Sculpture
October 7, 2013

Mind-Blowing LEGO Recreation of LOTR’s Helm’s Deep Battle

We've all seen some incredible LEGO builds before, but this one, by Rich-K & Big J, takes the cake as one of the most impressive pop culture recreations of all time! About 150,000 LEGO bricks and 1,700 mini-figures were used to recreate the Helm's Deep battle scene from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. It took the duo about four months to construct the 160 pound, ping-pong table size creation.

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Art
October 5, 2013

Amazingly Detailed Portraits Created with Thousands of Dots

Artist Pablo Jurado Ruiz uses impressive Pointillism techniques to fill his black and white illustrated portraits with great detail and personality. Based in Spain, the artist focuses much of his time on portraying people with realistic style. He uses just black ink on paper to produce thousands of repetitive little dots that result in the various shades of gray and rich black across the page.

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Photography
October 4, 2013

Six Old English Sheepdog Puppies That Will Melt Your Heart

Though you're now already familiar with these two shaggy Old English Sheepdogs living in the Netherlands, you may never have heard of this sweet little pack. Cees Bol, the photographer and owner of the now famous dogs Sophie and Sarah, didn't adopt more dogs, he found a friend in his neighborhood, Arie Bloemendal, who owned six more! Lucky for us, Arie was happy to let Cees shoot his adorable, furry family.

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Architecture
October 3, 2013

Translucent Home Built Around a Tree in a Kazakh Forest

Located in a forest on the mountains of Almaty in Kazakhstan, architect Aibek Almasov of A.Masow Design Studio has designed a concept for a modern spiritual retreat. The project, known as Tree in the house, presents a cylindrical, four-story glass space featuring an encased tree in the center. A winding white staircase allows visitors who enter the “tree house” to ascend the towering space, spiraling upward around the centric tree.

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