We recently saw this table by Korean artist, Do Ho Suh. It's a functional piece of furniture that resembles some of his past sculptural work, like a glass floor supported by thousands of tiny human figures.
It looks like someone over at Craftster.org has seen the table, too, and made it into a DIY project for a bedside table. See their photos after the jump. What do you think?
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Comments (10)
I think it's cute, but I think the soldiers would fall/get knocked over and it would become a pain in the butt, unless each one was epoxied onto the glass and the table.
I love that. My 6 yr old son would love that.
Quake Wax would keep the boys in line. I'd find acrylic lid-type cover to keep out dirt and dust.
Hmmm...I just might use this idea.
i find this a little creepy. like hair curtian creepy.
(http://apartmenttherapy.com/ny/slinks/slinksn-slingks-surreptitious-web-links-to-other-good-sites-014741)
Wow, what a grungy dust magnet. But, cats might like to hide things in there. And dogs would be driven crazy if you hid some peanut butter somewhere in the middle of the troops. As in, no more cute little table.
I saw a floor platform by this artist at the Indianapolis Art Museum not long ago and it was incredible. The most amazing thing, I think, was actually standing on the surface and realizing that they were little figures below you. So I think the table is cute, but the scale feels off somehow. Seems weird to say about a coffee table, but it doesn't seem quite monumental enough. And I agree you'd have to have epoxy, and maybe sides to handle the dust issue.
I'd like this better if the toys were sealed inside a glass case, instead of a piece only on top. It looks precarious and agree with Pixie; dust magnet. I like those bowls made of melted plastic figures.
Ah, this reminds me of... the two brothers in the Arts section of the NYT on Sunday. Jake and Dinos Chapman. But their army men are all raping and pillaging.
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/
karlins/karlins12-21-5.asp
It's disproportionate. The beauty of his table is scale. The figurines are a surface. The Army men, however are more a volume than a surface.
I think this is AMAZING.
I think it's great - particularly for a $5 challenge. Apparently the craftster hadn't seen the Korean artist's table before. And if you're going to hide peanut butter in your side tables, I don't think it matters to the dog whether there's little army men involved or not :)