{"id":37971,"date":"2009-11-07T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T22:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=122968"},"modified":"2009-11-07T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T22:30:32","slug":"rubiks-cube-based-real-life-pixel-art-suggests-too-much-time-on-someone%e2%80%99s-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/37971","title":{"rendered":"Rubiks Cube-based real-life pixel art suggests too much time on someone\u2019s hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/rubiks_cube_space_invaders_by_john_quigley.jpg\" alt=\"rubiks_cube_space_invaders_by_john_quigley\" title=\"rubiks_cube_space_invaders_by_john_quigley\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-122969\" \/><br \/>\nSometimes, the medium is the message. In this case, the medium is Rubiks Cubes. The message is that there&#8217;s an Irish guy named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/neoliteralcubism\/\">John Quigley<\/a> who has too much free time. I mean, I suppose you could say the same of many artists, but this is some seriously time-consuming stuff. And while it&#8217;s impressive, it seems rather&#8230; algorithmic, doesn&#8217;t it? I notice there are no original compositions.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dckjPL2Vzm0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dckjPL2Vzm0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s a hobby. Better than mine, anyway (crying and punching my pillow, if you&#8217;re wondering).<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/technabob.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/07\/rubiks-cube-pixel-art-the-ultimate-geek-art-form\/\">Technabob<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/UvP0s_BCO3PTb-lNyKGsF-TVZws\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/UvP0s_BCO3PTb-lNyKGsF-TVZws\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/UvP0s_BCO3PTb-lNyKGsF-TVZws\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/UvP0s_BCO3PTb-lNyKGsF-TVZws\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=uAe-HG6oAvs:FOQYIewlRb0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=uAe-HG6oAvs:FOQYIewlRb0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=uAe-HG6oAvs:FOQYIewlRb0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=uAe-HG6oAvs:FOQYIewlRb0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=uAe-HG6oAvs:FOQYIewlRb0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the medium is the message. In this case, the medium is Rubiks Cubes. The message is that there&#8217;s an Irish guy named John Quigley who has too much free time. I mean, I suppose you could say the same of many artists, but this is some seriously time-consuming stuff. And while it&#8217;s impressive, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}