A Fun Art Exhibit in Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles
I have posted many times about my trips to the South Coast Botanic Garden near my home here in California, but this visit we got to see a special exhibit that they've been working on for a while. The project is called "Sean Kenney's Nature Pop!" as can be seen in the sign below.
I actually didn't really know that I was going to see this today until I actually walked through the gates and saw the sign. Well, to be perfectly fair, this isn't exactly true, but it might as well be. You see, @afturner had seen a flyer about it some weeks ago and told me. But like a lot of things that she says to me during one of her bulk data drops into my ears; it went right in and came out the other side.
I think she may have even told me some background information about the exhibit, but as I said; none of it made it into my long term memory. I really wish that I knew a bit more about it but like most art exhibits, I am just a normal hapless idiot enjoying the work with no deeper knowledge or understanding of what I am seeing. I mean, it's legos built in the shape of animals. Pretty cool right?
I really got a kick out of the lawnmower. I took lots of pictures of it from different angles, but I didn't post them here as I have a really bad habit of making absurdly long posts. But you get the idea.
You know what I'd kind of like to know more than anything else? How much money did this dude spend on Legos? I mean, these things are stupid overpriced. I have bought a few packs for my kid and they hardly come with any pieces. They were not cheap! I may be started to sound like my boomer parents, but when I was a kid we used to get gigantic buckets of legos that you could never completely use up in one sitting. I suppose those days are long gone unless you have rich parents.
I found the dragonfly to be quite impressive. I am guessing that there must be some kind of metal scaffolding inside of there. But I could be wrong. I don't know if they have some kind of rules for these types of art pieces. I know there is a huge community of lego artists out there. I don't know what kind of nerd regulations they have. Of course there is every possibility that the blocks are just really strong.
There must at least be some kind of adhesive holding them together. Even though they put ropes up around the pieces, it doesn't really stop the kids from going up and touching them. I was constantly battling to keep @little-ricky out of there. A lot of other parents are assholes and don't really care what their kids do though. So they have to have some protection. It seems to me that some kind of resin would be good to hold these things together indefinitely.
There was a row of 5 or 6 of these panels I believe. They look to be just 1 or 2 legos thick. But I am just guessing because they are completely flat. The limited color palette reminds me of late 80, early 90s computer graphics on 16 color monitors.
We even got to see the extinct dodo bird! It's funny how when I looks at all of these pieces I tend to see 'pixel art', even though this is really the OG version of pixel art. I guess you could say it is the first voxel art.
This zebra was pretty much my favorite. Mostly because it just really screwed with my eyes. From a distance, it looks like the black horizontal strips are just gaps in the animal, like it's glitching or something.
As you get closer you realize that it is you, actually, who are glitching! Maybe we are in a simulation after all....
