Andy White Anthropology
  • Home
  • Fake Hercules Swords
  • Research Interests
    • Complexity Science
    • Prehistoric Social Networks
    • Eastern Woodlands Prehistory
    • Ancient Giants
  • Blog

I'm Moving My Art Content to this Website

6/12/2016

 
​I've been making things for as long as I can remember. My capacity to create what was in my head took an uptick in 2010 when I bought a stick welder and I had some space in the garage to start working with scrap metal.  I had no formal welding training but managed to build several large sculptures (without seriously injuring myself) before we chose to move. Our next house was a rental, so I ditched much of the scrap metal I had collected, stored the rest, and parked my sculptures in my mother-in-law's backyard in Ann Arbor.  The house we bought a year later had limited space and no 220-volt outlet for the welder: the sculptures moved back but the workshop stayed packed up. I eventually bought a wire-feed welder but found I had very little time/energy as I was commuting back and forth to Grand Valley State as a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching a 4/4.  

Now that we're settled in Columbia I've been able to pick up my hobby again with some regularity. I built the rabbit that I'd been saving up parts for, and I'm now working on a large Tyrannosaurus rex. I've missed creating for the sake of creating, and I feel fortunate to be able to do it again.

When I first got into the hobby, I created a website to go along with it. I put a lot of work into that site (building a lot of it "by hand" rather than using templates), but I've found that I've rarely visited it in the last few years even though I continue to pay for it.  So I'm going to migrate some of that content here as blog posts that I can refer to more easily when I want to see photos of what I've done. If you're only here for the archaeology (or the pseudo-archaeology), just hold your nose or close your eyes or do whatever you need to do to ignore the sculpture posts.

Update (12/26/2016): I'm no longer updating the list of sculpture-related posts on this page. See this page for a maintained list.
Picture

Here's a list:
  • Triceratops (Eileen)
  • Dragonfly
  • Brachiosaurus (Betty)
  • Rabbit
  • Tyrannosaurus
    • In progress (6/9/2016)
    • In progress (6/16/2016)
    • Almost done (7/1/2016 
  • Crow
    • "Upcoming Interview with "Jasper Magazine," and the Crow Is Done (I Think)" (7/22/2016)
    • "My Crow Sculpture Won First Place at the South Carolina State Fair" (10/9/2016)
  • Triceratops head (9/5/2016)
  • Pachycephalosaurus
    • Almost done (10/22/2016)
  • Various media
    • "Columbia Man Turns Trash into Art" (Mary Sturgill, WLTX, 7/12/2016)
    • "Welding Past and Present" (Chris Horn, USC Today, 7/12/2016)
    • Blog post about sculpture story on WLTX 19 (7/13/2016)
    • "Man Builds Incredible Triceratops Lawn Art out of Daughter’s First Bicycle" (Eliza Murphy, Good Morning America, 7/18/2016)
    • "Profile on Andy White – Anthropologist, Archaeologist, and Artist" (Mary Catherine Ballou, J​asper Magazine, 7/24/2016) 
Scott Williams
6/13/2016 08:21:58 am

Great stuff, Andy- and a fun diversion from the real and pseudo archaeology posts. Must be the archaeologist in me, but I really enjoy your style of sculpture using "found" pieces.

Andy White
6/13/2016 01:49:00 pm

Thanks Scott. I'm also very sentimental, so this is a way I can hold on to things with memories attached to them without just having a garage full of unused stuff.

Ph
6/14/2016 04:30:28 am

Thanks for sharing the pictures and story of those 3 projects.
You have given me some inspiration and energy to continue with my own small scale statues from repurposed metal (mostly IT scrap).


Comments are closed.

    All views expressed in my blog posts are my own. The views of those that comment are their own. That's how it works.

    I reserve the right to take down comments that I deem to be defamatory or harassing. 

    Andy White

    Email me: [email protected]

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner


    Picture

    Sick of the woo?  Want to help keep honest and open dialogue about pseudo-archaeology on the internet? Please consider contributing to Woo War Two.
    Picture

    Follow updates on posts related to giants on the Modern Mythology of Giants page on Facebook.

