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.”)
This dragon by elex on Brickshelf is 80 cm tall, weighs 14 kg, and took 5 weeks to build. Be sure to check out the work-in-progress pictures as well.
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:
Brickshelfer rogueyoda has somehow gotten his hands on a LEGO Eiffel Tower set. LEGO Eiffel Tower?? When’d this happen? Have I’ve been absorbed in brickfilming so much I missed this? What else have I missed? Anyway, the set looks awesome. rogueyoda is still building the set appearently, but he’s posted some box pictures and some work in progress pictures. Here’s the gallery for more pictures. Man, I need more cash. Anyone want an out-of-date textbook on American politics for $50?
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.
Brickshelfer modelgal (Mariann Asanuma) puts the studs-not-on-top building techniques that made her dragon famous to good use again with a beautiful lion sculpture:
(Via The Paganomation Blog.)
Moko (boy, is that guy prolific!) seems to have wrapped up his furniture series and started a batch of dogs, including an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene version of his Jack Russel:
Seattle based builder Iain Heath (aka “Ochre Jelly”) apparently caught a piece of science celebrity news that I missed. Eminent physicist and A Brief History of Time author Stephen Hawking will be taking a ride on a plane that will allow him to experience weightlessness. To commemorate this extraordinary man and his extraordinary moment, Iain has created a miniland scale version of Professor Hawking:
Be sure to check out Iain’s Flickr album, where you can see Professor Hawking riding around the surface of Mars, orbiting the Earth, and (I wouldn’t expect anything less from Iain) a 3D stereogram of the world’s favorite wheeled physicist, all in LEGO form.
Mike Count Blockula Crowley has so finished six characters in his series of large-scale minifigs inspired by Mario Kart since I first blogged Bowser back in January. Here are my favorites — and I can’t wait to see them in person at BrickFest PDX at the end of this month.
Mario and Toad:
Yoshi:
Donkey Kong:
Check out all of Mike’s Mario Kart characters on Flickr.
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!
I don’t know why, but this jibbly creation by Moko makes me think of Furbys. Still an interesting creation, in a sort of creepy, wierd way…
