Ever thought of empty cans as art? Well we certainly didn't, but a Japanese sculptor by the name of Makaon did. Collecting various cans, she cuts them up and uses them to sculpture notable characters such as Buzz Lightyear, Batman and Darth Vader.
Of course it's the Nintendo icons that caught our eyes; she has wonderfully created Pikachu, Mario and Luigi with numerous Coca Cola, Heineken and Blast Energy cans. For instance, you can clearly see that Mario was made using the coloured metal from cans of Coke and Coke Zero. Putting together these works of art must have taken a lot of time and patience, so she gains our respect.
We love finding weird stuff like this on the internet. Check out the gallery here, and let us know which sculptures are your favourite.
[source geektyrant.com]
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I can scarcely even fathom how a bunch of cans could join into such wonderful shapes.
Mario ate a canned mushroom. He became Can Mario!
These are really impressive. It must have taken drinking a lot of soda or visiting the recycling center to get that many cans.
Awesome origami! Wow! This is amazing!
@3Dash
This takes oragami to the next level!
Definetly!
Metal Mario, eat your heart out!
(Now, should the Pikachu be called Alumichu, or Pikacan?)
@The_Other_M
Definitely Alumichu!
@The_Other_M Metal Mario, good one!
Those are some nice cans!
Love them all! Especially the Pokemon!
Beautiful! Luigi looks great!
Neat but I think the non Nintendo sculptures she made look cooler, especially the animals and the fantasy creatures. Love the dragons.
Oh wow just imagine the amount of cuts the creator got to do these D:
...Amazing. this makes me feel uncreative
I want them ALL
Now that is impressive, shame they didn't have Link or Samus, but still impressive.
How canny.
@the_other_m I think itll be Picanchu!
I'm surprised no-one commented on this one yet.
I like the Luigi one
I want that Charizard!
The resemblance to the originals is uncanny...
sorry
But the Transformer is pretty awesome...
These are too awesome for life.
Very impressive.
another reason to finish all the beer in the fridge
if i drank cans that is
@haxonberik
Beat me to it on Picanchu!
This is awesome work and Picanchu is my favorite too. I really want to know how to do this.
Recycling at it's best.
These are very impressive and awesome too!
I don't have the skill or the patience to do this.
I'd love to see a Samus one...
@Haxonberik and @aaronsullivan
Nice ones! Wish I had thought of that earlier. Picanchu it is!
@Phantom_A
"This takes oragami to" Hole Nutha Level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih4AVOnO840
omg wonder if she had made a samus one
Very impressive! I'm surprised nobody suggested "Charcander" yet!
Even though I love the Nintendo themed ones, Batman wins, he always will no matter what
How in the world do you do that??
Wow, those are quite some masterpieces among modern (inspired) art
theyre scaringly almsot identical to the original arts. thats amazing
@The_Other_M Looks like the Magnemite family are no longer the only Electric/Steel types.
Very cool, very creative! Don't cut your fingers though (the steel is sharp)!
But one warning: Product placement, product placement (Kung pow reference!)!!
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