Self-Standing Mosaic

Daniel Stoeffler (Dan_Sto) developed a way to make a self-standing mosaic by using hinges to open the panels of the mosaic.

As Daniel says, it is a "self-standing 128x70 mosaic representing the scene of the Star Wars, A New Hope movie where Princess Leia records her help call for Obiwan. The mosaic consists of 4 panels connected with hinges so that the panels make an angle of 22.5 degrees."



Here is a view of the back:



I never thought I'd make a large mosaic, if only for the fact that I wouldn't know how to mount it and didn't care enough to try to figure it out.  But this makes it look easy and do-able. 

You can read more about this mosaic at Eurobricks or, if you prefer French, at Forum SeTechnic.

Star Wars Mosaics

Oliver Kude (HanSolo089) recently posted these Star Wars character mosaics.

The first, of General Grievous, was built with 3595 plates on 3 x 2 48x48 Baseplates.  He looks very menacing:




My favorite is the second, of Aayla Secura.  She was built with 5377 plates on 3 x 2 48x48 baseplates.



Oliver has several other mosaics in his photostream, too, including this lovely mosaic of Neuschwanstein Castle built by visitors to Bricking Bavaria 2011:

Building under Piece Constraint and The Nightmare Before Christmas

Mocpages user, Mark B. , shows it's possible to construct a great looking mosaic without all the pieces in the world.

This small Darth Vader was made entirely out of pieces found at a Pick-a-Brick wall at a LEGO store. This helps though when you work at a Lego store, of which Mark does. How long it took and how he designed it is a mystery. ;-D

What's not a mystery is his admiration and obsession for The Nightmare Before Christmas movie by Tim Burton, as displayed by two of his creations. The first one is a humongous eight feet tall and four and a half feet wide mosaic of the characters.

Of which this mosaic certainly uses a greater variety in pieces than the Darth Vader one.

And second, we have the Night"mare" stand that features several mosaics and working parts.

If you'd like to see anymore of Mark's creations, check out his Flickr here, his Mocpage here, and the creations featured here, here, and here.

"And on a dark cold night, under full moonlight, he flies into the fog like a vulture in the sky! And they call him, Sandy... Clawssss...!" - Jack Skellington

Brickworld 2012 Mosaic Round up!

Brickworld 2012 was the best Brickworld yet (or at least, for me, Casey, it was). Lots of laughs, learning, and (of course) Lego! Mosaics had a great presence this year with some great jaw-dropping-how-the-heck-did-you-make-that-creations. Most of these where taken on the 3rd day of the con (Friday) and some were taken on the 4th (Saturday). I tried to write down all the names of the mosaics and the names of the creators, but I misplaced a few. Let me know if you know any of the names. Thanks. And yes, this is about 2 weeks over due. ;-)

To start, Arthur Gugick brought his large amount of mosaics, most or all of which have been posted on MB before (or might as well have). The winner of the best art work went to Arthur Gugick's Anakin/Darth Vader Mosaic that was previously shown in our blog under the image-changing cheese slope post.

 

Mariann Asanuma of Model Building Secrets brought a recreation of Raising the Flag at Ground Zero.

Sharon Vana? (unconfirmed) brought two Legend of Zelda mosaics. One of Link, and one of Zelda.

UPDATE: Sharon Vance brought the two mosaics.

E. J. Bocan III brought two superhero mosaics, an Iron Man one, and a Captain America mosaic.

Here's a photo illustrating the technique. The mosaics are built diagonally.

A C3PO mosaic was built by Sean Jensen.

I couldn't get close enough to read the inscription of the following mosaic or find the MOC card, but here's a mosaic of a labratory...building...thingy. Let me know if anyone knows the builder...or creation. ;-D

UPDATE: Dave Kaleta brought the Lab School Mosaic. It has a really neat story so check it out here!

Judge's award went to the The Day the Earth Stood Still mosaic by E. J. Bocan III. The technique used to make it is the same as the Captain America and Iron Man mosaics.

Chris Rozak brought a mosaic of the Nyan Cat.

A mouse cursor was brought by Dr. Church.

Becky Weis, apart of Brickology created a large Brickworld 2012 mosaic logo over the course of the convention made entirely of 1x8s.

Roy T. Cook brought a mosaic called Alice. The photo has been cropped for obvious purposes, as well for the public. A neat part of this mosaic though is that four panels all bend into one focal point.

A Lego logo mosaic was apart of a micro city display. (if anyone knows the builder, let me know)

Pepa Quin (Matt de Lanoy) brought his Lord of the Stick mosaics.

Tyler Halliwell brought a very large mosaic of Fashionable Bridge by Vladimir Kush. My photo turned out blurry, so the photo below is Tyler's.

A Canadian flag was brought. (once, again not sure who!)

Finally, Nikki Rinderer (unconfirmed last name) brought a host of labyrinths.

Overall, a lot of great mosaics this year! Congrats to the winners.

