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Moon Rabbit – the latest giant animal installation by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman (he of the 14m tall rubber duck that sailed into Hong Kong harbour last summer).

Gazing skyward, propped up on the side of a military bunker at Dayuan Town Naval Base in Taiwan, the plywood and styrofoam bunny covered in 12,000 sheets of Tyvek paper, was inspired the East Asian fable of a giant rabbit that lives on the moon.

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Sadly, Moon Bunny caught fire and was destroyed while being disassembled by local workers yesterday.

Mmf.

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Flying machines and their attendant infrastucture from an exhibition entitled The Principles of Aerodynamics by Australian artist Daniel Agdag.

Sculpted from cardboard by eye with no blueprints and no plans by Agdag, who just gets to work on his unforgiving medium with scalpels and glue.

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The Whirling Dervish, a willow sculpture by artist Trevor Leat installed in 2012 at Shambellie House, in New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Unfortunately Shambellie House closed in 2013, so the piece is no longer on display.

Lord Summerisle shall hear of this.

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A spectacular sculpture soaring over Goodwood House in West Sussex at this year’s Goodwood Festival Of Speed – 26m high, 90m long and comprised of 160 tonnes of steel – a 1934 Mercedes Benz W25 and the 2013 Mercedes AMG Petronas Team’s F1 W04 pass each other on opposite sides of racing history.

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Jizai Okimono is a niche Japanese craft dating back to the late 1700s when metalsmiths found themselves with a lot of time on their hands as the demand for multi-plate armour waned. It involves the meticulous carving of hyperrealistic animals with fully articulating, anatomically correct joints.

Here, 25 year-old sculptor Ryosuke Ohtake carves a lobster from boxwood for an exhibition at Tokyu Department Store – a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that it was apparently his first attempt at the craft.

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Miami-based Colombian multimedia artist Federico Uribe – drawn to the “neglected beauty of simple objects in daily use”- repurposes fragments of pencils, held together with glue and zip-ties to create landscapes, 3D figures and textured ‘paintings’.

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Pop culture carved deftly into crayons then painstakingly coloured with wax melted from other crayons then offered to you, the discerning wax-crayon-sculpted-popculture-mini-figurine aficionado, by Etsy seller Hoang Tran.

MORE: Wax Nostalgic

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Artist Jacob Hashimoto’s Gas Giant exhibition, currently showing on two floors and a stairwell of the MOCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.

A huge walk-through installation combining traditional Japanese kite-making and sculpture, giving viewers the rather wonderful impression of being inside a three dimensional painting.

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