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A Futuro house, or Futuro Pod, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shape, reminiscent of a flying saucer, and the structure's airplane hatch entrance has made the houses sought after by collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly(methyl methacrylate), measuring 4 metres (13 feet) high and 8 metres (26 feet) in diameter.
Микрофото с объективом Mitutoyo M Plan Apo 20x0.42 с Raynox DCR-250 в качестве тубусной линзы. Стэкинг
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"Untitled, 2022" by Ryan Goolsby
wood/paint/polyurethane
"Erin Cluley Gallery Exhibit" viewed at WFMA
Wichita Falls, TX
The Drop is a steel sculpture resembling a raindrop by the group of German artists known as Inges Idee, located at Bon Voyage Plaza in the Coal Harbour neighborhood of downtown Vancouver. The 65-foot (20 m) tall piece is covered with Styrofoam and blue polyurethane. According to Inges Idee, the sculpture is "an homage to the power of nature" and represents "the relationship and outlook towards the water that surrounds us". The Drop was commissioned as part of the 2009 Vancouver Convention Centre Art Project and is owned by BC Pavco.
According to the City of Vancouver Public Art Registry, The Drop is a blue 65-foot (20 m) tall sculpture depicting a "large, gentle 'raindrop' captured in its descent at the moment of contact". The central "spine" of the sculpture is composed of steel and covered with Styrofoam and blue polyurethane. The piece's color complements the sky and contrasts with the large yellow sulfur piles visible on the opposite shoreline.
The Drop was commissioned as part of the Vancouver Convention Centre Art Project and marked the first North American project for Inges Idee, a group of four German artists. The sculpture was installed in 2009 at Bon Voyage Plaza (adjacent to the Vancouver Convention Centre) at the end of Burrard Street, along the waterfront in the Coal Harbour neighborhood of downtown Vancouver. The piece was removed temporarily during the 2010 Winter Olympics for interrupting the view of the television cameras.
The Vancouver Observer referred to the sculpture as the "quintessential Vancouver piece". According to the publication, The Drop has a "playful relationship with the viewer" and serves as a "big inside joke" for Vancouver residents. This refers to the high amount of rain the city receives; Vancouver is Canada's third most rainy large city, after Abbotsford and Halifax, with over 162 rainy days per year.
Ячейки сетки из пенополиуретана. Флуоресценция. Макро одним кадром с объективом Leitz Wetzlar Focotar 50mm f/4.5. Освещение УФ-светодиодом 365nm со светофильтром ZWB2
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Drop is a steel sculpture resembling a raindrop designed by the group of German artists known as Inges Idee, located at Bon Voyage Plaza in the Coal Harbour neighborhood of downtown Vancouver. The 65-foot (20 m) tall piece is covered with Styrofoam and blue polyurethane. According to Inges Idee, the sculpture is "an homage to the power of nature" and represents "the relationship and outlook towards the water that surrounds us".[1] The Drop was commissioned as part of the 2009 Vancouver Convention Centre Art Project and is owned by BC Pavco.
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Metro Vancouver area had a population of 2.6 million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 inhabitants per square kilometre (15,000/sq mi), and the fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City).
Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 54.5 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups. It has been consistently ranked one of the most liveable cities in Canada and in the world. In terms of housing affordability, Vancouver is also one of the most expensive cities in Canada and in the world. Vancouverism is the city's urban planning design philosophy.
Indigenous settlement of Vancouver began more than 10,000 years ago and included the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh (Burrard) peoples. The beginnings of the modern city, which was originally named Gastown, grew around the site of a makeshift tavern on the western edges of Hastings Mill that was built on July 1, 1867, and owned by proprietor Gassy Jack. The Gastown steam clock marks the original site. Gastown then formally registered as a townsite dubbed Granville, Burrard Inlet. The city was renamed "Vancouver" in 1886 through a deal with the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway was extended to the city by 1887. The city's large natural seaport on the Pacific Ocean became a vital link in the trade between Asia-Pacific, East Asia, Europe, and Eastern Canada.
