Saturday, December 30, 2006
Welcome back, me
Hi, VB fans. Sorry about the lack of updates. I was away for Christmas. Anyway, let's start things back up with two by Thomas Wunz: Here are his Flower Rampage and Jack and the Beanstalk.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Monday, December 18, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Monday, December 04, 2006
Lord of the Vigs
Miklos Hosszu has recently posted a number of interesting vignettes, such as Silent of the Dwarf, Halloween Accident, and, from his girlfriend, Japanese Winter.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
'Tare the seasons
Hey, let's learn our seasons!
Darkie celebrates the recent weather in the Pacific northwest with Icy!.
Soon we'll all be dreaming of the return of spring. When it comes, though, be sure to beware the Bunny Brigade, as Histo-Sci warns us.
After that we'll come back to the balmy days of summer. Time to work out in the yard with k-hatch's Topiary Brick. Interesting gardening tools there.
Then on to Autumn, an old vig by me.
And back around to winter again.
Darkie celebrates the recent weather in the Pacific northwest with Icy!.
Soon we'll all be dreaming of the return of spring. When it comes, though, be sure to beware the Bunny Brigade, as Histo-Sci warns us.
After that we'll come back to the balmy days of summer. Time to work out in the yard with k-hatch's Topiary Brick. Interesting gardening tools there.
Then on to Autumn, an old vig by me.
And back around to winter again.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Orange Bignette Redux
A while ago I blogged about the LowLUG MMM event, where LUG members built bignettes based on the theme "orange sentiment". This could be interpreted as the color, which is the color of the Dutch national team futball uniforms, and also refers to the House of Orange, or the Dutch royal family. Both sentiments are in view in MOCkingbird's Oranje Gevoel, with very different scenes in adjacent apartments. MOCkingbird has just posted several more pics of this MOC.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Odaiba time
It's that time again. Every year there is a contest at a LEGO store in Tokyo where the creations must sit on a 16x16 footprint. I'm not sure if Odaiba is the name of the store or the name of the contest, perhaps Dunechaser can learn some more about this for us. This year's entries seem to be more sculptures than real fig-scale creations, but there are some of the wonderful bignettes include Sekiyama's Cityscape and Hiro's Iron Giant.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
No legoization without representation
Hmm, I'm amazed that that last one didn't inspire a lot of comments. Nermal presents a less controversial historic vig with American Revolution.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
A disturbing vig
LEGO isn't just about having fun, it can also be about making you think. Optimus-convoy made Inhumane Treatment as part of a school project about the history of slavery in America.
Does size matter?
Vig builder Izzo has a series of MOCs Considering Vignette Spaces. He's made a 4x4 (Searching Penny), a 2x2 (Crocodile), and even a 1x1 (Rocket).
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
A much bigger vig
This one really made me laugh. Quatro is a variant of LEGO with much bigger bricks aimed at small children. Shane Larson's bricks are in storage while he is in the process of moving, so all he has available is his daughter's Quatro bricks. As a result, he presents Quatro Man Walking.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Contest wrap-up and other vignette news
I have to apologize to fans of VignetteBricks for the lack of updates for the past few weeks. Things have been busy here of late. Anyway, there were a few contests left unreported. Over on Mecha Hub there was an Exo-Force Build Off contest, including an Exo-Force themed vig category. The 13-and-under age group was won by Andy Erdellen's Hover Chase, and the 14-and-over age group was won by Jehkay's Undesirable Outcome. Congratulations to the winners and all entrants.
Unfortunately, there were not very many entries in either of the recent lugnet.build.vignette contests. In the Joe Vig contest there were only nine entries, so no prizes were awarded. However, the top three were ranked:
#1- Brendan Mauro's Joe Vig and the Crypts of Anubis
#2- Linus Bohman's Joerassic Park
#3- Bon's Kicking Off?
In the Halloween contest, there were only four entries, so the judges declared a four-way tie.
C'mon, people - let's see more vignette entries! (I have to admit, I didn't get a Joe Vig entry made myself.)
In other vignette news, BrickJournal 5 is out. BrickJournal is an electronic magazine published by Joe Meno and a team of AFOLs focusing on all aspects of the LEGO hobby. This issue focuses on big creations, but there's still a little space for small creations as well. On page 90 there is an article called "You Can Build It: Street Vignette", with instructions to make a nice little street scene designed by Geoff Gray. Joe also kindly mentions your friendly neighborhood vig-blogger in the accompanying write-up. BrickJournal is ultra-cool. Go to Joe's site and download all five issues and read them now.
Okay, I'll start blogging new vigs again shortly.
Unfortunately, there were not very many entries in either of the recent lugnet.build.vignette contests. In the Joe Vig contest there were only nine entries, so no prizes were awarded. However, the top three were ranked:
#1- Brendan Mauro's Joe Vig and the Crypts of Anubis
#2- Linus Bohman's Joerassic Park
#3- Bon's Kicking Off?
In the Halloween contest, there were only four entries, so the judges declared a four-way tie.
C'mon, people - let's see more vignette entries! (I have to admit, I didn't get a Joe Vig entry made myself.)
In other vignette news, BrickJournal 5 is out. BrickJournal is an electronic magazine published by Joe Meno and a team of AFOLs focusing on all aspects of the LEGO hobby. This issue focuses on big creations, but there's still a little space for small creations as well. On page 90 there is an article called "You Can Build It: Street Vignette", with instructions to make a nice little street scene designed by Geoff Gray. Joe also kindly mentions your friendly neighborhood vig-blogger in the accompanying write-up. BrickJournal is ultra-cool. Go to Joe's site and download all five issues and read them now.
Okay, I'll start blogging new vigs again shortly.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Happy Halloween
Shoot, I meant to post these yesterday. There have been a few Halloween-themed vigs posted over the past several days. Let's start with my posting of The Tell-Tale Heart.
Two other entries to the Lugnet.build.vignette Halloween contest are Megan Rothrock's entry, All-Hallows-Eve.
and Jonas Lindbarg's interpretation of Trick or Treat.
Nermal brings us Pumpkin carving.
And Nangman has Monster House.
Two other entries to the Lugnet.build.vignette Halloween contest are Megan Rothrock's entry, All-Hallows-Eve.
and Jonas Lindbarg's interpretation of Trick or Treat.
Nermal brings us Pumpkin carving.
And Nangman has Monster House.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Just say vig
Timothy Gould presents London Opium Den. "In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Happy anniversary, 4 months late
I'm guessing that Xueren celebrates a wedding anniversary on June 11, based on the calendar on the wall in the lovely Marriage License.
Goin' medieval on your vig
DARKspawn enters the world of vigs with three castle-themed creations: Alchemist, Knight's Shrine and Regicide.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Monday, October 16, 2006
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Friday, October 13, 2006
The Twa Corbies
Kaptain Kobald presents a vig based on a poem from the 17th century, The Twa Corbies, in which two ravens discuss a fallen knight:
'His hound is to the hunting gane,
His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,
His lady 's ta'en anither mate,
So we may mak our dinner sweet.
'His hound is to the hunting gane,
His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,
His lady 's ta'en anither mate,
So we may mak our dinner sweet.
Spy V(ig)S Spy
Lorax presents a scene right out of Mad Magazine: Spy vs Spy Beach. Thanks, Nelson, for the heads-up.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Happy 40th anniversary, Charlie Brown
To honor the 40th annual showing of the Charlie Brown Halloween special, Glorious Kyle presents Great Pumpkin.
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