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How-To: LEGO Minifig Specimen Art

Step up your geeky home decor game with this fun LEGO minifig specimen art tutorial!

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On a Roll: Lego as Muse

On a Roll: Lego as Muse

The space Lego and the NASA space shuttle became a fused memory for me. This led to a lot of photos and doodles of minifigs and later to the drawing I’ve been using for the posters and on the hardwood longboard skateboards I build.

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How-To: LEGO Minifig Soaps

How-To: LEGO Minifig Soaps

Looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day/birthday/just because gift for geeks of all ages? Clearly, you need to check out this tutorial for making custom LEGO minifig soaps!

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MakerBot minifigs

MakerBot minifigs

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, by user tmo-photo, these 200% scale Lego minifigs printed on a MakerBot.

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Tattooed Lego minifigs

Tattooed Lego minifigs

This is a viral marketing campaign for some kind of extra-fine point Pilot pen. I love the minifigs themselves, but the campaign bugs me for a couple of reasons: 1) I’ve been Googling around pretty hard and can’t seem to figure out exactly which of Pilot’s many pens these photos are promoting, and 2) nowhere does it explicitly state that the art on the minifigs was actually done with whatever pen they are advertising. So even if I could figure out which one that was, it’s not at all clear that I could actually use it to tattoo my own minifigs. In any case, any kind of super-fine-point permanent maker would probably work. [via Boing Boing]

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