May 9, 2008: Pine Needle Bear
 

OK, I got this in an email, so who knows the real story, but here goes.....
This is a starving artist from Idaho, named Richard Carpenter, that makes a living carving horns and antlers like these moose webs.
http://cellar.org/2008/bear4.jpg
Pretty cool, but his most fascinating piece it this bear made from hundreds of thousands of pine needles. The pine needles were gathered off the ground, sorted, washed, trimmed and hand woven, over 8 months, in making the life size bear.
http://cellar.org/2008/bear.jpg



http://cellar.org/2008/bear3.jpg

The email ends with;I've emailed him, but won't post his email address until I hear from him.


EDIT: new site link http://www.whereartmeetstheheart.com...arpenter.shtml

Nice bear. And nice carvings too. But the email smells like a hoax...

That bear is surely a stickler.

Beautiful work, I hope it's a genuine email.

Wow.

Did he kill to get those antlers??

The Bear is awesome. I have a thing for Bears.

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Possibly, but antlers, unlike horns, are shed every year. The woods are full of them, if you can get to them before they get recycled.

"this artist needs to be seen" --

make sure it gets on all the trailer park lists. ick.

Elitist much?

Love the bear.

From the picture, I'd say it was pretty damn nice trailer park.

But it can't be. ALL people who live in trailers are disgusting beer-swilling low-lifes. Not?

I SAID, love your g*damn neighbor.

:lol:

I wouldn't have the antlers in my house - it's not my style at all.
Although I'd be tempted by the bear if I ever had enough money and a big enough entrance hall.

But in my opinion the antlers are ART.
And there's no ick in art, surely?

I know, I know. You're all right, of course. Just seems in bad taste to me.

I agree. Not a huge fan of the antlers. I do like the bear. He would be cute out in front of my...er...place. :blush:

I would like something like that when I build my big log home. He would be really neat in the Great Room!