Triscuit Chairs by Tom Lyon
processed wheat crackers & cereal, wire
Gallery O, a gallery of miniature arts in Boulder, Colorado, displayed Mini-A-Chair, a 2010 group exhibition of tiny art chairs, that featured Triscuit Chairs by Tom Lyon.
image via Gallery O
Mound is a stop-motion animated film short by artist Allison Schulnik where her claymation characters beautifully morph and move to the song, It’s Raining Today written by Noel Scott Engel.
via Cartoon Brew
2 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups / 120 seconds
Microwhat is new Tumblr blog that shows trippy before and after shots of “microwaved everything”. They even give you an opportunity to suggest the next item to be microwaved for the site. Naturally, my vote is for a Fluffernutter sandwich.
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Chris Hardwick interviewing The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman last night at the Hyundai Veloster RE:Mix Lab event in New York City. Thanks to Royal Flush Magazine and Jeff Newelt for inviting us, it was great to hear Robert talk about the transition from the comic to the TV show. There are some really interesting things planned for the second season of the show.
photo by Scott Beale
Eric Staller, the enigmatic art car maker and recent San Francisco transplant, is the subject of “We Come in Peace,” a wonderful article in The Bold Italic. Staller discusses his art and the joys of driving around town in a Beetle with 1,659 lights. The article is written by Anisse Gross and beautifully photographed by Gene X Hwang.
I ask Eric what keeps him making art. “I’m really out to blow my own mind. If I can blow my own mind, I can blow anyone’s mind.” And it’s working – everywhere we go we’re blowing minds. People are so distracted by the UFO that bikes swerve and pedestrians stop mid-crosswalk. I can picture the headlines now: Mission Hipster Riding Fixie with No Helmet Killed by Urban UFO.
We’ve previously written about Staller a few times. See our coverage his seven person conference bike, goldfish bowl helmet, and most recently our post on his bowling pin-enhanced Fiat.
Upset with the horrendous working conditions at the Providence, RI hotel where he worked, Joey tendered his resignation by telling his boss in person that he quit while accompanied by the What Cheer? Brigade marching band.
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The soft rubbery and green limited edition Cthulhu Tentacles from Archie McPhee will look mighty dapper paired with the Tentacle Mustache.
It’s just like our regular Finger Tentacles, only green! Pretend your hand is Cthulhu or the Laughing Squid logo!
Great idea!
image via Archie McPhee
Toilet Bike Neo is a combination toilet and motorized tricycle that runs on biogas derived from human waste (see a somewhat baffling Japanese commercial for the toilet bike). The tricycle is a publicity stunt by TOTO, a Japanese manufacturer of bathroom fixtures, to raise awareness for the TOTO Green Challenge, an effort by the company to cut their carbon emissions in half by 2017. Toilet Bike Neo just started a 600 mile publicity tour from Kyushu to Tokyo.
Visitors to the Toilet Bike website can also enjoy a companion illustrated tale about a plucky boy, an evil aristocrat, and reduced carbon emissions.
via Spoon & Tomago
110k – 130k pieces
Black, white, dark and light bluish gray, clear trans and black trans colors used.
No foreign materials (wood, glue, paint or otherwise) were used – this is pure Lego. No Lego piece have been altered (painted, cut or otherwise).
Photo retouching used only for adding contrast and color correction & background.
Approx 600 hours to build
Three Story Victorian with Tree
50k – 60k pieces
Black, white, dark and bluish gray, clear trans and black trans colors used.
No foreign materials (wood, glue, paint or otherwise) were used – this is pure Lego.
Photo retouching used only for adding contrast and color correction & background.
Approx 450 hours to build
In his series Abandoned Houses, artist Mike Doyle created three spooky abandoned Victorian houses out of LEGO bricks: the TwoStory with Basement, the Three Story Victorian with Tree and his latest, Lego: Victorian on Mud Heap. His blog contains quite a bit of information and photos on how he made each of these fantastic pieces.
High-resolution prints of all three houses are available individually at Bumble & Bramble. Each print is signed, numbered and comes with a LEGO of the now dismantled pieces.
Many ask me how I go about planning and building these pieces. Sadly, I tend to be a ‘messy’ planner, so I do not make any blueprints or basic construction drawings. Rather I just get to work. I start by researching photos I find online. Generally, I find a house feel I would like to recreate. I also look for others that have specific moments of deterioration that I find interesting. In this case, I also researched houses that have been smashed by fallen trees. Next, I take a look at other moc’s to see if there are any special techniques I can use based on the subject matter.
Now for the size. I look on the buildings for objects that I would like to recreate with a piece. In this case, the scale was determined by the size of the bricks. One real life brick is almost the same size as a 1 x 2 tile – the 1 x 2 tile being a little bigger, but not by much. From here, I count out the bricks on the building to determine width and height and use rudimentary measuring tools, like a pencil or thumb held up to gauge relative proportions between the real thing and my work. In this way, I can make sure all is on track. I’ve tried plotting everything out on paper and using measurements, but inevitably I mess up somewhere along the line with the numbers and then have to start over again. Thus, I tend to just ‘wing it’.
via The Brothers Brick, Make and Colossal
photos by Mike Doyle