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Film: A LEGO version of an Adam Buxton Bowie sketch? Yes please

Date
7 January 2014

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As content combinations go Adam Buxton + David Bowie + LEGO is pretty much a dream formula. Animator Chris Salt has taken Adam’s brilliant sketch explaining how Bowie’s transformation from Ziggy Stardust to Aladdin Sane (might have) happened, and brought it to life using everyone’s favourite Danish toy. Reminiscent of Eddie Izzard’s superlative exploration of how on earth Gerry Dorsey became Engelbert Humperdinck, it’s a super-silly but affectionate take-down of one of pop culture’s most iconic figures. We can only guess how the history of music might have been different had Cobbler Bob won out though…

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Adam Buxton/Chris Salt: Cobbler Bob

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Adam Buxton/Chris Salt: Cobbler Bob

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Adam Buxton/Chris Salt: Cobbler Bob

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Adam Buxton/Chris Salt: Cobbler Bob

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Rob Alderson

Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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