Here’s a little political cartoon I created a couple weeks ago.
“The president responds to one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history…by staying on vacation for a couple more days.”
In the last week, this has started circulating:
The similarity is striking, no?
I just uploaded twenty more literary minifigs. Here’s a sampling:
John Thornton and Buck from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild:
Mr. Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
And links to the rest:
1984, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World — anybody see a pattern in my favorite books? Heh heh…
I’ve been focusing on vignettes for a while, but this weekend I thought I’d try building a bunch of new minifigs.
Here’s the crew of the Pequod from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick:
(A note on Captain Ahab: This minifig is an essentially unmodified Hovercraft Pilot from 7045 Hovercraft Hideout. The head even has a scar that spans his face, just as Melville describes. I almost think the designer at LEGO had Captain Ahab in mind when developing this minifig.)
Here’s the title character from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe:
And links to several more:
More to come soon.
Brickshelf user Michael Jasper is a master of using minifig-hands in unusual ways. I’m not quite sure what he updated in his sundries folder, but these jumped out at me today:
I especially like his beach scene (note the bikini top):
I’ve just added a bunch of LEGO blogs to my “Blocklogroll.” (I still don’t know if I like “blocklog,” since most people call ’em bricks — myself included, but I suppose I’m committed at this point. Oh well…)
I’d just like to highlight klasbricks. Go ahead, click the link.
You back? A DUPLO blog? DUPLO?! Yes, that’s right.
Very cool. Or something. Yet another reason to move to Sweden.
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve taken pictures of the things I’ve built. Let’s just say events in the real world have proved somewhat more compelling than little plastic bricks. I’ve created a couple political cartoons inspired by recent events, but I’m debating whether or not to post them.
In the meantime, here’s something I put together over the weekend — a crucial scene from The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe:
More importantly, though, I’ve added links to Bruce’s blog posts about what adult fans of LEGO can do to help with Katrina relief efforts. Specifically, the LEGO Company will match contributions. My employer won’t even do that for my coworkers, much less for our customers.
The podcast from Nikki and Steven over at Bricks in my Pocket is now available on iTunes, so I finally got around to listening to them. Not bad at all. I’ve added them to my blogroll as well.
I haven’t taken pictures of anything this last week or so, but I ran across these wonderful cars a while ago on Brickshelf:
The perfect rides for my new favorite minifigs.
Check out the rest of mrzumbi’s gallery. Not a lot in terms of quantity, but he’s made some amazing stuff — I’m honestly shocked that the hit counts on his creations are so low. Doesn’t make sense, given how good they are…
Patrick Bosman has created several fantastic minifigs reminiscent of the turn of the last century. Patrick demonstrates that the accessories are often as important as the minifigs themselves:
Edit (9/9/05): Here are a couple more I think he’s added recently:
The lace on the maid’s skirt is truly a unique use of the flower!
Oh, and sorry about the Japanese last week. I was in a weird mood. Heh heh.
今日は「ナルニア国ものがたり」の作品ではなく、桃太郎・金太郎・浦島太郎など、日本の伝説を元にしたLEGOを作ろうかと思いました。と言うことで、以下のミニフィッグを作りました。
日本が懐かしかったので、おばあさんとお地蔵様の田舎っぽいヴィネッとも作りました。
それでは、どう思いますか？コメントをどうぞ。
Hurray! My BrickLink order just arrived, so now my collection of Studios Monsters is complete! Pics to follow this weekend.
In the meantime, I took pictures of all the Narnian minifigures I’ve created so far. Here’s the link:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=141949
(Oh, “Canada and Narnia” in the title because my BrickLink order was from Quebec. Great prices and cheap shipping. I’ll post a link to the store later.)
My favorite book in The Chronicles of Narnia has always been Prince Caspian. Since I couldn’t update my “Giant Steps” vignette this weekend, I built a vignette based on one of my favorite scenes from my favorite book. In this scene, the four Pevensey children discover the treasure house beneath the ruined castle Cair Paravel:
And a link to the whole gallery, once it’s been moderated.
