Belarusian Builds Impressive Car Part Bison Sculpture

Roman Beybutyan, a young car enthusiast from the Grodno region of Belarus has built an impressive bison sculpture exclusively out of car parts.

Using shock absorbers, springs, steering rods, clutches, chains and various parts from soviet era cars like UAZ, Moskvich and Lada, Roman and his father managed to create a life-size metal bison, in three months. Roman and his father got all the parts they needed from their neighbors’ garages and from the local scrapyard, and welded them together using a photo for reference. Although the young boy, whose family arrived to Belarus from Armenia, has never seen a real bison, he did a fine job recreating one from metal parts.

Beybutyan, who now plans to start work on car part sculptures of a horse and foal, dreams of having his metal bison placed on display in his country’s Białowieża Forest, known as a sanctuary for the mighty European Bison. He is confident it would draw a large number of tourists to this natural paradise. LINK

World's biggest scrap-metal sculpture is a steampunk wonderland

Alex sez, "OMFSM this is made of awesome: Jer Faludi's pictures of a little-known Steampuck/Recycloart masterpiece, the Forevertron."

Dr. Evermor's Forevertron: best steampunk sculpture EVER. Yes, ever. Including all the great stuff at Burning Man. This guy wins. You've just never seen it, because it's in semi-rural Wisconsin (here). It's also the biggest scrap-metal sculpture in the world, so he wins the stuff-recycled-into-art prize, too. LINK: Boingboing

Reimagining Scrap Metal: Dr. Evermor's Forevertron

Scrap metal skeleton sculpture

This scrap-metal skeleton sculpture, "Jibetarian," is on display at the National Art Center in Tokyo -- it's a student piece from Tokyo Zokei University.
Jibetarian - 芦村康吉, Via: Boingboing

Scrap Metal.. Sculptures

Meet Joe. He likes to make sculptures, metal sculptures. But his metal sculptures are made from scrap parts of metal like nuts, bolts, watches, pins, etc. He is a professional welder and the way he creates his works of art is by ensuring that there is absolutely no spaces between each metal bit, thus ensuring a holistic work of art. LINK