Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Legos and The Art of Minimalism

Old and Busted:
Gigantic Lego Representations of Famous Icons


New Hotness:Minimalist Lego Representations of Every Day Items.

Christopher Niemenn is currently in the lead for Best Blog Post of 2009 with "I Lego N.Y.". Here's the story; Niemann is in Berlin and feeling homesick for NYC, so as he plays Legos with his kids he sees bits his favorite city in every little block.

I never though of Legos as little mini Rorschach tests before, but now I can't think of them any other way. Hit the jump for a few examples of what we at Geekanerd saw in the toybox of Google image search...





A Left 4 Dead medpack.


Krang! Ahh!

A Mondrian inspired sculpture next to a big piece of tofu.


Bart Simpson lying down beside a Hundred Grand candy bar.

This would probably work even better if we had some actual legos to look at.

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