Series of underwater sculptures located in Grenada, West Indies. All designed to create an artifical reef.
visit www.underwatersculpture.com for full details

A request this spring from my friend BuddyChrist. I made it out for the tour. Next parts will have heavy science geek content.

Ever since I was a kid I have always had a fascination with bones. I don't know what it is. Probably because I find them strangely beautiful, much like seashells. Seashells and Bones are the hard evidence   more...that some organism once shared space with them. Human skeletons are often scary looking, and yet, wrapped around most human skeletons are some fabulously beautiful people. I like that aesthetic contrast. I'm always looking for that duality, the beautiful within the horrific. It makes me stop and take a longer look and try to admire the hidden beauty of something or someone ugly.

As a kid I loved natural history museums (Art museums became a much later love affair) and seeing the reconstructed dinosaur skeletons,and thinking about tht guys who first found them, dug them up, and reassembled them without an instruction manual. My grandparents lived out in the country and I loved finding old cow skulls and such out in the field.I'd pretend they were dinosaurs and that maybe, just maybe, a few live ones might still be around. For me, a box of old bones was a treasure chest!

In the summer before I entered College the movie "Alien" came out. The film features a scene where astronauts stumble across a derelict alien shipwreck on an uncharted planet, and find the very realistic bones of a dead alien inside, with evidence of some kind of internally generated trauma that killed it. That rekindled my fascination with bones, and I started creating my own collection of "Alien skulls"out of kiln-fired stoneware clay, which I would then paint to look like real dessicated bone. I would proudly display them as knick-knacks on my shelves, as ersatz "Specimens" from my travels to other worlds (or some perversely mutated corner of THIS world, since there was an oddly human feel to all of them). Sometimes I would build a display stand for a skull that lookedlike part of the rest of the creature it belonnged to.

I turned a very elaborate one in as my final project in my second semester of Sculpture in college. Its stand actually possessed something of a ribcage,although I took artistic liberties with it to make it more interesting and asymmetrical (That's the tall center piece in the photo in my photos section here!). I was rather amused by the reactions of people who were unfamiliar with me and my work. A biology student criticized the piece for not having the correct rib-count. At first I was offended until I learned that she thought the damn thing was REAL! A similar comment came from one of my fellow students who worked in a different section of the sculpture labs:"Who th' hell brought these old bones in here?" Needless to say I was proud of my inadvertent deception of my viewers. Got an "A" , too. Bonus!

I still make skulls and skeletons now and then. Sometimes I like to put comical fish-bones in my Cat paintings. I've also made 3-D paintings of imaginary prehistoric fish skeleton specimens and flying beasts. I don't do it as often as i used to, but I have a lot of fun just letting my imagination run wild in different media whenever I get my Jones to make Bones!

Just thought I'd share one of the many strange things about me since I ran across this video of my original skull collection the other day. The sound collage in the audio track is all mine.  less

For the past fifteen years, Theo Jansen has been creating (growing?) "beach animals" made from commonly available tools like plastic tubing, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, hose, tape, and   more...all sorts of other stuff.  less

A day's work cutting grass.

Video made in the garden of Marcia Donahue, sculptor, garden designer.
A collaboration between allertonoff and tree3

This weekend in Sonoma. Working, a flat tire, storytelling.

3 examples of Shadow art, the first is Kinetic Sculptures in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the second is Chinese Shadow Art show and the third is a compilation of shadow sculpture....this is amazing...out of   more...a pile of junk items it creates a work of art in the shadow it forms  less

A North Beach coffee house gathering of artists for weekly Sunday morning coffee.

My continuation of "21 Days of Beauty", CallMeHol's introduction to the beauty around us.<p> <p>Beauty by the waterside.

Wings added to my stainless steel longhorn sculpture

Longhorn skull sculpture slideshow, see how it is made. Set to "Until It Sleeps"

Mini-Documentary Produced and Directed by David "Gonzo" Gonzales (LV Channel: "dsilentgonzo") about the papier mache' monster creations of "Night of the Necroluna" director,   more...Larry Lo Presti. Narrated and edited by Baron Dixon.

