Things That Make Your Day : Weaver's Toothpicks
Do you remember the ice cream stick table lamps that we made in our middle school craft sessions or the cups made up of coconut shells or the foot-mats made up of coir ropes? We made those lamps and chandeliers and moved on. Scott Weaver, on the other hand, decided to stick to a toothpick art that he learnt in school at the age of eight. He made a small piece. Then he added another extension to it. Then another. For 35 years he kept adding toothpicks to recreate the city of San Francisco and thus his own lifetime. His sculpture, a symbol of unyielding perseverance and unwavering dedication, makes the artist in me tumble in joy with the ping pong balls that travel across his structure unravelling his human life and superhuman spirit.
Watch for yourself:
For more works by Scott Weaver see http://www.rollingthroughthebay.com/index.html
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Things That Make Your Day: Mädir Eugster
[Things that make your day, as the name suggests are a series of short blogs that will be a celebration of hope, talent, love, beauty and life ]
Mädir Eugster is an anomaly. Or maybe he is someone who has located an anomaly. His experiments with the gravity defying equilibrium, counteracting torques and extension of his own balance from living to non-living realm are phantasmagorical. He is the symbol of man's mastery over the forces of nature. He calls himself a balance artist but to me he is a Zen of physics and a master of dance.
I came across Mädir Eugster in the latest Titan advertisement, and a simple internet look-up showed me something that absolutely made my day. Eugster performs at the Rigolo Swiss Nouveau Cirque and that goes into my bucket list. Have a look at these demonstrations (which made one of the viewers go "God, I want to report a bug" )
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The Feather Balance
The Archimedes of Equilibrium
The Driftwood Centrifugal
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