The Art of the Brick

The Art of the Brick
Artist : Nathan Sawaya
Date : 17 November 2012 - 14 April 2013 (Extended to 26 May 2013)
Location : ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Tickets : Adult S$15, Senior S$14 (age 65 above), Child S$9

Disintegration
Nathan Sawaya - Beware the winds of life that nibble away at your sense of self. Stay Strong.
Year : 2008
Brick Count : 10,124
Size : 130 x 35 x 40cm
This is my most favourite work of Nathan Sawaya.

Doorway
Year : 2008
Brick Count : 6,988
Size : 55 x 90 x 37.5 cm

Inside
Year : 2008
Brick Count : 2,980
Size : 95 x 37.5 x 17.5 cm

Hands
Year : 2007
Brick Count : 15,136
Size : 55 x 97.5 62.5 cm

Writer
Year : 2009
Brick Count : 3,210
Size : 87.5 x x 62.5 x 27.5 cm

Mask
Nathan Sawaya - Masks are used by just about every culture on the planet. They keep things hidden and show only the face we want others to see. I built Mask as a reflection of revealing our true selves. So often we put on a different face and then can no longer identify our own self. Mask identifies the facase we hide behind
Year : 2007
Brick Count : 8,509
Size : 73.66 x 180.34 x 60.96 cm

Dinosaur Skeleton
Year : 2007
Brick Count : 2007
Size : 600 x 180 x 100 cm

It's huge. The biggest lego dinosaur I've ever seen. Love it!!

Highly detailed. Very impressive.

ArtScience Museum
Year : 2012
Brick Count : 15,999
Size : 76 x 91 x 91cm

Square Torso (Blue)
Year : 2008
Brick Count : 9,957
Size : 87.5 x 47.5 x 37.5 cm

Triangle Torso (Yellow)
Year : 2008
Brick Count : 9,147
Size : 87.5 x 52.5 x 3.5 cm

Circle Torso (Red)
Year : 2008
Brick Count : 10,305
Size : 87.5 x 60 x 37.5 cm

Facemask
Year : 2009
Brick Count : 10,770
Size : 121.92 x 101.6 x 45.72cm

Yellow
Year : 2006
Brick Count : 11,014
Size : 88.9 x 33.02 x 71.2 cm

An Artist's View
Year : 2006
Brick Count : 11,561

Untitled
Year : 2007
Brick Count : 1,601
Size : 12.5 x 37.5 x 17.5 cm

Blue Guy Sitting
Year : 2010
Brick Count : 21,054
Size : 117.5 x 72.5 x 95 cm

Grasp
Nathan Sawaya - No matter where your heart wants to lead you, there will be hands that try and hold you back. Life's challenge is to find the strength to break free. I created this sculpture in response to so many people telling me "No" in my life. I wanted to break free of those people.
Year : 2007
Brick Count : 17,356
Size : 167.5 x 75 x 75cm

Courtney (Yellow)
Year : 2009
Brick Count : 3,300
Size : 76.2 x 114.3 cm

Underneath
Year : 2008
Brick Count : 12,116
Size : 75 x 55 x 40 cm

Ascension
Year : 2010
Brick Count : 7,124
Size : 130 x 35 x 40 cm

Trapped (Two-Thrds)
Nathan Sawaya - This scuplture was inspired by my feeling very trapped. Mabe you've felt like this before. Or maybe you know someone that feels like this now. There's always a way out, sometimes we just need a little help to find the way.
Year : 2010
Brick Count : 3,423
Size : 75 x 55 x 40cm

Wall
Year : 2008
Brick Count : 9,896
Size : 62.5 x 85 x 45cm

Skulls
Year : 2008
Brick Count : 12,444
Size : 55 x 92.5 x 10 cm

There are 4 different skulls on display - Red, Yellow, Blue and Green. The picture above only show the Red Skull.

Peaces
Year : 2010
Brick Count : 3,720
Size : 76.2 x 76.2 x 10.16 cm

Reflexology
For the brave! Take off your shoes and walk on these piles of LEGO.
In case you are wondering, I am not brave, I didn't try it!!

ArtScience Exhibition GuideBook :
The Art of the Brick
ISBN : 978-981-4408-11-0

I highly recommend to buy this book if you are visiting the exhibition. It's full coloured and pack with the entire exhibition informations. A great book!

A page view of the book.

Brochure Guide

Brochure Guide - Exhibition Layout

There is a total of 52 sculptures displayed in this exhibition. I've only posted some of the art display that is in this exhibition. Personally, entering a museum looking at lego art is very special. I like the way ArtScience Museum design the exhibition layout and placements of the sculptures. Also very happy that no flash photography is allowed for this exhibition. This is definitely an exhibition worth visiting.

Merging 2 blogs

I've imported my another blog - Astro Galaxy Travel into this blog yesterday. I've not been updating as much as I used too. In fact, it was quite a long time since I've posted anything. So it's better to just concentrate on one blog. I've finally finished linking all necessary labels today.

Titanic 100th Anniversary 1912 - 2012

This year marks a very special date for Titanic. It's the 100th Anniversary of Titanic in year 2012.

A Titanic ship model on display in the shopping gallery of Marina Sands

Titanic - The Artifact Exhibition 100th Anniversary
Location : Marina Bay Sands - ArtScience Museum
Date : 29 October 2011 - 29 April 2012
Open : 10am to 10pm (Last admission at 9.00pm)
An adult ticket cost S$24.00 / S$20.00 (Singapore Residents), Senior S$21/S$18 and Child S$14/S$13.

