The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

• Butter sculpture


  Art made from butter
• The origin of butter sculpture traces back to "banquet art" of the Baroque and Renaissance period
• The earliest recorded butter sculpture was in 1536 by Pope Pius V's cook Bartolomeo Scappi, which featured an elephant and a tableau of Hercules engaged in combat with a lion
• In the 1800s, American sculptor Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840–1913) displayed her butter sculpture works in galleries across America
• Dreaming Iolanthe


  A butter sculpture by Caroline S. Brooks depicting the blind princess Iolanthe from Danish poet and playwright Henrik Hertz's verse drama King René's Daughter
• Dreaming Iolanthe was exhibited at a Cincinnati gallery in 1874 for two weeks and attracted more than two thousand people
• Caroline S. Brooks continued to use butter as a medium even later in life when she learned to sculpt in marble
• Butter sculpture remains a cherished yet niche event/competition, and there is even a Hollywood movie about it called Butter
• Cassette tape art


  Artworks made from old audio cassette tapes
• Artist Erika Iris Simmons has transformed old cassette tapes into a series of artworks titled "Ghost in the Machine"
• Missa


  A powerful installation by artist Dominique Blain that spans the themes of conformity, war and the loss of identity
• The installation features a three-dimensional grid of strings and shoes, creating a sense of ominous connections between facelessness and force, blind obedience and inhuman strength, a sense of belonging and one of being utterly lost
• The cave paintings in Alabama, including a diamond back snake about 3 meters and human figure measuring 1.8 meters, were dated to 133–433 AD using carbon dating of the residue of bamboo torches
• Photogrammetry, an inexpensive technique increasingly used in archaeology, was used to uncover the hidden motif of the cave paintings in Alabama
• Reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) is another technique used in archaeology that can reveal far more complete and complex images by allowing 3D models to be illuminated from any angle
• The oldest cave art discovered is the hand stencil in the Leang Timpuseng Cave in Indonesia, dating before 37,900 BCE
• The world's oldest cave art that has been discovered is the El Castillo Cave paintings in Spain, dating to 39,000 BCE
• The Sulawesi caves in Indonesia contain both handprints and animal paintings, including a "babirusa" (a type of SE Asian "pig-deer") dating to at least 33,400 BCE
• The Sulawesi cave art signifies that modern humans discovered art and cultural cognition before leaving Africa in the Upper Paleolithic era
• Darwin's Finches


  A species of blackbird or mockingbird that Charles Darwin collected specimens of during his voyage on the HMS Beagle, which were instrumental in the formation of his theory of Evolution
• Charles Darwin did not come up with the theory of evolution, as his grandfather Eramus Darwin had passed the idea to him
• The finches with their beaks which adapted to their environment (different food niches) over time were evidence of natural selection, which led to speciation
• Painting vs Documentation


  Painting has a theme and message, while documentation is capturing a perspective, an event, or time period
• Drawing vs Doodling


  Drawing refers to all kinds of drawing (sketching, tracing, outlining), but doodling means drawing in a lackadaisical way that is carefree and often not deliberate or planned
• Charles Darwin's sketches of finches in the Galapagos have higher historical value than artistic value, although they can still be considered works of art
• The French government spent $64 million building a replica of the original Lascaux Caves to address the damage caused by over-tourism to the original site
• The replica Lascaux IV is precise down to three millimeters thanks to 3D digital scanning of the actual cave, with every nook and cranny recreated using polysterine and resin, and the latest fiberglass techniques
• In 1908, E.S. Wheeler of the Association of Engineering Societies proposed building a life-size replica of the Pyramid of Giza in Detroit, Michigan at a cost of $36,000,000
• There are now two Eiffel Towers in Paris, with an artist named Phillipe Maindron installing a mini Eiffel Tower that is around a tenth of the size of the original
• There are 80 different replicas of the Eiffel Tower around the world, including in locations like Lyon, Paris (Texas), Blackpool, Las Vegas, Tokyo, Tianducheng (China), Slobozia (Romania), Sydney, Lahore, and Filiatra (Greece)
• The Australian company Lithodomos uses virtual reality (VR) technology to allow people to explore reconstructions of historical sites without having to travel to them
• Discussing whether more real-world tourism should be replaced by virtual experiences using VR technology in classrooms
• Caster and maker of radios

  Headquarters, and is actually a radio transmission tower
• Initially, it had a viewing platform, but changed in the rebuild in 1994
• Eiffel Tower replica in Pakistan

  • One of the most realistic on the list
  • You can go up this tower just like the Parisian one for a city view
• Eiffel Tower replica in Greece


  • This Greek town is often known as 'Little Paris'
  • It is the main tourist attraction in a place that is otherwise quiet and unknown
• Virtual Pompeii


  GU students time traveling in class using Lithodomos VR technology
• Even if these sites weren't overcrowded—more Baku than Kuala Lumpur—they would still require us to travel to them. Not everyone has the means
• At least in theory, far more people could visit reconstructions of them in virtual reality, or VR
• Lithodomos


  Australian company that has reconstructed VR of ancient wonders and lets you immerse in its former glory and tour each location like you are traveling in time