Slashdot Mirror
Han Solo in Lego Carbonite
metalion writes "Nathan Sawaya built a life size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite. It is composed of approximately 10,000 bricks and was built in approximately three months. Some sample photos are here and here. Sawaya's work also includes a mosaic of a stormtrooper and a small scale replica of the Death Star II."
I'd like to see a large scale Death Star II.
Anyway, I'm glad people still use the traditional Lego components for stuff like this. Don't get me wrong, Mindstorms is a great thing, and I'm glad Lego isn't totally giving up on it. But there's something about the more traditional Lego pieces.
I'm guessing he doesn't have a girlfriend.
No kidding... Too much time + genius + star wars geek= art
"If they existed, they would be here already." - Enrico Fermi
I think this guy's work is awesome. But I can't help but be reminded of a quote from a movie I saw recently, Pirates of the Carribean:
Jack Sparrow: [looking at all the swords] Who makes all these?
Will Turner: I do! And I practice with them three hours a day!
Jack Sparrow: You need to find yourself a girl mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch are you?
(thanks imdb)
..and no comments. ;)
;)
:-D
I pity the poor webhost.
Article is: here.
Slashdottable large jpg files are: here and here.
There's another large file for you to sap the life out of this server: here.
I have to say, though, it does look rather good
I am a viral sig. Please copy me and help me spread. Thank you
That is easily the coolest waste of time I have ever seen
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Apparently his server is made out of Lego too...
Reminds me of the good ol days back when I was frozen in carbonite...
Here is a mirror for those 2 images:
o .fibersnet.net/solo11.jpg
http://colo.fibersnet.net/solo6.jpg
http://col
I feel a great disturbance in the force ... almost as if a whole webserver cried out in agony as it was engulfed in flames.
Cyde Weys Musings - Scrutinizing the inscrutable
For some "Har har, his web server must be made of LEGOs ! ROFL!" jokes...
We just need an article about a "Commemorative Mac Classic Lego Built Case Mod Landing On Mars" and the topics will have completely overlapped themselves.
put episodes 1 & 2 in frozen carbonite...boy they were horrid!
You liked them that much, huh? Well, there's no accounting for taste.
KFG
How do we know those are really legos... Maybe he pushed a giant one of these pin art things on some poor guy at Chuck E Cheese and then took a picture of his pain....
I once went to the mall and saw a lego show where they had all these cool things made. A statue of liberty model about 4-5 ft high stands out in my mind. 'Twas a wee little boy of about ten or eleven. It made my own lego creations back home seem like nothing. I was soo proud of my own lego creations until that day. I was thinking, maybe if I make some cooler stuff, these guys would let me work for them making this stuff. Yes, at one point in my childhood I wanted to build with legos as a career. Didn't every young boy at one point or another?
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
I know exactly what you mean. When I was a kid I liked playing with Lego bricks, and when the "formed" legos came out in the shapes of trees and people and such (pre mindstorms), I never could get into playing with them. They weren't something I "made" myself. It seemed like cheating...or something. Like they didn't belong.
:-)
Of course, I was a crazy kid. I made lego furniture and houses for my dolls instead of asking for the pre-made ones. One time, I built a motorized car for Barbi out of my brothers metal erector set. (anyone remember _those_ ?)
- Kate
"DNA is life. The rest is just translation."
For anyone who doubted that any unpaid creative work or thinking is constantly belittled and laughed at, there you go.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
... that we now have two functioning probes on Mars for the first time since the Viking missions of the 1970s isn't quite as interesting to the Slashdot editors as some chucklehead with too many Legos and too much time on his hands. :(
It's not Lego(R), but check out this Death Star that some guy made.
My blog can kick your blog's ass
That thing probably weighs about as much as a slab of carbonate, too.
Exactly... imagine getting a mondo box of Lincoln Logs and having several of them fused into prefab cabins and... er, other cabins.
My blog can kick your blog's ass
I predate the American availability of Lego. So for me it was first Lincoln Logs and then Erector Sets (in fact Gilbert made up a good deal of my childhood. You could go into a regular dept. store and buy jars of chemicals and frogs and scalpels to cut 'em open and stuff. All without parental permission or anything. People didn't worry about their kid swallowing a bolt or pickled frog back then).
So the Erector set is my real love. You learn real engineering principles. I first met Lego when I had younger cousins.
