lego
Toys
Knocking Down 117 Toys Balanced On Single Lego Brick
11:00AM Jesus Diaz
How can you make 117 toys stand balanced over one single 4×2 Lego brick? I don’t know, but artist Walter Wick has the answer and he’s made this really cute video about it. [Boing Boing]
Entertainment
Do Lego Constructions Have A Soul?
Software
Magic Lego Volumes Have Three Different Magic Shadows
6:30AM Jesus Diaz | The uncanny Photosketch tool was not the only magic software tool debuting at Siggraph Asia 2009. This amorphous Lego volume can magically throw three different object shadows thanks to a program called Shadow Art. See it in action here. More »
Games
The Perfect Lego NES Only Plays Bricked Tetris
8:40AM Jesus Diaz | This full scale Lego NES reproduction is exactly like the original, complete with video and audio connectors, gamepads with flexible cables made out of solid pieces, pushable buttons, and a working front-loading mechanism to insert the included Tetris cartridge. More »
Toys
The Biggest Lego Mario Ever Built
1:40PM Jesus Diaz | If you have $US3700 handy, you can buy this 180cm tall, 50kg 40,000-brick Lego Mario, the biggest ever built. It took one week to plan and 175 hours to build over 16 days. More »
Toys
Assault The Lego Wedding Castle, Save The Princess, Save The World
11:20AM Jesus Diaz | Showing again that Lego dorks can be loved to the point of marriage, reader Clint Cox has sent his cool Lego wedding cake, in which a heroic Lego minifig assaults the castle to rescue the princess from the eeeviiiil dragon: More »
Toys
Lego Pop-Up Building Makes My Head Pop Up Too
7:20AM Jesus Diaz
Andrew—from The Brothers Brick—says that this Lego Kinkaku-ji Buddhist temple leaves him speechless. I have to admit that I just couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the whole building popping up from a closed box. Magic. More »
Design
10:40AM Jesus Diaz | I was sad that the Lego house was finally destroyed, but happy to know that its spirit lives in this Lego kitchen, a Scandinavian clusterf—k made with a Swedish IKEA kitchen island and more than 20,000 pieces of Lego. More »
The Lego House Is Dead. Long Live The Lego Kitchen!
10:40AM Jesus Diaz | I was sad that the Lego house was finally destroyed, but happy to know that its spirit lives in this Lego kitchen, a Scandinavian clusterf—k made with a Swedish IKEA kitchen island and more than 20,000 pieces of Lego. More »
Music
