Blog of Josh Hall

During the month of August, the Knit the Bridge project yarn bombed the Andy Warhol bridge in Pittsburgh.  I was in love with the project for many reasons.  First, I love the yarn bombing phenom.  My other favorite pittsburgh yarn bomb is the Mr. Roger’s cardigan.  Second, I loved the scale and ambition.  This was […]

 Someone had found my previous version from a few years ago and asked if it was for sale. I tore it down shortly after it was built, but I said I could recreate it pretty easily. I fixed a lot of the problems the old one had, and ALMOST had its weight centered on that […]

Here’s the best part about those yellowed Legos:  You’re able to turn them back to their original color cheaply and easily! I had just googled for a solution (pun intended) on getting all my discolored bricks back to normal.  All that playing in the sun really did a number on them. As it turns out, […]

Welcome to the scotoma of LEGO creations.  Jeff Sanders is doing what everyone should have realized years ago. LEGO bricks have a little give to them, which means, when enough of them are connected in a straight line, you can bend that line.  His work has been featured with Nathan Sawaya’s touring displays.  Great stuff […]

Hot off the tails of the Cathedral of Learning winning the S.W. Randall competition, I became aware of LEGO’s new beta site, Rebrick.LEGO.com, and their competition!  I didn’t have much time to prepare or make a bricklink order, especially with us going out of town 4 days before submissions were due!  The rules are pretty […]

If you give an adult LEGO enthusiast a brick, he’s going to want a container to put it in. When you give him the container, he’ll probably ask you to help find all the bricks in his inventory of the same shape. When he’s finished finding all the pieces of the same shape, he’ll ask […]