The “Break it Down” Blog

Halo 3: ODST Concept Art Released

While most companies wind down and don’t release much new information about their upcoming games the last couple weeks of December Bungie decided to buck that trend and release a lot of concept art for Halo 3 expansion ‘Halo 3: ODST’. Being a long time fan of the Halo series the first thing that caught [...]

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What Google Engineers do for Fun: Computerized LEGO Art Project

What happens when you are really smart… like Google-lead-engineer smart, you move into a new place that has a big blank living room wall and you end up being bored one weekend? Well, I’ll tell you what I would do… I would order pizza, probably watch a movie, stare at the wall for a good [...]

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Wall-Painted Animation using Stop-Motion Recording

For those of you that saw this a few weeks ago when it originally dropped, you can skip this post… but for those of you that didn’t see it, it is pretty amazing. Rick Saldana sends in a link to MUTO, which was a wall-painted animation by BLU recorded using stop-motion over the period of god-knows-how-long. [...]

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Trash Art Imitating Life (No Seriously.. It’s Garbage)

Ran across this one on digg, pretty cool piles of trash-art by Tim Nobel and Sue Webster that cast real-life shadows but you’d never guess it looking at them… this is almost like spotting shapes in clouds, you have to be looking at them at the right angle to see it. Enjoy:

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Art Heist Bags $163 Million (van Gogh, Monet, Degas, etc.)

Yahoo reports that 3 robbers bagged original paintaings from van Gogh, Monet, Degas and Cezanne worth more than $163 million from E.G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich, “one of Europe’s finest private museums for Impressionist and post-Impressionist art”… the robbers are still at large. I know one way to catch them… check www.eBay.eu for any new auctions [...]

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Ron Mueck, Super Realistic Sculptor

The picture above was fascinating to me because “Big Man” was on the cover of Discovery magazine probably around a year or so ago and for the longest time I thought it was a real person… as well as others that looked at it. To suddenly find out it was a sculpture by Ron Mueck [...]

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Chihuly!

Dale Chihuly is a blown-glass artist. He had one of his exhibits at the Missouri Botanical Gardens that ends January 1st, 2007 and I got to see it… overall pretty cool, not really my bag though. The video on how the glass is made is probably the most interesting part. He did spend months integrating the [...]

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