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Arnold Skolnick’s Woodstock poster in LEGO by Noddy

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.
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It’s a brand new day for Dr. Horrible

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 midnight, July […]

Adam and Joe’s “Jane’s Brain” in LEGO by Oblong Pictures

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”:

LEGO brick MP3 player

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.)

Los Campesinos! Live! by Christoph!

Christoph! presents Los Campesinos! live and in concert.

LEGO version of Radiohead’s In Rainbows album art by woordenaar

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 is a guitar god!

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).
Via Klocki.

Rock on, dbol! Rock on.

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 isn’t just an […]

Historical Personages by Morgan19

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.

Two turntables and a microphone

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?

Indie-rock album art by Christoph

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:

Miniland scale ZZ Top and Eliminator!

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!

Our friends are all aboard…

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?

Rock on, little plastic dudes!

Jeremy van Bedijk built and photographed the scene above to use as album art for Life Against Us a band in The Netherlands.

LEGO Gives Woordenaar Piece of Mind

You can also compare Woordenaar’s creation to the original album art.

A deal with the devils of fame

Classic-Castler Maedhros may not listen to the same music I listen to, but the minifig versions of his favorite bands are really rather cool.
The mohawk on this guy in Diary of Dreams is awesome:

Goth rockers Bauhaus:

Fields of the Nephilim:

And finally, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes:

See all of Maedhros’ musical minifigs in his Brickshelf gallery.

Heavy Metal Minifigs

I love building musical minifigs, but my taste in music generally runs to indie and alternative rock, and those bands pretty much all look alike in minifig form (white guys in T-shirts and blue jeans). Thankfully, I was chatting with Nelson Yrizarry and he suggested using Voldemort’s face for Alice Cooper. Hurray!

How could […]

Album Art by Taka Hamada

I’ve featured LEGO album art by Digger Digger Dogstar and minifig, I don’t think I’ve ever highlighted Taka Hamada’s extensive collection.
Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell (1994):

Mr. Big’s self-titled debut (1989):

Björk’s Medúlla (2004):