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Chakaia Booker’s Twist of Fate

Chakaia Booker, Twist of Fate, 2003 (Rubber tire and wood, 25 x 31.5 x 20 inches) (via 3quarks)

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links for 2007-10-31: Kuksi interview

Dark Roasted Blend: The Art of the Grotesque Interview with Kris Kuksi (blogged previously) with a lot of new images. (tags: art surrealism Kuksi sculpture grotesque)

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Coptic and Ethiopian binding

Daniel Essig, Double Banded Centipede Book Daniel Essig draws his inspiration from the ancient Coptic style of book binding: chain-stitched bindings and wooden covers, engraved and decorated with found objects. peacay, of course was onto this stuff ages ago. The … more…

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Gregory Barsamian’s Persistence of Vision

The Athanasius Kircher Society returns from a fortnight’s summer hiatus with some extraordinary and ingenious animated sculpture by Gregory Barsamian. A sequence of complex three-dimensional forms are fixed to a rapidly rotating armature, and viewed under stroboscopic lights. Barsamian’s site … more…

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The ElectriClerk

Ingenious retrofitting of a Macintosh SE with a 1923 Underwood manual typewriter (or should that be the other way around?)

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Stone River, by Andy Goldsworthy

Stone River at Stanford Stanford, CA, Sept. 4, 2001?In late August, British artist Andy Goldsworthy (born 1956) completed Stone River, a 320-foot sculpture on the campus of Stanford University. Constructed of sandstone from university buildings destroyed in the 1906 and … more…

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