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Natalie Portman built out of Legos
2000-09-09 11:38:08


Would You Like Fetish With That?
 
It's raining out now. I'd go out and run naked except that I'm in Oakland and I'd probably be arrested.
-- The Compulsive Splicer

 

Lego fetish? A twisted man spends seven months building animals out of Legos. But not just animals -- 14-foot long animals. And, of course -- Natalie Portman.

What kind of man takes a photograph of Audrey Hepburn, then painstakingly reconstructs it using plastic bricks? Demented Los Angeles has warped his mind, brewing an unhealthy fascination with toys, icons, and repetitive assembling motions. You know schizophernia has taken hold when you start to think: why go to a symphony when I can just make a bust of classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven using Legos?

The most disturbing manifestations are the erogenous hind-shots of a dinosaur. The toy pervert stands beside the life-sized replica, lovingly fondling its reptilean head....

And of course there's the life-sized sculpture of Natalie Portman.

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