Video: Toothpick City by Stan Munro
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Six years, six million toothpicks and 170 liters of glue, and a lot of perseverance and, of course, talent - that's all it took artist Stan Munro to create an entire city where all buildings, attractions and even vehicles are completely from small toothpicks.
Stan Monroe is a former TV host who set out to build some of the world's most famous landmarks with toothpicks, and he admits it was the hardest and most time-consuming building he ever did. Stan worked on his models at the Syracuse Museum of Art and Technology, New York, USA. It took from one day to six months to create one sculpture. All these small copies of real attractions are built on a scale of 1: 164.
World famous skyscrapers: Petronas Towers, Taipei 101, Chrysler Building amaze with their scale and accuracy of reproduction of the smallest details. The Sydney Opera House in Australia also deserves special attention, where even the surrounding water is also made from toothpicks.
Other famous buildings that the master glued together include the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, St. Peter's Square and the obelisk in the Vatican, the Al-Haram Mosque in Mecca, the Taj Mahal and London Tower Bridge.
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