August Rodin bronze sculpture staues

http://youtu.be/32ai6cLaKGw


Here is a great find some footage on youtube of August Rodin. It looks like he enjoyed some success and monetary wealth while alive.
We make some reproduction items like the famous Thinker full size
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DELDOT FAIL Albe drive potholes pot holes

We have endured potholes on Albe drive, Newark Delaware for years. The fix is always faulty and potholes remain. Seems to be a question of bad or worse. We pay millions of taxes in this industrial park. We want some repaving and it is way overdue!

famouse Pawn Shop Brass Balls Sign

YES they are back again from the depression era. Those famous brass balls signifying loan or pawn shop.
The pawnbrokers' symbol is three spheres suspended from a bar. The three sphere symbol is attributed to the Medici family of Florence, Italy, owing to its symbolic meaning of Lombard.[1] This refers to the Italian province of Lombardy, where pawn shop banking originated under the name of Lombard banking. The three golden spheres were originally the symbol which medieval Lombard merchants hung in front of their houses, and not the arms of the Medici family. It has been conjectured that the golden spheres were originally three flat yellow effigies of byzants, or gold coins, laid heraldically upon a sable field, but that they were converted into spheres to better attract attention.

Most European towns called the pawn shop the "Lombard". The House of Lombard was a banking family in medieval London, England. According to legend, a Medici employed by Charlemagne slew a giant using three bags of rocks. The three ball symbol became the family crest. Since the Medicis were so successful in the financial, banking, and money lending industries, other families also adopted the symbol. Throughout the Middle Ages, coats of arms bore three balls, orbs, plates, discs, coins and more as symbols of monetary success. Pawnbrokers (and their detractors) joke that the three balls mean "Two to one, you won't get your stuff back". https://plus.google.com/photos/102988372928778833247/albums/5606252949126159201?banner=pwa

Bronze artifact found

One thing about bronze items is they last forever. Weather you are buying a bronze statue or sculpture or just some beads. you'll be happy to know they will be here for many hundreds of years.

HOLY COW or bull, scap metal animal sculpture

Pollutants are of varied kinds and tackling each one has its own methods. One such pollutant comes in the form of used cars. The rate at which cars are being produced and consumed is increasing alarmingly. People soon get ‘bored’ with one car and move on to purchase a new one creating an ever-increasing junkyard of old used cars. Amid such a use and throw scenario, Miina Akkijyrkka attempts to make optimum use of these discarded vehicles and gives them a completely new look.

This Helsinki based sculptor shows a close attachment to cows through her works. She is one who works with cows in more than one way and her academic history goes on to prove it. She did attend an art school to pursue her interest in sculpting but also spent one full year at the Dairy Farming School. Adding a bit of mechanics to her two fields of study she came up with these gigantic bovine creatures that adorn the hillsides and countryside keeping an eye on all the grazing cows.

It is not an easy job to acquire old cars. Although there being plenty many people do not wish to part with their cars. Akkijyrkka often goes trekking in her country and in the process also looks out for used cars. Having successfully purchased the old cars she heads homewards where every car is carefully pulled apart, welded where necessary and soon given a completely new makeover. These creatures made out of scraps of used cars stand tall amidst nature presenting a definite figure which otherwise would have been parts of huge junkyards.

The cow sculptors created by Akkijyrkka break the monotony of the green stretches with the myriad colors they exhibit. As all the cars she has made use of are of varied colors, her cows also come out in multiple shades. The very form and posture of these cows also present a variety with some standing erect, some grazing while some sitting in a comfortable position simply taking a look at the lovely surroundings.

One mans junk is another treasure

Would you like to see a bronze sculpture of Amy Winehouse NUDE

"Immediately following the death of Amy Winehouse earlier this year, fans helped commemorate her by making her iconic Back To Black album claim the top spot on iTunes in countries worldwide. And many of our favorite artists paid their own tributes to the soul singer, including M.I.A., Big Boi and Tony Bennett. Now fans will have another way to forever remember Amy -- a bronze sculpture.

Daniel Edwards, the artist who brought us a rather graphic depiction of Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber's young romance and a rendition of Lady Gaga that's meant as a metaphor for the 2010 Gulf oil spill, recently revealed his latest work -- a bronze bust of Amy Winehouse. Comparatively speaking, Edwards' take on the singer is a bit more subdued than his other works, as the bust seems to serve as a straightforward tribute to Amy.

The "Memorial Portrait for Amy Winehouse" shows the "Body & Soul" singer wearing her signature beehive hairstyle, and we get a feeling of serenity and peace through the flowers and lone bird nestled in her big hair. On his latest creation Edwards said, "I thought of her as a beautifully delicate fairy-tale princess, waiting to be rescued from fame and addiction, but her prince never came. I had always expected to sculpt her portrait, but I was waiting for her to put some of her troubles behind her. She had made me pay attention to contemporary music again."
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How nude would you loike your statue in bronze

We can make anyone or any thing in any state of natural. We can make even the most detailed and anatomically correct statue you like. Just see our www.bigbronze.com website for bronze custom sculpture and contact us for a quote

Statues can be fun and funny, just add people

There is something tempting about mans image especially when they can't talk back.
The world which we are part of is full of unusual stuff, creative people that come up with such amazing designs, artifacts and much more things that leave us wondering. Oddstufflab is dedicated to the weird and amazing stuff we think deserve a special mention.

