Guy Spends Almost a Year Gluing 42,000 Matches to Make a Giant Sphere

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

is there a link that is ad-blocker friendly? Would appreciate content that was available.

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