Vancouver has hosted many international conferences and events, including the 1954 Commonwealth Games, UN Habitat I, Expo 86, APEC Canada 1997, the World Police and Fire Games in 1989 and 2009; several matches of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup including the finals at BC Place in downtown Vancouver,[15] and the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics which were held in Vancouver and Whistler, a resort community 125 km (78 mi) north of the city.[16] In 1969, Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver. The city became the permanent home to TED conferences in 2014.
As of 2016, the Port of Vancouver is the fourth-largest port by tonnage in the Americas, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry. Major film production studios in Vancouver and nearby Burnaby have turned Greater Vancouver and nearby areas into one of the largest film production centres in North America, earning it the nickname "Hollywood North".
Helsinki - Moments
A Futuro house, or Futuro Pod, is a round, prefabricated house designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, of which fewer than 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The shape, reminiscent of a flying saucer, and the structure's airplane hatch entrance has made the houses sought after by collectors. The Futuro is composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly(methyl methacrylate), measuring 4 metres (13 feet) high and 8 metres (26 feet) in diameter.
Spoonbridge and Cherry in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, an 11-acre preserve featuring a conservatory, an arbor & 40+ sculptures by notable modern artists. This sculpture is the centerpiece of the garden, it is a fountain except for winter and was designed by husband and wife Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen and built between 1985–1988.
Spoonbridge and Cherry measures 30 by 52 by 13 feet (9 m × 15.7 m × 4.1 m) and straddles a small pond built in the shape of a linden tree seed, evoking the lindens in the surrounding park. The sculpture is built from stainless steel and aluminum and coated with polyurethane enamel. The cherry portion of the piece weighs 1,199 pounds (544 kg) while the spoon portion weighs 5,800 pounds (2,630 kg).
The sculpture emits filtered water from both the tip and the base of the cherry's stem, the latter intended to keep the cherry gleaming in the light. (Wikipedia)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Drop is a steel sculpture resembling a raindrop by the group of German artists known as Inges Idee, located at Bon Voyage Plaza in the Coal Harbour neighborhood of downtown Vancouver. The 65-foot (20 m) tall piece is covered with Styrofoam and blue polyurethane. According to Inges Idee, the sculpture is "an homage to the power of nature" and represents "the relationship and outlook towards the water that surrounds us". The Drop was commissioned as part of the 2009 Vancouver Convention Centre Art Project.
It has taken me a lot longer to finish this project than I expected. I had to take time off during the summer to build a garden and take care of my flower beds. There were times I just wanted to paint over the whole thing with black latex and be done with it. But, I'm glad I stuck it out. I love the effect. There's 3 coats of polyurethane over it all.
Hallucinations of a lunar rover; polyurethane footprints on the beds of watercourses formed by melting snow in the Apennines. Campo Imperatore
Jean-Luc Plé - art giratoire - sculpture de mousse polyuréthane stratifiée à la résine - Polyurethane foam sculpture laminated with resin
DoodlewashMay2026 prompt: Grapes.
Did you know that the skins, seeds, and stems left over from winemaking—collectively called grape pomace—can be transformed into vegan leather? Once the pomace is dehydrated and blended with oils and a small amount of polyurethane, it’s spread onto recycled polyester or organic cotton to create flexible, leather‑like sheets.
The result is a versatile material used for footwear, handbags, wallets, belts, upholstery, and even electric‑vehicle interiors. It champions waste reduction, water efficiency, and low emissions, relying on a solvent‑ and metal‑free process that avoids the toxic chemicals of traditional leather tanning—all while remaining completely cruelty‑free.
The scan color is off since I used gel pens.
Watercolor & Metallic & Fluorescent Gel pens on Stonehenge Aqua Cold Press.
