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February 7, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Whoa. My hydrocodone just kicked in. Trippy.
February 7, 2012 at 4:19 pm
My Norco just kicked in too – and I’m with you, WAY trippy!
February 7, 2012 at 4:23 pm
I have a feeling that, if I were perfectly lucid, I would probably try to analyze the awesomeness of this to the point where my head would undoubtedly explode.
February 7, 2012 at 4:17 pm
I’m really impressed! This stuff is just amazing!
February 7, 2012 at 4:17 pm
mind: blown.
February 7, 2012 at 4:18 pm
If I needed some thread, I could just pull it off Marilyn’s face. It would be like a facelift.
February 7, 2012 at 4:18 pm
HOLY craps.
February 7, 2012 at 9:36 pm
HOLY CAPS!
February 7, 2012 at 4:20 pm
No WAY. Really? Dang I thought I wanted the Enterprise coffee table but …
February 7, 2012 at 4:21 pm
I. Love. Her. I got to see her work when it came to Knoxville. The scale is so impressive in person.
February 7, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Wow. I never thought to do anything with thread but sew. I’m so unimaginative. VERY cool.
February 7, 2012 at 4:25 pm
I remember seeing the Star Trek ones in person back in 2008, and thinking that I really need to display my thread differently!
February 7, 2012 at 4:26 pm
This is truly pop art at its finest. So amazing. (Sew amazing?)
But I have to say, my favorite is the transporter beam one. I would put that in my living room at warp speed and watch my drunken friends FREAK OUT!
February 7, 2012 at 4:49 pm
I just had a flash of what I could do with the oldest son’s room once he (eventually) moves out.. Wonder if she’d do a TARDIS dematerializing?
February 8, 2012 at 9:56 am
A TARDIS would be so freaking cool!
Seriously though, looking at stuff like this makes me feel like Salieri in Amadeus.
February 7, 2012 at 4:28 pm
As you’ve already made me say about coffee tables, I don’t even like Star Trek and I _want_ the beaming in!!!
February 7, 2012 at 5:36 pm
I signed onto this ship to be a doctor, not to have my atoms scattered halfway across the galaxy!
February 8, 2012 at 4:11 am
HEY this thing is on permanent exhibition at microsoft headquarters!
http://www.devorahsperber.com/microsoft_beaded_figures/index.html
Someone is raising the bar, facebook headquarters.
February 12, 2012 at 11:20 am
I was going to mention this until I found your comment. They look great in person. I’ve wanted to try my hand at the beads since I first saw it.
February 7, 2012 at 4:28 pm
So amaze-balls!!
February 7, 2012 at 4:30 pm
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February 7, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Like, for instance, Mona Lisa? Because she’s done this as well.
February 7, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Yeah, it is in Raleigh, NC. I saw it recently.
February 7, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Well, if you think this isn’t very special, just a one-trick pony…
1. Saddle up
2. Find yourself a sewing supply store
3. Max out your credit card
We can’t wait to see what you achieve in your own artistic abiility!
February 7, 2012 at 6:37 pm
I think it’s amazing that someone came up with this in the first place…and it turned out so well! One trick pony…geez…this person created a whole new art medium. Absolutely fucking awesome.
February 7, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Perhaps da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”? Done that too. It’s in the museum I work for.
I think Devorah is fucking amazing. I like to stop by “After The Last Supper” every few days just to gaze at it.
February 8, 2012 at 4:08 am
SHIT!
http://www.devorahsperber.com/thread_works_index_html_and_2x2s/last_supper.html
(However, I understand the one-trick pony observation although I disagree with it; it’s like passing an already existing work from rasterbator and then play with spools. But the originality and talent in this case is in the medium, and the artist uses this fact quite purposely.)
February 8, 2012 at 4:18 am
Also, try to convince me this looks less realistic than a photo mounted on the wall:
http://www.devorahsperber.com/simmons_comm_6_06/index.html
She definitely knows what to do with these threads and where.
February 7, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Aaaaahhh, much better.
