Well, I was surfing the web and I came across this hilarious image of so called “Web 2.0-ized” logos, which lead me to this nifty “Web 2.0 Logo Creatr.” I couldn’t resisit:
Tag Archives: Art
Gryphon Rider by Rayhawk
Mike Rayhawk has created yet another incredible piece of art based on Lego elements:
Mike is an exceptional artist, who has done amazing concept work for Lego, as well as being the Lead Illustrator for the Knights Kingdom Lego theme. Mike has also done freelance work for various organizations, including the Jim Henson company.
Personally, I am a big fan of his art and am very excited about this latest piece. Way to go, Mike, you are awesome!
(There is also an alternate version in red and gold.)
The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
This is an amazingly cool recreation of a Rembrandt painting, by Barbara Werth (found by Bruce).
Here’s the original, just to show how nicely Barbara captured the painting’s composition, lighting, and overall mood:
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Josh Does NWBrickCon
After spending an incredible weekend at NWBrickCon this last weekend, I finally got my journal online.
You can read it here.
It was a ton of fun to see all the creations and meet so many Lego fans. Of course, the highlight of the weekend was finally getting to meet Andrew in real life. As I looked through my pics of the public hours, I had a bunch of Andrew so I give you the Dunechaser Montage!
With his roaming Aztec gods:
Pointing out the finer details of Castle building:
Posing with his Serenity crew:
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X-Rayed LEGO
Have you ever wondered what an X-ray of LEGO would look like? Neither have I, which is why Brickshelfer Menoriel’s new gallery of ghostly images is so fascinating. Here’s what Obi-Wan and Darth look like under those crazy invisible rays (click for more):
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Once upon a time...
A man named Ole Kirk Christiansen made hand-crafted wooden toys in a sleepy Danish village called Billund.
Naming his company “LEGO” (from the Danish words “Leg godt” — play well), his company made pigs:
And roosters, and rabbits:
Some of the wooden toys also included bits of plastic, a sign of things to come:
Ole and his company made wooden toys until 1960:
Today, the LEGO Company is better known for the interlocking plastic bricks they began producing in 1949. LEGO elements as we know them today were introduced in 1958, when brick design was changed to include a stud-and-tube “coupling system.” With additional innovations along the way, like the minifig in 1978, LEGO toys are far-removed from their predecessors. But toys are toys, and fun is fun. I wonder what LEGO toys will look like fifty years from now?
(This walk down memory lane was brought to you by Swisso’s fantastic collection of vintage wooden LEGO toys, and by the BrickWiki article on the LEGO Company. Oh, and by the letter Q and the imaginary number e.)
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A Hard Day’s LEGO
More Beatles album art from Digger Digger Dogstar. Need I say more? I think not.
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All you need is LEGO! LEGO is all you need!
Flickrite Digger Digger Dogstar has fantastic Photoshop skills, as he demonstrates by incorporating minifigs into Beatles album art.
His latest is With the Beatles:
Since I haven’t blogged them before, here’s Abbey Road:
…and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:
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Street Art Appreciation 101
For the record, I don’t endorse vandalism, but some of these are really rather cool:
From Flickr user yorkshire4 | From Flickr user gfrancis
From Flickr user mmmazzoni
From Flickr user darnolds
From Flickr user loveandunrest
From Flickr user rojotelefono | From Flickr user cherrybiz
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Mark, Andy, and Jasper
Annie Preston rounds out her series of vignettes with three more 20th-century artists (via Vignette Bricks):
Mark Rothko:
Andy Warhol:
Jasper Johns:
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Piet, Pablo, and Jackson
Brickshelfer Annie Preston has been posting art-inspired vignettes over the last week or so (via VignetteBricks):
Piet Mondrian:
Pablo Picasso:
Jackson Pollock:
Smurfy!
This builder, appropriately named Smurf, has built a cool Smurf bust:
Definitely a cool smurf, but an interesting point of this creation is that its made almost entirely out of bricks. There are a few plates involved, but by an large its all bricks. Overall, a great job achieving “roundness” with only bricks. Smurfy!
Here’s the gallery