The Cellar - May 9, 2008: Pine Needle Bear

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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;

Quote:

His work should be seen.
If you agree, send this to all your friends.
I know the artist would love to hear from you.
Just to know where his art is being seen around the world.
He said he would reply to every email and print every letter for his scrapbook.
You can write him here at: mntmagic@---------.net

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.

Did he kill to get those antlers??

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by DucksNuts (Post 452194)

Did he kill to get those antlers??

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!

A long long time ago, back when the internets was still in diapers there was a website called "chicks with antlers" which had lots of photographs of sexy women with magnificent ahem racks of antlers photoshopped onto their heads.

It was fascinatingly weird. Kind of like when bugs bunny dressed up as a woman...

like Jessica Rabbit?

Jessica Rabbit is HAWT!!!!:eaty:

As I said before, I emailed Rich Carpenter at mntmagic@custertel.net telling him I had posted his work. His reply...

Quote:

VERY NICE BRUCE...... I AM for REAL. Thank you.
I can't change my other email. But I'm getting over 400 emails a day and I just can't answer all of them. Most are just comments, Whew! I hope to get a web page going if I can get a head of these emails.
I see there are many skeptics. I live near Salmon, Idaho along the Salmon River. My first Cub took me 3 months to make and my large bears over 8 months.
Here's a few more pictures for the doubters.
Rich

http://cellar.org/2008/BEAR B.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/BEAR D.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/BusterBear.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/Dragon 1.JPG
http://cellar.org/2008/Dragon 2.JPG
http://cellar.org/2008/Dragon 3.JPG
http://cellar.org/2008/Dragon 4.JPG
http://cellar.org/2008/King of the Hill close up.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/King of the Hill full view.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/Little Bear Innocence 3.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/Motorcycle a.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/Motorcycle Chart.jpg

wow.....that's a lot of ....free time.

i wonder if he has a day job?

uh, sorry Rich. Very nice stuff!:o

Rich has one of his Pine Needle Bears on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/World-Famous-PIN...em280271876416

Visit Richards new website... http://mountainmagicoriginals.com/Mountain Magic Originals!