Images from an upcoming book by Mike Doyle – a sequel to an earlier title Beautiful LEGO, called Beautiful LEGO 2: Dark. Featuring the work of 140 LEGO enthusiasts, the chapters have titles like Creepy Crawlers, Evil Attunement, Indulgences, Pits of Fire, and Riot Girls.
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Birdcages modeled on the silhouettes of prominent museums from around the world by Spanish artist Marlon de Azambuja.
Above: the Tate in London, Frank Loyd Wrght’s Guggenheim in New York, The São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil and the New Museum in New York.
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A 1:60 model of a Boeing 777 complete with working cargo doors and landing gear, cutaway panels and detailed interior – created over five years from manilla envelopes by Luca Iaconi-Stewart.
More pix here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFEnAno-Jzg
Last year, Global Democracy released an awareness-raising video (top), showing how easily model shots can be manipulated in Photoshop.
This year, open source ad agency Victor & Spoils did a suitably Yuletide take on it.
The high decibel take-off and flight of a 4.8 meter long, 1:15 scale RC model of an Airbus A380 filmed by Swiss RC enthusiast Thomas Bodmer and built by Michael Schlemmer.
The model has a 5.3 meter wingspan, four miniature jet engines and a 10.5l tank, weighing in at nearly 70kg.
Dirty bird.
Italian architect Luigi Prina made his first model aircraft at the age of 16. In his mid 60s, after a successful career in building design, he met painter and boat builder Eugenio Tomiolo who challenged him to make one of his model boats fly.
In the twenty years since, Prima has dedicated his retirement to creating delicate, fully functional flying models worthy of Leonardo DaVinci.
MORE: Luigi Prina: The Ships That Sail Through The Clouds (Blinking City)
Photos by Gianluca Giannone.
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.” —Bertrand Russell
A rather fetching triptych video by Yann Pinneill and Nicolas Lefraucheux of Parisian video production agency Parachutes showing the mathematical principles underlying everyday events: equations to the left, mathematical models to center and videos of the phenomena to the right.
A full screener, this one.
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Footage of hard core, poker-faced slot nerds and their insanely quick mini-motors at the 2013 Wing Car World Championship at Buena Park Raceway, Buena Park, California last May.
The 1:24 scale slot cars run at 12V and can reach speeds of up to 75mph (120km/h).
Previously: That’s Not Scalextric, THIS Is Scalextric
Actually, it’s a 9,500 brick model of the ATLAS particle physics experiment at the LHC in CERN built by scientist Sascha Mehlhase. We’ve mentioned it before.
But you knew that.
If the 10,000+ upvoters at the LEGO beta-bulding site cuusoo have their way, it may yet make it into the official LEGO range.
More details and pix here.