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 Tableaux du Lego 
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"Lego fanboy and amateur photographer Mike Stimpson found a way to combine his two loves: He recreates scenes from historic photographs using the plastic bricks, then snaps his own photos."

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right on! that's is awesome. too bad legos don't have neck joints, so the dudes would be looking down to show the struggle. i like this bit of photography.

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Seems like a legit moment to show some things I do...

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What is it exactly that you do?
Those are pretty cool.

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yes! these are great! Extinction rules.

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and then there is this guy

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Great stuff!
i really like the photography one.

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Reminds me of a company called "LIttle Artists" in the UK.

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This is one of my photographs influenced by the early Postmodernist artists. Looks like all of us like to make art historical references with Legos!

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And this one concerns Minimalism...

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Nice. Here's my contribution:

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I've got others, but they're on another hdd somewheres.


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rad... :twisted:

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These are fantastic.

This video along with the audio always kills me:
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