year 2011

Happy New Year

2011
Each year and you is fine
Together to achieve our hopes and aspirations

Sand Sculpture

 Art Exhibition in Australia

Sand sculptors have been busy preparing for the Frankston Sand Sculpting Australia exhibition in Melbourne. Artists from around the world presented their version of the sand sculptures depicting a variety of dirty tricks: insects, frogs and the like.The exhibition, made completely out of sand and looking absolutely spectacular is the brainchild of Brad Goll from the United States and Karen Fralich from Canada. After all, the exhibits should have fit the theme “Creepy Crawlies”. In slang it means any disgusting insects, causing the observer spine. Their versions of “tingling” presented by artists from Australia, Belgium, Britain, Holland, Ireland, Canada and other countries. The exhibition runs until April 2011. 

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Sand Sculpture 2008

SAND SCULPTURES, FRANKSTON

Drawing on the human body

Based in New York City (although currently residing in Chiang Mai, Thailand), artistic duo Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector recreate classic works of art using the human body as the canvas. In their Museum Anatomy series, Chadwick serves as the canvas. His ability to maintain a constant pose requires incredible patience and body control.

As Chadwick holds a position, Laura uses her amazing painting skills to recreate classic works of art. The human body presents a unique set of challenges not seen on a typical canvas. Working with the contours and curves of the human body is very difficult, but Laura makes it look effortless. Check out the incredible collection below, and be sure to check out
CHADWICKANDSPECTOR.COM for more artwork and information.

mermaid statue

Scotland’s town of Cumbernauld has recently become the proud “host” of a beautiful mermaid statue that seems to be guarding the town’s entrance.
 

Standing at over 33ft tall, this statue is entirely made out of metal and depicts a beautiful four-armed mermaid, with two of her arms stretched outwards, as if to protect the town, and the other two holding up her mermaid tail.Her name is Arria and she was thought of and designed by English sculptor Andy Scott.

The real spectacle begins at nightfall as the statue features a rig of multicolored lights inside it’s structure that all lit up, putting Arria in a whole new “light”.

The costs for making the statue reached up to around $400,000, but local authorities hope the mermaid will be the town’s lucky charm.

sandcastles

What is more reminiscent of holidays than building sandcastles on the beach? Not that everyone thinks of them in the same way. For many, sand is the perfect media for expressing their art as sculptures, and some of these are truly mind-blowing in their complexity.

beautiful places in the world

Photographing in the East of Asia, it's the most beautiful places in the world

Google car

Company uses Google's biggest search engine in the world of vehicles carrying cameras to photograph the streets three-dimensional images to be placed in Google Earth mapping program known as Technology Forum has received some photos of this car

Washing machine does not need water

This invention is in the development stage and research conducted at the University of Leeds, UK is one of the new projects for the month of May and the idea of washing clothes using granules such as beads made of nylon. And use small amounts of water 90% less than Conventional washing and function of the pills on the Elimination of spots, kept in the molecular structure of nylon and may be used hundreds of times in the case of disposal of the possibility of easily recycled, the company says also that the New Washing Machine will provide 1.2 billion tons of water per year, any the equivalent of 17 million swimming pools, and also reduces the emission of carbon dioxide atmosphere. I find through my experience in the scientific field that such effort will provide washing machines and water consumption, electric power and in particular recycling of granules so as to reduce pollution and waste accumulation in the environment.

I leave you with pictures

The robot ice sculptor

Clearly, advances in robotic engineering will soon adversely impact the careers of artists in all sorts of fields! We remember the robot able to draw portraits, recently developed by Goldsmiths University in London. A gadget endowed with equally impressive abilities has been built by McGill University in Canada.

Dreamt up within the framework of a computer assisted architectural programme, FAB@HOME has the ability to create beautiful ice sculptures in a variety of shapes and sizes. The system could ultimately be used to decorate ice hotels, a new concept in tourism for adventurous souls who aren't afraid of the cold!

The European Car

 Electric or hybrid cars have the wind in their sails at the moment. An encouraging development when we consider the extent to which urgent action is required to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, reduce atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers continue to work towards these aims, even if politicians seem to be more lukewarm when it comes to their green commitments, particularly since the 2008 economic crisis...
In the field of automobiles, green technology is winning over more and more consumers. Many manufacturers have developed so-called "zero emission" vehicles. An important sign of the desirability of non-polluting transport: the title of the European Car of the Year, irrespective of category, has been awarded to the Nissan "Leaf". It is the first time that an electric car has picked up the title.

 

 

A camera faster than the human eye

Progress in the field of robotics is reaching the stage that the paranoid amongst us could seriously qualify as worrying! In fact, you could quite easily be left with a nagging sensation that some prototypes could enable the implementation of devices and systems that wouldn't necessarily increase the overall happiness of humankind...

Such is the case with an invention developed by German scientists at the Technical University of Munich. They have developed a miniature camera with a lens that is able to pan and tilt autonomously and that actually works faster than the human eye! In fact, panning speeds can reach 2500 degrees per second! We hardly dare imagine what this kind of system could engender once implanted into a humanoid... "Terminator", does that ring any bells?

Retro Kitchens

Hi kitchen fans, the latest installment is here of 60s-70s kitchens, and the last entry of this type for a little while. I think I've made the point, to show examples of kitchens that we can't believe we really either lived in or were designed, in our recent history! I'll put one up every now and then for another laugh and "yikes!" I'll be replacing this feature with a regularly scheduled Saturday "New/Cool Product." It's important to be aware of what is in the marketplace, and so much is in the marketplace in the world of kitchens. And, having attended 3 design shows in May, I have lots of great material to go through, and I'm really picky too.
So, back to the kitchen of today. It sort of looks like iron fencing, doesn't it? And, the aquamarine? Hmmm, not sure I have an explanation for that! The curtains REALLY give away the time period here, don't you think? But, what really bugs me is the typical cabinetry to the left of the image. I think something there could have had a curve to it. Maybe just curved open shelves between the two tall items. It's just not working for me over there. Oh, and the floor, I can't even go there. Have fun.