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Doc Pop spent seven hours creating this LEGO diorama featuring Lt. Pike pepper-spraying a line of protesting UC Davis students. It was installed in one the many abandoned newspaper bins in San Francisco. Someone removed it less than four hours later, but the photographs remain. Link -via Boing Boing
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Diorama artist Lori Nix created this fantastic artwork for Wired about Harry Potter's last movie. She detailed the process in her blog My 8x10 Life:
After we got the green light we headed off to Barnes and Noble in search of hardback Harry Potter books. We then took a ruler and eyed how large the creepy tree should be, and also what scale figures would work best standing around the grave. I started immediately making the tree form out of wire, lots and lots of twisting wire.
Comments Off That’s right – it’s a wee little Apple Store that fits neatly inside a shoebox. “Why?” you’re probably asking, but I think the real question is, “Why not?” The tiny store (complete with Genius Bar, of course) was made by Gary Katz, who also made this diorama with a working iPad that’s supposed to make you feel like you’re at a concert.
Awesome? Weird? Or both?
Link via Geekologie
A creation called Chilean CoPeepapo Mine Rescue won the grand prize at the annual Peeps diorama competition from The Washington Post. A video at the site looks at the details of the winning entry. You can see all the entries in this year’s contest in a slide show. Link to video. Link to slide show.
This photograph, titled “The Peeple vs. Scott Walker” was posted by @escapetochengdu with no comment as to its origin. With Peeps diorama contests taking entries at several newspapers, it might even win a prize! Link -via Everlasting Blort
Japanese photographer, Sohei Nishino, walks around cities taking pictures and pasting and arranging the results to create layered icons of a city from his memory. He has mapped Istanbul, Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Osaka and London.
Last year, Nishino spent a month walking the streets of London . He took over 10,000 photographs, which he edited down to 4,000. He cut them up and pasted them together into a composite photographic map of the city of London measuring 7.5ft × 4ft.
Nishino’s collages are on display at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London until April 2.
Link- Via The Map Room
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In his Micromachina project Australian artist Scott Bain creates pieces of art using taxidermy beetles as tiny machines to illustrate the negative effects of man’s disregard for nature.
Once the stuff of science fiction, today flying and crawling insects are used by the military, fitted with audio and video devices. This exhibition experiments using real taxidermy beetles as mechanised shells, to show how we mistreat our fellow inhabitants, forcing them to do our will.
Link – Via Who Killed Bambi
Mariel Clayton photographs dioramas of Barbie dolls in grisly scenes that juxtapose the glamor of Barbie with the savagery of her hidden violence. It’s like all this time she’s always been a female version of Dexter Morgan.
Link (some NSFW) via J-Walk Blog
LEGO artist Keith Goldman crafted an enormous diorama of scenes from the City of 1976 movie Logan’s Run. Above, a Sandman kills a Runner who’s unwilling to accept Lastday. You can view 15 more pictures at the link.
LEGO artist Bill Ward built an enormous diorama of a scene from the movie Ghostbusters for the 2010 Bricks by the Bay LEGO exhibit. It won “Best Minifig Scene”.
via Great White Snark | Bill Ward’s Flickr Photostream | Photo: Don Solo
The winners of The Washington Post’s annual Peeps diorama show (Peeps Show IV) have just been announced. The entry "EEP" by Michael Chirlin and Veronica Ettle which recreated a scene from Pixar’s animated movie Up, beat over 1,100 other contestants to capture first place:
Chirlin works for a company that designs virtual-reality goggles, and he relied on his experience with 3-D computer modeling to create the basic structure. "I built the house using a computer first, and figured out what kind of pieces I needed to cut out of wood," he says. "Then I just bought plywood, drew the pieces on it and cut them out."
After forming the basic structure from plywood, the duo snipped popsicle sticks to create the siding, scalloped lattice and shingled roof. Ettle, a field director for the Girl Scouts, painted the house in a palette of pastels and created the balloons by covering a large foam egg with chunks of Peeps.
The diorama re-creates the moment in the film when the house takes flight, with the elderly widower Carl tucked away inside and Russell the Boy Scout clinging to the front door. "We’ve always liked Pixar movies," Chirlin says. "We saw ‘Up’ this year, and it seemed like a logical progression from ‘Wall-E’ to ‘Up.’ And we thought the balloon would look really good with Peeps on it."
Link | Don’t miss the Photo Gallery
Mark Hogancamp is the master behind an elaborate fantasy world we can follow in pictures and video.
After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populated the town he dubbed “Marwencol” with dolls representing his friends and family and created life-like photographs detailing the town’s many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helped Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds from the attack. Through his homemade therapy, Mark was able to begin the long journey back into the “real world”, both physically and emotionally – something he continues to struggle with today.
A documentary about Marwencol premiered Saturday at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Link -via Metafilter
LEGO MOC by 2×4 [Flickr] | Tron Photoset
Tron is one of my all time favorite Sci-Fi movies and it’s a pleasure to see that almost three decades later, it’s still inspiring its fans. Here’s a fantastic diorama of the Tron Light cycles scene by Flickr user 2×4 we first spotted over at The Brothers Brick blog.
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See more of Wai Fong Fung’s Star Wars scenes at Flickr.
My hat is off to the folks at Bandai – the Japanese toymaker has created a speaker with a diorama of Tokyo’s Ginza district, back in the days (like 1955, dudes). Behold, the Bandai Diorama Speaker:
The 2×1W speaker comes with moving parts, sound effects and a bunch of LED lights. Only 2000 copies have been made and the price is ¥198,000 (about $2,200 USD).
Link – via GeekAlerts
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