Publisher Needed for Book about LEGOLAND Windsor Miniland

Name of Book: Caught in a Moment

Created by: Craig Williams

Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12678461@N08/tags/caughtinamoment/

Details: If you've been following this blog for a while, you know we love Miniland. The LEGOLAND parks feature not just excellent models at miniland scale, but capture scenes, characters, and locations in ways that are often difficult to do at other scales. The faceless figures are very expressive, and all sorts of great techniques and in-jokes become clear with a close inspection of the models. In the photo shown here, for example, you can see partial minifigs used as puppets for a puppet show. There aren't that many photos in the part of this set we can see, but they're all excellent. The photographer has assembled them into a book and is looking for a publisher - anyone know someone that could make this book happen?

LEGOLAND California Photos by Ricky Romero

Going back to my old habit of occasionally featuring photo sets from LEGOLAND parks, today I'm featuring this set of photos taken by Ricky Romero. The photos are meaningful in all the ways I like in LEGOLAND photos - they are excellent photos and they show some new and/or seasonal models in one of the parks. In this case, you can spot a few Christmas and winter themed designs. Again, the set I'm featuring today is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rickyromero/sets/72157623147861715/

Lion Of Lübuck

Name of Model: Lion Of Lübuck

Created by: maydayartist

Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=396195

Details: Take a moment to let that image sink in. I try to be agnostic towards photo quality - as someone who tends to take very bad pictures, I hardly feel fair judging other people's pictures. It's also up for debate whether or not photoshopped pictures of models should really count. This is just a striking image, a true work of art. If it weren't for a few distinct LEGO pieces still being visible, you could think this had been painted by a master landscape painter in centuries gone by. Here's an interesting twist on basing your models on historical reference photos: rather than directly try to build the Adler von Lübeck out of LEGO® parts, maydayartist decided to build a sister ship - and what a spectacular ship it is. The sails are made out of pillow cases, and look surprisingly good (usually the non-LEGO material of choice is canvas, which is stiffer, but doesn't allow for stowing away the rigging like we see in some of the other photos here). The sides of the ship are largely made out of sideways log elements. The rear cabin makes use of hinges to create 7 sides. Most great Pirate ship models impress us with their size or vignettes, but this one does it with style.

Robotics Monday - Automated High-Speed Photography Studio

Found at: http://thenxtstep.blogspot.com/2008/08/high-speed-photography-with-nxt.html Sorry to rush this out without commentary, but all the important info on the model is up at The NXT Step already (so check out the video over there).

News: Photos of Official LEGO Anniversary Event

Name of Event: 75 years of LEGO event in Billund August 9 to 11 2007

Found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=271428

Details: Those of you who are in the know are probably aware of the fact that the LEGO® company celebrated its 75th anniversary a few days back. Well, naturally, they threw themselves quite a LEGO-themed party to celebrate. This Brickshelf gallery includes a ton of photos of the event - and there's a ton of great stuff to see! Most of these would have qualified to be models of the day on their own, actually, but it doesn't make much sense to keep that much of a backlog here. Keep an eye out for a Chinese Dragon-styled train, a sandcastle, wooden puzzles, a Star Trek ship, cool cars, some familiar amazing buildings, a cathedral, and dozens of LEGOLAND Park attractions. That's just a few highlights - the whole gallery is a treat.