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April 7, 2012
Tangram Egg Puzzle card
Interest in eggs reaches it’s height about now, especially for chocolate lovers and those who manufacture it, some people also like to send each other cards.
The Tangram Egg Puzzle card has been around for a while now and a quick Google on the subject will bring up lots of images and instructions.
The Tangram Egg can build anything that you can imagine with it’s nine pieces so cut along the lines to get those pieces and play with them until it’s built .
Colour and add some details then reassemble the pieces into the egg shape that is your Tangram Egg Puzzle.
TangramEgg pdf dowload
November 14, 2011
The Nanologist collection 2
The nano creatures are called photovores because they ‘ eat ‘ light to gain the energy they require for life processes. They are mounted as Naturalists mount and collect their specimens today..
As I discovered these two photovores I get to name them using my surname. The one on the left is named Capacipulse Burnleii and the one on the right Capacidump Burnleii.
November 14, 2011
YSP Nov 2011 Oxley Bank Alien
The flight of steps that lead up the side of Oxley Bank from the lakeside were created by David Nash and consist of charred oiled oak set on a bed of coal.
The shot of the steps is taken from point of view of a human foot and the alien lurking on one of them wasn’t spotted until later.
Was it coming or was it going ?
November 12, 2011
YSP Nov 2011 Emley & One & other
As a regular visitor to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and resident of West Yorkshire the ever present presence of Emley Moor mast creates a sensation of someone looking over your shoulder all the time. When you’re out and about you’ll suddenly find yourself glancing to the horizon to see if it’s still there or you’ll discover a view of the tower you hadn’t seen previously and be pleasantly amazed. ( Yes there will be a gallery of pure Emley shots and maybe an ode or two later. )
The Sculpture Park affords the ‘ Emley Gazers ‘ a splendid view, weather permitting, and excellent photo opportunity with the foreground parkland a subtle contrast, so they will be happy but the experience of the Moores plinthed in the open spaces being dwarfed by the scale of Emley and even of the trees kept making me want to create a sculpture at least as tall as a tree so it could compete on a level footing.
Andrew Gormley has realised this for the park by attaching a cast figure of himself on top of a tree in the park, getting over the problem of constructing something as tall as a tree with the attendant planning permission problems that can entail. However the tree has to be dead and the first tree he was on was bio-degraded to an unsafe state and he had to be lowered to safety. He’s now on a new dead tree which I think will also bio-degrade quickly as the pictures I took of it earlier in the spring had wasps or bees flying in and out so I guess there is a nest in there. Maybe they will have to construct a fake dead tree and face planning after all. Always, keep it simple, they keep telling me.
So putting two and two together I decided to go for the tall time sculptural scale and here submit my answer to the problem, Emley Mast lakeside at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, One & other on top and plonk it, sorry erect it in google virtual space, no planning permission and virtually no costs. The pic is a photomontage of what it might look like.
November 12, 2011
YSP Nov 2011 Green Water
This field is adjacent to the Sculpture Park and usually has something going on in it as we pass. There was a cloud over head casting a shadow but the Sun was low in the sky and some rays managed to get under the cloud to light up the field. Rough textured, high contrasts, clean colours, flowing movement. A great start for developing works where it’s not apparent at first viewing what the image depicts but there are enough, ‘ that looks familiar ‘, messages being sent up to the consciousness centre to provoke you to ‘ put a face to it ‘.
November 9, 2011
YSP Nov 2011 The Ent
This is the most bedraggled looking horse chestnut tree that I remember ever having seen, I think it’s got randomitus, or maybe it’s doing it just to get noticed .
Those of you who have seen the profile pics collection on this site will know about humans and their face recognising skills…….I could swear that this tree is really an Ent, a little narrowing of your eyes… yes , there, can you see it’s eyes ? and isn’t that a hand on it’s hip.. ‘ Who are you staring at ? Eh!!! ‘ you can just hear it growling… a tree with attitude !