Just Give Up Now!!

Flickr user and generally known mosaic master, eilonwy77 creates one of the most beautiful cheese slope I've ever seen...

Just...wow!

My Good Friend Dug Who Digs

Brickshelf user, MichaelLau, creates several mosaics on one baseplate of characters and monsters from the 8-bit arcade game, "Dig Dug", a favorite of mine (while my dad is a huge Pac-Man fan).



Check out the rest of MichaelLau's cool video game mosaics, here.

'Tis the Season to visit Dentist!

Put on your Halloween costume and head out to collect succulent amounts of dentist drawing delights! It's that time of year for carving pumpkins and watching the Charlie Brown Halloween special! A time of Lego mosaics!

I've collected five great Halloween mosaics from across the web and assembled them for a very special MosaicBricks Halloween post.

First up, we have a double feature from eilonwy77 (Katie Walker). Two cheese slope mosaics, one a neat little spider on top, and a cool jack-o-lantern on the bottom.



Second, we have a scary face with a ton of different colors by DJ Baggadonuts.

Third, we have another mosaic by DJ Baggadonuts that will forever haunt me. ;-D



Fourth, we have a very creepy mosaic from the "Phantom Zone from the Superman I/Superman II films". Regardless, it's an awesome zombie looking mosaic built by Reasonably Clever Chris (Doyle)

Lastly we have our fifth, and final mosaic of the post. Frankenstein's monster, forever haunted by fire, is built beautifully in a cool technique in which you built SNOT vertically and horizontally at the same time. It looks awesome! Built by Legohaulic.



Happy Halloween! Have fun everyone! Try and beat my record of 30 lbs. worth of candy (2005)! :-)

~Casey~

Lego Logo Mosaics - Part 1 - MOCpages

There's a strange thing about Lego mosaics. Most everyone who's ever built one (a mosaic) has probably built a 32x32 mosaic of the Lego logo itself. But! For some strange reason, every single one is slightly different in their own each, unique way. You can tell that maybe the letters L-E-G-O or slightly slanted one way, than another.

But that doesn't mean they don't have anything in common either. Most everyone also includes the black border of the logo, which probably shouldn't be there, considering it's so small compared to the rest of the logo.

It's very strange how one little 10 inch by 10 inch image made out of little plastic bricks can be duplicated and replicated by almost everyone.

Anyway, I have searched far and wide all over the internet for as many mosaics I can find, and here's a giant gallery for you to enjoy. This is only MOCpages' ones though. There would be way to many in one post if I did Brickshelf, and Flickr too (at the same time). Although most are 32x32, some aren't, by the way.

See if you can pick out those subtle differences!













<---Lego Logo by Casey McCoy | A LEGO LEGO logo mosaic By Mariann Asanuma--->













<---LEGO Logo By John Langrish | Lego Logo Mosaic 32x32 By Lucas Liska --->













<---lego logo mosaic By dakota spencer | lego"lego"mosaic By davis jefferson --->













<---Lego logo By Arthur Gugick | Lego Logo By Arthur Gugick --->













<---LEGO logo By Middle Earth Mason . | Star Wars Collection By Exitrooper !--->











<---LEGO Logo Out Of LEGO By John Earle Hildebrand III | Lego Logo By peter stev--->



^^^- Large Lego Logo By Eugene Tan -^^^

Look for the next edition!

"Would you'a like to try'a some pep'er'oni' pizza?"

One of my favorite minifigs heads (A favorite list that goes on for forever :P ), has to be this face(Not the exact one, but close), and Brickshelf user, vedorias, makes a 32x32 version of said head. The minfig's smirk is great.



"Maybe you'da like some spaghetti instead, aahh?"

Four Score and Seven Years Ago...

Mocpages user, Douglas Hill, brought forth on the internet, a new mosaic of our 16 president, conceived in his head, dedicated to the proposition that all MOCers are created equal.



Hahahaha, just being silly up there! =P

The most interesting part of it is what it says on his Mocpages' page for it:

This piece uses another new palette I've been working on. The palette uses transparent red, yellow, blue, green, orange, and black over top of all of the readily available opaque colors for a possible total of about 180 colors. Some I don't include though due to cost [in the case of dark purple and pink] and there are many colors that are too close to each other to bother using so I choose one. Anyway, in this pieces there is a lot of transparent green although you see it as a lighter shade of black.

Which is incredible!

For more of Doug's fantastic mosaics visit his website, here.

Brickworld 2010 Workshop: Build Your Own Lego Mosaic

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!

The most notable presence of mosaics is the workshop that took place June 17th from 9:00 am 12:00 pm, directed by Jeremy Moody of the "Lego ship in a Bottle" fame. The description on the Brickworld website reads:

Have you ever wondered how the some of the best LEGO mosaics are designed? Have you wanted to build one yourself? In this workshop you will learn everything you need to know to design your own mosaic. We will talk about various techniques in design — where one method is better than another, etc. You will even get a chance to build your own full color mosaic to show at Brickworld and take home at the end of the event! Builders are asked to bring $20 to cover the cost of materials, or $15 if they bring their own 32x32 baseplate. Builders are also highly encouraged (but not required) to bring laptops, and to install GIMP, available for free at http://www.gimp.org. Builders must also decide on an image they want to turn into a mosaic ahead of time, and if unable to bring a laptop to the workshop, send the image via email to [Taken out]. Any other questions about the workshop may be sent to that address as well. Take some time to think of a good subject for your mosaic; remember that these mosaics will be relatively small, so tiny details won't show up. If you are unsure if a particular subject will work, feel free to ask. Limited to 20 teams of builders.* A team refers to a group of one or more builders working on one mosaic. Non-builders may come to watch, provided space is available. Led by Jeremy Moody

$20 for a 32x32 custom mosaic is a great deal and sounds like a lot of fun! Jeremy posted an image of all the mosaics that were made:



Flickr user, TooMuchDew took a closer up picture of the mosaic he made, based off his Flickr avatar.



I think it turned out great!

Be sure to read Jeremy's write-up on how he thinks the workshop went here.

On another note, I was able to attend the public display, and it was blast seeing all the cool mosaics that weren't in the workshop.

For several posts here at MosaicBricks we will be talking about all sorts of mosaics at Brickworld (despite it being a month afterwards). =)

Ten-hut!!

After coming back from Brickworld with "thousands" of green 1x1s, Flickr user au_riverhorse, creates a green army man drill Sargent in Lego Mosaic Form.



I'd love to see more of these type of mosaics, with doing more green army men.