These are the wooden floor tiles cut by Spanish flooring company Arbore. They were inspired by MC Escher's famous 'Reptiles' drawing, even if the company refuses to admit it. They did admit it though, so we're cool. No need to make signs and go stand out front of their offices picketing. I mean unless you want to, in which case I'm down. I've never been to Spain before and I think I could write it off as a business expense. Or as a giant mistake, depending on whether or not we get arrested.
Hit the jump for Escher's original drawing and a couple more of the floor.
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This is the 5,335,200-piece LEGO X-wing fighter, a full-scale version of the 560-piece set the company actually sells. It's not pure LEGO though, it has a steel armature inside so the whole nose doesn't fall off when some tourist turns around and farts at the thing. Facts and figures:
Weighs 45,979.61 pounds (including bricks and steel infrastructure)
Height: 11 feet / 3.35 meters
Length: 43 feet / 13.1 meters
Wingspan: 44 feet / 13.44 meters
32 builders spent 17,336 hours (about 4 months) to construct
Wow -- 5,335,200 LEGO pieces, that's a lot of plastic. And as much as I love the end result and want it in my backyard so I can play space everyday and die happy, I can't help but wonder if that plastic could have gone to better use. Like, are we being wasteful? Is this going to cause plastic prices to rise? Because if they start charging for sporks at Taco Bell we're gonna have a problem. And I'm not talking about regular Taco Bell problems like shitting your pants either.
Hit the jump for a couple more shots but head over to Gizmodo to see even more in high-res.
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This is a shot by Vincent James Cracchiolo of a little girl cosplaying as Stan Lee and sitting on the real Stan Lee's lap at the recent Motor City Comic-Con. No word if Stan was insulted by the girl's lack of teeth but I'm assuming not because Stan seems like a pretty nice guy. Did you know he's already 90? Did you know he's going to live past 400 thanks to anti-aging superpowers? That's true -- a man dressed as Spider Man on Hollywood Boulevard told me. "And you believed him?" He was shooting silly string out of his hands! "And?" And was charging people $5 to have their picture taken with him before he wandered into the street and got hit by a car. "So...?" SO CAN WE AT LEAST HONOR A STREET PERFORMER'S DYING DREAM?
Thanks to carey, who told me she's had her picture taken with Stan Lee before too which sounded like bragging to me because why would you need to bring that up if you're just sending a tip? Well of course I'm jealous.
This is the Alien facehugger made entirely out of LEGO by DeviantARTist AL13N163NA, which then decided to hug dude's face and put an alien baby in him. You know how chestbursters are called chestbursters because they always hatch out of a person's chest? Well that's not entirely true. Sometimes they get lost crawling around in there and wind up bursting out of their host's ass (assbursters), but you don't hear about those because who the hell wants to hear about those? I regret sitting in the back of the school bus that day.
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Note: This shot really don't do the piece justice. Click HERE to see it even bigger.
This is the 'Gears of War' scene Redditor Xioo had he and his wife and dogs drawn into to celebrate their first anniversary. Should those dogs have guns on their backs? Probably. And for the record, the entire piece wasn't drawn just for the anniversary, it was a piece the artist had already created and just altered for the couple. Maybe not as insane as having an entire picture drawn just for you, but also nowhere near as expensive. You're typically not made of money your first year of marriage, you know? You're usually buying a house, saving up to have children, fixing up a man-cave real nice so you can spend a lot of time in there alone -- that sort of thing.
Thanks to Darren, who informed me it's traditional to give a paper gift for first year anniversaries because why risk buying something more expensive when you've only been at it for a year? Daaaaw, such a hopeless romantic!
This is a series of beautifully designed video game posters by artist and illustrator Marinko Milosevski. He did a whole series of Zelda and Metal Gear ones, plus a couple BONUS ones for Metroid, Super Metroid, ICO and Shadow of the Colossus. They're all available as limited edition prints in Marinko's shop for $35 apiece. Hit the jump to see the rest, and if you don't like at least one I'll let you come over to my apartment and punch me in the neck. You can't miss me, I'm the one wearing the 'Geekologie Writer' t-shirt. Now if you'll excuse me...dammit Derrek, I have friends coming over -- put this shirt on.
Hit the jump for the rest, then buy them all for me.
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This is a video of 4-year old future heartbreaker Mia Grace showing off her Marvel superhero trivia in a game of 'The Car Trivia of Superheroes With Daddy And Mia...On The Way To The Store'. She does really well. Way better than her mom does at not holding a camera in vertical mode.
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This is the Aperture Science Portal themed fixie for sale on Craigslist in San Jose, CA. And by Portal themed I mean it's black with an Aperture Science sticker and orange and blue rims. Plus BONUS My Little Pony stickers! Those are probably worth the $300 themselves.
I'm selling a nice dicent fixie 300 obo just got the rims a week ago but I don't even ride bikes so I don't need it anymore every thing works fine and looks good I paid over 450 for every thing on text me at (408)359-8177 text only I can take off the stickers if wanted will trade for wii u
Wait, so you paid over $450 for everything but don't even ride bikes? You might want to reevaluate your buying habits. Also, "will trade for wii u"?! AHAHHAHAHHAHHA. Just learn how to ride the bike bro.
Hit the jump for a closeup of the BONUS My Little Pony stickers.
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