Surfing through Hyperspace…

Found this surfing for ideas today and plan on finding a copy of it.

Learning to see into the 4th Dimension.

From a series called “Dimensions” I found from a Frenchman named Etienne Ghys.

Bomberbike.

UFO Cthulhu Destroys Wind Turbine

A wind turbine in England has been destroyed, and one of it’s 65 foot long blades is missing in a strange case locals are blaming on UFO’s

Holy Shnikey. This one is definitely one of the more interesting bits I’ve seen in awhile. Not sure what to make of this one.

Oh wait, it gets better:

Locals started reporting strange “flashing orangey-yellow spheres over Lincolnshire” the evening before the mystery destruction. Then at 4am, locals heard a “massive bang” and reported lights in the vicinity of the noise. By dawn, what you see in the above picture was what remained, and the missing blade on the wind turbine was no where to be found.

Just for good measure, some locals claim the UFO’s had arms like an Octopus!

Hm. via http://www.inquisitr.com/14651/ufo-destroys-wind-turbine/

Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig

Found it, just thought I’d share.

View this document on Scribd

I want one of THESE.

Some goofball had the temerity to weld up a single-sided front fork with an automobile wheel on it for his mountain bike. Amazing. I’m left speechless. This guy belongs in the Dead Baby Bike Club…

Via Instructables.

Wow. Recording dreams? Tell me it ain’t so.

In this day and age, I find it difficult to believe sometimes what we as a race find ourselves capable of. When do you call a full stop on things like this though?

“By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams.” The scientists, lead by chief researcher Yukiyaso Kamitani, focused on the image recognition procedures in the retina of the human eye.

From ‘Scientists develop software that can map dreams’, Telegraph UK

Hm. You won’t be finding me lining up to test THAT equipment….it’s over stuff like this that my inner neo-Luddite comes out and starts swingin’.

-k.

King Mob’s Spikes…

I awoke this morning with an idea bubbling in my brain that involved electrical generation and ferrofluids. Did a little research and this little thing came up:

It’s a sculpture project by a couple  of Japanese kids. Way cool, reminds me of these:

I hope you learned something today…heh heh heh

-k.

Feeling as Seeing

For most of my life, I’ve had difficulty drawing three-dimensional objects. Not unusual at all, I know.

More recently as I’ve been creating lots of new work for my art classes, I’ve been banging my head against the wall for a way of visualizing the reflections from shiny objects and rendering it on paper. It’s always been difficult for me to get the shapes and values correct for objects I can see.

Today I had a breakthrough–I’ve always been able to feel certain things without having to see them; call it kinesthetic sense, call it whatever. I’ve never actually applied this sense to drawing before today, and I have to say it yields interesting results.

I’ll post up some examples later…

-k.

Recent works

So, I have been working on a few pieces for my current schedule of art classes that I figured I ought to share with my non-existent audience…

My Sekhmet statue has been coming along nicely…first, the clay original.

Next, the latex is painted on to create a mold. This process was sorta stinky and took a long time. After that, I covered the latex in plaster-infused gauze, which took a long time. Sadly, I didn’t take any pics of this part of the process, but you can see the end result below.

First, the latex mold after removal from the clay:

Also, the gauze/plaster backup mold:

Cool, huh?

Now, the finished plaster statuette I cast with an added bunch of yellow pigment:

Beautiful, no?

-k.