Patrick has built a very nifty Necromancer’s Tower for the Lego Castle Contest currently running on Classic-Castle. Don’t tell anyone, but I think this will be the winner in the Tower category!
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Joe Braun’s LEGO Spacemen Adventures
Photographer Joe Braun has created a series of photographs that incorporate classic Space minifigs into real-world environments. The result is other-worldy:
Check out the full gallery on Joe Braun’s Web site.
(Via (un)social-commentary.)
Micro Minas Tirith by Bruce
Bruce presents an amazing microscale version of Minas Tirith from The Lord of the Rings:
Head on over to Bruce’s Web site, Brick Tales, for lots of pictures.
News: First LEGO League World Festival 2007
The First LEGO League World Festival 2007 is going on through today in Atlanta, Georgia.
Head on over to The NXT STEP for extensive coverage. Hope you’re having fun, Gothic Lawn Gnomes!
Fire Mario vs. Thwomp
Graznador continues what appears now to be a series of LEGO creations inspired by Super Mario Bros. with his latest floating rock:
The Thwomp is unbelievably awesome.
(Previous post here on TBB.)
Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007
Author Kurt Vonnegut died today in New York (BBC story).
Here’s my Billy Pilgrim minifig from Slaughterhouse Five, a book inspired by Vonnegut’s experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden during World War II:
Nathan Proudlove’s Blacktron II
Those of you who saw pictures from BrickFest the weekend before last will have noticed the six-foot-long ship dominating the Space display.
Safely back home across the northern border, Nathan Proudlove presents the Blacktron II:
Yes, the hull is made from regular bricks. It’s just so big that they can curve (a technique more familiar to castle builders).
I love the stern:
This is not the Bob Loblaw Law Blog...
But Flickr user baby_elephant has a funny batch of minifigs inspired by Arrested Development (with the Bluth company vehicle, naturally):
2007 Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts Nominations announced
After some considerable delay, the Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts (BAMPA) nominations have been announced. The nominations are as follows:
Best Film
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Triumph of the Empire
Best Animation
Capastroid
Faithless
Grace
Macbeth: Act V Scene VII
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Best Cinematography
Douleur
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Screenplay
Climb So High
Faithless
The Fisherman’s Wife
Grace
L’Inspiration
Best Sound Design
Beast
Grace
Faithless
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Score
Edison
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Visual Elements
Faithless
Grace
Men o’ War
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Triumph of the Empire
Best Voice Acting Performance
Brennan Davis – Tectonic Man – Tectonic Man
Mike Dyer – Mr. Hanson – Back 2 Skool
Scott Preston – Grand Moff Tarkin – Triumph of the Empire
Nathan Snow – Darcy – Grace
Peter Wood – Fabron – Grace
Links to the brickfilms can be found in the link above. A small plug: my brickfilm Beast (watch it here on YouTube), second-place winner in the Brickfilms.com Fame, Infamy and Glory contest, has been nominated for Best Sound Design. I’m honored, but also amused. I hated doing the sound for Beast, especially since I was working with Windows Movie Maker 2 at the time, and had to struggle with only one audio track.
The BAMPAs have a seperate website, but it hasn’t been updated in a while.
