14 Responses to The Stonehenge Manual By IKEA

1. Danielle says:

   April 7, 2011 at 7:40 pm

   I found this Manual to be quite funny! To this day Stonehenge is still a mystery to how it was built. The stones in each row being different sizes and different mediums is not that amazing to think of, until you find out that each of the materials was brought from miles away. The foundation being of large rocks, in post and liner positions is amazing to think about how the very heavy rocks managed to be put that way. But none the less we may never really know the secrets of this magical place. We do try to understand how it was built and what its function was, I believe we understand more about it now then ever before, but we really will never know.

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2. Briana Lester says:

   May 2, 2011 at 7:13 pm

   This is a pretty amusing idea. After studying the theories about how stonhenge could have been constructed, this of course makes it look rather easy. Most ikea projects look easy, but never are. The picture with the wizard guy is especially amusing. It sort of seems like magic might be the easiest explanation for how this amazingly huge post and lentel stucture was constructed.

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3. huitng zhou says:

   May 15, 2011 at 1:42 am

   i just read this bolg. this is pretty funny and interesting.just like most ikea projects, they all look like easy to do, but the fact is not. Stonehenge is still a mystery to how it was built.It is a comical testimonial of the ubiquitous nature of IKEA, their furniture and manuals.to explain how stonehenge build. use the easy way to show this amazing work.

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4. huitng zhou says:

   May 16, 2011 at 11:27 pm

   i just read this bolg. this is pretty funny and interesting.just like most ikea projects, they all look like easy to do, but the fact is not. Until now Stonehenge still is a mircale . Ikea ‘s furniture and manuals is like a funny game.to explain how stonehenge build. use the easy way to show this amazing work. I am respect this writer has this innovative idea. Sometimes use another view to think about same thing will get different answer.

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5. Chelsea says:

   November 9, 2011 at 1:43 pm

   What?? How funny is this! A clever twist of an IKEA owner’s manual relating to Stonehenge? What will they think of next. First of all, it is a bizarre mystery how all the stones made it to Stonehenge with the limited amount of equipment available to the people during that time. Let alone, with the post-and-lintel type of construction, how they were able to lift the massive multiple-ton pound rocks? My favorite is definitely step two where the thinking bubbles demonstrate how the happy workers are like, what the heck are we going to do with these? Let’s ask a greater, wiser spirit! My boyfriend and I had a conversation about Stonehenge and as a construction worker, he thinks that aliens or a greater force had to have helped them because it is impossible to think of what they would have done to construct such a complex structure. Who knows. It will always be a mystery to us… that almost adds to the value of it!

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6. Silvia says:

   December 12, 2011 at 11:33 pm

   This is a very clever take on the mystery of Stonehenge and how it was built. The world may never know exactly how it was done but at least we know how IKEA would do it…

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7. Mary Carroll says:

   January 29, 2012 at 2:11 pm

   I came to this site for an art history project. I love he humor. We just studied Stonehenge. All the prior comments are so true. I want to add non-IKEA information. Did you know that the inner stones were blue stones from a quarry 150 miles away in Wales? There is speculation that people who were sick came to this acred spot for healing. They chipped away pieces of the blue rock to use as amulets. Also, there are many people buried in the outer circle (looks like a circular ditch. Possibly they are the ones who arrived too late for the stones to heal them. I love this site. I’ll spend many hours checking out the other topics.

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8. Haleigh` says:

   May 13, 2012 at 9:15 pm

   I found this picture to be funny because the people started out with tools and all the correct rock pieces to rebuilt Stonehenge, yet when they tried to put it together with the tools they could not. In the one of the steps not even the magic wizard could help! I think this is symbolizing that Stonehenge can not be remastered nor was meant to be built in the first place. Now a days we have internet on our telephones, so why not try and have Stonehenge by Ikea decorated in our backyard?!

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9. Mary Dumont says:

   July 23, 2012 at 9:00 pm

   This illustration is so funny! It combines two great unknowns in the human experience: the stonehedge, and an ikea manual! The idea is so clever and, literately, inventive. Justin Pollard did a great job of making such a humorous, satirical mimic of the ever-so-confusing obscurity that is the ikea manual to one of the greatest mysteries of architectural history. What I love the most is how he portrayed the end of the manual. It seems simple at first but then getting into it and getting frustrating over it, you get drunk and destroy the damn thing! A perfect depiction of what actually happens. Wonderfully cohered together, entertaining, and clever as hell! Kudos to Justin!

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10. Kaitlyn says:

    October 11, 2012 at 5:05 pm

    This manual is very relevant to the art class I’m in. We just went over Stonehenge a few weeks ago and took a test on it. This manual is quite comical because it is still a mystery to us how Stonehenge was constructed. Especially since the majority of the stones were brought from miles away. I like how each step they are trying to figure out how to get the stones in the post and lentil figuration because I would love to know if that’s really how it occurred back when it was originally constructed. Like somebody above me already mentioned, the step with the wizard is the probably the funniest part because that almost seems like the most logical explanation as to how it was really built. This manual is (for lack of a better word) awesome!

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11. Jeremy says:

    November 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    This is awesome, a self help manual to build your own stonehenge. i love the wizard guy in step 3. the other good part is where it says what you will need, there is a x10000 next to people. So just invite your friends over to help throw it together!

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12. Taylor Martin says:

    December 10, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    This Manual brings humor into the making of Stonehenge. IKEA tries to make there projects easy to put together, but they are usually the opposite. Step 2 is probably the funniest part where the two are thinking how the heck are we going to put this together. Its hard to think about how man actually got these stones to where they are now. Going over Stonehenge in my art class was amazing because its truly a mystery how these people got these stones from places all over the world into a structure they are in now.

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13. Lorra says:

    December 10, 2012 at 10:06 pm

    Although some Ikea manuals are not the easiest to follow, I supposed I’ve gotten lucky choosing the easy pieces of furniture to put together when it came to purchasing from Ikea. I found this comical after learning about Stonehenge in an art history class. I cannot believe how all the stones got placed where they are still today. It is unbelievable to think this was done without the assistance of cranes and machines like it would be today. I remember seeing this for the first time on the projector screen in class, and I could not think of how this was done; How did they get the vertical stone on top of the two upright posts? We were told it is called the post and lintle system. I also still can’t figure out how stones of that size were transported there. If there was just one stone, maybe people could imagine all the help in moving it, but what was actually done is just amazing! This manual makes it look all too easy but I’m sure it was not as easy as it looks, just like Ikea manuals everyone is referring to.

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14. AlexGodinez says:

    December 11, 2012 at 12:27 am

    I do find this to be quite funny. This is a mockery and modern commentary on construction and building on how simple it is nowadays to build your own home, when sadly hundreds and perhaps thousands of years ago it would be impossible to build your own home, but they still had the energy to come up with Stonehenge. Even though, in this comic you can clearly see how frustrated one gets when things don’t go your way. At the end, you end up with your own creation and you define your own creations, and don’t need a manual to create. That is what Stonehenge is. A creation with no manual. Only human touch and human strength.

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