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200,000 Clay Figures: British sculptor Antony Gormley is well-known for his
life-size sculptures that creatively mimic the human body, but the figurative clay mounds from his series titled Field, though not as accurate in depicting mankind's form, holds deeper value for the artist. Gormley says of this project, "I wanted to work with people and to make a work about our collective future and our responsibility for it. I wanted the art to look back at us, its makers (and later viewers), as if we were responsible - responsible for the world that it [FIELD] and we were in."
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posted by Fizz
on May 1, 2012 -
14 comments
Geeky? Crafty? Got some time on your hands? Make your own boardgame pieces!
Tutorials for making
custom 3-d Settlers of Catan tiles (and gorgeous custom sets
here, and
here, although with no instructions,alas).
Agricola more your style? Grab some polymer clay and
get making resources,
more resources,
food,
sheep,
more sheep,
boars,
cattle, and (of course)
farmers,
farmers,
farmers,
farmers,
farmers, and
farmers. Don't forget
fences, tiles, and a starting player piece. Lots more in the
image gallery at BoardGameGeek.
posted by arcticwoman
on Mar 2, 2009 -
15 comments
Mingei is a transcultural word which combines the Japanese words for all people (Min) and art (Gei). The site has a flash interface and features over 5,000 high resolution, zoomable objects. More information on the
Mingei Movement.
posted by tellurian
on Jan 27, 2009 -
13 comments
Mona Lisa and other classics in
clay animation.
Joan C. Gratz is the talented artist behind this and
other projects.
This particular short film won an academy award for best animated short film in 1992. I am surprised to have never viewed it before today. Wikipedia has next to nothing on Gratz or her works.
posted by jkafka
on Aug 14, 2006 -
6 comments
The Poincaré Conjecture: If we stretch a rubber band around the surface of an apple, then we can shrink it down to a point by moving it slowly, without tearing it and without allowing it to leave the surface. On the other hand, if we imagine that the same rubber band has somehow been stretched in the appropriate direction around a doughnut, then there is no way of shrinking it to a point without breaking either the rubber band or the doughnut. We say the the surface of the apple is ‘simply connected,’ but that the surface of the doughnut is not. Poincaré, almost a hundred years ago, knew that a two dimensional sphere is essentially characterized by this property of simple connectivity, and asked the corresponding question for the three dimensional sphere (the set of points in four dimensional space at unit distance from the origin). This question turned out be be extraordinarily difficult, and mathematicians have been struggling with it ever since.
...but if you can prove it, [or any of six other '
millenium prize problems'] the
clay mathematics institute wants to line your pockets with $1M
posted by palegirl
on May 24, 2000 -
3 comments