A Lego Creator Expert set featuring the Apollo 11 lunar lander designed in collaboration with NASA: 1,087 pieces complete with separate ascent and descent stages, and a lunar surface with footprints.
Stanley Kubrick minifig not included (but that would have been hilarious, in fairness)
Available next month (the 50th anniversary of the actual moon landing) for €94.99.
A very impressive 1:8 scale die-cast model of James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5, complete with essential details including working lights, pop-out machine guns, flipping license plates, ejector seat, bulletproof rear shield and more.
The catch? It comes in 86 parts as part of a 22-month magazine build-up series from Eaglemoss.
And not for the first time, either.
First two issues (plus parts): €1.75. Issues 3-86: €9.75. Total cost: €822.50 (+P&P).
Alternatively, you could have five and a half LEGO DB5s with no wait, or (for €2.33 million) the real thing.
An installation by global design collective Universal Everything currently running at the Barbican in London as part of the AI: More Than Human exhibition.
Visitors are presented with a gyrating, wiggling abstract animation that tracks and mimics their movements via 47,000 possible variations.
The animation becomes more agile as it learns the specific movements of the observer. The exhibition runs until the end of August, if you’re passing.
A curious loop by Chinese born Chicago based artist Yuge Zhou featuring a a collage of hundreds of video clips shot in the subway stations in New York. To wit:
The movement of the commuters in the outer rings suggests the repetitive cycle of life and urban theatricality and texture. The inner-most ring includes people sitting on the bench waiting; the central drummers act as the controller of the movement, inspired by the concept of the Four-faced Buddha in Chinese folk religion. For the installation, the video is projected onto the gallery floor and mapped onto a cube with relief in the middle of the projection area. The installation invites audiences to sit on the central cube as Voyeur-gods, to observe the anonymous characters in the projected urban labyrinth.
Now for yeh.
‘Murmuration (Landscape)’ by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang: 10,000 porcelain birds suspended from the ceiling of Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
Designed as a companion piece to a display of warrior figures from the Terracotta Army also on display at the gallery, the flock – each bird smudged with gunpowder – is arranged to create a 3D impression of a calligraphic drawing of Mount Li, where the tomb of the ancient warriors was located.
A short film about last month’s Nuart Aberdeen 2019 public art festival, at which – along with academic talks, film screenings, walking tours, public workshops and fringe events – more than a dozen artists from around the world showcased their work on the city’s streets.
A rather excellent Stranger Things tie-in from LEGO – a 2,287-piece kit featuring the Byers’ house, Hopper’s police cruiser and 8 minifigs including the Demogorgon.
Due for release next month and yours for around €180.
Wooden sculptures by Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Kanemaki
The eyes follow you around the room, etc.
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