I agree with the "cheating" though. I mean, what's the point? Lego is for building things, not just to have a lousy model.
KFG
They were all mismatched, every color and shape, but they were all just blocks (1s, 2s, 4s, etc.) along with a few of those angled roof blocks and some wheels, the old kind you pushed into the special blocks with holes on the side. I built EVERYTHING with them (except doll furniture).
Later on, I got a police station for Christmas and I was all WTF! (or the analogous six year old phrase). I just couldn't understand what all those little special pieces were for. I built the station once, took out all the basic blocks and threw them in the trunk, then put the kit away and haven't touched it since.
I still have them. My kids love them. And I have no doubt their kids will too!
I've made up my mind and now I've got to lie in it.
...as if a webserver cried out in terror, and was suddenly silenced.
I fear something terrible has happened.
"Proudly Posting Without Reading The Article"
Saturday night ... 1:32am ... ... I'll go back to looking at porn.
You guys go look at LEGOs
A *working* model of the Death Star. Now it doesn't have to be to scale, nor does it need to blow up an entire planet. I'll be sufficiently impressed if it's good enough to blow up a small city the size of, say, Redmond.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant, next to the power of the Lego.
Learn something new.
Nathan Sawaya built a life size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite.
Does it contain Harrison Ford?
Could it be modified to contain Harrison Ford?
And this is redundant, but it is slashdotted already.
Here is google cache
Howdy Doodly Doo!
Anybody want some Toast?
Why should people listen to an Anonymous Coward?
Because some of us want to make important points without having our Friends and Foes list distract others from what we have to say. There is a lot you can learn about someone here at Slashdot with just a few clicks. In fact, here's some things I have learned about you:
Your recent posting history indicates a wild mix of highly-rated posts and low-rated posts. This tends to suggest that you are someone who karma-whores a lot. Your own thoughts usually bring you down to a score of 0 or even -1 but rehashing tired old jokes (like your grandparent posting) or reprinting the ideas of others as your own usually gets you high scores. Mods, if you dislike people who do this sort of thing, you may want to reconsider giving this guy another +5 Funny for his post.
You seem to have some desparate need to let everyone know about your academic accomlishments, as though we don't have accomplishments of our own. The funny thing is that no one is listening: your journal entries all have zero comments.
Mods and other slashdotters, particularly those who use the AC function occasionally, I emplore you to add Ignorant Aardvark to your Foes list right now. I've made it easy for you by putting the link. It will only take you a second to do this. Please consider showing this guy a lession.
Sincerely,
A Concerned AC
Here's a mirror of the referenced images:
http://unbolted.llarian.net/lego/
Damn them.
At the day care provider my parents stuck me in, there were, literally, thousands of lincoln logs. They had tubs of the things and I was the only kid who would touch them. While all the other kids had to share legos, I was build log mansions. It was great. I had one structure about 6 feet high (stood on a chair to place the top parts). The bitch who was in charge of us yelled at me because of my hoarding. I hope she's fat and bald now.
Capsela. They still [url=http://www.discoverthis.com/capsela.html]sell this stuff[/url].
-------------------------------------------------
It says he spends about $7,000 a year on LEGO bricks. From the articles, it sounds as if he gets most of them on eBay. $7,000 of used eBay LEGO bricks is a LOT of bricks.
-------------------------------------------------
Yup, I got as much use out of my Capsela set as my Lego sets as a kid.
...
The really cool capsela bubbles (and the neat thing about Capsela besides being letting you build motorized cars, boats, etc.) was seeing the special gearing bubbles. The most fascinating was the worm-gear. One set would turn the other set very slowly, but man did it increase its torque. It was absolute magic to a kid -- I was amazed that the cheap-looking motors (powered by two AA batteries) could, when used with the worm-gear, turn a wheel so that it was hard to stop it with your hand. The transparent bubbles made it so that you could see how it worked (even if I didn't quite understand it at the time).
Funny too, I remember being puzzled because I couldn't put the motor on the other end of the worm gear, and get a wheel that turned super fast (as I had orignially guessed)! But it did work great the other way around, with a slower, but magically more determined, wheel
Ah, the memories!
Here's a mirror of the entire site.
Your credit card information wants to be free.
Duh! It's simple. We don't like Star Wars at all, we just want light sabers. Face it, while it isn't god's gift to cinema, jedi are god's gift to science fiction. Every nerds wet dream.
