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Watching a documentary recently, I was fascinated to see the textured shapes in a Chinese woollen rug being cut into the surface with a pair of barber's clippers. Intricate flowers, leaves and crests took just moments to create.
Sheep are boring. Dirty, offwhite, dumb and well... sheep.
Some
judiciously applied dye and a little skill with the clippers and we could have some very hip, happ'nin' sheep. They can move from place to place, creating a sort of mobile installation art experience.
It won't be too long before notable artists begin using sheep as live canvases.
Copies of works such as the brilliant bas reliefs of the Elgin Marbles can be replicated in a live, ephemeral format.
They don't have to be just sheep!
"Woolly writing creates new poetry"
http://news.bbc.co....england/2541761.stm
"Each of the animals has a word from a poem written on their backs and as they wander about the words take a new poetic form each time they come to rest." [waugsqueke, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
(?) Painted Sheep
http://www.lucky11f...t_painted_sheep.htm
The natural version. Be better if they came in red or blue, of course. [DrCurry, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Painted Sheep
http://web.raex.com/~siona/sheep.jpg
Don't they do this in Australia?
[I'm still trying to work out why the first result of a search for "colored sheep" in Google is a Viagra ad.] [DrCurry, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
(?) Sheep Advertising
http://cookieandbob...we'll%20phone%20ewe
Novel way to make your sheep become a cash cow?!?! [silverstormer, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Sheep Painting Equipment
http://www.wigginsinc.com/Markers.html
Everything you need for baa relief. Go find those sheep! [DrCurry, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Tangential Idea...
http://www.halfbake...dea/Beard_20Topiary
These ideas should merge, and have bastard offspring that only the Welsh have names for... (Apologies to all Welsh bakers out there) [lostdog, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Ewes youse can view
http://www.ewe.uk.com/index.html
Potential victims. From the creators of sheeptales.com (hehe) [waugsqueke, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Sheep with blankets with advertising on them.
http://www.20minuto...06/04/11/404491.jpg
Totally missing the point, but still kind of cute. [jutta, Apr 12 2006]
Annotation:
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Counting sheep to get to sleep will never be the same again.
One sheep.
Two sheep.
Red sheep.
Blue sheep. |
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Do you like green-legged lamb?
Could you dig a paisley ram? |
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Would you like to paint one blue?
Would you carve on one, a shoe? |
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Would you like some mutton stew?
Or shall I carve a wool canoe? |
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Shall you eat matched lamb chops?
Or wish whittled, warm, tank tops? |
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I notice waugs did, with [link] anoint,
Though I don't feel it's quite on point. |
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The idea is, to carve into the fleece,
A sculpted scene, such as in ancient Greece. |
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The colour is added, as an afterthought,
Once the sculptor's work is wrought. |
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I understand the good intent,
But this is new, 'neath the firmament. |
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Though I must admit I love a good rhyme,
And have left a few around in my time, |
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I'm not so certain that I would see,
Good metre in such poetry. |
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For now I'll stick to my bewoolled sculpture,
Than attempting verbal displays of culture |
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I understand the differences, UB. I did'na mean to suggest it in any way bakes your concept. I included it more as accompanying data than anything else. |
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Last time I saw a flock of sheep (a *very* long time ago - no one seems to keep sheep around here), they had patches of blue or red paint on their backs, from a mechanism to show which sheep mated with which other sheep (see link). |
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DrCurry, where I'm from that's called "keel" (not sure of the spelling) and is used not to show which tups have mated with which sheep, but to show whose sheep are whose. |
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Although here the colours are made with chalk and are used to show which have been drenched, or which mother goes with which baby, or whatever the farmer wants. |
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//whatever the farmer wants// rumours abound like that in Wales |
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So green = Go!
Red = watch out, she's a handful!
As a person of Welsh descent, I resent this deeply... (mmm) (nnNG!) (trying to suppress...)
Ba-a-a-ahh! (oops) |
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I used to live on the Welsh/English border (English side) and there were often strange sounds drifting over the river at night.... |
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yeah, that was my friend rhys. he says he's sorry. |
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I lived in the Eastern Valleys for a while. I was once discussing what to have for Sunday lunch, and suggested Roast Lamb. "Ooh" said a local. I haven't had roast lamb in donkey's yers!"
"Roast lamb in donkey's ears" says I,"How do you cook that then?" |
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Thai-dyed, Mmmmmmm
Give them some room people. Mutton to see here.
Loving ewe, is easy cause you’re beautiful. |
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I hope ewe find someone
Who can love ewe like I do
I'll be strong inside
But I'll still be loving ewe
But I'll still be loving ewe |
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She said she loves ewe... and you know that can't be baa-aa-aa-aad... |
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I wanna hold your laaa-aa-aamb... |
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<Insert Chia-Pet joke here.> |
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Ewe, made me love ewe,
I didn't wanna to do it, I didn't wanna do it,
Ewe made me want ewe, and all the time ewe knew it,
I guess ewe always knew it,
Ewe made me happy, sometimes ewe made me glad,
But there were times, dear, ewe made me feel so bad . . . |
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Ewe made me sigh for,
I didn't wanna tell ewe, didn't wanna tell ewe,
I want some love that's true, yes I do,
'Deed I do, ewe know I do,
Gimmy, gimmy me what I cry for,
Ewe made me happy, sometimes ewe made me glad,
Ewe know ewe got the brand of kisses that I die for,
Ewe know ewe made me love ewe ! |
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[hippo], birdie, two ewes. |
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How much lamb could a lamb chop chop, if a lamb chop could chop lamb? |
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I'd like to see this as an international sculptors' competition. |
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Aah.. the Mare Halfbake'um Deep Delve Agitator has tossed a pearl onto the beach. <digs toes in warm sand... relishes images of sheep-shaped chinese rugs and ship-shape sheep... wizened elders training sun-reddened daughters the techniques of peony carving on a fleece... Horus walking like an Egyptian across the sheep's side... the coffee-table book of baa relief ovines... baa ram ewe, baa ram ewe... > |
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I'm very tempted to package this idea (royalties will of course be paid - sheep shekels, eweros or ram ringitts [UB]? ). |
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+ I give the sheep a bun and it would be nice to see them doing some ballet in their sculpted outfits. |
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