Yes, six degrees of separation and all, but this stuff continues to be scary. I was checking Bruce Sterling’s blog this morning; there’s an entry where he mentions that ‘I’m staying at Cranbrook — in this guy’s house‘. ‘This guy’ is Carl Milles, a sculptor I was unfamiliar with but whose work (in 2D and on a computer screen, unfortunately) I like. So, I’m reading the wikipedia entry on Mr. Milles when another name jumps out at me – one of Milles’ sculptures is ‘Sven Hedin on a Camel’. Hedin traveled though Asia and the Mideast; I was reading The Silk Road, Trade, Travel, War And Faith over coffee this morning. Here’s a bit of an image dump inspired by all this.
One of Milles’ sculptures, with work by an artist I was already familiar with (I’m not completely ignorant!) – Dale Chihuly:
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Europa and the Bull (aurochs!):
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Hedin on a camel (sorta courtesy of the RGS – thus the watermark):
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Hedin w/ camel in front of yurt (I’m going somewhere with this, I promise):
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Interior of a present day yurt – one way I’m thinking about doing up the interior of the Airstream (when I get it):
An Airstream decorated like that would be super cool. Go for it!
Step 1 – find the ‘stream (I’m working on it, but I want it to be right). Step 2 – get to work. grin
This doesn’t have anything to do with this post, but I figured you’d like these. Found this in the Best Buy parking lot today:
http://www.altered-screens.com/other/airstream1.jpg
http://www.altered-screens.com/other/airstream2.jpg
http://www.altered-screens.com/other/airstream3.jpg
http://www.altered-screens.com/other/airstream4.jpg
NICE!
I’m going to send you some yurt interiors from Mongolia…
Steve – thanks! Can’t wait to take a look.
You’ve also got me putting that damn silk road book on my wish list…
Steve – glad to be of service! 😉