It’s LEGO’s 80th Birthday. In celebration, here’s the official video celebrating 80 years charting their successes (and failures). It’s a moving 17 minute CG film that is beautiful, inspiring, and heartbreaking.
From the early days, through war, fire, loss; through determination, conviction, and faith – shows a family built to build.
The film does, however, make me dislike Mega Bloks, K’NEX, and KREO even more. LEGO created a path to change toys forever through passion and quality. Creating a toy system so uniquely theirs and through that vision they endured such tragedy. It’s so hard to justify any purchase to a company that would steal their very original idea.
I had the great pleasure of attending the Six Seasons and a Movie art show in June, when it was in its full glory. For whatever reason, I never got around to posting images of the event. Well I’ve just remedied that. Chang out some of my favorite shots here or view my full gallery of pics on Flickr.
While I rather dislike the original Call Me Maybe, the many parodies and covers out there are quite excellent. Though of all the ones I’ve watched, this one takes the cake. The complete brilliance of the beyond Nintendo nerdy lyrics is incredibly entertaining. I’ve watched this far too many times.
“Hey, I StreetPassed you, and this is crazy, but here’s my Friend Code. Swapnote me, maybe?”
Also, this artwork was shown at the Six Seasons and a Movie Community art show in LA earlier this week. I had the wonderful pleasure of attending it and am currently trying to figure out the best way to post about 150 photos from the event.
While this TeeFury shirt is awesome, the artist’s description of the shirt made my brain implode.
Tell us about this design.
I was at the store one day buying mushrooms when I realized that somewhere, in another universe, Mario was out there doing the very same thing. Needless to say, my mind was blown.
Created by Alex Kobbs for the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, this three-minute bit of Lego stop-motion opened the show. The montage covers 15 games and took about three months to complete. Check out this awesome making of video here.
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