Tag Archives: Vignettes

Vignettes are like the haiku of the LEGO world. Usually built on a base 8 studs wide by 8 studs deep, vignettes show a little scene or a moment in time. But like written poetry, there’s plenty of variation on the basic theme.

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.)

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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!

The fact that the butcher in rupi’s “Butcher Shop” is dismembering a monkey is vaguely disturbing, but the meat grinder is just plain awesome:

Mmmm … monkey meat… *drool*

EDIT: Check out the comments on this post for links to Rupi’s back story in Portuguese and his story in English.

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.”)

Japanese History Vignettes by Enryu

Classic-Castler Enryu recently posted two vignettes inspired by Japanese history.

Here’s “Dappan” (more info in Enryu’s C-C post):

And here’s “Tachioujou” (C-C post):

Up a hundred stairs and through a gate...

I can’t count the number of Shinto shrines I visited growing up in Japan. I visited plenty of shrines in big cities like Tokyo and Kyoto, but my favorites were always the small shrines tucked into a grove deep in a forest or perched atop a tall hill. No matter what one’s religious alignment, I don’t think it’s possible not to feel the pervading sense of peace and holiness in these beautiful, tranquil places.

Brickshelfer Paul Donis evokes a mountainous path leading to a shrine with his “Torii gate”:

(Via VignetteBricks.)

Gregor Mendel Grows Some Peas

Alan Saunders proves once again that simplicity works, with his vignette of Gregor Mendel examining his pea plants:

LEGO has released a little working magnifying glass, but because it’s so big, it looks a bit rediculous when a minifig holds it. I like how Alan has used a wrench instead (and the oil can works well as a watering can).

Wii!!

Let’s just hope mumu and his wife don’t break their TV playing Wii Sports:

The Word: Vignette

Behold the awesomeness that is Stephen Colbert (vignette by me):

(YouTube video for all you sleepyheads who go to bed before 11:30.)

Snowed In

Here’s what things are like in Seattle right now:

…and in Bellevue, and Redmond, and Kirkland, and Mount Vernon, and Everett, and Sedro Woolley, and Shoreline, and — you get the picture.

Excellent minifig/mini-vig, Caylin!

It’s apparently going to be 18 degrees here in the city tonight — and that’s the warmest spot in the area. For a part of the country that doesn’t handle cold weather very well, this is very bad indeed.