Okay, so now I have to admit TV commercials can be good. United Airlines has been doing a great campaign, giving home to styles of animation not seen elsewhere. I particularly LOVE this one (which is very reminiscent of David Eisner’s work).
If you could make your room however you’d want, would you have this? It’s a skull cave, silly.
Wow. Minifigs are 5 times older than a 6 year old. Go figure. There’s definitely been some cool ones. Check out this gallery.
My son just corrected me. The Millenium Falcon is the second biggest LEGO set. It only has 5,195 pieces. The new Taj Mahal set has 5,992 pieces and boy is it beautiful. How long do you think it would take to build?
This is Model 10179, Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon. It weighs more than 20 pounds and consists of 5195 pieces. It took the builder and his son about 30 hours. The completed model is about 33″ long, 22″ wide and 8″ tall. This video shows each step of assembly from the instruction manual.
As you know, “the future of everything is free”. Certainly in the digital world, if you want anyone to read anything, you have to give it away. It brightens my day to be able to get any major publication for nothing, even when they are magazines I wouldn’t normally read. Now if someone will only give me the time it takes it look at them.
The NY Times (7/13/08) had a great article featuring Val Curtis’ efforts to bring hygiene where there hasn’t been much. Curtis essentially hacked the marketing world’s methods and used it sell health as opposed to material goods.
A FEW years ago, a self-described “militant liberal” named Val Curtis decided that it was time to save millions of children from death and disease. So Dr. Curtis, an anthropologist then living in the African nation of Burkina Faso, contacted some of the largest multinational corporations and asked them, in effect, to teach her how to manipulate consumer habits worldwide.
“For example, the urge to check e-mail or to grab a cookie is likely a habit with a specific prompt. Researchers found that most cues fall into four broad categories: a specific location or time of day, a certain series of actions, particular moods, or the company of specific people. The e-mail urge, for instance, probably occurs after you’ve finished reading a document or completed a certain kind of task. The cookie grab probably occurs when you’re walking out of the cafeteria, or feeling sluggish or blue.”
