I’ve had Ego Leonard in the hopper to blog about for a while now, but it seems current news has beaten me to the punch! Turns out, one of his extra large 8 foot tall LEGO sculptures has “washed up” on a Florida beach. How appropriate, seeing as LEGO opened up another Legoland theme park […]
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Tags: art, beach, ego, ego leonard, Florida, LEGO, legoland, leonard, netherlands, Orlando, theme park
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One of my long life goals is to create my own chess set. More than likely, it will be made of of LEGO bricks. Here’s a set based on LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandongriffith/sets/72157624770160743/with/4964655609/
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Tags: board, chess, empire strikes back, game, LEGO, set, star wars
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You knew someone was going to do it eventually. Back in 2009, British Television host, James May, and a group of volunteers set out to create the house in the UK. Sure, they made sure it had a solid wood frame structure, but everything else is all LEGO. There was something about James actually living […]
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Tags: brick, britain, house, james may, LEGO, life, life size, model, real, real life, scale, toy stories, tv, uk
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A practical use for LEGO in the data representation arena. Colors are used to show countries and adding the to the depth of the cartogram to show emigration and immigration to countries. See, I can do useful things with LEGO too! http://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2011/02/cartogram-done-in-real-3d.html
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Tags: 3d, art, cartogram, chart, data, graph, LEGO, map, people, statistics, stats, world
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This is actually my second foray into the LEGO mosaic realm. The first one was a freehand design of the LEGO logo. A mosaic of Albert Einstein would require a little assistance though. There are 2 methods for creating mosaics in LEGO bricks, this one is a studs out technique, where the studs face the […]
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Tags: Albert Einstein, art, block, brick, commission, creation, einstein, fee, LEGO, logo, mosaic, optical illusion, picture, portrait, ratio, render, tile
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LEGO is a very popular medium for stop motion videos. LEGO even makes their own cameras and software for content editing. Here’s one of the more popular music videos with LEGO:
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Tags: diy, home made, LEGO, movie, stop motion, vid, video, youtube
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