The music video for Radiohead’s “House of Cards” from In Rainbows (naturally available from ) just seemed to be begging for the LEGO treatment. Ian Mackinnon obliges with this strange and gorgeous rendition (with a hat-tip to reader wb): Ian used the 3D plotting data from the original video to do his time-lapse LEGO interpretation Continue reading →
Artist Arnold Skolnick’s famous poster for a certain “Aquarian Exposition,” billed as “3 Days of Peace & Music,” came to be so closely identified with Woodstock that many people can’t think of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, or The Grateful Dead up on that stage without thinking about Skolnick’s dove perched on a guitar. Continue reading →
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Firefly, and now Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog — everything that Joss Whedon touches turns to gold. Here’s my take on a scene from Act II of Dr. Horrible: Go watch all three episodes for yourself on DrHorrible.com (before the end of the day today, though — they’ll be gone after Continue reading →
BBC DJs Adam and Joe are hosting a “Video Wars” contest in which listeners create music videos for a pair of silly songs by Adam and Joe. Chris Salt of Oblong Pictures gets in on the action with a LEGO version of “Jane’s Brain”:
It’s not your typical brick but an actual mp3 player. Now you can listen to your favorite songs playing from a 2X4! The product page is on Homeloo, and you can also check out some other novel LEGO themed MP3 accessories. (AB: Screen shot of anythingbutipod post by Don Solo.)
Christoph! presents Los Campesinos! live and in concert.
For those of you disappointed by the fact that the downloadable version of Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows, didn’t come with any album art, woordenaar has the solution:
Steven Marshall isn’t just a guitar god, he’s also becoming quite the LEGO artist. The only studs visible on this acoustic bass are on the bridge (where the strings meet the body).
I’ve always felt that LEGO vignettes are like haiku (though maybe Bruce might have made that comparison first). Dbol actually combines the two with this great vignette of a gamer playing Guitar Hero with an unimpressed female onlooker: Rock stars preen and strut While they shout at the devil But he’s just a geek. This Continue reading →
I’ve admired Morgan19‘s minifigs ever since I noticed his great Firefly minifigs. The latest batch is a group of historical minifigs, entries for the Fine Clonier Historical Minifig Contest. I might quibble with the “historical” nature of some of these, but it’s a great collection of minifigs, presented beautifully.
Brothers Brick reader Kevin Guoh sent us a link to his Flickr photostream a few weeks ago, and I promptly lost his message in our mountain of reader submission e-mail. :-( Among his creations is this great DJ console (and don’t miss his floor lamp). Sorry, Kevin! Better late than never?
Blogger Christoph has a great photoset of LEGO’d album art inspired by indie artists like Kaiser Chiefs, Morrissey, Belle and Sebastian, and The Strokes:
Hey All, I’m back from a self-inflicted hiatus/exile and just stumbled across this. Hope you all enjoy it! While I haven’t heard of this builder before, X-Speed seems to specialize in miniland vehicles. Pretty nifty!
Taka Hamada‘s latest album cover should be immediately recognizable to fans of The Beatles. After all, haven’t we all wanted to live in a Yellow Submarine at some point in our lives?
Jeremy van Bedijk built and photographed the scene above to use as album art for Life Against Us a band in The Netherlands.