Shanghai recreated in dice and poker chips

Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 6, 2009 12:05 AM |

Liu Jianhua recreated the Shanghai skyline from dice and poker-chips -- the gigantic piece was displayed at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Italy. The close-up detail view (shot by Flickr user cinghialino and licensed Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike) is spectacular.

Liu Jianhua - Unreal Scene (2008), Liu Jianhua - Unreal Scene (2008) (detail view) (via Neatorama)

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#1 posted by cinghialino , January 6, 2009 5:57 AM

hey, thank you for using my pictures!!
you can also find other photos of that exibition, here is the link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cinghialino/tags/jianhua/

have a nice day,
Cinghialino ( Alessandro Casagli )

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#2 posted by johnnfoy , January 6, 2009 5:58 AM

this is a cool image....

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#4 posted by acrocker , January 6, 2009 9:10 AM

What timing. I'm finally getting around to reading Diamond Age. I'm now going to see Shanghai of the book look like this on my head...

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#5 posted by absimiliard , January 6, 2009 10:08 AM

Wow! Awesomely cool.

-abs isn't the lego-fiend in his family, but this is just damn neat

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#6 posted by things , January 6, 2009 10:58 AM

damn, I thought it was made of legos, I got excited there for a second

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#7 posted by absimiliard , January 6, 2009 12:42 PM

Whoah, I thought it was legos too.

My bad.

-abs feels abashed at going on appearance instead of what the words near the cool picture actually said *oops*

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