Real world Wip. Glass sculptures.
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I appreciate how hard it is to photograph, so a 'short' walk around with video might go some way to capturing the artworks
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Here you go Baz, best I could manage in the wind today.
It's still a construction zone as you can see. -
That is crazy!
At night it will be amazing when lit up!
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Actually Rich it needs the sun to work, at night it will be more of a glowing obelisk with a deep pool of moving light at the base. The whole thing changes constantly with the movement of the sun. It will be different at different times of the day and the year and depending on the weather. Plus the whole block expands and contracts as it heats and cools, and we have used a semi fluid gel to create expansion joints and these layers "breath" so you get comet like bubbles shooting through the whole thing. It looks totally different all the way around.
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@box said:
Here you go Baz, best I could manage in the wind today.
It's still a construction zone as you can see.That gave us a bit of a taste,ta.
Looks amazing and proves that its a FPS experience
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From the sides it looks like a Matrix image.
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Cool glass mille-feuille !
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whoa!
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Here's a bit of an easter update.
There was a bit of an issue with the transportation that caused a problem in one of the expansion layers of the second sculpture that produced a clouding effect right in front of the girl's face. As a result we needed to split the block and remove a 400 kilo section. Once separated we could clean the faces and redo the expansion layer.
As this has all moved around 700km from the studio we had to find somewhere closer to work on it. Who would have thought you could split 400 kilos off a 3 ton block of glass in a tin shed in the back of beyond!A few images....
Here she is with the light behind her before we start the repair. Only relevant because we never could see them like this in the studio.
This is the block split into 2 sections, that skinny little bit on the A frame really does weigh around 400 kilos.
And here we are all back together with no blemishes. Now it's just another forklift, truck drive and crane swing back into place.
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not enough "thumbs" for this... simply amazing -
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Speaking of thumbs, I've got 2.
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We've something in common!
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@rich o brien said:
We've something in common!
Two Thumbs!! my cats are working on that.
With the advances in technology today i'm seeing neural linked robotic prosthetic opposable thumbs, once they have that the furry little bastards will control the world.
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Great pics!
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As an update, there have been some issues with the 'client', pubic art is always problematic and keeping everyone happy is basically impossible.
However, two weeks after we reinstalled the second sculpture they have deigned to go and look at them. As a result of their 'viewing' I received an SMS telling me that they have been approved. I really wonder what these people think.Sorry, no photos as such because they are still covered until they decide to unveil them, at a date to be decided.
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@box said:
As an update, there have been some issues with the 'client', pubic art is always problematic and keeping everyone happy is basically impossible.
However, two weeks after we reinstalled the second sculpture they have deigned to go and look at them. As a result of their 'viewing' I received an SMS telling me that they have been approved. I really wonder what these people think.Sorry, no photos as such because they are still covered until they decide to unveil them, at a date to be decided.
To quote John Cleese:
'Yes, well of course that's just the sort of blinkered, philistine, pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss about the struggling artist! You excrement! '
It was probly just an OH&S sign off tho.
Heading Ballarat way in a couple of weeks, so tis hopefully unveiled, otherwise might have to do a bit of undercover viewing.
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I'll give you the secret code Baz, to the gaffer tape holding down the fancy plastic tarp. And the magic spanner that will allow you to take the finger tight scaffold clamp off the corner so you don't have to jump the fence.
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@box said:
I'll give you the secret code Baz, to the gaffer tape holding down the fancy plastic tarp. And the magic spanner that will allow you to take the finger tight scaffold clamp off the corner so you don't have to jump the fence.
Excellent, I will wear my hard hat and an old 'Access all areas' pass from a Moomba parade from 10 years ago.
BTW, did you know that Moomba means 'Up your bum' in Aboriginal. Not 'let's get together and have fun' as promoted by the organizers.
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It's been a long involved story but the sculptures have finally come out to see the light of day. They have moved to a beautiful home in a sculpture park not far from Ballarat. Here's a quick couple of snaps.
Hopefully I'll have better later. They are incredibly hard to photograph.
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