Ben Etherington
I've been twenty four years on this earth. Chicago dwelling realist/skeptic. I do crash safety research, mandolin, photography and coffee. I'm engaged to Analiese.
I've been twenty four years on this earth. Chicago dwelling realist/skeptic. I do crash safety research, mandolin, photography and coffee. I'm engaged to Analiese.
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Chris Burden - Metropolis II
Four years in the making, and currently installed at LACMA
Watch a short documentary about it HEREvia Art Blart
“Miniature cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour; every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulate through the dense network of buildings.” Damn!
Sarah Frost, Debris, 2009
Went RA and took this pic of the Jeff Koons. Love how it looks see through with the reflection :)
Martin Puryear
We had a few photos of this piece in our sculpture studio at school. I got to stare at it during class.
A few more pieces are to be found on clickthrough. Absolutely gorgeous.
Absolutely gorgeous. (via Boing Boing)
(Source: vimeo.com)
(Emiliy Roysdon via No Smarties)
Books (also on Flickr)
Evan Penny is an incredible realist sculpture who refuses to stick within the conventional idea of scale. What an amazing cognitive dissonance between lifelike and completely impossible.
(via Cool Hunting)
The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine’s mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box.
This one’s a bit old but still pretty awesome. Statistics art is pretty powerful. (via Gizmodo)
