Awarding creativity

Via GeekDad, news of Lego’s second annual Creation Nation Creativity Awards: “Designed to encourage lifelong curiosity and creativity, the LEGO Creativity Awards are an opportunity an opportunity for budding inventors, explorers, creators and dreamers of all kinds to gain recognition for the imaginations that will make them the ‘builders of tomorrow’.”
The contest is open to [...]

Beowulf and Grendel

rendered in Lego
by MicahBerger at Brickshelf. Click each thumbnail for a larger view.
This turned up in my “Beowulf” GoogleAlert…

How can you resist "the Anarchist Cookbook of the nursery"?

It turns out, according to The Telegraph, that the Forbidden LEGO book I looked at the other month is a “surprise Christmas bestseller”* (no, I decided against it for Daniel this year — in my head I sounded like Ralphie’s mother: “You’ll put your eye out” — instead biting the bullet and trying [...]

Two down, one to go

Halloween planning is in full swing around here, and two out of three kids have their costumes decided upon, which means they haven’t changed their minds for whopping three days in a row: Harpo Marx (Daniel), and a jester (Davy). Daniel put his outfit together with a $2 yellow clown wig and a $1.50 plastic [...]