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    • daleD Offline
      dale
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      Screen shot 2011-03-08 at 7.30.11 AM.png
      Photographs by Christian Richters
      Architects Cie http://www1.cie.nl/home.aspxScreen shot 2011-03-08 at 7.34.15 AM.pngScreen shot 2011-03-08 at 7.34.24 AM.pngScreen shot 2011-03-08 at 7.34.50 AM.pngScreen shot 2011-03-08 at 7.35.04 AM.png

      Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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      • mitcorbM Offline
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        Back to the gold box. I like that little "dust collector". Makes you stop and think about how to get into it. 😄

        I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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        • daleD Offline
          dale
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          Speaking of Gold Boxes, you triggered a memory.( If your gonna collect dust, might as well do it with flair)
          Bill Reid (12 January 1920 – 13 March 1998) http://www.billreidfoundation.org/
          A Canadian Artist that has become one of the best known sculptors in the style of the Haida First Nations. Born to an American Father and a Haida Mother Reid has helped to re-establish a long tradition of traditional forms and subject matter that was becoming a lost art, (using both traditional and modern materials).
          If you have the pleasure of standing next to one of his monumental pieces, I guarantee yow will be in awe.
          Some of his gold work.Screen shot 2011-03-09 at 8.21.45 AM.pngScreen shot 2011-03-09 at 8.26.55 AM.png
          This next piece is called "The Raven and the First Man"
          It is based on a Haida myth that has the Raven (known as the trickster) finding the first Humans hiding in a clam shell, and he is depicted coaxing them out. Carved in a block of Yellow Cedar.Screen shot 2011-03-09 at 8.25.18 AM.pngScreen shot 2011-03-09 at 8.41.09 AM.pngScreen shot 2011-03-09 at 8.40.12 AM.png
          The next piece is called "The Spirit of Hadai Gwaii", and is the plaster maquette for the bronze cast for the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC. This same piece was later carved out of a massive piece of jade.
          And a detail from that piece.Screen shot 2011-03-09 at 8.47.05 AM.pngScreen shot 2011-03-09 at 9.19.31 AM.png

          Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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          • mitcorbM Offline
            mitcorb
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            These too, are amazing. Thank you, dale.

            I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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            • unclebimU Offline
              unclebim
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              amada_02.jpg
              http://www.matthias-studio.com/index.html
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OZY6uu41V0

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              • daleD Offline
                dale
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                unclebim
                Thanks for this post. I was so taken by Matthias's work, and in particular his process and the way he has expressed it on his website (once again) http://www.matthias-studio.com/index.html, that I emailed him to not only ask permission to further post some images, but to also find out what software he was modeling, and rendering in. He was kind enough to contact me, and stated that he uses Rhino, and Vray. He did point out that the work is not built directly from the models, but used as a method of sketching to refine and familiarize himself with the geometry of the concept.
                His website is really worth the time to visit as it shows his creative process by exhibiting concepts from hand sketches, though computer modeling, to finished piece. A rare chance to see the creative mind st work.Picture 982.pngPicture 976.pngPicture 979.pngPicture 977.pngPicture 978.pngPicture 981.png
                And another piece.Picture 980.png

                Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                • bmikeB Offline
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                  skin on frame kayaks... someday i'd like to build and paddle one.

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                  • soloS Offline
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                    Big Bamboo sculpture, a must see.

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                    (www.pbs.org)

                    http://www.solos-art.com

                    If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                    • boofredlayB Offline
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                      That is very cool Pete. I wish I were in New York to see it in person.

                      http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                      • arail1A Offline
                        arail1
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                        @unknownuser said:

                        That is very cool Pete. I wish I were in New York to see it in person.

                        Pretty sure it's been taken down. I saw it soon after it was erected and it was quite spectacular.

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                        • daleD Offline
                          dale
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                          @solo said:

                          Big Bamboo sculpture, a must see.

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                          These are two really creative guys. I would have loved to have seen this sculpture. Makes a lot of installations look lame.
                          Their website http://www.starnstudio.com/

                          Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                            dale
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                            Obsessive compulsive over your vehicle? Somehow it's hard for me to get that way over my Toyota Tundra plain Jane, but if you need new digs for that beauty you own then check out the Maserati garage design competition.

                            http://www.designdriven.us/Picture 984.png


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                            Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                              @dale said:

                              Obsessive compulsive over your vehicle? Somehow it's hard for me to get that way over my Toyota Tundra plain Jane, but if you need new digs for that beauty you own then check out the Maserati garage design competition.

                              http://www.designdriven.us/

                              Small world, I've done work on several other projects with the architect who did the tent / garage for the red Mini!

                              mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                                http://www.dailytonic.com/news-by-bottcherhenssler-and-elisa-strozyk-for-bower-de/

                                Elisa Strozyk is the winner of the German Design Newcomer Award 2010

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                                Boewer_Wooden_Carpet_Elisa_Strozyk_1.jpg

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                                  My favorite:

                                  1950 Kleinschnittger designed within a few months an almost entirely new vehicle, the 125 F Whose body was not made of steel, but aluminum, and was placed on a light single-beam frame. Thanks to this choice of materials and construction, it weighed only 170 kg. The small car was a one-cylinder two-stroke engine with 122 cc of the ILO-engine. With (last) 6 hp peak power the car reached a top speed of 70 km / h. The front engine was installed and the fuel consumption was just under 3 liters per 100 km. The car had a column shift, but not a reverse gear because he was so light that it could be lifted simple for turning. Place was for two adults. The Kleinschnittger had no doors and the side walls were like a sports car cut far he had only a soft top.

                                  Charly


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                                  He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                  • daleD Offline
                                    dale
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                                    @bmike said:

                                    @dale said:

                                    Obsessive compulsive over your vehicle? Somehow it's hard for me to get that way over my Toyota Tundra plain Jane, but if you need new digs for that beauty you own then check out the Maserati garage design competition.

                                    http://www.designdriven.us/

                                    Small world, I've done work on several other projects with the architect who did the tent / garage for the red Mini!

                                    Well I think this a a very attractive design. I'd boot the mini out and put my studio in it 👿

                                    Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                                    • david_hD Offline
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                                      Ah . .brings back so many memories of the many pleasant days at the amusement parks where I had the pleasure of bashing one of those into somebody else! 💚

                                      If I make it look easy...It is probably easy

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                                      • daleD Offline
                                        dale
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                                        @unclebim said:

                                        http://www.dailytonic.com/news-by-bottcherhenssler-and-elisa-strozyk-for-bower-de/

                                        Elisa Strozyk is the winner of the German Design Newcomer Award 2010

                                        unclebim
                                        Nice find. Interesting designer. http://www.elisastrozyk.de/seite/woodtex/wooden%20textiles.html
                                        She is doing some work with thermochromic surfaces that is interesting.
                                        A detail on the above wooden carpets


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                                        Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                                        • daleD Offline
                                          dale
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                                          Charly
                                          OMG they are tiny!!!
                                          I see why David thinks of Bump-em-carsScreen shot 2011-03-14 at 12.39.29 PM.png

                                          Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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                                          • daleD Offline
                                            dale
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                                            Design and Craftsmanship.
                                            It is probably fitting to acknowledge that it has been a part of the human condition forever.

                                            There are not many who do not know about the beautiful 17,000 year old cave art at Lascaux France.Screen shot 2011-03-15 at 7.36.59 AM.png


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                                            Just monkeying around....like Monsanto

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