Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Monday, August 12, 2019
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
there is a 60-foot statue of Leonardo da Vinci at the Fiumicino airport, which serves Rome, one of the busiest and largest airports in the world
World-famous Italian polymath and Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci lent his name to the airport which derives its other name, Fiumicino, from its location.
It was in 1480 that da Vinci designed the first proto helicopter and flying machine with wings. His lifelong fascination for art and flight are some of the honors that Leonardo da Vinci – Fiumicino Airport commemorates naming their major international airport after the distinguished Italian.
In 2006, the statue, which was completed in 1960, needed renovation.
During the course of this work, one of the workers made a strange discovery: a small hatch, located at a height of about 30 feet, approximately in the middle of the statue. The hatch was carefully opened and inside were found two parchments, still in perfect condition.
One of the parchments, written in classical Latin, tells the history of the area where the airport now stands, going back to ancient times and including descriptions of the landscape that predated human development. The other parchment provided a list of the people who attended the unveiling,
It is assumed that the hatch and parchments were the work of Peikov, but whether that is true—and if it is, why he did it—remains unknown, as he passed away in 1973.
http://www.postfun.com/surprising/things-that-were-hidden-in-plain-sight-just-to-mess-with-our-minds/46/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/secret-compartment-in-leonardo-da-vinci-statue
Friday, April 19, 2019
Friday, April 05, 2019
Monday, April 01, 2019
artist Nkwocha Ernest lives in Lagos Nigeria, graduated from Auchi Polytechnic, and makes incredibly good sculptures from used tires His sculptures went viral after his art was shared on twitter.
The Nigerian artist then decided to do something about this waste. He started by creating small parts with the tire material and wanted to show Nigeria that he could create something out of nothing, and he was posting on his personal facebook page what he was doing.
http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/page/8
https://www.bantumen.com/2019/03/25/nkwocha-ernest/
https://www.facebook.com/nkwocha.ernest
Monday, March 11, 2019
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
"Snow Train" - one of many entries at the Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships at Breckenridge, Colorado (coming again in Jan 21-30 2019)
Above seems to be from a different festival in Harbin China, and the image was hijacked on Facebook to represent this Breckenridge event. https://amazingezone.com/amazing-sculptures/gigantic-snow-sculptures-at-harbin-china/
During the Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships, 16 teams from around the world descend on Breckenridge, Colo. to hand-carve 25-ton blocks of snow into enormous works of art.
From blocks of snow, into intricate snow sculptures. Artists are only allowed to use hand tools, creativity, and inspiration to bring their ideas to life. No power tools allowed! Teams sculpt countless hours across five days –the result is a temporary outdoor art gallery in historic downtown Breckenridge.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/413414438697407/permalink/2028303243875177
https://www.facebook.com/breckissc/
https://www.gobreck.com/breckenridge-events/breckenridge-snow-sculptures/
http://www.mountainliving.com/Events/Winners-of-the-2018-International-Snow-Sculpture-Championships/
Thursday, December 06, 2018
John Deere "Can Do" sculpture of a Combine in 2012 was created to recognize the vital role that America's farmers play in feeding the world, and to donate the food to the River Bend Food Bank, which serves families in 22 counties in eastern Iowa and western Illinois.
The world record breaking John Deere "Can Do" sculpture of a new S-Series Combine contains 308,448 cans of food, more than twice the previous world record. The combine can-food sculpture, which is 60 feet wide, 80 feet long and 16 feet tall and weighs approximately 170 tons, was created to recognize the vital role that America's farmers play in feeding the world!
450 volunteers were needed to construct this S-Series Combine from cans of food.
The construction of this project required 1,800 hours of work in a span of 6 days.
15 types of canned food were used during the construction process.
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https://www.facebook.com/combinesharvestersthreshers/photos/a.1151325464986191/1897432007042196/?type=3&permPage=1
https://blog.machinefinder.com/7084/john-deere-enters-the-guinness-book-for-project-can-do
http://www.prototypetoday.com/john-deere/john-deere-to-build-full-size-sculpture-of-combine-with-over-300000-cans-of-food-in-world-record-attempt
Friday, October 05, 2018
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Stained glass semi's at the Richard Crane Memorial Truck Show in St Ignace
THE TRUCKS ARE FOR SALE IF SOMEONE WANTS TO BUY THEM,
EACH TRUCK HAS WON FIRST PLACE IN THE DELPHI ART GLASS SHOW THEY HAVE IN LANSING MICHIGAN,
WE HAVE TAKEN THE TRUCKS TO VARIOUS SHOWS,THE RED ONE "FIRELIGHT"
WAS AT THE WOODWARD DREAM CRUISE A FEW YEARS BACK AND PICTURES WERE TAKEN OF IT WITH GEORGE BARRIS AND LINDA VAUGHN.
DAN WENT UP TO ST.IGNACE AND CAME ACROSS THE TRUCK SHOW, AT THAT TIME THEY ALSO HAD A PEDAL CAR CONTEST
DAN SAID HE WAS GOING TO BUILD A PEDAL CAR TO ENTER IN THE CONTEST, HIS WIFE SUGGESTED THAT HE BUILD A SEMI TRUCK PEDAL CAR, BUT IT HAD TO BE OUT OF STAINED GLASS, SO THAT IS HOW IT STARTED
IN ORDER TO QUALIFY AS A PEDAL CAR HE PUT CRYSTAL PEDALS ON THEM AND A SMALL CHILD REALLY COULD PEDAL THEM
NO TWO WILL EVER BE ALIKE AND THEY WEIGH IN STARTING AT ABOUT 250 POUNDS AND OUT LARGEST "INFINITY"WEIGHS 500 POUNDS.
THEY HAVE BEEN AT A FEW OF THE ST.IGNACE TRUCK SHOWS BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME
THEY WERE DISPLAYED ON THE BACK OF A SEMI.
update Oct 4th, Darlene sent me photos of a third: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/10/darlene-is-super-nice-and-sent-me.html
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