There’s way too many galleries in Paris, specially on the Marais side but very few that actually captivate you. Hidden halfway through the Rue Saint Martin, just when trying to scape from the noisy and touristy Beaubourg square …
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Digital Bolex
Another week, another Kickstarter project that gets many $$$$$$!! There’s nothing you can’t do (and nothing that can’t be funded) with the KS platform really. Need a thousand dollars? KS Ten grand? KS maybe a million? KS too! …
↓ Containment
We completely missed out this one last summer when it won the Best Group Layout award at brickworld. Containment is a collaboration piece created by Tyler Clites and Nannan Zhang…
A massive diorama of an alien world, “a cross between a utilitarian space station (built by Nannan)and a post-apocalyptic wasteland (built by Tyler) complete with market sellers”.
Some of the themes present in the display are inspired by Moon, District 9 and Enemy Mind. Some of the aesthetic inspiration for things like the crashed ship come from films like Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (more images on their flickr page & an interview here).