Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in LEGO

It took LEGO artist Matija Grguric 7 months and 15,000 bricks to recreate Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece Fallingwater. It’s currently on display at a museum in Zageb, Croatia. Grguric writes:

Scale of the building is minifig, or approximate 1:40. One of the issues was how to make the stone walls of the building. The result here is made out of 4 different shades of grey (old grey and bley). Other was the terrain and vegetation. In the end I decided to make it in winter atmosphere. Snow is something I always enjoy, and I was always more of a winter type of person, so here it is – my first snowy MOC. :)

Building process spread over total of almost 7 months, and the structure is made out of more than 15000 bricks (just an approximate guess). It is placed on 6 48*48 baseplates, and measures 115 x 80 x 50 cm. It weights more than 20 kg.

Link, Via: DVICE, Via: Neatorama

Big and Scary LEGO Spider

Jason Ruff, who goes by the name Doctor Mobius built this huge spider from LEGO bricks! The creation he calls “Big Hairy Spider” was built for the Battlebugs Creepy Crawlers challenge.

Link – Via: atcrux, Via: Neatorama

See more LEGO creepy-crawlies in the Flickr group Lego Battle Bugs.

Digg CEO Adelson out, Kevin Rose steps up

Update from Jay

Hey all,

Got some news. After five years, forty million users, and an amazing
ride, I've decided to step down as CEO of Digg. With the new Digg
getting ready to launch, Digg Ads doing well, our sales force growing,
our hiring ramping, and the company maturing well beyond its startup
phase, I feel that now is the right time.

The entrepreneurial calling is strong, and I am ready to incubate some
new business ideas over the next twelve months. As the economy exits
a very deep recession, I believe that it is an excellent time for new
companies to develop. Of course, I will continue to serve as an
adviser to Digg. In the interim, Kevin has agreed to step in as
Chairman and CEO.

I'd like to thank Kevin, the Digg staff and the Digg community for
their support, insight and, most of all, their loyalty in turning Digg
into the force that it is today.

-Jay

Update from Kevin:

I want to be the first to thank Jay for the last five years of amazing
work. You've been a great friend and mentor, we wouldn't be where we
are today if it wasn't for you.

While I'll miss working with Jay day-to-day I am excited to be taking on
the role of Chairman and acting CEO, driving Digg forward on our
promise to enable social curation of the world's content and the
conversation around it. We've been super busy on the product side
getting ready for the upcoming Digg redesign and delivering our mobile
apps for the iPhone and Android.

Thank you very much for your on-going support of Digg, I'm truly
excited about the next five years, big things coming!

-Kevin

LINK, Via: Digg

Math Class Shadow

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You might remember Biola University professor Matthew Weathers from his Halloween prank video last year. He also went the extra mile for April Fools Day. Even the university president got involved! -Via: Buzzfeed, Via: Neatorama

World's biggest scrap-metal sculpture is a steampunk wonderland

Alex sez, "OMFSM this is made of awesome: Jer Faludi's pictures of a little-known Steampuck/Recycloart masterpiece, the Forevertron."

Dr. Evermor's Forevertron: best steampunk sculpture EVER. Yes, ever. Including all the great stuff at Burning Man. This guy wins. You've just never seen it, because it's in semi-rural Wisconsin (here). It's also the biggest scrap-metal sculpture in the world, so he wins the stuff-recycled-into-art prize, too. LINK: Boingboing

Reimagining Scrap Metal: Dr. Evermor's Forevertron