Consumerism, art or craft?

[fajrdrako]

This is rather amazing art. My favourite is the second from the bottom, though I'd be hard put to name the structures.

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[meret.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks for the link. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love unusual visual art like this. Making something interesting of objects that aren't in themselves visually interesting, or at least, where any visual interest they might have is secondary to their purpose. I think one of the reasons I love it is that I would never, ever think of doing it.

[filkferengi]

I think the one you liked is a nautilus.

Fun site!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Nautilus - ! Yes, that works. Thanks.

[filkferengi]

You're welcome.

See also "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", where reference is made to "the chambererd nautilus" and Rex Harrison in "Dr. Doolittle", when they hitch a ride home to England inside a nautilus.

[I knew the historian in you would enjoy seeing the cites, as it were. ;)]

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I knew the historian in you would enjoy seeing the cites, as it were.

Yes! And somewhere in the first chapter of The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett there's a metaphor of Lymond as "a nautilus in its shell" as he comes out of the Nor' Loch. IIRC.

Lovely word.

[lapetite-kiki.livejournal.com]

Oh! Those are great!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Good, aren't they? I would never even think of this sort of thing, so when I see it, I am so impressed.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

P.S. Thats a terrific icon!

[lapetite-kiki.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thank you very much! :-)