Sunday, December 27, 2020

CONTACT 1: A 200,000 Piece LEGO Masterwork

(first posted April, 2013), Via Atlantic Cities:

No one, I repeat, no one can do LEGO like Mike Doyle can. His Halloween-themed LEGO sculptures used approximately 130,000 of the famed plastic bricks to build large models of crumbling Victorian houses. Now, Doyle is back with a larger and much more ambitious project: Contact 1, the first entry in a series of thematically-linked works that celebrate “terrestrial contact events, spiritual beings and unique worlds.” Wait, whaaaa?

Doyle’s series will shed light on more elevated states of beings through the manically detailed, impressively constructed cities he has and continues to build. With Contact 1, he’s built an imaginary city of near Minas Tirith-like scale, complete with pixelated towers, forests, and waterfalls....MORE 

And at Kickstarter:

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....MUCH MORE

And the song Bill Gates' children used to sing to him (seriously):