A friend of mine used to collective wine corks and make table tops with them. She would find this world record fascinating: Albanian artist, Saimir Strati, 42 has entered the Guiness Book of World Records for the third time, this time with a large mosaic table with bottle corks. http://www.mosaicart-sast.com/He used more than 200,000 corks in a mosaic of a man playing a guitar. "This work is dedicated to the Mediterranean spirit which is nourished by music, the sun and wine." he said. (Wonder if he bought the corks or asked friends to give him used corks like my friend used to do?)
Strati entered the Guiness records for the first time in 2006 with the world's largest portrait made of nails. The image of Leonardo do Vinci used more than 500,000 nails- that is a amazing amount of hammering to be done!
He followed that up a year later with a mosaic using toothpicks dedicated to Antonio Gaudi, the Spanish architect famous for Barcelona's Sagrada Familia Church.
http://mostinterestingblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/amazing-art-saimir-strati-what-people.html (You can view the process in a set of photos of the production of the previous world record breaking pieces.)
Wonder what medium he will choose to use next?
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