Years ago, being a crappy boyfriend, I bought Margot a bag of old-school rubber GI Joe heads from Seattle’s Archie McPhee. I took to photographing one of these dudes everywhere I went—e.g. out in Death Valley:

Noting his tendency to pop up a la the ubiquitous Goldbug in Richard Scarry stories, we granted him the rank of Sgt. Goldbug. I’m reminded of this seeing photographer Andrew Whyte’s much superior series featuring a Lego minifig:

Of the project he says,

“I love to document everyday things and build them into mini-series,” Whyte says. “But quite often there’s nothing cohesive about what I shoot from one day to the next. As soon as my kids discovered the camera accessory at the Lego store, which fits in the hand of a mini-figure, I worked out a way to start placing the character in my day-to-day shots and he became a cohesive element. For the whole year, I really never left home without the figure.”

Check out the article to see the gallery. [Via Laura Williams Argilla]