my idea. I picture people in the situation here, and how they would react. How many characters are needed? I want as few as possible, so I can boil the story down to it's most important elements.
What kind of background, what kind of lighting? If I want leaves to be characters, I need to pick ones that I can add arms and legs to and make it look somewhat believable. For example - oak leaves and maple leaves are too intricate. I need to find a simpler leaf.
Then I figure out how to connect wire to the leaf. I tried a couple, and you could see the wire behind the leaf, so I had to add a paper backing so the leaf wasn't as transparent.
Then I cut some small branches and connect them to light stands outside the frame. Try to make things look kinda natural in this one.
Then comes the hanging of the leaves. Autumn leaves easily fall off their branches, so I had to epoxy one of 'em onto the branch. It looks a little funky, but that's how it had to be unless I photoshop a bunch of it, and I don't do that.
I then have the epoxied leaf hanging on to his doomed friend (but in the end, they're both doomed, right?). I adjust their poses after each test shot, while also adjusting the lighting.
After I'm happy with the photo (usually late at night, after everyone else is asleep), I breathe a sigh of relief, have a glass of red, and post it on the blog.
Neatorama: What are some of your favorite Bent Objects?
The Party
Mr. Kiwi Gets Ready for the Beach
Neatorama: What's next for you and Bent Objects?
Terry: Hopefully a narrative book of some kind. I have the story already roughly written. Other than that, I just want to keep making images that get a reaction. I want to surprise people, so now that the book is out, I have to work a little harder at that.
Links: Bent Object | Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things
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As I mentioned above, Terry has generously agreed to provide two Neatorama readers with excellent prizes (Thanks Terry!). To win, simply provide a caption to this Bent Object vignette below. The funniest one will win a signed and doodled copy of the Bent Object book, and the runner-up will win a 18-pack Bent Object Holiday Card.
I'd
Like to Have Coffee With My Breakfast
Contest rules are simple: place your caption in the comment section. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many as you'd like. Good luck!
Update 11/20/09 – Great entries, guys! Congratulations to guyek who won the main prize:
Quietly, Coffee watched as they drank her offspring. Confident in the knowledge that neither of them would survive the morning.
and Andrew Rice who won the pack of greeting cards:
“This coffee has really got me wired.”
