Q-BA-MAZE

This is Q

To give a full 3D view of this construction, we put it on a lazy susan, gave it a spin, dropped in some balls, and started filming.

Just three kinds of cubes go together to make this and all Q-BA-MAZE constructions. This one is made with less than three 50-packs.

Notice that the balls all collect at the bottom (rather than scattering on the floor). This is because we used the bottom-exit cubes to make the base. Whenever the bottom-exit cubes are used as the base, they act as "catcher" pieces.

The White Stripes: Living the Lego Dream

This is probably the coolest Lego thing ever. Lego forming a swimming pool with colorful spiral waves! A lead guitarist made from just 34 bricks and animated!

It is the video for "Fell in Love with a Girl", which is the second single released from The White Stripes' third album White Blood Cells. Released in 2002, it reached number one.

I have a DVD with this and other videos by the director Michel Gondry. It comes with a little book titled:

I've been twelve forever

The title is Gondry's self description. He is now 44 years old and the director of the films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Science of Sleep (2006).

Isn't it funny that we grow up with adult voices telling us to "stop acting like a twelve-year-old" only to reach adulthood and to find one of the greatest industrial designers of the 20th Century stressing the importance to the design process of "the attitude of the child"? (See my Sept 1 post). And stepping into the present, to find Gondry producing such brilliant work by having just remained twelve (at heart)?

Here is the "making of video":

*the next coolest Lego thing I've seen is a Lego robot that can solve the Rubik's cube (I'll save that for another post)

Q-BA-MAZE Intro Video

This video shows Q-BA-MAZE in action.

To see the video in higher resolution, visit www.Q-BA-MAZE.com and click on "view the trailer."