    Archives

    May 2024
    January 2024
    January 2023
    January 2022
    November 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    March 2021
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014

    Categories

    All
    3D Models
    AAA
    Adena
    Afrocentrism
    Agent Based Modeling
    Agent-based Modeling
    Aircraft
    Alabama
    Aliens
    Ancient Artifact Preservation Society
    Androgynous Fish Gods
    ANTH 227
    ANTH 291
    ANTH 322
    Anthropology History
    Anunnaki
    Appalachia
    Archaeology
    Ardipithecus
    Art
    Atlantis
    Australia
    Australopithecines
    Aviation History
    Bigfoot
    Birds
    Boas
    Book Of Mormon
    Broad River Archaeological Field School
    Bronze Age
    Caribou
    Carolina Bays
    Ceramics
    China
    Clovis
    Complexity
    Copper Culture
    Cotton Mather
    COVID-19
    Creationism
    Croatia
    Crow
    Demography
    Denisovans
    Diffusionism
    DINAA
    Dinosaurs
    Dirt Dance Floor
    Double Rows Of Teeth
    Dragonflies
    Early Archaic
    Early Woodland
    Earthworks
    Eastern Woodlands
    Eastern Woodlands Household Archaeology Data Project
    Education
    Egypt
    Europe
    Evolution
    Ewhadp
    Fake Hercules Swords
    Fetal Head Molding
    Field School
    Film
    Florida
    Forbidden Archaeology
    Forbidden History
    Four Field Anthropology
    Four-field Anthropology
    France
    Genetics
    Genus Homo
    Geology
    Geometry
    Geophysics
    Georgia
    Giants
    Giants Of Olden Times
    Gigantism
    Gigantopithecus
    Graham Hancock
    Grand Valley State
    Great Lakes
    Hollow Earth
    Homo Erectus
    Hunter Gatherers
    Hunter-gatherers
    Illinois
    India
    Indiana
    Indonesia
    Iowa
    Iraq
    Israel
    Jim Vieira
    Jobs
    Kensington Rune Stone
    Kentucky
    Kirk Project
    Late Archaic
    Lemuria
    Lithic Raw Materials
    Lithics
    Lizard Man
    Lomekwi
    Lost Continents
    Mack
    Mammoths
    Mastodons
    Maya
    Megafauna
    Megaliths
    Mesolithic
    Michigan
    Middle Archaic
    Middle Pleistocene
    Middle Woodland
    Midwest
    Minnesota
    Mississippi
    Mississippian
    Missouri
    Modeling
    Morphometric
    Mound Builder Myth
    Mu
    Music
    Nazis
    Neandertals
    Near East
    Nephilim
    Nevada
    New Mexico
    Newspapers
    New York
    North Carolina
    Oahspe
    Oak Island
    Obstetrics
    Ohio
    Ohio Valley
    Oldowan
    Olmec
    Open Data
    Paleoindian
    Paleolithic
    Pilumgate
    Pleistocene
    Pliocene
    Pre Clovis
    Pre-Clovis
    Prehistoric Families
    Pseudo Science
    Pseudo-science
    Radiocarbon
    Reality Check
    Rome
    Russia
    SAA
    Sardinia
    SCIAA
    Science
    Scientific Racism
    Sculpture
    SEAC
    Search For The Lost Giants
    Sexual Dimorphism
    Sitchin
    Social Complexity
    Social Networks
    Solutrean Hypothesis
    South Africa
    South America
    South Carolina
    Southeast
    Stone Holes
    Subsistence
    Swordgate
    Teaching
    Technology
    Teeth
    Television
    Tennessee
    Texas
    Topper
    Travel
    Travel Diaries
    Vaccines
    Washington
    Whatzit
    White Supremacists
    Wisconsin
    Woo War Two
    World War I
    World War II
    Writing
    Younger Dryas

    RSS Feed

    Picture
Proudly powered by Weebly