{"id":591,"date":"2015-11-13T21:23:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T21:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/?p=591"},"modified":"2016-08-06T21:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T21:26:53","slug":"4th-estate-books-a-labour-of-love-lego-loki-on-brick-high-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/news\/4th-estate-books-a-labour-of-love-lego-loki-on-brick-high-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Estate Books: A Labour of Love: Lego Loki on Brick High-Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HRlogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HRlogo.jpg\" alt=\"HRlogo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of High-Rise I spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4thestate.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">4th Estate Books<\/a> about the creation of Brick High-Rise.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back in August 2014, as the filming of Ben Wheatley\u2019s adaptation of the novel drew to an end, the official Twitter for the movie issued me with a challenge. They had seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickjest.com\/\">Brick Jest<\/a>, an earlier project by Kevin Griffith and his son Sebastian, which translated David Foster Wallace\u2019s work\u00a0<em>Infinite Jest<\/em> into LEGO, and asked me if I could recreate <em>High-Rise<\/em> in a similar manner. Never one to turn down a challenge, I agreed to take on the project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full article on their website here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4thestate.co.uk\/2015\/11\/a-labour-of-love-lego-loki-on-brick-high-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Labour of Love: Lego Loki on Brick High-Rise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/news\/4th-estate-books-a-labour-of-love-lego-loki-on-brick-high-rise\/\" title=\"4th Estate Books: A Labour of Love: Lego Loki on Brick High-Rise\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[60,62,35,61,9,59],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4th-estate-books","tag-ballard-day","tag-brick-high-rise","tag-j-g-ballard","tag-lego","tag-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HRlogo.jpg?fit=1280%2C640","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MHSg-9x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/futurerulerofmidgard.com\/brickhighrise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}