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.
Tag Archives: Art
LEGO brick 50th-anniversary timeline on Gizmodo
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.
Tile 1 x 2 with Computer Pattern (3069bp25), amplified by Jon Palmer
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 Continuing Adventures of David, King of Israel
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.)
Evil machine head – LEGO Terminator endoskull
Brickshelf user snyderman built a robotic machine head inspired by Terminator. It features moving eyes and jaw independently controlled by two motors.
The last tree on Earth
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.
Happy New Year 2008 from The Brothers Brick!
I look forward to New Years every year for all the great New Years-themed creations from Japanese LEGO fans. Many of the creations are in the form of New Years cards, or nengajou, which I wrote about back in 2006 (check out the 2007 roundup as well).
For 2008 — the Year of the Rat — our fellow builders across the Pacific have graced us with another batch of wonderful nengajou. Since the word for “rat” and “mouse” is the same in Japanese (ネズミ, pronounced “nezumi”), many of these feature mice.
We’ll get things going with Mumu’s best wishes for 2008:
Izzo presents a rideable mouse:
Kwi Chang uses a line art version of one of his mecha:
Mashikuf gets deliciously cheesy:
Ayucow puts mice in a pizzeria kitchen:
Finally, Maciek Drwięga (who I suspect isn’t Japanese) joins the celebrations with a bit of a bang (via Klocki):
Updates: And one more from suu:
MisaQa joins the fun (a bit belatedly, but worth the wait) with a batch of adorable mice (via Klocki):
The everyday world of Arvo
The last few LEGO creations by the Arvo brothers may have skewed toward the fantastic, but that doesn’t mean these two guys aren’t also masters of the everyday object.
Here’s their latest — a wonderful snorkeling mask:
You can discuss this creation in this thread on Hispalug. (Thanks for the link, Carlos!)
And since we haven’t featured them here before, a few more day-to-day items:
I am not my LEGO collection
Adam Hally is both an excellent cartoonist and LEGO builder. His LEGO creations often have an artistic inclination, as his latest little scenes demonstrate.
“I am not my outdated computer”:
“I am not my futuristic designer floor lamps”:
For more, check out the full photoset on Flickr.
Vitus Barth’s Shadow World
Vitus “Tony” Barth says that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time inspired his latest LEGO creation. Regardless of its inspiration, Vitus’ mirroring of light and dark introduces a bit of chiaroscuro to his LEGO world.
Nice skull
Matt Armstrong (aka monsterbrick) created a realistically looking lego skull by gluing lego pieces over a non-lego skull model. Despite the unconventional method used, the finished product still looks nice.
I call dibs on Norman Mailer’s LEGO
Apparently, the late writer Norman Mailer was a LEGO fan of sorts. You can see him here in his New York apartment with his large LEGO sculpture in the background:
Apparently, Mailer built “a vast Lego city, incorporating some 15,000 pieces, known as the city of the future, seeming to take as much pride in it as in any of his other creations.”
According to architecture writer Lynn Becker, Mailer’s LEGO creation appears as the frontispiece in his 1966 book Cannibals and Christians:
So not only is this LEGO creation by one of the leading writers of the past 50 years, it’s built from vintage LEGO! Just the thing to expand my selection of basic bricks. I bet they’d need a good dusting, though…
Check out our previous post about writer Douglas Coupland’s LEGO obsession.
(Via KyleSmithOnline.com, with a tip from reader James Lucas Jones.)