{"id":2183,"date":"2012-03-30T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:56:59","slug":"building-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2012\/03\/30\/building-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Building blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The below images have been floating around the internet and I couldn&#8217;t resist adding them here for today! If you haven&#8217;t seen them and are struggling to decipher what these are, here&#8217;s a clue: Cartoon characters.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4504.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4503.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4502.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4501.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4500.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4499.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4498.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/4505.jpg\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Produced by German advertising agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jvm.com\/\">Jung von Matt<\/a>, this was a print advertisement for Lego and I think they did a smashing job.<\/p>\n<p>I love how the agency reduced the form of each cartoon family and stripped it down to a column of color. It&#8217;s interesting to see how much our brain needs to go on before we instinctively know who those characters are. And once we&#8217;re hit with that <em>a-ha<\/em> moment, our eyes and senses adjust themselves; dredging up memories of long forgotten characters. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true \u2013\u00a0we&#8217;re inexplicably bound by pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>Did you manage to guess the characters behind each image? I can imagine these lot would be more easily identified by those who were born in the early 80s, like I am! If not here&#8217;s your answer:<\/p>\n<p><em>{From top to bottom: South Park, The Smurfs, The Simpsons , Lucky Luke and the Daltons, Asterix and Obelix, Donald Duck and Nephews, Bert and Ernie, and Ninja Turtles!}<\/em><\/p>\n<h5> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/minimalissimo.com\/2012\/03\/imagine-with-lego\/\">Minimalissimo<\/a> <\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Building blocks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2012\/03\/30\/building-blocks\/\" aria-label=\"More on Building blocks\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32163,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/32163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}