Thursday, February 19, 2009
Sculpture in the Eye of a Needle
Tweet ThisToday's video features micro miniaturist, Willard Wigan, who creates sculptures from a fragment of a grain of sand. Sculptures so small they fit on the head of a pin or within the eye of a needle. Sculptures so small, he says he inhaled one accidently.
"Ooops!"
Willard makes most of his tiny tools himself. Or he gets them from nature: his paintbrush is the single hair of a house fly.
"Ouch!" said the fly.
When asked by the reporter if he enjoys his work, he answers, "No, it's painstaking. It's misery."
The reward for Wigan comes when a sculpture is complete.
Funny, sometimes that's how I feel about editing my blog. Writing is easy, but oh the pain of editing.
Give the video a watch, it's less than three minutes long, and fascinating.
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6 comments:
So, the museum fits in a shoe box? I hope the box is from Saks with an expensive pair of shoes inside, so it doesn't get thrown in the recycle bin or taken to Goodwill.
You cold totally write childrens' lit, too, Wendy!
oh man. that's amazing, and crazy at the same time. how in the world can he create something so small?? i like the simpsons one.
Yeah that would be said if the 20 millin dollar collection accidentally got thrown away.
Sara who have you been talking to? It's actually something we've been talking about. You're psychic!
Personally if anyone wants to buy me the sculpture I would like the Peter Pan set. That's where my name comes from.
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