Sometimes, news makes you happy, puts a smile on your face, makes you feel a teeny bit better about the human condition. Sometimes, such a soul-tickle comes from an unexpected place, like the land of the ice and snow (and a brief UPI item).
The National Art Museum of Norway, in Oslo, needs a design for their new addition. They’ve opened the design process to the public. To give everyone some handy brainstorming tools to work with, they dumped a gigantic pile of LEGO bricks, several tons of them, in the empty lot next door. Video of the public playing in the bricks and of their LEGO creations, in addition to serving as inspiration for the new building addition, will become part of an exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum in October. Ah hell, why don’t they go ahead and just make the addition out of the LEGOs!
Thanks, Jay!