Do you remember Candyland, the racing board game? Kan Dee Corner made it come to life in her own garden with the help of her friends and neighbors. She created 7 little micro-gardens in the area, each of them matches the board game. They have a theme, smell, color and, where it was possible, a taste made with interspersing herbs (lemon balm in the yellow garden), Licorice in the purple one, etc.
Students Christian Zwick and Konstantin Jerabek from University of Karlsruhe won a design competition with the experimental house design Roll It. The structure consists of an outer shell that is composed of four support rings, a torsion inner shell membrane as well as a covering. Two movable furniture roll within the solid bowl, and can be positioned differently through the middle wheel, allowing for different functions
Living, sleeping and eating area; you can find them all in the One Log House. Four log houses were built from the trunk of this 247 feet high and 14 feet in diameter Redwood tree.
Len Moore thought about building the Redhouse Log House after he found shelter in the trunk of a burned down Redwood tree, during a storm. He spent months chiseling out the interior and over a year to build it.
Alex Queral does these carved heads out of phone books (then painted with acrylics). In his Artist’s Statement, he says:
I carve the faces out of phone books because I like the three-dimensional quality that results and because of the unexpected results that occur working in this medium. The three-dimensional quality enhances the feeling of the pieces as an object as opposed to a picture.
In carving and painting a head from a phone directory, I’m celebrating the individual lost in the anonymous list of thousands of names that describe the size of the community. In addition, I like the idea of creating something that is normally discarded every year into an object of longevity.
The Jabuticaba, also called The Brazilian Grape Tree, is a fruit-bearing tree native to Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. The fruits that grow directly on the tree’s bark are purplish black, with a white pulp. They can be eaten raw or be used to make jellies and drinks.
Marcus Levine studied fine Art at Jacob Kramer College of Art & Design with Damien Hurst before moving on to do a four year Bachelor of Arts degree course. Working as a digital art designer at Harlec Television (HTV) Bristol and then in his family’s business, Marcus started his artistic work when he wanted to decorate his new apartment with modern art. He is interest in portraits, landscape and the classical nude, currently working/experimenting with other non-traditional media, and more work will be available to see soon.
Doug Landis wasn’t an artist until a high school wrestling accident left him quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down. Concerned that Doug was spending too much time in front of the TV, his brother challenged him to draw and placed a pencil in Doug’s mouth. Doug practiced a lot and with time, he discovered his own style. You can read his full story on his website.
They have no opposing thumb, but they are nature’s best rock climbers.
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