In spring 2008, Mazda commissioned LEGO sculptures of their sporty hatchback car, the MazdaSpeed3... one for every dealership in Mexico. They are on display at auto dealerships across the country throughout July and August 2008.



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Labels: car, lego, mazda, mazdaspeed, mexico, sculpture

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I'll never understand Americans' obsession with SUVs.


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LEGO William Shatner

The Shatner Show web site has been updated with more information about the group exhibition in which I'll be participating this summer.

In addition, you can now purchase a 128-page, full-color book featuring the work of the 76 artists at the show. The preview of the book (below) shows a preview of my LEGO sculpture.



William Shatner exists mostly as a parody of himself, and has become so as the culmination of the roles he's played throughout his life. My piece features Shatner as "Denny Crane", his most recent role from TV's "Boston Legal". He is surrounded by his past, rendered as miniature models of himself in different roles. A LEGO Captain Kirk, the businessman from "Nightmare at 20,000 feet", and singing for his album "Has Been" in his highly gestured, slowly animated way.

Come see the exhibit this June, July, and August in Calgary, AB, Canada. 10% of sales will go to charity.

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It's LEGoogle! I mean LooGoo! I mean GoGo! I mean GooLeg! I mean Loogle. I mean.. Oh, you know what I mean.

I had a lot of fun creating this sculpture for Google. At first, it looks like a normal sculpture or mosaic... but if you look closely, you can see that it's built entirely out of crazy-shaped LEGO bricks, like slopes, circles, hinges, wheels, flags, doors...

This logo is about "the complexity of simplicity", which is one of the things I admire most about Google's products. I've written a bit more about this and posted 7 photos in my online portfolio.

The colors in Google's logo are really well suited for LEGO... and I also realized while doing this project that "LEGO" and "Google" are witten using the same 4 letters. Neat.

Labels: installation, mosaic, sculpture

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Earlier this year, I was invited to participate in "The Shatner Show", a gallery exhibition featuring 76 artists' interpretations of William Shatner.

I produced a sculpture that will be showing this June, July, and August at the Uppercase Gallery in Calgary, Canada. (map)

Read more about The Shatner Show or the wonderfully-named Captain's Blog.

Sorry for only posting a teaser photo, but I promised I wouldn't show pictures of the sculplture until the exhibit opens. :)

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Hi there, my name is Sean, and I'm a professional LEGO builder... I meet a lot of people that think I have a pretty darn cool job (and I personally have to agree) so I thought it would be fun to share my wacky adventures with everyone in the bloggy world.

So, to start... This weekend, I helped build an 8-foot tall LEGO Alligator at FAO Schwarz in New York City, together with about 2 zillion very excited kids. (See 10 photos)



The highlight of the whole event came towards the end of the last day. A mom came by carrying a little girl, and put her down to watch us build. The girl was so small she didn't see the velvet ropes we were working behind... the second her mom put her down, she darted clear under them and sat straight down between me and one of the other builders. She then proceeded to grab LEGO bricks and add them to our LEGO alligator, completely oblivious to her mother beckoning "sweetie come back! you're not supposed to be over there!" She was so completely enamored with this LEGO sculpture that I couldn't even get her attention away... I eventually had to lift her up and carry her back to her mom. It was all incredibly cute.

Doing events like these make you feel like Santa Claus. :)

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