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Web Urbanist: World’s Largest LEGO Model: Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter
[ By Steph in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ] Forty-two times larger than the toy set currently available in stores, this Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter is made of over five million LEGO bricks weighing a whopping 45,000 pounds. Assembled in the LEGO model sho...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 11:34am -07:00T (301 words)
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Web Urbanist: Philography: Complex Philosophy Meets Graphic Simplicity
[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Graphics & Branding. ] The bigger the idea, the harder to understand, let alone distill. That is the idea and challenge  behind this growing set of graphic designs that seek to capture big ideas in simple shapes and single-...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 6:34pm -07:00T (245 words)
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Web Urbanist: Tinshed: Home Rebuilt from Shreds of Scrappy Shack
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ] In a sleepy suburb of Sydney, Australia, long since taken over by mainly-one-story houses, sat a disused metal-sided shed. An ad hod affair, it was a rare leftover of what was once an industrial...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 11:04am -07:00T (214 words)
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Web Urbanist: Laser-Cut Record: Music Etched Onto Slices of Wood
[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ] We already know what kind of music trees make when left to their own devices, and now we can make them sound the way we want. After developing a method for converting digital files into 3D printable records, d...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 6:19pm -07:00T (259 words)
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Web Urbanist: Future Perfect: 7 Potential Wonders of the World
[ By Steph in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] One hundred years from now, will we be living on other planets, teleporting from place to place, communicating to each other telepathically, or even becoming immortal by shifting human consciousness ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 12:04pm -07:00T (910 words)
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Web Urbanist: Solar Socket: Portable Plug-In Creates Free Energy to Go
[ By WebUrbanist in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ] With batteries running low, your eye roams the room for a place to plug in, but then you remember: you brought your own power supply. Portable, easy and green, this solar socket design is a stroke of...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:34pm -07:00T (197 words)
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Web Urbanist: Earthscraper: Inverted Pyramid Spans 1000 Vertical Feet
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] Skyscrapers are the traditional small-footprint solution for growing square footage in big cities, but what are developers to do in growing places like Mexico City where new building construct...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:04am -07:00T (225 words)
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Web Urbanist: Infinite Garden Multiplies Miniature Forest with Mirrors
[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ] Peering through a hole in the hovering white skin of an unusual installation at the 22nd International International Garden Festival of Chaumont Sur Loire, France, seems to transport the viewer into a differen...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 7:19pm -07:00T (370 words)
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Web Urbanist: Auto Draft
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Dateline: 2013-05-20 7:19pm -07:00T (47 words)
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Web Urbanist: Alternative Landmarks: 12 Monuments As They Almost Were
[ By Steph in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] The Sydney Opera House might have been little more than a squat concrete building resembling a factory, and a visit to the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial could have required sca...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:34am -07:00T (887 words)
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Web Urbanist: Spectral Studio: 20 Sq M Space Uses Light & Dark as Decor
[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Fixtures & Interiors. ] In an Paris apartment with just over 200 square feet, it is almost impossible to imagine anything but the more bare essentials resulting a boring space. But that is where illumination enters the equat...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 6:19pm -07:00T (338 words)
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Web Urbanist: Scooped: 12 Chilled Out Abandoned Ice Cream Stands
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ] Cone in 60 seconds? Though these 12 cool abandoned ice cream stands thought they could take a licking and keep on ticking, they ended up just being licked. Twistee Treat Retreat (image via: Telestar Logi...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:49am -07:00T (510 words)
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Web Urbanist: Find the Perfect Parking Spot Before You Even Leave Home
[ By Delana in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] There are countless maps and other direction-finding methods for your smartphone that can help you get to where you want to go – but once you get there, you still have to worry about parking. ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:34am -07:00T (358 words)
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Web Urbanist: NeoLucida: Optical Drawing Tool Lets You Trace Real Life
[ By Steph in Art & Drawing & Digital. ] Have you ever wondered how 19th century artists were able to produce such incredibly realistic drawings? It isn’t just because they were unusually talented, though it’s hard to argue that they were. M...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 10:49am -07:00T (329 words)
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Web Urbanist: Small Worlds: Strange & Shocking Miniature City Scenes
[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ] There is no unifying theme to these surreal depictions of urban architecture and landscapes, save perhaps their imaginative improbability and singular creator, Frank Kunert, a German photographer and his be...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 6:34pm -07:00T (190 words)
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