Image: Photo of two metal circles on metal stands filled with multicolored resin and automative paint starbursts planted outside the artist’s studio like flowers. Photo by Debra Domal
These human-made flowers, grown from repurposed materials, seem perfectly at home in nature.
Source: Meet local 3D artist Gregory Stallmeyer : Arts : Smile Politely
Designer Hilla Shamia combines natural wood pieces with cast aluminum to make slick yet rustic furniture pieces.
via Cast Aluminum and Wood Fuse Into Extraordinary Furniture | Designs & Ideas on Dornob.
It took 45 tons of recycled steel and wood to put this beast together. Overall, the elephant is about 39 feet high and 26 feet wide. It was meant to be an approximate replica of The Sultan’s Elephant, a huge elephant sculpture created for the traveling French public art show of the same name.
via Pachyderm Perfection: Recycled Robotic Elephant | Gadgets, Science & Technology.
I could watch Jimmy DiResta all day long. How does he know how to do everything?!
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This is the second installment of the restoration of my 1911 Chandler & Price printing press , i get the frozen parts moving agin for first time in 20-30 years. This press was used a decoration outside (in the rain) of an antique shop in the Catskills.
“I’ve always designed and built what i would like to have for myself”, explains Joel. “When i give something a thump-test, i want it to be rock solid. I most certainly don’t want anything faux.” This design criteria goes into every piece that he creates at The Weld House.
We would like to thank Robert Champion for sharing his wonderful pallet tables.
Robert is in the Chicago area and in need of metal frame bases for his tables.
If you are a welder/fabricator or know someone who is, please contact Robert at robert.champion.melts.face at Gmail.
Robert we wish you the best of luck in your search!
Mike Suri takes scrap metal and turns it around, hammers it out, paints, shines and buffs it and then presents it to us as something you want to put on your shelf, not your curbside.
Making art from waste is not a new concept, but Suri’s work practically begs you to ignore that it was ever on its way to the dump in the first place.
This October, Good:a gallery will be showcasing Crumple, comprising his three latest series – Coleman’s, Galvies, and other crushes.
Opening Reception
Friday, October 5th
7 to 10 pm
GOOD: A Gallery
4325 N Mississippi Avenue
Portland, Oregon
Austin-based artist Matt Norris makes VERY cool things out of metal (recent pieces in memory include a skeleton pirate sculpture and an amazingly-detailed praying mantis metal sculpture) but one of our favorite things he makes is little brass and recycled bicycle chain pillbugs (or roly polys, where I was raised). Made out of brass you can get them brass-colored or he also makes them with colored patinas. Small enough to fit in your hand but substantial enough to stand out on a shelf or table, at only $40 a piece they are kind of steal for a handmade piece of awesomeness. Find some on his Etsy store (maybe buy a few, because again, they are awesome).
