{"id":6099,"date":"2015-03-27T03:33:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T10:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2015-03-27T03:33:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T10:33:51","slug":"coin-sculptures-robert-wechsler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2015\/03\/27\/coin-sculptures-robert-wechsler\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Geometric Coin Sculptures!!!! TGIF!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THESE ARE SO COOL!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertwechsler.com\/\">Robert Wechsler<\/a> is an artist that makes AMAZING sculptures with ordinary COINS!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This one is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/robertwechsler.com\/the-caryatid\/\">The Caryatid<\/a>&#8221; and it&#8217;s made of 15,000 newly minted 2014 U.S. pennies!!!! They form a dodecahedral lattice!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6105\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheCaryatid_16100.jpg\" alt=\"TheCaryatid_16100\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6104\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheCaryatid_7100.jpg\" alt=\"TheCaryatid_7100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheCaryatid_7100.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheCaryatid_7100-427x640.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6103\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheCaryatid_3100.jpg\" alt=\"TheCaryatid_3100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheCaryatid_3100.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheCaryatid_3100-427x640.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a couple other pieces of his:<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6115\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16222465524_ec5a29714e_z.jpg\" alt=\"16222465524_ec5a29714e_z\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16222465524_ec5a29714e_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16222465524_ec5a29714e_z-180x170.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6116\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16637513867_de120931f9_z.jpg\" alt=\"16637513867_de120931f9_z\" \/>\n<p><strong>This is called &#8220;The Mendicant&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6117\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16818959096_82505af5e3_z.jpg\" alt=\"16818959096_82505af5e3_z\" \/>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s made of 26,982 pennies!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"745\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6118\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16843754591_a263fae509_b.jpg\" alt=\"16843754591_a263fae509_b\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16843754591_a263fae509_b.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/16843754591_a263fae509_b-550x640.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Cubes achieved by notching and joining pennies in perfect orientation to one another. Joined at perpendicular angles, the coins create a lattice.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Watch this video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Mendicant\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T--n39ocXIM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/hifructose.com\/2015\/03\/17\/robert-wechslers-multifaceted-coin-sculptures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hi-Fructose<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THESE ARE SO COOL! Robert Wechsler is an artist that makes AMAZING sculptures with ordinary COINS!!! This one is called &#8220;The Caryatid&#8221; and it&#8217;s made of 15,000 newly minted 2014 U.S. pennies!!!! They form a dodecahedral lattice!! LOOK: Here&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}