{"id":16024,"date":"2022-08-27T20:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16024"},"modified":"2022-08-30T20:33:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T19:33:20","slug":"daily_2761_-_lego_exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/08\/27\/daily_2761_-_lego_exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2761 &#8211; Lego exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2761_Lego_exhibition_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nWe saw the Hallwyl House Museum&#8217;s exhibition of Lego houses. It was smallish, and very much a mixed bag. The houses ranged from a construction of (literally) 15 Duplo blocks plus a propeller, done by a 5-year-old in 5 minutes, to intricate artistic creations and meticulously crafted large-scale community builds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2761_Lego_exhibition_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nWe were somewhat disappointed in how the constructions were presented. Almost all were surprisingly badly lit &#8211; either not lit at all, or only lit by a large light from above. Without Eric&#8217;s little pocket LED torch we would have missed out on a lot of detail, especially on the inside of the buildings. The one exception was a model of a museum, built by someone who (unsurprisingly) worked a day job as a museum photographer.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2761_Lego_exhibition_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nIt was interesting to see the different scales used by different builds. There&#8217;s the minifigure scale, whereby a standard Lego minifigure is the size of a human. But there were also builds using much smaller scales (which I now know are called microscale), and one of the churches was scaled specifically to 1:100.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always struck by the creative uses that Lego model constructors find for bricks, especially for architectural details. Scorpions become gargoyles; the butt of a Lego poodle looks like a marble bust; croissants get to play the role of baroque curlicues; fences become lattices for stained glass windows.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2761_Lego_exhibition_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw the Hallwyl House Museum&#8217;s exhibition of Lego houses. It was smallish, and very much a mixed bag. The houses ranged from a construction of (literally) 15 Duplo blocks plus a propeller, done by a 5-year-old in 5 minutes, to intricate artistic creations and meticulously crafted large-scale community builds. We were somewhat disappointed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,6,18,775,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-art_entertainment","category-dailies","category-eric","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16024"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16030,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024\/revisions\/16030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}