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I have often thought (in my more up my own arse moments) of Lego as a means of democratising the production of art. A well known cultural device from which one can easily build an essentially limitless range of things allows for subversion and creation without formal training in the means of production. Outsider art gets a leg up, and all that.

Here are two examples - classic photos reproduced in Lego (including the iconic tennis playing girl) and patching up  historic walls with Lego.

The final frames of 110 classic movies.  Gorgeous.

Capturing images at the point that porcelain statues hit the floor.  Absolutely gorgeous.

I’ve never just linked to a random stranger’s Flickr account before, but cms_’s photos are fascinatingly simultaneously real and unreal. I’m a sucker for this type of urban abstraction. Done well (I think) it’s gorgeous, and these are definitely done well.

We‘ve been muttering for ages about our food2.0 site that is going to take over the world. We’ve nearly nearly finished it, too (but not yet, go and sign up and we’ll tell you when). The lovely thing about Forkd is the combination of food and photography. Tastespotting is exactly that; and it looks gorgeous!