The Brothers Brick

Patrick has built a very nifty Necromancer’s Tower for the Lego Castle Contest currently running on Classic-Castle. Don’t tell anyone, but I think this will be the winner in the Tower category!

Photographer Joe Braun has created a series of photographs that incorporate classic Space minifigs into real-world environments. The result is other-worldy:

Check out the full gallery on Joe Braun’s Web site.
(Via (un)social-commentary.)

Bruce presents an amazing microscale version of Minas Tirith from The Lord of the Rings:

Head on over to Bruce’s Web site, Brick Tales, for lots of pictures.

The First LEGO League World Festival 2007 is going on through today in Atlanta, Georgia.
Head on over to The NXT STEP for extensive coverage. Hope you’re having fun, Gothic Lawn Gnomes!

Graznador continues what appears now to be a series of LEGO creations inspired by Super Mario Bros. with his latest floating rock:

The Thwomp is unbelievably awesome.
(Previous post here on TBB.)

Author Kurt Vonnegut died today in New York (BBC story).
Here’s my Billy Pilgrim minifig from Slaughterhouse Five, a book inspired by Vonnegut’s experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden during World War II:

Those of you who saw pictures from BrickFest the weekend before last will have noticed the six-foot-long ship dominating the Space display.
Safely back home across the northern border, Nathan Proudlove presents the Blacktron II:

Yes, the hull is made from regular bricks. It’s just so big that they can curve (a technique more familiar to castle [...]

But Flickr user baby_elephant has a funny batch of minifigs inspired by Arrested Development (with the Bluth company vehicle, naturally):

After some considerable delay, the Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts (BAMPA) nominations have been announced. The nominations are as follows:
Best Film
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Triumph of the Empire
Best Animation
Capastroid
Faithless
Grace
Macbeth: Act V Scene VII
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Best Cinematography
Douleur
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Screenplay
Climb So High
Faithless
The [...]

(Via Ladrillitos, where you can read much more. Well, if you read Spanish…)

Pretty cool.

(Via LegOficina dos Baixinhos.)

Holger Matthes presents a building in Stuttgart, Germany designed by architect Le Corbusier:

Here’s something I built for Brickfest, called “The Bastion of Garda Tùr”. For those of you who might be a bit rusty when it comes to Gaelic, “Garda Tùr” means “guard tower” (or at least it does according to the online dictionary I found). Anyway, on the actual creation.

I hope you enjoy it!

Brickshelf user Kaitimar has been posting some really cool hover-vehicles (eels optional). My favorite so far is the Zoomer:

So, what might a SYSTEM builder use a MINDSTORMS NXT robot for? Sorting bricks by color, of course! Duh.
Check out Dave Astolfo’s Brick Sorter:

Read more about it on nxtasy.org or on Dave’s site, Plasti-Bots.

Eurobricks has had a thriving LEGO Pirates forum for some time now, but the Pirates theme has lacked a Web presence of its own since the demise of PirateBricks.com. But ahoy! What’s this? Behold the new Classic-Pirates.com.

To quote the announcement on the main page:
The booming success of Eurobrick’s Pirate LEGO® Forum has prompted the development [...]

BrickFest 2007 wrapped up on Sunday, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a chance to sit down and reflect. Well, here goes.
Highlights for me:

Hanging out with all the great people in the extended LEGO community — both from The LEGO Company and fellow fans.
The ride down with Caylin. I think I left my [...]

RACHAL (RAytracing CHALlenge) is a challenge we run on ldraw.org where various people render the same virtual LEGO creation (typically a vignette like scene). The point of it is to allow people to challenge themselves on rendering a shared LEGO scene adding their own technical and artistic interpretations. The first one has just finished and [...]