Pomp and Circumstance

Vig Builder Steve Bishop graduated from law school this last saturday. Let's celebrate, vig-style.

Law School

Steve Bishop has a series of seven vignettes entitled the King Hall Experience that document life at the UC Davis Law School.

Ben Franklin

Googleplexer's brother made Ben Franklin.

Ewok's Revenge

I'm not sure where an Ewok found a river of lava. Perhaps he was on Mustafar. Anyway, Tyler presents Ewok's Revenge.

Joe Vig Contest

The curators of Lugnet.build.vignette are sponsoring the first ever Joe Vig Contest. Follow the link for more information on who Joe is and how you can enter. They will accept entries from June 1 to July 15. There are cool prizes, plus fame and glory, so get those creative juices flowing.

Misery

Rob Hendrix starts off a planned series of movie-themed vignettes with a scene from Misery.

Dum Dum Dum, Dum-de-Dum, Dum-de-Dum

Okay, everyone hum along with the Imperial March. I meant to do this a couple of days ago, but let's celebrate the opening of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith with some SW-based vignettes, some new, some old.

Panjob's Endor


Jedismuggler's Bar Fight


Dark Avenger's Star Wars Duels


Chris Malloy's Not Good


Rogerc-t's Geonosian Droid Foundry


PepaQuin's (i.e. Matt DeLanoy's) Ewok Band

Bad Hair Day

Deborah Higdon has entered the vig-game with an interactive creation: Bad Hair Day.

Asphyxiate, Asphyxiate Too, and Clandestine

This weekend Chris Doyle presented three new entries for his Bricktionary: Asphyxiate, Asphyxiate Too and Clandestine.

Haunted Mansion Trophy

Here's the Haunted Mansion trophy from last Halloween's NWBrickCon, a gathering of AFOLs in Seattle. Does anyone know who built this?

Track and Field

I've got a series of vignettes: Track and Field.

Vignette-Like-Creations by Nias

Japanese builder Nias has built a few great VLC's, including Coca Cola delivery, Fuyu No Sonata and Ferrari F2005 in Pit.

Contest/Events Index

Here's a list of contests and events related to vignettes and vignette-like creations that I've featured to date on VignetteBricks. Inverse chronological order by event/contest-closing date. Updated 3-3-06.

March 1, 2006 - First anniversary of VignetteBricks blog entry
March 1, 2006 - First v-pod appears blog entry, direct link
February 26, 2006 - Heroes and Villains contest on Classic-Castle blog entry 1, blog entry 2, blog entry 3, blog entry 4, blog entry 5, blog entry 6, blog entry 7, direct link
February 25, 2006 - Joe Vig goes to Japan blog entry, direct link
January 11, 2006 - BrickJournal 3 features vignettes blog entry, direct link
January 5, 2006 - new Vignettes group on Flickr blog entry, direct link
December 31, 2005 - Classic-Castle Collossal Castle Contest blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
November 2, 2005 - Launch of ILENN - International LEGO Enthusiasts News Network    blog entry, direct link
October 24, 2005 - Halloween vignette contest on Lugnet    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
September 26, 2005 - Mini MOC Madness 4 on LowLUG    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, blog entry 3, blog entry 4, direct link
September 10, 2005 - Name That Vig noprize contest    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
August 29, 2005 - MOC the Admins contest on Classic-Castle    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
August 12, 2005 - Brickfest space awards will feature vigs    blog entry, direct link
August 12, 2005 - Brickfest Vig THIS! contest    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, blog entry 3, blog entry 4, direct link
July 15, 2005 - Joe Vig contest    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
June 23, 2005 - BrickJournal release    blog entry, direct link
June 18, 2005 - SSLF vignette contest blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
May 6, 2005 - House of Bricks contest    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
May 1, 2005 - LeVig contest    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
May? 2005 - Kotsky.org vignette forum formed    blog entry, direct link
April 16, 2005 - MichLUG contest    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
April 9, 2005 - IndyLUG contest    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
April 1, 2005 - Odaiba contest    blog entry, direct link
March 20, 2005 - LowLUG contest    blog entry, direct link
March 16, 2005 - Joe Vig introduced    blog entry, direct link
March 3, 2005 - Lugnet.build.vignette launched    blog entry, direct link
March 1, 2005 - VignetteBricks launched    blog entry
December 31, 2004 - Classic-Castle contest    blog entry 1, blog entry 2, direct link
September/October 2004 - Vignettes gain popularity on Classic-Castle.com blog entry
March 2002 - Japanese AFOLs create the first vignettes    blog entry, direct link

Contest news

Updates on two contests:

The LeVig contest, which I previously blogged was won by Chris Malloy. I've previously noted his great Treacherous Waters.



The House of Bricks contest that I previously blogged was a bit of a bust. Noone brought castle-themed vignettes to the convention, so they decided to open it up to all vigs. Unfortunately, the only vigs in the voting were Adrian Drake's great Secret Agent vigs (that I've noted before), so he won by default.

Beach Party

Steve Bishop is celebrating his 500th post on Classic-Castle with a Beach Party, vignette style.

Knights of the Round Table

It seems that combination vignettes are the order of the day. Patrick Yrizarry presents a sereis of four vignettes--Elder Knights, Heroes and Villains, the Seat Royal and the Siege Perilous--that all combine to form Knights of the Round Table. In addition to fitting the history of King Arthur, this set of vignettes also celebrates the history of LEGO Castle, with most of the major sub-themes of Castle represented.

Saloon

Nathan Wells presents a set of vignettes: Bar, Gambling, Sheriff and TNT, which all join together to make the Saloon.

Index added

I've added an index of all of the vignettes that have been featured on VignetteBricks. This will be linked over in the sidebar and updated regularly.


Some stats:
In just over two months I’ve highlighted 147 different individual vignettes, plus 16 vignette groupings.
So far I’ve highlighted over 70 different builders (hard to say how many since a few of those highlights are of LUG meetings or contests with multiple entries).
The biggest vigger, by the very arbitrary standard of which ones I chose to highlight, is Nelson, with 16 blog entries, followed closely by Nathan with 13 and Shane Larson with 10.

Anyway, keep ‘em coming.

Yin to my Yang

One from me: Yin to my Yang.

Vignette-Like Creations

I've debated whether I should cover these here on VignetteBricks. I've noticed a couple of great instances of creations that are very similar to vignettes, in that they use a small scene to capture an action scene, but they sit on much larger footprints, such as 16x16 baseplates. Since these can still capture the spirit of vignettes, I'm going to refer to these as "Vignette-Like Creations", or VLCs. So, anyway, here are a couple of instances.

Odaiba Contest 3 was a recent contest held at ClickBrick, a famous LEGO shop in Tokyo. All of the entrants had to sit on 16x16 bases, and several of them were Vignette-Like Creations (more pics here):




In another recent event, it seems that Lowlug, a Dutch AFOL group, had a similar Contest involving VLC's.