Traditional Japanese Carvings And Guitars Unite To Create The Most Metal Music Instruments Ever
Wood carvings and wooden guitars aren’t a common pairing, but Japan doesn’t care about that. Inamichoukoku – the Inami Wood Carving Collective – has turned its traditional wood-craft skills to the production of guitars. Usually, Japanese Inami-style wood carvings adorns temples and shrines. But this art was created to adorn the stages of metal concerts! The big brown dragon guitar is the crowning jewel of the entire line – it’s absolutely massive, and has more than a passing resemblance to a sword. And that is very metal.
Such levels of craftsmanship aren’t cheap: the least-expensive guitar goes for 1,000,000 yen (about $10,000) while the magnificent dragon is priced at 1,950,000 (~$19,500).
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Hypnotizing Wilderness Landscape Carved Out Of Wood
After almost 2 years of on-and-off preparation and work, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based artist duo Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are almost finished with their new woodcut print, called “Overlook.” The meticulously intricate woodcut of a speckled landscape with forests, mountains and lakes will be soon available as a three-color print, the final size reaching 28” x 46”.
“ Layer upon layer of undulating pattern builds a dizzying intensity in ‘Overlook’, ” write the artists. “ A panoramic infinity will be suggested by the print’s ability to eventually meet itself seemlessly at the edges, expanding like an eternal ‘wallpaper’ into an ever stretching vista! ”
The “Overlook” print will be available as a single piece, a diptych, a triptych, or “ an entire room’s worth of loping, abundant wilderness as far as the eye can see! ” – all from their Tugboat print shop.
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