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Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 10:16 AM

$200 ****ing bucks for $1 worth of lego?!

http://www.podbrix.com/massmail-07-31.htm

Gossamer · Aug 1, 2006, 10:27 AM

This is your most expensive work. How do you explain the higher pricing?

Tomi Responds:
Parts to create the 1984 Playset are expensive and difficult to come by and manufacturing each unit by hand is very time consuming. A low run of 100 units makes this one of our most exclusive products. Previous PodBrix items have commanded a high-price when resold in the collector's market so I feel this work is a safe investment from a collector standpoint.

and

A static LED backlit movie screen complete with a minifig style "Big Brother" completes the effect.

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

This is your most expensive work. How do you explain the higher pricing?

Tomi Responds:
Parts to create the 1984 Playset are expensive and difficult to come by and manufacturing each unit by hand is very time consuming. A low run of 100 units makes this one of our most exclusive products. Previous PodBrix items have commanded a high-price when resold in the collector's market so I feel this work is a safe investment from a collector standpoint.

and

A static LED backlit movie screen complete with a minifig style "Big Brother" completes the effect.

Ha ha

Who cares if there are only 200 of them. And you think a 30 cent LED brings the value up? Have you seen what other lego sets you can get for that money?

Gossamer · Aug 1, 2006, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Ha ha

Who cares if there are only 200 of them. And you think a 30 cent LED brings the value up? Have you seen what other lego sets you can get for that money?

Woah...for some reason I read that as LCD instead of LED...so yeah. Pretty much a rip off.

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

Woah...for some reason I read that as LCD instead of LED...so yeah. Pretty much a rip off.

The fact that it said it was a static image at least twice on the site should have lead you on also

Gossamer · Aug 1, 2006, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

The fact that it said it was a static image at least twice on the site should have lead you on also

Yeah, I was really confused why the LCD would have a static pictures...took me a little while. Gimme a break, I was up late. (on the plus side I have a computer that can dual boot finally...soon to be a triple boot

)

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 10:50 AM

The above image is also nicely light and photoshoped. It won't look as attractive sitting on ones shelf.

Who wants to fire up an LED on the shelf when a fellow Mac geek comes over?

Dakar · Aug 1, 2006, 10:51 AM

The face on the screen looks like Kim Jong-Il

Gossamer · Aug 1, 2006, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar

The face on the screen looks like Kim Jong-Il

I'm so ronery!

memory-minus · Aug 1, 2006, 11:07 AM

I totally agree. Custom "art" shouldn't cost anywhere near this much. How dare this person put such a ridiculous price on anything hand-painted and assembled. I know for a fact this is exactly $1 worth of Legos! And it's not as if this "artist" "Tomi" is known for charging similarly relative prices for his previous works. I would prefer it to be mass-produced in China and shipped out to Wal-Marts around the world rather than support the "artist's" opulent lifestyle I'm sure these sales finance! This way everyone gets one for $14.99! Except the Germans, because they don't have Wal-Mart anymore. Whatever it is, I want it cheap! Don't I deserve that?

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by memory-minus

I totally agree. Custom "art" shouldn't cost anywhere near this much. How dare this person put such a ridiculous price on anything hand-painted and assembled. I know for a fact this is exactly $1 worth of Legos! And it's not as if this "artist" "Tomi" is known for charging similarly relative prices for his previous works. I would prefer it to be mass-produced in China and shipped out to Wal-Marts around the world rather than support the "artist's" opulent lifestyle I'm sure these sales finance! This way everyone gets one for $14.99! Except the Germans, because they don't have Wal-Mart anymore. Whatever it is, I want it cheap! Don't I deserve that?

There really is one born every minute.

memory-minus · Aug 1, 2006, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

There really is one born every minute.

Never said I'd buy one.

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by memory-minus

Never said I'd buy one.

Well that's just the point isn't it. He has every right to charge whatever he wants for his loooong hard work but I don't see much value in it as a potential customer/Mac Geek.

Gossamer · Aug 1, 2006, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Well that's just the point isn't it. He has every right to charge whatever he wants for his loooong hard work but I don't see much value in it as a potential customer/Mac Geek.

Luckily for us, not everyone is like you.

memory-minus · Aug 1, 2006, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

He has every right to charge whatever he wants for his loooong hard work .

Exactly. He has an established history of selling out of these things in a matter of minutes, sometimes even seconds. He's a respected artist and has a loyal following that will often lay out a not insignificant amount of cash for his work. Kinda similar, in a way, to Steve Jobs and Apple.

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

but I don't see much value in it as a potential customer/Mac Geek

Like I said I won't buy one, but I can appreciate nearly any art for what it is. The definition of art is where most people disagree, I think.

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

Luckily for us, not everyone is like you.

So I guess you placed your order?

