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Hi again, everybody:
I’m happy to announce I’ve just completed my largest sculpture ever. It’s,
unfortunately, a very plain (boxy) shape, but it was a fun (and blistering)
challenge to build nonetheless.
JPMorgan Chase asked me to build this 6’4” tall model of their corporate logo
for a home-builder expo. In the center of the logo, I added a microscale town
(announced last month) showing
suburban and urban residential development. The logo will appear at trade shows
across the US throughout 2007, before finally setting down in a permanent home.
I’ll keep you posted if it’s coming to your neighborhood. :)
Read about it on MOCpages or
seankenney.com.
The biggest challenge in this project was coming up with a safe and sturdy way
to get each of the “wedges” of Chase’s logo to seemingly float in mid-air.
Three of the four wedges don’t touch each other or the base, and attach only to
an internal metal armature, which is mounted to a wooden base for stability.
There are also some lights mounted into the logo that shine down on the little
city.
The model was built as one inseperable hunk-o-brick, and was so huge it nearly
didn’t fit into the service elevator on it’s way out! It weighs over 400 pounds
and uses about 57,000 bricks. It’s fully glued and took about 310 hours to
build. I’m seeing blue in my sleep.
Anyway, I know it’s not much in the way of a sculptural masterpiece, but it was
an interesting challenge nonetheless and I thought I’d share. At the show, a
few passers-y stood speechless, literally with their jaws down. I suppose many
folks just aren’t aware of us crazy LEGO addicts. :)
Sean
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Sean Kenney
LEGO Certified Professional
http://www.seankenney.com
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| (...) Sean, you can count my jaw with the others, down there on the floor. Truly a massive undertaking, and very well executed. Bravo! I have had my share of gluing sculpture, and I had slight misaligmnent after only only 6 inches of gluing. Yours (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| (...) Sometimes the more fun ones are the boxy ones.. except for the blisters. Nice job! :) -Anne -- There may be 50 ways to leave your (\`--/') _ _______ .-r-. leave your lover, but there are >.~.\ `` ` `,`,`. ,'_'~`. only 4 ways out of this (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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