Viral Radar: Man Makes Sculptures On The Head Of A Pin

“There’s an old saying – just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not there,” says micro-artist Willard Wigan in a TED Talk from August of 2009. Wigan is the subject of a video that has been on YouTube for two years but has gone viral in bursts over the last few months. Wigan can carve a sculpture from a fragment of a grain of sand, paint it using a hair plucked from a house fly’s back and fit it on the head of a pin or in the eye of a needle.