Converts images into a Lego mural, providing a list of all of the pieces needed to build it.
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Levle
Provide the dimensions of your poster, print or photo, and then preview different frame and mat combinations until you find the one that suits best. The final frame is handcrafted and shipped to your door within a week.
Random Shopper
Darius created a bot to buy him $50 of random stuff from Amazon every month and is blogging the results. What an amazing experiment.
Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
Wow… via @ssummers “how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War” A choice bit: “The Congress for Cultural Freedom also gave the CIA the ideal front to promote its covert interest in Abstract Expressionism.”
The Kid Should See This.
A collection of “off-the-grid-for-little-kids videos and other smart stuff” compiled by @riondotnu and her three year old. The videos run the gamut, as noted on the site:
“There’s just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven’t seen. It’s most likely not stuff that was made for them…
“But we don’t underestimate kids around here.”
Dear Photograph
Beautifully simple. “take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.”