-Edit- Ah, yes. Chris used a series of vigs as wedding cake toppers. Very cool.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Anonymous BrickCon Vigs
Two vigs from BrickCon. I'm guessing these are by Chris Wunz?
-Edit- Ah, yes. Chris used a series of vigs as wedding cake toppers. Very cool.
-Edit- Ah, yes. Chris used a series of vigs as wedding cake toppers. Very cool.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Vig me a vig, piano man
LGOe is holding a song vig contest. Brainbox.rider interpreted Coin Operated Boy by The Dresden Dolls.
Monday, October 06, 2008
Bye-bye Jar-Jar
Lt. de Martinet presents Oops as an entry for the Last Moments of Jar-Jar category in Reasonably Clever's Spooky Star Wars contest.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Brick Science wrap-up,
Last up, the Large build category. This doesn't really fit on this blog, since these aren't really the sort of creation I highlight here, but for completeness sake I'll just mention my top 6 quickly.
Mariann Asanuma's Dr. L. Ego's Laboratory. That central structure is beautiful, especially the curving staircases. I do think the plain blue baseplate around that is kind of empty, though. The upside down goblets as erlenmeyer flasks is really clever.
Lt. de Martinet's Charles' plans is pure steampunky goodness. My favorite bit is the drill machine coming up out of the ground. Also the guy on the balcony on the left firing some sort of rocket at the small balloon.
SirNadroj's Der Geist's Roboter has some clever parts usage. I particularly like the helmets as kneecaps.
Karf Oohlu's lunatic's lunar lair was my favorite from this category. Everything is top-knotch, from the treads used on the walls, to the floating head, to the monster under the trap door. Flawless.
Tiberium_blue's Dr. Monochrome's Monodome. Was my other favorite. The idea is funny, and the curved wall, the robot, the green turning to black tentacles are all great. Mom bringing down snacks makes the scene, though. Only complaint is why does Dr. Monochrome have a yellow head?
Nolnet's Doctor Dank's secret underwater hideout came in late, so was not up for judging, but it's great anyway. Clever use of the X-pod cannisters, the unique shape, the little underwater touches (e.g. the diver, shark, pirate skelly) and Dr. Dank himself are all great.
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Mariann Asanuma's Dr. L. Ego's Laboratory. That central structure is beautiful, especially the curving staircases. I do think the plain blue baseplate around that is kind of empty, though. The upside down goblets as erlenmeyer flasks is really clever.
Lt. de Martinet's Charles' plans is pure steampunky goodness. My favorite bit is the drill machine coming up out of the ground. Also the guy on the balcony on the left firing some sort of rocket at the small balloon.
SirNadroj's Der Geist's Roboter has some clever parts usage. I particularly like the helmets as kneecaps.
Karf Oohlu's lunatic's lunar lair was my favorite from this category. Everything is top-knotch, from the treads used on the walls, to the floating head, to the monster under the trap door. Flawless.
Tiberium_blue's Dr. Monochrome's Monodome. Was my other favorite. The idea is funny, and the curved wall, the robot, the green turning to black tentacles are all great. Mom bringing down snacks makes the scene, though. Only complaint is why does Dr. Monochrome have a yellow head?
Nolnet's Doctor Dank's secret underwater hideout came in late, so was not up for judging, but it's great anyway. Clever use of the X-pod cannisters, the unique shape, the little underwater touches (e.g. the diver, shark, pirate skelly) and Dr. Dank himself are all great.
Friday, October 03, 2008
Brick Science wrap-up, Evil Scientist impulse build category
Next, thoughts on a few of my favorites from the evil scientist impulse build category.
George Fox's winning frog collider uses magnets in a novel way, as in his frog levitation that I mentioned in the previous blog post.
Lord Pappadhum's Il Magnifico Dr. Piersilvio Placebo was my personal favorite from this category. It's a nice twist on the evil scientist idea (not just another "here's Dr. Evil with his death ray), and both the build and presentation are flawless.
Sir Nadroj's Skunker is a fun idea. Run! It's the bionic skunks! Great use of the hairpiece, and the beard as skunk's tail is inspired.
Mastergongfu's Dr. Salyvonavic. Great parts usage on the Deathbot.
Obxcrew's Dr. Totenkopf looks like something out of Dr. Strangelove to me. Great bomb design and the design of the good Doctor is wonderful. I'm a little disturbed by the costume choice for his henchman. :)
Dave Rapp's Blow up the world button. I agree with Graviton. Best 3-piece MOC ever.
Adrian Florea's Dr. Head. I love the wheels on the henchfrog's robot, and the use of the black skelly with the screaming head is hilarious.
George Fox's winning frog collider uses magnets in a novel way, as in his frog levitation that I mentioned in the previous blog post.
Lord Pappadhum's Il Magnifico Dr. Piersilvio Placebo was my personal favorite from this category. It's a nice twist on the evil scientist idea (not just another "here's Dr. Evil with his death ray), and both the build and presentation are flawless.
Sir Nadroj's Skunker is a fun idea. Run! It's the bionic skunks! Great use of the hairpiece, and the beard as skunk's tail is inspired.
