1. Soundtrack of the day
Ancient Indians made rock music.
Hard as a rock - AC/DC
Solid (as a rock) - Ashford and Simpson
Steady as a rock - Clyde Ray
On the rocks - Rita Lee
Hard as a rock - AC/DC
Solid (as a rock) - Ashford and Simpson
Steady as a rock - Clyde Ray
On the rocks - Rita Lee
Now, let’s rock and roll!
2. Places to discover
Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England
3. People to know
4. Question of the day
5. Inspiration
Stories with stones.
Painting - Munari (From afar it is an island, book) and Max Ernst stones .
Domino stones - Painted stones for home
Any tool is good to storytell, but rocks are always a solid and steady option.
Rock art: A traditional “religious” art that involves human markings on rocks and that can be found in so many times and places. As a general, roch art can be divided into these two categories: petroglyphs (carved) and pictographs (painted). Rock art was (and still is sometimes today) used to record historical events or stories, to help enact rituals, for cartographic purposes (as territorial markers), “hunting magic” or weather control… The “art” can either be abstract or not.
Rock balancing: either an art, discipline, or hobby, it involves putting and keeping them in a state of balance rocks, one on top of the other and in various positions. Nothing more is added to the “arrangement”. Nothing less.
Painting - Munari (From afar it is an island, book) and Max Ernst stones .
Domino stones - Painted stones for home
Any tool is good to storytell, but rocks are always a solid and steady option.
Rock art: A traditional “religious” art that involves human markings on rocks and that can be found in so many times and places. As a general, roch art can be divided into these two categories: petroglyphs (carved) and pictographs (painted). Rock art was (and still is sometimes today) used to record historical events or stories, to help enact rituals, for cartographic purposes (as territorial markers), “hunting magic” or weather control… The “art” can either be abstract or not.
Rock balancing: either an art, discipline, or hobby, it involves putting and keeping them in a state of balance rocks, one on top of the other and in various positions. Nothing more is added to the “arrangement”. Nothing less.
For example, you could check out Cairns or inukshuk.
The rock balancing master Bill Dan teaches us how-to do sometricks here.
Then, Michael Grab and his Gravity Glue - site - and demonstration - video.
Michael Grab says:
The rock balancing master Bill Dan teaches us how-to do sometricks here.
Then, Michael Grab and his Gravity Glue - site - and demonstration - video.
Michael Grab says:
“The most fundamental element of balancing in a physical sense is finding some kind of tripod for the rock to stand on.”
"Every rock is covered in a variety of tiny to large indentations that can act as a tripod for the rock to stand upright, or in most orientations you can think of with other rocks. By paying close attention to the feeling of the rocks, you will start to feel even the smallest clicks as the notches of the rocks in contact are moving over one another.”
“Find a zero point, or silence within yourself.”
“Become the balance”
On his website, he quotes Yoda: “Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try”...
A question of stability? Check out Fischli and Weiss’
“Find a zero point, or silence within yourself.”
“Become the balance”
On his website, he quotes Yoda: “Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try”...
A question of stability? Check out Fischli and Weiss’
“Rock on top of another rock” - here
Andy Goldsworthy - “You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that’s dying and something that’s being born.”
Ferdinand Cheval, a French mailman who spent all his life building a castle with found stones.
Today, you design your own story with stones from the Stone Age and beyond! Are you ready? Ready for carvings, hammerings, engravings, inscriptions,
scratches, sculptures, drawings, paintings, pictures, records...?
7. Extras
Man lifts big stones
Painted stones on Pinterest
Stone art blog
Sticks and stones on Pinterest
Suiseki or an ancient japanese art
Andy Goldsworthy - “You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that’s dying and something that’s being born.”
Ferdinand Cheval, a French mailman who spent all his life building a castle with found stones.
6. Homework
Today, you design your own story with stones from the Stone Age and beyond! Are you ready? Ready for carvings, hammerings, engravings, inscriptions,
scratches, sculptures, drawings, paintings, pictures, records...?
7. Extras
Man lifts big stones
Painted stones on Pinterest
Stone art blog
Sticks and stones on Pinterest
Suiseki or an ancient japanese art
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