Posted December 21, 201212 yr A few weeks ago, the Belgian newspaper “Vers L’Avenir” contacted me with the very cool idea to create a 2012 retrospective… in LEGO form. Twelve vignettes to be delivered in a timeframe of approximately 4 weeks… I knew I could not do this on my own so I reached out to an AFOL I am a big fan of… Designholic. We had pretty tight timelines to produce this, while I took care of the builds, Designholic took care of the photography, setup and Minifigure casting. We were free to pick the subjects we wanted so we tried to select topics from various areas, some are Belgian specific, others made the headlines around the world. While we would have preferred to only show fun and positive events, life is unfortunately not only made of good news, I want to make clear that we do not mean any disrespect to the people who were affected by some of these events. January 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr Credits for the mini sunken Costa Concordia must go to Bricks for brains, his creation gave me the idea of this setup. February 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr March 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr April 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr May 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr June 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr July 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr August 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr September 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr October 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr November 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr December 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr These pictures are used as the season’s greetings card of the newspaper, you may check the final result here. They managed to blend the LEGO vignettes with actual pictures from these events; they really did a great job there! If you want to know a bit more around this project, the paper also published an interview of us (in French) … there is also a short video where you get to see a little more the different builds. Thanks for watching and best wishes for 2013! Edited December 21, 201212 yr by Yatkuu
December 21, 201212 yr Excellent ! I'll give you a post on my french blog. January and October are just awesome, and I recognize the designolic* touch here Edited December 21, 201212 yr by Fabjoueauxlego
December 22, 201212 yr These are great! Well done on capturing the essence of so many different news stories. You should have tweaked this one, though - I've never seen a podium that has the silver medalist on the winner's left hand side... August 2012 by Yatkuu, on Flickr
December 22, 201212 yr Author You should have tweaked this one, though - I've never seen a podium that has the silver medalist on the winner's left hand side... Indeed, I should have done my homework better! Too bad no one noticed this at the newspaper either... Maybe you can tell yourself that these pictures are from the LEGO alternate reality, and as a consequence the images are mirrored...
December 22, 201212 yr For the one about BHV, I am surprised that the split is between the H and the V since in reality the splitting was to separate the B from H & V... Was it done on purpose? :) Really nice work anyway ;)
December 22, 201212 yr Author For the one about BHV, I am surprised that the split is between the H and the V since in reality the splitting was to separate the B from H & V... Was it done on purpose? :) errr... omg, that's what happens when you work under pressure! That's just another goof... not intentional at all! I can't believe no one from the journal noticed this!
December 24, 201212 yr Too bad no one noticed this at the newspaper either... I can't believe no one from the journal noticed this! I'm not surprised at all. I'm a journalist, and we are notoriously lazy. And do you have any idea how boring doing research is? Edited December 24, 201212 yr by L@go
December 24, 201212 yr Author I'm not surprised at all. I'm a journalist, and we are notoriously lazy. And do you have any idea how boring doing research is? Lol, you have an interesting perspective of your own job! I can't really say if it was out of laziness but one thing is sure, they were very supportive from the start. I was told that some people in the editorial team did not believe the project could work... but the editor in chief stood by our side nonetheless. Lessons learned for next time, do a kind of proofreading of the scenes!
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