bridges that you built

When I wrote in my earlier post that staircases fascinate me to no end, it was only half the story. Add bridges to it.

?Click here & listen to heart  rendering  song ‘bridges’ by Tracy Chapman while

you go through the post.?

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Bridges and staircases fascinate me to no end. And I am on an ever going tour of finding out how to incorporate these two elements in my small home.

Sounds crazy? Isn’t it! It is possible to have elements of staircase in decor at least; but bridges!

While you shake your head and mutter some words related to crazy or disbelief; I want to prove I am not alone in my ‘impossible sounding dream world.’shell2002-mahogani-cast-co.gif

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Matthias Pliessnig, Wisconsin, USA based designer is very pierce-mathias-p.giffamous for bending wood to his will! And making sculptural furniture pieces out of this bent wood. Wood

becomes elastic in his hands. Many of us remember him by his creation

‘pierce’  ?

He uses coopering techniques and boat building techniques to span2002ashdanish-cord-c.giflintel2001mathias2.gifachieve compound curves.When you see these ‘bridge’ benches you can imagine that I could not have done anything else but jump up and down.

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a deviated path

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pink for breast cancer awareness

Pink- for breast cancer awareness –

Pink in Indian women’s attire – the saree and salwar kameez for day to day wear and lehnga choli reserved for a little special occasion.

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                                              the saree

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                                       the lehnga choli

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                                the salwar kameez (batik)

(Images via livinggallery, esareestore, Indiangarment)

green bin

What is your inspiration? A chewing gum, a bicycle chain or just plain sugar.

London based designer Anna Bullus not only takes inspiration from these everyday things but also uses them as mediums!

She invents and crafts new products from these materials, products which are fun, clever and environment friendly!

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                                    bubble gum bin

Anna Bullus has invented a new material from used chewing gum and bio resin for making a bubble gum bin called Gumnetic. This bin collects raw material in the form of discarded chewing gum which is then used to make more bins!

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                                    bubble gum bin

Keep reading to see her sugar inspired cup and bicycle chain inspired furniture…

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modern twist to traditional craft

I have never seen such cotemporary renderings of a traditional art and craft.

The modern twist to Bidri work is simply stunning.

The art of inlaying silver in a dark metal is called Bidri.

The designers Suryaprakash Gowda and Vikram Sardesai are among those who define modern Indian lines.

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Bidri candle stands

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Bidri plates

These Indian designers based in Bengaluru, with their dedicated team under the name of Design Core India take lacquer work, stone inlay and Bidri work from traditional Indian handicraft and adapt it in such a way that the final product becomes breath-taking!

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Bidri candle holders and trays

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Bidri Keychains

Elegance of these stone inlay work is indesciable ?

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stone inlay plates

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stone inlay plates

While you are on their website do not miss lacquer work . Their recycled products are a different story altogether. I am doing that but a little later.

To know actual process of Bidri work (in detail) and links to traditional Bidri work keep reading…

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nanotech & Nobel

nanoart1.gifHow it is possible to store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard drives. How is billions of bits of information stored on something the size of a dime. The miniature your device (specially the hard disk) gets – Blame it on nanotech!

Blame it on a very specific discovery called ‘Giant Magnet-o-resistance’.

The MP3 and iPod industry would not have existed without this discovery.

In 1988 the scientists, Frenchman Albert Fert and the German Peter Grünberg each independently discovered a totally new physical effect called- Giant Magnetoresistance or GMR.

The first real application of the promising field of nanoart2.gifnanotechnology was ushered in by using GMR effect, the technology that is used to read data on hard disks. In this effect, very weak changes in magnetism generate larger changes in electrical resistance. If GMR is to work, structures consisting of layers that are only a few atoms thick have to be produced. So the nanotech owes it real application to these two scientists who has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics only minutes ago!

(nano art images via northwestern edu.)