http://cgi.ebay.com/Napoleon-Dynamit...QQcmdZViewItem

Holy Fuck

Freakin' sweet.

Fucking cool, going to bid now.....

Wow, that had to take some time. I wonder how heavy it is.

Oooh - that's nice. Lot's of 1x1 pieces.

Bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills..... Lego Skills. SWEET!

I wonder how long it took to get the shading....

That is a great work of art.

In the Words of Napolean Dynamite himself, "SWEEET"

That Conan O'Brien one is awesome too.

For those of you interested, here is the work of a professional Lego artist:

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/

i like it because his only other auction is for a bootleg dvd.

Anyone calling himself a "Lego artist" seriously needs to get laid.

On the other hand anyone calling himself a "Lego artist" has probably built fully functional female genitals out of Lego already.

I'm betting he used a computer program to place each piece. Something similar to those programs that create pictures out of thousands of little pictures.

Yup. He mentions "computer aided design" in the question and answer section.

To make this would be easy.
Create an index color version of the image. hand pick the colors based on the primary colors of legos. Print an enlarged version, but turn off interpolation when you resize. so each pixel ends up being a square the size of a lego piece.
apply color legos to same color on paper.
I'm going to try it... Where do you buy 1x1 pieces?

I haven't checked this site, but I've heard http://shop.lego.com and www.bricklink.com mentioned somewhere.

I see where you're going with this, and it makes sense, but how would you make an "index color version" of the image? (what software, etc).

And I'm not as impressed now (because it's computer-aided) but it would still take quite a bit of time and patience to hand-place more than 4,500 Lego pieces in the correct order.

That's such a great idea. A bucket of bricks and voila!

I could make a series of these...

Actually, I just took a look at that professional Lego builder's site above, and apparently even he uses software when he creates mosaics (I was under the impression that the Pro's did it freehand)

It sounds a bit more complicated than I thought. Here's a link from his site:

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/mosaics.html

wow i really want to do this now it looks fun

I'd like to know what "proprietary software" the Lego pro's use. If anyone knows, please post the info.