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Karl Frey lets people play with his art. For Interchange, his new exhibit at Mather House’s Three Columns Gallery, Frey painted sixteen landscapes on Lego blocks. He then disassembled them and asked friends to recompose them, thus actively involving the viewers in the process of art-making. Suddenly, art was participatory, an experience that involves what Frey refers to in his work statement as the “perceptional patterns of the culture.” That culture and its concurrent style is a movement rooted in American pop art that aims to make art accessible...
...Until recently, the simplest and lightest headset I used was Motorola's HS820, but now a number of even smaller and lighter headsets are hitting the market, from Motorola, Jabra and Plantronics. The Plantronics Discovery 640 is not just a tiny, easy to use headset-it comes with a Lego lover's delight of snap-on accessories...
...have to be smart enough from the get-go to negotiate for naps with your partner, spouse or mother-in-law. My argument is that there are many surprising and fundamental ways in which, despite all the boring time you now have to spend picking up Lego bits from the floor, the experiences of having and rearing children can stimulate and enrich your brain and make you smarter...
...slid sharply since September. Some countries' consumers seem to be feeling more gift-happy than others (see chart). But if demand is skimpy, the biggest casualty, along with retailers, could be the toy industry, which does as much as half of its business in the Christmas season. Denmark's Lego says it expects to lose about 3250 million this year as falling sales and prices force it to cut back production. At London megastore Hamleys, Bratz dolls and some electronic games are moving, but buyer Sue Porritt says the market overall "is looking tough." But not all are gloomy. Merchandise...
Wouldn't it be fun to run Lego, the Danish icon of the toy industry? Maybe not: sales have dropped between 25% and 30% since 2002, and losses for 2004 (including book-value declines) will be some $300 million. Lego is being battered from all sides. Today's children increasingly prefer Xboxes to plastic blocks; sales in Japan and the U.S. have been unexpectedly sluggish; and the company suffers from overcapacity in a low-growth industry. Trying to refocus on its core business, the 72-year-old company is even considering selling such assets as the Legoland parks. CEO Kjeld...