Shannon Ocean has titled this sculpture “Delicate Civilization” — with a couple important messages worth clicking through to Flickr for.
The asymmetrical microscale city is excellent in its own right:
Tag Archives: Sculptures
Ipswich public art in LEGO, aka IpsArtLego
Inspired by the Ipsart site closed down in 2006, Ed Broom set about recreating the public art in and around Ipswich, Suffolk, UK using nothing but basic LEGO bricks in “traditional” colors:
As you can see, Ed also photographed his homages in sight of the original artwork.
For lots more, check out Ed’s IpsArtLego photoset on Flickr.
McGlone sculpts Giger’s Li II
H. R. Giger was a brilliant sculptor with a fantastic mind whose work has inspired a generation. Bryce McGlone‘s faithful adaptation of Li II showcases Giger’s spectacular creepiness, made more haunting in all black LEGO brick. Giger’s work features spectacular detail, skulls, and women of nightmares. Bryce captures this with an exquisite sculpture of the figure’s face, complete with tendrils and greebles everywhere to capture the iconic feel of the original.
Compare details between Bryce and Giger’s work: both beings stare into your soul and haunt your dreams.
Lemmings – a fast road to frustration
Sarah Palin, the plastic Vice Presidential candidate
I’m sorry to have missed meeting Ochre Jelly during the public hours at BrickCon, but I was very pleased when he sent me a link to his latest LEGO creation.
OJ has captured the Alaska governor winking during her debate with Joe Biden:
OJ writes:
This is a new scale of LEGO that I am experimenting with. Not minifig scale, not miniland scale, but I’m calling it “marionette scale”. The goal was to figure out the smallest (which in my mind is the most interesting) scale at which I can create recognizable 3D facial likenesses.
Neiman Marcus has your Lego
Neiman Marcus has recently posted their upscale Christmas catalog for the uber-rich. They now sell LEGO!
They have brokered a deal with LEGO Certified Professional Nathan Sawaya. For a very reasonable amount, you can have a replica of any person you want. How reasonable? If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Okay, I’ll tell you. It’s pocket change, just $60,000. The real problem is finding space for it. Keep it in your mini-sub. You never use that anyway….
Thanks to Chris Wunz for the heads up about the Yahoo News post.
Has the global financial crisis affected our LEGO hobby?
Sean Kenney recently posted this poignant sculpture of a “short” investor and a short-order cook. Click the photo to see more pictures on Sean’s site:
After marveling at Sean’s fantastic brick-built newspaper, I started wondering if the economic meltdown has affected how we buy or build LEGO these days.
Are we buying less LEGO? Buying more for some reason? Waiting to buy on sale or clearance? Getting inspired to build things that evoke the times, like the zombie apocalypse? I don’t know.
So, I thought I’d write a quick post and put up a new poll (finally!) to ask you, dear readers, how things are different for you today compared with a few months or a year ago. Sound off in the comments and vote in the new (completely unscientific) poll.
Note: If you see an error when you try to vote, rest assured that your vote is still being counted. It’s a conflict between two WordPress plug-ins.
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And this concludes our broadcast day...
“Big Daddy” Nelson Yrizarry has this to say about his latest sculpture, Off the Air:
This MOC reflects one interpretation of the nature of television as it is today. Simply stated, you are controlled, and what you want to see is moot.
You control what you want to see and what you want to hear on TV. You control the action. You control your life.
Don’t let anyone else (especially anyone on TV) tell you otherwise.
Lino gets all passionate
Lino Martins is a great guy. But he’s even better when he’s rendered in Miniland scale. Sporting his trademark goatee, Lino poses with Passion, built for the “Color Me Strange” Challange on LUGNuts.
Arvo’s Doll revealed
It has been many months since we saw teaser pictures of the Arvo Brothers‘ Doll, and now the builders have finally uploaded a complete frontal shot of the amazing model.
Sanrio Kuromi by Legokinsfolk
It’s no secret at work that LEGO is my “thing.” Redecorating your coworker’s office while they’re away is also a long-standing tradition. I arrived back from a two-week absence recently to find printouts of Legokinsfolk’s Hello Kitty plastering my office. Ha ha, very funny!
Legokinsfolk‘s latest Sanrio character is My Melody’s arch-rival Kuromi:
The Brickshelf gallery has lots more photos, including shots of how Kuromi’s made.
For more LEGO Kuromi cuteness, there’s always Toshiya’s version.
Keith Brogan scans Mario with 3D scanner and builds him out of LEGO
Keith Brogan [Send us a link if you’ve got it. -AB] used a NextEngine 3D scanner and modo software to build a 3D mesh of Nintendo icon Mario, to which he then applied an array of brick-sized shapes.
Finally, Keith built the large-scale Mario out of real LEGO bricks:
Don’t miss Keith’s post on Luxology Forum for more details on how he combined high-tech with ABS.
Via Gizmodo, with a nod to reader William. ;)