Showing posts with label insects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insects. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2012

Sculpture: Metal Insects



Elizabeth Goluch’s life-like steampunk insect sculptures feature gold, silver, and enamel detailing. Check out her website to see more of her clockwork bugs.





Friday, March 16, 2012

Short Film: Cobwebs


"Cobwebs" by Cyriak

Arachnophobes look away! Cyriak fills our screens (and worst nightmares) with an endless barrage of animated spiders crafted from circuit boards, human heads, and other stuff. Get the Raid!

Monday, March 12, 2012

Video: ANTS in my scanner



Five years ago François Vautier “installed” an ant colony inside a scanner and scanned them each week. The resulting time lapse is perfect for the opening titles — scored by Nine Inch Nails obviously — of the next David Fincher movie.
Five years ago, I installed an ant colony inside my old scanner that allowed me to scan in high definition this ever evolving microcosm (animal, vegetable and mineral). The resulting clip is a close-up examination of how these tiny beings live in this unique ant farm. I observed how decay and corrosion slowly but surely invaded the internal organs of the scanner. Nature gradually takes hold of this completely synthetic environment.

The ants are still alive : the process will continue…

Friday, February 24, 2012

Sculpture: Metalwork Insects

Dermobot (aka Skin Crawler) by Christopher Conte


Custom created for a gallery opening at Wooster Street Social Club for NY Ink
Steel, bronze, and brass with working onboard miniature tattoo machine
Size: 5" x 5" x 4" (12.5cm x 12.5cm x 10cm)

Scarlett by Christopher Conte


Material: Cast bronze with stainless steel, 925 Silver, and Garnet
Size: 2.5 "tall x 5" x 5" (6.5cm x 13cm x 13cm)

Steel Widow by Christopher Conte


Stainless Steel, Plated Brass and Aluminum components.
6 " x 6" x 2" tall (15cm x 15cm x 5cm)
Vipera Berus by  Christopher Conte


Fully Articulated partial snake endoskeleton commissioned by Harrods of London
Material: Stainless steel, Nickel, and Brass
Size: 14" Long x 2.5" wide" (36cm x6.5cm )

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Sculpture: Clockwork Creatures


Mechanized Clockwork Creatures by Daniel Proulx
Available from CatherinetteRings on Etsy

From an alternate dimension where "His Dark Materials" played out, come Daniel Proulx’s astonishing mechanical creepers, crafted from spare clock and scrap metal parts