I'll never understand Americans' obsession with SUVs.


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Posted by Sean at 8:08 PM
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This was a sculpture that I first thought up over a year and a half ago, and really wanted to do as a life-size figure. I never seem to have the time, however, so I finally decided just to create it as a small sculpture.

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This piece was inspired by one of my sayings, "everything familiar is normal". We get so accustomed to the things in our life -- whether they're good or not -- that we don't see them for what they are. It's why people behave terribly or not, why cars run on gas or not, why we get fat or not, etc. Sooner or later, if we don't take a fresh, "lets-pretend-its-not-normal" look at things, we may be surprised that our entire world -- physically, socially, and spiritually -- has become a terrible mess.

Posted by Sean at 4:39 PM
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50 years ago, the 2x4 LEGO brick was born. In honor of the momentous occasion, I used LEGO bricks to build something that looked like a cake that looked something like a LEGO brick. It made sense at the time.



I think I baked the LEGO cake too long, because it was very crunchy. My dentist is happy about this.





It seems odd that, although I've has been building and playing with LEGO bricks for 30 years, that the LEGO brick itself is even two decades older than that. It's like a grandparent... or perhaps more like that weird uncle that brings fruitcakes on Thanksgiving.




Make a wish! I wish for 50 more years of LEGO bricks.

Posted by Sean at 8:29 AM
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The United Way and Monster.com held a holiday party for 1,300 underprivileged children. I built a big LEGO snowman with the children, and provided tens of thousands of LEGO bricks for them to create their own little masterpieces.



The snowman sculpture was fairly basic in form, since it needed to be built in under 3 hours. When complete, it used about 4,500 LEGO bricks and stood about 2 feet tall.

Kids had fun attaching their own creations to the snowman, like hats, droids, and icicle snow boogers.

Posted by Sean at 6:10 PM
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This miniature trophy was created for the winner of the 2007 Sharing is Participation community contest.

The small LEGO sculpture features a golden (...yellow) trophy, backdropped by a three-dimensional interpretation of the CommunityGuy.com logo. Realizing the logo's two-dimensional three-point-perspective is too much math for an artist, this interpretation came as a stroke of frustration-wrapped-brilliance.

Posted by Sean at 12:48 PM
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Today I finished my first non-human LEGO portrait. (Unless you count my self-portrait; people do accuse me of being from Mars.)



Like most dogs, this adorable friend is about 2 feet tall and contains over 3,000 LEGO bricks.

Zara the amazing LEGO dog also knows plenty of tricks, like "sit", "play dead" and "get bumpy". And Zara sleeps at the front door to protect yourself from barefoot burglers in the night!

Posted by Sean at 12:33 PM
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Hi everybody! I know I've been a bad blogger over the past few months -- I haven't added any new posts in a while, and I haven't updated the What's new page in my portfolio in a few months, either.

But don't worry -- I haven't been sitting on my well-callussed thumbs. I've got some really cool stuff in the works that I can't share with you just yet, but it's cool, so just think of something cool, and maybe that's what I'm working on.

Or you can look at these intentionally cryptic sneak preview photos. :)

Posted by Sean at 9:47 AM
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