Be passionate about Legos

The Curiosity Project brings you Legos today. Yeah, you know what Legos are...we know. But these projects push the limits of craziness with creative uses of these beloved building blocks.

Above, a video by rymdreglage called 8 Bit Trip combines Legos with one of my favorite things ever - stop motion. It will blow you away! It took 1500 hours to make which makes perfect sense - this is insane!

Below is the Munchausen Lego Kitchen - an IKEA counter covered in Legos by two Paris designers. This makes me want to cover something in my apartment with Legos.



















Lego has recently released famous architecture buildings in lego form including Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright (seen below) as well as the Guggeheim Museum in NYC also by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Farnsworth House. They also have a landmark building series that includes favorites like the Empire State building, the Willis (Sears) Tower, the Hancock Tower, and the White House. If they weren't quite so expensive, I'd have one of these for sure.















Next up is the DispatchWork, an international project to patch up cities with Legos. Not sure what the ultimate goal is other than smiles and awesomeness, but I know I'd sure love to see one of these around NYC
























Still want more Lego fun? Here's contemporary skyscrapers made of Legos, an actual architecture model made out of Legos by the amazing firm BIG, or the pinnacle of Lego love - LegoLand

Be inspired - make something from Legos :)

Be passionate & obsessed with chocolate :)

Is there anything that everyone likes in the world? Chocolate is always the answer.
Let's start with the first part of our classy sweet movie, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"(1971):



Later in 2005, another adaption movie from Willy Wonka was directed by Tim Burton, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" had a big smash as well.



Here's a music video made by stop motion called "Chocolate" from a song of Jesse&Joy. This amazing music video was made of 90 handmade cookies, sugar, milk, flour, chocolate, eggs and dough.


Jesse & Joy- "Chocolate" from Carlos Lopez Estrada on Vimeo.



Behind the Scenes of "Chocolate" from Carlos Lopez Estrada on Vimeo.

Be passionate-body motion

"Art Expands" was a project designed the company Eyeball for Target. By using Target's outstanding logo and working with choreography and movement, this video became a powerful work of art and is full of elegance and beauty.



Target - "Art Expands" from LAIR.tv on Vimeo.

Ok Go is a popular rock band originally from Chicago. When it comes to music videos you know theirs with be great - always full of creativeness and excitement. This music video, "Here It Goes Again", released in 2005, was one of their best works. It is so successful and only cost $10 by just dancing on the treadmills.



OK Go - Here It Goes Again from OK Go on Vimeo.

Be Passionate - with the details

Brilliant video concept and execution by Hollerado. I love the idea of humans creating the basic pixels of the video and just think how long it must have taken to get all this choreographed. The whole video is a single continuous shot. While shooting the video, Americanarama was slowed down by 400% in order to give the 24 stage hands enough time to complete all of the sequences, meaning Hollerado performed their song four times slower than its normal rate, taking thirteen minutes to complete the entire video in one take.

This video reminds me of another project I've seen that uses a similar but more advanced idea. In August 2010, The Standard Hotel in NYC was taken over by an installation, funded by Target, and created by Mother NY & LEGS. The (in)famously clear glass floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel reveal an extremely complex light show with dancers in the rooms as well.





For a longer version showing the whole show, watch this video.

Thanks to Eric for showing me the music video & more info on the video found here.