{"id":118,"date":"2004-06-05T11:18:56","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=118"},"modified":"2004-06-05T11:18:56","modified_gmt":"2004-06-05T19:18:56","slug":"116-pixelblocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"#116 :: Pixelblocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/06\/060504.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/06\/060504.html', <a href=\"http:\/\/pharmacy-viagra.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">cialis 40mg<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-usa.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">approved<\/a> &#8216;popup&#8217;, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-discount.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">stuff<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cheap-cialis-pills.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">mind<\/a> &#8216;width=500, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrafreepills.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">order<\/a> height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#8242;); return false&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/06\/060504-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelblocks.com\/\">Pixelblocks<\/a> are the toy equivalent of pruno, the alcoholic beverage inmates brew under their prison beds from raisins or surplus sugar: They&#8217;re fun, intoxicating and in the end, something of a headache. Imagine Lego blocks were divisible &#8211; and assemblable &#8211; not the multi-cell 2&#215;4 or 4&#215;12 kind sold now, but true single-celled plastic organisms capable of breeding by accretion. Imagine they came in psychedelic transparent colors, and could be mated not only peg-to-hole, but also slid together side by side, in reverse mitosis. You could manufacture entire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixelfreak.com\/\">pixel art<\/a> cities in  three actual dimensions, bring your Zaxxon world to life. But then you realize that it takes a <i>long time<\/i> to build a world one pixel at a time, and your ambitions and enthusiasm run afoul of your patience and the teensy little grooves you&#8217;re supposed to use to build with them but can never seem to line up correctly so you&#8217;re often separating misaligned and jammed-together blocks with your teeth. But you&#8217;ve got boxes and boxes of them, and you&#8217;re going to by-god make something cool. And it winds up the size of a baby&#8217;s fist, but at least pleasing in its own right. And now that you&#8217;ve done it, you&#8217;ll never drink pruno again until you&#8217;ve been really dry for a really long time. Pixelblocks are like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}