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Fantastic Plastic: 20 Essential Works of LEGO Art Fantastic Plastic: 20 Essential Works of LEGO Art & Design Article by Steve, filed under Sculpture & Craft in the Art category. LEGO … it’s the best thing to come out of Denmark since, er, danishes. Much more than just a children’s toy, LEGO pieces make ideal artist material due to their exceptionally versatile design. These 20 essential works of LEGO art illustrate just what can be accomplished with a little inspiration and a LOT of LEGO bricks. Nomad by 1/100 This disco-cum-caravan is one of five timber-clad cabins installed by Swiss architects 1/100 in the garden of the Quai Branly Museum, Paris. Each mobile pavilion folds open to reveal a different function, offering a sheltered information point, an ice cream vendor, a sound-system, a kindergarten and a stage. Scattered across the site, the Nomad caravans are decorated with disco lights and surrounded by carpets, stools and chairs to encourage social gatherings. At the end of the summer each caravan will be folded up and towed to a new location. More stories about pavilions on Dezeen » Photography is by Thomas Mailaender.

Books Change With You - Posters For the Mint Vinetu Bookstore JazJaz Books Change With You By JazJaz on April 28, 2012 under Ads, Art · · Tags: Books, illustrator, Josephin Ritschel, Mint Vinetu, New!, posters A set of promotional outdoor posters for the Mint Vinetu bookstore, which specializes in used books. The posters were created by Lithuanian advertising agency, New! Carved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee (click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains.

National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic - StumbleUpon National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus. Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Many people pilgrimage to Uluru, but what is seen there often depends on where you've come from.

The Blog of Scott Hansen » Websites Boards Of Canada website Less than 2 hours until Boards Of Canada will be streaming the new album here. My old buddy Nick Felton spends a lot of time tracking his every move. After years of hanging with him knowing at the end of the year my stats would also in some way be immortalized in that years annual report, I decided to make use of one of the tools he created to track all that data: Daytum. It might be old news now, considering he’s moved on from Daytum, but it’s taken a while for the type of data I’ve been tracking to reveal something, hence the late-to-the party post. I started obsessively keeping track of all of my music purchases via Daytum mostly just to keep tabs on myself – to make sure I was in fact supporting artists like I claimed I was.

Diez documentales de fotografía que hay que ver Ponte cómodo. Una sesión con diez documentales de fotografía que hay que ver te espera. Una selección de algunos de los mejores documentales que se pueden ver. Hay muchos más (y algunos ya los hemos referido aquí), pero se trata de una sesión variada y diversa con un objetivo común: aprender y disfrutar con los grandes maestros. Se puede hacer una selección mucho mayor, pero diez documentales es un buen listado para ver con calma. La mayoría en inglés, algunos son antiguos y no están disponibles en Full HD, pero aún así merecen la pena al menos un visionado.

Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Best Street Art of 2011 - StumbleUpon December 27, 2011 | 72 Comments » | Topics: Art, Pics Hot Stories From Around The Web Other Awesome Stories 100% Whatever with Mary Wing: Playlists and Archives 100% Whatever with Mary Wing: Playlists and Archives Music without words, words without music, and combinations therein. Sundays Midnight - 3am (EDT) | On WFMU | 91.1, 90.1, 91.9 FM & wfmu.org WFMU LIVE Audio Streams (Get help): Pop-up | 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 | 24k Real | 24k Windows

Sharing Time — Architecting A Life Share it willingly, or miss out entirely. Just recently I got to wondering why I never felt like I was caught up on anything—projects, relationships, hobbies, jobs—the list goes on. As I pondered my situation I realized that for the past few days I’d worked from 8am to 9pm, only pausing long enough to eat meals. What this meant was that of the 15 hours I was awake each day I only had about 2 hours of unscheduled time for myself. 13:2 is not exactly an ideal ratio. Now, normally, you might expect me to make a plug for some time-saving lifestyle hack. There are plenty of ideas out there for how to squeeze an extra few hours into each day, how to work less, or how to minimize time-expenses.

Discussing Metamodernism Postmodernism is over. As global warming, the credit crunch and political instabilities are rapidly taking us beyond that so prematurely proclaimed ‘End of History’, the postmodern culture of relativism, irony and pastiche, too, is superseded by another sensibility. One that evokes the will to look forward, that invokes the will to hope again. Discussing Metamodernism brings into dialogue contemporary artists whose work engages with this changing world in affective and constructive ways in thinking anew about our present and future. The exhibition is structured around four debates – engagement, affect, post-irony, and storytelling – with each debate addressing another set of questions: how can we make a change, today? How can we be in touch, intimate, in love?

100 Websites You Should Know and Use Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Art photography: When 'reality isn't good enough' Chris Clor's dramatic photograph of this bull rider won the Communication Arts Photography Competition. Combining separate shots of the bull, the rider, Superstition Mountains and the sky, he knitted them together in Photoshop. Although it was shot for a client selling boots, the image represents a possible reality because of Clor's composition. Don Farrall's image was also a winning entry in the competition.