Frank Lloyd Wright

The Shelter Project at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. About Trevor Pan. Heloise Crista, the Art of Sculpting. LINK: Youtube

Adam Reeder Sculpts a Head in Less Than 50 Minutes

Adam Reeder Sculpts a head and Face in less than 50 minutes. LINK, Via: Youtube

Sculpting in Solid Mercury, with Liquid Nitrogen

For an eerily beautiful science experiment -- how to cast solid, if fleeting, shapes from normally liquid mercury -- just keep it at 320 degrees below zero, with liquid nitrogen. Snip from Theo's experiment, documented in this video:

"What you consider solid, liquid or gas depends entirely on where you live. For example, men from cold, cold Mars might build their houses out of ice. Women from Venus, where the average temperature is about 870°F, could bathe in liquid zinc. We think mercury is a liquid metal, but its all relative. At one temperature, the mercury atoms arrange themselves into a solid crystal; at another, they flow freely around each other as a liquid. Children from Pluto (like mine, for example) could happily cast their toy soldiers out of mercury, because on that frigid planet it is a solid, malleable metal a lot like tin. Here on temperate Earth, you need a stove to cast tin, but a tank of liquid nitrogen to make mercury figurines..." LINK: Youtube

Sculpting the Tree Brain Mugs

Here is a time-lapse peek at a set of tiki mugs taking shape for Steve over at thesneeze.com. The mugs are based on the Tree Brain - and odd fungal growth in Steve's front yard that had attained a very bizarre quasi-celebrity status. Ill give the finished sculptures a few days to firm up a bit so I can finish their bottoms (eew), followed by several weeks of slow drying, a bisque fire in the kiln, glaze application, and back in the kiln for a final glaze fire. LINK, Via: Youtube