One lone German is helping to fix New York, by way of extreme patchwork anality. (This is sort of like if some American went to Germany and started using pressboard and styrofoam to patch up Berlin, which, come to think of it, sounds fun, BRB!)
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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If he really wanted to help, he'd improve customer service at the post office.
That will require duct tape.
Jerry-Rigged.
This looks really neat. Where do I sign up to get him to come to my neighborhood and make everything fixed and legocolored?
There are only 5 comments on that Post article and one of them is Jewish porn spam.
On Twitter this morning, I thought the headline read "Lone Gunman Helping NYC the Only Way He Knows How", and I was too scared to click through to read the article.
Travis Bickle has a Twitter account?
Y'know, way back in the day, This American Life did an episode called "Death to Wacky," which basically posited that wackiness was not only the worst form of humor, but additionally demeaned both the performer and its audience, falsely represented forced humor as true joy, and trivialized everything that is good about life.
Now, years later, I conclude thus: while wacky is bad, twee is worse.
Also, the German LEGO artist guy says on his website that he went "to New York City ... to support Mayor Bloomberg in his everyday-struggle to make this city even more amazing."
So, yeah, fuck this guy.
It makes me sad that I live in a world where somebody would even question the motives of a dude that would patch up buildings with legos.
In all fairness, the dude did volunteer that information.
But yeah, I'm preemptively irritated by the forthcoming crappy weather, so he was an easy target.
I like this but "The combination of stone bricks and plastic bricks creates all kind of different contrasts that, in my eyes, illuminate relationships between aesthetics and functionality" kind of sucks the life out of it a little. Why couldn't he have just said "I wanted to fix them and these were the only bricks I could find"?
Have you ever, in your entire life, read an artist statement that didn't sound like that?
"extreme patchwork anality" did not mean what I thought it did.
This is brilliant. As a child, I was obsessed with Lego. I wonder if our German friend was similarly fixated. In the end, it is kind of absurd, but fits well with the craziness of NYC. Looking at the Lego patches people must have stared with incredulity. Is this a joke? Is that Lego? I just love it and it is too bad that the repairs were so quickly removed.