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Legodeath - Twisted Lego Constructs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the late-night-fun dept.

Mooseboy writes "I searched /. and was suprised to find that there were no articles that referenced legodeath.com. This site has several lego mini-dioramas depicting torture, execution, domestic accidents, and other scenes of questionable taste. I've had a chance to see it, so you may commence the slashdotting!"

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  1. The red logo's are... by dagg · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Blood! That dude in the rack's head fell off... and it is surrounded by red logo's. That is pretty sick, man!

    Loading up the Flash was annoying at first... but once it all loaded, I didn't seem to have to hit the server again. That's a plus in a case like this. I hate to just see an introduction page... and then nothing else because of a slashdotting.

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    Sex - Find It
  2. Re:It'd be cooler if... by Cyno01 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Go on kazaa, and type in lego. It scares me that people have that much time on their hands. Lego chainsaw massacre and lego blazing saddles are pretty damn funny though.

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    "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
  3. Nicely Choreographed by Mirell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now what would be nice if the designer of these works of art actually sat down with a CAD software for Legos, such as MCLAD, and nicely worked out all the specific designs, and determined the best view-points, then rendered them with POV-Ray...

    Maybe it's best most engineers aren't really artists per se...

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    We have so much time, and so little to do - strike that! Reverse it. Tryn Mirell
  4. Leocad anyone? by newsdee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It would be nice to have these models as Leocad files so that we can make our own modifications and contributions. :-)

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    The ENIAC Demo Competition
  5. what about this site? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Konzentrationslager

    1. Re:what about this site? by xsfo · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Polish artist Zbigniew Libera's Holocaust Lego kits are amazingly subversive pieces of contemporary art. I love them and I would not hesitate to get those kits if they were available. They are much more compelling than Legodeath. Legodeath seems almost amateurish in comparison. With the Holocaust Lego, Libera not only constructed Lego scenes but created Lego box packaging for fictional Lego Holocaust sets. Brilliant.

      Imagine: Mommy, can I get another gas chamber for my concentration camp?

      First you're shocked by the subject matter (whoa...).
      Then perhaps sickened a little (oh that's just wrong!).
      Finally facinated by the idea (where can I get one of these kits?).

  6. Mindless modding by MacAndrew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's a pity that (apparently) sincere opinion in the parent is labeled a "troll." Did the modder notice that the story's author was actually soliciting opinion??? Or merely object to the parent's fairly mainstream opinion? (Not that minority viewpoints, if sincere and explained, should be censored.) I mean, what sort of reaction are we to infer is correct -- "Uhhh, good use of the new #6781 black Legos, but I think the site's HTML is kind of weak."?

    Maybe the poster's silly, maybe I don't even agree. But if the Lego work is free speech (yes), let be the critique. There is a lot of criticism on here of suppression of free speech by governments (China/filtering, U.S./DMCA), corporations (Microsoft), and individuals. Why so little of intolerant /. modders who don't like "liberal" complaints?

    Save your mod points for +mods. M2 this waste of time "unfair." [/rant] Ah, that helped.

  7. Re:Just plain bad taste by kungfuBreaks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    >Israel (Palestinian Genocide): 100 000 Dead

    What a load of horseshit. I'd love to see your sources (and no, The Guardian and The Independent don't fucking cut it). Yeah, the Israelis have made their share of costly mistakes, but this is plain ridiculous. What, they killed more Palestinians than the atomic bomb? Riiight. And WTF is up with the Vietnam - takeover failure business? What, it was all about oil or something? I guess everybody was _so_ much better off under Communist rule. Or perhaps you learned your history from Noam Chomsky (only).

    And you didn't see anyone in the US skip a beat did you? I mean, you _have_ heard about this thing we like to call 'the left', right? The Americans may be self-centered or arrogant, but I'm not sure how that excuses the sort of despicable statements you're making.

    I don't mind getting modded down for this (which I know I will be), I just wish people would address the actual points I made (I can just see the European responses now: "Points you made? You, sir, are an idiot. Americans/Jews must die"). And once again, Arab News articles and other racist state propaganda are _not_ acceptable sources.

