MetaFilter posts tagged with metal and sculpture

to pump, to prime, to caress

le morte de bea arthur — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:24:58 -0800

The kinetic sculptures of Anne Lilly.

Detonography

homunculus — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:31:10 -0800

Detonography is a technique created by Evelyn Rosenberg for making metal sculpture. Detonographs are created by detonating a sheet of plastic explosive over a sandwich of a carved image and a metal plate, forcing the metal plate onto the carved image. [Via]

I, Ron Butterfly

zamboni — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:15:30 -0800

Handcrafted praying mantis sculptures, in brass and silver.

Structures Sonores

Grangousier — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:24:31 -0800

In 1952, Bernard and François BASCHET reveal a new acoustic principle. They manage to amplify the internal vibration of metal, thus founding a new acoustic instrumental family : The Sound Structures The instruments they created - especially the Cristal family of instruments, an astonishing modernist take on the glass armonica - make a sound that is unusual, beautiful and sometimes slightly scary. There have been virtuosi of the instrument: Jacques and Yvonne Lasry were its first masters, played today by Thomas Bloch and Michel Deneuve among others. Ubu-Web have Chronophagie by Lasry-Baschet available for download. The instrument was feaured on the soundtrack to Cocteau's Testament of Orpheus, but it's probably best known (to British people of a particular age, anyway), for providing the (faintly terrifying) theme to Picture Box, a schools programme of the 1980s.

Gregory Brotherton—metal sculpture

Slithy_Tove — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:58:21 -0800

Gregory Brotherton. Figurative metal sculpture. Often shiny. Some using discarded machine parts.

The Ceramic and Metal Sculptures of Clayton G. Bailey

KathyK — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:28:43 -0800

The Ceramic and Metal Sculptures of Clayton G. Bailey Take a look at Bailey's Studio Cam to see what he's been working on lately. It might be one of his life-size metal robot sculptures or a sonic pop ray gun or maybe it's Bender! (via In4mador)