Okay, not minifigs, but I couldn’t resist the James Joyce/Dylan Thomas reference. Nannan’s post the other day had me looking for more interesting portraits of LEGO builders:
That’s Ronald “woordenaar” E. (Web) on the left and Alan “Kaptain Kobold” Saunders (blog) on the right.
As Ronald says, LEGO is indeed addicting…
You’ve probably seen the paintings of surrealist artist René Magritte, even if you didn’t realize what you were puzzling over was by him. Uli Meyer has created a wonderful LEGO version of Magritte’s “Time Transfixed,” complete with a microscale train that’s great in its own right.
(Thanks for the tip, Tim David!)
Sweet unholy hell. When MisterZumbi does something for the first time, he does it with a bang — like a backfiring hotrod.
For someone who’s never built anything larger than minifig-scale, this is quite the first. The level of detail in MisterZumbi’s “Road Zombie” is unbelievable. Click the pic to check out the engine, the interior, and other tidbits of heavy metal goodness.
(Via Klocki.)
My latest work is a rather grisly one, though it is not wholly intended to appeal in that manner. Take a look at the accompanying writing and you’ll see that there’s another layer of meaning, and a very personal one, to this creation. I present Lament for Innocence.
Mecha builder Kwi Chang puts together one of his pictures from a trip to the port of Chiba with his latest mecha to create a very cool effect.
It’s always a pleasure when I encounter a connection between two of my great interests — LEGO and literature. Remember Norman Mailer and Douglas Coupland?
Writer Heidi W. Durrow contacted the blog this morning with a link to her beautiful, touching story Ethnic Lego Girls Carry Spears. Here’s an excerpt:
“You be Pocahantas,” Jimmy says. “I’ll be the cowboy on the horse.”
The horses come in shades of brown and black. Jimmy’s horse is black like me. His cowboy’s Lego yellow. He’s white like Jimmy is.
Read the rest of Heidi W. Durrow’s story online in SmokeLong Quarterly, along with an insightful interview about ethnicity and The Brick.
New(ish) minifigs from Michael Jasper. Need I say more?
Check out his Characters gallery on Brickshelf for more, including Günter Grass and Fidel Castro.
Jesus Diaz over at Gizmodo has put together a fantastic LEGO timeline:
Click the pic to check out the larger version in Jesus’ post, along with a whole bunch of cool facts and figures about the LEGO brick.
I often think (and I’ve mentioned it often enough here on TBB as well) that the simplest ideas seem to yield the most beautiful results. Sure, complexity has its place, but paying homage to a lowly but beloved 1×2 printed tile is sheer genius.
But then again, we already knew that about Jon Palmer.
The Very Reverend Brendan Powell Smith keeps the faithful masses opiated with more installments of The Brick Testament. In this month’s episodes, David kills a few thousand foreigners and steals another man’s wife.
(Reader discretion is advised.)
Brickshelf user snyderman built a robotic machine head inspired by Terminator. It features moving eyes and jaw independently controlled by two motors.
Shannon Young depicts a scene preserving the last tree on Earth, attended to by a faithful and solitary robot caretaker. What could you make of the meaning of this? Neither the creator nor I seem to have a clear idea.
