Tag: LEGO
For his new exhibit opening September 27th on Alcatraz Island, embattled artist and activist Ai Weiwei has assembled 176 portraits of political prisoners and people in exile for their political beliefs — in LEGOs. Ai spent six months compiling a list of people he wanted to feature, including Edward Snowden, Reeyot Alemu and Chelsea Manning. After the list was finalized, ten designers broke […]
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is a notoriously “difficult” book, and one of the last ones to come to mind when you think of books to make in Lego form. Supposedly, the late author told his friend Jonathan Franzen that “the story can’t fully be made sense of.” But an eleven-year-old boy named Sebastian Griffith has […]
Artist Adly Syairi Ramly created these damn cute LEGO version of iconic bands like The Beatles and The Pixies, custom painting the figures IRL, with no photoshop. The range of artists represented here is comically wide: any series that includes both ‘N Sync and Napalm Death is good by us. See some highlights in the gallery […]
Here are the greatest LEGO sets you’ll never own, assuming your the type of adult who still buys LEGO sets or the type of child who reads ANIMAL. Created by Flickr user Rifiröfi, the unofficial sets depict classic scenes from Monty Python and the Whole Grail, like the fight with the Black Knight (above), the witch trial, and […]
When I was a kid, I’d comb through huge boxes of LEGOs to find the perfect piece for whatever I was working on — a two-floor Miami condo, an epic fighting robot, a replica of the Mona Lisa (or not). Today, I’m a little embarrassed I still have huge boxes of LEGOs at home (DON’T JUDGE […]
To create these vaguely unsettling images, sculptor Nathan Sawaya and photographer Dean West augment staged but otherwise realistic scenes with an extra shot of artifice in the form of hyperrealistic LEGO sculptures. In the image above, it’s the cute little dog and the mannequin in the window. Each photo presents an archetypically American scene–the trenchcoated […]
