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.
Erica Simmons is an imaginative painter and sculptor who is driven by an incredible passion for self-expression through art. Her works are often noted for their unique and innovative style that focuses on recycling found materials, such as old cassettes and used books.
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.
Zena Holloway started experimenting with the camera at age 18, while she was traveling around the world as a scuba diving instructor. Now, based in London, she shoots for a range of magazines and advertising clients.
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.
Sergey Bobkov invented a unique technology of making animals from wood chips. He carves the chips into any shape he wants after they were soaked in water for several days.
Sergey turned down more than $17,000 for his Eagle, saying the sculptures are not for sale.
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