Angry Owl Skeleton Candle

 

This is a super cool owl candle I have seen in a very long time. Robert Scott of Skeleton Candles created the "Angry Owl" candle with an embedded metal aluminium skeleton which slowly appears as the candle burns. Each candle will burn for around 30 hrs and comes in pink, green, purple, blue, orange colors. 

Robert shares his inspiration behind the owl candle: "I've always been fascinated by owls and culture behind them. Throughout history and across many cultures, people have regarded owls with fascination and awe. 

Well, I thought a candle would be perfect fit for all the fascination behind them. This particular owl will be feared and venerated. This particular look will be despised and admired and can be considered wise and foolish."

He has launched a campaign with Kick Starter where you can see the video of the candle burning and place an order before they are gone!

'Parliament of Owl' Light Installation by Bruce Munro

'Parliament of Owls' Waddesdon Manor, UK 2013

'Fagin’s Urchins' Cheekwood, TN, USA 2013

'Water-Towers' Hermitage Museum and Gardens, Norfolk, Virginia, USA 2014

'Teepees' Waddesdon Manor, UK 2013

'Beacon' Waddesdon Manor, UK 2014

Brune Munro is an internationally acclaimed British artist known for his large-scale light installations. The materials that he uses for his installation ranges from glass spheres, plastic bottles, fiber optics, fluorescent tubes generally attached to a music system for a rich sensory delight for onlookers.

'Parliament of Owls' was one of the six sculptural installations of Bruce Munro's first solo exhibition of large-scale exterior works in the UK for "Winter Light" at Waddesdon. The sculpture featured 36 pairs of blinking owl-like glass eyes perched in a totemic tree constructed out of timber and fresnel lenses 

Bruce shares his inspiration behind his artwork Parliament of Owls" "Having come across a simple glass lense in his studio one day Munro was struck by its resemblance to an owl’s eye. From his childhood he had always been fascinated by the ‘parliament’ of owls in the fourth element of the Narnia Chronicles The Silver Chair by C.S Lewis. Parliament of Owls was first created for exhibition at Waddesdon Manor in the UK the ‘owls’ sit high up on their perches as 36 pairs of wide blinking eyes stare out across the gardens."

His work has been exhibited by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Waddesdon Manor, the de Rothschild Foundation, 
Buckinghamshire; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. If you are in the area, you can see his work in person at the exhibition 'Light in the Garden' at Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Atlanta, GA, from May 3 through September 30. More more information on the exhibition and timings go to this link.

Playground in Copenhagen

Nikolaj Plads 5-11 playground was designed in 2010 by a duo of Danish artists Randi Jorgensen and Katrine Malinowsky of "Randi & Katrine". The playground had some fun elements added that are in complete harmony with it's surrounded natural setting of tall trees. The new slides in shape of treetops with caves, crawling and suspension bridge connecting the crowns, the spider-web from the tree top, swings with a perched friendly owl all together will give the kids a feel of playing in a forest.

Images from here and here.

Storage Tins by Ingela P Arrhenius

New storage tin sets with illustrations by Swedish designer Ingela P Arrhenius for Omm Design. The tins come in two different sets "Animals" set  and "Kitchen" set. Animals set has three tins with cute illustrations of owl, tiger and a bear in bright colors in Ingela's signature retro style. Kitchen set on the other hand features text in Swedish for salt, cocoa and on the largest tin it says "bakdags", which means time to bake! These are a fun way to store biscuits, sugar, tea etc. and when not in use the tins nest neatly within one another. Available from here and here.

Images via.

Incredible Woodcuts by Lisa Brawn

Lisa Brawn is an artist from Calgary, Alberta who has been experimenting with figurative woodcuts for over twenty years since being introduced to the medium by printmakers at Alberta College of Art and Design.

A couple of years ago, Lisa Brawn landed an opportunity in form of five truckloads of salvaged hundred year old Douglas fir beams from Alberta Block in Calgary with which she has been creating magic. The wood has knots, nails, holes, gouges "which is interesting in its history and also is oddly shaped", as she puts it. She matched the quirky nature of the material with the quirky subject matter in her work and has produced portraits of 20s pop culture people, TV westerners from 60s and 70s, international icons, celebrities, wildlife, owls and birds.

The hand-carved, one-of-a-kind woodcut blocks are a piece of art in itself with the raised areas of wood painted in black and the recessed areas painted in vibrant colors. What makes her work standout is the patterns and lines used in the background in her work and sometimes on the faces of her subjects.

You can find prints created by the woodcut blocks at Saatchi Art and for the original blocks you can visit her online store. To see more of her work, go to her Flickr profile where her work is placed under several categories.