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POPSWillard Wigan Indescribable ! I say indescribable, because I don't want to limit my vocabulary of adjectives to wow! The man is illiterate, but a genius just the same. An artistic genius, but I wonder that if someone had taken the time to try and educate him if he would not have become a great surgeon, perhaps the greatest surgeon of our day. Please view the video.
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POPSNew life for ancient Syrian sculptures more: Fragments were initially reassembled with temporary glue and later more permanently attached with reversible epoxy resin. No metal framework or pins were used. Break marks remain very visible, and no attempt has been made to disguise them. Where large pieces are missing (some since antiquity), roughly shaped inserts have been added, using a mixture of ground basalt, sand and resin, in a slightly lighter shade of grey than the original stone. Some fragments of molten glass and bitumen from the Charlottenburg museum roof have been left on surfaces which will not be visible on display, since they are now part of the history of the sculptures. Conservation work is due to be concluded in October.
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POPS Awesome Sand Sculptures Now that it’s summer, lots of people will eventually go to the many beautiful sandy beaches around the world but these guys spent almost their whole vacation (or longer) making these beautiful sand sculptures, each made by hand!
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POPSHarrisand I've been to Harrison both during the sand comppetition and when its not going on. I've ones better than these ones. Of course I've also seen worse. from http://www.harrisand.org/faqs.htm they start the "Tuesday after Labour Day. The final judging is on Sunday afternoon and the Exhibition of finished sculpture continues until Canadian Thanksgiving/Columbus Day in Ocotober. "
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POPSScads of Sculptures I absolutely love sand sculpture. Simply the nature of the endeavor fascinates me. Here is a big assortment of delightful work. Click on link for larger images. Enjoy!
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POPSGlass Animals
Long overshadowed by their famed floral kin, some of the exquisite 19th century glass animals housed at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) have finally hit the road for a Minnesota exhibit - the first time in Harvard's nearly 130-year ownership that the rare sculptures are known to have left Cambridge. The exhibit of 29 invertebrate models, dubbed "The Glass Sea Treasures of Harvard: The Age of Darwin," continues through next February at the Underwater Adventures Aquarium in Bloomington, Minn. At that time, the newly cleaned and restored creatures are expected to migrate eastward en masse for a possible exhibition on campus. Harvard's invertebrate models were crafted by a father-and-son team of German artisans, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, members of a family whose glassmaking secrets dated to the 15th century. Over five decades starting in 1886, the Blaschkas went on to craft the Harvard Museum of Natural History's renowned array of more than 3,000 glass flowers.
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POPSArtificial Sand Dune to House New Museum According to this blog post on Gizmodo, the new Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, Qatar is being built in an artificial 350,000 square foot sand dune. It won't be completed until 2011, but in the meantime take a look at the mock-up.
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POPSSmallest Works of Art on Earth Willard Wigan - From being a traumatised and unrecognised dyslexic child, he is now emerging as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time
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POPSColorado's Great Sand Dunes Notice in the first pic the semi-buried branches. The bulk of the dunes is stationary, but there are "escape dunes" that can migrate, sometimes daily, and can create patches of ghost forest. This clip inspired by this one, and by experiencing them firsthand.
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