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Jesse DeRosa's uber-patriotic Zombie Captain America flyer for Baked Tapes' Memorial Day Potluck Noise BBQ.
A turned and welded sculpture of urban Manitoba maple hardwood and bicycle parts. An odd lump of crotch timber was turned as a bowl, and natural splits in the wood caused large portions of the rim to fall away. The jagged edges that remained were lightly reshaped and smoothed, and the bowl was then hand sanded and finished with beeswax. The bowl sits on a pedestal of bicycle wheel sprocket, rim, and hub. 9.5 inches high, 9.5 inches diameter, and 2 pounds in weight.
A city tree maintenance crew felled a large old tree in my Toronto neighbourhood and allowed me to keep a log. This bowl was rough turned from that wood in 2003 and finished in 2010.
I salvage abandoned, broken bicycles and strip them down for all of the interesting parts. The 18 tooth sprocket was cut loose from its freewheel with an oxy-acetylene torch, then scrubbed with an old toothbrush and alcohol. The legs of the pedestal are sections of a rusty wheel rim welded to their wheel hub.
FOUND ITEM at the HUNKY JESUS CONTEST...it was fun finding a few things at the contest grounds, but it was MORE fun seeing other photographers capturing those LOST ITEMS ! ADDA wanted to tap them on the shoulder and say, "If you want views, go for the BARE CHESTS, if you want FOUND OBJECTS go to ADDA's non-view flickr set!" LOL
Silver, found, corroded iron washer, cubic zirconia and a hand-carved skull made from deer antler.
The whole top section rotates and the skull can spin freely within the rotating section.
Taken with Panasonic-Leica Elmarit 45mm f2.8 Macro lens on Panasonic G1.
Continental Motors once built car engines on this site, but the buildings have been abandoned for many years. Here you see a collection of discarded items on the cracked concrete in front of the boxy buildings with their colorful wall art. For more information on Detroit's impressive industrial runs, see my ebook, A Guide to Post-Industrial Detroit: Unconventional Tours of an Urban Landscape -- More Information.
FOUND ITEM at the HUNKY JESUS CONTEST...it was fun finding a few things at the contest grounds, but it was MORE fun seeing other photographers capturing those LOST ITEMS ! ADDA wanted to tap them on the shoulder and say, "If you want views, go for the BARE CHESTS, if you want FOUND OBJECTS go to ADDA's non-view flickr set!" LOL
This tin can angel seems to burst out of the wall. He's little different and funny. Ingredients are a tin can, spring, hinge, doll arms, sewing machine hinge and air-dried clay face.
Love this sardine can cause it still has the key and the tin roll. Inside has marbled paper, a wrist watch, plastic leaves and a real burr. On top is a clay raven.
Assemblage, acrylic paint, barn wood, copper, key, glass bottle, straw flowers, feather, chain, drawer pulls, maple seeds, found objects, ephemera......3/28/10 Yahoo !!! This was just accepted in a juried show in Sequim WA
Plundering through my stash, I found some watch parts I had forgotten about. I so love the guilloche engraving on this one.
Yeah ... coming across such things is kind of like peeking through a knothole ... or a wormhole that provides a glimpse into an alternate universe. But my curiosity does have its limits.
A braze welded sculpture of recycled bicycle parts. The legs and hips are rear derailleur plates, and the tail, head, and jaw of the mount is a brake lever and housing. The teeth are chain pins on a link plate.
The rider's torso is made of two rear derailleur mounting pegs, and a brake caliper forms its shoulders and arms. In its right manipulator is a spring clip from the underside of a saddle, and in its left is a staff of a handlebar stem bolt and expander nut, rear derailleur spring, and a wheel bearing race nut.
On its shoulders is an epaulette of a brake cable guide sleeve and a head of a tube clamp and alignment washer. It wears a jaunty hat of a headset locknut.