Lego Bombing
verb
1) The art and act of integrating Lego sculpture into the landscape and cityscape in such a way that the piece adds to the scene. Typically, as an accent, a splash of color, or a form of commentary.
2) The act of creating a Lego sculpture that is surreptitiously left for the intended recipient in a place where the sculpture and its placement have meaning to the recipient(s).
Street art takes many forms. Oftentimes the displays are little more than attempts at drawing the eye or conveying a message. Sometimes, though, the two combine to great effect, pointing out glaring, gaping holes in the world around us.
In the case of Lego Bombing, as it has become known, those holes -- and therefore, that art -- crop up in our crumbling infrastructure. The colorful plastic blocks are being snapped into walls, streets, and buildings all over the world courtesy of Dispatchwork.
Here are some examples:
(All photos from Dispatchwork.)
Quito, Ecuador

Nabeul, Tunisia

Bocchignano, Italy


Tel Aviv, Israel


Toulouse, France

Arnsberg, Germany


Berlin, Germany


Valparaiso, Chile

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Hi there,
thanks for your feature of the Dispatchwork project! www.Dispatchwork.info - the virtual place to record, share, and enjoy Dispatchwork.
Also, please note the website: whenandwhere.org is the web based resource for learning about, preparing, and executing your own Dispatchwork mission!
Concerning your article and the posted links, dear Kelly, I find it a bit misleading. I hope you understand, we have created the Dispatchwork project in countles hours in a collaborative effort of many people worldwide! The Project is free for anyone to join and recreate, yet we have not created the definition you are quoting from a website we have never heard of, which claims to be what Dispatchwork.info and whenandwhere.org already provides.
Maybe you should fix that, and in return quote from here: http://www.dispatchwork.info/manifesto/
Cheers,
Jan Vormann
I love it! Very colorful and creative! I will look forward for Lego to come to my city and decorate some buildings))
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That reminds me a lot of the Little People project, http://little-people.blogspot.ch/. I guess it would be fun to populate some of these lego sculptures with lego or other plastic people.