Art of Ballpoint Pen

Picture of a ballpoint pen from Juan Francisco Casas, More images after the break...

Creative Pencil Art — Video

Huge Animals

The giant animals — Strange project of a Chinese artist. More images after the break...

Edible International Flags Served on a Plate

As every year, Sydney will host this autumn the Crave Sydney International Food Festival where hundreds of chefs will come to prepare some most exotic foods from all over the world. The festival is scheduled to begin on October 2 with Barbecue Madness event and it will last about one month. The organizers of this festival have got an idea to create flags of every country, which are going to have their representatives on this festival, from food. So, here you can see some of the flags of attendants and I have to admit that those flags never looked so delicious to me like today, More images after the break..

Albania - Largest Screw Mosaic

Albania - Largest Screw Mosaic — Height - 240 cm, Length - 490 cm, Number of screws - 300 000. Saimir Strati created mosaic at the National Theatre in TIRANA-ALBANIA between 04.11.2010 and 18.11.2010. Last year Saimir Strati achieved the record for the largest paintbrush mosaic on Guinness World Records Day 2009. More images after the break...

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Matchstick Master Builds Impressive Matchstick Ship

David Reynolds, from Southampton, England, has spent over 10,000 hours gluing 250,000 matchsticks into a veritable matchstick armada of 20 legendary ships. More images after the break...

The 51-year-old retired oil rig worker first made headlines last year, when the Guinness Book of Records acknowledged his oil rig replica as the largest matchstick model in the world, numbering 4,075,000 matchsticks. But the matchstick master didn’t sleep on his laurel after this notable success. He kept on gluing matchsticks and this year he finally completed his amazing collection of 20 famous ships, including Nelson’s HMS Victory, the Cutty Sark, Queen Mary and even the Titanic.

The creator says he was inspired by the city of Southampton and England’s seafaring history, but the fact that his father worked on board the Queen Mary, and his life at sea as an oil rig worker also had something to do with it. He considers his intricate matchstick models a tribute to the men and women who  risked their lives at sea, throughout history.

Asked if he uses official plans from museums, to get every detail right, David Reynolds said that would cost him up to 1,000 pounds for each ship, so he prefers to use whatever photos and models he can find and do his own drawings. Each ship in his matchstick armada has taken between four and seven months to complete, and cost between 300 and 400 British pounds. The entire fleet took him around 10 years to build, and he says the hardest part was recreating the anchors, lifeboats and safety robes, as they take  tremendous patience and time.

Mister Reynolds discovered the art of matchstick model making when his son bought him a kit, when he was housebound after serious surgery. It started off as a hobby, but quickly turned into a passion that continues to bring him worldwide recognition.

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