Mastergongfu's Dr. Salyvonavic. Great parts usage on the Deathbot.
Obxcrew's Dr. Totenkopf looks like something out of Dr. Strangelove to me. Great bomb design and the design of the good Doctor is wonderful. I'm a little disturbed by the costume choice for his henchman. :)
Dave Rapp's Blow up the world button. I agree with Graviton. Best 3-piece MOC ever.
Adrian Florea's Dr. Head. I love the wheels on the henchfrog's robot, and the use of the black skelly with the screaming head is hilarious.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Brick Science wrap-up, Good Scientist impulse build category
Okay, continuing on, my thoughts on a few favorites from the good scientist impulse build category from the Brick Science contest.
Sir Nadroj's Dr. Able Tosplice was my pick for my personal favorite GEM award. There are just such great build details here, like the lightsaber table legs, that great microscope, and the clever way the skelly his held up on the stand. The real clincher here, though, is the use of that Scala necklace as a DNA model. That's just a beautiful idea. Those details are just the sorts of things you might expect to see sitting around a geneticists office.
TK1420's Marie and Pierre Curie won the category. Some nice details behind them, especially that bell jar, but the cool add-on here is the black-light version with the glowing rod.
Obxcrew's Dr. Jijikine has some nice build details in the laser, such as the use of the torso, but that little wooden table is what really grabbed me. I think it's only held together by the rubber bands, which also make a good visual detail. Nice. The tire as Russian hat goes perfectly with that beard and trench coat.
Lord Pappadhum's Professor Herbert Jaarkopf is a nice idea. The mechanism is very clean and the color scheme is good. Some nice details like the hands as switches. I agree with the person on Flickr who commented that the head was particularly well chosen.
Junsier's Leianator. LOL. Very clever idea.
Crises' Fertilizer has hands down the best fig-scale microscope I've seen (and there are a couple other really nice ones in this competition). The other lab equipment and the drawer on the lab bench are nice as well. The contrast between the unfertilized and fertilized plants is great.
Legostargalactica's D. M. Jeftinija Ph.D. has another great microscope design. Also A+ for the real science of the backstory. In general I gave higher marks to those with real science rather than "here's the scientist with his super-laser" MOCs.
Ean H.'s Bigger, Better Appleradish is really well presented. The machines are clean and well constructed (great use of that windscreen element). Good fig choice as well.
Nolnet's Tricia Schultz is a fun idea, the clear tubing as the trail of the fly is clever.
In George Fox's Frog Levitation, LEGO magnets are used in a way I've never seen before. It'd be cool to see what other levitating MOCs could use this idea.
Michael Haymore's Human Transporter is a funny trick that I didn't see at first glance.
SuperDave's high school science teacher is a great tribute. The ring stand is a particularly nice design. Love that he's testing the hammer versus feather falling (though shouldn't he be doing this in a vacuum, and if he is in a vacuum, why is he smiling?).
Marta Legominha's Robert Bunsen is both funny and gets extra points for choosing an experiment I've taught many times. I'm not sure why the arms are on backwards, though.
Sir Nadroj's Dr. Able Tosplice was my pick for my personal favorite GEM award. There are just such great build details here, like the lightsaber table legs, that great microscope, and the clever way the skelly his held up on the stand. The real clincher here, though, is the use of that Scala necklace as a DNA model. That's just a beautiful idea. Those details are just the sorts of things you might expect to see sitting around a geneticists office.
TK1420's Marie and Pierre Curie won the category. Some nice details behind them, especially that bell jar, but the cool add-on here is the black-light version with the glowing rod.
Obxcrew's Dr. Jijikine has some nice build details in the laser, such as the use of the torso, but that little wooden table is what really grabbed me. I think it's only held together by the rubber bands, which also make a good visual detail. Nice. The tire as Russian hat goes perfectly with that beard and trench coat.
Lord Pappadhum's Professor Herbert Jaarkopf is a nice idea. The mechanism is very clean and the color scheme is good. Some nice details like the hands as switches. I agree with the person on Flickr who commented that the head was particularly well chosen.
Junsier's Leianator. LOL. Very clever idea.
Crises' Fertilizer has hands down the best fig-scale microscope I've seen (and there are a couple other really nice ones in this competition). The other lab equipment and the drawer on the lab bench are nice as well. The contrast between the unfertilized and fertilized plants is great.
Legostargalactica's D. M. Jeftinija Ph.D. has another great microscope design. Also A+ for the real science of the backstory. In general I gave higher marks to those with real science rather than "here's the scientist with his super-laser" MOCs.
Ean H.'s Bigger, Better Appleradish is really well presented. The machines are clean and well constructed (great use of that windscreen element). Good fig choice as well.
Nolnet's Tricia Schultz is a fun idea, the clear tubing as the trail of the fly is clever.
In George Fox's Frog Levitation, LEGO magnets are used in a way I've never seen before. It'd be cool to see what other levitating MOCs could use this idea.
Michael Haymore's Human Transporter is a funny trick that I didn't see at first glance.
