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Tag: Lego
Brick Testament
The Brick Testament has been pretty useful for churches all over the world. Probably more useful than the author intended. Our minister even used the scene depicting Israel’s mass circumcision in Joshua…
It would no doubt have been useful in Easter celebrations over the weekend… And quite possibly an inspiration for John Safran.
But while the Brick Testament’s depictions of biblical scenes are often works of art this effort from Sweden takes the cake…
Parishioners at a church in Sweden celebrated Easter on Sunday by unveiling a 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) statue of Jesus that they had built out of 30,000 Lego blocks.
It took the 40 volunteers about 18 months to put all the tiny plastic blocks together, and their creation shows a standing Jesus facing forward with his arms outstretched.
Card carrying professionals
Business cards are one of the unsung heroes of the economy – for networking to bear fruit the people you meet have to keep and remember your business card – so it’s worth making them memorable. Here are 10 Business of my favourite business card designs from around the web. TrendHunter has a list of 26 but their design is clunky and requires a lot of clicking around. Others come from this Toxel collection.
- Pop Up Business Cards
These will make you stand out from the pack. Literally. They’re from a graphic design studio.
- Cardapult – a business card that converts into a catapult – from a mechanical engineer. There’s a video of it in action here. And instructions for how to make your own here.
- Minifig yourself – I’ve posted this one before – but it’s worthy of a rerun – if you work for Lego you get your own lego figurine business cards, they even customise them to look like you.
- The lock pick kit – perfect for locksmiths – produced for a “hacker” – this little card contains a working lock pick set.
- Google Me card – I’ve featured this one before too – from Ji Lee – it’s for the techno savvy entrepreneur who religiously maintains their web reputation – you would have to check pretty regularly that you haven’t been superseded by a triathlete, singer, criminal or football player.
- The auto dialing business card – Tom Ward created a business card that uses electronic signals to cause your phone to dial his number. Sound clever? Want to find out how he did it? Here you go (or as a PDF).
- Money – A significantly devalued currency opens up the possibility of using money to make money – a Zimbabwean hunter did just that – using bank notes as business cards. Talk about a silver lining. But there’s a cloud too – he had to pay a fine or serve a jail term for defacing currency.
- Smashed plates – if you run a traditional Greek restaurant and want to put your smashed plates to good use – try this:
- Or if you’re a debt collector with a penchant for breaking limbs… you could try this:
- Encourage a growing business – this designer wanted to leave an impression so went out on a limb to produce this growth model:
Piece offering
How would you advertise Lego? It pretty much sells itself. Here are 39 clever Lego ads. A mix of inspirational and controversial. And a periodic table for good measure.
One trillion dollars
Being a supervillain and making demands for ransom ala Dr Evil is much easier now thanks to Google. You’ll be able to make realistic cash demands in proportion to your schemes knowing how much space you’ll need to store the payment just by using Google Sketchup. Google’s 3D modelling software doesn’t look quite as cool as Lego’s – but only because it’s not defaulted to using lego. I’m sure you could. You can provide a visualisation of one trillion dollars with ease (the little speck on the bottom left is a person). I haven’t used it yet, but it looks cool.
Reasons to work at Lego: #62 Business cards
I haven’t done 61 other posts in a series on reasons to work at Lego. But I reckon I could. Easily. I think parking would be easy. Everything there would be so ordered, and easy to fit together. Office construction problems would be a thing of the past. I could go on. But I won’t.
Lego is cool. And if you work there – this is what your business card looks like, unless you’re a guy. Then it would be a male minifig:
Race around in blocks
Little sister number two has a long held, deep seeded (or seated?) ambition to install lego boards into her car’s dash and keep pieces for passengers to play with in the glove box. She’s been outdone. Check out this Flickr set. There are a bunch of other car modification ideas here.
Shirt of the Day: 22 January
Available here. Just $US15.95. Fuzzy Ink – the site in question – seems strangely dedicated to promoting the moustache all year round – not just in Movember.
Plastic workers make for positive office culture
Corporate Minifig
Last week was BYFMTWW. Or “Bring your favourite minifig to work week”. I’m sorry I missed it. For those still not clear on what a minifig is:
Anatomy of a minifig
I told you so
For Ben.
These made me laugh…
Language warning on both these though – only mild for the top one… it’s bleeped out.
I told you so
For Ben.
The lego brick road
A while back I made a nostalgic post about the CDTV – the first CD based gaming console I ever played. Those nostalgic console stories will probably continue – I haven’t mentioned the Amiga CD32 or the 8-bit goodness of the NES yet – but today’s trip down memory lane will focus on the original 8 bit entertainment. Lego.
“if all the Lego bricks ever produced were to be divided equally among a world population of six billion, each person would have 62 Lego bricks.” –An interesting fact from the wikipedia article
I probably spent more time playing with Lego than any other toy or game in my childhood. Lego was is awesome. A little while back, after I started earning a wage I thought about buying some new lego to play with – but the little men – apparently called minifigs (like the little pirate below) had been replaced by these cretinous things that almost had opposable thumbs.
I was distressed.
Anyway, Lego is probably responsible for today’s architects and engineers – lego architects and engineers broke new ground recently, by creating the world’s tallest lego tower.
“At 96.73 feet (29.485 meters) this Lego tower built in the Rathaus Platz in Vienna has broken the world record for the tallest Lego construction in the world. It took nearly 460,000 bricks and it was built over four days. The views from the top are quite stunning” – from Gizmodo
That’s some impressive legoing.
Equally impressive is this Flickr collection dedicated to BrickCon’s Zombiefest.
And for those of you who don’t have a lego arsenal capable of taking on the zombie hoards – there’s always this collection from BrickArms to get you by.
White House Transition – Brick by Brick
January 20, 2009