Striking Gallery of Iconic Celebrities using Matchbooks
Making you rethink the term’ playing with matches’, artist Mike Bell creates portraits of iconic celebrities on the packets, and then manipulates the matches to form hand poses.
His sparky work includes John Lennon making a victory sign, Marilyn Monroe with diamonds on her fingers and Jack Sparrow with mini cutlasses.
There are also sulphur versions of Elton John with his piano, Humphrey Bogart and Robert De Niro as Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle giving us the middle finger…and my personal favorite all four original members of KISS!
[Cheers mymodernmet]
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Fantastic
Humphrey Bogart? Looks more like Frank Sinatra
unique..and beautiful! its nice so nice to see new inspiration!
piano key fail
Lets see you do something better your prick.
the art is fantastic, whoever wrote the description…just..wow, seriously Humphrey Bogart and John Lennon, so many things wrong with that.
250 des pins est Montréal. The address on one one the matchbook
I used to live right across the street from the restaurant located at this address.
Still can afford to eat there…
So this is where all those matchbooks went!
LEGIT!
creative, unique, remarkable.
these are amazing… what a great idea.
Hello, I´m from Denmark and I am also a collector of matchbox-related items. I have about 100,000 different from all over the world. Please take a look at my website: http://www.tandberg.webbyen.dk
I love all these amazing matchbooks. I wish they were mine.