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The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in South Kensington, London
The V&A Rotunda Chandelier, created in 2001, is one of a number of works from Chihuly's 'Chandelier' series begun in 1992. Chihuly works extravagantly in richly-coloured blown glass, drawing on the historic techniques of the Murano glassworks in Venice. He was initially intrigued by the space-changing potential of the chandelier form, and has succeeded in massing colour, shade and light alongside a driving sense of movement.
Made by Dale Chihuly and his studio team in Seattle, Washington State, USA, each separate glass element of the V&A Rotunda Chandelier was either free-blown, or was mould-blown into ribbed moulds. Each element is coated inside with polyurethane adhesive and was tied on individually with stainless steel wire to an armature welded from steel rod. A team of six started wiring on from bottom to top and took over five days to complete the work.
An earlier version 'Ice Blue and Spring Green' was originally installed in the Grand Entrance of the V&A in 1999. This was modified and enlarge in 2001 to form the present V&A Rotunda Chandelier.
Folkert de Jong
Dutch, born 1972
Human Pyramid (Scene 2), 2007
Polyurethane and Styrofoam
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Media:
* James Cohan: Folkert de Jong, Les Saltimbanques
* Wikipedia: Folkert de Jong
See also: IMG_4806 The Art of Petroleum
Only 406 examples (including prototypes) of the Carrera GT were built to qualify it for Group 4 racing requirements. Of the 400 roadgoing examples, 75 were made in right hand drive for the UK market.
Visually, the Carrera GT differed from the standard 924 Turbo in that it had polyurethane plastic front and rear flared guards, a polyurethane plastic front spoiler, a top mounted air scoop for the intercooler, a much larger rubber rear spoiler and a flush mounted front windscreen.
Overveen, the Netherlands.
Jean Dubuffet, Jardin d'émail, Enamel Garden, 1974, concrete, fiberglass reinforced epoxy and polyurethane paint.
The Sculpture Park of the Kröller-Müller Museum, located in De Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo, is, with its 25 hectares, one of the largest and most renowned sculpture parks in Europe.
The park, which opened in 1961 (4 hectares), is currently a combination of sculpture garden, sculpture park, and sculpture forest, and accommodates the many movements in international sculpture of the twentieth century. Both figurative and abstract art are amply represented. As early as 1966, a first expansion of the park took place to 9 hectares. Since 2001, the park has offered a landscaped exhibition space of over 25 hectares. The sculpture garden was designated a national monument on June 20, 2017.
My waterproof rain jacket.
100% Polyester with Polyurethane (PU) Backing.
Macro Mondays: Cloth
Happy Macro Monday!!
Tiny TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) hair bands spilling out of the can I keep them in. Maybe I should get some blue ones to mix in with the rest.
Shot with my trusty plastic fantastic, Cosina 100mm f3.5 MC Macro @f8.
HMM!
Vintage Chest Has Textured Polyurethane Finish, Blossom White, Custom Legs... Tree painted with acrylics and India Inks also has small mirrors glued all over tree leaves for cool effect
It was a cold and windy day under a colorless sky, but neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night could stay these surfers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds...😁
My first ever dry plate tintype. To say that I was "pleasantly surprised" is an understatement.
5x4 dry plate shot in MPP with 150mm lens, with a +3 dioptre close-up lens taped behind the rear element.
The plate was 0.5mm aluminium sprayed with black polyurethane paint and coated with Rollei "black magic" emulsion. Exposure 4 sec @ f8. Developed in the following for 3 minutes:
5g Ammonium Thiocyanate
15 ml Rollei RBM5 hardener
30 ml Ilford Multigrade developer
270 ml water
No stop, just a water rinse. Fixed in Ilford Rapid Fixer 1+4 and 10 minute wash in cold water.
The developer was an experiment based on what I could glean from internet newsgroups and the Rockland tintype kit data sheets. My understanding is that the Ammonium Thiocyanate acts as a silver solvent, adding contrast and giving a clearer positive when the silver image is viewed on the black background of the plate.
