Uri's Spoon Gorilla

BBC News has posted a video of the unveiling of a huge gorilla made entirely of spoons (CLICK). It was made for Uri Geller, whose main claim to fame is in bending spoons on TV without actually putting them under physical pressure. The photo shows sculptor Alfie Bradley lurking beneath the Spoon Gorilla. Initially he thought he would need 5,000 spoons, but it turned out 40,000 were required. An appeal on social media led to spoons being donated from across the world. The artist spent 5 months welding each one by hand at the British Ironworks Centre in Oswestry. He says the inspiration was the movie King Kong, but I recall David Mach's Silver Streak - a gorilla made of coat hangers - at the RA Summer Exhibition in 2010 (CLICK).