Posts Tagged ‘art’
I don’t know about anyone else, but I have been enjoying the Bravo show “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.” It’s one of those reality competition shows (like “Top Chef” or “Project Runway”) but with artists competing each week on a different challenge. I like it because of the creativity and expression, and because [...]
Tags: art, Bravo, creativity, Fungus Study, Jeanne Greenberg, Miles, nature, Work of Art
A couple of days ago, I was perusing some wonderful stuff at a local bird seed and garden supply establishment. It was like an oasis in the middle of town. The property took up a whole city block and was what remained of an old farm that existed on the high prairie that is now [...]
Tags: art, fungal sculpture, garden decorations, JJ Potts, mycoart, sculpture
It is possible that leaving an agar plate laying around the lab for a month could produce something akin to art. Or, microbes can be deliberately arranged on a nutrient surface to produce interesting images a la Nial Hamilton. Then again, when it comes to Petri dish art, there is no reason why any living [...]
Tags: art, biology-inspired, Klari Reis, Petri dishes
What could be cooler than this headline: Fungi and lichen garden wins flower show’s supreme award. Neat! The event was the Ellerslie International Flower Show held at Hagley Park in Christchurch, New Zealand. The garden, a display of the plant kingdom in light, sound, movement and texture, uses plant materials associated with natural decay to [...]
Tags: art, Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Ellerslie International Flower Show, New Zealand
Jackson Pollock dripped paint on canvas. Picasso, Braque, Duchamp and the other cubists broke the world into little rectangular planes. Andy Warhol set up a few soup cans. Niall Hamilton has his own style of art. A Petri dish of agar is his canvas, spores are his paint, and a sterile loop is his brush. [...]
Tags: art, fungal art, microbial art, Nial Hamilton
In what looks like a potential rival to EcoCradle, Mycotectural Alpha is a construction material made of dense mycelium. Time magazine mentions it in the article Industrial-Strength Fungus by Adam Fischer: Mycelium doesn’t taste very good, but once it’s dried, it has some remarkable properties. It’s nontoxic, fireproof and mold- and water-resistant, and it traps [...]
Tags: art, Ecocradle, Far West Fungi, Mycotectural Alpha, Philip Ross, structures
When a dance company is named after a dung fungus, you know they are good. Pilobolus has been on stage for a long time now; since 1971 in fact. They must really be comfortable with each other to get in those poses. The outfit will be performing two shows on February 12 and 13 at [...]
Tags: art, dance, Pilobolus, University of Minnesota
Thanks to tip from @fungalgenomes, we find out about FungiFest at the Machine Project in L.A. Or better to say the L.A. times has an article on it, FungiFest breaks the festival mold. Of course not even the best newspaper writers in the world can resist using fungal puns in their headlines (sigh). There is [...]
Tags: art, film, Fungifest, L.A. Machine Project
Although there exist some decent instructions on the web for how to make a spore print as an aid to mushroom identification, some people just enjoy making them and consider them sort of an art form in and of itself. Anyone who has ever made one has surely recognized their intrinsic beauty. In fact, every [...]
Tags: art, crafts, mushrooms, spore prints
