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Eric Idle, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford

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This is quite a piece.

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#BiggestbowlingEVVURRRRR!!

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The beautiful woodpile mosaic owls are the work of Gary Tallman, an 82-year-old Montana resident who turns the chore of stacking firewood into an art form. Over the years Tallman has learned the many colors found in various types of cordwood and uses them as his palette.

“Everybody doesn’t notice how many tones in the wood there are,” Marilyn Tallman said of her husband’s eye for the subtleties of wood. “He sees beauty in all kinds of things.”

“Generally speaking, we can find almost all the colors and tones in the woods that we harvest,” Tallman said of his woodpile mosaic. “Except for black,” he confessed. “We don’t have any ebony around here so I do color the ends of some of the black ones. But the others are pretty much just the way they come out of nature.”

Tallman’s ongoing owl theme is based on the birds who live in the trees around his home in Montana’s Little Belt Mountains. Each piece begins with a sketch drawn on graph paper. After first chopping and splitting the wood, Tallman sorts the various hues into separate piles. Then the process of stacking begins. He estimates that it takes him about 20 hours to stack one of his mosaics.

Click here to learn more about Gary Tallman and his firewood mosaics.

[via Bored Panda and the Great Falls Tribune]

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O glorious wood!

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VHS awesomeness

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You think you know #SOSI

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livin it

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Kawehi covers Nirvana in her Robot Heart series, dedicated to fulfilling requests from Kickstarter backers. 

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Crazy cool cover!

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Fun Tattwho i did.

Juju Tattoo. 

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Kayden’s first time experiencing rain (x)

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NEW VIDEO!

Do you ever freak out about the scale of time and space? Yeah, me too.

This week I share some thoughts on very big stuff and very small stuff, and tour you through my favorite ways to explore the scale of the universe.

Now we can all drown in awe together :)

Be sure to check out the rest of my videos over on YouTube.

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Worth 4 minutes of a while!!!

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Today the Department of Awesome Anamorphic Artwork checks in on New York-based artist Aakash Nihalani (previously featured here), who continues to transform public spaces with his playful geometric tape installations.

"For however briefly, I am trying to offer people a chance to step into a different New York than they are used to seeing, and in turn, momentarily escape from routine schedules and lives. We all need the opportunity to see the city more playfully, as a world dominated by the interplay of very basic color and shape. I try to create a new space within the existing space of our everyday world for people to enter freely , and unexpectedly ‘disconnect’ from their reality."

Visit Colossal to view more of Aakash Nihalani’s latest pieces of isometric artwork.