Functional Art
Musical Bat and One Last Guitar
A few stories, one about a violinist creating a musical bat and another about an engineering professor creating Coil an electric guitar that can produce a customized sound, and another that I stumbled upon about a guitar maker losing his hearing as he builds his last guitar recently captured my attention in the Washington Post as being very attentive to the arts. A Swing and a Hit for Violinist by Anne Midgette is about Glenn Donnellan, a classical violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra, who has fashioned a bow instrument out of a baseball bat for children’s musical outreach programs. His video below not only Kick Starts the weekend but…
GM
I saw the report about General Motors coming out of bankruptcy on the news. I was more taken with the designers and artists creating the new car designs and the creative process for accomplishing this. The news clip showed graphic car designers adding finishing touches to their concepts on the computer and sculptors creating 3-D, small and life size models in clay. Fascinating! What would GM do without these artists? There are a whole series of videos to watch at the GM site, but here’s one specifically showing the designers. Here’s the ABC news report on 20/20: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8052475 Here’s a previous posting on cars as another form of canvas.
Follow ups
Happy July 1st! Wow, where is the summer going? I have too much to do this week and this image reflects it. I’m thinking of this picture as I feel like I’m climbing a wall. Here’s a humorous follow up to my zipper dress post…However, this dress is made of colorful condoms. Who would have guessed these could have another functional and fashionable purpose. If we make it to New York this summer while checking out colleges for our younger son, I’d like to go to the Museum of Art and Design (M.A.D). Coincidentally, this is where the rubber (glove) dress is on display — a previous post, which consequently…
