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David Mach is a London-based sculptor who owns lots of coat hangers, so he made a spaceman sculpture out of them. He also made a giant gorilla and a hooker out of hangers. We have more images and a quick recap of his sculptural method.
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Made of glass and recycled metals, these spaceships look like they were torn from the pages of rocket magazines in the 1930s. They're the battered but delicate stars of Rik Allen's show "Innersphere" at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, which runs through April 27. Allen, a master glass blower, said he wanted to pay homage to the science fiction he loved as a kid. Here are another two of his pieces, below.
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Meet the Mojis. They're a family of aliens designed by artist Adriean Koleric, and they come from the underground of the vast expanses of goji berry fields in the Himalayas. They got mixed up in some crates full of goji berries and were haphazardly exported to the US.
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A reclusive scientist named A.E.R. Pipewell may have disappeared without much notice during World War I, but to his contemporaries Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison he was something of a legend. Sadly, most of his workshop was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, but recently some of his schematics came to light. An engineer named Alan Rorie put together Pipewell's "perplexing device" known as the "dihemispheric chromaether agitator," which apparently Pipewell believed could travel in time at 1 SPS (second per second). Want to see the time machine being powered up by a steam engine?
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Edward Tufte is the guy who summed up the field of information design in one amazing book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. He's also a sculptor, and last year conceived this behemoth scrap steel piece, called Rocket Science. This is the giant nose of it. Want to see the rest?
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No, it's not really a wine cooler for Cloverfield. It's an art installation by Eduardo Srur on the banks of Sao Paulo's most polluted river, which was also the recent site of a toxic fashion show. Srur doesn't want to make the Tiete river chic, though — he wants to warn people of the dangers of pollution from non-biodegradable stuff like plastic bottles. We've got more images of this cool mega-art below.
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Meet the Manga Ormolu: She's made entirely of ceramic and is a strange combination of futurist mecha-bot straight out of Appleseed, and an Ormolu vase straight out of eighteenth century France, where the Europeans amused themselves by collecting Chinese vases as exotic symbols of otherworldiness. (Today Ormolu copies are sold to tourists in Chinatowns across the world.) You can meet Manga Ormolu's friends in our gallery.
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In an icy land known as Vail, Colorado, artist Lawrence Argent erected an otherworldly ice-and-LED sculpture called Verdant Meadows. Here you can see a test run of the glowy, alien-looking piece last Friday night. Ice sculpting was contributed by Scott Rella. We also have a close-up of the glowing ice fronds.
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Artist Nemo Gould, whose proud and strangely anatomically-correct robot you see here, loves old-fashioned science fiction, hybrid animals, and junkyards. He just finished an artist-in-residency program at the San Francisco Dump, and has turned out an amazing array of sculptures using recycled debris. Brighten your day with a peek through our gallery of Gould's recent work, plus some exclusive shots inside the artist's mad science studio.
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