All Blog Posts Tagged 'trees' (7)

Sculptor Keith Jennings carves wise faces into trees, revealing each wooden tower's inner spirit. Jennings first embarked on his Tree Spirits project back in 1982 when he decided to creatively manipulate a tree in his backyard with a few hand tools. Starting out as a way to kill time on a budget, the artist wound up honing his craft. Jennings was later commissioned to…

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In Japan, there's a structurally inventive restaurant called Naha Harbor Diner that takes the traditional treehouse to another level. It is a pan-Asian restaurant sitting atop a tree trunk, nestled amidst its branches, in the Banyan Town shopping center in Okinawa. The restaurant which offers "locally grown and organic harvested foods…

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How often do we stop to look up at the trees that tower high above us? They surround us and essentially provide us the gift of life, it's only fair to observe and appreciate the beauty of these hauntingly majestic trees. Photographer Grant Simon Rogers has an enveloping fascination with nature and shares his perspective of the leafless wooden giants, from below.

At just…

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After writing about Angelo Musco's surreal mosaics made from thousands of human bodies, the artist reached out to us to say thanks and to tell us about an exciting new work he's debuting at Pulse Art Fair during Art Basel Miami…

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New York-based artist Roxy Paine bends, twists and turns stainless steel until he creates life-like trees that seem to have a mind of their own. Temporarily installed in 2009 on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of his creations, called "Maelstrom" (immediately below), was a wild structure that resembled a forest savaged by a tornado or some other cataclysm. It was… Continue

Hello to you on this Sunday. Hope you are relaxing, eating a toasted bagel (preferably jalapeno cheese, yum) and drinking a warm cup of tea. Just wanted to share a fun little Flickr set by audream.…

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Just a lovely set of pictures that make me want to climb back into bed and dream about where I can find these trees. By Gwarf found via Deviant Art.…

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