Thus said Paul McCartney on take 1 of “I’m Down” — the phrase that inspired the album title Rubber Soul, here recreated through the genius that is Digger Digger Dogstar:
Plastic soul indeed.
Posts by Andrew Becraft (TBB Editor-in-Chief)
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Steve Bishop wishes us all a happy St. Patrick’s Day with a vignette titled “The Luck of the Irish”:
News: Pictures of Summer 2007 Star Wars Minifigs
German LEGO blog The Brick Time has noticed photos I’d missed of the new minifigs in the summer 2007 LEGO Star Wars sets.
I’m rather excited about the Naboo pilot and redesigned Anakin Skywalker minifigs in 7660 Naboo Starfighter:
But I’m very excited by Kit Fisto in 7661 Jedi Starfighter:
It’s a trap!
Legohaulic’s Warthog and Spectre
Too many LEGO creations inspired by Halo look pretty much the same. Not Legohaulic’s:
Excellent. (Via Review’d.)
LEGO at SXSW
I love music. I love LEGO. For at least the last couple of years, the “Interactive Playpen” at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas has featured LEGO.
Here’s a cool shot from last year by Flickr user alykat:
And the Flickr new user icon, built and photographed by naelyn:
The festival this year started yesterday and runs through Sunday. So far, the interactive playpen has yielded the Digg logo, as photographed by narisa:
If you’re in Austin this week, be sure to check out some great music, and stop by the Interactive Playpen and build something cool!
Chuck Rides Again
Chuck Citrin is beginning to reveal himself as a rather talented young builder. We’ve featured his space and mecha creations here on The Brothers Brick before, but I think this is the first Town creation we’ve highlighted from him. Here’s his John Deere tractor:
From the other side, without farmer-dude:
Go!
No, not the verb, the ancient Asian game. Go is too complicated to explain in a blog post about a vignette, so you can read about it on Wikipedia.
Brickshelfer T-Brick distills the game down to an 8×8 base:
(Via VignetteBricks.)
Steamship Möwe by Andreas Weissenburg
If this is just “part of a longer harbour project” by Andreas Weissenburg, Malle Hawking may have some competition in the large-scale maritime model realm:
King Leonidas I by Jared Burks
King Leonidas I of Sparta led his men in the Battle of Thermopylae, and will be starring in an upcoming feature-length in-game cut-scene — I mean movie! — titled “300”.
Jared Burks follows up on the Ghostrider minifig he created recently with another movie-inspired minifig, the great king himself:
Contemporary Art, LEGO’d
Classic-Castle member brody has discovered an art exhibit in the U.K. by John Cake and Darren Neave (aka “The Little Artists”) that recreates various pieces of contemporary art in LEGO bricks.
Read more about the exhibit, titled “Art Craziest Nation,” on the Walker Art Gallery Web site. Here are a couple of previews.
Damien Hirst’s “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” (1991):
Andy Warhol’s “Money”:
The UN of the Future, as Envisioned by Chuck Citrin
Chuck Citrin envisions a world in which United Nations peacekeepers ride ashore on four-legged mecha and ATVs with very small windscreens.
The Cerberus LAV:
The Cougar urban ATV:
