We know that many of the followers of this blog also love a creative and interesting clock. Chris Blasius of Germany has a new one that is fun to watch.
There is a lot of action (which is often unusual in a clock) so watch the video.
Chris designs with a wonderful sense of humor. Visit his website here to see other design and purchase plans for making his creations. Enjoy!
Marji and I attempt to put aside one week per year during which we collaborate on an outdoor sculpture for our growing sculpture collection. Traditionally this is always an outdoor sculpture, in non-traditional materials and in large scale. We both drop all regular work and direct our attention to this project.
The concept started in 2009 and we completed projects in 2009, 2010 and 2011. We missed 2012, and 2013 and were excited to be able to return to the tradition this year. We have been collecting ideas for awhile.
We now have gracing various locations in our woods, 13 more "trees" constucted of aluminum flashing and PVC pipe.
Marji has blogged extensively about the project, construction techniques and earlier designs over on her blog, Ashbee Design. Check it out.
Brett is a kinetic sculptor working from the otherside of the world in Australia. But thanks to the wonders of the digital world those of us interested in odd things (like kintectic sculpture) get to stay connected and share work. Brett recently emailed me about a new piece he has just finished with a YouTubelink.
Brett writes the following about this piece: "The video shows my mechanical butterfly sculpture titled "Butterfly Effect." The sculpture features a mechanical butterfly made of wood and aluminum, with small turning gears on its body. It takes a different flight path on each rotation of the main gear, taking millions of revolutions to follow the same flight path again."
Enjoy!
Packing peants and windows...
Add fans and look what happens......
Zimoun : 36 ventilators, 4.7m3 packing chips, 2014 from STUDIO ZIMOUN on Vimeo.
What a fascinating, simple and entertaining installation by Swiss Artist, Zimoun. This is on display in the windows on the Museo d'Arte di Lugano located in Switzerland.
via Colasssal
I have shared the work of Dolf Perenti before. Here is another sculptural escapement mechanism created by him.
He describes it as:
"Another escapement with a wooden linkage. A normal pendulum would obstruct the view of the escapement so I had to do some bending and curving of some parts ;). Adjustable, sliding counterweight of pendulum at the backside compensates for forward tilting of the pendulum. Pendulum itself is adjustable for tuning the escapement (rotating of the pointform), Semicircular attachment on pendulum is adjustable for finetuning the escapement. A little weight pulls on a pulley behind the ecsapewheel."
Very organic. See more of his work at his YouTube page here.