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Physical ASCII Mosaic

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-not-liv-tyler dept.

An anonymous submitter, who might be Eric Harshberger, writes: "Some of my past LEGO whackiness seemed to make a few Slashdot readers chuckle, so I thought I'd pass along this link to my latest creation: A mosaic built of thousands and thousands of tiny little letter bricks. Kind of a weird turn on the ol' ASCII artwork." You may remember this guy from the famous Lego desk.

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  1. So all this time by Jin+Wicked · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been working in oil paints and ink, and all I had to do to get recognition was to build something out of Legos? Ppph! :)

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  2. More Lego Genius by BradNelson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think it's a different guy, but what about the one who made the workind 9mm Beretta pistol out of Legos? And the (non-functioning) H&K MP5 submachine gun? That guy's good. But probably someone else. His site: http://onyx.malagraphixia.com/Beretta_9mm/Beretta_ 9mm.htm

  3. Goddammit! by G-funk · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think his server was made of lego too! Only 20 comments and it's on fire! Can somebody post a mirror?

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    1. Re:Goddammit! by Score0,+Overrated · · Score: 5, Informative

      A few of the pictures are here in a cheesy tripod default page!

      http://calista_lego.tripod.com/calistalego

  4. Work of love, marginally art by f00zbll · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You'd be hard pressed to get any two people to completely agree on what constitutes art, but this one was creative in that he had to figure out a way to use the blocks he had to create the picture. The picture itself is fairly good for lego art. It's not a monet or dali, but then again neither of them used lego's.

    Some might say art is about taking things that no one thought could be art and make it into art, like how andy warhol took soup cans and turned into pop art. Or distorting reality by creating a representation that make the viewer stop and think about the creative process. Some are questionable like Jackson Pollock, who most people would consider junk. So make of the portrait what you will. Lego and calista art? It's probably more artful than calista :)

  5. Wow by Carnage4Life · · Score: 5, Funny

    I sit here a newly minted graduate about to start my first job after getting my Bachelor's degree in two weeks. Most of my friends suggested that I go on a vacation or get drunk non-stop to celebrate my last real month of freedom. So it's 11:50 PM on a Friday night and I'm sitting here sipping some Bacardi-O while passing up an opportunity to go clubbing to work on an implementation for an XML database query language that I plan to GPL or BSD license upon completing.

    Yet all I can say is this guy is the biggest geek I have ever seen. I am bowled over. The part about writing a Perl script to analyze the output of the image to ASCII art program to match his distribution of Modulux blocks was the straw that broke the camel's back. That is bad ass!!!

  6. Re:Rudimentary cache (since Google doesn't have it by mj01nir · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, with cartoon characters and Alice discarded, I turned to the next obvious thing: an actress... I decided to use a picture of Calista Flockhart.

    Calista Flockhart isn't a cartoon character? Coulda fooled me.

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  7. I knew it was bad... by discogravy · · Score: 5, Funny

    when i first saw the desk, through a website board, my first thought was "Dammit, LEGO isn't ready for the desktop yet!"

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  8. Another Mirror by Rain · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've thrown up another mirror at http://ericharshbarger.bluecherry.net/. I'm mirroring the entire site (I say in the present progressive because the mirror is still running--the posted site is quite saturated), and the portion that's linked to in the article (effectively here)

    As I don't have loads of bandwidth, I'd like to ask that other people mirror it and post their mirrors as well.

    Please refrain from killing the server :)