Another prolific, talented builder who deserves his own “roundup” post is Izzo. In addition to his series inspired by Cafe Corner (moving sidewalks, treads, and flyers), he’s been busy building great mecha:
And before that, a little bit of an “Ew!” factor with a flea and a weird blood-sucking machine:
Nnenn has been so busy building new microscale fleets (among other things) that he gets his own “roundup” post. :-D (Mostly via MicroBricks.)
Hurassa cargo shuttle and escort:
Pevid freighter with escort:
A bunch of orange ships:
A bunch of blue ships:
Almost exactly two hundred years ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark ended their expedition across North America at Cape Disappointment (named 17 years earlier by English Captain John Meares), at the southern end of what is now the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington.
This past weekend, Lewis and Clark revisited — and rediscovered — Long Beach:
Click the image above to explore Long Beach with Lewis and Clark.
As I’ve said before (I’m sure I say this every twelve months or so), I love that time of the year when new sets are starting to show up in stores and people are beginning to use the new pieces in interesting ways. Agent oo7 has used one of the new beards in 7036 Dwarfs Mining to create an absolutely perfect Edward “Blackbeard” Teach. The old-style capes oo7 used for Blackbeard’s coat are a nice touch.
I saw this at BrickCon and have been itching to blog it ever since — just waiting for creator Bram Lambrecht to “officially” post it:
According to Bram, he used LSculpt to design some of the “studs-out” parts of the nose. And one thing I didn’t learn at BrickCon: The landing gear is retractable. Sweet!
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:
Editor Joe Meno has announced that the latest issue of BrickJournal (issue 9) is now available for download.
Joe says that this will be the last free issue, and that the journal will be available in printed form starting next February. Read more about this change in his announcement on LUGNET, where you’ll find the link to the download site.
Is your Cafe Corner a bit too laid back? Too staid? Too colorful? Then mechanize that bad boy!!! Izzo did.
Oh, and in his somewhat more normal version, the sidewalks move and it’s always raining:
