Relive the disappearance of Harold Holt and Gough Whitlam’s dismissal and speech on the steps of Parliament House in this glorious photo galley of Lego recreations by Liz Chomiak.
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Daily Proposition: Build a kingdom out of Lego
Aside from cycling around the neighbourhood wearing super cool stack-hats, Super Mario 3 marathons on the Nintendo and that awkward phase when jigsaw puzzles became cool again, Cat Wall’s childhood was largely defined by Lego.
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ABC builds its future with Lego
The ABC is holding a staff competition to come up with new ideas for the broadcaster — then build them out of Lego. No, really. Prediction: more shows about spacemen, pirates and missing limbs.
PHOTO GALLERY: Lego as art
Yes, we’ve all seen the big buildings and cartoon characters made out of Lego, but this is something else: artist Nathan Sawaya’s amazing Lego sculptures, currently touring around galleries in the US.
Toy story: the rise and fall and rise of Lego
From 1998 to 2004, the previously booming Lego empire fell to pieces. But instead of losing its little yellow head, the company turned it all around by thinking outside of the box and embracing the toy world’s new kid on the block: video games.
Study: What kids nickname Lego pieces
Every household has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces, says Giles Turnbull: one kid’s “round flat one-er” is another kid’s “bronze jewel”. And so he set out to document the Lego dialects that are unique to different families.
A Legoland of classic photos
Ever imagined what some of the most iconic photographs of all time would look like if recreated with Lego characters? Wonder no more, thanks to photographer Mike Stimpson.
Video of the Day: Pixel perfect: 8-bit trip
This great stop-motion clip apparently took 1500 hours of moving Lego bricks around for four glorious minutes of footage. It was worth it.
Warner Bros to build Lego movie
In the wake of the box office rogering by the recent Hasbro toys-adapted Transformers movies, comes reports that Warner Bros are toying with the idea of bringing a Lego-fest to the big screen, writes Luke Buckmaster.
30 classic albums recreated in Lego
How can you improve on iconic rock albums like Nirvana’s Nevermind, U2’s The Joshua Tree or The Beatles’ Let it Be? Easy: recreate them our of Lego.
Legoland celebrates 10 years with Lego cake
Legoland is celebrating 10 years in true Lego style — with a 10ft cake made entirely from plastic Lego bricks.
Too many brown Lego bricks? Make a cello
Nathan Sawaya makes many things from Lego, including this life-size cello.
Protesting media censorship with Lego men
Flickr user Legofesto has created a pretty amazing gallery of Lego men being tortured to make a political point about how the media censor torture images.
The world’s most enduring brands
Each year a brand sums up the zeitgeist — think Lego in 1960, Coca-Cola in 1971, Levi in 1985, Guinness in 1999 and Google in 2000. But which is the most iconic of them all?
New York in Lego
Berlin-based conceptual illustrator Christoph Niemann’s misses New York. A lot (by the signs of his Lego ode to the Big Apple).
Reality check: Ho, hum to interest rate rise
A salutary reminder this morning for all we political junkies. The high school massacre in Finland is proving of far more interest to readers of news on the internet than that interest rate business, writes Richard Farmer.
