Ah, power. You give a person too much and they will abuse it. Such is the case with Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old VP at Palo Alto-based software company SAP Labs, who has been arrested for the nerdiest crime in recent memory. His abuse of power: computer-based.
If you needed yet another reminder that you’re far from being a Lego master builder, check out “Sheepo’s” mind-blowingly awesome 1:8.4-scale Land Rover Defender 110 built from over 2800 pieces. It could probably endure an off-road adventure better than your compact car.
If you want to promote the heck out of Star Wars Lego, you honestly cannot go wrong with holograms. This delicious visual spectacular, complete with explosions, shield flares, laser bolts and animated characters, would compel any kid — and many sane adults — to pick up a few boxes of the science fiction-themed plastic blocks from their local toy retailer.
The beauty of Lego is that you really can make anything out of it. Anything at all — even the darkest pits of hell itself.
If Game of Thrones were set in Legoland rather than the seven kingdoms of Westeros, it might look something like this. Created by YouTubers bymatthewP and Monica Garcia, this recreates the opening sequence to HBO’s smash-hit series with stop-motion LEGO animation.
A technique known as tilt-shift photography can turn everyday scenes into miniature wonderlands. But at this point the trick is as tired as vintage filters, so photographer Valentino Fiadini did just the opposite with these miniature Lego rooms — photographing them to look like life-size locations.
