{"id":17682,"date":"2012-07-31T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2012-07-31T08:08:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T15:08:47","slug":"rt-assorted-lego-awesomeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/rt-assorted-lego-awesomeness\/","title":{"rendered":"(rt) Assorted Lego awesomeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ryan McNaught has created the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/profiles\/blogs\/ryan-mcnaught-lego-colosseum\">World&#8217;s First Lego Colosseum Made of 200,000 Bricks<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lego is celebrating 50 years in Australia by building <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/weblog\/cat\/10\/view\/22185\/lego-life-size-forest-in-the-australian-outback.html\">a life-size forest in the outback<\/a>. \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thefoxisblack\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Holy nerdporn: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoxisblack.com\/2012\/07\/10\/star-wars-relativity-by-paul-vermeesch\/\">Star Wars Relativity V2<\/a>&#8221; is &#8220;A visual mash-up of LEGOs, Star Wars and M.C. Escher.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Graffiti artist Martin Heuwold has <a href=\"http:\/\/designtaxi.com\/news\/352949\/Graffiti-Artist-Turns-A-Bridge-Into-Realistic-LEGO-Street-Art\/\">turned a bridge into giant Lego<\/a>. \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cdavisdesigns\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Truly, deeply weird: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoxisblack.com\/2012\/06\/19\/giant-lego-men-dissected-by-jason-freeny\/\">Giant LEGO men dissected by Jason Freeny<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Check out this lovely\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/quipsologies\/archives\/may_2012\/bryonygp_92.php\">Lego bird set concept<\/a> by Thomas Poulsom. [Via Steve Guilhamet]<\/li>\n<li>Wonderful: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/article\/a-common-nomenclature-for-lego-families\">Kids share their uncommon nomenclature<\/a> for LEGO bricks. \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/akacolleen\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/br><br \/>\n<em>PS&#8211;Semi-random question: Do you happen to know how\/where I could buy just Lego train wheels &#038; buffers? My mom just mailed the boys my 1983-era train set, and of course they&#8217;re wanting to build more cars. I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.lego.com\/en-US\/Pick-A-Brick-ByTheme\">Pick A Brick<\/a> offers individual wheels &#038; buffers, but I don&#8217;t know whether those require separate axles\/connectors that aren&#8217;t sold there. TIA from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/\">Micronaxx<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan McNaught has created the \u201cWorld&#8217;s First Lego Colosseum Made of 200,000 Bricks.\u201d Lego is celebrating 50 years in Australia by building a life-size forest in the outback. \u00a0[Via] Holy nerdporn: &#8220;Star Wars Relativity V2&#8221; is &#8220;A visual mash-up of LEGOs, Star Wars and M.C. Escher.&#8221; Graffiti artist Martin Heuwold has turned a bridge into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}