You can see photos of Larry's at http://loprestigargoyles.tripod.com/  less

In 1979 I (Mrs. GeezerArt) made this video of Gene's artwork. Besides making Walking Sticks he has done some fine art in his time. These are some of my favorties! At the beginning I did a litle computer   more...graphics with our new Apple II's Graphics Pad. Too bad all the color turned weird but the video is very old!
Freida  less

Sand sculptures 2006. Exhibition by Vision Australia on Rye beach, Mornington Peninsula, Australia.
Theme Animals of the World
Original music by xcyril

Stainless steel Longhorn cow skull sculpture shown InProgress. Created using 1/8" stainless sheet, shaped using hammer on anvil,TIG welded, lots of grinding and polishing. But mostly, lots of noise.

Mr. & Mrs. GeezerArt Present Silly Willy! And we want to thank all of you for stopping and hope you you enjoy A Silly Wille Christmas! Gene created this masterpiece and we decided to put music behind   more...it! Makes us smile & laugh and that's all that matters! That's what fine art is suppose to do!  less

These are some of the Papier Mache sculptures by my friend and fellow filmmaker buddy, Larry Lo Presti. He's the writer/Director/Creaturemaker, among other things, for our movie "Night of the Necroluna,   more...a trailer to which you can find here in my videos.

The beauty of Larry's approach to Papier Mache' is that it enables him to work very quickly, and thus his final pieces have a wild spontainaeity to them, like 3D sketches in space. A lot of typical Papier Mache' can have a rather stiff look to it, but Larry's work has more "animation" to it. At our group art exhibits, Larry almost always sells out all the pieces he puts in the show, AND you can commission him to do custom work for you at any size--and you'll be surprised at how inexpensive he is! You can see photos of more of Larry's sculpture and cinematic costumes at http://loprestigargoyles.tripod.com

This sequence was originally shot to be the opening title sequence to another friend's horror anthology movie, that never quite got off the ground(The big golden book in "Necroluna" was originally constructed as the central narrative link prop for this movie as well). The director of that movie slowly rotated a lazy susan with the sculptures on it while I shot some slow zooms.

The music is another original composition of mine called "Ave Gynorrah" (as in "Ave Maria", not "Avenue") which is a sort of theme song to "Night of the Necroluna". Don't try to make out any of the lyrics. The only important part is "Ave Gynorrah" and the rest is just pretty much organized gibberish (which I speak fluently).  less

"The Hand" as it is unofficially called by some here on Fullerton Campus is done! Todd Frahm finished it and now it is sitting on the SouthEast Corner of Lemon and Chapman, across from Fullerton's   more...Main Campus, in the sculpture garden, or as i call it, the "grassy knoll". Check out more of Frahms stuff at

www.toddfrahm.com  less

My sculpture of lady before it degrades further in the fountain

Made from 18 guage cold roll flat sheet steel. Hammer shaped on anvil, welds ground off and allowed to rust. 9 feet tip to tip, 7 feet tall and 220 pounds

Yea.

This is what I do when I'm not out building stone walls.This is a head being carved in blonde sandstone for the gable end of a house. Feel free to add some music of your own. I decided to leave the soundtrack   more...as it was because there's something quite therapeutic in the tapping of a hammer on a chisel.  less

Despite the rather dubious "history" of the rare and sought-after Two-Chambered Resonating Ventiloscillator, Larry is in fact the creator of this very impressive-looking musical instrument.   more...Ostensibly the only wind instrument fabricated out of concrete, it is actually another one of Larry's sculptures made from PVC pipe and papier mache'. Watch and listen as Larry struggles to push real music through this thing while being gently heckled by "Night of the Necroluna" cast members.

I must apologize for the annoying hum that permeates this video. It's a gasoline-powered electrical generator brought in to help power the stage lights and the sound system for this outdoor event we were throwing.  less