SuperDave's high school science teacher is a great tribute. The ring stand is a particularly nice design. Love that he's testing the hammer versus feather falling (though shouldn't he be doing this in a vacuum, and if he is in a vacuum, why is he smiling?).
Marta Legominha's Robert Bunsen is both funny and gets extra points for choosing an experiment I've taught many times. I'm not sure why the arms are on backwards, though.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Brick Science wrap-up, vignette category
I was one of the judges for the Brick Science contest over on Reasonably Clever. Now that the winners have been announced, I'd like to post some thoughts on a few of my favorites. Most appropriately to this blog, I'll start with the real or fictional scientist vignette category. One note overall on my judging. Since "science" was one of the criteria, I tended to give higher marks to MOCs incorporating some real scientific details. I'm also always looking for new building techniques, unique part usage, etc. Overall coolness of design is always important, of course. Presentation wasn't a specific part of my grading, but the best MOC can be obscured by a poorly lit, blurry photo from a bad angle with a busy background.
Ean H's Theoretical Physics won the category, with Moog the caveman inventing fire, perhaps the most important scientific discovery of all time. A fairly simple build, but the idea here is a clever take on the category. The rat getting at Moog's food is a nice touch.
Rknum's Louis Pasteur was one of my own favorites, as Pasteur is perhaps my favorite scientist. The ring stand design is very nice, also the old-school shields as burners, with the trans red one as hot, are a neat idea.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a clever two-sided vig with "before" and "after" scenes. My favorite bits are how Hyde is destroying the scene, tearing down the "E", breaking the table (note how that's connected with a stickshift) and spilling the potion.
TK1420's Dr. Bakker on a dig uses the skeletal horse from the castle line as a fossil. This has been seen before. The cool thing here is that the palentologist is someone that TK1420 knows and he even joined in the fun, being photographed with his LEGO likeness. How cool is that?
Kaptain Kobold's Charles Darwin has the scientist in the Galapagos Islands studying a giant tortoise. I'm actually not a fan of the tortoise design, but the forced perspective with the microscale HMS Beagle in the distance makes this vig stand out.
Lord Pappadhum's Eureka is a simple build, but it clearly illustrates the famous story of Archimedes in a funny way. I love the water spilled out on the ground.
While we're on it, SuperDave's Archimedes illustrates the same story. The water spilling is well done, as is his head and arm coming out of the water. The best bit here, though, is that huge exclamation mark. Well played.
Kaczor's Mendeleev includes a nice periodic table, abbreviated down to fit the size restrictions. I showed this creation to my intro chemistry students when I was talking about Mendeleev.
Rook's Dr. Ivan Pavlov has a really nice solution for the bell.
Joonce's Dr. Gaius Baltar has a nice chair design and the legs on the woman are well done.
Nightmare's Bat trap does the best job of the contest at depicting action. Most of the other builds are rather static.
Nolnet's Conrad Zuse was Graviton's pick for the winner with good reason. The computer is really well done, and the filter on the photo is really effective.
Zwitl's Robert Goddard has some really interesting parts usage in the design of the rocket (for instance, check out the SW blasters).
Ean H's Theoretical Physics won the category, with Moog the caveman inventing fire, perhaps the most important scientific discovery of all time. A fairly simple build, but the idea here is a clever take on the category. The rat getting at Moog's food is a nice touch.
Rknum's Louis Pasteur was one of my own favorites, as Pasteur is perhaps my favorite scientist. The ring stand design is very nice, also the old-school shields as burners, with the trans red one as hot, are a neat idea.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a clever two-sided vig with "before" and "after" scenes. My favorite bits are how Hyde is destroying the scene, tearing down the "E", breaking the table (note how that's connected with a stickshift) and spilling the potion.
TK1420's Dr. Bakker on a dig uses the skeletal horse from the castle line as a fossil. This has been seen before. The cool thing here is that the palentologist is someone that TK1420 knows and he even joined in the fun, being photographed with his LEGO likeness. How cool is that?
Kaptain Kobold's Charles Darwin has the scientist in the Galapagos Islands studying a giant tortoise. I'm actually not a fan of the tortoise design, but the forced perspective with the microscale HMS Beagle in the distance makes this vig stand out.
Lord Pappadhum's Eureka is a simple build, but it clearly illustrates the famous story of Archimedes in a funny way. I love the water spilled out on the ground.
While we're on it, SuperDave's Archimedes illustrates the same story. The water spilling is well done, as is his head and arm coming out of the water. The best bit here, though, is that huge exclamation mark. Well played.
Kaczor's Mendeleev includes a nice periodic table, abbreviated down to fit the size restrictions. I showed this creation to my intro chemistry students when I was talking about Mendeleev.
Rook's Dr. Ivan Pavlov has a really nice solution for the bell.
Joonce's Dr. Gaius Baltar has a nice chair design and the legs on the woman are well done.
Nightmare's Bat trap does the best job of the contest at depicting action. Most of the other builds are rather static.
Nolnet's Conrad Zuse was Graviton's pick for the winner with good reason. The computer is really well done, and the filter on the photo is really effective.
Zwitl's Robert Goddard has some really interesting parts usage in the design of the rocket (for instance, check out the SW blasters).
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