Comments on: Lego greenhouse uses bricks as growing medium

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:43:00 +0000

my Lego loving husband immediately commented on how quickly UV rays would yellow the bricks and make it impractical.

UV? In London?

By: nemryn

nemryn — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:10:00 +0000

Actually, the ‘s’ got transplanted over to ‘sports’.

By: semiotix

semiotix — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:53:00 +0000

However, I’m afraid the motivation would most likely be ‘it’s cool and I can get funding’.

Yeah, I’m with you. The best art is boring and never made for lack of funds.

By: jennybean42

jennybean42 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:48:00 +0000

This has been blogged all over the place, and my Lego loving husband immediately commented on how quickly UV rays would yellow the bricks and make it impractical. Interesting as an art project, tho.

By: scifijazznik

scifijazznik — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Lost in the great Plural of Lego battle is the fact that all those clear “glass” Lego bricks are going to turn yellow after being left in the sun for a while. Let’s check back in with with Mr. Clever Trousers in a year and see how his green house is faring.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:22:00 +0000

I had no idea what a ‘whuffie’ was…(if a woodchuck could chuck wood…)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie

By: Tichrimo

Tichrimo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:44:00 +0000

Don’t slag Cory too much for his “Legos”. He probably still uses the term “pencil crayons”, too.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:26:00 +0000

In fact this post is by you, Cory; and I find it hard to believe that your lovely wife Alice could ever allow such behaviour.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:24:00 +0000

It may be weird, but it’s our language ;)

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:20:00 +0000

You can put as many asterix’ as you like next to the word; but using ‘Legos’ stills makes yous sounds likes a tools.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:08:00 +0000

Octopuses, octopii, octopodes. Legos, legoes, legii, legodes?

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:06:00 +0000

Re: regional differences in English. I like listening to BBC World Service and hearing them talk about maths, drugs-dealers, and then eventually they’ll have a segment on sport. Weirds, weirds and weird.

By: Art

Art — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:16:00 +0000

The “magical glowing box” effect is right up my alley! :)

By: SamSam

SamSam — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:42:00 +0000

Everyone knows it’s “Legi,” because it’s from the Greek.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:21:00 +0000

I don´t know. Quite boring if you ask me and not even that enormous.

By: Sam Kington

Sam Kington — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:49:00 +0000

It’s because they talk about doing math. The s they’re not using has to go somewhere.

Edit: ah, I see someone already made that joke. Move along.

By: Peter Hollo

Peter Hollo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:42:00 +0000

It’s where the ‘s’ from maths went.

By George, I believe you’ve got something there!

By: Mladen Kalinic

Mladen Kalinic — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:38:00 +0000

See it every day on my lunch brake.

If it weren’t for signs ‘Please do not touch’, no one would look at it twice.

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:18:00 +0000

It’s where the ‘s’ from maths went.

By: siloxane

siloxane — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:08:00 +0000

Since this work was commissioned by Lego, I would be surprised if anyone had to pay full retail price to obtain the bricks. In any case, it essentially would be Lego paying Lego for the material.

And building a structure out of ABS plastic is hardly a “gold plated toilet seat” level of opulence.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:07:00 +0000

Given the scale and simplicity I think Duplo might have been a better choice.

By: Zoran Scout Ivancic

Zoran Scout Ivancic — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:43:00 +0000

this looks like mocking the world hunger from the elitist Lego bubble

By: dw_funk

dw_funk — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:33:00 +0000

wow, I’ll be the first person to respond with a generic “I think that’s cool.” Haters gonna hate, I guess.

By: imag

imag — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:59:00 +0000

In practice, outdoor UV would prevent this from being a “functional greenhouse” for long.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:43:00 +0000

it’s downright childish to call them Legos.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:22:00 +0000

I thought the plural of Lego was Lego. “It’s made of Lego” like “it’s made of concrete” or “She’s wearing Prada”. This “Legos” phenomenon seems to be American.
For anyone remotely interested, the multicoloured fruiting bush you can see in the picture is a Twilight chili. They do grow red, yellow, orange and purple all on the same branch, depending on how ripe the fruit are.

By: peterkvt80

peterkvt80 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:18:00 +0000

I have the manufacturer’s style guide. It should say “made from transparent Lego” with an uppercase L.

By: sam1148

sam1148 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:42:00 +0000

That’s pretty cool, as art; but rather pointless and extremely opulent in these times.

The cost of those Lego Bricks would be— what about 60 thousand US dollars?
I wonder if the motivation was be a shill for the Lego Corporation or comment on the high cost of organic foods?

However, I’m afraid the motivation would most likely be ‘it’s cool and I can get funding’.
To me a lego green house is the catagory as gold plated toilet seats.

And my guess is the plants etc where planted (supported) after the green house was built for installation and everything is doomed to die and wasn’t originally grown in the medium or the green house.

By: asuffield

asuffield — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:28:00 +0000

Will be on display in Covent Garden until… yesterday. Nice timing there.

I very much doubt they’re using the bricks as a growing medium – that’s possible but hard, and this project is all about unimportant fluff. My prediction is that they’re using bricks as mulch: it’s a layer on top of the actual soil.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:25:00 +0000

Every time you say “legos” your whuffie drops by 5%.

Everybody knows that it’s ‘legoes’.