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
(BE
-------- In Soviet Russia, "Soviet Russia" sigs hate Slashdot.
Oh jesus, people, quit your whining! I am so tired of everyone bitching about how special shapes are ruining lego. You know what? I *LOVE* the custom pieces. They add detail that I wouldn't be able to get otherwise.
Not when there are so many that the entire set is 8 pieces. That's stupid. But on a large set (600+ pieces), I see nothing wrong with having custom parts. Look, I love to build models. But I'm at college, and I don't have a lot of room for that. Instead, I build large lego sets. Sure, they only take a few hours, but they take a lot less space to build and are no less beautiful to me. And if the 2100-piece rebel blockade runner has a custom piece for its radar, BIG FUCKING DEAL.
That gorgeous 3000-piece star destroyer uses those "custom" magnets to hold the outer panels together. If it didn't, it'd be SOLID LEGO and weigh 42 tons. If you want to build everything out of the original shaped blocks, then every model lego sells is going to be the size of a small car.
Apparently, I'm the only one on Slashdot who feels this way. Maybe its not the most creative/inventive thing I could do with those blocks, but its fun for me.
The web site is getting a little slow, so I actually made a torrent of the star wars lego pictures and pages.
:)
Download the torrent here.
This may be overkill, but at least I'll get experience. I'm hosting this shit myself, so send me some input or post back
I finally figured out why I hate custom pieces, and this is as good of a place as any to say why. If you need more of a custom piece, you usually can't just scrounge from other sets. You need to buy that same set again. The magents you refer to aren't custom. They are used in MANY sets. I have probably 30-40 of them, and I used them all the time. It's mostly the smaller sets that contain just one or two of a custom piece that really are the targets of this "backlash" or sorts. Especially when a standard piece or a combination of standard pieces could have done in place of the custom one.
Slashdot is proof that Sturgeon's Law applies to mankind.
something tells me that a lawyer with a six figure salary is very likely to get a date if he wanted to.
That's not Karma whoring, that's exactly how it should work. Here's a relevent quote from Slashdot's FAQ:
There is absolutely no reason to penalize someone to the degree you suggest (foes listing) for posting an old rehashed joke. That's what metamoderation is for. Of course, you knew this, otherwise you wouldn't have checked the "Post Anonymously" button. Since discussion about Slashdot's moderation system is ALWAYS offtopic, I have to click the same box... Ironic.
It's like the Soviet Russian guy I guess. Not as funny though.
In Soviet Russia, Han Solo whacks you!
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Your bold statement got me thinking. What if the Death Star II from Return of the Jedi was actually the Death Star III. And the one from A New Hope was really Death Star II. That would allow for there to be an original Death Star prototype in Episode III that was not fully armed perhaps.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
I don't mind the custom pieces in small numbers... And if the intent is to build a specific model then they are very necessary. What I mind is the fact that it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find/buy just the regular blocks. Sure...building a blockade runner is fun, but what about when you just want to assemble pieces and see what you can come up with? Last time I was in a toy store 95% of the lego kits they had were "models" of various kinds. Airplanes, star wars stuff, space shuttles, police stations, cars, those bionicle things...it took me quite some time to locate the regular building blocks. This is what annoys me, and what I complain about. It is becoming nigh-impossible to get the basic lego sets.
Imagine going to the store to buy some modeling clay...and all they have are kits in which most of the clay has already been shaped, dried, and painted...and all you do is stick them together into some pre-determined model. Imagine searching from store to store to find a simple tub of modeling clay, and only finding those kits. That's how I feel sometimes.
yrs,
Ephemeriis
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde
You could just buy them bulk bulk and if you don't see what you want they do special orders
When I was 5 or so it was still possible to walk through a well to do household and not see any plastic other than some knobs on appliances. Any rubber goods would be natural rubber mixed with carbon.
Unless you looked in the toy box. There you would find the familiar green plastic army men and plastic dolls. I still have the truck and cannon that came with the army men I received for my first birthday (sentimental value. They're the only birthday present I ever received from my father).
But the familiar Lego building brick had not quite made it to the new world yet and my mother had entered college before they were invented.
My grandparents predate cellophane. Think about that. One of my uncles was taught to fly by Orville Wright. We've come a long, long way within the living memory of some (although not, alas, of my aforementioned relatives).
KFG