{"id":176564,"date":"2025-12-05T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176564\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:01:09","slug":"bournemouth-micro-artist-beats-own-world-record-with-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176564\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth micro artist beats own world record with sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other of Mr Lindon&#8217;s tiny creations include unique animals crafted within the eye of a needle, from a blue whale to a delicate peacock butterfly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I probably am completely bonkers,&#8221; he jokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stamp where Yellow Smiley Face lives is mounted on a glass tower and housed inside a sealed glass box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Lindon said he was grateful to Dr Sarah Elliott and Jack Rose from Bournemouth University for measuring the new world record. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he created a micro sculpture of a graduation certificate being grasped by the hand of a newly qualified student, which is &#8220;less than a millimetre wide and set on a solid gold plinth&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artist added the artwork would be gifted to the university &#8220;to inspire future generations&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other of Mr Lindon&#8217;s tiny creations include unique animals crafted within the eye of a needle, from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-176564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}