ExNihiloStudio
07-25-2005, 09:40 AM
Here's an interesting and very big sculpture project:
http://www.crazyhorse.org
My favorite parts are the historical timeline of the project and the technical section.
My summary of the timeline - Stonecarver decides he wants to carve a mountain into a colossus. He creates a mockup and gets permission to carve somebody's mountain. He buys some old used equipment and one day sets a jackhammer to the ground and starts carving. He works alone for years, his wife runs the visitors' center at the mountain base to bring in income, and along the way he has severe accidents including tumbling his dozer down the mountainside and sustaining back injuries that require the removal of vertebrae. After more than 50 years of sustained work he dies without seeing a single detail emerge, but the project takes on a life of its own and others take over and today you can see real progress.
Today they're using precision blasting to carve the mountain. I doubt there's an art school program anywhere that teaches this. They use pretty sophisticated instruments to do it and even use it for the final surface.
Maybe they'll be done in another 100 years?
http://www.crazyhorse.org
My favorite parts are the historical timeline of the project and the technical section.
My summary of the timeline - Stonecarver decides he wants to carve a mountain into a colossus. He creates a mockup and gets permission to carve somebody's mountain. He buys some old used equipment and one day sets a jackhammer to the ground and starts carving. He works alone for years, his wife runs the visitors' center at the mountain base to bring in income, and along the way he has severe accidents including tumbling his dozer down the mountainside and sustaining back injuries that require the removal of vertebrae. After more than 50 years of sustained work he dies without seeing a single detail emerge, but the project takes on a life of its own and others take over and today you can see real progress.
Today they're using precision blasting to carve the mountain. I doubt there's an art school program anywhere that teaches this. They use pretty sophisticated instruments to do it and even use it for the final surface.
Maybe they'll be done in another 100 years?