Word: chisel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opening the door to their 26-degree workshop, Georgs explains their daily routine. He grips a chisel with his glove, and gestures toward large blocks of partially carved ice, describing the typical projects they undertake. Most of the carvings are for events like weddings, birthday parties and bar mitzvahs...
...adolescence, around the age of 18, the brain has declined in plasticity but increased in power. Talents and latent tendencies that have been nurtured are ready to blossom. The experiences that drive neural activity, says Yale's Rakic, are like a sculptor's chisel or a dressmaker's shears, conjuring up form from a lump of stone or a length of cloth. The presence of extra material expands the range of possibilities, but cutting away the extraneous is what makes art. "It is the overproduction of synaptic connections followed by their loss that leads to patterns in the brain," says...
Ephraim Littlefield, still full from his Thanksgiving dinner the previous day, attacked the vault again with his hammer and cold chisel. He desperately wanted to know what was inside there...
...central tenet is retiring the old moldboard plow, which laid the earth open to wind and water erosion. Instead farmers leave residue from the previous year's crops in place to hold soil and moisture, then scratch or chisel in seeds, which sprout through the decomposing residue. Crop rotation is used to break insect cycles. Weeds are targeted, controlled by new herbicides that quickly break down and vanish. In this rare and happy story that emerges from centuries of anguished agriculture practices and policies, there is the touch of God's hand soothing the earth and nudging it back...
Henry Moore transforms nature onto paper in a unique way: he transfers the strength of sculptural space onto his sketches. He uses charcoal instead of the chisel to craft his malleable and almost tangible forms. One can almost feel the soft, waxy body of the forms that he sketches. Although the forms he sketches is abstract, the image appears very real...