Friday, August 10, 2007
Oh happy day!
Going off-topic briefly to celebrate a special occasion. Seventy-five years ago, in 1932, a Danish carpenter named Ole Kirk Christiansen started selling wooden toys. Two years later, one of his employees came up with the name "LEGO," as a contraction of the Danish phrase "Leg godt," meaning "Play well." For another twelve years it was still all wooden toys, until they first started experimenting with plastic molding. The interlocking LEGO brick was introduced in 1958, and the poseable minifig came in 1978. VignetteBricks came in 2005. ;) Read more history here.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Pirates, ninjas and all that jazz
Ah, finally some results from the BrickWorld 2007 Ninjas vs Pirates contest. Amanda Bobo won with Fresh Squeezed Ninja Juice.
Violent EB contests
Some good entries for the EuroBricks Whack-a-fig contest from starwars4j, Tanotrooper and hinckley39.
And a Kill-Jar-Jar entry from Sinner.
And a Kill-Jar-Jar entry from Sinner.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Contest results
Results are in on the Klocki z Czuba contest. Check out the finalists.
In the "sports scene" cateogory, the winner is Maciej Karwowsk, second is Crises, and third goes to Liwnik.
In the "new sport" category, the winner is Marcin Kitala, second is Maciej Karwowski, and third goes to Maciej Koszyka.
In the "sports scene" cateogory, the winner is Maciej Karwowsk, second is Crises, and third goes to Liwnik.
In the "new sport" category, the winner is Marcin Kitala, second is Maciej Karwowski, and third goes to Maciej Koszyka.
Monday, August 06, 2007
Links in the sidebar
I'm trying to keep a fairly comprehensive list of links on the right-hand sidebar. --> I've added a new category, "image hosting", for all of the various image hosting options that have come up recently (largely spurred by the recent Brickshelf crisis), and also added missing resource sites, communities, and blogs. It would be impossible to add every LUG site or smaller forum (no offense to those with smaller forums), so I had to make some judgments, but please let me know if there's anything major I missed.
You oughta be in pictures
Turkguy19 has a series of photographer vigs, featuring forensic, wildlife, and studio photographers.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Friday, August 03, 2007
Thursday, August 02, 2007
FC Star Wars Vig Custom Figure Contest
Jared Burks announced the FC Star Wars Vig Custom Figure Contest. Build a vig in a Star Wars theme using at least one custom fig. Follow the link above for details. First prize will be one of Jared's custom Tauntauns.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
V is for voting
It's time to vote in the Klocki z Czuba sports contest. Pick your favorites in two categories, one for scenes from a real sport and one for scenes from invented sports. After clicking your selection in each category, be sure to push the button marked "Glosuj" at the bottom.
Man of the vig
Alex Eylar has a great vig based on a Poe story, The Man of the Crowd. I enjoy Poe, but had not read this story before today, but the text is here and it's a pretty fast read.
Making only the two main characters in yellow and the rest in gray tones is a great idea. To really get the effect of this vig, though, you have to look at it from the fig's POV.
Making only the two main characters in yellow and the rest in gray tones is a great idea. To really get the effect of this vig, though, you have to look at it from the fig's POV.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Darling it's better down where it's wetter
The Klocki z Czuba contest is over, but Crises can't stop making sports vigs. Here is synchronized swimming.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Sports break
The deadline is past for the Klocki z Czuba contest. Check out the entries. Entries include:
Piotr Ślęzak's Go Cart
Grzegorz Szczupał's Niezbyt udane mistrzostwa - powrót do domu (could someone translate?)
Ricardo Silva's Golf in the moon
Piotr Ślęzak's Go Cart
Grzegorz Szczupał's Niezbyt udane mistrzostwa - powrót do domu (could someone translate?)
Ricardo Silva's Golf in the moon
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
VB is now the land of Nod
Wow, this is the most impressive string of bignettes I've seen since Izzo's great Drakkhen line. Builder Noddy presents a series of great MOCs, including:
Motorcross rally
Dakar rally
Flying carpets race
Legolungma
Motorcross rally
Dakar rally
Flying carpets race
Legolungma
Sporty spice
Several interesting new sports recently, I'm guessing all for the Klocki contest:
Marcin Kitala's Chicken Kickin' contest.
Crises' Banging a head contest.
KAROL4's Pan throw.
And one 'normal' sport, KAROL4's Pole Vault.
Marcin Kitala's Chicken Kickin' contest.
Crises' Banging a head contest.
KAROL4's Pan throw.
And one 'normal' sport, KAROL4's Pole Vault.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
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