Coolest Trophy Ever?

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Friday, August 26th, 2011

Perhaps!

Patrick Wilshire just revealed the new Illie Award Trophy. This is an award given to the best traditionally created work of the year, presented at IlluXcon. This is the second year the Wilshires will be presenting this award, and they really went all out by commissioning Thomas Kuebler to sculpt it. The sculpture stands 17 inches tall, and is a one of kind original.

If you’ve never seen Thomas’ work in real life, you are truly missing out! Knowing Thomas, I’m willing to bet this little guy has hand-punched hairs inside of his nose and ears.

To view more of Thomas’ work, check out his website at: http://www.tskuebler.com/

And to learn more about the Illie Award, including how to nominate a piece for consideration (even your own), check out the IlluXcon website here: http://www.illuxcon.com/frontpage

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    Joao Takada on August 26, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    a bit creepy too haha

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    BroomRider on August 26, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    Good lord, some of those statues are scary! Thanks for the intro to a truly unique and gifted artist.

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    William P. Duffy on August 27, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    thanks for the nightmare material

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    Aaron Miller on August 28, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    you can see a similar one in Kenosha right now.

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    Pat Wilshire on August 28, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    Thanks, Dan!

    Actually this is the second year for the Illie Award. Last year's trophy was an original bronze sculpted by Vincent Villafranca, and was won by Mark Zug for his painting “Helium.”

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    Dan on August 30, 2011 at 4:33 am

    Thanks for the correction, Pat.
    I forgot about that!

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    person on March 14, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    hellish