“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein
Tag Archives: Vignettes
To grow old with Michael Jasper
Okay, maybe not, but the minifig walker is extremely cool (as walkers go):
And I missed this the last time he updated this folder, so here’s a funny scene using the Twoface torso:
Excavation by Barbara Werth
I’m a sucker for archaeologically themed LEGO. As Bruce says, Barbara Werth gets credit for being the first to incorporate the new skeleton horse into a LEGO vignette.
The Battle of Cold Harbor
The Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864 was one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. Thomas Wunz honors the Union dead with a vignette:
Diving Crew by Simon Jackson
Simon Jackson has been working on an old-style diving crew as a gift for his dad. Following his work on FBTB reveals some interesting customization techniques. Anyway, here’s the completed crew:
Joe Vig and the Ninjas
I threw this together last night, as a showcase for my new green ninjas. They are so cool…
In this scene the famously oblivious Joe Vig strolls through a bamboo forest. Will he escape alive? Of course, he’s Joe Vig!
One item to note is the complete lack of bricks and plates in this vignette. Now that was fun!
4 8 15 16 23 42 = LEGO Lost
Jon Furman combines cool post-processing on his photo with an excellent rendition of the scene in which Locke discovers the Hatch in J.J. Abrams’ “Lost”.
Vignettes as Philosophical Statement
Nannan Z. is a wildly original builder with a penchant for philosophy. Click the picture to read Nannan’s take on the universe:
(Via Klocki and VignetteBricks.)
Who is RACHAL?
RACHAL (RAytracing CHALlenge) is a challenge we run on ldraw.org where various people render the same virtual LEGO creation (typically a vignette like scene). The point of it is to allow people to challenge themselves on rendering a shared LEGO scene adding their own technical and artistic interpretations. The first one has just finished and it’s really fascinating to see how various people approach the same source material. If you like it you may also like its predeccesor that I ran early last year called “Remix Lenin”.
The evolution of the vignette continues...
First there was the vignette itself, then came the V-Pod, and now Nelson Yrizarry has invented a new form of vignette titled “MOCBox.” “MOC” stands for “my own creation” (doesn’t every hobby have its own vocabulary?), and as its name implies, MOCBoxes are creations inside a little box.
Check out Nelson’s first ten MOCBoxes in his Brickshelf gallery, as well as his introductory announcement on Classic-Castle Forums. Here’s my favorite, a double-decker MOCBox titled “Neighbors”:
Thwack! Shinbone to the skull!
Mark Twain is awesome, and I love Jane Austen. However, here’s what Twain had to say about Austen:
I haven’t any right to criticise books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
Nathan Cunningham captures this scene from Twain’s imagination in a hilarious new vignette:
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Steve Bishop wishes us all a happy St. Patrick’s Day with a vignette titled “The Luck of the Irish”:
