Cute and friendly by larken81 on Flickr.
Wide-eyed and bushy tailed.
‘O words are lightly spoken,’
Said Pearse to Connolly,
‘Maybe a breath of politic words
Has withered our Rose Tree;
Or maybe but a wind that blows
Across the bitter sea.’
‘It needs to be but watered,’
James Connolly replied,
‘To make the green come out again
And spread on every side,
…
Abigail Reynolds - Mount Fear (2010)
One of the coolest concepts in thematic cartography is the statistical surface: the act of representing numerical data as a 3D landscape.
Reynolds’ cardboard sculpture of London obliterates the city’s physical terrain and replaces it with one derived from crime data. The result is a mountainous and desolate landscape, one that offers a potentially more realistic representation of the hostilities of the urban experience.
Cup and Saucer, Elfriede Holzer-Kjellberg, Arabia Factory, Helsinki, Finland, hand thrown porcelain, pierced patter infilled with clear glaze, Victoria and Albert Museum.
No. 16 / Evan Stremke
Website for the metalsmith/painter Kaytria Stauffer
Yutaka Sone - Little Manhattan (2011) - 2.5 tons of marble carved into a precise model of Manhattan
OH MY. OH MY.