It seems that Shane Larson and his wife are painting their home. He documents it in vignett form in Painting. He also presents Service Station a vig based on a picture based on a Norman Rocwell painting.
Lugnet.people.teens is sponsoring the LeVig Contest to spotlight cool vignette building. The contest is open to all and will end on May 1. Details can be found in this thread. As they come in, entries will be displayed on this page.
Joe Vig is a collaborative project started by Nelson Yrizarry and Nathan Wells, the curators of Lugnet's vignette group. They describe him as "the unluckiest and most oblivious minifig ever created." Nelson and Nathan have created several vignettes involving Joe, and they invite you to join the fun.
There are tons of minifig heads to choose from, but the scared man found in four of the Monsters sets seems to be the one that vignette builders turn to again and again (along with, perhaps, the classic smiley).
This raises the question of "Why?". Is there something particularly humorous about putting little plastic figures in perilous situations? Is it funnier to have this head in a dangerous situation, or the classic smiley (as found for instance in Adrian's Super-Agent scenes)? Why the scared man head and not his counterpart scared woman (she does appear in vigs, but not nearly as often)? What do you think? What does the prevalence of the scared man reveal about our own inner fears?