Excellent

Gary Corby shared this wonderful film by Amarildo Topalis and I just had to do likewise.

Many people (except those of us who are Classics geeks in some way, I guess) think of ancient art as all white marble, when in fact, the ancient world was colorised in bright hues we might even consider garish. And this video captures what they might have looked like. The music is rather stirring, too [I think it may be Vangelis--that's what pops up on the YouTube page]. There's actually a whole series of videos, including Crete and Aegypt. Enjoy!

3,000 hours playing with toothpicks

This guy has spent 3,000 hours over since 1977 (he was 17 at the time) building a whimsical sculpture tribute to San Francisco out of...toothpicks and Elmer's glue. The thing that really makes the sculpture, though, is that the angles were designed so ping pong balls would race through it. The sculpture is 9 feet tall and weighs 20 lbs, and it contains about 100,000 toothpicks. Wow. I have to admire his dedication, although I do wonder if he has just a little too much time on his hands. I have to admit, although it sounds like a silly hobby for an eccentric person (he's also a surfer and competitive freestyle Frisbee player), I'm rather impressed. And at least he knows how to have fun.

Here's a video of the sculpture with the balls rolling through it:


from Dude Totally Re-Creates San Francisco With Toothpicks

Wow!

Check out Livio De Marchi's Casa di Libri. The sculptures are magnificent. Imagine an entire house where common things like beds or tables are made in a book motif, and appliances are hidden in a secret place behind bookshelves, too.

Thanks to Librarian for this site.

Okay, this makes me twitch

but if you're going to tear pages out of a book for art, I guess it's best if you turn the rest of the book into a sculpture...

Artist carves images from books