Visualizing Torture, With Lego

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from the NYT news blog: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/visualizing-torture-with-lego/



No matter what might happen officially, a blogger who goes by the name Legofesto is likely to press ahead with an idiosyncratic campaign to keep the memory of what happened to detainees in U.S. custody during the Bush administration alive by recreating their suffering using Lego figures.

As Wired’s Jim Merithew and Keith Axline wrote on Monday:

“Flickr user Legofesto (who prefers to remain anonymous) was fed up with news outlets refusing to publish images depicting torture due to their graphic nature.” So the blogger started making recreations of the events based on photographs and first-hand accounts using Legos to protest the media’s squeamishness. Wired’s reporters suggest that “The use of children’s toys is at once sanitizing and horrifying and many of the images have received thousands of views.”

The “About Me” section of Legofesto’s blog, describes the blogger as “a politics-junkie and news-hound, with a obsession for lego and other construction toys.” Legofesto also notes “This is not a blog for children,” and adds that “LEGO© in no way endorse this blog or the images within.”

Both Legofesto’s blog and Flickr photostream include recreations of other news events . . . (http://www.flickr.com/photos/legofesto/)


Legofesto’s Abu Ghraib Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/legofesto/sets/72157604439917899/

[BlooInBloo]

1. Note that some (2nd flickr page especially) are graphic. And sad.

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2. K&R

[Senator]

3. K&R

[malaise]

4. I like

K & R

[mmonk]

5. Interesting.

[Blue_Tires]

6. those are great and sad at the same time

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