As if the Star Wars MINI scale weren’t small enough, builders have also been creating “micro-scale” Star Wars vehicles for some time — especially since the release of 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer.
New Brickshelf user Greg Mote has just uploaded a bunch of micro-scale Star Wars vehicles that take this scale to a whole new level.
Millenium Falcon:
Sandcrawler:
Jango Fett’s Slave I:
And more. Very nice work.
A week or two ago, I posted about a small creation Ichigou made based on the long-running manga (Japanese comic book) series Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.
Well, Ichigou has been posting vignette after vignette to a Brickshelf gallery (as featured on VignetteBricks). It’s almost like Ichigou wants to dethrone Izzo as the king of the vignette series! ;-)
Anyway, Ichigou has kindly posted snippets of the scenes he’s recreated as vignettes. Here are a few rough translations:
Demon, Part 3
“Hey! Polnareff! I’m gonna bite that bauble of yers right off!”
High Priestess, Part 3
“It’s, it’s a stand!”
“It, it was disguising itself as the seafloor! It’s, it’s huge!”
Anubis, Part 3
“It’s under your chin, Polnareff!”
“What?!”
“It’s me, you idiot — the reminder of Anubis’ stand.”
This manga has a complicated storyline and deep mythology that’s unlikely to be meaningful unless you’ve read it. For example, “stands” are “manifestation of an individual’s innate power over the ‘ripple’ and represent the individual’s psyche.” Huh? If you’re interested, Wikipedia has an excellent overview of the storyline, characters, and terminology.
I’ve been making minifigs of my favorite musicians, bands, and composers for a couple of years now, quietly uploading their pictures to a Brickshelf folder. I’ve featured a couple of them here on DB, but I just uploaded all of them to a Flickr photoset, so I thought I’d highlight a few of my personal favorites.
U2, from the album art for All That You Can’t Leave Behind:
Johnny Cash (before I started taking straight-on photos):
An Abbey Road vignette of The Beatles:
And last but definitely not least, Nirvana:
(Phew!!!)
Scott Quick (divepoet on Brickshelf) has posted some massive updates to his gallery — all very cool stuff. Here’s just a small selection.
A series of Shakespearean vignettes (which he showcased last year at Brickfest):
A micro-size Serenity:
A whole bunch of tiny little “Arrow Racers:”
Continuing from my previous post, marakoeschtra brings us a couple more cool castle characters — a shepherd and a blacksmith with his apprentice:
Mumu presents “Encounter on the Gojo Bridge:”
Story: When he was young, Minamoto-no-Yoshitsune was called Ushiwakamaru. A famous swordsman named Saito Musashibo Benkei had posted himself at Gojo bridge in Kyoto. Benkei had taken 999 swords by defeating other swordsmen in duels. Ushiwakamaru defeated Benkei, who then became Ushiwakamaru’s most loyal follower.
Oh, and this is another shiritori entry.
Yeah, I know, this is a month old, but it’s still pretty darn cool:
The Danish cartoon controversy is a complicated issue — something I touched on in a previous post.
But here’s a statement of principles I can stand behind:
The strength and survival of free society and the advance of human knowledge depend on the free exchange of ideas. All ideas are capable of giving offence, and some of the most powerful ideas in human history, such as those of Galileo and Darwin, have given profound religious offence in their time. The free exchange of ideas depends on freedom of expression and this includes the right to criticise and mock. We assert and uphold the right of freedom of expression and call on our elected representatives to do the same. We abhor the fact that people throughout the world live under mortal threat simply for expressing ideas and we call on our elected representatives to protect them from attack and not to give comfort to the forces of intolerance that besiege them.
