{"id":2984,"date":"2011-01-29T10:25:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2011-01-29T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T10:30:14","slug":"lego-haunted-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/2984","title":{"rendered":"Lego haunted house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Lego haunted house\" title=\"Lego haunted house\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/lego_haunted_house.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How awesome is this creepy looking <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mike Doyle: Three Story Victorian with Tree\" href=\"http:\/\/mikedoylesnap.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/three-story-victorian-with-tree.html\">three story Victorian house<\/a>, built entirely of Lego, by Mike Doyle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am most interested in textures and the effect of layering textures  over each other. To this end, the absence of color helps the viewer to  focus on just this. Lego colors tend to be pretty harsh and unrealistic  for my tastes, so I stick to black\/white and grays. Without color, we  dive right into form, which is where I want you to be.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>5&#8242; x 3&#8242; x 2&#8242;<br \/>\n50k &#8211; 60k Lego pieces.<br \/>\nBlack, white, dark and bluish gray, clear trans and black trans colors used.<br \/>\nNo foreign materials (wood, glue, paint or otherwise) were used \u2013 this is pure Lego.<br \/>\nApprox 450 hours to build.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Boing Boing: Lego Haunted House\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/28\/lego-haunted-house.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How awesome is this creepy looking three story Victorian house, built entirely of Lego, by Mike Doyle. &#8220;I am most interested in textures and the effect of layering textures over each other. To this end, the absence of color helps the viewer to focus on just this. Lego colors tend to be pretty harsh and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}