Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Poor Jar-Jar
Darth-Ewok's rafting is an entry for a contest on Imperium Der Steine. The use of a window as the waterfall is really clever.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Great Ceasar's Ghost!
Entries are starting to come in for the Brick Science contest on Reasonably Clever, such as this Doctor Emmet Brown by Ezra (Flynn).
Friday, August 22, 2008
Organ Harvesting
Rocko's organ harvesting calls attention to the brutal treatment of the Falun Gong by the Chinese government. Read more about this. Warning to parents - this is gruesome stuff, you may want to discuss it with your children.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Olympians
Both Jarod_Uses_Film 713Avenue have been creating series of Olympic-themed scenes as the games have progressed.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Then we made our true love vow. Wonder what she's doing now?
Commander Calamitous has his own take on Summers End. I almost put this over on MicroBricks for the great AT-TE and Republic Gunship in the background, but figured I'd put this here to pair with the previous MOC.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Brick Science Contest
Chris Doyle, of Reasonably Clever is hosting a Brick Science contest and Shane Larson and myself are guest judges. The connection? We're all scientists. That's right, with fancy degrees and everything. Build something inspired by good or evil scientists, real or fictional to win fabulous prizes. Of particular note for this blog is the vignette category. Here are Shane's Particle Accelerator and Lenny Hoffman's Galileo for some inspiration (though Lenny's wouldn't fit the contest rules for the vig category).
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Dun-dun-de-dun-dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-de-dun, dun-de-dun-de-de-dun-dun-dun
Hmm, maybe that doesn't work as well as the Jaws theme or the Imperial March. Anyway, these are old, but in honor of the 2008 Summer Olympics I figured I'd re-post my track and field vigs.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
The old switcheroo
Brainbike.rider built the secret suitcase swap for a spy-themed agent on Lugnet.at, the Austrian LEGO group.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
We got spirit yes we do
AlexF presents Spirit. "The Spirit had chased Octopus around Cental City. He seemed to have lost him down in the sewers but then he fell for one of the oldest tricks"
Saturday, August 09, 2008
And the winner is ...
Over in the Klocki Indiana Jones contest, Ciamek won the Indiana Jones and Memorable Scene category with Cart Ride.
Friday, August 08, 2008
LEGO Art - potential forum idea
Over on the Brothers-Brick there is a great discussion in response to an essay by Roy Cook on Is LEGO art? (short synopsis - it isn't always, but it can be). In the epic string of comments that follow, Fallentomato suggested the utility of a "LEGO art" forum, just as there are forums related to Castle LEGO, Space LEGO, etc (oh, and I would be remiss if I didn't point out the new Forbidden Cove devoted to Pirate LEGO). I think this is a great idea. I'm not volunteering to set this up, as I already have a full plate (admin one forum, run three blogs, participate in other forums), but I would be a willing participant. I think that often vigs can be very successful as art, so there would be some crossover here. In my vision, a LEGO Art forum would be divided into a few sub-forums:
Theory of LEGO Art - This would be for discussions such as Roy's essay.
LEGO Artwork - Presentation of LEGO creations and discussions of their artistic merits. For instance, Izzo's series of Japanese proverb vigs.
Art Reflects LEGO, LEGO Reflects Art - This would be for those LEGO creations that refer to art, or artistic works that refer to LEGO. Here I'm thinking of things like Arthur Gugick's Mona Lisa, the works of Udronotto and Balakov, Annie Preston's artist vigs and Marti, Irene i Joan Mitjavila's rendition of Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (below).
Techniques - Perhaps a section for new building techniques as they can relate to artistic MOCs. E.g. different mosaic techniques like Brendan's headlight mosaic versus studs up, versus studs out, etc.
News - Things like the Nathan Sawaya's Art of the Brick tour, Olafur Eliasson's cubic structural evolution project 2004, maybe the release of new sets that somehow relate to art like the mosaic sets or the new Taj Mahal.
