{"id":14050,"date":"2020-12-21T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=14050"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:40:27","slug":"an-epic-50000-lego-sculpture-%f0%9f%8c%8a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/21\/an-epic-50000-lego-sculpture-%f0%9f%8c%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"An epic 50,000-Lego sculpture &#x1f30a;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jumpei_Mitsui\" target=\"_blank\">Jumpei Mitsui<\/a>&#8216;s work is staggering. Colossal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2020\/12\/jumpei-mitsui-great-wave-lego\/?mc_cid=6b83390a06&amp;mc_eid=b34f0e41ae\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>During the course of 400 hours, Mitsui snapped together 50,000 cobalt and white LEGO into an undulating wave that mimics the original woodblock <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa\">print<\/a>.<\/p><p>To recreate this iconic work in three-dimensions, Mitsui studied videos of waves crashing and pored over academic papers on the topic. He then\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jumpei_Mitsui\/status\/1337230637435150338\" target=\"_blank\">sketched a detailed model<\/a>\u00a0before assembling the textured water, three boats, and Mount Fuji that span more than five feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L1-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14051\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L1-1024x740.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L1-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L1-768x555.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L1-1536x1111.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14052\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L2-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/L2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumpei Mitsui&#8216;s work is staggering. Colossal writes, During the course of 400 hours, Mitsui snapped together 50,000 cobalt and white LEGO into an undulating wave that mimics the original woodblock print. To recreate this iconic work in three-dimensions, Mitsui studied videos of waves crashing and pored over academic papers on the topic. He then\u00a0sketched a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14053,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions\/14053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}