    And don't even get me started on the Americans being the 'real' racists; whoever sincerely believes that obviously hasn't travelled very widely. I mean fuck, am I the only one who gives a shit about womens rights? Or how about human rights? Does no one else reaise 'human rights violations' doesn't mean 'human rights violations commited by Israelis"? No wonder the Americans are running the world -- everybody else's brain seems to have turned to mush all of a sudden.

  8. Re:At the expense of killing the levity... by Blondie-Wan · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Just FYI: No assistance from the LEGO Company whatsoever. I think they even sued the artist, but please do your own google search on that. Notice however, that his packages have no LEGO logo.

    Actually, his packages do have the LEGO logo (just look at the pictures), and according to articles at the site, he got support in the form of free pieces from LEGO at the beginning of the project (before they knew what it would be); once they found out, they tried to get him to reconsider and did all they could to distance themselves from it, but didn't actually sue him:

    When Libera requested the LEGOs from the company's Warsaw representative, he planned to create sets for a prison and a hospital, but the project evolved into a concentration camp. According to a press release issued by the LEGO Group, "If the had described his ultimate project to us in advance, he naturally would not have received a single LEGOelement from us!"

    From another article on the page:

    Libera created his piece by assembling Lego blocks into replicas of death camp facilities, photographing them and then using the photos to adorn authentic-looking Lego cardboard packages, complete with the disassembled pieces, the company logo and multi-language safety warnings.

    Another quote:

    The display is so unsettling in its playful simplicity that the Lego Group, which sponsors Lego art contests and donates thousands of plastic pieces to artists around the world, tried to persuade Libera to withdraw it from public view. Only when lawyers became involved did the company give up. "It is a theme that is so sensitive to so many people in so many countries," said Peter Ambeck-Madsen, Lego's director of public relations at the company headquarters in Billund, Denmark. "If we had known before what he was going to do, we never would have given him the bricks. But we talked about it and decided [that] to make a big thing about it now would only draw more attention."

    And another:

    Danish art critics raved about the display. But Lego officials feared a public relations disaster. They fretted in particular over a statement on each of the imitation Lego packages explicitly linking Libera and Lego." This work of Zbigniew Libera has been sponsored by Lego System," it states. Libera maintains that donated supplies amount to sponsorship, but the company says it never gave him the authority to use its name or logo as an implied endorsement. Ambeck-Madsen, the Lego executive, said the faux packaging is so realistic that a Jewish organization in Sweden threatened to organize a boycott of Lego because offended members believed the company had manufactured the boxes.

    There's more, but I trust you get the idea. The packages quite clearly do feature the LEGO logo, and look like real LEGO set boxes, and he apparently received free pieces from the company before they knew what he'd do with them.

  9. Re:Missed these: by lvdrproject · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Late in the discussion, but i'd like to point you to a reply i made above. I didn't make these numbers up, i stated explicitly in my post that these are someone else's numbers. For anybody that missed it before, YES, SOME OF THE NUMBERS ARE INCORRECT, YES, SOME OF THE NUMBERS ARE BIASED. I DO NOT DISPUTE IT. I pasted the quote to prove a point, not to deliver concise and super-accurate death tolls.

    And for the record, i'm neither a liberal nor a conservative, i fall somewhere inbetween. I'm the first person to insult either side, and while i'm not a politician, and i don't play one on television, i think some of the things that the United States (and other countries, of course, but my post was in reply to a person who appears (from my perspective) to be one of the "oh no the United States is getting picked on, let's all change our way of life" people", so i'm keeping to the topic of the US) do are just plain against common sence. (Yeah, that was a big parenthetical explanation, sorry, but i don't want people to get the wrong idea about me again. :/ )

    So anyway, i'm sorry if those numbers offended people; i used them strictly for making a point that the world is a bigger place than the United States. Insert any other numbers in there if you want, the places/events/exact numbers/etc., don't matter.

    :Lav