SBC vs. PDL: LEGO Spaceship Smackdown

Tomorrow at Vermillion Gallery, SuttonBeresCuller and PuccinelliDunkerleyLundgren will face off in an epic LEGO spaceship building contest.

At noon, each member of the artsy trios will receive a box full of random LEGOs and the mission to construct the most badass spacecraft their minds can conceive in four hours. At 6:00 pm the finished products will be placed on unmarked pedestals, and the public will vote on its favorite ship. At 10:00 pm the votes will be counted and the team with the most votes wins. I’m not really sure what the prize is, but the competition is heated.

I happened to run into Jed Dunkerley of Team PDL at a local coffee shop the other day, and he threw down some challenging words for SBC:

"As kids, while PDL were keenly focused on mastering the complicated structured dynamics of LEGO spaceship design, SBC were probably playing with nerf balls or fishing or something other undisciplined bourgeois bullshit like that.

"This is about REAL LEGOS in REAL time, not deciphering E.P.A paperwork or ‘idea’ art. SBC haven't built anything that made sense in 4 years..."

Never one to miss out on an opportunity to stir the pot, I passed along some of Dunkerley’s words to the SBC camp, but before I heard from anyone at SBC, PDL emailed to further stoke the competetive fire, this time with a picture from Jason Puccinelli and the following caption:

“This photograph was taken of me exuding my burgeoning talent as a Lego Sculptor many years before any member of the SBC crew was suckling on their mothers' teats! Even with all their art school conditioning, SBC is way out of their league when it comes to head-to-head competition with seasoned professionals such as ourselves.”

SBC's Zac Culler eventually replied with a YouTube video of “Zack the Lego Maniac,” proclaiming, “I think this pretty much sums it up.” Dunkerley responded immediately:

"Anybody with a brain can tell that that wasn't Zac Culler. 

A) He spells his name Zack, not Zac  (neither of which are the correct way to spell Zach, anyway)

B) Even at a young age, that kid could at least kind of dance

C) That kid actually can build cool shit out of legos.

None of which are true for Culler (and his scrawny partners Jon and Byn)."

Is SBC’s cool quiet the result of some secret game plan for tomorrow? Or is Dunkerley’s belligerent confidence the result of the dream I had in which the “D” in PDL won the competition? (Which probably just signifies that I work way too much.) Find out for yourself tomorrow at the rivalrous LEGO showdown.