A better way of building Gordon Brown, Britney and the Hadron Collider
(Let’s make things better…)
Now, here’s a fascinating little story for you:
“A life-size Lego cello has been built brick-by-brick by an artist. Nathan Sawaya claims that his musical creation is functional but admits that it sounds “different” to normal cellos, which are usually made from spruce and maple wood.”
Okay, so maybe Stradivarius won’t be sweating the competition yet – mostly because he’s been dead for almost three hundred years, I suppose – but, to paraphrase a certain pop critic, “I’ve seen the future of world-rocking creation and its name is Lego.”
There are so many possibilities.
- Think of the Disney Corporation. Thanks to Lego, the Mouse House may soon be able to build young singers and actresses who won’t end up being photographed by Annie Leibovitz, send topless pictures to boyfriends et cetera. In short, thanks to Lego, Disney will no longer have to fear the Britney effect.
- Think science. Any idea how much it cost to build that Hubble telescope, or that damn Hadron Collider – which must be the only man-made toy that can give Britney a good running in the ‘Most dysfunctional’ category? So, why not build these things out of Lego? I mean, even if they don’t work as they should, that would still be a Hell of a lot cheaper than the way we go about building these failing pieces of kit now.
- Think politics. It would be so much cheaper to build a parliament from Lego – and it would be so much more aesthetically pleasing if we then also made our politicians from these decidedly less base materials. Sure, you can say that a cello made of Lego will never sound as good as one made of wood and put together by the world’s best instrument builders. You might also never be able to make a Lego telescope that will be able to watch each sparrow fall…
… but truly, everybody must agree that a Gordon Brown, made of Lego, would be a staggering improvement on the original version?
(Okay, now here’s my open invitation to all readers to join a Worldwide Lego Competition: So, what product, person or public project would you like to give a Lego leg- or make-over?)
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November 30th, 2009 at 15:02
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