This is my first surrealist piece of the year and it marks the contortion of my mind for the past year and going. The sculpture itself is extremely fragile, but sturdy enough to survive a 5.2 earthquake. The bulk of the work is composed of four interweaving strands built from corner plates and supported at several critical points.
Japanese mecha master Kwi Chang (Brickshelf) recently won Izzo’s Sci-Fi Industrial Mecha Competition (English info here on TBB) with another excellent heavy industrial mech, illustrated here in a cool background.
The actual model called Type-D9 is quite awesome by itself. You can see another amazing graphic that we’ve blogged earlier here.
Via Klocki
Shannon Ocean‘s latest work criticizes conformity with the COOL machine. Unique individuals enter and generic drones come out. Is this how personality is suppressed?
Flickr member 713 Avenue recently developed an interest in photo shooting Star Wars trooper minifigs with Apple products and other whimsical settings. The results are interesting and comical, they definitely define some personality underneath the helmets of these minifigs.
Lego sculpturer and owner of MOCpages Sean Kenney has a tendency for artistic expression. His latest work is called Maintaining Normality.
If you have read his explanation but still do not understand the symbolism, according to the artist, “the pole represents the objects that we insert into our environments … be they cars, buildings, big macs, whatever … and the person represents the demeanors, chi, and social constructs we insert into our environments. In my sculpture, they’re both white because they both represent the ‘potentially dangerous input’ into our world.”
Edit (AB): You can also hear more from Sean on his blog.
Noddy depicts the clashing forces of Yin and Yang in a dynamic vignette. Check out the view from above, which cleverly forms the Yin Yang symbol (warning: may induce seizures).
There are two more similar vignettes created in the past. Check out Bruce’s Yin to my Yang and Moko’s White and Black.
As soon as I saw this, I fell in love with its straight lines, not to mention the myriad of colors.
What beauty! What surrealism!
That one brown brick just makes you think. Wow!
Update (April 2): April Fools!
I came across the works of Brickshelf user Devastator today, who has a taste for the bizzarre and macabre ranging from torture chambers, minifig executions and hangings, the gratuitous use of tentacles, and sheer randomness like mecha Pikachu. You may be making some connections at this point, but it is unlikely this builder and I cross-referenced each other’s works because his gallery predates mine while I’ve not known about him until today. So my question to ponder is: how does one’s mind get wired like so?
Check out Devastator’s most recent work called the Delirious Diorama. The beautifully crafted and accurate Chinese character means “bathroom.”
Hmm, bathroom.
The sort of LEGO-themed food you generally see is that nasty licensed stuff you can get in stores. And most of the LEGO cakes and other homemade food look like melted bricks. But Flickrite hello_naomi uses what my wife says is probably fondant to create gorgeous cupcakes I want to eat right now.
Album covers are a popular subject for LEGO creations, but it’s not so often builders create movie posters, as ImpreSariO has done.
That’s Scarface above, with One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Rocky Balboa below:
My favorite, though, is Forrest Gump:
(Via Klocki.)
Keith Goldman presents his latest giant diorama, which depicts a solitary sector of the neo-Japanese urban industrial graveyard. As you can see from that string of adjectives, there’s no definite word to describe the genre that Keith builds in, which always makes his works refreshing and inspiring. The entire scene has a strange ambience that vibrates in a low droning frequency through your inner guts. It’s very trippy.
For the lyrical smack, hear it on MOCpages.