The niche of the the blog is not restricted to amazing art pieces or similar stuff, we have undertaken the task of bringing a smile on your face or I must say talking in length about the major happenings around the world that assure a good dose of laughter.

Talk about Facebook, its as ultimate social communicating platform that lets us know about our family and friends, check the pictures of amazing places our friends have recently visited, chat with them and much more. Seeing the pictures of people standing along with different statues is a good sight but then the pose which people make to get their pictures clicked is what can do the trick.

Jesus Christ the Redeemer bronze statue sculpture for Peru

Having one giant Christ statue in Rio is not enough so Peru will also erect a 120 ft tall Christ the redeemer statue.

Without a doubt, the symbol of Rio de Janeiro is Christ the Redeemer, which is a statue of Jesus Christ that overlooks Rio. Construction on the iconic Brazilian statue finished in 1931, and in 2007, Christ the Redeemer was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. It is generally considered the largest art deco statue on Earth.
"LIMA (AFP) – Peruvian President Alan Garcia's plans to build the world's tallest Christ statue here has angered local residents who fear the soaring monument will mar the city's skyline.

Garcia, who told reporters he has personally donated $37,000 to finance the project, said the 37-meter (120-foot) statue is a "personal dream."

"This figure can bless Peru and protect Lima," he said about the project, which is also being funded by Brazilian companies.

Lima's Mayor Susana Villaran has expressed dismay over the location of the statue on a hill overlooking Lima's bay, which forms a 20 kilometer (12 mile) cove along the city's western edge.

"I respect President Garcia, and I am a believer. But there is a thing called the integrity of the landscape of Lima's bay," she said, adding that the president should have consulted local authorities beforehand.

The statue's proposed location on the Morro Solar hill also interferes with another historical site, said historian and archaeologist Guillermo Lumbreras.

"For years the Morro Solar has been undergoing a series of projects as a historical park... The hill is seen as a site where there was a battle in the war against Chile, and it should stay that way," he said.

Villaran said she intends to speak with Garcia and push for other sites for the Christ statue.

The statue, which is to be inaugurated on June 29, is expected to surpass the 36-meter tall Christ statue in Swiebodzin, Poland completed last November, currently the world's tallest." Yahoo news
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LIMA, Peru—President Alan García has always cut an outsize figure, both politically and physically, so it wasn't surprising that he would try to end his second term in a big way.

But no one could have predicted the firestorm created by Mr. García's move this month to start erecting a 120-foot replica of Rio de Janeiro's statue of Cristo Redentor, or Christ the Redeemer, on a hill here overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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WOMAN Half mile long sculpture UK landscape design

(Reuters) - The world's largest sculpture of a human body is being carved out of the British landscape using more than a million tonnes of rock and soil left behind by coal-mining.

"Northumberlandia," designed by American landscape architect Charles Jencks, will be nearly half a mile long when it is finished in 2013.

The sculpture, of a woman's body, has already been given the epithet `Goddess of the North' by locals in Northumberland in the far northeast of England, a part of the world that is no stranger to grand man-made projects.

Hadrian's Wall, built by the Romans, massive baronial castles, coalmines, shipyards and the huge Angel of the North sculpture by Antony Gormley, are all features of its landscape.

The best views of Northumberlandia are from the air, but visitors will be able to see her features up close by wandering the four-mile network of paths that run along the curves of her body.

One-and-a-half million tonnes of soil and clay taken from the nearby Shotton surface mine are being used to make the sculpture, which workers have been crafting for around a year.

Harvard-educated designer Jencks, 71, who was born in Fife, Scotland, said: "This is very much like alchemy; turning coal into energy and landscape into art.

"It offers us the opportunity to create art from the necessity of extracting coal."

Northumberlandia is costing around 2 million pounds and is funded by the Banks Group, the UK firm that operates the mine, and the Blagdon Estate, which owns the land.

Blagdon is the family estate of Viscount Ridley, whose son Matt Ridley, 53, said the idea for the sculpture came from a desire to be innovative.

"People have rightly asked why we are doing this," he said. "We could have submitted an application to simply restore the land back to agriculture, but we wanted to do something different.

"We are making a work of art with a bulldozer, rather than a paintbrush."

The sculpture will be at the heart of a public park being built close to the town of Cramlington near Newcastle.

GIANT GUNDAM JAPANESE SCULPTURE

WOW can you imagine you child walking up and seeing this statue?
This figure is from a Japanese cartoon and video game.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/photospecials/graph/gundam2/4.html
I hope to see an American city like Detroit getting a Robocop statue this big. The tourism economic value makes it all worthwhile

A grand Italian statement with a transparent meaning sculpted in stone

Some have bronze bulls

A-1127 Toro

And some have a big middle finger
So what do you think?

