This one's been in the queue for a while too, but it's worthy. The official caption:
Albanian artist Saimir Strati, 40, works on a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci using industrial nails at the International Centre of Culture in Tirana. He is attempting to produce the world's largest three-dimensional portrait using nails in order to secure a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
How old is that picture? He might be finished by now. I'd like to see the finished work!
I would have used a nail gun. Home Depot has them on sale for the holidays! :D
Thanks Max! Wow, it's amazing! His other stuff isn't too shabby either.
How good does a nail mosaic have to be to qualify for the record? This record seems pretty attainable if the goal is only quantity, not quality. I'm imagining a string of ever-bigger, ever-crappier art from all over the world...
Interesting. I wonder if he planned for tarnishing/rusting/weathering of nails and how that will modify the works . . .
Check out Inkie Whang's Lego piece:
http://www.freynorris.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=9Signed and delivered :)
Jeez - he really nailed it didnt he?
buahaha....my sincerest apologies, it was there for the taking, so I took it. I near laughed myself to death, but I'm still half pissed I think :redface:
I would have used a nail gun. Home Depot has them on sale for the holidays! :D
Why not use a nice handgun? They're easy to get too. (Why do I get the feeling that some artist somewhere has done this already?)
think he used one of those
anti-vibrating hammers, with the tuning fork inside?
Notice the carpal tunnel wrist band? He's probably on full disability now...
To suffer to produce your art, now that's dedication! ;)
I've never been a fan of artists who just bang out the work.
Man, I thought for sure it was gonna be someone doing something with fingernails. Glad I was wrong.