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The Prof goes mundane

Ley Ward leaps in the Mundane challenge with both feet. All it takes is some paper and pencil.

Zombie Apocafest 2009: Strategy, Tactics, & Logistics

BrickCon 2009 starts in exactly two months. That means it’s time to start getting down to details on all the collaborative displays being planned for the con, starting with our very own Zombie Apocafest 2009. (We’ll be doing a roundup about all the other displays soon.)
Like last year’s zombie apocalypse display, Zombie Apocafest is sponsored [...]

Keith Goldman builds a community affair: Zero Hour on Highway 44

Keith Goldman’s latest diorama is a true community effort. He has recruited help from twenty other builders in the LEGO community to help him populate his massive highway scene. Moreover, he recruited each contributor in secret, giving each contributor a code name ala Reservoir Dogs. Keith has called it a star-studded affair, [...]

BrickCon 2008: Andrew’s wrap-up

How do I put this? BrickCon 2008 was amazing, but just a little bit more stressful than years past, as I demonstrate in this photo by Adam Hally:

Nevertheless, it was the best LEGO convention I’ve ever been to! Highlights for me included:

Zombie Apocafest 2008
Nannan crashing at my place
10193 Medieval Market Village
A chance to have great [...]

BrickCon 2008: Last-minute logistics (and more free stuff)

Apologies for boring 99% of our readers, but this is still the fastest way to communicate with the fairly large number of TBB readers who are attending BrickCon later this week.
Fill out your MOC cards now
MOC (My Own Creation) cards identify your LEGO creations for fellow attendees and the general public. They also help theme [...]

Flawed visions in defining LEGO as art [Editorial]

Sometime or another, you may have thought about LEGO as art or even participated in a discussion. In this Brothers Brick exclusive editorial, LEGO Ambassador Roy T. Cook (aka Imhotepidus) challenges our popular views on LEGO art. As a university professor who teaches logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the aesthetics of popular art, Roy looks [...]

New upcoming Star Wars sets: Homing Spider-Droid and The Twilight [News]

Eurobricks has the first pictures of the newest Star Wars sets: Homing Spider-Droid and The Twilight. While we can’t make out much details from these images, I can see that there will be new unique minifigs, including Ahsoka. The Homing Spider-Droid looks especially well-designed while The Twilight can be a good set for more bley [...]

Ley Ward’s vig ain’t big enough for two

In Ley Ward’s world, Clancy ain’t no lilly-livered pacifist. He wears a black hat and ain’t afeared of nobody.

Ley Ward journeys onto Reagan Peninsula #12

It would seem Keith Goldman’s vignettes couldn’t contain minifig Ley Ward. But what’s Ley doing on a monochrome peninsula covered in what looks like hatches?

To find out, click on through to MOCpages.

Nominations submitted for LEGO Ambassadors [News]

The submission deadline for LEGO Ambassadors was 4:00 PM PDT today. Thanks to everybody who suggested nominees, voted, and contributed testimonials, we had everything in place and I hit Send on the e-mail to LEGO with over 15 minutes to spare! :-D

538 people voted, and here are the results:

Andrew Becraft: 323 votes
Nannan Zhang: 273 votes
Adrian [...]

Reminder: Testimonials needed for LEGO Ambassador nominees

As the LEGO Ambassadors nomination process winds down between now and Saturday night, one of the last steps in the process is to collect at least three testimonials from fellow community members about each nominee.

In online LEGO communities all over the ‘net, meeting this requirement is proving harder than anticipated. We all made our voices [...]

You are a community

Yes, you, readers of The Brothers Brick!
Over the years, our readership has grown from a handful of dedicated readers to tens of thousands of you out there on the Web. Many of you are active in other LEGO communities, both online and “in real life,” but a vast majority of you probably don’t know what [...]

Keith Goldman puts Ley Ward inside a micro version of Dan Hamann’s C.S.C. for Mike Yoder’s contest

Four names in the post title. I think that’s a first.

This may be more “meta” than I can handle, but Keith Goldman has joined Mike Yoder’s Fanboy Cover Contest with a micro’d version of Dan Hamann’s “Container Shuttle Craft”, and then Keith put a vignette of Ley Ward building a nano version of the C.S.C. [...]

How to make a Buckminsterfullerene (and other fun shapes) from LEGO

It all started with a man named Bucky. Well, maybe Bram. Okay, possibly Jon. Whatever. The latest building trend seems to be buckyballs, icosahedrons, dodecahedrons, rhombicosidodecahedrons, and ‘hedrons of all sorts. I’m going to call the trend Hedronism.
Here’s Bram Lambrecht’s original (virtual) design, alongside the first one built from “real” LEGO, by Kevin Heckel:

Adrian [...]

Hitting the road with Aaron Sneary

Inspired by Keith Goldman, Jon Palmer (Flickr) is starting a series of vignettes starring another real-life LEGO fan, Aaron Sneary.
In Jon’s first vig, Aaron chooses the items he will take on his journey.

Peace and Ley Ward vignettes

Deviating from his usually large dioramas, Keith Goldman crafts small scenes featuring Ley Ward (aka Professor Whateverly). They’ve got that hippy vibe, you dig?

News: Brickshelf gone for good (UPDATE 7/15 PM)

UPDATE (AB) (7/16 AM Pacific): Images hosted on Brickshelf seem to be working again. What this means I don’t know. More info as we find out.
UPDATE (LB) (7/16 AM Pacific): Keith Goldman pointed out that MOCpages is now offering free hosting for lego images. A note on the front page states that this service may [...]

NWBrickCon Day 3 Report

Instead of writing up the day’s events, I’ve spent the evening getting started organizing my NWBrickCon pictures. I split my pictures into creations and events. I haven’t finished adding titles, captions, and tags to everything, but if you see something you want to know about, post a comment on Flickr and I’ll add the missing [...]