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Brickworld 2008 is coming (June 19-22)

Brickworld, a LEGO convention in its second year hosted in Chicago, will be taking place in less than two weeks on June 19-22. It is never too late to register, but it’s better to do so sooner than later. I’ll be attending in part on behalf of The Brothers Brick to update the blog with [...]

Justin “Mainman” Vaughn is buildin’ Sarah Silverman

So where’s the Matt Damon minifigure?

Raiders of San Francisco?

Now I want to build a Lego Boulder. If only I had 5 million bricks!

Via Kotaku and my cousin, Jeremy, who told me about it.

Success!

Harrison, aka “Corran101″, recently posted a sweet vignette, depicting Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay as they reach the summit of Mt. Everest. This deceptively simple scene is packed with details. The figs are pretty awesome, but that rope makes this perfect.

Nannan featured in Official Xbox Magazine

Brothers Brick contributor Nannan’s Final Run “bignette” is featured in the current issue of the Official Xbox Magazine:

Congratulations, Nannan! Way to represent.

LAML Radio gets foolish

In LAML Radio #33, Josh and I join James to discuss all the tomfoolery on April 1st around the LEGO Web, including our own silliness.

Check it out on Radio.LAML.org.

The LEGO Company gets a clue

In this video, former LEGO Community Team manager Jake McKee talks about how LEGO has begun changing its long-standing corporate culture, involving a greater diversity of people to build a community around the company and its brand.

Brothers-Brick.com interviews Chris Giddens and Mark Sandlin [Interview]

There’s been more than a bit of speculation about the upcoming fan-designed Space sets (a couple more pictures), so I asked Chris Giddens and Mark Sandlin a few questions.

Andrew Becraft: Let’s get the easy questions out of the way. Are the two of you the fans behind the designs for the forthcoming Star Justice and [...]

Gizmodo interviews BrickArms’ Will Chapman

For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of attending a presentation by BrickArms founder Will Chapman, Gizmodo has a great interview you should go read now.

A brief excerpt:
Jesús Diaz: I think the simplification of the real world weapons is amazing. How is the creative process? How do you decide on one weapon or [...]

Portrait of the LEGO artist as a young minifig

Okay, not minifigs, but I couldn’t resist the James Joyce/Dylan Thomas reference. Nannan’s post the other day had me looking for more interesting portraits of LEGO builders:

That’s Ronald “woordenaar” E. (Web) on the left and Alan “Kaptain Kobold” Saunders (blog) on the right.
As Ronald says, LEGO is indeed addicting…

Sincerest form of flattery

I’m sure almost all who visits lego galleries have seen my profile portrait, which pops up on the brickshelf recent pages once in a while when I make a new creation. This has inspired the ever so whitty Rocko to create his own self portrait shot. Well, two can’t be in the same pose; maybe [...]

LAML Radio breaks down the minifig into lovable pieces

LAML Radio #23 asks the question “Why do we love the minifig?”

Naturally, host James Wadsworth, Matt Forcum, and I have lots of reasons.

Gizmodo interviews Ralph Savelsberg

Gizmodo commenters asked for more interviews of the builders featured there, and contributor Jesús Díaz obliged, first interviewing Tim Goddard. Jesús’ latest interview is with Ralph Savelsberg, whose 1/36-scale military aircraft have wowed TBB readers recently.
Head on over to Gizmodo to read the interview with Ralph, but here are a few new photos from Ralph’s [...]

Portal 0937 interviews me

Luís Baixinho contacted me a while ago to ask if I’d be willing to do an interview for the Portuguese fan community Portal 0937. Naturally, I was both honored and flattered to be asked to join people like the Arvo Brothers and Hippotam.
It feels really rather weird linking to an interview of myself (especially [...]

BB Gadgets interviews 1980s LEGO designer Bjarne P. Tveskov

Remember Boing Boing Gadgets contributor Joel Johnston’s Nine Sets I Have Known and Loved?
Something rather beautiful happened in the comments on that post — a connection between Joel and Bjarne P. Tveskov, one of the LEGO designers who worked on Classic Space sets in the 1980s.
Bjarne designed many of the sets we all know [...]

BrickJournal episode on LAML radio

Check out the latest episode of LAML radio for an interview with Joe Meno, editor of the fabulous BrickJournal magazine. Learn about the past, present, and future of the largest unofficial LEGO magazine for fans, with the next issue coming out in print for the first time.

Meanwhile, take a look at an informal interview conducted [...]

Gizmodo interviews RogueBantha

Trying to keep up on all the amazing creations LEGO builders post all over the Web is hard work. No, seriously! With our day-to-day focus on individual creations, it’s nice to take a step back and learn a little more about the people behind some of our favorite creations.
To that end, Gizmodo contributor Jesus Diaz [...]

LAML Radio lets me ramble on even further

The second part of my conversation with James Wadsworth is up on Radio.LAML.org.

In this episode, James and I chat about some of the current trends in the LEGO “blogosphere,” including the blogs I can’t live without (including VignetteBricks, MicroBricks, How Many Studs to LEGOLAND, Klocki Lego dla dorosłych, and Young Spacers Association Blog) and this [...]