Unused tags: Zelda, Link, Legend of Zelda, Super Heroes, Iron Man, Captain America, C3PO, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Studs Up, SNOT, nyan cat, Brickology, Alice, Tyler Halliwell, Fashionable Bridge, Vladimir Kush, canadian flag, labyrinth,

~Casey

See the Mosaic, You Will

Apparently there's some big movie coming out in 3-D soon, and LEGO sponsored a Darth Maul mosaic build at a local theater (or at least a theater that was local to Simon Primordial Greeble*, a.k.a. Si-MOCS).



Mr. Primordial Greeble* got a call asking him to come and help with the build. He has an entertaining and informative telling of the making of the mosaic in the description of the photograph, along with extra photos from the event. Now go and check it out!

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*Hey, if you give yourself fun names on flickr, they'll start to follow you around the internet!

IT'S MAGIC!!!...Well, not really...

In the mosaic world, it's now all the rage to do "morphing mosaics" where when you're looking at a mosaic from one angle, it appears to be just a single image, but as you shift to another side, the image morphs into another image.

This effect was first done with Chris Doyle's Portrait of Dorian Bley using "cheese slopes" put next to each other. Looking at the image strait on will make it look really weird, so using this, you get some very cool transforming creations. Now, it's been copied and re-done all across the community and I only suspect it to gain more traction:

Arthur Gugick's Darth Vader/Anakin mosaic.

Daniel Stoeffler's Lego Harry Potter/Lord Voldemort (he who must not be named!) mosaic.

Reasonably Clever Chris's original Dorian Bley featuring the original technique.

"Beep Beep Beep, Boo-Beep!"

Flickr user, andertoons made this really cool R2-D2 (from Star Wars just in case you've been living under a rock) last summer.

MOC-026 LEGO R2D2 Mosaic - 3
Originally uploaded by andertoons

Looks spot on. ;-D

DK Attempts to break Guinness World Record of Largest Lego Mosaic

Special Announcement:

Saturday 23rd, Sunday 24th and Monday 25th October. 10am - 5pm Saturday & Sunday and 10am, LEGO & Dorling Kindersley have got together to promote the launch of the LEGO Star Wars Brickmaster book. It will be a free event at Shoreditch Town Hall, London and an attempt to break the Guinness World Record of the largest LEGO mosaic ever assembled. Pictured above, the dimensions of the mosaic will be 16 meters x 7 meters comprised of 1,500 baseplates and 384,000 LEGO bricks. You can attend this free event by registering on the DK site. Registered attendees will also be included in a drawing for a 4 tickets to LEGOLand Windsor. You can read all the details and register at the DK website.

Sounds pretty exciting! I wish I could be there! From what I know though, that will break the record of the largest mosaic which is currently in the Unofficial Lego Museum in Ohio, USA.

Sources:
- Brickset
- FBTB (From Bricks to Bothans)

Now, I am the Master...

Now comes the part of the blog, where I keep my promises and have shameless self-promotion!!! Hahahaha, when I formatted the blog and wrote the first post, I mentioned that I might even post some of my own mosaics here on MosaicBricks. Now, here's when I'm doing it.

No really, I just recently posted my Darth Vader Magnet Mosaic, a 96x64 mosaic of the Dark Lord himself based off a magnet I got at a Darth Vader Minifigure Speed Build Event at the Lego Store.



Check it out on...Flickr, MOCpages, and Brickshelf (When approved).

Now back to regular blogging! XD

Brickworld 2010 Workshop: Advanced Mosaics

As many of us know, one of the most popular Lego conventions took place last month (June) in Wheeling, IL. Brickworld 2010, which took place June 17th-20th with 795 attendees, was a huge success (Or at least what I've heard and seen). And it had a fairly good sized presence of mosaics!

As you've learned from yesterday's post, the first mosaic workshop took place June 17th in the morning, but a second one took place later that day in the afternoon. The Advanced Mosaics workshop took place from 1:00-4:00 PM. Led by Roy T. Cook, the description on the Brickworld website reads,

In this workshop we shall examine some advanced LEGO mosaic techniques (such as those used in my Aayla Secura mosaic and Johnny Cash mosaic, displayed at previous Brickworlds, and my Reese Witherspoon mosaic, displayed this year). In particular, various techniques for 'blending' colors, and using non-rectangular elements to achieve this and other effects, will be discussed. After the presentation and question and answer session, the participants will collaborate on a large mosaic. Led by Roy Cook

I've searched all over the place to find the "collaborative large mosaic", but can't seem to find it. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be great.

But, I was able to find two of the mosaics mentioned in description.

Both of them are by Roy T. Cook.

First, his Aayla Secura mosaic (Star Wars).



To see the technique he used for this awesome mosaic, click here.

And secondly, his Reese Witherspoon mosaic, which does not have a close up image so you'll click on the one below to get a closer look (The mosaic is the one on the far right).



I've got two more posts about BW'10 so stay tuned! ;-)