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Meet Nathan Sawaya, The Most Famous LEGO Artist in the World

Post by Richard W » Sat May 20, 2017 8:11 am

Meet Nathan Sawaya, The Most Famous LEGO Artist in the World.

Seen this story about him on the news last night amazing stuff

https://www.thrillist.com/gear/intervie ... han-sawaya

http://www.businessinsider.com/nathan-s ... discobolus

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6Gcqkb11g

Thought Rob might like to see his stuff.

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Post by Rob Rand » Sat May 20, 2017 10:49 am

This might sound strange from a Lego builder, but personally I'm not so fond of Lego sculptures.

I believe it's because you can only look at them and that's it.

I want to make Lego items with a 'secret'.

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Post by Richard W » Sat May 20, 2017 6:59 pm

Nathan makes his lego creations with a secret too, they make his wallet really fat. Quit his six figure corporate lawyers job to make lego art. He will make a sculpture of you for only $60.000.00. For that kind of money and fame with a legacy long after your dead you can learn to like building lego art that just gets looked at. :mrgreen:

Personally I have never even seen up close or touched a single lego brick wouldn't know where to start but for 60.000.00 a pop for one piece of work I could become a huge fan of doing it. :D

Nathan is one of only six certified Lego professionals in the world.
Be cool to have one of these made of lego's.
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Post by Roberto B. » Mon May 22, 2017 5:28 pm

I like the creations of this guy (especially the computers):

https://powerpig.ecwid.com/

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Post by BluBob » Tue May 23, 2017 2:31 am

I absolutely love the "Modular Arcade." (Very creative work!)
and now, on with the show ...

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Post by David DeTenyo » Tue May 23, 2017 2:37 am

Richard W wrote:Nathan makes his lego creations with a secret too, they make his wallet really fat.
:lol:

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Post by Richard W » Tue May 23, 2017 4:49 am

The Lego Magic Set

I had not seen this before but you all may have discussed this someplace else already if not check it out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uN5OunFQNKE

Lego Crash Dice was a surprise to see.

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Post by Roberto B. » Tue May 23, 2017 9:53 am

OK Rob, I'm sure you will love this one!:


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Post by Rob Rand » Tue May 23, 2017 6:03 pm

Yes I like the creations of McVeigh, and yes, I've seen all the Lego magic tricks, amazing !

Great Money maker Roberto! And he shows how to make one yourself!

But again, Lego sculptures... I have never liked them to be honest. It's mostly fake art. I was in Legoland in Denmark when I was 25, I liked everything except the sculptures...

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Post by BluBob » Tue May 23, 2017 6:20 pm

and now, on with the show ...

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Post by Richard W » Wed May 24, 2017 3:00 am

Robert

Thanks for showing the Lego Money Maker very cool.

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Like the "more lego magic" how did I miss that one.

Making Lego sculptures does take artistic talent for sure. I equate it to trying to make curved lines to look right on an Etch-A-Scetch very hard to do. If you can make a sculpture look like a person you can recognize out of Lego's you have really done something most can't. ;)

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Post by David DeTenyo » Wed May 24, 2017 3:39 am

That money printer is amazing!

If only lego blocks were smaller, that would make these tricks more convincing and you would be able to make smaller mechanisms, although some of them are quite good :)

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Post by Richard W » Wed May 24, 2017 1:58 pm

For us none Lego owners what kit would we need to buy to build the money maker. Looks cool would like to make it the first Lego item I build.
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Post by Rob Rand » Wed May 24, 2017 2:49 pm

The best way to obtain the bricks you really need is via Bricklink.com.

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Post by John B. » Wed May 24, 2017 8:27 pm

Agree that the money maker is really cool- my favorite one too.

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Post by Roberto B. » Mon Jul 24, 2017 12:18 pm

Look this beauty!:


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Post by Steve S. » Mon Jul 24, 2017 12:36 pm

Very cool! Thanks for sharing that Roberto.

I think it's safe to say that for us magicians here on the forum, it's method is fairly obvious. Yes?
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Post by Rob Rand » Wed Jul 26, 2017 7:31 pm

Yes, this is one of my favorites too! The design is fantastic, with many fine details. The gimmicked cube is very clever made! It would take me a long time to reproduce this item!

This is Classy Lego Magic :-)

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