in estella biggs

Dare to be naive.

- Buckminster Fuller

3Doodler

As 3Doodler draws, it extrudes heated plastic, which quickly cools and solidifies into a strong stable structure. This allows you to build an infinite variety of shapes and items with ease! Most people will instantly be able to trace objects on paper, and after only a few hours of practice you will be able to make far more intricate objects.  Alas, of the $30,000 goal, they have been pledged a whopping $243,994!   I emailed them and said I wasn't going to donate to them  because of them being so overfunded, they have their hands full, best of luck- it's soooo cool, and I'll find another project. 

 They emailed me back and said thanks!

Artist Evan Wondolowski uses thousands of paper strips from shredded U.S. Federal Reserve Notes to create these amazingly detailed portraits of celebrities and politicians. Evan says that he starts with an underdrawing of the portrait on newsprint and then glues each shred of currency piece by piece before finishing up with a little vine charcoal to increase contrast. Each portrait can take up to a month or more. Keep an eye on his website for new works in the future.

While primarily working as a landscape painter and art teacher, UK artist Jamie Poole was struck with the idea of deconstructing printed poems into individual words and using the text to create large scale portraits. The final pieces are quite large measuring several feet tall, allowing for excruciating detail in both line and shadow, as well as creating an intriguing hybrid of portraiture, typography, and collage. You can see more images of Jamie’s work on his blog

Lola Dupree

So today I had an eye appointment, then a bocce game where one of the opposite team members insisted on measuring every friggin ball even when we conceded that they had the point!  Geesh.  Then to the FedEx shop to mail a box out a little late, then to the studio.

Better luck today with my messes at the studio, but I am still sort of floundering around without a major project- you know the kind- they wake me up at 2 AM and I lie there forming Great Plans.I sanded down the replacement box again and gave it a wash of white and it almost looks like the original.  In ripping the little items out of the old box some parts became loose or fell off so I glued it together again  and left it with weights and clamps to do it's thing.  And then I will be back where I started almost a year ago.  Since this piece has already been in a couple of magazines it was wasted time.                  

But maybe it will lead to something else as I fiddle wit the other two boxes I found!  One of them exactly fits my Sandy and the Seven Dwarfs photographs that I never really was able to show.  Tomorrow's project.

And I promise pictures.

No these aren’t haystacks stuck in a phone pole. Visit the Kalahari Desert in the south of Africa and you’re bound to run into a peculiar animal called the Sociable Weaver Bird. The birds are called “social” not just because they live in organized colonies, but because they build massive homes out of sticks, grass and cotton that are home to several other kinds birds. That’s right, the nests are so large that birds of other species are welcome to setup shop, not the least of which is the South African pygmy falcon which lives exclusively inside the social weaver’s nests that often accomodate over 100 birds at at time.

Bush Art as a gif