Artist Walter Wick stacked 117 objects on top of a single Lego piece for the Kids Gallery of the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford. Wick took about a week to perfect the balancing act and in the end used small wind-up toys to knock down the tower.
Film The Blanks turns movie posters into abstract art
August 22, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
Every weekday over at Film The Blanks, a new movie poster is posted with all words, letters, and non-essential elements removed. The website is an experiment in abstraction, replacing words, faces, and shapes with block colors. Some of the film posters are easy while others are incredibly hard. If you want to have a look at all of the ones that have been posted so far, you can check out this Flickr photoset here.
Also, if you’re interested, you can buy the posters here.
Tutti Frutti poster
May 12, 2009 @ 3:29 pm
Ha! I want this Tutti Frutti poster to remind myself that framed objects don’t always have to be serious. [via]
If you don’t get the reference, please listen to “Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard.
Dead body found frozen in ice at abandoned Detroit warehouse
January 29, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
Photo: Max Ortiz / The Detroit News
The Detroit News has a very sad and disturbing story of urban decay and indifference that will shock you. The image above is actually of a dead body frozen and forgotten in a block of ice inside the well of a cargo elevator at the Roosevelt Warehouse. [via]
The Roosevelt Warehouse is a former Detroit Public School book repository that’s been controversial in the past for literally letting many books and supplies rot and waste away while many of Detroit’s school children had no money for supplies.
The image above is an all-encompassing look at just how terrible conditions have gotten in Detroit where even a human body will be left unreported and unattended to for about a month! From the article, it seems as if there’s a general lack of care for the city and its citizens and this formula of indifference certainly spells disaster for what used to be one of the major metropolitan cities in America.
But seriously, it is that one picture above that would move me to action. How can a city and its people get to such a point that even a fellow man is considered indistinguishable from the rubbish around him?
The Workbay Chair
December 12, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
The Workbay is a chair designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra. It features a large overhead canopy (similar to a hood) that surrounds the occupant’s head, allowing for limited isolation from the noise and view of the surrounding setting.
I’m posting this because at the moment, I’d love one of these chairs just so I can stop the sunlight from blinding me as it comes through the window.
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