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August 31st, 2010 — Amazing People, Art, Creative
Upon first glance these seem like normal insects. But when you pay closer attention, you will notice something which seems like it came straight out of a science fiction film.
Mike Libby creates these from insects & antique watch parts
How did insect lab begin? One day I found a dead intact beetle. I then located an old wristwatch, thinking of how the beetle also operated and looked like a little mechanical device and so decided to combine the two. After some time dissecting the beetle and outfitting it with watch parts and gears, I had a nice little sculpture.
Where do you get your insects? I get safe non-endangered high quality specimens from all around the world; from Africa, China, New Guinea, Brazil, Texas etc. Though I do salvage insects that I find right at hand, the occasional bumblebee or dragonfly.
August 22nd, 2010 — Amazing People, Art, Sculpting
I received these images in an e-mail, and had to search a while before I found the artist who creates these amazing miniature sculptures. You may notice the inscription “Dalton” on one of the pencils, which is how I managed to trace Dalton Ghetti.
Meet Dalton Ghetti, the amazing artist behind these mini sculptures. The 49 year old sculptor lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
This man has been carving pencil leads for over a quarter century, and he doesn’t sell these masterpieces! Says Dalton: “I don’t make any money from it but that’s not what it’s all about for me. However, I would love for a gallery owner in England to fly me over to put on a show”
Carving requires patience, as a virtue and also as a character trait of the artist. This extraordinary man is a prime example of super talent, combined with mind numbing patience. One of his pieces took 2.5 painstaking years to complete. His tools: razor blade, sewing needle & sculpting knife – no magnifying glass!
While at school he used to carve the wood of this friends’ pencils and give it to them as gifts. Later in life he started making sculptures from wood. After experimenting with several objects, he set his mind on the challenge “One day I had an eureka moment and decided to carve into the graphite of a pencil” says Dalton.
Needless to say these sculptures don’t always come our perfect, when he ends up breaking the sculptures while working on them. Keeping in mind the fragility of his canvas, ruining a piece, specially when it is almost completed can be very devastating and depressing.
He has however learnt to believe in himself, which gains him confidence with each pencil that he carves.
He also has a box with more than 100 sculptures that he has broken over the period of time and calls it “the cemetery collection”.
“People might think it’s weird I keep them but they’re interesting. I worked on them for months so they might be dead now but at one point I gave them life” explains Dalton.
Whoever said that patience is a virtue, neglected to note that, most of all, its an ART!
May 14th, 2008 — Amazing People, Dizzy Dee
Johan Lorbeer is a German street performer. He became famous in the past few years because of his ‘Still-Life’ performances, which took place in the public area. His installations includes ‘Proletarian Mural’ and ‘Tarzan’, which are famous in Germany . Several of these performances feature Lorbeer in an apparently impossible position.
With his still-life performances, this German artist seems to unhinge the laws of gravity. For hours on time, he remains, as a living work of art, in physically impossible positions. Elevated or reduced to the state of a sculpture,
he interacts with the bewildered and irritated audience, whose appetite for communication rises as time goes by, often culminating in the wish to touch the artist in his superhuman, angelic appearance in order to participate in his abilities.
June 28th, 2007 — Amazing Medical Breakthroughs, Amazing People, Bake, Cool, Useful Tips, Wordpress
For millions of sleep-deprived mothers around the world, this woman’s findings could be a miracle! Priscilla Dunstan, a mom from Australia with a special gift, says she’s unlocked the secret language of babies.
When Priscilla was a toddler, her parents discovered she had a photographic memory for sound. At age 4, she could hear a Mozart concert on the piano and play it back note for note.
Priscilla says her gift has helped her hear a special “second language” beyond English, allowing her to detect moods and even diagnose illnesses! “Other people might hear a note but I sort of get the whole symphony,” Priscilla says. “So when someone’s speaking, I get all this information that other people might not pick up.”
That mysterious second language took on an astounding new meaning when Priscilla became a mother to her baby, Tom. “Because of my gift for sound, I was able to pick out certain patterns in his cries and then remember what those patterns were later on when he cried again,” Priscilla says. “I realized that other babies were saying the same words.”
Here is the short version:
- Neh=”I’m hungry”
- Owh=”I’m sleepy”
- Heh=”I’m experiencing discomfort”
- Eair=”I have lower gas”
- Eh=”I need to burp”
Those “words” are actually sound reflexes, Priscilla says. “Babies all around the world have the same reflexes, and they therefore make the same sounds,” she says. If parents don’t respond to those reflexes, Priscilla says the baby will eventually stop using them.
Priscilla recommends that parents listen for those words in a baby’s pre-cry before they start crying hysterically. She says there is no one sound that’s harder to hear than others because it varies by individual. She also says some babies use some words more than others.
The Dunstan Baby Language DVD is currently available. Visit www.dunstanbaby.com to order your copy.
And NO, I do not have children, I just find this extremely interesting. I was an au pair for a while, but for babies who were talking / starting to talk. It’d be interesting to try this out though, so those of you with babies, let me know if it works please? 
Sources: Oprah
