Comments on: ApocaLego: Building end-times with plastic bricks http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 19:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: blindog http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1262246 blindog Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1262246 Seems like a natural progression of all those separate but similar sets. Once you're done building and enjoying then what? Aha! Seems like a natural progression of all those separate but similar sets. Once you’re done building and enjoying then what? Aha!

]]> By: bbonyx http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1262046 bbonyx Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1262046 Makes me feel like playing Borderlands again. Makes me feel like playing Borderlands again.

]]> By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261968 Lobster Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261968 This is WAY cooler than a concentration camp model. This is WAY cooler than a concentration camp model.

]]> By: Anon_Mahna http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261851 Anon_Mahna Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261851 Last pic had me laughing. There's a chicken crossing the road. Last pic had me laughing. There’s a chicken crossing the road.

]]> By: Anon_Mahna http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261850 Anon_Mahna Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261850 digital camouflage......  it's amazing what squares and rectangles can do when arranged just such & such of a way.. digital camouflage……  it’s amazing what squares and rectangles can do when arranged just such & such of a way..

]]> By: jimh http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261741 jimh Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261741 I love that it's all actual Lego pieces, in contrast to the concentration camp model that was up last week, where the artist had glued, cut, and drilled... I love that it’s all actual Lego pieces, in contrast to the concentration camp model that was up last week, where the artist had glued, cut, and drilled…

]]> By: Tuff Luke http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261408 Tuff Luke Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261408 The top picture looks like Texas Battle Land in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) The top picture looks like Texas Battle Land in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

]]> By: johnbaichtal http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261374 johnbaichtal Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261374 Sorry, STORYLINES, not SHORELINES. Curse auto-correct! Sorry, STORYLINES, not SHORELINES. Curse auto-correct!

]]> By: grimc http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261335 grimc Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261335 That's what I really find interesting about this; how people can take blocks of a uniform size and shape and create randomness. That’s what I really find interesting about this; how people can take blocks of a uniform size and shape and create randomness.

]]> By: Sooper8 http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261319 Sooper8 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:19:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261319 Lego doesn't seem to lend itself to that genre easily. Lego is too 'square' and regular. Surely ApocaLego is all about rough edges and broken lines? Lego doesn’t seem to lend itself to that genre easily. Lego is too ‘square’ and regular.
Surely ApocaLego is all about rough edges and broken lines?

]]> By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261316 Donald Petersen Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261316 As much as I love the whole <i>Mad Max/Fallout/The Stand/World War Z</i> stuff (and oh boy, do I love it), it occurs to me that just about all my Lego/Tinkertoy/Erector Set/Lincoln Log construction projects in my youth had a decidedly <b>pre</b>apocalyptic theme.  Airports, spaceships, lunar bases, castles, western forts... I guess I wasn't thinking that the world would end anytime soon back in the 70s.  Well, there was always  nuclear annihilation, but I guess I always assumed a scorched earth with no stone standing upon another would be the result of that.  Not much fun to recreate a flattened blasted landscape there.   And then <i>Damnation Alley</i> opened my eyes to the joys of the apocalypse! As much as I love the whole Mad Max/Fallout/The Stand/World War Z stuff (and oh boy, do I love it), it occurs to me that just about all my Lego/Tinkertoy/Erector Set/Lincoln Log construction projects in my youth had a decidedly preapocalyptic theme.  Airports, spaceships, lunar bases, castles, western forts… I guess I wasn’t thinking that the world would end anytime soon back in the 70s.  Well, there was always  nuclear annihilation, but I guess I always assumed a scorched earth with no stone standing upon another would be the result of that.  Not much fun to recreate a flattened blasted landscape there.  

And then Damnation Alley opened my eyes to the joys of the apocalypse!

]]> By: liquidstar http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261311 liquidstar Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261311 These are great.  Funnest use of lego i ve seen yet.  Really reminds of the work of Canadian artist Kim Adams. http://diazcontemporary.ca/Artists_Adams.html These are great.  Funnest use of lego i ve seen yet.  Really reminds of the work of Canadian artist Kim Adams.

http://diazcontemporary.ca/Artists_Adams.html

]]> By: DJBudSonic http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/apocalego-building-end-times-with-plastic-bricks.html#comment-1261281 DJBudSonic Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=127538#comment-1261281 HAHA!  At least half the stuff my 6 year old makes from the giant trail-mix bin of lego/playmobil look like this! HAHA!  At least half the stuff my 6 year old makes from the giant trail-mix bin of lego/playmobil look like this!

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