Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity!

After being gone for a little while, it's been nice getting back into the Lego community after being engulfed in school. Upon returning and looking around the Lego landscape, I stumbled upon two little micro-mosaics that I found very interesting. Check 'em out:

First we have Botanical Gardens by Flickr user, gid617. Small, but effective.

And secondly we have Vortex by Flickr user, eiffelben. I found this one particularly captivating by it's the perfect size of fitting into the vignette space (as it's 8x8). It's just so... mesmerizing.

Anywho, two that I thought were neat.

More to come!

~Casey

"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!"

So over at Classic-Castle, moderator Bluesecrets created a contest in which contestants were to show how they believed dragons were created. Now the winners have already been announced here, but user rogue27 (also a moderator of C-C) included a very small, yet well done mosaic in his entry.

His description reads: 

"The exchange student always blew off his sculpture assignments so he could dream up new monsters. Nobody expected that his creations would find their way into legends."

- Source

The mosaic is only about 6 studs long and 3 and a third studs high, yet conveys the image nicely. I'm going to have to try and incorporate small mosaics like these into tapestries, graffiti, or something else into my creations and I invite you to do the same!

You can check out the his Brickshelf gallery here, and the gallery for the entry here.

Guess the quote in the post title above in the comments below! (No google seraches! XD ) I'll give you hint. It will be released as a motion picture in a few months. ;-)

UPDATE: The winner of our not-so-official contest is Martin! The quote for the headline of the post has been modified now. Thanks for guessing!

Until then, bye!

Micro-Mosaics Redux

Since posting his first micro-mosaic, Arthur Gugick (torgugick) has been busy making more.  If you'll recall, this technique uses printed tiles, but for a 1x2 tile, half is covered by the next tile.  It's done in a stair-step fashion, and allows for a much greater resolution of an image in a smaller space. 

Here are a few more of his micro-mosaics, as shown at BrickWorld Indy:



Here is a close-up of the Abe Lincoln micro-mosaic:



In this image, you can see only half of the 1x2 tiles used in the image, and you can also see how the tiles are oriented in different directions to achieve a slightly different quality of color. 


Here's one more micro-mosaic, a close-up of Bugs Bunny, just for fun: 

Micro-Mosaics

Arthur Gugick (torgugick) recently completed a printed tile mosaic of Einstein, using a new technique in which he overlapped the tiles, so that only a 1x1 square of each tile is visible. This allowed for greater resolution of the resulting mosaic, which he calls a "micro-mosaic".



The entire image is smaller than one 32x32 baseplate. Impressive.

In the future I would like to explore a bit of the history of the printed tile mosaic, and do a more thorough examination of Arthur's work, which is extensive. For now, here is a link to his mosaics set on flickr.