Farmidable

Check out these and other cool sculptures by Mike Rea made entirely from wood. Show here are a wooden drum set, a wooden M-16, and a replica of the Ark of the Covenant. Visit the site to see a time machine, a wood-mech suit for Stephen Hawking, a set of wooden power tools, a space capsule, and other things not generally encountered in wooden form. Rae claims to build everything from memory and eschews any sort of planning; this explains the cartoonish vaguely over-sized scale of everything. [via Fecal Face]

I recently saw a great Antonio López García exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Antonio López García is a Spanish painter and sculptor. His work is very detailed, a little spooky and a lot amazing. Here are some pictures of the giant baby heads that he created, installed outside the front entrance of the Museum and here is a link to video about him and his work. Seeing the paintings in person gave me a different view of him than the video. He is meticulous but he’s also very free and loose in areas of his paintings. Something you can really only see up close.

Some cool (or whatever…) stuff seen while passing through Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dig these crazy pig-cows:

A blurry picture of dancing shelved kacinas:

Assorted Winnie the Pooh characters upon native-american-style drums:

And nice patterns on nice sheets of paper. Store was closed, didn’t go in, didn’t even get the name: