The Life Aquatic with Clumsy Pete

The first time I had heard about these serialized vignettes by Bart De Dobbeaer titled The Life Aquatic with Clumsy Pete, was when Brickspace announced they had reached their 1ooth and final episode. Running for over five months now, the vignettes recounted the humorous adventures of Pete and and an intrepid group of undersea explorers. The 99th vignette didn't place Pete in the best of situations. Perhaps Bart will return someday to continue the story.

The vignette shown here is number 100 and features nearly all of the cast and crew. I would recommend popping a bag of corn, set Bart's Flickr stream to slide show, and be prepared to laugh. Here's hoping we'll hear back from Bart (and Pete) in the not to distant future.

(Via Brickspace)

BiM 2009 Winner for Best Visual Effects: Picturesque

As we mentioned on Tuesday, the winners of the 2009 Bricks in Motion Awards were announced over the weekend in live chat and on Brickspace.org. Although not up for best picture, Nick Durron's "Picturesque" did win for best visual effects.

"Picturesque" is a multi-part story taking part in a world were technology has allowed any picture to be transformed into a portal to that location, real or otherwise.

I've supplied part one here, but the other installments can be found on YouTube.

I have only one question for Nick...why is it always so dark in the future?!

Save 6 Music BBC

After being introduced to OldScratch by Brickspace earlier in the week, I sought out more of his work. In the process I found out the following:

The BBC has announced plans for a restructure of some of its services. As part of that restructure, 6 Music, a radio station that caters almost perfectly to my tastes, is to close. Adam Buxton, one of the DJs on the station, made a little song to encourage people to show their support and try to change the minds of the powers that be...

Hearing about this noble effort, it was clear that I had to spread the word in my own little way, right? Nah! I just saw a minifigure of David Bowie in his underground command center and thought it was cool. Enjoy!

Rock Monster Love

Brickspace has returned with a vengeance. After posting about the winners of the 2009 Bricks in Motion Awards they shared this new Power Miner's themed brickfilm from OldScratch.

The film, set in the Power Miner's universe, uses the band Fight Like Apes' song "Knucklehead" to drive the plot. Some great animation plus who can't help but love those rock monster minifigures.



But wait there's more...

If you want some more PM rock monster goodness, be sure to follow Christopher Doyle's Brick House strip on Reasonably Clever. The evil hairpiece has absconded with Whiskey's second head that he obtained from "The Creator" while in the meta-verse. After escaping into the tunnels below Brick House, the hairpiece has stumbled upon a tribe of rock monsters who communicate only by singing classic rock songs and show tunes. Ya got all that?!

Plus, if you become a friend of Reasonably Clever on Facebook, you'll be entered to win one of the rock monster figs featured in the strip. Boo-yah!

Inteview with Nightly News at Nine Creator

The folks at Tubefilter have scored a lovely interview with David Pickett, the creator Nightly News at Nine (NNN).

David talks about his process in creating brickfilm and upcoming projects.

I talked about this series as it related to the site Brickspace.org back in March.

If you would like a taste of the madness that is NNN, then I give you the most recent episode "The Orange-Green War Begins". Love that weather-dragon...

Brickspace.org: Your LEGO Brickfilm Theater

Brickspace is another great AFOL site I've found over the past year. They position themselves as "your one-stop shop for all your LEGO needs"; however, I've found that they are a great at covering "brickfilms", or stop-motion animation using LEGO minifigures.

Right now they have the most recent episode of The Nightly News at Nine series "The Orange-Green War Begins". In the past they have had an unhealthy obsession with brickfilms focused on Dane Cook.

The site is a fantastic add to any LEGO feed. Check them out when you can.