Toys
January 25, 2022

This LEGO Architecture Set Brings the Tokyo Skyline to Your Living Room

Tokyo is one of the largest and most interesting cities in the world. And now you can be transported there from the comfort of your own home with LEGO’s new Tokyo construction set from the company’s Architecture Collection. Fans of the metropolis’ iconic skyline will be thrilled to recreate some of Tokyo’s most famous buildings, including scale models of the Tokyo Skytree, Tokyo Tower, the Big Sight exhibition center, and the Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower.

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Art
January 24, 2022

Artist Creates Incredible Bird-Inspired Works From Real Feathers

Have you ever wished you could fly through the sky? For artist Chris Maynard, this thought and the desire to fly is the inspiration behind his exquisite bird-inspired art. He carves, cuts and slices found feathers to transform plumage into tiny works of art. The level of intricacy in his works varies from a flock of birds soaring through the sky to a pair of cranes intertwined in a single feather.

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Art History
January 23, 2022

Shining a Light on the Beautiful Illuminated Manuscripts of the Medieval Period

Imagine spending hours pouring over a dusty old book, painstakingly copying the text word for word onto a new page in a blank volume. This laborious process was necessary in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. Before the introduction of moveable type in Europe during the 15th century, books were written out in ink by hand. These books are called manuscripts, derived from the Latin manuscriptus. Manu means “by hand” and scriptus means “written.

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Architecture
January 23, 2022

Conceptual Village Is Inspired by Pufferfish To Adapt To Rising Sea Levels

Architect Sajjad Navidi proposes Puffer Village as a bold solution for flooding in rural areas. Inspired by the high sea levels in the Ganvie Lake Village in the country of Benin in West Africa, Navidi imagines inflatable architecture akin to the pufferfish to replace the current houses in the area. While the wooden homes currently in use will ultimately become water damaged, these new structures would inflate and rise with the sea.

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My Modern Met

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