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Published: 2005-07-02 09:37:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 2019; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 76
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The Elephant’s Back23”x23”x69”
~230 lbs.
Inspired by the surrealist Salvador Dalí, this piece of art work comes from the painting “Temptation of St. Anthony”.
Inside are blue, green, red, orange and yellow LEDs controlled by toggle switches underneath, they allow the owner to select any color combination they would like.
The outside is rusty 10ga steel, torch cut, ground and welded to shape. It has been treated with an epoxy clear coat to prevent further rusting.
The Five spheres in the middle are heat formed acrylic sheet, specially treated to create the bubbles in the middle.
The four spheres that make up the feet are cast concrete.
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Comments: 21
Wow - These are amazing! They're absolutely gorgeous!
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Hey Deviant...
You're awesome, and it's been recognized, I'm *Elune-555 , and I'm part of a project over at *Deviant-Underground to promote underappreciated artists, and share their art with our watchers, each day three pieces are featured in the group journal. From there deviants are asked to participate by posting the featured thumbs in their own journals to promote both the artists and the project. Then on each Saturday the 5 favorite deviations from that week are posted again in a weekly journal entry and those deviations are put into a poll. By the next week, the deviation with the most votes is submitted to the clubs gallery with comments disabled and a link to the original. So eventually, when the project gets bigger, then that should have a huge effect on the featured deviations comments and favorites.
Anyway, today your piece was featured in todays journal entry.
Enjoy the little bit of attention.
Ways you can help out...
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Really cool. Your giving me all kinds of ideas for similar things now. Have you considered adding a circuit to fade the colors from one to another?
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I’ve thought about adding all kinds of electronics to it. I’d love to sound to light but I haven’t found a cheap way to pull that off yet.
I don’t want it to run a static pattern where you could predict what would be next. It would be fun to have it scroll through all the possibilities slowly over the course of 8 days.
LM
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Well, if you don't mind wiring it to a computer, you could use Discolitez. [link] I have this running in my basement controling 8 strings of christmas lights. It's spectacular. You can use the PatControl tool to create and run static paterns if you want. I love doing this crap, and would be willing to help.
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Thanks for the link, I may have to build one of those.
The circuit I have been thinking about uses a parallax BS2 microcontroller chip.
[link]
I would use two of the pins for audio input, one pin for a selector switch, and the rest of the pins as outputs for the LEDs. The BS2 chip can be programmed in a simple language that is a cross between Basic and Assembly. Once it is built I know I’ll spend hundreds of hours coming up with interesting programs for it to run. There is an electronically variable resister that I could use to dim the lights and slowly bring them up which would work well for this piece. However, if I’m going to take the time to build something using this circuit I want it to be an “in your face” art piece. I want the lights to flash hard and fast to loud music. I might even make it a big piece; (5’x12’
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Cool. Check out the PICAX processors. [link] I have used these a few times, and they are conciderably less expensive, and prety easy to program. They are cheep enough that you could actualy do an array of them..
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Very nice. That is the microcontroller that I suspected existed but could never find. Something easy to program and cheap.
Thanks a lot ; )
When I get the time I will use them. I have a project I started years ago that still needs electronics. I stopped working on it because 1000mcd Blue LEDs were $8 each and I needed 20 of them. I now get them for $0.20 @ 5000mcd
BTW
The magnets you sent went into 6 x-mas presents this year. I'll post a pic in my scrap section.
Thanks again for those, you don’t know how much they mean to me.
LM
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let me know if you need more, I have another "ball".
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Wait until you see what I do with the ones I have. I have an idea but I'm not sure how well it will work ; )
LM
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These are so awsome. Very surreal looking. It's awsome that you can change the color. Really amazing work
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Looks great man! I really like this piece. And the Temptation of St. Anthony as well. One of my favorite paintings.
i also like the split views. It really portrays the image better than most any other ways (Except perhaps an animated GIF?)
Looks really great. Keep it up!
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I like the idea of an animated gif, but the file size would be huge.
What would be nice is links to alternative views done the same way eBay does them.
LM
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Yeah. I completely agree. I think that they should implement multiple images for a single submission. Especially for 3d work. I've been wanting that for a while now! Perhaps some day!
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are you showing at backspace this month? would that make the opening this thursday? if so, i'll be sure to make it!
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Ya BackSpace was trying to get 200 Artists each showing 2 pieces each this month.
I got my two in.
I'll be there this Thursday.
Ask at the front for Andy.
LM
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