http://www.canaerial.com It's a portmanteau word. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:37:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_670" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="TOYS'R'US - Dingy"][/caption] TOYS'R'US - Dinghy scale 1:1. A boat and related equipment are joined together in a welded metal frame. Everything is painted in a unifying plastic layer to resemble the surface of a model kit. No related posts. http://www.canaerial.com/on-the-sprue-art-%e2%80%93-part-8-%e2%80%93-dingy [caption id="attachment_661" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="UNICEF Toy Soldiers"][/caption]   [caption id="attachment_663" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="UNICEF Toy Soldiers"][/caption] UNICEF has created a campaign to highlight the plight of Africa's child soldiers. They have sent out a mailer containing a pack of what initially appears to be regular green toy soldiers. The miniatures are in fact models ... http://www.canaerial.com/unicef-toy-soldiers [caption id="attachment_653" align="aligncenter" width="484" caption="Sirio Magnabosco Yellow Ford Escort"][/caption] No related posts. http://www.canaerial.com/sirio-magnabosco-yellow-ford-escort-mk-i [caption id="attachment_645" align="aligncenter" width="230" caption="Makers"][/caption] Cory Doctorow's new novel Makers features some nice "On The Sprue" artwork on the cover. It reminds me ever so slightly of  the cover of The Blind Watchmaker. No related posts. http://www.canaerial.com/on-the-sprue-art-part-7-makers [caption id="attachment_627" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Martin and Munoz - Travelers"][/caption]   Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz are a pair of artists who express themselves through the medium of miniatures in snowglobes. Like Thomas Doyle much of their work is dark and surreal. Their work has been described as depicting the elaborate bleakness of an emotional ... http://www.canaerial.com/small-worlds-part-5-walter-martin-and-paloma-munoz [caption id="attachment_622" align="aligncenter" width="292" caption="Clearing by Thomas Doyle"][/caption] Thomas Doyle creates snowglobes with fantastically dark and subversive themes. Take for example "Clearing" from his "Reclamations" series. In this wonderfully recursive and self-referential work, a person (ironically trapped in a snowglobe) encounters another person trapped within a smaller snowglobe and crying out for help. ... http://www.canaerial.com/small-worlds-part-3-thomas-doyle-snowglobes [caption id="attachment_608" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Entropa"][/caption] The artist David Cerny has created this huge sculpture commissioned to represent the EU's 27 member states. Each country is represented as a component of a giant plastic model kit. The piece has generated a fair amount of controversy due to its less than flattering representation of ... http://www.canaerial.com/on-the-sprue-art-part-6-entropa [caption id="attachment_603" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Artist Standing"][/caption] Links: Interactive Storytelling Jewelry - Quirky Accessories That Tell a Story Each Time They're Worn (GALLERY) - Interactive jewelry is a new concept found in the intriguing work of Allison Wells. Her pieces exercise elements of humor, play and interactivity. Miniature oranges from modelling clay - How ... http://www.canaerial.com/links-january-23rd Links: Swedish artist uses “unethical” cash to fund cultural scholarships - He chose companies involved in what he called the “five main unethical industries”: arms manufacture (Lockheed Martin), tobacco (Swedish Match), alcohol, pornography and gambling. “My investments are [doing] better the worse the situation in the world [becomes]. Wars, drinking problems ... http://www.canaerial.com/links-december-17th Links: The Book Design Review - I've always imagined any Silicon Valley complex full of faceless, like-minded programming drones, and I assume that's what most other people imagine as well. So, it's not a far stretch of the imagination to go with pixilated peeps." Playpen » Blog Archive » Playing Word Games ... http://www.canaerial.com/links-november-26th