In The Cult of Lego, my co-author Joe Meno and I devote a whole chapter to art, both works created with bricks as well as art using more traditional media… Read the rest of the article: Can Lego be considered art?
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John Baichtal Matt "Monsterbrick" Armstrong — he of the epic Lego Room in Wednesday's post — is working on a neo-Victorian series of models. Each of these models, like the stunning typewriter… Read the rest of the article: Steampunk Lego inventions
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John Baichtal Lego fans take their organizational methods very seriously — there's even a Flickr group where they can share their techniques. Basically, Lego fanaticism translates into tons (sometimes literally!) of bricks.… Read the rest of the article: Extreme Lego organization methods
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John Baichtal Pixar animator Angus MacLane created a way to show humanity in Lego that is bigger and more creative than a minifig, while still being charming and lovable: the CubeDude. Consider… Read the rest of the article: CubeDudes: Cartoony, geometric Lego figures
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John Baichtal One of my favorite Lego genres — and one for which the Lego Group will never release a set — is that of ApocaLego. Whether it's a zombocalypse, bioplague, robot… Read the rest of the article: ApocaLego: Building end-times with plastic bricks
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John Baichtal [Video Link] So, yeah, porn. Rule 34 tells us that if you can imagine it, someone has made porn out of it. Lego minifigs have been forced to hump one… Read the rest of the article: Lego porn
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John Baichtal In 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney pumped birdshot into a friend's face, simultaneously upping his thug cred while inspiring Lego fan Thom Beckett to depict the scene in plastic bricks.
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John Baichtal My friend and MAKE colleague John Baichtal co-wrote an upcoming book called The Cult of Lego. I liked it so much that I wrote the foreword to it. As you… Read the rest of the article: The world's most controversial Lego model