The amazing likeness has come to light as part of a sale of ancient antiques by the auction house Bonhams.

… The Roman Elvis is in fact a genuine marble acroterion — a kind of architectural ornament often found for decoration on the corners of a sarcophagus, a stone tomb or burial chamber.

It forms part of a collection owned by Melbourne-based Graham Geddes — one of the world’s most foremost collectors — which is estimated to sell for more than £1m when it goes on sale in October.

- Niall Firth @ MailOnline: Link.

Via Boing Boing, via Neatorama.

“Etienne Meneau’s Strange Carafes are pricey, hand-blown art-glass wine-decanters in the form of roots, or upside-down antlers.”
- Cory Doctorow

Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!

If I owned any Nectar of the Gods, I would definitely keep it in one of these.

The-strange-Carafes
ETIENNE MENEAU sculptures

MMY

Kim Matthews (2008)

Abaca, waxed cord, reed, graphite, wire, unryu and iron oxide.

Kim Matthews creates amazing sculptures, exploring biomorphic forms and the relationship between sculpture and environment.

Normandale Community College (Bloomington, Minnesota) is currently featuring a solo exhibition of her work.

Through July 31, 2008.
Reception June 19, 2008, 6 to 8 pm.
Phone NCC @ 952-487-8399.

kim matthews art.com

“I sell garbage.” - Justin Gignac

Justin Gignac sells garbage: carefully picked, artfully arranged New York City garbage. As Art.

You might say, “I wish I’d thought of that ….” And who could blame you? I think we all wish we’d thought of that:

I sell garbage.

I scour New York City streets picking up trash. After filling bags with subway passes, Broadway tickets, and other NYC junk, I carefully arrange plastic cubes full of the stuff. Each box is unique and won’t leak or smell. The cubes are then signed, numbered, and dated, making them perfect for anyone who wants their own piece of the NYC landscape. Just get one now before they clean up this city.

- Justin Gignac, NYC Garbage Sculpture: Link.

I like his home page — great rollovers. Most sites, if they have rollovers, each rollover swaps only one image, the moused-over image. NYC Garbage Sculpture uses multi-image swaps for jumbo-sized extra-splashy rollovers.

Thanks, Kim!

I recently discovered — and am getting a big kick out of — Reprographics by Chris Yates: short stories/essays in photocomic format.

Yates has a giddy enthusiasm for topics both silly and serious. In the former category, here’s an excerpt from Borrowing from the Future:

His serious side largely concerns art, notably sculpture. See, for example, The Power of Richard Serra:

Via Boing Boing.

“I am … a sculptor, but I have only a 5000th of a second to build my sculpture.”
- Martin Klimas

Photographer Martin Klimas drops porcelain figures and captures high-speed images of the figures shattering:

“The aspect of destroying is not the most important one in my work. Let’s say it is a catalyst to unleash and study this transformation. The hardest part of my work is to smash so many figurines until I find one that truly is showing me something new. I am in that sense a sculptor, but I have only a 5000th of a second to build my sculpture.”

- Martin Klimas, interview @ The Morning News: link.

Via Boing Boing.

Small is beautiful –

Using lasers, Korean researchers have crafted a microscopic version of Rodin’s famed sculpture “The Thinker” just about twice the size of a red blood cell at 20 millionths of a meter high. Muscles and even toes are visible in the tiny model.

For more than a decade, researchers worldwide have experimented with lasers to fabricate elaborate 3-D creations. They start with a resin that hardens when exposed to certain frequencies of light. Using overlapping beams of lasers, researchers can then solidify a sculpture with details measuring less than a wavelength of visible light in size.

[LiveScience]

Via Boing Boing.