See, now if I saw something like this with a $1,000 price tag, I’d wonder why so cheap.
I don’t dare find out how much the Enterprise is worth, I want it too bad.
February 7, 2012 at 4:33 pm
This is awesome! Bravo! I wonder how long it takes to do each one.
February 7, 2012 at 4:33 pm
A. May. Zing. I was like, WTF is with the spools, then realized what the sphere was for. That is exceptional. That is Art.
February 7, 2012 at 4:40 pm
LOVE this thread!
The talent is incredible, but so is the mind-set of the artist. She looked at spools of thread and “saw” a picture.
February 7, 2012 at 8:14 pm
I see what you did with the thread there.
February 7, 2012 at 4:41 pm
I don’t even understand how the Barely There Beaming Up one is happening…
Incredible though.
February 7, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Same here. How the heck did she do that?
February 7, 2012 at 6:14 pm
On the gallery site, you can see a close-up view of Kirk. It’s faceted beads strung on monofilament — basically the fanciest bead curtain in the history of bead curtains. I just flat could not be more impressed.
February 7, 2012 at 4:42 pm
I saw her Mona Lisa work at Museum of Art and Design in NYC. One of the standouts in that museum- which is an abfab place to go if you ever get the chance.
February 7, 2012 at 5:38 pm
100
Internetsto you for the use of “abfab”. <3February 7, 2012 at 4:43 pm
That’s really incredible, it wasn’t until I scrolled past the first one that I could really see it though. Now, if she can do the same thing with miller lite cans, I might have a proposition for her.
February 7, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Miller Lite? The beer snob in me weeps for you…
But the alcoholic in me say, “Eh, what the hell.”
February 7, 2012 at 4:44 pm
says*
I didn’t just turn into Tarzan.
February 7, 2012 at 4:43 pm
I just made love to my monitor.
I thought you all should know that.
February 7, 2012 at 4:53 pm
You didn’t yell “SURPRISE!” first, so you owe us all an apology for monitor rape.
February 7, 2012 at 5:04 pm
OH! I’m terribly sorry. I just– I don’t know what came over me. ( But I know what came over my monitor! HAH! )
It’s a problem I have. It’s okay. I’m in group therapy for it. Monitor Rapists Anonymous.
February 7, 2012 at 4:48 pm
Those are incredible… I’m in geek heaven.
February 7, 2012 at 4:54 pm
One of these is made with CHENILLE STEMS. CHENILLE STEMS. The craftiest artiste!
February 7, 2012 at 5:04 pm
I don’t even know what those are, but they sound impressive!
February 7, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Pipecleaners! Man, and I think of the dinky shit I used to make with those in grade school. This is epic.
February 7, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Chenille stems are the quintessential craft store item. Equivalent to say, pompons, foamies, or even GOOGLY EYES.
February 7, 2012 at 6:18 pm
I would actually like to see what this lady would *do* with googly eyes.
February 7, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Stellar artworks.
February 7, 2012 at 4:55 pm
I’ve had the pleasure of seeing her work first hand. She came to my town a couple years ago. It’s even more incredible in person.
February 7, 2012 at 5:05 pm
Maybe you can answer a few questions: How does she work with the chenille stems? Does she use, perhaps, half-inch pieces? Does she paint the ends of the metal rods inside the stems?
February 7, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Looking upon these beautifully well-placed spools has cured my astigmatism. If only I could see them in person, so I might be granted 20/20 vision.
February 7, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Those are awesome! That’s such a creative idea.
February 7, 2012 at 5:13 pm
I saw something like this at the art museum in Roanoke, VA a while back… very impressive
February 7, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Whenever I see a new medium of craft, I add it to the “to-do” list. But I’d never be able to do this because all my materials would end up in a quilt!
(Also thread is too fucking expensive for that!)
February 7, 2012 at 7:20 pm
that’s the problem I have with that medium… I looked at this and said “Wow, that’s great. But I need *that* color for my quilt.”
February 7, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Wouldn’t you love to see a Spock 5?
(Yo, Canada.)
