I breezed right past this vignette by Alex Eylar until Bruce pointed out an interesting feature on VignetteBricks — the two main characters are the only ones in color:
You can read the full text of “The Man of the Crowd” by Edgar Allen Poe online. (The title is a reference to a German quote that ends the story, “es lasst sich nicht lesen”.)
Here’s a little something to offset Friday the 13th — an excellent rose by BrickJournal editor Joe Meno.
(And the original Henri Matisse quote: “There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”)
It seems like we’ve featured just about every creation the Arvo brothers (interview here) have built, but that’s because everything they make is wonderfully constructed and beautifully presented. Some creations are worth revisiting:
Ramón and Amador have added another batch of characters from Bubble Bobble. Here are Hullaballoon and Incendo:
Willy Whistle and Stoner:
Bubble Buster and Baron von Blubba:
The latest LEGO creation by the Arvo brothers features a chestburster emerging from some unlucky person, complete with pooling blood dripping off of the sculpture’s base.
Via Masoko Tanga and on Hispalug.
I’ve featured LEGO album art by Digger Digger Dogstar and minifig, I don’t think I’ve ever highlighted Taka Hamada’s extensive collection.
Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell (1994):
Mr. Big’s self-titled debut (1989):
Björk’s Medúlla (2004):
Nannan Z. is a wildly original builder with a penchant for philosophy. Click the picture to read Nannan’s take on the universe:
(Via Klocki and VignetteBricks.)
Photographer Joe Braun has created a series of photographs that incorporate classic Space minifigs into real-world environments. The result is other-worldy:
Check out the full gallery on Joe Braun’s Web site.
(Via (un)social-commentary.)
After some considerable delay, the Brickfilming Achievement in Motion Picture Arts (BAMPA) nominations have been announced. The nominations are as follows:
Best Film
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Triumph of the Empire
Best Animation
Capastroid
Faithless
Grace
Macbeth: Act V Scene VII
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Best Cinematography
Douleur
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Screenplay
Climb So High
Faithless
The Fisherman’s Wife
Grace
L’Inspiration
Best Sound Design
Beast
Grace
Faithless
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Score
Edison
Faithless
Grace
Mirrored Perspective
Triumph of the Empire
Best Visual Elements
Faithless
Grace
Men o’ War
System Reboot (RevMen and Nosniborus)
Triumph of the Empire
Best Voice Acting Performance
Brennan Davis – Tectonic Man – Tectonic Man
Mike Dyer – Mr. Hanson – Back 2 Skool
Scott Preston – Grand Moff Tarkin – Triumph of the Empire
Nathan Snow – Darcy – Grace
Peter Wood – Fabron – Grace
Links to the brickfilms can be found in the link above. A small plug: my brickfilm Beast (watch it here on YouTube), second-place winner in the Brickfilms.com Fame, Infamy and Glory contest, has been nominated for Best Sound Design. I’m honored, but also amused. I hated doing the sound for Beast, especially since I was working with Windows Movie Maker 2 at the time, and had to struggle with only one audio track.
The BAMPAs have a seperate website, but it hasn’t been updated in a while.
