Aug 26, 2010: Wood Sculpture
 

Randall Rosenthal sculptures wood.
It's not whittling, it's a little like carving, but like nothing you've seen before.

This is made from one piece of wood... even the rubber bans, and the box.

http://cellar.org/2010/carve1.jpg

The price is $25,000, which isn't too bad considering what it takes to produce.

Look at how it's done...

http://cellar.org/2010/carve2.jpg

Even if I had the patience to carve it, I couldn't do the painting. :dunce:

His website with a lot more pictures.

via

Lets see.

Take a picture.
Pass the resulting jpeg to the CAM software.
Send the resulting G-Code to the router.
Put wood on the router table.
Press Start.
Go have a sandwich.


I do think it's cool. Much better than dead babies.

That might work for getting a roughed out blank, but you'll still have weeks of carving ahead. Especially with wood, where things like those notebook rings tend to snap off.

Yeah, the router will get you to picture one. Pictures 2, 3 and 4 require hand carving. Routers can't do thing like carve the ends of the scallions. They can't get underneath.

This guy is very talented.

Imaging technology, CAM Software, computer driven routers... Defeated by scallions!

Well right on his site it clearly says:
Fantastic work.

"Who are your gods now?"

I saw that too, but to get to the first picture, he clearly used a router, and probably used a band saw. The rest was by hand, but he used power tools too. Nothing wrong with that.

Thanx Shawnee. Your onions video made my morning. It is sooo deep and meaningful.

But it looks like clutter. Who spends thousands on clutter sculptures? I thinks he needs to come up with some better ideas...

:p:

I remembered it from me and my brother's old Loony Tunes album, then found this info about it (anyone else have it?):

Q: Was Looney Tunes the name of the artist or the album? There was an album called "Looney Tunes" by the artist Telex released in 1988...In the 1970's "K-Tel" released an album called "Looney Tunes" as well. Do you know what the cover looked like or have any more information?

A:
1. Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away
2. The Coasters - Along Came Jones
3. Alan Sherman - Hello Mudduh Hello Faddah
4. The Rivingtons - Birds The Word
5. Ed Byrnes - Kookie Lend Me Your Comb
6. David Seville - Witch Doctor
7. Buzz Clifford - Baby Sittin Boogie
8. Nervous Norvus - Transfusion
9. Joe Perkins - Little Effin Annie
10. Lonnie Donegan - My Old Mans A Dustman
11. Charlie Drake - My Boomerang Won't Come Back
12. Ray Stevens - The Streak
13. Harv Norman - Rubber Duckie
14. Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Thru The Tulips
15. The Coasters - Charlie Brown
16. Nervous Norvus - Ape Call
17. The Hustlers - Shaving Cream
18. The Rivingtons - Papa Oom Mow Mow
19. Jumpin Gene Simmons - Haunted House
20. Sam the Sham And the Pharoahs - Little Red Riding Hood
21. Zacherle - Dinner With Drac
22. Susan Christie - I Love Onions
23. Ernie K. Doe - Mother In Law
24. The Chipmunks - The Chipmunk Song

OH heck Jinx, People with $25k to blow on that will build a place to put it.

You put it in the path of an obsessive clutter-remover, and wait.

kind of like one of those nickels welded to a nail that you are supposed to pound into the floor.