The Art of Ted Lawson. NYC based sculptor Ted Lawson creates figurative works based on the female form in a variety of materials. With titles such as ‘Entropy’ to describe a pair of stunningly sensual busts carved from wood, the artist also culls inspiration from science and abstract shapes. He is currently showing at NYC’s Emmanuel Fremin Gallery through May 19th. View more images of the work below.
Wooster Collective. Tumblr. Free Plans: How To Make a Hammock. Material List This project is remarkably simple if you have access to, and are familiar with a sewing machine. If not, you can perform the sewing by hand, but you will need a little more patience. Tool List We recommend that you read through the entire plan and especially the design considerations section before acquiring/assembling all of the requisite tools and materials.
There are several options with this project, and it is most prudent to be fully informed of them before making design decisions. Arkitip Intel | Daily Intelligence from a Worldwide Network of Reporters. Beautiful/Decay Artist & Design. - AO Art Observed™
Embroidery as Art. Untitled. Think Faest! Annals of Americus | Notes on Art, Culture & Politics - Part 2. Star Spangled Bummer The Angelic Vision of American Progress America’s allegorical representative: An angel, stringing telegraph wires (and dislocating indigenous people). This painting (circa 1872) by John Gast called American Progress, is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a school book. The different stages of economic activity of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation. [via] Journal The Death of Dickie Riley Hard at work atop the World Trade Center. Nearly two years ago, I wrote a short blog post that referenced photographer Peter B. Cultural Notebook Pittsburgh Renaissance: The Specter of Urban Renewal On the Lower Hill District: "Only four years ago it was the worst residential slum in the City.”