Wayne was kind enough to invite me back to Brickcon 2011 to give the keynote talk. The video was just posted on YouTube. Hope you like.

Based on the 1846 Lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, me and Bella buit our own 3d rendition of the event. The “Boston Tea Party” (as it was later called) happened on December 16, 1773 and happened in response to taxation without representation (not as a response to taxation with representation). And yes, there were British soldiers [...]

They are a disease inflicted upon us by your friendly Lego employees in Denmark. Of course, I’m speaking about the collectible minifigures.

I came out of the dark ages, and honestly haven’t done much more than build my house (which I’ve yet to document properly on this site). However, for this year’s BrickCon, I decided to change that. A couple of years ago I had an idea for building a large space habitat diorama that was very [...]

So… i’ve done a couple of mini-talks at TED in the past. For my last year attending TED in person I offered them the Lego talk I originally did at Ignite and they gave me a slot. The part they edited out is that after I left the stage, a stagehand came and removed the [...]

Bryan Zug did an awesome job as usual making videos out of all the ignite talks. For those of you “dying” to hear my Lego talk, it’s now posted for your enjoyment.

I went to my first Brickfest, and even displayed my first MOC. I won’t get into it much as it’s not quite done and ready for photography. Hopefully soon. That said, I did have fun with an old friend Ben, as well as some new friends Jeff, Chris, Daniel, and David. I had a super [...]

S decided to use up every white (and not so white) brick that we had at the time by building a hangar for a spaceship. Some details from S: The gun was a late addition to the ship. The hangar features an airlock/forcefield to keep the air in the hangar. The back left corner features [...]

S had a bunch of white parts and started going to town on a spaceship. He built this a few weeks ago so I forget all the features, but trust me there were plenty.

S saw that I had gotten a bucket full of black 4×4 roll cages at Brickcon. Much to my surprise, instead of seeing in them a car or a spaceship, he saw an Ostrich. A robotic one at that (not that it does more than sit there currently.) The kid has an eye.