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Dale Chihuly - Artist. Humongous Maze Will Be Made of 250,000 Books. As part of the London 2012 Festival, a gargantuan maze will be created using 250,000 books! Starting July 26 through July 30, this installation, called aMAZEme, will be spearheaded by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo but constructed by the public. (See call for volunteers on Craigslist.) The walls are expected to be 13 feet high and the labyrinth will ultimately be over 5,000 square feet. Mythical Dragon Sculpture Made of Shattered CDs.

If you like the work of animal sculptor Sean Avery, you'll get a kick out of this similarly constructed sculpture of a dragon by Redditor Amon-a-boat.

Mythical Dragon Sculpture Made of Shattered CDs

According to the artist, who has described herself as a "17 year old girl with a 4.0 GPA that decided to make an art project out of some old blank CDs," the enchanting figure is comprised of 136 CDs and took 80 hours to complete. The impressive piece is assembled in its entirety atop a handcrafted wire mesh frame with the skilled maneuvering of a thin bandsaw blade to administer careful, clean cuts to the easily cracked CDs and the handy use of a hot glue gun to meticulously paste each broken CD shard into place. The razor-sharp edges coupled with its reflective surface make for one eye-catching mythical creature that is inspired by the video game Skyrim, which features a dragon called Alduin the World Eater. Wittily, Amon-a-boat calls her creation Alduin the Data Eater. via [Reddit]