THE GREAT GATSBY (2013) Dir. Baz Luhrmann

Modeled in the same composition as the famous dancing faun, this sculpture is made to be a juggler in a particularly crucial moment of an acrobatic trick.

The artist may also have had the Gemran word kunststückemachen in mind, which means both to juggle, and more literally, to make a work of art.

A play on words to describe this playful bronze.

Juggling Man, about 1610-1615, Adriaen de Vries. J. Paul Getty Museum.

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Herd Of Deer Encounters Strange New Creature Called ‘Cat’

What happens when a small group of deer and a cat come in contact for the first time? We think it will go a little something like this.

graves grow no green that you can use.

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#TBT too cute!

CASA BATLLÓ -BARCELONA, SPAIN

Also known among locals as the “House of Bones,” Casa Batlló seems to have been designed with the shapes of organic viscera in mind. Built for the middle-class Batlló family who purchased the building in 1900 due to its central location and (originally) undesirable appearance, Gaudi’s redesign of the facade and interior of the structure made the address priceless. The facade is divided into three distinct sections, each reflecting a level of anatomy. The base level looks as though it is gridded by huge abstract bones, while above that the front takes on a more chaotic, abstract pattern echoing blood vessels and muscle, and then the entire structure is capped with a scaly roof section that looks like nothing so much as the back of a giant dragon.

VOGELSCHEUCHE

[noun]

German: scarecrow; an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.

[Jeremy Masson]