rymdreglage: 8-bit trip.

This took 1500 hours. And it shows. Sweet Jesus…

Crazy killer stop motion vid created by Swedish creative team Rymdreglage, with animation by Thomas Redign and music by Daniel Larsson.

Via one of my new fave motion blogs –  No Zap

jean-charles de castelbajac: jcdc vs. lego.

I got tipped off to this completely kick ass vid by the equally kick ass Josh Spear. Designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac revealed his Spring/Summer 2009 collection in an animated LEGO-populated fashion show video, called “JCDC Vs. Lego.” It’s pure win. Everything happiness-inducing is right here: LEGO, clouds, models, rainbows, animation, electro-beats. I can’t take how cool this is…

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Via Hypebeast

mike stimpson: “classics in lego”.

Lego is seriously one of the building blocks of life. We’ve got Carbon, we’ve got Hydrogen, and then we’ve got Lego. It should have it’s own atomic symbol and everything. There isn’t a single person I know who doesn’t have childhood memories of sitting on the living room floor building something out of Lego blocks.

I have a distinct memory of surreptitiously crawling into my little brother’s room and thoughtlessly pillaging his lego stash because I had an Empire State Building on the go in the family room that needed a turret. There was simply no way I was going to go to sleep until that little architectural masterpiece was fully erected. When my Mom caught me she actually snuck in and helped me pull apart his Lego Death Star because she knew I would go apoplectic if I ran out of grey blocks. For those of us who’ve followed the creative/design/geek impulses fostered in our childhood by marathon lego-skyscraper building sessions there is something about using Lego in any adult capacity that is completely, utterly fascinating.

Enter the work of fellow-Lego lover Mike Stimpson. On his Flickr set you can see his toy block genius at work: he takes classic photographs and recreates them with Lego. I appreciate how he doesn’t necessarily take any of the pre-supposed emotional impact of the Lego itself into account when he chooses which photos to recreate. Sure, Lego are always smiling, but that doesn’t mean he only recreates happy photos – like in his reenactment of the iconic “unknown rebel” in Tiannemen Square…

Via Why Me? via NotCot