I thunbing through some posts are Boing Boing and saw a different picture of some science themed cookies. I followed that link to Not So Humble Pie and there were several more cookies there including these lab mice and the science guys below. They are a hoot, at least I thought so.
Here are a couple of sites that I thought were kind of fun. For me anyway. Giant Jeans Parlor is by some lady named Anjali. She was from the LA area but she lives in Japan and teaches english. Her blog is fun to read. She has an article about Japanese candy every friday. That KitKat has 1 percent alcohol it in. Cool. Eat a couple of hundred of those and you'd be feelin' something. We got some hand sanitizer at work. It's got a lot of alcohol in it. I mentioned you could get drunk from it and we all laughed. Two days later there was an article on MSNBC's webpage about some guy in prision who drank a whole gallon of the stuff. He got more than drunk. There was some shaking involved. Still the guy got fucked up in jail. He can tell that story for years. People like stories like that. People, (long friggin' pause), what are ya gonna do? Enjoy the nice ones, that's what. And if not them, then their work, I really liked the work of the guy below.
LEGO ROOM is a lego site by Hiro. He lives in Japan. His work is wonderful. His pieces vary in size. There are several small ones, like Fishing or Dr. Stranglove (above), which are built on an eight by eight brick. Others are built on the 16 by 16 and 32 by 32 bases. Some are brilliant, some are beautiful, and some are funny. Check out Summer Vacation, Waterwheel, and Coral Reef.
What I like about his pieces are the moments frozen in time. Check out Orca. I like the way he uses clear pieces to suspend the space ship over the fisherman. Model building is big in Japan. Little scene dioramas are as common as a car or robot models. This guy uses Lego instead of model making supplies and paint. He photographs his different works and puts a link to a nice gallery for each piece on his Lego page. He's got a little town and a bunch of what can only be called jokes. There's some sort of story on another link.I think it's a great idea, but I like model making in general. It's just so time consuming and once you are done you've got something to display or store. Damn Catch-22.
I'm really interested in models that capture a picture of a scene in motion. In the Dr. Strangelove there's a guy who is obviously running or falling. In my own Ninja Fight I used a brick with a stud to suspend the ninja as he ran across the wall and knocked down the guard. It's a tribute to the many Asian movies with amazing guys who can run just about any damn place they want to.
I did these to see what the movement capture would look like. I used Harry and Ginny from one of the Harry Potter sets first. They were just handy at the time. The other one is like a pencil drawing for a painting. Figuring out where everything went and working out from there. Oddly enough it all started with those lamps. They are from a Spiderman set. I thought they were rather nice decorative touches. I got it because it has a Kirsten Dunst figure they were on clearance. Not that you can hardly see any resemblance. The Mary Jane in red has a two faced head. One with a disturbing smile and the other with a troubling look of concern. The last one is from the second Spiderman movie. The faces are more skin toney for lack of a better world. They did it to the Harry Potter figures that came out in 2005.
I did buy the new Harry Potter set from Lego. It just came out. It's sad. Only one set for this movie. It's a big one with three scenes from Hogwarts Castle. They started with 7 or 8 different size sets for the first issue and less each year after. The previous sets were in 2005 when the last movie came out. There were only 4. They still are packed in their boxes, I haven't anywhere to put them.
