Matchstick Sculpture

Matchstick Sculpture – Matchstick City

Stan Munro has gone from TV presenter to TV presented with this incredible matchstick sculpture of his matchstick city.

Stan Munro used to be a TV presenter and is now being featured on TV around the world himself for his very unique passion and art.

I am sure if you have been in the Matchstick world for any time, you have heard of Stan Munro, even still I thought today I would bring you some of his incredible matchstick sculptures and also a Youtube video that I am sure most of you have not seen yet.

Stan has taken years to build what must be one of the most famous matchstick models with his giant Matchstick City.

He really takes this serious, downloading technical drawings and satellite images so that he can get the end result as close to the real thing and I would say it works . Incredible images indeed.

He actually works on his models at the Museum of Science and Technology in New York and his latest model has over 40 new buildings and has so far been working on it for four years.

Most of the buildings are hollow but have supports inside them and he breaks the larger models up into smaller parts so that they can be moved!

If you can’t travel the world, let Stan Munro bring it to you. Way to go Stan!

Thanks to Believe It Or Not for the original story about the Matchstick City and Stan Munro and his matchstick sculpture.

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Toothpick Sculpture by Steven Backman who is originally from San Francisco. He began creating these incredible toothpick sculptures since he was a kid during a school project making a DNA molecule.

Later in life he designed a cable car toothpick sculpture for an art project (actually in 1984) while he was at the State University where he actually got a Bachelor of Arts Degree.

In 1985 he began construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and it took him 2 years to finish it and he used over 30,000 toothpicks.

It was a massive 13 feet long and is reported to be on display at the Ripley’s “believe it or not “ exhibit in California.

The boat you see featured in the photo below is actually a radio controlled boat and really works. It’s made from 10,000 toothpicks.

His latest toothpick sculpture works are abstracts, some of which you can see here. I don’t know about you, but I think his work is truly beautiful and deserves a place on this site. For more of his art take a look at his site. Thank you to you for the use of 5 of your photos and I hope I have done your art justice. Incredible Toothpick Sculptures.

Toothpick Artist Steve Backman

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