A LEGO Chocolate Chip Cookie … Made from Scratch

Made From Scratch?

Well, yes. Not with flour, eggs, and real chocolate chips, but with real LEGO bricks, and no instructions. This piece of LEGO art was inspired by an office party. We celebrated National Dessert Day, October 14th, at my office by everyone bringing in a batch of cookies. In addition to my wife’s scrumptious M & M cookies, I brought in this sculpture. Read the rest of this entry »

Really Simple Syndication, anyone?

What is that orange thing with wavy lines?

This symbol appears ubiquitously on the world wide web. It’s supposed to be an easy concept, but for many, “really simple syndication” may seem not so simple. Most explanations that I read when I was first getting my feet wet in the concept made it sound a lot more difficult than it really needs to be.  But I’m getting ahead of myself. Read the rest of this entry »

They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Haaa!

“I’ll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white suits…” Back in 1966, the hit song “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” caused quite a ruckus, drawing protests from a variety of different groups. While I didn’t hit the scene for another 10 years, and wouldn’t discover the song until the early ’90’s as a Dr. Demento staple, I always found it very amusing. And maybe I’m just crazy, but it really is an innocent and funny song, right?

Anyhow, when I first saw the new minifig head above, it struck me pretty quick that it was a good epitome of the song. Read the rest of this entry »

THE EMPIRE: An Equal Opportunity Employer

This MOC was inspired by my 6-year old son, who took a minifig head that had bright blue sunglasses and stuck it on the body of a storm trooper. Read the rest of this entry »

Christopher

This is my son, Christopher. He is six and very proud of having lost two teeth in recent months. The mosaic doesn’t actually portray him minus two teeth, though that might be a fun one to try. The photo I used was taken a few months ago, and I’d actually done a lot of the preliminary work for the mosaic (cropping, converting it to a plan in PicToBrick and Photoshop), but I’ve had several other projects going on as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Duckingham Design meets Wordle

I’m a regular reader of Rob Loach’s ivman blague, and was intrigued in his most recent post to learn about a website called Wordle. The site takes your input (text, a url, etc.) and converts it into a word picture. I thought it was pretty cool, so I pointed it to Duckingham Design, and here’s what I got:

Bob and Larry

Despite the fact that it was my boys who asked me to do this portrait of two of their favorite TV stars, and also despite the fact that I originally took pictures of the boys on either side of this picture, when Kristina wandered over to see what we were doing, she made a much better pose. Perhaps the boys were still stuck on needing to growl for the Darth Maul picture a couple weeks ago? I dunno. Just that they wouldn’t pose nicely. So,  Kristina (and Snoopy) get their five minutes of fame. Read the rest of this entry »