{"id":215,"date":"2006-04-03T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2007-12-31T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:03:37","slug":"mechanized-animal-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2006\/04\/03\/mechanized-animal-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanized animal structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/fish3.jpg\" title=\"Fish3\" alt=\"Fish3\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left\" border=\"0\" \/>Vladimir Gvozdariki is a Russian artist who makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/2005\/dec2005\/images\/08.jpg\">whimsical<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/2005\/dec2005\/images\/08.jpg\">figures<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/dolls.html\">animations<\/a> and images. Some are  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/2005\/dec2005\/images\/02.jpg\">pleasing<\/a> in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/2006\/fevr-2006\/images\/007.jpg\">simplicity<\/a>, but I particularly like his complicated drawings of mechanized animal structures. They are in numerous places in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/sklad.htm\">galleries<\/a>, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/mex01\/page1.htm\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/2005\/avg-okt2005\/page1.htm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/2004\/okt2004\/page1.htm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/2004\/iyun2004\/page1.htm\">here<\/a>. I also like how some, like this fish, have made the transition from drawing to sculpture. I could imagine them being used theatrically, and some aspects -the whimsy and the technical details &#8211; remind me of some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shauntan.net\/\">Shaun Tan<\/a>&#8216;s creatures in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shauntan.net\/books.html\">The Lost Thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also like Gvozdariki&#8217;s interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/picts\/images\/pops2.jpg\">snails<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/picts\/images\/pops3.jpg\">miniature worlds<\/a>. How would you like to live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvozdariki.ru\/0001\/sklad\/picts\/images\/19.jpg\">here<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>(via the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/\">BibliOdessy<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Gvozdariki is a Russian artist who makes whimsical figures, animations and images. Some are pleasing in their simplicity, but I particularly like his complicated drawings of mechanized animal structures. They are in numerous places in his galleries, like here, here and here and here. I also like how some, like this fish, have made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,102,55,30,193,20,10],"tags":[1363,1379,1390,468],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-automata","category-creatures","category-illustration","category-make","category-sculpture","tag-animation","tag-automata","tag-illustration","tag-scupture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-3t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}