Toronto sends a man to space!...(lego man)

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The amazing journey into the stars for this tiny lego man began with 2 canadian teenagers from Toronto, and their lego inspired goal to send a lego-naut into space(as they had heard similar projects being done over other continents to capture space images)--Matthew Ho and Asad Muhammad, 17-year-old Agincourt Collegiate Institute students, worked towards this personal goal during the weekeneds over 4 months and a total budget of 400$ to make a homemade parachute attached to a helium filled weather balloon in order provide the brave lego-naut it's ride to the stratosphere. They attached the launching device to a styrofoam box containing 2 videos and 2 still cameras programmed to take photos every 20 seconds and added a gangplank for the lego-naut holding the canadian flag.

When the awaited weather conditions were appropriate for a controlled launch, they went to the main phase of the experient and by using a website that estimates the landing spot of a balloon based on the present weather, launch coordinates and balloon spec, they waited patiently as their project reached a astounding 80,000 feet above the earth in a flight that lasted over a hour and 5 minutes--before the balloon exploded and began the 32 minutes of the lego-nauts descent. The teenagers were able to track the device using a GPS app inside a cellphone, it was recovered from a field 122km away from the launch location. Alltogether the lego-naut brought home 2 videos and 1500 photos.

The resulting video from this amazing journey was promptly uploaded to Youtube, amongst it's impressive 2 million viewers, impressed Michael McNally, brand relations director for Lego, who said, “We are always amazed by the creative ways in which Lego fans use our products, and humbled by how many unsuspecting places we appear, like attached to a helium balloon in . . . space. We’re thrilled to know that Lego products inspire children like Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad to be creative, experiment and see what they can accomplish.”

Interesting words from te lego relations director, as currently several Lego toys are constantly flying even higher above the Earth at this very moment aboard the International Space Station as part of an educational outreach effort by NASA and Lego. And 3 more Lego figurines are speeding to Jupiter aboard NASA’s Juno orbiter.

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Lego Call of Duty - A alternative MW3 trailer

Everything looks better legolized!

If the quality of something is measured by how long it took it's creators to make them, then the following video is a mona lisa in lego art. This masterpiece trailer was fan made for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and first streamed from the Machinima channel, created by a user named Kooberz. Everything from the original CoD trailer was faithfully remade with lego in stop motion, plastic and cotton wool art, personally I like the fan made version more but that's probably a biased opinion from a lego fan! Anyhow, enjoy and leave a comment if you liked it!

Fan Made CoD trailer:


Original CoD trailer:

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Video - 8-bit trip

1500 hours is certainly gasp worthy!

A stop motion that is so impressive, it's still hard to believe that no software was used in it's creation. The video was made by a Swedish band duo called Rymdreglage, creators of music videos in 8 bits. This is their third video and it was inspired by the 80's using solely lego blocks, the video pays tribute to vintage Nintendo video games and according to the authors it took 1500 hours, moving each lego constructed character and set piece step by step to simulate motion and taking photographs of them, making guest appearances are classic nintendo characters such as super mario, pac man and yoshi, along with title sequences in 8 bit font.

"Ninja Moped, or Rymdreglage was formed in 2003 by Daniel Larsson and Tomas Redigh. After they spent high school together, then as DJ Baba and Flyingpickles (bad musical rivals) decided the two youths suddenly to join in a common band. Why then, one might wonder? What would Flyingpickles able to bring the notorious Dj: Baba who had previously played at Mossbrott both one and two times. Flyingpickles or Tomas as he really called claimed that he certainly could sing if all the external conditions were favorable. 
It was just to find a moderately cool place with perfect sound reproduction and a light that induced a sort of light shimmer on the walls that made the soul 100% quiet and so was able to free it self from all the inner voices who told it that he couldn’t sing.
Now it turned out that these external conditions were as close to utopia as one can get in modern times. That’s the reason why all materials are released as instrumental versions."



Some people think this is a exercise in futility and a waste of time but personally, I think that everyone has excess time in their hands, and what matters is what we do with that time, the authors of this video, in my view used their excess time instead of couch surfing or some other mundane thing to do something awesome and deserving of praise. What do you think?

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The Flaming C...in bricks

When popular comedian Conan O'brien, during his show, met with the renowned comic artist Bruce Timm, the clash of two great minds resulted in the creation of Conan's alter-ego: The Flaming C. A hero crime fighter created jokingly, wearing a steaming ovenmit, a jai alai glove, ski goggles, a Star of David belt buckle, socks with garters, fishnet stockings and loafers. In the months to follow, it would come as a surprise to everyone, even Conan himself, to see his alter-ego reproduced in a faux animated video by Warner Bros, and ultimately, a life-sized version was made by professionally certified lego artist Nathan Sawaya.

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