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                                   In pieces
                                        
Our friend Kurt, Bunny and I headed to the Art and Culture Center of
Hollywood [1] (Florida) for the Art of Nathan Sawaya featuring IN PIECES [2],
a collection of sculptures made from Lego [3] bricks.

[Yup, this is your typical art museum in Florida] [4]
 [5] [Little fluffy clouds] [6]
 [7] [Oh, so that's what my face looks like on the inside!] [8]
 [9] [He could have been a contender if he just wasn't boxed in] [10]
 [11] [Lego skulls are the rage—crystal skulls are just so passé these days]
[12]
 [13] [It makes for a remarkedly quiet and clean pet] [14]
 [15] [I can't believe I ate the whole thing!] [16]
 [17] 

Each sculpture was also used in a photograph [18] by Australian photographer
Dean West [19]. I didn't really bother with taking pictures of the pictures,
beacuse, well, taking a picture of a picture is just silly talk.

Besides, we came for the Lego bricks, not pictures of Lego bricks.

[Portrait of the artist as Lego bricks] [20]
 [21] [This towel has just a tad too much starch in it] [22]
 [23] [The arm, the leg, and the pedistal are all Lego] [24]
 [25] [I'm crushing your head!] [26]
 [27] [The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!] [28]
 [29] 

Mr. Sawaya used kragle [30] to hold the bricks together instead of just
relying upon the inherent “snapness” (and I'm sure, to help keep everything
together during transport—I mean, the instruction sheet for his self-portrait
would rival the documentation to fully understand the Mac computer [31]) and
frankly, I don't think the clouds would fully stand up (or rather, float up)
without the extensive use of kragle. I don't think the kragle use diminishes
anything.

If you are near Hollywood, Florida [32], you should probably check it out
while you still can.

[1] http://artandculturecenter.org/
[2] http://artandculturecenter.org/the-art-of-nathan-sawaya-featuring-in-pieces
[3] http://www.lego.com/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1774.jpg
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1774.jpg
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1791.jpg
[7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1791.jpg
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1802.jpg
[9] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1802.jpg
[10] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1807.jpg
[11] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1807.jpg
[12] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1821.jpg
[13] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1821.jpg
[14] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1844.jpg
[15] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1844.jpg
[16] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1853.jpg
[17] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1853.jpg
[18] http://www.inpiecescollection.com/nav.html
[19] http://www.deanwest.com/
[20] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1783.jpg
[21] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1783.jpg
[22] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1829.jpg
[23] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1829.jpg
[24] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1858.jpg
[25] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1858.jpg
[26] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1862.jpg
[27] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1862.jpg
[28] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/t-img_1880.jpg
[29] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2014/06/22/img_1880.jpg
[30] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Movie#Plot
[31] http://prog21.dadgum.com/129.html
[32] http://www.hollywoodfl.org/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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