Minifigure Monday is a weekly celebration of LEGO® Minifigures through art. This week, we explore the concept of vengeance. I was inspired to write this poem not through personal experience, but through pop culture and Ninjago. I recently acquired the Gamer’s Market set (71708). It comes with a rather awesome Avatar Harumi. The outfit worn by this Minifigure looks very
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LEGO® bricks inspire me in many ways. Every Monday, I take a moment to share how Minifigures in particular get my creativity flowing. At times, I like to imagine scenarios in which these characters find themselves. Alternatively, they can remind me of something I have already seen, which I can then recreate. Sometimes, I just happen upon a fun shot
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It is December and the year is almost done. One of my New Year’s resolutions for True North Bricks was to post one LEGO-fied post each month throughout 2019. Today, I can say that I did it. Mostly, this has been part of Minifigure Monday. For those who are new to my blog, Minifigure Monday is a weekly celebration of
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Minifigure Monday is a weekly celebration of LEGO® Minifigures. This week, we delve into the world of photography and pop-culture. Once a month, I like to recreate a movie poster or album cover using LEGO® Minifigures. This month, I actually found an old post I made years ago, but never published. It’s a little rough around the edges, but I
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Minifigure Monday is a weekly celebration of LEGO® Minifigures. This week, we delve into the world of poetry, photography, and pop-culture. Once a month, I like to recreate a movie poster or album cover using LEGO® Minifigures. Since Halloween is coming up, and the Christmas season begins the next day, what better way to celebrate than with Jack Skellington! For
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Minifigure Monday is a weekly celebration of LEGO® characters through art. What is more, once a month I take a pop-culture image and recreate it using LEGO® figurines. It was my New Year’s resolution for True North Bricks to create one poster every month throughout 2019. This month, I present Minifigure Monday LEGO-fied: Batwoman. Click here to view this year’s
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Minifigure Monday celebrates LEGO® figurines and art. What is more, once a month, I take a pop-culture image and recreate it using LEGO® characters, photography, and digital editing. This month the film 10,000 BC gets the LEGO-fied treatment. In 2008, the film 10,000 BC hit theaters. It did fairly well at the box office, but critics did not receive it
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True North Bricks continues to grow, thanks to all of you who continue to stop by and read my posts. I also have a lot more content to produce these days compliments of the LEGO® Ambassador Network. So, this week, I have decided to streamline Minifigure Monday a little. I have a lot of creative projects involving Minifigures that pop-up
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It’s June, and I am keeping with my New Year’s resolution of one LEGO-fied post each month. This time around, I have re-created the cover to Shakira’s self-titled album. I picked this one for a couple of reasons. First off, I like Shakira, and this particular album has probably been my favorite from her. Second, June 19th was the birthday
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I recently happened across some dry ice that was going to go to waste. I took it home with me, thinking it might lend itself well to some photography. It also happened that I had just filled out my collection of LEGO® Movie 2 Minifigures… including Apocalypseburg Abe. Suddenly, the image of the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie poster appeared
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