When you start gluing matches together, the shape of the matches (wider at the head) tends toward the form of a sphere. What to do? Youtuber All Is Art sez:
This was an experiment in how many matches it would take to get all the way around to make a perfect globe. After months of gluing and gluing and gluing we made it to the other side. Then the experiment shifted to see what it would look like when this thing burned. Enjoy!
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and that, boys and girls, is what shall happen to our own planet someday in the far, far distant future.
Reminds me of Melancholia.
Snap!
Well, except for ‘far distant future.’ ‘By the end of the century of we don’t cop on.’
well i was actually referring to 7.5 billion years from now when we are consumed by the sun.
but global warming works, too.
Oh, I know that now, but I was careless in my first reading and thought you were referring to one rather than the other, yay for the edit function.
Perfect visual metaphor for global warming, in fairness.
what better way to provide a visual metaphor for the slow rise in temperatures over long periods of time by displaying a speedily engulfing fireball
Yeah that’s why it’s a metaphor.
but definitely not a perfect one
The point of metaphors is not to be perfect simulacra of that which they are compared to, but to illuminate aspects of reality, like a sudden burst of light, showing deeper truths.
Nigel you have such a way with words.
Wonder how much of the actual flame is glue…
disappointed he didn’t light the sphere by striking the matchbox against it
This was my thinking too as he failed, repeatedly, to light the ball from the match.
‘guy who builds a flameball from matches yet struggles to light a match’ is somehow an apt metaphor for our times
+1
He sounds fairly wheezy.
I liked that, and enjoyed it for what it was rather than assigning a deeper meaning to it – watching stuff burn is quite enjoyable :-)