Lego self-portrait
Jim Ward
there's a fine Lego Mona Lisa in it. Does anyone (Eric?) know if a
Lego self-portrait has ever been done?
Russ Perry Jr
I asked a friend of mine who's into Legos, and he brought this up:
> A couple years ago, Lego had a thing where you'd send them a
> photo (B&W) and they'd to a mosaic in LEGO (done by computer,
> I'd assume). I never really paid much attention to it. It may
> or may not still be available.
So, that sounds close, though it's not really a SELF portrait...
But this guy hangs around a couple Lego sites/forums, so if someone
had done this, he'd probably know about it...
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Eric Harshbarger
I know of one guy wow did a portrait of himself, yes.
Eric Harshbarger
> Jim Ward <tomca...@NyOaShPoAoM.com> wrote:
>
>
>>A couple years ago, Lego had a thing where you'd send them a
>>photo (B&W) and they'd to a mosaic in LEGO (done by computer,
>>I'd assume). I never really paid much attention to it. It may
>>or may not still be available.
>
>
There is such a program on the website www.lego.com (under the Shop
section), called LEGO MOSAIC, I think. It was released just over 4 years
ago and allows the user to submit a photo to create a relatively small
B&W LEGO picture (15" square).
It is not always operational, tho. It is a Java Applet.
I'm the guy who programmed it for them (it is a very simple version of
my proprietary software which I use professionally), and they never did
update it... so it's far from perfect, but it might suufice for anyone
interested.
eric harshbarger
Rich Grise
> Jim Ward <tomca...@NyOaShPoAoM.com> wrote:
>> Eric Harshbarger's profile is out in the December Games issue, and
>> there's a fine Lego Mona Lisa in it. Does anyone (Eric?) know if a
>> Lego self-portrait has ever been done?
>
> I asked a friend of mine who's into Legos, and he brought this up:
>
>> A couple years ago, Lego had a thing where you'd send them a
>> photo (B&W) and they'd to a mosaic in LEGO (done by computer,
>> I'd assume). I never really paid much attention to it. It may
>> or may not still be available.
>
> So, that sounds close, though it's not really a SELF portrait...
>
> But this guy hangs around a couple Lego sites/forums, so if someone
> had done this, he'd probably know about it...
I was looking around for pictures of lego stuff, and one link led to this,
which I find quite disturbing - warning! it's about concentration camps:
http://users.erols.com/kennrice/lego-kz.htm
Cheers!
Rich
Rich Grise
Lower Left Corner of Page 34. :-)
Cheers!
Rich
Michael Mendelsohn
> I was looking around for pictures of lego stuff, and one link led to this,
> which I find quite disturbing - warning! it's about concentration camps:
>
> http://users.erols.com/kennrice/lego-kz.htm
If you found it disturbing, the artist did his job well.
I find the inclusion of the laughing skeletons to be needlessly
inaccurate historically; painting some gray lego people with blue
stripes to make prison garb would've done the job just as well. The
skeletons push the display into the realm of the fantastic.
It's as easy to build a Lego dungeon, almost as horrible, but more
removed historically. Is that where the skeletons come from?
Michael
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