R2 in fancy dress with a pipe? Someone please make a new Sherlock Holmes with the little droid as Holmes and C-3PO as Watson. I would pay good money to see that and it would beat the whole Data/Geordi Holmes thing from Star Trek.

Jabba certainly still looks evil, but now he’s an evil gentleman from the past. He could easily be Holmes’ arch-enemy Moriarty. Chewbacca is also available, but he just looks strange to me.

You can buy all of these portraits over on KULT, with prices starting at $125(USD). For that price, you get an unframed 9″ x 13″ Limited Edition hand numbered giclée print signed by the artist with a Certificate of Authenticity.

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This awesome piece of art was created by Joe Black using over 5,500 toy soldiers, carefully positioned to form a large image. The pointillist image is called Made in China and it’s a portrait depicting a Chinese soldier that was originally taken by photographer Robert Capa and appeared on the cover of LIFE Magazine in 1938.

Each of the toy soldiers was glued on, then hit with spray paint to complete the image. It’s quite an amazing piece of art, which uses toys to make a statement about war.

Made in China was most recently on display last October at the Moniker Art Fair in London. Hopefully, it’ll make the rounds again so we can see it up close and in person.

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I still think it would’ve been much better if Valve just made Cave Johnson look like J.K. Simmons. I don’t know about you but I can’t imagine his voice coming from someone else’s head. Here’s a demo of the portrait, taken from Aperture Labs:

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Goddamn mantis men! ThinkGeek was selling the collectible for $40 (USD), but they ran out of stock. You’ll just have to check back on December 17 to get one.

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I can’t decide which one I like best, but I just love the uncomfortable look on Luke’s face in both of these portraits. I’m sure he’s worried about how embarrassed he’d beif his fellow Rebel Alliance classmates saw these. And Chewbacca and Darth Vader in sweaters is priceless.

And I’m not really sure what’s up with the Yoda family. I never really imagined Yoda with a mustache, but here ya go if you’ve you’ve been fantasizing about that ever since The Empire Strikes Back came out.

Head over to Steven’s Flickr page to see more detailed images, and you can grab iPhone/iPod Touch wallpaper versions here.

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This piece is called Connected and it looks awesome. Apparently, she didn’t just use CAT5 cable, but a bunch of other cables as well. Of course, if she only used wire, they whole thing would have collapsed into a pile of spaghetti, so she had to cheat a little bit and include some steel structure under the cables to hold the sculpture in place.

What would you make if you had a bunch of spare cable lying around, and the artistic talent to pull something like this off?

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At first glance, the image just looks like a giant portrait of a smiling yellow Minifig. But as you move past the face of the portrait, the dark (blay) side of LEGOland comes out.

Doyle managed to achieve an effect similar to those lenticular moving images by using alternating blocks of angled LEGO wedges. Check out the video below to see the illusion in action.

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Chris, I’d say that was more than reasonably clever.

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Created by robotic researcher Sylvain Calinon, the robot recognizes when there’s a face in its field of view, then snaps a digital photo and extracts the major characteristics of their visage. Once that’s done, the robot turns itself into an X/Y plotter, picking up an old-fashioned quill pen and gradually filling in the details of a portrait.

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I think it would be really cool to set up a bunch of these in a row, creating different styles of art using ink, pastel, oils and acrylics. Sylvain, are you listening?

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