The place where the Titanic Artifact Exhibition is held.
Photography, including no flash is not allowed. Which I am very disappointed because photos always provide good and vivid memories. The entire exhibition was so awesome and well designed. Every corner, there's surprises...something new to see, learn and remember. I visited this exhibition in March 2012. It was simply amazing beyond my words to describe.

Entrance to the Titanic Exhibition and Theatre.  See the Titanic ship in the background. It is where you could get a photograph taken and purchase it later on. The grand staircase is another where the photographer would take your picture.

My White Star Line boarding pass to Titanic!!

Passenger : Mr. Edgar Samuel Andrew
Age : 18
Class : 2nd
Ticket No : 231945
Reason : To attend his brother's wedding in the United States. A student in England at the time, Edgar planned to stay for a position in his sister-in-law's company, Fisher & Norris Anvil works in Trenton, New Jersey.
Passenger Fact : Edgar had originally booked his trip on Oceanic which was to sail a week later. Due to the coal strike, he was forced to sail on Titanic on order to arrive in New York in time for his brother's wedding.

Some additional details of Edgar Samuel Andrew I found online :
Died in the sinking. His body was never found.
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On 8 April 1912, Edgar wrote a letter to his friend, Josey Cowan :
You figure Josey I had to leave on the 17th this (month) aboard the "Oceanic, but due to the coal strike that steamer cannot depart, so I have to go one week earlier on board the Titanic. It really seems unbelievable that I have to leave a few days before your arrival, but there's no help for it, I've got to go. You figure, Josey, I am boarding the greatest steamship in the wortld, but I don't really feel proud of it at all, right now I wish the Titanic were lying at the bottom of the ocean.
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In April 2001, RMS Titanic Inc recovered a suitcase from the Titanic wrecksite belong to Edgar Samuel Andrew.

For an addition cost of S$5.00 (requires Titanic Exhibition ticket addmission), you'll get to watch the Titantic Documentary - Ghosts of the Abyss. It also comes with a free souvenir which can be collected at the Museum gift shop.
Runtime : 62 mins

Titanic Exhibition Brochure

Exhibition layout

The following nine photographs was taken from catalogues and books because photography inside the exhibit are not allowed.
First Class Room

Grand Staircase

Third Class Quarters

Hallway

Boiler Room

Promenade Area. Ship Deck. This is my most favourite part of the exhibit. I sat there for a short few minutes. It was silent and looking out, into the dark sky was glittering stars. It's so beautiful.

Iceberg Area
See the white patch in far background, that's the freezing ice. I tried putting both my hands and yes, it's very very cold.

The Memorial Area - Where one could checked to see if the passenger make it alive or dead at that fateful night. I was able to spot mine at a corner, it's a poster size board fixed to the wall on the adjencent right side.

Some of the items I brought from the Museum shop :
A Titanic 3rd Class Mug

Cherry Tooth Paste... without toothpaste of course! I wonder what cherry toothpase taste like?

Egg Holder Cup

Egg holder

A free pin badge souvenir

Titanic - The Artifact Exhibition Catalogue Book (Marina Bay Sands )
ISBN : 978-981-07-1014-9
Author : Judith B. Geller
Publisher : R.M.S Titanic Inc

This is the photo folder when you purchase the photo at the museum. It cost S$25 for each photo.
S$35.00 if you take 2 photos (1 ship and 1 grand staircase photo package). But if you want 2 staircase photos, it'll be S$50. Same goes for the grand staircase.

Titanic Movie Book - ED W. Marsh
ISBN : 0-00-649060-3
Edition : 1997
I brought this book in 1998. I was not very much into this movie but at that time, it was such a huge blockbuster. It's like everywhere I go, I would hear the theme song play out loud from various shops and shopping centres.

WP Commemorative Series : Titanic 100th Anniversary - Jess Lomas
ISBN :  9781921804632
Publisher : Wilkinson Publishing Pty Ltd
It's a great compilation of info and images. It also has the name list of people lost at sea.

Titanic Experience - Beau Riffenburgh
ISBN : 978-1-71478-651-4
This has to be my favourite Titanic book so far. It's a huge and heavy hardback book. I love the removable documents pull outs.

Brief Timeline of Titanic :
29 July 1908 : White Star Line approved Titanic designs.
31 March 1909 : Titanic construction begins.
2 April 1912 : Titanic first sea trials.
10 April 1912 : Boarding of passengers and start of a maiden voyage.
13 April 1912 : Titanic receives ice warnings

14 April 1912 : More ice warnings but were ignored. Operators were busy replying to passengers messages.
5.50pm - Captain Smith alters the Titanic course as a precaution to avoid the icebergs.
11.40pm - Lookout spotted iceberg, sound alarm but all was too late... collision.
11.50pm -Within 10 minutes, five compartments of the Titanic were flooded. The ship will sink.

15 April 1912 : Titanic send distress call. Passengers loaded on lifeboats.
2.20am - Titanic fully sinks into the sea.
4.10am - Carpathia rescued the passengers on lifeboats.

18 April 1912 : Carpathia reached New York

1 September 1985 : Dr Robert Ballard discover the Titanic wreck at 12,460 feet beneath the surface.
1987 : RMS Titanic Inc is born. They recover over 5,500 artifacts from Titanic.