James May's Lego House
It's a pre-school kid's dream fantasy - a two-story Lego House made up of 3.3 million lego bricks. James May, the host of UK's "Top Gear," collaborated with 1,000 volunteers to put together the mammouth project last fall and this vid shows the final outcome.
Unfortunatley, despite a Facebook protest to keep it alive, the house eventually was torn down in September after Lego found it too expensive to move over to its theme park and no one came forward to take it.
How can not one pre-k school in the world step up and put a bid down on this?
Shouts to Josh Spear
Review: Transformed Conversation with Chaw ei Thein and Brad Darcy
Brooklyn’s Soapbox Gallery was hopping February 19 for the opening reception for works presented by artists Chaw Ei Thein and Brad Darcy. The DJ spun some smooth tunes, curator Nunu Hung held court, and a packed house took in the striking works of the two artists coming together under the banner of “Transformed Conversation.”
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Running the Numbers Project
Running the Numbers is a really amazing project put forth by an artist named Chris Jordan. Each image used in this exhibit represents a statistic and visualizes it by using that object to display a picture. For instance, the photo above is meant to depict 410,000 paper cups, equal to the same number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes.
If you're confused (I know I was), peep the work below and you'll understand.
To see the rest of this project check out Chrisjordan.com or hit the jump.
UPDATE: See video of Chris talking about his Running the Numbers on Ted Talks in 2008.
Via Josh Spear
Dog Collars
Depicts ten thousand dog and cat collars, equal to the average number of unwanted dogs and cats euthanized in the United States every day.
Plastic Bottles
Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
Constitution
Depicts 83,000 Abu Ghraib prisoner photographs, equal to the number of people who have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with no trial or other due process of law, during the Bush Administration's war on terror.
