Unicycle Art

Wasn’t sure if there was already a thread for this but would be a nice thread to include. I’ll start, I saw this sweet unicyclist-in-motion image pop up while reading Gizmodo today.

Check out this “Blurred Sculpture” by Korean artist Duck-Bong Kang:

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/pvc-pipe-sculptures-in-motion

Enjoy!

This is just pure awesomeness! :smiley:

the uni is obviously a Pichler …

unicycle art

saw this at the Uptown art fair in minneapolis, mn

This beautiful sculpture is called “Balance”, and was made in 2003 by the norwegian sculptor Kåre Groven. I accidently came across it in a Google image search, and had to go on an 40 minutes bus ride to see it live in the university where it is placed.

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Ever walk into an art gallery to find yourself in an oil painting? A few days ago I was shopping groceries when someone told me I should go check out the nearby art gallery and that there was a painting of me. And I found this:

The painter also posted it on instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjNz5QKF2iI/

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This might be a depiction of me, but it actually looks a bit more like a friend of mine who also rides in the area. It could also be a composite of three people, possibly not including me, or maybe it has nothing much to do with any of us, and is just what an artist dreamed up on the spot after being hired by a landlord to soften the blows of gentrification and perhaps raise real estate values in a more roundabout way. (A former student of mine told me that his friend was often hired by landlords to paint “graffiti” on their buildings in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to give the impression that artists still live there, even though in reality they were priced out many years ago. This mechanism for producing graffiti might be unique to Williamsburg, I don’t know, and my neighborhood was never very artsy even back when it was affordable, but public art is so rare around here that I can’t help wondering.)

I came across this piece for sale. The add says: Exiting statue from Montenegro called “The Antagonist”. The artist Rajko Susic has used an old unicycle as a base to comment on the human race uncertian platform (or something like that). The statue is 1.5 meters high. There is no price on the item.

First Contact

Here is my submission, just completed this weekend. I call it “First Contact”, and it is pen and ink with colored pencil. The original measures about 7" x 10".

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Unicycle I welded! Will be spray painted soon.

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I want one. A stationary unicycle for when watching telly. Put some cushions on the seat. It would be like a home trainer for lazy peeps, like me.

Almost posted this in the tiny cranks and tiny wheels thread :winking_face_with_tongue:. It’s going to be part of a gift that my wife is making the rest of in yarn, but I’ll not post the finished article until it’s been given. I’m quite pleased with how it’s come out - I’m hoping it’s possible to identify the unicycle make and model it’s meant to represent.


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Impact 19" Gravity?

That is a very nice unicycle model, should be in museum. (Well, all unicycles should be in a museum, so..)

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Well done, right first time! At least it only needed 2 paint colours to get it to look fairly accurate

:rofl:

Those are some seriously long cranks, though, given the wheel size :wink:. Anyway, I‘m sure the person who this uni will be gifted to will be very pleased. Very nice present, indeed!

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Thanks - it was fun to build. And a reasonable observation about seriously long cranks given that they’re meant to represent 140mm cranks on a 19" wheel - I think the short cranks brigade might feel their knees hitting their ears as they pedal (although they would need to be about 25cm tall in this case). However for cutting out with a scroll saw (which I haven’t ever tried before) I can tell you they were seriously short/small and fiddly - I don’t have small fingers!

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Mine shouldnt be in a museum. They must be under my butt :stuck_out_tongue:

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Patent reprint for unicycle. Neighbor gave it to me.
https://www.amazon.com/Unicycle-11x14-Unframed-Patent-Athletes/dp/B0D3558T7L/ref=sr_1_8?crid=3786DJ965LMDP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PhVEd7vp922nhBhuo9zSGimFYSupFVvGi6RdK29M5uEA_oMpN-IY2yNbX1kfaJHlfm8S-xT0-Hlx4xayveF0CpcIMeloBU-aYjx2gmCeOkvVKaJM1tX2eKOk3YSqlFy3npsaVNvGrRmP0U7NwMnSJ_Lz8zYJDgoCyatRbIWpi6csDJyDUu_--OaERKygvN5eRTxywI8kWJQo5lY2ShjrWlg4SyQeQMLJZqg7EjS4jM8Vj4eWlP8LNT_GaGbLFod2NH4HIVhQmtKoa9_X4llejj2ZTC8Qk4VC_MmZUI8Iqn4.2NDW0TW3q46cEQyJ2F3gvgb9RcaL4ZfUUu7xrsv8c60&dib_tag=se&keywords=unicycle%2Bpicture&qid=1758638089&sprefix=unicycle%2Bpicture%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-8&th=1

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I had a good read through the patent and they do a lot of talking about the ease of disassembly for getting the wheel out, but I’m struggling to find the prior art mentioned of older unicycles that were presumably very complicated to get apart.

I don’t quite understand why there’s detailing of a cotter pin connection though as by that point even square taper had been around for decades, and everyone surely was already building unicycles with cotter pins.

…should‘ve claimed the patent for the split nose saddle instead :rofl: