{"id":297,"date":"2007-06-30T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T10:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=297"},"modified":"2007-06-30T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T10:21:54","slug":"legoart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/legoart\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/brian\/LegoUntamed.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNathan Sawaya, a former 33-year old attorney, is now a famous LEGO artist. His impressive works were detailed in this &#8220;CNN slideshow&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/entertainment\/0705\/gallery.lego.art\/frameset.exclude.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/entertainment\/0705\/gallery.lego.art\/frameset.exclude.html<\/a> and is discussed in this &#8220;CNN article&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/05\/31\/lego.artist\/index.html.\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/05\/31\/lego.artist\/index.html.<\/a> From a &#8220;giant banana&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/banana.html\">http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/banana.html<\/a> to a &#8220;_Starry Night_ replica&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/starry_night.html,\">http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/starry_night.html,<\/a> his LEGO sculptures and mosaics are nothing short of LEGO-licious. His &#8220;official site&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/\">http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/<\/a> has a lot more to offer, specifically his &#8220;huge gallery&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/allgallery.html.\">http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/allgallery.html.<\/a> And in case you were wondering, eight same-colored 2X4 LEGO bricks can be arranged in 8,274,075,616,387 configurations, at least that\u2019s what &#8220;Wikipedia:LEGO&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LEGO\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LEGO<\/a> says.<br \/>\nInterested in other unique artistic mediums? Check out what\u2019s happening with &#8220;gummy bears&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/221\/13lbGummyBear,\">http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/221\/13lbGummyBear,<\/a> &#8220;JELLO&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/222\/JelloSanFrancisco,\">http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/222\/JelloSanFrancisco,<\/a> and &#8220;chalk&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/64\/chalk-art-by-julian-beever.\">http:\/\/duenos.net\/article\/64\/chalk-art-by-julian-beever.<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto is &#8220;Lego Untamed&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/starycat\/461380473\/\">http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/starycat\/461380473\/<\/a> from Flickr user &#8220;Starcat&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/starycat\/\">http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/starycat\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Sawaya, a former 33-year old attorney, is now a famous LEGO artist. His impressive works were detailed in this &#8220;CNN slideshow&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/entertainment\/0705\/gallery.lego.art\/frameset.exclude.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/entertainment\/0705\/gallery.lego.art\/frameset.exclude.html<\/a> and is discussed in this &#8220;CNN article&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/05\/31\/lego.artist\/index.html.\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/05\/31\/lego.artist\/index.html.<\/a> From a &#8220;giant banana&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/banana.html\">http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/banana.html<\/a> to a &#8220;_Starry Night_ replica&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/starry_night.html,\">http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/starry_night.html,<\/a> his LEGO sculptures and mosaics are nothing short of LEGO-licious. His &#8220;official site&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/\">http:\/\/www.brickartist.com\/<\/a> has a lot more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[33,376],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}