Probably also subforums for introductions and admin issues. The cool thing about such a forum is that, with some effort, it might bring together people from the LEGO world and people from the art world.
Theory of LEGO Art - This would be for discussions such as Roy's essay.
LEGO Artwork - Presentation of LEGO creations and discussions of their artistic merits. For instance, Izzo's series of Japanese proverb vigs.
Art Reflects LEGO, LEGO Reflects Art - This would be for those LEGO creations that refer to art, or artistic works that refer to LEGO. Here I'm thinking of things like Arthur Gugick's Mona Lisa, the works of Udronotto and Balakov, Annie Preston's artist vigs and Marti, Irene i Joan Mitjavila's rendition of Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (below).
Techniques - Perhaps a section for new building techniques as they can relate to artistic MOCs. E.g. different mosaic techniques like Brendan's headlight mosaic versus studs up, versus studs out, etc.
News - Things like the Nathan Sawaya's Art of the Brick tour, Olafur Eliasson's cubic structural evolution project 2004, maybe the release of new sets that somehow relate to art like the mosaic sets or the new Taj Mahal.
Probably also subforums for introductions and admin issues. The cool thing about such a forum is that, with some effort, it might bring together people from the LEGO world and people from the art world.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Clone Wars contest
Over on Eurobricks they're having a Clone Wars contest. Some of the entries include:
Pedrocon's ATRT assault
BabyJawa's Grievous' Escape
Newright's mountain top vig
Obi Wan Kenobi's Droid General Revealed
Pedrocon's ATRT assault
BabyJawa's Grievous' Escape
Newright's mountain top vig
Obi Wan Kenobi's Droid General Revealed
Monday, August 04, 2008
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Vote!
It's time to vote in the Klocki Indiana Jones Contest including, of course, a vig category. I've voted already, have you?
Friday, August 01, 2008
Ambassador round-up
It's been a while since I blogged on the Ambassador vignette build challenge. The new LEGO Ambassadors were asked to build vigs representing themselves as builders and their roles. I've already noted several of them. Here are the others I've seen (thanks to Nannan of the Brothers Brick for some of these links). Could someone with access to the super-secret-Ambassador-forums point me to any in public view that I've missed?
Andrew Becraft is a man who wears many hats in the AFOL community (be sure to follow the link to see all the notes on this one).
Happy Weasel (aka Dan Rubin) sees himself as a noise filter, taking all of the community's issues to LEGO.
Slice151 (aka Fradel Gonzales) is more machine than man.
Imhotepidus' (Roy Cook) self portrait is full of symbolism - the tree for growth, the missing brick for the need to improve, etc.
Magnus Lauglo shows off his LEGO building area.
Tim Gould (Gambort) is the man behind the screen (hmm, why is this not in his Flickr photostream?).
Tsang Yiu Keung (Chiukeung) shows off his Green Grocer.
Mike Crowley (CountBlockula) sees himself as a creation of the community in his role as LA.
Danila Martyakhin's (Dandily) Equilibrium features a robot built for a contest on Doublebrick.ru.
Andrew Becraft is a man who wears many hats in the AFOL community (be sure to follow the link to see all the notes on this one).
Happy Weasel (aka Dan Rubin) sees himself as a noise filter, taking all of the community's issues to LEGO.
Slice151 (aka Fradel Gonzales) is more machine than man.
Imhotepidus' (Roy Cook) self portrait is full of symbolism - the tree for growth, the missing brick for the need to improve, etc.
Magnus Lauglo shows off his LEGO building area.
Tim Gould (Gambort) is the man behind the screen (hmm, why is this not in his Flickr photostream?).
Tsang Yiu Keung (Chiukeung) shows off his Green Grocer.
Mike Crowley (CountBlockula) sees himself as a creation of the community in his role as LA.
Danila Martyakhin's (Dandily) Equilibrium features a robot built for a contest on Doublebrick.ru.
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