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Matchstick Truck Models > Matchbox Cars

Croatian artist Đorđe Balać has a talent for building things from matchsticks. Now, I’m not talking about some little models you might find gathering dust at a flea market. No, these matchstick models are truly epic.

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Twist Tie Action Figures: Battle of the Bent

While twist ties can come in handy for wrapping up cables or closing plastic bags, they’re pretty boring little things. But where you may see something of utility, one artist sees a medium for making wondrous sculptures.

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Giant Steampunk Dragon, Enough Said

I don’t know about you, but I need a giant steampunk dragon in my home. One that doesn’t actually breath fire, because, well… no more home if it were to breath fire in my living room.

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Frosty the Snow Dalek Was a Jolly Happy EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!!

England has been having quite a bad winter this year, with snow continuing well into this month. That’s why I wouldn’t be surprised if Doctor Who landed his TARDIS somewhere in the UK and encountered this… a snow Dalek.

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Alien Xenomorph Embryo Plans its Escape

Have you ever wanted to have your own Alien embryo preserved in a specimen jar? Sitting on your desk? Of course you do. Who wouldn’t want one? It could be like a fun game where you sit at your desk, never knowing when it is going to hatch and kill you dead.

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Mario Sculpture Made out of Canned Food: Not One Filled with Cream of Mushroom Soup

Yes we CAN! Most stores stack their food in the same old boring way, but there are some stores or should I say some people, that rise above the status quo and go above and beyond the call of duty – like the guys who set up Canstruction at the SouthCentre Mall in Calgary, Canada.

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Teenager Builds Larger-than-life LEGO Superman

You might remember Evan Bacon. He’s the teenager who built himself a couple of superheroes using thousands of LEGO bricks. Now Evan is back with another amazing LEGO construction – a 6-foot, 6-inch-tall Superman.

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The Dark Knight Melts: 6-Foot-Tall Snow Batman

Illinois State University must be like a prison. Why do I say that? Because Illinois State University junior Anthony LaGiglia carved this impressive batman snow sculpture with only a plastic knife from the dining area. I imagine that he secreted away the knife and fashioned into a shiv in his cell.

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Alien Facehugger Skeleton Made from Real Bones

As if the facehugger from Alien wasn’t creepy enough, one artist has decided to go out and make himself a Facehugger skeleton. But this thing isn’t just a sculpture, it’s made from actual animal bones.

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Chocolate Bruce Willis Die Hard Sculpture: Yummy-Ki-Yay!

This chocolate sculpture of Bruce Willis was made for a press conference in Japan for the release of A Good Day To Die Hard. It looks even more like Bruce Willis than Joseph Gordon-Levitt did in Looper.

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Facial Sculptures Made from Random DNA Samples

DNA is essential to carbon-based life as we know it, but this is one of the few times that I’ve seen it used to create art. An artist created portrait sculptures from the analyses of genetic material that was collected in public places.

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Body Language as an Art Form

You can tell a lot about a person’s mood or disposition by observing his or her body language. For example, when a person’s pissed off or annoyed at you, then their arms are most likely crossed over their chest.

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Solid Ice Toyota Land Cruiser: Insert “In Soviet Russia” Joke Here

For a recent winter ice and snow celebration in the chilly city of Perm,Russia, somebody (presumably from Toyota), built this amazing ride entirely out of ice (plus a few red LEDs.)

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Tetris Sculptures: Get Stacking!

Tetris is an amazing game. I have played that game for hours upon hours on the funky green screen of my old Game Boy. There have been many different versions of the game that have released over the years, but there’s something just so right about the original.

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Nikolai Aldunin’s Teeny Tiny Sculptures are So Small They Fit Inside the Eye of a Needle

For a moment there, I wasn’t sure if these sculptures were real, however, they are. These incredibly tiny sculptures were created by an artist using a microscope. They are incredibly detailed for art of this scale, and I imagine need to be quite careful when you’re around it, otherwise it could be crushed or simply blown away.

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Fragment: Dubai’s Unidentified Flying Light Fixture

Nope, this isn’t a UFO, it’s a functional modern art installation that was installed in the atrium of the Level Shoe District, a 96,000 sq. ft. footwear emporium, situated within the Dubai Mall. Of course, something this extravagant would only be in a shoe store in Dubai.

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Matchstick Truck Models > Matchbox Cars

Twist Tie Action Figures: Battle of the Bent

Giant Steampunk Dragon, Enough Said

Frosty the Snow Dalek Was a Jolly Happy EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINATE!!!

Alien Xenomorph Embryo Plans its Escape

Mario Sculpture Made out of Canned Food: Not One Filled with Cream of Mushroom Soup

Teenager Builds Larger-than-life LEGO Superman

The Dark Knight Melts: 6-Foot-Tall Snow Batman

Alien Facehugger Skeleton Made from Real Bones

Chocolate Bruce Willis Die Hard Sculpture: Yummy-Ki-Yay!

Facial Sculptures Made from Random DNA Samples

Body Language as an Art Form

Solid Ice Toyota Land Cruiser: Insert “In Soviet Russia” Joke Here

Tetris Sculptures: Get Stacking!

Nikolai Aldunin’s Teeny Tiny Sculptures are So Small They Fit Inside the Eye of a Needle

Fragment: Dubai’s Unidentified Flying Light Fixture

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