Bruce wondered what ayucow’s recent, rather strange “Wagiri” vignette might mean. Here’s the vignette in question:
I wasn’t sure myself, so I checked out ayucow’s blog post, where he tries to explain:
This was my entry for the 5th Odaiba Click Brick Building Contest. It’s the sort of creation that causes one to struggle when asked “What is this?” If forced to answer, I would say, “After cutting a top sirloin or pork roast into thick slices, you’re all fired up and exclaim, ‘For dinner this evening we eat meat! Yay!'”
(The term wagiri itself simply means “cut in a cross-section” or “sliced in the round.”)
I’m starting to notice a beautiful trend in LEGO building on Flickr lately — LEGO as fine art.
Here are a pair of wonderful pictures from udronotto:
Martin Jaspers’ continues his castle characters with two great new figs.
The strongest man in town:
An elite warrior from Asia:
I don’t know about you, but I feel fine:
Thanks to Flickrite crissycri for the heads-up that my R.E.M. minifigs have appeared on the home page of the official R.E.M. Web site. Sweet!
Full size version:
Classic-Castler Enryu recently posted two vignettes inspired by Japanese history.
Here’s “Dappan” (more info in Enryu’s C-C post):
And here’s “Tachioujou” (C-C post):
I’ve seen lots of cool creations on the various LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT blogs I read, but none of them compares to this working vending machine built by Ricardo T.
A few of my favorite features:
(Read more in Portuguese on Forum0937, and in English on Ladrillitos. Thanks for the links, Juan Macias!)
My latest musical minifig is the late, great Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock:
Back on the old blog, I posted a couple times about a series of TV episodes in Japan called “LEGO King Championship.” You can read more about the show here, and see a YouTube video here. Unfortunately, the images I linked to in my original post quickly expired, and the YouTube footage doesn’t do justice to the creations.
After a very long wait (well, I’ve been waiting), Sachiko Akinaga has uploaded a great set of pictures that show off the “Earth Park” that won her the title of LEGO Champion:
Click the image for the full gallery on Brickshelf.
I can’t count the number of Shinto shrines I visited growing up in Japan. I visited plenty of shrines in big cities like Tokyo and Kyoto, but my favorites were always the small shrines tucked into a grove deep in a forest or perched atop a tall hill. No matter what one’s religious alignment, I don’t think it’s possible not to feel the pervading sense of peace and holiness in these beautiful, tranquil places.
Brickshelfer Paul Donis evokes a mountainous path leading to a shrine with his “Torii gate”:
(Via VignetteBricks.)