More coming soon. I plan to do a series of "tin toy tintypes" (I enjoy alliteration).
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture by Artist Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen. Stainless steel and aluminum painted with polyurethane enamel. Erected 1988.
...au Musée Unterlinden
Jean Debuffet 1972
Le Havre 1901 - Paris 1985
Don Coucoubazar
Assemblage de tôle peinte en polyuréthane
Colmar (Alsace)
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Photographed in December 2025 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (MMFA), this vibrant red lounge chair is Gaetano Pesce's iconic "Up" (1969), made from flexible polyurethane foam. Part of the museum's decorative arts and design collection, the piece's organic, bulbous forms deliberately evoke the female body—curves resembling breasts and hips—while commenting on sensuality, comfort, and 1960s radical design. Displayed near other experimental furniture, it stands out as a playful yet provocative icon of Italian radical design, produced by B&B Italia. A bold, tactile work that's both seat and statement.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal, Quebec.
'Barbiecore' has been a hot fashion trend of late and as some of you know I love the colour pink but I can't wear sleeveless dresses. My arms and shoulders are too ugly for sleeveless and besides this dress was made for 19 year old wannabe Barbies and it's been decades since I was anywhere near 19! What was I thinking???!!!
Hollywood, Florida’s one million-gallon torospherical-bottom water tank has towered over south Florida for nearly seven decades.
Constructed in 1955, the ten-legged tank has endured a challenging coastal environment consisting of elevated temperatures, ultraviolet (UV) light intensity, and unwavering humidity. The trio of harsh conditions caused delamination of the clear coat finish in areas, and necessitated frequent maintenance.
In 2011, a plan was launched to resurface the tank and transform it into a colorful sea-life mural honoring the region’s significant sea turtle population. City of Hollywood planners was challenged to find a coating system that eliminated the need for a clear coat finish, offered long-term color vibrancy, abrasion resistance, and an extended maintenance cycle.
Tnemec, a Kansas City, Missouri-based tank coating supplier offered a solution- Series 700 HydroFlon®. HydroFlon is an exterior finish coat especially recommended for water tanks in coastal environments and for other exposed steel structures that demand extremely long-term service life. The advanced coating system from Tnemec contains LUMIFLON®; a solvent-soluble fluoropolymer with a unique chemical structure that ensures superior durability and extended wearability.
Doug Hansen, Director of Tnemec’s Water Tank Market explained that the fluoropolymer coating system containing LUMIFLON was selected due to its “outstanding resistance to UV light degradation and unprecedented long-term gloss and color retention.” He explained, “The system also extends the maintenance cycle well beyond the service life offered by traditional coatings while enhancing the imaginative designs and color schemes.” Hansen recognizes yet another benefit of HydroFlon containing LUMIFLON. “The fluoropolymer coating system eliminates the need for a clear coat, which saves product and labor costs.”
The tank’s exterior was prepared in accordance with SSPC-SP7/NACE Standard No. 4 Brush Brush-Off Blast Cleaning; primed with a coat of Series 135 Chembuild®, a modified polyamine epoxy for marginally prepared steel; coated with Series 1075 Endura-Shield® II, an aliphatic acrylic polyurethane that is highly resistant to abrasion and wet conditions and finished with Series 700 HydroFlon containing LUMIFLON.
Hollywood’s water tank boasts 19 vibrant colors ranging from brown to a myriad of blues and seafoam greens. Jim Kelly of Industrial Commercial Signs assisted Utility Service Co. by painting the mural and lettering. Circumference lighting was added to illuminate the colorful sea turtle scene at night.
All parties involved in the Hollywood tank project were thrilled with the results. Tnemec offered further accolades by naming Hollywood’s water tank its 2011’s “Tank of the Year;” a highly sought-after award that recognizes the aesthetic, creative, and innovative uses of Tnemec coatings on water tanks. Every runner-up in the competition was also coated with a HydroFlon coating system containing LUMIFLON.
