Guy Spends Almost a Year Gluing 42,000 Matches to Make a Giant Sphere (boredpanda.com)

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It's kind of sad to watch obsessive compulsive disorder get out of hand like this.

I think that's pretty cool. Its literally a fireball. Albeit a little different from I imagined but still cool.

Watching that thing in flames makes me think it must’ve been exceptionally dangerous to work on it in a metal shop. Having it catch fire inside would have been disastrous.

Too bad he mounted it on a fixed pole before lighting it. I would have liked to see it hanging from a wire, so that it could move in response to the gases ejected by the fire.

Looks like some sort of Star-Wars-style planet-destroying ray has been used on the sphere. Weird things happen after the initial burn passes, too -- the play of smoke on the surface is pretty interesting.

Perhaps if the sphere were cracked open, there might have been a flashover. The grey smoke billowing after the matched burned out looked suspicious.

These Amazon contest ads are getting out of hand. The story is unreadable on mobile.

I watched his video on a terrible connection as a tribute.

The fact that he set the ball on fire in the outskirts of some forest was philosophically disturbing.