{"id":344,"date":"2009-07-30T15:41:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T19:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-07-30T15:41:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T19:41:29","slug":"truly-awesome-retro-future-sculptures-by-gary-haas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/30\/truly-awesome-retro-future-sculptures-by-gary-haas\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly Awesome Retro Future Sculptures by Gary Haas"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/garyh02.deviantart.com\/art\/Other-World-Sculpture-128238576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/sci_fi_sculpture.jpg\" alt=\"sci fi sculpture by gary haas\" width=\"501\" height=\"390\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-left:6px;\"><\/a>\n<p style=\"margin-top:12px;\">I&#8217;ve just unpacked a wonderful acrylic sculpture by Gary Haas &#8211; it is <em>not <\/em>the one you see pictured here, but it&#8217;s very similar &#8211; and it&#8217;s an amazing and beautiful piece of work. More pictures of this one are at <a href=\"http:\/\/garyh02.deviantart.com\/art\/Other-World-Sculpture-128238576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his Deviant Art page<\/a>, and the sculpture pictured here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=26834418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">currently for sale<\/a> at Etsy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Gary carves these from solid blocks of acrylic using tools that I&#8217;m trying to picture in my mind. I know that they&#8217;re rotary tools (which describes a heck of a lot of powered tools, when you think about it) but in order to do the undercuts it seems as though a cutting bit would have to deploy <em>whirling flanges of death<\/em> after it was already inserted. Which, you know, is really cool. In fact I&#8217;ll continue to believe in retractable whirling flanges of death even after I find out I&#8217;m totally wrong.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Because some things just <em>ought<\/em> to exist. And to get back on topic, this sculpture is one of &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Gary seems to think I&#8217;m inspirational, and I sure won&#8217;t argue with him (<em>&quot;Whirling flanges of Death!&quot;) <\/em>Either way I&#8217;m awfully glad to have this in my office. My advice: you should have one too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Update:  he&#8217;s just posted a photo of mine at Deviant art.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/garyh02.deviantart.com\/art\/somewhere-131510809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just unpacked a wonderful acrylic sculpture by Gary Haas &#8211; it is not the one you see pictured here, but it&#8217;s very similar &#8211; and it&#8217;s an amazing and beautiful piece of work. More pictures of this one are at his Deviant Art page, and the sculpture pictured here is currently for sale at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodgepodge"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}