Four Tibetan monks will labor for two weeks to complete this mandala, an intricate sand painting meant to instill in the viewer compassion for all living things. At the beginning and end of each day, they gather for prayer and meditation, and at the end of the two weeks, in a dissolution ceremony on October … Continue reading Intricate sand painting to be returned to sea upon completion
This is too beautiful not to share, although you may be one of more than 4 million who’ve already seen it. We’ve all seen morphing, age-progressing photo sequences, but this progression is the work of a very talented artist. Of course, I may be biased because at one point it looks very much like my … Continue reading There is beauty in this world
Anyone can stick some Lego bricks together to make … something. But few people have elevated the pastime to an art form. Notable among them is Nathan Sawaya, a one-time lawyer whose Lego sculptures were so much in demand that he became a full-time Lego artist. His best known sculpture, “Yellow,” made from 11,014 bricks, is about baring his … Continue reading Elevating Lego to an art form
He only wanted a funny picture. A picture of himself emerging from a giant vagina sculpture. Adolescent humor. Well, it was humorous all right. But he wasn’t the one laughing. Seems the 20-year-old American exchange student managed to get stuck in the sculpture last Friday and the fire department — 22 responders in all — had to … Continue reading Vagina sculpture traps American exchange student
(Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the June 6, 1944, Normandy invasion — the beginning of the end of World War II. The following post from last September is as appropriate for D-Day as it was for International Peace Day.) British artists Jamie Wardley, 33, and Andy Moss, 50, and a team of volunteers traveled to Arromanches beach, … Continue reading D-Day: Etched in the sands of time
Frequent Pied Type visitors are aware of my addiction to webcams. I post screenshots from them, comment on their availability, etc. They are my windows on the world, and although the cameras never move, the scenes are constantly changing. This is a screenshot of downtown Denver that I grabbed last night just before dark … Continue reading The artistry of webcams
