Our Church, The Open Door, hosts a stations of the cross art exhibit every year, and this year I volunteered to create a piece out of LEGO bricks. I definitely hesitated until the last minute to speak up, but it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a couple years now, just never had the courage [...]
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Tags: 3, art, bionicle, bricks, church, cock, crow, deny, easter, Faith, gallery, Jesus, LEGO, morning, peter, rooster, stations of the cross, technic, three, toy story
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The tri-state’s largest summertime event, EQT Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta, will commemorate its 35th anniversary year with five days of world-class entertainment featuring more power, more pyro, and more fun for the entire family… ALL FREE! The nation’s largest inland regatta will run June 30 through July 4 complete with some first-time signature acts and [...]
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Tags: 3 rivers, art, famly, independence day, july 4th, Pitt, pittsburgh, regatta, rivers, sand, sandsational, summer, thomas koet, three
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http://blog.kidrobot.com/pencil-tip-micro-sculptures-by-dalton-ghetti/ This is nuts. This guy can carve the tips of pencils into just about anything. I can’t imagine how many times he’s had to start over after breaking off a tip.
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Tags: amazing, art, carving, dalton, dalton ghetti, geek, graphite, lead, pencil, school, sculpture, tip
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I can’t take all the credit for the work involved in this one. There are 9 32 x 32 stud plates (which makes this 30 inches by 30 inches!) that I divvied up to the 9 kids in my class this year. I used software to break a standard image down to 96 x 96 [...]
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Tags: art, baseball, brick, bricks, buccos, class, excel, kids, LEGO, logo, mlb, mosaic, picture, pirate, pirates, pittsburgh, pittsburgh pirates, PNC park, stud, student
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The wise man built his house upon the plastic brick, apparently. It claims to be the world’s largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible. Tons of LEGO inspired recreations of Bible stories. http://www.thebricktestament.com/
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Tags: art, bible, block, God, Jesus, LEGO, model, moses, recreation, Religion, scene, testament
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This is some of the smallest origami you’ll ever see. This is srz bzns. He uses a tooth pick to create all the tiny folds. http://www.visualnews.com/2011/08/18/a-tiny-world-of-nano-origami/
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Tags: art, cool, folding, geek, nano, origami, paper, small
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