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Lets turn Granpops machine into a sculpture

http://gizmodo.com/#!5799585/artist-turned-typewriter-into-this-sculpture-of-your-grandpa

Kwame Opam — An Artist Turned Typewriter Into This Sculpture of Your Grandpa What with all the recent buzz about the death of the typewriter — that turned out to be super false — artist Jeremy Mayer went ahead and created this piece, Bust V (Grandfather), to comment on the hullabaloo.

Mayer is no stranger to repurposing typewriters for his decidedly badass sculptures. However, this piece in particular tries to embody the typewriter as a proud, if aged, medium.

Dog who does not trust a statue

watch and laugh as this dog repeatedly attacks a sitting statue

http://www.frequency.com/video/very-funny-dog-really-determined-too/6121736

Awsome Darth Vader sculpture, It should be bigger...like 10ft high

I know we tend to go a bit overboard on the Star Wars stuff on this site but let’s face it. It’s all pretty puny and tiny if you ask me. And this sculpture is just another reminder of that awesomeness need to be www.BigBronze.com

Detroit still needs a Robocop statue sculpture

Looks like they raised the needed funds to make the Robocop sculpture for Detroit.
I presume they will now have to find a place to erect this statue and get multiple permissions and permits. I wonder who will be making this fine statue for public display.
If you have any news then please pass it along.

A new bronze sword sculpted with fire

Edible sculpture ? when a cartoon statue is made from chocolate

Sculpture and statues are enjoyable to look at. This is magnifies when you can eat them too.

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Art sculpture and castoffs. Junk or Art?

When is art statuary a pile of junk and when is it valuable art?
"Organized by René Paul Barrilleaux, McNay’s Chief Curator and Curator of Art after 1945, New Image Sculpture assembles works by emerging and mid-career artists who freely appropriate from art history, ethnographic artifacts, fashion, folk art, hobby crafts, popular culture, and the world of do-it-yourself. These artists transform widely available materials, many found on the shelves of hardware stores and building suppliers, into fanciful re-creations and interpretations of ordinary and mundane things. Styrofoam, corrugated cardboard, and duct tape replace marble and bronze as primary materials, while ersatz tractors, musical instruments, sofas, and suitcases take the place previously held by portrait busts or minimalist cubes." Yatser

So what do you think? Do fancy words and warm fuzzy feelings make these items art? Or does the artists brand name bring them up to spec? What do you think these would sell for in a gallery?

That old mummy is really a new dummy

Sometimes what you see is not what you get. The Silk Road exhibit at Anthropology museum University of Pennsylvania could not get the real mummies so using dummies works.

New Mascot statue sculpture in progress, Towson University Tiger

We are posting some photos of this work in progress for the Towson Tiger Mascot in bronze. You can see how we started with a small model and sized it up using a CNC pantograph and cutter to rough out the full sized Tiger.We will be posting photos along the way at this link right up to the dedication at Towson University in Maryland.

Detroit needs a statue ROBOT WARRIOR ROBOCOP

make a boy out of a man, build him a robot that he can play with and admire. A magnificent photo op for the family.

College, university, high school and corperate mascot bronze statues sculpture

While some school or corporate mascots are quite routine and predictable some are quite bizarre and even comical.
Being a bit different can make your memorable.Also see our photos of the Missouri Western University Griffin measuring 10ft high we made a few years back. Note the wings are in the shape of the state of Missouri.The photos show actual wax and clay artist life size sculpture used to make the actual ceramic mold to cast the hot metal bronze for this statue. So see if you have recollection of any of these mostly University Mascots.

ROBOCOP statue nixed by Mayor

Every city needs a statue as like sports teams they bring tourists and tourist dollars.
Detroit decided not to have a Robocop statue but news may change and wishes sometimes come true.Every town needs a mascot whether you have Rocky, the Fonze,or Dale Earnhardt.
We at www.bigbronze.com can make these statues at commercial rates with no artist ego charges. We enjoy this kind of work.Check our mascot section.
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The end of Bargain Bronze RODIN THINKER bronze sculpture life size BigBronze.com

As we enter 2011 so begins another run on commodities prices including copper the dominate metal in Bronze sculpture and statues. So signals the end of bargain bronze sculpture affordable to the middle class in USA. The bargain bronze sculpture reached its high watermark in the early 21st century around 200 to 2006. The ability for American artist to design a sculpture and have a foreign foundry make the molds and casting at low labor rates made sculpture affordable to anyone who desired it. Going into 2007 and 2008 copper prices multiplied as did energy costs used in making and transporting the statues and fountains. The costs and end user price doubled and tripled. In spite of world economic slowdown the costs have still remained higher.
As we enter into 2011 Copper costs have reached a record high at $4.44 a lb beating the 2008 high by a full dollar. A predicted fuel increase to over $100. a barrel will also double the cost of shipping a 40ft sea container from Asia making cost rise even more.
The high inflationary rates are mostly a reaction to Obama's QE2 or Quantitative Easing two economic plan that devalues the US dollar. In short the dollar is worth less so overseas sellers want more of them. Another great loss for the middle class of America.