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by memory-minus

Like I said I won't buy one, but I can appreciate nearly any art for what it is. The definition of art is where most people disagree, I think.

I apriciate it also, I think it is nifty but to me no way in hell worth $200.

Just because he can sell out of 200 of them in second doesn't make it good. Look at all the other crap people buy thinking it is rare art. What was the name of that painting that was a 30 foot straight line and sold for millions.

I've seen a canvas painted NOTHING but pure black and people awe into it's beauty and spewed up a few grand.

memory-minus · Aug 1, 2006, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

What was the name of that painting that was a 30 foot straight line and sold for millions.

I've seen a canvas painted NOTHING but pure black and people awe into it's beauty and spewed up a few grand.

Sometimes the artist themselves command a premium rather than the quality of the art itself. I haven't seen them personally, but could the art in those paintings be the absence of art?

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by memory-minus

Sometimes the artist themselves command a premium rather than the quality of the art itself. I haven't seen them personally, but could the art in those paintings be the absence of art?

Whatever the reason it is silly.

memory-minus · Aug 1, 2006, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Whatever the reason it is silly.

I've seen instances where an artist painstakingly designs and builds a custom giagantic, canvas size brush and makes one pass. The art is in the creation rather than the end product. Of course you'd have to know how it was created in order to appreciate it at all, otherwise it looks like the artist created the entire work in 3 seconds.

mitchell_pgh · Aug 1, 2006, 11:48 AM

The price is crazy, but I'm guessing they will sell.

Smart person... knowing your target audience.

mitchell_pgh · Aug 1, 2006, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

There really is one born every minute.

You never know what will become valuable. There are thousands of people that thought comic books were worthless, or baseball cards, etc. etc.

I'm not saying I would pay $200, but there seems to be a market.

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 11:55 AM

It doesn't look so great in the above image and you can guarantee it has been light and photoshoped to death.

If you think it is worth $200 bucks though go nuts.

::maroma:: · Aug 1, 2006, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

I apriciate it also, I think it is nifty but to me no way in hell worth $200.

Just because he can sell out of 200 of them in second doesn't make it good. Look at all the other crap people buy thinking it is rare art. What was the name of that painting that was a 30 foot straight line and sold for millions.

I've seen a canvas painted NOTHING but pure black and people awe into it's beauty and spewed up a few grand.

Who the hell are you to tell someone else what is good art? Art is subjective. If you think you are the definitive critic to all great art, you are sorely mistaken. No one can define what art is good and what art isn't, except to themselves.

Just because something doesn't move you, doesn't mean it doesn't move someone else beyond description. Thats the beauty of art, its power is nearly indefinable.

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by ::maroma::

Who the hell are you to tell someone else what is good art? Art is subjective. If you think you are the definitive critic to all great art, you are sorely mistaken. No one can define what art is good and what art isn't, except to themselves.

Just because something doesn't move you, doesn't mean it doesn't move someone else beyond description. Thats the beauty of art, its power is nearly indefinable.

When did I say it was good or bad art? I said "$200 for this" which is the exact reaction most people have to overpriced "art".

This is more of a toy to cash in on fanboys than true art anyway.

memory-minus · Aug 1, 2006, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

This is more of a toy to cash in on fanboys

One could consider that art.

I just wish I thought of it first.

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 12:06 PM

OMG the walls are even made out of cardboard.

::maroma:: · Aug 1, 2006, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

When did I say it was good or bad art?

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Look at all the other crap people buy thinking it is rare art. What was the name of that painting that was a 30 foot straight line and sold for millions.

I've seen a canvas painted NOTHING but pure black and people awe into it's beauty and spewed up a few grand.

Again, who are you to say that the painting of pure black wasn't worthy of someone spending some money on it? You are saying that piece of art wasn't worthy of being valuable. Not valuable to you? Sure. Not valuable to someone else? Thats not for you to decide.

Rumor · Aug 1, 2006, 12:58 PM

Kudos to the designer. Pretty cool, IMHO. Though I would never drop $200 on it.

Landos Mustache · Aug 1, 2006, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by ::maroma::

Again, who are you to say that the painting of pure black wasn't worthy of someone spending some money on it? You are saying that piece of art wasn't worthy of being valuable. Not valuable to you? Sure. Not valuable to someone else? Thats not for you to decide.

Guess what, everything has value to someone else. You have no problem saying a movie or Microsoft SUCKS so don't come off all high and mighty in this case.

analogika · Aug 2, 2006, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

Whatever the reason it is silly.

OMG, it's the Zimphire 16th chapel art thread all over again!

Landos Mustache · Aug 2, 2006, 04:32 PM

Here is a Bill Gates/ Steve Jobs set. Is it art? Toy? Rip-off?

You be the judge...

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/g...nes-191581.php