Lego

Nathan Sawaya Nathan Sawaya is a Lego artist. He has an exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum center called the art of the brick. He builds massive life size (or larger than life size) Lego models out of his downtown New York studio. Nathan has exhibits touring the world. He needs to follow them around, meaning he takes a lot of flights from country to county. When booking flights, they would always ask “your occupation?” He would always say “Lego artist”. This is an uncommon occupation, so they…

Teachers get extremely upset when a student is distracted on a certain object or have non-stop talking about a specific topic with their peers. Many children with Asperger syndrome get misread of their behavior. They are either sent away to the office or get their object taken away from the teacher. Children become upset and feel that something is wrong with them therefore they bring up misbehaviors. But in reality teacher can make a difference with the obsessive behavior and engage it into the…

As ridiculous as it seems the issue of toy bias is still very much prevalent in today's society. It is at the root of the sexist gender expectations and behaviors. As awful and crazy as it may seem, little girls don’t get the same nurturing and educational opportunities as boys. This idea can reach back all the way to the times were women were expected to stay in the house and cook so that is what they grew up learning to do, while little boys went out the exercise their minds, play and learn.…

Today the craft of art has emerged as a mixture between historical technique, punk culture, and the DIY. “It embraces a vibrant movement of artists, crafters, and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media.” (Levine, 2008) An artist who has embraced a new age of craft with his DIY aesthetic is Michel Gondry. Gondry is a French film director, producer and screen writer. Gondry is known for using simplified film techniques, handmade props, hand drawn type and animations to create…

important my identity is to myself as well as the people I interact with. In a simple analogy, one’s identity can be seen as a Lego toy. When put together, Lego pieces can become a car, a movie character, or even a famous architecture. However, a Lego piece by itself has little meaning. It is but one of many parts of a toy. Human identities are like Lego toys—much more complicated Lego toys. Only the combination of all aspects of an individual can determine one’s true essence. The factors that…

this age have temper tantrums. As we can see from the video, when Eu Vei could not build his own house with leg, he is a little frustrated and threw tantrum by pushing the lego with his both hands and right leg. As opinion to avoid children throwing tantrums, adults or observer can scaffold them how to build a house with lego instead of ignoring the child or label the child as naughty. From checklist, Eu Vei begin to decrease the fear of strangers. Giselle Goetze mentioned that some toddler have…

and my cousin, 17 years old, took one of the Legos from the Lego Store in Downtown Disney. They laughed at their actions and in a way they felt pride that they got away with it. Neither of them told anyone about the lousy decision. When we got back home from vacation my sister, unknowingly, left the Lego in her pant pocket. My mom started doing laundry and when she came past that Lego, my sister got in a world of trouble. My mom made her send the Lego back, along with an apology letter stating…

He’s instructed by his teacher to work with a partner, which he happens to be assigned with a 5 year old girl. He and she began to work together by sorting through Legos, trying to figure out which colors to stack. The boy started off using red and blue Legos, however, the girl unknowingly stacked a green Lego. The boy begins to whine while justifying, “I don’t want that color.” The girl continues to stack the green Lego’s, despite of the boy’s behavior. The boy drifts off as his face…

What I Want for Christmas Are there presents you want for Christmas? There are definitely presents I want for Christmas. Santa needs to bring me some really good presents this year. For Christmas I really want three presents these three presents are: a new watch, Lego’s, and video games. I want a new watch for Christmas. When I run I know how long it takes me to run, but I don’t always know how far I run. There is a watch that can tell me how far I run, and it can do so much more than that.…

no matter what the situation is (granted, if it works or not). I may also consider myself pretty much a hardcore gamer. I may also consider myself a Lego fanatic. For the reason is that, my room is full of Legos. This is a trait only my best friends know. My room is practically covered in Lego’s, from floor to ceiling. I might consider myself a Lego hoarder because of all the Lego’s I…