It’s getting nice up here in the northwest, warm days with a nice breeze and honeys wearing shorts and tank tops. DJ Quik is going to take the stage on my ipod for the next few months, and should on yours as well.
lego architecture
May 23rd, 2009 by
A Allen
via hiroshi and honeyee blog i know what i want for christmas…
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
May 23, 2009
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW LICENSEE
The LEGO Group and Brickstructures, Inc. to produce and distribute Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO® Architecture Building Sets
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today that The LEGO Group is now the exclusive licensed manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO Architecture sets.
The LEGO Group and Adam Reed Tucker of Brickstructures, Inc. officially introduced the LEGO Architecture line in 2008. The line currently consists of six buildings – now including two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous and recognizable buildings, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and “Fallingwater.”
With models developed in collaboration with architects, LEGO Architecture works to inspire future architects, engineers and designers as well as architecture fans around the world with the LEGO brick as a medium. Builders of all ages can now collect and construct their favorite worldwide architectural sites through these artistic replicas.
Both exclusive Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Architecture sets contain booklets that feature traditional building instructions along with exclusive archival historical material and photographs of each iconic building.
The LEGO Group will release the first of the LEGO Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® sets at the opening of the Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibit: From Within Outward at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on May 15, 2009.
Doug Volker of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation:
According to Director of Licensing and Product Development, Doug Volker, “The LEGO product was one that the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation had considered pursuing for several years. It was the vision, passion and creative desire of Adam Reed Tucker to capture the essence of Mr. Wright’s most famous buildings using the medium of the LEGO brick that brought this partnership into being.”
Another exciting aspect of the Architecture Series is the capability to use them for education, team building, or other formats that make the LEGO Architecture series more than just a toy.
“The LEGO Group is known for its creative approach to brick models and now, with its Architecture Series, it will reach even further, to individuals of all ages,” Volker concluded.
Adam Reed Tucker of Brickstructures and the LEGO Group:
“Mr. Wright’s buildings are a treasure trove of possibilities,” says Adam Reed Tucker, innovator of the Architecture Series for The LEGO Group. “I wanted to create these marvelous buildings for years, so I’m thrilled to be working with the Foundation in order to include Mr. Wright’s timeless buildings in this series, which conceptualizes the very essence of each building in LEGO bricks.”
As is well known to PrairieMod readers, I have a great love of LEGOs, so merging both Wright and LEGO together is a dream come true. So, what do you think of the new sets? What future buildings would you like to see? Leave a comment below and let us know!
Images copyright LEGO, Brickstructures and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
a rough draft
May 15th, 2009 by
A Allen
It’s the height of winter in Tokyo. A Sunday night in the height of winter. Outside the air is bitter and clean, as clean as the air ever is in the city and the sky is so clear, clear and crisp and yet there are no stars. There are never any stars in Tokyo. Inside the apartment it’s warm, too warm and in the living room, sitting on the couch it’s difficult to keep from closing your eyes and succumbing to sleep; a sleep that if you’re not careful might grip you through to spring.
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and so i shall go on dieing
May 15th, 2009 by
A Allen
I am an ugly man
I always have been
I laugh at the weak
A vile snigger
A venomous ejaculation
All the while knowing
That I simply titter at myself
No better than an insect
Am I
No better than a
A horrid rodent
But it is not my fault I will tell you
Brother
Not my fault
I implore you!
God, it is not my fault!
I am an evil man
You made me that way
And so I shall go on dieing
and so i passed
May 15th, 2009 by
A Allen
And so I passed from one love
To the next
Or more precisely one idea of love
To the next
A succession of meandering streams
That never led to the ocean
A ring of water
Always flowing down hill
Always flowing into itself
And so I passed from one love
To the next
Never knowing what love was
A blind man
Who in the darkest night
Convinced himself he could see
Then one day I found you
And the streams all led to the ocean
With such a terrible force
I feared myself carried away
And so I passed from one idea of love
To the realization of love
A ring of water
It’s banks overflowing
Creates an ocean
Was always an ocean