"Day by day we pass by vacant lots downtown ... Neighbourhoods that, although having a huge potential, have more and more unused spaces ... Sometimes, the tourists are the ones who open our eyes by mentioning or questioning whether this situation is normal. On other occasions, we pay attention to it for a moment only because the secondary problems that those spaces imply affect us directly. But in most of the cases, they are only a part of our way."
Habit Makes Us Blind is a series of colorful images by Spanish studio
Espai MGR that seeks to draw attention to the problem of wasted space in urban environments (specifically, in the city of Valencia) -- by building conceptual LEGO structures in them. [
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posted by bayani
on May 9, 2011 -
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Mike Doyle (
blog one,
blog two) is an artist who was previously known (by boardgamers) for
boardgame artwork. He burned out on boardgame art and has taken up a new medium...
with stunning results. This is his very first model and it's an astounding work of craftsmanship, detail, mood, and tone. This is the kind of work that many builders would kill to do after several years of building.
[more inside]
posted by Legomancer
on Sep 30, 2010 -
13 comments
The next Turner Prize winners? Art Craziest Nation is a mini-gallery of (in)famous pieces by modern artists, accurately reproduced with Lego by a duo called The Little Artists (John Cake and Darren Neave). The exhibition is at the Walker Art Gallery in
Liverpool until next January. See the Lego version of Damien Hirst's
Shark Tank, Tracey Emin's
Bed, Jeff Koons'
Balls, Andy Warhol's
Money, Salvador Dali's
Lobster Telephone, and
many others. It's all in one single piece, with some of the artists themselves in Lego version - and others whose work is not exhibited, like
Matthew Barney and
Gilbert & George - hanging around sipping their Lego wine (ok, air) from Lego cups (or even
throwing it at the Lego person standing next to them). Liverpool Football Club star
Gerrard also featured in a tribute to the team's victory of this year's European Cup.
posted by funambulist
on Sep 13, 2005 -
10 comments
