Kira Shaimanova is a 3D artist who constructs subjects and scenes out of clay, then photographs them to make the final product.
I love her sweet and creepy little displays. A fair amount of the undead grace her work…
I first saw her work here.
Tag: sculpture
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Look at this incredible knit skeleton by Ben Cuevas!
Yes, I said knit…
This installation is part of the Transcending the Material project.
More pictures here.
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I caught the end of the Food Network’s Horror Cake Challenge last night, and two of the cakes were so impressive that I’ve been combing the web in an attempt to find pictures or videos to share.
I could only find one lousy screen capture, which doesn’t do a bit of justice to the cake and demonic team of sweets on the side:
The other phenomenal cake was covered in fondant that looked like human skin (filled with stitches), and it was bisected to reveal a human chopped in half on the inside.
If the Food Network is airing this show in your neighborhood, don’t miss the last ten minutes or so!
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This is directly from the files of Dream Collaborations I’ve Envisioned, but Never Thought I’d Actually Get to See.
The Brothers Quay are shooting a film at the Mutter Museum.
I cannot think of a more perfect team to utilize the museum’s contents in film. I’m eager to see the results.
“Our films are dark fairy tales with elements of grotesquerie and the pathological,” Stephen Quay said on a recent afternoon.
Timothy added, “We set them in a twilight world, midway between sleep and wakefulness.”
See the Brothers’ last incredible exhibition I visited in NY here.
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Eureka! I was doing some searches, trying to find where the Predator pumpkin came from…and am image of a similar style led me to THIS genius.
See more of Ray’s pumpkin carving here.
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Last week I visited the Hollywood Wax museum for the first time since I was about eight years old.
I’m going to be honest: wax figures look MUCH better in the photos we see circulating when they debut in museums. In person, many of them are blotchy inhabitants of the uncanny valley. I felt a kind of mild disgust (when I wasn’t chuckling).
Of course, in the Chamber of Horrors, EVERYTHING is designed to look odd…so it works. Here are a few selections.
The Exorcist
House of Wax
Bella!
Lon!
I would have loved to see Vincent Price among some of the classic horror actors.
The Cryptkeeper, a childhood favorite.
Beetlejuice/geuse
And my favorite photo in the bunch:
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Okay, here are two totally unrelated things I just came across. If you really use your imagination, they fit right into the Halloween Countdown.
First, look at this fruit bat. Check out that tubular nose! This guy is a cut above your generic Halloween bat in terms of personality. I’m constantly tempted to imitate how (my twisted brain believes) he talks:
Next, the anatomically correct Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Jason Freeny.
On the flip side, we have this extremely INCORRECT rendition of pumpkin anatomy, featured on The Surfing Pizza. This toy was placed in the perfect category of “Not Really Evil, But Kind of a Jerk.”
Never thought you’d get to see a rubber, rabbit-faced, four-limbed, lanky, pumpkin-headed creature, riding upright on a bike with more than a healthy dose of road rage despite the gigantic lollipop on board? VIOLA! Thanks, Pizza!
Now, the Claws Will Tear Us Apart shirt. A favorite animal, a favorite album, a clever image:
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This image arrived in some spam email (yes, I actually got spam about paper sculptures from an unknown source with no image credits).
I don’t have an artist to credit, but I love it. Far superior to junk mail about my supposed inheritances from foreign princes and medications to magically grow sexual organs.
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Talk about perfect placement! I’m sure we’ve all thought “If only I had the perfect place for my deer sculpture and my thermos…”
Well, Misha Kahn constructed a very unique and personal storage system.
Apparently he surveyed the random objects in his apartment, printed out life size cut outs, and assembled them into a giant thought bubble that served as a construction blueprint.
Constructed of laser cut mdf, and pink foam, then fiberglassed and coated with molded polysterene. The interior is painted and flocked, with hardwood (dovetailed) drawers, and door. Stands 7 feet’ 6” inches high.
Source (with more pictures)
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The human tendency to anthropomorphize never gets old to me. I sit here, staring at inanimate objects, KNOWING they are inanimate…yet neurons keep firing in my brain that endow these objects with human pathos.
There’s been a trend of emotional robots surfacing around the Internet these days (I love every minute of it).
Anton Tang makes brilliant use of our inability to avoid feeling something for objects placed in human positions and situations in his series of tiny cardboard people placed around Singapore.
Magical!
See many more, plus commentary in this post.See a descriptive post with many more examples here.
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