New updates to genius-builder Michael Jasper‘s Brickshelf folders of Characters and Things are always a treat.
But Michael has posted a completely new conceptual gallery — “Peer Pressure” — that illustrates his storytelling skills with the simplest of creations:
Via VignetteBricks.
Kevin Guoh (Kaye on Flickr) is quickly establishing a unique style for himself, with his super-tall, lanky mecha.
The feet are particularly excellent on Kevin’s latest, Lévinas (above).
Mike “Count Blockula” Crowley has been drawing a great series of webcomics for From Bricks to Bothans.
In “Well Played” #4, the FBTB admin staff try to change LEGO history (click through for full size version):
Head on over to FBTB to see more episodes of “Well Played.”
Since we’re talking about LEGO webcomics, I’d also like to point readers to our (somewhat) new LEGO Webcomics link category in the side bar. Click, read, enjoy!
BrickCon 2008 is coming up in less than three months — October 2-5 in my lovely city of Seattle, WA. If you haven’t registered yet, read all about the people, LEGO creations, and events in our past coverage of what I think is the coolest LEGO convention around. (Awesome brick-built BrickCon logo by Adam Hally.)
Important: The price for registration goes up from $40 to $50 on August 5, so if you know you’re coming, register now to save some money — to spend at the Brick Bazaar or LEGO Store, of course! ;-)
Anyway, one of the great things about LEGO conventions is amazing variety of stuff to do. Thomas Garrison and the rest of the BrickCon planning team are interested in hearing your ideas about presentations, seminars, round-tables, and other activities you’d like to see at BrickCon this October. For more info, read on…
BrickCon 2008 is looking for any talks, roundtables, and special activities you would like to see at the Con this year.
This year we have two classrooms adjacent to the exhibition hall with real, hard walls so we anticipate being able to program presentations/activities for up to twenty people during public hours or other activities. Additionally, public hours have been further reduced from last year, leaving more programming time for events requiring larger spaces.
Past talks have included manufacturing custom parts, an introduction to LDraw, and slideshows of LEGOLAND (insiders’ and outsiders’ views), among many others.
Roundtables, or moderated discussions, have included sorting, Moonbase standards and design, landscaping, and anything that someone can think of.
Activities already planned for this year include the Dirty Brickster, a draft, and speed and blind builds.
All we need for more talks, roundtables, and activities are ideas and people to run with them. Projectors and a computer will be available (although bringing your own laptop ensures compatibility). All spaces can be configured with tables and chairs as desired.
Any registered attendee who would like to run a presentation or activity should e-mail proposals or questions to Thomas Garrison (the three letters Tee Double-U Ess AT morfydd DOT net–please mention BrickCon in the subject). If possible, please include a possible title, brief description for the event program, and any time constraints or facility requirements. Events are typically scheduled to run up to fifty minutes but can be scheduled for more or less time.
Our hard deadline for proposals is September 8. This gives Thomas time to make a schedule and get everything into our printed program. Earlier is better.
BrickCon is an annual adult LEGO hobbyist convention and exhibition in Seattle. BrickCon 2008 will be October 2-5, 2008, in the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. For more information and online registration, visit: http://www.brickcon.org
I hope to see lots of you this October in Seattle!
Mark Kelso‘s latest build is a greeble sandwich called The Aussie-Saucer, featuring the the Australian minifig Sig Ocean Figgy, a.k.a Shannon Ocean‘s sigfig. Check out the interior controls, and spot the iPod.
Mike Psiaki‘s ferocious T-Rex looks like it’s hungry for prey. It might as well feed off Mike’s other two newest dinos: the triceratops and brachiosaurus.
If you drooled over the preview of Brickforge‘s new items in our recent review, now’s the time to crack open your piggybank and start shopping because Brickforge has these new items available for purchase on their reformatted website.
Catsy from Classic Space creates a microscale starship designed to be “a self-sustaining city in the stars,” complete with the remarkable use of the Bionicle half dome piece as a biodome on this ship. Stay tuned to Catsy’s gallery for more edited photos of this increadible and detailed creation.
Eurobricks member svelte_corps has posted a detailed photo review of the upcoming agents set: 8637 Volcano Base. Click on the photo to read all about this cool new set.
Here is a hi-resolution image of the upcoming Nov/Dec set for LEGO BrickMaster subscribers. This image was sent by Steve Witt from LEGO to Ace at FBTB. Enjoy this non-leaked photo! You can chime in or read the discussion on FBTB here.
Via FBTB
Peter Morris presents a brick-built model of the Mammoth Mark III from Command and Conquer III. Using the harder to obtain larger technic treads, Peter manages to complete this impressively large model (see size comparison to a nomal sized minifig-scale tank). For those unfamiliar with Peter’s building style, the jagged shapes and small color partitions create a nice mélange of texures suitable for this model.
