Stray Hawkeye

With the snow on Monday, I would say our winter total is already getting pretty close to:

Two feet of snow

Via Make

From what I can tell, the sculpture was made by G. Augustine Lynas, who has a bunch of other really cool sculptures, though unfortunately most of the pictures of them are really small and you can’t click them for bigger versions.

Maybe when the feet above grow up, they can warm up in a giant Red Wing Boots – though Red Wing will have to start working on making one for the other foot too.

There’s a few artists out there who make really cool 3D looking drawings with sidewalk chalk using perspective.  Here‘s a sampling of them, most of which seem to be by Julian Beever or Kurt Wenner.  Julian Beever also has an online portfolio here, and Kurt Wenner has one here (though it’s unfortunately flash).  Edgar Mueller also has some really cool bigger pieces- his site is here (a little hard to navigate, but worth it), and another small sampling of his work here.  There’s also a few by Manfred Stader here. Really cool stuff all around.

Here’s a CBS interview with Julian Beever about his work that gives some more details about it all:

Yep, it all washes away.  Sort of reminds me of Peter Donnelly.

Here’s a making of video for one of Julian Beever’s works:

And a making of for one of the Edgar Mueller ones:

And here‘s a youtube channel with a few more.

I wonder if there’s any time lapse videos out there of the works being slow washed and worn away?

Here’s another one for the list of people I want to be when I grow up:

I love how the mix of having to walk only on the smooth parts to keep from tamping down the rough parts, and having to work with some speed to do the whole thing before the tide comes in combine to turn making it into a form of dance.

Here’s another short news piece about him:

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Two cool articles on the art of forming a glob of mud into a shiny polished ball called a “dorodango” (Japanese):

• This one is more of the philosophical / metaphorical side of it, and is a really good introduction.
• This one is about someone’s first attempt to actually make one.

Is there some specific art term for art that’s meant to be temporary / transient, like these or the sand paintings that Buddist monks do?