School of witchcraft and wizardry Hogwarts, built out of 600,000 matchsticks Bashny.Net

This is only for small children playing with matches. And for experienced and serious adults — how! For example, for residents of Iowa Patrick Acton (Patrick Acton) no entertainment more exciting, and the designer is more interesting than the usual matchboxes. For more than 30 years he deals with what turns the matches into works of art, large and small sculptures, which brought him fame. Readers Of Cultural Studies.RF sculptor-taught is familiar as the author of the castle Minas Tirith from the trilogy "the Lord of the rings". But in his account there is another, no less famous castle, School of witchcraft and wizardry Hogwarts from the works of JK Rowling.



This large-scale sculpture, the author has built more than three years, for which he took about 600 000 matches and 68 liters of glue. As a model the sculptor had used the model of Hogwarts which you can see in the film series about Harry Potter, shot on location in Hollywood. To as accurately as possible reproduce the legendary castle, young wizards, Patrick Acton had a chance to read all the books about Harry Potter and from time to time to look through them to clarify this or that detail of the structure. In the end, the match lock was an exact copy of its "big brother" of the movie.





Fans of fantastic stories about the Boy Who lived, will not be easy to determine the tower, which houses the faculties of Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. Similar to the tower in which lived an owl, recognized the hospital wing and the tower of astronomy. Yes, and the famous bridge, and a field for playing Quidditch exactly as it imagined every fan of witchcraft and wizardry. That's just the goblet of Fire in this school is strictly forbidden.







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