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The world’s largest Pokemon card is actually 13,000 cards in one

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Pikachu has evolved once again -- this time into a massive mosaic featuring his original pose as drawn by famed Pokémon illustrator Ken Sugimori. The mosaic is 32 feet tall, 23 feet wide and it's created out of 12,987 individual Pokémon...

Incredible Star Wars Art Made from Staples

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Chances are that you may have run into James Haggerty at the office supply store and you didn’t even know it, because the man must have made several trips there, buying tens of thousands of staples, which he uses to create intricate mosaic portraits of Star Wars characters.

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Darth Vader was made from 10,496 staples. Greedo: 21,458 staples. You see that image of C-3PO below? It has a whopping 33,580 staples. Can you imagine doing all of that stapling? The force is strong with James, although I’m sure he has calluses on his hand by now.

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Some Jedi use lightsabers. James uses a stapler. His art is amazing and must take forever to complete.

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[via Nerd Approved]

Mosaic Plans Overseas Expansion With Its Kickstarter-Style Solar Campaigns

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Mosaic, a California startups that raises solar project investments through kickstarter-like campaigns, plans to expand overseas to communities with little or no access to electricity. The company...
    






Star Wars LEGO Mosaics: The Real LEGO Star Wars

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Technabob readers love LEGO and they also love Star Wars. So whenever the two worlds intersect, it’s geeky bliss. I’m especially impressed with these handmade LEGO Star Wars mosaics by UK artist Douglas Bagnall.

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Each of his LEGO mosaics is made using thousands of individual 1×1 pixel blocks to create the image. The R2-D2 mosaic measures 30″x40″ and the stormtrooper is 30″x30″. Based on the 5/16″ square size of a single LEGO brick, that means that R2-D2 was made out of 12,288 bricks, and the stormtrooper was made from 9,216 bricks. Holy crap, that’s a lot of LEGO  - assuming my math is correct.

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They’re certainly not inexpensive, with R2-D2 selling for £1,840.00 (~$3019 USD) and the stormtrooper going for £1,380.00 (~$2265 USD.) But when you think of all the work that went into making them, it softens the blow a little bit.

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Space Invaders Keyboard Mosaics: CTRL-ALT-ATTACK

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I love art that’s made out of old junk. Especially if they do something really clever. These Space Invaders mosaics made out of junk keyboards are very clever indeed. I wish I had one for my wall.
space invaders keyboardThey’re a great mashup of computer and pop culture. They may not actually type anymore, but wouldn’t be very intuitive for typists anyhow. It beats throwing keyboards in a landfill somewhere. Now if someone can just make one of these that controls an actual game of Space Invaders on a nearby monitor, my life will be complete.

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They were created by ThreeHeadedMonkey on Flickr who definitely knows how to make some awesome retro art. I wish I had thought of this. I guess I still could make one anyhow.

[via Craziest Gadgets]


Space Invaders Keyboard Keys

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I don’t know if you can actually use this computer keyboard Space Invaders mosaic for anything besides decoration (maybe as a trivet?) but it still looks pretty cool. And it’s definitely a much better use for a discarded keyboard than sending it off to the landfill. Bravo. (via threeheadedmonkey flickr)

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Stop-motion music video relies on OpenOffice and Excel, finds formula for success (video)

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Mystery Guitar Man makes stopmotion music video in OpenOffice, finds a real formula for success video

It's already considered a grind to produce stop-motion video -- imagine creating a clip using the spreadsheet app that many dread seeing at work every morning. Joe Penna, better known to the internet as Mystery Guitar Man, isn't afraid. He and his team recorded a performance against a greenscreen, gave the video a mosaic look in After Effects and proceeded to recreate 730 of the frames in OpenOffice (and occasionally Excel)... by hand. We don't want to know how long it took Penna and crew to wrap up their work, but the result is probably the liveliest you'll ever get out of an app meant for invoices and corporate expenses. The fully produced video is above; click past the story break if you want to smash illusions and see how the pixelated rumba came to be.

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Lego Superman Mosaic Turns The Man of Steel into The Man of Bricks

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The new Zack Snyder Superman movie will be arriving before you know it, but for now you have to get your fix elsewhere. In the meantime, check out this amazing LEGO Superman mosaic created by Dave Ware. Isn’t geek art the best?
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Sure this looks easy now that you are looking at the whole thing completed, but the art of putting different colored bricks together to make an image is no easy task and it takes a lot of time too as well as a good eye for detail.

I love Superman. (Aside from Superman Returns), so I’m really liking this mosaic. Especially that glint in his eye. He looks like he is really mad, so some evildoer is about to go down. Great work, Dave.

[Brothers Brick via Comicsalliance via Neatorama]