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Guestblogging: LEGO Portraits

It wasn’t a surprise that Burra’s field trip to go look at LEGO portraits filled up quickly. You’re going to have to see your friends’ pictures and hope it runs again soon.

LEGO has been going since forever … well … 1940’s.

In its most basic form it’s rectangular blocks that squeeze together until you want them apart again. It’s more than that! With these little blocks you can create whole worlds that at the end of the day can simply be pulled apart. There are no wrong answers here.

LEGO themselves used portraits as part of an advertisement campaign created by Geometry Global agency:

Nathan Sawaya is an artist that specializes in large scale LEGO models (he does other sculptures too).

These faces are nearly two meters tall making them very detailed (photo: Jonathan Liu, Wired)

This is Sawaya’s signature piece and is life size. This picture and more from Art of the Brick can be found at The Avant Guardian.

To quote Sawaya himself, “Dreams are built one brick at a time.”

At a recent Bricks in Time exhibit at Rheged, Penrith, built by Bright Bricks, LEGO portraits came in two extremes of a large scale roman style chap and this fun self portrait from the kids corner. Both great.

Breaking pixel rules a bit, Marco Pece combines LEGO backgrounds and Mini-figures to recreate artworks. There are more of his LEGO art on Flickr.

If you need more blog posts featuring LEGO on Retronator:

LEGO Scumm Bar from Monkey Island

Isometric pixel art LEGO heart

The LEGO Story short

Alter Lego history of Retronator

Infinite LEGO contraption

Guestblogging: Yarn Bombing

The bay windows at Pixel Art Academy are vast and give a panorama from your studio over Retropolis. What’s that? You move towards the glass wall to take a closer look … the park, something’s different, are the trees changing for fall/ autumn? You scramble to put your glasses on to get a better idea, the trees look to be dressed for a carnival with all the colours of the rainbow. What’s going on? You log-in to a local news forum for an answer and are informed that the trees have been yarn-bombed!

If you haven’t come across it, yarn-bombing is where graffiti and crafts combine to make a wonderful art form. The point of it is to use yarn/wool/string/old tape ribbon to cover something like a tree or a statue, bridges are popular targets and if you search for ‘yarn-bombing phone box’ you get some delightful results!

Below are some yarn bombs that one day inspire you to create your own.

Magda Sayeg is credited as being the first yarn-bombing artist after they covered the handle to their shop. So… it seems a good starting point:

This picture is from Sussex St and Kent St, Sydney and taken by Project Jam.

Other Magda Sayeg. This picture is from Kent Ave, New York and taken by Eddie O. 

Moving on. Urban Cross-Stitch use chain link fence to put their design on (for more designs and a how-to guide see here).

Aida Gomez in the project ‘Home is where the heart is’.

If you have been making granny squares for your pixel art realisation projects and have a few spare, this is one idea to use them:

This was a record breaking attempt to make the largest blanket, it’s not your average yarn bomb, Helsinki Cathedral in Finland.

And another inspirational picture without a reference by artist or photographer (I’m sorry):

It’s such a great idea, covering paving blocks in yarn to make up patterns (until it rains and makes it unsafe to walk on but it could look amazing over a whole area) or even a warning for people as to do this the block must be loose first.

Yarn bombing brings colour and vibrancy into overlooked places but may not be legal in every case! Yarn Bombing is also known as Yarn-storning, Yarn Graffiti (if you are looking for more information about it). Also see Urban Cross-Stitch.

Having seen some pictures you now have a better idea of why the trees are dolled up. You decide to take a walk in the park to get a closer look.

RSS Pale Blue Dot – a LEGO spaceship by rpeschetz http://flic.kr/p/NkbVaj

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to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

Insight into the life and process of a very talented pixel artist. Through economic use of colour, space, and a few animation frames, his creations gives access to an intense everyday reality. @1041uuu navigates the intrinsic limitations of the medium like none other.

Reflection on Winter

Here, I will share some of my works along with my trivial writings.

As this is a format where long texts are interspersed with "Unrelated" works, I hope it can be appreciated as such.

Please forgive the incomplete translation.

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Since I was a child, I have been dominated by an insatiable desire for someone to listen to me and understand me.

Because of this, controlling my emotions has always been difficult, and creating serene Animations became the only way to suppress those feelings.

Through painting, I found work and gained a sense of self-worth, and I finally reached a point where I could remain calm enough to read books. (Come to think of it, it was Tumblr over a decade ago that appreciated my pixel art and built a bridge to my present!!)

However, at some point, I forgot who it was I wanted to understand me and why it mattered in the first place.

As I poured my thoughts into words and delved deeper into reflection, I realized that philosophy and reading could help me in this pursuit of being understood.

However, by the time I reached that realization, I had also acquired an unsettling awareness that language dulls the visual senses.

In fact, it imparted a slight sense of symbolism to my artwork, while dulling its intuitive qualities.

This conflict likely explains why my art oscillates between symbolic representation and intuitive visual expression.

It has grown more pronounced this year. It also explains why I’ve found myself engaging in this sort of self-reflection more often than ever before.

My works exist in a complementary relationship with my self-reflection.

However, this is by no means a teleological approach—it is rooted in intrinsic impulses.

I simply, purely, and genuinely enjoy things like Gas stations on winter nights, side entrances of public facilities, rural port towns, or the colors of 100-yen lighters. That’s all there is to it, and that’s why I paint.

Please don’t worry. Unlike in the past, I would never even consider taking my own life.

I’m too curious about what I’ll paint next. I love my art.

For that reason, I ask for your understanding regarding my extremely poor productivity and my reliance on your support.

Dear friends, thank you for your continued support, and I look forward to the next year together.

P.S.

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