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Mario Meets Michelangelo: La Piet Goes Geek

Based on Michelangelo’s famed sculpture, La Piet (which you can see after the jump), designer Kordian Lewandowski used a block of polystyrene foam to complete his very own work of art – the Nintendo-inspired Game Over sculpture. Measuring slightly taller than an averaged sized man (seems to be about six-feet tall), Game Over mixes the drama of Renaissance art with ...

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Alice in Wonderland’s Mad Hatter and Alice Come to Life Through LEGOs

While I’ve heard mixed reviews of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (as is typical with Burton films), there’s no denying the charm of these Alice in Wonderland-inspired mini LEGO sculptures. Including the Mad Hatter (played by a very Madonna-esque Johnny Depp in Burton’s outing) and Alice herself. I believe designer Tommy Williamson was going for a relatively�minimalist�theme, using as few ...

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Steve Jobs Cheese Head is Actually Pretty Creepy

The second I saw this head I couldn’t help but be reminded of Hannibal Lector and his preference for dining on human flesh. This is almost too realistic to eat, unlike the orange-yellow Cheddar color of the Lincoln Cheese bust. Something tells me I’d get that weird, uncanny feeling when it came time to dig in to the Steve Jobs ...

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Bioshock Big Daddy LEGO-fied

I never really got into the whole Bioshock thing, but the Big Daddy suit has always intrigued me, even more so since I saw the trailer for Bioshock 2, with the suit leaving only mass destruction in its wake. So naturally, when I saw the awesomeness of the Big Daddy, mashed together with the bricktastic building capabilities of LEGOs, my ...

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Bacteria Sculptures Give Us Up-Close Look at the Microscopic World

It’s not everyday you get to see a Escherichia coli bacterium up-close and personal. But British artist Luke Jerram�s �Glass Microbiology� series brings the microscopic world into the limelight with sculptures designed to resemble viruses and bacteria. To create each one, Jerram used images from an electron microscope and had guidance from virologist Andrew Davidson of the University of Bristol ...

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LEGO Yoshi

My only question is — when the hell did Jared from Subway start building LEGO sculptures? Pretty impressive work, even if Yoshi’s nose is large enough to swallow a medium sized planet. I’m surprised Jared isn’t being sucked in by its gravitational pull. Oh, that’s right, Jared has his own. It’s funny ‘cuz he’s FAT. Link [via]

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LEGO Value Meal

Are you in the mood for something slightly more crunchy and about 100% more nutritional than a typical McDonald’s meal? The LEGO Value Meal provides you with way more than your daily recommended plastic intake. And you know what they say, if a little is good, more must be better. So Super Size this baby up! Link [via]

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Groovy Pencil Sculpture

Pencils aren’t just for writing anymore (who physically writes anymore anyway?). 72 pencils is a geometric sculpture using, well, 72 multi-colored pencils to construct a work of art. There are only a limited edition 25 signed models available, each offering a unique piece of pencil sculpting. Link [via]

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Gigantic LEGO DSi

You think you’re the ultimate Nintendo fanboy? Not even close. Why don’t you spend a weekend with some LEGOs and one up Sean Kenney. After all, he’s the dude who made a 51,324 piece DSi out of LEGOs, complete with a drawing of a strange cat. Kenney spent over 200 hours on the project which will be on display at ...

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Toilet Paper Holder That Shits With You

Here at Gearfuse, we can never fulfill our monthly quota of toilet paper related posts, but boy do we try. Speaking of toilet paper, one can never have enough toilet paper holders. Here’s a bathroom buddy kindly providing you with pampering services while it, too relieves itself on the John. It’s a hand-made, 7-inch tall sculpture which possesses a keen ...

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