Thursday 3 December 2009

Taking things apart... PARTS.

Thinking about taking things apart, led me to the idea of boys, lego and Dorling Kindersly pop-up books. 
The idea of taking things apart and building things using parts is often portrayed through boys making, taking apart and putting things back together again. This idea and lego is something which is good for my project, an animation could have been done well through the idea of lego?
The animation below is a music video made from lego and consists of 1500 hours of moving legobricks and taking photos of them. It's an amazing and inspiring video. It's interesting how I was talking about the idea of boys being stereotyped as the type of person to take things apart and analyze things and in the video below a guy is used at the beginning, and then also in James Mays' programme he is a guy who is fascinated by this idea of putting 'parts' together on a huge scale!


I also watched a programme that was done by James May, and was about the feat a group had when trying to build a whole house that you could live in out of Lego! It was a really interesting programme, and used this idea of putting lots of 'parts' or constructing 'parts - bricks' to put them together and make a item of collection. Which is how many young boys and guys in general do, or are stereotyped to do.



This is a second clip from the programme which shows it finished and the inside. Everything was Lego!

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