Tag Archive for 'Lego brick artist'

Microlympics

julius published on August 21, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: Beijing Olympics 2008, Lego brick artist.

While the Olympics are steady going a group called the Hong Kong Lego User Group (Yay, a website with Chinese text!) decided to create their own, smaller scaled ‘Olympics’.

Using 300,000 plastic bricks the Chinese created their very own Olympic village. Measuring 10ft by 26ft (or 3 by 8 meters). Believe it or not but the town is even inhabited, by 4500 Lego ‘people’ or in this case sportsmen.

The main stadium, the Bird Nest, turned out to be especially good.

Lots of photos available here. Including ones that were taken while the village was in the making.

-jdh

Nathan Sawaya: Lego Lennon Tribute!

jackson published on July 22, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: Han Solo, inspiring artist, John Lenon, Lego brick artist, legos, Nathan Sawaya.

This = awesome.

“To commemorate John Lennon’s tragic death 25 years ago this December 8, I wanted to create something unique. I settled on his famous self-portrait that John sketched of himself in 1968. I wanted to create a piece that gave more depth to Lennon’s signature self portrait. I reconstructed that sketch out of bricks and then suspended the pieces on almost non-visible strings which gives, at first glance, the illusion that John’s face is floating. I felt by suspending the piece in mid-air, it suggests that John is more reachable. By allowing one to physically put their arm through his portrait, this piece allows people to almost figuratively pass through John.”

-Nathan Sawaya

That is so great. We’d love to put our arms around and through John Lennon.