Just in time for all of you clicking through from DESTRUCTOID, the Brothers Arvo present an update to their Nintendo Game Boy, now complete with battery compartment and Game Pak (click for gallery):
Back view:
w00t!
Tag Archives: Art
Wagiri.
Bruce wondered what ayucow’s recent, rather strange “Wagiri” vignette might mean. Here’s the vignette in question:
I wasn’t sure myself, so I checked out ayucow’s blog post, where he tries to explain:
This was my entry for the 5th Odaiba Click Brick Building Contest. It’s the sort of creation that causes one to struggle when asked “What is this?” If forced to answer, I would say, “After cutting a top sirloin or pork roast into thick slices, you’re all fired up and exclaim, ‘For dinner this evening we eat meat! Yay!'”
(The term wagiri itself simply means “cut in a cross-section” or “sliced in the round.”)
LEGO Shadow Art by udronotto
I’m starting to notice a beautiful trend in LEGO building on Flickr lately — LEGO as fine art.
Here are a pair of wonderful pictures from udronotto:
Rainy Afternoon in the Park
Everyone else is doing it...
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:
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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