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Too Much Time + Lego = Long Awesome Post

Rico Mossesgeld — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:25:47 +0000

Most of us enjoyed turning our imaginations into semi-reality through Lego (and who hasn’t drooled over those large city reenactments when they were younger?). Looks like Nathan Sawaya continues doing so, at a entirely new level. Some details courtesy of Abduzeedo:

Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates very nice pieces using some unlikely things, mostly LEGO bricks. Sawaya has some portraits, logos, large and small sculptures … all made of bricks. As you will see here, his work is very amazing since he puts together lots of bricks to form very nice and unique work. He is currently touring North American museums in a show titled The Art of the Brick, an exhibition focused exclusively on LEGO as a way of art.

Click on any image for more details on each creation, from the mouth (or hands?) of the man himself!

So much more pics follow.

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Star Trek Online Timeline Unnecessary

Rico Mossesgeld — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:00:40 +0000

Big Download claims “the success of the new Star Trek movie has made many die hard Trek fans wonder what happened to the timeline of the previous TV shows and movies”. But practically all of them already knew the whole-alternate-universe-existing-on-a-different-quantum-frequency thing long before the movie came out. Making the Star Trek Online timeline below (courtesy Atari through BD) totally unnecessary:

Heck, I’m sure savvy fans have even figured out the dissolution of the Klingon-Fed alliance, given the messy inter-galactic politics started towards the end of Deep Space Nine and continued during Picard’s final days on-screen. But it’s always good for geeks to see the niggling details their favorite mythos fleshed out by a professional graphic designer, and the timeline’s definitely whetting my appetite for the upcoming online game. Definitely a Q’apla!

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Pics of Drool-Worthy Workstations

Rico Mossesgeld — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:27:51 +0000

You’ve got multi-functional setups like this:

To personal favorites like this:

And the simply too much:

More available via Nerd Business (images from that site)

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Awesome Lego-Built Pneumatic Engines Guarantee Geekasm

Rico Mossesgeld — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:30:37 +0000

Played with Lego when you were younger? Then I guarantee you’ll go gaga over these pneumatic-powered lego-built engines! First you’ve go an inline 3-cylinder engine:

And, even more awesome, a V8!

These engines are meant to power lego-constructed vehicles, and are at least 11 bricks high. Check out lpepower.com for more details. (via)

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