About
Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: sculpture
Metropolis II
Chris Burden’s Metropolis II opens this week at LACMA. According to Burden, “The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars, produces in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st Century city.” And also, I would add, the thrill and the wonder… Continue reading
The Lion Man of the Hohlenstein Stadel is 32,000 years old
Everything that has happened since the time of Augustus Caesar takes up only 6.25% of the time that has passed since the Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel was made. A lion headed figure, first called the lion man (German: … Continue reading
Book Autopsies
Brian Dettmer creates these fascinating sculptures by carving into books and revealing the illustrations within. A collection of photographs of Brian’s works can be viewed at Centripetal Notion. H/T Cynthia P.
The Long Awaited
Patricia Piccinini’s The Long Awaited. H/T: whatshisname the stranger
Head On (2006)
With few wolves scattered in the front gallery, all ninety-nine wolves run, gallop, and jump toward the far end of the exhibition hall, where a wall stands. The bravery of the wolves is met head on by the unyielding wall. … Continue reading
Sketch Furniture
Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space? The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two … Continue reading
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest
A scientist-turned-artist, Jansen’s bizarre beach animals have their roots in a computer program that he designed 17 years ago in which virtual four-legged creatures raced against each other to identify survivors fit enough to reproduce. Determined to translate the evolutionary … Continue reading