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Nikko Shirakumo Waterfall — 日光白雲瀧

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Insight into the life and process of a very talented pixel artist. Through economic use of colour, space, and a few animation frames, his creations gives access to an intense everyday reality. @1041uuu navigates the intrinsic limitations of the medium like none other.

Reflection on Winter

Here, I will share some of my works along with my trivial writings.

As this is a format where long texts are interspersed with "Unrelated" works, I hope it can be appreciated as such.

Please forgive the incomplete translation.

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Since I was a child, I have been dominated by an insatiable desire for someone to listen to me and understand me.

Because of this, controlling my emotions has always been difficult, and creating serene Animations became the only way to suppress those feelings.

Through painting, I found work and gained a sense of self-worth, and I finally reached a point where I could remain calm enough to read books. (Come to think of it, it was Tumblr over a decade ago that appreciated my pixel art and built a bridge to my present!!)

However, at some point, I forgot who it was I wanted to understand me and why it mattered in the first place.

As I poured my thoughts into words and delved deeper into reflection, I realized that philosophy and reading could help me in this pursuit of being understood.

However, by the time I reached that realization, I had also acquired an unsettling awareness that language dulls the visual senses.

In fact, it imparted a slight sense of symbolism to my artwork, while dulling its intuitive qualities.

This conflict likely explains why my art oscillates between symbolic representation and intuitive visual expression.

It has grown more pronounced this year. It also explains why I’ve found myself engaging in this sort of self-reflection more often than ever before.

My works exist in a complementary relationship with my self-reflection.

However, this is by no means a teleological approach—it is rooted in intrinsic impulses.

I simply, purely, and genuinely enjoy things like Gas stations on winter nights, side entrances of public facilities, rural port towns, or the colors of 100-yen lighters. That’s all there is to it, and that’s why I paint.

Please don’t worry. Unlike in the past, I would never even consider taking my own life.

I’m too curious about what I’ll paint next. I love my art.

For that reason, I ask for your understanding regarding my extremely poor productivity and my reliance on your support.

Dear friends, thank you for your continued support, and I look forward to the next year together.

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Guestblogging: LEGO Portraits

It wasn’t a surprise that Burra’s field trip to go look at LEGO portraits filled up quickly. You’re going to have to see your friends’ pictures and hope it runs again soon.

LEGO has been going since forever … well … 1940’s.

In its most basic form it’s rectangular blocks that squeeze together until you want them apart again. It’s more than that! With these little blocks you can create whole worlds that at the end of the day can simply be pulled apart. There are no wrong answers here.

LEGO themselves used portraits as part of an advertisement campaign created by Geometry Global agency:

Nathan Sawaya is an artist that specializes in large scale LEGO models (he does other sculptures too).

These faces are nearly two meters tall making them very detailed (photo: Jonathan Liu, Wired)

This is Sawaya’s signature piece and is life size. This picture and more from Art of the Brick can be found at The Avant Guardian.

To quote Sawaya himself, “Dreams are built one brick at a time.”

At a recent Bricks in Time exhibit at Rheged, Penrith, built by Bright Bricks, LEGO portraits came in two extremes of a large scale roman style chap and this fun self portrait from the kids corner. Both great.

Breaking pixel rules a bit, Marco Pece combines LEGO backgrounds and Mini-figures to recreate artworks. There are more of his LEGO art on Flickr.

If you need more blog posts featuring LEGO on Retronator:

LEGO Scumm Bar from Monkey Island

Isometric pixel art LEGO heart

The LEGO Story short

Alter Lego history of Retronator

Infinite LEGO contraption

I really am worried about Admiral Akbar. Last night, I saw him drinking alone at Chez Albert. He’d had quite a bit.