Life-Size Mobile Suit Gundam

Posted by Queuebot in Movies & SciFi, Pictures, Travel & Places on June 16, 2009 at 3:22 am

To celebrate the anime Mobile Suit Gundam’s 30th anniversary, Japan is building a life-size RX-78-2 Gundam in Odaiba, Tokyo. From Anime News Network:

The statue will be free for viewing, but it will only stay up for two months. It will be built with fiberglass-reinforced plastic over a steel frame so it can be disassembled later. The head unit will move and the body will have 50 points that will emit light. Mist can shoot forth from 14 locations on the body. The park is just four trains stops from Tokyo Big Sight, the home of the Comic Market dojinshi convention and the Gundam Big Expo convention that will be held from August 21 to August 23. Bandai NAMCO Group is still determining what to do with the statue after its allotted two months in the park are over.

As you can see, the mecha is almost done. Just in time to deal with the shenanigans over at North Korea, too! Moé passion blog has more pics: Link

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Soldier Statue Swing by Kamila Szejnoch

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Travel & Places on December 18, 2008 at 1:37 pm

When life gives you lemons, make a lemonade. When communism gave Poland a statue, artist Kamila Szejnoch made … a swing out of it!

Here’s her art installation, a swing at the monumental bronze "Berling Army Soldier" statue in Warsaw, Poland:

She suggests a change in the function of the monuments, attempting to build a bridge between the present and the past, adding a contemporary layer distinct from their original style and function. She asks, what a particular memorial actually refers to and what kind of history it conceals.

Kamila won the Szpilman Award 2008 for her work (the award celebrates "ephemeral art" that exists only for a short period of time) – via Invisible Red

Check out the rest of the Szpilman Award winners here: Link (includes such gems as Kate Mitchell’s life imitating a cartoon by sawing a hole on the floor)

 
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