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| Artist creates 4ft elephant from jigsaw pieces | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 21 2014, 01:17 PM (269 Views) | |
| CJ | Dec 21 2014, 01:17 PM Post #1 |
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A very minor case of serious brain damage
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30561208 An artist has created a 4ft (1.2m) elephant using old jigsaw puzzles, as part of a scheme to donate new ones to five hospitals in England and Scotland. Every time a member of the public donated an old puzzle, a new one was pledged to patients. Hospitals benefiting from the project include London's Great Ormond Street and Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. Natalie Guy, from Bournemouth, created the mosaic with 308 used jigsaws. It is hoped it will be auctioned for charity. Money raised is expected to go to Together For Short Lives, a charity which supports children with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions. It's a very nice piece of work. It's a bit of a shame no attempt appears to have been made to fit the pieces together - but then, that would probably have been immensely frustrating! |
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| GrieferLord | Dec 21 2014, 07:07 PM Post #2 |
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Tank Sniper
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It's a jigasaw puzzle for a reason! if it wasn't immensely frustrating it wouldn't be fun! |
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| CJ | Dec 22 2014, 01:15 AM Post #3 |
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A very minor case of serious brain damage
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Very true . Also, it might be nice if some of these jigsaws were partially made-up so that we could see actual images of what they were, instead of just random blobs of colour. |
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| Zero Revolution | Dec 22 2014, 02:24 AM Post #4 |
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Maybe it was a stylistic choice to have random puzzle pieces across it rather than piecing them together? It looks pretty nice regardless.
Edited by Zero Revolution, Dec 22 2014, 02:24 AM.
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| CJ | Dec 23 2014, 08:07 AM Post #5 |
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A very minor case of serious brain damage
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Quite possibly. Maybe they tried it and it didn't really work - but, if they didn't even attempt it, then I feel as though it was a missed opportunity. |
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| GrieferLord | Dec 24 2014, 04:38 PM Post #6 |
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Tank Sniper
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i would think if he attempted to make a picture out of it the elephant would not have looked as nice as just sticking random ones together. |
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