LUMIFLON, a product of the Asahi Glass Company, is a solvent-soluble fluoropolymer that offers distinctive advantages to architectural and industrial maintenance markets. LUMIFLON: provides architects and engineers with the option of using brighter colors and a higher gloss, allowing gloss values as high as 90; offers the flexibility to be heat cured or cured at ambient temperature, giving fabricators a choice between shop application or application in the field; and can be used successfully on a number of substrates, including steel, aluminum, fiberglass, concrete, and polycarbonate for 30 years or more without fading.
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Red art mushroom sculpture: Christiaan Nagel, expanding polyurethane foam, c2012
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The project CONVERSION refers to the life of a modern man as it is in the age of the world web and new gadgets. The artists compare the globalization of information networks to the conversion to some new 'religion' where the scope of information available in the virtual space is a new presiding deity.
The project CONVERSION includes sculptures and bas-reliefs, in which figures of 'Neo-Apostles' appear as the bearers of a new sacred knowledge manifested in the stream of virtual information. The display also includes 'wooden remnants' of Noah's Ark, with familiar icons from smartphone screens identifiable in its fragments. To make sculptures of the presumed 'saints', the preachers of the new technologies, as well as multi-figured bas-reliefs the artists make use of polyurethane, plastic mesh, rubber, polyethylene and new technologies. Rubbish becomes art to be kept for future generations, while the artists seek to give their viewers an idea of the future traces to be left by the paradoxes of our own age, of what will go down in history. Their sculptures and bas-reliefs take on the appearance of ancient monuments that display the ravages of time, as if artifacts from some lost and forgotten civilization.
The forms and compositions of CONVERSION project are influenced by traditional Christian iconography, yet they are disseminated by contemporary motifs like the info graphics of modern gadgets and app logos.
There are more photos of the exhibit in my Collateral Album for that year. --- ---- --- www.flickr.com/photos/136891509@N07/albums/72157660558082689
Took me 7 month to build this P Bass for my son. Okoume wood body with a rock maple neck polyurethane finish.
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A deadly fire occured in the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, Romania on October 30, 2015, killing at least 55 people and wounding more than 140.
The fire, the worst such incident in Romania in the last 20 years, occurred during a free concert (with about four hundred people inside attending) performed by the heavy metal band Goodbye to Gravity to celebrate the release of their new album, Mantras of War.
The band's pyrotechnics ignited the club's flammable polyurethane acoustic foam (after the song The Day We Die.....) and the fire expanded very quickly.
Three members of the band were killed, too, and the other one was (heavy) injured during this tragic event.
Romania's government has declared a three-day national mourning after this tragic event.
Thousands of candles were lit in memory of the victims on the sidewalk in front of the nightclub
PS. Strange coincidence: One of the last hits performed by the band Goodbye to Gravity before the deadly fire was...” The Day We Die „
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Here are the last minutes before the disaster:
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Purchased new quite a while ago actually but only now been uploaded. Being polyurethane rather than actual leather means it didn't take long for the shell to start fraying.
MUAHAHAHAHA! Ahem.
What with all my casting efforts recently, it seemed to make sense to try some different (and hopefully more frugal) materials. I ordered some Composimold on Amazon a few weeks ago; it's a remeltable mould-making material you heat in the microwave. I did like silicone and the effects I could get, but it was getting kind of pricey, and I'm not even that good at mould-making, so I was basically wasting quite a lot of it on poor attempts.
This is my latest Composimold attempt, with a resin cast in progress inside. I thought it looked like a sci-fi prop of clones growing in a jar or something... not that far from the truth, really. ;)
This cute guy was waiting for his star hour for quite a long time. But now I've finally painted him (using acrylic paints and some gilding) and soon hi will be on Ebay auction with a quite low starting price - just 100$! Stay tuned!