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Cambridge, MA '26
Fogg Museum

Attica (Greece), c. 340 BC

Mythology, landscapes, and technology converge in the meticulous, Afrofuturistic sculptures of Ekow Nimako. Using thousands of black LEGO bricks, the Ghanaian-Canadian artist explores legends and folklore of the African diaspora, creating figurative embodiments of allegorical creatures and spiritual beings. Through a single, modular medium, he highlights a wide range of cultural phenomena, from graffiti writing in his series Building Black GRAPHICA to sprawling metropolises in Building Black CIVILIZATIONS.

Recently, Nimako has been working on a collection inspired by African ceremonial masks, interstellar travel, machines, and geometric forms. Some of the works seen here are currently on view in Building Black AMORPHIA: Spiritual Starships at Harbourfront Centre, which is part of a program celebrating Black culture called ZUUMBA 365.

Nimako recently installed a multi-part piece titled “Children of the Rouge Valley” at the Rouge Valley Community Recreation Centre in Scarborough, Ontario, and he’s currently working toward another public installation on a Canadian university campus. Building Black AMORPHIA: Spiritual Starships continues in Toronto through August 31. Find more on the artist’s Instagram, including updates about forthcoming e-store drops.

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...I apologize for the messy room, but a battle agains time happens here every day in an attempt to make common matter in to gold...

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U.S. Senator Rubén Gallego, an emerging figure in the Democratic Party, says it is highly likely the Donald Trump administration will opt for a new military intervention to force a regime change in Cuba. “Cubans in Florida have a lot of power and the State Secretary, Marco Rubio, is obsessed with the island,” he told reporters on Friday at the Real Instituto Elcano think tank headquarters in Madrid. “But I don’t believe Cuba is a threat to the U.S.; it’s a very poor country of nine million inhabitants,” he added.

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Missus Claus joins Santa on the tree this year! Building guide now available at chrismcveigh.com

Jason Momoa can’t turn on his Zoom camera. The superstar actor is not tech illiterate; he’s just on the set of “A Minecraft Movie Squared,” the highly anticipated sequel to 2025’s family blockbuster — and, as he puts it, looks “absolutely ridiculous.” “You just have to trust me, I look pretty silly,” Momoa says, laughing […]

powerpig posted a photo:

The LX Edition is one of my most detailed computer builds to date. It has a fully modelled CRT as well hard drive, floppy drive, and power unit subassemblies. However, the real star of this build is the removable card cage that houses the motherboard and memory boards!

A building guide for My First Computer: LX Edition is now available at chrismcveigh.com

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V-brick, closed studs - but without any markings.

Through the first half of 2026, Netflix is on a hot streak with its original films. The standout so far has been the sci-fi action epic War Machine starring Reacher's Alan Ritchson, which surged into ninth place on the platform's all-time global viewership charts with 139.9 million views, but Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's The Rip and the Michael B. Jordan family animated adventure Swapped have also reached some impressive milestones. Yet, none have been quite as towering as last year's breakout global sensation KPop Demon Hunters. This week marks the first anniversary of HUNTR/X's game-changing debut, and since then, viewers have kept watching Rumi, Mira, and Zoey, if its streak of 50-straight weeks in the English top-ten is any indication.

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Here’s another Star Wars vehicle sculpture I created for LEGO in 2015. It's titled Falcon Over Jakku and it swings side to side when you twist the gear at the back. I had a prototype with a TIE, too; the two modules could be connected and they'd crisscross when the gear was turned.

UPDATE: Guide now available at chrismcveigh.com

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Although I started tweaking my original two-door fridge design, eventually I decided I wanted something different; something even more retro. Going to a single-door design let me migrate to a much more functional hinge system; this in turn led to retro design elements like the integrated ice box and the "chin" at the bottom of the fridge.

The single door design also let me expand the the sizes of the shelves, both in the main cavity and on the inside of the door. And most of the food items in the fridge are brick-built, too!

A building guide is now available at chrismcveigh.com