Blog of Josh Hall

I once set out to create a model of Pittsburgh out of bricks.  It didn’t turn out well.  Scale is a hard thing to maintain when constricted to the shapes of LEGO bricks.  So, the mini-series was born.  As I’m inspired, or as requested, I’ll set out to recreate individual buildings and landmarks.  Here’s what [...]

A tip of the hat to Amy for this gem! Dispatch Work is an artist’s project to repair city landscapes around the world with LEGO bricks. Click on the cities on the right hand side of the site to see all the different locations. People simple volunteer to build LEGO creations to fit into the [...]

  When I first brought my LEGO collection from my mom’s house to my house, I created a large scale LEGO man.  It was a little smaller, didn’t have moving arms, it had a baseball hat, and it had a double pocket torso, but it was very similar to this one. I had a few difficulties finding enough [...]

I was inspired to recreate the Pittsburgh Penguins logo in bricks on Sunday.     It took about 2.5 hours from start to finish.  I started off with just making the yellow triangle in the back to figure out what scale I would be able to achieve with the pieces I have.  I knew I wanted to make it a little [...]