Steam Punk Fish

Working out of a workshop just outside Moscow, Boris Bazhenov and Alexander Bobin have created their own stylized industrial sculptures.



Inspired by the steampunk movement, the pair painstakingly create giant fish, which have inner workings made up of cogs and wheels, and who at the switch of a lever, drop their jaws and wave their fins.



The flagman of the collection is called "Fish House." "A long time ago a gigantic fish swallowed a person. Unwilling to accept his fate he decided to turn the fish into his house," write the creators. If you look carefully at the fish, which use oak and lime wood and burnished metal, you can see a chimney that emerges from the top of the fish.



Another of the creations is called the battering-ram fish and the myth the duo have created for him is that he was part of a battleship, escaped to freedom but lost part of his armor on the way.



The pair spend up to nine months on each fish and have made four of the creatures so far with another four or five set to be made. The fish are bought as gifts, for offices and in one case by a state energy company.



Apart from fish, Bazhenov and Bobin, who work under the art name of artmechanics.com, have created a dragon, who looks as if it has walked out of the starting title of cult television series, "Game of Thrones."



As the dragon moves forward, the eyes light up, his jaw opens and shines forth as if he is breathing fire. His innards rotate and he seems to roar.



Vladimir Filonov's photos featured here are some of the 100 winning stories to be included in "The Other Hundred," a nonprofit photo book which focuses on the theme of entrepreneurs. Other Hundred is initiated by the Global Institute For Tomorrow, a pan-Asian think tank.

www.theotherhundred.com



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