Tag Archives: Sculptures

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UK builder Justin Ramsden has earned a bit of well-deserved fame in the British press recently for his bust of singer Amy Winehouse.

From her beehive hairdo to the cigarette dangling from her lips, Justin has captured every detail of this notorious English character.

The techniques used to weave the hairpieces together are pretty unique.

No details are spared to give full expression of Amy staring into the distance.

We spotted a spider in her hairpiece. Whether that’s intentional or by design, is something to wonder about.

Her large earrings are captured in quite a unique form that seems quite fragile, but does the job with the 1×1 plates used.

When stared from a distance, you can stare in awe at the superb results achieved by the various techniques.

Check out all the photos on Flickr.

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1:40 scale Fallingwater is as gorgeous as the real landmark

Matija Grguric‘s minifig scale creation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater portrays the beauty of the architecture amidst the backdrop of a snowy winter. The 45″ X 30″ creation took 7 months and uses about 15,000 bricks. If you happen to be in Croatia, you can see the it in person at the Technical Museum in Zagreb, which I’m sure is a sight to behold.

Philadelphia Zoo display features sculptures by Sean Kenney

Sean Kenney has been busy building sculptures for the Creatures of Habitat display at the Philadelphia Zoo. The display aims to inspire awareness of endangered species and protection of our planet, and it will run from April 10 to October 31, 2010.

This huge life-sized polar bear is made up of over 95,000 LEGO pieces and took over 1100 hours to construct together with a team of 5 assistants. Sean deliberately and carefully captured the realism of a bear that seemed to be a little frustrated, a little sad and confused at the same time about the predicament of being an endangered species.

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Disney and Star Wars. A match made in LEGO.

Tommy Williamson‘s first attempt at a sculpture shows just why he does what he does. Cause he’s clearly fantastic building with bricks.

Just remind me not to make Mickey angry?

Reach for the Sky!

Yosemite Sam rocks. Do I really need to say anymore? Annie Diment hit one out of the park with this build. Sweet, I say, sweet.

Some old men are cute...

…but many are not. Luckily this happens to be one of the former. This odd little thing was built by the builder known only as Retinence. He obviously has a knack for building the unusual. But enough talk. Without further ado, I give you Old Man Williker!

Legohaulic brings death from above

Tyler does it again. This flying terror is a thing of beauty and joy forever. It’s one of those rare creations that I actually want to build myself….

The Monster will kill us All!

Matt Armstrong takes on the world with this brick-built explosive device. It’s truly da bomb. It blows me away. Okay….I’ll stop now.

Weigh in on which wire he should cut…..

Klingon Bird of Prey, made from 274,350 virtual bricks

We’ve hardly blogged digitally constructed and rendered creations, but Kevin Walter‘s Klingon Bird of Prey needs no explanation to be featured. This 13’5″ X 11’ X 5’1″ mega sculpture is the culmination of two years of work. You should check out the large image on Flickr, on which it is still difficult to identify a recognizable brick. I can only imagine what this thing would look like in real life.

The Kollecta by Karf Oolhu

I don’t even know where to begin with how and why I love this crazy giant caped robot grim reaper scientist park stroller thingy by Fedde (Karf Oolhu). Obviously it made me think of a lot of things, intentional or unintentional. I especially like the contrast between the yellow flowers and the stark black of the Kollecta himself.

Japanese Chokutō

Ken Robichaud built this lovely Chokutō for the Classic Castle Weapons Challenge. I love that engraving on the blade.

Fembot Power!

These new items from Alan M. are all that and they appear to know it. The amount of “posability” achieved by this builder is nothing short of incredible.

Via The Living Brick