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”.
Tag Archives: Vignettes
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”:
Go!
No, not the verb, the ancient Asian game. Go is too complicated to explain in a blog post about a vignette, so you can read about it on Wikipedia.
Brickshelfer T-Brick distills the game down to an 8×8 base:
(Via VignetteBricks.)
It’s almost Girls’ Day!
To celebrate the upcoming Girls’ Day festival in Japan, mumu’s wife has created a cool little vignette:
Read more about Girls’ Day, or the Hinamatsuri holiday, in the first post about it here on The Brothers Brick (well, actually Pan-Pacific Bricks) last year.
Optimus Convoy and his Wii
Brickshelfer Optimus Convoy waves his Wiimote and makes the words “Wii” appear on his big-screen TV:
(Via VignetteBricks.)
Speaking of science — and drooling...
Alan Saunders adds another scientist to his minifig ranks with “Ivan Petrovich Pavlov”:
Ding-a-long! *drool* (Via VignetteBricks.)
Monkeys are Delicious!
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.”)