AMBITIOUS plans to erect a life-sized statue of legendary AC/DC front man Bon Scott in his Scottish home town are being backed by the surviving members of the world-renowned music giants. In a major boost for the campaign, the band are promoting the fund raising appeal on their official website. DD8 Music, a community music [...]
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Forgiven Man Graces Church With Its Return
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)-First Congregational United Church of Christ is known for its symbolic Forgiven Man sculpture in the center of the courtyard. And on October 3, 2012, it was stolen. “The statue is an icon to the church. So, when you come to church, you felt like something was missing,” said church member, Larry Walters. [...]
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Manchester United reveal details of monumental Ferguson statue
Plans for a colossal statue of long-time manager Sir Alex Ferguson – at 316ft height, over 10 ft taller than New York’s Statue of Liberty – were unveiled at Manchester United’s Old Trafford ground today. ‘Sir Alex’s statue, to be called ‘The Beacon of the North’, capturing as it does the very essence of the [...]
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Mother’s Day is THIS Sunday!
T- four days till Mother’s Day. If you’re a normal human being, you probably woke up this morning and realized today was the last day to put a card in the mail with hopes of it getting to your mom before Sunday. If you’re lucky enough to live close to your mom, spend the day [...]
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Group Selling $50 Bobble-Heads in Hopes of Funding Edgar Allan Poe Statue
PHOTO VIA EDGAR ALLAN POE FOUNDATION OF BOSTON A group dedicated to bringing a piece of literary history to the streets of Boston is selling bobble-head figurines to expedite the installation of a statue on Boylston Street. For a limited time, 200 Edgar Allan Poe figurines with wobbly noggins will be on sale for $50 each, [...]
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30 Most Unusual Sculpture of the World
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials – typically stone – or marble, metal, glass, or wood. Softer (“plastic”) materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals. The term has been extended to works including sound, text and light. Found objects may be presented as [...]
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Once Upon a Landscape
When the artist Carol Bove was a girl, growing up in Berkeley, Calif., she once helped a friend of her father’s build a fish-shaped junk sculpture on the mud flats of nearby Emeryville, in a kind of guerrilla art park that free-spirited sculptors kept alive and weird for decades beginning in the 1960s. A 1982 article in The [...]
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Student-Created String Sculpture Displayed in Erdman Hall
For the final project in her “Sculpture: Materials and Technique” class, Cities major Andrea Parra ’13 transformed a section of Erdman Hall last week into the setting for a string sculpture meant to “reignite the space by playing with Khan’s linear forms and geometric shapes.” (Louis Khan designed Erdman Hall.) In addition to her sculpture [...]
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Interactive light and laser sculpture
Interactive installations are hot these days. In December I blogged about Textscapes, a wall of words at the Vienna International Airport that changes in response to the number of people walking through the terminal at any given time. Now comes Fluidic, an interactive light sculpture designed by WhiteVOID and the Hyundai Advanced Design Center that [...]
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Matt’s Tip of the Week – “Know Your Stuff”
Master sculptor Matt Glenn discusses the importance of doing research on the project you are sculpting. Always start with a sketched image, from there a live model is the best way to accurately see the anatomy of your project. Share on Facebook
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