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20230701: I’ve decided to spent this month celebrating what I will call “Space Day”, which is the anniversary of humans landing on the moon. starting my celebration of humans in space, today’s build was 21333 the Starry Night with 2316 pieces from 2022. we have always looked to the stars with a sense of longing, curiosity, hope, and fear. the stars, which we now know are distant planets, scattered across universes and galaxies we can only barely imagine, have inspired folklore, fairytales, religion, myths, and imagination for as long as humans have had the ability to see. LEGO set 21333 the Starry Night fully captures the longing and beauty of a world we may or may not understand. one of my favorite parts about the LEGO Ideas sets are the information paragraphs at the beginning of every instruction booklet. this booklet has some history on Vincent Willem van Gogh, a famous artist born in the Netherlands who struggled with depression. the information pages are printed in English, French, and Spanish, which add a wonderful opportunity for culture and language strengthening. the booklet also talks extensively about the official painting this LEGO set is modeled after, as well as the LEGO Ideas fan designer and the official LEGO artists who brought this set to life. more information on the history of van Gogh and his works can be found on the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) website. this set is a substantial and beautiful build. just opening up the bag and checking the bag inventory made me so happy, as blue is my favorite color and the bricks in this set are particularly beautiful, especially once the set is built. the only really redundant portion of the build was the large black frame, but that was over quickly enough to be mostly unnoticeable. I will say, though, that building the back paneling was certainly something of a challenge. you really need to pay attention to each individual instruction, the colors used for that particular instruction, and the order the plates are placed. I was also a little alarmed at the spare pieces, as at the end of bag five, you’re left with enough plates to fill a full other row of blue plates, which encouraged me to believe I had somehow missed a row. I took several minutes to verify these were left over on purpose and to count the rows before moving on to bag six. the colors on this build are truly beautiful and the design is one of the few times when I actually want to display LEGO as an art piece and wall decorations. I’m a little concerned about the lack of some sort of brace on the front underneath the area with the Cypress tree but the set oddly does stand up just as it is. I also don’t quite know what kind of screws would be best for using a wall-mounting to place this as artwork directly on the wall, but I’m sure a little extra research would clear that up, if I decide to hang this directly on the wall with the built-in technic brick on the back which I believe exists for the express purpose of hanging this on a wall like the art it is :) for all that this is a very complicated build, the instructions are very easy to follow and I enjoyed this build far more than I thought I would :)

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Ai Weiwei Recreates Monet's Water Lilies with Over 650,000 Legos

Famed artist Ai Weiwei is known for his large-scale, often provocative artwork, spanning all numbers of mediums. We can now add LEGO to that list of mediums, with Weiwei’s latest installation. Spanning 50 feet, the enormous wall-art is a recreation of Claude Monet’s famed Water Lilies, but instead of paint, hundreds of thousands of LEGO pieces. Over 650,000 pieces, creating a beautifully…

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The Lego Surfer \ San Diego • June 1, 2017 \ iPhone 6 Plus • Color

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Finish your story (via Pixar’s Story Rules, Illustrated in Lego by ICanLegoThat | Slacktory)