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.

Our First Lego President!

Party time!

Indiana Goes Lego

While we're on the subject of Indiana Jones, take a look at this trailer for the Lego Indiana Jones video game! Swinging from vines and running from boulders never looked so blocky. I've only had limited playtime with Lego Star Wars (I'm holding out for the Complete Saga Wii release), but it was a fun dynamic in spite of some pretty weak grasps at humor. I expect Indiana will be the same but sweatier.