Amazing Sculptures Made Using Matchsticks



These incredibly detailed sculptures were made by UK artist David Mach, who uses thousands of matchsticks pressed into a clay mold to form the likeness of Chaplin, Marilyn and Ben Kingsley, among others.

Mach uses Japanese matchsticks because their heads come in all sorts of different colors, and color is definitely an important part of his works (note the crazy color combos of the Marilyn busts at the link).

Mach feels that a fun way to finish a show is to set one of these beauties ablaze and let it burn away, so he sets aside a few from every show to torch. Now that's what I call hot headed!

http://www.davidmach.com/galleries/sculpture-matchheads/ --via DesignTAXI

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Very cool designs.

Still, it's pretty hard to improve on a vehicle that:
-is the most efficient form of land travel (at the equivalent of 500-1000 mpg)
-when set up and tuned properly, achieves about 95-98% efficiency of energy transfer
-costs only a couple days' wages, and is easy to maintain
-extends the life expectancy of the user

Unfortunately, many of the designs sacrifice some of those benefits, in favor of weirdness.
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Cool designs, but none of them seem to be suitable for frolicking in the forest...or dealing with the inevitable gravel road, ripped up for repaving street, etc.

The Schweeb is more like an amusement park ride, and I want a spin on it. But not after "Bruno the Bean-Eating Wonder" just got out of it.
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Check out the rides at www.bentrideronline.com

My favs:
www.whike.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72NI-P1zP1Y

www.steintrikes.com
http://sg.sevenload.com/videos/ohRtxfd-Downhill-auf-dem-Semmering
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"With the fear global warming taking over the minds of Americans everywhere..."? What world do you live in? Our climate has been cooling for quite a while now and global warming has been thouroughly debunked. Furthermore, these bicycle designs are mostly useless conceptual exercises that don't improve on the tried and true traditional bicycle design. Toys for the rich? Our lazy news providers need to get off their butts and screen the items they are presenting to us as news.
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