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Awesome Sculpture

World’s Longest Sculpture

World’s Longest Sculpture

Artist Zheng Chunhui has spent four years carving away at a single tree trunk to create this intricate 40-foot-long sculpture, with 500 hand-carved figurines. The scene replicates a famous Chinese painting created 1,000+ years ago.

Giant Horse Head Sculptures

Giant Horse Head Sculptures

Artist Andy Scott has spent seven years building this pair of steel horse heads, called The Kelpies, along the Forth & Clyde canal in Falkirk, Scotland. They measure 98+ feet-tall, but smaller versions of his horses can be found around the globe.

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Incredible Wire Sculptures

Incredible Wire Sculptures

For his latest series, Korean artist Seung Mo Park creates intricate sculptures using densely-packed layers of bent aluminum wire over fiberglass lifecast forms. His other series, made from cut mesh screen is equally impressive.

Geometric Coin Sculptures

Geometric Coin Sculptures

Artist Robert Wechsler was commissioned by The New Yorker to create a series of sculptures. He decided to go with a small and inexpensive medium – pennies, dimes, and other coins, but that doesn’t make his pieces any less amazing.

Life Size T-Rex

Life Size T-Rex

Philippe Pasqua’s giant Tyrannosaurus Rex sculpture is contributing to the contemporary art that sits along the Seine River in Paris, France. The 12′ tall, 21′ long structure is composed of 350 molded chromed aluminum bones.

Weston Sand Sculpture Festival

Weston Sand Sculpture Festival

This year, the annual sand sculpture festival has gone with the theme “HOLLYWOOD,” filling the beaches of North Somerset England with incredible sculptures paying tribute to movie magic. Runs through 9/2013. Hi-res pics here.

Intricate Cardboard Sculptures

Intricate Cardboard Sculptures

UK artist Dylan Shields crafts his intricate sculptures out of old potato chip boxes and packing tape. Much of what he creates is rather epic, which fits with his use of biblical themes.

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LEGO City of Odan

LEGO City of Odan

Made by Mike Doyle, this fictional alien city measures 5′ high and 6′ wide. It’s made of over 200,000 LEGO pieces and took him over 600 hours to complete. You can buy plans, prints and DIY kits of parts of the city on Kickstarter.

C-3PO Junk Bust

C-3PO Junk Bust
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Given how Anakin built C-3PO, it’s only appropriate that artist Gabriel Dishaw make a bust of the helpful robot using scrap from computers, calculators, adding machines, printers and typewriters.

Shadow Dancing

Shadow Dancing

Artist Diet Wiegman creates sculptures that just look like random assemblages of junk – that is until they’re illuminated from just the right angle. See more of his works here.

Neon Skull Lights

Neon Skull Lights

Artist Eric Franklin creates incredible, luminous skulls from flameworked glass, filled with neon and mercury gas. We think the next Terminator should look like this. Available from Artworks Gallery.

Egg Carton Spitfire

Egg Carton Spitfire

An incredible full-scale model of a Mark I Spitfire, created from 6500 egg cartons (over a timber and steel frame), by sculptors Jack Munro and Charlotte Austin for Eggs for Soldiers, a charity fundraiser.

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Pencil Carvings

Pencil Carvings

We’ve seen sculptures carved out of the tip of pencils. deviantART member cerkahegyzo digs deeper, carving intricate shapes by etching out the graphite in the middle of the pencil. Unbelievable.

Electrical Tape Art

Electrical Tape Art

Japanese Artist Takahiro Iwasaki created this intricate cityscape using a single roll of electrical tape, carved with a precision knife. Check out more of the artist’s diverse works over on Colossal.

Bloemencorso Flower Parade

Bloemencorso Flower Parade

Bloemencorso in The Netherlands is a parade that features floats made from flowers. And by floats, we mean gigantic, twisting architectural structures and straight up weird animatronic animals.

Holly Wood Digital Sculptures

Holly Wood Digital Sculptures

Holly Wood is a series of computer-generated wooden sculptures from French artists Tony and Emmanuelle Lugand that features some of our most beloved pop culture, media and gaming icons.

Horrible Holiday Hooligans

Horrible Holiday Hooligans
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You don’t need a tree to enjoy these festive HOrrible HOliday HOoligans by Sebastian Reymers. 3 jerks with a saw, axe and match hanging around? Sounds just like the holidays at our house.

Laser Cut Dollar Sculptures

Laser Cut Dollar Sculptures

Brooklyn-based artist Scott Campbell uses a laser cutter to create these intricate sculptures from US currency. His other work can be witnessed (and purchased) at his legendary Saved Tattoo.

Silicone Sigourney

Silicone Sigourney

A hyper-realistic silicone bust of Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley from the 1986 movie Aliens. As if it wasn’t amazing enough, sculptor Steve Scott based the bust solely on photographs of Weaver.

Incredible Can Art

Incredible Can Art

Japanese artist Makoan creates intricate sculptures of pop culture icons and other objects by recycling beer and soda cans. He even color-matches his subjects by using a variety of drink brands.

Pumpkin Carving Boss

Pumpkin Carving Boss

Villafane Studios claims that it’s “home of the most gorgeous pumpkins on the planet” and from what we’ve seen we believe it. Funny, grotesque and scary, these carvings are a real treat to look at.

Human Yoda

Human Yoda

Sculptor Andrea Eusebi made a bust of the Jedi master using plasticine, but instead of the usual stiff green skin Eusebi went with a more human appearance. For sale, it is. Buy it, you will want to.

LEGO Iron Man

LEGO Iron Man

14-year-old LEGO maniac Evan Bacon is well on his way to being a pro LEGO artist with his second life-size superhero sculpture. His 6-foot-tall Iron Man even has light-up eyes, hand, and arc reactor.

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