Project: Detroit Children’s Hospital

I bet your thinking, “Hey, what’s with this flurry of posts…huh, what’s the big idea…you guys have some nerve keeping us up to date” Now you’re thinking, “How did they know that?” Oh yea, friends…we have ESP (Extra Silly Personalities)

Here are some sneak peeks of our sculpture for a children’s hospital in Detroit. It’s a functional piece, a bit of sitting gazebo and a bit of art. These shots are of the beginning stages. There are actually 5 legs, only three are shown here. They all connect and lock into the top cap. There’s more to this piece, so stay tuned as it comes together.

Discovery Place Charlotte, NC (video)

Oh, I’m sure this is what you’ve eagerly been waiting for, a video from us. Here is our first foray into this new phenomenon of moving and talking pictures posted to this interweb thingy.

This is a super short video of our sculpture for Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC. We set the piece up in our shop so we could see how all of the components worked together, the rotating assembly, the birds, and the tornado. The good news, it worked swimmingly. Yes, he video is rough, this was the first time we used the video feature on our camera, but next time we’ll nail it. 🙂

Enjoy!

Discovery Place Charlotte, NC (Sneak Peek 3)

Hola,  we are moving along here at TORK as the seasons change an the temps cool down.

Here are some more pics of our sculpture for Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC. This is the piece pretty much set up, here in the shop. The baby birds are missing, they will be installed on site.  As you can see the tornado/whirlwind has been powder coated a deep blue, this piece remains static. The birds are on a spinning apparatus that moves the birds around the tornado (we may have some video in the near future). Donor plates will be going on the large ovals, an some of our clear resin leaves with color changing film will be placed on the smallest ovals.

 

Close up of DP sculpture...sweetness, huh?

 

 

Another shot attempting to get it all in the shot...it's large and in charge.

 

 

This shot shows the kinetic apparatus <(who comes up with this weirdness LOL), which looks like big bike spokes

 

 

Detail shot from underneath the tornado...cool? Oh yea!

 

 

Shot from directly underneath the tornado...coolness? I agree!

 

The next time you see images, they will be from it’s new home at Discovery Place.

Thanks for stopping by and checking us out, the TORK Crew

Matt the Miller’s Tavern – Dublin, Ohio

These are from late 08 ( we think).  They are metal frames with thin sheets of thermal formed acrylic for the shades.  Enjoy!

Lights @ Matt the Miller's Tavern in Dublin, Ohio

Lights @ Matt the Miller's Tavern in Dublin, Ohio

Thanks for stopping by, the TORK Crew