February 7, 2012 at 5:33 pm
I really see the pointillist of this
How about Deep Vision Space Nine items?
February 7, 2012 at 5:43 pm
I NEED THAT SUPERMAN ONE
February 7, 2012 at 5:51 pm
And if you’ve got a loose seam to sew up, You don’t have to look all over the house for thread!
February 7, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Star Trek and sewing/crafting. Major geek squee!!!! All we need is a Cal-King size Lord of the Rings quilt, a 1/1,000 scale knit Death Star, a full set of life size plushie Harry Potter characters and a map of Westeros tablecloth woven on a Four-shaft loom that’s big enough for a large dining table and we’d have a Geek Royal Flush.
February 7, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Wow.
February 7, 2012 at 6:42 pm
I would never know about this without Regretsy! (Thank you, April.)
I could spend a million years trying to come up with something creative and never think of anything like this. Good Job, Devorah!
February 7, 2012 at 7:42 pm
So friggin awesome. This appeals to me on all my geeky levels. And I want the Superman one so bad!
February 7, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Absolutely beautiful and incredible. The type of spatial and perspective reasoning you’d have to use…wonderful!
February 7, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Sublime.
February 7, 2012 at 8:27 pm
I saw a Campbell’s Soup can done like this in a museum and seeing is having your mind blown! (and believing) I hope Devorah was responsible.
February 7, 2012 at 8:32 pm
This is the sort of thing for which the word “amazeballs” was created.
February 7, 2012 at 8:41 pm
Ohhh, I have seen these in NYC! I was gallery-hopping with a friend when we stumbled upon this, and my friend broke the vaguely-bored, affected disinterest worn by gallery people when she shrieked, “HOLY SHIT HOW DO I NOT HAVE A PIPE CLEANER ENTERPRISE???” Really, some of the best gallery pieces ever seen, ever. Ever. Pictures don’t capture the awesomeness.
February 7, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Ok, this reminds me of the artist who does those incredible “3D” sidewalk chalk drawings…. so very, very clever.
http://tinyurl.com/6clrzxu
February 8, 2012 at 1:27 am
Über-cool, thanks for the link!
February 7, 2012 at 9:04 pm
I took my kids to the NC art museum to see the Rembrant exhibit and saw the Mona Lisa 2 by the same artist.
http://collection.ncartmuseum.org/collection11/media/view/Objects/4051/3523;jsessionid=BB75A2F0F1DF5C2205F3E174CBB46D90?t:state:flow=964a496d-06e5-44b6-9f76-a846c5f395eb
Really cool.
February 7, 2012 at 9:23 pm
I’m astounded at this one. Amazing.
February 8, 2012 at 1:33 am
Oi!
February 8, 2012 at 4:17 am
Her work was at the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, MA, last year. Awesome! And if you look through two of the viewing spheres, it turns upside down again.
February 8, 2012 at 4:48 am
Afuckingmazing.
February 8, 2012 at 6:51 am
Wow, I just had a quilter-and-Star-Trek-fan nerdgasm!
February 8, 2012 at 8:11 am
Who must I blow to have this?
Or is it “Whom”?
February 8, 2012 at 8:48 am
This is sooo coooooool
February 8, 2012 at 9:52 am
It appears I’m her only Facebook subscriber. Hope you’ll join me (it’s lonely and cold in here!):
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=580059771
February 8, 2012 at 10:09 am
It’s like pixel art on a massive scale. The Last supper is what really got me.. flippin amazing..
February 8, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Gorgeous! Love the Barely There:)
February 8, 2012 at 3:49 pm
There are no words for how completely in awe I am right now.
February 9, 2012 at 5:04 am
Holy crap. Those are so cool they gave me frostbite!
February 9, 2012 at 8:22 am
Now THAT is art!!!
February 9, 2012 at 2:10 pm
so amazing!! when i worked stocking at Joanns my favorite thing was sorting and filling the thread. <3 this really brings me back. all those colors! all the potential! i miss that.
April 19, 2012 at 10:17 am
Just had a full on nerdgasm