9 red roses.

Created for a VIP.

For the flowers I took inspiration from Mariann Asanuma's wonderful series of LEGO flowers, however I added a twist, a display box and a little "buzzy bee" as my children called it.

The Cult of LEGO book review.



I was recently sent a review copy of the new “the Cult of LEGO” book by John Baichtal and Joe Meno, by No Starch Press.

Firstly, it is a very well presented book, its solid and has a great feel to it. Those who get it in E-book form are missing out on something.

Like other No Starch Press LEGO books there is plenty of great pictures, you can tell that lots of Joe Meno’s experiences are contained here, and there is lots to pique your imagination with.

Its a very good introduction to LEGO, but sadly as LEGO is such a huge topic nowadays it really only just scratches the surface on the myriad of LEGO topics that are out there. To be fair though if you were to be detailed about every topic it would be an encyclopaedia as opposed to a book.

The book is very American based (it tried hard not to be) which means it misses out on other great parts of LEGO, but again, it does really cover a LOT of different parts of the LEGO Hobby.

Overall I give the book a 7.5 out of 10.
It is a worthy purchase which I think will sit rather nicely in anyone's LEGO book collection.

Likes:
Great pictures and photography
Excellent print and physical quality
Covers just about every LEGO topic known to man.
If you didn’t know anything about LEGO in the community, this book will introduce you to it in every way possible.
Good value for money.

Dislikes:

American centric.
Each section is very short and introductory on each topic.

Info on the book can be found here:
http://nostarch.com/cultoflego

I was recently lucky enough to work on a rather different and unique way to use LEGO bricks, that to be able to create a model of a real life Gold mine!.

The great guys from Minesight over in Western Australia asked me to create an exact replica from their ground breaking Minesight 3D software.
Using a specific scale of a 1x2 Brick to represent a block of earth and the LEGO colour gradient to determine gold density within the ground allowed me to create a physical replica of geological information.

The model is also split in half so you can see the depth to which the seam of gold runs, along with the three phases of the mining operation, all of which are removable.



The LEGO version:


You can see from the removable sections the depth of the model where every brick is accurate to the plans gold density.
This part I am holding is the 3rd phase of the mining operations.

100,00 LEGO brick mosaic of Andrew Walker's spectacular mark from the 2011 AFL season.
2.6m high and 2.2m Wide.

This mark was created for channel 7's Sunday Football show "Game Day"
The mosaic has since been auctioned off for the charity "Defib for life" which gives heart Defibrillators to community football clubs.

Rather embarrassingly I featured on the TV show explaining to several people its not pronounced "Laygo"