<![CDATA[Famous Vietnam War Photographs, with Stormtrooper Legos - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Famous Vietnam War Photographs, with Stormtrooper Legos - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Famous Vietnam War Photographs, with Stormtrooper Legos]]> @ylee:
People who tweak out on buggy brainware are sometimes said to have "gone io9."

kraffft

]]> <![CDATA[Famous Vietnam War Photographs, with Stormtrooper Legos]]> @TheAlmanac: More to the point, the Flickr collection isn't a collection of famous Vietnam war photos done in legos; it's a collection of famous photos in Legos. Three of the six aren't war photographs at all, and only two of the others involve Vietnam.

Lisa Katayama claims that the photographer is making some sort of anti-Iraq War/anti-embedded journalism (and, no doubt, anti-Bushitler, dictator of AmeriKKKa) statement, but unless I'm missing something there's no evidence of that at all. Now, if the next 50 photos are all along the lines of the napalmed Vietnamese girl and the Abu Ghraib criminals, that'd be one thing, but I suspect we're more likely to see the Hindenburg explosion or Apollo 11 on the moon or Robert Moses on the I-beam.

The only statement I do see is the upteenth post on io9 that adds a political spin to the content, whether justified by the subject or not. (And let's not forget the hundreds of posts slavishing over every aspect of Jericho, the two-time failure which never saw a "eevil corporate interests are the real traitors to America" cliché it didn't like.)

ylee

]]> <![CDATA[Famous Vietnam War Photographs, with Stormtrooper Legos]]> My favourite of the set is probably the Tiananmen Square recreation, which you didn't include here...

TheAlmanac

]]> <![CDATA[Famous Vietnam War Photographs, with Stormtrooper Legos]]> "The Lego version is much less intense"

Yeah, just a bit. The real version is of the guy getting executed.

farcast

]]> <![CDATA[Famous Vietnam War Photographs, with Stormtrooper Legos]]> Smiley faces are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo creepy.

Project Thanatos

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